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/**
 *
 */
package com.ouyeel.crawler.service.oysj;

import java.text.DecimalFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.*;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
import org.jsoup.nodes.Document;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;
import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;

import com.ouyeel.crawler.api.oysj.QingangwangAPI;
import com.ouyeel.crawler.dao.Mg_qingangwangMapper;
import com.ouyeel.crawler.pojo.ResultModel;
import com.ouyeel.crawler.pojo.vo.oysj.QingangwangListedWeight;
import com.ouyeel.crawler.util.constant.SystemConstants;
import com.ouyeel.crawler.util.date.DateTools;
import com.ouyeel.crawler.util.handler.http.HttpClientUtils;
import com.ouyeel.crawler.util.tool.TimeTools;
import com.ouyeel.crawler.dao.MgCrawlerLogMapper;

/**
 *勤钢网-挂货资源明细
 * @author Thomas Sun
 * @since 2017-10-16
 */
@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration("/aos.cxt.xml") //加载配置
@Service
public class QingangwangService implements QingangwangAPI {

    public static Logger log = Logger.getLogger(QingangwangService.class);

    private static final DecimalFormat DF = new DecimalFormat("#.00");
    private  static SimpleDateFormat date_date = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");

    @Autowired
    private Mg_qingangwangMapper mg_qingangwangMapper;

    @Autowired
    private MgCrawlerLogMapper mgCrawlerLogMapper;

    //总记录数
//	private Long counts =0L;

    //总页数
    private  Long pages =0L;
    //每页数目
    private int per_count;

//	@Autowired
//	private CrawlerPollingQuartzService crawlerPollingQuartzService;

    private Long counts =0L;

    @Test
    public void addRecord() {
        DateTools.getCurrentTime14String();
        long now = System.currentTimeMillis();
        addRecord2("勤钢网");
        log.info("【勤钢网】"+TimeTools.getMethodExecuteTimes(now,System.currentTimeMillis()));
//		String endTime = DateTools.getCurrentTime14String();
//		String springId = "zhongGangListedWeightService";
//		String methodName = "addRecord2";
//		String jobName = "中钢网挂货资源明细";
//		String jobType = "挂货量";
//		crawlerPollingQuartzService.pollingJob(resultModel, springId, methodName, jobName, jobType, startTime, endTime,counts.intValue());
        counts=0L;
    }

    /* (non-Javadoc)
     * @see com.ouyeel.crawler.api.oysj.LangesougangAPI#addRecord(java.util.List)
     */
    public ResultModel addRecord2(String name)   {
        log.info("【" + name + "】开始爬取!=====================");
        ResultModel resultModel = new ResultModel();
        String resultCode = SystemConstants.RESULT_CODE_ERROR;
        String resultMessage = "";
        Map<String, Object> logMap = new HashMap<String, Object>();
        Date date = new Date();
        SimpleDateFormat  format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
        //开始时间
        String startTime = format.format(date);
        logMap.put("startTime",startTime);
        int resultCount = 0;
        //构建List集合用于存放数据
        List<QingangwangListedWeight> list =new ArrayList<QingangwangListedWeight>();
        QingangwangListedWeight zhongGangListedWeight = null;
        try{
            // 构建get请求url获取总页数
            String url = "http://www.joinmesteel.com/index.php?app=goods&page=1";
            //获取document对象
            Document doc = HttpClientUtils.typeGetDocument(url);
            //获取总页数
            String text = doc.select("div.num").select("i").get(1).text();
            pages=Long.parseLong(text);

            //post请求 document对象
            Document read = null;

            mg_qingangwangMapper.delete();

            for(int i=1;i<=pages;i++){
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                url = "http://www.joinmesteel.com/index.php?app=goods&page="+i;
                //获取document对象
                doc = HttpClientUtils.typeGetDocument(url);

                per_count = (doc.select("table").select("tbody").select("tr").size());
                for(int j=0;j<per_count;j++){
                    //品种
                    String productType = doc.select("table").select("tbody").select("tr").get(j).select("td").get(0).text();
                    //材质
                    String collName = doc.select("table").select("tbody").select("tr").get(j).select("td").get(1).text();
                    //规格
                    String collDemo = doc.select("table").select("tbody").select("tr").get(j).select("td").get(2).text();
                    //厂商
                    String factory = doc.select("table").select("tbody").select("tr").get(j).select("td").get(3).text();
                    //市场
                    String market = doc.select("table").select("tbody").select("tr").get(j).select("td").get(4).text();
                    //重量
                    String weight = doc.select("table").select("tbody").select("tr").get(j).select("td").get(5).text();
                    //价格
                    String price = doc.select("table").select("tbody").select("tr").get(j).select("td").get(6).select("span").text().replaceAll("¥", "").replaceAll(",","");

                    zhongGangListedWeight = new QingangwangListedWeight();
                    //市场
                    zhongGangListedWeight.setRepository(market);
                    //厂商
                    zhongGangListedWeight.setFactory(factory);
                    //品种
                    zhongGangListedWeight.setBreed(productType);
                    //材质
                    zhongGangListedWeight.setMaterial(collName);
                    //规格
                    zhongGangListedWeight.setSpec(collDemo);
                    //重量
                    zhongGangListedWeight.setWeight(weight);
                    //价格
                    zhongGangListedWeight.setPrice(price);
                    //日期
                    zhongGangListedWeight.setDate_date(date_date.format(new Date()));
                    //来源
                    zhongGangListedWeight.setOrigin("勤钢网");
                    //重量单位
                    zhongGangListedWeight.setUnit_name("吨");
                    log.info("【勤钢网】正在爬取第"+i+"/"+pages+"页第"+(j+1)+"条数据");

                    list.add(zhongGangListedWeight);

                    resultCount++;
                }
            }
            if(list.size()!=0){
                mg_qingangwangMapper.addRecord(list);
                log.info("【勤钢网】爬取完毕");
                logMap.put("siteName","勤钢网");
                logMap.put("recordCount",resultCount+"");
                logMap.put("status","1");
                logMap.put("remark","");
                date = new Date();
                //结束时间
                String endTime = format.format(date);
                logMap.put("endTime",endTime);
                mgCrawlerLogMapper.addRecord(logMap);
            }else{
                log.info("【勤钢网】爬取为0");
            }

        }catch(Exception e){
            e.printStackTrace();
            resultMessage = e.getMessage();
            resultModel.setResultMessage(resultMessage);
            return resultModel;
        }
        resultModel.setResultCode(resultCode);
        resultModel.setResultMessage(resultMessage);
        return resultModel;
    }

}


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As you may recall, OS X 10.7 was released about 7 months or so, and now Apple has already shown us something of what will be the next version of its operating system for Macs, OS X 10.8 Lion Mountain. With the new OS X the company aims to bridge the boundaries between phones and computers and has already stated that the new OS will feature over 100 new features, many inspired by the iPad. As expected, one of the strengths of Mountain Lion is to have icloud, so that we can access our data via any device from the company on the block.


After 6 years of a "possible MS" diagnosis, someone thought to do an MRI of my entire spine, and the subject line tells you the most severe thing they found. I guess I'm pretty scared regarding the possible progression of what can happen. I've had urinary retention problems, weakness in the legs, falls, numbness and tingling in my face, some wavy vision...at any rate. It scares me that this is up so high in my spine. I have DDD at T6, 7, and 8, as well as "moderate spinal cord compression" at C5-6. I'm only 45 years old. Is it inevitable that this is surgical? It sounds dramatic, but I'm terrified this will paralyze me... Anyone have this experience with C2-C3?
Re: Severe spinal cord compression at C2-3 with disc extrusion. Anyone?
P.S. The neurologist is saying that C2-3 stenosis/spinal cord compression can mimic some of the symptoms of MS exactly, so it sounds like they are ruling out MS and chalking up the 2 lesions in my brain to the usual lesions that 80% of people get.
Sure sounds like you need surgery, in fact, needed it years ago. C1-2 is the most important level for cervical range of motion. Losing one of the other levels should not matter very much.
What do the surgeons (note the plural) say?


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The newspaper carrier mistakenly threw a bundle of papers into an alley on the 200 block of Old Street at about 3 a.m. and had to scale a fence to retrieve the papers. As the victim stated, "After pulling off, I realized that I threw the wrong set of newspapers over there," he said. "If I had just left them there, I would have been short newspapers."
Williams made it over the fence without a hitch, but when he attempted to climb back over to continue his deliveries one of the spikes atop the fence gouged right into his calf. The carrier then found himself dangling upside-down, bleeding and alone.
With resourceful action, Williams used his belt to keep his head elevated as much as possible allowing him to pull his calf off the fence after about 90 minutes, but his right foot remained entangled in the fence. Williams said, "I was scared, and I was praying that I don't want to die this way. I wasn't panicking. I was just concerned that nobody would come around."
Hospital officials say Williams severed two arteries in his leg and lost about a quart of blood during the ordeal. The injury needed 16 stitches to close the gash in his leg and requires him to use a leg brace. Williams has delivered newspapers for nine years and said he plans to continue in the job once he recovers. The incident is the second time in three months that someone was impaled on a wrought-iron fence in Fayetteville.
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In some cases, you will be given a specific panel of blood work to have your doctor perform. Both, blood work and a thorough health and lifestyle intake can give a bigger picture. This helps Michelle understand what me be at the root of the problem and can help her gain a detailed understanding of any underlying conditions or imbalances.


