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Q: Interpolation of very sparse meshgrid for country heatmap generation I have a dataset of incidents per country over time, and I want to create a changing heatmap over the period in the same time-step as the incidents. So far, I have:
        ax2 = plt.axes(projection=ccrs.Miller())
        ax2.set_global()
        ax2.coastlines()
        ax2.add_feature(cfeature.OCEAN, zorder=0)
        ax2.add_feature(cfeature.BORDERS, linewidth=0.6)
        ax2.set_title('Second axis plot')

        grid_z0 = griddata(points, values, (x2d, y2d), method='cubic', fill_value=0)
        print grid_z0

        cnt = ax2.pcolormesh(lons_new, lats_new, grid_z0,
         transform=ccrs.PlateCarree(), cmap = cmap, alpha = 0.5)

        plt.show()

Where

*

*Points/values are generated by assigning all points inside the
country with the number of incidents (so for the first iteration):
Argentina has all values of '1', U.K. has all values of '1'.

*x2d, y2d is:
   lats_new = np.linspace(-90, 90, 91)
   lons_new = np.linspace(-180, 180, 91)
   x2d, y2d = np.meshgrid(lons_new, lats_new)

This generates:
first incident
What I am trying to achieve: interpolation based on distance (that is the two countries in the figure I've attached should be separate and red, fading out at the border). I've tried a few interpolation methods from scipy but nothing seems to do well (2d, as well as all from griddata).

A: Fixed it using a gaussian filter to interpolate matrix before contouring:

*

*Image as a binary matrix of incident values (one incident in U.K.,
one in Argentina). Seen here as a color mesh:
Color mesh before Guassian filter

*Apply a guassian filter to the mask matrix over the world:
    sigma_y = 3.0
    sigma_x = 3.0

    sigma = [sigma_y, sigma_x]

    y = sp.ndimage.filters.gaussian_filter(grid_new, sigma, mode='constant')

Where grid_new is a 2D matrix of incident values. Color mesh after applying guassian filter:
Matrix after guassian filter seen as a pcolormesh

*Apply .contourf function to the guassian filtered matrix:
Contourf of gaussian filtered matrix


