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from sh import git
import sh
import re
import os, sys
import locket
import functools
from locket import LockError

class MergeException(Exception):
    pass

class GitData(object):
    def __init__(self, repo):
        """Create a GitData object to interact with a Git repository

        Example:
        gd   = GitData(repo="/home/user/git/foo")

        Note that this requires write access to the
        git repository directory, so it can create a
        lockfile in the .git directory.

        """
        self.repo = repo

        self.lock_file     = "%s/.git/API_WRITE_LOCK" % self.repo
        self.lock_timeout  = 30
        self.lock          = locket.lock_file(self.lock_file, timeout=self.lock_timeout)

    def preserve_cwd(function):
        """
        A decorator which remembers the current
        working directory before a function call and
        then resets the CWD after the function
        returns.
        """
        @functools.wraps(function)
        def decorator(*args, **kwargs):
            cwd = os.getcwd()
            try:
                return function(*args, **kwargs)
            finally:
                os.chdir(cwd)
        return decorator

    def acquire_lock(self):
        "Acquire a lock on the git repository"
        self.lock.acquire()

    def release_lock(self):
        "Release a lock on the git repository"
        self.lock.release()

    @preserve_cwd
    def current_branch(self):
        "Return the current branch name"
        os.chdir(self.repo)
        branch_name = git("symbolic-ref", "HEAD")
        return branch_name.replace('refs/heads/','').strip()

    def newest_study_id(self):
        "Return the numeric part of the newest study_id"
        os.chdir(self.repo)

        git.checkout("master")
        dirs = []
        # first we look for studies already in our master branch
        for f in os.listdir("study/"):
            if os.path.isdir("study/%s" % f):
                # ignore alphabetic prefix, o = created by opentree API
                if f[0].isalpha():
                    dirs.append(int(f[1:]))
                else:
                    dirs.append(int(f))

        # next we must look at local branch names for new studies
        # without --no-color we get terminal color codes in the branch output
        branches = git.branch("--no-color")
        branches = [ b.strip() for b in branches ]
        for b in branches:
            mo = re.match(".+_o(\d+)",b)
            if mo:
                dirs.append(int(mo.group(1)))

        dirs.sort()
        return dirs[-1]

    def fetch_study(self, study_id):
        """Return the contents of the given study_id

        If the study_id does not exist, it returns the empty string.
        """
        study_filename = "%s/study/%s/%s.json" % (self.repo, study_id, study_id)
        try:
            file = open(study_filename, 'r')
        except:
            return ''
        return file.read()

    @preserve_cwd
    def branch_exists(self, branch):
        """Returns true or false depending on if a branch exists"""
        os.chdir(self.repo)
        try:
            git(("rev-parse",branch))
        except sh.ErrorReturnCode:
            return False
        return True

    @preserve_cwd
    def remove_study(self,study_id, branch, author="OpenTree API <api@opentreeoflife.org>"):
        """Remove a study

        Given a study_id, branch and optionally an
        author, remove a study on the given branch
        and attribute the commit to author.

        Returns the SHA of the commit on branch.

        """
        os.chdir(self.repo)

        study_dir      = "study/%s" % study_id
        study_filename = "%s/%s.json" % (study_dir, study_id)

        if self.branch_exists(branch):
            git.checkout(branch)
            if not os.path.isdir(study_dir):
                # branch already exists locally with study removed
                # so just return the commit SHA
                return git("rev-parse","HEAD").strip()
        else:
            # Create this new branch off of master, NOT the currently-checked out branch!
            git.checkout("master")
            git.checkout("-b",branch)

        git.rm("-rf", study_dir)

        git.commit(author=author, message="Delete Study #%s via OpenTree API" % study_id)

        new_sha = git("rev-parse","HEAD")

        return new_sha.strip()

    @preserve_cwd
    def write_study(self,study_id, content, branch, author="OpenTree API <api@opentreeoflife.org>"):
        """Write a study

        Given a study_id, content, branch and
        optionally an author, write a study on the
        given branch and attribute the commit to
        author. If the branch does not yet exist,
        it will be created. If the study is being
        created, it's containing directory will be
        created as well.

        Returns the SHA of the new commit on branch.

        """
        os.chdir(self.repo)

        # If there are uncommitted changes to our repo, stash them so this commit can proceed
        git.stash()

        if self.branch_exists(branch):
            git.checkout(branch)
        else:
            # Create this new branch off of master, NOT the currently-checked out branch!
            git.checkout("master")
            git.checkout("-b",branch)

        study_dir      = "study/%s" % study_id
        study_filename = "%s/%s.json" % (study_dir, study_id)

        # create a study directory if this is a new study
        if not os.path.isdir(study_dir):
            os.mkdir(study_dir)

        file = open(study_filename, 'w')
        file.write(content)
        file.close()

        git.add(study_filename)

        git.commit(author=author, message="Update Study #%s via OpenTree API" % study_id)

        new_sha = git("rev-parse","HEAD")

        return new_sha.strip()

    @preserve_cwd
    def merge(self, branch, base_branch="master"):
        """
        Merge the the given WIP branch to master (or base_branch, if specified)

        If the merge fails, the merge will be aborted
        and then a MergeException will be thrown. The
        message of the MergeException will be the
        "git status" output, so details about merge
        conflicts can be determined.

        """

        os.chdir(self.repo)

        current_branch = self.current_branch()
        if current_branch != base_branch:
            git.checkout(base_branch)

        # Always create a merge commit, even if we could fast forward, so we know
        # when merges occured
        try:
            merge_output = git.merge("--no-ff", branch)
        except sh.ErrorReturnCode:
            # attempt to reset things so other operations can
            # continue
            output = git.status()
            git.merge("--abort")

            # re-raise the exception so other code can decide
            # what to do with it
            raise MergeException(output)

        # the merge succeeded, so remove the local WIP branch
        git.branch("-d", branch)

        new_sha      = git("rev-parse","HEAD")
        return new_sha.strip()

    @preserve_cwd
    def delete_remote_branch(self, remote, branch, env={}):
        "Delete a remote branch"
        # deleting a branch is the same as
        # git push remote :branch
        self.push(remote, env, ":%s" % branch)

    @preserve_cwd
    def push(self, remote, env={}, branch=None):
        """
        Push a branch to a given remote

        Given a remote, env and branch, push branch
        to remote and add the environment variables
        in the env dict to the environment of the
        "git push" command.

