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Commission after Commission
By Aman Ullah
The Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic minority group in Myanmar, have been systematically disenfranchised and increasingly marginalized, including through denial of citizenship and restriction of movement. Over the years successive UN Special Rapporteurs on the situation of human rights in Myanmar have reported serious continuing human rights violations against this community.
Since 9 October 2016, Myanmar's security forces have carried out large-scale attacks against the Rohingya population in Rakhine State's Maungdaw, Buthidaung, and Rathedaung Townships as part of 'clearance operations' in response to attacks on three police border posts by armed assailants. These 'clearance operations' violate numerous provisions of international human rights law.
The 'clearance operations' involved human rights violations against women, men, and children, including: extrajudicial killings; enforced disappearances; torture and other ill-treatment, notably rape and other crimes of sexual violence; arbitrary arrests and detention; forced displacement; and destruction and looting of homes, food, and other property.
UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human rights (OHCHR) have chronicled extensive human rights violations by the security forces, including unlawful killings, arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, rape and other crimes of sexual violence, other forms of torture and ill-treatment, destruction of property and denial of humanitarian access. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) estimates more than 69,000 people have fled from Rakhine State for Bangladesh since October, while 92,000 people remain internally displaced in Myanmar.
The UN report has identified arson as a major cause of death. Testimonies collected from villages convey horrifying reports of women and children burned alive in their homes by soldiers. Numerous people claim the army deliberately set fire to homes and, in some particularly tragic cases, set fire to buildings and then pushed people into them. Eyewitnesses report several separate instances where both non-Rohingya villagers and the army locked several families of Rohingya Muslims into buildings and set fire to them. The report detailed "widespread and systematic" attacks against the Rohingya and reiterated "the very likely commission of crimes against humanity" – as had already been concluded by the High Commissioner in June 2016.
Myanmar's government has flatly denied allegations that abuses have been committed, but has prevented independent journalists and aid workers from accessing parts of northern Rakhine. Under international pressure they are going to form commission after commission to investigate allegations of human rights violations; however none of these commissions are independent or credible.
Since October 2016, four official commissions have been set up to investigate the situation in Rakhine State. Regrettably, all of them lack the independence, impartiality, human rights and technical expertise, and mandate necessary to conduct a credible and effective investigation:
1. On 1 December 2016, Myanmar's President Htin Kyaw established a 13-member investigation commission led by Vice-President Myint Swe, a former army general, to probe "the truth" in relation to violent attacks that occurred on 9 October and 12-13 November 2016 in Maungdaw Township. Its members include the current Chief of Police and a number of former government officials. The commission's preliminary findings, published on 3 January 2017, dismissed claims of misconduct by Myanmar security forces, having found insufficient evidence to take legal action in response to alleged violations, religious persecution, and allegations of genocide. As the UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng noted on 6 February, this commission "is not a credible option" to investigate abuses against Rohingya.
2. Two commissions, formed by the army and the Ministry of Home Affairs (also controlled by the military) on 9 February and 11 February 2017 respectively, have been tasked with investigating human rights violations committed by military and police personnel during the 'clearance operations'. These commissions, made up of military and police officers, lack the independence and impartiality necessary to investigate violations committed by security forces.
3. An 11-member commission appointed by the Rakhine State Parliament on 24 October 2016, composed predominantly of ethnic Rakhine members from the Arakan National Party (ANP), was tasked with investigating the 9 October attacks on the three police border post but excluded any probe into human rights violations against the Rohingya population. The commission's chairman, ANP MP Aung Win, claimed in an interview with the BBC that rape of Rohingya women could not have occurred because they are "very dirty" and "they are not attractive so neither the local Buddhist men or the soldiers are interested in them."
Moreover, another earlier commission, set up by then-President Thein Sein in August 2012 to investigate unrest in Rakhine State, failed to lead to accountability for human rights violations committed during successive waves of violence between June and October 2012. Approximately 140,000 people, predominantly Rohingya, were internally displaced and at least 200 were killed during the unrest. Given the inability or unwillingness of these commissions to establish facts and hold perpetrators accountable, and the fact that national judicial and law enforcement authorities lack the both the independence and technical capacity to deal with such situations.
All of them lack the independence, impartiality, human rights and technical expertise, and mandate necessary to conduct a credible and effective investigation. In according to Matthew Smith, founder of campaign group Fortify Rights, "The army has committed atrocity crimes and this commission is attempting a whitewash. Ministries led by Suu Kyi have charted the path of denial, waging a shameful propaganda campaign." Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director at New York-based Human Rights Watch, termed these as 'whitewash mechanism'.
An advisory commission was also established by Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi on 24 August 2016. The commission consists of nine members, including three international experts with former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan as its chair. However, its mandate is limited to making general recommendations to the government to "resolve protracted issues" in Rakhine State and both Annan and the Myanmar government have affirmed the commission will not investigate reports of human rights violations.
The Commission submitted its interim report on 16 March 2017 and its final Report on August 2017. On its final report the commission gave 88 recommendations. In the forward by the Chairman of the Commission, Mr. Annan wrote that, "With the presentation of our final report, the advisory Commission on Rakhine has fulfilled its mandate. Responsibility of our recommendations now lies with Myanmar leaders and institutions…….. We have suggested that the Government establish a mechanism to facilitate and track that process."
Moreover, The Myanmar government has formed a four-member 'independent' commission to investigate allegations of human rights violations in the Rakhine state following attacks on security forces' check posts in August 2018.
The commission's formation was disclosed in a press release posted on the website of the Myanmar president's office. According to the release, the Myanmar government established the commission as part of its national initiative to address reconciliation, peace, stability and development in Rakhine.
The Commission comprises the following personalities:
1. Ambassador Rosario G.Manalo, Chairperson, Former Deputy Foreign Minister of Philippines,
2. Mya Thein, Member, Former chair of Constitutional Tribunal, Myanmar,
3. Ambassador Kenzo Oshima, Member, former UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, and the Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations.
4. Professor Dr. Aung Tun Thet, Member, Former Senior Official of UNICEF and Former Principal Officer UN System Staff College.
However, its formation nearly one year after the military crackdown on innocent Rohingya people started has prompted human right activists in Myanmar and Rohingya Diasporas to rain down criticisms, questioning the commission's credibility and accountability.
Since August 26 last year, more than 700,000 Rohingyas, mostly children and women, crossed into Bangladesh fleeing brutal persecution carried out by Myanmar security forces, and joined over 400,000 other Rohingyas who were already living squalid, cramped refugee camps in Cox's Bazar.
Several thousands of people from the ethnic minority Muslim group are also living, under terrible conditions, on the no man's land between the two countries.
However, Khin Ohmar, chairperson of Myanmar-based human rights advocacy organization Progressive Voice, told the Dhaka Tribune: "The commission has individuals from international community such as from the Philippines and Japan. But they do not have enough credentials or track record when comes to protecting human rights.
"No one knows how they got selected to be on the commission and what their mandate is."
The rights activist said: "The process is discreet and lacks transparency. So we have no confidence in that. It's neither independent nor impartial."
Burmese authorities had numerous opportunities to launch credible investigations before, Ohmar said, like in 2017, when the UN found evidences of crimes against humanity carried out against the Rohingyas, but a national commission rejected that.
"And an army investigation into the 2017 attacks even determined that there were no deaths of innocent people. Clearly, Myanmar has no intention to launch a credible investigation," she added.
Different Rohingya Diasporas also said that formation of such commission is not new and an independent and impartial investigation panel already exists in the form of the UN Human Rights Council-mandated Fact-Finding Mission (FFM).
But the government refused to cooperate with the FFM and the UN special rapporteur on Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, and did not allow them to enter Myanmar.
Hence, it is another whitewash mechanism f the Government of Myanmar to avoid international pressure.
The New Initiative That Bangladesh is Thinking
By Aman Ullah Against the backdrop
Only Bilateral Repatriation is not Part of the Solution
By Aman Ullah The much-awaited


