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More and More Doctors Warning Against COVID Shots
by Seth Hancock
in Current Events, Healthcare, Opinion
Charlotte, NC — The Hippocratic Oath asks doctors to pledge "to do good or to do no harm," often simplified to: "First, do no harm."
For the American medical bureaucracy and pharmaceutical industry, their oath is likely "first, make profit" as more doctors, especially those that actually treat patients, are issuing warnings on the COVID-19 vaccines and are exposing the strong profit motives involved for the government-corporate alliance.
The latest number by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), through the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), is reporting 3,848 deaths and 118,902 adverse reactions to the injections through April 23. VAERS is now reporting deaths among children, including a five-month-old who was breastfed by a mother who was vaccinated as well as several teenagers.
What should be noted is all of the COVID-19 shots are experimental as they have only been given emergency authorization from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the same FDA by the way that Judicial Watch has exposed for purchasing body parts of aborted babies specified to be killed within the first six months of pregnancy and "fresh and never frozen."
Dr. Peter McCullough is one of the leading experts on COVID-19 treatments. He was the lead author of a study, published in the American Journal of Medicine last August, which has been cited over 600 times making him the most cited doctor by the National Library of Medicine regarding treatments.
McCullough has actually treated patients successful with medications that have long been approved to treat other viruses and diseases. The problem is, how can the government and corporations profit off drugs they don't hold patents for? That's why, according the McCullough, the propaganda of a vaccine being the savior has been pushed from the very start of the COVID-19 tyranny.
"So, the U.S. government has made a decision, along with the stakeholders – the CDC, NIH[National Institutes of Health], FDA, Big Pharma, World Health Organization, Gates Foundation – they have made a commitment to mass vaccination as the solution to the COVID pandemic and we are really going to be witness to what's going to happen in history," McCullough said in an interview. "We're sitting on, right now, the biggest number of vaccine deaths, there's been tens of thousands of hospitalizations, all attributable to the vaccine, and going strong."
McCullough added: "A lot of Americans don't understand how tight these stakeholders are. Keep in mind the NIH is a co-owner of the Moderna patent, so they have a vested financial interest in keeping these vaccines going."
Typically, a new drug receives a "black-box warning," McCullough said, when there are five deaths associated with it, and its pulled from the market after 50 deaths. In a usual year, VAERS reports 20-30 deaths to the flu shot. In the media-hyped pandemic that never materialized from the Swine Flu in 1976, there were 25 deaths reported from a rushed vaccine which led to the government removing that shot from the market.
As for the COVID-19 jabs, McCullough said "it's unprecedented how many deaths have accrued," and that's based on the unreliable numbers from the CDC. Studies in the past, including one from Harvard University, have estimated only 1 to 10 percent of vaccine deaths are ever reported. If that holds true for the COVID-19 shots, the deaths are at least in the tens of thousands if not the hundreds of thousands.
McCullough described a coverup and whitewashing from the medical bureaucrats who have never treated a patient, like career-bureaucrat Anthony Fauci, with help from the media.
"There is a Trusted News Initiative which is very important for Americans to understand," McCullough said. "This was announced Dec. 10, and this is a coalition of all the major media and government stakeholders in vaccination where they are not going to allow any negative information about vaccines to get into the popular media because they're concerned about vaccine hesitancy, that if Americans got any type of fair, balanced coverage on safety events then they simply would not come forward and get the vaccine."
McCullough has been censored as a doctor who not only treated COVID-19 patients but also had the virus and survived himself, but the government-approved opinions continue to be foisted to the top. McCullough testified to both the U.S. Senate as well as a Texas State Senate Health and Human Service Committee last November, and he said: "There's not a single media doctor on TV who has ever treated a COVID Patient. Not a single one. There's not a single person in the White House Task Force who has ever treated a patient."
Many other doctors have issued warnings including Dr. Charles Hoffe, of Canada, who defied a gag order to speak out.
A nurse in the United Kingdom described the vaccination push as a "genocide," and a senior member of the UK's National Health Services board agreed.
"If I had a magic wand, it would just stop. It would stop now, before we hurt anybody else. That would be amazing," the board member said. "That would be the best day ever, because every day I wake up, I think about how I can find that golden nugget to try and wake up the people around me to the damage we are causing."
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Q: A* pathfinding with nodes priority I'm trying to look for the shortest path in a maze with specific starting & ending points, the maze is built as a 2D table (rows and columns) when in some cells in the table you can't go through ("walls"),
so far so good and the A* algorithm works fine, the problem starts when specific cells have a better 'weight' then others..
for example, take 3*3 maze:

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*starting point 1*1

*ending point 3*3

*the cell at 1*3 has a better weight from the others, which means if eventually you have equals routs, you better go through this cell

so by the A* it won't even get the 1*3 cell to understand that it has a better weight!
is there a solution to that issue?
thanks!

A: Create the graph representing your maze G=(V,E).
Create a new weighted graph with a weight function for the edges in the graph:
w(u,v) = 1                if v is "not important"
         1-1/(n+1)        if v is important.
(n is the total number of vertices/cells in your maze).

Now, note that a path that is travelling through v is 'better' (shorter) than a path that does not travel through it, but still shorter (in distance) paths are always favored.
You can use A* now with a modified heuristic function:
h'(v) = h(v)*[1-1/(n+1)]  [where h(v) is the original admissible heuristic you had]

Note: Ignore the comments, Dijsktra's Algorithm is inferior to A* if you have an admissible heuristic function, and it seems like you do.