        If no branch is given, the current branch
        will be used.

        The ability to specify env is so that PKEY
        and GIT_SSH can be specified so Git can use
        different SSH credentials than the current
        user (i.e. deploy keys for Github). If PKEY
        is not defined, the environment will not be
        over-ridden.

        """
        os.chdir(self.repo)

        if branch:
            branch_to_push = branch
        else:
            branch_to_push = self.current_branch()

        # if there is no PKEY, we don't need to override env
        # We are explicit about what we are pushing, since the default behavior
        # is different in different versions of Git and/or by configuration
        if env["PKEY"]:
            new_env = os.environ.copy()
            new_env.update(env)
            git.push(remote, branch_to_push, _env=new_env)
        else:
            git.push(remote, branch_to_push)

    @preserve_cwd
    def pull(self, remote, env={}, branch=None):
        """
        Pull a branch from a given remote

        Given a remote, env and branch, pull branch
        from remote and add the environment variables
        in the env dict to the environment of the
        "git pull" command.

        If no branch is given, the current branch
        will be updated.
        """
        os.chdir(self.repo)
        if branch:
            branch_to_pull = branch
        else:
            branch_to_pull = self.current_branch()

        # if there is no PKEY, we don't need to override env
        # We are explicit about what we are pushing, since the default behavior
        # is different in different versions of Git and/or by configuration
        if env["PKEY"]:
            new_env = os.environ.copy()
            new_env.update(env)
            git.pull(remote, branch_to_pull, _env=new_env)
        else:
            git.pull(remote, branch_to_pull)

        new_sha      = git("rev-parse","HEAD")
        return new_sha.strip()


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Q: General setting for triangle inequalities (terminology question) Regarding the "mathematical object $(X, s)$" described below (in general, or under some more specific conditions) I'd like to know whether it is called a particular name, for reference in the literature:
How do you call a set $X$ together with a map $s\!\!: X^2 \rightarrow R$
(0) in general, or
(1) under the condition that $\forall \eta \in X: s[ \, \eta, \eta \, ] = 0$, or
permitting that there may $\exists \eta, \phi \in X: s[ \, \eta, \phi \, ] \lt 0$, under the additional condition that:
(2) for any three elements $\rho$, $\sigma$ and $\tau \in X$
 $(0 \geq s[ \, \rho, \sigma \, ] \geq s[ \, \sigma, \tau \, ] \geq s[ \, \tau, \rho \, ]) \implies $
 $(s[ \, \rho, \sigma \, ] + s[ \, \sigma, \tau \, ] \geq s[ \, \tau, \rho \, ])$
?
A remark on ínequalities involving values $s[ \, \alpha, \beta \, ] \gt 0$ for suitable elements $\alpha$, and $\beta \in X$:
Considering 7 suitable elements of $X$, with corresponding 21 values
$s[ \, \omega, \kappa \, ] = 0$,
$s[ \, \omega, \lambda \, ] = 0$,
$s[ \, \omega, \mu \, ] = 0$,
$s[ \, \omega, \nu \, ] = 0$,
$s[ \, \mu, \rho \, ] = 0$,
$s[ \, \nu, \sigma \, ] = 0$, and
$s[ \, \kappa, \lambda \, ] \lt 0$,
$s[ \, \mu, \nu \, ] \lt 0$,
$s[ \, \kappa, \nu \, ] \leq 0$,
$s[ \, \lambda, \mu \, ] \leq 0$,
$s[ \, \kappa, \mu \, ] \gt 0$,
$s[ \, \lambda, \nu \, ] \gt 0$; and also
$s[ \, \rho, \sigma \, ] \lt 0$,
$s[ \, \omega, \rho \, ] \leq 0$,
$s[ \, \omega, \sigma \, ] \leq 0$, and moreover
$0 \geq s[ \, \kappa, \rho \, ] \geq s[ \, \omega, \rho \, ]$,
$0 \geq s[ \, \lambda, \sigma \, ] \geq s[ \, \omega, \sigma \, ]$, and finally
$s[ \, \kappa, \sigma \, ] \lt 0$,
$s[ \, \lambda, \rho \, ] \lt 0$,
$s[ \, \mu, \sigma \, ] \lt s[ \, \mu, \nu \, ] \lt 0$, and
$s[ \, \nu, \rho \, ] \lt s[ \, \mu, \nu \, ] \lt 0$,
then ("by construction") holds:
$s[ \, \rho, \sigma \, ] \leq s[ \, \kappa, \lambda \, ] \lt 0$.
Consequently, in case there exist suitable elements $\alpha$, and $\beta \in X$ for which
$s[ \, \kappa, \alpha \, ] \lt 0$,
$s[ \, \alpha, \lambda \, ] \lt 0$,
$s[ \, \mu, \beta \, ] \lt 0$,
$s[ \, \beta, \nu \, ] \lt 0$, and
$s[ \, \alpha, \beta \, ] \gt 0$,
$s[ \, \alpha, \omega \, ] \gt 0$,
$s[ \, \beta, \omega \, ] \gt 0$ such that
$\frac{s[ \, \alpha, \omega \, ]}{s[ \, \kappa, \lambda \, ]} = \frac{s[ \, \beta, \omega \, ]}{s[ \, \mu, \nu \, ]} = \frac{s[ \, \alpha, \beta \, ] + s[ \, \beta, \omega \, ]}{s[ \, \rho, \sigma \, ]}$,
then the following triangle inequality holds:
$s[ \, \alpha, \omega \, ] \leq s[ \, \alpha, \beta \, ] + s[ \, \beta, \omega \, ]$.
An example for a "space" (in the sense of a mathematical object) satisfying all these conditions may be any set of "events" which are pairwise related being "spacelike", or "lightlike", or "timelike" to each other, such that

*

*any pair of "spacelike" events are characrerized by positive quasi-distance values among each other, $(s[ \, \alpha, \beta \, ] > 0$, and $s[ \, \beta, \alpha \, ] > 0$,

*any pair of "timelike" events are characrerized by a (proper) duration value among each other, corresponding to $0 \geq s[ \, \rho, \sigma \, ] = s[ \, \sigma, \rho \, ]$,

*for any pair of "spacelike" events there are events "lightlike" wrt. both, and

*for any pair of "timelike" events there are events "lightlike" wrt. both, where

*any pair of "lightlight" events would be assigned the value $s[ \, \tau, \alpha \, ] = 0 = s[ \, \alpha, \tau \, ])$.
(This is an edited, third version of my question. The comments below, of January 2012, were based on a less organized first version. The second version, which had been published meanwhile and on which no further comments were issued, should hereby be considered withdrawn, as flawed.)