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A: Well in the course of writing up my question for others and working to spell things out, I realized that declaring input with
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I have failed to look at the type of os.Stdin until I started to write up the question. And so I declared input in terms of the most general interface required by the function that will use it.

A: The way to check if an io.Reader implements Close is to use type assertion as:
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Q: How to change phpMyAdmin logo to my own logo? Can any body tell me how to change the phpMyAdmin logo to my own logo? Is it possible?

A: If you don't want to rewrite the phpmyadmin image and you can access httpd.conf file, follow the below method.
Append the following line of code to httpd.conf:
redirect /phpmyadmin/themes/original/img/logo_right.png /mypath/mylog.png

then restart the web- server.
Or If you want replace the image, just find out the phpmyadmin directory.
In Ubuntu the configuration file /etc/apache2/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf contains the location of the phpmyadmin:
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Booster Club Spotlight: Klein Football Booster Club
All-Star Inflatables honors the team behind the team. This week we highlight the hard work of the Klein Football Booster Club!
Jay Plotkin
Looking back on his first year at as president of the Klein Football Booster Club, Ken Arterberry is almost overwhelmed with support the club – and by extension the Bearkats football team – received from the community.
"The vendors in our community have been more supportive than you could ever imagine," Arterberry said. "It's been a hard year for them, but they were still able to make donations."
The club's board -- Arterberry, Vice President Jason Stroud, Treasurer Pam Carnes and Secretary Lindsay Stroud – knew it would need to take a different approach for the 2020 season. The club's primary annual fundraising golf tournament couldn't be held, and the normal face-to-face networking didn't happen either.
With the standard playbook unavailable, Arterberry did the only thing he could. He called an audible.
"We started with the basics," he said. "Our kids still had the opportunity to play football, so we thought it would be beneficial to reach out to parents and let them know how big of a deal that was."
The club put a priority on getting as many members as possible out to the club's annual Parent's Day – typically a lower key gathering where parents mingle and meet the team – and turn it into a fundraiser. It worked.
"It was an amazing outcome," Arterberry said. "We raised about $20,000 in that event, all from our parents."
Buoyed by the Parent's Day success, the club continued to work with the businesses who, despite hardships brought on by COVID, still wanted to contribute. Arterberry said a few stepped up with in-kind donations, including Eldridge Roofing & Restoration, which contributed hand sanitizer stations for fans to use at the stadium; Center Court Pizza and Brew, which created a revenue sharing program for diners who came in following Bearkat games with coupons club members handed out at the game; and Cormier's Kitchen, which provided food for coaches during their Saturday office hours.
The club also developed some new fan gear to sell to club members and spectators who came to games, including logoed masks and gaiters.
"That proved quite successful," Jason Stroud said. "Coach [Shane Hallmark] really liked the way they looked and encouraged all of the families to get them for the boys, so they all had the same thing. It was pretty exciting to have that for everyone."
Through it all, the fundraising proved successful enough that the club has been able to fulfill all of the team's projected needs for the current year and potentially into 2021.
"We will be able to take care of a variety of things that include knee braces and our future helmet purchases," Arterberry said. "We have a list of other pieces of equipment that we'll need, and we will be able to get that done."
While the club relied more on its own membership to raise money, officers hope that they'll be able to do more community outreach next year. That could open additional revenue streams. More importantly, though, it could create a small community feel for a team existing in the Houston suburbs.
"The goal is to get more community involvement," Jason Stroud said. "That helps us create a close knit community feel, kind of like they portrayed in 'Friday Night Lights.' We want to make it so everyone in the community is excited about Klein Bearkat football."
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Time: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Location: Chippewa Valley Technical College, Eau Claire Clairemont Campus
620 W. Clairemont Ave., Eau Claire, WI 54701
Attendees at last year's vision fair visit vendor tables and network.
If you or a family member is experiencing vision loss, we encourage you to attend the Low Vision Fair, presented by the Wisconsin Council of the Blind & Visually Impaired. The fair features low vision product vendors and how-to educational sessions. Sessions teach strategies and techniques to enable you to keep doing the activities you enjoy.
Vendors will be at the Low Vision Fair throughout the day and include: Wisconsin Council of the Blind & Visually Impaired Sharper Vision Store; Adaptive Technology Resources, Inc.; Aging and Disability Resource Centers of Eau Claire County and Chippewa County; Center for Independent Living for Western Wisconsin; Chippewa Valley VIP Support Group; Enhanced Vision; Industries for the Blind and Visually Impaired; Author Kathie Schneider; Office for the Blind and Visually Impaired; Office for Deaf and Hard of Hearing; Stout Vocational Rehabilitation Institute; Wisconsin Talking Book and Braille Library.
The educational breakout sessions take place between 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., and may include speakers on topics such as smart home technology, strategies to engage in everyday activities, reading with low vision, and use of lighting, labeling and contrast.
"The breakout sessions were helpful," says Rick, a previous Low Vision Fair attendee. "It is valuable to learn from people who use these strategies and products in their own lives."
The Low Vision Fair serves as a space to talk with others who are experiencing vision loss. There is no cost. Anyone with vision impairment, family, friends or professionals are welcome to attend.
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By Steven McMullenApril 28, 20212 Comments
Published by Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster in 2020
336pp / $28.00 / 978-1476700328
America is a politically polarized country. We see it all around us, but it is particularly visible now, in the middle of a pandemic. The response to COVID-19 could have been a real unifying force in American life and politics, but even this has become just one more issue over which we fight. We are convinced that our team is demonstrating all that is good and decent, and the other team is using the health crisis for corrupt political opportunism. Political scientists have long studied polarization in congress and the electorate, but over the last decade, it seems, people have really begun to feel it. We are a culture and country that is deeply divided, and we are more dramatically divided today than we were 20 or 30 years ago.
