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package fpinscala.parallelism
import org.scalatest.{FlatSpec, Matchers}
import java.util.concurrent._
/**
* Created by Ardjan on 13/06/2016.
*/
class ParSpec extends FlatSpec with Matchers {
"Exercise 7.1" should "be specified" in {
/*
Par.map2[A,B,C](l: Par[A], r: Par[B])(f: (A,B) => C): Par[C]
*/
}
"Exercise 7.4" should "unit" in {
val es = Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor
assert(Par.run(es)(Par.unit(10)).get == 10)
}
"Exercise 7.4" should "lazyunit" in {
val es = Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor
assert(Par.run(es)(Par.lazyUnit(10)).get == 10)
}
"Exercise 7.4" should "asyncF" in {
val es = Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor
assert(Par.run(es)(Par.asyncF((i: Int) => i.toString)(10)).get == "10")
}
"Exercise 7.4" should "fork" in {
val es = Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor
assert(Par.run(es)(Par.fork(Par.unit(10))).get == 10)
}
"Exercise 7.4" should "map2" in {
val es = Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor
assert(Par.run(es)(Par.map2(Par.unit(10), Par.unit(1000))(_ + _)).get == 1010)
}
"Exercise 7.5" should "sequence" in {
val es = Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor
val l = List(Par.unit(100), Par.lazyUnit(10), Par.unit(1))
assert(Par.run(es)(Par.sequence(l)).get == List(100, 10, 1))
}
"Exercise 7.6" should "perFilter" in {
// Since this implementation does not abide to the laws, it will block indefinately on a single threaded executor.
val es = Executors.newCachedThreadPool
val l = List(0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
def f(i: Int) = i % 2 == 0
assert(Par.run(es)(Par.parFilter(l)(f)).get == List(0, 2, 4))
}
"Exercise 7.11" should "choice true" in {
val es = Executors.newCachedThreadPool
val ct = Par.choice(Par.unit(true))(Par.unit(0), Par.unit(1))
assert(Par.run(es)(ct).get == 0)
}
"Exercise 7.11" should "choice false" in {
val es = Executors.newCachedThreadPool
val cf = Par.choice(Par.unit(false))(Par.unit(0), Par.unit(1))
assert(Par.run(es)(cf).get == 1)
}
"Exercise 7.11" should "choiceN 0" in {
val es = Executors.newCachedThreadPool
val pl = List(Par.unit(0), Par.unit(1), Par.unit(2))
val cn = Par.choiceN(Par.unit(0))(pl)
assert(Par.run(es)(cn).get == 0)
}
"Exercise 7.11" should "choiceN 1" in {
val es = Executors.newCachedThreadPool
val pl = List(Par.unit(0), Par.unit(1), Par.unit(2))
val cn = Par.choiceN(Par.unit(1))(pl)
assert(Par.run(es)(cn).get == 1)
}
"Exercise 7.11" should "choiceN 2" in {
val es = Executors.newCachedThreadPool
val pl = List(Par.unit(0), Par.unit(1), Par.unit(2))
val cn = Par.choiceN(Par.unit(2))(pl)
assert(Par.run(es)(cn).get == 2)
}
"Exercise 7.11" should "choiceViaChoiceN true" in {
val es = Executors.newCachedThreadPool
val ct = Par.choiceViaChoiceN(Par.unit(true))(Par.unit(0), Par.unit(1))
assert(Par.run(es)(ct).get == 0)
}
"Exercise 7.11" should "choiceViaChoiceN false" in {
val es = Executors.newCachedThreadPool
val cf = Par.choiceViaChoiceN(Par.unit(false))(Par.unit(0), Par.unit(1))
assert(Par.run(es)(cf).get == 1)
}
"Exercise 7.12 choiceMap" should "with a produce A" in {
val es = Executors.newCachedThreadPool
val m = Map("a" -> Par.unit("A"), "b" -> Par.unit("B"), "c" -> Par.unit("C"))
val cm = Par.choiceMap(Par.unit("a"))(m)
assert(Par.run(es)(cm).get == "A")
}
"Exercise 7.12 choiceMap" should "with b produce B" in {
val es = Executors.newCachedThreadPool
val m = Map("a" -> Par.unit("A"), "b" -> Par.unit("B"), "c" -> Par.unit("C"))
val cm = Par.choiceMap(Par.unit("b"))(m)
assert(Par.run(es)(cm).get == "B")
}
"Exercise 7.12 choiceMap" should "with c produce C" in {
val es = Executors.newCachedThreadPool
val m = Map("a" -> Par.unit("A"), "b" -> Par.unit("B"), "c" -> Par.unit("C"))
val cm = Par.choiceMap(Par.unit("c"))(m)
assert(Par.run(es)(cm).get == "C")
}
"Exercise 7.12 choiceViaChoiceMap" should "with true produce 0" in {
val es = Executors.newCachedThreadPool
val ct = Par.choiceViaChoiceMap(Par.unit(true))(Par.unit(0), Par.unit(1))
assert(Par.run(es)(ct).get == 0)
}
"Exercise 7.12 choiceViaChoiceMap" should "with false produce" in {
val es = Executors.newCachedThreadPool
val cf = Par.choiceViaChoiceMap(Par.unit(false))(Par.unit(0), Par.unit(1))
assert(Par.run(es)(cf).get == 1)
}
"Exercise 7.12 choiceNViaChoiceMap" should "with 0 produce 0" in {
val es = Executors.newCachedThreadPool
val pl = List(Par.unit(0), Par.unit(1), Par.unit(2))
val cn = Par.choiceNViaChoiceMap(Par.unit(0))(pl)
assert(Par.run(es)(cn).get == 0)
}
"Exercise 7.12 choiceNViaChoiceMap" should "with 1 produce 1" in {
val es = Executors.newCachedThreadPool
val pl = List(Par.unit(0), Par.unit(1), Par.unit(2))
val cn = Par.choiceNViaChoiceMap(Par.unit(1))(pl)
assert(Par.run(es)(cn).get == 1)
}
"Exercise 7.12 choiceNViaChoiceMap" should "with 2 produce 2" in {
val es = Executors.newCachedThreadPool
val pl = List(Par.unit(0), Par.unit(1), Par.unit(2))
val cn = Par.choiceNViaChoiceMap(Par.unit(2))(pl)
assert(Par.run(es)(cn).get == 2)
}
"Exercise 7.13 chooser" should "with a produce A" in {
val es = Executors.newCachedThreadPool
val m = Map("a" -> Par.unit("A"), "b" -> Par.unit("B"), "c" -> Par.unit("C"))
val cn = Par.chooser(Par.unit("a"))(m)
assert(Par.run(es)(cn).get == "A")
}
"Exercise 7.13 chooser" should "with b produce B" in {
val es = Executors.newCachedThreadPool
val m = Map("a" -> Par.unit("A"), "b" -> Par.unit("B"), "c" -> Par.unit("C"))
val cn = Par.chooser(Par.unit("b"))(m)
assert(Par.run(es)(cn).get == "B")
}
"Exercise 7.13 chooser" should "with c produce C" in {
val es = Executors.newCachedThreadPool
val m = Map("a" -> Par.unit("A"), "b" -> Par.unit("B"), "c" -> Par.unit("C"))
val cn = Par.chooser(Par.unit("c"))(m)
assert(Par.run(es)(cn).get == "C")
}
"Exercise 7.13 choiceViaChooser" should "with true produce 0" in {
val es = Executors.newCachedThreadPool
val ct = Par.choiceViaChooser(Par.unit(true))(Par.unit(0), Par.unit(1))
assert(Par.run(es)(ct).get == 0)
}
"Exercise 7.13 choiceViaChooser" should "with false produce" in {
val es = Executors.newCachedThreadPool
val cf = Par.choiceViaChooser(Par.unit(false))(Par.unit(0), Par.unit(1))
assert(Par.run(es)(cf).get == 1)
}
"Exercise 7.13 choiceNViaChooser" should "with 0 produce 0" in {
val es = Executors.newCachedThreadPool
val pl = List(Par.unit(0), Par.unit(1), Par.unit(2))
val cn = Par.choiceNViaChooser(Par.unit(0))(pl)
assert(Par.run(es)(cn).get == 0)
}
"Exercise 7.13 choiceNViaChooser" should "with 1 produce 1" in {
val es = Executors.newCachedThreadPool
val pl = List(Par.unit(0), Par.unit(1), Par.unit(2))
val cn = Par.choiceNViaChooser(Par.unit(1))(pl)
assert(Par.run(es)(cn).get == 1)
}
"Exercise 7.13 choiceNViaChooser" should "with 2 produce 2" in {
val es = Executors.newCachedThreadPool
val pl = List(Par.unit(0), Par.unit(1), Par.unit(2))
val cn = Par.choiceNViaChooser(Par.unit(2))(pl)
assert(Par.run(es)(cn).get == 2)
}
}
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The obvious approach to releasing software is for developers to focus on one central body of code, a single "branch", fixing bugs and adding new features to it, and from time to time taking a "snapshot" of the branch and packing it as next release. One approach to make the release process more robust, is for development to proceed in two parallel branches. From the "stable" branch the actual releases are made, mostly with bugs fixed and only very important features added. The other, "unstable" branch, is used to develop new and redesign existing features, and at some point will become the next stable branch. Depending on the project, releases may be made from the unstable branch as well, in parallel with stable releases, in order for eager users to help testing the novelties.
In KDE, all three release models may be present at any given moment. Core KDE modules, which are together labeled as "the KDE" and released in unison, follow the two branch model, with stable and trunk branch, and releases from stable branch only. KDE extragear applications may do the same, but they are not required to; they may instead make releases from the trunk branch only, or also use stable and trunk branch, but make releases from both. This presents translators with the workflow as on the following figure.
The KDE repository automation (aka "Scripty") is preparing template POs and merging them with language POs. From the point of view of language teams, real people who perform global actions (e.g. moving around POs for all languages when an application moves from module to another) can also be grouped here. However, the translation team is still presented with two branches of POs to translate.
In general, this means that, just like programmers, at times translators have to work on both branches, and propagate fixes from one branch to another ("backport" from trunk to stable, or "forwardport" from stable to trunk). This may be prone to coordinatorial confusion, and demand extra effort and attention when updating translations. Keeping up with two branches is easier in core KDE modules, as they are released from stable branch only and with singular schedule, but could be more taxing with extragear applications.
The exact amount of effort spent due to parallel translation, porting of fixes, and coordination, depends on the translation team. For example, a well-manned and well-coordinated team, with established style and terminology guides, custom automation to support these, may be able to keep all POs in both branches fully translated at all times with ease. Or, a team may have worked out well-defined schedules, such that any given member of the team at one point switches from translating one branch to another, without looking back, thus effectively having everyone always working on one branch (even if not the same one).
If, however, you as the team coordinator have said and thought "Should do that in trunk too, bugger", "Didn't we fix that already?", "No, you should take it from stable", "It was released from WHAT branch?", more often than you would have liked, the following presents one possibility for sidestepping such issues.
For a PO catalog which exists in both stable and trunk branch, a new same-named catalog can be made by gathering all the unique messages from branch PO files, i.e. the summit of branch POs. Assuming that branch POs were not all that different, since they are two versions of the same catalog, the summit PO shouldn't have much more messages than either. Translators at all times work on the summit PO, from which the messages are periodically scattered back to original branch POs. Thus, translators can always work on summit POs, not having to do any parallel translation, branch switching or porting of fixes. The summit workflow is presented by the following figure.
In the summit mode, repository automation gathers summit PO templates from branch templates, and stores them separately from real branches, at trunk/l10n-support/templates/summit/. The language team also has a collection summit POs, at trunk/l10n-support/LANG/summit/, which is the sole location where translation happens. As before, repository automation handles merging of templates in branches, but merging of summit POs is done by the team coordinator; team coordinator can opt to manually merge branch POs as well (more on why-and-how of this later). From time to time, the team coordinator fills out branch POs by scattering from summit. Not to worry, each of these special actions upon the team coordinator is done with a single command.
What if a PO changes modules in one branch, so that it no longer belongs to the same module in both branches (e.g. application is moved from one to another module in trunk)?
What if a PO changes its name in one branch, but not in the other (e.g. application is renamed in trunk)?
What if a PO in one branch is split into two POs in another (e.g. extracting a library out of monolithic application in trunk)?
Where to place messages unique to one branch in the summit PO? The original file context of a message, which messages precede it and which follow it, should be kept as much as possible.
If source references are used to achieve good ordering of messages in summit PO, what to do if some source file paths change in one branch (e.g. application gets restructured in trunk)?
How to handle messages with different plurality across branches (since messages are identified only by their msgctxt and msgid field, an not msgid_plural)?
And handle these details it does, the present summitting system. This also means that teams working in the summit need not take care of the first three issues above, which are affecting manual branch handling too.
msgctxt "The destination url of a job"
msgid "&Keep this window open after transfer is complete"
The first message above thus exists in trunk only, the second in stable only, and the third in both branches. The source reference always points to the source file in the first listed branch. Any extracted comments (#.) other than the branch list are also taken from the first listed branch.
Note that the two messages above are different only by context; the context was added in trunk, but not in stable, in order not to break message freeze. However, due to careful ordering of messages in summit POs, these two messages appear together, allowing translator to immediately make correction in stable branch too if the new context in trunk shows it to be necessary.
svn co --depth=empty svn+ssh://[email protected]/home/kde .
Merging the summit is something that the coordinator does periodically, with frequency of own desire. For example, it can be done daily, or with increasing frequency as the last day for translation for the next release approaches.
After the first merging, language summit is ready for active translation. The coordinator should now commit $KDEREPO/trunk/l10n-support/LANG/, and, importantly, notify team members to stop working on branch POs and focus exclusively on summit POs.
As with merging, there is no fixed schedule when scattering should be done. Of course, it must necessarily be done before the next release is tagged, and in between it is useful to scatter for runtime testing, or to have translation statistics by branches on l10n.kde.org up to date.
Periodic scattering and merging of the complete summit are basically all that a language team coordinator needs to do specifically to operate the summit. Also, since l10n-support/scripts/ and l10n-support/pology/ contain scripts and settings critical for proper functioning of summit operations, and may be tweaked at any time, they should always be updated from the repository together with PO files and templates (in fact, it is best to always update at once the whole tree as outlined above).
For documentation POs, summit setup and operation is the same, only replacing every messages with docmessages in the command lines above. The user interface and documentation summits are fully independent, so for a trial period it is reasonable to work with the interface summit only, and engage documentation summit once the trial has been deemed successfull.
$ alias posummit-kde-LANG="posummit $KDEREPO/trunk/l10n-support/scripts/messages.summit LANG"
The following sections will present some typical customization possibilities.
When scattering from the summit, sometimes there will be reports of "messages missing in the summit". This happens because of time rift created by the Scripty merging branch POs, gathering summit templates, and a team coordinator merging the language summit, thus making some messages in branch POs not always present in the summit. This condition is benign, as such warnings will start to disappear with the message freeze approaching, but can be annoying. For this reason, team coordinator can stop Scripty from merging branch POs, and have the posummit ... merge command alone merge not only summit POs, but stable and trunk POs as well, such that summit and branches are always in perfect sync.
# Set local merging for all branches.
By default, msgmerge takes into account only the catalog itself to fill out near-match translations to new messages introduced by merging. i.e. to produce fuzzy messages. However, an arbitrary PO file can be given to msgmerge as another possible source of earlier translations, through the --compendium option. For maximum effect, this PO file is usually constructed as the collection of messages from all PO files project-wide, and hence called the compendium.
# Compendium to use when merging summit catalogs.
Note that if not located as above, compendium should not be placed within .../LANG/summit/messages/, as then it would be considered a summit catalog itself. In case fully local merging is engaged, only summit POs will be merged with compendium; it makes no sense for branch POs, since they are not being directly translated.
See "Creating Compendia" section of Gettext manual for details on how to create a compendium out of current body of summit translations. Once you establish the precise commands to create the compendium (whether to collect fuzzies too, whether to include old compendium as one of sources for the new, etc.), you would periodically refresh and commit the updated compendium.
Translation of a summit catalog normally starts the same way as it did for branch catalogs, by copying it over from template and initializing the header. This can be done manually, but it can also be quite automatic when using project manager as sometimes provided by dedicated PO editors. However, relying on the editor's project manager can be disadvantageous at times. For example, aside from the PO editor, other, frequently command line tools may be used to process the body of translation, and these tools might need to consider non-started templates as if they were empty POs (e.g. statistics). Team members who do not have full local checkout, or no project set up in the editor, may need to jump between language and template directories when looking for files to translate.
# Create empty summit catalog for every new summit template.
S.vivify_w_translator = "Noone Noonian <[email protected]>"
S.vivify_w_plurals = "nplurals=2; plural=n != 1;"
# Minimum translation state to create branch catalog on scatter.
The vivify_w_* attributes set the necessary data to initialize headers of newly created summit catalogs. Aside from those listed above, there is also the vivify_w_charset attribute, which is by default "UTF-8", and very probably should not be changed.
The scatter_min_completeness attribute does not refer to vivification of summit catalogs, but should invariably be set in this context. When scattering from summit, normally the branch catalog is automatically created if there is the corresponding summit catalog. When vivification is engaged, this would result in creation of empty branch catalogs too, which is not desired for two reasons. Firstly, empty branch catalogs would become part of the released language pack, for which there is no practical reason. Secondly, KDE's i18n system regards an application with installed catalog as translated, so messages coming from basic system catalogs (e.g. kdelibs4) would show through, resulting in mostly untranslated user interface with specks of translation -- many users consider this rather ungainly. Therefore, scatter_min_completeness sets how complete the translation of currently non-existing branch catalog should be after scatter (0.0 empty, 1.0 fully complete), for the branch catalog to actually be created. If the --force option is given to posummit, the branch catalog will be created regardless of its translation state, which may be handy in combination with operation target when wanting to check work in progress in running application.
If the compendium has been set for merging, every vivified summit catalog will also be merged against the compendium, to fill out as many of messages with approximate translations.
Although hopefully shadowed by the advantages, working in summit is not without its disadvantages. These should be weighed when deciding of whether to try out the summit workflow.
Obviously, while summit operations are made to be quite automatic, some extra aptitude is asked of the team coordinator. Reasonable shell handling, understanding of version control operations, feeling the pulse of repository automation, are all prerequisites, and some scripting ability advantageous.
After the summit is put in operation, any changes made manually in branch POs will not propagate to summit, and will be soon lost to scattering -- summit translations override everything in branches. This means that the whole team must work in the summit, it is not possible for some members to use the summit, and some not.
A summit PO file will necessarily have more messages than either of the branch files. For example, in the KDE 4.0/4.1 and 4.1/4.2 cycle, summit POs of core KDE modules had on average less than 5% more words than their stable counterparts. However, the said percent is the top, never approached limit of wasted workload due to trunk messages coming and going, given that as the next feature KDE release approaches, more and more trunk messages will find their way into it.
The untranslated flag does not need to be manually removed when the message is updated. It will automatically disappear on the next merge, as it is not among flags known to Gettext.
If an automatic source lookup mechanism (to check the message context by following its source references) was available for branches, it may not entirely work for summit. Already the branch POs in KDE are kept separate from the code, which means that paths given by source references cannot be followed directly, but appropriate root paths have to be added in some way (a dedicated PO editor may provide a way to do this); this should continue to work with summit for those messages which exist both in trunk and stable branch, since their source references correspond to trunk code. But for messages found only in stable branch, whose source references correspond to stable code, existing source lookup mechanism will likely assume trunk roots again, and try to fetch wrong sources. To fix this, the source lookup mechanism should be flexible enough to select roots based on branch keywords given in summit messages' #. +> ... comment.
There is also the organizational issue with starting to use the summit, and, if it does not help as expected, stopping to use it. Team members have to be reminded to not send in branch POs at start, and then to be sent back to branch POs if summit is disbanded. On the plus side, disbanding summit is technically simple: just remove from the repository l10n-supprot/LANG/summit, possibly also no-auto-merge files if fully local merging was set up, and that is it.
If summit seems a lot to digest, or is simply an overkill for team's needs, but still some improvement to manual handling of branches would be welcomed, KDE's dedicated PO editor Lokalize offers a branch sync mode. It works as follows.
In Lokalize project definition, the local paths of trunk and stable PO roots are set in Translation directory: and Branch directory: fields. Then, when a trunk PO file is opened, if it has a stable counterpart with same name and location as in the trunk, this stable PO is also going to be opened. For each trunk message in the main editing pane, if such a message exists in stable PO too, the stable message will be shown in the Secondary Sync pane; changes in the translation of trunk message will reflect to the stable message, and stable PO file will also be saved when the trunk is saved.
Furthermore, any team member can personally choose to work like this, there is no need to change the workflow of the language team as whole. When sending modifications to the coordinator, team members who rely on this feature of Lokalize simply send both trunk and stable POs that got modified.
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You hop into bed with your significant other, cuddle up close, and wait for the oxytocin, the cuddle hormone, to do its magic. With your head laying on your mate's chest, listening to the beat of his heart, you're fully expecting him to say something loving and sensitive. However, much to your chagrin, you hear him say, "OMG, don't put those icebergs on me!" If you have varicose veins, it may be that varicose vein treatment could cure your iceberg feet problem and perhaps improve the intimate time you have with your lover too!
Varicose veins are a symptom of poor circulation, as are cold feet, and swelling in the ankles and legs. When you go in for an evaluation to determine if you need varicose vein treatment, your vein doctor will do a procedure called duplex ultrasound, also called doppler ultrasound. Just like the ultrasound that a woman has when she is pregnant to check on the growing fetus, ultrasound on your veins will give your vein doctor a high resolution picture of what's going on inside your veins. Additionally, it will show your vein doctor how your blood is flowing in your veins, both the direction of flow and the speed of flow.
Duplex ultrasound will detect whether or not the blood is flowing at a regular speed. It will also detect if you have venous reflux. This is where the blood flows backwards, at least part of the time! If this is happening, your vein doctor can then search for the cause of the venous reflux. Usually, it is one or more vein valves that are not functioning well. These valves are supposed to open as the blood flows back to the heart, against gravity, but close in the opposite direction to not allow the backward flow of blood. If these valves are damaged, the flow of blood can slow dramatically and the blood will pool, causing swelling in your legs, ankles, and feet. When this happens, it's a vicious circular problem because the swelling can put pressure on your veins and slow the blood flow even more!
When your blood flow is slowed in your legs, ankles, and feet, they will tend to get cold. However, to know for sure if this is the problem, you'll need to visit a varicose vein clinic, like Metro Vein Centers, to have the duplex ultrasound test done. One nice thing about this particular test if you have cold extremities is the warm gel they apply to the paddle before they run it over your skin. If only you could have one of those at home before you crawl into bed with your partner!
If damaged vein valves are preventing your blood from flowing normally, then yes, varicose vein treatment can indeed help cure your cold feet. Treatments like sclerotherapy varicose vein treatment and EVLT (endovenous laser therapy) are relatively simple and don't involve much pain during the procedure or after the procedure. So, if your insurance will cover the varicose vein treatment, the cost will be relatively low to cure your iceberg feet!
While we don't want global warming melting the real icebergs, we do want varicose vein treatment, if appropriate, to "melt" your iceberg feet. We also assume your partner would agree. To get a free evaluation to determine if your varicose veins are causing your poor circulation, call Metro Vein Centers and schedule an appointment at your earliest convenience. You do not need a referral from your doctor or your insurance company to get the free evaluation at Metro Vein Centers.
You should note too that varicose veins, or poor circulation, are not always the cause for cold feet. Another common cause is neuropathy, which is a type of nerve damage in the extremities. Neuropathy is often associated with the advancement of type 2 diabetes but not always. However, if neuropathy is the sole cause of your cold feet (cold to you), they will not feel cold to someone else's touch. However, neuropathy and poor circulation can also coexist, so you really need to go to a varicose vein treatment clinic and get the duplex ultrasound to know for sure.
In the meantime, walking, foot exercises, leg exercises, and deep breathing exercises can all help improve your circulation. Getting more vitamin D from the sun, or from foods like fatty fish and eggs from pastured chickens, can also help improve your circulation. Hot foods like garlic, onion, ginger, curry, and cayenne pepper will also improve the circulation. If you smoke, try to stop because smoking constricts your blood vessels and will cause poor circulation and cold feet. | {
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AI Recruitment: Your Human Resource Partner
The traditional hiring process takes a long time to finish - but technology has dramatically shortened the average time-to-hire. But, taking it a step further, AI has been integrated into many companies' recruitment processes, saving them even more time and money. If you're planning to overhaul your recruitment strategy, AI is the best way to go. Read on to learn about AI for recruiting!
What Is AI for Recruiting?
AI for recruiting is applying artificial intelligence to the hiring process to develop a shortlist of candidates and speed up the steps in the process. It mainly focuses on turning manual, repetitive tasks into automated flows.
For example, in the past, you would have to go through the resumes submitted by applicants manually. Now, with AI recruiting, the software automatically screens the candidates based on the data you've fed the system.
The Benefits of Using AI for Recruiters
Artificial intelligence in recruitment has a plethora of advantages you can enjoy, including:
1. Improved Candidate Experience
Applicants are given the best experience with a smooth and efficient application process, fast responses to inquiries, easy scheduling of interviews, and automated notifications through emails. With this, your company can be one of the leading employers that job seekers can trust based on the testimonials of previous candidates.
2. Heavy Load Works Are Automated to Save Time
You can use AI to choose the best candidates; an algorithm can use keywords that you're looking for in resumes to match your company with relevant applicants. You can also have AI analyze their resumes on who is most likely to succeed based on their skills and experience. You'll get the best candidates right before you in no time!
3. Improved Candidate Assessment Through Collaborative Interviews
Traditionally, candidates would go through each person in the HR team to be interviewed. It would take quite a while to select the most qualified applicants - and with every day that passed, you would risk losing them to another company. But with AI, you can create video interviews that the team can view and assess all candidates simultaneously. Through this, time and effort in conducting many interviews will be reduced, and the HR team can focus on other tasks.
4. Incorporate an Unbiased Personality Test
The traditional recruitment process assesses personality by looking at appearance, facial cues, and the manner of dressing. This type of test is biased and can let you miss good candidates with wrong judgments.
With AI, personality tests are done by letting candidates answer a series of questions created by psychological experts; results are shown immediately. The tests incorporated in the system have calculated results, and those personalities that do not meet the standard for the job will be eliminated.
5. Improved Hiring Quality and Results
AI has the ability to track down the most likely successful and unsuccessful employees with the data it has. The system will evaluate the characteristics of long-time top employees through their resumes - even those who quickly resign after a month will be assessed. The AI system will program the patterns of the high-performing and low-performing employees to create a list of the best applicants.
The system will improve hiring results, employee retention, company performance, revenue, and more. The success of hiring the best candidates through objective predictive analytics ensures success for the whole organization.
6. Assess Hiring Efficiency and Speed
All companies should keep track of their average time-to-hire and strive to lower the number. With AI, your HR team can get insights into your hiring process's strengths and weaknesses. By improving your time-to-hire, you're well on your way to becoming a top-performing HR department across the global competition.
7. Incorporate Diversity in the Workplace
When tracking stats manually, you might have errors when compiling percentages of employees based on gender, ethnicity, and veteran status. Therefore, you wouldn't know for sure if you hit your diversity targets. With AI, you can analyze your current employment diversity status to learn where your company needs to focus on improving. Use these insights to prioritize the employees you need to balance your company's diversification.
The Challenges of Applying AI in Recruiting
Since AI is continuously being developed, there are still some flaws that need to be worked out. Here are some of the challenges you can encounter:
1. Losing Human Touch
Introducing AI imposes fear among candidates that their personal information is unsafe, and they continuously worry that their application might not enter the system. While this is unlikely to happen (and, actually, AI is much more error-free than human staff), you might face some resistance when implementing new technologies.
2. Issues in Reliability
AI needs big chunks of data to train and implement its algorithms. So, when there are inconsistencies in data availability, the results can't be reliable to use.
3. Patterns Turn Into Bias
Incidence of bias can't be prohibited, especially when the company's data feeds the algorithms within the AI system. There was an instance in Amazon's AI recruitment system where female candidates were preferred rather than males - it happened because the 10-year data provided to the AI system had a patterned bias with women.
Innovations in AI for Recruiting
AI has made many contributions to recruitment with the following features:
1. Automated Candidate Sourcing
Finding potential candidates is a time-consuming process for the HR department - which is why having AI for candidate sourcing can be a great asset for your company. You can reach millions of job portals and platforms that AI can scan in a short time. You'll have as many potential candidates as you want, but you can filter them according to your preferences. For instance, you can set the location near the office for you and your applicant's convenience. You can also invite your company's open position through email notifications that the AI technology can generate.
2. Automated Resume Screening
The AI software ranks candidates based on their work experience, skills, and other qualifications. With this, a shortlist of the strongest applicants will be made available to you easily, and you can schedule interviews immediately. AI also has the ability to check public platforms about the applicant's social media profiles, and you can view them for further information.
3. Recruiter Chatbots
Chatbots provide feedback, updates, and information on the next step of the recruitment process to the applicants. This feature allows candidates to have the best experience with the company by receiving consistent feedback throughout their application process.
4. Digitized Interviews
Online interviews have been trending these past few years - and are more prevalent than ever during the ongoing pandemic. With the advancement of technology, AI helps assess a candidate's facial cues, speech patterns, and word choice if it can fit the company.
You can also counter-check if the right applicant is being interviewed through facial recognition. You'll avoid the error of mixing up candidates, like in the usual face-to-face interviews.
5. Conversation Analytics
Interviews are quite lengthy to remember and assess. Having AI will help you transcribe the conversation, so you can review it when choosing among the candidates. You can also evaluate the manner of your interviews and determine whether you're consistent with the questions or not. You can filter out the common questions and compare the candidates' answers to determine who did best.
6. Automated Reference Checking
Traditional hiring makes it hard to check the references indicated in the resumes of applicants. You can only call them and ask about the candidate's character and work performance. With AI, you can also verify the persons of reference listed in the resumes of the applicant. You can check whether the names are truthful and information is truthful through automated checking on other platforms on the internet.
7. AI for Internal Hiring
Hiring for open positions in the workplace can come from employees inside the company and save you time and money. You can use AI to determine the best candidates within the company for the job. The software will use the company data of employees to get patterns from the skills and experience of each employee. Then, recommendations will be made for you to assess and select the strongest employees.
8. Rerouting Candidates
If you've found potential candidates in the future, but they aren't right for the open position in your company, you can introduce them to other locations you have. It's a big loss to have a good candidate wasted and be hired by competing companies. With AI, you can send them updates and options in their emails on where they can work. The technology can include maps and pictures that they can view to have a clear picture of the place.
9. Assessing the Strength of an Individual in Teams
Recruitment always focuses on individual strengths and potentials. However, companies work in a team effort. Yet, it is hard to tell if a person can work well in a group just by manually assessing them. AI has launched a combination of data analytics and scientific testing to understand an individual's skills and experience that can influence their participation and performance in teams.
10. Candidate Rediscovery
With AI's large database, you can take advantage of this by scanning through past candidates that can fit existing job openings. Rather than spending time and money on finding new candidates, you can use existing candidates to find a strong applicant just within your reach.
11. Have an Updated Recruiting Capacity
A company's over-hiring and under-hiring can lead to problems in productivity and costs. Imagine having three employees when one worker can do. By hiring appropriate numbers of employees, you can save a lot of resources - and also avoid overworking your employees.
It's good to have a balance in the company employees to have a harmonious workflow. To do this, you'll need to have a real-time tracker and analytics of the current employment status of the company. AI can create accurate employee analytics and forecast the needs of the company.
How AI Will Change the Recruiter Role
AI is not a threat in replacing humans in charge of the recruitment process. Instead, you can use it efficiently with the HR team you have. However, there can be changes in the roles within the team. Here are the ways AI will change the role of the recruiter:
Change 1: Recruiters Are More Proactive Than Reactive
With the manual hiring process, recruiters encounter problems that they take care of immediately after. With AI technology, you can be proactive in preventing these situations through programs and algorithms you introduce into the system.
For example, in the traditional hiring process, there were often problems with applicants who couldn't receive notifications on the dates of interviews. Some of them would come to the office asking for updates, and you would come to learn that you hadn't sent out the emails. With AI, you can prevent these problems with an automated sending of email updates, schedules, and suggestions.
Change 2: Recruiters Have More Time With Candidates
Introducing AI will save time in the hiring process. You won't have to go over hundreds to thousands of resumes submitted. Instead, the system will create a shortlist of the strongest candidates. With this, you can spend more time with the best candidates in person, learn more about them, and determine if they will be a good fit for the company and its culture.
Change 3: Recruiters Will Close the Gap Within the Team
The human resource head and employees have trouble sharing data: usually, employees don't have the KPIs of the hiring process. But with access to AI, each human resources team member has access to important data that involves the hiring process. This helps everyone assess the team and provide suggestions for improved recruitment to have the best future employees.
How AI Enables Audience Targeting
AI has introduced a new way of reaching an audience by tracking a web user's behavior and making predictions based on the gathered information. For example, let's say you've watched an action movie on Netflix. Its AI algorithm enables recommendations, so you can easily find movies that are similar to what you've enjoyed.
In a company's recruitment process, AI targets candidates by the available data on their skills and strengths. The algorithm recognizes keywords in an applicant's uploaded resume and goes through analytics, determining if the candidate has a high probability of being a successful employee. Then, the applicant can receive requests through emails, and if they are interested in the job, the process will continue until the digitized interview.
Why Big Data Analytics Is the Key to AI in Recruiting
Computer experts and IT professionals use big data analytics. They converted it into a model that a computer uses to help in business decision-making processes that are typically too overwhelming for the human mind. AI, similarly, has programs and algorithms that deal with the task of creating functions from enormous and complex data. The internet has provided information on consumer behavior and preferences, which is insightful "big data" that AI utilizes to give recommendations.
AI creates patterns from huge sets of data to arrive at an objective conclusion. Conversely, if you just have a few sets of data, bias will be prevalent.
Since recruitment involves a lot of data - from resumes, job postings, requirements, and more - AI recruiting tools do the work for you. They organize big chunks of data to create programs and algorithms for the hiring process - and it would be much easier to derive algorithms from large data patterns and arrive with an unbiased hiring process model.
Keep the company's data records involved in hiring, so they can be used to train the AI technology.
Choosing the Right AI Technology
You may find it hard to switch to AI technology for your recruitment process, but it all boils down to choosing the right one for your business. Here are some tips you can follow to select the best AI for your company:
1. Look for AI That Can Automate Data Transformation
Choose an AI software that can transform several data inputs into models. Look for the tools that the software offers that must include automation of data transformation and enrichment to come up with algorithms that can process data and select the best applicants.
Here are some AI tools you can search for:
Hiretual - customizes engagement with candidates and also includes features such as diversity and internal hiring.
XOR - offers live chat for a support team, video interviews, and connects recruiters and candidates
Eightfold - assists job seekers in finding the right job openings and also promotes diversity hiring.
Humanly - mainly features diversity hiring but also automates candidate's screening and scheduling of interviews.
MyInterview - analyzes a candidate's interview answers for their reasoning and professionalism.
Loxo - has a larger database reaching 530 million people for your recruitment needs.
Seek Out - a search engine tool you can use to search for talents, shortlist candidates based on the job description you provided, engage candidates in the hiring process, and implement diversity hiring.
2. Has Model Updates
Optimum AI performance can be made possible by up-to-date features and tools. It helps to choose a software provider with automatic updates instead of manual updates - the latter could cost more in the future.
3. Can Give You Adjustments
Get an AI system that you can control without having to ask for outside help. Look for an AI software provider that includes training and demos for their customers.
It's best to be informed without all the tools and features of the AI to make adjustments yourself, so you won't have to worry about additional costs related to assistance.
4. With Scalability
When AI is scalable, it can easily handle growing data sources and add resources to the system. Make sure to select an AI system that can manage several applications and databases so that you won't have a problem running multiple functions.
5. With Help Desk Availability
A new system leads to unfamiliarity when troubles appear. Select a software that has a help desk readily available for your inquiries. You can test out the responsiveness of their support team first so that you'll have reliable support in case of problems and inquiries.
6. Has Reasonable Costs
Check the inclusions of the AI software you'll be purchasing for the company. List down all the features you need, including support and updates. It's convenient to invest in AI that has everything you need and has fewer additional costs in the future.
7. Check the Ratings
Even if you've found the AI recruitment agency provider, you still need to verify whether the information they have is true. You can check this through perusing reviews from those who avail of the services.
You can also speak with an expert or recruitment advisor to guide you on the AI recruitment agencies to get the best one for your company. Don't be afraid to seek assistance! When you have somebody guiding you through the process, you will find the best fit and avoid incurring additional costs.
The advisor will usually recommend AIs based on your budget and needs, so be specific and list down your recruitment needs. When the options are available, you can shortlist them by the reviews you've read, the money you can save, and more. The choice will be up to you, so make sure to do your own research as well.
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Q: What is the method to reference another opened workbook which is in a separate window? I could open another workbook in separate window by using two methods
TheEmu_Path = "excel.exe " & ThisWorkbook.Path & "\" & "myexcel.xlsx"
call Shell(TheEmu_Path, 3)
or
Set oExcel = New Excel.Application
oExcel.Workbooks.Open Filename:=TheEmu_Path & "myexcel.xlsx"
The first method I could Open but don't know how to set a reference for the open workbook
The second I could reference when opening the workbook but later for any later process I don't know how to reference that separately-opened worksheet
Set oExcel = ??
Set oWB = oExcel.Workbooks("myexcel.xlsx")
Set oWS = oWB.Sheets("F1")
How can I set the reference for oExcel (the already separately opened workbook)?
After creating and opening, later I want to change value in that open separately workbook in new button command
Set oExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
Set oWB = oExcel.Workbooks("myexcel.xlsx")
Set oWS = oWB.Sheets("1")
oWS.Cells(1, 1) = 55
I have a mistake in line two as I believe that I still haven't referenced oExcel correctly.
Comment on David revision
Impressive, thanks a lot.
It works perfectly with very little addition, oExcel will be considered as workbook directly - great!
Dim oExcel As Object 'or Dim oExcel As Workbook
Dim oWS As Excel.Worksheet 'or Dim oWS As Worksheet
Set oExcel = GetObject(ThisWorkbook.Path & "\" & "myexcel.xlsx").Application
'or Set oExcel = GetObject(ThisWorkbook.Path & "\" & "myexcel.xlsx")
Set oWS = oExcel.Sheets("1")
oWS.Cells(1, 1) = 4
This is exciting and encouraging to ask other question as I have my file crashes when using UpdateRemoteReferences that result in #na values.
A: Create a new instance of Excel:
Dim oExcel as Excel.Application 'or As New Excel.Application
Set oExcel = New Excel.Application
'Dim oExcel as Object
'Set oExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application") 'Alternative method for late-binding
When I do this, a new Excel opens, and there is one blank workbook file. To reference this workbook:
Dim oWB as Workbook
Set oWB = oExcel.Workbooks(1)
To open a file within this instance:
Dim anotherWB as Workbook
Set anotherWB = oExcel.Workbooks.Open("c:\test.xlsx")
Etc.
Although I don't usually recommend working with multiple instances of the application, I just don't have any use to do this, I just open all workbooks in one instance of Excel.Application.
Updated per comments requests
The easiest way to control multiple instances, IMO, is to start with a clean slate and create new objects, controlling them during runtime, per examples above.
In cases where this is not possible, it is still possible to get the other instance. In both cases I think you will need to know the name of an open workbook file in the other instance of Excel.
Easier
If you know the workbook name, you can get access like:
Dim oExcel As Object ' or Excel.Application
Set oExcel = GetObject("Workbook_Name.xlsx").Application
You can then refer to workbooks using the ordinary methods, as long as you qualify that you're working with oExcel, e.g.:
Dim otherWorkbook as Workbook
Set otherWorkbook = oExcel.Workbooks(1) 'or oExcel.Workbooks("Workbook_Name.xlsx")
More difficult, possibly more versatile
Another option is to use the WinAPI functions to get the windows handle. I have used the WinAPI to do things like this before, and although I have not tested the example code below, it should be a good place to start.
http://excelribbon.tips.net/T009452_Finding_Other_Instances_of_Excel_in_a_Macro.html
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Enrique Olvera is considered as the most famous chef in Mexico. He completed a course of study at the Culinary Institute of America in New York and then proceeded to Chicago where he began working in one of the most exclusive restaurants in the city – the Everest. Olvera was only 24 years old when he started Pujol, which has been in business for 14 years now. The restaurant is well-known for combining traditional and modern cooking methods, as well as the wide variety of ingredients and aromas. It didn't end in Meixco, however. Later on he also started Cosme, which is Olvera's New York debut and his first restaurant outside Mexico. The restaurant also boasts Mexican flavors and traditions, while also celebrating local and seasonal ingredients from the Hudson Valley and surrounding region.
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What's the pyramid joke?
In The Light Fantastic, after talking about the dimensions of the Pyramid of Tsort, it says
All in all, it was a lot of effort to go through just to sharpen a razor.
What's the joke here?
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Just like to add that I asked TP this very question at a book signing. The answers given are very much in line with what he said. – Andrew Stacey Aug 18 '18 at 22:30
There was a Donald Duck, many many years ago, with a story about a salesman trying to sell hand-sized Pyramid replica's. One of it's features was indeed sharpening a razor. While I can't find that story (otherwise I'd have made this an answer), I do have this cartoon from a newspaper (Gadsden Times, November 2 1977). – Mast Aug 19 '18 at 11:05
@Mast The Donald Duck cartoon references the same thing, but certainly isn't the originator of the superstition. – mattdm Aug 19 '18 at 18:16
@mattdm Oh, definitely. But it goes to show how well-known Pyramid Power story was. As support to the other answers. TP wasn't the first or the last to make jokes about it. – Mast Aug 19 '18 at 18:19
I remember cardboard pyramids being put under the beds of small children, to stop them wetting it. Same people who believed in the razor sharpening thing. In the 70s in the Netherlands. – RemcoGerlich Aug 28 '18 at 9:04
In the real world, there is or was a belief, brought on by the Egyptomania of the early 20th century, that pyramids had special powers—including, specifically, the power to sharpen or maintain the sharpness of razor blades.
Pyramid power refers to the belief that the ancient Egyptian pyramids and objects of similar shape can confer a variety of benefits. Among these assumed properties are the ability to preserve foods, sharpen or maintain the sharpness of razor blades, improve health, function "as a thought-form incubator", trigger sexual urges, and cause other effects. Such unverified theories regarding pyramids are collectively known as pyramidology.
Czechoslovakian Karel Drbal even patented a pyramid-shaped device specifically designed for razor blades. Among the specifications:
It is beneficial to leave a new blade in the pyramid one to two weeks before using it. It is essential to place it there immediately after the first shave, and not the old, dull one. But it is possible to use an old one, if it is properly resharpened. The blade placed using the method above is left unobstructed until the next shave. The west edge should always face west. It improves the sharpening effect.
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My uncle had a "keeps razors sharp forever" pyramid in (at least) the late 1970s. – RonJohn Aug 19 '18 at 18:53
@RonJohn Well? Did it work? – pipe Aug 20 '18 at 11:01
@pipe he swore it did. I was more than dubious then (just as I am now), but wasn't going to argue with him about it, in the same way I wouldn't argue religion. – RonJohn Aug 20 '18 at 11:06
"Sharped a razor blade, put it in this pyramid, don't use it for 2 weeks - and it'll still be sharp!" – Cubic Aug 20 '18 at 11:19
This was busted on mythbusters: kwc.org/mythbusters/2005/06/mythbusters_jetpack_pyramid_po.html – AncientSwordRage♦ Aug 20 '18 at 15:36
This is a reference to the popular myth that placing a razor blade inside a pyramid shape somehow confers magical powers on it, keeping it sharp, something that that inspired multiple patents in the 1950s.