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Q: If date of year 2020 have booking value less than 25 than replace it with last year 7 days value average in pandas I am working on a pandas dataframe and I have to replace column booking value if less than 25 with average of 7 days example x = 22-03-2020 has booking value 3, I have to replace it
x = average(before 3 days + last year same date + after 3 days/7))

After replace

I have many values to replace, manually i am able to do it but i need some shortcut.

A: You can use rolling with center=True, but need all values of days, so add Series.asfreq, then add one year to DatetimeIndex and because leap year is 2020 is added mean for aggregate duplicates in end of February, last set values by mask:
df = pd.DataFrame({'date':pd.date_range('2019-03-19', periods=8),
                 'Booking':[92,109,144,109,122,76,78, 3]})
df.loc[7, 'date'] = pd.to_datetime('2020-03-22')

df = df.set_index('date')

s = df['Booking'].asfreq('d').rolling(7, center=True).mean()
s.index = s.index + pd.offsets.DateOffset(years=1)
s = s.mean(level=0)
print (s)
date
2020-03-19           NaN
2020-03-20           NaN
2020-03-21           NaN
2020-03-22    104.285714
2020-03-23           NaN

2021-03-18           NaN
2021-03-19           NaN
2021-03-20           NaN
2021-03-21           NaN
2021-03-22           NaN
Name: Booking, Length: 369, dtype: float64

mask = df['Booking'].lt(25)

df.loc[mask, 'Booking'] = s
print (df)
               Booking
date
2019-03-19   92.000000
2019-03-20  109.000000
2019-03-21  144.000000
2019-03-22  109.000000
2019-03-23  122.000000
2019-03-24   76.000000
2019-03-25   78.000000
2020-03-22  104.285714