Earlier this year, before the pandemic and the George Floyd protests, Vox co-founder and podcaster Ezra Klein published a book simply titled Why We're Polarized. While Klein is not a political scientist, he is a long participant in and student of American politics, and he takes his reader through an immersive tour of the best evidence from psychology, political science, and history. His story has no heroes or villains, and yet he provides a comprehensive and deep explanation for why our country feels so divided. In case you are not someone who reads books about politics, let me give you my recommendation at the start. I think this is the most important book you can read to understand contemporary American politics. Klein's work is fascinating, compelling, and frightening. Christian leaders, in particular, should read this book to understand our times, and hopefully to prevent the Church from being one of the casualties of our divided culture.
First, though, what does it mean to say that we are polarized? One thing people mean when they say we are polarized is that people's views are more extreme: Republicans push for more extreme conservative policies and Democrats more extreme liberal policies. This is actually only a small part of it. Klein notes that while this kind of polarization seems to be happening, the actual views and proposals of republicans and democrats around the country are generally not more extreme than they used to be. The real polarization is different: it is not that we are pushing into more extreme views, but that we, and our representatives, are more consistently conservative or consistently liberal. Thus it is better to think of polarization, Klein says, as sorting. The U.S. electorate and our political leaders are much better sorted into ideological camps than we used to be.
This raises the big question of the book. Why are we polarized? Klein argues that it is partially about race. The golden era of political consensus and collegiality, in the middle of the 20th century, was built on a giant compromise that ignored the racism of the Jim Crow era. This lasted as long as Democrats needed the south to have a governing majority. Once southern segregationists abandoned the Democrats for Goldwater, Regan, and the Republicans, the parties started slowly sorting into the coalitions we see today. History is only the start of the explanation, though. Klein gives a long list of different reasons for our increasing polarization, all of them somewhat persuasive. The list warrants a whole series of political science lectures: (a) our media has become more polarized in the internet age, (b) our political identities have become national, not local, (c) small individual donors reward more dramatic candidates, and (d) parties have become weaker, exerting less discipline on the choosing of political candidates.
The big interesting takeaway from the book, though, is that our cultural identities have become political in a way that they might not have been previously. Klein says that we have developed political "mega-identities." For example, it used to be the case that both the Republican and Democratic parties were largely Christian, both had rural and urban representation and both contained business, worker, and agricultural interests. Today, the parties have very different constituencies: the Republican party is largely the party of White Christians, while the Democratic party has a large majority of Black and Hispanic Americans and those who are not religious. The Republicans are the party of business people, whereas the democrats dominate in social services. The Republicans dominate the outer suburbs and rural areas, while Democrats rule the cities. There are psychological differences between the parties as well, as has been well documented: democrats attract those with the personality trait that describes "openness to new experiences," Republicans attract those with a more "closed" personality. Many different parts of our lives that were not politically sorted before have become partisan. The short of it is, we are now far more likely to live in a context in which vast majorities of those we trust all belong to the same political movement.
This political sorting and polarization have two results. First, all politics are now identity politics. Because there are layers of identities that are all aligned with a political movement, it seems like the opposing party doesn't just have bad ideas, they are against everything that you are. For a rural White Christian small business owner, you can easily be convinced that Democrats are out to destroy everything you hold dear. Similarly, a Black woman teaching in an urban school may legitimately feel like the Republican party is attacking her every day. With politics becoming sorted around our identities, the stakes are higher and the opportunities for political compromise fall apart. We don't necessarily love people on our side, but we know that the other side must lose or civilization will crumble. You can't compromise with a party that opposes your very being. We don't even want our politicians to compromise. This is a self-reinforcing cycle, moreover, because once real policymaking breaks down, symbolic identity issues are all that is left for politicians to push for, and our national representatives cease to focus on making policy, preferring instead to fight the symbolic culture wars.
Klein offers a few solutions to this cycle, but they are half-hearted. He has no solutions for the polarization of our culture, but he does think that some political reforms could allow us to have a more functional government in this polarized landscape. He suggests a number of process and democratic reforms in particular: ranked-choice voting, reforming the supreme court, procedural changes in the senate, and eliminating the electoral college. He argues that a government where less is at stake for the political parties might be one where they could compromise more. Similarly, if we eliminated some of the policymaking veto-points and barriers built in to the system, things could operate more smoothly.
The far more interesting thing about Klein's book is the way it diagnoses the dysfunctional nature of our political culture. This, in particular, is where the great danger lies for the Church in the United States. We have all seen how political identity and Christianity have become entangled. Klein, without really meaning to, explains why this is so hard to avoid. When the other political party represents an attack on everything you hold dear, it is really hard not to think about politics in religious terms. As these mega-identities take hold, it becomes harder to imagine that Jesus might have any sympathy for the other side. When politics becomes about identity, it is impossible for Christianity to be our common ground.
The only solution, fleeting though it may be, is for the Church to re-establish itself as what Klein calls a "cross-cutting identity." In other words, if we can build a church that is demographically and politically diverse so that our experience as Christians pushes outside of our political categories, we might be able to push against these partisan mega-identities. Right now that is a tall order, though, because all the momentum is pushing us the other direction.
Steven McMullen
Steve McMullen is an associate professor of economics at Hope College, executive editor of the journal Faith & Economics, host of the podcast Faithful Economy, fellow at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, and senior fellow at Sentient Media.
Sigh. Such a reflective, articulate invitation to a book that takes on an affective complexity that tangles not only our relationships but our very being. Thank you, Deb. An intimidating task clearly presented.
"We are convinced that our team is demonstrating all that is good and decent, and the other team is using the health crisis for corrupt political opportunism."
re: this perception, I'd say both sides are wrong in the first half, both sides are right in the second half. As I watched the presidential debates last fall (at least, as much as I could stomach), it occurred to me that about the only either one spoke the truth was when they were calling the other a liar.