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Nature and tribal welfare takes a back seat during the elections in the Nilgiris
Updated : April 18, 2019 05:34 PM IST
The Nilgiris constituency of Tamil Nadu has the largest proportion of Adivasi population in the Tamil Nadu, but rights activists worry that their vote carries very little weight.
Fair and transparent Implementation of FRA, jobs, health and education are the main issues for the Adivasi communities in the region.
The local residents also point out that lack of a viable minimum support price was pushing tea growers to sell their plantations to builders leading to a concretisation of the landscape and increased conflict with wildlife.
Bhanu Sridharan
One of the most biodiverse regions of the Western Ghats, the Nilgiris (the blue mountains) comprise a range of ecosystems including dry deciduous forests at its base, dense evergreen forests on the slopes and on the mountain tops a mosaic of stunted forests and grasslands. Over 3000 species of plants, 350 species of birds and 100 species of mammals occur in this region because of which the Nilgiris have been declared a biosphere reserve and comprise protected areas such as the Mukurthi National Park and the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve.
The Nilgiris are also home to six ancient indigenous communities and tribes – Badagas (traditionally settled agriculturists and the largest numerically), Todas (pastoralists occupying the upper plateau), Kotas (artisans) and Irulas, Kurumbas and Paniyars (hunter-gatherers, who also practice settled agriculture now). While the tribal and indigenous communities face multiple challenges, the residents appear to have little faith in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections addressing any of their problems.
The Lok Sabha constituency of the Nilgiri mountains in Tamil Nadu, includes popular hill towns such as Ooty (Udhagamandalam), Gudalur and Coonoor and towns such as Mettupalayam, Avanashi and Bhavanisagar that connect the region to the plains.
The Nilgiris seen from the wildlife corridors of the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve. Photo by S. Gopikrishna Warrier/Mongabay.
Declining forests and less access to forest resources
In the 19th century, the British began clearing forests for tea and cultivation and started planting exotic trees, a practice continued by the independent Indian government, decimating the region's unique high altitude grasslands. The lower reaches, such as Gudalur division were cleared for tea and other commercial crops, in the process driving out Adivasi (tribal and indigenous) communities from their homes in the forest. Bereft of access to forest resources such plants for indigenous medicines and land for growing food, the Adivasi communities in the region were forced to mostly work as low wage labourers in plantations.
K.T. Subramaniam, the secretary of Adivasi Munnetra Sangam (AMS), an Adivasi collective from the Gudalur town and its surroundings, feels this history is crucial for understanding what elections mean to indigenous peoples in the region. "Gudalur was once an area with only forests and Adivasis like us," he said. "Our forests were intact, we were self-sufficient and we had dignity of life," Subramaniam said. The steady entry of outside settlers (some rich farmers and landed castes and others poor landless labourers seeking work and opportunity) changed the demographic massively. "Adivasis are now a minority."
According to the 2011 Census data, about 4.6 percent of the population of the Nilgiris district is now scheduled tribe and the 32 percent are scheduled caste.
The changes in the landscape, especially the destruction of forests and loss of access to the remaining patches led to a series of problems that Subramaniam said continue to this day. "When the forests went Adivasis lost access to food sources and traditional medicine," said Subramaniam. "Forced to work as labour in plantations where they faced ill-treatment and received poor pay, eventually most Adivasi communities here faced health risks, high rates of infant mortality and no access to education he explained. The police and the forest department would continuously harass us, framing us with false charges."
In the Nilgiris upper plateau only relics of the shola-grassland ecosystem exists. While the shola forest is in the foreground of the picture in the background are the soft-wood plantations done by the forest department over decades. Photo by S. Gopikrishna Warrier/Mongabay.
Education without jobs
It was in the face of these problems that AMS began in 1986 and started small collectives in tribal villages in Gudalur so that different tribes could unite and ask for rights. While the communities have made some strides in the region since then, especially in access to primary education, several problems continue according to M. Alwas, who heads the Nilgiri Adivasi Welfare Association.
"The state government has done some good work in the education front. For example, they have provided new English medium schools for the tribals," he said. "But many things are missing. Fifty percent of the government tribal residential schools are not functioning. The buildings need repair. Teacher training has not been done."
The bigger problem, however, is the lack of jobs for educated tribals. "We have 300-400 postgraduates in the Adivasi communities unemployed even though there are vacancies in the government. They are not filling the vacancies," Alwas pointed out.
Subramaniam added that good roads and electricity were also big gaps for Adivasi communities in Gudalur. "Adivasis are the last group to get any facilities," he claimed. "If a road will only lead to an Adivasi village, it will not get done. The local administration will make sure that roads to big estates and farms get priority. If Adivasi settlements are nearby then it is fine. If a road will only lead to an Adivasi village, then it will be the last thing to be built."
A medical team from the Nilgiri Adiwasi Welfare Association in a Kurumba village. Photo by S. Gopikrishna Warrier/Mongabay.
The Forest Rights Act
In 2006, the United Progressive Alliance Government passed the Forest Rights Act (FRA) – a law that acknowledged the historical injustices that had been meted out to Adivasi communities and promised to restore their traditional rights over forests. "If implemented properly, the FRA could have been a good measure for the tribals in Nilgiris," said P. Chandran, the coordinator for tribal rights and welfare at the Keystone Foundation in Kotagiri.
Chandran, who is from the Kurumba community, works on creating awareness of the Act among the indigenous communities in Kotagiri and Ooty and helping them file claims to individual and community forest rights. According to a report by a Chennai based consulting firm Samanvaya in June 2017, the Nilgiris district had filed 1998 individual and community forest right claims at the gram sabha level, but only 756 claims made it to the sub divisional level committee (SDLC) and only 505 claims (which included no community forest rights) reached the district level committee (DLC). It was not that the others were rejected, they were simply not processed yet.
Chandran, who is a member of the DLC for supervising claims in Nilgiris, pointed out that the bureaucracy would come up with arbitrary processes that would impede the application process. "After all the claims are collated and confirmed by the village level forest committee, it has to go to the SDLC and then to the DLC. But the SDLC recently came up with a rule that only the village officer was allowed to collect the applications from the village level committee and submit it to them. This is an arbitrary rule. Each time something like this happened, we would have to go the district collector who would have to resolve the issue," he said.
P. Chandran (right) of the Keystone Foundation in conversation with a Toda elder. Photo by Bhanu Sridharan.
There seems to be even more reluctance to grant community forest rights in the region. Community forest rights pertain to rights for a community to collect certain non-timber forest products such as herbs or fruits and market it themselves, to celebrate festivals or worship at temple shrines which are often deep inside forests, and importantly rights to manage and conserve the forest through forest management committees (FMC). "Community rights are also important because they allow Adivasi villages to build facilities such as primary health centre or a school, which they otherwise don't have," explained Chandran.
Even these claims were not granted according to the rules, he explained citing an example of a community forest rights application in Masinagudi.
"In Masinagudi there were some tribal villages which asked for community rights to the surrounding forest. But government officials instead declared that playgrounds and wells already in their village would be granted as part of community rights," said Chandran. Subramaniam and Chandran both independently noted that the area of land recognised individual claims were substantially lower than asked. "The claim will be for around two or three acres, but they will give away few cents (100 cents is equal one acre)," said Subramaniam.
Losing forests and tea estates to buildings
Environmental activists blamed shrinking forest cover and a push towards real-estate development for the conflict with wildlife. "Politicians have allowed so much land in the Nilgiris to be converted into buildings," said K. Ramdas an environmental activist based in Kotagiri. With the buffer of tea plantations disappearing, habitation started coming up closer to the forest leading to more human-animal conflict he explained.
K. Ramdas (centre) with other villagers in Banagudi shola near Kotagiri. Photo by S. Gopikrishna Warrier/Mongabay.
Ramdas blamed this partly on the Tea Board of India (controlled by the Central Government). Most tea plantations in the Nilgiris are owned by small tea growers from the Badaga tribe. There are approximately 45,000 tea growers in the Nilgiris who have been agitating for a better minimum support price for green tea for several years. While farmers have been demanding a minimum of Rs 30 per kilogram, the Tea Board of India has set a price of Rs 17 per kilogram.
"They [the tea growers] are suffering huge losses. So, they cannot resist real estate offers and sell their land," he said. "Most of this real estate development is for tourists," he said adding that an increase in tourists have led to an increase in vehicles. "This is leading to air pollution."
The final nail in the coffin according to Alwas has been the spread exotic invasive tree species in the grassland ecosystems of the higher reaches of the Nilgiris. "The forest department spent so much time promoting wattle and blue gum (eucalyptus) in our grasslands destroying out grazing lands," he said.
According to a study published in 2019, exotic plantations had replaced most of the high altitude grasslands in the Nilgiris, endangering the pastoral culture of the Toda tribe as well as the existence of endemic fauna like the Nilgiri tahr and Nilgiri pipit.
In 2019, the Madras High Court formed an expert committee to look into removing exotic tree plantations from the Nilgiris. "The exotic plantations must be removed and natural forest and grassland must be brought back. This will benefit Adivasi communities who need forests," said Alwas. "But candidates are not aware of such issues at all."
Subramaniam is not particularly optimistic that Adivasis in the region will sway candidates in the region. "It doesn't look like the Adivasi vote counts for much, especially at the Lok Sabha level. Our votes don't have much pull, because we are too few in number," he said. "But we will still vote."
(This story was first published on Mongabay)
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Debre Markos University (DMU) is a public research university in Debre Markos, Amhara Region, Ethiopia. It was established in 2005 and has been growing fast.