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MBSB-Bank Muamalat merger talks aborted
Wednesday, 03 Feb 2016
By GURMEET KAUR
Ahmad Zaini: 'We should still continue to add to this value regardless of the status that MBSB holds.'
PETALING JAYA: Non-bank financial provider MALAYSIA BUILDING SOCIETY BHD (MBSB) has failed to strike a merger with Bank Muamalat Malaysia Bhd, its second botched merger attempt in recent times.
MBSB told Bursa Malaysia yesterday that it and the parties involved, namely, DRB-HICOM BHD and Khazanah Nasional Bhd, have decided to end negotiations for the proposed merger to form the country's biggest standalone Islamic bank after having failed to agree on the terms.
"After a series of discussions and negotiations, DRB-HICOM , MBSB and Khazanah have not been able to reach an agreement on the terms and conditions of the proposed merger.
"Accordingly, the parties have mutually agreed to end all discussions and not proceed with the proposed merger," MBSB said in a filing with Bursa.
MBSB president and chief executive officer Datuk Ahmad Zaini Othman said the parties had diligently been working towards formulating a position that would best strengthen the new merged entity, as well as serve the best interest of all shareholders.
"Unfortunately, despite these efforts, we were not able to commonly agree on that position," he said in a statement.
Banking sources said that the merger talks broke down over issues of control in the combined banking entity.
According to sources, DRB-Hicom was looking at a higher valuation for Bank Muamalat that would have translated to a higher shareholding and control of the merged entity. This apparently did not sit well with MBSB's major shareholder, the Employees Provident Fund (EPF), which was also seeking to be the controlling shareholder. The EPF owns 65% of MBSB.
Bank Muamalat is 70%-owned by DRB-Hicom, while Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund Khazanah holds the remaining 30% interest.
Based on earlier talks, the deal was to have been effected via a share swap with no cash involved. Banking sources said when the deal was being crafted, the EPF was to have emerged as the single-largest shareholder in the enlarged entity with a stake of between 35% and 40%, while DRB-Hicom was to hold about 20% and Khazanah around 10%.
Meanwhile, on the bourse, MBSB shares fell 2.76% or four sen to RM1.41 as investors reacted negatively to prospects for the company that has been hit by a hefty loan loss provision due to its kitchen-sinking exercise,
Shares of DRB-Hicom, on the other hand, were up 0.96% or one sen to RM1.05 at yesterday's close.
Notably, this was the second deal in about a year that had failed to work out for MBSB after a three-way tie-up between CIMB GROUP HOLDINGS BHD and RHB Capital Bhd to create Malaysia's biggest bank by assets had been aborted in January last year.
In addressing MBSB's plans moving forward, Ahmad Zaini said there was a lot of value in MBSB even though it was not a banking institution.
"Hence, we should still continue to add to this value regardless of the status that MBSB holds.
"Our team had already embarked on revised strategies in the fourth quarter of last year, taking cognizant of changes in the economy. We are also being more prudent in the sectors that we continue to lend and our impairment programme is running into its second year."
He said emphasis would be placed on the company's continuous efforts to strengthen its funding programme and build up its capabilities in both business and operations.
An analyst, when contacted, said that the failed merger was short-term negative for MBSB.
"As part of its aspiration to be a full-fledged Islamic bank, MBSB would still be keen on a corporate exercise, but is unlikely to find a partner at least in the next 12-month amid an environment where banks are cost-cutting," he said.
MBSB, one of the non-conventional banks in the local financial industry, has a long-term plan to graduate from a non-bank to a full-fledged Islamic bank to increase its competitiveness.
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Balkan Celts
Journal of Celtic Studies in Eastern Europe and Asia-Minor
Tag: Bastarnae kings
FLIGHT OF THE MONSTER – Destruction of the Roman Army of Gaius Antonius 'Hybrida' at the Battle of Histria (61 BC)
February 2, 2013 January 14, 2020 bren2797 Comments
UD: Jan. 2020
"… to the Maeotic Lake on the east, where it bordered on Pontic Scythia, and that from that point on Gauls and Scythians were mingled".
(Plut. Marius: 11: 4—5)
61 BC – Western Black Sea coast
A Roman army marches on the Greek city of Histria to crush a rebellion by the local population. The situation is even more ominous for the Greeks, because the Roman commander is none other than the Governor of Macedonia Gaius Antonius (the uncle of Mark Anthony), a notoriously cruel and brutal man, who had earned the name Hybrida (the Monster) for his systematic atrocities against the local population in the region (Pliny, Nat. Hist. viii. 213; Dio. Cass. XXXVIII). However, before Hybrida's army can reach Histria a barbarian army, drawn from the local population, mobilizes to save the city.
The events which follow are to rank among the most embarrassing in the history of the empire…
Location of Histria
The interior of eastern Thrace/Scythia Minor during this period was inhabited by a unique population of Thracian (Getae), Celtic, and Celto-Scythian (Bastarnae) tribes. During Rome's recent conflict with the Pontic King Mithridates VI the Celts and Bastarnae had allied themselves against the empire (App. Mith. 69, 111; Justin 38:3, Memnon 27:7). At the Battle of Chalcedon, for example, the Bastarnae had dealt a severe blow to the Romans – "In the land battle the Bastarnae routed the Italians, and slaughtered them" (Memnon op cit). Indeed, according to Appianus, his Celtic allies had stood with Mithridates to the bitter end in the conflict:
"Seeing a certain Bituitus there, an officer of the Gauls, he said to him, 'I have profited much from your right arm against my enemies. I shall profit from it most of all if you will kill me.
…Bituitus, thus appealed to, rendered the king the service he desired".
(App. Mith. 111)
As with so many 'barbarian' leaders of the European Iron Age, the Bastarnae king who faced the Roman army at Histria in 61 BC has hitherto remained nameless. However, recent numismatic evidence from the southern Dobruja region of today's n.e. Bulgaria has yielded information which may allow us to finally identify the 'Hero of Histria'.
During the 2/1 century BC six Peucini Bastarnae kings in this area struck coins in their names. Emerging numismatic data indicates that the latest of these was Akrosas, whose coinage was minted for him at the Greek colony of Dionysopolis (today's Balchik) (See 'Sariakes' article with relevant lit.), near the Bastarnae settlement of Peuce (loc cit), once again confirming that this area was the center of (Peucini) Bastarnae political and economic power in the 2nd/ 1st c. BC.
Lead measure weight of Dionysopolis bearing the ΕΥ from the name of the monetary magistrate Eukles (genitive ΕΥΚΛΕΟΥ)
(after Draganov 2012)
Bronze issues of Dionysopolis bearing the name of the magistrate ΕΥΚΛΕΟΥ
Akrosas bronze issues bearing the name of the king and the ΕΥ of the Dionysopolis magistrate ΕΥΚΛΕΟΥ
Celto-Scythian (Peucini Bastarnae) burial from Durankulak Island (Dobrudja), north-eastern Bulgaria
(2nd c. BC)
https://balkancelts.wordpress.com/2012/12/01/peucini-bastarnae-the-land-of-esus/
Of great importance in establishing the chronology of Akrosas' rule is a hoard of gold and bronze coins discovered in 1968 at the village of Bulgarevo in the s. Dobruja region (near the Peucini settlement of Tirisis – see 'Sariakes' article). This hoard, found scattered in a field near the village, besides bronze Akrosas issues, also yielded 4 rare barbarian gold staters of the Lysimachus type, dated to the Mithridatic period (Youroukova, Draganov, op cit), which chronologically indicates that Akrosas was most probably the Bastarnae commander at the Battle of Histria in 61 BC.
Gold Lysimachus type staters from the Bulgarevo hoard
https://balkancelts.wordpress.com/2017/04/20/metamorphosis-in-gold-on-posthumous-and-celto-scythian-staters-of-the-lysimachus-type-in-crimea-and-the-pontus-region/
