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Acetyl-CoA (CH3COSCoA) is een co-enzym dat een rol speelt in de citroenzuurcyclus. In dit proces waarbij energie vrijkomt moet het reactieproduct oxaalazijnzuur nog omgezet worden in citroenzuur, het beginmolecuul van de cyclus. Zodra dit molecuul geproduceerd is kan de cyclus opnieuw beginnen.

De reactie van acetyl-CoA met oxaalazijnzuur kan in een aantal stappen gesplitst worden:
 Een waterstofion wordt onttrokken aan de acetylgroep, waardoor een enolaat ontstaat. De lading daarvan wordt gedeeltelijk door het zuurstof- en koolstofatoom gedragen (resonantie).
 Het enolaat voert een nucleofiele additie uit op het koolstofatoom van de ketongroep, waardoor het koolstofskelet van citroenzuur ontstaat. Het proces is formeel een aldol-reactie.
 De thiol-ester wordt gehydrolyseerd, waardoor citroenzuur en thio-CoA vrijkomen.

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Updated 29 March, 2017 - 13:56 Theodoros Karasavvas
Evidence of A 2,300-Year-Old Mesoamerican State Society? Immense Palace Complex May Rewrite Mexican History
The remains of an ancient royal palace in have been unearthed in southern Mexico. It is considered to be the oldest royal structure ever excavated in the area – dating back 2,300 years – providing evidence of the ancient rise of centralized power in Mesoamerica.
Could this be a Key Discovery?
Discovering evidence for the rise of early state societies in Mesoamerica has always been a great challenge for archaeologists and the newly found royal complex could be an important key that opens many doors for them. Excavations completed in 2014 at the site of El Palenque in Mexico's Valley of Oaxaca revealed a palace complex with separate areas where a ruler handled affairs of state and lived with his family, as archaeologists Elsa Redmond and Charles Spencer, both of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, claim. "This 2,300-year-old palace is the oldest multifunctional palace excavated to date in the Valley of Oaxaca and is a key indicator of the early state society that emerged there at this time," the archaeologists told the International Business Times .
According to the conclusions of the experts examining El Palenque in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , only a ruler of a bureaucratic state (a system of government in which most of the important decisions are taken by state officials rather than by elected representatives) could have managed the construction of this centralist seat of power.
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El Palenque royal palace is the oldest palace uncovered to date in this area of Mexico. ( Elsa M. Redmond and Charles Spencer )
Oldest Multifunctional Palace in the Area
The palace complex at El Palenque is the oldest multifunctional palace excavated thus far in the Valley of Oaxaca. The well-preserved remnants of the palace complex dated by associated radiocarbon samples and ceramics to the Late Formative period or Late Monte Albán I phase (300–100 BC), the period of archaic state emergence in the region. The El Palenque palace displays specific architectural and organizational features similar to the royal palaces of much later Mesoamerican states described by Colonial-period sources.
The excavation data documents a multifunctional palace complex covering a maximum estimated area of 2,790 sq. m. (30031.31 sq. ft.) on the north side of the site's plaza, consisting of both governmental and residential constituents. A central staircase is connected to an inner courtyard, which could have served as "conference hall" for the ruler and his advisors.
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A painted stucco relief in the museum at Palenque showing King U Pakal K´inich. ( Jacob Rus )
Additionally, a system of paved surfaces, drains and other features for collecting rainwater runs throughout the palace, a fact that indicates that the palace complex was designed and built as a single construction as Science News reported . Ultimately Redmond and Spencer said that El Palenque's palace contains no tombs, which means that the ancient ruler of the site was possibly buried off-site, at a ritually important location.
Water shrine, where a stone-lined drain descending from ruler's residence supplied a cistern with rainwater. ( Elsa M. Redmond and Charles Spencer )
Top Image: Aerial view of the El Palenque royal palace location. This is the oldest palace uncovered to date in this area of Mexico. ( Elsa M. Redmond and Charles Spencer ) Insert: King K'inich Kan Balam II of Palenque, Temple XVII panel. Detail. ( Public Domain )
By Theodoros Karasavvas
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Theodoros Karasavvas, J.D.-M.A. has a cum laude degree in Law from the University of Athens, a Masters Degree in Legal History from the University of Pisa, and a First Certificate in English from Cambridge University. When called upon to do... Read More
JD Ricks wrote on 5 July, 2017 - 06:11
I'm confused! The Palenque ruled over by U Pakal K'inich was NOT in the Oaxaca Valley. It's in Chiapas.

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Why Older Workers' Keep Working - And Are Stimulating the Economy
Improved health and education as well as changes to retirement systems that have reduced benefits are convincing retirement age workers to keep at it.
The advantages are that they are helping to alleviate a global shortage of employees - especially skilled ones - while their knowledge is being transferred to younger colleagues, improving productivity and because so many new jobs require new skills, they are not competing for the same positions. In addition, postponing retirement means they are not putting anticipated pressure on social benefit systems.
The question is whether this is a one time generational event in social science terms, or the start of a secular change in workforce longevity. JL
Sarah Chaney reports in the Wall Street Journal:
As more of the population in advanced economies passes age 60, an increasing share have kept working. Participation by people age 65 and over began reaching a high of 15.3% across the developed world last year. The rise in labor-force participation of over-55 year olds in Italy, Japan, the U.S., the U.K., Germany and France equates to 18.8 million workers. The gray wave has been driven by pension changes, improved health and increased education, and could extend the business expansion by providing employers with more workers as unemployment reaches new lows.With more people working as they surpass retirement age, they pay taxes and don't draw benefits, improving the solvency of public pension systems.
A slow-growing world is getting a boost from an unexpected source. As more of the population in advanced economies approaches or passes age 60, an increasing share have kept working rather than retire.
Labor-force participation—the share of people working or looking for work—for people aged 55 to 64 started climbing throughout advanced economies around the turn of the century, reversing decades of decline. Around 2010, participation by people age 65 and over began an upward march, reaching a near half-century high of 15.3% across the developed world last year.
The rise in labor-force participation of over-55 year olds in Italy, Japan, the U.S., the U.K., Germany and France since 2001 equates to a combined 18.8 million workers, or a 5.5% boost in their supply of labor, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
The gray wave has been driven by pension changes, improved health and increased education, and has several positive implications: It could extend the current business expansion by providing employers with more workers as unemployment reaches new lows. It offsets the drag on growth of aging populations; and it shores up public finances.
"You need more people, a greater share of the population to join the labor force, so you can produce the same amount of output," said Petia Topalova, an International Monetary Fund economist. "It's very much needed for most of these countries because populations are projected to decline in most of the advanced world over the next decade."
Labor-force participation among older workers began a descent around the 1970s largely due to policies that encouraged early retirement, such as a lower retirement age and generous unemployment benefits.
Then, in the 1990s, several countries reversed course. Italy passed laws that gradually raised the early retirement age to 61 by 2011 from 52 in 1996. This appeared to help lift labor-force participation for men aged 55 to 59, which climbed steadily to 78% in 2014 from 54% in 2001, Courtney Coile, an economics professor at Wellesley College, and her co-authors found in a study.
In 1998, Germany began reducing pension benefits for early retirees. Near the turn of the century, it also cut the maximum duration of unemployment benefits for older workers. Participation by people age 55 to 64 has soared to 73.6% in 2018 from 43.1% in 2003.
Rising life expectancy also played a role. Some older workers may also have stayed on the job because of inadequate retirement savings, especially after the financial crisis depressed stock and home values.
While aging populations are slowing growth around the world, economic expansion would be even slower without workers' rising participation. If the same share of Germans age 55 to 79 were in the labor force in 2018 as in 1991, Germany's overall workforce would have contracted by 2.4%, or nearly 1 million people, over that period, according to an analysis by Mark Keese, an OECD employment economist. Instead, it expanded by 9.6%, or 3.8 million people. Italy's labor force also would have contracted without growth in elderly participation.
The trend holds implications for public finances. With more people working as they approach or surpass retirement age, they continue to pay taxes and many don't draw benefits, improving the solvency of public pension systems. Germany's public pension system's reserve, the amount in reserve to pay pensions, has increased to about €38 billion in 2018 ($43 billion in 2018) from about €2 billion in 2005.
Still, rising workforce participation by itself isn't enough to offset the drag on growth from aging populations in coming decades, particularly in fast-aging countries like Japan and Germany.
Moreover, European populist movements threaten to derail policies aimed at keeping older workers employed longer, said Axel Börsch-Supan, economist at the Munich Center for the Economics of Aging. "You see what I call pension backlashes in several European countries," he said. For example, Italy's antiestablishment coalition took office last summer vowing to deliver more-generous pensions. Denmark's Social Democrats won a general election on June 5 after promising, among other things, to enable earlier retirement by rolling back some recent pension changes.
Still, Mr. Keese points to Japan, which continues to defy economic odds despite its population's advanced age. In 2018, 77% of Japanese aged 55 to 64 were in the labor force, up from 68.2% in 2011. "If other countries follow Japan's pathway, then there's still scope for employment rates to rise quite considerably, even from their current high levels," he said.


