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CROWN WRAPS UP CASE AT SEXUAL ASSAULT TRIAL
IN KITCHENER
CTV Kitchener – July 17, 2012
The crown wrapped up its case today against 37-year-old Daniel Magda, who faces a number of charges related to sexual assault in connection with children.
For a third day, an 11-year-old boy took the witness stand.
Magda has admitted to sexually assaulting the boy, then 10 years old, as well as assaulting another boy who was three years old at the time.
However, the defense is arguing the crimes didn't happen over an extended period of time.
Magda has pleaded guilty to seven charges, including producing child pornography, but not guilty to 10 other charges.
The 11-year-old testified that Magda was once like a father to him, though after the assault, the boy thought about killing Magda.
The boy also struggled when the defense suggested he wasn't telling the truth about one incident, telling the court, "I know it's the truth, because I felt it."
On two occasions, he crossed his arms and stopped answering questions.
In 2007, Magda was convicted of assaulting three boys, but served less than a year of his two year sentence.
The mother of one of Magda's previous victims was in court and says she understands how tough it has been for the 11-year-old to testify.
"He just wants it to be over," Debbie Farrow says. "He doesn't want to talk about it. It's something very bad that happened to him and he doesn't want to talk about it anymore. I think he just wants to put it behind him and thank God he'll be able to, I hope."
Magda's trial resumes in September.
The defence has not yet said whether it will call evidence at that time.


Nine writers for the Dining section and many Times readers shared their favorite holiday recipes and remembrances. When you think back on holidays meals past, what stands out most? Does your family have traditional dishes that you look forward to each year? Or does one particular meal stand out in your memory?
First, I'm sorry I haven't been in touch. I know it's no excuse, but I have been extremely busy, starting around 1981. Anyway, I'm writing you today because there's something I can't get off my mind: the fruit.
Each Christmas morning my sister and I would hold our stockings upside down; out would pour colored pens and books of Lifesavers and (hello, mixed messages) a new toothbrush. Finally we'd get down into the toe, where there was something round and weighty. A dinosaur skull? A meteorite? The Hope diamond?
No, what tumbled out last was an apple or an orange. For Christmas? Were we living in a sod house on the banks of the Missouri? Did we needed vitamin C to avoid scurvy? Did you think we didn't notice that the white glass bowl in the kitchen was filled with fruits that looked exactly like the ones in our stockings?
To be honest, I feel the same way now about the box of Florida oranges that arrived this morning. A relative mails us one each December without exception. They look cheerful in the fruit bowl on the kitchen counter, and we eat them all month long, slicing them into quarters and saving the peels in the refrigerator until I have enough to boil them in sugar syrup. The boys love these candied peels rolled in white sugar, even though they would normally complain about the tinge of bitterness in the pith that I can never quite purge, even after several blanchings.
So you understand, we're up to our hips in citrus around here, and there's no need to leave oranges for the boys this year. I mean, last year, they kind of got a kick out of finding fruit in their stocking. But really, you don't need to. We're good.


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How Huckabee Wins
"What we are fast approaching," John McIntyre writes, "is a three-man race between Huckabee, Romney and Giuliani." Meanwhile, Richelieu sketches out a potential Huckabee path to victory:
Huckabee wins the Iowa caucus (which is what would happen if the election were today). Romney is second. Rudy is third and Thompson fourth. Huckabee surges into New Hampshire and his communications skills help him ride the wave perfectly. But Romney has some success in framing the New Hampshire race as a choice between a regular Republican from the Northeast and a southern Christian conservative. He tickles New Hampshire's secret "screw Iowa" appetite and with McCain retaining some strength in New Hampshire Giuliani finds it hard to surge. The results are muddy. Huckabee narrowly wins New Hampshire by fewer than 900 votes over Romney. McCain is third, closely followed by Giuliani. Thompson is fifth and drops out.
The next week Romney narrowly beats Huckabee, now fueled by enough Internet money to run television, in Michigan. McCain runs a distant third. The media labels Huckabee's close second place finish a "win" in a state where he has no organization. Huckabee beats the wounded Romney four days later in South Carolina. McCain drops out after a second disappointing third place finish, narrowly ahead of Giuliani, whose campaign announces they are making a final make or break stand in Florida, as they have always claimed in their brilliant Master Plan. Seeing Romney as his main opponent in Florida for the regular Republican vote, Giuliani uses his final cash on hand to launch a very tough television attack on Romney, featuring former Massachusetts governor and Rudy supporter Paul "DeNiro" Cellucci. McCain endorses Rudy. Romney interjects another $5 million in personal funds into his campaign and launches a blistering TV counterattack on Rudy. Ten days later, Huckabee wins the Florida primary, dominating north Florida and showing surprising strength in Pinellas, Orange, and Broward counties. Romney finishes second. Rudy, now lagging in every February 5 state poll except New York, drops out, refusing to endorse either remaining GOP candidate. On February 5, Huckabee sweeps, losing only Connecticut, Utah, and Delaware to Romney, who then leaves the race.
The general scenario makes sense (in long shot sort of way, obviously), but as to the details, I just can't see Huckabee, momentum or no, scraping out a victory in New Hampshire. That said, I don't think he needs to win in New Hampshire to stay competitive; what he needs, as the Cardinal's broad sketch suggests, is for both Romney and Rudy (or one of the two, plus McCain) to keep whaling on one another, and largely leaving him alone, till Florida and perhaps even beyond. I'm with Ramesh; I think Giuliani beats Huckabee in a two-man race, and I think that Romney does as well. Which means that Huckabee can only hope to win if both the current front-runners stay in and beat each other up in the hopes of being the last man standing - which, fortunately for him, they're both deep-pocketed and ambitious enough to do.
It's interesting that the Huck's rise coincides with Rich Lowry's provocative piece in the latest NR comparing Barack Obama to Jimmy Carter. As far as their skimpy resumes and "too good for politics" political styles go, the Lowry parallel is persuasive. As far as political trajectories, though, it's Huckabee who has the more obvious Carter Redux thing going on: A pious, folksy, no-name Southern governor who rises steadily in the polls when all the putative front-runners turn out to be much more vulnerable than anyone expected.
Of course, given that Carter was the last and weakest President of the long liberal ascendancy, I don't expect that this parallel would make anyone on the Right more comfortable with the Huck.
Photo by Flickr user DWQ used under a Creative Commons license.