Bronze Issues of the Bastarnae leader Akrosas from the Bulgarevo hoard
For Rome, the Battle of Histria was a complete fiasco. As Hybrida's army approached the city, a large force of Bastarnae cavalry swept down on the Romans and the Roman governor, apparently caught unawares, detached his entire mounted force from the marching column and retreated, or, as the Roman historian Dio Cassius rather bluntly puts it – 'and thereupon he ran away…' ( Dio. Cass. XXXVIII). Without cavalry support, the Roman infantry were left exposed, and massacred. The Bastarnae subsequently captured several of the Roman vexilla (military standards), which made the humiliation complete.
Burial of a young Celto-Scythia horseman with La Tène weapons and bearskin cloak, from Mana, Moldova. (1 c. BC)
https://balkancelts.wordpress.com/2017/01/29/the-bear-claw-warrior-burial-of-a-celto-scythian-bastarnae-horseman-from-mana-orhei-district-moldava/
In the short term, Akrosas' victory at Histria resulted in the complete collapse of the Roman positions on the lower Danube, but ironically Hybrida's defeat set in motion a cycle of events which would ultimately bring the region under Roman rule. Shortly after the battle, the Thracian Getae, who had been Bastarnae allies at Histria, launched a series of brutal attacks on their neighbors and the Greek Pontic cities. Under the command of a leader called Burebista, who declared himself "King of all Thrace", by the time the Getae had finished their rampage the barbarian coalition which had defeated Hybrida in 61 BC was destroyed, and the tribes who had constituted this alliance weakened to such an extent that, despite further resistance by the Celtic and Bastarnae tribes in 29/28 BC, by the end of the 1st c. BC Thrace had fallen completely under Roman control.
On the Celto-Scythian Bastarnae tribes see:
https://balkancelts.wordpress.com/2016/05/01/celto-scythians-and-celticization-in-ukraine-and-the-north-pontic-region/
Mac Congail
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SARIAKES – The Wheat King
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UD: Feb. 2016
Recently published archaeological and numismatic evidence from the Dobruja region (s.e. Romania/n.e. Bulgaria) has shed new light on the elusive Celto-Scythian kings who ruled in this area in the Late Iron Age, and provided vital information both on the geographical area controlled by the Bastarnae leaders, and the chronology of their rule.
SARIAKES
An inscription on an altar (fig. 1) discovered at Cape Kaliakra in the Southern Dobruja region of today's Bulgaria has yielded the first concrete evidence about the territory controlled by the (Peucini) Bastarnae king Sariakes in the early 2nd c. BC. Cape Kaliakra, where the altar was discovered, was known in the Late Iron Age as Tirizis (loc cit), and lay slightly to the east of the Bastarnae settlement of Peuce in the Balchik/Dionysopolis area. Previous numismatic and archaeological evidence has confirmed a Celtic (Celto-Scythian) presence in the area, and the Cape Kaliakra inscription to ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΣΑΡΙΑΚΟΥ provides further epigraphic evidence that this area was controlled by the Bastarnae during the period in question.
Fig 1. The Cape Kaliakra / Tirizis inscription
(after Драганов Д. Монетите на Скитските Царе. София 2012)
Cape Kaliakra
The dedication on the altar was made to the Bastarnae king by a Macedonian called Antigon, which also provides a possible chronological framework for the rule of Sariakos. We know from ancient sources that in the second decade of the 2nd c. BC Philip V of Macedonia sent envoys to both the Thracian Celts (Scordisci) and the Bastarnae to solicit their help in his planned war with Rome. Livy informs us that:
'The envoys whom he had sent to the Bastarnae to summon assistance had returned and brought back with them some young nobles, amongst them some of royal blood. One of these promised to give his sister in marriage to Philip's son, and the king was quite elated at the prospect of an alliance with that nation'.
(Livy 40:5)
The testimony of Livy again emphasizes the geo-political importance of the Bastarnae in the region, and the Kaliakra/Tirizis inscription provides the first archaeological confirmation of the contact between the Macedonians and the Bastarnae of today's northeastern Bulgaria during the period in question.
Further information about the Bastarnae king, Sariakes, comes from extensive numismatic material discovered in the area. Besides a number of bronze issues, Sariakes was the only one of the Bastarnae kings to have minted silver coinage during this period (fig. 2). Silver coinage circulating in this area in the the 2nd/1st c. BC consisted of issues of the Greek Black Sea colonies or that produced by the Thracian Celtic tribes, which makes the silver Sariakes issues particularly noteworthy.
Fig. 2. Silver Sariakes coinage (early 2nd c. BC)
The iconography to be observed on both the silver and bronze (fig. 3) Sariakes issues gives us an important insight into the cultural processes at work among the Bastarnae tribes during this period. As with the other Peucini leaders, the coinage of Sariakes is Hellenistic in nature. This process of Hellenization is to be also observed on the coinage of the Celtic Tyle state which controlled this part of Bulgaria in the previous century, and the portrayal of Greek divinities – Demeter, Zeus, Apollo, Heracles, the Dioscuri etc. – on this coinage illustrates that the Bastarnae in this area (at least the aristocratic class), as with the Galatians, had become heavily Hellenized.
Fig. 3 – Sariakes Bronze issues
THE WHEAT KING
A particularly interesting feature to be observed on the coinage of Sariakes, and other Bastarnae kings, is the recurring presence of the wheat symbol on the reverse of their coinage. The Dobruja area has traditionally been the 'breadbasket' of the region, with production of wheat playing a key role in the economy. The wheat symbols on the coins of Sariakes is again an indication that the prosperity of the barbarian Zaravetz culture in this area in the Late Iron Age was largely due to the production and export of wheat along the Danube through Celtic ports such as Mediolana, and to the Hellenistic world through the Greek Black Sea ports.
https://www.academia.edu/4118437/Mediolana_and_the_Zaravetz_Culture
Posted in Archaeology, History, NumismaticsTagged Bastarnae coinage, Bastarnae kings, Peuce, Peucini Bastarnae, Philip V macedonia Bastarnae, Sariakes, Tirizis
PEUCINI BASTARNAE
December 1, 2012 November 24, 2015 bren2793 Comments
UD – Nov. 2015
'…the Gauls on the Danube who are called Bastarnae, an equestrian host and warlike'.
(Plut. Aem. 9.6)
The Peucini were the southern branch of the Bastarnae tribal confederation, initially settled in the Lower Danube region, specifically around the island of Peuce, from which they took their name – 'while those who took possession of Peuce, the island in the Ister, are called Peucini' (Strabo Vii, 3,17).
From the end of the 3rd/beginning of the 2nd c. BC (coinciding chronologically with the collapse of the Celtic Tyle state in eastern Thrace) the Peucini began to expand southwards into sub-Danubian Thrace, where they are referred to variously as 'Galatians', 'Bastarnae' or 'Gauls'. In 179 BC they first appear in historical sources as allies of the Scordisci and the Macedonian king Philip V, who intended to send them against Rome. The geo-political significance of the Peucini at this stage is noted by ancient authors. Livy informs us that:
'The envoys whom he had sent to the Bastarnae to summon assistance had returned and brought back with them some young nobles, amongst them some of royal blood. One of these promised to give his sister in marriage to Philip's son, and the king was quite elated at the prospect of an alliance with that nation' (Livy. History of Rome. Book 40:5).
Although Philip's sudden death meant that this Macedonian/Celtic coalition against Rome never materialized, the same source makes it clear that by this time the Bastarnae were firmly established in eastern Thrace (Livy 40:58).
( on the Bastarnae tribes see also: https://www.academia.edu/4835555/Gallo-Scythians )
THE "LAND OF ESUS"