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From Latin emolumentum (profit, advantage), from ex- (out) + molere (to grind). Earliest documented use: 1480.
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Ruth Rendell; The Vault; Scribner; 2011.
See more usage examples of emolument in Vocabulary.com's dictionary.


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Generated images can be customized by size and type of point (rectangle, circle, triangle, and hexagon), size adjusted to color, and variance in location. Single colors can be isolated in an image. Save artwork to the Photo Library and share through standard services: copying to the pasteboard, posting to social media sites, and sending via email or SMS.
To turn pointillist artwork into a sticky note mosaic, download the sister app, Posted.
This version fixes an issue with iPad that would cause the app to crash.
Pointillisted is continuously updated to add new features based in your input, and aims to be a five star app, so please send your feedback and suggestions through the app website: http://eliu.freeshell.org/pointillisted.
Initially, app was crashing on launch but the dev released an update soon that fixed that. It's a great tool, best used on the roomier iPad screen, that achieves some crazy pointillism effects. Other photo apps can also do this, but this one has a lot more options. It really needs to have some in-app tool tips or help, or at least some basic tutorial on their website. Otherwise, If this is your cup of tea then I'd say give it a try!
Thank you for your comment. The issue that caused the app to crash on the iPad has been fixed, and the updated version has been uploaded. I would be interested to know how the updated version works out for you!
I was really really looking forward to trying this app. I've been hunting for a good photo editor that has color splash features but every time I open the app and choose a photo to edit it closes. Please fix this! I will change my review after I can try the editor. Thanks!
This app looks great but there aren't any instructions or walk through's... not a very user friendly or user intuitive.


Discussion in 'This or That? (MFT only)' started by jhumroo, Jan 23, 2015.
I have bought a couple of legacy lenses on ebay.
From the pictures and descriptions, these lenses do show some dirt and dust on the lens casing, and one of them supposedly has a little fungus on the front-lens element (sample pictures from the lens looked good, so I went ahead and bought it).
Are there any tips for cleaning the lens and casing, and also on possibly cleaning the fungus?
I've read some people recommend rubbing alcohol, while some say don't use it. Others recommend Hydrogen Peroxide or lens cleaning solution.
It depends on where the fungus is and how bad it is ..
If you have fungus in the inner elements then you might want to have the lens professionally cleaned; assuming the lens is worth it .
Cheap lenses you can try it yourself, and if you do something wrong , its not much money wasted.
If its really bad fungus then it might not matter because the lens could be etched as a result already.
Grubby outer casings are fine - naptha/lighter fuel on a swab works well.
Firstly it's a good idea to kill off the fungus by placing under a strong UV source with the lens caps removed (sunlamps are a possibility, or if you live in a sunny part of the world a windowsill might work, but be careful not to focus the sun's rays on to anything flammable).
If you've got it apart removing the fungus is straight-forward. If the fungus hasn't etched the glass then dilute lemon-juice will generally work or Hydrogen Peroxide (a friend recommends athlete's foot cream...). If the element is coated on the inside you do risk destroying the coating but the fungus has probably already done that. If the fungus is in between cemented elements just give up - I'm sure it's possible to separate elements and re-cement them, but possible and practical are different things. Make sure everything is dry, check there's no dirt build up on the aperture blades and reassemble.
YMMV but I'm not a specialist in fungi. I can't tell "mild" fungus from any other kind but I do know that fungus can spread and ruin other perfectly good, expensive lenses. Someone once sent me a lens that had fungus - I immediately put it into a plastic bag and put it in the trash can in the garage, no exaggeration.
I've tried various solutions (Lenspens, Zeiss lens wipes with isopropyl alcohol, etc.). The Zeiss lens wipes are fine for the casing, but the best and most cost-effective solution for glass are Eclipse solution and Pec Pads. It's what most service center techs use because it cleans thoroughly and doesn't leave any visible residue if you do it correctly (start from the center, wipe in a circular motion towards the edge, lift the wipe at the edge). Gloves and ventilation are highly recommended because Eclipse is pure methanol which is toxic.
Personally, I wouldn't worry about fungus spreading to other lenses. Fungal spores are everywhere. Everything is already infected. So it's not a matter of isolating your fungus lenses from your clean lenses. They are all fungus infected lenses. It's a matter of not allowing the fungus to grow. That comes down to controlling humidity.
As for leaving a lens in the sun to kill the fungus. Glass is an excellent UV filter. So unless it's a plastic lens, the UV won't kill it. The reports that it does probably has to due with the heating of the lens by leaving it in the sun and not UV. Heat will kill fungus. But killing it won't get rid of it. Dead fungus on a lens is still visible. To get rid of that, you'll have to physically clean it off.
I live in a dry environment so fungus for me is rare. I've never had a new lens go fungal. I do have the odd used lens that has fungus. Unless it's bad enough to effect image quality, I leave it alone. The ones that have been bad, I've opened up and cleaned myself. Old legacy glass isn't that complicated. The hardest part is recalibrating it so infinity focus on the scale is really infinity focus. That is time consuming.
I use anhydrous isopropyl. You can get a big container of it at drug stores. That's as pure as you can get. It's 99+% pure. But nothing is pure. So there is residue. I use deionized water to wipe off any alcohol residue.
Of all the lenses I've clean like this, fungus has not come back. Which is to be expected since I live in a dry environment and fungus doesn't grow.
Thanks. So, rubbing alcohol is not recommended for the casing to remove any sticky residue, or is it okay?
I'm getting a Lens Pen for cleaning the lens.
Would like to avoid disassembling the lens, so I'll give sunlight and heat a try to kill the fungus (I'm in TX).
The lens is a Minolta Rokkor 50mm 1.4, and according to the pictures and the seller, it has mild fungus on the inside of the front lens element, which doesn't show in the images shot with it. It was a good deal, so I went for it.
Wi'll try killing the fungus with sunlight and hope that takes care of it. As long as the pictures out of the lens are good, I don't want to open it.
Killing fungus doesn't usually help. By the time you can see most lens fungus it has already consumed at least some of the anti-reflective coatings on the lens element. Some are robust enough to eat the glass surface itself. So even if you clean it all out, you're still left with a grimy / hazy looking lens.
Totally agree on Eclipse - it's the most effective lens cleaner I've ever used.
First, fungus can be cleaned but it will always leave a mark because the fungus eats the minerals in the lens, so the "root system" will leave a permanent small scar on the surface.
Cleaning is best done with windex or windex-alike products.
The method is to roll up a bit of tissue into a small rod about 1cm in diameter (you know like a pencil) and apply the windex to one end of the rolled up tissue - do not squirt onto the lens.
Start in the middle and work outards in small spiral. The process should take a few seconds. Do not work the area like you are polishing a car.
In library's in books its called cancer. To the OP I suggest you evaluate carefully how you store the lenses. Do not store in your camera bag unless you are wanting to create an extensive fungus colony.
I completely disagree with that opinion. Here's somebody else that does as well. While I don't agree with everything he says. Specifically that spores are too small to get past the seals of a lens. The spores are tiny. The seal gaps are huge. His points about spores being everywhere, humidity and fungus needing something to eat are points that should be well taken. Most modern lenses don't have much for fungus to eat. I don't have a single modern lens that has fungus. But that may also be that I bought most of my modern lenses new and I live in a dry environment so there is no chance for fungus to grow.
Once again, there's no reason that fungus needs to spread from one lens to the other. Since all lenses are already infected. It's a matter of whether they are stored in an environment that encourages their growth. If it doubt, there's a simple experiment you can do. It''ll cost you a lens but will prove this point to you once and for all. Take your cleanest most "non infected" lens. Put it in a ziplock bag with a bit of moisture, some water will do, and let it sit for a few months. Come back and you'll see it as moldy as a moldy piece of cheese. How can that be? There was nothing in there to "infect" it. That's because it was already infected from the day they put it together. Yes, I have done this. Not on purpose but out of neglect.
Is it a 49 or 55mm filter thread? If the 55, you shouldn't have much trouble dissembling. I would try taking off the front name-ring, and the larger screws on the back. Generally, the front optics will be accessible from there. If you need a hand, I also have a 55mm threaded 50/1.4 and have taken apart and cleaned several Minolta lenses. All you really need is a set of precision screwdrivers.
I completely disagree with that opinion.
this suggests you've not actually done anything about this yourself ... but just read it ... my experiment is based on evidence (presented) and discusses the spore germination humidity (and that if the humidity is low enough they won't germinate).
I'm guessing you didn't even read it, and just assumed you knew what it said as a pre-judgment.
Most modern lenses don't have much for fungus to eat.
exactly ... which is why it takes years to happen ... although given the right conditions I've seen it happen in about 2 years.
I don't have a single modern lens that has fungus.
and where do you live? In a tropical area??
But that may also be that I bought most of my modern lenses new and I live in a dry environment so there is no chance for fungus to grow.
Its like saying I've never seen snow where live so its a false premise and I totally disagree with the possibility of making a snow man (oh, and I live in Sub Sararan Africa).
Once again, there's no reason that fungus needs to spread from one lens to the other.
It would appear the one pre-judging here is you. Since I've been preaching about controlling humidity as the key since my first post. But evidently you didn't bother to read any of my posts including this last one you quoted since I repeated it there as well. The key is to control humidity. Not any urban myth about fungus spreading from one lens to another and thus keeping them separate as the answer as you have stated as being "on the money".
It would appear the one pre-judging here is you....But evidently you didn't bother to read any of my posts including this last one you quoted since I repeated it there as well.
you are correct, I did not read your posts as I only responded to the OP and then later your disagreement.
It seems illogical to disagree with my post about humidity if you were banging on about humidity yourself.
The key is to control humidity.
which was my blog post subject .. naturally for you to disagree with it implies you disagree with humidity.
Not any urban myth about fungus spreading from one lens to another and thus keeping them separate as the answer as you have stated as being "on the money".
and so you're sure that no spoors move around? I assume you understand that what you see in a fungus is mostly the "spooring body" and so as Fungi do try to reproduce (rather than spontaneously generate) it would seem reasonable that a mold infected lens can infect another (as can books).
do you have "any" evidence to decry this as an urban myth??
it its airbone and if it can settle then logically it can spread.
The outside of the front and rear lens elements are so RARELY infected (because they are exposed to outside air of varying degrees of humidity) that it has never been considered much of an issue. Yes, they theoretically can be infected, but I haven't even HEARD of such an infection, much less seen one.
so he really isn't sure ... and he's not a mycologist he's a photographer.
and yet dust makes its way in there ... I would agree perhaps with LF lenses, but with zooms? You have to be kidding right?
I was disagreeing about your insistence that lenses spread fungus to other lenses as being "on the money". It doesn't matter since all lenses already have fungal spores on them. All lenses are already infected. I repeated that disagreement in my last post. Seems you didn't read that either.
What is most illogical is that on the one hand you say that controlling humidity will control fungus yet you keep insisting that this controlled fungus will still emit spores. If the humidity is low enough, fungus is not active and not emitting any spores. So where are these spores coming from? Even if these spores are adding to the spores already on a "clean" lens, with low humidity these spores will never germinate so fungus will not grow on the "clean" lens. So you are contradicting yourself. You say humidity will control fungus, yet you still insist that this inactive fungus will spread to another lens. That illogical.
Sure, you posted it yourself. But as is your manner, you didn't bother reading the link you posted.
I said that all lenses are already infected since the spores are already everywhere. As per your link.
I also said, and which you claim to say as well, is that the key to controlling fungus is to control humidity. With low enough humidity, fungus doesn't grow. As per the link you posted.
"Humidity above 60 percent is reputed to be the threshold where fungal growth starts.
So spores are everywhere and it will not grow if the humidity is low enough. Which is exactly what I've been saying. Thanks for providing the link.
Which is the specific thing I pointed out that I don't agree with him about. I wouldn't expect you to know that since you have admitted to not reading my posts. You just like to argue about them.
I was disagreeing about your insistence that lenses spread fungus to other lenses as being "on the money".
to make it clear to you : sometimes its easier to just go with the simplifications, then sometimes I meet someone like you.
I said that because there is a risk that it will infect the other lenses. I feel that following the precautionary principle is worth while. If in doubt don't do it.
All lenses are already infected. I repeated that disagreement in my last post. Seems you didn't read that either.
What is most illogical is that on the one hand you say that controlling humidity will control fungus yet you keep insisting that this controlled fungus will still emit spores.
I don't know what your qualifications are buy mine are that I did a degree in microbiology / biochemistry and that included mycology.
FYI there are thousands of spoors all around the place but the concentrations vary. If you are in a lens manufacture plant where you are assembling lenses (which have just come out of ovens to bake on the chromatic coatings thus killing anything and making them far more sterile than after one has used it) there are far less chances of there being fungal spores on there to germinate.
Then if you consider that there is more than one type of fungi, and the not all fungi will grow on glass elements. Thus (estimation) something like 0.01% of spores in the atmosphere are unlikely to germinate on your lens.
However IF you happen to have a fungus which is growing on a lens (meaning its the right type) that is spooring then that (by definition of how they reproduce) is far more likely to infect your lens / filter / sensor than random spoors from a decaying orange.
If the humidity is low enough, fungus is not active and not emitting any spores.
but if the spooring bodies are visible (and generally if the fungus is visible its spooring) then they'll wait for that right moment and burst forth.
So where are these spores coming from?
You say humidity will control fungus, yet you still insist that this inactive fungus will spread to another lens. That illogical.
Spoors are hardy things, once released they can and do survive long periods. So as mentioned above if the infected lens is carrying the fungi it may be able to also carry a burden of spoors which it may have already released and which may shake out and mingle with the dust in your cabinet, lens bag ... house .... whatever.
You just like to argue about them.
why I argue is because I despise the spread of misinformation. You've cited a source to validate your view. Yet you've cited a source with zero veracity. A source which even itself admits it has no experience or has no clue, which even you have found problems with. I would submit that its YOU who are guilty of perpetuating urban myths.
it would appear from your subsequent argument that in analysis you actually don't.