Overview
Debre Markos University (DMU) is a public research university in Debre Markos, Ethiopia.
DMU is located in the area endowed with pleasant weather, abundant natural resources including Choke Mountains water-shade which covers six different agro-ecology zones within  radius with various bio-diversity and the source of many tributaries to the Nile, and Upper Blue Nile Gorge.
DMU was established in January 2005. Two years later, DMU started the teaching-learning process within 760 regular students, 53 academic and 34 supportive staffs, 21 contract servants and its name officially declared as Debre Markos University.
Currently, DMU has 51 undergraduate, 47 postgraduate, and 2 PhD programs in regular, continuing, and distance educations. These programs are given at three centers: Main campus at Debre Markos, Burie campus at Burie, and  Bichena at Bichena. DMU has been providing competitive and skilled graduates to the national and international organizations in 11 round graduation ceremonies in first and second-degree programs. In addition to these, 126 medical doctors graduated in three rounds.

The university currently has three campuses, five colleges, two schools, and three institutes.

Academics
The University has 9 colleges, institutes, and schools.

College of Social Science and Humanity
Amharic
English
History
Geography
Civics
Sociology
Psychology

Natural and Computational Science
 Biology
 Chemistry
 Mathematics
 Physics
 Sport Science
 Statistics
 Biotechnology
Geology

College of Business and Economics
 Economics
 Management
 Accounting and Finance

College of Agriculture and Natural Resource
 Natural Resource Management
 Rural Development
 Animal Science
 Plant Science
 Horticulture
 Agro Economics
 Agri Business
 Agro Forestry

College of Health Science
 Public Health
Pediatrics and child health Nursing
 Nursing
 Midwifery
 Pharmacy
 Health Informatics
 Human Nutrition and Food Science
 Environmental Health
 Medical Laboratory Science and Technology

Debre Markos Institute of Technology
 Civil Engineering
 Electrical and Computer Engineering
 Mechanical Engineering
 Construction Technology and Management
 Information Technology
 Hydraulics and Water Resource Engineering
 Software Engineering
 Computer Science
 Aerospace Engineering
 Chemical Engineering
 Information System
 Industrial Engineering
 Architecture
 Biomedical Engineering

School of Law
 Law

School of Medicine
 * MEDICINE
 *Medical Radiology Technology(MRT)
 *Anesthesia

Institute of Land Administration
  * Land Administration and Surveying
  * Real Property Valuation
School of postgraduate postgraduate in Environment and Land Resource Management