The main centre of Peucini political and economic power in southern Dobruja (n-e Bulgaria) was concentrated in the territory around the Kavarna/Balchik/Kaliakra area on the Black Sea coast, where we encounter the settlement of Peuce in the Balchik area (IGBulg V, 5011 (terr. Dionysopolis), probably the center/capital of the Peucini kingdom. This is confirmed by the fact that many of the Peucini Bastarnae coins were minted in Dionysopolis/Balchik. Close to Peuce was the settlement of Tirizis/ Τιρίζης, located on cape Kaliakra (Men. Perg., Per. 156; Strabo 7. 6.1) which appears to bear the name of the Celtic deity Esus (Proto-Celtic = *tīrro – land, *tīros- 'land, earth' [Noun] – GOlD: OIr. tir [0 n]; W: OW tir, MW tir [m], BRET: MBret tir [m], Co: OCo. tir gl. tellus, Co. tyr; the second element from the Celtic deity Esus (Lucanus, Bellum civile I.445, Marcellus of Bordeaux, De medicamentis 15.106, p. 121), – the name meaning literally 'the Land of Esus'.
Archaeological and numismatic evidence from this area of north-eastern Bulgaria, particularly around the aforementioned Kavarna area, indicates that by the 2nd/1st c. BC the material culture of the Peucini was a mixture of La Têne and Hellenistic cultures (Mac Congail 2008:52), which explains why archaeologists have hitherto been unable to identify a distinct Bastarnae culture.
Numismatic material from this period is particularly indicative of the geo-political and economic status quo in this region in the period directly before the Roman conquest. Coinage circulating in this area in the 3rd – 1st c. BC, besides issues of the Greek Black Sea colonies, consisted of coinage of the Celtic Tyle state (3rd c. BC) found at the villages of Bozhurets, Septemvrijtsi and Sveti Nikola, again in the Kavarna area, Celtic silver Philip II and III type drachms and tetradrachms, and Zaravetz bronze and lead issues.
In addition to this highly complex mix of Greek and 'barbarian' coinage, during the 2nd / 1st c. BC the Celto-Scythian leaders of the Peucini Bastarnae also issued a limited number of their own coins.
BASTARNAE ROYAL COINAGE
So far coinage of six Bastarnae kings in the Dobruja region of southeastern Romania/northeastern Bulgaria have been identified – Kanites, Tanousas, Charaspes, Aelis, Akrosas and Sariakes, and their coins have been found almost exclusively around the West Pontic Greek cities of Istrus, Tomi, Callatis, Dionysopolis and Odessos. They are roughly dated to the 2nd / 1st c. BC and, as with the coinage of the Celtic Tyle state in this region of the previous century, are Hellenistic in nature, in terms of artistic style and iconography. Some of the iconography, notably the obverse Head of beardless Heracles in lion skin, are also similar to the Celtic Tyle coins and, as with the Celtic kings of Tyle before them, the Peucini leaders used the royal title ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ on their coinage.
( On the Coinage of the Celtic Tyle state in this area see: https://www.academia.edu/5420363/THE_TYLE_EXPERIMENT )
a. Obv.: Heads of Dioscuri jugate wearing laureate pilei, r. Rev.: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ (r. from above) ΑΙΛΙΟΣ (l. from above). Two horse foreparts jugate, r. (AE; 23 mm; 8.80 g; Kavarna museum (Bulgaria)
b. Obv.: Head of Helios radiate facing. Rev.: ΒΑΣΙΛΕ (l. from below) ΑΙΛΙΟΣ (r. from below). Rayed sun. (AE; 17 mm; 4.52 g)
KANITES
a. Head of Demeter veiled and wearing corn wreath, r. Rev.: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ (r., from above) ΚΑΝΙΤΟΥ (l., from above). Torch and corn ear. (AE 24 mm; 11.08 g)
b. Obv.: Head of Zeus diademed, r. Rev.: ΒΑΣΙΛΕ (r., from above) ΚΑΝΙ (l., from above). Bird on thunderbolt, r. (AE; 22 mm; 9.25)
TANOUSAS
a. Obv.: Heads of Demeter and Kore jugate, veiled and wearing corn wreaths, r. Countermark, head of Hermes, r. Rev.: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ (r., from above) ΤΑΝΟΥΣΑ (l., from above), ΒΑΚ (below). Two corn ears. (AE; 24 mm; 8.40 g)
b. Obv.: Heads of Dioscuri jugate wearing laureate pilei, r. Rev.: ΒΑΣΙΛΕ (r., from above) ΤΑΝΟΥ (l., from above), ΒΑΚ (below). Two horse foreparts jugate, r. (AE; 15 mm; 3.34 g)
CHARASPES
a. Obv.: Heads of Dioscuri jugate wearing laureate pilei, r. Rev.: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ (r., from above) ΧΑΡΑΣΠΟΥ (l., from above). Bird on thunderbolt, r. (AE; 23 mm; 9.50 g)
b. Obv.: Head of beardless Heracles in lion skin, r. Rev.: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ (r., from above) ΧΑΡΑΣΠΟΥ (l., from above). Corn ear, quiver, bow. (AE; 22 mm; 8.54 g)
AKROSAS
a. Obv.: Heads of Dioscuri jugate wearing laureate pilei, r. Rev.: ΒΑΣΙΛΕ (r., from above) ΑΚΡΟΣΑ (l., from above). Two horse fore-parts jugate, r. (AE; 24 mm; 9.50 g)
b. Obv.: Heads of Demeter and Kore jugate, veiled and wearing corn wreaths, r. Rev.: ΒΑΣΙΛΕ (r., from above) ΑΚΡΟΣΑ (l., from above). Two corn ears. (AE; 24 mm; 6.22 g)
( https://balkancelts.wordpress.com/2013/02/02/akrosas-the-king-who-scared-a-monster/ )
a. Obv.: Head of beardless Heracles in lion skin, r. Rev.: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ (r., from above) ΣΑΡΙΑΚΟΥ (l., from above). Bow, quiver, thunderbolt (above), corn ear. (AE; 24 mm; 9.25 g)
b. Obv.: Head of Zeus diademed, r. Rev.: ΒΑΣΙΛΕ (r., from above) ΣΑΡΙΑΚ (l., from above). Bird on thunderbolt, r. (AE; 24 mm; 10.80 g)
( see: https://balkancelts.wordpress.com/2013/01/12/sariakes-the-wheat-king/ )
The fact that these Celto-Scythian kings issued only bronze coinage is significant from a geo-political perspective. The theory of a unitary (Scythian) state in this region during the late Iron Age, based only on a number of lower value (bronze) coins, minted by the Greek Black Sea colonies for these leaders, is logically flawed. The Bastarnae coinage had a mainly symbolic function, and comprised only a small fraction of the overall coin pool in the area during this period, which consisted primarily of Greek and Celtic coinage.
The Bastarnae royal coinage adds an important piece to the puzzle, and increases our understanding of the socio-political and ethnic status quo in this part of south-eastern Europe. The available archaeological, linguistic and numismatic evidence from this region clearly indicates that a unique culture developed between the 3rd and 1st c. BC, based on a symbiotic and prosperous relationship between the barbarian (Celtic, Bastarnae, Getae) tribes, and the Greek Black Sea colonies.
( see also: https://www.academia.edu/4118437/Mediolana_and_the_Zaravetz_Culture )
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By Eleanor Creighton
Hear Me Sing Your Song & With Raised Arms
Double bill by Liv O'Donoghue
This is Liv O'Donoghue's first full evening production and the creation of two new works is an ambitious step. Bringing together dance, music and visual design, this double bill will create two distinctive worlds, conjuring thoughts and feelings about who we are and what impacts the choices we make have on ourselves and those around us.
HEAR ME SING YOUR SONG
Liv O'Donoghue is Irish. But she's also Norwegian. Or maybe she's from somewhere in between? Somewhere remote, where only surrealism and dark humour ward off the bleak cold. Here, two dancers, a drummer, a fiddle player and a stranger find themselves, unsure of how they got there or where they're going to. Hear Me Sing Your Song threads together fragments of a family history, uncovering a past to shed light on the present.
Hear Me Sing Your Song has been in development since late 2012 and features dancers Maria Nilsson Waller and Clare Brzezicki and musicians Bryan O'Connell and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh. A final development period will take place at DanceHouse during Dublin Dance Festival.
WITH RAISED ARMS
With Raised Arms seeks to reveal an everywoman of contemporary Ireland in a work which considers the strange rationale of politics in the status quo. Through the cynicism of inaction and non-choice, questions of the artist (or woman) as commodity arise.
With Raised Arms premiered at the Firkin Crane, Cork in January 2014. A duet for Liv and Bryan O'Connell, it features original composition and sound design by Tom Lane.