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Produced by : Mahesh Bhatt,Mukesh Bhatt
Written by : Shagufta Rafique
Starring : Emraan Hashmi, Amyra Dastur, Arunoday Singh
Music by : Ankit-Ankur,Jeet Ganguly
Distributed by : Vishesh Films
Release dates : 17 April 2015
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Fact or Fiction: Which Grand Junction Street Names Are Real?
Do you think you can pick out fake Grand Junction street names from the real ones?
Driving around Grand Junction, sometimes you notice some strange street names and sometimes you don't notice any at all. If you aren't an observant person or if you haven't been in Grand Junction a long time, you may have trouble with my quiz.
I have compiled a list of Grand Junction street names, some are real and some are fake. Your job is to figure out which ones are make-believe, and which ones are the real deal.
Don't worry too much about how you do. At the end of the quiz, you'll know more than when you started. If you don't do so good, I promise not to make you feel too bad.


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AMLO announces in-depth investigation into attacks in Mexico
Posted by by Melissa Galbraith June 22, 2021
Last Updated:June 22, 2021
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The Mexican federal prosecutor's office will open "a thorough investigation" into the armed attacks that occurred over the weekend in Reynosa, a town in the northeast of the country and on the border with Texas, which left 19 dead and a trail of terror among the inhabitants of the area. it is besieged by criminal groups.
This was announced on Monday by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who urged to investigate the reasons for what he described as a "cowardly attack" and to punish those responsible.
"Everything indicates that it was not a confrontation but that it was a commando that shot people who were not in a plan of confrontation," said the president.
On Saturday armed individuals who were traveling in various vehicles unloaded their weapons against ordinary citizens, including taxi drivers, workers and a nursing student. In the attacks 15 citizens perished, one of them in a health center, and four armed civilians who died in clashes with the police, the state government said.
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"There are sufficient elements on the probable participation of criminal groups linked to the commission of various federal crimes, including organized crime, which would be related to criminal groups that operate in the Matamoros, Río Bravo and Reynosa region," the Tamaulipas government said. in a statement on Monday in which he also indicated that the state prosecutor's office will work with the federal prosecutor to clarify the facts.
Reynosa is a common scene of acts of violence linked to organized crime and a strategic point for illegal trafficking. In that region, the easternmost part of the border between Mexico and the United States, the Gulf Cartel operates, which has different groups fighting among themselves to control key territories for the transfer of drugs and migrants. Apparently one of the cells from a nearby town is the one that entered Reynosa and committed the attacks.
But despite the fact that violence is not something new, the events of Saturday had an impact on the population.
"We have approximately two years or more without this type of attack on innocent citizens, that's what changed," Maki Esther Ortiz, mayor of Reynosa, the largest city in Tamaulipas and the industrial epicenter of the state, told The Associated Press.
"And that is what makes us very restless, with great sadness and mourning," added the official who asked federal and state authorities for protection.
Ortiz also asked the authorities to clarify whether or not the messages that are being disseminated on networks are credible and that ask people not to leave their homes due to the possibility that they are biased notices from organized crime itself to generate even more fear.
The shootings provoked the mobilization of the Army, the National Guard, the state police and the state prosecutor's office, which were deployed throughout the city, but according to the Nuevo Laredo Human Rights Committee, an NGO present in the region, coordination failed. between the different security forces.
According to the testimonies collected by this group "for more than an hour anguished calls for help were generated, and no authority responded in a timely manner." "This situation generated an atmosphere of collective terror and a perception of total insecurity," the committee added in a statement.
The bloody events occurred almost two weeks before a general election that was shaken by different attacks that left 36 assassinated candidates and increased questions about López Obrador's security policies.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, expressed alarm on Monday over what was considered a "high level of political violence" registered in Mexico in the midterm elections this month, and urged the Mexican authorities "to ensure accountability" for these acts and to guarantee that they are not repeated, says a letter that was published on the agency's website.
During the opening of the 47th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Bachelet encouraged the Mexican authorities to "refrain from using language that undermines those who express dissenting opinions or that in any way cast doubt on the independence of autonomous bodies, including electoral institutions ".
María Elena Morera, director of the local civil organization Causa en Común – which investigates and promotes public policies on security matters – affirmed that the recent violent attacks so far have not impacted the image of López Obrador, whose National Regeneration Movement party (Morena ) and his allied forces won the majority of the seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 11 of the 15 governorates that were contested in the general elections on June 6.
"Mexicans have been getting used to all these atrocities without there being a real reaction," Morera told the AP. He added that in the face of "so much violence, people prefer not to assume the pain of the other and then turn to the other side."
Between January and May, federal crimes have decreased by 27.2%, compared to the same period in 2019, indicated on Monday the Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, who added that in the first five months of the year there was a 2.9% decrease in intentional homicides, compared to the same period last year, which reached a total of 14,243 cases.
Among the entities that have the highest homicide records are Guanajuato, Baja California, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacán and Chihuahua.
Morera pointed out that the number of homicides reduction "is nothing" and said that "it is as if you keep a person in a coma and say that they are doing very well."
Although the López Obrador government exhibits, after three years in power, its security policy, which is based on the slogan of "hugs, not bullets," as a success, analysts say that its measures have not been favorable.
"There is no security policy," said Francisco Rivas, general director of the local civil organization Observatorio Nacional Ciudadano – which investigates the conditions of security, justice and legality – recognizing that what the government applies are "isolated actions" that have not been resolved the problem of crime.
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Throughout Nintendo's Direct that just finished, we were showcased a quick 1 minute video of the upcoming new Yoshi title making its way to the Nintendo Switch. We can now officially confirm that Yoshi's Crafted World is on its way.
Just last week I reported on a leak that revealed the title for Yoshi's Switch game, the leak actually came from Nintendo themselves as the listing on their website showcased the name. Now that name can be officially confirmed and now we also know that Yoshi's Crafted World is making its way to the Nintendo Switch sometime in the Spring of 2019.
Players that decide to pick up Yoshi's Crafted World will be glad to know that they will have the option of going the adventure with a companion. Yes, that's right, players that jump into Yoshi's Crafted World will be able to do so with a friend as well. A side note is that they will also be able to walk backwards through each of the levels, giving a different feel on how to tackle certain obstacles/enemies. Yoshi's Crafted World will exclusively come to the Nintendo Switch sometime in the Spring of 2019, for further information visit the official listing on the Nintendo website here.