Interestingly, this does actually work in the world of the Discworld, but not for the reasons you might think. Pyramids cause a slowing (and in extreme cases reversal) of time.
By the way, contrary to popular opinion pyramids don't sharpen razor blades. They just take them back to when they weren't blunt. It's probably because of quantum.
Pyramids by Terry Pratchett
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This is the legend of 'Pyramid Power'
Pyramid power refers to the belief that the ancient Egyptian pyramids and objects of similar shape can confer a variety of benefits.
Among these assumed properties are the ability to preserve foods, sharpen or maintain the sharpness of razor blades, improve health, function "as a thought-form incubator", trigger sexual urges, and cause other effects.
Such unverified theories regarding pyramids are collectively known as pyramidology.
There is no scientific evidence that pyramid power exists.
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As an additional note: pyramidology often makes a lot of noise about the precise dimensions of the pyramids and how impossibly advanced the measurements are. (In reality, the Egyptians knew what they were doing, and had perfectly serviceable geometry and tools for the task.) – Cadence Aug 18 '18 at 18:04
The best resource to find the explanation of jokes in Terry Pratchett books is the trusty old Annotated Prattchet File on L-Space Web. If you look up the annotations for The Light Fantastic in it, and search for "razor", you will find a short explanation there.
[p. 35] "He read that its height plus its length divided by half its width equalled exactly 1.67563..."
A parody of the typical numerical pseudo-science tossed about regarding the Great Pyramid and the 'cosmic truths' (such as the distance from the Earth to the Sun) that the Egyptians supposedly incorporated into its measurements.
The remark about sharpening razor blades at the end of the paragraph is similarly a reference to the pseudo-scientific 'fact' that (small models of) pyramids are supposed to have, among many other powers, the ability to sharpen razor blades that are left underneath the pyramids overnight.
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Chalke Valley Cricket Club in south-west Wiltshire and the Kent Spitfire have become surprising partners as they launch a nationwide competition for a lucky winner to have a private aerobatic display by this most iconic of wartime aircraft at a time and place of their choosing.
The competition aims to raise money to send the Spitfire to Arnhem this September for the 65th Anniversary of the battle in support of the Arnhem Veterans' Club, and also to help Chalke Valley build a new cricket ground.
Pilot of the Spitfire, Clive Denney, and the Honorary Secretary of the Chalke Valley Cricket Club, Second World War historian and author, James Holland, became friends some years ago when the two collaborated on a successful project to take a Spitfire and Hurricane back to the Mediterranean island of Malta for the first time since the end of the war. When Clive told James that he needed to raise money to take the Spitfire to Arnhem this year, an idea was hatched to provide a solution to both their needs.
The new ground is already under development thanks to generous and enthusiastic local support. They have also received help from wider afield such as from England batting star, Kevin Pietersen, former England captain and Sky commentator and writer, Mike Atherton, and even former Prime Minister, John Major, and footballing legend, Sir Bobby Robson.
'The support has been overwhelming,' says James. 'I think people recognise the need for rural regeneration and appreciate what a fabulous new cricket ground would mean for the area.' The Club is not eligible for any grants from the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), so they are looking towards other means of raising the necessary funds.
'I am thrilled with the initiative to add the Spitfire to the Commemoration at Arnhem in September,' said Vice President of the Arnhem Veterans' Club, Colonel John Waddy. Colonel Waddy, then a major and a company commander in 156th Parachute Battalion, fought and was wounded at Arnhem in September 1944.
The organisers believe this is a unique competition. Those entering will be supporting two worthy causes but they also have a realistic chance of winning. Whether it be for a birthday, wedding, anniversary, fund-raiser, or just for fun, it is a truly wonderful prize: there can be few more thrilling sights than seeing this most beautiful and famous of aircraft twirling and pirouetting over the sky, the sound of its Rolls Royce Merlin engine roaring overhead.
The Kent Spitfire, a MkIXe model, TA 805, was built at the Castle Bromwich factory in the West Midlands in late 1944. It is currently painted in the RAF late wartime pattern and with 134 Squadron markings, and with the distinctive black and white stripes on the wings that were added for the D-Day invasion in June 1944. | {
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Trump's Supreme Court picks: Where's Roy Moore?
Donald Trump's supporters seem impervious to evidence. And now that their delusion is being aided and abetted by the elitist faction's knee-jerk partisan propagandists in the media, I'm sure facts will seem even more irrelevant to their judgment about what he contrives to say and do. But we must heed the Apostle's admonition not to grow weary in the effort to do right. The truth will out, and when it does, have we any choice but to bear witness?
Much ado is being made about Trump's latest effort to prove, contrary to palpable fact, that he cares for and will respect the Constitution. He released a list naming 11 people he would consider nominating to the Supreme Court. I have received emails proclaiming that every one of them is a tried and true conservative who will follow Justice Antonin Scalia's example of scrupulous, well-reasoned respect for the provisions of the Constitution.
When I perused the list, my personal knowledge caused one name to leap from the page – William Pryor. Pryor now sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, having been nominated for that position by George W. Bush in 2003. It was also in 2003 that he came to prominence as the Alabama attorney general who first called for the removal of Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore from his position, and then personally prosecuted the case to secure Moore's removal by the Alabama Court of the Judiciary.
Judge Pryor is exactly the sort of judge I would expect to be appointed by one or another of the GOP quislings who have competed for the GOP's presidential nomination. In their eyes, he qualifies as a conservative precisely because he proved himself a loyal tool of the view of the Constitution that consistently ignores the existence of the Ninth and 10th Amendments. The Ninth prohibits any construction of the enumeration of rights in the Constitution that denies or disparages rights retained by the people (which include, before all others, their God-endowed unalienable rights). The 10th makes it plain that the powers not explicitly delegated to the U.S. government are "reserved to the States, respectively, or to the people."
For a long time, most members of America's legal profession simply accepted the notion that both these Amendments had been effectively superseded by their studious and habitual disrespect. In recent years, efforts – mostly stimulated by grassroots conservatives – have challenged this practice of nullification by malignant neglect. I am glad to have been part of those efforts for the past 20 years and more. Such efforts are especially critical these days in the battle against Judicial and Executive tyranny being waged to force acceptance of homosexuality and other sexual whims upon the nation, against the conscientious resistance of many of its people. Then-Attorney General Pryor's prosecution of Alabama Chief Justice Moore was part of the effort to scour every semblance of the God-acknowledging premises of our constitutional self-government from American public life, in order to pave the way for the criminalization and/or banishment of views and practices rooted in religious conscience.
Attorney General Pryor "made his bones" (as the gangsters say) with the elitist faction's powers-that-be by his zealous prosecution of Roy Moore. But Donald Trump is supposed to stand in opposition to those powers and the GOP quislings who are their agents in the Republican Party. He is, by his own proclamation, supposed to be committed to reinstating respect for what he calls "States Rights," which is to say, the prerogatives of the powers the 10th Amendment reserves to "the States, respectively, or to the people." So, what is a judge who eagerly served as an instrument for enforcing the nullification of the 10th Amendment doing on Trump's list of possible U.S. Supreme Court nominees?
Like Mr. Trump's instinctive opposition to North Carolina's so-called "bathroom bill"; his desire to alter the GOP's principled platform position on respect for the unalienable right to life; his disregard for the plain meaning of the Fifth Amendment's reference to persons, without regard to citizenship; and his eager disregard for the implications of the Fifth Amendment's prohibition against compulsory self-incrimination and the Eighth Amendment's intolerance for cruel and unusual punishment (which, taken together, more than eliminate torture from the list of actions the government can constitutionally perpetrate against persons not even accused of a crime), Trump's willingness to consider William Pryor for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court contradicts the principled, conservative course he now promises to take with respect to judicial appointments.
There I go again, daring to suggest, from the facts in evidence, that Donald Trump is a prevaricating con artist, gulling conservatives with promises he obviously lacks the conviction to keep. Well, blame me for such small-minded consistency. I guess I can't appreciate the flexible "greatness" evident in Mr. Trump's magnanimous capacity to avoid anything so petty. That's why it looks to me just like the vote-for-what-I-say-not-what-I'll-obviously-do politics of the people his glass-eyed supporters claim to be fed up with.
But at least a Trump victory won't require a change in their diet of disappointment. That's why he considerately left Roy Moore off his list. As I hope you know, Chief Justice Moore is the sort of justice a petty, consistent, principled conservative would appoint. He consistently stands, at great public and personal sacrifice, for the things Donald Trump boisterously pretends to believe – unlike William Pryor, who seeks to destroy those who truly do believe in them. | {
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Race to the BTC Premiership hotting up
By Tapela Morapedi
The scramble for automatic promotion and play-off places is intensifying as the battle at the top end of the Debswana First Division League Championship is hotting up with only three games left.
Francistown based Tafic Sporting Club leads the Debswana First Division North (DFDN) with 48 points ahead of Morupule Wanderers with 46 points. Gilport Lions is leading the pack in the Debswana First Division South (DFDS) with 30 points, three points ahead of Matebejane which is trailing with 27 points.
Both Tafic and Gilport Lions were relegated from the BTC Premiership last season and they seem to be favourites for automatic promotion as they are currently leading the North and South division leagues respectively. Matjimenyenga Boys or Undipe Ndikupe as Tafic is affectionately called has won 15 matches of their 19 encounters, they have shared the spoils in three games and lost one. Morupule Wanderers also have 15 wins, one draw and three losses. Sua Flamingoes occupies the third spot on the log with 12 wins, three draws and four losses.
In the DFDS, Gilport Lions have won nine matches of their 18 encounters, drew three and lost six. BDF's Matebejane in second position have won seven matches, drew six and lost five while Uniao Flamingo Santos have won six, drew nine and lost three. DFDN has proved to be more competitive than the south division considering the difference in points collected. There is an 18 points difference between Tafic (48) and Gilport Lions (30) despite the South division trailing by a single game. Tafic has played 19 games while Gilport Lions have played 18. Matebejane which is second on the log in the DFDS with 27 points, has the same number of points with Eleven Angels which is number four in the DFDN.
Glory for Francistown
Of interest is the City of Francistown which boast the country's biggest stadium which nevertheless remain underutilized owing to all the Francistown Football Clubs playing in the lower divisions. The second City is banking on Tafic once again to bring back the glory days that the city used to enjoy when Tafic and city rivals, Francistown City Greens, formerly Ecco City Greens were both playing in the elite league.
Tafic Captain, Uyapo 'Carlos' Tibathuwe asserts that a return to the BTC Premiership is certain for the Francistown based outfit. The combative midfielder from Senete told Weekend Sport in an interview that Matjimenyenga Boys are not about to surrender their position in the automatic promotion race. Tafic will face Francistown City Greeens in the Francistown derby today and will be aiming to extend their two points cushion at the summit of the Debswana Second Division North league.
While Tafic have possibly been the best team in the DFDN championship and looked on course for a quick return to top flight football, Morupule has been a fierce contender threatening their fortunes for a comeback. The two teams have been on few occasions swapped positions, an indication of a tough contest but Tafic's marksman is optimistic of a premier league return.
With Morupule Wanderers breathing heavily down Matjimenyenga Boys' neck, Carlos insists that his side is primed to achieve promotion to the premiership, promising that they will not run out of puff to make the people of Francistown and the region happy again. "It is not going to be easy but we are going to fight with everything to make sure that we gain automatic promotion to the BTC Premiership. In short, we are going to the premier league," said the confident Tafic Captain.
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Spherix inks deal to conduct Phase III trial for Naturlose
By Gabriel Madway
Published: May 23, 2006 2:36 p.m. ET
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Spherix Inc. s[: spex] said Tuesday it has signed an agreement with GleneaglesCRC to conduct its Phase III clinical trial on the use of Naturlose as a treatment for Type 2 diabetes. Gleneagles will conduct the main part of the trial in Australia, with patient recruitment slated to start by the end of 2006. Beltsvile, Md.-based Spherix said it will contract with a separate research organization to conduct two smaller portions of the trial. | {
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57134 2019-12-30 18:56:57 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 09:30:09.538 +05:28:32.23 2019-12-28 11:49:55 21.12 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19jbs Pan-STARRS1
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57135 2019-12-30 18:57:54 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 09:04:03.681 +03:35:18.20 2019-12-28 12:15:50 22.07 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19jbt Pan-STARRS1
51245 AT 2019zib 1 09:17:25.205 +34:19:26.23 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jbv PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.52 g-Sloan 2019-11-25 15:05:45 YSE_Bot1
57137 2019-12-30 23:34:33 YSE_Bot1 D. O. Jones (UC Santa Cruz), K. D. French (Carnegie, Illinois), A. Agnello, C. R. Angus, Z. Ansari, N. Arendse, C. Gall, C. Grillo, S. H. Bruun, C. Hede, J. Hjorth, L. Izzo, H. Korhonen, S. Raimundo, D. Kodi Ramanah, A. Sarangi, R. Wojtak (DARK, U Copenhagen), K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, E. A. Magnier, T. J. L. de Boer, J. R. Fairlamb, C. C. Lin, R. J. Wainscoat, T. Lowe, M. Willman, J. Bulger, A. S. B. Schultz (IfA, Hawaii), A. Engel, A. Gagliano, G. Narayan, M. Soraisam (Illinois), Q. Wang (JHU), A. Rest (JHU, STScI), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith (Queen's University Belfast), K. Alexander, A. Baldeschi, P. Blanchard, D. Coppejans, L. DeMarchi, A. Hajela, W. Jacobson-Galan, R. Margutti, D. Matthews, C. Stauffer, M. Stroh, G. Terreran (Northwestern), M. Drout (U Toronto), D. A. Coulter, G. Dimitriadis, R. J. Foley, T. Hung, C. D. Kilpatrick, C. Rojas-Bravo, M. R. Siebert (UC Santa Cruz), K. Auchettl, E. Ramirez-Ruiz (UC Santa Cruz, DARK) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 09:17:25.205 +34:19:26.23 2019-11-25 15:05:45 20.52 g-Sloan 1 PSN PS19jbv Pan-STARRS1
110364 2019-11-25 15:05:45 20.52 0.17 21 ABMag g-Sloan PS1_GPC1 27 Robot
51246 AT 2019zic 1 07:39:53.606 +42:21:28.48 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jbw PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.04 g-Sloan 2019-11-26 13:04:48 YSE_Bot1 <a href="https://tess.mit.edu/observations/#pointing" target="_blank" class="ext-cat-link">TESS-active sector/s (19,20)</a>, <a href="https://tess.mit.edu/observations/#pointing" target="_blank" class="ext-cat-link">TESS-active sector/s (19,20)</a>, <a href="https://tess.mit.edu/observations/#pointing" target="_blank" class="ext-cat-link">TESS-Sector20</a>, <a href="https://tess.mit.edu/observations/#pointing" target="_blank" class="ext-cat-link">TESS-Sector20</a>
57138 2019-12-30 23:35:09 YSE_Bot1 D. O. Jones (UC Santa Cruz), K. D. French (Carnegie, Illinois), A. Agnello, C. R. Angus, Z. Ansari, N. Arendse, C. Gall, C. Grillo, S. H. Bruun, C. Hede, J. Hjorth, L. Izzo, H. Korhonen, S. Raimundo, D. Kodi Ramanah, A. Sarangi, R. Wojtak (DARK, U Copenhagen), K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, E. A. Magnier, T. J. L. de Boer, J. R. Fairlamb, C. C. Lin, R. J. Wainscoat, T. Lowe, M. Willman, J. Bulger, A. S. B. Schultz (IfA, Hawaii), A. Engel, A. Gagliano, G. Narayan, M. Soraisam (Illinois), Q. Wang (JHU), A. Rest (JHU, STScI), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith (Queen's University Belfast), K. Alexander, A. Baldeschi, P. Blanchard, D. Coppejans, L. DeMarchi, A. Hajela, W. Jacobson-Galan, R. Margutti, D. Matthews, C. Stauffer, M. Stroh, G. Terreran (Northwestern), M. Drout (U Toronto), D. A. Coulter, G. Dimitriadis, R. J. Foley, T. Hung, C. D. Kilpatrick, C. Rojas-Bravo, M. R. Siebert (UC Santa Cruz), K. Auchettl, E. Ramirez-Ruiz (UC Santa Cruz, DARK) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 07:39:53.606 +42:21:28.48 2019-11-26 13:04:48 20.04 g-Sloan 1 PSN PS19jbw Pan-STARRS1
51247 AT 2019zid 1 07:29:47.262 +39:47:59.35 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jbx PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.33 g-Sloan 2019-11-26 13:04:48 YSE_Bot1 <a href="https://tess.mit.edu/observations/#pointing" target="_blank" class="ext-cat-link">TESS-active sector/s (19,20)</a>, <a href="https://tess.mit.edu/observations/#pointing" target="_blank" class="ext-cat-link">TESS-Sector20</a>
57139 2019-12-30 23:35:36 YSE_Bot1 D. O. Jones (UC Santa Cruz), K. D. French (Carnegie, Illinois), A. Agnello, C. R. Angus, Z. Ansari, N. Arendse, C. Gall, C. Grillo, S. H. Bruun, C. Hede, J. Hjorth, L. Izzo, H. Korhonen, S. Raimundo, D. Kodi Ramanah, A. Sarangi, R. Wojtak (DARK, U Copenhagen), K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, E. A. Magnier, T. J. L. de Boer, J. R. Fairlamb, C. C. Lin, R. J. Wainscoat, T. Lowe, M. Willman, J. Bulger, A. S. B. Schultz (IfA, Hawaii), A. Engel, A. Gagliano, G. Narayan, M. Soraisam (Illinois), Q. Wang (JHU), A. Rest (JHU, STScI), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith (Queen's University Belfast), K. Alexander, A. Baldeschi, P. Blanchard, D. Coppejans, L. DeMarchi, A. Hajela, W. Jacobson-Galan, R. Margutti, D. Matthews, C. Stauffer, M. Stroh, G. Terreran (Northwestern), M. Drout (U Toronto), D. A. Coulter, G. Dimitriadis, R. J. Foley, T. Hung, C. D. Kilpatrick, C. Rojas-Bravo, M. R. Siebert (UC Santa Cruz), K. Auchettl, E. Ramirez-Ruiz (UC Santa Cruz, DARK) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 07:29:47.262 +39:47:59.35 2019-11-26 13:04:48 20.33 g-Sloan 1 PSN PS19jbx Pan-STARRS1
51248 AT 2019zie 1 07:54:43.303 +41:10:41.95 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jby PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.16 g-Sloan 2019-11-26 13:07:40 YSE_Bot1 <a href="https://tess.mit.edu/observations/#pointing" target="_blank" class="ext-cat-link">TESS-active sector/s (19,20)</a>, <a href="https://tess.mit.edu/observations/#pointing" target="_blank" class="ext-cat-link">TESS-active sector/s (19,20)</a>, <a href="https://tess.mit.edu/observations/#pointing" target="_blank" class="ext-cat-link">TESS-Sector20</a>, <a href="https://tess.mit.edu/observations/#pointing" target="_blank" class="ext-cat-link">TESS-Sector20</a>
57140 2019-12-30 23:35:57 YSE_Bot1 D. O. Jones (UC Santa Cruz), K. D. French (Carnegie, Illinois), A. Agnello, C. R. Angus, Z. Ansari, N. Arendse, C. Gall, C. Grillo, S. H. Bruun, C. Hede, J. Hjorth, L. Izzo, H. Korhonen, S. Raimundo, D. Kodi Ramanah, A. Sarangi, R. Wojtak (DARK, U Copenhagen), K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, E. A. Magnier, T. J. L. de Boer, J. R. Fairlamb, C. C. Lin, R. J. Wainscoat, T. Lowe, M. Willman, J. Bulger, A. S. B. Schultz (IfA, Hawaii), A. Engel, A. Gagliano, G. Narayan, M. Soraisam (Illinois), Q. Wang (JHU), A. Rest (JHU, STScI), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith (Queen's University Belfast), K. Alexander, A. Baldeschi, P. Blanchard, D. Coppejans, L. DeMarchi, A. Hajela, W. Jacobson-Galan, R. Margutti, D. Matthews, C. Stauffer, M. Stroh, G. Terreran (Northwestern), M. Drout (U Toronto), D. A. Coulter, G. Dimitriadis, R. J. Foley, T. Hung, C. D. Kilpatrick, C. Rojas-Bravo, M. R. Siebert (UC Santa Cruz), K. Auchettl, E. Ramirez-Ruiz (UC Santa Cruz, DARK) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 07:54:43.303 +41:10:41.95 2019-11-26 13:07:40 20.16 g-Sloan 1 PSN PS19jby Pan-STARRS1
51249 AT 2019zif 1 07:54:53.135 +38:27:50.27 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jbz PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.42 g-Sloan 2019-11-26 13:06:14 YSE_Bot1 <a href="https://tess.mit.edu/observations/#pointing" target="_blank" class="ext-cat-link">TESS-active sector/s (19,20)</a>, <a href="https://tess.mit.edu/observations/#pointing" target="_blank" class="ext-cat-link">TESS-Sector20</a>
57141 2019-12-30 23:36:20 YSE_Bot1 D. O. Jones (UC Santa Cruz), K. D. French (Carnegie, Illinois), A. Agnello, C. R. Angus, Z. Ansari, N. Arendse, C. Gall, C. Grillo, S. H. Bruun, C. Hede, J. Hjorth, L. Izzo, H. Korhonen, S. Raimundo, D. Kodi Ramanah, A. Sarangi, R. Wojtak (DARK, U Copenhagen), K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, E. A. Magnier, T. J. L. de Boer, J. R. Fairlamb, C. C. Lin, R. J. Wainscoat, T. Lowe, M. Willman, J. Bulger, A. S. B. Schultz (IfA, Hawaii), A. Engel, A. Gagliano, G. Narayan, M. Soraisam (Illinois), Q. Wang (JHU), A. Rest (JHU, STScI), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith (Queen's University Belfast), K. Alexander, A. Baldeschi, P. Blanchard, D. Coppejans, L. DeMarchi, A. Hajela, W. Jacobson-Galan, R. Margutti, D. Matthews, C. Stauffer, M. Stroh, G. Terreran (Northwestern), M. Drout (U Toronto), D. A. Coulter, G. Dimitriadis, R. J. Foley, T. Hung, C. D. Kilpatrick, C. Rojas-Bravo, M. R. Siebert (UC Santa Cruz), K. Auchettl, E. Ramirez-Ruiz (UC Santa Cruz, DARK) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 07:54:53.135 +38:27:50.27 2019-11-26 13:06:14 20.42 g-Sloan 1 PSN PS19jbz Pan-STARRS1
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57142 2019-12-30 23:40:43 YSE_Bot1 D. O. Jones (UC Santa Cruz), K. D. French (Carnegie, Illinois), A. Agnello, C. R. Angus, Z. Ansari, N. Arendse, C. Gall, C. Grillo, S. H. Bruun, C. Hede, J. Hjorth, L. Izzo, H. Korhonen, S. Raimundo, D. Kodi Ramanah, A. Sarangi, R. Wojtak (DARK, U Copenhagen), K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, E. A. Magnier, T. J. L. de Boer, J. R. Fairlamb, C. C. Lin, R. J. Wainscoat, T. Lowe, M. Willman, J. Bulger, A. S. B. Schultz (IfA, Hawaii), A. Engel, A. Gagliano, G. Narayan, M. Soraisam (Illinois), Q. Wang (JHU), A. Rest (JHU, STScI), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith (Queen's University Belfast), K. Alexander, A. Baldeschi, P. Blanchard, D. Coppejans, L. DeMarchi, A. Hajela, W. Jacobson-Galan, R. Margutti, D. Matthews, C. Stauffer, M. Stroh, G. Terreran (Northwestern), M. Drout (U Toronto), D. A. Coulter, G. Dimitriadis, R. J. Foley, T. Hung, C. D. Kilpatrick, C. Rojas-Bravo, M. R. Siebert (UC Santa Cruz), K. Auchettl, E. Ramirez-Ruiz (UC Santa Cruz, DARK) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 08:58:54.202 -03:42:47.34 2019-11-27 14:38:24 19.68 g-Sloan 1 PSN PS19jca Pan-STARRS1
51251 AT 2019zih 1 09:37:18.992 -10:17:50.27 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jcb PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.08 g-Sloan 2019-11-27 14:47:02 YSE_Bot1
57143 2019-12-30 23:41:08 YSE_Bot1 D. O. Jones (UC Santa Cruz), K. D. French (Carnegie, Illinois), A. Agnello, C. R. Angus, Z. Ansari, N. Arendse, C. Gall, C. Grillo, S. H. Bruun, C. Hede, J. Hjorth, L. Izzo, H. Korhonen, S. Raimundo, D. Kodi Ramanah, A. Sarangi, R. Wojtak (DARK, U Copenhagen), K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, E. A. Magnier, T. J. L. de Boer, J. R. Fairlamb, C. C. Lin, R. J. Wainscoat, T. Lowe, M. Willman, J. Bulger, A. S. B. Schultz (IfA, Hawaii), A. Engel, A. Gagliano, G. Narayan, M. Soraisam (Illinois), Q. Wang (JHU), A. Rest (JHU, STScI), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith (Queen's University Belfast), K. Alexander, A. Baldeschi, P. Blanchard, D. Coppejans, L. DeMarchi, A. Hajela, W. Jacobson-Galan, R. Margutti, D. Matthews, C. Stauffer, M. Stroh, G. Terreran (Northwestern), M. Drout (U Toronto), D. A. Coulter, G. Dimitriadis, R. J. Foley, T. Hung, C. D. Kilpatrick, C. Rojas-Bravo, M. R. Siebert (UC Santa Cruz), K. Auchettl, E. Ramirez-Ruiz (UC Santa Cruz, DARK) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 09:37:18.992 -10:17:50.27 2019-11-27 14:47:02 20.08 g-Sloan 1 PSN PS19jcb Pan-STARRS1
51252 AT 2019zii 1 09:08:58.874 -05:00:19.91 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jcc PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 19.9 g-Sloan 2019-11-27 14:39:50 YSE_Bot1
57144 2019-12-30 23:41:29 YSE_Bot1 D. O. Jones (UC Santa Cruz), K. D. French (Carnegie, Illinois), A. Agnello, C. R. Angus, Z. Ansari, N. Arendse, C. Gall, C. Grillo, S. H. Bruun, C. Hede, J. Hjorth, L. Izzo, H. Korhonen, S. Raimundo, D. Kodi Ramanah, A. Sarangi, R. Wojtak (DARK, U Copenhagen), K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, E. A. Magnier, T. J. L. de Boer, J. R. Fairlamb, C. C. Lin, R. J. Wainscoat, T. Lowe, M. Willman, J. Bulger, A. S. B. Schultz (IfA, Hawaii), A. Engel, A. Gagliano, G. Narayan, M. Soraisam (Illinois), Q. Wang (JHU), A. Rest (JHU, STScI), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith (Queen's University Belfast), K. Alexander, A. Baldeschi, P. Blanchard, D. Coppejans, L. DeMarchi, A. Hajela, W. Jacobson-Galan, R. Margutti, D. Matthews, C. Stauffer, M. Stroh, G. Terreran (Northwestern), M. Drout (U Toronto), D. A. Coulter, G. Dimitriadis, R. J. Foley, T. Hung, C. D. Kilpatrick, C. Rojas-Bravo, M. R. Siebert (UC Santa Cruz), K. Auchettl, E. Ramirez-Ruiz (UC Santa Cruz, DARK) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 09:08:58.874 -05:00:19.91 2019-11-27 14:39:50 19.9 g-Sloan 1 PSN PS19jcc Pan-STARRS1
110371 2019-11-27 14:39:50 19.9 0.14 21 ABMag g-Sloan PS1_GPC1 27 Robot
51253 AT 2019zij 1 09:04:23.704 -04:15:49.44 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jcd PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.25 g-Sloan 2019-11-27 14:39:50 YSE_Bot1
57145 2019-12-30 23:41:48 YSE_Bot1 D. O. Jones (UC Santa Cruz), K. D. French (Carnegie, Illinois), A. Agnello, C. R. Angus, Z. Ansari, N. Arendse, C. Gall, C. Grillo, S. H. Bruun, C. Hede, J. Hjorth, L. Izzo, H. Korhonen, S. Raimundo, D. Kodi Ramanah, A. Sarangi, R. Wojtak (DARK, U Copenhagen), K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, E. A. Magnier, T. J. L. de Boer, J. R. Fairlamb, C. C. Lin, R. J. Wainscoat, T. Lowe, M. Willman, J. Bulger, A. S. B. Schultz (IfA, Hawaii), A. Engel, A. Gagliano, G. Narayan, M. Soraisam (Illinois), Q. Wang (JHU), A. Rest (JHU, STScI), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith (Queen's University Belfast), K. Alexander, A. Baldeschi, P. Blanchard, D. Coppejans, L. DeMarchi, A. Hajela, W. Jacobson-Galan, R. Margutti, D. Matthews, C. Stauffer, M. Stroh, G. Terreran (Northwestern), M. Drout (U Toronto), D. A. Coulter, G. Dimitriadis, R. J. Foley, T. Hung, C. D. Kilpatrick, C. Rojas-Bravo, M. R. Siebert (UC Santa Cruz), K. Auchettl, E. Ramirez-Ruiz (UC Santa Cruz, DARK) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 09:04:23.704 -04:15:49.44 2019-11-27 14:39:50 20.25 g-Sloan 1 PSN PS19jcd Pan-STARRS1
51254 AT 2019zik 1 09:59:12.586 -11:00:14.74 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jce PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.29 g-Sloan 2019-11-27 14:49:55 YSE_Bot1
57146 2019-12-30 23:42:09 YSE_Bot1 D. O. Jones (UC Santa Cruz), K. D. French (Carnegie, Illinois), A. Agnello, C. R. Angus, Z. Ansari, N. Arendse, C. Gall, C. Grillo, S. H. Bruun, C. Hede, J. Hjorth, L. Izzo, H. Korhonen, S. Raimundo, D. Kodi Ramanah, A. Sarangi, R. Wojtak (DARK, U Copenhagen), K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, E. A. Magnier, T. J. L. de Boer, J. R. Fairlamb, C. C. Lin, R. J. Wainscoat, T. Lowe, M. Willman, J. Bulger, A. S. B. Schultz (IfA, Hawaii), A. Engel, A. Gagliano, G. Narayan, M. Soraisam (Illinois), Q. Wang (JHU), A. Rest (JHU, STScI), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith (Queen's University Belfast), K. Alexander, A. Baldeschi, P. Blanchard, D. Coppejans, L. DeMarchi, A. Hajela, W. Jacobson-Galan, R. Margutti, D. Matthews, C. Stauffer, M. Stroh, G. Terreran (Northwestern), M. Drout (U Toronto), D. A. Coulter, G. Dimitriadis, R. J. Foley, T. Hung, C. D. Kilpatrick, C. Rojas-Bravo, M. R. Siebert (UC Santa Cruz), K. Auchettl, E. Ramirez-Ruiz (UC Santa Cruz, DARK) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 09:59:12.586 -11:00:14.74 2019-11-27 14:49:55 20.29 g-Sloan 1 PSN PS19jce Pan-STARRS1
110373 2019-11-27 14:49:55 20.29 0.2 21 ABMag g-Sloan PS1_GPC1 27 Robot
51255 AT 2019zil 1 09:42:33.326 -08:29:25.50 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jcf PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 19.82 g-Sloan 2019-11-27 14:48:28 YSE_Bot1
57147 2019-12-30 23:42:28 YSE_Bot1 D. O. Jones (UC Santa Cruz), K. D. French (Carnegie, Illinois), A. Agnello, C. R. Angus, Z. Ansari, N. Arendse, C. Gall, C. Grillo, S. H. Bruun, C. Hede, J. Hjorth, L. Izzo, H. Korhonen, S. Raimundo, D. Kodi Ramanah, A. Sarangi, R. Wojtak (DARK, U Copenhagen), K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, E. A. Magnier, T. J. L. de Boer, J. R. Fairlamb, C. C. Lin, R. J. Wainscoat, T. Lowe, M. Willman, J. Bulger, A. S. B. Schultz (IfA, Hawaii), A. Engel, A. Gagliano, G. Narayan, M. Soraisam (Illinois), Q. Wang (JHU), A. Rest (JHU, STScI), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith (Queen's University Belfast), K. Alexander, A. Baldeschi, P. Blanchard, D. Coppejans, L. DeMarchi, A. Hajela, W. Jacobson-Galan, R. Margutti, D. Matthews, C. Stauffer, M. Stroh, G. Terreran (Northwestern), M. Drout (U Toronto), D. A. Coulter, G. Dimitriadis, R. J. Foley, T. Hung, C. D. Kilpatrick, C. Rojas-Bravo, M. R. Siebert (UC Santa Cruz), K. Auchettl, E. Ramirez-Ruiz (UC Santa Cruz, DARK) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 09:42:33.326 -08:29:25.50 2019-11-27 14:48:28 19.82 g-Sloan 1 PSN PS19jcf Pan-STARRS1
51256 AT 2019zim 1 09:56:39.007 +06:35:42.81 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jci PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 19.74 g-Sloan 2019-12-20 14:58:33 YSE_Bot1
57150 2019-12-30 23:43:33 YSE_Bot1 D. O. Jones (UC Santa Cruz), K. D. French (Carnegie, Illinois), A. Agnello, C. R. Angus, Z. Ansari, N. Arendse, C. Gall, C. Grillo, S. H. Bruun, C. Hede, J. Hjorth, L. Izzo, H. Korhonen, S. Raimundo, D. Kodi Ramanah, A. Sarangi, R. Wojtak (DARK, U Copenhagen), K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, E. A. Magnier, T. J. L. de Boer, J. R. Fairlamb, C. C. Lin, R. J. Wainscoat, T. Lowe, M. Willman, J. Bulger, A. S. B. Schultz (IfA, Hawaii), A. Engel, A. Gagliano, G. Narayan, M. Soraisam (Illinois), Q. Wang (JHU), A. Rest (JHU, STScI), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith (Queen's University Belfast), K. Alexander, A. Baldeschi, P. Blanchard, D. Coppejans, L. DeMarchi, A. Hajela, W. Jacobson-Galan, R. Margutti, D. Matthews, C. Stauffer, M. Stroh, G. Terreran (Northwestern), M. Drout (U Toronto), D. A. Coulter, G. Dimitriadis, R. J. Foley, T. Hung, C. D. Kilpatrick, C. Rojas-Bravo, M. R. Siebert (UC Santa Cruz), K. Auchettl, E. Ramirez-Ruiz (UC Santa Cruz, DARK) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 09:56:39.007 +06:35:42.81 2019-12-20 14:58:33 19.74 g-Sloan 1 PSN PS19jci Pan-STARRS1
51257 AT 2019zin 1 08:50:06.444 +00:00:55.78 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jcj PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.49 r-Sloan 2019-12-24 13:36:28 YSE_Bot1
57151 2019-12-30 23:43:53 YSE_Bot1 D. O. Jones (UC Santa Cruz), K. D. French (Carnegie, Illinois), A. Agnello, C. R. Angus, Z. Ansari, N. Arendse, C. Gall, C. Grillo, S. H. Bruun, C. Hede, J. Hjorth, L. Izzo, H. Korhonen, S. Raimundo, D. Kodi Ramanah, A. Sarangi, R. Wojtak (DARK, U Copenhagen), K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, E. A. Magnier, T. J. L. de Boer, J. R. Fairlamb, C. C. Lin, R. J. Wainscoat, T. Lowe, M. Willman, J. Bulger, A. S. B. Schultz (IfA, Hawaii), A. Engel, A. Gagliano, G. Narayan, M. Soraisam (Illinois), Q. Wang (JHU), A. Rest (JHU, STScI), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith (Queen's University Belfast), K. Alexander, A. Baldeschi, P. Blanchard, D. Coppejans, L. DeMarchi, A. Hajela, W. Jacobson-Galan, R. Margutti, D. Matthews, C. Stauffer, M. Stroh, G. Terreran (Northwestern), M. Drout (U Toronto), D. A. Coulter, G. Dimitriadis, R. J. Foley, T. Hung, C. D. Kilpatrick, C. Rojas-Bravo, M. R. Siebert (UC Santa Cruz), K. Auchettl, E. Ramirez-Ruiz (UC Santa Cruz, DARK) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 08:50:06.444 +00:00:55.78 2019-12-24 13:36:28 20.49 r-Sloan 1 PSN PS19jcj Pan-STARRS1
110378 2019-12-24 13:36:28 20.49 0.11 20.6 ABMag r-Sloan PS1_GPC1 27 Robot
51258 AT 2019zio 1 10:30:11.588 -04:18:04.29 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jck PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 19.95 g-Sloan 2019-12-24 14:54:14 YSE_Bot1
57152 2019-12-30 23:44:16 YSE_Bot1 D. O. Jones (UC Santa Cruz), K. D. French (Carnegie, Illinois), A. Agnello, C. R. Angus, Z. Ansari, N. Arendse, C. Gall, C. Grillo, S. H. Bruun, C. Hede, J. Hjorth, L. Izzo, H. Korhonen, S. Raimundo, D. Kodi Ramanah, A. Sarangi, R. Wojtak (DARK, U Copenhagen), K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, E. A. Magnier, T. J. L. de Boer, J. R. Fairlamb, C. C. Lin, R. J. Wainscoat, T. Lowe, M. Willman, J. Bulger, A. S. B. Schultz (IfA, Hawaii), A. Engel, A. Gagliano, G. Narayan, M. Soraisam (Illinois), Q. Wang (JHU), A. Rest (JHU, STScI), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith (Queen's University Belfast), K. Alexander, A. Baldeschi, P. Blanchard, D. Coppejans, L. DeMarchi, A. Hajela, W. Jacobson-Galan, R. Margutti, D. Matthews, C. Stauffer, M. Stroh, G. Terreran (Northwestern), M. Drout (U Toronto), D. A. Coulter, G. Dimitriadis, R. J. Foley, T. Hung, C. D. Kilpatrick, C. Rojas-Bravo, M. R. Siebert (UC Santa Cruz), K. Auchettl, E. Ramirez-Ruiz (UC Santa Cruz, DARK) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 10:30:11.588 -04:18:04.29 2019-12-24 14:54:14 19.95 g-Sloan 1 PSN PS19jck Pan-STARRS1
51259 AT 2019zip 1 09:33:42.179 -11:29:53.33 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jcm PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.18 g-Sloan 2019-12-24 13:27:50 YSE_Bot1
57154 2019-12-30 23:48:30 YSE_Bot1 D. O. Jones (UC Santa Cruz), K. D. French (Carnegie, Illinois), A. Agnello, C. R. Angus, Z. Ansari, N. Arendse, C. Gall, C. Grillo, S. H. Bruun, C. Hede, J. Hjorth, L. Izzo, H. Korhonen, S. Raimundo, D. Kodi Ramanah, A. Sarangi, R. Wojtak (DARK, U Copenhagen), K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, E. A. Magnier, T. J. L. de Boer, J. R. Fairlamb, C. C. Lin, R. J. Wainscoat, T. Lowe, M. Willman, J. Bulger, A. S. B. Schultz (IfA, Hawaii), A. Engel, A. Gagliano, G. Narayan, M. Soraisam (Illinois), Q. Wang (JHU), A. Rest (JHU, STScI), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith (Queen's University Belfast), K. Alexander, A. Baldeschi, P. Blanchard, D. Coppejans, L. DeMarchi, A. Hajela, W. Jacobson-Galan, R. Margutti, D. Matthews, C. Stauffer, M. Stroh, G. Terreran (Northwestern), M. Drout (U Toronto), D. A. Coulter, G. Dimitriadis, R. J. Foley, T. Hung, C. D. Kilpatrick, C. Rojas-Bravo, M. R. Siebert (UC Santa Cruz), K. Auchettl, E. Ramirez-Ruiz (UC Santa Cruz, DARK) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 09:33:42.179 -11:29:53.33 2019-12-24 13:27:50 21.18 g-Sloan 1 PSN PS19jcm Pan-STARRS1
51260 AT 2019ziq 1 08:51:27.807 -05:42:10.62 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jcn PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.29 r-Sloan 2019-12-24 13:36:28 YSE_Bot1
57156 2019-12-30 23:49:08 YSE_Bot1 D. O. Jones (UC Santa Cruz), K. D. French (Carnegie, Illinois), A. Agnello, C. R. Angus, Z. Ansari, N. Arendse, C. Gall, C. Grillo, S. H. Bruun, C. Hede, J. Hjorth, L. Izzo, H. Korhonen, S. Raimundo, D. Kodi Ramanah, A. Sarangi, R. Wojtak (DARK, U Copenhagen), K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, E. A. Magnier, T. J. L. de Boer, J. R. Fairlamb, C. C. Lin, R. J. Wainscoat, T. Lowe, M. Willman, J. Bulger, A. S. B. Schultz (IfA, Hawaii), A. Engel, A. Gagliano, G. Narayan, M. Soraisam (Illinois), Q. Wang (JHU), A. Rest (JHU, STScI), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith (Queen's University Belfast), K. Alexander, A. Baldeschi, P. Blanchard, D. Coppejans, L. DeMarchi, A. Hajela, W. Jacobson-Galan, R. Margutti, D. Matthews, C. Stauffer, M. Stroh, G. Terreran (Northwestern), M. Drout (U Toronto), D. A. Coulter, G. Dimitriadis, R. J. Foley, T. Hung, C. D. Kilpatrick, C. Rojas-Bravo, M. R. Siebert (UC Santa Cruz), K. Auchettl, E. Ramirez-Ruiz (UC Santa Cruz, DARK) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 08:51:27.807 -05:42:10.62 2019-12-24 13:36:28 20.29 r-Sloan 1 PSN PS19jcn Pan-STARRS1
51261 AT 2019zir 1 09:07:32.253 -06:22:54.74 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jco PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.56 r-Sloan 2019-12-24 13:36:28 YSE_Bot1
57158 2019-12-30 23:49:51 YSE_Bot1 D. O. Jones (UC Santa Cruz), K. D. French (Carnegie, Illinois), A. Agnello, C. R. Angus, Z. Ansari, N. Arendse, C. Gall, C. Grillo, S. H. Bruun, C. Hede, J. Hjorth, L. Izzo, H. Korhonen, S. Raimundo, D. Kodi Ramanah, A. Sarangi, R. Wojtak (DARK, U Copenhagen), K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, E. A. Magnier, T. J. L. de Boer, J. R. Fairlamb, C. C. Lin, R. J. Wainscoat, T. Lowe, M. Willman, J. Bulger, A. S. B. Schultz (IfA, Hawaii), A. Engel, A. Gagliano, G. Narayan, M. Soraisam (Illinois), Q. Wang (JHU), A. Rest (JHU, STScI), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith (Queen's University Belfast), K. Alexander, A. Baldeschi, P. Blanchard, D. Coppejans, L. DeMarchi, A. Hajela, W. Jacobson-Galan, R. Margutti, D. Matthews, C. Stauffer, M. Stroh, G. Terreran (Northwestern), M. Drout (U Toronto), D. A. Coulter, G. Dimitriadis, R. J. Foley, T. Hung, C. D. Kilpatrick, C. Rojas-Bravo, M. R. Siebert (UC Santa Cruz), K. Auchettl, E. Ramirez-Ruiz (UC Santa Cruz, DARK) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 09:07:32.253 -06:22:54.74 2019-12-24 13:36:28 20.56 r-Sloan 1 PSN PS19jco Pan-STARRS1
51262 AT 2019zis 1 10:30:55.254 -04:31:04.84 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jcp PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.36 g-Sloan 2019-12-24 14:54:14 YSE_Bot1
57159 2019-12-30 23:50:09 YSE_Bot1 D. O. Jones (UC Santa Cruz), K. D. French (Carnegie, Illinois), A. Agnello, C. R. Angus, Z. Ansari, N. Arendse, C. Gall, C. Grillo, S. H. Bruun, C. Hede, J. Hjorth, L. Izzo, H. Korhonen, S. Raimundo, D. Kodi Ramanah, A. Sarangi, R. Wojtak (DARK, U Copenhagen), K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, E. A. Magnier, T. J. L. de Boer, J. R. Fairlamb, C. C. Lin, R. J. Wainscoat, T. Lowe, M. Willman, J. Bulger, A. S. B. Schultz (IfA, Hawaii), A. Engel, A. Gagliano, G. Narayan, M. Soraisam (Illinois), Q. Wang (JHU), A. Rest (JHU, STScI), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith (Queen's University Belfast), K. Alexander, A. Baldeschi, P. Blanchard, D. Coppejans, L. DeMarchi, A. Hajela, W. Jacobson-Galan, R. Margutti, D. Matthews, C. Stauffer, M. Stroh, G. Terreran (Northwestern), M. Drout (U Toronto), D. A. Coulter, G. Dimitriadis, R. J. Foley, T. Hung, C. D. Kilpatrick, C. Rojas-Bravo, M. R. Siebert (UC Santa Cruz), K. Auchettl, E. Ramirez-Ruiz (UC Santa Cruz, DARK) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 10:30:55.254 -04:31:04.84 2019-12-24 14:54:14 20.36 g-Sloan 1 PSN PS19jcp Pan-STARRS1
51263 AT 2019zit 1 12:23:56.708 +08:11:16.37 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jcq PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.15 g-Sloan 2019-12-24 15:07:12 YSE_Bot1