Partnership
 International

 National

 collaboration-areas

References
 http://www.dmu.edu.et

External links
 http://www.dmu.edu.et

Debre Markos
Educational institutions established in 2005
2005 establishments in Ethiopia
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The Irrepressible Myth That SEC Overregulation Has Chilled IPOs
By John C. Coffee, Jr. May 29, 2018 by renholding
The following is an abbreviated version of Professor Coffee's May 23 testimony before the House Financial Services Committee's Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Securities, and Investments. The deleted portions of his testimony relate to the specific content of proposed bills to extend and supplement the JOBS Act.
Chairman Huizenga, Ranking Member Maloney, and Fellow Members of the Committee:
I thank you for inviting me. I have been asked to comment on 11 proposed bills, all of which seem to have a common source: a 2018 Report entitled, "Expanding the On-Ramp: Recommendations to Help More Companies Go and Stay Public," prepared by several industry organizations.[1] In overview, I think they range from promising possibilities (but poorly expressed and without necessary conditions) to sadly ideological attempts to dismantle core provisions of our contemporary disclosure system. The common premise of these bills and the "Expanding the On-Ramp" report is that high regulatory costs and burdensome SEC rules discourage many private companies that would otherwise go public from doing so. That was also the premise of the JOBS Act, enacted in 2012. This premise is a myth, but it is persistently asserted by industry groups seeking to enact a wish list of deregulatory reforms.
In that light, and because time is limited, let me make some very basic points:
1. IPO volume declined radically in 2001 and has never returned to the pre-2000 level. The "Hot Issue" Bubble crashed in that year, destroying investor confidence, and that should remind us that underregulation can be as serious a problem as overregulation.
2. The JOBS Act did nothing to turn this problem around, and indeed IPO volume in 2015 and 2016 was lower than in many years before the JOBS Act. Although there has been an uptick this year in the case of high-tech offerings, other offerings (and particularly smaller ones) remain in a deep freeze.
3. If high regulatory costs and SEC overregulation were a cause of low and decreasing IPO volume, this would be a uniquely American problem. But it is not. IPO volume has declined even more dramatically in Canada and has declined on a level comparable to the U.S. in Europe and Japan. Because Canada has no national securities regulator, the decline of IPOs in Canada cannot be blamed on an overregulating national regulator.
4. What then does explain the decline in IPOs? Two basic causes of declining IPO volume stand out:
A. Private companies find it easier, quicker, and often cheaper to raise capital in robust private equity markets (where litigation risk is also much lower and less executive time is diverted); and
B. IPOs for smaller firms have been consistently unsuccessful for a sustained period, losing money for all concerned (both investors and underwriters). Finance professor Jay Ritter, the leading scholar on IPOs, has recently released data showing that a high majority of small offerings have had negative earnings per share for years after the offering and poor first day returns. Thus, analysts and underwriters tend to shun such offerings. Academic research suggests that the relative disappearance and unprofitability of smaller firm IPOs is because such firms cannot gain the economies of scale and scope that are increasingly necessary to compete in a globalizing marketplace.[2].
5. What is the core fallacy of the JOBS Act and its approach? The JOBS Act seeks to reduce regulatory and legal costs. But as a percentage of the total costs of an IPO, these costs are trivial. The single greatest component in IPO costs is the underwriter's discount, and, depending on the size of the offering, it represents between 71 and 79 percent of the average total costs of an IPO. Although IPO costs are probably not the primary problem, the futility of a cost-reduction strategy becomes obvious once we recognize that these bills focus only on relatively minor costs.
6. Is there a crisis? NO! Private companies are tapping ready sources of capital in venture capital and private equity markets. High-tech firms (such as Dropbox this year) are doing successful IPOs (but they appear to be mainly motivated more by a desire to provide liquidity to their employees and other holders of their stock options). Other firms (such as Spotify) have pursued "direct listings" (probably again to obtain liquidity for employees and stock option holders because they have raised all the cash they need in private markets). Many issuers have spurned the format of the classic IPO.
7. What will happen to the smaller firm that cannot access the IPO market? Venture capital firms have long known that prices and premiums are higher in the M&A market than in the IPO market. Simply put, the smaller firm can be sold at a higher price/earnings multiple in the M&A market (where the buyer is acquiring control and will therefore pay a control premium). Such a buyer can transform the acquired business and move it to a global scale.
8. In this light, relaxing disclosure and transparency rules and downsizing important corporate governance protections (such as "say on pay" or the Rule 14a-8 shareholder proposal rule) represent a dubious policy for Congress to follow. That is, it is no favor to the retail investor to allow smaller companies to escape full disclosure or to avoid corporate governance norms, when these are precisely the offerings most likely to fail.
9. One last general point: A number of these bills amend or modify specific, existing SEC rules (such as Rules 139, 163, or the rules under the Investment Adviser Act). This amounts to micro-managing the SEC. That might be justified if one does not trust the SEC or considers it hopelessly committed to overregulation. But this is a Republican SEC, and I have not heard anyone describe Chairman Clayton as opposed to de-regulation. In that light, it would make far more sense for Congress to ask the SEC to study a proposed rule change and report back within a defined period. After all, the SEC can respond in a more nuanced way and has greater expertise and experience. The SEC can also adjust its rules in a more flexible fashion, while Congress adopts permanent rules, carved in stone.
II. The Empirical Evidence on IPOs: Volume and Returns
The basic pattern is shown by Exhibit One, which shows that not only have the average number of IPOs declined (from 310 a year in 1980-2000 to 108 from 2001-2016), but the first day returns (and thus the returns that attract investors and underwriters) have declined dramatically:
Exhibit One
This pattern has been even more pronounced for smaller firms (defined as firms with annual sales below $60 million):
Exhibit Two
Although small IPOs generally outnumbered larger IPOs from 1995 to 2000, they have been outnumbered by larger IPOs for every year thereafter (with one exception in 2015).
This decline in IPO volume is not unique to the United States. The decline in Canada has been even more extreme (where the absence of a national securities regulator undercuts the argument that overregulation is the cause):
Exhibit Three
The Canadian experience is particularly instructive, because the first day average returns on IPOs have been negative since 2008 (with the lone exception of 2010). This same decline in IPO volume and returns has also characterized Europe and Japan. Across all the developed securities markets, only China has recently experienced an exuberant and growing IPO market.
Small firm IPOs fare especially poorly in terms of earnings per share ("EPS") following their IPO. Ritter, Gao, and Zhu measure the percentage of both "large" and "small" IPOs that experience negative EPS in any fiscal year. They find that the percentage of "small" IPOs (from the prior three years) with negative EPS in any given year has ranged between 65 percent and 90 percent since 1999. In contrast, "large" IPOs (from the same prior three years) have generally had positive EPS over the fiscal years since 2002:
Exhibit Four
In short, large IPOs make money, while small IPOs lose money in subsequent years. The buy-and-hold returns on small IPOs reflect this reality:
Exhibit Five
III. The Costs of an IPO: Direct and Indirect
A key assumption to both the JOBS Act and the proposed legislation before this subcommittee is that deregulation can significantly (or even moderately) reduce the costs of an IPO. But this is highly doubtful. The following chart, taken from a PriceWaterhouseCoopers study, shows that across all sizes of IPOs (small to large), the underwriting discount accounts for between 71 percent and 79 percent of the total average costs:
Exhibit Six
Nothing else comes close to the underwriter's discount, with legal and audit costs coming second and third. Legal fees range between 10 percent to 13 percent of the total costs. The actual SEC registration and filing costs are trivial and in the 1 to 2 percent range). Although these proposals might reduce legal and auditing costs somewhat, the reduction would be modest to an already minor cost.
In reality, the "real" costs of an IPO are hidden, and include the costs of diverted executive time, the costs of a now multinational "roadshow," and the potential litigation costs. Some privately-held companies simply do not believe that they can spare time for an IPO when they are locked in intense competition with often larger rivals. Others fear a stock price drop might spur litigation. Still others doubt that their IPO price would be as high as their valuation in their last round of private financing (and some recent IPOs have fallen below that level). But these reasons have little to do with the direct financial costs of an IPO.
This is not to say that many private companies would not like to avoid some of the burdens that these bills would spare them from (if they were to go public). Yes, they would like to avoid "say on pay" votes and shareholder proposals by activists (which are made under SEC Rule 14a-8). Similarly, they might prefer a world in which proxy advisers (such as ISS and Glass-Lewis) were closely regulated into relative silence (as is also proposed in "Expanding the On-Ramp"). But such proposals all reduce shareholder rights and involve very problematic trade-offs. Nor will all "emerging growth companies" necessarily be attracted by such deregulation. Suppose, for example, that three new IPOs are caused by eliminating "say on pay" votes for EGCs, but 100 EGCs are thereby deregulated. The costs and benefits of such a move seem open to serious debate.
This package of bills starts from a flawed premise and proceeds to unfortunate conclusion by proposing major retreats in disclosure and corporate governance in order to encourage some additional IPOs. The evidence to date does not show any significant response to the concessions made in the JOBS Act in 2012. Moreover, these proposals would turn a transitional bridge into a semi-permanent two-tier disclosure system.
Not all these proposals are necessarily wrong-headed; some could be promising ideas if more sensibly implemented. But none have been vetted adequately by the SEC or other concerned constituencies. Some — most notably, the modifications to the shareholder proposal rule (Rule 14a-8), the say-on-pay rules, and the generally hostile attitude toward proxy advisory firms — represent major retreats in corporate governance. Other proposals — most notably, the substitution of a press release for a Form 10-Q as the means for reporting quarterly earnings — cripple interim reporting (ironically, just as Europe has moved to quarterly reporting).
The costs of these reforms seem real, while the benefits may be illusory. There is no crisis demanding major deregulation. Although smaller IPOs will likely continue to decline, the much larger "unicorns" are simply biding their time. Eventually, they will go public when they sense the time is ripe, but small cost incentives will not motivate them.
If these bills pass, one prediction is safe: In five more years, we will see JOBS Act III, based on the same dubious assumptions.
[1] These organizations include: (1) The Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness, (2) The American Securities Association, (3) The Biotechnology Innovation Organization, (4) The Equity Dealers of America, (5) Technet; (6) Nasdaq, (7) SIFMA, and (8) The National Venture Capital Association.
[2] See Jay R. Ritter, Xiaochui Gao Bakshi, and Zhgongyan Zhu, "Where Have All the IPOs Gone?, " (available on SSRN at https://ssrn.com/abstract=1954788).
John C. Coffee, Jr., is the Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law at Columbia University Law School and Director of its Center on Corporate Governance.
Grant Vingoe
Interesting take on the significance of the absence of a national regulator in Canada. There is, contrary to the statement in the article that the absence of a national regulator points to under-regulation, a general perception in Canada that multiple, somewhat inconsistent provincial rules is a regulatory burden and that the cooperative regulator may streamline processes and reduce regulatory burdens in matters such as prospectus filings, including IPOs.
Geoff Mamlet
While Prof. Coffee may be correct in his analysis when looking at the problem from a broad national perspective, he certainly misses the impact of the current state of affairs on regional economies. If a company can effectively no longer go public without achieving a $1B+ valuation, that means that smaller companies seeking to reach that level will be under much greater pressure to physically relocate to the (very few) centers of finance that provide access to the large pools of private capital needed to support their growth. This has a large effect on job growth in the regions left behind (that is to say, most of the country).
I don't claim to have a prescription for solving the problem but to claim that there is no problem is not helpful for the parts of the US that are short-changed as a result.