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How to prove that God exists? Outline of a proof by contradiction: 1. assume God does not exist; 2. deduce that if God does not exist then I don't exist either; 3. but this is absurd, so the starting assumption must be rejected, QED.
Anyone who promotes a "proof" of God is suspect, so let me say that I don't believe I've discovered the clincher in this age-old debate. Every "proof" of God has been critiqued if not dismissed outright, and "proofs" often beg more questions than they answer. But the more robust ones have an important place in the reasoning of apologists for faith, and have some power to win converts and especially to answer the doubts of believers. I often ponder such doubts when I encounter bright and accomplished people who hold a nontheistic worldview, especially prominent scientists and popular writers. How can they be so clueless (or is it me)? Of course I know one can't pin God down in the way some religious literalists try to do, but many science popularizers sound equally naïve about real theology. I ask myself again if the world can make sense without God, or with God for that matter, and reconsider the arguments. Seldom have I found an argument for a naturalistic explanation of human consciousness so paradoxically self defeating as Hofstadter's.
If you've stuck with me this far I expect you want to learn what I Am a Strange Loop is about. Douglas Hofstadter became widely known when he was quite young, with his first book, Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, in 1979. Widely known as GEB, it can still be found in many bookstores. He talks about his motivation for this new book: "And yet, despite the book's popularity, it always troubled me that the fundamental message of GEB ... seemed to go largely unnoticed. People liked the book for all sorts of reasons, but seldom if ever for its most central raison d'etre! Years went by, and I came out with other books that alluded to and added to that core message, but still there didn't seem to be much understanding out there of what I had really been trying to say in GEB." His title I Am a Strange Loop sums up this core message, that the human being emerges from self referential interactions in our brains, bodies, and surroundings. This book is directly related to the theme of the 2008 IRAS conference on "Emergence: Nature's Mode of Creativity - The Human Dimension," (and maybe even more to the 2009 conference on the Self), making a clear case for naturalistic emergence of the human self, but also showing how ethereal "I" am.
Hofstadter has an unusual style of writing, very personal, with dialogues, metaphors and puns aplenty. He says "Clarity, simplicity, and concreteness have coalesced into a kind of religion for me -- a set of never-forgotten guiding principles. Fortunately, a large number of thoughtful people appreciate analogies, metaphors, and examples, as well as a relative lack of jargon, and last but not least accounts from a first-person stance. In any case, it is for people who appreciate that way of writing that this book, like all my others, has been written. I believe that this group includes not only outsiders and amateurs, but also many professional philosophers of mind." What a contrast to the 2008 IRAS Book Seminar, Stacey Ake's book The Semeiosis of the Self: The Quest for Individuality within the Evolutionary Matrix. Sorry Stacey, I love you, but I much prefer Hofstadter's straightforward style. And I wish Zygon had more Hofstadter-style writing.
I certainly count myself a fan of Hofstadter from the time GEB first appeared, especially since I'd done my own Master's research in Artificial Intelligence just a couple years before (1977) and wished I could express myself so clearly and be as accomplished as Hofstadter, although IAaSL makes me pleased I forsook AI and returned to the all-too-practical field of geophysics. And while Hofstadter is no more religious than his sometime collaborator Daniel Dennett, he is not overtly hostile toward religion. He talks of souls but tries to avoid religion: "By contrast, I believe that a human soul -- and by the way, it is my aim in this book to make clear what I mean by this slippery word, often rife with religious connotations, but here not having any -- comes slowly into being over the course of years of development." This effort to specify the connotations seems quite ironic to me -- connotations come to readers regardless what the author intends -- especially alongside Hofstadter's exultation in Gödel's discovery of deeper meaning in Bertrand Russell's work, and Russell's denial of that meaning because he didn't intend it. Hofstadter can no more deny that soul talk has religious connotations than Russell could deny Gödel's discovery of incompleteness.
I hope I got the thrust of GEB long before I Am a Strange Loop came out, and I quoted GEB in reviewing the Zygon Center Emergence conference in 2006 for the Houston discussion group I organized, as follows.
"Hofstadter builds these ideas [from his Achilles and the Crab dialog on smoke, real and imaged] toward the emergent "Crux of Consciousness:"
What might such [intrinsically] high-level concepts be? It has been proposed for eons, by various holistically or "soulistically" inclined scientists and humanists, that consciousness is a phenomenon that escapes explanation in terms of brain-components; so here is a candidate, at least. There is also the ever-puzzling notion of free will. So perhaps these qualities could be "emergent" in the sense of requiring explanations which cannot be furnished by the physiology alone. But it is important to realize that if we are being guided by Gödel's proof in making such a bold hypothesis, we must carry the analogy through thoroughly. In particular, it is vital to recall that G's nontheormhood does have an explanation -- it is not a total mystery! The explanation hinges on understanding not just one level at a time, but the way in which one level mirrors its metalevel, and the consequences of this mirroring. If our analogy is to hold, then, "emergent" phenomena would become explicable in terms of a relationship between different levels in mental systems.
My belief is that the explanations of "emergent" phenomena in our brains -- for instance, ideas, hopes, images, analogies, and finally consciousness and free will -- are based on a kind of Strange Loop, an interaction between levels in which the top level reaches back down towards the bottom level and influences it, while at the same time being itself determined by the bottom level.
This should not be taken as an antireductionist position. It just implies that a reductionist explanation of a mind, in order to be comprehensible, must bring in "soft" concepts such as levels, mappings, and meanings. In particular, I have no doubt that a totally reductionist but incomprehensible explanation of the brain exists; the problem is how to translate it into a language we ourselves can fathom.
I think this is the thrust of GEB that Hofstadter laments being ignored over the years, leading to I Am a Strange Loop. Loopy though he be, he rightly points out that "We are all egocentric, and what is realest to each of us, in the end, is oneself." (p. 92). And he poses the key question: "Well then, if this 'I' thing is causing everything that a creature does, if the 'I' thing is responsible for the creature's decisions and plans and actions and movements, then surely this 'I' thing must at least exist. How could it be so all-powerful and yet not exist?" (p. 97). This is the key to his definition of a "strange" loop: "Is there, then, any genuine strange loop – a paradoxical structure that nonetheless undeniably belongs to the world we live in – or are so-called strange loops always just illusions that merely graze paradox, always just fantasies that merely flirt with paradox, always just bewitching bubbles that inevitably pop when approached too closely?" (p. 103). He promptly answers "Fortunately, there do exist strange loops that are not illusions. I say 'fortunately' because the thesis of this book is that we ourselves – not our bodies, but our selves – are strange loops, and so if all strange loops were illusions, then we would all be illusions, and that would be a great shame. So it's fortunate that some strange loops exist in the real world." And he goes on "The quintessential example of this phenomenon, in fact, was only discovered in 1930 by Kurt Gödel …" (p. 104). Later, "I'm reminded again that the name Gödel contains the word 'God' – and who knows what further mysteries are lurking in the two dots on top?" (p. 172).
Hofstadter explores the consequences of these ideas. A line in a fictional dialog struck me: "Just as we need our eyes in order to see, we need our 'I's in order to be!" (p. 295). He concludes with "And this is our central quandary. Either we believe in a nonmaterial soul that lives outside the laws of physics, which amounts to a nonscientific belief in magic, or we reject that idea, in which case the eternally beckoning question 'What could ever make a mere physical pattern be me?' – the question that philosopher David Chalmers nicknamed 'The Hard Problem' – seems just as far from having an answer today (or, for that matter, at any time in the future) as it was many centuries ago." I too used to think the only alternative to materialism was magic, but that now seems sophomoric to me, and I'm sorry Hofstadter hasn't gotten beyond it. And I think he too readily dismisses the great progress made by the discovery of quantum mechanical uncertainty and mathematical incompleteness after centuries of philosophical meandering, but that's another story – ask me at Star.
Relating to the IRAS Emergence theme, I think Hofstadter is saying that there is only weak emergence, but it is incomprehensibly complex. To comprehend ourselves, we must work with "soft" concepts which appear as "strong" emergence. But this seems paradoxical to me -- if the weakly emergent theory of our mind is true, then we are merely a complex arrangement of particles and no one is really there to bring in concepts or to comprehend anything. Strong emergence seems to be necessary to even discuss such a theory of mind, but where does it come from? How can it emerge from the reductionist straitjacket of weak emergence? Hofstadter's use of smoke and mirrors imagery [in GEB] suggests that whatever reality we have emerges by a partially obscure (smoky) process of compounded self-reference (mirroring). Nontheistic thinkers see emergence as a way to get "something more from nothing but." I am skeptical of nothing butters (no more butter cutters on Star Island!), and I see more smoke and mirrors than enlightenment.
I don't just intend smoke and mirrors as a pejorative, recalling the words of St. Paul "For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect; but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood. So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love."
P.S. I too like the first person style, and if you're interested I have a personal narrative of my trip in July 2008 to Star Island and onward, at http://persjohn.net/DTJblog.htm. Somewhat related, I'm presenting a workshop on "What's Emerged from … Years of Science and Religion Discussion in Houston, Texas" at 4pm on Thursday 31st in Newton Front.