Before reading this post, I didn't realize that the raptor population is in decline and all the reasons for this definitely make sense. That is sad and posts like this one at least educates us a bit on this issue and helps us think about what could be done to improve the situation.
Thank you Nicole, please share this information.
Those are gorgeous animals! Great post! It's really sad to hear that those special animals numbers are declining due to deforestation... very unfortunate.
With awareness comes the power to make a change for the better.
I am so glad I discovered this article. It is so interesting and informative and not a topic I would look for usually. I love wildlife in general and it was nice to learn so much about Raptors. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for visiting and commenting on this post. Will take a look at your blog.
Take a pair of binoculars with you!
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I am a member of a bird association here in Greece and I love to go bird watching with them. It's a shame this awesome birds are in decline.
Enjoy your bird watching and please share this post with your bird loving friends.
Thanks for reading and your support of bird watching activities in the UK.
It is important to take care of the ecosystems that are out there. I haven't been out to Arizona to see some of them although I really should as it is so close to me.
A lot of birds migrate south to warmer places like Arizona during the winter months, so if you can travel there at this time of the year you will likely enjoy a great bird watching and photography experience.
I think for many people all over the world owls are also their favorite birds.


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A pedestrian bridge at Kaposia Park and Highway 52 allows for continuation into Dakota County Thompson Park in West St. Paul.
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You're good. I wouldn't have gotten it if I hadn't thought of it.
I've a season ticket so am OK, but was looking to bring someone along. If anyone has a spare North Stand ticket then please PM me.
Mate has 2 in block A. Think they are about 40 bucks each.tickets gone.
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I finally got sorted for one, so I stand down my request.
Thought you wanted to bring yer Aul lad?
johng wrote: Thought you wanted to bring yer Aul lad?
I did. If I had seen your offer of two in time, I would have jumped at it. But I was getting a bit desperate, so jumped at the ticket I got.
I take him to a few games each year (got him a ticket to Bath), but have never managed to get him to my level of interest. He went Lunster after we both went to the Perpignan semi-final together in 2003, and I've never fully managed to turn him back.
I suppose I could buy the two off your mate and resell mine - seems to be pretty easy, based on my experience of trying to buy one!
He'll be alright though. I'll take him out to dinner instead; lobster with a side of turnips.
I suppose I could buy the two off your mate and resell mine - seems to be pretty easy, based on my experience of trying to buy one!.
I am still in need of 1 ticket if you are selling yours?
Don't want everyone to come rushing at once to this request, but looking for up to 3 tickets anywhere ?? Will take them in 1's.
Need one ticket for South Stand - first year i haven't had a season ticket and I'm basically all over the shop!
I have 1 adult ticket for the North Stand available.
Can someone tell me the face value for adult North Stand? Thanks!
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The most exciting car in the Lotus lineup isn't available in America. Or at least it's not available if you plan to drive it on the street.
On display at the Lotus stand at the LA Auto Show, the Exige V6 Cup car is a track day special designed as a purpose built racecar. The unique package is essentially the front two-thirds of an older Elise/Exige chassis mated to the back one-third of an Evora.
Powered by a 3.5-liter V6 supercharged engine it boasts 345 hp and 295 lb-ft of torque.
Weighing in at a scant 2,447 lbs depending on the spec, the interior is pretty much gutted out as a race car should be. What you'll get for $100,450 (including destination) is a lightweight bonded aluminum structure reinforced by an FIA approved roll cage. Outfitted with a fully independent suspension, Lotus ups the ante with a set of Eibach springs and Nitron two-way adjustable dampers. Braking performance comes courtesy of four-piston calipers with two-piece aluminum bell discs while you'll be competing on a set of Pirelli Trofeo tires.
Interestingly enough, you can also pony up an extra $1,800 to nab yourself air conditioning if that's your cup of tea. Diamond cut wheels in a 17- and 18-inch staggered sizing is available for $550 extra while the flashy motorsport paint will run you another $3,200. And considering that the paint investment isn't cheap, an extra $550 will get you StarShield paint protection.
The Lotus Exige V6 Cup is eligible to race in the Lotus Cup Series in the USA, Europe, UK, Italy and Thailand.
Why couldn't lotus make this street legal in probably its largest market in the world?!!
The market is the 'largest' in that there are a lot of people here, but the actual market for this as a street car, at the price point it would have to be, compared to what its competitors would be, would likely not profitably offset the cost to federalize it.
Remember, when the Elise was introduced, there were waits for the car. Two years later, they were luck to sell a couple hundred.
For this Exige, once the initial demand is met in its first year, they wouldn't be able to give them away.
Lotus also has the issue of making mostly small changes to cars year over year, meaning new cars are competing with essentially the same lightly used cars for sale privately.
The answer is, simple math. How much to federalize a new model? Millions. Divided by how many sales? Maybe dozens.
It's also the reason why the newer versions of the Elise & Exige 4-bangers are not sold here.
At least in NA there is so much to choose from.
A 2014 Corvette is 460hp and 3200lbs Federalized, easy to maintain and out the door for $60k?
Track form (just strip the interior + headers) and the 'Vette is 2900lbs and 500hp for $75k. A used z06 is half... but that is another topic.
Otherwise, look at Cayman 340hp, 3000lbs under $100k.
Am I just missing something? or the excellent Lotus marketing and mistique!
Do not take me wrong. I love the Lotus concept. I think when they took it the wrong way... you see what happens, if one is rational.
Everybody is selling a 3000lbs 500hp conventional sports car. Corvette, Viper, Porsche, Nissan, Ford, etc. they have all bases and tastes covered from the low-tech Mustang, cheap BRZ to trackable 'Vette to exotic Ferrari's and Lambo's. Same formula. Even Miata has strayed and balooned.
I would buy the federalized Exige V6 in a heart beat.
For $125,000? Even if it weighed close to 3000lbs? Would You? and how many others?
Just trying to inject reality into the conversation.
One thing that caught my eye in the above article - why is StarShield on this Exige $550 when on all other Lotus is ~$100? Are they covering the entire car in SS or using some special type of SS?
For 100k I would buy Elise and evora. Make Elise track car and use for evora street.
Someone please explain to me why this car would cost more than a fully loaded Evora S?
For the same reason people spend $30-50k more on a Porsche GT3 Cup car vs just picking up a street legal GT3 and doing the mods themselves.
And to answer a post above - I would hope that if the Exige V6 was legal here it would be in the $70-80k range (which is in line with some Euro conversions). For that money I think a lot of people would pick them up. For $125 I think you'd find only the few diehard fans standing in line. Sadly though, we won't have the chance.
I would pick up a street legal V6 Exige in a heart beat. The Exige Cup has been available for almost a year now, and I think only a couple have been sold so far. The public doesn't relate to the Cup because there isn't even a street legal version to be had.
Lotus' business model in the US seems completely upside down. And, how many Evoras are sold each year?
For Lotus not to offer a pure sports car in the US is a serious flaw.
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Alfa Romeo 4C is the closest thing price at under $60k with 240bhp and a Federal weight of what is guessed to be ~2500lbs. Hard be believe that to make them road legal in the US they had to add ~500lbs of safety.
I don't know how much you paid for your starshield, but when I bought my 2005 Elise in Feb/05 I seem to recall it was close to a grand on my car.
Mostly exclusivity, but it's also a much lower production run than the Evora. The price will naturally be north of what we consider to be its real value.
At a $70-80k price point I'd be making a beeline to Gator Motorsports to order one. Above that though I'm out of the market. Twice what I paid for my Elise in 2005, I'm ok with that - and I'm ready for a replacement.
I get the point that like the Viper, the first year sales would be "the" sales volume, but hopefully there would be enough of us at that price point to make it worthwhile for Lotus. Announce it, hype it to us, make us wait a couple of years... it worked for the Elise.
How did it 'work' for the Elise? Isn't a car company in business to sustain itself, preferrably sustain growth. Lotus was able to, over a couple of years, sell more cars in the U.S. than ever, but what did it get them in the long run?
The Elise and Exige are gone, and are they even selling 100 new Evoras per year here? Have you seen how many Evoras, new and used, are for sale in all the various outlets? Even here, when people inquire about buying a new Evora, they come here and ask if anyone knows of a dealer giving steep discounts. When your audience only wants your product on the cheap, you won't last long.
Big problem with the Elise, and would likely be so with this car if it were legal, is that Lotus cannot afford drammatic upgrades to cars year over year. So after one short year the 2006 Elises were competing with new car prices against an ever growing number of low mileage used Elises for sale that were essentially the identical car that were being sold for many thousands less than new.
Absolutely correct - it didn't work for Lotus because they had the unrealistic notion that the Elise/Exige would keep selling at the '05/06 numbers. On top of that the Evora was the wrong car - not competitive or exciting enough to create its own niche. And, the long rumored Esprit will be way out of my league if it ever comes.
Lotus needs exciting products that drive a market - that make me want to buy a new one every few years. Again, I understand the expense and effort of bringing the Exige S to the market. As it is now though, what would you have Lotus do lotusforsale - just give it all up and fold?