Every year, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration surveys Americans age 12 and older about whether they use opioid painkillers for nonmedical reasons or consume any marijuana, alcohol or cocaine.
States are ranked based on the proportion of their population uses each substance (marijuana, cocaine, nonmedical opioids and alcohol). Not surprisingly, heavy drug use varies state by state.
Colorado is the only state that is a heavy consumer of all four substances. Washington, Alaska and Oregon, the other three states where the consumption of marijuana is legal, are also heavy consumers of pot.
Northern New England, which is typically associated with the opioid epidemic, is not among the country's highest for nonmedical opioid consumption. Rather, Vermont, Massachusetts and New Hampshire are leading consumers of alcohol, marijuana and cocaine.
The Southeast has the lower consumption levels of intoxicating substances than the rest of the country. However, nonmedical painkiller use is highest in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, Virginia, Maryland and Ohio.
The Midwest is not leading consumers of any of the three illicit drugs, although Wisconsin, Minnesota and North Dakota lead the way in alcohol consumption. California, Arizona and New Mexico are leaders in the consumption of cocaine.
Keith Humphreys, a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, attributes the variation in substance use patterns across the states to differences in state laws, industry regulations, localized traditions, regional illegal drug market dynamics, cultural and religious norms, and the racial, ethnic and economic characteristics of populations.


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Look, I send you out like sheep among wolves. You must be as clever as snakes and as innocent as doves. Be on your guard with people, for they will hand you over to their courts, and they will flog you in their synagogues. You will be brought to trial before rulers and kings because of me, so that you may witness to them and the pagans. But when you are arrested, do not worry about what you are to say, or how you are to say it; when the hour comes, you will be given what you are to say. For it will not be you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father, speaking through you. Brother will hand over his brother to death, and a father his child; children will turn against their parents and have them put to death. Everyone will hate you because of me, but whoever stands firm to the end will be saved. When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next. I tell you the truth, you will not have passed through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.
Whoever stands firm to the end will be saved Jesus forewarns his disciples of being persecuted on account of him. He assures them though of the presence of the Holy Spirit that will empower them to speak the truth and remain faithful to him. Most likely, Matthew the evangelist wrote this passage in order to strengthen his fledging Christian community that was being persecuted by the Roman Empire. He recalled the words of Jesus and crafted words consistent with his person and message in order to comfort the persecuted Christians and at the same time assure them of the Risen Lord's presence among them.


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FBI Absolutely Terrified Of "RussiaGate" Investigator After Finding Out What He's Been Doing For Months
Posted By: Dino Porrazzo June 11, 2019
Posted by Dean James at Right Wing Tribune
New Russiagate Prober Has Haunted FBI for Months
By Eric Felten, RealClearInvestigations
John Durham, the prosecutor tapped by Attorney General William Barr to investigate how Trump-Russia allegations emerged and spread within federal law enforcement, has already been looking into whether the FBI's former top lawyer, James Baker, illegally leaked to reporters.
In fact, the U.S. attorney from Connecticut appears to have begun that work more than seven months ago, to judge from an underreported transcript of an October congressional interview with Baker. The Baker interview, at which Durham was not present, suggests that the prosecutor nevertheless has some people very worried.
Baker testified about the Trump-Russia affair on Oct. 3 before the House Judiciary Committee and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
In that session, the former FBI general counsel admitted that versions and variations of Christopher Steele's dossier were being turned in to the bureau from the strangest of places. Baker said he had even heard about it from David Corn, Washington bureau chief of left-leaning Mother Jones, who wrote one of the first pieces on the dossier, in October 2016. But in one of those company-town connections that happen frequently in Washington, Baker said he was not just a contact or source for Corn; they were also old pals.
"Tell me about your relationship with David Corn," said Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan.
"David is a friend of mine," Baker said.
"Tell me about that. A close friend? Long-time friend?"
"Long-time friend."
Jordan asked, "When did you first meet Mr. Corn?"
"I don't specifically remember," Baker testified. "A long time ago, though."
"Years ago? "
"Years and years and years ago, yeah," Baker allowed. "Our kids carpooled together. We carpooled with them when our kids were little."
So one of the most divisive scandals in Washington history was facilitated by an unexpected friendship, an odd couple brought together by a shared interest in getting their kids dropped off at school.
The congressman from Ohio wanted to know more about the Baker-Corn relationship: "Prior to the election of – Presidential election of 2016," Jordan asked, "how many times did you talk with David Corn in the weeks and months prior to election day?"
"I don't remember," Baker said, providing an answer that suggests it was more than a few.
"Is it fair to say you did" talk with Corn, Jordan asked?
"Yes, I did, but I just don't remember how many [times]."
"So did you talk to Mr. Corn about anything that the FBI was working on," Jordan asked, "specifically the now infamous Steele dossier?"
Suddenly, Baker's lawyer, Dan Levin, jumped in: "One second," he said before he and his client had a conversation off the record.
When the microphones were back on, Levin declared he would "not let [Baker] answer these questions right now. You may or may not know, he's been the subject of a leak investigation which is still – a criminal leak investigation that's still active at the Justice Department." And so Levin concluded, "I'm sorry. I'm cutting off any discussion about conversations with reporters."
North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows wanted to make clear what Baker's lawyer was claiming: "You're saying he's under criminal investigation? That's why you're not letting him answer?"
Levin and the lawmakers sparred a bit over whether Baker was invoking his Fifth Amendment rights, and the congressmen finally got around to asking who was leading this criminal probe:
"There is an ongoing investigation by whom?" Jordan said.
"The Justice Department," Levin responded.
"I mean, is the inspector general looking at this or is this—"
"No," said Levin, "it's Mr. John Durham, a prosecutor."
The specter of Durham haunts the rest of the interview. Baker can't talk about what he told his old friend David Corn in their conversations about the dossier because it would put Baker in legal jeopardy.
Time and again, when Baker was asked questions about reporters – even hypothetical questions about FBI policy regarding contacts with the press, Levin said, "I'm not going to allow him to answer that question" or "I am not going let him answer any questions about leaks."
"I don't want him talking about conversations he's had with reporters because I don't know what the questions are and I don't know what the answers are right now," Levin said. "Given that there is an ongoing investigation of him for leaks which the Department has not closed, I'm not comfortable letting him answer questions." Durham's inquiry was serious enough to limit significantly what Baker was willing to talk about with lawmakers.
That Baker's lawyer advised him not to talk about leaks is, of course, not proof that Baker leaked. "Baker's lawyer was obviously being prudent and saying his client could not talk about anything related to any leaks of any kind," David Corn tells RealClearInvestigations. Corn emphasizes that the "Durham inquiry did not involve Russia or the Steele memos; it had nothing to do with me or my limited interaction with Baker."
And one former federal official who said he has been interviewed by Durham in connection with the Baker probe, Robert Litt, has written that the inquiry has nothing to do with the Steele dossier.
Contacted by RealClearInvestigations, Levin said, "Mr. Baker did not make an unauthorized disclosure of classified information and we are confident the investigation will conclude that."
This article was republished with full permission.
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Historic church shows its age
Jul 6, 2009 at 12:01 AM Sep 10, 2014 at 12:21 PM
PETERSBURG - The Washington Street Methodist Church has weathered much since its dedication in 1842, but now the church is in trouble. A dwindling congregation and extensive repairs face the historic downtown landmark.
Pastor Emeritus Grover Jenkins said
Pastor Emeritus Grover Jenkins said that both the interior and exterior of the building need renovations and repair, and the church is in need of donations to fund the projects. The low bid on the exterior project alone is $99,000; it would cost about the same to complete the interior, Jenkins said.
"I'd say to date we've in the neighborhood of $23,000," said Jenkins. "The Titmus Foundation gave us something and church people do, but the foundations have been kind of slow to let us know anything."
Among the needed repairs are exterior power washing and painting to all three sections of the building, as well as painting of the roof to prevent water leaks. Also, according to Jenkins, the guttering around the whole building needs to be replaced, along with 13 exterior windows.
Exterior renovations are expected to take about a year to complete once the work has begun.
Inside, painting needs to be done, along with repairs to the ceiling, which has been damaged by roof leaks throughout the building.
The Rev. Jack Martin, Petersburg district superintendent for the United Methodist Church, said that the Washington Street Methodist Church is an historic building but that due to its large size and small congregation, raising funds for the project can be difficult.
"Its a challenge, I'll just have to be honest with you," said Martin.
Jenkins said that at one point he was used to seeing the church's sanctuary full, but the congregation is down to 40 to 60 members.
Registered as a Virginia Historic Landmark in 1980, and listed in 1981 on the National Register of Historic Places, the church has been recognized for its rich history. Washington Street Methodist Church is one of five churches in the city of Petersburg on the state and national registers.
The center building of the church was used as a Confederate hospital during the Civil War. Church ministries were provided to Petersburg during World War I and the church served as a blood center for donation to U.S. armed forces during World War II.
Both the east and west wings of the church were added in 1922-23. The west wing houses administrative offices and schools, while the east wing holds two museums which contain historic inventories collected in the 1970s that span over 200 years.
Although the church's congregation is not what it once was, it still maintains a variety of community ministries, such as Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous, as well as a soup kitchen every Tuesday to feed the homeless.
Martin said that the church is always looking for new ways to serve the community, and that due to the beauty of the facility he is hoping that the Washington Street church could potentially be a center for these activities.
Martin is also hoping that the city of Petersburg may have some interest in preserving the church and that they will continue to search for funds locally to move forward with the repairs.
The church held a bake sale and flea market on June 13 in order to raise funds for the renovations, and is asking the public for monetary contributions.


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La filamina A (FLNA) es una proteína codificada en humanos por el gen FLNA.

La filamina A, o proteína de unión a actina, es una proteína de 280 kDa que entrecruza los filamentos de actina en redes ortogonales en citoplasma cortical y participa en el anclaje de proteínas de membrana a través del citoesqueleto de actina. La remodelación del citoesqueleto es crucial para la modulación de la forma celular y la migración. La filamina A es una proteína ampliamente expresada que regula la organización del citoesqueleto de actina mediante interacción con integrinas, complejos de receptores transmembrana y segundos mensajeros.

Interacciones
La filamina A ha demostrado ser capaz de interaccionar con:
 FILIP1
 RALA
 FBLIM1
 FLNB
 Receptor sensor de calcio
 TRIO
 SH2B3
 NPHP1
 BRCA2
 CD29
 Supresor tumoral Von Hippel-Lindau

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 GeneReview/NCBI/NIH/UW entry on Otopalatodigital Spectrum Disorders

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Learning Laboratory: Leaves, Leaves, Leaves!
Autumn is here, and this means it is time to enjoy the fall leaves! Fall leaves make a wonderful sensory experience for children.
The soft stems and delicate leaves of our Japanese Maple make beautifully soft leaf piles, and my kids had a blast in their new sensory playground!
And style fashionable hair accessories!
Science! By playing in the leaves, kids get the chance to really explore how autumn leaves are different from spring and summer leaves. They also quickly learn about insulation as they discover that they stay much warmer under a pile of leaves.
Do you have a favorite autumn leaf themed book we should read? Come share on my Facebook page!
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Oh, I'm so jealous!!! No leaf piles like that in our yard!
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The kids look adorable as always and look like they are having a blast!
Your Japanese maple must be huge compared to ours to have that big pile of leaves. It's my favorite tree. So pretty.
Lovely pictures! I love leaf piles!
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So fun! And yes, a sensory playground!
We did yesterday as well, and it was so much fun. This time of the year is so beautiful, and it's even better when one can look at all the beauty with child's eyes.
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What a beautiful tree to have. You really do have the perfect sensory playground. So much fun and laughter to be had in that pile of leaves.
@Elise – I LOVE our tree, and yes, we are very blessed to have such a wonderful yard!
@Natalie – Yes, seeing things through a child's eyes makes it all the more beautiful, doesn't it!
@Susana – Ours is quite large, for a Japanese Maple. I LOVE this tree, I think it is the most beautiful tree in the world!
We have a tree in our front yard that drops lots of leaves, but they're not the "piling" type of leaves. Weird. Great pictures!
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So fun!! And your kids are gorgeous and bundly, too. Love it!
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So much fun!! One of my most cherished childhood memories is playing in leaves. Beautiful photos!!
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How fun! Abby enjoyed helping Dave rake the leaves this weekend too! We back to woods, so there were plenty!


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Gattaca • Michael Nyman
09 May 2009 / Comments Off	/ in Classics: Music/by Christopher Bryant
Gattaca ★★★★★
54:55 min • Virgin Records America • October 21st, 1997
The film Gattaca, written and directed by Andrew Niccol, was released in 1997. It is a dystopian science fiction, or speculative fiction, about a society in which an individual's future is dictated by eugenics, and by an assessment of a person's genetically determined potential. A person who is born without the aid of the technology is classified as an in-valid, which is the status of Vincent (Ethan Hawke), who borrows the identity of Eugene Morrow (Jude Law) to gain entry into the Gattaca space program. The plot turns on the murder of the Mission Director, the discovery of one of Vincent's eyelashes within the complex, and the resulting manhunt.
The soundtrack for Gattaca was composed by Michael Nyman. It is a minimalist work of composition that is an aural rendering of the film's tone. The London born Nyman is primarily a classical composer who has scored soundtracks predominantly for European art house cinema. His work with Peter Greenaway on such films as The Draughtman's Contract (1982), The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989) is amongst his most striking. It was his soundtrack for Jane Campion's The Piano (1993) that increased Nyman's popularity. For it he won an Ivor Novello Award, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA and an American Film Institute award. In the same year he reworked the soundtrack into a coherent and more complex whole in The Piano Concerto.
In Gattaca, one of only a few soundtracks he has scored for a Hollywood production, Nyman's compositions are a musical rendering of its subject. It is not the music that creates the tension, or manipulates the audience into a state of heightened emotion, but the drama. The soundtrack works so closely with the subject that it is almost indistinguishable from it. The result bolsters the strength of a visually and thematically coherent film, and this is to Nyman's credit. When it is separated from the film, nevertheless, is as beautiful and haunting as it is in context.
From the opening bars of 'The Morrow' the message is clear. The deep, almost ominous pulsing of the double bass is overlain with the melancholic strings that carry the signature tune and strain against its underlying weight. It is through this signature theme that the weight of Vincent's struggle is realised. It has a quiet beauty that reinforces the message of the drama. The track 'God's Hands', which accompanies the flashback to Vincent's conception as a Faith Birth, borne from love, carries this musical message without the weight, without the strain. The result serves to inform the emotion in the soundtrack to his current life, which is one that pushes against the constraints of a genetically predetermined fate. The struggle is to be free of the limitations imposed by a fate determined by the laws of genetic probability.
Whilst it is not the most musically diverse of Nyman's soundtracks – The Piano; The Draughtman's Contract; The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover: all three are that – it is certainly not "utterly boring" as the review on allmusic.com proclaims, or "highly monotonous" as the moviestore.net review concludes. One would have be either tonally deaf or in need of a constant stimulation, almost like a child, to reach such banal conclusions. Nyman's Gattaca is a focussed and consistent work of minimalist composing that does not stray from the message.
Gattaca the film certainly has its flaws. The competition between the in-valid Vincent and his valid younger brother Anton is a device that is straight out of Robert McKee's Story and reads as a calculated move to throw a switch inside the movie executives head that registers with a green light. Nyman manages to reign this in by providing an aural consistency and focussing on the message, which is all about Vincent's determination. "There is no gene for the human spirit": this is the tagline for Gattaca. It is what makes the film as a whole greater than the sum of its parts. It is about aspiration pushing against the weight of circumstance. Nyman is always on point with his accomplished soundtrack.
Tags: andrew niccol, ethan hawke, gattaca, gore vidal, jude law, michael nyman, piano
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What Backlash? Lana del Rey Scores the Cover of Vogue UK While Her Album Is Universally Panned
While just about every non-fashion blog post about Lana del Rey in the past month suggests a backlash; the singer, whose debut album came out Tuesda
While just about every non-fashion blog post about Lana del Rey in the past month suggests a backlash; the singer, whose debut album came out Tuesday, continues to ascend the fashion ranks. Case in point: here she is on the cover of British Vogue wearing Louis Vuitton. And not just any issue. She covers March, spring's equivalent to the September issue. And perhaps fashion's equivalent to her SNL performance, which many critics say she did too soon. Luckily, she doesn't have to sing on a magazine cover.
Vulture recently tracked Lana del Rey's backlash, from her birth to her smaller-lipped life as Lizzy Grant to the debut of Born to Die. Overall, critics haven't been impressed and the album's response has been a continuation of her widely panned SNL performance. Some quotes from reviews:
"But the whole thing is just a godawful mess." --Stereogum
""Born to Die" doesn't solve Ms. Del Rey's problems because it isn't aware of them; it's a multiple choice test with every answer scanned "C." --New York Times
"In an album full of sultry Lolitas practically begging to be abused, there's even a song called "Lolita." If that all sounds like a recipe for some campy fun, it isn't." --Chicago Tribune
Still, the fashion world's love for her won't die. Although many Fashion Spot commenters thought this Vogue cover was boring, they were more critical of Vogue than del Rey, who we know is capable of more interesting photographs.
Though, the album has apparently made it to number one on iTunes in 14 countries, so maybe all press is good press? Del Rey, who is signed to Next, told Rolling Stone of her SNL performance, "I thought I looked beautiful and sang fine." So, which, between looking beautiful and singing well, style vs. substance, is really more important?
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Shell accused of 'greenwashing its harmful activities' following partnership with British Cycling
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CNN, KXAN By George Ramsay, CNN British Cycling is facing criticism from environmental campaign groups after signing a long-term partnership deal with Shell. The partnership,…
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By George Ramsay, CNN
British Cycling is facing criticism from environmental campaign groups after signing a long-term partnership deal with Shell.
The partnership, which was announced on Monday and runs until the end of 2030, will help by "accelerating British Cycling's path to net zero," according to a press release from the governing body.
But environmental groups have condemned the move as an attempt by Shell to "greenwash its harmful activities."
Newsom to call special legislative session over gas pri…
Mail-in ballots officially sent out to registered voter… "The idea of Shell helping British Cycling reach net zero is as absurd as beef farmers advising lettuce farmers on how to go vegan," said Greenpeace UK policy director Doug Parr.Shell has been accused of failing to adequately prepare for the global shift to a low-carbon economy, and last month, a report from an energy and climate think-tank found that the amount of climate-positive messaging used by major oil and gas companies, including Shell, is inconsistent with their spending on low-carbon activities.Responding to the report, Shell said it plans to spend 12% of its capital expenses on renewable energy this year, up from 10% in 2021."Cycling is the epitome of environmentally friendly travel," said a statement from Friends of the Earth."It's deeply disappointing that [British] Cycling could think it's appropriate to partner with a fossil fuel giant. Shell is continuing to invest billions in oil and gas projects, while using cynical PR initiatives like this partnership to attempt to greenwash […]
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