The legal firm Haviaras & Philippou LLC, based in Nicosia is seeking to recruit a full-time lawyer.
Self-motivated and able to corporate efficiently under pressure and with his/her co-workers.
All applications will be viewed and kept in strict confidence.Please note only short listed candidates will be notified.


Size: 29 cm (width) X24cm (deep) X30cm (high). The item "DragonBall Z Piccolo Cultivation childhood Gohan figure Resin statue NEW" is in sale since Monday, December 10, 2018. This item is in the category "Toys & Hobbies\Action Figures\TV, Movie & Video Games". The seller is "one*day_bid" and is located in Shanghai.


Курс "OD20533 Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions"
This course is intended for IT professionals who are familiar with managing on-premises IT deployments that include AD DS, virtualization technologies, and applications. The students typically work for organizations that are planning to locate some or all of their infrastructure services on Azure.
This course also is intended for IT professionals who want to take the Microsoft Certification exam, 70-533, Implementing Azure Infrastructure Solutions.
IT professionals who want to deploy, configure, and administer services and virtual machines (VMs) in Azure.
IT professionals who want to use Windows Azure to host websites and mobile app backend services.
Completed the Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA) certification in Windows Server 2012.
Understanding of on-premises virtualization technologies, including: virtual machines, virtual networking, and virtual hard disks (VHDs).
Understanding of database concepts, including: tables, queries, Structured Query Language (SQL), and database schemas.
Describe Azure architecture components, including infrastructure, tools, and portals.
Implement and manage virtual networking within Azure and connect to on-premises environments.
Implement, manage, backup, and monitor storage solutions.
Automate operations in Azure management by using automation.
explanations and guidance for the use of Azure Resource Manager and Azure management services.


This week's post is from BETH HAMILTON PHOTOGRAPHY. Beth is a wedding and portrait photographer based in Hampton Roads area of Virginia but available for travel! She specializes in weddings, engagements, couples, and high school seniors. She is featuring our book in a beautiful navy lamb in the 10×10 size. Enjoy!
I LOVE wedding albums! I love the experience of looking through our own wedding album and am so happy when clients decide to get one of their own! It is such a different (and better!) experience to flip through a wedding album than to scroll through hundreds of pictures on a computer screen. I'm not shy about my love for Madera Books and the amazing products that they make. Becky and George's album was no exception. They went with a gorgeous navy blue leather and the final product is gorgeous! Pictures can't do it justice, but here are a few shots of their album! I just know they are going to treasure it for many years!
Since it's difficult to take pictures of a picture, here are a few of my favorite spreads from their album.
Thank you so much Beth for letting us share your lovely book!


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Keyword: Twitter
Sparse, Pair-Wise, Emotion-Focused Interactions: Educators' Networking Patterns on Twitter at Early Pandemic
Yiyun Fan, Kathlyn Elliott
Educators have increasingly turned to social media for their instructional, social, and emotional needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to see where support and professional development would be needed and how the educational community interacted online, we sought to use existing Twitter data to examine potential educators' networking and discourse patterns. Specifically, this mixed-methods study explores how educators used Twitter as a platform to seek and share resources and support during the transition to remote teaching around the start of massive school closures due to the pandemic. Based on a public COVID-19 Twitter chatter database, tweets from late March to early April 2020 were searched using educational keywords and analyzed using social network analysis and thematic analysis. Social network analysis findings indicate that the support networks for educators on Twitter were sparse and consisted of mainly small, exclusive communities. The networks featured one-on-one interactions during the early pandemic, highlighting that there were few large conversations that most educators were part of but rather many small ones. Thematic analysis findings further suggest that both informational and nurturant support were relatively equally present on Twitter among educators, particularly pedagogical content knowledge and gratitude. This study adds to an understanding of the educational networks as a means of professional and personal support. Additionally, findings present the discourse featured in educator networks at the onset of an educational emergency (i.e., COVID-19) as decentralized as well as desiring pedagogical content knowledge and emotional sharing.
Keywords: data science applications in education, emergency online learning, Twitter, teacher professional development, social network analysis
A Critical Review of Research on Social Networking Sites in Language Teaching and Learning
Osman Solmaz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.30935/cet.444120
The current study aims to present a critical analysis of research on social networking sites (SNSs) in second language teaching and learning (L2TL) context. Twenty-two studies published from 2011 to 2017 were included in the analysis through the selection criteria devised by the researcher. The descriptive analysis reveals that Facebook was the most commonly explored medium, and more than half of the studies featured English language learners in various levels. Following the content analysis of the studies, the emerging aspects of the literature review are treated under five overarching themes: practicing multiple language areas and literacies; authenticity and negotiation of meaning through interaction; development of intercultural competence and socio-pragmatic awareness; membership in L2 communities; and (re)construction of identities. Following an account of pedagogical considerations such as the dynamics of classroom, technical features, and various cultural uses of the SNSs, the study concludes with suggestions and directions for future research in regards to the incorporation of SNSs such as Facebook and Twitter into L2 classrooms.
Keywords: Social networking cites, Facebook, Twitter, Language teaching, Social media
The Use of Twitter in Large Lecture Courses: Do the Students See a Benefit?
Heather M. Ross, Ryan Banow, Stan Yu
The purpose of this two-year quantitative study was to determine the usefulness of the micro-blogging tool Twitter in large classes for improving the students' sense of community and belonging. Three instructors of large classes were recruited to test the outcomes of using Twitter as a learning tool, one each from the Departments of Geography and Psychology, and the College of Nursing. Twitter was used as a learning tool to allow students to engage in discussion and ask questions in real time during class as well as outside of class. The method used by the authors included surveys that measured students' perception of their sense of community and belonging, their engagement with the Twitter portion of the course, and their thoughts on the use of Twitter for academic purposes in a higher-education classroom setting. Data about students' use of Twitter was further collected using the Twitter Archiving Google Spreadsheet tool. The authors conclude this study showed that Twitter, if integrated into the course and supported by instructor and/or assistants who are familiar with the use of Twitter, improved the sense of community reported by students.
Keywords: Microblogging, Twitter, Learning technologies, Community, Large classes, Higher education