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Plus: 2 tickets to the Opening Night performance on July 10th and enjoy a delicious picnic lunch with the cast on Sunday July 13th. A song sung to you in Norwegian by the cast of Hear Me Sing Your Song in the green room after the show. A signed copy of Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh's solo album Where the One Eyed Man is King. A limited edition poster by Luca Truffarelli and signed (on the back!) by the cast. A video message from the cast during their residency in May. A warm thank you on Liv O'Donoghue's social media and your name in the Hear Me Sing Your Song / With Raised Arms show programme.
A tune composed especially for you by Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, to a title of your choosing (delivery is by MP3 file). A Nordic-inspired dinner for you, prepared by Liv O'Donoghue and Maria Nilsson Waller after the conclusion of the run of performances, and a mini living room concert performed by Bryan O'Connell, Tom Lane & Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh.
Plus: 2 tickets to the Opening Night performance in July 10th. A song sung to you in Norwegian by the cast of Hear Me Sing Your Song in the green room after the show. A signed copy of Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh's solo album Where the One Eyed Man is King. A limited edition poster by Luca Truffarelli and signed (on the back!) by the cast. A video message from the cast during their residency in May. A warm thank you on Liv O'Donoghue's social media and your name in the Hear Me Sing Your Song / With Raised Arms show programme.
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Plus: 4 tickets to the Opening Night performance on July 10th with bubbly for after.
A song sung to you in Norwegian by the cast of Hear Me Sing Your Song in the green room after the show. A signed copy of Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh's solo album Where the One Eyed Man is King. A limited edition poster by Luca Truffarelli and signed (on the back!) by the cast. A video message from the cast during their residency in May. A warm thank you on Liv O'Donoghue's social media and your name in the Hear Me Sing Your Song / With Raised Arms show programme.
The rewards are coming!
Update posted on Tuesday 13th May '14 @ 09:05:13
We can't say thank you enough. We've now received our final report from the good people at Fund it and would like to thank you again for your incredible generosity in funding Hear Me Sing Your Song & With Raised Arms. It'll take us a few days to email all of you with details of when your rewards will be ready. We're making the thank you video in the studio next week, when all the gang is together rehearsing. So, please bear with us while we make (yet another) epic spreadsheet and get these rewarding wheels in motion! For catapulting us miles further along the road to Project Arts Centre - míle buíochas, hjertelig takk and thanks a million. Ellie, Liv and the gang
Eyes on the finish line - just 3 days to go!
Update posted on Tuesday 29th April '14 @ 12:04:45
With just 3 days left until the end of the campaign, we're racing for the finish line. We feel both humbled and excited by the generosity you've shown us. All 69 of you. Liv, Luca, Caoimhín, Bryan, Maria and Clare had a great photoshoot at Ballylusk quarry on Sunday - there's a little teaser pic over on our Facebook page. We now have just €395 left to raise before Friday morning. Why not let your friends know how generous you've been and encourage them to help us get across the finish line? For joining us on the road to Project Arts Centre - míle buíochas, hjertelig takk and thanks a million. Ellie, Liv and the gang
One week over - 13 days left to go!
Update posted on Friday 18th April '14 @ 04:04:29
We're now up to 47% funded after our first week. We're really overwhelmed by the support that our project has received so far. Another few quid and we'll be at the half-way mark... Incredible! Here's hoping you, our lovely funders, will all have a lovely sunny Easter weekend, wherever you are. Thanks again for your generosity - and don't forget to tell your friends! Míle buíochas, hjertelig takk and thanks a million, Ellie, Liv and the gang
25% in 24 hours - Huge thanks to our First Funders!
Update posted on Saturday 12th April '14 @ 12:04:06
We're agog. In under 24 hours, we've raised 25% of our target. Just 19 days to get over the line (tell your friends!), but we'd like to thank our first 9 funders particularly for this early hurrah of support. So, for being with us from the start: Míle buíochas, hjertelig takk, thanks a million... From Liv, Ellie and the gang
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High Mobility Raises € 3 Million To Bring Standardised Connected Car API To Global Developer Ecosystem
Risto Vahtra
Berlin-based developer platform for connected cars High Mobility has secured a capital increase round of € 3 million, reaffirming the current investors' continued trust in the pioneering startup and the founders' vision to connect the auto industry to a global ecosystem of developers.
Following this vote of confidence, and on the back of innovative collaborations with Porsche and Mercedes-Benz in the last 12 months, High Mobility will focus its efforts on bringing its unique developer platform including the powerful Auto API to an even wider developer community.
"High Mobility is on its course to become the gold standard for the connected car API," said CEO and co-founder Risto Vahtra. "In an era where software and services are increasingly defining a carmaker's success, we are dedicated to building the best platform for connected car app development and bringing that platform to a global developer ecosystem."
Led by a group of private investors with deep understandings of the industry headed by Fabian von Kuenheim and the Berlin-based venture capital firm IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft, the investment will be used to accelerate the work towards providing app developers with real car data through a standardised car API.
Building on the success with existing OEMs and customers like Mercedes-Benz and Porsche, the company will launch further projects with major players in the auto industry, drive its global expansion, and accelerate work with existing customers over the course of the next 12 months.
"We have been invested in High Mobility since the early days. It fits perfectly our suite of other investments in the car industry, focused on Autonomous Driving and Connected Car as well as Advanced Emission Control systems. High Mobility is the seldom exception where a startup delivers its innovations within budget and timeframe and exceeds revenue predictions at the same time," added the lead investor Fabian von Kuenheim. "It is a joy working with such an open-minded, flexible and visionary team in shaping the future of the car industry."
High Mobility, founded in 2013 by Risto Vahtra and CTO Kevin Valdek, successfully closed its seed funding round in early 2016 with a 7-digit investment, again headed by Fabian von Kuenheim and the Berlin-based venture capital firm IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft. The next significant milestone for the company will be the launch of its expanded connected car app development platform in the second half of July 2018 which will include dedicated developer workspaces from major car manufacturers and car emulators for specific vehicle models.
The company currently boasts close to 2000 connected car app developers from over 50 countries who are actively engaged in the platform, many of whom have also built projects in simulation pilots with carmakers in direct response to the industry's fast-changing attitude towards connectivity. No longer sticklers for tradition, carmakers are now actively responding to driver demands for improved app ecosystems and services. High Mobility acts as the bridge between the global developer community and major car manufacturers who are seeking to find and maintain a strong footing in the digital sphere.
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Foreign imports from Bangladesh to Port of Portland in 2015 were $1,525,227, while exports to Bangladesh were $15,617,835.
The value of container cargo imported into Port of Portland from Bangladesh represented 100.0% of all vessel imports, $1,525,227 versus $1,525,227.
By weight, container cargo imports to Port of Portland from Bangladesh represented 837.6% of all vessel shippments, 1,384,653 (kg) versus 165,314 (kg).