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The Dormy Open is a golf tournament on the Challenge Tour. It was first played in 2021 on the Öster by Stenson course at Österåker Golf Club in Åkersberga, Sweden, 20 km north-east of Stockholm. It was the last of two Challenge Tour events held in Sweden in May 2021.

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Review: "Tammy" (Spoilers)
July 8, 2014 by Sue
This is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Period.
It lacked humor, intelligence, character depth or any real cohesive storyline. The only redeeming thing about the movie to me is that it did not include any transphobic content. That I noticed between cringing, yawning and eye rolling. It wasn't even a guilty cringe kind of funny.
The premis is pretty much your standard shlubby guy theme – a young woman squandering her life in a dead-end job loses that job, her marriage and even her wreck of a car in a matter of a few hours. She goes on an inexplicable road trip with her grandmother and ends up finding herself. It was a retread of the "Identity Thief" storyline with Susan Sarandon in the Jason Bateman role and lacking the humor.
The character of Tammy is just pathetic. And there's no explanation. She has two parents who are together, seem to love her and use all sorts of appropriate supportive boundaries. There's no explanation on when and how Tammy gave up on herself. During the first part of the movie, she's actually pretty stupid. Her big transformation is just – blah. It doesn't make sense that she grows wise in the course of one on-screen evening.
Susan Sarandon's "Pearl" is a tragic waste of talent. She did get a few of the actual funny scenes as when she flashes a large group of lesbians during a party and again when she's having sex in the backseat of her car with a stranger. But she's just a rather bitter alcoholic with no storyline, no explanation, no depth. And it is really hard to buy Sarandon as McCarthy's grandmother.
I found the infamous holdup scene amusing because McCarthy went for the body shame before the audience could and that's funny. And there was some heart there when you learn why she did it.
I've been pretty outspoken on my dislike for McCarthy's ongoing bashing of trans people as well as her generalized homophobic content on "Mike and Molly" – Identity Thief has several jokes and The Heat had one. Then an episode of Mike and Molly aired where the cast just decimated the LGBTQ community. So I refused to promote this movie and only went to see it to see for myself if there was content. I had previously asked GLAAD and the promoters. All I could get was references to the lesbian storyline.
Note – a storyline about lesbians played by heterosexual actors does not offset the harm done by multiple incidents of bashing the trans community. In case that wasn't clear.
So, let's talk about that. Kathy Bates and Sandra Oh play an interracial older lesbian couple with a ton of money and several "pearls" of wisdom to share. They were fine. I hope to someday be invited to a lesbian party like the own they through. With them. Ahem.
But, Bates existed mostly to smack Tammy upside the head with much needed advice. And then inexplicably she and Oh were part of the final scene. But other than implying with a long sigh that McCarthy understands how hard it is to be a lesbian, they aren't really integral to the story or certainly McCarthy's ongoing queer bashing.
I think a more believable ending would have been Tammy moving to Louisville to take a job in one of Bates' pet stores. An entry level job where she has a chance to prove herself. And they could have done a really funny homage to the opening scene where Tammy tries to give mouth to mouth to a deer she stunned on a local road by putting her in the "wildlife and bird seed" department, retelling that story to customers and driving people crazy but in a new lovable Tammy sort of way.
Tammy just falls flat. It isn't original, it isn't funny and it doesn't elevate McCarthy into the pantheon of revolutionary comedians who made their body part of their comedy.
I say rent "Bridesmaids" or "Gilmore Girls" and hope that McCarthy finds her way back to smart humor soon.
Tags:Billy GardellKathy BatesMelissa McCarthySandra OhSusan SarandonTammy
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package org.hawkular.inventory.rest;

import static org.hawkular.inventory.api.Action.created;
import static org.hawkular.inventory.api.Action.deleted;
import static org.hawkular.inventory.rest.RestApiLogger.LOGGER;

import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Set;

import javax.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped;
import javax.enterprise.event.Observes;
import javax.inject.Inject;
import javax.transaction.Transactional;

import org.hawkular.accounts.api.PersonaService;
import org.hawkular.accounts.api.ResourceService;
import org.hawkular.accounts.api.model.Persona;
import org.hawkular.inventory.api.Action;
import org.hawkular.inventory.api.Interest;
import org.hawkular.inventory.api.Inventory;
import org.hawkular.inventory.api.PartiallyApplied;
import org.hawkular.inventory.api.model.AbstractElement;
import org.hawkular.inventory.api.model.CanonicalPath;
import org.hawkular.inventory.api.model.Environment;
import org.hawkular.inventory.api.model.Feed;
import org.hawkular.inventory.api.model.Metric;
import org.hawkular.inventory.api.model.MetricType;
import org.hawkular.inventory.api.model.Resource;
import org.hawkular.inventory.api.model.ResourceType;
import org.hawkular.inventory.api.model.Tenant;
import org.hawkular.inventory.cdi.DisposingInventory;
import org.hawkular.inventory.cdi.InventoryInitialized;

import rx.Subscription;