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The Philosopher's Bacterium
Picture the mediaeval alchemist, standing before a smoking crucible, adding ingredients and performing the requisite incantations. Eventually, he allows the crucible to cool so that he might examine the results. Has he succeeded? Has he achieved his goal of extracting pure gold from the base earth? Alas, he has not*, because he is only human, and he lacks the powers of a Geovibrio.
*For which we should perhaps be grateful. To quote King Midas in an episode of Concrete Cow, "I really should have foreseen the inflationary effect of all that new gold on our economy".
Deferribacter desulfuricans, photographed by K. Takai.
Geovibrio ferrirudecens is a species belonging to the 'phylum' Deferribacteres, an assemblage of Gram-negative bacteria known as yet from only a small number of species. However, the known species are all quite ecologically disparate, so we may have only scratched the surface of deferribacterial diversity. All are anaerobic organotrophs, utilising various organic compounds as electron donors in respiration*. Species vary in their temperature preferences from mesophily (growing at 'room temperature') to moderate thermophily (up to about 60°C). Cells may be immobile rods, or they may be motile with a single polar flagellum (bipolar flagella have been observed in Denitrovibrio acetiphilus, indicating reproduction by budding). Cells of Geovibrio, at least, can occur in chains as well as individually. Known habitats of Deferribacteres include water in oil reservoirs for Deferribacter thermophilus (Garrity & Holt 2001), Japanese hot springs for Calditerrivibrio nitroreducens (Iino et al. 2008), hydrocarbon-contaminated soils for Geovibrio ferrireducens (Garrity & Holt 2001), and the epithelial lining of a mouse intestine for Mucispirillum schaedleri (Robertson et al. 2005). With regard to this last genus, it stands as a good example of how poor is our understanding of real bacterial diversity that a significant component of the intestinal flora of a major model organism was not identified until 2005! When people express surprise to me that there are still new species of organism to be described in the world, I inform them that, at the microbial level, there are almost certainly undescribed species living on you right now.
*As do we, of course. If you remember your high school biology, you'll recall that human respiration reacts glucose and oxygen to produce carbon dioxide and water. In this reaction, glucose is the electron donor while oxygen is the electron receptor.
Geovibrio ferrireducens with periplasmic gold deposits, from Kashefi et al. (2001).
Species of Deferribacteres also vary in their preferred electron receptors. Calditerrivibrio nitroreducens, as indicated by its species name, reduces nitrate, converting it into ammonium. The very recently described Seleniivibrio woodruffii utilises selenium and arsenic compounds (Rauschenbach et al. 2013; arsenate-respiring bacteria can be significant to public health as they convert arsenates to more soluble arsenites, causing arsenic to leach into groundwater). Deferribacter thermophilus and Geovibrio ferrireducens each received part of their names because they grow off ferric iron (Fe3+), converting it into ferrous iron (Fe2+). Ferrous iron is much more soluble than ferric iron, so iron-reducing bacteria can cause corrosion to iron structures. Both these taxa may also use other electron acceptors. Deferribacter can grow off manganese(IV) or nitrate. Geovibrio doesn't reduce either of those substances, but it has been shown that it can use hydrogen as an electron donor to reduce soluble gold(III) to elemental gold, which becomes deposited in the periplasmic space between the cell membranes (Kashefi et al. 2001). Geovibrio is only one of a number of bacteria that can pull off this trick, and it has been bacteria may have been responsible for the creation of many of the world's gold deposits. When the alchemist of our opening paragraph was struggling with his proto-chemistry, he should have been examining his biology.
Garrity, G. M., & J. G. Holt. 2001. Phylum BIX. Deferribacteres phy. nov. In Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd ed., vol. 1. The Archaea and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic Bacteria (Boone, D. R., R. W. Castenholz & G. M. Garrity, eds) pp. 465-471. Springer.
Iino, T., T. Nakagawa, K. Mori, S. Harayama & K. Suzuki. 2008. Calditerrivibrio nitroreducens gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic, nitrate-reducing bacterium isolated from a terrestrial hot spring in Japan. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 58: 1675-1679.
Kashefi, K., J. M. Tor, K. P. Nevin & D. R. Lovley. 2001. Reductive precipitation of gold by dissimilatory Fe(III)-reducing Bacteria and Archaea. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 67 (7): 3275-2279.
Rauschenbach, I., V. Posternak, P. Cantarella, J. McConnell, V. Starovoytov & M. M. Häggblom (in press, 2013) Seleniivibrio woodruffii gen. nov., sp. nov., a selenate- and arsenate-respiring bacterium in the Deferribacteraceae. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology.
Robertson, B. R., J. L. O'Rourke, B. A. Neilan, P. Vandamme, S. L. W. On, J. G. Fox & Adrian Lee. 2005. Mucispirillum schaedleri gen. nov., sp. nov., a spiral-shaped bacterium colonizing the mucus layer of the gastrointestinal tract of laboratory rodents. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 55: 1199-1204.
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Christine Wagner and Juliane Moog (both Germanhigh school) try to put a banana back together during a exercise on family cohesiveness at the AFS workshop held on campus last week.
Last week, Augsburg hosted 182 high school students from 55 foreign countries as they began their yearlong stays in the Midwest through AFS Intercultural Programs.
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Hybrid cloud archiving service
Genetec has announced its new Cloud Archives service for Security Center that will allow organizations to scale the available storage capacity of their surveillance system, and eliminate the need to invest in additional servers.
With the ability to continue leveraging their existing on-premise storage equipment, this hybrid cloud service will provide a cost-effective solution for customers who need to extend their video retention period or implement off-site recording. Archived video will be encrypted prior to its transfer to the cloud to help ensure only authorized users can access recordings, while allowing operators to seamlessly view and search video from their Security Center system, whether archived locally or in the cloud.
Whether new policies mandate longer retention periods for recorded video, or as organizations add new cameras, updates to a surveillance system can exceed the storage requirements that were originally anticipated. Cloud Archives can be enabled on any Security Center Archiver to define how long recordings are kept on-premise before being moved to the cloud, enabling customers to extend their available storage capacity as system requirements evolve. Enterprise customers can also implement an off-site recording solution for complete redundancy using Cloud Archives, which can significantly reduce the operational costs necessary to host their own on-premise systems, such as electricity and equipment maintenance. Organizations with distributed sites will also be able to pool their Cloud Archives resources across multiple systems to share capacity, and avoid the cost of adding new servers in each individual location.
Security Center Cloud Archives leverages Microsoft Azure, combining the strength of Genetec's unified security platform with the global reach, scalability and reliability of Azure. With a 99.9% Uptime Guarantee backed by the Genetec service level agreement (SLA), all recorded content will be replicated and mirrored in the globally dispersed Azure datacenters to provide redundancy of video recordings and help mitigate the risk of video loss due to failure of on-premises hardware.
"We're excited to see the evolution of Genetec's cloud service portfolio bringing new possibilities to the physical security industry through Azure," said Kim Akers, General Manager, Developer and Platform Evangelism at Microsoft. "With storage being one of the largest costs of operating a surveillance system, Cloud Archives gives Genetec customers the opportunity to significantly reduce their investment when deploying or expanding their security system on Azure," added Akers.
Security Center Cloud Archives is currently available as a preview to Security Center certified channel partners and customers, and will be generally available during Q1, 2015 as a subscription-based service.
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Some of the Sisters gathered and traveled to Q-Space for a night of fun and frivolity with the local kiddos. The Sisters and youth gathered in a circle and introduced themselves, one-by-one, listing their name, preferred gender, and favorite foreign language. The Sisters, as a group, then introduced themselves and provided their Sistory, did a blessing, a Q&A session, and took lots of pictures.
They ended the night with a Veil of Shame - where the youth wrote down what they've been called and how that made them feel. This veil will be burned and the ashes retained for gifts and blessings. At the end, the youth colored sister faces and asked tons of questions.
Our youth is important; the working class of tomorrow, and staple of our community as a whole!