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Embassy House Queens Avenue, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 1SB
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Healthcare Facility for sale
Clun Y Bont, High Street, Cwmgwrach, Neath, SA11 5RX
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Outstanding supported living potential
Currently 16 self-contained studios
Additional two bed flat
Former guest & managers flats (one bed)
Suit various care uses or redevelop (STPP)
Approximate GIA 10,736 sq ft. Energy Rating D
Clun Y Bont is a substantial, detached purpose-built property offering 10,736 sq ft of sheltered accommodation set over two floors.
The property is set in a 0.5-acre plot with a good-sized car park for 10-12 cars to the front with additional gardens and patio areas.
Clun Y Bont represents an exciting opportunity to create a substantial supported facility close to local amenities.
Clun Y Bont is located in the village of Cwmgwrach, approximately one mile to the south-east of Glynneath and 18 miles northeast of Swansea.
The area benefits from excellent road communications via the A465 heads of the valley road, linking Neath with the Welsh Valleys and onto the Midlands. Junction 43 of the M4 motorway is around 10 miles to the south-west.
Clun Y Bont benefits from prominent frontage onto the main through road in the village and is a short, level walk to local amenities.
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Clun Y Bont was designed to offer sheltered accommodation and until recently was let to the NHS.
The property is a large detached complex arranged over two floors set in 0.5 acres of grounds.
The current layout comprises 16 self-contained studios, with kitchenettes, toilets and storage cupboards. The two bedroom flat has a sitting room, separate kitchen, bathroom, cloakroom and two storage cupboards.
The former manager's accommodation is open plan, with a sitting area, kitchenette, cloakroom and storage cupboards.
The ground floor is currently arranged to provide the former manager's accommodation, seven self-contained studios with the residents' lounge, separate kitchen and dining room. The seven studios share two shower room facilities. There is also a scooter store, a plant room, toilets and a storeroom.
An entrance lobby provides access to the first floor via three staircases.
The first floor has eight self-contained studios, a guest room, a two-bedroom flat, a communal laundry, cloakroom and storage cupboards. There are two shared shower room facilities at first-floor level.
The self-contained studios all have kitchenette and toilet facilities.
Set back from the main road but with good prominent frontage, Clun Y Bont offers car parking facilities for 10-12 vehicles.
The gardens surround the property with a patio area to the rear.
Clun Y Bont offers extensive accommodation and an exciting opportunity to create a sizeable supported living facility. We believe the property will be of interest to existing supported living providers as well as social care operators looking to diversify their income streams.
There is scope to increase client accommodation capacity by the use of the former managers and guest flat and also conversion of the scooter store.
The property is offered for sale with vacant possession and requires updating prior to occupation. Our client would consider the immediate disposal of Clun Y Bont in its current form. Alternatively, the property can be reconfigured to suit purchasers requirements, subject to terms.
Floor plans are available on request.
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The mutant spawn of Savages and Das Boot, The Crow's Nest is a unique tale of crude submarines in drug trafficking. It is a crime thriller without police, federal agents, or the military, just two men seeking their own justice against a brutal cartel.
Chase Brenner, a crewman on a commercial tuna seiner, barely escapes death after his boat and its crew are destroyed by el Hermandad—a sinister cartel hell-bent on eliminating all witnesses to its unique submarine smuggling operation. After surviving an arduous voyage in a flimsy boat, he seeks answers and a little retribution. Hot on the trail for clues, Chase rescues Jonny LeBeau, a Louisiana shrimper forced into smuggling by the cartel but now on its hit list after skimming drugs. When the cartel discovers Chase survived the sinking of the fishing boat and a witness is on the loose, both men are now in its crosshairs.
In a desperate gambit to bargain for their lives, Chase and Jonny hijack a narco-submarine with ten tons of cocaine. The secrecy of the cartel's billion-dollar enterprise hinges on silencing this dubious pair of extortionists. Jonny, though, proves he's as cunning as the cartel's most savage sicario. But the cartel plays its trump card and Jonny faces the moral dilemma of his life—ditch Chase, the man who saved him, and escape with riches beyond his wildest dreams or lose it all and, maybe, his life to ransom Chase's wife and children after they're kidnapped by the cartel.
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"The Crow's Nest is a gritty tale of life and terror on the open sea, of camaraderie, friendship and betrayal, a sobering narrative about the ugliness of life and the cruelty of man—all in the service of the almighty dollar. But it is also a satisfying story of revenge, redemption and justice at last delivered."—Randy Overbeck, author of Blood on the Chesapeake, Gold Award-Winner from Literary Titan
"This taunt tale of duplicity in the money-rich world of drug smuggling will keep you reading into the night. Meredith bring his background in marine biology to this saga of men who work on the water, both legally and illegally and lets the reader feel the danger and tension of the drug cartels' violent and deadly business. I loved it!"—Michele Drier, author of the Amy Hobbes Mysteries and The Kandesky Vampire Chronicles
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Fields-CQAM Thematic Program Public Lecture: Kang Lee
January 31, 2019, The Fields Institute
Location: Bahen Centre for Information Technology, 1160 Adel Sedra Auditorium
Artificial intelligence is now everywhere and has the potential to change all aspects of our lives. However one major shortcoming of the AI today is that although it may have high IQ, it lacks EQ, or emotional intelligence. In fact, the best AI system today does not have the emotional intelligence of a 2-year old.
For AI to transform our lives, AI must reach the next level. That is, any future AI system must have not only IQ but EQ. In this talk, Kang Lee will draw insights from a century of psychological research on human emotion to discuss various methods AI developers can use to develop intelligent systems with affective artificial intelligence, or the ability to detect, decode, interpret, and simulate human affects.
About Kang
Kang Lee is Professor, and Tier 1 CRC Chair in developmental neuroscience at the University of Toronto. Drawing on more than 2 decades of research, his team has developed a novel imaging system called Transdermal Optical Imaging that uses conventional video cameras to decode human physiology and emotions.
Affective artificial intelligence and its applications
Kang Lee, University of Toronto
Tyler Wilson - Fields CQAM
Fields-CQAM Interdisciplinary Thematic Program


When you think of great places in the world it's inevitable that Dubai comes to your mind. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the UAE Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has approved the Bluewaters project. A project whose developer will be Meraas Holding. As always astronomic prices for Dubai is no problem, instead that's what gives Dubai the identity. And imagine the price for this island… its $ 1.6bn and the destination will be located off the Jumeirah Beach Residence coastline and is poised to emerge as one of the largest tourist hot spots in the world.
The Bluewaters Island project will have the world's largest Ferris wheel, the 210-metre Dubai Eye. We couldn't expect more than this project. Dubai Eye will offer breath-taking views of Dubai's exotic coastline and iconic landmarks such as Burj Al Arab, Palm Jumeirah and Burj Khalifa.
At the base of the wheel there will be an entertainment zone and a unique venue for special occasions and conferences. It will also have a large LED screen mounted on the wheel that will be an innovative electronic platform for broadcasting, adverts, and interactive information.
Bluewaters will also feature demarcated retail, residential, hospitality and entertainment zones. Market studies tell us that are expected more than three million visitors annually! Will you be part of this number? And we wonder, could Dubai be even better… "We lobo" Dubai, in fact who doesn't?