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Tag Archives: Heidelberg
HEIDELBERG (John Bartholomew, 1931)
This is a map that represents Heidelberg, an university town in Baden-Wüttemberg situated on the river Neckar, in south-west of Germany. The map represents the city in 1931 and was made by John Bartholomew & Son, a map publishing company originally based in Edinburgh, Scotland and specialized in the use of hypsometric colouring in relief maps. The company was established in 1826 by John Bartholomew. This image I took it from Alamy's library.
We can appreciate that the map represents the urban layout of Heidelberg and it allows us to identify the main elements of the city, such as the Castle, the University, the Market Square, the Neckar river, etc. Also this map allows us to see the relief and the most important mountains that surround Heidelberg.
The city is located is in the Rhine Rift Valley, on the left bank of the lower part of the Neckar in a step valley in the Odenwald. It is bordered by the Königsstuhl (568 meters) and the Gaisberg (375 meters) mountains. On the right bank of the river, the Heiligenberg mountain rises to a height of 445 meters. Because of its relief and that is in a valley is one of the warmest regions of Germany and plants atypical of the central-European climate flourish there, including almond and fig trees. Heidelberg has an oceanic climate, defined by the protected valley between the Pfälzerwald and the Odenwald. Year-round, the mild temperatures are determined by maritime air masses coming from the west and its position in the valley leads to more frequent easterly winds than average. The hillsides of the Odenwald favor clouding and precipitation. The warmest month is July and the coldest January. The geographical situation in which it is located, the good temperatures during summer and spring and the abundant rainfall provide a rich environment for flora and fauna. As well as being in a valley and near a river and good temperatures makes the population to be abundant, but being surrounded by mountains does not allow an excessive growth of the city.
About the urban planification and structure we can apreciate that the shape of the town is linear and it grows along the river. The oldest buildings as the University, the Jesuit Church, the Market square and the Holy Spirit Church are in the historical center of the city. The only important buildings that are moved away are the castle or Schloss and the train station. In the plan we can observe that in the University area we have there is a regular expansion similar to an «ensanche». On the other hand, near the Castle the urban layout is irregular and is probably one of the oldest parts in the city. All the streets around the train station present an irregular plan with very narrow streets. This probably corresponds to the working class neighborhood that were near the station to have a job closer. More beyond we can see a natural boundary that is the river. It divides the city and can be crossed only by two bridges. Behind this part we can see two neighborhoods; one called Neuenheim and the other one called Handschuhsheim. The first one presents a regular plan with wide streets so it will be probably a second "ensanche" created for rich people that looks for a relaxing place to live. The Handschuhsheim neighborhood could be considered to be at the perifery of the city and it presents an irregular layout with narrow streets.
Heidelberg is a city founded on the ruins of ancient Celtic populations, which in the 9th century were already outside that area of Germany. In the year 863 the monastery of San Miguel was founded within the walled Celtic fortress that today corresponds to the city center. From here, Heidelberg begins to gain in importance. The splendor of the city comes when the Hohoenstaufen family took care of the castle.
But the most important fact that made Heidelberg famous was the construction in 1386 of the university. It was founded by Ruperto I that was the Elector of the Palatinate, and is the oldest and one of the most reputable universities of Germany. The role of the university in the Humanism and in the Lutheran and Calvinist reforms meant that Heidelberg became a very important center of knowledge and culture. During the Middle Ages and the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Heidelberg remained a very important city within Germany, hosting various meetings or peace signatures, such as the Holy Alliance in the year 1815. Nowadays Heidelberg is famous and important because it University and the rich of his historic center.
With all this information we can conclude that Heidelberg is a city with many differences comparing to the rest of Germany because it has a different climate and warmer thanks to be in the valley of the river Neckar and surrounded by mountains. In addition, it has a huge importance since it was a cultural and university city that turned it into a tourist attraction nowadays. Its main activities over the centuries are arts and literature and this is why it was designated as the «City of Literature» by the UNESCO Creative Cities Network.
Marta Couso Rodríguez
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WASHINGTON, Feb 20 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to visit Japan in May to meet with the country's new emperor and then return in June for a G20 gathering, a White House official.
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If you are traveling to Japan on business then a formal, conservative trouser or. Summer (June, July, August) gets very hot and humid, so lightweight natural.
Learn the best and worst time to visit Japan this year including tips on the cheapest time to travel. Rainy season typically runs from early June to mid-July throughout most of the country.
U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to visit Japan in May to meet with the country's new emperor and then return in June for a G20 gathering, a White House official said on Wednesday after a phone.
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to visit Japan in June, Japan's foreign minister said on Monday during a trip to Moscow. Taro Kono, the minister, was speaking ahead of.
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I have read extensively on different times to travel to Japan, the pluses and minuses of each month, etc., particularly on websites like www.japan-guide.com. My girlfriend and I might be going to Japan in June of 2012 (yes, it's a long way off, but we're excited enough to start looking into it!).
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North Norfolk Railway Spring Steam Gala 2017
On the 22nd April, I visited the North Norfolk Railway for the Spring Steam Gala. An intensive service was in operation, and saw six steam locomotives operating. Visiting locomotives were LMS Stanier 8F, No. 48624, 2-8-0 from the Great Central Railway, and 56xx GWR 0-6-2T, 5643, visiting from the Embsay & Bolton Abbey Railway, and owned…
20/06/2017 in 1306mayflower, North Norfolk, Uncategorized.
North Yorkshire Moors Railway – April 2017
On the fourth of April, I visited the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. It has been at least five years since my previous visit.One of the big changes was the addition of the roof over the station at Pickering. The magnificent roof structure is of the same design as the original, built in 1847 by G T…
21/04/2017 in 1306mayflower, North Yorkshire Moors, Real Locomotives, Region - North / Eastern, Uncategorized.
M&GN Joint Railway Society Members Day at the North Norfolk Railway 2016
On the 1st October, the North Norfolk Railway held the annual Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway Society Members Day. All of the society's locomotives were operational, B12 8572, Y14 564, Wissington, and Class 31, D5631, alongside class 37 D6732. Each of the locomotives, apart from the 37 were available at different times of the…
09/10/2016 in 1306mayflower, North Norfolk, Region - North / Eastern, Uncategorized.
Blackpool Tramway September 2016
From the 5th to the 8th September, I visited Blackpool for the world famous tramway and illuminations, which can be seen in the video above. Below is Balloon 711, which has been fitted with central platform doors, to work on the upgraded tramway, which now operates modern trams. Having a ride in a retrofitted…
19/09/2016 in 1306mayflower, Uncategorized.
North Norfolk Railway Autumn Steam Gala 2016
From Friday 2nd to Sunday 4th September, the North Norfolk Railway held their Autumn Steam Gala, which proved to be an excellent event.The visiting locomotives were S&DJR Class 7F, No. 53809, 2-8-0 – Courtesy of 13809 Preservation Society ltd, LMS Ivatt Class 2, No. 46521, 2-6-0 – Courtesy of Great Central Railway & LSLG and LMS Stanier…
Mid Hants Railway (Watercress Line) August 2016
On the 22nd August, I visited the Mid Hants Railway, which was my first time visiting the line, despite the links the railway has to the website. Starting at Alresford Station, which has been beautifully restored, and is a fantastic gateway to the Watercress Line.The two locomotives that were in operation were 925 – SR Schools…
17/09/2016 in 1306mayflower, Uncategorized, Watercress Line.
Calico Railroad at Knott's Berry Farm – Another American Adventure Part 8
On Thursday 14th July, I visited Knott's Berry Farm, a theme park at Buena Park in California. While it is known for massive rollercoasters, one of the original attractions, the Calico Railroad is steeped in history. The park's founder, Walter Knott, began acquiring the authentic vintage equipment in 1951 and work began to grade and lay…
Jamestown Railtown 1897 State Historic Park – Another American Adventure Part 6
On the 2nd July, I visited the Jamestown Railtown, 1897, which has been the location where many movies have been filmed, notably, Back to the Future 3. Last October, I wrote an article on Back To The Future Day, the 30th anniversary of the release of the first film, when I discussed where the locomotive…
San Francisco Municipal Railway – Another American Adventure Part 5
On the 27th June I arrived in San Francisco, where the famous Cable Cars operate. However, there is more historical transportation that operates in the city, such as the Streetcars, also knowns as trams. Operated by Muni, they travel along the Embarcadero and Market Street. They are a fantastic alternative to the regular transport options…
Virginia & Truckee Railroad – Another American Adventure Part 3
On the 25th June, I visited the Virginia & Truckee Railroad, that runs from Carson City to the famous Virginia City. The depot as can be seen in the picture below, is in the middle of nowhere, right on the outskirts of Carson City. Despite this, the car park was full of people and…