A landscape of the Fertile Crescent with the river Tigris.
All these lands are watered by important rivers: Nile, Jordan, Euphrates and Tigris. Together they cover some 400-500,000 square kilometers, and the region extends from the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea around the north of the Syrian Desert and through the Jazirah and Mesopotamia to the Persian Gulf. These areas are in present-day Egypt, Israel, West Bank, Gaza strip, and Lebanon and parts of Jordan, Syria, Iraq, south-eastern Turkey and south-western Iran.
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Notes from the Lab: Snow Fleas
in Notes from the Lab
Winter doesn't technically start for another week, but it certainly made an early arrival in our corner of the world. While I miss the noisy din of insects at the height of summer, winter has its own kind of quiet, sleepy magic. But the arrival of snow doesn't mean every insect goes dormant; some not only survive in a snow-covered landscape, but thrive in it. I'm talking, of course, about the snow flea.
Snow fleas (Hypogastrura nivicola) are not actually fleas; they're not even insects! They're springtails, a group of arthropods that belong to the class Entognatha (meaning "internal mouthparts," as opposed to insects, whose mouthparts are external and belong to the class Insecta). The common name "snow flea" comes from their jumping capabilities. Unlike fleas, however, springtails do not use their legs to catapult themselves; they use a specialized appendage known as a furcula. The furcula is folded under the body and held under tension. When it is released, the force of the furcula snapping against the ground propels the snow flea into the air.
The really remarkable trait of the snow flea is not its jumping ability, but its ability to thrive in such wintery conditions. Snow fleas produce antifreeze proteins (AFP's – or, if you really want to impress your friends, thermal hysteresis factors (THFs)). Antifreeze proteins are produced by all freeze-avoidant insects, and they do exactly what you think they do. This family of proteins prevent freezing by binding to the surface of ice crystals forming in the animal's body and preventing them from growing. The production of antifreeze proteins is triggered by day length; as daylight decreases and insects experience a shorter photoperiod, the production of antifreeze proteins ramps up, and reaches its peak during the darkest months of winter.
The snow flea's antifreeze capabilities have sparked such a fascination that researchers at Queen's University decided to sequence and synthesize the protein. Researchers hope to utilize the snow flea antifreeze protein in such freezer-related tasks as producing better ice cream and transplant organ storage and transport. I am all for medical breakthroughs but honestly, they had me at "better ice cream."
Written by Brenna Shea
Notes from the Lab: Spider Myths (Part II)


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set -eu

export PATH="/usr/local/bin:${PATH}"

ARCHS="i386,amd64"

HARDY="hardy-backports,hardy-proposed,hardy-security,hardy-updates,hardy"
KARMIC="karmic-backports,karmic-proposed,karmic-security,karmic-updates,karmic"
LUCID="lucid-backports,lucid-proposed,lucid-security,lucid-updates,lucid"
MAVERICK="maverick-backports,maverick-proposed,maverick-security,maverick-updates,maverick"
NATTY="natty-backports,natty-proposed,natty-security,natty-updates,natty"
ONEIRIC="oneiric-backports,oneiric-proposed,oneiric-security,oneiric-updates,oneiric"
PRECISE="precise-backports,precise-proposed,precise-security,precise-updates,precise"
QUANTAL="quantal-updates,quantal-security,quantal-proposed,quantal-backports,quantal"
RARING="raring-updates,raring-security,raring-proposed,raring-backports,raring"
SAUCY="saucy-updates,saucy-security,saucy-proposed,saucy-backports,saucy"

#ARCHIVE_DISTS="${MAVERICK}"
ARCHIVE_DISTS="${HARDY},${LUCID},${ONEIRIC},${PRECISE},${QUANTAL},${RARING},${SAUCY}"
SECTIONS="main,multiverse,restricted,universe,main/debian-installer,multiverse/debian-installer,universe/debian-installer,restricted/debian-installer"

MAIN_DEBIAN_MIRROR="archive.debian.org"
MAIN_DEBIAN_MIRROR="localhost"
MAIN_DEBIAN_MIRROR="mirror.yandex.ru"
MAIN_DEBIAN_MIRROR="mirror.datacenter.by"
MAIN_NAME="ubuntu"
DEST_DIR="/srv/mirror/pub/ubuntu"
# 1280

# --bwlimit=5120
RSYNC_OPTIONS="-aILz --partial --hard-links --timeout=360 --quiet"
RSYNC_OPTIONS="-aILz --partial --hard-links --timeout=360 -v"

SITE=${MAIN_DEBIAN_MIRROR}

MIRROR_CMD=$(echo /srv/debmirror/debmirror \
                --arch="${ARCHS}" \
                --dist="${ARCHIVE_DISTS}" \
                --section="${SECTIONS}" \
                --host="${MAIN_DEBIAN_MIRROR}" \
                --root=":${MAIN_NAME}" \
                --method="rsync" \
                --getcontents \
		--nosource	\
                --ignore-release-gpg \
                --rsync-options=\"${RSYNC_OPTIONS}\" \
		--rsync-batch=10	\
		--nocleanup \
		--diff=none	\
		--i18n		\
		--verbose	\
		--debug		\
		${DEST_DIR}
		)

. /srv/dmirror/common.sh
sync_mirror

MIRROR_CMD=$(echo /srv/debmirror/debmirror \
                --arch="${ARCHS}" \
                --dist="${ARCHIVE_DISTS}" \
                --section="${SECTIONS}" \
                --host="${MAIN_DEBIAN_MIRROR}" \
                --root=":${MAIN_NAME}" \
                --method="rsync" \
                --getcontents \
		--nosource	\
                --ignore-release-gpg \
                --rsync-options=\"${RSYNC_OPTIONS}\" \
		--rsync-batch=10	\
		--postcleanup		\
		--diff=none	\
		--i18n		\
		--verbose	\
		--debug		\
		${DEST_DIR}
		)

sync_mirror

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Q: I know you say "vote with your fork," and I do, as often as possible, but it seems so small a gesture. In what other ways can we, as consumers, speak out or act to change our food system?
A: Vote with your fork and vote with your vote. Today's food movement gives you plenty of opportunity to do both.
Voting with your fork means buying and eating according to what you believe is right, at least to the extent you can.
When you vote this way, you support farmers, processors, retailers and restaurant chefs who are working to create a food system that is healthier all around - for the public, farmworkers, farm animals and the planet.
You set an example. You help make it socially acceptable to care about food issues. You make it easier for others to shop at farmers' markets, join CSAs, grow food at home, stop buying junk food and teach kids to cook.
Part of taking personal responsibility for food choices also means taking social responsibility. When you act, you make it easier for everyone else to do what you do. And yes, one person makes a difference.
My favorite current example is the work of an NYU graduate student, Daniel Bowman Simon, who researches - and advocates for - public policies to promote growing vegetables.
By chance, a food stamp (SNAP) recipient told him that she used the funds to buy plants and seeds to grow her own food. Could this be possible?
Simon found the 1973 food stamp legislation and read the fine print. There it was. He joined others and formed a group to publicize this benefit (see www.snapgardens.org).
Today, SNAP recipients throughout the country are encouraged to grow food - not bad for what one person can do.
I particularly like school food as a starter issue for advocacy. Improving school food is nothing less than grassroots democracy in action.
Schools matter because kids are in them all day long and they set a lifetime example. If you have children in school, take a look at what they are eating. Could the food use an upgrade? Start organizing.
All schools are supposed to have wellness policies. Find out what they are and talk to the principal, teachers and parents about how to improve access to healthier food and more physical activity.
Another well-kept secret: The U.S. Department of Agriculture offers technical assistance to help schools meet nutritional standards. The USDA encourages advocacy. It says its work is easier when parents push the schools to do better.
Many groups are devoted to school food issues. Some have published guides to getting started or developing strong wellness policies. They range in focus from hands-on local to national policy.
Other groups are gearing up to advocate for changes in one or another provision of the Farm Bill, now up for renewal in 2012. This legislation governs everything having to do with agricultural policy in the United States - farm subsidies, food assistance programs, conservation, water rights and organic production, among others.
In this era of budget cutting, every stakeholder in this legislation - and this also means everyone interested in creating a healthier food system - will be lobbying fiercely to defend existing benefits and to obtain a larger share of what's available. Let legislators hear your voice.
And now is an excellent time to identify candidates for office who share your views and are willing to fight hard for them.
The ability for individuals, acting singly and together, to exercise democratic rights as citizens holds much hope for achieving a more equitable balance of power in matters pertaining to food and health.
Join the food movement. Use the system to work for what you think is right. Act alone or join others. You will make a difference.
The following are among the many groups advocating for healthier school food or farm policies.


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Best Utility Apps For Mac And Windows 2023 : Whenever you buy any Windows PC/laptop or Mac, you need to install a few utility apps to make your device more productive. There are a lot of free and paid apps for windows and mac which claims to make your PC faster, but trust me! Most of them are crap, waste of time and effort. But there are few best utility apps 2023 which actually works and optimizes the performance.
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1.1 #1. Text Expander For Mac
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#1. Text Expander For Mac
Text Expander is a simple tool which helps me to save a lot of time while writing articles or anything else. You have to set up the abbreviations in the tool and let it run in the background. Whenever you write that abbreviation, the tool will expand the acronym into full form. It really saves a lot of time of those who loves to write.
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#2. Windows Defender
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DropBox is a very useful app to encrypt any data which is highly sensitive. You can access your files from anywhere and anytime which I find very helpful whenever I go out of stations. DropBox also allows you to share large size of files with your friends, offers super solid security, making it safer and secure.
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#5. Ninite For Windows
Installing or updating apps one by one would consume a lot of time. Ninite can save your time, it will download or update multiple apps simultaneously. The free version comes with fully featured, all the downloads will be virus free. It's a good tool to save your time and effort.
#6. NoSleep
Usually, your Mac would sleep once you close the lid and terminates all the running programs and downloads. Nosleep will help you to keep your screen turn on even after closing the lid. So you can keep your downloads continue after closing the lid or keep your project running while you take a nap.
#7. Pixel Winch
Pixel Winch is a tiny and simple app which helps you to take screenshots of any particular area of the screen. It also has a built-in editor to adjust or change the dimensions of the image. It is a good tool to produce exemplary screenshots. You can also measure the dimensions of the elements in the app itself.
#8. VLC Media Player
I agree with the fact that windows are good but not perfect according to me. The built-in video player is not capable running 4k videos without giving frame drops or stuck on low-resolution screens. VLC media player does the job pretty well, it will eliminate all the lags and would run the video on its default configured frames.
#9. BootCamp For Mac
Bootcamp is a useful app which saves your clicks if you have installed Windows on your Mac, tough apple Bootcamp. It will add an icon in the menu bar by which you can restart the computer directly into Windows mode without pressing any additional keys.
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Image resizing is a simple thing, but it doesn't come as a built-in feature. Windows XP had this picture resizing feature, but in the later version, it was removed. Brice Lambson who is an employee of Microsoft decided to bring back the image resizing feature back on windows for free. Although Microsoft still doesn't support image resizer, but Lambson does.
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DEADLINE TOMORROW: The Schall Law Firm Announces the Filing of a Class Action Lawsuit Against Home Point Capital Inc. and Encourages Investors with Losses in Excess of $100,000 to Contact the Firm
Los Angeles, California--(Newsfile Corp. - August 19, 2021) - The Schall Law Firm, a national shareholder rights litigation firm, announces the filing of a class action lawsuit against Home Point Capital Inc. ("Home Point" or "the Company") (NASDAQ: HMPT) for violations of the federal securities laws.
Investors who purchased the Company's shares pursuant and/or traceable to the Company's January 29, 2021 initial public offering (the "IPO"), are encouraged to contact the firm before August 20, 2021.
We also encourage you to contact Brian Schall of the Schall Law Firm, 2049 Century Park East, Suite 2460, Los Angeles, CA 90067, at 310-301-3335, to discuss your rights free of charge. You can also reach us through the firm's website at www.schallfirm.com, or by email at brian@schallfirm.com.
According to the Complaint, the Company made false and misleading statements to the market. Home Point's plan to aggressively expand its broker partners would in turn dramatically increase its expenses. The mortgage industry anticipated shrinking gain-on-sale margins due to rising interest rates, resulting in increased competitive pressures on the Company. The Company overstated its business and growth prospects. Based on these facts, the Company's public statements and offering documents were false and materially misleading throughout the IPO period. When the market learned the truth about Home Point, investors suffered damages.
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Kenneth Woods conducts OOTS in a programme of works by Mozart, Matthews, Mahler and Britten. The concert begins and ends with wildly differing interpretations of the fugue. Mozart's Fugue is an angst-ridden tribute to the music of the baroque period whilst Britten's is complex and skittish; the stuff of strange dreams rather than nightmares. Carmen Flores is the soloist in David Matthew's Winter Remembered which takes its title from a poem by John Crow Ransom and makes reference to the first song in Schubert's Winterreise. Mahler's failing health and personal problems are reflected in the dark mood that permeates the first movement of his final symphony.
He began work on it in July and it was left incomplete at the time of his death just two months later.