The by-election for a councillor to serve the Nairn Ward (No 19) on The Highland Council has been won by Stephen Kenneth Fuller - Scottish National Party (SNP).
Stephen Fuller was one of six candidates, who contested the vacancy, created by former Councillor Colin Macaulay stepping down in March.
The other Ward members are Councillors Laurie Fraser (Independent), Michael Green (Independent) and Liz MacDonald (SNP). Voting was by the single transferable vote and Stephen Fuller emerged as the winner at the 4th stage of the count.
Congratulations Councillor Stephen Fuller. We wish you all the very best - and we know that you'll always put Nairnshire and its families - first and foremost!
At the minute the SNP could put anybody as a candidate and they would get in..... It's a travesty that yet again we will be saddled by centralisation policies as that's what they are all about .....power and control.
Sour grapes....NO NOT AT ALL just realistic and of course knowing full well that politics really has no place in local government.
I dont know Stephen or how good a councillor he will be but it does concern me that party affiliation will always come before local loyalty. I hope he will do well but whatever he does will only be done if its OK with the ruling SNP in Glenurquart road as we've seen before.
Worrying that there were 149 rejected papers. Wonder why this is, have people still not got to grips with the voting system?
Well done to the successful candidate and also to all the others who put themselves up for election - not an easy task. Hopefully now that they've taken this step they won't all disappear into the ether but will continue to stay involved in local politics and issues.
I'm surprised not more people put themselves up for local councillors, especially when you are getting paid nearly £25k for what is essentially a part time job! Mr Fuller should be given a fair crack of the whip, but I am too very concerned that local people are voting for a party rather than someone that will put the town first!
The basic rate is around £14K I think Neil, chairs of committees etc get more.
Apologies Gurn, Councillors salaries as of 2012/13, basic of £16234, but they do have there expenses on top of that.
Many people make comments and statements about Councillors and how useless or under employed they are but I'm sure that many of them work very hard and put in many more hours than we know about. They may not work conventional 9 to 5 but I'm sure they do more than part time. It's easy to sit at the sidelines and carp on about their positions but I really am fed up with all the people who spout about how they could do a better job - where were you all when the nominations were put forward? Not many of you put your money where your mouths were!
You have to be stark raving mad to want to be a politician at any level. The very fact that someone puts themselves forward should immediately debar them !
Aye, it's a pity "Mr Neil P" hadn't thrown his hat into the ring. I'm sure that he is so able that he could have done the job of 2 or perhaps 3 councillors - whilst still whistling Dixie.
Sadly, we do not have "local" government Neil - the Tories and Labour Governments at Westminster in the 70s and 90s took that away from almost all of Scotland.
We have sub-national government - a geography the size of Wales or Belgium.
However, the political model is a huge improvement from some of the previous "so-called independent" led councils of the past. You see a manifesto beforehand - and you have a better idea of what a person's views are. They could be Tories who are happy to put charges up for all services, who would pay off folk who deliver front-line services, who would try to privatise etc etc.
Or perhaps you really believe that there are zero Tory councillors in Highland? LoL :-)as the youngsters say.
Nairn still lives with the legacies of less than great "independent councillor" decisions.
On a positive note, there are a growing number of folk who now admit that the 8 old District Councils should have remained and the old Highland Regional Council done away with. Many of us in the SNP support that view and IMHO it cannot come soon enough.
As for "anon" at 8.19pm - I have no doubts that young Stephen will do his absolute best for the Nairn - with no pressure of any kind from the SNP/Labour/LibDem leadership whatsoever.
Harsh Colin, I have been very vocal about certain Nairn Councillors of late and I am justified in doing so. I have never said that I could do a better job than any of them, we just want more transparency and for them to stop burying there heads in the sand. I think I would have little chance of being a councillor the main reason, I don't think anyone would vote for me lol, so I'll do the next best thing regardless of you liking it or not Colin and I will make sensible comments on social media regarding how our Councillors are representing our Town!
I have to disagree with Colin's comments about any councillor's membership of a mainstream political party indicating that they will be better suited to their role, or likely to make better decisions as a direct result.
How can anyone truly represent their constituents if party policy runs through them like a stick of rock.....Who do they serve. Party, or people?
Just because someone is a member of a political party gives them diiddly squat respect in my eyes , when it comes to them discharging their responsibilities as a Councillor....it's what they actually do that matters...but to say that being part of SNP, Labour or any other party makes them a 'better' councillor is a weak and poor argument.
Try applying the same debating principle to Nigel Farage.... did his membership of UKIP instantly afford him the status of being a 'better' potential MP?
Neil P has proved my point. He doesn't want to stand, ergo, he is an ideal candidate. Vote for Neil P.
I was tad harsh - and I'm sure that Stephen is well able to defend himself.
I believe that Stephen will work hard as a full-time Councillor for Nairn. That doesn't mean an ordinary 40 hour week - but it will mean some weeks are 60 or 80 hours and others will be 20.
It will mean trying to be available 24/7 and trying to get back to people asap - no matter whether you happen to be on holiday in Cawdor, Carcassone or Canterbury. The Council Blackberry is at your side! My Council payslip says that it is £9.10 per hour before tax etc - which is much more than many constituents receive. Pretty reasonable for the role IMHO.
There are politicians - like Sir Malcolm Rifkind - who clearly had "part-time" "unremunerated" jobs at Westminster - but I'm sure he will shortly be enobled and will suit well the ermine and the tax free £300/day -for signing in.
We do need better and more local democracy - and a Nairnshire Unitary Council would be ideal.
Until that time, with 80 (or soon to be 76 Highland Councillors) then I think it is not unreasonable for us to know what views folk have for the future of that huge organisation - as well as the Nairn issues.
"As for "anon" at 8.19pm - I have no doubts that young Stephen will do his absolute best for the Nairn - with no pressure of any kind from the SNP/Labour/LibDem leadership whatsoever."
Really Colin? I see Maxine Smith is to replace Drew, one of her many duties was as The Party Whip. Can you please explain the role of the Party Whip?
Anon at 3.41 asks what a Party Whip is - - and methinks he/she thinks they know what a Party Whip does.
Maxine was my only experience of a Party Whip - and her job is very straightforward - to make sure that the Council is able to deliver on the programme it has agreed. That means on a few important occasions, the administration of SNP/Lab/Lib are able to outnumber the "Tory etc" opposition.
It meant Maxine had to make sure that we protected front-line services, that we restructured to lose a few senior managers, that Highland Council stopped years of centralisation etc etc.
It meant that I had to let Maxine know if I couldn't attend for some reason.
Things that had a direct impact on Nairn? Liz and I always ensured that we made the issue a free vote.


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Donald Trump Transforming DC's Old Post Office into Luxury Hotel
Old Post Office Building in Washington, DC. ( Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images, File)
By Nick Sanchez | Thursday, 24 July 2014 08:03 AM
Donald Trump's plans to transform Washington D.C.'s Old Post Office building into the capital's most luxurious hotel commenced Wednesday with a ceremonial groundbreaking.
The 115-year-old building is a prime piece of real estate, located on Pennsylvania Avenue between the White House and the Capitol. Its 315-foot clock tower is the third-tallest structure in the district.
"It's really the best location in D.C. by far. I mean, everybody acknowledges that," Trump told The Associated Press after the ceremony. "We're going to do a building the likes of which D.C. has never seen. I think it will be one of the fine hotels anywhere in the world, and maybe the finest."
Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, a Democrat who represents the District in Congress, has been a strong advocate for renovating the space, which has housed small vendors mostly catering to tourists in recent years. When the building was put up for renovation, The Trump Organization won the $200 million federal contract.
"Look at what the Old Post Office had been reduced to — something of an ugly duckling on Pennsylvania Avenue," said Norton. "I think we're about to see the grand old lady back in her iconic glory."
Trumps daughter, Ivanka, is the lead developer on the project, which will create a hotel with 270 guest rooms, multiple restaurants, retail, and a 13,000-square-foot ballroom. The plan is to have the renovation complete by mid-2016, before the presidential election. A past presidential candidate himself, Trump has not declared or denied his candidacy for the nation's highest office in 2016.
Trump's sons Donald Jr. and Eric joined him for the groundbreaking, along with D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray. All of them wielded golden shovels for the ceremony. The new hotel "will show how to get things done because we know how to build, we know how to create beautiful things, important things, and we know how to create jobs," said Trump. "That's what the country has to be doing."
Having received a few protestations about the size of the "Trump" signs on buildings he's constructed in the past, he assured his fellow citizens that for the historic site "The name will be on it somewhere, but it will be very discreet."
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The conventional wisdom is that the FTC was the governmental equivalent of a leper colony prior to 1969, and its credibility and reputation were restored only by the adoption of the wise recommendations in the 1969 ABA Report. There is no question that the FTC deserves plenty of criticism for its pre-1969 performance. It is also beyond doubt that there has been a dramatic turn-around in the intervening forty-five years, as the FTC adopted the recommendations in the 1969 Report. But, before we simply genuflect at the wisdom of those responsible for the ABA Report and the inherent virtue of their recommendations, it is worth noting that those recommendations also placed the FTC's continued existence at risk as well — and did so for an entirely new set of reasons than had been the case pre-1969. Indeed, the last forty-five years of the FTC's history (which are assuredly an improvement on the first fifty-five) are still a testament to the unintended consequences that can accompany even the best of reform proposals.