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Co-Investigators and Staff
Challenges and Opportunities in Rural HIV Health
Building Bridges Study
Research / Linkages
CANOC - UK CHIC Collaboration
CANOC UK – CHIC
Collaboration Management Team
In September 2013, data from the CANOC collaboration was merged with data from the United Kingdom Collaborative HIV Cohort (UK CHIC) Study, providing a unique collaborative research opportunity.
The UK CHIC study is a collaborative cohort of 19 participating HIV centres in England and Scotland, established in 2001 to conduct surveillance and evaluate treatment uptake and clinical outcomes of HIV-positive individuals accessing care in the UK. The UK CHIC study includes over 45,000 participants aged over 16 years, who have received HIV care at one of the collaborating centres from 1996 onwards.
The CANOC – UK CHIC Collaboration seeks to evaluate the differences in demographic profiles, healthcare provision and clinical outcomes for individuals living with HIV and accessing care in Canada and the UK.
Data collected as part of this Collaboration include:
Demographic information (sex, age, HIV risk factors, ethnicity, country of birth)
Clinical information (date of death, year of entry into care, hepatitis C co-infection, AIDS-defining illnesses: type, date of diagnosis)
Laboratory tests (CD4 count, date of CD4 count, viral load measurement, assay type, date of viral load measurement, ART resistance testing)
Antiretroviral drug use (type, start date, stop date)
Robert Hogg (CANOC PI), Caroline Sabin (UK CHIC PI), Hasina Samji (Collaboration Coordinator), Sophie Jose (UK CHIC Biostatistician), Sophie Patterson (CANOC Research Assistant)
S Jose, K Chan, H Samji et al. A comparison of virologic outcomes among HIV-positive individuals receiving HAART in Canada and the UK. Poster presentation, presented by S Jose at the British HIV Association Conference, Liverpool, England. 1-4 April 2014.
S Patterson, H Samji, K Chan et al. CANOC- UK CHIC Collaboration. Mortality among ART recipients; a comparison between patients in the United Kingdom and Canada. Poster presentation, presented by H Samji at the 23rd annual conference of The Canadian Association for HIV Research (CAHR), St John's, Newfoundland, May 1-4 2014
A tale of two countries: all-cause mortality among people living with HIV and receiving combination antiretroviral therapy in the UK and Canada
Journal: HIV Medicine, 2017
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For more information about the UK CHIC Study, please see the UK CHIC website: http://www.ukchic.org.uk
CHIWOS
Cohort Description
Study Objectives
The Canadian HIV Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health Cohort Study, or CHIWOS, is a multi-site, interdisciplinary, community-collaborative cohort study, enrolling over 1,400 women liven with HIV in British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec. The overall study aims to understand whether and how women-centered HIV care may improve health outcomes for women living with HIV in Canada. CHIWOS is committed to the principles of GIPA (Greater Involvement of People Living with HIV/AIDS) and MIWA (Meaningful Involvement of Women Living with HIV/AIDS), and involves HIV-positive women in all stages of the research process, from conceptualization and study design, to survey development, to implementation and analysis.
CHIWOS and CANOC plan to link the robust CANOC clinical data with key socio-behavioural variables collected by CHIWOS to facilitate detailed study into the health of women living with HIV in Canada.
For more information on CHIWOS, please visit: http://www.chiwos.ca
Assess the proportion, distribution and patterns of use and uptake of women-specific HIV/AIDS services, and factors associated with service uptake among HIV-positive women living in Canada.
Estimate the effect of women-specific HIV/AIDS services uptake on the sexual and reproductive and mental health outcomes and women's health outcomes and screening of women living with HIV in Canada.
Data collected by this multi-site cohort study include:
Demographic information (age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, country of birth)
Socio-economic information (education, income)
Clinical information (co-morbidities, CD4 count, viral load, ARV use)
Health care and support service access/use
Experiences with stigma, discrimination, violence, and abuse
The Comparison of Outcomes and Service Utilization Trends (COAST) study is an initiative of the Epidemiology and Population Health program at the BC-CfE. It is a population-based retrospective study comprising three defined cohorts including de-identified health-related data from the BC-CfE and Population Data BC. The three defined COAST cohorts are: HIV-positive individuals ever on anti-retroviral therapy (ART), HIV-positive individuals never on ART, and a random sample of adults drawn from the general BC population. The data obtained is from the period April 1, 1996 – March 31 2013.
There is limited understanding regarding the impact of long-term ART use on aging, future patterns of morbidity and mortality, and how this will affect health resources among HIV-positive individuals. A unique aspect of the COAST study is the comparison over time of health outcomes and resource utilization between HIV-positive individuals and the general population.
The COAST study aims to:
Evaluate determinants of health outcomes and health care services utilization among HIV-positive adults in the ART era in British Columbia, Canada.
Assess how these may differ from those observed in a random sample of the general population of BC.
Click to download the data analysis request form for COAST: COAST Data Request Form
Individuals interested in pursuing analyses with COAST should contact the study coordinator Oghenowede Eyawo at oeyawo@cfenet.ubc.ca for more information.
Changes in mortality rates and causes of death in a population-based cohort of persons living with and without HIV from 1996 to 2012.
Journal: BMC Infect Dis, 2017
Factors associated with mood disorder diagnosis among a population based cohort of men and women living with and without HIV in British Columbia between 1998 and 2012.
Journal: AIDS and Behavior, 2017
Health-adjusted life expectancy in HIV-positive and HIV-negative men and women in British Columbia, Canada: a population-based observational cohort study.
Journal: Lancet HIV, 2017
Rates and predictors of injury in a population-based cohort of people living with HIV: trends and disparities from 1996 to 2013.
Journal: AIDS, 2016
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Farmer's suicides seem unabated, they continue!
Yet, no systematic response is in sight!
It is easy to blame the government for many of the ills of governance. The Prime Minister is blamed routinely for many of the ills and lack of governance in some critical areas. Farmers' continued suicides are not in this category.
Farmers constitute the most weakest part of the Indian economic growth story in the present stage of economic development.
Farm credit has surged from Rs.1 lakh crores in the 2000s to nearly 8.5 lakh crores in 2015-16.
Given the size of the farmers population, also considering that 60 per cent of the Indian people are still dependent upon agriculture for their living, is it too much at all?
We request Mr.Modi, the Prime Minister, to make a drastic change in the unbalanced share of loans in the urban-rural divide!
All recognised farmers, big and small and all recognised farmers must have direct access to bank funds.
That makes Mr.Modi a living god to the millions of farmers who are now subjected to untold oppressions and suppressions.
And the Prime Minister rightly puts his emphasis on development and we at the Vadamalai Media believe in constructive approach even when we want to point out what needs to be done and what can be done in a sector like agriculture.
We feel that the government must think in a systematic manner. There present state of agricultural credit, farm loans directly to farmers is not in keeping with the trends in direct transfer of funds to the weaker sections, to the last man.
There are enough statistics with the government to show that only 13.5 per cent of the farm credit directly goes to the farmers.
This, by any stretch of imagination is far from satisfactory. Also, there is statistics to show that with the farmers heavily in debt, the proportion of debt with the private money lenders is very high, 44 per cent of the debts with the rural households is from the private money lenders.
This needs to be brought down. Also 40 per cent of the farm loans in Maharashtra are disbursed from the urban and metropolitan branches of the banks. It should be obvious to anyone's common sense that this category of "farmers" are really urban borrowers, mostly non-farmers and also the loans are for non-farming activities only. And these loans are advanced in summer months and not even during the kharif and rabi seasons!
One can go on and on with this sort of highly unsatisfactory state of affairs in the rural set-up. What can be done?
Surely, the government must make fresh surveys wherever they want and they must ascertain the actual number of small and marginal farmers and make a new policy to directly transfer loans to the would be beneficiaries.
And, please look at the functioning of old institutions like the Nabard and also the newly created and we suspect, on-functioning Agricultural Insurance Corporation. Make them all functional.
When there is a rush to start so many insurance companies in the private sector, why not invite some foreign or domestic PSU insurance companies to partner with the agricultural insurance.
Any among of funds allotted to this agri insurance would be a great public service and public investment.
Please take time off, we say to the prime minister, and devote some time, quality time, as they say, to the woes of the rural distress.
Farming is a challenging activity anywhere these days, be it the USA and Europe.
Just now, we read in the London Financial Times that even in France where there has been a bumper wheat harvest and yet, prices fell and the farmers, owning as much as 250 acres (which is small farm there!), is in distress.
That is why in the USA and EU farm subsidies are very hefty payouts!
In India, with all our tall talk, we are depriving our farmers.
At any time in history, it is food production that saves a nation. Indian history is no exception.
So, we say to the government, don't neglect farmers, rural India where we will have always the very foundations of a strong agricultural prosperity.
Will there be villages in the future?
Who can give an answer?
There are always either doom stories or boom stories!
When it comes to our villages!
Indian villages would thrive as ever as anyone can look into the future.
Villages have lived in all developed countries. In UK, the glories of the countryside is celebrated. There are any number of legends and folklore!
So too in the continental Europe. Go to any country, Germany or France. There are strong rural communities. There is a strong agricultural base in these countries. So too in other developed countries.
As for the big countries, big geographies, there is no doubt that villages are still their strengths. Russia, China or Japan.
In India, it is an ancient country. Our history is long.
So too our rural side. What is now the critical question is how we look at our rural India. What will be the look, its ethos in the future? Both the short and long-term future?
Surely, the three areas we like to concentrate here are: the village economy. The rural land holding. Second, the rural administration. The Panchayat Raj system.
Third, the rural society, the castes groups, the political formations, and the way the rural society would evolve. As for the rural economy, rural wealth and wealth holding. There will always be the landownership pattern.
After 1799, after Tipu Sultan was defeated, killed in the Sri Rangapattanam battle, the land ownership in the South passed on to British administration. The Ryotwari system created direct link with the government and the peasants.
Today to, the very same system persists, though the extent of land ownership had drastically changed from big landowners to small, marginal land holders.
There is now no legally described big land owners. But there are now a net set of realities that make us to see the emergence of big land owners, who emerged as land grabbers, land buyers, the real estate market today makes any rational discussion of this extremely sensitive and complex subject very tentative and also very secretive.
Certain realities can't be discussed so openly. The point is there is always in the rural economy a great deal of inequality and also inequity, if you so desire, in the ownership of landed property.
In every village there are only one or two big land owners. Call them by any name you fancy, they are land lords, or big land holders or land owners by so many descriptions.
This unreality of land ownership today has come about through populist politics. There are also as many laws pertaining to the holding of landed property. You ask any land owners, big or small; you can't get an exact answer to the extent of land he or she owns!
Also, there is the reality that there is a great deal of inequality in the rural society, old or new.
That is as it is. Once you conceded or recognise the existence of big land owners you have to admit there is bound to be inequality. With inequality comes also the question of inequity.
This is only for politicians to discuss and debate. Politicians these days typically are hypocrites. They, the practising politicians are themselves are money makers by dubious means and one way of holding their wealth is to buy land or better still grab others lands though illegal means.
That is how the land grab has become a hot property in states like TN and elsewhere. May be in every state of India!
So, the future of villages, as they are today will continue to be an unequal society.
But to the surprise of many, rural society has always lived in this unequal society, learnt to exist as a cohesive society, in fact, to the point of like a family unit. The villages are like joint families. This, in our view, is the greatest strength and foundation of a village society.
There is much justice, truth and honesty in the lives of village people, unlike in the anonymous urban societies.
In the cities you often don't know your next door neighbour for years together!
But villages are different. Of course there are now changes here too. Villages are changing. There are urban migration. There are new faces coming into the villages. So, there will still be the rural .highly closely knit rural societies.
So, what is the future of landownership like we must opt for?
In our view we have to encourage having some big land owners to live in the villages. That way the villages acquire some character, some value system, there will be the comfort level for other castes, other lesser economically viable professions like dhobis, other professions like rural farm labour and other unnamed castes and their traditional professions. The rituals and ceremonies during birth and death and other such occasions, the very fundamental reality of the Sanskrisation of society has to be given a life of its own.