57160 2019-12-30 23:50:30 YSE_Bot1 D. O. Jones (UC Santa Cruz), K. D. French (Carnegie, Illinois), A. Agnello, C. R. Angus, Z. Ansari, N. Arendse, C. Gall, C. Grillo, S. H. Bruun, C. Hede, J. Hjorth, L. Izzo, H. Korhonen, S. Raimundo, D. Kodi Ramanah, A. Sarangi, R. Wojtak (DARK, U Copenhagen), K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, E. A. Magnier, T. J. L. de Boer, J. R. Fairlamb, C. C. Lin, R. J. Wainscoat, T. Lowe, M. Willman, J. Bulger, A. S. B. Schultz (IfA, Hawaii), A. Engel, A. Gagliano, G. Narayan, M. Soraisam (Illinois), Q. Wang (JHU), A. Rest (JHU, STScI), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith (Queen's University Belfast), K. Alexander, A. Baldeschi, P. Blanchard, D. Coppejans, L. DeMarchi, A. Hajela, W. Jacobson-Galan, R. Margutti, D. Matthews, C. Stauffer, M. Stroh, G. Terreran (Northwestern), M. Drout (U Toronto), D. A. Coulter, G. Dimitriadis, R. J. Foley, T. Hung, C. D. Kilpatrick, C. Rojas-Bravo, M. R. Siebert (UC Santa Cruz), K. Auchettl, E. Ramirez-Ruiz (UC Santa Cruz, DARK) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 12:23:56.708 +08:11:16.37 2019-12-24 15:07:12 20.15 g-Sloan 1 PSN PS19jcq Pan-STARRS1
51264 AT 2019ziu 1 10:29:37.937 -04:30:53.57 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jcr PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.33 g-Sloan 2019-12-27 14:02:24 YSE_Bot1
57163 2019-12-30 23:51:30 YSE_Bot1 D. O. Jones (UC Santa Cruz), K. D. French (Carnegie, Illinois), A. Agnello, C. R. Angus, Z. Ansari, N. Arendse, C. Gall, C. Grillo, S. H. Bruun, C. Hede, J. Hjorth, L. Izzo, H. Korhonen, S. Raimundo, D. Kodi Ramanah, A. Sarangi, R. Wojtak (DARK, U Copenhagen), K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, E. A. Magnier, T. J. L. de Boer, J. R. Fairlamb, C. C. Lin, R. J. Wainscoat, T. Lowe, M. Willman, J. Bulger, A. S. B. Schultz (IfA, Hawaii), A. Engel, A. Gagliano, G. Narayan, M. Soraisam (Illinois), Q. Wang (JHU), A. Rest (JHU, STScI), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith (Queen's University Belfast), K. Alexander, A. Baldeschi, P. Blanchard, D. Coppejans, L. DeMarchi, A. Hajela, W. Jacobson-Galan, R. Margutti, D. Matthews, C. Stauffer, M. Stroh, G. Terreran (Northwestern), M. Drout (U Toronto), D. A. Coulter, G. Dimitriadis, R. J. Foley, T. Hung, C. D. Kilpatrick, C. Rojas-Bravo, M. R. Siebert (UC Santa Cruz), K. Auchettl, E. Ramirez-Ruiz (UC Santa Cruz, DARK) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 10:29:37.937 -04:30:53.57 2019-12-27 14:02:24 20.33 g-Sloan 1 PSN PS19jcr Pan-STARRS1
51265 AT 2019ziv 1 10:42:10.531 -03:23:27.27 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jcs PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 19.4 g-Sloan 2019-12-27 14:03:50 YSE_Bot1
57164 2019-12-30 23:51:49 YSE_Bot1 D. O. Jones (UC Santa Cruz), K. D. French (Carnegie, Illinois), A. Agnello, C. R. Angus, Z. Ansari, N. Arendse, C. Gall, C. Grillo, S. H. Bruun, C. Hede, J. Hjorth, L. Izzo, H. Korhonen, S. Raimundo, D. Kodi Ramanah, A. Sarangi, R. Wojtak (DARK, U Copenhagen), K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, E. A. Magnier, T. J. L. de Boer, J. R. Fairlamb, C. C. Lin, R. J. Wainscoat, T. Lowe, M. Willman, J. Bulger, A. S. B. Schultz (IfA, Hawaii), A. Engel, A. Gagliano, G. Narayan, M. Soraisam (Illinois), Q. Wang (JHU), A. Rest (JHU, STScI), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith (Queen's University Belfast), K. Alexander, A. Baldeschi, P. Blanchard, D. Coppejans, L. DeMarchi, A. Hajela, W. Jacobson-Galan, R. Margutti, D. Matthews, C. Stauffer, M. Stroh, G. Terreran (Northwestern), M. Drout (U Toronto), D. A. Coulter, G. Dimitriadis, R. J. Foley, T. Hung, C. D. Kilpatrick, C. Rojas-Bravo, M. R. Siebert (UC Santa Cruz), K. Auchettl, E. Ramirez-Ruiz (UC Santa Cruz, DARK) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 10:42:10.531 -03:23:27.27 2019-12-27 14:03:50 19.4 g-Sloan 1 PSN PS19jcs Pan-STARRS1
51266 AT 2019ziw 1 10:35:34.659 -01:39:26.53 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jct PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.36 g-Sloan 2019-12-27 14:02:24 YSE_Bot1
57165 2019-12-30 23:52:09 YSE_Bot1 D. O. Jones (UC Santa Cruz), K. D. French (Carnegie, Illinois), A. Agnello, C. R. Angus, Z. Ansari, N. Arendse, C. Gall, C. Grillo, S. H. Bruun, C. Hede, J. Hjorth, L. Izzo, H. Korhonen, S. Raimundo, D. Kodi Ramanah, A. Sarangi, R. Wojtak (DARK, U Copenhagen), K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, E. A. Magnier, T. J. L. de Boer, J. R. Fairlamb, C. C. Lin, R. J. Wainscoat, T. Lowe, M. Willman, J. Bulger, A. S. B. Schultz (IfA, Hawaii), A. Engel, A. Gagliano, G. Narayan, M. Soraisam (Illinois), Q. Wang (JHU), A. Rest (JHU, STScI), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith (Queen's University Belfast), K. Alexander, A. Baldeschi, P. Blanchard, D. Coppejans, L. DeMarchi, A. Hajela, W. Jacobson-Galan, R. Margutti, D. Matthews, C. Stauffer, M. Stroh, G. Terreran (Northwestern), M. Drout (U Toronto), D. A. Coulter, G. Dimitriadis, R. J. Foley, T. Hung, C. D. Kilpatrick, C. Rojas-Bravo, M. R. Siebert (UC Santa Cruz), K. Auchettl, E. Ramirez-Ruiz (UC Santa Cruz, DARK) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 10:35:34.659 -01:39:26.53 2019-12-27 14:02:24 20.36 g-Sloan 1 PSN PS19jct Pan-STARRS1
51267 AT 2019zix 1 10:46:56.967 -02:53:57.70 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jcu PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.89 g-Sloan 2019-12-27 14:03:50 YSE_Bot1
57167 2019-12-30 23:52:48 YSE_Bot1 D. O. Jones (UC Santa Cruz), K. D. French (Carnegie, Illinois), A. Agnello, C. R. Angus, Z. Ansari, N. Arendse, C. Gall, C. Grillo, S. H. Bruun, C. Hede, J. Hjorth, L. Izzo, H. Korhonen, S. Raimundo, D. Kodi Ramanah, A. Sarangi, R. Wojtak (DARK, U Copenhagen), K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, E. A. Magnier, T. J. L. de Boer, J. R. Fairlamb, C. C. Lin, R. J. Wainscoat, T. Lowe, M. Willman, J. Bulger, A. S. B. Schultz (IfA, Hawaii), A. Engel, A. Gagliano, G. Narayan, M. Soraisam (Illinois), Q. Wang (JHU), A. Rest (JHU, STScI), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith (Queen's University Belfast), K. Alexander, A. Baldeschi, P. Blanchard, D. Coppejans, L. DeMarchi, A. Hajela, W. Jacobson-Galan, R. Margutti, D. Matthews, C. Stauffer, M. Stroh, G. Terreran (Northwestern), M. Drout (U Toronto), D. A. Coulter, G. Dimitriadis, R. J. Foley, T. Hung, C. D. Kilpatrick, C. Rojas-Bravo, M. R. Siebert (UC Santa Cruz), K. Auchettl, E. Ramirez-Ruiz (UC Santa Cruz, DARK) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 10:46:56.967 -02:53:57.70 2019-12-27 14:03:50 20.89 g-Sloan 1 PSN PS19jcu Pan-STARRS1
51268 AT 2019ziy 1 10:33:02.511 -00:41:59.91 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jcx PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.16 r-Sloan 2019-12-27 14:06:43 YSE_Bot1
57170 2019-12-30 23:53:43 YSE_Bot1 D. O. Jones (UC Santa Cruz), K. D. French (Carnegie, Illinois), A. Agnello, C. R. Angus, Z. Ansari, N. Arendse, C. Gall, C. Grillo, S. H. Bruun, C. Hede, J. Hjorth, L. Izzo, H. Korhonen, S. Raimundo, D. Kodi Ramanah, A. Sarangi, R. Wojtak (DARK, U Copenhagen), K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, E. A. Magnier, T. J. L. de Boer, J. R. Fairlamb, C. C. Lin, R. J. Wainscoat, T. Lowe, M. Willman, J. Bulger, A. S. B. Schultz (IfA, Hawaii), A. Engel, A. Gagliano, G. Narayan, M. Soraisam (Illinois), Q. Wang (JHU), A. Rest (JHU, STScI), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith (Queen's University Belfast), K. Alexander, A. Baldeschi, P. Blanchard, D. Coppejans, L. DeMarchi, A. Hajela, W. Jacobson-Galan, R. Margutti, D. Matthews, C. Stauffer, M. Stroh, G. Terreran (Northwestern), M. Drout (U Toronto), D. A. Coulter, G. Dimitriadis, R. J. Foley, T. Hung, C. D. Kilpatrick, C. Rojas-Bravo, M. R. Siebert (UC Santa Cruz), K. Auchettl, E. Ramirez-Ruiz (UC Santa Cruz, DARK) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 10:33:02.511 -00:41:59.91 2019-12-27 14:06:43 21.16 r-Sloan 1 PSN PS19jcx Pan-STARRS1
51269 AT 2019ziz 1 09:50:51.536 -11:53:12.05 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jcy PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.91 g-Sloan 2019-11-27 14:48:28 YSE_Bot1
57175 2019-12-31 02:28:59 YSE_Bot1 D. O. Jones (UC Santa Cruz), K. D. French (Carnegie, Illinois), A. Agnello, C. R. Angus, Z. Ansari, N. Arendse, C. Gall, C. Grillo, S. H. Bruun, C. Hede, J. Hjorth, L. Izzo, H. Korhonen, S. Raimundo, D. Kodi Ramanah, A. Sarangi, R. Wojtak (DARK, U Copenhagen), K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, E. A. Magnier, T. J. L. de Boer, J. R. Fairlamb, C. C. Lin, R. J. Wainscoat, T. Lowe, M. Willman, J. Bulger, A. S. B. Schultz (IfA, Hawaii), A. Engel, A. Gagliano, G. Narayan, M. Soraisam (Illinois), Q. Wang (JHU), A. Rest (JHU, STScI), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith (Queen's University Belfast), K. Alexander, A. Baldeschi, P. Blanchard, D. Coppejans, L. DeMarchi, A. Hajela, W. Jacobson-Galan, R. Margutti, D. Matthews, C. Stauffer, M. Stroh, G. Terreran (Northwestern), M. Drout (U Toronto), D. A. Coulter, G. Dimitriadis, R. J. Foley, T. Hung, C. D. Kilpatrick, C. Rojas-Bravo, M. R. Siebert (UC Santa Cruz), K. Auchettl, E. Ramirez-Ruiz (UC Santa Cruz, DARK) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 09:50:51.536 -11:53:12.05 2019-11-27 14:48:28 20.91 g-Sloan 1 PSN PS19jcy Pan-STARRS1
51270 AT 2019zja 1 03:14:38.430 -01:20:27.07 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jcz PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.42 g-Sloan 2019-12-20 08:05:16 YSE_Bot1
57176 2019-12-31 02:31:03 YSE_Bot1 D. O. Jones (UC Santa Cruz), K. D. French (Carnegie, Illinois), A. Agnello, C. R. Angus, Z. Ansari, N. Arendse, C. Gall, C. Grillo, S. H. Bruun, C. Hede, J. Hjorth, L. Izzo, H. Korhonen, S. Raimundo, D. Kodi Ramanah, A. Sarangi, R. Wojtak (DARK, U Copenhagen), K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, E. A. Magnier, T. J. L. de Boer, J. R. Fairlamb, C. C. Lin, R. J. Wainscoat, T. Lowe, M. Willman, J. Bulger, A. S. B. Schultz (IfA, Hawaii), A. Engel, A. Gagliano, G. Narayan, M. Soraisam (Illinois), Q. Wang (JHU), A. Rest (JHU, STScI), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith (Queen's University Belfast), K. Alexander, A. Baldeschi, P. Blanchard, D. Coppejans, L. DeMarchi, A. Hajela, W. Jacobson-Galan, R. Margutti, D. Matthews, C. Stauffer, M. Stroh, G. Terreran (Northwestern), M. Drout (U Toronto), D. A. Coulter, G. Dimitriadis, R. J. Foley, T. Hung, C. D. Kilpatrick, C. Rojas-Bravo, M. R. Siebert (UC Santa Cruz), K. Auchettl, E. Ramirez-Ruiz (UC Santa Cruz, DARK) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 03:14:38.430 -01:20:27.07 2019-12-20 08:05:16 20.42 g-Sloan 1 PSN PS19jcz Pan-STARRS1
51271 AT 2019zjb 1 09:25:51.249 +00:58:15.42 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jda PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.17 r-Sloan 2019-12-24 13:39:21 YSE_Bot1
57177 2019-12-31 02:32:17 YSE_Bot1 D. O. Jones (UC Santa Cruz), K. D. French (Carnegie, Illinois), A. Agnello, C. R. Angus, Z. Ansari, N. Arendse, C. Gall, C. Grillo, S. H. Bruun, C. Hede, J. Hjorth, L. Izzo, H. Korhonen, S. Raimundo, D. Kodi Ramanah, A. Sarangi, R. Wojtak (DARK, U Copenhagen), K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, E. A. Magnier, T. J. L. de Boer, J. R. Fairlamb, C. C. Lin, R. J. Wainscoat, T. Lowe, M. Willman, J. Bulger, A. S. B. Schultz (IfA, Hawaii), A. Engel, A. Gagliano, G. Narayan, M. Soraisam (Illinois), Q. Wang (JHU), A. Rest (JHU, STScI), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith (Queen's University Belfast), K. Alexander, A. Baldeschi, P. Blanchard, D. Coppejans, L. DeMarchi, A. Hajela, W. Jacobson-Galan, R. Margutti, D. Matthews, C. Stauffer, M. Stroh, G. Terreran (Northwestern), M. Drout (U Toronto), D. A. Coulter, G. Dimitriadis, R. J. Foley, T. Hung, C. D. Kilpatrick, C. Rojas-Bravo, M. R. Siebert (UC Santa Cruz), K. Auchettl, E. Ramirez-Ruiz (UC Santa Cruz, DARK) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 09:25:51.249 +00:58:15.42 2019-12-24 13:39:21 21.17 r-Sloan 1 PSN PS19jda Pan-STARRS1
51272 AT 2019zjc 1 10:29:46.469 -01:32:12.96 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jdb PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.51 r-Sloan 2019-12-27 14:06:43 YSE_Bot1
57178 2019-12-31 02:42:08 YSE_Bot1 D. O. Jones (UC Santa Cruz), K. D. French (Carnegie, Illinois), A. Agnello, C. R. Angus, Z. Ansari, N. Arendse, C. Gall, C. Grillo, S. H. Bruun, C. Hede, J. Hjorth, L. Izzo, H. Korhonen, S. Raimundo, D. Kodi Ramanah, A. Sarangi, R. Wojtak (DARK, U Copenhagen), K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, E. A. Magnier, T. J. L. de Boer, J. R. Fairlamb, C. C. Lin, R. J. Wainscoat, T. Lowe, M. Willman, J. Bulger, A. S. B. Schultz (IfA, Hawaii), A. Engel, A. Gagliano, G. Narayan, M. Soraisam (Illinois), Q. Wang (JHU), A. Rest (JHU, STScI), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith (Queen's University Belfast), K. Alexander, A. Baldeschi, P. Blanchard, D. Coppejans, L. DeMarchi, A. Hajela, W. Jacobson-Galan, R. Margutti, D. Matthews, C. Stauffer, M. Stroh, G. Terreran (Northwestern), M. Drout (U Toronto), D. A. Coulter, G. Dimitriadis, R. J. Foley, T. Hung, C. D. Kilpatrick, C. Rojas-Bravo, M. R. Siebert (UC Santa Cruz), K. Auchettl, E. Ramirez-Ruiz (UC Santa Cruz, DARK) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 10:29:46.469 -01:32:12.96 2019-12-27 14:06:43 20.51 r-Sloan 1 PSN PS19jdb Pan-STARRS1
51278 AT 2019zji 1 10:24:47.253 +12:46:29.04 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jdd PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 19.61 w-PS1 2019-12-29 13:26:24 PS2_Bot1
57188 2019-12-31 13:51:46 PS2_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 10:24:47.253 +12:46:29.04 2019-12-29 13:26:24 19.61 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19jdd Pan-STARRS1
51279 AT 2019zjj 1 01:51:42.105 -01:49:19.44 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jde PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.97 w-PS1 2019-12-29 05:31:12 PS2_Bot1
57189 2019-12-31 13:52:08 PS2_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 01:51:42.105 -01:49:19.44 2019-12-29 05:31:12 20.97 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19jde Pan-STARRS1
51280 AT 2019zjk 1 01:40:16.056 -06:13:19.86 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jdf PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.58 w-PS1 2019-12-29 05:34:04 PS2_Bot1
57190 2019-12-31 13:53:00 PS2_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 01:40:16.056 -06:13:19.86 2019-12-29 05:34:04 20.58 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19jdf Pan-STARRS1
110425 2019-12-29 05:34:04 20.58 0.1 22 ABMag w-PS1 PS1_GPC1 45 Robot
51281 AT 2019zjl 1 01:25:55.129 -02:05:33.11 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jdh PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.43 w-PS1 2019-12-29 05:25:26 PS2_Bot1
57192 2019-12-31 13:53:31 PS2_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 01:25:55.129 -02:05:33.11 2019-12-29 05:25:26 20.43 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19jdh Pan-STARRS1
51282 AT 2019zjm 2 00:57:15.809 -03:01:56.36 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jdi PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.23 w-PS1 2019-12-16 05:09:36 PS1_Bot1
57194 2019-12-31 13:55:38 PS2_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 00:57:15.809 -03:01:56.36 2019-12-29 05:18:14 20.99 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19jdi Pan-STARRS1
51283 AT 2019zjn 1 01:58:54.708 -02:15:38.41 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jdj PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.8 w-PS1 2019-12-29 06:28:48 PS2_Bot1
57195 2019-12-31 13:56:07 PS2_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 01:58:54.708 -02:15:38.41 2019-12-29 06:28:48 20.8 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19jdj Pan-STARRS1
110430 2019-12-29 06:28:48 20.8 0.1 22 ABMag w-PS1 PS1_GPC1 45 Robot
51284 AT 2019zjo 1 02:00:40.236 +29:39:00.68 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jdn PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.6 g-Sloan 2019-12-30 06:17:16 PS1_Bot1
57199 2019-12-31 18:32:50 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 02:00:40.236 +29:39:00.68 2019-12-30 06:17:16 20.6 g-Sloan 1 PSN PS19jdn Pan-STARRS1
110434 2019-12-30 06:17:16 20.6 0.12 21 ABMag g-Sloan PS1_GPC1 200 Robot
51285 AT 2019zjp 1 08:44:35.165 +28:59:29.62 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jdo PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.25 w-PS1 2019-12-30 13:35:02 PS1_Bot1
57200 2019-12-31 18:34:03 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 08:44:35.165 +28:59:29.62 2019-12-30 13:35:02 21.25 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19jdo Pan-STARRS1
51286 AT 2019zjq 1 02:20:06.716 -25:03:07.52 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jdp PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.55 w-PS1 2019-12-28 05:35:31 PS1_Bot1
57201 2019-12-31 18:51:51 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 02:20:06.716 -25:03:07.52 2019-12-28 05:35:31 21.55 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19jdp Pan-STARRS1
51287 AT 2019zjr 1 05:04:31.286 -24:38:27.21 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jdq PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.96 w-PS1 2019-12-29 08:19:40 PS1_Bot1
57202 2019-12-31 18:52:19 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 05:04:31.286 -24:38:27.21 2019-12-29 08:19:40 20.96 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19jdq Pan-STARRS1
51288 AT 2019zjs 1 07:09:40.845 +20:11:05.16 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jdr PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.39 w-PS1 2019-12-28 12:51:50 PS1_Bot1
57203 2019-12-31 18:52:38 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 07:09:40.845 +20:11:05.16 2019-12-28 12:51:50 21.39 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19jdr Pan-STARRS1
51289 AT 2019zjt 1 11:37:45.519 -22:27:44.61 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jds PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.43 w-PS1 2019-12-30 15:18:43 PS1_Bot1
57204 2019-12-31 18:52:51 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 11:37:45.519 -22:27:44.61 2019-12-30 15:18:43 21.43 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19jds Pan-STARRS1
51290 AT 2019zju 1 11:54:49.625 -12:29:05.30 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jdt PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.39 w-PS1 2019-12-29 14:44:09 PS1_Bot1
57205 2019-12-31 18:53:44 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 11:54:49.625 -12:29:05.30 2019-12-29 14:44:09 20.39 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19jdt Pan-STARRS1
51291 AT 2019zjv 1 11:47:13.576 -16:30:57.70 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jdu PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.52 w-PS1 2019-12-30 14:51:21 PS1_Bot1
57206 2019-12-31 18:54:16 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 11:47:13.576 -16:30:57.70 2019-12-30 14:51:21 21.52 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19jdu Pan-STARRS1
51292 AT 2019zjw 1 11:41:57.488 +08:46:45.36 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jdv PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.81 w-PS1 2019-12-29 13:16:19 PS1_Bot1
57207 2019-12-31 18:55:29 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 11:41:57.488 +08:46:45.36 2019-12-29 13:16:19 20.81 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19jdv Pan-STARRS1
51293 AT 2019zjx 1 02:23:37.352 -08:41:25.59 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jdw PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.62 w-PS1 2019-12-30 06:50:23 PS1_Bot1
57208 2019-12-31 18:55:43 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 02:23:37.352 -08:41:25.59 2019-12-30 06:50:23 21.62 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19jdw Pan-STARRS1
51294 AT 2019zjy 1 07:55:38.687 +46:38:18.95 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jdy PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.9 w-PS1 2019-12-30 11:51:21 PS1_Bot1 <a href="https://tess.mit.edu/observations/#pointing" target="_blank" class="ext-cat-link">TESS-active sector/s (19,20)</a>, <a href="https://tess.mit.edu/observations/#pointing" target="_blank" class="ext-cat-link">TESS-active sector/s (19,20)</a>, <a href="https://tess.mit.edu/observations/#pointing" target="_blank" class="ext-cat-link">TESS-Sector20</a>, <a href="https://tess.mit.edu/observations/#pointing" target="_blank" class="ext-cat-link">TESS-Sector20</a>
57210 2019-12-31 18:58:14 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 07:55:38.687 +46:38:18.95 2019-12-30 11:51:21 21.9 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19jdy Pan-STARRS1
110445 2019-12-30 11:51:21 21.9 0.19 22 ABMag w-PS1 PS1_GPC1 45 Robot
51295 AT 2019zjz 1 08:55:04.939 +18:57:15.87 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jdz PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 20.49 w-PS1 2019-12-29 10:49:26 PS1_Bot1
57212 2019-12-31 19:00:31 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 08:55:04.939 +18:57:15.87 2019-12-29 10:49:26 20.49 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19jdz Pan-STARRS1
51296 AT 2019zka 1 03:57:39.397 -25:06:56.32 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jea PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 21.47 w-PS1 2019-12-28 06:41:45 PS1_Bot1
57213 2019-12-31 19:00:50 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 03:57:39.397 -25:06:56.32 2019-12-28 06:41:45 21.47 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19jea Pan-STARRS1
51297 AT 2019zkb 1 08:00:55.384 +31:37:12.36 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 PS19jeb PS1 - GPC1 Y Y 22.06 w-PS1 2019-12-30 13:26:24 PS1_Bot1 <a href="https://tess.mit.edu/observations/#pointing" target="_blank" class="ext-cat-link">TESS-active sector/s (19,20)</a>, <a href="https://tess.mit.edu/observations/#pointing" target="_blank" class="ext-cat-link">TESS-Sector20</a>
57214 2019-12-31 19:01:04 PS1_Bot1 K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, University of Hawaii), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. S. Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim (Queen's University Belfast), D. E. Wright (University of Minnesota) Pan-STARRS1 Pan-STARRS1 08:00:55.384 +31:37:12.36 2019-12-30 13:26:24 22.06 w-PS1 1 PSN PS19jeb Pan-STARRS1 | {
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Sputnik has discussed if social media should play a bigger role in fighting and picking up hate speech on their platforms with Laura Bliss, an expert on social media law.
Sputnik: Why do you think Twitter failed to respond promptly to the spreading of the extremist video, is this a technical problem or a management oversight problem in your opinion?
Laura Bliss: I think it's a bit of both really. But how technology is changing now, I just think we're all struggling to keep up and I think even social media companies are struggling now. We can't keep pace with the content that is online. And one of the major problems is, obviously, technology. We've got AI technology, but AI technology is good in some aspects, but it's not very good when it comes to speech and it can't necessarily pick up hate or extremist content quickly.
So that's where we go back on moderation, but social media companies have millions, sometimes billions of users but they're moderators are only in the thousands. So Facebook, we know, for example, they've got 2.27 billion monthly users. At the end of last year they were anticipating to have only 20,000 moderators, how can you keep up with extremist behaviour or any type of behaviour online if you just don't have the technology and the people to help you with it.
Sputnik: The issue of Twitter ignoring the accounts of those who spread extremist or hate speech ideology has been around for a number of years. Why in your opinion has nothing effectively changed since the social network was first accused of negligence when it comes to these issues?
Laura Bliss: The main issue at the moment is the lack of legal involvement. So we've all got a right to free speech and free speech is important to maintain a democracy. I'm an advocate of free speech, but I think we forget that actually free speech if you have absolute free speech it means that you're limiting other people's free speech. And what we're doing now is it seems to be tilting a little bit, in my opinion, a little bit too much in the direction of free speech, which means that extremist behaviour online is allowed to maintain.
Because we're not necessarily being able to distinguish between what is extremist behaviour and political ideology. And the way forward is going to essentially be some form of legal enforcement across the globe, and to try and force social media companies to act more appropriately in removing such content as we've seen with New Zealand, the devastating effects that social media can have. You've got videos being shared across social media platforms, more than actual event itself, and that's devastating for everyone who has been involved, for the families. And yet for social media companies there will be very little repercussions for them for what happened in recent days.
Sputnik: Do you think this is an issue of also poor law enforcement in the United States?
Laura Bliss: I think it's poor law enforcement across the globe. Obviously, they're all based in the United States, but I think this is now more of a global issue than it is a domestic issue. Obviously, we don't want to reduce free speech, but there needs to be some form of clarity of how we tackle what's going on on social media globally. It's a case of state sitting down together and saying: "right, what do we need to do in order to maintain what's being spread online?" Because crime used to be very much domestic and a domestic issue essentially, now it's a global issue because someone can be sat in one country and submit content in another. It's about everyone working together to try and resolve the issues that are still ongoing.
Laura Bliss: Yes, I think it's hard in some cases to distinguish between what is extremist content and political ideology. And I think that's where we're starting to fall short. It's about research, trying to establish different ways to try and overcome this issue that we're having. I think the media does have some hype in it, but if we get behind certain content then social media are more likely to remove it.
We've seen that before with hate speech, for example, when that's illustrated in the media it's more likely that a social media company will remove it. But one of the issues is always going to be language. The language changes over time and it's hard to keep pace with what language can be associated with different ideologies. Again we've got AI technology, but it's been estimated that it will be another 5 to 10 years before AI technology would be able to keep pace with the language that's ongoing online.
Sputnik: To what extent should the social networks be held responsible for spreading extremist materials and how can this be stopped?
Laura Bliss: They should without a doubt start to be held responsible for the content that goes on their sites. So for the moment they're seen as simply hosts rather than publishers which means that they have an air of protection. But they need to be doing more. I think we've seen over the recent years how much dominance these companies have within society.
The way forward would be legal enforcement or one of the ways I think would be a good approach would be a universal code of conduct for social media companies, where it's all agreed, everyone has the same universal code of conduct; doesn't mean they don't have their own terms of service agreement. We can sit down and agree to the fundamental codes that needs to be in place, the fundamental principles social media companies need to be upholding, and then if these codes have been broken then in those cases ensuring fines are put in place and if it can be found that something illegal has happened making sure that we pursue with that.
The other way forward may be going down the civil route where we start imposing a duty of care where there is a clear case of negligence and, therefore, being able to hold those social media companies to account. So behaviour that is still ongoing on their sites, they are the owners of that, they make a lot of money yearly and they need to be taking more responsibility for what actually goes on, rather than coming out with this argument that we're merely hosts, not publishers. | {
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Traian este o comună în județul Teleorman, Muntenia, România, formată numai din satul de reședință cu același nume.
PREZENTARE
Traian este una din comunele
sudice ale județului Teleorman așezată în Lunca Dunării și în partea sudică a
Câmpiei Române, în câmpia Boianului. Localitatea se mărginește în nord cu
comuna Crângu iar la nord-est și est cu comuna Seaca. La sud este mărginită de
fluviul Dunărea care formeaza hotarul țării cu Bulgaria, iar la vest cu comuna
Ciuperceni și nord vest cu municipiul
Turnu Măgurele.
Comuna Traian este atestată din anul 1879, când, pe
moșia statului din domeniul Turnu, au fost împroprietărite 250 de familii de
țărani cu loturi de casă și terenuri de cultivat.
Pârâul Șuroaia străbate localitatea de la nord la sud.
Comuna are o populatie totala de 1.902
locuitori.
Coordonate Traian - latitudine 43.77 ; longitudine 25
Căi de acces
Comuna este traversată de drumul național 51A pe
direcția vest-est.
Infrastructură
Printre elementele de infrastructură se numără:
sisteme de distribuție a energiei electrice ce acoperă
practic toate așezările comunei;
telefonie fixă și mobilă;
televiziune prin cablu ;
bancă de credit ;
oficiul postal ;
școală,gradinita, bibliotecă și cămin cultural;
cabinet medical.
Clima
Teritoriul
comunei se încadrează în climat temperat-continental, cu o temperatură minimă
absolută de -31 grade Celsius și o maximă absolută de +39 grade Celsius. Primul
îngheț apare după 20 oct. iar ultimul, în a doua jumătate a lunii aprilie.
Cantitatea medie a precipitațiilor este de cca.600 mm/an.
Fauna
Fauna
comunei este bogată, cele mai răspândite animale fiind vulpea, lupul, iepurele,
mistrețul, dihorul, viezurele, cerbul lopătar, căprioara, hârciogul, popândăul,
pisica sălbatică, șoarecele de câmp, dihorul de stepă.
Vegetatia
Vegetatia
comunei se incadreaza in zona vegetatiei de stepa, plantele spontane find atat
ierboase Vegetatia ierboasa se intalneste in zonele necultivate si in zona
canalelor de irigatii nefolosite, speciile representative fiind: iarba
scaioasa, coltii babei, troscot, stir, coada soricelului, lumanarica, trifoiul
salbatic, pirul gros, etc.
AFACERI
Din totalul de 5026 ha cât are suprafața agricolă, cea
mai mare parte, 3972 ha este teren arabil, 408 ha pășune și 54 ha vii.
Efectivele de animale din comună se prezintă
astfel : 25000 păsări, 1800 ovine, 780 porcine și 200 bovine.
Conform
recensământului efectuat în 2011, populația comunei Traian se ridică la 1.902
locuitori, în scădere față de recensământul anterior din 2002, când se
înregistraseră 2.216 locuitori. Majoritatea locuitorilor sunt români (86,59%),
cu o minoritate de romi (7,15%). Pentru 6,1% din populație, apartenența etnică
nu este cunoscută. Din punct de vedere confesional, majoritatea locuitorilor
sunt ortodocși (90,12%), cu o minoritate de adventiști de ziua a șaptea
(2,89%). Pentru 6,1% din populație, nu este cunoscută apartenența confesională.
Turism
Situl
arheologic de la Traian, punct ''La Culă'' (sec. XIV asezare epoca medievala si
castru Epoca romană,sec.II - III p. Chr.). La Sud de sat si la Est de satul
Poiana, pe malul Dunarii.
Asezare
Aceasta
comuna este asezata in partea sudica a judetului.
Se afla la
35 Km fata de capitala judetului, pe directia sud-vest.
Se afla la
o distanta de 115 Km fata de capitala Romaniei.
Date despre
relief
Comuna
Traian este asezata in partea centrala a Campiei Romane, in sectorul vestic al
Campiei Munteniei. Comuna este asezata in extremitatea sud-estica a Campiei
Boianului la o altitudine de 35 m.
Populatie feminina (50,92%)
Populatie
masculina (49,08%)
Demografie
Conform recensământului efectuat în 2011, populația comunei Traian se ridică la locuitori, în scădere față de recensământul anterior din 2002, când se înregistraseră locuitori. Majoritatea locuitorilor sunt români (86,59%), cu o minoritate de romi (7,15%). Pentru 6,1% din populație, apartenența etnică nu este cunoscută.
Din punct de vedere confesional, majoritatea locuitorilor sunt ortodocși (90,12%), cu o minoritate de adventiști de ziua a șaptea (2,89%). Pentru 6,1% din populație, nu este cunoscută apartenența confesională.
Politică și administrație
Comuna Traian este administrată de un primar și un consiliu local compus din 11 consilieri. Primarul, , de la , este în funcție din . Începând cu alegerile locale din 2020, consiliul local are următoarea componență pe partide politice:
Note
Traian
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ICLG.com > Commercial Dispute Resolution > Senior appointments beef up FRP's forensic services
Senior appointments beef up FRP's forensic services
Published by: Dimitar Ganev at 18/10/2016
Christopher Osborne has joined FRP Advisory to steer its forensic accounting and investigations team, whi...
Christopher Osborne has joined FRP Advisory to steer its forensic accounting and investigations team, while Mark Iwaszko, head of the forensic technology group, has been promoted to partner.
London-headquartered business advisory company FRP Advisory has hired Christopher Osborne, a specialist in financial investigations, disputes, compliance and risk assignments, as a partner and head of the forensic accounting and investigation services.
He joins after spending more than eight years at professional services company Alvarez & Marsal, where he was senior director of the global forensic and dispute services, advising companies on cross-border cases, many relating to the 2008 financial crisis.
He assisted bankrupted investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings with wind-down process for derivatives, special purpose vehicles and other matters such as management of litigation mitigation, oversight of legal function, audit trail process and risk management.
Osborne's previous experience includes working at the Financial Services Authority, where he was a financial investigator for a year, and the Serious Fraud Office, where he served as a forensic accountant for two years, investigating alleged price fixing and cartel arrangements between generic drug manufacturers and suppliers.
Meanwhile, FRP has promoted Mark Iwaszko to partner. Iwaszko has been serving as head of the forensic technology group since May this year, after nearly six years as a director of IT and digital forensic investigator. He previously worked as a director at RSM Tenon after the consulting company bought out elements of accountancy firm Vantis, where he had been a partner.
He has nearly 30 years of experience in digital forensics, data capture, analysis and electronic disclosure, and assists companies with infrastructure, web, Wi-Fi, financial, database and document investigations, as well as with company turnarounds, interim IT management, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance.
In their new roles, both Osborne and Iwaszko will focus on multi-jurisdictional disputes and investigations involving forensic accounting and recovery and analysis of data.
In a statement, Geoff Carton-Kelly, head of FRP's London office, commented: "Our investment in the best people goes hand-in-hand with our investment in the relativity e-disclosure and analytics platform, allowing the partnership to harness the latest techniques in artificial intelligence and develop sophisticated predictive coding tailored to each case."
In a briefing, FRP said that it is currently appointed as concurrent administrator to UK department store chain BHS, "which comprises a significant data capture and analysis process as part of a wide-reaching investigation". BHS closed all its stores in August, following an unsuccessful attempt to find a buyer after entering administration in March.
Recent activity at other advisory companies saw Haberman Ilett promote Vikki Wall to partner last week, while forensics accountant Gervase MacGregor became the head of BDO's advisory group this month and FTI Consulting hired five consulting managers in its forensic and litigation consulting segment in September.
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Stevie Wonder Collaborates with Ariana Grande for Upcoming Single "Faith"
Sep 10, 2016 | News
Stevie Wonder is set to deliver his new collaboration called "Faith" which features Ariana Grande for Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures' movie "Sing", it was announced last night during Ariana Grande's interview on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. The song will be available soon via Republic Records, as well as on the upcoming release of the Sing Official Soundtrack Album. Sing opens in theaters everywhere on December 21.
"Faith" unites Academy Award and GRAMMY Award-winning Stevie Wonder and multi-platinum Grammy Award nominee Ariana Grande. Produced by powerhouses and multi-Grammy Award-winning songwriter/producers Ryan Tedder and Benny Blanco, "Faith" marks the first song that Stevie Wonder has contributed to a film in more than 25 years.
Stevie Wonder remains one of the most legendary and influential artists in history. In addition to selling more than 100 million albums worldwide, he has garnered a total of 25 GRAMMY Awards—the most-ever awarded to a male solo artist in history. Among countless accolades, he is an Academy Award® winner and landed at No. 6 on Billboard's Hot 100 All-Time Artists. A paragon of goodwill, charity and activism, he was even named a Messenger of Peace by the United Nations.
New Music: Stevie Wonder - Faith (featuring Ariana Grande)
New Video: Stevie Wonder - Faith (featuring Ariana Grande)
Ariana Grande "Baby I" (Written by Babyface)
Ariana Grande "Right There" Featuring Big Sean (Produced by Harmony)
New Music: Ariana Grande "Best Mistake" Featuring Big Sean
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Supreme Court allows challenge to Texas abortion law to continue but lets SB8 stand
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(WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Friday allowed Texas' near-total ban on abortions to stay in effect more than three months after a majority of justices allowed the law, SB8, to be implemented, denying women across the nation's second most populous state a constitutionally-protected right.
But the court said abortion providers could continue with their challenge to the law.
The mixed decision, written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, was at least a temporary victory for abortion providers and civil rights groups that had been challenging the law.
The court said, "the ultimate merits question — whether S.B. 8 is consistent with the Federal Constitution — is not before the Court. Nor is the wisdom of S.B. 8 as a matter of public policy."
It dismissed a Biden administration request to stay enforcement of the Texas law.
During fast-tracked oral arguments heard earlier, many justices were openly skeptical about the Texas law's unprecedented enforcement mechanism and what it could mean for other state attempts to limit constitutional rights.
SB8 bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy and delegates enforcement to everyday citizens — rather than state officials — who can file civil lawsuits against anyone who "aids or abets" an unlawful procedure. Its state sponsors deliberately intended to circumvent federal court review, knowing that such a ban on its face violates constitutionally-protected abortion rights. | {
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This poem was inspired by a post from 'The Darkest Fairytale' that you can find by following the link. The featured image is from the Andromeda Botanic Gardens in Barbados.
Thanks. I appreciate your enthusiasm.
A most lyrical and flowing interpretation of where we would all like to be from time to time.
Thanks. Sometimes Silence can be Golden as well. | {
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Q: Фильтрация фото в галерее Пересмотрел много разных примеров, но не выходит прикрутить их к своему сайту. Подскажите пример как фильтровать фото в галерее по категориям.
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// Menu settings
$('#menuToggle, .menu-close').on('click', function() {
$('#menuToggle').toggleClass('active');
$('body').toggleClass('body-push-toleft');
$('#theMenu').toggleClass('menu-open');
});
$(document).ready(function() {
var counts = $('#grid li').size();
$('.col-lg-9 p').text('at the moment their ' + counts);
});
$('body').on('click', '.btn', function() {
$('#grid li').hide();
$('#' + $(this).text()).show();
});
})(jQuery)
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A: Они не будут работать. id может применяться только к одному элементу, к li в данном случае нужно применять классы, а не идентификаторы.
https://codepen.io/Alexxosipov/pen/dZywgb
JS:
$('[data-id]').click(function(){
var items = $('#portfolio ul li');
var id = $(this).attr('data-id');
items.hide();
$('.'+id).show();
});
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Oier Olazábal Paredes (Irún, 14 de setembro de 1989) é um futebolista espanhol que atua como goleiro. Atualmente está sem clube.
Carreira
Oier Olazábal, que chegou ao Barcelona pelo Real Unión, foi anunciado como um dos melhores goleiros de sua geração. Ele correspondeu às expectativas. No verão de 2007, tornou-se o goleiro titular do Barça, onde ele e seus colegas conquistaram a promoção da Terceira Divisão para a Segunda Divisão B, comandados por Pep Guardiola e, depois, Luis Enrique.
Depois de três temporadas na Segunda Divisão com o Barça B, sob a tutela de Luis Enrique e Eusebio Sacristán, ele se tornou uma peça crucial no time. O goleiro basco foi promovido ao elenco principal no verão de 2013.