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Louis (Eliyahu) Guttman (en ), né le  à New York et mort le  à Minneapolis est un chercheur et professeur d'évaluation sociale et psychologique de l'université hébraïque de Jérusalem israélien d'origine américaine. Il est directeur scientifique de l'Institut de recherche sociale appliquée, qui prend le nom d'Institut Guttman.

Enfance et études
Louis Guttman obtient une licence de sciences en 1936 et un master de sciences en 1939, à l'université du Minnesota. Il soutient une thèse de doctorat en mesures sociale et psychologique en 1942. De 1941 à 1947, Louis Guttman enseigne la sociologie à l'université Cornell. Durant la Seconde guerre mondiale, il est consultant dans le service de recherche de l'armée américaine, ses recherches sur les attitudes sont publiées dans le  de The American Soldier. Il émigre en Palestine en 1947 et enseigne à l'université hébraïque de Jérusalem et à l'Institut Guttman.

Recherches et publications
Louis Guttman s'intéresse à la théorie et la pratique de l'analyse d'échelle et de facteur, l'échelonnement multidimensionnel et la théorie des facettes. Son travail en analyse d'échelle est à l'origine de l'échelle cumulative connue comme « échelle de Guttman ».

Il publie des ouvrages et des articles, toujours cités dans la littérature scientifique comme pertinents et importants pour les avancées actuelles en statistiques et mathématiques, notamment concernant l'analyse d'échelle, la théorie des facettes et ses traitements mathématiques et philosophiques de l'analyse de facteur. Plusieurs de ses travaux en algèbre matricielle sont discutés dans des articles d'Hubert, Meulman et Heiser et de Takane and Yanai. Ses contributions de Guttman sont incluses dans des solutions informatiques, notamment Smallest Space Analysis (SSA) et Partial Order Scalogram Analysis (POSAC).

Distinctions et récompenses
 Membre de l'Académie israélienne des sciences et lettres
 Membre honoraire étranger de l'American Academy of Arts and Sciences
 Président de la
 1962 : prix Rothschild en sciences
 1974 : Outstanding Achievement Award de l'université du Minnesota
 1978 : prix Israël en sciences sociales
 1984 : Educational Testing Service Measurement Award de l'université de Princeton

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Naissance en février 1916
Décès en octobre 1987
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You are here: Home Destinations Eastern Ethiopia Harar Destinations Eastern Ethiopia The Danakil Depression
Only a real expedition will bring you in the harsh and inhospitable area of the Danakil Depression. The hottest inhabited, one of the driest and one of the most tectonic active places on the planet and the lowest place on the African continent is there for you to explore. It is an area of geological fascination which feels like visiting the moon. Active volcanoes, geysers and hot springs, salt lakes and plains in an endless desert. The brave Afar people manage to survive under this extreme conditions.
Exploring the Danakil is only possible undertaking a fully self supporting expedition with at least two 4x4 vehicles, camping along the way. Bringing in all your supplies including water, lots of water.
Erta Ale
The only volcano on this planet with a permanent lava lake is Erta Ale. Rising up from below sea level to an altitude 613 meter, an exhausting climb to the crater rim (best undertaken in the cooler hours of the very early morning) will be rewarded with the extraordinary sight of a boiling pot with lava. It is well worth to spent overnight at the rim, exploring the volcano in full and returning again in the early morning hours to the vehicles left behind in El Dom (Dodom), the village at the base of Erta Ale
Dallol
Dallol is the only volcano on earth below sea level not covered by water. Geysers erupting an acid brine, leaving a bizarre landscape of cones and pools covered with a very colorful layer. The nearby abandoned mining settlement Dallol holds the record of the hottest inhabited place on earth with an average temperature of 34 degrees Celsius.
Lake Afrera and Lake Asale
Two big salt lakes are found in the Danakil, Lake Afrera (also known as Afdera) and Lake Asale (sometimes named Karum, there is also a Lake Asal in Djibouti). The precious salt is harvested and with huge camel caravans transported to Mekele.
Lower valley of the Awash
Near de small village of Hadar in the lower valley of the Awash river a most spectacular discovery was made in 1974. This is when the remains of 'Lucy' where found. She was an early hominid, living in this area over 3 million years ago. Many more fossilized remains have been found in the area, having great impact on our knowledge of history of humankind. The lower valley of the Awash river is declared a World Heritage Site. Unfortunately it is not easy to visit the site.
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Today, GPUs and other parallel accelerators are widely used in high performance computing, due to their high computational power and high performance per watt. Still, one of the main bottlenecks of GPU-accelerated cluster computing is the data transfer between distributed GPUs. This not only affects performance, but also power consumption. Often, a data transfer between two distributed GPUs even requires intermediate copies in host memory. This overhead penalizes small data movements and synchronization operations.
In this work, different communication methods for distributed GPUs are implemented and evaluated. First, a new technique, called GPUDirect RDMA, is implemented for the Extoll device and evaluated. The performance results show that this technique brings performance benefits for small- and mediums-sized data transfers, but for larger transfer sizes, a staged protocol is preferable since the PCIe-bus does not well support peer-to-peer data transfers.
In the next step, GPUs are integrated to the one-sided communication library GPI-2. Since this interface was designed for heterogeneous memory structures, it allows an easy integration of GPUs. The performance results show that using one-sided communication for GPUs brings some performance benefits compared to two-sided communication which is the current state-of-the-art. However, using GPI-2 for communication still requires a host thread to control GPU-related communication, although the data is transferred directly between the GPUs without any host copies. Therefore, the subsequent part of the work analyze GPU-controlled communication.
First, a put/get communication interface, based on Infiniband verbs, for the GPU is implemented. This interface enables the GPU to independently source and synchronize communication requests without any involvements of the CPU. However, the Infiniband verbs protocol adds a lot of sequential overhead to the communication, so the performance of GPU-controlled put/get communication is far behind the performance of CPU-controlled put/get communication.
Another problem is intra-GPU synchronization, since GPU blocks are non-preemptive. The use of communication requests within a GPU can easily result in a deadlock. Dynamic parallelism solves this problem. Although the performance of applications using GPU-controlled communication is still slightly worse than the performance of hybrid applications, the performance per watt increases, since the CPU can be relieved from the communication work.
As a communication model that is more in line with the massive parallelism of GPUs, the performance of a hardware-supported global address space for GPUs is evaluated. This global address space allows communication with simple load and store instructions which can be performed by multiple threads in parallel. With this method, the latency for a GPU-to-GPU data transfer can be reduced to 3us, using an FPGA. The results show that a global address space is best for applications that require small, non-blocking, and irregular data transfers. However, the main bottleneck of this method is that is does not allow overlapping of communication and computation which is the case for put/get communication. However, by using GPU optimized communication models, depending on the application, between 10 and 50% better energy efficiency can be reached than by using a hybrid model with CPU-controlled communication.