Who are you, be a politician or a reformer to change this tradition?
No one has any right over others. The Indian society would thrive only on some such foundational values. It is tradition, history and social beliefs and convictions, religion, tradition and what have you.
Such forces only would shape Indian villages and their future stability and more so their sustainability!
Then, the newly created Panchayat raj. It is okay so far. But it needs much more radical changes and reforms.In short, let us follow some states like Karnataka where the panchayat raj was given a serious try by Ramakrishna Hegde and it needs further democratisation in decision making at the district and grass roots level.
The third component. Rural development. Land acquisition etc.
Here too we need some deep thinking and new policies to help the rural, district level life more meaningful and more democratic and more freedoms in decision making.
Now it is still an inspector's raj!
It is still an autocratic rule. All this has to change.
We invite a debate afresh on these very sensitive and critical questions of the future of the Indian villages.
Where is rural India? It now merges with the urban India!
The greatest rural transformation is taking place now!
Increasingly, urban impact, urban opinion might swing opinion in the rest of India?
It is said that the distance between the town and the countryside is narrowing. And narrowing faster these days.
The Up riots at Muzzaffarnagar soon spread to the countryside and it was all in the rural areas. There is now enough to show that half the village households work in non-agriculture occupations. So, what happens in the urban areas, say for riots, and now spread as fast as in the urban centres. At Independence agriculture was in 60 per cent of the GDP, now it is barely 14%!
More than 58% of the net domestic product is from the non-agricultural sector. There are lately many new facets to the rural urban divide, if there is a divide anymore at all. Economic changes first, then, poltiical changes too next. So, we seem to be living through a time when the very earth seems to have slipped out of the village world.
With the currently charged political environment where we witness new tensions and communal riots, it is not right to call them even as riots for the riots are associated with certain parties and groups, the future of the rural economy, the future of life in the strictly village environment might take some more dramatic unforeseen shapes and implications.
Not just in the North but also in the South we see more rural areas getting transformed into urban agglomerates, as they are now called.
Why the land acquisition bill? Why the food security bill at all?
There are enough freebies, from colour TV sets to free laptops that the voters have lost count of the number of free schemes available in any state that goes to the polls.
The very face of rural economy, the agri sector are all poised for some radical change. In fact, rural people, agriculturists in particular or small scale medium industries sectors don't bother about these changes at all. Even about agriculture the average agriculturist, doesnt bother.
It is again the urban readers, the urban well-off sections, why, it is really the corporate, the bankers and the industrialist and those engaged in the industries and services, food processing, food exports, imports etc are the ones who are interested in what is happening and what is likely to happen in the agri sector. Who wants crop estimates?
Who wants data about the reservoirs and dams etc?
Not the ordinary citizens. The government, as it is increasingly seen, is least interested in genuine rural institutions, the co-ops and the other government depts. that directly impacts the lives of the average farmers and villagers. How these rapid changes might impact the outlook of the voters, both the rural and urban voters, is everybody's concern.
Here too the old ties, the family and ethnic ties, village ties have all given way to new loyalties and new signs of status and authority, respect and other traditional virtues ad values. Superior and inferior, fairness and unfairness have all changed and new forms have come to engaged the consciousness of the new voter-banks!
Yes, alit parties are as many as they are castes and subcastes. The middle classes, you can't country anymore. Every day you can see new castes coming and claiming new status and new listing in the calendar of the quota politics. TN has the largest quota, 69 per cent. In other states other forms of quota prevail.
21% rural kids go to private schools, mostly to English-medium schools. These families, more aspiring for more dreams, may not be swayed by the food security or land acquisition bills, say observers.
Now it is estimated that nearly 200 Parliamentary constituencies are seen as urban as any.
The There are now more urban areas, more growth in urban centres, less growth, if any, in the rural areas, the next elections might be fought and won(or lost)on the increasingly urban political opinion that swings the rest if India. With the BJP taking a new assertive, even militant stand on a range of very sensitive and controversial issues, what change for peaceful change?
In times of crisis situations a why even bloodshed, as in the muzaffarnagar riots, we have to have new articulations for calming the tensions and resort to violence.People are now awaiting the time, 2014 elections not far away and who knows what would be the over-all motivation for change.
May be we can chart out a list.Corruption is people fed up with.
So, if the party in power is insensitive to corruption on such wide scale where the very top leadership is accused of participation and non-action, then that could be a legitimate factor for change. So too the rise in prices, inflation.
It is becoming everyday nightmare, the petrol price, diesel price rise and food prices rise.These are impacting the imagination of the rich and the poor. It is a pity there is no effort to modify this outrage about inflation.
As Prof. Galbraith, a friend of India, said long time ago in one of his lectures he delivered at the Indian International Centre, that people need to work harder, as the Puritans, one religious group of great fame, the work ethics has been changing through the years and if people don't work harder, then, it is inevitable there must be some incentive for working harder. That is the price incentive. It is inflation in simple terms. Certain level of price rise, inflation is reasonable and it is part of the tendency of modern man to search for more leisure and less work. As in France!
But we have to realise that no economy can grow unless there is strong incentive to work hard and produce wealth. In China we found people working harder and their progress, compared to India, is faster. Any leaders who visited and came back told us so?
No! Why? May be sheer ignorance or lack of honesty!
We, Indians have to look into ourselves. Are we honest to ourselves? We ask the current crop of the politicians? You want all impediment to be removed be it RTI, or Criminal offences or other electoral malpractices?
Anyway, people have become more alert and they might show us the way.
The future of Indian villages!
Elections and the rural rich!
How rich-poor divide will keep Indian villages always exploited!
Rich candidates vs. the poor voters and the constant picture of rural India!
Agriculture, the largest employer still and yet the rich politicians, the dynastic successors will define the future of the villages and the future of India as well?
We need a grand vision. Who can provide the same?
Yes, we want to write about the agriculture sector more. More about lives in the villages.
It is very tempting to do so we just now read about the elections at Uttarkhand state where 54% of farms are less than two hectares. The hill districts, 11 mountain districts read life a tragedy.
No politician in the elections spoke about agriculture! Why, this is the same story in the agriculturally rich Punjab where the two contending leaders, Mr.Badal and Amarinder Singh are the richest and the biggest land owners! Who cares?
Money, more so the liquor flowed and yet the poll was peaceful, though the six TV channels and the three major dailies were issued show cause notice.
So, this is all too electoral politics?
The rich candidates and the poor voters, or the rich vs. the poor will widen only.
That is politics and that is also economics too!
So, for a change we want to ask some hard questions.
Will there be villages in the India of the future?
Will there be a rural society?
India is a large and diverse country. However, the Indian growth story, as it is called by insiders and outsiders, is what catches the attention of many sections of the Indian audience as well as the foreigners.
Now, there is a slowdown, if not a plain fall in the growth rate. The current rate is something like 7.5%.This is compared most often with what China has been achieving, growth in 2011 at 8.9%, without taking note of the two countries very much diversity.
The two countries are facing different set of challenges. In China there is this great urban migration on a large scale, it seems. China is a great exporting country; it is the Chinese export-led growth that is in contrast with the largely internally growing economy that is one big contrast.
China is now concentrating, we are told (see the latest Economist magazine) on building railways, roads and housing. So far it is noted that about 160illion migrants from the countryside to provide the cheap labour in coastal cities that concentrate on export industries. Now, there are reports about unrest in the industrial factories, there are demands for higher wages and even there are unrests in village administrations and also there are political changes with the latest 18th Congress of the Community party since it was established in 1921 and a new set of leaders are going to take parting the change of leaders.
We in India don't have any such situation.
In India, we have democracy and now there is a sense of pressure in India for change with Prime Minister Singh running off steam, as such, with a series of corruption scams that have tested the patience of the people.
What is talked of now in India is the subject of a policy paralysis.
What is this policy paralysis?
There is a series of confusions since the starting of the 20-G scam came to the fore.
The UPA-II has proved to be a coalition of vested interests. The political allies of the Congress have developed their own vested interests; the Trinamul wants to take cover under some imagined state autonomy. This is another name for non-performance and in fact the regional ally like Trinamool is faced with a serious policy paralysis. Even the basic minimum administration is missing. The CM has taken too many gambles to prove how ineffective her g hold on the administration is. The series of unforgivable infant deaths would have removed the last bastion of any sympathy for her even from her own admirers.
So too in the South for the AIADMK.
The CM had won such an overwhelming election success but once in power she proved that she has no other agenda except to undo whatever development projects the DMK might have done.
Of course, this is no excuse to leave out the vast number of scams the DMK ministers and their strongmen like land grabbing has indulged so far.
These are two examples of how the coalition parties have proved their use or non-use.
So, the question is both political and administrative.
In terms of politics we see the Congress has no great vision whatever and whatever little it had it evaporated under the ineffective leadership of the poor PM.
He is not a naturally elected leader.
Unless, the Indian polity evolves as a genuine democracy, it adheres to some basic democratic and parliamentary principles; it can't manage the great many challenges.
As per the latest opinion polls, the Congress stands a very slim chance of winning in the next elections.
So, there is the big question mark.
How to compare China with India beyond a point?
In China, the Communist party dictatorship is there, in spite of the latest news about unrest in large parts of rural China and also in industrial establishments for higher wages.
But it looks, that India must become a place where large private investment, both FDI as well as investments by private sector must come from.
To make the next plan, the 12th plan, a success, it is noted by all, even by those who all attended the World Economic Forum, both the Indian participants as well as the foreign experts, world bank and IMF officials and others, India must attract more FDI, more investments.
This is said so many times and we in India must also realise what outsiders say.
India is seen as the clear favourite when it comes to investment. Though at present China might be attracting more investment, our democracy and open society must be seen as a long-term advantage.
How to ensure that such a democracy and open society addresses the great concerns of the largest number of people, the mass of the people, the poor and the disadvantaged.
Here only the role of rural India, the role of our villages come into top priority areas.
One great disappointment is that we have some clever men as Cabinet ministers. But they have proved flops: P.Chidambaram, Kapil Sibal and even lately Jairam Ramesh.
They have suddenly become non-performers. Why, even the health minister is seen nowhere.
Thus, critical areas like education, health, rural development; our much-hyped panchayat raj is not discussed lately.
This of course includes the very top issue of agricultural transformation.
Of course Sharad Pawar is talking lot of practical common sense. But as a policy maker, as a great growth strategist what is his contribution?
He is seen as a cricket-loving man. So too his one or two other party colleagues. Thus, our agriculture suffered. In the sense our farmers continued with their suicide tales, there is much neglecting terms of policy reforms, no emphasis on rural credit expansion. We expected him, as great Maharashtrian leaders with an impressive track record in co-operative sugar industry would take forward the co-operative principle to launch some big schemes like an all India co-operative bank etc.
As for civil aviation, it proved a disaster under Proful Patel, his valued colleague.
So, somethings stick in public mind. We associate with some leaders for some failures; success rare is noticed, of course!
We have to see that the Indian villages won't go away! Indian villages would continue to define Indian unity, Indian values and Indian mindset.
There are now talks of smaller states. More smaller states welcome! But let us not forget with more states our rural mass of people will get their due.
More schools, education opportunities, more panchayat raj institutions getting more funds and autonomy, with the latest technologies, a better and justice-driven distribution of foods and opportunities, more employment and the Indian youth and the Indian future become more tuned to a stronger India.