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UK music launches LetItBeeb campaign
Posted on September 8th, 2015
UK Music has launched a campaign to highlight the diversity and importance of BBC music services and their unique role in supporting the success of British music. The campaign aims to unite music fans, artists, songwriters, composers and performers of all ages, genres and locations.
Every musician can play a vital role in ensuring that the BBC retains its status as a world-leading creative hub. Here's how you can participate –
1. SIGN THE ONLINE PETITION
Click here to request that Government protects BBC music services from cuts during the forthcoming charter renewal.
2. MAKE A PERSONAL SHOW OF SUPPORT
Songwriters, artists, performers, music fans and campaign supporters are being encouraged to share their own personal views on BBC Music.
Please ask them to click here to submit a standout broadcast, a session that changed their career, or any other inspirational BBC music moment – accompanied by words, videos, quotes, pics or GIFs.
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Once you've done the above, help spread news of the campaign.
Follow it on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram – linking to letitbeeb.co.uk over social media using the hashtag #LetItBeeb.
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As Psy told us all in his 2012 slice of viral crazy, Gangnam Style, Gangnam, Seoul's ritziest, glitziest district, offers more bling than you could shake an imaginary pair of jingly reins at.
As Psy told us all in his 2012 slice of viral crazy, Gangnam Style, Gangnam, Seoul's ritziest, glitziest district, offers more bling than you could shake an imaginary pair of jingly reins at. Yet, while Malt Bar Off's outstanding selection of single malt Scotch firmly belongs in Gangnam, the 25-capacity space has a subdued, downhome class that means it has aged well since opening, and the location is a little way off Gangnam's beaten track. While there's a "secret" menu of excellent, mainly whisky-based cocktails – whisky with orange juice and ginger ale? Yes, please! – and a small but perfectly formed choice of other spirits, the focus in this little place is firmly on the malts. In fact, Malt Bar OFF (just plain old "Off" to locals) was Seoul's first ever purpose-built single malt whisky bar. The staff seriously know their stuff, and rewards for the Scotch investigator run from nuts, dried fruit and a cheese platter through to chocolate handmade in-house for pairing with specific whiskies. Trust them to navigate you through the extensive menu to a dram that's perfect for your palate or, of course, pick a bottle you've been holding out for. Despite its status as one of the pioneers of whisky in downtown Seoul, Malt Bar Off has never really been fashionable, which, in turn, means it's never become unfashionable: it remains a hidden gem for the connoisseur to enjoy discreet good times and, of course, the rich, ripe scents and aromas of Scotland's finest nectar.


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Jahrbuch für Übersetzungswissenschaft. Studien zur Übersetzungstheorie, -praxis und -didaktik (pl. Rocznik Przekładoznawczy. Studia nad teorią, praktyką i dydaktyką przekładu) ist eine allgemeine polnische wissenschaftliche Reihe, die von der Philologischen Fakultät der Nikolaus-Kopernikus-Universität in Toruń (Polen) herausgegeben wird. Die Redaktionsmitglieder sind wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter verschiedener neuphilologischer Institute der Thorner Universität. Die Reihe erscheint seit 2005. Bis jetzt sind dreizehn Bände (darunter ein Doppelband) erschienen. Seit dem 27. März 2013 ist die Zeitschrift auch digital abrufbar, wobei zurzeit die ersten zwei Bände auf der Digitalplattform für Zeitschriften der Nikolaus-Kopernikus-Universität noch nicht verfügbar sind. Das Jahrbuch will einen Gedankenaustausch zwischen den Wissenschaftlern, die sich vorwiegend mit der Übersetzungstheorie beschäftigen, und Übersetzern sowie Dolmetschern ermöglichen und fördern. Sein Hauptaugenmerk wird auf Übersetzen von Fach- und Gebrauchstexten sowie aufs Dolmetschen gelegt. Die Beiträge werden in der polnischen, die Zusammenfassungen in der englischen Sprache abgefasst.

Anmerkungen
1 Rocznik Przekładoznawczy. Studia nad teorią, praktyką i dydaktyką przekładu. Toruń 2005, S. 7.

Bibliographie
 Rocznik Przekładoznawczy. Studia nad teorią, praktyką i dydaktyką przekładu. Lech Zieliński, Maciej Pławski (Hgg.), Toruń 2005

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Bill and Hillary Clinton despise Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
Anyone who doubts that need only read the following memo by Brett Kavanaugh regarding Bill Clinton's actions against a young woman who was at the time nearly the same age as Clinton's own daughter, as well as the attempted coverup, misuse of federal agencies, etc.
The Clintons don't forget. Ever. And how just like the Clintons to help orchestrate a character smear against Judge Kavanaugh for things that never happened because Mr. Kavanaugh was in 1998 adamant that then-President Clinton answer for things that actually did take place.


This song was inspired by film footage produced by Hillside Animal Sanctuary, Norfolk, UK.
Factory farmed animals are often neglected in overcrowded and filthy conditions, they feel pain and fear the same as we do, no animal deserves to be killed and cut up into little pieces for humans to eat-when a plant based diet gives us all the nutrients we need. Going Vegan saves lives, helps humanity, the environment, human health and the planet which ultimately creates a more compassionate and caring society. There is never a better time than now, to eat cruelty free. Live kind, be the change, go Vegan.
'Your Meat is our Murder' is included in our 'Music United For Animals' album and we're proud to say this song has inspired people to eat a plant based diet!