The University of Queensland has ranked 52 in the annual Best Global Universities league table published by US News and World Report today (6 October).
Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Peter Høj said the American-based rankings included only 20 Australian universities in the world top 500.
"This latest result continues UQ's consistently high performance in global rankings, placing at 46, 56, 60 and 77 in the other respected rankings of the world's more than 10,000 universities," he said.
"Our passionate academic teaching staff and tireless researchers are behind results like this, ensuring that advances made at UQ are used to make a difference in the world.
UQ performed strongly in the US News and World Report Subject rankings with two disciplines, Environment/Ecology (10) and Plant and Animal Science (20), ranked in top 20 in the world.
A further six subjects were ranked in the world's top 50: Agricultural Sciences (24), Pharmacology and Toxicology (24), Microbiology (28), Social Sciences and Public Health (29), Materials Science (44) and Biology and Biochemistry (49).
"Successes such as this are the clear reason so many international and Australian students, as well as business partners, choose UQ," Professor Høj said.
The Best Global Universities rankings, now in their second year, focus specifically on institutions' academic research and overall reputation.
The Best Global Universities league table listed 750 universities this year, up from 500 in 2014.
The top four spots went to US institutions; Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California Berkeley and Stanford.


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That Time a Resident of Dildo Petitioned to Change the Town's Name in 1990
Oct 23, 2018 by Secret East	in Found Footage
Kind of hard not to be ribbed with a name like Dildo…
The Newfoundland town of Dildo has gotten its fair share of attention throughout the years, and the response of the locals has been polarizing at times. Some folks have scrambled to find the origins of their town's name in phallus-shaped row boat pins, 16th century test tubes, and old scornful insults. Some believe Dildoe (the earliest spelling of the town) could have been derived from an old Spanish surname with a connection to settlers of the area, though there has never been any confirmed evidence. While the exact history of the name that has existed since the early 1700s is largely unknown, there is no denying the notoriety that has come solely from sharing a moniker with a phallus-shaped sex toy. Or, a prosthetic penis, if you will.
Some locals have only tolerated the name of Dildo, while others have straight up embraced and celebrated it. Before the recent boom and success of the Dildo Brewing Company, there were many failed efforts to have the name changed. In 1990, local electrician Robert Elford started a petition to rename the town. In a CBC News spot found here, Elford explained that the name, well, embarrassed his kids. Retitling towns was not uncommon in Newfoundland. Prior to Elford's attempt in 1990, Famish Gut had become Fair Haven, Gayside switched to Baytona, and Silly Cove had gotten slightly more serious as Winterton.
While many signed up in support of Elford's efforts, the proud portion of the Dildo population, like fourth generation resident Lloyd George, fought against the motion.
"I can't see surrendering 300 years of historic value of this town for a silly old sexual object" George told the CBC in 1990.
Ultimately, Elford's campaign at giving Dildo a brand refresh failed, and so has every similar movement since. With time, it seems the stigma has died down. In the end, whether folks want to accept the name as a blessing or a curse, the sex toy jokes have landed the Trinity Bay town of roughly 1,200 as an unforgettable, and internationally talked about destination.
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June 25, 2014 — The Michigan Legislature "hasn't shown much interest in the state's shockingly high rate of unplanned pregnancy, and infant and maternal death," but it recently "approved an $800,000 contract in the 2014-15 budget 'to promote childbirth,' alternatives to abortion and abstinence education at crisis pregnancy centers," Detroit News columnist Laura Berman writes.
According to Berman, the "no-bid contract goes solely to Real Alternatives Inc., a Pennsylvania nonprofit that helps anti-abortion, mostly faith-based centers comply with separation of church and state regulations and receive government funding." The organization aims to partner with "Michigan pregnancy centers that oppose abortion and the use of birth control pills and that counsel women to choose adoption or birth in unplanned pregnancies," she writes, explaining that the state funds are supposed to flow through Real Alternatives to reimburse the centers "for diapers, baby furniture and counseling services."
However, after Real Alternatives received a $700,000 contract from the state last year, it "failed to see a single client or sign up one Michigan provider during the first eight months," Berman continues. The new $800,000 contract is "roughly equal to state spending for pregnancy prevention and family planning services in 2014-15," and other family planning programs are set to expire at the end of the month.
Berman notes, "Prayers, propaganda and a year's supply of diapers will not pay child care costs or medical bills," adding that "family planning experts say the $800,000 appropriation serves political ends, not public health needs" (Berman, Detroit News , 6/23).