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Back pain is a typical problem in grownups as well as can be chronic or ongoing. Several of the root causes of pain in the back are nerve irritation, muscle mass pulls, back problems as well as slipped disk. There are numerous therapy choices that you will certainly obtain when you see your lower pain in the back treatment doctor.


AWS Summit 2018 in Chicago Recap - EV Technologies, Inc.
This past week, I had the opportunity to attend my first AWS Summit in Chicago. Having been a part of BusinessObjects/SAP conferences for the last two decades, this was an interesting experience that I think was worth talking about.
The subject of the speaking slot I was a part of had two purposes: 1) to discuss how to approach taking SAP workloads to AWS and 2) a case study that we've talked about here in our SAP Innovation Award winning customer, HarrisLogic, and their journey to AWS. It drew a great crowd and some were quite eager to discuss the decision making processes here.
4,000 people descended on a free event with the caliber of a paid-for event for just one day. You don't have to charge a bajillion dollar per ticket for an event to be in demand or to have value to customers, it would seem.
Customers are eager to adopt AWS services for their enterprise but often migrate as a hybrid cloud/migration just for the sake of getting there. Then, they innovate. The net new tech story isn't the only reason to start looking towards the cloud.
The AWS options to power SAP HANA and SAP Analytics workloads are ever changing and growing more robust with every release. Choices range from typical EC2 instances to the newest in bare metal configurations and in the X1 instance types.
Especially for SAP HANA customers, memory footprints in these boxes are on the throws of traversing towards 6, 9, and soon, 12 TB of memory per instance.
Events occurring at the same time as Lolapalooza make for interesting crowds. Good times. I'll save the pics for another blog post.
There are a few AWS Summits remaining this year. Don't pass up a chance to see one in your neighborhood if the opportunity presents itself.


During its final day the Malaria in Pregnancy meeting in Istanbul addressed barriers to achieving malaria in pregnancy (MIP) goals at four levels: community, district/facility, national and global.
The Global Level Group looked at global issues. At the Global Level there is need to stress and strengthen multiple intervention package for antenatal care including malaria in pregnancy services. The group stressed that we can learn from the HIV community who promote PMTCT in ANC to and thus better promote MIP interventions in ANC.
The group also emphasized the need revise global guidance on essential drugs so Sulphadoxine-Pyrimethamine (SP) is used only for IPTp in MIP, not for malaria treatment. The group noted that there are many manufacturers of SP, but are not part of WHO pre-qualification (drug quality) process – improve quality of MIP drugs.
The Global Group observed that it takes long time for policies and evidence to filter to local level – need speed up dissemination of MIP information. The group also pushed for harmonization of MIP guidance needed even within global organizations like WHO. We must also identify and address inconsistencies in MIP policies and messages from global level to health facility level.
They recommended MIP champions to help prioritize high burden malaria and maternal mortality areas and promote scale-up MIP services. This champion or advocacy process should take advantage of global fora and initiatives such as 'Every Woman, Every Child', Woman Deliver, ALMA and GMHC to share the latest evidence based information on MIP. Global advocacy should also include publications in international journals like The Lancet on MIP and ANC packages.
The National level working group pointed out confusing guidelines as a major barrier to IPTp uptake. We cannot always wait for clarification from international partners, they noted – What to do while we wait? We we do update guidelines we need to ensure representation of all programs when updating guidelines (malaria, RH, MCH) for malaria in pregnancy. Also, countries need to simplify MIP guidelines based on learning about their own implementation barriers that can be easily overcome locally.
At national level we must focus on more than guidelines. We also need harmonized training and Monitoring and Evaluation across programs (malaria, RH, MCH) on malaria in pregnancy service delivery. At present there is often ack of coordination and harmonization across programs for that deliver MIP services. We must sit together but also harmonization implementation.
The group addressing district and facility level barriers to MIP service uptake called for user friendly services. They noted that health services must also be 'friendly' to the provider. In order to retain providers we must also address quality of life for staff.
Standards based management/performance improvement processes at district and facility level based on incentives including recognition may not only enhance MIP performance but give staff at these levels the tools needed to identify and solve their own problems using locally available resources and ideas.
Better tracking of commodities is needed to ensure that clients are not disappointed. We can redistribute commodities like SP within or among districts to ensure services succeed. We must prioritize SP provision as part of an essential ANC supply package.
The group stated emphatically that traditional cascade training out, that we need innovative and facility based approaches like champions at facility and text based training for malaria in pregnancy instead. Clinical mentoring and checklists can help promote malaria in pregnancy service skills, which can lead to greater consumer satisfaction and utilization.
Even when there has been traditional workshop based training the problem is that staff are often not trained on national guidelines. There is need for supervision that is also based on guidelines, not the personal beliefs and references of the supervisors. Also, without the commodities, staff can not practice what they learned.
The community focused working group started with a recognition that the 'knowledge' problem is a two-way street. It is not only that community members may not understand our scientific approach to defining, treating and preventing malaria. We too may fail to communicate with the community and create demand for services because we do not understand their perspectives.
The community group suggested that we combine community resource people and media and private sector actions for comprehensive malaria communication. Mass medial can reinforce information that is shared by trusted community leaders and health volunteers.
The group debated the cost problems communities face in in accessing MIP servivces. This may include direct costs of services in some countries as well as indirect costs to the family. Women's access to funds and income need to be considered, hence collaboration withy other sectors of the development community such as micro-finance.
The problem of linear communication from health workers to community without learning community knowledge and dialogue can be overcome if health workers are encouraged to engage in deeper dialogue with mothers, fathers, grandmothers and community leaders and become learners first, before they hope to teach about MIP.


Once again, we show you a fantastic tutorial by MorTap, who teaches us how to prepare some interesting scenery elements inspired by Centro-American cultures. Using cheap materials and easy techniques, we can prepare an outstanding game table!
My idea was to prepare a small monument for the Scratch Attack scenery conquest, focused on the Nemesis game. But I wanted to take advantage of this work and use these elements in other games closer to me, such as Bolt Action (at some point I should learn the rules).
Now, be prepared for the construction phase.
I use two pieces of polystyrene: 8×8 inches (floor) and 8×6 inches (frontal). First of all, we mark the bricks with a rule and a pencil.
Then, using different tools, like rocks, we create the texture on the surface.
In the frontal piece we use the rule and pencil again to mark the bricks, and this time, a door.
We remove the internal space of the door.
We use two pieces of polystyrene of 4x4x6 inches (head) and another two pieces of 8×2,5×1,5 inches (leg). And we will need the eva rubber. First we put together the head pieces to create the superstructure.
Then we mark the form of the animal and bricks with a pencil.
With a welder we sculpt the shapes of the animal and create the texture of the rock.
We use the eva rubber to create additional details. We can glue it with cyanocrylate glue.
Now we prepare the legs.
Repeating the same process, we mark the bricks and then we create the texture.
Next week we will publish the second part.


Bill Ackman said he has taken a new position in Starbucks Corp. (SBUX.O) at a conference in New York, according to a person in attendance.
The activist investor has taken a stake in the retailer worth about US$900 million, said the person, who asked to not be identified because the matter isn't public.
Starbucks's shares, which rose as much as 5.6 per cent, were up more than 3 per cent to US$58.31 at 1:33 p.m. in New York trading Tuesday, giving the Seattle-based company a market value of about US$78.7 billion.
"We view the active, engaged dialogue that we have with shareholders as critical input into our strategic approach and we value constructive feedback on delivering long-term shareholder value," a spokesperson for Starbucks said in a statement. "We look forward to maintaining a productive dialogue with Mr. Ackman as we do with all of our shareholders."
Ackman said in August his hedge fund, Pershing Square Capital Management, had built up a new position valued at about US$800 million in a company he didn't identify.
This year, Ackman has taken new positions in industrial manufacturer United Technologies Corp., where he is advocating for a breakup of the company, and retailer Lowe's Cos., where he said he was supportive of Chief Executive Officer Marvin Ellison's efforts to improve the company's performance.
He also sold a stake in Nike Inc. this year at a profit of about US$100 million in a just few months. In August, Ackman sold down his stake in Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. as part of a portfolio re-balancing. He sold about $401 million worth of his stock in the burrito chain, reducing his position to 7.4 per cent from 10.4 per cent previously, according to a filing.
Last week, Pershing Square reported a net return of 15.8 per cent on its investments year to date through the end of September compared to gains of about 8 per cent for the S&P 500 during the same period. The firm's assets under management have fallen about 10 per cent this year to about US$8.4 billion, though that total is up from about US$8.3 billion at the end of August.
Pershing square had a net loss of 4 per cent in 2017, following a decline of 13.5 per cent in 2016.


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A new South Park game has been confirmed in development thanks to a job listing from developer Question Games. This new project could be a multiplayer affair which will be a drastically different take on South Park's last two games which were single-player RPGs.
You might be familiar with Question Games from the cooperative horror game they developed and called The Blackout Club. This team based in both California and Virginia is made up of former AAA developers whose former team credits include: Thief: Deadly Shadows, BioShock, BioShock 2, BioShock Infinite, and Dishonored.
A new 3D South Park game is reportedly in development
If you're worried that they may be strangers in South Park, you might be happy to hear that there are some of the staff currently working at Question Games who have been involved in the other South Park RPG titles as well. The Rod of Truth and the fractured but whole. So while they might be a new team, they still have some groundwork with the previous titles.
The job listing that Question Games has made available calls for applicants with prior multiplayer experience. The company and South Park Digital Studios are looking for a lead designer to work on a new Unreal Engine video game set in the world of the long-running South Park series.
Job offer note that multiplayer level design work prior to a leadership position or senior equivalent is required. For this reason, the team may be looking to add a multiplayer element to South Park's latest game. Maybe this new title will focus on co-op rather than a slow tactical RPG.
Of course, no release date for this game has been announced yet. We also don't know any other details regarding this upcoming game. However, we'll continue to update this story as more information about this upcoming title becomes available.
Wanda C. Griffin


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class VoltageDomain;
class TechLayer;

class GridComponent
{
 public:
  enum Type
  {
    Ring,
    Strap,
    Followpin,
    PadConnect,
    RepairChannel
  };

  GridComponent(Grid* grid);
  virtual ~GridComponent() = default;

  odb::dbBlock* getBlock() const;
  utl::Logger* getLogger() const;

  void setGrid(Grid* grid) { grid_ = grid; }
  Grid* getGrid() const { return grid_; }
  VoltageDomain* getDomain() const;

  virtual void makeShapes(const ShapeTreeMap& other_shapes) = 0;

  const ShapeTreeMap& getShapes() const { return shapes_; }
  void getShapes(ShapeTreeMap& shapes) const;
  void removeShapes(ShapeTreeMap& shapes) const;
  void removeShape(Shape* shape);
  void replaceShape(Shape* shape, const std::vector<Shape*>& replacements);
  void clearShapes() { shapes_.clear(); }
  int getShapeCount() const;

  virtual void getConnectableShapes(ShapeTreeMap& shapes) const {}

  // returns all the obstructions in this grid shape
  void getObstructions(ShapeTreeMap& obstructions) const;
  void removeObstructions(ShapeTreeMap& obstructions) const;

  // cut the shapes according to the obstructions to avoid generating any DRC
  // violations.
  virtual void cutShapes(const ShapeTreeMap& obstructions);

  void writeToDb(const std::map<odb::dbNet*, odb::dbSWire*>& net_map,
                 bool add_pins,
                 const std::set<odb::dbTechLayer*>& convert_layer_to_pin) const;

  virtual void report() const = 0;
  virtual Type type() const = 0;
  static const std::string typeToString(Type type);

  virtual void checkLayerSpecifications() const = 0;

  void setStartWithPower(bool value) { starts_with_power_ = value; }
  bool getStartsWithPower() const { return starts_with_power_; }
  bool getStartsWithGround() const { return !getStartsWithPower(); }

  // returns the order in which to lay out the straps
  virtual std::vector<odb::dbNet*> getNets() const;
  int getNetCount() const;
  void setNets(const std::vector<odb::dbNet*>& nets);

 protected:
  void checkLayerWidth(odb::dbTechLayer* layer,
                       int width,
                       odb::dbTechLayerDir direction) const;
  void checkLayerSpacing(odb::dbTechLayer* layer,
                         int width,
                         int spacing,
                         odb::dbTechLayerDir direction) const;
  ShapePtr addShape(Shape* shape);

 private:
  Grid* grid_;
  bool starts_with_power_;
  std::vector<odb::dbNet*> nets_;

  ShapeTreeMap shapes_;
};

}  // namespace pdn

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Chicago Suburb Hosts Hizb ut-Tahrir Conference; Organization Aims to Re-Establish an International Islamic State (Caliphate), Supports Jihad
Posted on July 20, 2009 by insightanalytical
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We've been following stories about Sharia law and finance for quite some time, and American Lassie has alerted us to another related development.
Here's some basic information on the story with a thanks to the Investigative Project on Terrorism:
Pro-Terror Group to Meet in Chicago Suburb
IPT News
Hizb ut-Tahrir, an international movement seeking to re-establish an international Islamic state – or Caliphate – and to indoctrinate Muslims into supporting jihad, wants to step up its recruitment efforts in the United States. On July 19, the group, whose alumni include 9/ 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and suicide bombers, will hold a conference entitled "The Fall of Capitalism and the Rise of Islam" in the Grand Ballroom of the Hilton Hotel in Oak Lawn, Ill, a Chicago suburb.
For decades, Hizb ut-Tahrir America (HTA) has operated covertly, holding these Khalifa (Caliphate) conferences in the United States under the name of front organizations. But that has begun to change. Last fall, the group issued a leaflet in its own name urging Muslims to boycott the U.S. elections. The group just released this video promoting the July 19 conference. According to the conference website, the program includes a question-and-answer session and two panels; one entitled "Capitalism is Doomed to Fail," the other "The Suffering Under Capitalism."
The conference initially was scheduled for the Aqsa School in Bridgeview, Ill. But the school withdrew, claiming Hizb ut-Tahrir officials "misrepresented themselves." An official said the group approached the school in late April claiming it wanted to hold a bazaar-type event in July that would involve selling traditional food and clothing. School officials said that when they learned the real purpose, they cancelled and refunded the group's deposit.
I located a video report on the conference at the WLS website (WLS is the local ABC affiliate in Chicago). A spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations claims Hzib ut-Tahrir's teachings "are not based on authentic Islamic doctrine" and "the proper response" to their teachings "is that their philosphy should be debunked." According to the report, approximately 700 attendees flowed through the event during the day. The cover of the event program was shown in the video.
The Investigative Project on Terrorism's story continues–note the numbers of members in Indonesia, Barack Obama's childhood home:
While solid numbers are difficult to come by, there is little question that Hizb ut-Tahrir's worldwide membership has grown substantially since the September 11 attacks, says Madeleine Gruen, a senior analyst with the NEFA Foundation. In 2003, estimates of HT membership ranged from 10,000 to 100,000 people worldwide. Today, by contrast, the group (currently active in more than 40 countries) has approximately 100,000 members in Indonesia alone and "many thousands" more around the world, Gruen told IPT News.
In the United States, Hizb ut-Tahrir's following is estimated at no more than a few hundred. The decision to hold this month's conference under its own name is a sign that the group is preparing to raise its profile. Once that is achieved, Gruen adds, its cadres are supposed to establish "an Islamic government and military" in order to take Hizb ut-Tahrir's message to the world.
HT seeks to fuse an ideology combining orthodox Islam, Marxist-Leninist economics, anti-Semitism and opposition to Western democracy into a political program to bring back the Caliphate. Despite its public rhetoric about nonviolence, Hizb ut-Tahrir has "precisely the same ideology and objectives" as al Qaeda, Gruen told IPT News. And HT has a much larger membership base to recruit from, she added.
While it refrains from carrying out terrorist actions itself, Hizb ut-Tahrir glorifies jihadism and excoriates the terrorist organization Hamas as being too soft on Israel. In a leaflet posted on its website July 1, HT said that if the Caliphate were in existence, all of "Palestine" would be rid of "the usurpation of the Jewish occupiers" and brought "to the fold of the Islamic state."
I tracked down the group's website and found the very sophisticated page of the Media Office, which includes a radio channel. If you click on the headline for 26 Rajab 1430 titled Hizb ut-Tahrir's Forthcoming Rajab Events: Latest Update you will arrive at a page that has video about all the events worldwide that were held on July 19. Countries holding conferences included the Ukraine, Mauritius, Tanzania, and Bangladesh. The conference in Lebanon apparently had a theme called "Jihad in Islam."
In Britain, there are "2 global conferences to take place in London and Birmingham on 26th July 2009 and 2nd August 2009. The conferences are entitled "The Struggle for Islam and the Call for Khilafah". There is a video with information about these conferences and you can link directly to Hzib ut-Tharir's British site from this page.
American Lassie's April 14, 2009 post entitled Sharia Finance: Rapidly Increasing Inroads Via American Banks…With the Help of Our Treasury Department details other aspects of the inroads being made here in the U.S. It is a must read!
Other relevant pieces that we have posted here at IA include:
The Scanner–Politics March 18, 2009: (Taitz-Supreme Court; Sharia Law in Minnesota re: Home Mortgages; Stimulus Money Wanders from the States; Privatizing Vets' Healthcare)
The SCANNER-Politics 11/7/08: Newsweek Editors on Charlie Rose in the SCARIEST Description of Obama So Far…(Video/Partially Transcripted); Sharia Hits the Treasury Department/HARVARD Alert!; Hill the Shill (UPDATE 1X)
While Hillary and Sarah Get Trashed in the U.S., Muslim Women in Britain Get Sharia Law
Obama-Odinga:50-50 Split Demands Sound SOOOO FAMILIAR…(UPDATE 1X–Author of "The Obama Nation" Detained in Kenya; UPDATE 2X–Corsi Released, Odinga Official Website
We'll keep watching for any further developments on this front…
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Australian international secures second Honda TCR drive
Australian international driver John Martin will suit up in a Honda Civic Type-R TCR car in the inaugural TCR Australia Series, kicking off at Sydney Motorsport Park next month.
The 34-year-old Queenslander is the second confirmed driver for Wall Racing's Honda effort, joining the recently confirmed Tony D'Alberto in the JAS Motorsport-built Civics.
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Martin is one of Australia's most experienced International drivers. Starting his career in local karting, Martin progressed to Formula Ford where he won the 2006 national championship.
He left Australian shores in 2007, heading to England for race in British Formula Ford and F3. He continued to race single-seaters for several seasons, competing in A1GP, Formula Renault 3.5 and Superleague Formula before switching to international sportscar racing.
In recent years, Martin has returned to local GT racing, and for 2019, has elected to take on his first full commitment to touring car racing.
Martin will get the chance to test the Honda at Winton on April 30 ahead of the opening round of the TCR Australia Series that will be held at Sydney Motorsport Park on May 17-19.
Every TCR Australia race across the seven rounds will be broadcast live, free and in HD on SBS.
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Driver, Wall Racing
"It's going to be different, but I'm really looking forward to the new challenge," said John Martin.
"Up until TCR got announced in Australia, I didn't really picture myself racing in touring cars, but the more I spoke to people and the more hype that has been building, it now seems like the obvious next career choice.
"The category is massive in Europe. I was over there when it first started and I've watched a fair bit of the racing. It's very exciting, door to door battles and that's what people want to see.
"The other lure for me is that it's an international class. There's nothing stopping us from going to Asia or Europe and racing these exact same cars on some of the world's best circuits. That definitely played a part in my decision.
"I've had some dealings with David Wall and his team of late and they are a great team. There is no fuss with their racing. They enjoy it and they are good at it. I'm really looking forward to the season kicking off in Sydney."
Team owner, Wall Racing
"John is hugely experienced and he has proven his ability in a variety of different cars – you name it, he has done it," said David Wall.
"His experience is definitely going to help our team get on the pace quickly, and he is really going to complement Tony (D'Alberto) in our other car.
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"The Winton test is going to be an important day. It will be their only chance to drive the cars prior to Sydney Motorsport Park, so we'll be looking to maximise every moment to ensure we are competitive straight out of the box."


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Halle Berry, 54, dances in nothing but heart-print briefs to celebrate Valentine's Day with boyfriend Van Hunt
Yahoo! Lifestyle 2/14/2021 Megan Johnson
It's safe to say that Halle Berry is having a great Valentine's Day weekend.
The Oscar winner, 54, took to Instagram on Saturday to share a racy but romantic post of herself and her boyfriend, musician Van Hunt. In the video, which was set to Hunt's song "Being a Girl," the actress is shown joyfully shaking her booty in nothing but a pair of heart-covered underwear with her arm around Hunt as they stand on a balcony admiring the stunning view.
"You keep everything simple @VanHunt," Berry captioned the video, along with the hashtag "#ValentinesDayWeekend."
Berry first confirmed the couple were dating back in September. In a second Valentine's Day post, the thrice-divorced star urged fans to hold out for real love — "even if it takes you until you're 54!"
"To all the Valentines who may be struggling to get it right ... I feel you, but never give up and NEVER SETTLE for less than what makes your heart sing!" Berry wrote. "No matter what they say or what they call you. No matter how many times you try, it's always worth it. If you desire love, you will find your match, your equal ... your person .. .even if it takes you until you're 54!"
The actress's children Nahla, 12, and Maceo, 7, got in on the Valentine's Day fun too.
"When ya kids love you up," Berry wrote on an Instagram Story, which featured gifts ranging from red roses and a candle to balloons and cards, including one reading "to Mommy."
© Provided by Yahoo! Lifestyle Halle Berry shared an Instagram story featuring gifts from her children for Valentine's Day. (Instagram/Halle Berry)
Back in August, Berry posted another revealing Instagram photo, embracing her bare-chested body as she sat criss-cross on the floor in a pair of flowy white pants.
"Self-love is never selfish," Berry captioned the photo.
Despite her easy-going vibe on social media, Berry has made it very clear that she puts a significant of work into looking so good. Just last month, she told People about how her dedication to her health.
"I've made it my mission to find time in the day to exercise, get work done and be a mom," said Berry, who now has her own health and wellness platform called re-spin. "I think during COVID, it's been easy to forget the time in our day to be active because we just can't do the things that we used to do and it's hard to find ways to do that at home."
But Berry's dedication to her health is about more than just looking good.
"Discovering new, creative ways to stay active to feel inspired and energized while also making it fun when things feel mundane and monotonous has been key for my mental and physical health," she added.
Saying that wellness "has taken on a new meaning as I've become a mom in my 40s," Berry made it clear she works hard to get the results she wants.
"I have to work at it every day," she said. "I have to think about what I put in my body via food, how I exercise and all the ways I can work hard that will allow me to be here through as many phases of the lives of my children as I can."
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The newsroom includes access to CHA News, which provides timely information to members every Monday and Thursday and is at the core of CHA benefits. In addition, it is also home to resources such as toolkits and talking points designed to help member hospitals and health systems communicate with internal and external audiences on a range of current health care-related issues. Links to CHA media statements and press releases can also be found here.
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CHA Grid Compares Federal and State Out-of-Network Service Billing Laws
The federal No Surprises Act (NSA) defaults to state law where states have enacted legislation that is at least as comprehensive as the federal law that took effect on Jan. 1.
To help California hospitals as they face increased patient volumes due to COVID-19 and the omicron variant surge, CHA is sharing graphics for use in social media. The graphics, which are available for both Facebook and Twitter, are designed to serve as a reminder that patients should save the emergency department for emergencies and seek a […]
On Jan. 8, the Governor released his 2021-22 state budget proposal – a $227.2 billion budget plan that provides funding for immediate COVID-19 response and relief efforts for many Californians impacted by the pandemic.
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