Transferiu-se ao em julho de 2014 sem operação financeira, porém o Barcelona o receberá na próxima transferência do jogador.
Títulos
Barcelona
Supercopa da Espanha: 2010, 2013
La Liga: 2008-09, 2010-11
Ligações externas
Naturais de Irun
Goleiros da Espanha
Futebolistas da Espanha
Futebolistas da Comunidade Autónoma do País Basco
Futebolistas do Futbol Club Barcelona B
Futebolistas do Futbol Club Barcelona
Futebolistas do Granada Club de Fútbol
Futebolistas da Real Sociedad de Fútbol
Futebolistas do Levante Unión Deportiva
Futebolistas do Reial Club Deportiu Espanyol de Barcelona | {
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At about 32 feet long, this is the largest model I have built to date. It was displayed in the atrium of a now-defunct kids' mall. Sadly, the life-sized model was dismantled by the owners. The head and tail were cut off and shipped out to California. The body was tossed into a dumpster. However, a couple of years later, the head was bought by the Georgia College & State University Natural History Museum where it was put on display!
Head & body were carved foam.
Eyes were made by hand.
The foam dino takes shape.
Covered with mache and painted.
Saved by the GCSU Museum! | {
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Capt. James Downey, then-DDG 1000 program manager, speaks to assembled crew and guests in the hangar bay aboard the future guided-missile destroyer USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) following a transfer of ownership ceremony on May 20, 2016. US Navy photo.
Former DDG-1000 program manager Rear Adm. James Downey took over as Commander of Navy Regional Maintenance Center (CNRMC), and his predecessor there will soon become the new Program Executive Officer for Ships.
In addition to leading the four major Regional Maintenance Centers, Downey will also serve as the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) deputy commander of surface warfare (SEA 21), a role that was merged with CNRMC last year.
Downey served as major program manager for the Zumwalt-class destroyers since 2010, overseeing delivery of the first of three ships. He previously served as the CG(X) next-generation cruiser program manager and the chief engineer, principal assistant program manager and warfare systems director for the Ford-class aircraft carrier program.
He took command of CNRMC and SEA 21 in separate ceremonies on June 29 and July 1, respectively.
Rear Adm. William Galinis, who served as CNRMC since 2013, will take command of PEO Ships in a planned July 20 ceremony at Washington Navy Yard. Galinis has a long record on both the ship design and repair side – both of which PEO Ships deals with. Galinis held multiple positions at the Supervisor of Shipbuilding organization and led surface ship maintenance at Norfolk Ship Support Activity. He also served as the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock (LPD-17) program manager from 2005 to 2009.
The Navy could not confirm to USNI News if outgoing PEO Ships Rear Adm. David Gale, who also served as CNRMC for three years before becoming PEO Ships, was retiring or moving to a new assignment.
Taking the helm of the DDG-1000 program office is Capt. Kevin Smith, who most recently served as major program manager of the Zumwalt Integrated Combat Systems office within PEO Integrated Warfare Systems (IWS), located at Washington Navy Yard along with PEO Ships. | {
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Album was composed by Ichiro Komoto / Kota Suzuki / Nima Fakhrara and was released on February 25, 2015. Soundtrack consists of 4 tracks tracks with duration over about 10 minutes. Album was released by Sumthing Else Music Works. | {
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In the mythical land of inclusion and diversity, things are not as diverse and inclusive as we are led to believe. Diversity and inclusion is only for those who think along the same lines as the body politic of the powers that be. If you don't subscribe to the zeitgeist of the ruling elite and believe in the same thing as the thugs who enforce their agenda, then you are a an outsider and subject to having your career and life purged, of course, for the sake of diversity.
Enter one Brendan Eich who was, read was, the CEO of the company who owns the Firefox browser, Mozilla. He has now been forced to resign that position simply because he gave a $1,000 contribution in 2008 to the National Organization for Marriage which supported Proposition 8 in California. Proposition 8 was a ballot measure in 2008 defining marriage as between one man and one woman which passed 52% to 48% but was eventually essentially struck down by the Supreme court.
That's it. Brendan Eich was for all intents and purposes, fired for a $1,000 donation to a cause he supported. It was a legal, legitimate cause, voted on by the people of California. But Eich never protested. He never held a sign. He never wrote an editorial. He never danced in a heterosexual pride parade. He never engaged in gay bashing of any kind. He simply wrote a check, and now he is out of a job.
Obviously Mozilla does not believe in equality or freedom of speech. If it did, it would have defended its CEO and noted that many of its employees agree with him, not just the other side. It would have asserted that both sides deserve a hearing.
Firefox surrendered to the OKCupid mob, which loves free speech so much that it has successfully deprived a man of his income because of his beliefs — beliefs which are not fringe, but are shared by roughly half the country or more. Beliefs which he once shared with the left's own champion, Barack Obama.
I know many readers here and many writers here support gay marriage. Are y'all cool with depriving someone of their ability to work if they disagree? That's where we are right now. They tried it with Chick-Fil-A and bombed. But they have succeeded in the tech field, which drives much of our culture forward. Into what?
Ladies and Gentlemen, firefox has left my computer!
Bully is what Bully does.
This is the Sodomite Mafia.
Incredible. Are we not entitled to our own opinions anymore? Just playing the "devil's advocate" here for a quick moment. I have spent years in the corporate world…have we considered that they wanted him out for other political reasons and this was the only thing they could grab on to and run with?? I've seen how it works and this is a distinct possibility…just sayin'.
If I had Firefox, which I didn't, I would be removing it now.
Firefox has left the computer.
Take them to court and SUE them for everything they got. | {
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Leather Products (not including cloth...
K9 Trademark Information
Trademark by MILLENNIAL BRANDS LLC
Leather and imitation leather goods, namely luggage, handbags, purses, wallets, leather briefcases, leather key cases, tote bags, backpacks; purses and handbags; backpacks, book bags, sports bags, bum bags, handbags, tote bags, wallets, rucksacks and luggage
Apparel, namely, shirts, jackets, coats, sweaters, ties, scarves, vests, dresses, skirts, trousers, short pants, gloves, mittens, headgear in the nature of hats, caps, and headbands, undergarments, lingerie, socks, pajamas, bathing suits, belts, active wear in the nature of sweat pants, sweat shirts and jogging suits, leisure wear in the nature of robes, tops, bottoms; gloves and hosiery
Leather Products (not including clothing)
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This is a brand page for the K9 trademark by MILLENNIAL BRANDS LLC in *********, **********, ***** ****.
Write a review about a product or service associated with this K9 trademark. Or, contact the owner MILLENNIAL BRANDS LLC of the K9 trademark by filing a request to communicate with the Legal Correspondent for licensing, use, and/or questions related to the K9 trademark.
On Wednesday, November 27, 2013, a U.S. federal trademark registration was filed for K9. The USPTO has given the K9 trademark serial number of 86130845. The current federal status of this trademark filing is ABANDONED - NO STATEMENT OF USE FILED. The correspondent listed for K9 is GARNER K. WENG of ********,********, ***** **** . The K9 trademark is filed in the category of Leather Products (not including clothing) , Clothing Products . The description provided to the USPTO for K9 is Leather and imitation leather goods, namely luggage, handbags, purses, wallets, leather briefcases, leather key cases, tote bags, backpacks; purses and handbags; backpacks, book bags, sports bags, bum bags, handbags, tote bags, wallets, rucksacks and luggage.
Leather and imitations of leather, and goods made of these materials and not included in other classes; animal skins, hides; trunks and travelling bags; umbrellas, parasols and walking sticks; whips, harness and saddlery.
Clothing, footwear, headgear.
Word mark: K9
Filing Date: 11/27/2013
Goods and Services: Leather and imitation leather goods, namely luggage, handbags, purses, wallets, leather briefcases, leather key cases, tote bags, backpacks; purses and handbags; backpacks, book bags, sports bags, bum bags, handbags, tote bags, wallets, rucksacks and luggage
Published For Opposition Date: 4/1/2014
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require "etl-pipeline/version"
module Pipeline
module Parser
class Base
def parse
end
end
class CSVParser < Pipeline::Parser::Base
attr_accessor :attribute_matrix, :model, :items
def initialize
@attribute_matrix = Hash.new
@items = Array.new
end
def coerce(input, output)
@attribute_matrix.each do |attr, prok|
end
end
def parse(file_path, options={})
CSV.foreach(file_path, options) do |csv|
obj = @model.new
coerce csv, obj
yield csv
end
end
def register_model(model)
self.model = model
end
def match(attribute, prok)
@attribute_matrix[attribute.to_sym] = prok
end
end
end
module Model
class Base
def attributes
attributes_hash = Hash.new
self.instance_variables.each do |attr|
attributes_hash.store(attr[1..-1].to_sym, instance_eval(attr.to_s))
end
attributes_hash
end
def format
end
def formatted_attributes
attr_hash = attributes
attr_hash.each do |k,v|
begin
attr_hash[k] = send("format_#{k}".to_sym, v)
rescue NoMethodError => e
# No formatter defined, use passed value as formatted value
attr_hash[k] = v.to_s
end
end
attr_hash
end
end
end
module Importer
class Base
end
end
class Base
attr_accessor :parser, :importer
def initialize
@parser = Pipeline::Parser::Base
@importer = Pipeline::Importer::Base
end
def parse *args
parser.parse *args
end
def import *args
importer.import *args
end
end
end
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Rita Williams-Garcia
An award-winning author exposes the poison of the past
Interview by Carole V. Bell
Though she is best known for her middle grade novels, Rita Williams-Garcia's new novel, A Sitting in St. James, is for older teens and adults. It's a vividly rendered portrait of the putrid institution of white Creole plantation culture in antebellum Louisiana.
Rita Williams-Garcia is one of the most acclaimed authors of children's literature working today. Her many prizes include a Newbery Honor and three Coretta Scott King Awards, and she has twice been a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature. Though she is best known for her middle grade novels, including One Crazy Summer and P.S. Be Eleven, her new book, A Sitting in St. James, is for older teens and adults. It's a vividly rendered portrait of the putrid institution of white Creole plantation culture in antebellum Louisiana.
Who and what is A Sitting in St. James about?
The book follows the life of a plantation mistress, Madame Sylvie, but is really about everyone connected to the big plantation house. Madame Sylvie survived the French and Haitian Revolutions and a forced marriage at 13, along with a heap of suffering and humiliation. Now 80, Madame feels entitled to all that she wants—specifically, a portrait sitting. Ultimately, Madame's insistence on the portrait affects the lives of her son, her grandson, the granddaughter she denies, the enslaved people on the plantation and an unusual young boarder.
How did you come up with the book's central premise?
The story came to me in pieces over time, through a daydream, a dream and a boy. In the middle of a faculty residency lecture, I daydreamed about a teen grooming his horse. I realized he was thinking of a boy, a fellow West Point cadet whom he was separated from and missed. At another residency, I awakened one morning after dreaming of a woman singing in an African language. In that dream, a young woman had been chased by white men. She couldn't outrun them, but she managed to throw her baby into the ocean. I remember that her singing was joyful.
About a year later, I was part of a panel discussion at a screening of Stanley Nelson's documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution. A boy of maybe 12 tearfully asked, "Why do they hate us?" They, the police. They, white people. My answer was something like, "When they see us, they don't see human beings." I felt I owed him more of an explanation. Almost instantly, the images of the West Point cadet, the African mother saving her baby from capture, a head of cabbage and an elderly woman lifting her neck with vanity and pride while sitting for her portrait came together as a story and as my answer to the boy at the screening.
"The more humanity we see, the better we can judge, acknowledge, understand and even indict. There is the horror, and there is also the hope. I wouldn't be here if not for the people who endured but also loved."
The book is steeped in history. What research did you do?
With all projects that require research, I comb through a lot but include only what is needed to tell the story. I began with online digital archives of local newspapers from the antebellum period, both in French and in English, just to see what was going on and what my characters would be aware of. I speak no French, so my French dictionary was always nearby. I made notes of goods and services from pages of newspaper ads. I visited my neighborhood libraries to research everything from the French and Haitian Revolutions, early Louisiana and Louisiana Creole history, the Battle of New Orleans, the presidential political scene of 1860, the culture of West Point and oil painting in the mid-19th century.
I studied the Kouri-Vini, or Louisiana Creole language, to hear the voices of the people. There are online sites that offer dictionaries and even tutorials, but ultimately, I deferred to experts to verify and correct my usage. I read plantation letters, journals and ledgers to get firsthand detail of daily plantation life. I read narratives of survivors of slavery in Louisiana that have been collected in government archives, just to have those voices with me, although the central focus of the story is on the Guilberts, whose family owns the plantation.
To portray a working sugar plantation, I had to read about every aspect of sugar-cane planting, harvesting and production, but nothing took the place of being there. As much as I hate to fly, I boarded planes to venture south and visited the Laura, Whitney and Magnolia Mound estates. These plantations and museums stand as acknowledgements of a cruel past but also as relics of pride for culture. I felt that this coupling of a cruel past along with domesticity and pride was what I had to capture in the Guilberts at Le Petit Cottage.
What was the most challenging aspect of this story to get right?
I am an outsider to this historic culture. I had to forget what my North Carolina-born grandmother told me about her grandparents and great-grandparents who were survivors of slavery, because North Carolina isn't Louisiana.
ALSO IN BOOKPAGE: Read our starred review of A Sitting in St. James.
In a note included with advance editions of the book, referring to slavery and its legacies, you wrote, "At no other time in our nation's history have readers sought out more this examination and conversation." Why do you think now is a particularly important moment for this reflection?
I've revised this answer 10 times. I have been watching the trial of the police officer charged with the murder of George Floyd. I have become that boy who asked, "Why do they hate us?" And then I have my answer and I get angry. I'm a person in my 60s who sees the present as a cycle. We fight for rights because we experience inequities and brutalities, we get rights, we move forward, and then we repeat the cycle. What is happening—the murder of and violence against people of color, the suppression of rights, the unequal access to health care—is not new. It's part of the cycle.
We need to talk openly about what is happening to people because of their race, ethnicity and gender, because the cycle continues. We see it happening before our eyes daily. Each and every one of us has to become the conscience of this country by what we say and do. People are being killed or brutalized on the basis of simply existing. We are not too far from our enslaved ancestors. We have to speak up and act up when the unconscionable is normalized. But we have to talk before there can be any reparations. We have to be unafraid to have uncomfortable conversations with an emphasis on listening.
You made another statement I found powerful. You wrote that readers will "find hope in the end" of this story. Hope is often a scarce commodity when we discuss matters of race in America. Where will readers find hope in this book?
I hope to have humanized the Guilberts in a way that allows us to feel a range of emotions about them. Do we root for them? Curse them? Laugh at them? Notice, I'm endeavoring to give to white slaveholders what they failed to see in my ancestors. It's my hope that if we see the human and not the monster in them (although, yes, they do monstrous things), we will see the suffering and inhumane treatment that they inflict as real, and from there, we can see the survivors of their treatment as real. My intention is that the more humanity we see, the better we can judge, acknowledge, understand and even indict. There is the horror, and there is also the hope. I wouldn't be here if not for the people who endured but also loved. I want to pass that on to the reader.
Author photo of Rita Williams-Garcia courtesy of Ferdinand Leyro.
A Sitting in St. James
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Surui Tribe,
Amazonia, Brazil
Its 8.30 in the morning in the Rondônia regional capital of Cacoal, Brazil. A cattle town with a frontier feel filled with "Marlboro" men adorned with Stetson hats and cowboy boots. Four days of near continuous rainfall has given way to bright sunshine and temperatures in the 80s. Almir Narayamoga, 36 years old, stockily built and born on the Amazon rainforest floor, is Chief of the Paiter Surui and he is just arriving at his office on the outskirts of Cacoal.
The Paiter Surui tribe of Indians occupy the "7 de setembro indigenous reserve", 250 thousand hectares of Amazonian rainforest spanning the Brazilian Midwest states of Rondônia and Mato Grosso. Their territory's name marks the date in 1969 when they first made contact with the "Branco" - their name for the white man. A date that was to change the lives of the Surui people forever.
Their numbers in 1969, they claim, totalled some five thousand but their population was soon to be faced with near extinction by the effects of disease, hunger and the ravages of alcoholism brought on by contact with the outside world. A scenario that has been depressingly repeated across most of the planet once indigenous peoples have encountered modernity. The population reached a low point of just over 250 Surui left alive within just a few years from first contact.
Almirs story and his struggle to help his people started nineteen years ago when at the age of 17 he was elected chief of his clan - a position his father Marimo Surui had also held. He was the first Surui to attend University, spending 3 years in college studying Biology. At the age of 23 he and another Brazilian environmental activist, Jose Maria dos Santos, travelled to Washington to try and convince the World Bank to audit their loan to the state of Rondônia for the agricultural project "Plana Flora". Money and materials that had been allocated to go to indigenous tribes had not been forthcoming. The World Bank subsequently restructured the method of their loan and the indigenous tribes got paid directly.
Other battles throughout the 1990s followed. He forced officials from Rondônia to sink wells for drinking water and build schools inside the Surui's reserve. He also turned his attention to the tribe's population decline that was bringing them dangerously close to extinction. He advised families to have more children and enticed indigenous Indians from other tribes to join the Surui and live on their land. The population now stands at just over thirteen hundred spread across twenty-three villages on their reserve.
Almirs efforts to organise his tribe has not come without a high degree of personal risk to himself and his extended family. In the last 13 years eleven tribal chiefs have been murdered, two of them Surui. In 1997 Almir was forced to flee the reserve with the help of the American non-governmental organisation "Amazon Conservation Team" when a bounty for his murder of one hundred thousand dollars was allegedly placed on his head by Loggers who were threatened by his actions organising the Indians against their illegal destruction of the rainforest on the reserve. He returned after 7 months and states when questioned: "Publicity is my best defence".
The Brazilian Amazonian Rainforest holds sixty percent of the world's tropical forests and is the planets most biologically diverse ecosystem. A further nine countries bordering Brazil make up the Amazon Basin, holding twenty percent of the earths fresh water and producing twenty percent of its oxygen. If it is destroyed then effectively so are we.
Today in Cacoal Almir is met by three forest engineers from "IDESAM", a non-governmental organisation that carries a mandate for the conservation of natural resources and sustainable development and is based in Manaus, the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas. They came to train six Surui to operate GPS equipment, pre-installed with a unique software programme to precisely record the density of the rainforest. These men will measure type, location and size of trees in order to calculate the amount of carbon held in their homelands forests. The Surui will be the first indigenous community in the Amazon Basin to be paid by the industrialised world to protect their rainforest through carbon trading. The scheme is known as REDD which stands for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradationand is intended to reduce greenhouse gasses.
Almir addresses the meeting and decisions are quickly made by consensus on whom of the present Surui will take on the difficult work of penetrating the deepest areas of their reserve to verify the carbon it holds. Forest Engineer Gabriel Carrero then starts the two-day training course at the end of which the Surui will have acquired an additional technological skill they can utilize within their lands.
Driving out of Cacoal on the RO 471 - known locally as "the coffee road" - we head for the village of Lapetanha, home to the Chiefs tribe (the Indians living there being a mix of four clans which make up the Paiter Surui). During the hour long journey Almir outlines his strategy for the revival of the Tribe.
"My people have had many problems: health, education, loss of culture and invasion of our territory. In 1997 we initiated a 50-year plan designed to reforest our lands and bring employment and pride back to our people. We decided not to fight anymore with our bows and arrows but to use computers, the Internet and technology to bring attention to our situation. If we hadn't done that then as a people we would have been finished and so would the rainforest. Training and education is now our kind of war, we know we have to adapt" he states. Progress on the tarmac covered "coffee road" comes to an abrupt end when we take a sharp left onto a dirt track - simply known as "Line 11". The four-wheel drive pickup comes into its element as it navigates ruts and crosses trees laid flat to span streams. Almir stops the vehicle at the entrance to the reserve, a point marked by a sign nailed to a tree as well as by the visual return of the Rainforest itself, which has all but disappeared prior to reaching the reserve. Walking into the rain forest to inspect some recently planted trees Almir remarks "This is part of our 50 year plan: we want to plant at least a million trees and return the rainforest to its pristine condition"
Returning to the pickup we travel deeper into Surui territory eventually arriving at the village of Lapetanha. Electricity reached the village about four years ago. It has a school, a church and 102 inhabitants. Three computers occupy their own room in the school, two a gift from Google Outreach, part of the Google Internet Company. Google visited the Surui after Almir in 2007 had decided to travel unannounced to their offices in California and make a personal plea for their help. Staff from Google subsequently visited the reserve and gave technical training to the Surui through a series of workshops and the donation of computers. However, only one of the computers was still working during our time at the village. When questioned when the others would be repaired, Mopilaa, a 20-year-old Surui, replied "Soon". The Surui's Internet connection is possible only in Cacoal, there are no telephone or mobile communications on the reserve itself.
Almir's vision is to completely digitize the reservation one day. Using blogs, video messaging and digital images as a way the Surui can communicate with the outside world and the outside world can communicate with them. Benefitting them with satellite imagery which allows them to be able to monitor their lands warning of illegal logging attempts or invasions from farmers bringing slash and burn agriculture. Their site on Google earth will incorporate the ethno map of their land produced some years ago in partnership with the Amazon Conservation Team, it details the Surui's cultural and historical history.
"Alone we Surui cannot manage to reconstruct this region. We need the help of the whole world", Almir remarks as we leave the pickup. Standing in the shade of one of the Malocas, a traditional dwelling built by the Surui, we are joined by the team that will enter the Rainforest to record its carbon capacity. Vasco van Roosemallen, head of the Amazon Conservation Team in Brazil, has travelled from Brasilia to accompany the group on its first training day in the rainforest. Talking to us he says, "The great thing about the Surui is that they try to find their own solutions to the problems they face." He continues, " If you look at the Arc of Destruction of the Amazonian Rainforest, the areas that still have forest are indigenous lands. They are absolutely crucial to holding back de-forestation."
The teams board another two pickup's and travel as far as possible into the forest by dirt track. When the four wheel drives can travel no further its time to leave the vehicles and proceed by foot carrying water, machetes and the vital GPS equipment used for mapping location and type of trees in order to later calculate their carbon content. Visibility through the dense undergrowth drops dramatically and humidity must be close to one hundred percent. Sweat pours down my, Vasco's and the two other non-indigenous Tree Engineers faces, quickly all our clothing is wet through. Understandably the Surui handle the conditions better. Once we reach a halt and start to mark out the forest for the team's first measurements we become a meal for much of the insects around us. Ants the size of your thumb that leave a vicious and fever inducing bite have to be avoided as I inadvertently kick over one of their floor level nests which doesn't make me the most popular "Branco" in the rainforest that day. After 20 minutes in these conditions I've personally had enough but we endure for another three hours until everybody is confident with the equipment. Following today's training the teams will later spend a gruelling 15 days in the Jungle.
Returning to Lapetanha we are greeted by Surui children happily playing with a freedom now rarely seen in western cultures. Some Surui are making jewellery, toddlers are being washed by their mothers while other Surui are simply resting in hammocks. With Readers Digests interpreter Louise Sherwood I talk again with Almir asking him if he feels hopeful for the future survival of the rainforest and his people. "A couple of years ago nobody thought there could be a black president of the United States but he is there. Eight years ago nobody believed Lula could be president of Brazil. Two or three years ago nobody believed that we would get all the loggers out of our lands but we did. It's the start of change. Every day we believe that we will reach our ultimate goal. A better future for all."
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LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 27: Mopidmore Surui wearing the raditional tribal head dress of the Paiter-Surui tribe of indgenous indians at his home village of Lapetanha at the "7th September Indian Reserve" Rondônia, Brazil on October 27th, 2010. The tribe had a 50 year plan to halt illegal logging on their land and plant a million trees in order to return their part of the Amazon rainforest back to its pristine condition through the financing earned from carbon offsetting. Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Patier-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 27: A member of the Paiter-Surui indegenous indian tribe walks through their tribal village of Lapetanha at the "7th September Indian Reserve" Rondônia, Brazil on October 27th, 2010. The tribe had a 50 year plan to halt illegal logging on their land and plant a million trees in order to return their part of the Amazon rainforest back to its pristine condition through the financing earned from carbon offsetting. Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Paiter-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Paiter-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 27: Gapad Surui of the Paiter-Surui indegenous indian tribe walks back from the surrounding Amazonian Rainforest into his village of Lartanha at the "7th September Indian Reserve" Rondônia, Brazil on October 27th, 2010. The tribe had a 50 year plan to halt illegal logging on their land and plant a million trees in order to return their part of the Amazon rainforest back to its pristine condition through the financing earned from carbon offsetting. Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Paiter-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Paiter-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 24: A young boy from the Patier-Surui tribe looks out from his family home at the Patier-Surui village of Lapetanha in the "7th September Indian Reserve" Rondônia, Brazil on October 24th, 2010. The tribe had a 50 year plan to halt illegal logging on their land and plant a million trees in order to return their part of the Amazon rainforest back to its pristine condition through the financing earned from carbon offsetting. Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Patier-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 24: New trees being cultivated from seeds to be planted in the Amazonian Rainforest by the Paiter-Surui Tribe in Lapetanha at the "7th September Indian Reserve" Rondônia, Brazil on October 24th, 2010. The tribe had a 50 year plan to halt illegal logging on their land and plant a million trees in order to return their part of the Amazon rainforest back to its pristine condition through the financing earned from carbon offsetting. Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Paiter-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 24: A young boy from the Paiter-Surui tribe looks out from his family home at the Paiter-Surui village of Lapetanha in the "7th September Indian Reserve" Rondônia, Brazil on October 24th, 2010. The tribe had a 50 year plan to halt illegal logging on their land and plant a million trees in order to return their part of the Amazon rainforest back to its pristine condition through the financing earned from carbon offsetting. Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Paiter-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 25: Chief Almir Narayamoga Surui of the indegenous indian tribe of Paiter-Surui stands amidst the Amazonian Rainforest In the "7th September Indian Reserve" Rondônia, Brazil on October 25th, 2010. The tribe under Almir's leadership had a 50 year plan to halt illegal logging on their land and plant a million trees in order to return their part of the Amazon rainforest back to its pristine condition through the financing earned from carbon offsetting.Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Paiter-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig
LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 24: A young indegenous indian girl stands at the doorway to her family home at the Paiter-Surui village of Lapetanha in the "7th September Indian Reserve"Rondônia, Brazil on October 24th, 2010. The tribe had a 50 year plan to halt illegal logging on their land and plant a million trees in order to return their part of the Amazon rainforest back to its pristine condition through the financing earned from carbon offsetting. Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Paiter-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 24: A young indegenous indian girl of the Paiter-Surui tribe sits outside her family home at the Paiter-Surui village of Lapetanha in the "7th September Indian Reserve" Rondônia, Brazil on October 24th, 2010. The tribe had a 50 year plan to halt illegal logging on their land and plant a million trees in order to return their part of the Amazon rainforest back to its pristine condition through the financing earned from carbon offsetting.Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Paiter-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 24: A woman from the Paiter-Surui tribe looks out from her family home at the Paiiter-Surui village of Lapetanha in the "7th September Indian Reserve" Rondônia, Brazil on October 24th, 2010.The tribe had a 50 year plan to halt illegal logging on their land and plant a million trees in order to return their part of the Amazon rainforest back to its pristine condition through the financing earned from carbon offsetting. Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Paiter-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 24: Children from the Paiter-Surui tribe playing in their village of Lapetanha in the "7th September Indian Reserve" Rondônia, Brazil on October 24th, 2010. The tribe had a 50 year plan to halt illegal logging on their land and plant a million trees in order to return their part of the Amazon rainforest back to its pristine condition through the financing earned from carbon offsetting.Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Patier-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 25: A young boy of the Paiter-Surui indegenous indian tribe planting a tree cultivated from seed by the tribe near his ancestral village of Lapetanha in the "7th September Indian Reserve" Rondônia, Brazil on October 24th, 2010. The tribe had a 50 year plan to halt illegal logging on their land and plant a million trees in order to return their part of the Amazon rainforest back to its pristine condition through the financing earned from carbon offsetting. Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Paiter-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 26: A young girl from the Paiter-Surui tribe walks through her home village of Lapetanha in the "7th September Indian Reserve" Rondônia, Brazil on October 26th, 2010. The tribe had a 50 year plan to halt illegal logging on their land and plant a million trees in order to return their part of the Amazon rainforest back to its pristine condition through the financing earned from carbon offsetting. Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Paiter-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 26: Paiter-Surui volunteers alongside 'forest engineers' from a Brazillian Government support programme using equipment to map and measure the trees and vegetation in the "7th September Indian Reserve" Rondônia, Brazil on October 26th, 2010. This information is intended to later be used to calculate the forest carbon content. Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Paiter-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 26: Chief Almir Narayamoga Surui of the Paiter-Surui waters some of the new trees being cultivated by the indegenous indian's for later use to reforrest the Amazon Rainforest at their tribal village of Lapetanha "7th September Indian Reserve" Rondônia, Brazil on October 26th. The tribe had a 50 year plan to halt illegal logging on their land and plant a million trees in order to return their part of the Amazon rainforest back to its pristine condition through the financing earned from carbon offsetting. Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Paiter-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig
LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 24: A member of the Paiter-Surui indegenous indian tribe walks into the surrounding Amazonian Rainforest at the "7th September Indian Reserve" Rondônia, Brazil on October 24th, 2010. The tribe had a 50 year plan to halt illegal logging on their land and plant a million trees in order to return their part of the Amazon rainforest back to its pristine condition through the financing earned from carbon offsetting. Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Paiter-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Paiter-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 24: A logging truck on the "Coffee Road" near the indegenous indian territory of the Paiter-Surui tribe in the "7th September Indian Reserve" Rondônia, Brazil on October 24th. The tribe had a 50 year plan to halt illegal logging on their land and plant a million trees in order to return their part of the Amazon rainforest back to its pristine condition through the financing earned from carbon offsetting.Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Paiter-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig
LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 24: Signage for species of new trees being cultivated from seeds to be planted in the Amazonian Rainforest by the Paiter-Surui Tribe at the "7th September Indian Reserve" Rondônia, Brazil on October 24th, 2010. The tribe had a 50 year plan to halt illegal logging on their land and plant a million trees in order to return their part of the Amazon rainforest back to its pristine condition through the financing earned from carbon offsetting. Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Paiter-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 24: A woman from the Paiter-Surui tribe making bead necklace's in the communal area of their vilage Lapetanha in the "7th September Indian Reserve" Rondônia, Brazil on October 24th, 2010. The tribe had a 50 year plan to halt illegal logging on their land and plant a million trees in order to return their part of the Amazon rainforest back to its pristine condition through the financing earned from carbon offsetting. Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Paiter-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 24: Amazonian indegenous indian Gapad Surui of the Paiter-Surui tribe resting in the communal area of his village of Lapetanha in the "7th September Indian Reserve" Rondônia, Brazil on October 24th, 2010. The tribe had a 50 year plan to halt illegal logging on their land and plant a million trees in order to return their part of the Amazon rainforest back to its pristine condition through the financing earned from carbon offsetting. Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Paiter-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 25: Amazonian indegenous indian Gasmasakaka Surui of the Paiter-Surui tribe attends to the night's fire in the communal area of his village of Lapetanha in the "7th September Indian Reserve" Rondônia, Brazil on October 25th, 2010. The tribe had a 50 year plan to halt illegal logging on their land and plant a million trees in order to return their part of the Amazon rainforest back to its pristine condition through the financing earned from carbon offsetting. Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Paiter-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 25: Amazonian indegenous indian Gasmasakaka Surui of the Paiter-Surui tribe standing with traditional tribal head dress in the tribe's village of Lapetanha in the "7th September Indian Reserve" Rondônia, Brazil on October 25th, 2010. The tribe had a 50 year plan to halt illegal logging on their land and plant a million trees in order to return their part of the Amazon rainforest back to its pristine condition through the financing earned from carbon offsetting. Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Paiter-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 25: Walelap Surui of the Paiter-Surui indegenous indian tribe weaving a basket at the tribe's village of Lapetanha in the "7th September Indian Reserve" Rondônia, Brazil on October 25th, 2010. The tribe had a 50 year plan to halt illegal logging on their land and plant a million trees in order to return their part of the Amazon rainforest back to its pristine condition through the financing earned from carbon offsetting. Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Paiter-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 25: Paiter-Surui Chief Almir Narayamoga Surui walks into the rainforest with the intention of planting new tree's into the Amazon Rainforest at the "7th September Indian Reserve" Rondônia, Brazil on October 25th, 2010. The tribe had a 50 year plan to halt illegal logging on their land and plant a million trees in order to return their part of the Amazon rainforest back to its pristine condition through the financing earned from carbon offsetting. Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Paiter-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 25: Paiter-Surui Chief Almir Narayamoga Surui with members of his indegenous indian tribe in the Amazon Rainforest at the "7th September Indian Reserve" Rondônia, Brazil on October 25th, 2010. The tribe had a 50 year plan to halt illegal logging on their land and plant a million trees in order to return their part of the Amazon rainforest back to its pristine condition through the financing earned from carbon offsetting. Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Paiter-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 25: Paiter-Surui indegenous indian's entering the Amazon Rainforest to plant tree's, originally cultivated from seed by the tribe itself in the "7th September Indian Reserve" Rondônia, Brazil on October 25th, 2010. The tribe had a 50 year plan to halt illegal logging on their land and plant a million trees in order to return their part of the Amazon rainforest back to its pristine condition through the financing earned from carbon offsetting. Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Paiter-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 26: Paiter-Surui volunteers alongside 'forest engineers' from a Brazillian Government support programme using GPS equipment to map and measure the trees and vegetation in the "7th September Indian Reserve" Rondônia, Brazil on October 26th, 2010. This information is intended to later be used to calculate the forest carbon content. Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Paiter-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 25: Paiter-Surui indegenous indian tribal men planting a tree, originally cultivated from seed by the tribe itself, into the Amazonian Rainforest. In the "7th September Indian Reserve" Rondônia, Brazil on October 25th, 2010. The tribe had a 50 year plan to halt illegal logging on their land and plant a million trees in order to return their part of the Amazon rainforest back to its pristine condition through the financing earned from carbon offsetting. Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Paiter-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 25: A young boy of the Paiter-Surui indegenous indian tribe is shown by an adult how to plant a tree originally cultivated from seed by the tribe itself. In the "7th September Indian Reserve" Rondônia, Brazil on October 25th, 2010. The tribe had a 50 year plan to halt illegal logging on their land and plant a million trees in order to return their part of the Amazon rainforest back to its pristine condition through the financing earned from carbon offsetting. Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Paiter-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 25: A Paiter-Surui indegenous indian plants a tree, originally cultivated from seed by the tribe itself, into the Amazonian Rainforest. In the "7th September Indian Reserve" Rondônia, Brazil on October 25th, 2010. The tribe had a 50 year plan to halt illegal logging on their land and plant a million trees in order to return their part of the Amazon rainforest back to its pristine condition through the financing earned from carbon offsetting. Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Paiter-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 25: Chief Almir Narayamoga Surui of the indigenous Indian tribe of Paiter-Surui stands amidst the Amazonian Rainforest In the "7th September Indian Reserve" Rondônia, Brazil on October 25th, 2010. The tribe under Almir's leadership had a 50 year plan to halt illegal logging on their land and plant a million trees in order to return their part of the Amazon rainforest back to its pristine condition through the financing earned from carbon offsetting.Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Paiter-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig
LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 25: The Pamamaguiama Surui family outside their home in their village of Lapetanha In the "7th September Indian Reserve" Rondônia, Brazil on October 25th, 2010.The tribe had a 50 year plan to halt illegal logging on their land and plant a million trees in order to return their part of the Amazon rainforest back to its pristine condition through the financing earned from carbon offsetting. Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Paiter-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 25: Naramatiga Surui at the tribal village of Lapetanha in the "7th September Indian Reserve" Rondônia, Brazil on October 25th, 2010. Naramatiga was one of the first group of Paiter-Surui indigenous indian's to have 'first contact with the 'white man' on around September 1969. The Paiter-Surui population at that time is calculated to of been 5000 but with in a few short years the population plummeted to 250, devastated by deceases from contact with 'outsiders' which the tribe simply had no immunity to. Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Paiter-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig
LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 26: A young mother from the Paiter-Surui tribe washes her child in the early morning at the Paiter-Surui village of Lapetanha in the "7th September Indian Reserve" Rondônia, Brazil on October 26th, 2010. The tribe had a 50 year plan to halt illegal logging on their land and plant a million trees in order to return their part of the Amazon rainforest back to its pristine condition through the financing earned from carbon offsetting. Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Paiter-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 26: Mopidmore Surui of the Paiter-Surui indegenous indian tribe holds a GPS device he will be taking into the Amazon rainforest to map its carbon content while his daughter Soeytxer watches. At the Paiter-Surui village of Lapetanha in the "7th September Indian Reserve" Rondônia, Brazil on October 26th, 2010. The tribe had a 50 year plan to halt illegal logging on their land and plant a million trees in order to return their part of the Amazon rainforest back to its pristine condition through the financing earned from carbon offsetting. Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Paiter-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 26: Children from the Patier-Surui tribe playing in their village of Lapetanha in the "7th September Indian Reserve" Rondonia, Brazil on October 26th, 2010. The tribe had a 50 year plan to halt illegal logging on their land and plant a million trees in order to return their part of the Amazon rainforest back to its pristine condition through the financing earned from carbon offsetting. Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Patier-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 28: Moplip Surui from the Paiter-Surui tribe of indigenous Indians practices his archery skills with a traditional bow and arrow at the Paiiter-Surui village of Lapetanha in the "7th September Indian Reserve" Rondônia, Brazil on October 28th, 2010.The tribe had a 50 year plan to halt illegal logging on their land and plant a million trees in order to return their part of the Amazon rainforest back to its pristine condition through the financing earned from carbon offsetting. Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Paiter-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 27: A general view of the Paiter-Surui indegenous indian village of Lapetanha in the "7th September Indian Reserve" Rondônia, Brazil on October 27th, 2010. The tribe had a 50 year plan to halt illegal logging on their land and plant a million trees in order to return their part of the Amazon rainforest back to its pristine condition through the financing earned from carbon offsetting. Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Patier-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 27: A young boy looks out from his home at the Paiter-Surui indigenous indian village of Lapetanha in the "7th September Indian Reserve" Rondônia, Brazil on October 27th, 2010. The tribe had a 50 year plan to halt illegal logging on their land and plant a million trees in order to return their part of the Amazon rainforest back to its pristine condition through the financing earned from carbon offsetting. Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Patier-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 27: Paiter-Surui indegenous indian tribal members using the newly installed computers at their home village of Lapetanha in the "7th September Indian Reserve" Rondônia, Brazil on October 27th, 2010. The tribe had a 50 year plan to halt illegal logging on their land and plant a million trees in order to return their part of the Amazon rainforest back to its pristine condition through the financing earned from carbon offsetting. Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Patier-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 27: Soeytxer Surui with her father and mother of the Paiter-Surui tribe of indigenous Indian's at their home in the village of Lapetanha at the "7th September Indian Reserve" Rondônia, Brazil on October 27th, 2010.The tribe had a 50 year plan to halt illegal logging on their land and plant a million trees in order to return their part of the Amazon rainforest back to its pristine condition through the financing earned from carbon offsetting. Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Patier-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
LAPETANHA, BRAZIL-OCTOBER 27: Walelap Surui from the Paiter-Surui tribe of indigenous Indians looks out from her home at the Paiiter-Surui village of Lapetanha in the "7th September Indian Reserve" Rondônia, Brazil on October 27th, 2010. The tribe had a 50 year plan to halt illegal logging on their land and plant a million trees in order to return their part of the Amazon rainforest back to its pristine condition through the financing earned from carbon offsetting. Indigenous people have contributed less to climate change than has any other section of the population, yet they are among those most in jeopardy from its impacts. REDD+ stands for "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation" and it is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The "Forest Carbon Project", was initiated by the Patier-Surui in 2009 and was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory of the Paiter-Surui during the first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large gold deposits in the territory that sparked a surge in deforestation and a fracture in the indigenous tribe's unity on how to proceed. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
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A bad 24 hours for the crypto market has seen only two of the top 50 cryptos increase in price. Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is one of these major exceptions, gaining from the troubles facing BSV in the last 24h.
The total crypto market cap has fallen $4 billion to $172.3 billion. BTC dominance is up slightly, to 52 percent.
Bitcoin is down over 2 percent for the day. It seems to be testing new lows over the last few days, and may well dip below the $5k mark again sometime soon.
With the exception of Bitcoin Cash (BCH), which has gained over 7 percent after its rival fork BSV was delisted from many exchanges, all the top 10 tokens have lost value. Litecoin (LTC) is down 4.93%, reversing most of the gains it made yesterday. Ethereum (ETH) is also down 3.56 percent. | {
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Yamaha QY700 Sequencer – One of the best!
Back in the late 90's I used to work with a Yamaha QY300 quite bit and really grew to like that sequencer. However I sold it a few years ago for a couple of reasons. One was the floppy disk drive had finally given out and didn't have the means at the time to replace it. I also didn't particularly like how the LCD screen was not backlit which made it very difficult to work with. It was a pretty solid sequencer I remember and I also knew that it had a bigger brother called the Yamaha QY700 that I had hope to find one day.
Well, shortly after I purchased the Yamaha QX3 I wrote about earlier, I received a call from the Hard Off sales clerk saying he had just gotten in a Yamaha QY700. I had spoken briefly about the QY700 with him that if he had ever got one in to give me call. I was shocked to first get a call, and second to get one so soon. He kind of chuckled and said it was lucky that someone had dropped one off just the very next day after I had bought the Yamaha QX3. He offered me a good price and so last night I jumped back into the car and ran over to pick up the QY700.
Now I totally have enough sequencers already, but I there were a few reasons why I really wanted to nab the Yamaha QY700. First, I love the midi connections it has. There are two MIDI in ports and two MIDI out ports which is fantastic. Plus the LCD screen is really nice with full back lighting and a contrast adjustment knob. What a difference a BIG backlit LCD screen makes compared to the QY300. The Floppy disk drive also accepts both DD and HD disks while the QY300 only could use DD floppy disk. Plus the QY700 can save or load ESEQ formatted songs which means I can now easily create tracks and load them into the Yamaha QX3. Or I can create tracks on the QX3 and then load them up on the QY700. Pretty cool!
The built in XG sounds in the QY700 are not all that bad for creating your songs and you can always control an external sampler or sound module to improve the sound quality. I also found the effects inside the QY700 to be really nice. There are some effects such as "early reflections" and "symphonic" that are popular in the Yamaha SPX and FX series effect modules. It's too bad there's no effects loop to apply the effects to other sound modules, but it's still nice to have them for the XG sounds.
The real beauty of the Yamaha QY700 is in the sequencing. I primarily hang out in pattern/phrase mode where I like to create sketches of grooves to be used in songs later on. It's incredibly easy and quick to lay down multiple tracks. In the past I've used a Yamaha RM1x and RS7000 which are both just as fantastic, but having that big LCD screen is a big bonus when trying to get an overview of your entire composition. Another feature I really like about the QY700 is that when you power off the sequencer, it retains all of the songs, patterns, and phrases in memory. You don't lose a thing! The Rm1x also does this which is why I like that sequencer as well, however, the RS7000 does not do this. Personally it drives me nuts having to load up my sequences every time I power up the RS7000, so it's nice with the QY700 not to worry about that.
The timing on the Yamaha RY800 is also rock solid. The Quantize and Groove template editing is outstanding. Yamaha really makes excellent vintage sequencers. The Yamaha QY700, RM1x, RS7000, and others are simply wonderful to work with. Although I really like my Rm1x, I probably would have to recommend the Yamaha QY800 over the Rm1x simply because of that LCD screen. It's great just to be able to view everything all on one screen. If you see a Yamaha QY700, definitely check it out.
Yamaha QX-3 80's sequencer powerhouse!
This morning I found a Yamaha QX-3 Sequencer for $10 bucks at the Hard Off used music store here in Nagano-city, Japan. ( Like the one in the photo ). I'm so excited about this because I really like this sequencer for it's basic approach to sequencing. The program keys are awesome and there is very little if any menu diving. Everything is all spelled out in front of you and once you get the function keys down, it should be super fast to record. Yes, it's old and big, but it works very well and for the price, it's difficult to find a better one.
Although it has the E-SEQ sequencer format rather than saving to MIDI, there are two outs in the back and it's pretty easy to dump the tracks if necessary. There is also a DD floppy disk drive which works well. The LCD is backlit and all of the keys along with descriptions are on the face of the sequencer. There are also two midi outputs which is great, plus the recording /quantize resolution is very good. According to the manual it was paired up with the Yamaha RX-5 drum machine and DX7II keyboard when it came out. The QX-3 is also built like a tank and seems to be very reliable if played on stage.
I first learned about the Yamaha QX-3 from Synthfreq which I posted a video from below. I don't believe she has it anymore due to some gear lost in a fire if I remember correctly. She posted about it a while ago. Synthfreq uses the Yamaha QX-3 to play the back tracks in the video linked below.
Since then I've been on the look out for one and was pleasantly surprised to find one in mint shape at the store today. Needless to say I grabbed that puppy fast!
I love this little sampler. I also have the Korg ES-1 MKII which is the same except for the color and one of the effects has changed. These samplers are fantastic for creating vintage drum kits and early 80s/90s grooves as in the video link below. The Korg ES-1 was quite often found in Japan but lately it's getting more scarce. The one I found today was at a rock bottom price and so I couldn't pass it up. The step sequencer and motion sequencer are also classic on this and I really enjoy how it programs. If you ever come across one of these at a good price, I seriously would pick it up. It's so simple to use. I believe the sound quality is at 32kHz if correct which is great for those vintage sounds.
Samples are pretty easy to get into the machine and there are enough slots for some good kits and variety. I tend to put my old school samples in the ES-1 from E-MU, Roland, Ensoniq, and Akai. These work great but you will need to convert them to WAV first before dumping them onto a 3.3V Smart Media card. In addition you will name to rename the samples numerically for them to work. The Korg ES-1 makes a fabulous drum machine and percussion back drop to almost any sort of music project. I highly recommend it!!
Today I was browsing through the used music shop I frequent here in Nagano-city, Japan and stumbled upon on something I've never seen before. Someone had just this morning dropped off an Akai EWI 3020 wind controller and cable along with two modules. One was the Akai EWI 3020M Analog Synth Module and the other was the Akai EWI 3030M PCM Synth Module. In addition, all of the manuals, cables, and even a hard shell case were included. Everything was in mint condition for $200 bucks total.
These are likely to be popular in Japan simply because it's difficult to practice any sort of wind instrument in homes here because of the close proximity to neighbors. I also thought it would be fun to see how if at all I can "think outside the box" with this and use it with my other synths. It would be fun to try and see if I could play anything decent as well. Not to mention, both of my daughters may find it fun and inspiring to try and play, especially since you can use headphones. If all else fails then I may just end up selling everything.
Obviously the sales staff had little knowledge of what they had with this Akai wind synth setup. It's old technology but it's exactly what I dig as an Old Skool sort of musician. I enjoy trying to make new uses of these things and since I'm no sax player, I may be able to find some cool ways to use it. I'll post some additional thoughts after I work with it a little bit. It may just be extremely difficult to altogether. I'm also curious how if at all you can use the Akai EWI 3020 to control other synths. There might be some interesting midi controller aspects. Stay tuned!
I just scored a vintage Roland MKS-20 Digital Piano Module today from a good friend in Nagoya, Japan. I'm really excited about this because I've been dealing with MKS-20 multi-samples for some time now with just ok results. I can now finally get busy with the real thing and do some sampling of my own if I wish. In Japan, the Roland MKS-20 is pretty hard to find and we all know it can be quite expensive to get one off Ebay. I got a very good price for this one and feel it should serve me well now and into the future. As I mentioned I have tried quite a few MKS-20 Sample sets but they always seem to be lacking to me. I also noticed that those who created the samples have never really gotten rid of their MKS-20 modules at all, so I figured samples would never really beat the real thing. Why would they keep their MKS-20 module then?
Incidentally, I recently passed up a working Roland RD-1000 keyboard for $60 bucks at a local used shop here in Nagano-city. The reason primarily was the thing was HUGE!! I mean I really didn't have the space for this beast of a piano at all and it drove me nuts that I had to pass up such a deal, but oh well. I have acquired a lot of gear but the RD-1000 was just too darn big to have sitting in my room and I really didn't want to put it in storage. So I passed it up and kept waiting for the day I would run into a Roland MKS-20. Sure enough about three weeks later I found one and it's on the way! I did take some pictures of the Roland RD-1000 I found earlier and will post them here shortly for those curious about it. Currently they are on my cell phone which is out in the car.
In any event, I'm finally glad to have found the elusive Roland MKS-20 in full working order here in Japan. I really like the sound and will enjoy working it into my current setup. Samples are good, but I really think the real thing is better in this particular case. I only wish I had saved the money I spent on the samples…laugh.
Here's a quick video demonstration of the Roland MKS-20 Digital Piano Sound Module found on Youtube.
Recently in Nagano-city, Japan I've noticed a lot of young kids, especially girls, interested in performing music on stage. Having two young daughters myself and a ton of music gear I decided to donate some of my time to helping kids get bands together in Nagano-city, Japan. In most schools around Japan there are no talent shows, rock schools, school dances, proms, events, or anything special to help kids learn pop/rock music and perform on stage. So, like most things I do in Japan, I have to create my own events and then market heavily to help attract interest.
Fortunately I have become good friends with some Nagano-city area producers and bands who are willing to help out with providing stage venues and sit in where needed. In addition, we are offering lessons in guitar, synthesizer, piano, bass, drums, and vocals for those kids who need new or additional training for the stage. If there are any foreign expats or music enthusiasts in Nagano-city and are interested in some jam session fun, please contact me. Nagano city is a samll city in Japan but like most cities around the country it has a very large interest in music. The scene is mostly underground but hopefully we'll be able to provide a means for kids to gather and perform Rock, Pop, Blues, and Jazz Music.
I have been working with my newly rejuvenated Roland S-50 sampler lately and thought I would create an article here about things I've encountered while sampling. These may or may not be tips or techniques of a special nature, but they may help those in trying to figure out a good workflow when using the Roland S-50 Sampler. I'll start by writing some random thoughts about my experiences thus far with Sampling on the S-50. Please comment if you have any tips or experiences of your own that may be of use for either practice or in thought.
Lately, I have been skipping the WAV import using the computer directly to the Roland S-50. I find this to be time consuming and there doesn't seem to be any software that works all that great. What works for me is to use one of my old Roland SP-808 samplers to store "one shot" sounds of various analog synths. For example, I have one 100MB Zip disk divided in banks with MOOG sounds. Each bank is title something like A-B-F#-G# where each letter represents a row of SP-808 pads with MOOG one shot key samples. This helps me to set the correct root key on the S-50. I then run the SP-808 out to the input of the S-50 and record direct. You could use virtually any sampler, but I have found my trusty old SP-808 to work well. Of course I have to use the WAV converter for the SP-808 to initially store samples, but then I can really fast play a pad and record onto the S-50. Note I don't wish to tether a computer to the S-50 at this time.
Another thing I do a lot is record with 15kHz instead of 30. Beside getting more sampling time, I find the sound difference to be minimal quite frankly. This allows me to record lots of samples into the S-50 no problem. Of course I can use 30kHz or vary the sample lengths but I have found lowering the frequency to be very helpful. Also, since I mainly record one shots I don't have to worry about looping or recording longer samples that much.
I usually set the gain and rec level as high as possible. When I dedicate my SP-808 to the S-50 I can keep all the volume settings the same which allows me to keep the samples similar in volume. I then just pop out the zip disk run to the computer and load more samples for recording if need be. I also find I like to record and create construction kits on the S-50. Thus I may have a series of zip disks categorized by drums, basses, guitars, synths, etc and then record the instruments I want to use for a particular construction kit or song. Basically I prefer S-50 disks to contain construction kits and my SP-808 zip disks to contain specific instruments. I find it takes me about 30 minutes to fully sample a new construction kit for creating a new song. I then save that kit onto a floppy disk for later use if needed.
I have found setting loop points on the S-50 to be rather difficult. I do find the auto loop function can work pretty well at times, but it's often time consuming to bang out perfect loops so I mainly use the S-50 for one shots and then use the envelopes for tweaking. I first figure out whether a song instrument will require a long decay or not and then sample accordingly. If my Moog sound will be short and staccato like then I'll sample 0.4 or 0.8 (x2 @15) and then just play my bass line. If I require a long decay I'll simply record at .8 or 1.6 (x2 @15 ) instead of looping the sound. I have found that looping the end of a sound can also lower the tone or quality of the main sample for some reason. Thus if I don't tamper with the sample and just play it, the sound is awesome. I do like to layer or use envelopes which works very well.
Sometimes I get the message "Not Execute" which took me a while to figure out that I was either missing a parameter under record or had an incorrect value. I found my sampling time was most often written incorrectly. If you get this error it simply means "carefully" check your entered values and correct the one that is not right.
All in all, I find sampling directly to the Roland S-50 to be rather painless and quite fun. If you sample to create a song construction kit then likely you'll be able to enjoy the S-50 right away after you finished sampling your initial samples for the song. You can then quickly create your patches and then use Director-S to record the song. Then save the song and sound kit onto an S-50 disk and you can later use it for other songs. As mentioned I also find using an external sampler for storing samples to be very useful. You can then just hit record on the S-50 and press a pad on your external sampler with tons of samples available at your fingertips. On the computer I find myself "thinking" in terms of construction kits rather than filling up an S-50 disk with MOOG bass samples. It then becomes a fun and a rewarding challenge to use that sample construction kit to create a song.
I remember back in the day people having contests where a each person would have a floppy with the same construction kit on it. They then had a month to create a song and then everyone would vote on the song they liked. That used to be really fun because it put the song writing back into music rather than nowadays where people seem to want massive sample collections. The Roland S-50 is limited by today's standard samplers, but I personally find these limitations inspire me more to create and play songs. The Roland S-50 "can" have plenty of polyphony and memory if you accept the limitations and just get down to writing a song with what you have. The old cliche "Simple is Best" can be true sometimes.
Soon I'll be creating some videos based on constructions kits that I sampled for the S-50 and how I use these to create fun songs or sketchpad ideas. The Roland S-50 sounds fantastic and is really fun to play. I also find that any sound I sample into the Roland S-50, I can easily convert to any other format such as the S-550, S-330, W-30, or S-760. That's not always the case the other way around.
Stay tuned for more thoughts and updates as I dive deeper into the Roland S-50. | {
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If you're looking for something other than cupcakes to contribute at your next birthday party, may we recommend Ina Garten's Cinnamon Baked Doughnuts? For a festive twist we added sprinkles to the batter, then replaced Ina's cinnamon sugar topping with frosting and sprinkles. To make the frosting we mixed confectioner's sugar, heavy cream, 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract and blue food coloring until we got a thick, smooth consistency (we went with electric blue in honor of the birthday girl's favorite color). So, just like plain cupcakes, doughnuts are a great canvas for personalizing decorations.
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The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services publicly report information that allows comparisons to be made across all hospitals to support consumer choice. A hospital's reputation, coupled with the financial impact, depends on patient satisfaction, which must be taken seriously. Care experience scores are primarily nurse-driven, and nurse leaders have a large responsibility to produce results. The practice of commanding and directive leadership has never been effective long term. Nurses want leaders to make sense of a situation and explain the why. The need to inspire and create alternative ways to help nurses connect purpose to practice is imperative to meet the demands. The concept of triangulating a human caring theory, professional practice model, and care experience best practices should be explored to influence nurses caring practice at the bedside. Nurturing human dignity, relationships, and integrity through human caring is the degree by which patients assess their often cure-dominated experiences. Developing a model designed to actualize a caring theory, reinforce care experience best practices that support patient satisfaction, and shift the culture norms through a professional practice model is more important than ever in today's state of decisiveness and incivility.A caring culture will not only impact the patient's perception of care,but will create the foundation for a highly reliable, quality, safeorganization that meets its financial goals, because nurses that care,will do.
Morton, Debra J., "Operationalizing a Theoretical Framework to Improve Patient Perception of Care" (2019). Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Projects. 157. | {
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Heat Post-Game: Stockton earns big comeback in 5-4 overtime win against division rival
Photo credit:Graphic by Mike Gould
By Paige Siewert
The Stockton Heat finished their busy week of hockey on a high note with a comeback 5-4 win in overtime against the Ontario Reign. This game on Sunday afternoon was action-packed and activated some scoring for Heat skaters that were really due to light the lamp. The Reign seemed to hold "the reigns," if you will, for most of the game but it was ultimately the Heat that earn both points coming out of this match-up.
Five goals, five guys
Some of the bigger Heat scorers have been quieter since returning from the Christmas break. This game was not only a huge test for the Heat as Ontario has been nipping at their heels in the Pacific Division standings but also an opportunity to turn their game up a notch to prepare for the road ahead. These are the types of games to use as primers for the post-season that is not as far away as it seems.
Eetu Tuulola once again kicked off scoring for the Heat for his third goal in as many games with a power play deflection goal only 1:49 into the game. Nick DeSimone and Connor Mackey picked up assists.
Ontario answered back about two and a half minutes later when a Reign defenceman blocked a Heat pass and came back on the rush with a one-timer Dustin Wolf had pretty much no chance on.
At 14:25 into the first, Matthew Phillips put up a tally to get the Heat's lead back with a quick breakaway goal. He's definitely not of the skaters you want to leave on his own if you're on the opposing side. The lone assist went to Byron Froese.
The lead wouldn't last long as 2020 second overall draft pick Quinton Byfield snuck the puck around Wolf.
The action-packed first period finished up at two a side and the Heat with an 18-8 edge in shots. The Reign kept the pace through the second period but the Heat were unable to keep up. Byfield was once again in the heart of the action as he snuck a pass in front around his back and his teammate, Tyler Madden connected on it. They would go on to score one more in the second after Walker Duehr was called for tripping and the Reign were successful on the power play with a tip in goal. The second period finished with the Reign up 4-2 on the scoreboard but the Heat still ahead in shots, this time 29-16.
The Heat copied the Reign's pace through the third period and got two big goals back in the back half of the third period. Walker Duehr buried the puck after receiving a perfect pass from Jakob Pelletier right on the doorstep. Luke Philp was also credited with an assist on Duehr's goal.
The last goal of regulation came at the hands of Martin Pospisil. Matthew Phillips picked up another point on the night with a behind the back backhand pass he threw at the front of the net right on Pospisil's stick. This goal came at 15:36 and was enough to hold the Heat to overtime.
If you took an extended snack break between the end of the third and overtime, you very well may have missed the entirety of overtime as Connor Mackey scored the game-winner just 24 seconds into the extra frame. His goal was assisted by Jakob Pelletier and Matthew Phillips, who had a three-point night but somehow didn't make it to the three-star selection. Tough break on visiting ice sometimes.
Dustin Wolf had a solid night to follow up on his first regulation loss of the season earlier in the week. He stopped 23 of 27 shots and had a great team of scorers to do their part and have his back. The Heat recorded 46 shots on the night.
The Heat announced in the second intermission that Juuso Valimaki left the game with a lower-body injury and would not be returning for the third period.
Now that news at first may seem concerning, but the incidents that lead up to this exit might prove to be a maintenance call. Valimaki played through the whole first period and most of the second with his last shift appearing to be at about 14:40 into the second period. The circumstances around his exit seem a little vague and suspect. Before the last whistle, he was not seen on the view of the stream and did not appear to come in contact with the Reign defenceman in his vicinity. Before the stream cut to the penalty box, Valimaki is seen skating quite normally to the bench and veers off to presumably exit the ice as opposed to finding his place on the bench. No stoppage in play or direct contact on his last shift appeared to be the reason he exited the game.
He is obviously quite high on the call-up list if the Flames are in need of some defensive changes or fill-in's so this is a player to keep a close eye on. His exit in this game does not seem concerning at this point, but no further updates have been made to clear up suspicions at this time. This may be more of a short-term absence than the initial announcement may seem.
Roster updates
Some changes across the affiliating teams trickled down and up through the Heat. On Jan. 8, the Flames announced they had assigned Adam Ruzicka to the taxi squad and sent Byron Froese back to Stockton.
The return of the captain was welcomed with open arms and in his first game back with the Heat since Dec. 7, 2021, Froese picked up an assist on Phillips' second period goal.
On game-day the Heat had a roster announcement of their own stating that they had recalled defenceman, Koletrain Wilson from the Kansas City Mavericks. Wilson did not dress for this game and has yet to play a game for the Heat this season. Last year, he skated in five games for the Heat and did not make the scoreboard for any points. This year with the Mavericks, he has earned seven assists in 30 games played.
This week in Heat hockey
Last week was one of the busier weeks for the Heat with a mid-week series and split weekend series. They faced three different teams and finished up with a 2-2 record on the first full week of 2022. This week, they play three games against three different opponents in a four-day span. They will kick things off on Wednesday night in Henderson, Nevada to face the Silver Knights. Next, they will finish up their lengthy road trip against the Bakersfield Condors on Friday night. On Saturday, they will return to home ice for the first time since New Year's Eve to host the Tucson Roadrunners. All three game times this week are at 8:00 p.m. MT.
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The younger brother of Wen he uses seal papers as his calling card. He uses the B-Daman Rekuso which was later upgraded to King Rekuso which can be combined with Bakuso to form BakuRekuso and King BakuRekuso. He and his older brother have been helping Yamato after they left the Shadow Alliance. Later in the series, Enjyu begged Li to help him defeat Marda B. Like Enjyu, Li pretended to work for the Neo Shadow Alliance in order to find Marda B.'s weakness. But certain members did not trust Li's loyalities towards the Neo Shadow Alliance so Marda B. claimed Li's mind giving Li the third eye and erasing all his past memories. Later, Wen tried to save his brother through a B-Dabattle. Luckily, Wen won and therfore restoring Li's memory and purity. | {
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It's no secret: I love Christmas.
I love the twinkling lights and decorations. I love the music. I love the family traditions. I love the baking and eating. I love the movies we watch every year. I love the parades. It's truly the most magical time of year.
When I was invited to attend the Festival of Lights in Chicago this year, I was giddy. It was the combination of some of my favorite things: traveling, the city of Chicago and a giant Christmas celebration. I was all in!
It was also the perfect opportunity to spend time with my oldest son, Jorryn. With three busy little boys at home, I don't often get the chance for quality one on one time with only one boy. Especially a weekend away!
Jorryn has the travel bug like his mama and was beyond thrilled to join me for the trip. He had never been to Chicago before so we had a great time playing tourist and checking out the sights. The grand finale of our trip was the Festival of Lights — and what a finale it was!
This is the fifth consecutive year BMO Harris Bank is the title sponsor of the BMO Harris Bank Magnificent Lights Festival. They partnered with a few local businesses to made the parade day even more special for their customers with discounts, perks and offers. I definitely felt like the red carpet was getting rolled out for me!
Plus, 100 customers were selected on parade day to enjoy the parade from grandstand viewing in the broadcast zone — which is where Jorryn and I got to watch the event!
Everything about the Festival of Lights was amazing. Plus, being a BMO guest made the event even better: we sat in the grand stands with warm blankets and hand warmers and had a great view!
It was fascinating to see all the behind the scenes that goes into producing such a large scale event. We watched the live shows like Stomp, The Blue Man Group and a scene from A Christmas Carol.
There were lots of great floats and balloons.
Chicago Festival of Lights from Stephanie Keeping on Vimeo.
And of course… Santa. I'll admit every Christmas parade I attend, seeing Santa makes me tear up a little. Seeing him waving on the sleigh signifies the start of the season to me… I think of all the past Christmases we've celebrated and I wonder what's in store for the coming season. And what might be different in the coming year.
I would highly encourage you to visit the Festival of Lights next year — especially as a BMO Harris Bank customer so you can enjoy all the wonderful perks! | {
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Paul Manafort Spared Rikers Stay by Justice Department Intervention
By [email protected] (Audrey McNamara)
The Daily Beast June 18, 2019
Paul Manafort has been spared solitary confinement at the notorious Rikers Island prison in New York following a last-minute letter from the second-highest law enforcement official in the country, The New York Times reports.
Manafort, 69, President Trump's former campaign chairman, was set to be transferred to Rikers this month to await trial—as is customary for federal inmates facing New York state charges. That is until a letter, sent by Attorney General William Barr's new top deputy Jeffrey Rosen, arrived.
The letter reportedly indicated that Rosen was monitoring where Manafort would be held. Then, on Monday, federal prison officials reportedly told the Manhattan district attorney's office that Manafort would no longer await trial at Rikers. Instead, he will reportedly spend the intervening time at a federal lockup in Manhattan or a Pennsylvania federal prison.
Manafort's Rikers stay was to await trial on 16 state court felonies in New York, including mortgage fraud and falsifying financial records for an alleged "yearlong residential mortgage fraud scheme."
Here's What Paul Manafort Can Expect at Rikers Island
Manafort was sentenced in March to a total of seven-and-a-half-years in two separate federal cases, one for an illegal foreign lobbying conspiracy, and the other for tax and bank fraud. He is serving that term at the Pennsylvania federal prison.
His arraignment for the New York charges is scheduled for next week at State Supreme Court in Manhattan.
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This adapter kit will allow you to mate a Nissan 350Z (Z33) 6 speed transmission to an LS Series, Gen III or IV, Chevrolet Small Block Engine. If you want to run a manual transmission capable of withstanding tremendous power behind an LS engine without spending an arm and a leg, this is your kit. The Z33 transmissions are proven strong, and are readily available. Whether you are doing an LS swap into a 350Z, or an LS in an old hotrod where you want to bang the gears, the Z33 is a great transmission option and our kit makes it an easy connection.
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Adriana Andrade Guimarães
Tania Pires da Silva
Fernando Luiz Finger
José Geraldo Barbosa
Home > Vol 20, No 2 (2014) > Guimarães
Rust in Plumeria spp. (Apocynaceae) in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Adriana Andrade Guimarães, Tania Pires da Silva, Fernando Luiz Finger, José Geraldo Barbosa
Frangipani (Plumeria spp.) is a plant widely used in urban ornamentation, de to its hardiness, easy handling and exuberance of its flowers. Plumeria spp. Leaves were collected in Dourados, MS, Brazil, with typical symptoms and signs of the presence of rust: powdery yellowish uredinias in the abaxial and chlorotic and necrotic spots on the adaxial surface of the leaves, sometimes resulting in leaf abscission. The present study aims to record the occurrence of the disease in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul. Microscopic observations and measurements of uredinospores and teliospores confirmed that the fungus infecting plants was Coleosporium plumeriae.
Coleosporium plumeriae, Frangipani.
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https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Sources-Slain-couple-s-revolver-with-shell-13845118.php
Sources: Slain couple's revolver with shell casings recovered at scene of botched Pecan Park raid
By Keri Blakinger and St. John Barned-Smith
Updated 4:46 pm CDT, Tuesday, May 14, 2019
External view of 7815 Harding on Friday, May 10, 2019, in Houston. The home was the scene of a botched drug raid that took place on Jan. 28, 2019 and left the two homeowners dead and five police officers injured.
External view of 7815 Harding on Friday, May 10, 2019, in Houston. The home was the scene of a botched drug raid that took place on Jan. 28, 2019 and left the two homeowners dead and five police officers
A .357 Magnum believed to belong to a man killed in a botched Houston police drug raid was among the evidence investigators recovered after the January shoot-out, law enforcement sources confirmed Tuesday.
The news comes a day after a private forensics team analyzed the scene and raised questions about whether either of the people killed by police in the narcotics bust had fired shots at the undercover officers who burst through the front door.
The revolver - the same weapon officials originally said Dennis Tuttle fired at police - had multiple spent casings, the sources confirmed. The find could help confirm some aspects of the Houston Police Department's version of events called into question by the outside forensics investigators hired by the families of Tuttle and his wife, Rhogena Nicholas.
Mike Doyle, the attorney representing the Nicholas family, did not dispute the claim, but pointed out that it may not prove Tuttle fired a shot, and also highlighted some of his team's other findings - namely, a trove of uncollected evidence, including bullets and teeth.
"We're not saying they didn't collect any evidence, all we're saying is that there's a substantial amount of really important evidence that was not collected," Doyle said. "It's certainly possible that at some point in the chain of events something other than a police weapon was fired, but when, who did it and where remains to be seen."
ON HOUSTONCHRONICLE.COM: Autopsies show couple killed in botched drug raid had traces of marijuana, cocaine
Chief Art Acevedo could not be reached late Tuesday, and a Houston police spokesman declined to comment, citing the active investigation.
It's still not clear what other evidence authorities may have that could back up the official narrative in a case that has blossomed into one of the department's biggest scandals in decades.
The gunbattle began early on the evening of Jan. 28, when a narcotics case agent burst in the front door of 7815 Harding Street looking for a pair of suspected heroin dealers. A pit bull lunged at the officer, who opened fire and killed the animal, authorities said at the time.
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Hearing the gunshot, Tuttle came running out from the back of the house and started shooting, striking the case agent who'd been the first man through the door, according to police. Though officials initially said the 59-year-old Pecan Park resident had wielded a .357 revolver, the gun wasn't listed on the search warrant return officially released in the months since the raid.
After he was shot, the wounded lawman fell on the couch near Nicholas, who allegedly made a move for his weapon. A back-up officer opened fire and killed the 58-year-old woman.
The shoot-out continued, and in the end, Tuttle and Nicholas were killed and five officers injured — including four who were shot. Police maintain the officers were not shot by friendly fire.
Authorities have reported that in a search of the home afterward, they turned up four heirloom guns and user-level amounts of cocaine and marijuana. It's unknown if other drugs were recovered with the .357 revolver.
INVESTIGATION: Harris County DA seeks dismissal of narcotics officer Gerald Goines' active cases, according to HoustonChronicle.com report
Even with the discovery of the fifth weapon, other concerns with the case continue to be at the center of multiple investigations across at least three agencies. In the weeks after the raid, the first man through the door - case agent Gerald Goines - retired under investigation amid accusations that he'd lied on the search warrant used to justify the raid.
That revelation sparked probes by Houston police, the FBI and the Harris County District Attorney's Office. Prosecutors are still exploring the possibility of criminal charges against one or more of the officers involved, and have tossed out multiple cases previously handled by Goines and his partner, Officer Steven Bryant, in light of questions about their conduct at Pecan Park. | {
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The rapid pace of technological progress and regulatory change has fuelled an explosion in data, which firms reliant on old tech and manual processes struggle to keep up with, says an industry expert.
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AutoRek, which employs 65 people across three offices – it's Glasgow headquarters, Edinburgh and London - was a fintech business before we knew what fintech was. Now its expertise across the worlds of finance and technology (as well as regulation) positions it perfectly to serve clients as the fintech revolution gathers pace.
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(What's Left of) Our Economy: No, the Fed Isn't Terribly Worried About a Trade-Mageddon
agriculture, consumption, Federal Open Market Committee, Federal Reserve, FOMC, inflation, interest rates, investment, Jobs, Mainstream Media, monetary policy, tariffs, Trade, Trump, {What's Left of) Our Economy
OK, let's get away from John Brennan, and public view of Russia, and get back to something uncontroversial only by comparison – President Trump's tariff-heavy trade policies. (Don't worry – I'm sure I'll get to the Trump-related Michel Cohen and Paul Manafort legal results as soon as I can figure out something distinctive to say about them.)
As known by RealityChek regulars, the national media has been filled with articles reporting that Mr. Trump's actual and threatened tariffs on aluminum and steel, and on products from China, have already started backfiring on the U.S. economy in any number of ways: leading to job and production cuts in industries that use the two metals as key inputs, and creating major uncertainty throughout the economy among sectors dependent on Chinese products as parts, components, and materials for their goods, and on selling Chinese final products to consumers.
The official U.S. data on economic growth and employment, as I've reported, have shown that, so far, exactly the opposite has been true for the metals-using industries. Yesterday afternoon, another important indicator was made public that casts major doubt that the economy is currently experiencing a "trade-mageddon," or is bound to any day now. I'm referring to the minutes of the July 31-August 1 meeting of the Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) – the members of the central bank's board of governors who vote on monetary policy.
Most Mainstream Media newspaper headlines claimed that latest version of these minutes – which contain separate detailed analyses of the nation's economic and financial situation by the FOMC members and the Fed's staff of economists alike – contained sobering warnings about the "escalating trade war" posing "a big threat" to the current American recovery. And the members (I'll focus on their analysis, given that they actually decide on the Fed's moves) did definitely express trade-related concerns. Here's how they put it:
"all participants [FOMC members] pointed to ongoing trade disagreements and proposed trade measures as an important source of uncertainty and risks. Participants observed that if a large-scale and prolonged dispute over trade policies developed, there would likely be adverse effects on business sentiment, investment spending, and employment. Moreover, wide-ranging tariff increases would also reduce the purchasing power of U.S. households. Further negative effects in such a scenario could include reductions in productivity and disruptions of supply chains. Other downside risks cited included the possibility of a significant weakening in the housing sector, a sharp increase in oil prices, or a severe slowdown in EMEs [emerging market economies].
But here's what the members also said:
>Despite the above concern about consumer purchasing power suffering from tariff hikes, "Indicators of longer-term inflation expectations were little changed, on balance."
>Several members commented that "prices of particular goods, such as those induced by the tariff increases" would likely fuel some "upward pressure on the inflation rate" but that these pressures would be "short-term" and had multiple causes. Further, depressed agricultural prices – due partly to recent trade developments, as noted below – would exert downward pressure on domestic inflation.
>Despite concerns about the impact of trade-induced uncertainty, "incoming data indicated considerable momentum in spending by households and businesses" and that levels of household and business confidence (regarded as key forward looking economic indicators) remained "high."
>"Business contacts in a few Districts reported that uncertainty regarding trade policy had led to some reductions or delays in their investment spending." Yet "a number of participants indicated that most businesses concerned about trade disputes had not yet cut back their capital expenditures or hiring…." And the possibility that prolonged trade tensions would change this picture was only described as a possibility.
>Although "Several participants observed that the agricultural sector had been adversely affected by significant declines in crop and livestock prices over the intermeeting period," some FOMC members observed that this deterioration only "likely" and "partly flowed from trade tensions."
And perhaps most important, the FOMC members "viewed the recent data [including trade-related information] as indicating that the outlook for the economy was evolving about as they had expected" and that their stated determination to raise the federal funds rate gradually, in order to sustain the expansion but discourage economic overheating, remained fully intact.
As the Fed participants always say, their analyses and policy decisions will be data-dependent. But it's clear that the real message of these minutes is that the data justify no trade war-related alarmism now, and little for the foreseeable future.
(What's Left of) Our Economy: Rising Fed Rates Amid Slowing Real Wages?
Federal Open Market Committee, Federal Reserve, inflation-adjusted wages, interest rates, Labor Department, manufacturing, private sector, recovery, wages, {What's Left of) Our Economy
Although it's usually hard to muster much sympathy for the governors of the Federal Reserve, today might be an exception.
On the one hand, this afternoon their Open Market Committee is scheduled to announce its latest decision on interest rates, and it's given many indications that it's going to again make the cost of borrowing a little more expensive. That probably means, all else equal, that economic activity in the United States (including growth and hiring) will slow down, at least in the short term.
On the other hand, the U.S. government reported a slew of economic data this morning indicating that the economy is getting weaker – which would make at least the timing of even a modest rate hike awkward. Among them were inflation-adjusted wage figures (for May) that once more reveal a significant slowdown in American workers' real take-home pay.
For the private sector overall (the Labor Department, which calculates these figures, doesn't report inflation-adjusted wages for public sector workers, because their government-set pay tells us little about the state of the economy), the news wasn't bad at all on a month-to-month basis. Constant-dollar wages rose 0.28 percent from their April levels – after having gone exactly nowhere the month before.
But the year-on-year results – which smooth out inevitable random-ish monthly fluctuations – were again nothing less than discouraging. From last May until this May, this price-adjusted pay increased by just 0.56 percent. That was indeed their strongest annual improvement since last December's 0.75 percent. But it was much less than half the after-inflation pay advance between the previous Mays (1.42 percent), much less that of May, 2014-May, 2015 (2.33 percent).
So largely as a result, during the current economic recovery – which is nearly eight years old – real private sector wages are up only 4.26 percent.
But according to the Labor Department, private workers overall have been enjoying salad days compared with manufacturing workers. The latter's real wages fell on month in May by 0.28 percent. It's true that this decline followed an upwardly revised 0.55 percent sequential April increase that was the sector's best since August, 2015's 0.66 percent. But the May monthly decline was the sector's worst since last November's 0.64 percent slide.
Manufacturing's year-on-year real wage results are scarcely better. In May, they flat-lined — their worst such performance since September, 2014's 0.29 percent annual dip. The two previous May annual real wage increases"? Between 2015 and 2016, 2.45 percent, and between 2014 and 2015, 1.53 percent.
And during the nearly eight years since the economy began growing once again, real manufacturing wages are up 1.31 percent.
These glum wage data notwithstanding, there still could be good reasons for the Fed to announce another rate hike today. As RealityChek readers know, it's entirely possible that recent years of stimulus from the central bank has mainly stolen potential growth from the future by promoting artificial growth. Similarly, as the Fed itself has acknowledged lately, monetary policies that have made credit so cheap – and indeed, practically free for blue-chip borrowers – for so long can encourage the kind of crackpot investing and financial instability that could trigger another global crisis.
If the Fed emphasizes these concerns in its (usually brief) statement accompanying the interest rate announcement, or in the more detailed Open Market Committee meeting minutes it publishes later, it will deserve the nation's gratitude for straight talk – however overdue it might be. If, however, the central bank insists that it's raising rates mainly because the economy is looking encouraging, it will be increasingly deserve the label of mindless cheerleader.
(What's Left of) Our Economy: The Fed's Dangerous Can-Kick
China, debt, Federal Open Market Committee, Federal Reserve, Financial Crisis, Great Recession, inflation, interest rates, Janet Yellen, Jobs, leverage, monetary policy, recovery, unemployment, yield, {What's Left of) Our Economy
Reverberations continue from the Federal Reserve's decision last Thursday to keep the short-term interest rate directly controlled by the central bank at the so-called zero bound – after strong hints most of the spring and well into the summer that the financial crisis-born policy of super easy money would finally start coming to an end. Most of the commentary has focused on the incredibly convoluted rationale for delay presented by Fed Chair Janet Yellen at a press conference held following the "stand pat" announcement. That's entirely understandable, as I'll explain below. What worries me even more, though, is how the kinds of financial stability threats that triggered the 2007-08 crisis have apparently dropped off the Fed's screen completely.
It's not necessary to believe that the U.S. economy is performing well to be puzzled by the Fed decision – which was nearly unanimous. That's because the Fed majority itself clearly believes it's performing well. Here's how Yellen described the recovery from the Great Recession:
"The recovery from the Great Recession has advanced sufficiently far, and domestic spending appears sufficiently robust, that an argument can be made for a rise in interest rates at this time. We discussed this possibility at our meeting." A little later, Yellen emphasized, "You know, I want to emphasize domestic developments have been strong."
The Chair did spotlight areas of continued economic weakness, including sluggish wage growth that was contributing to overall inflation rates remaining well below the levels characteristic of a truly healthy economy; the stubbornly high number of Americans who remained out of the workforce, which takes much of the sheen off of the major reduction seen in the headline unemployment rate; and weakening economies in China and elsewhere abroad, which roiled stock markets in the United States and overseas in August.
But she persisted in describing weak prices as mainly due to "transitory" factors, like the depressed global energy picture and the strong dollar (which makes imported goods bought by Americans cheaper). More important, Yellen repeatedly emphasized points like "I do not want to overplay the implications of these [and other] recent developments, which have not fundamentally altered our outlook. The economy has been performing well, and we expect it to continue to do so."
Moreover, and most important, the record makes clear that most of the voting members of the Fed's leadership – the Open Market Committee – "continue to expect that economic conditions will make it appropriate" to raise interest rates "later this year." All of which inevitably and justifiably has raised the question of why, if most Fed policymakers remain confident that the U.S. and even world economies will remain on a course encouraging enough to warrant slightly tighter monetary policy by year end (i.e., in three months), all except one decided that the conditions of these economies are too fragile now to withstand rates even the slightest bit higher than their current emergency, mid-crisis levels.
Nor is this question answered adequately by Yellen's claim that it's crucial not to raise rates too early because such actions could snuff out the recovery's momentum. Indeed, the Chair herself stated that she buys one of the most compelling reasons to hike sooner rather than later – because the delay between the approval of a monetary policy decision like a rate hike and the appearance of its effects on the economy means that inflation could overheat if the Fed waits too long to step on the brakes.
As a result of these contradictory messages, it's hard to avoid the conclusion either that the Fed is genuinely confused about the real state of the economy and how it can strengthen it; or that despite its expressed confidence, it still believes that even the kind of minimal rate hike it's been telegraphing – which Yellen further has intimated will still leave monetary policy "highly accommodative for quite some time" – could bring the recovery to its knees. No wonder investors are confused, too – and increasingly nervous.
And this is only the set of problems on which the economic and financial chattering classes are concentrating. The problem they've overlooked for now is even more disconcerting: The Fed's latest statements about the future of its super-easy money policies contain no mention of the big reason to be genuinely scared of super-easy money policies: They've shown a strong tendency to encourage reckless financial practices that tend to end in oceans of tears.
The reason should be pretty obvious, especially since it played out just a few short years ago and nearly blew up the American and global economies. When money is for all intents and purposes free and in glut conditions, incentives to use it responsibly vanish. After all, by definition, it's no longer precious: If you lose some in a bad investment, you feel confident that more will be easy to get.
At very best, then, nothing like market forces exist to discipline lending and investing, and thereby increase the odds that credit will be used in productive ways that bring the greatest, most durable benefits to the entire economy and society. In fact, too many investors will view the strongest incentives as those fostering a thirst for yield – which drives them into ever riskier assets simply because safer choices offer so little return. At worst, borrowers take on amounts of debt that become ruinous whenever interest rates do finally rise – and threaten the entire financial system and economy.
The Fed's reluctance to raise rates may in fact stem in part from fears about that latter scenario. It's true that the economy is less leveraged these days than it was during the previous bubble decade. But that doesn't mean there's not a lot of bad, vulnerable debt out there – including that wracked up by the federal government. Worse, precisely because the longer the Fed waits, the more dubious debt will accumulate, the more painful any rate hikes are bound to be.
What's genuinely sobering about can-kicking by the Fed is that the central bank is structured to be insulated from politics and its obsession with short-run gratification. If the Fed is so reluctant to bite this bullet, and impose some near-term costs on the economy to place it on a sounder footing, where will America's adult supervision come from? | {
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Minori ist eine italienische Gemeinde mit Einwohnern (Stand ) in der Provinz Salerno in der Region Kampanien. Sie gehört zur Bergkommune Comunità Montana Monti Lattari - Penisola Sorrentina.
Geografie
Die Nachbargemeinden sind Maiori und Ravello. Die Ortsteile sind Montecita, Torre Paradiso, Via Monte, Via Pioppi, Via Torre und Villa Amena.
Söhne und Töchter
Gennaro Contaldo (* 1949), Koch, Restaurantbesitzer und Kochbuchautor
Siehe auch
Cilento
Nationalpark Cilento und Vallo di Diano
Weblinks
Gemeinde Minori
Einzelnachweise
Ort in Kampanien
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In 2000, the cooperative formed with the help of The Canadian Tea Alliance, a group that helped to empower areas of economic hardship through tea production, and by 2010 these women were producing a superior green tea, a green tea that met the rigid guidelines in place for Canadian import. While they are one of four cooperatives supported by Canada, they are the only ones to meet strict regulations for export to North America. Logistically, in the early 2000s it was hard to reach this tea garden because of the poor infrastructure, but today these women have put money back into their homes, their town and their roads. These once struggling cattle farmers and noodle makers, have found their success in high quality tea, and for over a year and a half now we have been proudly carrying their tea.
When we drove up to their tea factory and saw a large group of people waving outside, emotions took over. We were welcomed with such enthusiasm and ceremony. Their gratitude to sell tea in the west was overflowing. They greeted our little group with a formal tea reception, followed by a visit to a tea garden and factory, and a beautiful generous lunch with flowing rice wine and many toasts and handshakes. We drank tea and ate sweets and the women proudly displayed their new harvested buds. The Director held my hand as we explored the garden and the Finance Director showed me her little tea production shack, that must have been 9'x10' large. When we stepped outside, she told us this that the little room was her family's house, before they made tea.
This visit was so emotional, that when we said goodbye and I thanked them for producing such beautiful tea and for welcoming us so graciously, we all began to cry. I felt in this moment, the impact of our choices. More directly than I ever imagined, I realized that by buying Tan Huong green tea, I am making an immediate impact on these families and this village. That is a choice we make with all things, when could buy commercial and support an industry or we could buy artisanal and support a family. | {
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Gli Ierinò o Jerinò sono una 'ndrina di Gioiosa Jonica dedita al narcotraffico.
Sono presenti anche nella zona di Ivrea, nel Salento, nella Borghesiana e a Pisticci in provincia di Matera. Sono alleati dei Mazzaferro dei Cataldo e dei Costa.
Storia
Sequestri
Nel giugno 1975 viene sequestrato l'imprenditore di Siderno Tobia Matarazzi, per volere di Giuseppe Ierinò. Il rapimento di Matarazzi fu il primo rapimento avvenuto nella Locride dopo l'assassinio del "boss dei due mondi", Antonio Macrì.
Con questo, si aprirà la cosiddetta stagione dei sequestri perpetrata da parte di molte 'ndrine come metodo per guadagnare soldi in maniera rapida.
Pepè Cataldo, capo carismatico dell'omonimo clan 'ndranghetistico locrese. Relativamente al sequestro Materazzi, allora si disse che aveva "comprato" il sequestrato dai gioiosani che per punirlo di non aver "pagato" il prezzo pattuito organizzarono un attentato presso la locale stazione Agip. Pepè Cataldo, grazie al suo eccezionale sangue freddo e alla disconoscenza dei luoghi da parte del commando, scampò all'agguato rifugiandosi nel bagno, cosa che gli consentiva di sfuggire alla tempesta di piombo che i sicari, sparando con lupara e mitra, scaricarono. Cataldo, cessata la tempesta di piombo, uscì e, dopo aver chiesto ai terrorizzati benzinai cosa fosse accaduto, si allontanava con la propria auto.
Tengono sotto sequestro per un mese Roberta Ghidini.
Vincenzo Mazzaferro avrebbe fatto da tramite con lo Stato per la contrattazione, ma non mantenendo le promesse fu ucciso dagli Jerinò il 14 gennaio 1993, senza, però, nessun cambio di rapporti per le due famiglie malavitose.
Vincenzo Roccisano, di Gioiosa Jonica, broker degli Jerinò, degli Aquino e dei Commisso. A causa di traffici di droga non andati a buon fine e di cui 4 carichi sequestrati che erano destinati alla cosca Pesce di Rosarno; Vincenzo Roccisano, temeva per la sua incolumità, si trasferiva a Toronto in Canada, sotto la protezione di esponenti delle famiglie Aquino-Coluccio e Commisso, da anni radicate in quel Paese e, successivamente, a New York, dove, su attivazione dell'Arma, in data 23 febbraio 2010 veniva tratto in arresto da personale della Dea, per violazione della legge sull'immigrazione.
Faida dei boschi
Si ritiene che Giuseppe Ierinó abbia avuto un ruolo nella cosiddetta "faida dei boschi", faida avvenuta a cavallo di 3 province tra i boschi delle serre calabresi tra Serra San Bruno, Stilo, Monasterace e Guardavalle, per il controllo del settore del legname.
Capibastone
Francesco Ierinó, detto Cicciu Manigghja, patriarca ed ex capobastone. Ha ospitato Michele Navarra per un periodo della sua latitanza.
Giuseppe Ierinó, figlio di Francesco, ex capobastone arrestato il 4 aprile del 1995 dopo 13 anni di latitanza nella cattura è stato ferito: "Non pensavo che i carabinieri fossero così bravi - dice Jerino' - potevano uccidermi, ma non l'hanno fatto". Il boss disteso sul lettino del Pronto Soccorso dell'ospedale di Siderno scherza e si concede volentieri alle domande del cronista. "Volevo costituirmi cinque anni fa, poi la morte di mio padre e altre vicissitudini familiari me l'hanno impedito". È il fratello di Vittorio, il bandito che ha sequestrato Roberta Ghidini, la giovane di Brescia liberata dopo un mese di prigionia. "Mio fratello ci ha rovinati a tutti - dice Giuseppe Jerino - è un malato ha voluto fare il sequestro con la banda Brancaleone... è un pazzo. Per colpa sua ci hanno confiscato tutti i beni di famiglia". Il 14 luglio 2011 nell'operazione Crimine 3 rivede il carcere. Il 18 settembre 2014 con l'operazione Ulivo 99 rivede il carcere. Era lui, secondo la Direzione distrettuale antimafia, il vertice dell'organizzazione, il finanziatore capace di fare arrivare dal Sud America grossi quantitativi di cocaina. La droga viaggiava lungo l'asse Bolivia-Paesi Bassi-Romania-Santhià, in provincia di Vercelli-Gioiosa Ionica. Il blitz, al quale hanno partecipato oltre 150 carabinieri, è scattato a Gioiosa Ionica ed in alcuni centri. Nella rete della Dda sono finiti anche i complici di Jerinò.
Antonio Jerinò, figlio di Francesco, arrestato per il sequestro Materazzi assieme al fratello Giuseppe.
Vittorio Jerinò, figlio di Francesco, viene arrestato nel 1991 per il sequestro di Roberta Ghidini, poi a causa di un permesso non rientra in carcere e si dà alla latitanza e viene arrestato il 1º novembre 2002 davanti alla tomba del padre, dopo cinque mesi di latitanza, insieme alla sorella Maria. Il 10 ottobre 2014 dopo una latitanza di quasi tre mesi viene arrestato. Con le indagini per la cattura, durante la latitanza, di Vittorio Jerinò, viene alla luce un'altra indagine denominata Shopping center e tra gli arrestati il figlio di Vittorio, Giuseppe con la moglie ed altri esponenti. Successivamente il sequestro dei beni.
Roberto Jerinò, figlio di Francesco, il 14 luglio 2011 viene arrestato nell'operazione Crimine 3.
Domenico Jerinò, figlio di Francesco, viene arrestato per un traffico internazionale di droga denominato operazione Carmen.
Maria Jerinò, figlia di Francesco, viene arrestata il 1º novembre 2002 davanti alla tomba del padre insieme al fratello Vittorio latitante, per detenzione di arma clandestina in concorso (e non per favoreggiamento, in quanto parente del latitante); viene condannata per rapine, estorsioni insieme al fratello Vittorio e altri affiliati nell'operazione Manigghja 3. Dopo l'appello e la conferma della condanna oltrepassa i cancelli del carcere nel novembre del 2010.
Giorgio Jerinò, figlio di Francesco, arrestato più volte e il 24 giugno 2010 dai carabinieri di Milano in quanto al momento del fermo da parte dei militari, ha conseguito dei documenti falsi ed era in possesso di una ingente somma di denaro, ben 325.000 euro.
Carlo Jerinò, figlio di Francesco, arrestato più volte e rilasciato.
Fatti recenti
Il 14 luglio 2011 vengono arrestate oltre 40 persone nell'ambito dell'operazione internazionale dei carabinieri Crimine 3. Le persone sono accusate di traffico di droga internazionale e associazione mafiosa e sono state arrestate per lo più in Italia, alcune in Spagna, Paesi Bassi e negli Stati Uniti. Il traffico veniva gestito insieme al Cartello del Golfo e ai cartelli colombiani, per la 'ndrangheta c'erano presunti affiliati agli Jerinò, Commisso, Coluccio, Aquino e Pesce.
Il 10 marzo 2016 si conclude l'operazione Tipographic che porta all'arresto di 36 persone presunte affiliate agli Ursino-Macrì e Jerinò di Gioiosa Jonica, ai Rumbo-Galea-Figliomeni di Siderno, ai Bruzzese di Grotteria, e ai Mazzaferro di Marina di Gioiosa Jonica e accusati di estorsione, usura e associazione mafiosa.
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Voci correlate
Locale di Gioiosa Jonica
Mandamento Jonico
'Ndrina
'Ndrangheta
'Ndrangheta in provincia di Reggio Calabria
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Ben Simpson, Nate Axelrod and Seth Clark combined for 46 points as the Ohio Wesleyan men's basketball team outscored Wooster 51-34 in the second half of an 81-72 victory Saturday afternoon at Branch Rickey Arena. The win puts the Battling Bishops in sole possession of first place in the North Coast Athletic Conference.
OWU was two games behind first place after it dropped back-to-back games to Denison and Wooster, which handed the Bishops (17-6, 14-2) their worst loss of the season in a 23-point drubbing Jan. 7.
Since, OWU has strung together 10 straight victories, including a win over Denison 10 days ago that moved it into a three-way tie for first.
The Fighting Scots handed Denison its third straight loss a week ago to set up Saturday's battle for first. And it did not disappoint.
OWU, which lives and dies by the three-pointer, struggled to find its touch in the first half to the tune of five threes in 19 attempts.
In turn, the Scots led for all but 2:37 and was aided by a 7-0 run to close the half ahead 38-30.
Shooters gotta shoot, and OWU knocked down eight of its first 12 attempts to start the second half, including threes on back-to-back possessions by Simpson to give OWU a 47-44 lead with 14:51 remaining.
Spencer Williams knocked down a jumper to finally put Wooster back on top at 66-65 with 5:12 left, but it was brief. Axelrod answered with a three 13 seconds later to put the Bishops ahead to stay.
Simpson scored a game-high 25 points — 20 in the second half, including all four of this three-pointers. He finished with six rebounds and four blocks.
Axelrod also knocked down four triples in the second half to finish with five overall on his way to 24 points and five assists.
Clark added 17 points and 10 rebounds for his second double-double of the season and finished with a pair of steals.
Wooster, which had its 10-game winning streak snapped, had put points up in bunches, scoring 90 or more points in five of its previous seven games.
Dan Fanelly led the Scots (16-7, 13-3) with 21 points and pulled down four rebounds, Reece Dupler had 19 points and six rebounds, Williams added 17 points, five rebounds and three assists and Eric Bulic led with eight rebounds and two blocks.
OWU can clinch at least a share of the league title – a third straight – with a win at Wittenberg Wednesday night at 7:30 p.m.
Freshman Claire Sterling scored 10 of her career-high 15 points during an 18-0 second-quarter start as the Ohio Wesleyan women's basketball team blew it open on its way to a 75-47 victory over Wooster in NCAC action Saturday afternoon at Branch Rickey Arena.
The Bishops (10-13, 6-7) never trailed, using a 9-0 run in the first quarter to gain control at 12-3 on a Nicole Popovich layup, a Sterling three-pointer and four Megan Kuether free throws. OWU led 19-12 at the end of one.
Sterling assisted on a jumper by Popovich, converted a three-point play and knocked down a three to start an 18-0 run to blow the game open. The Bishops led 43-24 at the break.
OWU outscored Wooster 18-6 in the third, ballooning the lead to 61-30, and extended it as high as 34 on a Taylor Dickson bucket to start the fourth.
OWU honored seniors Dickson and Kuether before the game. Kuether led the Bishops with 18 points and six assists to go with five rebounds. Dickson finished with 12 points and eight rebounds.
Bishops coach Stacey Ungashick Lobdell was fighting back tears as she talked about the two seniors after the game.
Popovich, a freshman, backed the effort with a career-high 13 rebounds to go with 10 points in her first career double-double. Popovich is averaging 9.3 rebounds over the last three games.
Sterling had seven rebounds and Hallie Sinko had five for the Bishops, who outrebounded Wooster 57-35.
Akwia Tilton had 12 points and eight rebounds to lead the Fighting Scots (2-21, 1-13) and Rachel Collins added 10 points and four rebounds. Anna Gibbs led with four assists.
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Con la maglia dell'Agordo ha vinto sei titoli italiani (2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2002-2003, 2006-2007, 2007-2008 e 2008-2009). Dopo lo scioglimento della squadra ha militato nelle compagini che ne hanno portato avanti l'eredità, il Feltreghiaccio prima, l'Alleghe poi.
Ha vestito la maglia azzurra a , ed a sette edizioni del campionato del mondo (1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2014).
Ha recitato nel film La ragazza del lago di Andrea Molaioli.
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• Harvesting the crop should be done at the right time. Reaping too early or too late affects yield and seed quality. Timely harvest and threshing will ensure good grain quality, high market value, and consumer acceptance.
• The field should be drained 1 week prior to harvesting.
• Harvesting should be done when at least 75% of the grains are matured. If the crop is harvested without proper maturity it leads to loss of viability of grains.
• The harvested material should be dried in the field for 2-3 days.
• The grain should be free from iner t material after threshing and winnowing. The winnowed grains should be sun dried until the moisture content reaches less than 13%.
• Paddy seed is sun dried for 2-3 days continuously and then stored in gunny bags on indigenously made 4-5 feet stand to prevent pest infestation.
• Paddy seed is stored in small containers with bamboo called as 'butta' (in Telugu). The container is filled with paddy seed and covered with straw and then closed with cow dung paste.
• Seed for consumption purpose are stored in big size storage structure called 'Gadhi' with a capacity of 100-150 kunchas (300-450 kgs) of paddy seed.
• The grains should be stored in a place which is free from storage pests.
• They should not be stored in areas with less moisture content.
• The storage structure should not have perforations or holes as it helps the pests to invade. The storage place should have good aeration.
• Control of storage pests like moth and weevil infestation in paddy should be done .For every 50 kg of grain storage, 200 gram salt is placed. In a bag of 100 kg paddy, 200gram of salt is added after filling 50 kg and the remaining 50 kg of grain is filled by addition of 200 gram salt for every 50 kgs grain to control the moth and weevil infestation in paddy.
Spray acephate @ or monocrotophos @ 2.2 ml or ethofenprox @ 2.0 ml or fenobucarb @ 2.0 ml or imidacloprid @ 0.25 ml or thiamethoxam @ or Buprofuzin 1.6ml per litre of water.
Car tap hydrochloride 50 WP or acephate or profenophos 2.0 ml /litre of water (or) apply car taphydrochloride 4G @ 8 kg/acre when the adult moths/egg masses @ one/ sq.m are noticed in the field.
A thin film of water (2-3 cm) should be maintained at the time of weedicide application and should not be drained up to one week. Maintain water level at 5 cm depth during first seven days after planting and thereafter up to completion of tillering at 2 cm depth.
Maintain water level at 5 cm depth from panicle initiation to grain maturity. Drain the water before fer tilizer application. Mid season drying discourages unproductive tillers. Drain the field one week before harvest.Drain the field and aerate whenever Sulphide injury occurs. Ensure drainage in deltaic alluvial soils (East and West Godavari and Nellore districts).
Land preparation typically involves ploughing, harrowing, and levelling the field to make it suitable for crop establishment. Plough the field upto 12-15 cm deep so that the weeds and the stubbles get incorporated in the soil and get decomposed. • Ploughing should be done 3-4 weeks prior to sowing. Draft animals, such as oxen, 2-wheel tractors or 4-wheel tractors can all be used ploughing the land effectively. • After ploughing, harrowing should be done twice, with one week gap between the two. First harrowing should be done after 1 week of ploughing. The second harrowing should be done across the first harrowing. • The land should be submerged in 2-5 cm of standing water so that pudding is done and decomposition of organic matter occurs soon. Bunds should be prepared and cleaned thoroughly as the harbour pests and diseases. • Bunds should be compacted to prevent seepage, and properly maintained at 15 cm high x 20 cm wide to prevent rat burrowing. The initial soil tillage can also be performed with a rotavator instead of a plough.
•Poor stand and establishment, lack of growth and tillering.
• Basal mid rib bleaching of 3rd / 4th leaf from top at about 2-4 weeks after transplantion.
• Dark brown rusty spots on the upper par t near the tips of older and mature leaves.
Sufficient amount of nutrients should be supplied to the crop right from transplanting to harvesting as it helps in better crop growth finally giving better yields. Ensure soil fer tility tests are done to your field and apply the nutrients accordingly recommended by the soil health report .
• Both oversupply and under supply of nutrients to the crop is a threat.
• Oversupply of nutrients results to increased susceptibility of the crop to pests, lodging, etc.
Basal fer tilization with 0.5 kg of `N'; 0.5 kg of `P' and 0.5 Kg of 'K' per every 100 sq m is required to get robust seedlings, followed by another 0.5 kg `N' at 12 days after sowing.
Spray ZnSO4 @ 2.0 g /l for correction of Zinc deficiency if deficiency is observed.
Spray 5-10 g ferrous sulphate (or) ferrous ammonium sulphate with 0.5 to 1.0 gram of citric acid per litre of water to correct Iron deficiency in the nursery crop.
Ameliorate soil acidity in upland soils of East Godavari, west Godavari and khammam districts by appropriate liming.
In soils of excessive percolation use urea in 3-4 split dosesor use coated nitrogen fer tilizers such as neem coated urea in kavali area of Nellore and par ts of chittoor.
Nitrogen is to be applied in three splits (at basal, at active tillering Stage & at Panicle Initiation stage) 'P' & 'K' may be applied as basal in heavy soils. In case of light soils, 'K' may be applied in two equal splits i.e., at basal and at panicle initiation stage.
For late planted conditions apply nitrogen in two splits only (65% basal and 35% at 20 DAT).
With excellent cultural practices, the spacing may be slightly wider, say 20x15 cms but under sub-normal conditions, the spacing should be slightly narrower, say 15x10 cms.
Under good management and adequate nitrogen levels, the optimum spacing for varieties should be around 20x10 cms both for kharif and rabi crops.
Shaik N. Meera, R. Mahender Kumar, P. Muthuraman, L.V. Subba Rao and B.C. Viraktamath (2014). A Handbook of Package of Practices for Rice. Directorate of Rice Research, Book No. 80/2014. p.365.
At 2-5 leaf stage (20-25 days age) , uproot the nursery, trim the tips of seedlings and transplant.
Crop establishment is a very important part and hence utmost care is needed to ensure good crop establishment.
Make sure that the seedlings are not mixed with weed seedlings.
Line transplanting should be followed as it helps in better crop growth and intercultural operations.
Generally recommended spacing is 15x10 or 20x10 cm.
In case of Direct Seeding, sowing should be done after proper puddling and levelling the land.
Direct sowing is practiced in areas with lower rainfall or areas with water and labor scarcity.
Nursery should be prepared nearer to the mainfield so as to minimize the shock during transplanting.
Utmost care should be taken while preparing the nursery as it is the place where rice seedlings grow and establish themselves.
Prepare the type of nursery based on your resources such as water, type of soil etc eg : Wet bed method is practiced in areas of water abundance and Dry bed method is practiced in areas of less water and where the soil is loamy or clayey.
Appropriate seed rate (15-20 kg/ha) should be used based on the variety/ hybrid selected. Farmers use very high seed rate, which is not required and wasteful.
For good preparation of your nursery, Plough the soil thoroughly 3 to 4 times and level it perfectly. Make channels for irrigation water and drainage.
Incorporate one tonne compost/FYM per 1000 m2 bed during last ploughing/puddling.
Broadcast the sprouted seed 5kg /100 sq.mt of soil. Make sure the seeds are free from weed seeds. For 200 sq.mt of nursery bed apply 2kg. Nitrogen (1kg at the time of broadcasting the seed and another after 12 to 14 days) 1kg P2O5 and 1kg Potash. In cold prone areas apply double dose.
Allow it to dry for some time and give slight irrigation at first leaf stage.
Weeding should be done once in 15-20 days as it helps seedlings grow effectively without competition for nutrients, water etc.
If zinc deficiency is noticed spray 2 g ZnSO4 dissolved in 1 liter of water. In case of dry nursery if Iron deficiency is noticed spray 20 g / 1 lt. (2%) ferrous sulphate solution.
Protect your Nursery against bird damage of seed by netting or taking colour ribbons.
Apply Carbofuran 3 G granules 10 days after broadcasting the seed per cent of nursery @160g or Monocrotophos 1.6ml or Chloropyriphos @ 2.0 ml per liter of water. Apply Carbofuran 3 G granules @ 160 g per 40 sq.mt of nursery week days before uprooting the nursery.
Seedlings should be uprooted with soil and transplanted immediately so as to minimse the shock to the seedlings. See to it that the time gap between uprooting the seedlings and transplanting is less.
The seed rate naturally influences the growth of the seedlings. Thin sowing gives strong and tillered seedlings, whereas thick sowing results in thin and tall seedlings without tillers.
Thin sowing in nurseries is always better and it will produce strong and sturdy seedlings, which can withstand adverse climatic conditions better and produce better yields. Therefore, 40 to 60 grams of seed per square metre should be sown in the nursery beds. About 500 square metre area of nursery is sufficient to transplant one hectare area. In case of late sowing of nursery, the nursery area should be increased to 750-1000 square metre.
Select good quality & high density seed of a variety/ hybrid suitable to the location/season.
Varieties should be selected based on the environment and the season in which they are to be grown.
The most suitable variety is the one that best meets the farmer and the consumer's needs. It may not always give the highest yield and the choice will be influenced by availability of water, either from rain or irrigation, soil type, field elevation and whether the rice will be sold or consumed at home.
Select varieties resistant to pests and diseases, if the area is prone to endemic diseases/ pests. In case, there are problem soils such as acidic or salinity, varieties which are suitable for specific soils (say saline tolerant varieties) should be selected.
Varieties which are already grown in the area and having good yield records should be selected. In case new varieties/ hybrids are to be grown, enquire about their performance in FLDs or on-farm trials.
We should go for new varieties initially on trial basis, and if it works out well it can be cultivated in the whole area.
Good quality seed reduces the required seed rate, produces strong healthy seedlings which results in a more uniform crop and higher yields.
Select good quality seeds which are free from seed borne pests, diseases and weeds.
Select seeds which are bold, uniform in size and filled completely.
Seeds should be soaked in salt water and remove immature and chaffy seeds. Select only bold seeds and wash thoroughly with clean water for 2 - 3 times and dry under shade.
If seeds are farmer grown it should undergo germination test before using for sowing.
Select seeds which have good germination rate (> 85%).
fungicides like Carbondazim, Dithane M 45 @ 2.5 g/kg of seed (or) Cartap @ 2.5 g/kg of seed.
They can also be treated with bio control agents like Pseudomonas fluorescens @ 10 gm per kg of seed etc.
A well prepared and leveled field gives a uniform,healthy crop that can compete with weeds, uses less water and gives higher yields at a lower cost.
Land preparation is done by ploughing, harrowing, and levelling the field to make it suitable for crop establishment.
Ploughing should be done 3-4 weeks prior to sowing.
Plough your field upto 12-15 cms deep and make sure the weeds and the stubbles get incorporated in the soil and get decomposed. This is necessary to avoid the self sown seeds to grow and become admixtures.
Draft animals, such as oxen, 2-wheel tractors or 4-wheel tractors or rotavator can all be used for ploughing the land effectively.
Implements used for ploughing are mouldboard plough, disc plough, sub- soiler etc.
After ploughing, harrowing the field should be done twice, with one week gap between the two. First harrowing should be done after 1 week of ploughing. The second harrowing should be done across the first harrowing.
Implements used for harrowing are Spike tooth harrow, Chain harrow, Disc harrow, Inter-cultivating harrow.
Generally rice fields are first flooded with water before tillage. This tillage of flooded soil is referred to as puddling. Puddling is very efficient in clay soils that form deep cracks penetrating the plough pan at about 15 to 20 cm soil depth during the period of soil drying before land preparation.
Land should be levelled after ploughing and harrowing is done so as to avoid undulating topography which leads to uneven distribution of water and others. Levelling with laser leveler helps in saving water and ensure uniform crop growth.
The land should be submerged in 2-5 cms of standing water so that pudding is done and decomposition of organic matter occurs soon.
Bunds should be prepared and cleaned thoroughly to check weed growth as they harbour pests and diseases.
Bunds should be compacted to prevent seepage, and properly maintained at 15 cm height x 20 cm width to prevent rat burrowing.
Once you complete all these activities, you can now go for transplanting / direct seeding.
A fallow period of at least a month from harvest to establishment of the next crop has to be there. This can break the pest cycle and facilitate the success of crop management practices.
A crop calendar is a picture of your rice growing season: crop production from the fallow, land preparation, crop establishment and maintenance through to harvest and storage. By using a crop calendar, farm activities are better planned, done at the right time and it is easier to organize labor and obtain inputs such as seed and fertilizer. Better planning will decrease input costs and increase yields.
2. Determine the time the variety takes from planting to harvest (short duration <120, medium duration 120-140, long duration >140 days plus).
3. Mark on the calendar the date of planting and when each other operation needs to be done. (Ploughing, weeding, fertilizing, harvesting). | {
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There are only 2 possible solutions: set the authentication via a "browser window" instead of an embedded one (please notice this won't work in the Linux desktop app), or remove the redirect from the SSO auth method.
' Invalid response value detected: Invalid external api response: the value is "", the server was expecting "raw" type"
This usually happens when there is a field with value NULL in a table in the database that should not be there. This may happen if your Moodle has been upgraded over many years and the database schema is broken.
This usually happens when a course uses a language that isn't installed in the site. Please make sure that all courses use valid languages. This can be easily checked in the database, table "course", there is a column named "lang".
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Find the setting named User created token duration.
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Last month we reported on fraud investigations pertaining to healthcare providers and pharmacies. According to a recent Dallas Morning Newsarticle, such investigations are intensifying and expanding. The FBI is conducting raids of medical businesses in the hunt for further proof of illicit kickback arrangements in which doctors refer patients to specific pharmacies in return for remuneration.
Most recently, Next Health, a Dallas-based network of labs and pharmacies, and its successive owners, Critical Health Care Management, were subject to search following a $100 million lawsuit filed by United Healthcare that the companies were involved in a kickback scheme. The owners of both businesses are already charged with health care fraud in another federal case involving Forest Park Medical Center.
Among the allegations leveled against Next Health: that their pharmacies issued animal drugs, that they manipulated the ingredients of compounds to increase costs, and that unnecessary genetic and drug tests were administered as part of a "wellness study."
Other healthcare companies facing federal scrutiny include Medoc Health Services, Southwest Laboratories, Trilogy Pharmacy, and the ADAR Group. However, the eight defendants from Ability Pharmacy may be the most impudent of all. They are charged with committing a $158 million fraud for inflating the costs of so-called compound pain creams: on at least one occasion, one container of the miracle cream cost them $15.00 to produce; they charged $28,000.00 for it. That's a mark-up of 186,667%.
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How the GOP could steal America's 2012 election: corporate vote theft and the future of American democracy PART ONE
by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
The Republican Party could steal the 2012 US Presidential election with relative ease.
Four major factors make it possible: the continued existence of the Electoral College, the systematic disenfranchisement of millions of American voters over the past decade, the widespread and growing use of electronic voting machines, and GOP control of the governorships and secretary of state offices in the key swing states that will once again decide the election.
To this we must add the likelihood that the core of the activist community that came out to protect the vote for Barack Obama in 2008 may not do so again in 2012.
Towering over it all, of course, is the reality that corporate money has come to totally dominate the American electoral process. The John Roberts US Supreme Court has definitively opened the floodgates with its infamous Citizens United decision. But for well over a century, at least since the 1880s, corporations have ruled American politics. Back then the courts began to confer on corporations the privileges of human rights without the responsibilities of human decency.
Citizens United has taken that reality to a whole new level. As the 2012 election approaches we are watching gargantuan waves of unrestricted capital pouring into political campaigns at all levels. The June recall election in Wisconsin saw at least 8 times as much money being spent on protecting Republican governor Scott Walker as was spent trying to oust him.
Nationwide this year, the corporate largess vastly favors Republicans over Democrats. But since both parties are essentially corporate in nature, that could change in coming elections, and may even vary in certain races in 2012.
We do not believe that once given the chance, the Republicans are any more prone to stealing elections than the Democrats.
And that is a major point of this book. On its surface, the prime focus of our nation's sorry history of stolen elections has to do with Democrats stealing elections from Republicans and vice-versa. In 2012 it will be primarily Republicans using gargantuan sums of corporate money to take control of the government from Democrats, and democracy be damned.
But in the longer view, the more important reality is that the corruption of our electoral system is perfectly geared toward crushing third and other parties whose focus is challenging a corporate status quo deeply entrenched in war, inequality, and ecological destruction.
So as we trace the stories of election theft dating all the way back to John Adams and Tom Jefferson, we do fret over the corruption that defines so much of the back-and-forth between Democrats and Republicans. But we hope that you, the reader, will always remember that whatever the corporate parties do to each other separately pales before what they will do together to crush non-corporate forces like the Populist Party, the Socialist movement and the grassroots campaigns for peace, justice and ecological preservation. This applies to both candidates running for office and referenda aimed at directly changing policy.
Yes, we are concerned with the injustice and corrupting nature of the reality that corporate money could fund a series of anti-democratic tricks that will steal the 2012 election away from the intent of the American electorate. Given the choices facing us, this means Mitt Romney could well become president despite the possibility of a legitimate victory by Barack Obama.
But far more important in the long run is that the ability to do this by either corporate party (or both of them) means no third party will be allowed to break through in future elections to make meaningful change in this country—at least not through the ballot box.
No reality could be more grim for a nation that long-ago pioneered modern democracy and seemed to bring to the world the possibility of a society in which the possibility of continually making meaningful, life-giving change was guaranteed along with the right to vote.
American history is chock full of election abuse from both parties, dating at least back to 1800, when the Democrat-Republican Thomas Jefferson wrested the presidency from Federalist John Adams based on the "votes" of African-American slaves who were allowed nowhere near a ballot box.
That Adams spent the next six years muttering about that theft before he opened a legendary exchange of letters with his former friend and rival did nothing to rid the country of the Electoral College that made it possible. Nor did it prevent his son, John Quincy, from using it to steal the 1824 election from a very angry slaveowner named Andrew Jackson, who then formed the Democratic Party that now claims Barack Obama.
But in 2012, the GOP controls the registration rolls and the swing state vote count in ways that the Democrats do not.
It will be the Republicans' choice as to how far they are willing to go to put Mitt Romney in the White House. But as this book will show, they have the power to do it if they're willing to use it.
They did not have that option in 2008, when Barack Obama and Joe Biden defeated John McCain and Sarah Palin. Ohio had a Democratic governor and secretary of state that year. Obama safely carried the usually decisive Buckeye State in 2008, along with enough additional swing states to put him in the White House.
But when John Kerry failed in Ohio 2004, he handed George W. Bush a second term in ways that paralleled Bush's initial coming to power in the bitterly disputed election of 2000. In both elections, the defeated Democrat refused to raise the issue of widespread corporate-sponsored fraud. This book lays out much of the evidence that both elections were, in fact, stolen, and shows how the same means used to do it back then are likely to be repeated this year.
The difference in Ohio 2008, as in much of the nation, was that candidate Barack Obama inspired millions of young, committed, active supporters to work overtime for his election. They came out in droves to promote and protect voter registration, monitor polling places, challenge faulty and discriminatory ballot procedures, scrutinize voting machines and otherwise guarantee a more fair and balanced vote count.
In his four years as President, Barack Obama has alienated much of the grassroots activist community that put him in the White House. Due to his stances on nuclear power, bank bailouts, social justice, civil liberties, medical marijuana and other issues that are near and dear to grassroots activists, Obama has prompted the progressive press to be filled with "disappointment" at the very least. As usual, the left community—infamous for its circular firing squads—has already begun tearing itself apart over whether to vote for Obama's re-election.
But that debate is beside the point. Given the delicate corporate balance on the US Supreme Court, and a wide range of tipping point issues that include women's rights and the environment, many or even most of those who worked for Obama in 2008 are likely to vote for him again this year.
But just their votes will not make the difference, any more than they did in 2008.
What was decisive in that election was the presence of tens of thousands of committed activists who were willing to devote hours, days, weeks to registering voters, getting them to the polls, making sure they survived challenges to their right to vote, watching over the ballots, doing exit polling, monitoring electronic voting machines and the counts they rendered, making sure the media was aware of resulting abuses—or spreading them through the internet—and otherwise guaranteeing that what had happened in 2000 and 2004 did not happen again in 2008.
Their presence is what put Barack Obama in the White House. But his policies there have done little to encourage those activists to come back to work for him in 2012. Their ballots will probably go his way, but the ardent commitment that defined the 2008 election is clearly missing. So is ACORN, a key long-standing grassroots voter advocacy organization that was destroyed by a concerted GOP attack that succeeded through the cynical but highly effective use of entrapment and disinformation that succeeded in its purpose while Obama stood silent.
Without that activist core to protect the voter rolls, balloting procedures and vote counts this year, Obama and the Democrats are highly vulnerable to a re-run of what was done to Al Gore and John Kerry in 2000 and 2004.
We do not yet know if Obama's policies, so widely perceived as pro-corporate, will yield him enough corporate cash to match what Mitt Romney will raise. That both parties are dominated by corporations is a forgone conclusion. In 2008 Obama managed to balance that reality with a hugely successful portrayal of himself as a man of and for the grassroots.
At least among the activist community, that perception is long gone. It remains to be seen whether Obama's decision to court the corporations at the expense of the grassroots will yield him a financial war chest larger than what Mitt Romney can raise.
We also can't pinpoint the exact advantages—if any—the additional corporate dollars might yield Obama and the Democrats in their attempt to keep the White House.
But simply put: even if he succeeds in winning a legitimate majority of the American electorate, there are not likely to be enough grassroots activists inspired by the hard realities of Barack Obama's presidency to put in the grueling work that will be needed to guarantee a voter turnout and ensure a vote count fair enough to give him a second term.
In this book, we show why such a national grassroots effort to guarantee a fair election will be necessary to Barack Obama's re-election. And why without it the GOP is virtually certain to put Mitt Romney in the White House come January, 2013.
That such an effort would also be key to what happens in the races for the US Senate and House of Representatives goes without saying, and we'll discuss that after we deal with the presidency.
Carried along by the tsunami of corporate cash now pouring into American politics, there are four key factors that could allow the Republican Party to steal the 2012 presidential election:
The continued presence of the Electoral College;
The systematic disenfranchisement of millions of legitimate American voters, most of them likely Democrats;
The widespread use of electronic voting machines.
The Republican control of the governorships and secretary of state offices in the key swing states should decide the 2012 election for Romneys.
Originally published by The Free Press, http://freepress.org
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Economics, Education, Issues
Taking us back to 1851: Far Right Law Center seeks to bring SB5 battle to local Ohio governments
(listen to Fight Back below with Sean and also Donald Goldmacher, Director of Heist-TheMovie)
News Director Sean Gilbow of WVKO 1580AM recently outed an extreme right-wing organization that is behind the attempt by Taxpayers for Westerville Schools to repeal the Westerville Public School levy. Westerville Schools, considered one of the premier school districts in central Ohio is coming under heavy attack from a small group of anti-government zealots that are bringing the politics of Wisconsin governor Scott Walker and the Kochs to Ohio.
Under Ohio law, a temporary tax issue such as the 5-year levy passed by Westerville Schools cannot be repealed. So instead, the group is seeking to repeal the permanent 2009 tax issue instead, and have elicited the help of the 1851 Center for Constitutional Law.
Why do they call it the "1851 Center for Constitutional Law"? The date refers to the adoption of the current Ohio Constitution. But what their moniker doesn't tell you is that the organization yearns to return to the "good old days" of pre-Civil War America. The Center is doing legal work for Right-to-Work anti-union so-called Ohio Workplace Freedom Amendment. Its Executive Director Maurice A. Thompson was the lead attorney in the 2008 Ohio Republican Party RICO (Racketeering, Influence and Corruption) suit against ACORN (Association of Communities Organizing for Reform Now).
Under the guise of "improving the business climate" in Ohio, the Center is pushing the agenda of the Koch brothers already defeated by Ohio voters by 25 points in the vote against Senate Bill 5 last year. The Center has printed a guide to show citizens how they can "roll back tax levies."
On the 1851 Center website, they note that, "On May 7, 2012, taxpayers for Westerville Schools, with the representation of the 1851 Center, commenced circulation of an initiative petition to repeal the $6.71 mil tax increase narrowly approved in March…."
The Center goes on to claim that, "The Westerville effort marks the inaugural action of the 1851 Center in assisting taxpayers in using a previously obscure section of the Ohio Revised Code to lower their school district's tax burdens, while forcing Ohio school districts to control spending and reign in labor costs rather than raising taxes." The Center is also advocating that the government of Ohio "reduce the number of times per year school districts may place tax increases on the ballot from three to one."
Bradley A. Smith serves as the chairman of the Center's board. A law professor at Capital University, he's perhaps the leading advocate in America for allowing the wealthy to contribute unlimited funds to candidates. His book, Unfree Speech: The Folly of Campaign Finance Reform, published in 2001, was a precursor to the Citizens United decision. He also has represented the Chamber of Commerce in litigation.
Historically, the public and scholars assume that 1% of the population giving unlimited funds to influence campaigns is inherently corrupt, elitist and undemocratic.
Smith was appointed to the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) where he argued that unlimited spending was simply a form of free speech. In 2004 he served as Chairman of the FEC. Not surprisingly, Unfree Speech was cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in its controversial Citizens United decision.
The 1851 Center for Constitutional Law is a throwback to the 19th century robber barons. It is anti-worker, pro-plutocrat, detests the idea of public schools, and works for the wealthiest 1% while cloaking their beliefs in the rhetoric of freedom.
June 9, 2012 /by Fitrakis
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I often hear people lament about how unhealthy pasta is and I start to gesture wildly with my hands in protest like a good Italian should. Let me tell you, nothing can come between an Italian girl and her pasta. Honestly, what would life even be without it? There is no better, sweeter feeling in the world than twirling pasta around a fork and enjoying every bite, guilt-free. When prepared with the freshest ingredients, pasta is a delicious addition to a wholesome and balanced diet. I've always kept it in my rotation as a way to get carbs and protein, and I use it as a base to incorporate my much needed veggies. I've been doing about two hours of Mysore yoga a day recently so I really need something that fuels my body but also satisfies my appetite.
After just returning home from Europe I'm really inspired by earthy, old-world flavors and thought it would be perfect to share one of my favorite pasta protein power recipes with chili, fresh coriander pesto, asparagus and roasted pine nuts. I decided on a citrusy asparagus recipe for early spring, with a pesto using cilantro instead of basil. It's so, so easy to prepare. Don't let the lime fool you in the pesto ingredients. It's important to help cut the cilantro flavor a bit.
I knew this was a success when my fiancé tried it after I photographed it, and said I could make it for him anytime. I think that's a win! My grandmother will be so proud.
Preheat oven to 425. Trim asparagus and toss in 1 tsp. of olive oil. Lay asparagus on baking sheet, add a touch of salt and pepper and a few lemon slices. Cook for 10-15 or until tender, cut into bite-size pieces.
Bring salted water to a boil. Cook pasta until slightly al dente. *Keep the pasta water to add later.
In a medium sauté pan, dry, add a 1/2 cup of pine nuts on medium heat until toasted. Use for garnish.
Serve pasta in a large bowl, add asparagus and pesto sauce, a small ladle of your saved pasta water, and toss together. Top off with toasted pine nuts, a pinch of chili flakes and freshly grated parmesan. I also added a few squeezes of lemon to make it even more zesty.
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Brandon Williams & Jean Baylor Are 'Stronger' Together
We haven't heard much from Brandon Williams (aka the artist formerly known as B. Williams) for a long minute, but quiet doesn't mean dormant. In Brandon's case, the GRAMMY nominated/Stellar Award-winning producer/composer/arranger/multi-instrumentalist has been hard at work on his debut album, and we will get to hear the fruits of his labor when XII is released in spring 2014. XII is shaping up to be a big deal with guest appearances from Robert Glasper, Dwele, Debórah Bond, Choklate, Karriem Riggins, Mike Phillips, Frank McComb, the late Don Blackman and many more artists lined up. Also included on that talent-heavy roster is songstress Jean Baylor who contributes her talents on the lead single "Stronger," which SoulBounce is proud to world premiere.
Written and produced by Brandon, Jean and her husband Marcus Baylor, who also holds it down on drums, "Stronger" is a heartfelt ballad about the ups and downs of relationships and holding on through it all. Jean sounds as beautiful as always, and this is a lovely introduction to what else Brandon Williams has in store on XII. Brandon is giving away this song for free for a limited time only via his website, so be sure to pay his online home a visit to download this romantic gem.
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251. Father help me to forever be relevant and never become a man of yesterday.
252. Father have mercy on me and reverse every irreversible in my life this year. Ezek.
257. Arise O' Lord and let every power of the enemy on my life become impotent.
258. As smoke is driven away, so let the wicked de driven away from our homes. Ps. | {
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Despite being friends for almost 20 years, it is only recently that Ryan Summers and Nate Cherrier decided to get together to collaborate under the moniker Midwest Soul Xchange. The result is New American Century, an 11-track album due for release on the 24 November.
With Summers based in Wisconsin and Cberrier living in Arizona, the making of the album was very much a virtual affair. It's quite ironic that such a traditional-sounding album wouldn't have happened without modern day technologies, but the end result does not feel disjointed at all.
The duo adopted a stripped-down production approach which works extremely well and brings the raw emotional power of the songs to the fore. The instrumentation is well thought out and the dual vocal harmonies are uplifting and teeming with nuance.
The music is infused with a classic old-school vibe reminiscent of bands like The Byrds, The Band and even The Beatles, but it also sounds strangely timeless. Numbers such as opener Set a Course for Common Words, with its use of harmonica and tasteful guitar solo, Sun Dried and Has Anybody Seen Bob would have fit right in had they been released in the 60s. At the same time, unconventional chord progressions and interesting soundscapes elevate songs such as Truth Attention and Occupy the Piper to a whole other level. Four Score and Seven To Go rounds out the album with a lighter-in-the-air moment worthy of Bob Dylan.
New American Century may not be everyone's cup of tea, but it is a well-crafted album that's worth checking out. Whilst unashamedly rooted in the 60s American folk-rock tradition, it still sounds fresh and relevant.
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"Bilateral agreements between West African countries and Equatorial Guinea can address inefficiencies in key supply routes."
Number of blocks to be awarded by the end of 20155
Riaba integrated petrochemicals complex expected urea production1.3 million tonnes per year
Bioko Oil Terminal final capacity2.21 mcm
Equatorial Guinea's energy outlook
Equatorial Guinea's offshore hydrocarbons industry has been developing continually, with five new blocks expected to be awarded by the end of 2015. Minister of Mines, Industry and Energy Gabriel Mbaga Obiang Lima speaks to TOGY about what has been done and what will be done to ensure the reinvention of the country in the offshore and downstream sectors.
What does Equatorial Guinea hope to achieve through the construction of downstream projects such as the integrated petrochemicals complex in Riaba and the Bioko Oil Terminal?
The Ministry of Mines, Industry and Energy (MMIE) has a long-term vision of transforming Equatorial Guinea into an energy centre. Both the Bioko Oil Terminal and the integrated petrochemicals complex serve this vision.
Equatorial Guinea has a keen interest in developing its oil and gas industry, establishing itself firmly as a power in West and Central Africa and gaining access to global oil trading flows by investing in assets.
The infrastructure in West Africa is not developed enough to address the growing demand for oil and petrochemicals. Through these two new investments, we will be well positioned to accommodate the required logistics efficiently.
How will these investments serve the supply and trade sectors in not only Equatorial Guinea, but West Africa as a whole?
These assets will serve global trade flows and regional demand centres. They will be only a few hours in sailing time away from key demand centres. Customers can use shipment services from Equatorial Guinea to serve those markets.
Bilateral agreements between West African countries and Equatorial Guinea can address inefficiencies in key supply routes while promoting the security of supply.
These investments in infrastructure will have a direct positive impact on national economy and employment, including the creation of jobs and demand for our own construction services. During construction and operation, we will attract technology and expertise from abroad that will be passed on to our own people, as well as recruit and train a large number of our nationals.
How can the MMIE ensure sufficient funding for downstream projects?
The MMIE has to present upcoming downstream projects to international capital communities, to the energy partners that hold a vision of Equatorial Guinea as a regional energy centre and to the banking sector, to attract funds.
In the existing economic environment, where crude prices have fallen by almost 50 percent since summer 2014, funds will go to projects with clear location, supply and logistics advantages. We believe that the Bioko Oil Terminal and the integrated petrochemicals complex have these characteristics.
What role will natural gas play in the Equatoguinean development plan?
The MMIE plans to monetise and increase the added value of domestic natural gas projects. The government is creating and integrating petrochemicals complexes to diversify the national economy and eradicate its dependence on oil. Equatorial Guinea will co-operate with all the oil-producing countries in the Gulf of Guinea to develop gasfields. The creation of a regional gas entity will boost co-operation.
The open-bid blocks of the 2014 licensing round have not been tendered. How can the MMIE increase their attractiveness, particularly for the deepwater blocks?
The terms used in the negotiation of shallow-water blocks should not be the same as for deepwater blocks. The bonus paid by exploration and production companies should be reduced from $1 million-2 million to $500,000, which would help accelerate their work programmes.
The cost of mandated corporate social responsibility, as well as the contributions to the National Technological Institute of Hydrocarbons of Equatorial Guinea, should be cut by 50 percent, while the payment schedules for royalties and the division of hydrocarbons should be flexible for deepwater blocks.
These measures are necessary to attract new actors and investors that will bring economic benefits for the development of the country.
Why has Equatorial Guinea's government promoted the migration of oil companies from the K5 Oil Centre to the Luba Freeport?
Hydrocarbons companies that left K5 by government mandate to move to the Luba Freeport will benefit from the free port status in place at Luba. In the same regard, they will support the government in the development of the local population of South Bioko by providing oil and gas industrial infrastructure in the city of Luba.
How can local content in the domestic oil and gas industry be strengthened?
In September 2014, a new local content regulation that applies to Chapter 10 of the Hydrocarbons Law of Equatorial Guinea was adopted. The first step in ensuring the successful application of this law is to inform domestic and international companies about the articles and clauses that are in place, so that later, the ministry can demand abidance.
The new regulation does not differentiate between companies that are 100-percent Equatoguinean from those that have a share of 35 percent, the minimum required.
The ultimate objective is for domestic companies to win contracts in the hydrocarbons industry, generate jobs for locals, with the corresponding payment of taxes to the Treasury. We live in a globalised world in which any input from international businesses in terms of know-how is useful for updating productive or management processes.
What is the logic behind the establishment of industrial complexes in Equatorial Guinea, such as the Mbini Industrial City?
The plans for the industrialisation of the country are part of its social and economic development. Equatorial Guinea's private sector is one of the engines of the economy.
Supported by the private sector, we are aiming to create mixed companies between the government and economic and technological private partners, to encourage the establishment of small and medium-sized enterprises, to promote the exports of locally manufactured goods and to reinforce important areas of the domestic industrial sector.
With these objectives in mind, the MMIE arrived at a decision to establish the Industrial City and Special Economic Zone of Mbini.
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Death Of Judge Loya: A Critical Examination Of The ECG And The Post-Mortem Demonstrates The Failings Of The SC Verdict
ILLUSTRATION BY ANJALI NAIR
By HARTOSH SINGH BAL |
SHAHID TANTRAY FOR THE CARAVAN
The Supreme Court judgment on petitions demanding an inquiry into the judge BH Loya's death begins by stating that the "petitioners seek an inquiry into the circumstances of the death" of the judge. It concludes: "The documentary material on the record indicates that the death of Judge Loya was due to natural causes." Over its span, the judgment ends up doing exactly as the petitioners sought—inquiring into the circumstances surrounding Loya's death—but without enabling the scope of investigation that an independent inquiry would have allowed.
Two medical documents were essential to determining whether the circumstances surrounding Loya's death were suspicious—an ECG purportedly conducted on Loya at Dande Hospital shortly before his death, and the post-mortem report prepared at the Government Medical College in Nagpur. Though there are a range of issues in the judgment that need to be examined, even a scrutiny limited to the manner in which it deals with these documents is enough to indicate that an inquiry broader in scope than the court allowed itself would have resulted in a different conclusion.
The judgment relies heavily on the testimonies that four judges who said they were with Loya on the night he died—Shrikant Kulkarni and SM Modak, who said they travelled to Nagpur from Mumbai with Loya, and VC Barde and Roopesh Rathi, who were serving in Nagpur at the time—submitted to Maharashtra's State Intelligence Department, or SID, as part of its "discreet inquiry" into Loya's death. The state then presented these before the court. But it is important to note that the judges' testimonies only form an account of the hours preceding and immediately after Loya's death—they can only confirm whether an ECG test was conducted or a post-mortem was ordered. Whether an ECG or a post-mortem indicated that Loya suffered a heart attack, and whether these medical documents were in any way manipulated, cannot lie within the judges' knowledge.
Details brought to light by The Caravan—most of which the court did not consider, and some that it set aside on grounds that do not stand scrutiny—cast strong doubts on the veracity of the ECG record and the post-mortem report. Moreover, when considered in conjunction with the fact that leading forensic experts differ over the conclusions stated in the post-mortem report and that The Caravan uncovered reasonable grounds to suspect that the report omitted vital information, there is little left to justify the court's certainty that Loya died of natural causes. This reading does not even call into question the reliability of the judges' testimonies or cast doubt on their integrity, but is, in fact, based on taking their accounts at face value.
The ECG
The court's observations and conclusions on the ECG state that
a considerable degree of emphasis has been placed on the statement of Judge Rathi that the nodes of the ECG machine at Dande hospital were not working. Based on this, it has been seriously urged that in fact no ECG was done at Dande hospital. Judge Shrikant Kulkarni in his statement dated 24 November 2017 has stated that "emergency treatment" was given to Judge Loya at Dande hospital. Judge SM Modak states that after an initial check-up, the doctors at Dande hospital advised shifting the patient to another hospital. Judge Vijay Barde who was present at Dande hospital specifically stated that the medical officer on duty there examined ("checked-up") Judge Loya "by ECG, blood pressure etc. as per their procedure". Judge Rathi has stated that at Dande hospital, time was wasted because the nodes of the ECG machine were broken and the machine was not working. This statement of Judge Rathi must, however, be weighed with the doctor's progress notes at Meditrina hospital. The death summary… specifically adverts to the fact that the patient was taken to Dande hospital earlier where an ECG was done. Dr Dande has made the same statement. The progress notes also note a "tall 'T'" in the anterior lead which indicates that the ECG was seen by the doctors attending to Judge Loya at Meditrina hospital. These progress notes are contemporaneous, since they also form part of the communication addressed by Dr NB Gawande at Meditrina to the PSI at Sitabardi on the same day after the judge had been brought dead to the hospital. As a matter of fact, it is this very ECG which forms the subject matter of the submissions which have been urged by one of the intervenors, for whom Mr Prashant Bhushan appears. Having regard to the fact that the ECG has been specifically mentioned in the progress notes of the doctor at Meditrina hospital, we find no reasonable basis to infer that no ECG was done at Dande hospital.
Only two of the four judges mentioned the ECG in their statements. The first, Barde, stated that the medical officer at Dande Hospital "checked up" Loya "by ECG, Blood Pressure etc. as per their procedure." Though the court interprets it as such, this statement is not a categorical assertion that an ECG was done. A categorical statement in this regard is actually made by Rathi, who, as the court notes, told the SID that "at Dande hospital, time was wasted because the nodes of the ECG machine were broken and the machine was not working." This is not a passing reference—Rathi clearly states that the nodes of the ECG machine were broken and indicates that though the doctor attempted to conduct the test, the machine did not work.
The judgment repeatedly asserts there is no reason to doubt the testimony of the judges. But an inquiry would not have cast any doubt on their accounts—rather, it would have allowed the judges to dispel the lack of clarity on crucial points such as the ECG.
Instead of ordering such an inquiry, the court chose to disregard Rathi's clear and specific eyewitness testimony on circumstantial grounds. The judgment states that his account "must be weighed" with the doctor's progress notes said to have been prepared at Meditrina hospital. The court notes that this document "specifically adverts to the fact that the patient was taken to Dande hospital earlier where an ECG was done." It further notes that the progress notes refer to "a 'tall 'T' in the anterior lead" in the ECG said to have been conducted at Dande Hospital, indicating that the doctors attending to Loya at Meditrina saw the record. The court adds: "These progress notes are contemporaneous, since they also form part of the communication addressed by Dr NB Gawande at Meditrina to the PSI at Sitabardi on the same day … Having regard to the fact that the ECG has been specifically mentioned in the progress notes of the doctor at Meditrina hospital, we find no reasonable basis to infer that no ECG was done at Dande hospital."
An inquiry that would not have been restricted to the material before the Supreme Court—as the petitioners sought—would have established that there is strong reason to doubt this chain of events elaborated by the Supreme Court.
It is important to the note that though Mukul Rohatgi, the counsel for the state of Maharashtra, repeatedly referred to the ECG during his arguments, the state did not submit any ECG record to the Supreme Court. The ECG is referred to in the SID report, in the statement given by Pinak Dande, the owner of Dande Hospital. The report does not include a copy of this ECG record either. In fact, Dande Hospital does not appear to possess the original record—Pinak Dande told the news website Scroll that the hospital did not have the ECG as Loya was referred to a cardiac hospital and that Dande "maintains records only for patients who are admitted."
The only ECG available in the public domain is one published by the Indian Express in a report dated 27 November, a week after The Caravan's first report on Loya's death, by Niranjan Takle. It was pointed out on social-media that this ECG included an incorrect date. Prashant Bhushan, a counsel for an intervening party in the matter, presented this ECG to the court as part of his submissions. No satisfactory explanation for the discrepancy in the date was provided in court, nor did the state produce any evidence to show that the document published by The Indian Express was indeed the ECG referred to in the progress report.
The Supreme Court's conclusions on the authenticity of the ECG are based on the progress notes included in the Maharashtra's SID report from its "discreet inquiry." In its summary of the SID's findings, the judgment states:
The 'progress notes' of the doctor at Meditrina hospital indicate that a post-mortem was advised. This sets at rest the doubts raised in the Caravan article about who had recommended the post-mortem … Meditrina hospital furnished information of a medico-legal case to Sitabardi police station, of the patient being brought dead.
There is an interesting sleight of hand in this version of events. Per standard procedure, the medico-legal certificate, or MLC, is prepared on the basis of the doctor's progress report, which contains a death summary. The MLC is then sent to the police. In this case, the doctor's progress report, which was submitted to the court by the state of Maharashtra, contradicts the contemporaneous MLC that was sent to the police.
Ninad Gawande, the medico-legal consultant at Meditrina, who signed the MLC, told The Caravan that he did not see an ECG at the time that Loya was brought to Meditrina, and that he only saw it when it was "brought over" the next day. According to Gawande, it was precisely the absence of an ECG that led him to note in the MLC that the cause of Loya's death was "undetermined."
Gawande added that the ECG chart was "brought over" the next day. "It was showing changes … suggestive of myocardial infarction," he continued. "Suppose if they might be having the previous ECG, I think … we would also have diagnosed the patient as [having a] myocardial infarction and might be that, we might not have informed the police regarding this thing. Because if the ECG was there. The main scene at that time was, there was no ECG. "
When Atul Dev, who reported the story, asked Gawande to confirm that the ECG chart from Dande Hospital only came to Meditrina a day after Loya's death, he said that he had "seen it the next day." Gawande added: "When it came here I am not sure, because I don't think the ECG came … before the declaration of [the death of] the patient, the ECG, I had not seen the ECG. The ECG was not there."
If the ECG purportedly conducted at Dande Hospital was not available at Meditrina in the morning on 1 December, when Loya was brought there, the authenticity of a progress report that cites such an ECG is itself suspect. Gawande suggested to The Caravan that if, at the time that he wrote the medico-legal report, he had seen the ECG mentioned in the progress report submitted to the court, he would not have written that the probable cause of death was "undetermined" and might not even have informed the police. Further, no official ECG record was ever submitted to the court. A broader inquiry, which would have taken these troubling facts into account, would likely have reached a different conclusion regarding the authenticity of the ECG record referred to by the state of Maharashtra.
The Post-Mortem Report
Detailing the documentary evidence with regards to the post-mortem, the judgment notes:
Government Medical Hospital, Nagpur received the dead body at 10 am on 1 December 2014 for post-mortem. … The inquest panchnama notes the condition of the dead body and does not find any mark of injury or assault. …The post-mortem report of 1 December 2014 records that there is no evidence of bodily injury … The probable cause of death is recorded as "coronary artery insufficiency".
The Caravan showed the relevant medical documents to one of India's foremost forensic experts, Dr RK Sharma—the former head of the Forensic Medicine and Toxicology Department at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi, and the president of the Indian Association of Medico-Legal Experts for 22 years. Sharma studied Loya's post-mortem report and the related histopathology report, as well as a report that accompanied samples of Loya's viscera that were sent for chemical analysis, and the results of the analysis. He dismissed the official claim that Loya died of a heart attack. According to Sharma, the documents show signs of possible trauma to the brain, and could even point to poisoning.
Sharma's opinion, which was published in The Caravan, became part of the material the court considered due to a petition filed by the senior advocate Prashant Bhushan on behalf of The Centre for Public Interest Litigation, to intervene in the matter. The judgment notes that in his application, Bhushan filed additional material endorsing what Sharma had stated.
The application for intervention states that the intervenor obtained a set of documents from Caravan, including the histo-pathology report and a copy of the ECG done at Dande hospital. [As noted earlier, this was a copy of the ECG record published by the Indian Express.] Mr Prashant Bhushan claims to have forwarded the ECG and histo-pathology report to Dr Upendra Kaul, a former professor of Cardiology at AIIMS. Mr Prashant Bhushan himself addressed e-mail to Dr Upendra Kaul seeking his professional opinion on certain queries. Dr Kaul responded that the ECG "most unlikely.. has no evidence of a recent myocardial infarction". Moreover, it has been stated that the histo-pathology of the heart mostly indicates that it was normal and that the coronary artery block in the LAD "could be" an innocent bystander. The application for intervention also states that Mr Prashant Bhushan who is a member of the intervenor has spoken to other reputed cardiologists who are of the same opinion.
The court then cited the state of Maharashtra's response:
In response, Mr Mukul Rohtagi has placed on the record copies of two letters dated 14 and 16 February 2018 addressed to Dr Sidharth Gupta, Head of the Department of Forensic Medicine at AIIMS by the Senior Police Inspector at PS Sadar, Nagpur. A clarification was specifically sought in regard to the opinion furnished by Dr RK Sharma. In a response dated 3 March 2018, Dr Abhishek Yadav, Assistant Professor and Member Secretary, Departmental Committee, Department of Forensic Medicine, AIIMS has stated that besides constituting a committee of three doctors to examine the issue, AIIMS had addressed a letter seeking a clarification from Dr RK Sharma. The letter extracts the following reply sent by Dr RK Sharma to AIIMS:
"Thanks for your mail, I would like to state that I have been grossly misquoted by Caravan magazine regarding death of Judge Loya. The conclusions drawn are imaginary. I had general discussion with the reporter. I do not agree with contents of report published which are ascribed to me. I have not given any report regarding death of Judge Loya."
The letter dated 3 March 2018 from AIIMS accordingly contains the following clarification:
"In continuation of the previous reply dated 16.2.2018, it is added that no doctor from the Department of Forensic Medicine has given any opinion about the death of Judge Loya in official or individual capacity to the Caravan Magazine or any other media agency. It is further reiterated that AIIMS New Delhi has a fixed protocol to respond only to official written request from the Government agency or Honourable Court with all the Mandatory corroborative investigating documents including Medical Documents for Medicolegal opinion and without the same holistic opinion can't be formed for the perusal by law."
The clarification issued by AIIMS indicates that Dr Sharma has categorically stated that he was grossly misquoted by Caravan magazine and that he does not agree with the contents of the report ascribed to him.
Rohatgi's submissions are interesting in themselves: Dr RK Sharma is no longer employed at AIIMS, so the institute has no bearing on this issue. Yet, it assumes a role in the attempt to discredit Sharma's account. The letter placed in court was not collected by the state of Maharashtra, but by AIIMS. It is puzzling that the Maharashtra police chose to approach AIIMS, Sharma's former place of work, but did not approach The Caravan to inquire about the basis for its report. If it had done so, it would have been able to access the documentation that clearly falsifies the response that AIIMS said it received from Sharma, which the state of Maharashtra subsequently submitted to the court. The Caravan reproduced the WhatsApp exchanges between Dev, the reporter, and Sharma, which clearly establish that each quote and conclusion that was published in the article was not only authentic, but had been personally approved by the doctor. It is clear that he gave a nod to the entire scope of the article published in The Caravan.
It is evident that even as the petition was being heard, the state of Maharashtra was attempting to paper over any holes in the "discreet inquiry" conducted by its SID, and ignored any public evidence that did not back its versions of events. The judgment fails to note this—rather, it relies on the selective, limited and partial inquiry conducted by the state, and uses it to reject the petitioners' demand for an independent probe.
It further questions Bhushan's role. The court notes that the advocate made an effort "to collect evidence to somehow bolster the case of the petitioners, acting in his personal capacity." It classified the questions Bhushan sent to Dr Upinder Kaul as "leading." The court added that on 11 February 2018, a senior police inspector at the Sadar police station in Nagpur shared the medical documents pertaining to Loya's death with Dr Harish Pathak, a professor and the head of the department of forensic medicine at KEM Hospital In Mumbai. "Dr Harish Pathak has in a detailed and considered opinion categorically stated that the conclusion of the post-mortem that the death was due to coronary artery insufficiency is valid and is in accordance with medical knowledge on the subject," the court said. It added that
We are not really considering here whether the opinion of Dr Pathak should be preferred to what was opined by Dr Kaul. The point of the matter is that facts have emerged from the record which indicate that a carefully orchestrated attempt has been made during the course of these hearings on behalf of the Centre for Public Interest Litigation to create evidence to cast a doubt on the circumstances leading to the death of Judge Loya. In their practice before this court, Counsel are expected to assist the court with a sense of objectivity in aid of justice. What has happened here is that Mr Prashant Bhushan has adopted a dual mantle, assuming the character of a counsel for the intervenor as well as an individual personally interested on behalf of the intervening organisation of which he is a member. He has gone to the length of personally collecting evidence to somehow bolster the case. The manner in which the opinion of Dr Kaul was obtained on the basis of a laconic questionnaire leaves much to be desired and is a singular reflection on the lack of objectivity which is to be expected from counsel appearing before this Court. This has bordered on an attempt to misrepresent the facts and mislead the court.
But the Supreme Court's discomfort over Bhushan's dual role cannot be an argument against the veracity of the material he has presented. Moreover, the material subsequently published by The Caravan made it clear that the article Bhushan submitted to the court was Sharma's well-considered opinion on the post-mortem report and related documents—countering the state's claim regarding Sharma's testimony. This results in a situation where leading experts have presented differing opinions over the conclusions stated in the post-mortem report—a fact that compounds the need to order an inquiry instead of foreclosing it.
This argument is made even stronger by the additional material that has been uncovered by The Caravan, which has not come up before the Supreme Court in any form but suggests that the post-mortem examination was manipulated.
Through an extensive investigation, The Caravan found that the post-mortem examination of Loya's body was directed by Dr Makarand Vyawahare, then a professor in the forensic-medicine department at the Government Medical College in Nagpur, and now the head of the forensic department at a separate government institution. Nikita Saxena, who conducted the investigation, reported that Vyawahare—the brother-in-law of Sudhir Mungantiwar, the finance minister of Maharashtra—personally participated in and directed the post-mortem examination, even shouting down a junior doctor who tried to question him during the examination of Loya's head, the back of which had a wound. This observation was not noted in the post-mortem report. Despite his involvement, Vyawahare's name does not figure on the final report, nor on any documents prepared at the GMC.
These findings tallied with the details observed by Loya's family members upon seeing his body, which were included in The Caravan's first report on Loya's death. Loya's sister, Dr Anuradha Biyani, a medical doctor, said that when she first saw Loya's body, she noticed "bloodstains on the neck at the back of the shirt." She wrote in a diary entry made shortly after Loya's death that there was "blood on his collar." Sarita Mandhane, another of Loya's sisters, told The Caravan that she saw "blood on the neck," that "there was blood and an injury on his head … on the back side," and that "his shirt had blood spots." Harkishan, Loya's father, said "his shirt had blood on it from his left shoulder to his waist."
Subjected to critical examination, neither the ECG record nor the post-mortem report support the judgment's conclusion that Loya died a natural death. The fact is that the court did not receive an official ECG record, and that public evidence casts serious doubt on the authenticity of the only available ECG record and suggests that the post-mortem was manipulated. All of this only serves to make the need for an inquiry into Loya's death even more pressing.
Hartosh Singh Bal is the political editor at The Caravan, and is the author of Waters Close Over Us: A Journey Along the Narmada. He was formerly the political editor at Open magazine.
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Part-whole modeling plays an important role in the development of database schemata in data-intensive application domains such as manufacturing, design, computer graphics. text document processing, and so on. Object-oriented databases (OODBs) have been targeted for use in such areas. Thus, it is essential that OODBs incorporate a part relationship as one of their modeling primitives. In this dissertation, we present a comprehensive OODB part model which expands the boundaries of OODB part-whole modeling along three fronts. First, it identifies and codifies new semantics for the OODB part relationship. Second, it provides two novel realizations for part relationships and their associated modeling constructs in the context of OODB data models. Third. it, provides an extensive graphical notation for the development of OODB schemata.
The heart of the part model is a part relationship that imposes part-whole interaction on the instances of an OODB. The part relationship is divided into four characteristic dimensions: (1) exclusive/shared. (2) cardinality/ordinality, (3) dependency. and (A) value propagation. The latter forms the basis for the definition of derived attributes in a part hierarchy.
To demonstrate the viability of our part model, we present two novel realizations for it in the context of existing OODBs. The first realizes the part relationship as an object class and utilizes only a basic set of OODB constructs. The second realization, an implementation of which is described in this dissertation, uses the unique metaclass mechanism of the VODAK Model Language (VML). This implementation shows that our part model can be incorporated into an existing OODB without having to rewrite a substantial subsystem of the OODB, and it also shows that the VML metaclass facility can indeed support extensions in terms of new semantic relationships.
To facilitate the creation of part-whole schemata, we introduce an extensive graphical notation for the part relationship and its associated constructs. This notation complements our more general OODB graphical schema representation which includes symbols for classes, attributes. methods. and a variety of relationships. OO-dini, a graphical schema editor that employs our notation and supports conversion of the graphical schema into textual formats, is also discussed.
Halper, Michael H., "A comprehensive part model and graphical schema representation for object-oriented databases" (1993). Dissertations. 1176. | {
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When Janet Napolitano assumed the role of UC president September 30, she also assumed the responsibility of overseeing ongoing negotiations between the university and 10 of its systemwide bargaining units, some of which had been going on for more than a year.
Since she took office, Napolitano has negotiated nine contracts — seven of which were settled during her first three months in office. Now, only the student academic workers union and a new, small physicians and dentists union — which the university began negotiating with in late January — lack contracts.
According to the university, Napolitano acted as a catalyst for resolving many of these contracts — and the unions generally agree.
"The momentum of Janet coming into the office with a fresh set of eyes and spending time with each of our unions had a definite positive effect," said UC vice president for human resources Dwaine Duckett.
Bill Quirk, a spokesperson for the UC librarians and lecturers union, agreed that Napolitano led a series of genuinely good turns in negotiations. And Todd Stenhouse, who represents the union for university patient-care and service workers, drew a contrast between Napolitano and her predecessor, Mark Yudof.
The university said Yudof presided over a "tough time" for the UC system, with state disinvestment making labor negotiations particularly difficult.
Under a still-tough financial climate, Napolitano has helped implement a campaign of pension reform. All nine union agreements she helped reach included a mix of higher contributions or lower benefits to keep the pension fund financially stable.
Yet after closing contracts with seven separate groups of workers in her first 11 weeks, it took about double that time to reach an agreement with AFSCME, and the university is still negotiating with the student academic workers union, which went on a two-day strike last week.
These two unions are also the only groups to call primary strikes within the last year and represent some of the lowest-paid workers in the university.
The physicians and dentists union also remains in negotiations, and the new union is negotiating its first-ever contract. Their negotiations are proceeding "without hiccup," Duckett said.
Duckett described negotiations with AFSCME and the student academic workers union as "confrontational and charged," contrasting them with the more "businesslike and collaborative" talks with the nurses, research workers, technical workers and others.
After Napolitano entered office, it took 25 weeks for the university and AFSCME patient-care workers at UC hospitals and medical centers to reach a contract and 21 weeks for AFSCME service workers, including custodians and gardeners.
The patient-care workers received 16.5 percent across-the-board wage increases over the four years of their contract, slightly more than the 16 percent nurses accepted. The service workers received 13.5 percent across-the-board increases over their contract's term. Both unions also secured frozen health-care rates for lower-paid workers and protections against the university contracting out work.
Although it took longer to reach an agreement, AFSCME saw a change with the advent of Napolitano's presidency. Whereas Yudof imposed contract terms on both these groups of workers, bypassing collective bargaining, Stenhouse said, Napolitano met with the union when she came into office and showed a "concerted effort" to restore bargaining.
Duckett attributes the longer bargaining time to strikes, new issues cropping up and what he called the "confrontational" attitude of the union. But Stenhouse said it comes down to the university's negotiating strategy, adding that the only new issue brought into negotiations was the university's introduction of "sweeping new layoff powers" in the 18th month of bargaining.
Stenhouse did say, however, that the union was unusual in that some of their primary demands focused on staffing. These included seniority protections, increased safety and checks on contracting out work.
In addition to a strike in May, AFSCME has called three strikes since Napolitano came into office. Two were not officially about the negotiations but alleged unfair labor practices by the university, including intimidation and regressive bargaining.
Still, both AFSCME bargaining units — and the nurses, who had called a sympathy strike in November — reached agreements with the university within a week of when they would have gone on strike.
The student academic workers union, United Auto Workers Local 2865, is the only long-standing union currently operating without a contract. UAW represents nearly 12,000 graduate student instructors, readers and tutors across the UC system.
Duckett attributes the lack of agreement to the same factors as with AFSCME: new issues cropping up, a "confrontational" attitude and strikes. In addition to last week's strike, UAW went on a sympathy strike with AFSCME in November.
UAW and the university are scheduled to meet next week and again at the end of April.
Daniel Tutt covers higher education. Contact him at [email protected] and follow him on Twitter @danielgtutt. | {
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title string is used both to create new comments and to locate (and
subsequently update) previously-submitted comments."""
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The case that could bring down Justin Trudeau
Opinion Op-Eds
Scandal leaves Canada's PM exposed and he is not quite the hero we all believed he was
Published: March 03, 2019 16:58 Leah McLaren, Guardian
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau poses with Lawrence MacAulay after he was sworn-in as Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence during a cabinet shuffle at Rideau Hall in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, March 1, 2019. Image Credit: REUTERS
For Canadian liberals, or indeed any of us who cling to outdated ideas such as good governance and liberal democratic values, it was like watching a unicorn get flattened by a lorry. Last week, Canada's undeniably gorgeous, halo-bound Liberal prime minister, Justin Trudeau — proud feminist, defender of minority rights, advocate for transparency, inclusivity and decency, and prince of the one-armed push-up — was morally eviscerated over four hours of astonishing testimony by his own former attorney-general and justice minister, Jody Wilson-Raybould — a woman of great integrity and a rare Indigenous Canadian cabinet minister.
To recap, Wilson-Raybould was demoted to the position of veterans affairs minister in a cabinet shuffle earlier this year. Shortly thereafter, reports emerged that she and her staff had been subjected to a "sustained" campaign by the prime minister's office over the handling of corruption charges against SNC-Lavalin, a Montreal-based engineering giant accused of bribing Libyan officials. It happens to be a large employer in Quebec, Trudeau's home state — the prime minister's office made sure to remind her of that, the job losses such charges might cause and the fact that it was an election year. There was a string of increasingly irate calls, texts and emails. Still, Wilson-Raybould held her ground. The prime minister lost the battle. Then she was demoted.
When the story broke, Trudeau denied any connection between the standoff and Raybould-Wilson's political punishment. He denied having done anything inappropriate or wrong. The press and public howled. His principal secretary, Gerald Butts, who has been his bestie since their halcyon days in the 90s at McGill University, tried to take one for the team by resigning last week. But it was already too late. Now, Canada's Tory opposition and many respected commentators are calling for Trudeau's resignation. It's a political bloodbath, Canadian style.
For anyone familiar with The Thick of It this might seem odd. In Britain, it is normal for party enforcers to rudely and aggressively pressure cabinet ministers. Delivering irate speeches along the lines of "Do my master's bidding or I will personally tear your [expletive] skin off and wear it as a cape" is essentially their whole job.
But in this case, it's complicated by Raybould-Wilson's role as attorney-general, a position that is meant to sit above the fray of partisan politics. The decision she made was, legally speaking, entirely her own to make. If her testimony — based on copious meeting notes as well as emails and text messages — proves true, Trudeau's behaviour was way beyond the bounds of what was fair or decent. It was sleazy, plain and simple. And for a leader whose entire brand identity, right down to the toes of his cotton rainbow socks, is based on fairness and decency, that's pure political poison.
Bad week for 'small l' liberals
So it's been a bad week for Canadian Liberals, and indeed for "small l" liberals everywhere. For those of us who earnestly and passionately believed in Trudeau's project (slowly raises hand), his moral disgrace is a bitter pill to swallow. The leader we believed to be special and unique has seemingly behaved in ways that reveal him to be probably not all that. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Except for the fact the old boss — Stephen Harper — ruled the country for nearly a decade like a vindictive autocrat, stonewalling the press, overhauling the elections act to his benefit, ignoring climate change and proroguing parliament at a whim. Not that this excuses Trudeau, of course.
There's no need for despair quite yet — even with the social media outrage. It's important to remember that Trudeau's scandal does not cancel out the importance of his government's project. With any luck a majority of Canadians remain unshaken in the values of liberal democracy, fair governance and the international rules-based order. Come September, my country will, I hope, find a way to persist in its sunny ways and set a clear moral example in this fractious, uncertain world.
The message is still good and clear and true. Too bad about the chap in charge of selling it.
— Guardian News & Media Ltd
Leah McLaren is a former columnist for The Globe and Mail.
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Biografia
Thyra era figlia del re Federico VIII di Danimarca e della regina Luisa, nata principessa di Svezia.
I suoi nonni paterni erano il re Cristiano IX di Danimarca e la regina, erede di Danimarca, Luisa d'Assia-Kassel; quelli materni il re Carlo XV di Svezia e la regina Luisa, nata principessa dei Paesi Bassi.
Le venne dato il nome della zia paterna Thyra di Danimarca.
Non si sposò e non ebbe figli. Visse la maggior parte della sua vita accanto al fratello Gustavo.
Albero genealogico
Note
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Regno di Danimarca
Altri progetti
Collegamenti esterni
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I was born and raised here. I used to fish for a living. But now I turned to rice farming. There's only little fish left. That's because the water level is dropping every year. there's not enough fish to eat, let alone to sell. The last few years the water has been very low. | {
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Coronavirus: Biden's $1.9tn Covid relief bill passes House vote
President Joe Biden's $ 1.9tn (£1.4tn) relief plan to help Americans during the Covid pandemic has been approved in the House of Representatives.
The vote was along partisan lines. Two Democrats joined Republicans – who see it as too expensive – in opposing it.
The bill must now go to the evenly-divided Senate, which has already blocked a key element – doubling the US minimum wage to $ 15 an hour.
The package seeks to boost vaccinations and testing, and stabilise the economy.
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The cash would be extended as emergency financial aid to households, small businesses and state governments. Unemployment is close to 10%, with some 10 million jobs lost in the pandemic.
The vote comes in the same week the US passed 500,000 coronavirus-related deaths – the largest figure of any nation in the world.
How did the vote play out?
Joe Biden had appealed for bipartisan unity when he took office last month, but there was little on show in the early hours of Saturday when the Democrats scraped the bill through on a 219 to 212 vote.
President Biden has championed what he calls the American Rescue Plan as a way to help struggling Americans through Covid-19.
But Republicans say the plan is unnecessarily large and stuffed with Democratic priorities unrelated to the pandemic.
The divisions were reflected by the representatives.
Democrat Brendan Boyle said: "After 12 months of death and despair, the American recovery begins tonight."
The leader of the Republicans in the House, Kevin McCarthy, said: "Democrats are so embarrassed by all the non-Covid waste in this bill that they are jamming it through in the dead of night."
What's in the bill?
It's the third major US spending package of the pandemic, and actually not quite as big as Donald Trump's $ 2tn last March.
The key elements include:
A $ 1,400 cheque per person, although payments phase out for higher incomes
Extending jobless benefits until the end of August to help the more than 11 million long-term unemployed
Parents of children under the age of 18 to get a year of monthly benefits
$ 70bn to boost Covid testing and vaccinations
Financial support for schools and universities to help them reopen
Grants for small businesses and other targeted industries
Funds for local government
One of the other major elements is the increase of the minimum wage from $ 7.50 an hour – where it has been since 2009 – to $ 15.
But on Thursday, Elizabeth MacDonough, the non-partisan Senate parliamentarian – who interprets its rules – said that raising the minimum wage would violate the budgetary limits allowed in this kind of measure.
Unemployed in the US: 'I don't know what to do
The bill that passed in the House does still include the increase and it remains unclear how the issue can be resolved.
The minimum wage rise remains a key Democrat goal, particularly for the party's progressive wing, and some top Democrats are considering a measure to penalise employers who pay less than $ 15 an hour.
Republicans argue the minimum wage increase would be too heavy a toll on firms struggling to rebuild following the Covid-19 outbreak.
Mr McCarthy has said the only way out of Covid is to "fully reopen our economy".
The package goes to the Senate – spilt evenly between Democrats and Republicans 50-50 – probably next week. The rules of the Senate do allow a reconciliation bill like this to be passed on a simple majority, rather than 60-40.
In the event of a tie, Democrat Vice-President Kamala Harris gets the deciding vote.
Traditionally, the text the Senate agrees then has to be reconciled with the House bill. The single bill is voted on again and passed to the president for signing.
Democrats are confident a bill will go through, but the minimum wage issue is problematic.
Senator Bernie Sanders was among those angry that "archaic" procedural rules were blocking the increase.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said a bill will still pass, even if this section is taken out by the Senate.
Work will still need to be done with lawmakers to get a version of the bill over the line. The Democrats want it done by 14 March at the latest.
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Q. How are bus services being improved?
Improvements have been made, including:
the Universal bus service connects Madingley Road Park & Ride with the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, via the West Cambridge site and the City centre; use of this service has doubled from approximately 350,000 journeys per year when the service started in 2016 to approximately 700,000 journeys per year in the academic year 2018/19
in 2018, in response to user demand, funding was approved to extend the operating hours, along with the addition of a Sunday service
the University works closely with the bus operator Whippet to look for opportunities to improve the service, including making improvements to the contactless payment system.
The University continues to work with bus operators to improve the bus connections from Park & Ride sites to the University sites, and will continue to work with its partners to bring in further improvements, including:
improved bus services from outlying areas to the city centre and to key University sites
the development of new public transport solutions, for example app-based demand-responsive services and improved public transport information at major hubs
seeking to improve value for money, for example, negotiating discounts and working with partners to deliver flexible ticketing options
where partnership working or the marketplace do not provide what is required, the University will consider securing services directly.
Workshops will be held during Michaelmas 2019 that will ask existing and potential users of the bus service what improvements to the bus service could be most useful and how the service could be extended to encourage more staff to travel using public transport.
Q. How is cycling/walking infrastructure being improved?
the University's transport team is auditing the University's estate to look for locations for installing new cycle parking, improving walking and cycling routes and active travel facilities such as cycle maintenance stations, showers, lockers and drying rooms
the transport team carries out site surveys to establish potential demand and where there is demand for pool bikes to help staff travel easier at work, we launch pool bike schemes in departments
a pool bike app has been launched in Greenwich House aiming to make booking pool bikes easier; once this system is fully operational, the app is planned to be extended to other sites
several initiatives are on offer to help support staff to cycle, including a Dr Bike service, cycle training and cycle maintenance workshops; events are bookable using the links to the right of this page.
Q. What are Smart Panels?
The University's transport team is installing smart panels in University buildings which provide real-time information on bus arrival times and information on levels of congestion at each site. The smart panels will help staff, students and visitors to be more informed about their travel choices. These are now available in the following locations:
Jeffrey Cheah Building (foyer), Cambridge Biomedical Campus
The Anne McLaren Building (foyer), Cambridge Biomedical Campus
Clinical Schools, (foyer), Cambridge Biomedical Campus
Lady Mitchell Hall, (foyer), Sidgwick Site
University Library (staff entrance), West Road
Institute for Manufacturing (foyer), West Cambridge
Cavendish Laboratory (Bragg building foyer), West Cambridge
Maxwell Centre (foyer), West Cambridge
Faculty of Education (foyer), Hills Road
Requests for smart panels in further locations should be made to [email protected]
Q. Why is the University reviewing the allocation criteria for car park spaces?
The University is reviewing the allocation criteria because car park spaces are a limited resource and because it wishes to ensure that permits are allocated to those who need them most, and that the allocation system is transparent and consistently applied.
Q. When will the permit allocation system change?
Staff in the following car parks will see a change from September 2020 as they will be required to apply through the University's current permit allocation process:
Department of Engineering Trumpington Street site
Department of Engineering The Whittle Lab
Department of Engineering The Schofield Centre
Institute of Astronomy, Kavli Institute
Institute of Astronomy, Observatory
Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Wilberforce Road
Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics (including the Statistical Laboratory)
Isaac Newton Institute
University Centre, Mill Lane
West and North West Cambridge Estates Syndicate, Gravel Hill Farm
From 2021, if the University approves new permit allocation criteria, it is likely that the permit application process for all centrally-managed car parks will open earlier and, depending on the detail of the agreed policy, applicants may need to provide more information to confirm their eligibility.
Q. When and how will charging be considered?
Over the next two years the University will consider charging for parking because it wants to support sustainable modes of transport and to encourage staff to reduce the number of car journeys into Cambridge, in order to reduce the University's environmental impact from travel and to improve congestion levels in the city.
The University understands that some members of staff will be concerned when they hear that charging may be introduced. No decision has yet been taken and work to evaluate charging for parking over the next two years will include understanding the needs of our members of staff, on issues including mobility, caring responsibilities, working patterns, and affordability. The input of institutions and Colleges will also be sought, to ensure their views inform the developing policy. If parking charges were to be recommended this would be communicated to members of staff with a minimum of one academic year's notice.
Q. How will the needs of staff be represented in the policy?
The University understands that some members of staff may be concerned that they may be affected by these changes. Understanding the diverse needs of members of staff will be an important area of work as the policy is developed. Staff members' views and concerns will be sought and carefully considered as policies are developed. An Equalities Impact Assessment will be carried out. All blue badge holders will be guaranteed a permit
Anyone who is interested in remaining updated or in contributing to developing thinking is invited to add their name to the transport consultation group, so that they will receive updates and invitations to attend focus groups, and members of staff are encouraged to sign up to the consultation group to give their views.
Q. What are the University's plans for supporting the use of electric vehicles?
The University has 12 electric vehicle charging points (EVCP) across the estate for staff and visitors and 25 at Laundry Farm used by the Estate Management fleet. The total University fleet comprises around 130 vehicles; 22 of the Estate Management vehicles are EVs although others are being acquired as replacements fall. The commitments in the Transport Strategy include:
Where suitable vehicles are available the University will work towards 100% electrification of the vehicles in its fleet, including departmental vehicles, by 2030
The University will work towards electrification of the Universal bus service from July 2021
The University will work towards the electrification of contractors' vehicles by ensuring appropriate questions are included in the procurement process
The University will increase the number of EVCPs for staff use and develop a policy for their use, including charging for the electricity used.
Q. What is the University doing to make cycling safer?
The commitments made by the University in the Transport Strategy include:
Working towards the provision of appropriate segregated, direct and prioritised cycle routes on its sites, built to good practice standards, and connecting seamlessly with the wider cycle network and adjacent road network
Working with its partners in GCP and the Combined Authority to deliver improved cycling infrastructure that delivers more direct, attractive and safer cycling routes
Offering cycle training to staff and students at a variety of levels from learning to ride a bicycle to learning to navigate busier routes around Cambridge (since August 2019 10 members of staff and 76 students have taken up this training)
Providing advice and information to staff and students on safe winter cycling at events and through newsletters
Providing free reflective snap-bands and backpack covers at various student and staff events
Providing free Dr Bike sessions and cycle maintenance workshops for staff
Offering free cycle marking at Dr Bike sessions
Providing information and advice on locking bikes securely
Q. What is being done to improve cycling infrastructure?
The University is commencing a programme of cycling infrastructure improvement across the University estate. A site prioritisation exercise has been conducted which identified Downing, CBC and Sidgwick as the sites most in need of intervention. Over the next six months, comprehensive cycle infrastructure improvement plans will be prepared for these sites: consultation with site users will be undertaken to determine which interventions are most urgent and these will be prioritised. Following University approval, planning permission will be sought and implementation will begin.
A form for reporting transport problems is available to report poor quality infrastructure on the public highway and any other issues, including locations where there is inadequate cycle parking across the city. This is online at www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/reportaproblem. The transport team will liaise with local councils to address these issues.
Q. What is the University doing to reduce air travel?
The scope of the Transport Strategy is addressing travel to and around Cambridge for our staff, and visitor travel. Several members of staff have commented that the environmental impact of air travel undertaken as part of the University's work should be addressed. The University has made clear its ambition to do so and this is being taken forward by the University's Environmental Sustainability Strategy Committee with the aim of producing a policy.
Q. What is the University doing about the policy for staff to use taxis for travel at work?
The University has an ambition to reduce the number of journeys made by taxi by staff for work purposes and instead encourage staff to travel using more sustainable modes. A review of taxi usage will be carried out with pilot departments and this analysis will be used to determine initiatives and policy changes that could be implemented to reduce taxi use across the University. | {
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Apply to this Hair/Makeup Combo Job
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We are looking for a local HMU Artist for a 1-day tabletop product shoot. The ideal candidate has a history of delicately putting models through the works, is confident working their department alone, and is fully prepared to be client-facing on the day.
Cincinnati, OH Details
Are you vaccinated?
We are looking for a makeup/ hair artist for a female talent.
Shoot location is Cincinnati, OH
Shoot date 2/8
Please send rate based on a 12 hour day.
Parsippany, NJ Details
Net 60 Payment Terms
Work Location: Parsippany- Troy Hills
Date - 1/27
One-Day Shoot
Looking for a HMU artist for a 2-day commercial shoot in the Los Angeles area.
Shoot 1/26, 1/27
Key West, FL Details
Looking for HMU for a one day shoot. One subject, sit down interview. Must be local to Key West.
Huntington Beach, CA Details
Seeking HMU for two day shoot in Santa Ana. Work will be applying light makeup at start of shoot (or touchups to subject already made up), keeping an eye out for hot spots, sweating, flyaways, etc... during shoot. Only two female subjects each day.
Atlanta, GA Details
Rate: Low Budget ($500.00 per day for a 12 hour day).
HMU artist needed for a small commercial shoot - TBD talent but assuming 4-6 ppl
Tampa, FL Details
Work Location: University Park, FL
Dates TBD - 1/17 -1/28
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Work Location: Rochester, NY
Smithville, TN Details
Film (Feature-length)
The shoot will be Tues-Sat, five day shoots starting February 1st - February 19th. Day 1 will be in Murfreesboro and the rest will be in Smithville. Must be local, or willing to work as a local.
We will only have four principal actors on a daily basis, and a couple day players here and there.
New Milford, CT Details
Starts Mar 02
Title: The Thursday Night Club
Looking for a Hair/Makeup Combo for an upcoming feature that will be filming in New Milford, CT for a 20 day shoot in March 2022. Shoot dates run from the 2nd of March through the 30th of March. Right now, we are only looking for local crew, please only submit if you can be hired as a local and are within the New Milford area.
We will have daily covid testing provided on set, with crew getting rapid tested on set 2-3 times per week and testing for any new talent on a given shoot day.
Be ready to send resume. If you have a crew - local to Litchfield County - you usually work with, please make note of that in your application. We would eventually be interested in deferring to you.
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Miami, FL Details
We are looking for a Hair and Make-Up Artist for a 1-day shoot. The production is scheduled for January 17th (the date may change, it will be confirmed next week).
We have two talent: one male (patient) and one female (nurse).
Baltimore, MD Details
Title: Threat Hunters
Hair and Make up artist!
Multiple Interview Shoot.
6 talent total
Must have experience on set.
Mostly indoors.
Potentially 2 days
$600/10.
NPS Museums
For 28 Day(s)
Seeking HMU for an Oral History Interview Project with National Park Service
-Filming interviews in and near Montgomery, AL.
-Lodging will be covered at each location, if not local, and mileage can be reimbursed. Small crew due to COVID restrictions.
-This gig is a 28-day shoot spread across 2022 in four "interview trips" each trip is approx. 7 days long, all filming will take place in Alabama.
-Must have own reliable transportation.
-Must be able to provide makeup supplies appropriate for a variety of races, ethnicities, genders, ages, including African Americans and senior citizens.
-Makeup should complement the natural appearance of each interviewee and applied as needed to reduce shininess. not glamour etc.
-Gloves have to be replaced between interviews, and Interviewees cannot share makeup and supplies.
-All crew members must be tested for COVID before the start of each trip. You must wear KN95 or N95 masks and disposable gloves when interacting with interviewees.
We will only have to work with an estimated 3-4 interviewees per day, for seven consecutive days for each trip.
The shoot days will be approx. 8 - 10hrs long, but depend on interviewee availability.
Montgomery, AL Details
Title: The Rearing
Do you have experience in film and/or scripted television?
Experience in feature film/scripted. Not reality tv. Skilled in African American hair/makeup as well as caucasian. Subtle. Natural application/technique. This is a psychological thriller/drama not glamour etc.
Chicago, IL Details
Title: The Last Drop
Do you have an Illinois Drivers License?
Seeking a Hair/Make-up Artist for our short—
The Last Drop is a short sci-fi film about relationship abuse, inspired by the memories of real survivors.
We are a team of survivors working to change the narrative about the lesser-known forms of emotional abuse.
Looking for someone with experience on TV / Film sets.
Experience with small amounts of fake blood is also a plus.
WHEN: Shooting Jan. 27 - Feb. 4 (with a break on the weekend)
WHERE: Chicago (multiple locations)
COMPENSATION: $250/day
*Applicants must have an Illinois drivers license (for tax purposes— part of the IL Film Tax Credit)
Crewing up for a surreal, dark comedy, feature-length indie film exploring mental health themes inspired by films like Eternal Sunshine.
- 20+ day shoot taking place over January and February 2022
- Filmed primarily in Orange County, as well as throughout Southern California.
- This will be a full, but pared down crew due to covid-precautions. Cast and crew will be fully-vaccinated and masks will be required. A covid safety plan will be in place.
- Ultra-Low Budget
- Non-Union
This project involves one actor playing three characters, with over fifty (50) theatrical, designer wardrobe looks (all the looks are ready), set in a surreal setting. We're seeking an MUA/HMUA with a strong portfolio who is highly organized, very prepared, passionate about the artistry, and able to deliver in time-sensitive settings.
Rate: Low Budget ($150.00 per day for a 12 hour day). Note that this is below minimum industry rate.
This project involves one actor playing three characters, with over fifty (50) theatrical, designer wardrobe looks (all the looks are ready), set in a surreal setting. We're seeking an MUA/HMUA who is highly organized, very prepared, passionate about the artistry, and able to deliver in time-sensitive settings.
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Rate: Low Budget ($150.00 per day for a 3 hour day).
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The tablet manufacturer with collaboration with online e-commerce provider Ncarry.com made the tablet online booking open. Earlier, Apple was succeeded to sell 1 million units of iPads in 28 days. With this, it puts up clearly that low-cost computing goes well in India. | {
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Glasgow School of Simulation & Visualisation Sound for the Moving Image
Ryan Brooks (He/Him)
I am Ryan Brooks and I am a BDES Sound for the Moving Image student at the GSA School of Simulation and Visualisation and my interest are in all things sci-fi and videogames related. I inspire to one day become a folly artist or a voice actor.
My main passion is video games and I have had a lot of experience with the products in the industry. Some of the video games that I really like are the assassin's creed and ratchet and clank series. These games a great balance of gameplay, story, and immersion that keeps me enthralled throughout the course of these games.
I also am fascinated with voice actors and the countless different roles that professional voice actors have that all sound unique and recognizable. My passion for voice action comes from watching Critical Role a DND show on the internet where "A bunch of nerdy ass Voice actors sit around playing dungeons and dragons" where they tell a gripping story roleplaying in their character's voice and all, this is way playing different characters is fun and liberating as this allows me to discover different facets of myself that I was not aware of before being a closed-off kid.
Not making a lot of friends and going to a dark place with these interests and hobbies has made me a more open person to things like criticism and rejection knowing that people care about me and what I do. This change is like a new lease on life and I am thankful to all those who have helped me get to where I am today people, these skills will help me in the future when working for an individual and as part of a team.
Talking about myself I always find difficult as I like to have my work talk for me but I have found myself stepping out of my comfort zone and being able to talk about myself honestly. Talking about my interest may seem niche to some people but knowing that it should not matter to me that not everybody has to accept me for me.
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Sound Walk in Grangemouth
TWERC Sound design
For this project, I was tasked with creating and carrying out a brief, of which I could choose my own way of doing this. The project that I decided on was to create a sound walk using more than one recording device comparing the results in terms of audio quality and what the use of a wind guard will do for each recorder. This will take the form of a website that will contain a page for each recording device.
I started to look at the location that I was going to be recording, near where I live there is a somewhat sizeable park with a long trail through the middle that moves parallel to a man-made river that is constantly moving up and down in level depending on the weather. The park is a large play park and after its construction, it has been filled with screaming kids having fun but before it was under construction and I managed to get recordings of this. Before and during I used Machel Chion modes of listening before I used causal listening to discover what sounds I would be recording then I used reduce listening during to see what these sound could be used for and I discover that the sound of the park with a little distortion and EQ could sound like demonic screams with the names of the kid being yield out sounds like the souls of the dammed
The recordings that I managed to collect was done over multiple days and the experience was an interesting one trying to collect the sounds in a public space is a skill that I have not had to use as much as working with Pro-Tools never less it was a valuable skill the develop as this will allow me to make sound libraries and live foley for sound design work.
The idea for my project was to do a full sound design and replacement for the conference on the Death Star from Star Wars A New Hope. Where I am going to replace the sound effects, music, and that dialogue with new audio. I will use this to show my improvement in my skill set over the past six years. Believing that I have improved has helped me created this clip and that people that are overly negative should not matter to me more than the people that would give me constructive criticism.
The biggest problem that I faced during the creating of this project was COVID-19 stopping me from traveling into Glasgow and the studios at SimVis to do all of the recordings in the same accusingly treated room so that I had the peace of mind that all the dialogue would sound like they are in the same place
The clip is not finished yet there are still a few things that I what to add and I wish to re-record some of the dialogue sections as they are either clipping or fading out at the end. There is only music at the start of the clip and I wanted to keep it that way as it keeps the focus on the conversation between the high-ranking officers discussing what to do with the rebellion. The clip is not mixed fully and I still need to master it to fit industry standards
For the TWERK project, I had to ask myself the question of what do I want from this project. I want to be able to show my improvements over the last 6 years of study on various courses. I realize that it does not matter as much as I thought as it should only matter to me how I have improved. However, it would be good to see how I have improved from college to university for my own prosperity.
So, I have decided to make a new sound design for a scene from Star Wars A New Hope that is a conversation between four characters, from Star Wars is a somewhat difficult thing to find that is not an intense action sequence. I want to focused on the story that is told by these characters from a film that has spawned one of the biggest fan bases and expanded universe that I include myself as a fan of the franchise I can safely say that I can do a good job with the scene. I am working on a plan on going about to do the clip trying to get the software working as getting into SimVis is impossible living in the area that I do this mean I do not have access to the workstations and studios at the Hub. Despite this, I still feel confident I can stay on track.
The Voice actors are me as Tagge, Pete as Tarkan, Mark as Mottie, and my father as Vader. I have seen everyone act in some capacity before and I know that they did a great job in the respected roles that I set for them. I am thankful to all of those who helped me with this project and I would ask them all to work with me in the future.
Through the course of this project, I have found new ways of looking the way I go about creating sound design clips to make them sound more natural through my use of EQ and reverb as I spend a lot of time getting the ambiance of the room correct viewing the original clip many times focusing on the sound that makes up the room ambiance as I now look at the material that the room is made up of and who sound would be affected by them as well as what is inside the room is it empty or fully furnished, is it drywall or made of metal.
These skills that I have developed will help in the future and I will keep looking for ways to improve my workflow to be more efficient and accurate with my sound placement and editing.
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A Chinese Blue & White Porcelain Ming Marked Kraak Dish With Floral Decoration. It is in a good condition except for one chip and a few frits to the rim. No hairlines and no restorations. For details see the pictures.
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The expanded Panama Canal will be officially inaugurated on June 26
Safety study raises concerns over Panama locks
A new independent safety study raising concerns over Panama Canal's new locks has been dismissed by the Panama Canal Authority (ACP).
The report, which was commissioned by the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF), claimed that the new locks are too small for safe operation (with both gates closed), adding that their dimensions, the lack of refuge areas for the tugboats inside them, and an insufficient bollard pull compromise the safety of manoeuvrability.
The study, which was carried out by the Brazilian firm Fundação Homem de Mar (FHM) after safety concerns were raised by ITF's Panamanian member unions last year, relied on a simulator to recreate the locks, a neo-Panamax vessel and the tugboats which would assist its manoeuvres.
However, the ACP argued in a statement that the claims made in the document are not based on mathematical models and do not include data from physical navigation tests, adding that the study lacks scientific accuracy and credibility.
The study, which was released at a press conference in Panama and is being made available to the ACP, claimed that the lack of refuge areas for the tugboats leaves no room for failure, including miscommunication, human error, broken lines or engine failure.
The report added that the control of the ship was compromised under the average environmental conditions in the area, mainly due to the low power of the tugboats and the required bollard pull.
When carried out with milder weather conditions, the exercise was concluded safely.
The study was based on ACP's original plan to use one forward tug and one aft tug. However, ITF's general secretary Steve Cotton said that the union became aware that compensatory alternatives were being examined and welcomed them.
The ACP said in a statement that the Panama Canal spent nearly ten years to evaluate and analyse the design of the expanded Panama Canal's locks, adding that this process included conducting internal and external studies to determine how the new locks should operate.
According to the ACP, this process led to its choice to use up to four tugs to navigate ships, with outside industry experts concluding that its decision was correct.
Peter Pusztai, Panama Canal's pilot training coordinator, said in a statement: "The ITF's claims are unproven and contain many errors. Despite their false claims, we look forward to transforming the maritime industry through the opening of the expanded Panama Canal."
Last year, ITF's Panamanian member unions claimed that the ACP refused to engage in discussions regarding training, and the technical and construction issues which led to delays in the operation of the expanded canal.
Cotton said in a statement: "I wish I could report that the study gave the new locks the all clear. Sadly, I can't. Instead we face a situation where those working on the canal, and those passing through it, are potentially at risk. That will have to change."
According to Cotton, the issues raised by the study will not be a "surprise" to workers on the canal. He added that those who will be working the locks have to be brought into the process "while there is still time to fix the defects".
"We believe that this is an issue where there is common ground with ship owners, insurers and others in the maritime industry, so we will seek to engage them in the discussions and strategies for improvement in this crucial area and may also consider updating the simulation to cover new manoeuvring alternatives in co-operation with the PCA, as well as other shipping industry representatives," he said.
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The London home of the late singer, Amy Winehouse, is up for sale for $A4.3 million.
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One of the panels at Boskone 50 will be a discussion of the short story "Paper Menagerie" by Ken Liu, originally published in the March/April 2011 edition of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. If you'd like to read the story in preparation for the panel discussion, IO9 is hosting a digital version of the story on their site. Click on this link to access "Paper Menagerie" by Ken Liu.
Ken Liu's 2011 short story "Paper Menagerie" is the first fiction to win all three of SF's major honors: the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards. Let's all read it beforehand, then talk. How does it do what it does? What makes a story so popular? What makes a story great?
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The Partly Cloudy Patriot
Humorist doesn't shrink from topics—"she's too fearless . . . and too smart."
Written by Bill O'Sullivan
| Published on October 6, 2006
Fans of public radio's This American Life know Sarah Vowell's Betty Boop–on–Valium voice and deadpan contrarianism on topics from Thanksgiving with the folks to Carlsbad Caverns' kitschy Underground Lunchroom. Her third book reprints some of those radio pieces along with other essays, many with civic or political themes.
Vowell is an unabashed Clinton Democrat. "Mr. President, I'm tired," she begins a memo to the former president. "Who wouldn't be after a decade of sticking up for you?" She offers advice for his presidential library drawn from those of his predecessors: "Mr. President, play to your strengths. Eisenhower's greatest achievement was liberating Europe. Your greatest achievement? Balancing the budget. Not as dramatic, I know. They're probably not going to make a Tom Hanks movie about fiscal policy, no matter how inspired that fiscal policy might be."
Beneath Vowell's sarcasm is a passionate—and credible—faith in democracy and a deep respect for those who have established America's most universal and nonpartisan values: She honors Abraham Lincoln in a hilarious and subtly moving account of the 137th-anniversary reenactment of the Gettysburg Address, and—in one brilliant turn of many—defends civil-rights icon Rosa Parks from those who cheapen her name by invoking it in the most ridiculous of contexts.
The book's title is a play on a Thomas Paine quote: "These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country. . . ." Vowell may be the very definition of ambivalence—"My ideal picture of citizenship will always be an argument, not a sing-along," she writes—but she never shrinks. She's too fearless for that, and too smart.
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Bill O'Sullivan is senior managing editor; from 1999 to 2007, he was a features editor. In another lifetime, he was assistant managing editor. Somewhere in the middle, he was managing editor of Common Boundary magazine and senior editor at the Center for Public Integrity. His personal essays have been cited three times among the notable essays of the year in The Best American Essays. He teaches at the Writer's Center in Bethesda.
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Q: "Normality" condition on an ordinal operator. Call a rule $\Phi:\Bbb{ON}\rightarrow\Bbb{ON}$ normal if for any ordinal $\alpha$, $\Phi(\alpha)<\Phi(\alpha^+)$, and for limit ordinals $\lambda$, $\Phi(\lambda)=\bigcup_{\alpha<\lambda}\Phi(\alpha)$.
Prove that for all non-zero ordinals $\beta$, the rule $\alpha\mapsto\alpha+\beta$ is not normal. (and that $\alpha\mapsto\beta+\alpha$ is normal, but that's an easy induction)
Now, possibly the question is ill-formulated and wants us to prove only that that rule is not normal for some $\beta$. I have the solution below, but I don't see why it provides an answer. To me, it proves that for $\alpha<\beta .\omega$ we have $\alpha + \beta.\omega<\beta.\omega + \beta.\omega$, but that doesn't seem to go against the normality condition for limit ordinals...
Am I not seeing something obvious?
A: Here's an alternative (easier, I think) proof: Let $\Phi(\alpha) = \alpha+\beta$.
If $\omega\leq \beta$, then $\Phi(\alpha+1) = \alpha+1+\beta = \alpha+\beta = \Phi(\alpha)$, so $\Phi$ fails to be strictly increasing.
If $0<\beta<\omega$, then $\Phi(\omega) = \omega +\beta$, while $\bigcup_{n<\omega}\Phi(n) = \bigcup_{n<\omega} (n+\beta) = \omega$, so $\Phi$ fails to be continuous.
I agree that the solution you posted doesn't answer the question: it seems to me that it shows that the function $\alpha\mapsto \alpha+\beta\cdot\omega$ fails to be continuous for all non-zero $\beta$, rather than $\alpha\mapsto \alpha+\beta$.
But the same idea can be easily adapted to answer the question. I'm sure this is what the person who wrote the solution originally intended.
Suppose $\alpha<\beta\cdot\omega$. Then $\alpha\leq \beta\cdot n$ for some $n\in \omega$, so $$\Phi(\alpha) = \alpha+\beta \leq \beta\cdot n + \beta = \beta\cdot (n+1) < \beta\cdot \omega.$$ It follows that $\bigcup_{\alpha<\beta\cdot \omega}\Phi(\alpha) = \beta\cdot \omega$. But $$\Phi(\beta\cdot\omega) = \beta\cdot\omega + \beta = \beta\cdot(\omega+1).$$ So $\Phi$ fails to be continuous.
A: Unless I'm missing something, this is much easier than it's being made:
The key point is that any normal function has a fixed point, that is, if $\Phi$ is normal then there is some $\lambda$ such that $\Phi(\lambda)=\lambda$. This is easy to show - just consider the limit $\lambda$ of the sequence $$\omega,\Phi(\omega),\Phi(\Phi(\omega)), ....$$ (note that since $\Phi$ is normal, this sequence is increasing so does indeed have a unique limit).
But $\alpha\mapsto\alpha+\beta$ doesn't have any fixed points as long as $\beta>0$.
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POINT ~
An elephant points the way in Amboseli National Park in southern Kenya
Photograph: Dai Kurokawa/EPA
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/oct/11/elephants-understand-pointing-scientists-show
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MURIEL RUKEYSER ~
Muriel Rukeyser
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"Although poet Muriel Rukeyser often provoked a varying critical response to her work, there was never any doubt during her five-decade literary career that a resounding passion was on display. Of her first book, the award-winning collection Theory of Flight, W. R. Benet remarked in the Saturday Review of Literature : "She is a radical politically, but she writes as a poet not a propagandist. When you hold this book in your hand you hold a living thing." Some forty-five years later, Gramercy Review contributor Jascha Kessler labeled Rukeyser "the heroic, the bardic, the romantic. . . . Poets who are bardic . . . take on mankind and the whole cosmos as the field of their utterance, . . . [and] try to carry whole nations forward through the urgency of their message. . . . Wherever there are hot spots that journalists blow up on the front page—strikes, massacres, revolutions, tortures, wars, prisoners and marches—there is Rukeyser, in the very front line, a spokesperson, or spokespoet perhaps, speaking up loudly for freedom in the world." Though her outspoken nature obviously displeased certain critics, Rukeyser remained a "spokespoet" all of her adult life.
In the critical commentary on Rukeyser's more than a dozen poetry collections, such phrases as "social activist" or "poet of social protest" are common. Alberta Turner explains in the Dictionary of Literary Biography that Rukeyser was a native of New York City and "by her own choice her life was not bland or sheltered." In the 1930s Rukeyser attended Vassar College and became literary editor of the leftist undergraduate journal Student Review . As a reporter for this journal, Rukeyser covered the 1932 Scottsboro trial in Alabama in which nine black youths were accused of raping two white girls. According to Wolfgang Saxon in his New York Times obituary of Rukeyser, the Scottsboro incident was the basis of Rukeyser's poem "The Trial" and "may have been the genesis of her commitment to the cause of the underdog and the unjustly condemned."
Following the Scottsboro trial, Rukeyser moved within very broad social circles for the remainder of her years. Among other things, she supported the Spanish Loyalists during the Spanish Civil War; she was once jailed in Washington for her protest of the Vietnam War; and, as president of the American Center for PEN, she travelled to South Korea in the 1970s to rally against the death sentence of poet Kim Chi-Ha, the incident which later became the framework of one of Rukeyser's last poems, "The Gates." Since she aligned her creative capacities so closely with the current events of her day, a number of reviewers believe the history of the United States for several decades can be culled from Rukeyser's poetry.
Though frequently incensed by worldly injustices—as is apparent in both the subject matter and tone of her writing—Rukeyser had an optimism that at times surprised her critics. According to Roy B. Hoffman in his Village Voice review of The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser, Rukeyser's distress with injustice was "mingled with a romantic's belief in the perfectibility of the universe, and a young patriot's belief in the perfectibility of her nation. . . . Perhaps it is this belief of Rukeyser's—in a radiant epiphany behind the pain of conflict—that both dates her and makes her refreshing to read. Her idealism is unmarked by heavy irony, cynicism, or an intricacy of wit that characterizes much contemporary poetry." Because of her optimism, reviewers compared Rukeyser's style to that of nineteenth-century American poet Walt Whitman. In an assessment of Waterlily Fire: Poems, 1935-1962, a Virginia Quarterly Review critic explained that "like Whitman, Muriel Rukeyser has so much joy that it is not to be contained in regular verse but comes out in lines that are rugged and soaring." In much the same vein, New York Times Book Review's Richard Eberhart judged Rukeyser's poems in general to be "primordial and torrential. They pour out excitements of a large emotional force, taking in a great deal of life and giving out profound realizations of the significance of being. . . . She belongs to the Whitman school of large confrontations and outpourings."
In opposition to those who appreciated this poet's ability to merge her outrage with hope, some reviewers considered Rukeyser's optimism a weakness or a mere posturing. For instance, Thomas Stumpf in the Carolina Quarterly found that Rukeyser's later collection Breaking Open contains an "indefatigable optimism, hand-clasping brotherhood, and love for all ethnic groups . . . [which] feed[s] a poetry that is without muscle. . . . It is poetry that is fatally in love with exhortations and public promises, with first person posturings." What Stumpf ultimately detected in this particular collection was "the stuff of bathos." In turn, Louise Bogan criticized Rukeyser for creating a world in her poetry that, in reality, "could not last overnight." In her book Selected Criticism: Prose, Poetry, Bogan described the world in Rukeyser's A Turning Wind as "deficient in a sense of human life. . . . Her world is at once too nightmare and too noble. . . . She does not realize that such a world could not last overnight, that the sense of injustice is only relevant when applied to living human beings. . . . [There] is something hideously oversimplified in crude oppositions and blind idealism." Apart from complaints such as these, many reviewers fondly supported Rukeyser's optimism, an optimism grounded in what Kenneth Rexroth had labeled in a Los Angeles Times essay "the Community of Love."
In accordance with her impassioned nature, many of Rukeyser's earlier poems contain an intrepidness and exhortative voice that will surely be remembered. "Her intense tone, angry but also tender, jubilant, even exalted, which was to be dominant throughout her career, [was] already apparent in her first book," stated Turner; in it "she makes little use of silence." Some critics were inspired by this vigor. Poetry contributor John Malcolm Brinnin explained that with the publication of Theory of Flight, winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize, "American poetry found its first full-blown expression of the rebellious temper that prevailed on American campuses and among the younger intellectuals. Its success was immediate. . . . Rukeyser was praised for the ruggedness of her technique, her experimentalism, and for the powerful utterance which, from a woman, seemed unique." Other critics could do without her brashness. "This passionate, innocent young woman . . . talks so noisily and so hurriedly that it never occurs to her that other people have seen these things before, and have learned to speak more calmly," wrote Michael Roberts in his Spectator review of Theory of Flight. When Turner remarked in her Dictionary of Literary Biography essay that Rukeyser would probably not be remembered as one of this century's greatest American poets, she based this statement, at least in part, on her belief that Rukeyser "wrote too much that was intense but fuzzy, trusting intensity to create a magic rather than selecting and juxtaposing fresh powerful words or images. But at times she was able to find the right image." Other critics of Rukeyser's early collections felt stimulated by her energy but, like Turner, professed that Rukeyser's methods needed perfecting. As one Kirkus Reviews contributor put it, "[Rukeyser] has achieved considerable reputation among those to whom lucidity is not a necessary factor."
Although Rukeyser's early poetic voice tended toward that of a sloganist, most critics sense that with time Rukeyser was able to develop greater sophistication and control in her poetry. Whereas Anne Stevenson commented in her New York Times Book Review critique of The Collected Poems that Rukeyser "seems to have been born poetically full-grown," others considered various developments in Rukeyser's craft important enough to analyze in their reviews. Brinnin, for instance, explains that "one of the most interesting phases of the transformation of the social poet in years of stress is the change in his use of language. In the case of Muriel Rukeyser, it moves from that of simple declarative exhortation, in the common phrases of the city man, to that of a gnarled, intellectual, almost private observation. In her earlier usage, images are apt to be simple and few; the whole approach is apt to be through the medium of urban speech. In the latter work, images become those of the psychologist, or of the surrealist, charged with meaning and prevalent everywhere." Albeit, her conviction was still strong, Brinnin added. Along the same lines, Turner found the later Rukeyser more relaxed, less rhetorical, "and though the poems still end firmly with clearly stated, strong opinions, they are less likely to pummel their readers."
Another change involved the movement toward shorter poems in contrast to the cluster poems, or collage poems, that were somewhat of a trademark for Rukeyser, poems centered on a single theme but developed in "separate, autonomous bits, [and] varied in line length and stanza form[,] . . . the parts of each book roll[ing] toward the reader in a series of waves, each of which crashes firmly," explained Turner. This movement toward more concrete images and shorter poems coincided rather closely with Rukeyser's increased devotion to the personal as well as to the political in her poetry.
Even though Rukeyser would continue to write poems that attempted to "carry whole nations forward through the urgency of their message," political poetry was not the be-all and end-all for Rukeyser, who explored a myriad of topics during her literary career. Many of her poems, particularly after her first few collections, were very personal, speaking on her role as a mother and daughter, speaking on sexuality, on creativity, on the poetic process, speaking also on illness and death. One of her poems from The Gates, "Resurrection of the Right Side," details the human body's slow recovery after a debilitating stroke: "I begin to climb the mountain on my mouth, / word by stammer, walk stammered, the lurching deck of earth. / Left-right with none of my own rhythms." In her book Beast in View, the poem "Ajanta" is "purportedly" a poem about painted caves in India, "but when she wrote it," noted Rexroth, "Muriel had never been to India. . . . 'Ajanta' is an exploration . . . of her own interior—in every sense. It is the interior of her mind as a human being, as a poet, and as a woman. It is the interior of her self as her own flesh. It is her womb." Virginia R. Terris goes to some length in her American Poetry Review article to chronicle Rukeyser's movement from the social to the personal, or from theory to actual experience. Regarding Rukeyser's biography of business magnate Wendell Willkie entitled One Life and comprised partly of poems, Terris felt Rukeyser was "able to focus single-mindedly on what she [had] only tentatively explored in earlier volumes. . . . Although Rukeyser [was] exploring many of the themes she had earlier explored—family tensions, social and technological issues and women exploited—she [moved] into experiences that [were] hers uniquely."
In the same way that Rukeyser's poetry was one of variety—for it could be labeled many things: romantic, political, feminist, erotic, Whitmanesque—her oeuvre explored a variety of genres. Although known particularly for her poetry, Rukeyser wrote biographical material (which was sometimes in the form of poetry), children's books, plays, and television scripts, and she also translated poetry from the Swedish, French, German, Spanish, and Italian. In addition, she taught and read her poetry at institutions nationwide.
Poetry aside, Rukeyser's biographical work received the most critical attention. As Jane Cooper noted in the Washington Post Book World, Rukeyser "loved science and history and modern technology, enjoying their puzzles and solvings much as she enjoyed the puzzles and solvings of poetic form." Thus, the fact that Rukeyser wrote about individuals other than the literary and artistic should not be too surprising. While it is true that Rukeyser wrote memorable poems about the German lithographer Kaethe Kollwitz, American composer Charles Ives, and mythological figures like Orpheus, at the same time she profiled New England eccentric Lord Timothy Dexter; nineteenth-century mathematician Willard Gibbs; English mathematician and scientist Thomas Hariot; and, as previously noted, lawyer and business executive Wendell Willkie, who ran for president on the 1940 Republican party ticket. Indeed, Rukeyser wrote full-length biographies of the latter three men.
According to Terris, one of Rukeyser's intentions behind writing biographies of nonliterary persons was to find a meeting place between science and poetry. In an analysis of Rukeyser's expository work The Life of Poetry, Terris notes that Rukeyser was of the opinion that in the West, poetry and science are wrongly considered to be in opposition to one another. Thus, writes Terris, "Rukeyser [set] forth her theoretical acceptance of science . . . [and pointed] out the many parallels between [poetry and science]—unity within themselves, symbolic language, selectivity, the use of the imagination in formulating concepts and in execution. Both, she believe[d], ultimately contribute to one another."
Some critics were skeptical of this poet's attempts at interpreting history, but for others Rukeyser's poetic angle brought something more to the reader than could be expected from a biography in the strict sense. Regarding Rukeyser's account entitled The Traces of Thomas Hariot, Washington Post Book World critic Vincent Cronin stated: "By her carefully controlled imaginative sympathy, by the dazzling range of her learning, and above all by the poetry of her style she leads the reader further than he is ever likely to go into the speculative seventeenth century, where daring men were trying, on half-a-dozen fronts, to break through into what was to become the modern world. . . . From now on, thanks to this highly enjoyable trail-blazing book, Thomas Hariot will never be 'just another minor Elizabethan.'" Commonweal reviewer E. L. Keyes viewed Rukeyser's biography of Willard Gibbs as an "intelligible collation of a mountain of mysteries."
Impassioned, self-confident, eclectic, a poet of powerful expression, a poet of the political and the personal—these and similar phrases have characterized the life and work of Muriel Rukeyser for decades. Although the critics in Rukeyser's earlier, more prolific decades seldom agreed on the value of her achievements, a new generation of reviewers had come along by the time Rukeyser published The Collected Poems; and in looking at the totality of her accomplishments, these critics found cause for rejoicing. A year before Rukeyser's death, Hoffman concluded that "poems like 'The Poem as Mask' make me wonder if Muriel Rukeyser is not our greatest living American poet. The Collected Poems . . . enable us to see a breadth of history, energy, and experience rarely matched in American letters." As for Kessler, "any reading of [Rukeyser's] poems will excite the best and most ingenious impulses of . . . people everywhere, who want goodness and freedom and love in the world and in their own personal lives. Rukeyser remained faithful and consistent with her own youthful visions, and all this work [in The Collected Poems]. . . testifies to that."
Two books published after Rukeyser's death attest to a resurgence in her popularity, which waned after 1980. With Out of Silence: Selected Poems, new readers were exposed to Rukeyser's poetry and literary historians were reminded of her contributions. Lee Upton observed in Belles Lettres: "The title of the selected poems . . . is particularly appropriate; Rukeyser . . . , emerging from relative neglect, gives voice to the repressed, particularly to the lives of women and the marginalized." According to Anne Herzog of The Women's Review of Books, Rukeyser "articulated the thoughts and feelings of the unnoticed and excluded" in the poems selected for Out of Silence. Rukeyser was "one of this country's most distinguished, misunderstood and undervalued poets," Herzog added. Of the second book reviving Rukeyser's prose and poetry, A Muriel Rukeyser Reader, Richard Gray wrote in Modern Language Review: "She has been neglected: but this generous and sensitive selection of her work will perhaps help redress the balance, introducing her to some and reminding others how good she can be."
Poet, social activist, teacher, biographer, screenwriter, dramatist, translator, and author of children's books. Before World War II, worked for theaters and theater magazines and did office work; after the war, she read poetry and taught; Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, member of faculty, 1946, 1956-67. House of Photography, vice president, 1946-60. Sometime between 1930 and 1933, co-founded with Elizabeth Bishop, Mary McCarthy, and Eleanor Clark a literary magazine, Student Review, to protest the policies of the Vassar Review; later, the two magazines consolidated.
Theory of Flight, foreword by Stephen Vincent Benet, Yale University Press, 1935, reprinted, AMS Press, 1971.
Mediterranean, Writers and Artists Committee, Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy, 1938.
U.S. One, Covici, Friede, 1938.
A Turning Wind: Poems, Viking, 1939.
The Soul and Body of John Brown, privately printed, 1940.
Wake Island, Doubleday, 1942.
Beast in View, Doubleday, 1944.
The Green Wave (contains a section of translated poems of Octavio Paz and Rari), Doubleday, 1948.
Orpheus (with the drawing "Orpheus," by Picasso), Centaur Press, 1949.
Elegies, New Directions, 1949.
Selected Poems, New Directions, 1951.
Body of Waking (contains a section of translated poems of Paz), Harper, 1958.
Waterlily Fire: Poems 1935-1962 (including the group of poems entitled "The Speaking Tree"), Macmillan, 1962.
The Outer Banks, Unicorn Press, 1967 , 2nd revised edition, 1980.
The Speed of Darkness, Random, 1968.
Mazes, photography by Milton Charles, Simon & Schuster, 1970.
Twenty-nine Poems, Rapp & Whiting, 1972.
Breaking Open: New Poems (contains translations of Eskimo songs), Random House, 1973.
The Gates: Poems, McGraw, 1976.
The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser, McGraw, 1978.
Out of Silence: Selected Poems, edited by Kate Daniels, Triquarterly Books (Evanston, IL), 1992.
Willard Gibbs, Doubleday, 1942.
One Life (biography of Wendell Willkie in poetry, prose, and documents), Simon & Schuster, 1957.
The Traces of Thomas Hariot, Random House, 1971.
(Self-illustrated) Come Back, Paul, Harper, 1955.
I Go Out, pictures by Leonard Kessler, Harper, 1962.
Bubbles, edited by Donald Barr, illustrated by Jeri Quinn, Harcourt, 1967.
More Night, illustrated by Symeon Shimin, Harper, 1981.
UNPUBLISHED PLAYS
The Middle of the Air, produced in Iowa City, IA, 1945.
The Colors of the Day, produced in Poughkeepsie, NY, at Vassar College, June 10, 1961.
Houdini, produced in Lenox, MA, at Lenox Arts Center, July 3, 1973.
(From the Spanish; with others) Paz, Selected Poems of Octavio Paz , Indiana University Press, 1963, revised edition published as Early Poems 1935-1955, New Directions, 1973.
Paz, Sun Stone, New Directions, 1963.
(With Leif Sjoeberg) Gunnar Ekeloef, Selected Poems of Gunnar Ekeloef , Twayne, 1967.
Ekeloef, Three Poems, T. Williams, 1967.
Also translator of Bertolt Brecht's Uncle Eddie's Moustache, 1974.
(With Sjoeberg) Ekeloef, A Molna Elegy: Metamorphoses, two volumes, Unicorn Press, 1984.
The Life of Poetry, Current Books, 1949 , reprinted, Morrow, 1974, with introduction by Jane Cooper, Paris Press, 1996.
The Orgy (a three-day journal), Coward, 1965.
The Poetry and Voice of Muriel Rukeyser (recording), Caedmon, 1977.
A Muriel Rukeyser Reader, Norton, 1994.
Also author of film scripts "A Place to Live" and "All the Way Home." Contributor to periodicals, including Nation, New Republic, Poetry, and Saturday Review.
from The Poetry Foundation
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Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill) wrote and directed this Oscar-Winning instant classic with a superb cast including John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson and Bruce Willis. Pulp Fiction is the skilfully interwoven tale of how the lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife and two small-time thieves connect through vengeance, violence and redemption. Packed with dark humour, witty fast-talk and intense violence Pulp Fiction is widely considered one of the best movies ever made and still remains one of the most original movies to date. -M.F.
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Kuruppasserry Varkey Thomas (born 10 May 1946), is an Indian politician from Kumbalangi in Ernakulam district, Kerala, India. He represented Ernakulam Constituency from 2009 to 2019. He was the Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, 2nd UPA Government; a member of the Indian Parliament; and was a member of All India Congress Committee from 1984 to 2022. He is now the official representative of the Government of Kerala with Cabinet Rank at New Delhi.
Personal life
K. V. Thomas was born to K. D. Varkey and Rose Varkey on 10 May 1946. He has two elder brothers, Dr. K. V. Peter and K. V. Joseph. He is married to Sherly Thomas. They have a daughter and two sons.
Career
Thomas was a member of the 11th (2001-2006) and 12th (2006-2009) Kerala Legislative Assembly representing the Ernakulam assembly constituency. While contesting the 2009 Indian general election he was an MLA from Ernakulam .Kerala Legislature - Members He served as the Minister for Excise and Tourism and Minister for Tourism and Fisheries between 2001 and 2004 in Government of Kerala. Thomas was a member of Lok Sabha from 1984 to 1996 and then from 2009 to 2019. During his long political career he held several positions like President, 7th Ward Congress Committee (1970–75); Convener, Block Youth Congress, Palluruthy (1971–80); General Secretary. Cochin Taluk INTUC (1971–76), Kerala INTUC (1986–91), DCC Ernakulam (1978–86); Treasurer, KPCC (1991–96); President of Ernakulam District Congress (I) Committee; KPCC Working President, Member of KPCC; Member of Kerala State Election Congress (I) Committee; Organising Secretary & General Secretary of INTUC (Kerala); AICC Observer to Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Lakshadweep. He is also a member of General Council of INTUC (trade union wing of the Indian National Congress) since 1976. He served as the chairman of PAC (Public Accounts Committee) for three years from 2014 to 2017.
On 10 April 2022, Thomas attended a seminar in Communist Party of India (Marxist)'s 23rd party Congress in Kannur. For this he was officially removed from key party posts. In May 2022, shortly after attending an election campaign of the Left Democratic Front in Kochi, he was expelled from the Congress party for alleged anti-party activities.
Education
Thomas holds a MSc degree in Chemistry and was a Professor of Chemistry for a period of 33 years at Sacred Heart College, Thevara. He served as the Head of the Department (Chemistry) from 1 June 1999 to 31 May 2001.
Other positions that Thomas held include Member of Defence Consultative Committee; Member of Civil Aviation and Tourism Consultative Committee; Court Member of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and Pondicherry University; Director Board Member of Marine Products Export Development Authority; Director of Cochin International Airport Limited; President of All Kerala Ration Dealers Association; Working President of Indian Rare Earth Employees Congress; Chairman of Indira Gandhi Co-operative Hospital, Ernakulam (1994–96), Member of Official Language Committee of the Kerala Legislative Assembly (2004–06).
Biography
Thomas is the author of several books. His first book, Ente Kumbalangi'', which is about his native village Kumbalangi, was released on 17 November 2004. Since then he has published five more books.
References
External links
Prof. K V Thomas's Official Election Website
Fifteenth Lok Sabha - Prof. K.V.Thomas's Bio profile page
Prof. K. V. Thomas - A brief biography
Union ministers of state of India
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India MPs 2009–2014
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Living people
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India MPs 1984–1989
India MPs 1989–1991
India MPs 1991–1996
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Malayali politicians
20th-century Indian chemists
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HomeReviewsShadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun review
A winning premise of cleverly combined genres let down by a series of irritating design issues.
There's not much more satisfying than seeing a good team come together, something Shadow Tactics developer Mimimi no doubt understands. Shadow Tactics is a strategy/stealth hybrid set in feudal Japan that follows in the footsteps of the long lost but fondly remembered Commandos games.
Shadow Tactics
Developer: Mimimi
Publisher: Daedalic
Platform: Reviewed on PS4
Availability: Out now on PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Players issue commands to five different characters, each with their own unique talents. Your bulky samurai can slay three opponents clustered together and carry two cadavers at once, your elderly peg-legged sniper whittles away the opposition from afar, your crafty orphan plants traps, your all-rounder soldier throws a mean shuriken, and your seductress gets dolled up in disguises to distract guards. Each hero is fairly limited on their own, but together they form quite the team.
As a result, Shadow Tactics doesn't feel like anything else out there. It's slower and more meticulous than most stealth games where you control a single entity, its real-time action sets it apart from any number of turn-based strategy affairs, and the laser focus on a tiny but talented crackerjack team feels worlds away from a typical RTS with its many moving gears colliding in all-out war. The merging of mechanics resembles the unholy spawn of Hotline Miami, The Lost Vikings, and Splinter Cell.
It's a winning combination that offers a unique blend of puzzles, action, and experimentation - with an emphasis on experimentation. Unlike most stealth or strategy games, Shadow Tactics is designed to make you fail to a ludicrous degree. A shame, then, that the consequence for failure can be so harsh. Every time you're caught throngs of guards swarm the stage, punishing imprecision at the drop of a hat. Unlike most modern stealth games where things arguably get more exciting once you've messed up, Shadow Tactics opts for a more ruthless approach. More often than not, once enemies open fire the jig is up. Failure's part of the process, something to be endured rather than seen through.
This focus on defeat works because when a plan eventually comes together it feels great. This happens most in what's called Master Mode, a feature wherein you can issue commands to each character that's only to be executed when you give the signal. Chances are your timing or positioning will be off and some component of the plan will fail, but when every piece of scripting hits its mark and your ragtag crew of bandits Mission Impossibles their way through a fortified fortress, simultaneously stabbing, blinding, and distracting guards, there's nothing quite like it. You didn't just solve a puzzle, you choreographed a clean, classy heist, you criminal mastermind you.
It's a shame then that much of the game can be conquered without calling upon your wits. For the most part, you can thin out the herd by resorting to the same handful of basic tactics that you learn in the beginning. The first time one character creates a diversion while the other two stab guards in the back, it feels fantastic. But by the 50th time, it loses a bit of its lustre. It's hard to say if that's the game's fault or my own for not being cunning enough to orchestrate more creative plans, but many of Shadow Tactics' challenges can be bested by playing in the dullest, most conservative way.
There's no'I' in 'team', but there is one in 'single-player.'
This doesn't ruin Shadow Tactics, but it does make it rather monotonous at times. There are too many banal, brute force solutions to Shadow Tactics' challenges, and unless you're going for all the game's optional badges, there's not much incentive to deviate from the boring but effective solutions. I suspect high level players will have to get fairly canny to conquer Shadow Tactics' most devious challenges, but on an initial playthrough there are too many bland sections where it's overly tempting to simply stick with what you know.
Perhaps the biggest missed trick here is that Master Mode, lovely and exciting as it is, only allows you to issue one command to each teammate. In other words, you can tell your squadmates to kill a guard, but not to retreat to cover after the fact. Having to manually move everyone to safety afterwards is both an inconvenient chore and an irritating, artificial restriction on the types of assaults available. Perhaps being able to preemptively issue commands to kill then hide would shift the difficulty setting too much, but it would go a long way towards putting Shadow Tactics' best feature on centre stage.
Options to use the Japanese voice-acting goes a long way towards giving Shadow Tactics an authentic feel.
As is, Shadow Tactics' biggest problem is the amount of drudgery involved in executing a plan. Part of this is due to the fact that this is a console port of a game designed with a mouse and keyboard in mind, but much of it simply seems awkwardly dragged out. To wit: there's no way to undo one squad command in Master Mode without forfeiting the whole plan and having to manually reassign each order. The game feels like setting up dominos then cathartically knocking them over, which is how a tactics game should feel, but it would be nice if the dominoes were a little less cumbersome to set up.
Shadow Tactics has a lovely premise and a lot of clever puzzles, but a few irritating design decisions hold it back from truly being the ultimate team-based infiltration game it so wants to be. It's almost there though. Bringing back such a genre hybrid in this day and age - and on consoles no less - is still cause for celebration. Shadow Tactics is a little too long in the tooth to stay fresh during the entirety of its two dozen hour campaign, but it hits notes other games don't. In an age where every AAA stealth game is gradually turning into a homogenous pool of third-person cover-cowering vent-crawling affairs, Shadow Tactics is on an invigoratingly different trajectory. Mimimi's attempt to resurrect this style of game isn't quite the flawless masterplan that goes off without a hitch, but it's still a refreshing refinement of a long lost art.
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El Cedral is the oldest Mayan Ruins on Cozumel Island, dating back to 800 A.D. The Mayan village was once the capital of Cozumel, and the largest community on the island. It was discovered by Spanish Conquistadors in 1518, who tore down much of the Mayan temple, and then during World War II, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers destroyed more of it to make way for the island's first airport. Today, there is not much of this once significant Mayan temple remaining, but you can see a portion of it, and with the help of one of our knowledgeable guides, you can picture the community as it once existed - as the hub of Mayan life in Cozumel.
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Bayreuth is the native city of the unionist, politician and anti-Fascist member of the resistance Wilhelm Leuschner who was born on June 15th 1890. His birthplace in Moritzhöfen 25 is since September 2003 a memorial as remembrance of his work. At the same time it is a historical place of learning for future generations.
Since 1993 the Bayreuth club for Cultural and Social History endeavoured for the preservation of the birth house of Wilhelm Leuschner. After placed under preservation order by the city of Bayreuth and the prevention of the submitted abridgement in the year 2000 by the former owner it became after the renovation of the house by the new private owner a memorial and educational institution in cooperation between the city of Bayreuth and the Wilhelm-Leuschner-Foundation.
On our web pages you can inform about Wilhelm Leuschner, his inheritance which is scientifically looked after by us and as well as through our memorial work. Under the menu "contact" you can contact us. About suggestions for improving our web site we would be very grateful.
In 2012 we kooperated with the Holocaust Education Trust in London/Great Britain, who wanted to make cards with german resitance fighter against the Nazi-Regime. We helped them to make the script about his life and gave them a picture out of our archive. It shows Wilhelm Leuschner as minister of interior affairs of hessia 1928. Click here to download. | {
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The American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA) developed their accreditation program to raise the level of care being provided to companion animals. AAHA is the only organization that accredits animal hospitals throughout the U.S. and Canada.
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Artist Herlinde Koelbl will give a walk and talk on her series 'Targets'.
Herlinde Koelbl is one of the most renowned German photographic artists. Her comprehensive oeuvre is characterized above all by long-term photographic projects, often complemented by in-depth interviews. She is particularly interested in creating portraits of milieus and people.
Her photographs have been shown at numerous international exhibitions and are represented in many major collections.
Join this unique opportunity at the Festival to hear her discuss her work in 'Targets'. In cooperation with Goethe Institut.
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