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Swiss banker to Venezuelan kleptocrats turns into star witness Venezuelan FIFA Nicolas Maduro Mexico Metropolis Panama
Matthias Krull pulls up his pant leg and slides a gardening shear on the ankle monitor that for 2 years has been a relentless reminder of his crimes.
With a court docket order in hand, and a baby's voice echoing from the subsequent room, the previous Swiss banker snips the arduous plastic — releasing a torrent of emotion as he contemplates his previous errors and hopes for rebuilding what, till his arrest, had been a charmed life.
"Bodily, I received used to it, however psychologically it's liberating," Krull stated from the lounge of his rented dwelling in a leafy Miami suburb. "To have the ability to put on shorts once more is a giant factor. I used to be at my son's soccer video games and all people was in shorts in 100 levels. I used to be in lengthy pants."
Krull's troubles stem from his time as a banker in Venezuela, a nation that has been suffering from epic corruption in twenty years of socialist rule, first below the populist President Hugo Chávez, then his handpicked successor, Nicolás Maduro. Throughout that point, Krull, who labored for the Julius Baer Group, performed a singular function because the go-to personal banker for the so-called Bolichicos — the privileged offspring of Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution — as they appeared to shuttle their in a single day fortunes offshore. Amongst his would-be shoppers: Maduro's stepsons.
However then in 2018, the blond, bespectacled banker was arrested on cash laundering fees at Miami's worldwide airport whereas vacationing along with his household. Thrust right into a highlight he by no means sought, the usually discreet European started his second act because the all-star witness to a U.S. federal prison investigation referred to as Operation Cash Flight, which seeks to untangle how Venezuelan kleptocrats stole billions in oil wealth from their nation.
By all accounts, Krull's help mapping the shell corporations and straw males strung throughout secretive jurisdictions like Antigua, Malta and Hong Kong the place Venezuelans have hidden their ill-gotten wealth has confirmed decisive. Since pleading responsible in 2018, he has helped prosecutors enlist different Swiss bankers as witnesses, pressed Venezuelan cash launderers to give up and assisted quite a few European investigations.
In recognition of these efforts, a decide in September slashed his authentic 10-year jail sentence by 65%, in response to lately unsealed court docket filings — one of many largest reductions ever in Miami federal court docket. The decide additionally relaxed Krull's probation circumstances, permitting him to take away the ankle monitor that saved him confined to his dwelling from 7:30 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. He's scheduled to start out his 42-month jail sentence this summer season.
Hovering over his ordeal is a extra vexing query: whether or not anybody else was accountable within the corruption. So far, Krull is the one banker to have been prosecuted within the U.S. in reference to the corruption regardless that quite a few different white-shoe corporations for years competed for a chunk of what had been one of many world's hottest markets for wealth administration. And whereas Julius Baer has dismissed his actions as these of a rogue worker, Swiss regulators final yr discovered that the august cash home, in its drive for earnings, ignored pink flags and incentivized unhealthy habits, a lot because it did throughout an earlier monetary scandal involving soccer governing physique FIFA.
"The objective was to herald new cash," stated Krull, who drifts midsentence between fluent Venezuelan Spanish and thick German-accented English. "They actually didn't care in regards to the portfolio's profitability." He added: "If I didn't take a consumer, another person certainly would have."
In a collection of interviews with The Related Press over the previous 10 months, Krull recounted his outstanding journey from the German-born son of a Lutheran pastor to banker of option to Venezuela's ruling elite.
Julius Baer, based mostly in Zurich, declined to reply detailed questions on any oversight duty in Krull's prison actions, so this story displays Krull's personal perspective. Lots of the particulars, nevertheless, are backed up by court docket paperwork and U.S. officers who've spent years investigating corruption in Venezuela.
'ONBOARDING STAR'
To Krull's rivals in Venezuela, it was his distinctive upbringing that gave him an edge. His father moved the household from the German metropolis of Munster to Venezuela when Krull was simply 7. His mother and father later divorced, however he stayed in Caracas as his mom remarried one other member of the church. Shuttling between a non-public German college and the poverty-stricken downtown parish the place his stepfather lived and labored, Krull constructed a community of contacts amongst Caracas' elites whereas soaking within the playful slang of the hillside slums.
"It's by no means been tough for me to adapt to the individuals round me," stated the 47-year-old. "I may be as formal as required to adjust to the requirements in Europe or clarify advanced monetary phrases in a approach common individuals perceive. It's one in every of my strengths."
He went to highschool in Mexico Metropolis and faculty in Switzerland earlier than returning to Caracas in 2004.
His early years at Julius Baer had been one thing of a bonanza-fueled blur for the then single, 30-something expat. Chávez was on the peak of his energy, oil costs surged to a document and wealthy Venezuelans had been scrambling to stash their cash overseas earlier than it was seized by the federal government or vanished by hyperinflation.
"The joke amongst bankers was that the cash was mendacity on the streets, you simply needed to decide it up," he stated.
Krull stated Julius Baer assigned 15 bankers to hunt for brand spanking new shoppers in Venezuela in contrast with simply three in neighboring Colombia, whose financial system has historically been equally sized. Different banks had been hungry, too. However Krull outshined all of them.
He estimates that over the course of his profession he hauled in over $1 billion in deposits for Julius Baer — incomes him a vaunted spot yr after yr within the financial institution's "President's Membership," the one Latin American adviser to constantly earn the excellence reserved for its high 10% performers.
With a wage, bonus and advantages that typically topped $1.5 million a yr, Krull says, he was dubbed internally as Julius Baer's "onboarding star." He owned two stylish eating places in Caracas, a condominium in Miami and dear paintings by Venezuela's modernist maestros.
There was a riskier facet, nevertheless. Bankers had been routinely focused for kidnapping or extorted by authorities officers. Krull says he was as soon as confronted by an offended consumer who positioned a gun on a desk to demand the return of thousands and thousands of {dollars} he had misplaced by way of one other funding adviser. After that, Krull employed an armed bodyguard.
The ultimate straw was a capturing exterior his house in a tony Caracas neighborhood close to the U.S. Embassy.
Krull and his girlfriend had been heading to Europe to get married and had organized an all-night soiree with buddies. However on the final minute, his fiance fell in poor health with appendicitis and so they canceled. Throughout the evening, police accosted a automobile parked exterior his bottom-floor house. Gunfire erupted, three officers had been killed and a chase ensued. One of many males finally captured stated he was ready for a foreigner — presumably Krull — whom the gunman was anticipating would arrive dwelling earlier than daybreak.
"We took the choice that Venezuela shouldn't be the nation to boost a household," stated Krull.
In 2012, he relocated to Panama however he nonetheless traveled to Venezuela and different nations each two weeks.
MEETING MADURO'S 'KIDS'
A high-risk forex deal gone awry led to Krull's arrest. However opposite to early media studies that he was the conspiracy's mastermind, Krull's function within the scheme was small and got here late within the sport, in response to U.S. investigators. Ultimately, the suspicious transaction that landed him in sizzling water wasn't even carried out.
The soiled deal began in 2014, when one in every of his shoppers along with others made a mortgage to Venezuela's state-owned oil monopoly, PDVSA, in bolivars. Krull had no half within the deal. The oil firm repaid the mortgage two months later in {dollars} at an official, windfall alternate charge. That allowed the conspirators to make off with 510 million euros, or nearly 15 instances what they'd initially lent, in response to the prison criticism in opposition to Krull. Alongside the way in which, bribes had been paid to high oil officers, the criticism stated.
Two years later, Krull's consumer, who's recognized in court docket paperwork as "Conspirator 7," requested him to maneuver $200 million in proceeds from the pretend mortgage right into a international checking account for 2 buddies, in response to investigators.
In court docket papers, "Conspirator 7" is recognized solely because the billionaire proprietor of a TV community in Venezuela. However two U.S. officers accustomed to the case have recognized him as Raul Gorrín, who in 2013 bought the favored community Globovision and softened its anti-government protection. The officers spoke on the situation of anonymity due to the delicate nature of the allegations.
Krull was below orders from his employer to keep away from any transactions involving the oil firm, which was already on the radar of U.S. legislation enforcement. So he says he provided to attach the longtime consumer to a cash supervisor in Panama. Unbeknownst to the 2, the cash supervisor in Panama was a U.S. authorities informant who had secretly recorded tons of of conferences, telephone conversations and textual content messages.
At a January 2017 assembly in Gorrín's workplace, Krull was launched to the true beneficiaries of the $200 million take. Opening the door to an adjoining convention room, he got here head to head with three males clad in heavy gold chains and baseball caps who had been launched as "Los Chamos" — Venezuelan slang for "the youngsters." They had been the hardly ever seen sons of Maduro's spouse, "First Combatant" Cilia Flores.
"That was the second once I realized I used to be over my head," stated Krull, who squirmed his approach out of lunch with the boys and headed to the airport, his coronary heart racing. "I didn't wish to confront them, or inform them I didn't agree with their mother and father' politics. … However once I was on the elevator happening, I stated to myself, 'Why me? Why at this second?'"
Krull says Gorrín persevered, finally persuading him to make the introduction to the federal government informant. That was sufficient to get Krull charged as a member of a conspiracy to empty $1.2 billion from PDVSA. Maduro's stepsons haven't been charged.
Gorrín was charged in 2018 in a separate case for allegedly paying an array of lavish bills — three jets, a yacht and champion show-jumping horses — on behalf of Venezuela's nationwide treasurer as a part of a scheme to pilfer greater than $1 billion from the federal government. A lot of the proceeds had been plowed into luxurious Miami actual property, federal prosecutors allege. Gorrín stays a fugitive.
Howard Srebnick, a Miami-based legal professional who has represented Gorrín previously, didn't reply to a request for remark however beforehand has stated the Venezuelan businessman denies any wrongdoing.
TURNING A BLIND EYE
Krull insists he's being made the autumn man for a non-public banking system constructed on secrecy that facilitated the looting of Venezuela's state coffers.
Whereas the majority of the cash flowing into Julius Baer's vaults from Venezuela was the byproduct of the nation's personal instability — hapless management, nugatory forex and triple-digit inflation — Krull says he believes a great chunk represented the proceeds of corruption to which many banks turned a blind eye. Julius Baer was not the worst offender, he says, and certainly a number of different Swiss banks together with HSBC Non-public Financial institution, UBS, Credit score Suisse and Geneva-based Compagnie Bancaire Helvetique SA have turned up in U.S. or European prison investigations.
"There was such an urge for food to generate profits and to develop that many transactions didn't get the correct overview," he says.
Krull cited the instance of a Julius Baer workplace in Europe that he claims opened an account for a Venezuelan consumer even after he alerted his colleagues the businessman was below intense media scrutiny for presumably corrupt ties to Maduro. On one other event, Krull stated, a supervisor signed up a former oil official regardless of having closed an account belonging to the identical man years earlier when each bankers had been at Credit score Suisse.
Krull filed a $34 million wrongful termination lawsuit in opposition to Julius Baer in Venezuela through which he described a gathering at the beginning of 2017 the place he, a supervisor and a senior compliance officer mentioned what to do with a number of shoppers whose account info had been handed over to the U.S. Justice Division as a part of a cash laundering probe.
As an alternative of dropping the shoppers, Krull alleges, he was instructed by the compliance workforce to shut solely the company accounts whereas permitting the shoppers to maintain their private accounts, the place the vast majority of their wealth was deposited.
"The one function was to maintain producing revenue for the financial institution and never take any actual and concrete motion to keep away from cash laundering or another suspicious prison exercise," Krull alleges within the criticism.
Krull stated that in his 14 years on the job, no compliance managers ever visited Venezuela regardless that they made the rounds of different workplaces within the area. He stated two executives had been employed in 2016 and 2017 regardless of having been fired from one other financial institution resulting from Venezuela compliance issues.
Swiss regulators final yr discovered many transactions over almost a decade that time to "systemic failures" by Julius Baer in its obligations to fight cash laundering. Particularly, the audit discovered that Julius Baer fell "considerably quick" in investigating the identities of its Latin American shoppers and compensated bankers for attracting new wealth whereas paying scant regard to compliance and threat administration objectives.
Julius Baer did not reply to a request for an interview or present solutions to detailed questions on Krull's allegations, citing ongoing litigation.
Nonetheless, the financial institution identified in a press release that the prison exercise to which Krull pleaded responsible occurred exterior of his work duties. The financial institution stated it has cooperated with Swiss authorities, closed its workplaces in Panama and Venezuela and has tried to claw again the bonuses of workers in its Latin American group whose actions triggered the regulatory probe.
Krull's actions are "not suitable with the chance tradition that we're looking for to attain," Romeo Lacher, chairman of the Julius Baer Group, stated of the Swiss regulator's findings final yr. "Julius Baer has invested considerably over the previous few years in strengthening our compliance and threat administration processes to make them match for the challenges of the longer term."
Mark Pieth, a money-laundering knowledgeable, stated Swiss banks have been concerned in a number of scandals lately so there isn't a excuse for them not understanding the supply of the large sums of cash being raked in by their associates in Venezuela.
That's very true for Julius Baer, he stated, as a result of it was one of some Swiss banks criminally charged in a U.S. tax dodging case for serving to Individuals conceal billions in offshore accounts. In 2016, it agreed to pay a $547 million high-quality.
"With Venezuela, all kinds of alarm bells ought to've gone off," stated Pieth, who lately retired from the College of Basel legislation college.
Pieth stated he's shocked extra Swiss monetary establishments and their senior executives haven't been charged within the U.S. In Switzerland, monetary markets supervisor FINMA, as a part of its investigation of Julius Baer, despatched written reprimands to 2 high-ranking managers — a punishment Pieth likened to "a slap on the knuckles."
"It's like asking casinos to establish playing addicts," he stated. "The bankers' job is to generate profits — not regulate themselves."
FINMA declined to establish the 2 bankers however famous that proceedings in opposition to a 3rd banker had been dropped after he pledged to not work in finance administration ever once more, whereas an investigation right into a fourth individual continues.
One of many 4 is former CEO Boris Collardi, who give up Julius Baer in 2017 to hitch one other Swiss personal financial institution, Pictet, as a associate.
"We took observe of FINMA's choice early this yr," Pictet stated in a press release standing by Collardi, whose reprimand has no authorized impact. "Now we have full confidence in his work."
For his half, Krull is hoping to get his life again on observe. He's scheduled to start out his 42-month jail sentence in July. Within the meantime, he spends his days shuttling his children to soccer video games, connecting with previous buddies and lunching along with his legal professional.
"My essential remorse is that once I received dragged into this case, I didn't have the power to blow the whistle and take a step ahead by speaking to the right individuals," Krull stated. "That can stick with me for the remainder of my life."
Related Press author Jamey Keaten in Geneva contributed to this report.
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Road cycling involves both team and individual events. Races may be held over a number of stages or as single days. Other events include time trials (both team and individual) and criteriums (a race of varying number of laps around a circuit of roads). Races vary in distance from a few kilometres for some criteriums, to individual stages of 250 km or more.
Road cycling primarily requires strength and endurance, although anaerobic capacity may be called upon in breakaways, hill climbing and all-out sprints to the line.
The Club holds Criterium racing with events being held on selected evenings and some weekends. Everyone is welcome, and we have a wide variety of categories, so you can start out and build up to the faster categories as your confidence and experience builds.
The Club conducts road racing through out the year in the greater Hobart Area, see the calendar for upcoming events.
Many of our members will race in Open events on the Cycling Tasmania calendar which cater for seniors and juniors.
Several members of the club are professional cyclists and race all over the world.