/**
 * Integrates the security concerns with the inventory.
 *
 * <p>Mutation operations must be checked explicitly in the REST classes using the {@link Security} bean and invoking
 * one of its {@code can*()} methods. The creation of the security resources associated with the newly created inventory
 * entities is handled automagically by this class which does that by observing the mutation events on the inventory.
 *
 * @author Lukas Krejci
 * @since 0.0.2
 */
@ApplicationScoped
public class SecurityIntegration {

    @Inject
    ResourceService storage;

    @Inject
    PersonaService personas;

    private final Set<Subscription> subscriptions = new HashSet<>();

    public void start(@Observes InventoryInitialized event) {
        Inventory inventory = event.getInventory();
        install(inventory, Tenant.class);
        install(inventory, Environment.class);
        install(inventory, Feed.class);
        install(inventory, ResourceType.class);
        install(inventory, MetricType.class);
        install(inventory, Resource.class);
        install(inventory, Metric.class);
        //install(inventory, Relationship.class);
    }

    public void stop(@Observes DisposingInventory event) {
        subscriptions.forEach(Subscription::unsubscribe);
        subscriptions.clear();
    }

    private <E extends AbstractElement<?, ?>> void install(Inventory inventory, Class<E> cls) {
        subscriptions.add(inventory.observable(Interest.in(cls).being(created()))
                .subscribe(PartiallyApplied.procedure(this::react).second(created())));

        subscriptions.add(inventory.observable(Interest.in(cls).being(deleted()))
                .subscribe(PartiallyApplied.procedure(this::react).second(deleted())));
    }

    @Transactional
    public void react(AbstractElement<?, ?> entity, Action<?, ?> action) {
        switch (action.asEnum()) {
            case CREATED:
                createSecurityResource(entity);
                break;
            case DELETED:
                String stableId = Security.getStableId(entity);
                storage.delete(stableId);
                LOGGER.debugf("Deleted security entity with stable ID '%s' for entity %s", stableId, entity);
                break;
        }
    }

    private void createSecurityResource(AbstractElement<?, ?> entity) {
        LOGGER.tracef("Creating security entity for %s", entity);

        org.hawkular.accounts.api.model.Resource parent = ensureParent(entity);

        Persona owner = establishOwner(parent, personas.getCurrent());

        // because the event handling in inventory is not ordered in any way, we might receive the info about creating
        // a parent after a child has been reported. In that case, the security resource for the parent will already
        // exist.
        String stableId = Security.getStableId(entity);
        if (storage.get(stableId) == null) {
            storage.create(stableId, parent, owner);
            LOGGER.debugf("Created security entity with stable ID '%s' for entity %s", stableId, entity);
        }
    }

    private org.hawkular.accounts.api.model.Resource ensureParent(AbstractElement<?, ?> entity) {
        CanonicalPath parentPath = entity.getPath().up();

        if (!parentPath.isDefined()) {
            //tenants and relationships
            return null;
        }

        String parentStableId = Security.getStableId(parentPath);

        Persona owner = personas.getCurrent();
        org.hawkular.accounts.api.model.Resource parent = storage.get(parentStableId);
        if (parent == null) {
            parent = storage.create(parentStableId, null, owner);
        }

        return parent;
    }

    /**
     * Establishes the owner. If the owner of the parent is the same as the current user, then create the resource
     * as being owner-less, inheriting the owner from the parent.
     */
    private Persona establishOwner(org.hawkular.accounts.api.model.Resource resource, Persona current) {
        while (resource != null && resource.getPersona() == null) {
            resource = resource.getParent();
        }

        if (resource != null && resource.getPersona().equals(current)) {
            current = null;
        }

        return current;
    }
}

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DHA may boost the cancer-fighting power of a new type of drug, according to a recent study. UC Davis scientists found that the fatty acid combined with regorafenib, an oral cancer drug, reduced the ability of kidney cancer cells to invade other cells and slowed their growth.
About 62,700 new cases of kidney cancer (39,650 in men and 23,050 in women) are diagnosed in the U.S. annually, with about 14,240 deaths each year from the disease, according to the American Cancer Society.
Regorafenib is one of a new generation of anti-cancer drugs that attack tyrosine kinases—enzymes that activate other proteins. Unfortunately, kidney cancers often mutate to resist these therapies. "Most renal cell carcinomas learn to escape therapy after a couple of years," Robert Weiss, professor of medicine at UC Davis, chief of nephrology at Sacramento VA Medical Center and head of the kidney cancer working group at the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, said in a release from the center. The study's results are promising, as they suggest that a "simple additive, which is completely nontoxic, could have a positive effect on disease, even rescuing regorafenib and similar therapies from resistance," he said.
The researchers tested the combination in cancer cell lines and in human tumors in mice. They found that together, DHA and regorafenib killed kidney cancers cells in both models. Their results were published in the journal Molecular Cancer Therapeutics.
The study is not the first to suggest the cancer-fighting potential of omegas. One recent study found women with the highest consumption of fish oil had a 34 percent lower risk of death during the 15 years after being diagnosed with breast cancer.


Discussion in 'Thinking of teaching' started by canoequeen, Mar 9, 2011.
I should feel elated ,having been offered a place on a PGCE primary. I know lots of people out there would love to be in my position but I'm wondering what my chances in the workplace will be like at the end of it all and if it is worth the sacrifices. I have been fortunate to gain a full time permanent job in Cornwall but its in a sector that I thought I had escaped from and my heart just isn't in it. I have wanted to teach for years but now wonder if all the hard work will be worth it. With the announcement that there is no bursary this year, add to that the loss of earnings whilst doing the PGCE and proposals for longer working days, will they announce that school holidays will be abolished. Anybody have anything positive to say.
Where have you heard that there might be longer working days?
These are all worries. Would you rather be in a job you hate or have the chance at a job you love? It's going to be hard work, but the job market generally isn't great right now, and we're all in the same boat, so that lessens any worries I have, as does the fact that I'm just really looking forward to having the best job in the world!
I'm in Cornwall too, have full time work but teaching is what I want to do. I agree with what the above person said if you're not happy and teaching is what you want to do then you've got to follow your heart!!! I too am very disappointed with the news about bursary but after waiting 2 years for this opportunity I am taking it up and living very basically for one year! Jobs do come up a lot in Cornwall (if that's where you want to stay) look at the council website there's always teaching jobs on there which is reassuring.
Thanks for the replies. Have come this far so just need to go the extra mile and reap the rewards.
Heard about the longer working hours on this site - a proposal of Gove's, maybe just scaremongering. Anyway most of us work far longer hours in our non tewaching jobs and maybe its about schools being open longer for child care rather than teaching.
Where are you doing your PGCE. I'm going to Plymouth Marjons. I love it here in Cornwall & Devon and would really want to teach in the area.
I love the idea that Gove doesn't already think most teachers work a 50+ hours-a-week anyway. He clearly hasn't spoken to any teachers recently. I'm a school by half 7 most days, leave close to 6pm, work through my lunch break and 2 hours at home every night, as well as running 3 clubs and having staff meetings. By my count that's at least 60 hours a week.
But yes, it is worth it! I love my class, enjoy my job and feel grateful to have such an interesting, ever-changing job. Despite the paperwork.


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Law on Enforcement and Security ("Official Gazette of the RS", No. 106/2015)
Author: Tasic & Partners Published on: 06/06/2016 Published in: Knowledge
On December 18th, 2015 the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia on the sitting of the Second Regular Session in 2015, adopted the new Law on Enforcement and Security ("Official Gazette of the RS" No. 106/2015, hereinafter the "Law"). The most important regulations of the Law will enter into force on July 1st, 2016 except for certain provisions which entered into force on the 8th day of its publishing in the "Official Gazette of the RS", i.e. December 29th 2015.
According to the new Law, the court renders the decision on the motion for enforcement on the basis of an executive title or an authentic document, while on the motion for enforcement in order to settle a monetary claim arising from the communal services or similar activities, a public enforcement officer renders the decision. However, the new Law, compared to the previous Law, establishes the authority to conduct enforcement in a different way. In accordance with the new Law, enforcements shall be conducted by public enforcement officers, except for the execution of which the court shall have exclusive jurisdiction, namely: for the enforcement on joint sale of movable and immovable property; if the enforcement debtor is required to take a certain action (action), refrain from taking a certain action (inaction), or suffer another person to take a certain action, the court shall have jurisdiction to decide on the motion to enforce and to conduct the enforcement; as well as enforcement on the basis of an executive title regarding family matters and returning an employee to work. In addition, the enforcement creditor shall, in the motion for enforcement on the basis of an executive title or an authentic document, indicate a specific, territorially competent enforcement officer to carry out the enforcement.
The enforcement procedure shall be urgent according to the new Law, and the judge will be held disciplinary liable for committing a disciplinary offense if failing to render a decision by the deadline set under this Law. In doing so, the president of the court shall see to it that a failure on the part of a judge of the court of first and second instance to rule on an objection or an appeal by the deadline set under this Law, is always taken into account in the procedure for the protection of the right to trial within a reasonable time. However, regardless of the fact that the principle of urgency is prescribed both by the previous and the new Law, the new Law stipulates a possibility of postponing the enforcement at proposal of creditor, debtor, their joint proposal or on the proposal of a third party. The enforcement debtor may propose postponing only once during the proceeding, and only upon establishing the likelihood that he/she would suffer irreparable or hard to repair damage, greater than the damage the enforcement creditor would suffer due the postponing, and if the enforcement debtor proves the reasons for the postponement of enforcement by a public document or certified private document.
The provisions of the Law prescribe that legal and factual disposition of the object of enforcement and security have no legal effect from the moment the enforcement debtor receives a decision on motion for enforcement on the basis of an executive title or an authentic document, or a motion on security.
The most significant novelty introduced by the new Law, is introduction of the appeal as a regular legal remedy, in addition to the objection. The deadline for submitting an appeal is 8 days, instead of 5 working days, how it was stipulated in the previous Law on Enforcement and Security. The enforcement debtor may file an appeal against a decision on motion for enforcement only for the reasons that prevent the enforcement, and in addition to the reasons stipulated by the previous law, the new Law stipulates some additional reasons.
Completely new provisions are related to the identification data of the enforcement debtor and the creditor, the duty to provide the information and the limitation of this duty, which replaced the provisions for obtaining the declaration of assets of the execution debtor, omitted from the new Law due to ineffectiveness. Thus, according to the new decision, the state authorities, holders of public authority, other legal entities and entrepreneurs shall deliver to the court and the public enforcement officer, free of charge and upon their request, all relevant information concerning the enforcement debtor and its assets, as well as information about the debtor's salary and other earnings, financial instrument account numbers and balances, data on immovable property on which or in relation to which the enforcement debtor has property rights, information from the records of registered motor vehicles and trailers, data on tax returns for the last three years and so on. The state authorities, holders of public authority, other legal entities and entrepreneurs shall deliver, free of charge, all the data that shall be delivered to the court and the public enforcement officer, except the data on tax returns for the last three years, to the enforcement creditor initiating enforcement procedure or securing of claims procedure on the basis of an executive title.
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Bacardi® Creates Graphic Novel That Brings Its Cuban Heritage To Life
— BACARDI has released The Spirit of BACARDI — a graphic novel that tells the stories behind the Bacardi family and Company origins in Cuba
— Created by legendary graphic novel talent; a unique collaboration between writer Warren Ellis and artist Michael Allred
— Drops of BACARDI rum added to the inks used to illustrate the novel
— Available to download now from BACARDI.COM/SPIRITOFBACARDI
HAMILTON, Bermuda, Aug. 6, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — For more than 150 years, BACARDI has been a brand with incredible stories to tell. Since 1862, the Bacardi family has faced earthquakes, fire, revolution, prohibition, and exile, none of which could tame their irrepressible spirit.
To view the Multimedia News Release, please click:
http://www.multivu.com/mnr/71400596-bacardi-creates-graphic-novel-cuban-heritage
To bring these stories to life, BACARDI has collaborated with two of the most iconic names in the world of graphic novels — writer Warren Ellis and artist Michael Allred — to create The Spirit of BACARDI, a graphic novel that tells the stories behind the iconic brand and its origins in Cuba.
The Spirit of BACARDI focuses on Emilio Bacardi — son of founder Don Facundo Bacardi Masso — and his tireless work for Cuban independence in the late 1800s. Emilio Bacardi was repeatedly imprisoned and exiled for his belief in an independent Cuba, but persevered, eventually becoming the first freely-elected Mayor of Santiago de Cuba.
The graphic novel also touches upon early challenges the Bacardi family faced and overcame — including an earthquake that destroyed their city and a fire that ravaged their distillery — and ends with the creation of the original Cuba Libre cocktail in 1900.
The bold attitude of BACARDI even extends to the way in which the graphic novel was created. Drops of BACARDI Gold rum were added to the inks artist Michael Allred used to illustrate The Spirit of BACARDI.
"Working on this project gave me the chance to bring to life a time and a place I've never worked with before – Cuba in the late nineteenth century," said Allred. "I loved the idea of adding BACARDI rum to the ink to make it a real part of the graphic novel's DNA. It's something I have never done before and makes the artwork unique."
Ellis said, "Storytelling requires great characters, and in Emilio Bacardi we have exactly that. Emilio was a patriot, passionate about his homeland of Cuba. My focus was to bring his drive and determination to life."
Andy Gibson, Chief Marketing Officer of Bacardi, said, "We see The Spirit of BACARDI as a fantastic way to tell the stories behind "BACARDI Untameable Since 1862," our new global marketing campaign that inspires consumers to pursue their passions no matter what — much like the Bacardi family did — encouraging camaraderie and strength of character."
"Authenticity is increasingly important to our consumers, especially millennials. While first and foremost we want the graphic novel to be entertaining, we are also saying something important about our brand; that we have the heritage to back up our attitude," added Gibson.
To download The Spirit of BACARDI and for more information on "BACARDI Untameable Since 1862," BACARDI rum and cocktail recipes, visit BACARDI.COM.
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About Warren Ellis
Warren Ellis is an award winning English writer of graphic novels and film. Most recently, Ellis has written The Spirit of BACARDI – a graphic novel that tells the stories behind BACARDI rum and its origins in Cuba. Prior to The Spirit of Bacardi, Ellis wrote RED and RED 2 which were both adapted into movies starring Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren and Morgan Freeman. Before the RED series, Ellis started British magazine Deadline, worked for Marvel on Hellstorm and then went on to write for DC where he wrote Gen, Transmetropolitan and Planetary. Ellis has also written for Vice, Wired UK and Reuters on technological and cultural matters. Warren has been called "one of the most high-profile comic book writers of the past two decades".
About Michael Allred
Michael Allred is an American artist and writer. Most recently, Allred has been central in the creation of The Spirit of BACARDI – a graphic novel that tells the stories behind BACARDI rum and its origins in Cuba. Allred is most famous for his creation, Madman, a superhero that appears in graphic novels published by Image. He has also illustrated numerous characters across Marvel and DC – two of the largest graphic novel publishers. Michael's work is renowned
for its retro 1950s pop art style and he has been nominated for multiple awards including the Harvey's, the Eisners and the Eagles. Michael lives near Portland with his wife Laura who frequently works as his colorist.
About BACARDI Rum – The World's Most Awarded Rum
In 1862, in the city of Santiago de Cuba, founder Don Facundo Bacardi Masso revolutionized the spirits industry when he created a light-bodied rum with a particularly smooth taste – BACARDI. The unique taste of BACARDI rum inspired cocktail pioneers to invent some of the world's most famous recipes including the BACARDI Mojito, the BACARDI Daiquiri, the BACARDI Cuba Libre, the BACARDI Pina Colada and the BACARDI Presidente. BACARDI rum is the world's most awarded spirit, with more than 550 awards for quality, taste and innovation. Today, BACARDI rum is made in Puerto Rico and Mexico where it is crafted to ensure the taste remains the same today as it did when it was first blended in 1862. www.bacardi.com
The BACARDI® brand is part of the portfolio of Bacardi Limited, headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda. Bacardi Limited refers to the Bacardi group of companies, including Bacardi International Limited.
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When referring to the brand or product, it is written as 'BACARDI'. When referring to the company or founding family, it is written as 'Bacardi'. When referring to the corporate entity, it is written as 'Bacardi'.
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namespace UniqueCreator
{
    namespace Graphics
    {
        class IndexedGeometryAllocation;
        class SkinnedGeometryAllocation;
        class Texture2D;
    }

    namespace Render
    {
        class SkinnedRenderObject : private NonCopyable
        {
        public:

            struct TexturesDescription final
            {
                Graphics::Texture2D**   m_textures;
                size_t                  m_textures_size;
            };

            class Impl;

            UC_ENGINE_API ~SkinnedRenderObject();

            UC_ENGINE_API SkinnedRenderObject(SkinnedRenderObject&&) = default;
            UC_ENGINE_API SkinnedRenderObject& operator=(SkinnedRenderObject&&);

            UC_ENGINE_API const Graphics::IndexedGeometryAllocation* GetPrimitives() const;
            UC_ENGINE_API const Graphics::SkinnedGeometryAllocation* GetGeometry() const;

            UC_ENGINE_API const Graphics::PrimitiveRangeDescription GetPrimitiveRanges() const;
            UC_ENGINE_API const TexturesDescription GetAlbedoTextures() const;

            Impl*         GetImpl();
            const Impl*   GetImpl() const;

        protected:
            SkinnedRenderObject();
            details::pimpl<Impl> m_impl;
        };

        //private data, todo: fix visual assist warning
        extern template details::pimpl<SkinnedRenderObject::Impl>;
    }
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Singles still the ultimate goal for Murray
17th June 2019, 10:46 by Gareth Freeman
Andy Murray says he is still hopeful of competing in singles events again as he prepares to make his comeback in doubles.
Murray will partner Feliciano Lopez at Queen's this week in his first competitive action since undergoing hip surgery after the Australian Open.
The three-time Grand Slam winner admits he is still unsure if he will be able to return to singles events, but he is optimistic and is looking forward to testing himself at Queen's.
"I can't tell you how I'll feel when I get back on the court, but I feel lucky, I feel pretty relaxed," he told the Evening Standard.
"I didn't expect to be in this position. It's been brilliant. I'm looking forward to getting back out there. I don't know what to expect and I'm not putting any expectations on myself. It is just about being out on the tennis court, comfortable is enough. So, we'll see what happens."
He added: "My goal is still to get back to playing singles. Ultimately, that's what I'd like to do.
"We felt doubles was a good option to test myself out, where there's less loading on the body and less movement, but you still have to make quick moves and reactions.
"It's quite a nice progression from all the rehab I've been doing. So, I'll see how I'm doing on a match court playing doubles, and see what I need to improve on. We thought it was a good way to go, rather than a tour level match."
Murray and Lopez face a tough opening assignment at Queen's as they will come up against top seeds in Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah on Wednesday.
Gareth Freeman is an experienced journalist who can offer in-depth knowledge on a host of sports, especially football, tennis, snooker and basketball.


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Militants trying to reorganise in Tripura: Ex-CM Manik Sarkar
Agartala, August 1 (PTI): Expressing concern, former Tripura chief minister Manik Sarkar has said that militants were trying to reorganise themselves in some parts of the state, and this should be crushed immediately.
Speaking to reporters at the CPI(M) party office here, Sarkar said the insurgents maybe were trying to revive their operations with an eye on the upcoming elections of the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTADC).
"I have noticed that in certain areas in Khowai district, Lefunga in West Tripura district and Panisagar subdivision in North Tripura, which has a border with Bangladesh, the militants are trying to reorganise themselves. This is a matter of concern and this should be crushed immediately," he said on Friday.
Sarkar claimed that the insurgency could be crushed in the state due to the policies and programmes of the previous Left Front government.
In our time, the All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) simply ceased to exist and their total arms and ammunition were taken away either by Bangladesh security forces or other militant groups who were hiding Bangladesh," he said.
The National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) was also crushed during the 20-year Left rule in the state, the Leader of Opposition said.
It is worrying that they are trying to revive their operations, perhaps they are targeting TTAADC elections," he added.
Sarkar said that his party CPI(M) wants the elections to be held in a free and fair manner at the earliest.
"The tribal council was dissolved on May 17 and the governor could have given a year''s extension to the incumbent council but he did not do so. In any case, we want the elections to be held in a smooth and peaceful manner at the earliest," he said.
The executive committee of the TTAADC was dissolved on May 17 as elections could not be held within its tenure due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Governor Ramesh Bais appointed an administrator.
Sarkar, a Politburo member of the CPI(M), expressed grave concern over the COVID-19 situation in the country as well as in the state.
He said that decisive actions should be taken in consultation with experts to stem the spread of the coronavirus.
What is most regrettable is that the COVID crisis has pushed the poorer sections of people, including the migrant workers, to the brink. They have lost their livelihoods and are not being provided with new means of income. Even our demands for free ration for six months and a cash grant of Rs 7,500 per family have not been fulfilled by the Centre or the states," Sarkar said.
Sarkar said that the CPI(M) was not opposed to the idea of lockdown and it appeals to people to maintain physical distancing but the total collapse of all activities due to the restrictions will ultimately lead to the collapse of the economy and suffering of the people.
He also demanded that doctors, nurses and paramedics be sent by helicopters to the remote areas of the state to take care of the situation there.


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Penetrating The Voting Vortex
Erin Thompson Oct 13, 2006
Google the terms "hiccup" or "glitch" along with the words "electronic voting equipment" and you'll get some interesting insight into widespread chaos that could hit polling places this November. In primaries across the nation earlier this year, problems with newly implemented computer-based voting systems, often blamed on software "glitches" or election "hiccups," caused voting results to be delayed, tallied incorrectly or reversed entirely.
"We need to ban the word glitch from election vocabulary. All a glitch is is something that disenfranchised voters," voter-rights activist Bev Harris told The Indypendent. Harris is the founder of Black Box Voting (BlackBoxVoting.org), a website that has become an authoritative source on the failures of electronic voting equipment over the past few years. "[Voters] need to get the public records and they need to look a little deeper, and if they do in the days following the [2006] election… it's going to fall apart like a cheap suit," said Harris.
"When Black Box Voting has gotten the records in the past, typically the records do not support the results. They don't match; they show all kinds of anomalies," she said.
A bevy of recent problems in 2006 primaries support Harris' concerns:
• In Pottawattamie County, Iowa, the June primary election results of nine races were reversed when a hand count of ballots tabulated by an ES & S manufactured optical scanner revealed that all the winners were, in fact, losers.
• 100,000 extra votes appeared on a HartIntercivic paperless Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) machine in a March primary race in Tarrant County, Texas, earlier this year – despite the fact that there were only 58,000 registered voters.
• Programming "glitches" caused results of the March primary in Cook County, Ill (which includes Chicago), to be delayed by up to a week, when the counties' new Sequoia touch-screen DRE and optical scanner machines failed to transmit results from precincts in the area.
• After widespread reports of problems with Ohio's electronic voting equipment in the 2004 election, the Election Science Institute completed a threemonth study following the March 2006 primary in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, (which includes Cleveland). The study found that Diebold touch-screen machines recorded four different vote totals, with totals on two separate paper records, the election archive and the memory cards all differing. The researchers concluded that using the electronic machines was a "calculated risk" and that "the election system, in its entirety, exhibits shortcomings with extremely serious consequences, especially in the event of a close election."
Electronic voting machines were supposed to solve the problem of elections in this country. After the very public failure of punch cards and butterfly ballots in Florida's 2000 presidential vote, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) in 2002, which allocated $3.9 billion to states to update and improve an apparently antiquated voting process while also improving access for disabled persons.
Instead, HAVA opened the door to nationwide adoption of untested and problematic electronic voting technology that has given unprecedented power to private industry to control the outcome of elections. The implementation of that new technology has also revealed fundamental failings in the current electoral system and an inability on the part of federal, state and local governments to ensure that democracy in this country functions as it should.
"There's really not a new problem here…. We're just seeing the problem because we're looking. A lot of the problems are really entrenched, long-term problems," said David Dill, Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University who founded Verified Voting (VerifiedVoting.org), a nonprofit organization that advocates reliable and publicly verifiable elections. "[As a nation] we don't have an attitude about elections that those are precious things that need to be protected."
A NEW AGE OF FRAUD
Nearly 90 percent of registered voters, or 150 million people, now live in counties that will use some form of electronic voting equipment in the upcoming election – a 63 percent increase in voters affected since the 2000 elections, when the majority of precincts used mechanized lever machines or punch-card ballots.
The electronic voting equipment that will be most widely used in the 2006 elections are optical scanning machines, that scan paper ballots filled out by voters and tally the count. These machines, while susceptible to many of the computer glitches and security concerns raised by critics, have one striking advantage over other types of voting equipment: a paper trail.
Thirty-nine percent of registered voters will cast ballots in counties using DRE devices, which look and function much like an ATM machine, while lacking one crucial feature. All ATMs are equipped with receipt printers and can be audited for mistakes by banks and customers. In states like Maryland, Georgia and Florida, some voters will be using completely paperless DREs in the upcoming election, which leave no record of the vote anywhere but inside a computer's memory bank.
"Computer systems are so complex that it is impossible to check that the software or the hardware is correct or honest," said Dill, who called paperless voting "silly."
"Software is very complicated, it's really hard to write a large program to get it right – it's essentially impossible," said Barbara Simons, a former IBM employee who served as president of the Association of Computing Machinery from 1998 to 2000 and now sits on the board of Verified Voting.
Not only are machines susceptible to bugs and malicious programming that can change votes, say critics, but it is next to impossible for anyone to check what is happening on the inside of the machines. "We have no way of auditing the system designs," said Dill, whose research is in the field of checking the correctness of hardware and software running in computer systems. "It is impossible to check that the software or the hardware is correct or honest."
The anonymous nature of the electoral process guarantees that no single voter will ever be able to go back and check if her or his vote was recorded correctly. For systems that rely on paperless technology, that means trusting the computers are tabulating votes correctly with no means of doublechecking. And while paperless mechanical lever machines (which are still in use in New York) raise difficult questions about the ability to verify votes, officials or poll workers with access to the machines would have to rig each machine individually, making widespread vote fraud much less likely.
However, a slew of recent studies have proven that electronic voting machines are capable of being hacked and manipulated internally by almost anyone with access to the machines including vendors, poll workers and voters themselves; while malicious code and viruses can affect thousands of machines, with no way of detecting or proving fraud.
"The threat that I'm most concerned about is undetectable, widespread, wholesale fraud – that's the threat that keeps me up at night with these machines. Will you ever detect that undetectable fraud? By definition you won't," said John Hopkins computer scientist Avi Rubin at a recent signing of his new book, Brave New Ballot: The Battle to Safeguard Democracy in the Age of Electronic Voting.
"The question isn't, has [voting fraud] occurred? We don't know. And if it did occur, we wouldn't know, because that's the nature of the fraud we're concerned about."
THE DIRT ON DIEBOLD
In 1997, as an employee of AT&T Labs, Rubin worked on a project with the government of Costa Rica to design an electronic voting machine for that country.
"I started getting very nervous, started thinking like an adversary, as I've been trained to do as a security person, thinking about what you might be able to do to rig these machines if you wanted to," he said. "We, the people that were building and designing that system, were in a position to do so in a way that we could control the outcome if we wanted to," he said. "I had [initially] thought this was a good idea, and decided it was a pretty bad idea," he said.
Rubin's explorations of electronic voting technology would not end there. In 2003, he co-authored a report analyzing source code from a Diebold AccuVote-TS machine that Bev Harris had discovered on the internet. The code had come from an unsecured Diebold website and was the first look at the internal workings of an electronic voting system. Diebold, like all the elections systems companies at the time, had refused to allow outside analysis of its software, claiming that code was proprietary.
Rubin and three other scientists wrote a paper on the Diebold source code, known as The Hopkins Report, which revealed "significant security flaws: voters can trivially cast multiple ballots with no built-in traceability, administrative functions can be performed by regular voters, and the threats posed by insiders such as poll workers, software developers, and even janitors, is even greater."
"Personally, I now believe that if that code were written by the world's best programmers and the best security experts, and didn't have the problems that we found, they would still not be good machines to use. But that's not the case, it was riddled with security problems," said Rubin of the Diebold software he analyzed in 2003.
The Hopkins Report was just the first of several reports with devastating conclusions about the security of Diebold's equipment. At the invitation of Utah and Florida election officials concerned about their own equipment, Harris employed Finnish computer scientist Harri Hursti to hack into Diebold optical scan and Accuvote-TS machines last year.