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UK: Next steps to tackle plastic waste
Climate ChangeInternational News
Government to consult on banning a range of polluting plastics this Autumn, with single-use plastic plates, cutlery and polystyrene cups under review
By India Education Diary Bureau Admin	 On Aug 29, 2021
The war on plastic waste is set to be ramped up with fresh plans to stop the supply of a range of single-use plastics that threaten our natural environment.
Single-use plastic plates, cutlery and polystyrene cups are among a raft of items that could be banned in England as part of a new public consultation being launched in the Autumn. These proposals will lead to businesses using more sustainable alternatives and prevent plastic litter from polluting our landscapes.
It is estimated that each person uses a staggering 18 single-use plastic plates and 37 single-use plastic items of cutlery each year in England. The durability of plastic means litter from items used for a few minutes can last for centuries in landfill or as litter in the countryside or ocean. Around the world, more than one million birds and over 100,000 sea mammals and turtles die every year from eating or getting tangled in plastic waste.
Industry is taking action to tackle plastic waste, such as through the UK Plastics Pact, a collaboration between businesses from across the entire plastics value chain, supported by the government and coordinated by the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP). Pact members have identified eight problematic plastic items for elimination and are investigating further items. We want to build on both the progress being made by industry and our action on plastic waste.
The UK government has already taken major steps to tackle plastic pollution, banning microbeads in rinse-off personal care products, dramatically reducing the number of plastic bags being used and restricting the supply of single-use plastic straws, stirrers and cotton buds. These plans will build on the success of those measures and form part of the Government's commitment to prevent all avoidable plastic waste by the end of 2042.
Environment Secretary George Eustice said:
We've all seen the damage that plastic does to our environment. It is right that we put in place measures that will tackle the plastic carelessly strewn across our parks and green spaces and washed up on beaches.
We have made progress to turn the tide on plastic, banning the supply of plastic straws, stirrers and cotton buds, while our carrier bag charge has cut sales by 95% in the main supermarkets.
Now we are looking to go a step further as we build back greener. These plans will help us stamp out the unnecessary use of plastics that wreak havoc with our natural environment.
Jo Morley, Head of Campaigns at City to Sea, said:
We welcome the news that the government are taking steps to tackle some of the most polluting single-use items. This is a much-needed move, that we as campaigners have been calling for, along with thousands of our supporters and members of the public.
We need now to take a leading role in banning unnecessary single-use plastics to see real benefits for the nation's and the world's wildlife.
Further details of the consultation, including the full list of single-use items under review, will be announced in the upcoming weeks.
The UK is a global leader in combatting plastic waste. Following the huge success of the 5p charge on single-use carrier bags, which cut sales in the main supermarkets by 95% since 2015, we increased the minimum charge to 10p and extended it to all retailers, ensuring we can take billions more bags out of circulation.
Our landmark Environment Bill will give us a raft of new powers to step-up our war against plastic pollution and litter, including:
Introducing a Deposit Return Scheme for drinks containers to recycle billions more plastic bottles and stop them being landfilled, incinerated, or littered. Through a small deposit placed on drinks products, the DRS will incentivise people to recycle;
Our Extended Producer Responsibility scheme will mean companies will be expected to cover the full cost of recycling and disposing of their packaging. Producers of commonly littered packaging will be made more responsible for their littered packaging, with fees paid to cover the cost of cleaning up and for litter prevention activities; and
Our plans for Consistent Recycling Collections for every household and business in England will ensure more plastic is recycled.
We will also introduce a world-leading plastic packaging tax from April 2022, set at £200 per tonne, on plastic packaging which doesn't meet a minimum threshold of at least 30% recycled content. This will encourage greater use of recycled plastic, leading to increased levels of recycling and plastic waste collection, helping to tackle the problem of plastic waste and protect our environment.
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Threatened native plants in steep decline
Open Forum | December 8, 2020
In just over two decades (1995-2017) numbers of Australian threatened plants have decreased by more than 70% on average.
The findings come from Australia's Threatened Species Index which combines data from hundreds of monitoring programs across the country to track trends in threatened species populations.
The Index was developed by the Threatened Species Recovery Hub of the Australian Government's National Environmental Science Program. It is the first of its kind in Australia, providing an evidence-based national-level understanding of threatened species trends.
The recent addition of plants to the index has put the spotlight on trends for Australian threatened plant populations.
Dr Micha Jackson from the University of Queensland, who was part of the team that co-ordinated data collection and analysis for the 2020 index, said that the index includes monitoring data for 112 threatened plant species from almost 600 sites across the country.
"There are 1342 threatened plant species in Australia. We've been able to collate monitoring data on almost 10% of these species and it paints a worrying picture," Dr Jackson said.
"Overall threatened plants are faring badly.
"We took a look at different plant types and found they had all suffered similar declines over that period, with trees, shrubs, herbs and orchids all declining by 65-75% on average.
"These are averages, so within that some individual species have done better and others worse.
"We also looked at the difference that conservation management made for populations.
"We found that plant populations at managed sites suffered declines of less than 60% on average, but the declines at unmanaged sites were substantially higher, at around 80% on average.
"This indicates that while conservation actions may be linked to reduced rates of decline, they have not been sufficient to reverse declines overall.
"That being said, the index does include a somewhat disproportionate amount of Australia's most threatened plants – i.e. those that are listed nationally as Critically Endangered or Endangered – because more resources and monitoring effort tend to go into these highly threatened species," said Dr Jackson.
Project co-leader Prof Hugh Possingham at the University of Queensland said that monitoring threatened species is vital to understand if numbers are going up or down and if conservation investments are working.
"While there are individual monitoring programs for hundreds of species across the country, this index has allowed us to bring this data together to tell us about the bigger picture for the first time.
"What it is telling us is very concerning, and highlights that a lot more effort is needed if we as a society want to prevent extinctions and the loss of nature around us," Prof Possingham said.
Project co-leader Dr Ayesha Tulloch from the University of Sydney said that most of the data had been contributed by state government monitoring programs in four states: South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and Western Australia. Data was also provided by non-government conservation and community groups.
"The index already provides a lot of insight into how threatened species are faring, but some regions are not yet well represented. As more data is added it will increase the power of the index to tell us if our conservation investments are paying off and which regions or species groups most need help," Dr Tulloch said.
"The index is updated with new data annually and we encourage any groups monitoring threatened or near threatened species to contribute their data.
"Australia has more than twice as many threatened plants (1379) as threatened animals (518), but a lot less effort has gone into monitoring plants.
"Almost ten times more monitoring data is available on threatened birds, in large part due to the amazing efforts of community birdwatchers co-ordinated by groups like Birdlife Australia.
"Plants are generally fairly easy to monitor and we'd love to see more community groups get involved in monitoring a threatened species in their local patch," Dr Tulloch said.
The Threatened Species Index also collates data for threatened birds and mammals and it is hoped that other groups such as freshwater species may be added in future.
The Threatened Species Recovery Hub is a collaboration of leading Australian research institutions to undertake science to support the recovery of Australia's threatened species. It receives funding from the Australian Government's National Environmental Science Program.
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I have two mason jar paintings up at the Emporium until the end of the month for The Bridge Exhibit which benefits Bridge Refugee Services. Please go check out this show and support this great organization with your dolla bills.
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King, Vampire, Lycan, produced by sin, i'm sunken.
i'm done in by sun, and the son of the son of a gun who takes me for a pun.
depressed thoughts are my guidence, i ride through.
so much anger and sadness i fly through, don't get me wrong this song is by a boy completely sane, who insist that some web comes out his wrists, clench my fist, here i come, never run, never fear, now i'm near, fire sears, so the cold you should hold dear. imagination, sensation, unition of a nation, the one doesn't exist, there is no freedom from this matrix.
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Topic: "Words, can they help or hurt you?"
Facilitator: Mark Bergeron, in loving memory of his son, Jeremy Bergeron.
Hosts: Lola Holden, in loving memory of her son, Michael Holden, and Linda Gravelle, in loving memory of her son, Jacob Gravelle.