North Beach Camp Resort - Wag!
Are you looking for a deluxe camping experience that takes in forest, sand, and sun? Well look no fur-ther than North Beach Camp Resort! Located on a barrier island between the ocean and the river in St. Augustine, Florida, North Beach has all the mod cons that a pup and their person could ask for. You can expect access to full RV hookups, hot showers, a games room, laundry facilities, and hot showers. The resort's restaurant, Aunt Kate's, serves up a mean fried alligator tail and welcomes wagging tails outside. Unlike many resorts in the area, tent camping is also allowed, and there are even some cabins available (though these, un-fur-tunately, aren't pet-friendly).
All this, and a gorgeous location to boot! Sites are fringed with tall oaks and palmettos, and you can expect fabulous views of the water on all sides. The sight of the sun setting over the ocean has to be seen to be believed, and you'll have a fantastic view from North Beach's deck.
All this comes at a premium, of course. Sites with river views go from $83 to $93, full hookup sites are $68 to $73, and tent sites are $50. There's also a $3 charge for each additional person over two campers. Nevertheless, North Beach is a paw-pular spot, so it pays to make your reservation early.
You and your buddy are sure to find something to do during your stay! If the surfing, swimming, and fishing aren't enough to keep you entertained, you can try and sniff out some of the many Fido-friendly activities that St. Augustine has to offer. The Castillo de San Marco is well worth a visit for hound-dog history buffs. Your pup can't enter the historic Spanish fort itself, but there are several trails in the grounds for you two to investigate.
To the northeast, Vilano Beach allows free roaming fur-balls to play on the sand and splash about in the waves, but if you're more comfortable with a fenced area, the dog park at Veteran's Park is a pawesome place to let your buddy lose the leash. For something a little different, why not take the "A Ghostly Encounter" tour and discover the city's spooky side?
WiFi is available at North Beach, and most networks should receive decent cell service. Fires are permitted only in enclosed rings or grills, and you'll find drinking water available on-site. Remember to bring waste bags for your buddy, and have a furrific time!