"We did it four different times, using eight different methods. And every time it took about 60 seconds. And the election supervisors knew that we were there and couldn't stop the hack," said Harris of the experiment. Hursti was able to hack into the AccuVote-TS machine after his analysis found a "back door" into the Diebold system that would allow anyone to upload malicious software into the computers as long as the program contained the correct file name.
Using the back door discovered by Hursti, a team of Princeton computer scientists released a report demonstrating how "an attacker who gets physical access to a machine or its removable memory for as little as one minute could install malicious code…" that could "steal votes undetectably, modifying all records, logs, and counters to be consistent with the fraudulent vote count it creates."
"I think the security vulnerability that Harri Hursti found…is the most dramatic security problem that anyone has uncovered in these Diebold systems," said Rubin. "When I read [the report], I sat back in my chair and said well, we can kiss Diebold good bye," said Rubin. "[I thought] there is no way that when this is made public anyone will continue to use Diebold; I was wrong."
Three hundred and sixty counties, covering as many as 16 million registered voters, will vote using the AccuVote-TS system this upcoming election.
The significant security flaws exposed by Rubin and others point to a lack of oversight on both the state and federal level to assure that voting equipment works properly and doesn't, for example, steal votes.
"Certification that's being done these days is a joke, it's a farce, and it doesn't count. It hasn't caught these problems," said Simons.
The federal government currently offers voluntary standards for voting equipment. While provisions in HAVA require that the National Association of State Election Directors develop standards for voting technology, the funding for developing these standards has yet to materialize. Instead, states are required to complete independent testing of equipment before the association can certify their machines for use. The tests themselves are conducted by the Independent Testing Authority (ITA), a consortium of federally accredited labs – Ciber, Wyle Labs, and Systest – that are paid by voting machine vendors and are hardly "independent". The labs are required to test for certain criteria only. A machine that meets the standards laid out by the vendors but which was found to contain any number of security or design flaws could still be approved by the ITA.
Any problems uncovered by the ITA are considered proprietary information that cannot be shared with states or the public. In fact, election systems companies claim that any look at the inside of their machines violates "trade secrets."
"There are no real trade secrets in these machines – what they do is not rocket science," said Simons. "I think that they don't want people seeing the code because there are lots of problems with it, because every time a computer scientist has gotten his or her hands on the software, they've found problems."
THE PAPER PLACEBO
In response to the growing chorus of concerns raised about the paperless Direct Recording Electronic voting machines, 27 states now require a voter-verified paper trail, as opposed to only ten when HAVA was passed four years ago. Retrofitting DREs with printers should, in theory, provide a record of the voters' intent, even if the computer records it incorrectly. However, in practice, the "paper trail" can be of little use. Not only is a lengthy manual recount made more difficult by printer rolls that do not facilitate straightforward tallying of votes, the supposedly "verified" record can be difficult to read for voters analyzing their results.
"The paper records can be untrustworthy because the printers don't work right, some of the paper records are missing or illegible, or because voters don't check them," said Dill.
If a paper trail diverged greatly from an official vote count, there would still be no clear idea as to what the "real" tally of an election was. "Those need to be the votes of record and if the electronic records are more reliable than the paper records then you're back where you started from, of having to trust this computer which is essentially totally untrustworthy."
A paper record is meaningless if no one checks it. "Most states around the country that have a voter verified paper trail requirement don't have corresponding rules that say what you actually have to do with it," said Matt Zimmerman, an attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights organization. Zimmerman is the lead attorney in White v. Blackwell, a lawsuit that claims that Ohio's entire election system is unconstitutional.
The Ohio lawsuit could have a national impact if it successfully challenges that state's election process from its certification requirements all the way up to the way the state trains poll workers and election officials on how to use these systems.
STUCK WITH THE BILL
With so much money spent on elections systems that do not work or are not verifiable in any basic way, many states are now stuck with the cost of their mistakes. After California sued Diebold in 2004 for "overly aggressive marketing" of its TSx voting machine in which "not a single version of the TSx firmware has completed federal qualification testing for use in the November 2004 election," the state eventually settled its suit with the company for $2.6 million and recertified the equipment for use in the 2006 elections.
The state of Maryland, which spent $106 million on Diebold paperless DREs, experienced widespread problems with the new equipment in the 2006 primary races. Touchscreen electronic poll books, used to check voters in and keep track of who voted and where, failed across the state. By attaching a mouse to the poll books, Diebold claims to have fixed the problem. The state's Republican Governor Robert Ehrlich is now urging voters to vote via absentee ballot in order to avoid using the paperless DREs.
While absentee voting may increase, many voters will have to deal with machines that don't work properly or the lingering suspicion that the machines don't accurately record their votes. For Bev Harris, who began her voting activism after reading an article on the Internet, the only way to ensure free and fair elections is "for people to step away from the Internet" and become poll workers themselves. "They're going to actually have to engage, become participants in democracy," she said.
Still, if and when voters finally demand an overhaul of the current mess from their elected officials, a bigger question remains: What do you do with hundreds of millions of dollars of useless voting equipment?
"I recommended to them [state officials] that they give these thirty, forty thousand machines that they have to the schools, attach a mouse and a keyboard, they're Windows machines, let the kids use them," said Avi Rubin, who votes in Maryland. "Or give them to a country whose government we want to control."
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Oil prices rise as Middle East tanker attack increases supply concerns
TOKYO - Oil futures rose on Monday on increasing concerns about supply disruptions in the crucial producing region of the Middle East even as investors and traders fretted over global economic growth prospects amid a standoff in the Sino-U.S. trade talks.
Brent crude futures were at $71.00 a barrel, up 38 cents, or 0.5%, from their last close by 0624 GMT.
U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) futures were at $61.73 per barrel, up 7 cents, or 0.1%, from their previous settlement.
Saudi Arabia said on Monday that two Saudi oil tankers were among vessels targeted by a "sabotage attack" off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, condemning it as an attempt to undermine the security of global crude supplies.
Saudi Arabia and the UAE are the largest and third-largest producers, respectively, in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), according to the latest survey by Reuters.
"Rising geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, together with sharply declining oil supplies from Venezuela and Iran, will remain bullish for prices," said Abhishek Kumar, head of analytics at Interfax Energy in London.
Markets have been supported by Washington's bid to cut Iran's oil exports to zero and reduce exports from Venezuela, where infrastructure problems have also cut output.
The United States reimposed sanctions on Iran in November after pulling out of a 2015 nuclear accord between Tehran and world powers last year.
Investors are also focused on tightened supplies following OPEC-led production cuts since the start of the year. There is a consensus that OPEC and its producer allies will extend the six-month output-cut agreement when they meet in June.
But the trade friction between Washington and China, which intensified last week will keep a lid on prices, said Kumar.
The United States and China together accounted for 34% of global oil consumption in the first quarter of 2019, data from the International Energy Agency showed.
"The US-China trade war is set to intensify, which will limit gains in prices," Kumar said.
"Market participants will closely watch China's retaliatory steps in response to the imposition of additional US tariffs on Chinese goods," Kumar said, adding the dispute "could be particularly detrimental to the growth in global oil demand".
The trade turmoil has prompted hedge funds to cut their bullish wagers on U.S. crude oil to the lowest level in a month and raised their bets on Brent crude to the highest in nearly seven months, U.S. government data showed on Friday.
Separately, in an early indicator of future output, U.S. energy companies last week reduced the number of oil rigs operating for the third time in four weeks, cutting them by two and bringing the count down 805.