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A Review of Hilton Als' God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin
Leah Mirakhor
This essay reviews Hilton Als' 2019 exhibition God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin at the David Zwirner Gallery. The show visually displays Baldwin in two parts: "A Walker in the City" examines his biography and "Colonialism" examines "what Baldwin himself was unable to do" by displaying the work of contemporary artists and filmmakers whose works resonate with Baldwin's critiques of masculinity, race, and American empire. Mirakhor explores how Als' quest to restore Baldwin is part of a long and deep literary and personal conversation that Als has been having since he was in his teens, and in this instance, exploring why and how it has culminated via the visual, instead of the literary. As Mirakhor observes, to be in the exhibit is not to just observe how Als has formed and figured Baldwin, but to see how Baldwin has informed and made Als, one of our most lyrical and impassioned contemporary writers and thinkers.
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Minnesota governor Walz clarifies if golf courses can open or must remain closed
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz was one of the governors out in front of the current crisis, issuing a stay-at-home order on March 17.
Minnesota residents were asked to remain at home unless they have to leave to get food, seek medical treatment, get outdoor exercise or go to work at an essential business. All businesses deemed non-essential had to close their physical locations.
In that initial stay-at-home order, Evers banned golf courses from being open to the public, declaring it a non-essential business. However, in his latest executive order, dated April 17, golf courses are allowed to again open to players on April 18.
The order, which runs through May 3, now allows golf courses, among other previously closed businesses, to open provided that they take certain precautions that have become commonplace throughout the United States where courses remain open.
"Although Minnesotans are strongly encouraged to stay close to their primary residences, many outdoor recreational activities are available close to Minnesotans' homes and can be done safely," the order says.
Golf courses have taken myriad precautions to make playing the game as safe as possible, including using modified cups to prevent touching common surfaces, as well removing shared surfaces like bunker rakes, ball washers and water coolers. Under Evers' order, Minnesota golf courses will only be allowed to take tee time reservations and payments online or by phone. Clubhouses, pro shops and other non-essential course facilities must remain closed.
This is good news for Minnesota golfers, who can now get back to playing golf.
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It was John Milton, the celebrated 16th century English poet who, in a crusading pamphlet against the government policy of imposing licences on printing, first articulated what came to be regarded as a defining characteristic of a free and democratic society. The concept that there exists a free and open marketplace where differing opinions and ideas compete against each other in a search for truth.
Free speech was a personal issue for Milton, as he himself had been subjected to censorship in his attempts to publish various pamphlets defending divorce, a radical stance to take at the time. The 1643 Ordinance for the Regulating of Printing, then a new medium of mass communication, was aimed at silencing, in the so-called "public interest", persons whose opinions and ideas either challenged or were contrary to the mainstream.
It seems, based on remarks in an address last week to the annual general meeting of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, that if Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler has his way, he would take us back to those dark 16th century days when only those who spouted the official line, had unimpeded access to the marketplace to express their opinions and ideas.
Mr Sinckler chastized the local media for providing a platform for certain commentators to share opinions and assessments on the economy with the general public that are in sharp contrast with the official position. Mr Sinckler, whose management of the economy has faced heavy criticism, portrayed this "wild journalism" as an attempt to undermine confidence in the economy.
He said: "We now exist in an environment where it has become widely popular in most spaces that accommodate public expression and attract the new class of chatterati for opinion – most of it uniquely uninformed – to be spewed all around with the granular wish that it lands on the right ears and perhaps brings attention to its source. . ..
Is Mr Sinckler suggesting that when it comes to matters pertaining to the performance of the economy, only Government is in possession of the truth? We do not share this view. Even among economists, the one thing for which they are known, is a tendency to disagree on approaches and prescriptions. It stands to reason, therefore, that open discussion, from as many perspectives as possible, can greatly assist the search for truth.
It is therefore not for the media to deny access to persons simply because their opinions may be contrary to Government's. Indeed, the media ought to be representative of a free and open marketplace of ideas and opinions. Opposing views may not be to the liking of Government, but in a free and democratic society, the general public has a right to hear them as long as they conform with the law, and to judge them for what they are worth.
It can be argued that largely due to Government's failure to communicate effectively and level with Barbadians on key economic issues that it has created much doubt in the public's mind.
The economy is not the exclusive business of the Minister of Finance or the Government, even though they collectively share the important responsibility of creating the enabling environment for growth to occur. Rather, every Barbadian is an important stakeholder with a vested interest. Every important issue, therefore, ought to be freely discussed. Besides highlighting shortcomings, such can also assist in identifying solutions.
Democracy needs a free press, Mr. Sinckler.
Sinkler has the full support of Donald J. Trump. What more could one ask for?
Thanks, Dear Ed. The goodly gentleman doth protest overmuch. Ever heard of government….full of tax-payers dollars, having full control of the one TV station, plus a gaggle of other media/ broadcast surrogates….plus G.I.S…plus mo' back-up by C.B.B. and not forgetting a mottley cast of friendly talking heads of the Thursday Throng…..and he still fraid of a li' commentary from us minnows?
Swing and come again, Sir….dis ent Russia, or China.
Tell Mr. Sinckler to communicate truthfully with the Nation about every area for which he is responsible, including Rolling Hills, only then can the press be honest and independent.
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