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Lebra is the smallest planet in the Milky Way Galaxy. It is located between Venus and Earth and was discovered in 1964 by the French astronaut Dominique Blanc. Blanc was studying satellite pictures of Earth when he spotted a weak greenish spot in one of the pictures. Ten years later, in 1974, scientists declared that Lebra is a planet.
The radius of Lebra is 113 miles and its small size is the reason why scientists discovered the planet as late as in the 1960's. The planet is the closest planet to Earth yet discovered and is located at its closest about 1 million kilometers from Earth depending on the positions of the two planets in their elliptical orbit. Lebra does not rotate around its own axis, which Earth does and because of this, one side of the planet (the side that is facing away from the sun) is always dark, while the other side (the side that is facing towards the sun) is always light. The atmosphere is only made up out of carbon dioxide and nitrogen and the surface does not contain any liquid water, which makes it impossible for human life to exist there. However, astronauts have travelled to the planet several times and in 1988, a group of American astronauts first spotted a living creature on Lebra. This discovery is one of the most important discoveries in the astronomic history. Before 1988, astronauts had been searching for life on other planets for decades, without any luck, and therefore, this discovery meant a lot to the astronomic world.
Astronauts estimate that there are around 200 living creatures, which they have named Lebresas, on Lebra. At first glance, they look quite similar to humans, with one exception, their blood-red skin. Astronauts have been able to interact with the Lebresas several times, the first time was in 1990 when the German astronaut Victor Bäcker reached for one of the Lebresas and it reached back. Scientists still don't know a lot about the Lebresas, which has made it hard for them to explain how living creatures can survive on a planet that lacks both water and oxygen. They have not yet either been able to distinguish between the female and male Lebresa. Astronauts have observed the Lebresas several times and have come to conclusion that they communicate with each other through sound. Linguists have analyzed recordings of the sound and have concluded that it contains various different high and low notes and sounds somewhat similar to the Baltic languages.
Since the discovery of the Lebresas, NASA has gained a lot of interest from the public, which has contributed to an increased government funding for NASA. In total, during the five past years, NASA has spent over 2 million dollars on merely research related to Lebra. The administrator of NASA, Charles Bolden, announced in 2013 that he strongly believes that in a few decades astronauts will be able to fly the first passenger spacecraft to Lebra.


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	"github.com/emerald-ci/test-runner/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/docker/distribution/registry/storage/driver/testsuites"
	"gopkg.in/check.v1"
)

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func Test(t *testing.T) { check.TestingT(t) }

func init() {
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Dance 'Til Dawn is een Amerikaanse film uit 1988 geregisseerd door Paul Schneider (filmregisseur).

Shelley Sheridan (Alyssa Milano), een van de populairste meisjes van Taft High, is woedend als haar vriend Kevin (Brian Bloom) haar vlak voor het schoolbal laat zitten. Kevin heeft echter besloten niet langer achter Shelley aan te lopen en te kiezen voor Angela (Tracey Gold). Gekwetst vertelt Shelley iedereen die het horen wil dat zij naar een studentenfeest gaat in plaats van naar zo'n kinderachtig schoolbal. In werkelijkheid zoekt zij haar toevlucht in een donkere bioscoopzaal. Maar voor zowel Shelley als Kevin verloopt de hele avond anders dan verwacht...

Ook Christina Applegate, Tempestt Bledsoe, Matthew Perry, Alan Thicke en Kelsey Grammer spelen in deze komedie.

Rolverdeling
 Alyssa Milano - Shelley Sheridan
 Brian Bloom - Kevin McCrea
 Christina Applegate - Patrice Johnson
 Chris Young - Dan Lefcourt
 Tracey Gold - Angela Strull
 Matthew Perry - Roger
 Tempestt Bledsoe - Margaret
 Kelsey Grammer - Ed Strull
 Edie McClurg - Ruth Strull
 Alan Thicke - Jack Lefcourt
 Cliff De Young - Larry Johnson
 Mary Frann - Nancy Johnson

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Film van Paul Schneider

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ON TRACK: Ben Cooper shows his style in drag racing, which will heat up the track at Morgan Park on Saturday. Gerard Walsh
Rev up! Drag racing is back, baby
by Elyse Wurm
3rd Aug 2018 5:00 AM
THE smell of burning rubber and screeching tyres is set to excite competitors as drag racing returns to Morgan Park this weekend.
The D.A.S. Contracting Sutton Family bracket meeting on Saturday will double as a round of the club championships with about 70 entrants expected to take part.
Warwick District Drag Racing Association vice-president John Loy said entrants were travelling from St George, Brisbane and Tenterfield to race alongside local entrants.
Southern Downs drivers are able to enter the meeting on the day, as long as they have a long-sleeved shirt, pants and a helmet.
Entry to race costs $60.
Mr Loy said older cars up to late-model race cars would be taking to the track.
"There's lots of burnouts and a bit of an adrenalin rush for the family," he said.
"Meetings like this attract cars that people can relate to, that they might have grown up with."
Racing will be in six classes, including junior dragster and a bike class.
Mr Loy said the junior dragsters include children aged seven to 17.
"We try and have a place where the younger people can come and race at our track in a controlled environment rather than on the road," he said.
Racers are coming after a short break through the winter months.
The meeting will be round three in the bracket series, the second-last meeting in the series.
Trophies are awarded for the winner at each bracket meet, with an overall winner awarded $1500 at the end of the series.
A canteen will be running on the day with food and drinks.
Catch the action at Warwick Dragway at Morgan Park on Old Stanthorpe Rd.
Gates will open at 8am with qualifying races from 10am-2.30pm on Saturday.
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Battling with high altitude, Ghana's Commonwealth Games medal hopeful, Derek Abrefa, overcame a resilient Lingeveldt Kurt of South Africa by 3-1 (11-2, 13-11, 9-11, 11-7) on the opening day at the Indoor Arena of the Moi International Stadium in Kasarani, Kenya, yesterday.
Lingeveldt, who is ranked number eight in the tournament, recovered from two sets down to nip an 11-9 win in the third game. Buoyed by that win, Lingeveldt took a commanding 5-1 lead in the fourth game, with Abrefa struggling to deal with his opponent's forehand loops and backhand rallies.
With defeat staring him in the face, Abrefa had to dig deep into his wealth of experience to draw level at 6-6, leaving his opponent bemused at the sudden turn of events. There was no turning back for Abrefa as he cruised to a comfortable 3-1 victory.
Abrefa's next match against Sultan Godfrey of Seychelles is a make or break affair as victory will catapult him into the next stage of the competition. A slip will greatly dent his chances of qualifying as his last match is a cracker against Africa's highest ranked player in the world, Omar Assar of Egypt, who is ranked 16th in the world.
"The match was tough as I struggled to acclimatise to the weather. I have the confidence to march on. My target is to qualify to the next round and cause an upset against Omar Assar," Abrefa said.
In the female encounter, Ghana's top seed, Celia Baah-Danso, lost 0-3 to Sarah Hanffou of Cameroun.


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Interview with director for new upstream projects, Denis Sugaipov
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Gazpromneft is in the middle of major new upstream projects in Russia and Iraq, which should help it meet its 2020 production goal of 2mn b/d of oil equivalent. Director for new upstream projects, Denis Sugaipov, outlined the firm's plans for the Novoportovskoye field and other greenfield projects in a recent interview with Argus
— Which of Gazpromneft's new upstream projects are the priorities for
this year?
— Number one is the Prirazlomnoye project, where drilling and production is expected to begin this year. After this, it is infrastructure commissioning and first crude production at the Badra project in Iraq, and then our northern projects — Novoportovskoye and Messoyakh. It is important for us to maintain momentum at Novoportovskoye and to build infrastructure for the central oil gathering station and the pipeline to the crude delivery and acceptance point on cape Kamenny according to schedule, as well as to maintain momentum on design and survey work, and on buying equipment for the crude transfer terminal (FSUE, 16 May, p1).
— What work is scheduled for the Novoportovskoye field this year, and what investment is allocated for it?
— We plan to invest Rbs12bn-15bn ($375mn-470mn) at Novoportovskoye this year, including the following sub-projects — hydraulic fracturing at exploration wells, as well as on vertical and horizontal wells drilled last year, to test this technology on the field's Jurassic layers. We performed four hydraulic fracturing jobs in the winter when the winter road was open, and they confirmed Jurassic layer productivity. Well flow rates are 60-300 t/d (438-2,190 b/d), and we performed multi-stage fracturing on one horizontal well. This technology is the most promising for developing Jurassic layers, and it maximised our flow rate growth. We will drill three horizontal wells this year, work on infrastructure construction and continue working on infrastructure design and engineering within the framework of full field development. We plan to select the final concept before the end of 2013.
— Do you mainly plan to drill horizontal wells?
— Horizontal wells, combined with hydraulic fracturing, demonstrated the best efficiency, but we will continue pilot works, including vertical well fracturing. We will select the most efficient technology in the final phase.
— What is the quality of the crude produced, and what crude quality do you expect from Novoportovskoye?
— We understand that it will be light, high-paraffin crude. Light crude offers good netbacks, provided we use our own resources for transportation and sale — without blending with other grades in the transportation system — but high paraffin content will involve additional development costs. To prevent crude from freezing in pipelines, in the gathering system and in the crude storage system, it needs to be heated at all times.
— What production profile do you expect?
— The Novoportovskoye development plan is based on reserves estimates of 230mn t (1.68bn bl) of crude and 260bn m³ of gas. The field is well explored and all reserves are confirmed. But we have identified two project phases within the concept. The first phase is based on reserves in the southern part of the field, where we propose drilling about 240 wells from 14 wellpads. The southern part of the field alone is capable of peak production of up to 5mn t/yr (100,000 b/d). The second development phase covers the northern part of the field, where we will have 12 wellpads and 132 wells. Crude production in this phase will peak at 3mn t/yr.
As of today, we have two scenarios for how to develop these phases — a two-phase scenario, and a scenario with a delayed second phase. Under the first scenario, we would reach a crude production plateau of 8mn t/yr. With the other scenario, we would maintain a production plateau of 5mn t/yr for a longer period, which means we could save on crude tankers and infrastructure capacity. We are developing project documentation for the first phase, while a decision on the second phase will be made later, upon completion of all necessary pilot work. The gas production plateau is expected to be about 8bn m³/d for a quite extended period of time.
In 2011, we had trial tanker pilotage using an icebreaker and we confirmed navigation feasibility in the area close to cape Kamenny. Last year, we signed an engineering, procurement and construction contract for a crude export terminal a few kilometres offshore. The feasibility study is completed and we have started design and survey works, as well as equipment procurement.
— You made a trial shipment from Novoportovskoye by road and rail earlier this year, and there are reports that you may try to send another 70,000-80,000t as seaborne exports this year. Is this correct?
— The scheme by road and rail proved successful and it will be used in winter 2013-14 and winter 2014-15, and maybe in winter 2015-16, until the terminal is launched. At the same time, we are also considering the second option, but we need infrastructure for crude transportation to cape Kamenny to implement this. This is being built and the scheme may launch in 2013 or 2014. But we need a pipeline and a delivery and acceptance point to supply crude to shore, and these facilities are being built. As soon as the infrastructure launches, we will start using this scheme, but we will carefully evaluate all possible environmental risks.
— What are the biggest challenges at your other northern project, Messoyakh?
— Messoyakh has not been developed to date because of highviscosity — 120-140 millipoise — crude reserves in the Pokurian suite. High-viscosity crudes are difficult to produce, and the recovery factor is rather low. But the pilot development plan scheduled in 2011 and partly implemented in 2012 demonstrated that full-scale economic field development is feasible.
The budget for this year is Rbs7bn-8bn and it will be invested in pilot wellpad 4, where six wells will be drilled, including four horizontal and one water injection well. 3D seismic covering 400km³ was performed last winter and five exploration wells are being drilled, which will be tested this year.
We will also focus on design and survey work this year to develop top-priority infrastructure facilities. These will include a central gathering station in the eastern area of the field, a 105km oil pipeline to the Zapolyarye-Purpe line, and a crude delivery and acceptance point close to the area where crude is delivered to the Zapolyarye-Purpe pipeline. Pilot drilling of horizontal wells confirmed initial flow rates. Wellpad 1's rate was 50-200 t/d, while wellpad 2 flowed at 30-70 t/d.
— What production techniques will be used for Messoyakh's high-viscosity crude?
Centrifugal pumps. This is a well-proven method. These pumps can produce high-viscosity crude and lift it to the surface. When lifted, crude behaves well enough in surface conditions, it does not freeze even in winter, and we can deliver it to the pipeline. The main issues will be crude, water and gas filtration in the formation, as well as waterflooding, formation maintenance and waterflood displacement.
— Following Rosneft's takeover of TNK-BP, have you already started working with Rosneft on the project? And do you think that the start-up date for Messoyakh may change?
— We have not noticed any changes, largely because the people have obviously remained the same. The scope of exploration for 2014 is already agreed upon with Rosneft. As for date changes, this does not really depend on the owner. Our company, just like TNK-BP and Rosneft, has a commitment to Transneft to fill the Zapolyarye-Purpe pipeline by 2016. Our commitment from the Messoyakh project is 8mn t/yr. We do not see any circumstances which could prevent us from complying with these commitments, because the field has high reserves and we have high well flow rates.
— What production level is scheduled for 2016? When do you think you can reach the 8mn t/yr that you have committed to Transneft?
— We will be producing 8mn t/yr by 2020 and we will be happy to produce 1mn t in 2016. But at the same time, we are considering options that can help us fill the pipeline faster — that is, by increasing production.
— Are government tax incentives for projects such as Messoyakh sufficient to allow final investment decisions to be made?
— For fields in the northern part of the Yamal-Nenets autonomous district, such as Novoportovskoye and Messoyakh, yes, the export tax incentives will enable us to develop these fields on a cost-effective basis.
— Gazpromneft's other important new production centre is Orenburg. What works is being undertake there this year and what are your production expectations?
— This year, we are developing four licence areas — the eastern area, the biggest within the Orenburg gas condensate field; the Tsarichanskoye field; the Kapitonovskoye and the Baleikinskoye fields. All the fields are at different phases of geological survey and readiness for development. Overall production performance in the region will reach 2.9mn t of oil equivalent (toe) (21.2mn bl of oil equivalent) in 2013. Investments will amount to Rbs15bn-17bn and will primarily be used to expand the drilling programme in the eastern area of the Orenburg field, where we plan to drill about 65 horizontal wells. As for the Orenburg hub production outlook, we expect output to peak at 7mn toe/yr by 2016-17. And investment will amount to Rbs100bn in the next five years.
— What is the expected production level in Iraq, where output is supposed to begin by the end of this year?
— We are focused mainly on infrastructure at the Iraqi project [the Badra field]. We are building crude gathering, treatment and transportation systems within the framework of several engineering, procurement and construction contracts for field infrastructure — including a central crude gathering facility and a 160km pipeline to the Garraf field. We plan to commission the main facilities and to deliver crude to the pipeline by the end of this year. Investment by all project members in field development is about $1bn in 2013, and our share is $350mn-370mn.
We have also started testing the Badra 4 well. The flow rate was more than 2,000 b/d from the lower interval, which was thought to be unpromising. We will be testing three more wells, compared with the one we have tested so far, and we hope that the combined flow rate from these will exceed 10,000 b/d.
— Lukoil, which also has Iraqi projects, often complains that the decision-making process and approval of selected bidders take a lot of time. Have you faced similar problems?
— We have also incurred certain losses in terms of contract approvals. In particular, it took us over six months to obtain approval for construction of gas infrastructure with [South Korea's] Samsung.
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Weyburn athletes compete in first week of 2022 Summer Games
Bethany Honig and Callie Damman both played for the box lacrosse female team, which placed eighth, overall during the competition.
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WEYBURN - Athletes from Weyburn were part of the first week action during the 2022 Canada Summer Games in Niagara.
Sutter Balog was on the male baseball team that won bronze.
In the baseball competition, Saskatchewan went 4-2 in the round robin, opening with a 10-0 loss to Ontario, then rattling off four straight wins – 12-3 over Nova Scotia, 13-3 over B.C., 5-4 over Ontario and 15-7 over Nova Scotia – before losing to 10-0 to B.C.
Saskatchewan lost 22-4 to Ontario in the semifinal round, but recovered to win 6-5 over B.C. in the bronze medal game.
Pitcher Jorde Chartrand was part of Saskatchewan's female softball team that finished fourth. Team Sask went 3-1 in the round robin, winning back-to-back 7-0 decisions over Nova Scotia and P.E.I., and then losing 3-0 to Manitoba but recovering to beat B.C. 2-0.
Team Sask. won 8-0 over New Brunswick and 4-3 over Manitoba in the qualification round, but lost 5-4 to Ontario in their final game to finish in fourth.
In the preliminary round, Team Sask lost 5-2 to Team Manitoba, tied 5-5 with Team PE, lost 4-0 to Team Quebec and lost 5-3 to Team New Brunswick.
Then in the qualification round, Team Sask won a decisive 12-1 over Team PEI. This sent them to the quarterfinal, where they lost 11-0 to Team Ontario. In the consolation round, Team Sask lost 5-0 to Team Manitoba. Finally in the seventh-eighth place final game, Team Sask lost 5-3 to Team New Brunswick.
Saskatchewan won 10 medals after the first week of competition, with six silver and four bronze medals. Seven of the medals were in wrestling, and one medal was in para swimming.
Week two of the 2022 Canada Summer Games competition started on Tuesday.
Goalie Ty Petersen will be competing in box lacrosse with the Team Sask men's team during the second week of competition. Golfer Darien Herlick will also be competing in men's golf during the second week of competition.
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26 July 2021: Auckland, New Zealand: Leading data and analytics firm illion has developed an innovative new credit risk score based on key trends from income and expense transactions that have traditionally been hidden.
It is a new consumer risk score called the illion Transaction Risk Score (iTRS), and sits alongside illion's existing Credit Risk Score.
"iTRS provides a more sharply focused lens which gives decision makers a clearer picture of consumer risk than they have had before," said Simon Bligh, CEO of illion.
"Banks and credit providers already hold a raft of data that shows both the financial state and spending behaviour of their customers. What the new score does is mine this data and make sense out of it in a straightforward manner.
"While the data offers the capability to understand spending behaviour, most credit providers have made limited use of it for this purpose. For example, it has rarely been used to understand a consumer's propensity to modify consumption habits in-line with their economic wellbeing.
"Furthermore, by their nature, smaller banks have traditionally had limited access to transaction information, as they have generally held a secondary relationship with the consumer. This has disadvantaged them when competing with Tier 1 banking institutions for prime borrowers," he said.
There are upsides for everyone, he said, with the new score delivering the insights needed to unlock more tailored lending terms and conditions and a broader range of products through enhanced credit underwriting and more suitable loan pricing.
Financial institutions can now price more efficiently, lend more responsibly and do so at lower cost. Regulators have the reassurance that comes from a more informed and robust process, and consumers have an expanded choice, getting the products that are right for them, quickly.
"It's one of those rare innovations where everybody wins."
Developing Transaction Scores requires both a technical understanding of banking data structures as well as a deep knowledge of spending and broader consumption behaviour. Illion's data scientists have coded and analysed more than 1,000 business-interpretable transaction data features, then used a combination of traditional modelling and Machine Learning techniques to develop the iTRS.
"The development of our new score is particularly relevant in light of the New Zealand Government's recent announcement regarding its intention to implement a Consumer Data Right (CDR), for which it will be a strong enabler.
"Also new to market is a solution that can help credit providers meet many of the challenges brought about by the ongoing implementation of the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act (CCCFA)," said Mr. Bligh.
These include a need for credit providers to take 'reasonable steps' to ensure they follow appropriate procedures – and have a clear plan to identify mistakes and fix them quickly. They must also follow a specific enquiry line to establish and verify that a loan is suitable for a borrower. Better record keeping is another clear requirement, and lenders must substantiate how they satisfied themselves as to the loan's suitability and affordability.
The illion Transaction Risk Score (iTRS)
illion has a market-leading position in New Zealand in bank transaction categorisation, risk analytics and bureau services, meaning that it is ideally placed to develop a scalable Transaction Scoring service that is economically valuable for all credit providers.
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The profound impact transaction risk scoring is having on credit risk management