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Tomorrow Nights Meeting
Poverty – and on our watch
There's more in the news today about the report of Professor Alston, who was appointed by The United Nations to report on Poverty in the UK.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/nov/16/key-points-un-envoy-philip-alston-report-poverty-britain-uk
His findings may have been pushed aside by our current fascination with other topics but they deserve and cry out for our attention.
'much of the glue that has held British society together since the Second World War has been deliberately removed and replaced with a harsh and uncaring ethos'.
'Government policies have led to the 'systematic immiseration' of a significant part of the UK population, meaning they had continually put people further into poverty'
'Some observers might conclude that The DWP has been tasked with designing a digital and sanitised version of the19th Century workhouse made famous by Charles Dickens'.
Many politicians have rushed to deny the report but in our towns and cities, there are ubiquitous signs of austerity and hardship. Soiled cardboard and sleeping bags, in shop doorways. Schools bear witness that they now operate as a 4th Emergency Service; responsible for clothing and feeding children, before they can begin to learn.
Political realignments generate heat and excitement but they don't focus on the human cost of austerity, which we will be paying for generations.
It's all a long way from 'the good life' that Humanists hold dear and it's happening on our watch.
Bob Jelley
Chair, Coventry & Warwickshire Humanists
Measles, The Vaccine, The Scare……..
The news that cases of Measles are increasing nationally and globally has led to me thinking about what I know, or think I know, about the issue.
Some years ago, I attended a splendid meeting organised by Coventry Skeptics in the Pub. The speaker was Brian Deer, The Sunday Times journalist who had investigated the work of Dr Andrew Wakefield.
Dr Wakefield proposed a link between the MMR vaccine and cases of autism and bowel cancer. Many people were very concerned by this link and many parents refused to have their young children immunised.
The alleged link, led to a dramatic drop in MMR vaccination rates and a rise in cases of measles. Had Dr Wakefield made an honest, reasonable mis-assessment, that would have been one thing, however The General Medical Council investigated Dr Wakefield's work and conclude that the doctor was "dishonest, irresponsible and showed callous disregard for the distress and pain" of children. The GMC ruled that he carried out clinically unnecessary and invasive tests on children without ethical approval or appropriate qualifications. It has to be noted that Andrew Wakefield, did rather well financially from the situation.
Today we have social media sites criticised for posting footage that may encourage/ reinforce self-harm or recruitment to terrorist groups. Do we need to ban coverage of scientific/medical conclusions, that could lead to harmful social reactions, until those conclusions are verified by the medical establishment?
Humanism and republicanism: shared values and common goals
Humanist, republican and Green Party candidate Mark Summers shares his thoughts on the relationship between Humanism and republicanism. This guest blog post coincides with the eve of a Royal wedding and the annual Leveller's Day celebrations in Burford. Mark who is also a Shelley expert and parish councillor for Long Lawford can be found at @New_Leveller on Twitter and newleveller.net
"If someone claims that in an earthly government things can go on perfectly well without the king's ordering or dealing with anything, we can reasonably suspect him of wanting to get rid of the king altogether. Similarly, anyone who maintains that the world can continue to run its course without the continual direction of God the supreme governor has a doctrine that does have the effect of excluding God from the world."
Exchange of papers between Leibniz and Clarke – Clarke's first reply (26 November 1715)
This literary exchange between Isaac Newton's close friend, the philosopher Samuel Clarke (1675-1729) and German natural philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) illustrates a fundamental historical link between republicanism and humanism. Viewed as a twin threat by the traditional 'King and Church' establishment they shared a common notion that facts and social structures should be determined by reason, being open to contestability and revision.
Modern republicanism and humanism were born in the same intellectual space. Inspired by the ethical and political writings of the classical world, especially the Greeks Aristotle and Polybius and the great Roman senator and lawyer Marcus Tullius Cicero they share a common heritage in the Renaissance. Indeed, Classical Republicanism was often used as a synonym for Civic Humanism. Since these beginnings in the Italian City States of the 15th and 16th centuries, republicanism and humanism have drifted apart slightly in terms of their objectives, with modern republicanism placing the advancement of liberty in political and constitutional terms as its central concern. This allows members of religious groups such as Quakers to espouse republicanism but not humanism.
So what were the historical commonalities and how are they reflected today? Central to the concern of Renaissance thinkers such as Niccolo Machiavelli was the provision of a public space as an environment for human fulfilment. Living in tumultuous political circumstances, Machiavelli was principally concerned with power and the responsibilities of those who wielded it to build a safe and secure society for all citizens. But during the seventeenth century, especially in England and Scotland, republicans started to build a case focusing on rights, albeit on the same foundation of public spaces.
Along with a concern for individual rights came an eagerness to question assumptions, to accept no authority as sacrosanct. As J.G.A. Pocock put it:
"…the Enlightenment generally [was] based on a complete rejection of prophecy, revelation and the Hebrew mode of thought at large."
J.G.A. Pocock (1975) The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition
Putting together the related issues of human rights and a rejection of uncontested authority provides a core set of shared republican and humanist values for the modern world. The Humanist UK main webpage (retrieved March 2018) features the following definition of humanism from the Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy:
For a Humanist the crucial factor in deciding whether an action is moral is the welfare of humanity rather than the pursuit of the will of a deity or a sacred text.
There are two aspects of this statement which is reflected directly in republican thinking. Firstly, the word 'deciding' implies freedom of individual action, to weigh up evidence and come to a conclusion based on that evidence. Such an ability, free from coercion and the possibility of being punished in some way is part of the explicit goal of republicanism.
Secondly 'welfare' implies an interest in the general health and well-being of a group. This is a recurring republican theme, with thinkers such as Montesquieu emphasizing that a well-functioning republic requires widespread civic virtue, by which is meant the active participation of citizens united by a concern for the common good.
Over the past two decades political philosopher Philip Pettit has been instrumental in developing a modern view of Republicanism both as a theory of freedom and a system of government. Pettit has put forward what he calls the 'eyeball test' as one indicator of the level of freedom in a society. The test states that in an ideal society any individual should be able to look another squarely in the eye without fear or prejudice. This is yet another fundamental principle which the republican shares with the humanist, that each person should show respect to his or her fellows irrespective of class, political, racial or religious background.
Although republicanism encompasses a much broader view than narrow antimonarchism, it is still a touchstone issue for the principles I have briefly outlined. But with a British Monarchy apparently tightly constrained by custom and statute is the republican concern with rights in such a constitution relevant to the humanist? I believe it is, for the following reasons. Consider, for example, the Royal Prerogative, an essentially accountable power which can be used to bypass Parliament and the judicial system. Though today mostly exercised by Cabinet Ministers this dangerous appendage to the monarchial system must be dismantled and the powers controlled as Parliament sees fit. This is before we consider the status of the Monarch him/herself as Supreme Governor of the Church of England with its enshrined right to have 26 Bishops in the House of Lords is taken into account. Likewise the fact that all legal and executive authority derives from one single source means that the monarch is above the law and cannot be prosecuted or called as a witness in a criminal trial. To do so would effectively mean the Queen prosecuting herself or possibly giving evidence against herself! The existence of a person above the reach of the law not only causes a fundamental problem of accountability but certainly fails the eyeball test.
As both republicans and humanists argue for a society based on open communication, discussion, criticism and unforced consensus, the fact that the Monarchy not only enjoys exemption from Freedom of Information but also forces the media to sign restrictive contracts effectively handing editorial control of any interview material to the Palace presents us with further problems. Finally, that one particular family are kept in a privileged position in perpetuity without being subject to accountability cannot be regarded as promoting the common good.
I have aimed to show that while the modern ideas of republicanism and humanism have diverged in some ways the root concepts of open rational-based decision making, contestability and respect are fundamental core values. The enlightenment which began in the sixteenth century was powered by a willingness to contest ideas and when necessary replace them with new, better or more appropriate ideas. Both Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz lie at the foundation of the rationalist enlightenment programme. That they equated republicans to atheists in a heinous category shows just how far we have come in the last three centuries. The fact that we retain a state religion while British republicans are still viewed with suspicion and occasional hostility shows how far we have yet to go.
Supporting the right to die
The following has been published today as a "Viewpoint" in the Courier Series of newspapers (Leamington Courier, Kenilworth Weekly News and Warwick Courier).
This is the latest of regular contributions to publicise the Humanist outlook and the local group.
This was published next to an article by the Attorney General Jeremy Wright who is MP for Kenilworth and Southam.
Humanists UK, the national Humanist organisation, is supporting its terminally ill member Noel Conway who wants the right to die, and this support is endorsed by the local group, Kenilworth-based Coventry & Warwickshire Humanists.
Noel has said that he wants to say goodbye to loved ones "at the right time, not to be in a zombie-like condition suffering both physically and psychologically".
Humanists defend the right of each individual to live by his or her own personal values, and the freedom to make decisions about his or her own life so long as this does not result in harm to others. Humanists do not share the attitudes to death and dying held by some religious believers (notably Roman Catholics) in particular that the manner and time of death are for a deity to decide, and that interference in the course of nature is unacceptable. Humanist firmly uphold the right to life but recognise that this right carries with it the right of each individual to make his or her own judgement about whether his or her life should be prolonged in the face of pointless suffering.
It is completely wrong that people who are of sound mind but terminally ill or incurably suffering are denied the choice to die with dignity. The deliberate extension of suffering as a matter of public policy is a stain on our humanity. The majority of the public want change but as long as Parliament is unwilling to act, it is up to brave individuals such as Noel to fight for all our rights. We will always stand with such courageous and public-spirited champions. The right to die, with dignity, in a manner of our choosing, must be understood to be a fundamental human right.
Legalising assisted dying must of course ensure that strict legal safeguards are in place and empower people to make rational choices over their end of life care free from coercion. It is very important that there are strong safeguards in any assisted dying law, but the international evidence from countries where assisted dying is legal shows that such safeguards are effective.
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Fernand Joseph Valnet (La Bretenière, le  — Neuengamme, 1945) était un résistant français et passeur vers la zone libre. Un rapport de la gendarmerie de Poligny, de septembre 1941, fait état d'environ 10 000 personnes exfiltrées dont 600 prisonniers évadés, et 60 000 lettres transportées. Arrêté par la Gestapo en juillet 1944, il est déporté en août, et meurt début 1945.

Biographie
Fernand Valnet est né le  à La Bretenière (Doubs, en Bourgogne-Franche-Comté), étant marchand de fourrages de profession et ancien combattant de la Première Guerre mondiale. Résistant durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il officie comme passeur le long de la frontière avec la Suisse.

Opérant entre Vadans et Poligny, entre octobre 1940 et septembre 1941, Fernand Valnet aurait fait passer environ 10 000 personnesdont 600 prisonniers évadés, et 60 000 lettres. Pour passer la ligne de démarcation, il parcourait 10 à 15 km à pieds, précédés et suivis de trajets en car ou train pour faire la liaison avec les villes.  Agissant quasi quotidiennement, dans les 2 sens, il encadrait des groupes de 12 à 70 personnes assisté d'un autre passeur en serre-fil.

Il est arrêté une première fois, le , incarcéré à la citadelle de Besançon, et condamné à trois ans de travaux forcés, mais parvient à s'échapper pour gagner Poligny ; il est arrêté de nouveau, en , écope de trois années de prison, mais est rapidement libéré. Après avoir été inquiété 5 fois, il abandonne l'activité de passeur pour devenir membre de l'Organisation de résistance de l'Armée (ORA), sous l'égide du colonel Jean Maurin. Agent de liaison pour le Doubs, il  assure la transmission de messages et la collecte d'informations. Des contacts avec des groupes clandestins, seront également pris, depuis Besançon, avec des antennes jusqu'à Épinal et Nancy.

Il est interpellé par la Gestapo en , déporté par le convoi du  de Belfort pour Neuengamme où il meurt début 1945. Sous-lieutenant FFI déclaré Mort pour la France, il reçoit la Légion d'Honneur comme Chevalier, la Croix de guerre avec palme, la Médaille de la Résistance, et est également inscrit sur le monument aux morts de La Bretenière  et dans la crypte de Notre-Dame de la Libération à Morre.

Partage des passages  en zone libre avec Paul Koepfler
Au cours de l'été 1940, Valnet fait la connaissance du Belfortain Paul Koepfler. Il lui communique ses astuces de passeur. Après avoir secondé Valnet, Koepfler créé sa propre filière, faisant passer la ligne de démarcation entre Port-Lesney et Chamblay. On lui reconnait 20 000 passages d'août 1940 à novembre 1942 (date de la suppression de la ligne de démarcation). Recruté par ailleurs comme agent de liaison de l'ORA, il se consacre  alors, à plein temps, à cette activité. Le 31 mars 1943, il est abattu, à Poligny, par deux policiers allemands en civil.

Notes et références

Naissance en janvier 1892
Naissance dans le Doubs
Militaire français de la Première Guerre mondiale
Officier des Forces françaises libres (terrestres)
Résistant français
Résistant de Besançon
Déporté résistant
Déporté au camp de concentration de Neuengamme
Décès en 1945
Décès à 53 ans
Mort pour la France
Titulaire de la croix de guerre 1939-1945
Titulaire de la médaille de la Résistance française
Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur