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CJTF-HOA medical provides link to multinational efforts against East African VEOs
By U.S. Air National Guard Tech. Sgt. Andria Allmond
CJTF-HOA medical provides link to multinational efforts against East African VEOs Lt. Cmdr. Nehkonti Adams, Navy Medicine Professional Development Center director, Bethesda, Md., introduces herself to the attendees if the Military Tropical Medicine Course held at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, May 9-11, 2017. NMPDC is the hub for U.S. Navy medicine's health services, supporting professional development, training and education mission. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Andria Allmond)
CJTF-HOA medical provides link to multinational efforts against East African VEOs Members of the French air force and U.S. military members listen to the Military Tropical Medicine Course hosted by Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa and the Navy Medicine Professional Development Center at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, May 9 – 11, 2017. The course was attended by German, French and Japanese military staff in addition to U.S. military and embassy representatives – fostering the unified actions and international partnerships in East Africa. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Andria Allmond)
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The Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) Surgeon Cell and the Navy Medicine Professional Development Center (NMPDC), based in Bethesda, Maryland, held a course addressing East African medical challenges for military providers here, May 9 – 11.
The Military Tropical Medicine Course can help maintain a healthy force capable to assist countering violent extremist organizations (VEOs) across the Combined Joint Operating Area – East Africa.
"The surgeon cell here may receive a request to send a medical provider downrange [to Somalia]," said U.S. Navy Lt. Mariam Kwamin of the CJTF-HOA Surgeon Cell, "While our providers already know many of these diseases and conditions, they might not have treated them before. So we're offering education and practical knowledge to take care of our military personnel who are supporting development of East African militaries."
The course was attended by German, French and Japanese military staff in addition to U.S. military and embassy representatives – fostering unified actions and international partnerships.
"We have providers coming from parts of the world who might not be familiar with some of the tropical diseases that we see in Sub-Saharan Africa, certainly parts of the Horn of Africa region, where we see these diseases significantly more," said guest speaker Lt. Col. Peter Matthews, U.S. Africa Command infectious disease consultant from Stuttgart, Germany. "[Our European counterparts] have a different training pipeline; but for them, they also live in temperate climate and they deploy here the same as we do."
The classroom instruction intended to train physicians, midlevel medical practitioners, nurses and other health providers in the diagnosis and treatment of common regional infectious and communicable diseases. The diseases covered in the course included, but were not limited to, the following: malaria, Zika virus, Ebola, typhoid fever and rabies.
"It's very interesting, since, we all don't have the same approach to treating these diseases," said Anne Pauline Commins, a French air force nurse deployed to Base Aérienne 188, Djibouti. "The speakers are very passionate about the topics and we are taking notes to bring back to our clinic and our doctors."
While the approximately 60 attendees are predominately slated to provide care for their individual nation's defense force, the varying missions in the region may result in training or caring for foreign military personnel or local civilians.
"The mission dictates with whom these providers will come in contact," said Lt. Cmdr. Nehkonti Adams, guest speaker and NMPDC director. "They may provide academic exchange with foreign military providers, or local nationals if they are involved in humanitarian medical outreach."
As Al-Shabaab continues using brutal measures in recruiting and combatant activities in East Africa, healthy U.S. personnel are critical in CJTF-HOA commander Brig. Gen. David J. Furness's primary objective of organizing efforts against Somalia's leading VEO. With CJTF-HOA's interest in readying the Somali National Army, maintaining the physical wellbeing of U.S. and partner nations' personnel is crucial.
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AMISOM strength bolstered with AFRICOM vehicle delivery to UPDF
The African Union Mission in Somalia's capabilities to provide security in Somalia were recently strengthened when U.S. military members of U.S. Africa Command and Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa delivered nearly 20 vehicles and two storage containers to the Uganda People's Defence Force here, Sept. 25.
CJTF-HOA civil affairs veterinarians assist in diminishing animal disease, overpopulation in Djibouti
The Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa's 443rd Civil Affairs Battalion (CAB) Functional Specialty Group (FXSP) veterinarians spayed, dewormed and immunized the cats of Caritas Djibouti here, Aug 30.

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Q: Is a non-degenerate wavefunction real or complex? In this video it is stated that:

It can easily be verified that the wavefunction of a non-degenerate quantum mechanical system will be real.

However the presenter does not explain why this statement is true. How can we prove this? Does the professor assume a real Hamiltonian, i.e. one that includes only kinetic energy and Coulomb interaction terms?

A: We prove this by a reductio ad absurdum. We start by assuming that the wavefunction of a non-degenerate ground state is complex, then show this means the wavefunction must be degenerate.
Suppose we have a complex ground state. Then we can write it as a sum of real and imagniary parts:
$$ \psi = \psi_r + i\psi_i \tag{1} $$
The ground state obeys Schrodinger's equation:
$$ H\psi - E\psi = 0 $$
and if we use equation (1) to substitute for $\psi$ we get:
$$ H\psi_r + iH\psi_i - E\psi_r - Ei\psi_i = 0 $$
For a complex number to be zero both its real and imaginary parts must be zero, so we get the two equations:
$$\begin{align}
 H\psi_r - E\psi_r &= 0 \\
 H\psi_i - E\psi_i &= 0
\end{align}$$
But this means that $\psi_r$ and $\psi_i$ are also eigenstates with the same energy $E$ as $\psi$. That means $\psi$ is degenerate, and that contradicts our initial assumption.

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District Improves Service Reliability...
District Improves Service Reliability with New Generators
Backup Power Throughout the District. The District maintains emergency backup power at six critical pumping stations and at the main treatment plant, to ensure uninterrupted sewer service even during widespread power outages. With Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) events becoming more common as a fire prevention mechanism, the District anticipates using those emergency generators more often.
$3 Million Investment in Backup Power. To keep those facilities in peak working condition, the District plans to invest $3 million in upgrading and maintaining its generator system. Five of the seven existing generators have reached the end of their useful life, and will be replaced as part of this project. In addition, two new generators will be installed at pump stations that do not currently have emergency backup power, and a new portable generator acquired to provide emergency power for the smaller pumping stations. The most critical generators—including the ones at the Main Street Pump Station and the treatment plant—will be installed before fall of 2021 if possible.
The District exercises and maintain its generators throughout the year to ensure reliable backup power. As long as fuel is available, the treatment and collection facilities can operate indefinitely. Two days' worth of fuel reserves are maintained at all times, and the District is currently investigating contracts that would guarantee priority from fuel suppliers during extended outages. PG&E has also installed ten large generators in Marin City's Gateway shopping center, providing an additional backup power source for Marin City and the City of Sausalito during PSPS events.
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Q: Find a file with parts of name in an arbitrary order I've got a file hidden somewhere, it's either named file.foo.bar.txt or file.bar.foo.txt, but I'm not sure which it is.
Right now, I'm just running find file*foo*txt because I know the file will be in the list, but I have to sort through the list to find the actual file.
Mostly out of curiosity (the list is short and realistically I can find the file), is there a way to find file.(foo&bar).txt such that the file will be found, regardless of which is the actual file?

A: The command find file*foo*txt doesn't really use find.
It's your shell who expands file*foo*txt before find even runs. Then find gets possibly many arguments as its starting points; and no tests, no actions. The default action of -print is assumed.
This is like printf '%s\n' file*foo*txt. Both printf and your find only print what the shell supplies; except if there is no match. Or except if the shell returns a directory name (possibly among other names); in such case printf will just print it, while find will print it plus paths to every file in the directory, recursively.
Your task can be done with find (not the shell) actually performing some matching. Use several -name tests. The default behavior is to join tests with -a (logical AND). This fits cases where you want the filename to match several patterns at once.
find . -type f -name 'file.*' -name '*.txt' -name '*.foo.*' -name '*.bar.*'

Notes:

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*These patterns are not regular expressions. * here is a wildcard but . is literal. I used . because you wrote "file.foo.bar.txt or file.bar.foo.txt".

*find is recursive. Use -maxdepth 1 or (if your find doesn't support it) read this: Limit POSIX find to specific depth.

*Note the patterns are quoted. This is to protect them from being expanded by the shell (compare this question).

If you want literally file.foo.bar.txt or file.bar.foo.txt then use -o (logical OR):
find . -type f \( -name file.foo.bar.txt -o -name file.bar.foo.txt \)

Note you often need parentheses with -o. Without them -type f -name … -o -name … would not do what we want.
And there is -regex. It's a match on the whole path and there are several flavors.

A: The default operation in find is and, so for a loose match you can just use
find .  -name 'file*foo*txt' -name 'file*bar*txt'

but for a rigid match you can resort to a regular expression:
find . -regextype posix-extended -regex '.*/file\.(foo\.bar|bar\.foo)\.txt'

You need to remember the regex has to match the full path, hence the .*/ at the beginning.


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Sanofi SA announced it will lower the cost of its insulin products to $99 per month for uninsured patients with diabetes, Reuters reported. According to the article, Sanofi said US patients with diabetes can purchase up to 10 boxes of insulin pens or vials with a valid prescription for $99 per month beginning in June. Similarly, last month Eli Lilly announced plans to sell a half price, authorized generic version of its insulin injection product at a list price of $137.35 per vial, the article reported.
On Wednesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) introduced a new version of his "Medicare for All" health care plan, The Associated Press reported. According to the article, the plan would eliminate insurance premiums and deductibles for Americans through a government-run system that would largely replace private insurance. The updated version also includes coverage for long-term care, such as nursing homes, and home- and community-based care, the article reported.
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Egypt's Coptic Christians will learn the name of their new pope on Sunday, when a blindfolded child selects the name of one of three candidates.
Two bishops and a monk are on the shortlist to become the 118th leader of the largest Christian minority in the Middle East, about 8 million strong.
The individual chosen will succeed Pope Shenouda III, who died in March.
Attacks on Copts are on the increase, and many Copts say they are afraid of the governing Muslim Brotherhood party.
Pope Shenouda III, who led the church for four decades, had urged officials to do more to address Copts' concerns.
The shortlisted candidates are Bishop Raphael, Bishop Tawadros and Father Raphael Ava Mina. They were chosen in a ballot by a council of some 2,400 Church and community officials in October.
Their names will be written on pieces of paper and placed in a box on the altar of St. Mark's Cathedral in Cairo.
A blindfolded boy will then be asked to draw out one of the names. Copts say this process ensures the selection is in God's hands.
The chosen man will be enthroned in a ceremony on 18 November.
No-one in Egypt expects the new pope to introduce any radical changes to the deeply conservative church.
Under Pope Shenouda, the Coptic Church expanded significantly, including outside its traditional Egyptian base.


The origins of the historic town of Midleton go back to 1180 AD when the Cistercian monks established a monastery here on the banks of the Owenacurra River. Today, the busy market town has long associations with the Murphy family who opened their first whiskey distillery in the town in 1825. The Old Midleton Distillery traces the history of whiskey making in the town. Legend has it that it was here in Ireland that whiskey was invented. In fact, the town boasts the largest pot still in the world. A stopover to the Old Midleton Distillery is a must. This beautifully restored 18th Century distillery is now a renowned tourist attraction and visitors have the opportunity to become certified whiskey tasters.
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G-Wiz drivers smiling as refinery strike limits British gas
Domenick Yoney
Apr 25th 2008 at 3:41PM
Drivers of the much-maligned Reva G Wiz, the all-electric quadricycle, have reason to smile this morning as they pass by filling stations with long queues and rationed supplies. The reason for the mayhem can be traced directly to an upcoming two-day walk out by 1,200 employees at Britain's third largest refinery at Grangemouth. Ineos, the refinery owner, has made changes to its worker's pension arrangement which would appear to be unacceptable to the Unite union and negotiations have failed to halt the shutting down of some of it's production in preparation for the labor action.
The results of the disagreement are more wide-ranging than just two days of reduced supply. It takes time for a facility of that nature to return to its previous capacity so the effects might be felt for up to three weeks. BP's Forties pipeline may also have to be shut down because of the walk-out which could cost the companies and the government each £25 million a day. Although motoring organizations had advised motorist not to "panic-buy", supplies at many Edinburgh gas stations were getting low and one had already gone dry, according to an article in the Guardian.
[Source: Guardian]


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Not a lost kingdom but a parable – how to read Athens in Plato's story of Atlantis
The supposed mystery of whether Atlantis was truly a kingdom lost to time all but disintegrates after reading Plato's writings on the mythical state. As described in his dialogues Timaeus and Critias, both written around 360 BCE, the island nation was an idyllic land of plenty. Its inhabitants – sired and ruled over by Poseidon, and thus half-gods and half-mortals – 'despised everything but virtue'. Ultimately, however, 'human nature got the upper hand', causing them to fall out of the gods' favour, and dooming the kingdom to become an 'impassable barrier of mud' following a devastating earthquake.
This video from the YouTube channel Voices of the Past provides a direct translation of Plato's surviving words on Atlantis from Critias. An imagined nation constructed to provide a foil to his ideal society, Plato nonetheless leaves few details to the reader's imagination in his descriptions of the land. Beyond the structures of Atlantis's government and the character of its people, the text is replete with intricate details on topics ranging from local wildlife to cuisine, architecture and design. The text is also notable for what's been lost to time. Zeus, seeing that the people of Atlantis have become 'full of avarice and unrighteous power', gathers all the gods and – well, the rest we might never know. Ostensibly a morality tale of a people that had it all and lost it to greed and infighting, read today, the text makes for an intriguing insight into Athenian culture during Plato's life.
Video by Voices of the Past
Reading the strings and knots that keep the secrets of the Inka Empire
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Urbanisation is the process of people moving from rural areas into urban ones. Many HICs had rapid urbanisation during the Industrial Revolution but in LICS this has been taking place even more rapidly since World War 2. As a result of this cities are getting bigger and we now have megacities – cities of 10million+ people!


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Last year, Anaheim adopted a tax incentive to encourage development of luxury hotels by allowing 70% of the Transient Occupancy Tax paid by guests for the next 20 years, well you can guess, Disney is taking advantage of it. Smart move!
The hotel would be part of the Disney-owned hotels at Disneyland with Disneyland Hotel, Paradise Pier Hotel and Grand Californian Hotel.
This "flagship" hotel is a 700-room four-diamond hotel on 10 acres at 1401 Disney Drive which is at the north end of the Downtown Disney parking lot. Construction will begin in 2018 and is expected to open in 2021.
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2020 European Junior Kur Champion Valentina Pistner Moving on Up to Young Riders in 2021
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For 2020 European Junior Riders Kur champion Valentina Pistner the year 2020 has been a very unique one. While sport life came to a full stop for all athletes across the globe due to Covid-19, the sudden stand-still also gave time for a focus on training. German junior team rider Pistner took this time off to heart and prepared for the upcoming challenges. She used this pause to improve and returned to the arena with Flamboyant winning team and kur gold and individual silver at the 2020 European Junior Riders Championships.
The 17-year old Bad Homburg based Valentina and her 12-year old Oldenburg gelding Flamboyant (by Fidertanz x De Niro) have been a combination since 2018 and competed at their third, consecutive European Junior Riders Championships this year.
Challenging 2020 Covid Year
In 2018 they won triple silver at the Euros, in 2019 it was team gold and double bronze, and in 2020 the season highlight offered her a third chance to ride at the European Junior Riders Championships, this year in Pilisjaszfalu, Hungary, where they collected team and Kur gold and individual test silver.
2020 was a very special year for Valentina, but she faced the challenges with courage.
"It's been quite challenging to adapt to constant changes and not having the usual routine throughout the season," said Valentina. "Usually we have a very well-established routine in managing our time between competitions and keeping the horses motivated, but this year has left us with a lot of uncertainty and the mindset of having to be spontaneous throughout. It did spice things up a bit, but I think we managed the challenge quite well."
Student - Trainer Confidence
Having collected a huge set of medals at three, consecutive European Junior Riders Championships, Valentina reveals that the secret to her success is not only a top horse, but also a thriving student-trainer relationship.
Parents Nicole and Frank Pistner hug trainer Stefanie
Coached by Stefanie Lugge-Kerner since November 2016, Valentina credits her trainer for staying positive and open minded to the development of her horse while being instructed to keep the rider-horse partnership fresh and energetic through variety.
"To me Steffi is both a coach and a really good friend," she said. "We respect each other a lot and I value all of the past experience she has to offer. We are very close minded in the way we work together and always try to find a solution that works best for all. Most importantly I respect the way she works together with the horses and how she sees each horse as an individual. As she is a very reflective and calm person, she thinks of ways to keep the horses motivated but also content and balanced. She encourages me to go for a hack or do pole work, which for a dressage rider is sometimes a little scary."
The 45-year old Kerner worked for Hof Kasselmann in the 2000s and this stint offered her the opportunity to compete internationally, which she did until 2009. After that she set up her independent business and began focusing on coaching.
"Our student-trainer partnership has become very close and I couldn't think of a better trainer than her," Valentina added.
Learning from Every Experience
Kur gold at the 2020 European Junior Rider
The 2020 Europeans Junior Riders Championships were a roller coaster ride from start to finish. Although quite experienced as a German team rider, Pistner dealt with an unusual turn of events in Hungary, which in the end resulted in the biggest joy in her life, a Kur gold medal.
"These Europeans were really special to me, not only performance wise but also the whole experience," Valentina admitted. "Although my week in Hungary started off with a bit of a disaster, as Flamboyant had his tongue over the bit, it became better by the second. I had great team mates and support from endless people that helped me forget what happened on the first day and start striving in the individual test and freestyle. Flamboyant was in the best shape ever and it was just magical so see what we were able to achieve in the freestyle. It will forever be a special moment when I turned around to the scoreboard and seeing Flambi and my name on top."
For Valentina it was already a treat to start at these Europeans, which turned out to be the only major continental Championship hosted this 2020 show year with all other major competitions cancelled due to the corona pandemic.
"Experience wise I loved being able to compete with athletes from all over and seeing how we all contributed to making a European Championship happen in times of corona," she said. "After this rough year one could feel how thankful everyone was to be able to take part and compete, making it a very special atmosphere. Additionally, we were privileged enough to ride in such a fantastic venue to do what we love."
New Challenge at Young Riders' Level
Flamboyant has been Valentina's number one in the barn since 2018. For next year she has planned on moving up to the levels instead of sticking to juniors for a final year.
Valentina and Flamboyant at the 2020 CDI Hagen
"I was hoping to step up to become a Young Rider," she confessed. "Although age wise I would still be able to compete at Junior level next year, I feel like it's time to move on and live up to a new challenge."
Pistner also owns the 15-year old Hanoverian licensed stallion Lissaro van de Helle (by Lissabon x Matcho AA) which she only competed once internationally in 2017 at junior level.
"The past months, Lissaro and I have been working towards the Prix St. George level and I'm hoping to be able to show him simultaneously to Flamboyant next season," she said. "It's not to be taken for granted to have two such outstanding horses to compete and work with, so I'm really thankful to be able to have these superstars by my side."
Currently enrolled in the International Baccalaureate, Valentina aims to have passed her IB and Abitur by the end of spring in 2021. In the future Pistner hopes to combine an academic career with her riding.
"Becoming a professional rider has never really been an option as a full-time career," she explained. "Although I'm not exactly sure what I want to study at university, I know that I will want to continue with horseback riding simultaneously, as this is something that brings so much joy to my life and I just love working with the horses. I know that it is not always easy to combine both paths but I think it will all work out in the end."
Hession New Comer Athlete of the Year 2020
Pistner's achievements at the 2020 European Junior Riders Championships have not gone unnoticed. She has been nominated for title of "New Comer Athlete of the Year 2020" in her home state of Hessia in Germany.
Kur gold at the 2020 European Junior Riders Championships
The title is decided by popular vote in combination with an expert panel and voting runs until 13 December 2020.
Valentina has been selected as "new comer" or shooting star athlete of the year in Hesse alongside long jumper Oliver Koletzko and bobsleigh athlete Malte Schwenzfeier.
"It's really amazing to see how the hard work over the past years has paid off to become selected as the Hessian New Comer of 2020," she said proudly. "For me this nomination has more to do with honouring my team than myself alone. If there weren't my family that supported me throughout my journey, my trainer that helped me grow and all of the other equally appreciated people standing behind me, I would never have come this far. Not to forget that I've been gifted with Flamboyant, the sweetest and remarkable horse I would wish for, with whom this journey has been so memorable."
Dressage and horse sport fans can vote for Valentina here.


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The recent Federal Court decision of Brady King Pty Ltd v FCT  FCA 81 has created uncertainty as to the application of the GST margin scheme to the development and subdivision of property for resale.
The decision seems to suggest that the GST margin scheme only applies if the property that is being sold is the 'same property' in a legal sense to that originally acquired. Subdivided strata units may not be the 'same property' as the land that was originally acquired on which to build them.
Under the GST Act, where the margin scheme applies to a sale of property, the taxpayer will calculate its GST liability on the sale as 1/11th of the margin rather than 1/11th of the sale price of the property.
The margin is usually calculated as the difference between the sale price of the property and cost of the initial acquisition of the property (commonly referred to as the consideration method). However, for a taxpayer who acquired the property before 1 July 2000, the margin is calculated as the difference between the sale price of the property and its valuation on 1 July 2000 (commonly referred to as the valuation method).
The Commissioner of Taxation has accepted that the property that is subsequently sold need not be identical to the property that was originally acquired by the vendor for the margin scheme to apply. Indeed, in the Commissioner's rulings GSTR 2000/21, GSTR 2006/7 and GSTR 2006/8, it is implicit that a taxpayer is not precluded from applying the margin scheme to sale of a strata unit that has arisen from a subdivision of land originally acquired.
The decision throws the application of the margin scheme as outlined above into doubt.
Brady King Pty Ltd was a developer and entered into a contract to purchase an office building before the introduction of GST but did not settle on the purchase until October 2000 (ie after the introduction of GST). The building was converted into strata units and most of these were sold by Brady King in 2001. Brady King self-assessed its GST liability using the margin scheme and the valuation method. The Commissioner however issued assessments to the taxpayer on the basis that the consideration method applied rather than the valuation method.
The court was asked to decide whether or not the taxpayer was entitled to use the valuation method and if it was entitled to, whether the valuation of the taxpayer complied with the requirements of the GST Act. The Commissioner agreed the margin scheme applied – the issue was only how to calculate the margin, given that the purchase was not completed before 1 July, 2000.
The court, however, had its own view and decided that for the valuation method to apply, the property sold by the taxpayer would have to be the same as the property that it originally acquired. In the circumstances of the taxpayer, the strata units that were sold by the taxpayer were not in existence on or before 1 July 2000. Therefore, the valuation method could not have applied to the sale of units by the taxpayer.
Middleton J said that, "the margin scheme can only apply to the same property (in the juridical sense) being acquired and subsequently sold".
This decision seems odd to us as a strata unit may under the law of strata subdivision readily be thought of as part of a 'parcel of land'. By taking this approach in interpreting the operation of the margin scheme, the court appears, as well as disagreeing with ATO rulings, to have departed from the previous Federal Court decision in Sterling Guardian Pty Limited v FCT  FCA 1166.
Ironically the Commissioner cannot appeal because he won the case, though not in the way he sought to do. It is our understanding that the Commissioner will encourage the taxpayer to appeal so as to resolve the uncertainty created by the case.
The Commissioner has issued a Decision Impact Statement outlining his position in relation to the outcome of the case. In the Decision Impact Statement the ATO did comment that it "may" follow Middleton J's decision. Pending the outcome of any appeal, the Commissioner has indicated that he will continue to maintain his view in relation to the application of margin scheme according to the current GST rulings pending the outcome of any appeal. This means that unit developers who comply with all the requirements in the rulings will be able to rely on the Commissioner's rulings, continue to self assess GST during this period on the basis that the margin scheme is available and the valuation method may be used (for property acquired prior to 1 July 2000), notwithstanding that the strata titles have not issued at the valuation date. The same principle will apply in respect of other subdivisions, such as land subdivisions, where the title to the lots supplied may not have issued at the valuation date. Taxpayers that comply with the current GST rulings should not be subject to retrospective amendment and adjustments.
If the outcome of the appeal is inconsistent with the Commissioner's view, or if no appeal is lodged, the Commissioner has indicated that he will approach Treasury to seek a legislative amendment to clarify the operation of the margin scheme.
What does it mean for all taxpayers, especially property developers?
Having regard to the Commissioner's Decision Impact Statement, taxpayers who have previously applied the margin scheme in accordance with the existing GST rulings will not need to review or reassess their GST liability. It will however be prudent for taxpayers who are now venturing into property development to take into consideration the possibility of not being able to apply the margin scheme and keep abreast of developments in the area.


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/*
  Warnings:

  - You are about to drop the column `location` on the `QuestionsQuestionEncounter` table. All the data in the column will be lost.

*/
-- AlterTable
ALTER TABLE "QuestionsQuestionEncounter" DROP COLUMN "location",
ADD COLUMN     "cityId" TEXT,
ADD COLUMN     "countryId" TEXT,
ADD COLUMN     "stateId" TEXT,
ALTER COLUMN "companyId" DROP NOT NULL;

-- CreateIndex
CREATE INDEX "QuestionsAnswer_updatedAt_id_idx" ON "QuestionsAnswer"("updatedAt", "id");

-- CreateIndex
CREATE INDEX "QuestionsAnswer_upvotes_id_idx" ON "QuestionsAnswer"("upvotes", "id");

-- CreateIndex
CREATE INDEX "QuestionsAnswerComment_updatedAt_id_idx" ON "QuestionsAnswerComment"("updatedAt", "id");

-- CreateIndex
CREATE INDEX "QuestionsAnswerComment_upvotes_id_idx" ON "QuestionsAnswerComment"("upvotes", "id");

-- CreateIndex
CREATE INDEX "QuestionsQuestionComment_updatedAt_id_idx" ON "QuestionsQuestionComment"("updatedAt", "id");

-- CreateIndex
CREATE INDEX "QuestionsQuestionComment_upvotes_id_idx" ON "QuestionsQuestionComment"("upvotes", "id");

-- AddForeignKey
ALTER TABLE "QuestionsQuestionEncounter" ADD CONSTRAINT "QuestionsQuestionEncounter_countryId_fkey" FOREIGN KEY ("countryId") REFERENCES "Country"("id") ON DELETE SET NULL ON UPDATE CASCADE;

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ALTER TABLE "QuestionsQuestionEncounter" ADD CONSTRAINT "QuestionsQuestionEncounter_stateId_fkey" FOREIGN KEY ("stateId") REFERENCES "State"("id") ON DELETE SET NULL ON UPDATE CASCADE;

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ALTER TABLE "QuestionsQuestionEncounter" ADD CONSTRAINT "QuestionsQuestionEncounter_cityId_fkey" FOREIGN KEY ("cityId") REFERENCES "City"("id") ON DELETE SET NULL ON UPDATE CASCADE;


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using Akka.Actor;
using Akka.Event;
using shared;

namespace node2
{
    public class Task2 : ReceiveActor
    {
        private readonly ILoggingAdapter _log = Context.GetLogger();

        public Task2()
        {
            Receive<WorkItem>(w =>
            {
                _log.Info($"[TASK2] Got work to do {w.Id} - {w.Name}");
            });
        }
    }
}


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module QA
  module Resource
    #
    # Included in Resource::Project and Resource::Group to allow changes to
    # project/group membership
    #
    module Members
      def add_member(user, access_level = AccessLevel::DEVELOPER)
        Support::Retrier.retry_until do
          QA::Runtime::Logger.debug(%Q[Adding user #{user.username} to #{full_path} #{self.class.name}])

          response = post Runtime::API::Request.new(api_client, api_members_path).url, { user_id: user.id, access_level: access_level }
          response.code == QA::Support::Api::HTTP_STATUS_CREATED
        end
      end

      def remove_member(user)
        QA::Runtime::Logger.debug(%Q[Removing user #{user.username} from #{full_path} #{self.class.name}])

        delete Runtime::API::Request.new(api_client, "#{api_members_path}/#{user.id}").url
      end

      def list_members
        JSON.parse(get(Runtime::API::Request.new(api_client, api_members_path).url).body)
      end

      def api_members_path
        "#{api_get_path}/members"
      end

      class AccessLevel
        NO_ACCESS  = 0
        GUEST      = 10
        REPORTER   = 20
        DEVELOPER  = 30
        MAINTAINER = 40
        OWNER      = 50
      end
    end
  end
end


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Gulf Coast Ports Look Beyond the Box
By Jim Shaw
Ports along the Gulf Coast have been given at least another year to prepare for the opening of new locks at the Panama Canal but events in the shale oil industry may have already blunted the importance of that event for a number of southern gateways. In particular, production from the Eagle Ford shale formation in southwestern Texas has generated rapid construction of new crude and refined petroleum handling facilities at the Port of Corpus Christi, as well as at several other Gulf ports. LNG export terminals are also on the development agenda, with new facilities being proposed for the ports of Brownsville and Freeport, Texas, as well as at Mississippi's Port of Pascagoula.
In Alabama, a new coal terminal is being contemplated for development at the Port of Mobile, a facility that would be built adjacent to the port's existing McDuffie terminal. And containers and breakbulk cargoes have not been forgotten. New Orleans, Houston, Mobile and Tampa are all continuing to build for the box while steel and forest products continue to draw investment interest.
One of the largest southern projects, beyond the energy sector, is the on-going reconstruction of Mississippi's Port of Gulfport where $580 million is being spent to restore and expand infrastructure damaged by 2005's hurricane Katrina, an event now almost a decade old but from which several southern gateways have still not fully recovered. The Cruise industry is also showing growth and a number of Gulf ports, Galveston and New Orleans included, are building for it.
Corpus Christi Crude
In southwestern Texas it's oil that's leading the boom. The Eagle Ford formation, located only about a 100 miles distant from the Port of Corpus Christi, is currently producing more than 1.38 million barrels of crude and condensate a day, more than 20 times the 55,000 barrels it produced only four year ago. Within the port this has translated into more than 450,000 barrels of crude shipped each day compared to fewer than 10,000 at the start of 2012. The boom is generating about $22 billion in new construction at Corpus Christi alone, where the price of waterfront land available for development has more than tripled.
NuStar Energy LP, the nation's second-largest independent liquids terminal operator, recently opened its third petroleum dock at the port, which has doubled the company's loading capacity there to 30,000 barrels per hour. The docks used by NuStar are connected to a 1.6 million-barrel-capacity storage terminal fed directly from the Eagle Ford formation by two pipelines. Other firms investing in new infrastructure in the area include Cheniere Energy, Valero Energy Corporation, Castleton Commodities International and Magellan Midstream Partners.
The rapid investment and expansion has made Corpus Christi the most important energy hub in the US outside of Houston. To handle the massive increase in tanker traffic the port is preparing to widen and deepen its main navigation channel, which is currently limited to one-way traffic and daylight operation.
Corpus Christi Ore
Oil is not the only commodity sparking development at Corpus Christi. Earlier this year Austria's Voestalpine Group broke ground on the construction of a new $740 million plant at the port's La Quinta Trade Gateway development that will use iron ore to make hot-briquetted iron (HBI) for export. The facility will be powered by natural gas and will create 150 full-time jobs as well as about 800 construction jobs. As the largest foreign investment in the history of the Austrian group, the La Quinta facility is expected to produce two million tons of HBI and Direct Reduced Iron (DRI) annually once it comes on line in 2016.
According to Wolfgang Eder, CEO of Voestalpine AG, and head of Voestalpine's Steel Division, the Corpus Christi site, which covers an area of about two square kilometers, was chosen out of 17 potential locations around the world because it met certain key criteria, including logistics, inexpensive energy supply, stable political environment and well-trained local labor. "In the end, Texas was the most promising on all key criteria," said Eder, who noted that the La Quinta property is "superbly located right on Corpus Christi Bay and provides direct sea access for large ships." He also observed that the price of natural gas in Texas is about half of what it is in Europe, which will allow the company to "significantly enhance" the efficiency of its use of raw materials while, at the same time, demonstrating that this is possible while being responsible with the environment. About half of the plant's production is expected to be shipped to Europe while the other half will be retained as a "strategic reserve" and sold to long-term Voestalpine partners.
Brownsville Methane
South of Corpus Christi, the Port of Brownsville is considering a proposal by Houston-based Texas LNG that would see a barge-mounted methane exporting facility positioned at the port. The company's CEO, Vivek Chandra, and COO, Langtry Meyer, were in Brownsville earlier this year to discuss the project with local officials. The company's plan calls for a gas liquefaction plant to be built on a barge that would be fabricated overseas then floated to Brownsville where it would be permanently sited along the Brownsville Ship Channel. The plant would then be fed methane gas via a yet-to-be-constructed pipeline directly from the Eagle Ford Shale deposit.
After liquefaction, the gas would be exported to Asia by ship. Chandra estimates that around 300 engineering/construction jobs would be created by the project and that about 150 employees would be needed to operate and manage the finished facility. The required pipeline would have to be built and maintained by another party and the Brownsville Public Utility Board has already expressed interest in this project because of its plans to build a new gas-fed power generating plant at Brownsville.
Independent pipeline operators are also said to be considering the construction of a pipeline into the Brownsville area that would connect the city to the nation's gas pipeline grid. The proposed Texas LNG plant could serve as an "anchor tenant" for such a line but other customers could be served. According to Chandra, Texas LNG has applied to the Department of Energy for a Free Trade Agreement export permit and plans to be liquefying natural gas for export at Brownsville by 2018.
Houston Celebration
Eastward, the Port of Houston has been celebrating the 100th anniversary of its shipping channel, although the waterway was blocked by a major oil spill only two months ago. Last year, the Texas port handled 2 million TEUs and 36 million tons of cargo while recording $231 million in operating revenue, all new records. In addition, its 6 percent increase in the handling of loaded containers outpaced all other US ports while improved grain and coal exports helped generate a 13 percent increase in dry bulks. The port's next big project is to get sections of the Houston Ship Channel widened and deepened to accommodate the larger ships expected from the Panama Canal expansion. Specifically, the channels leading to the port's Bayport and Barbours Cut container terminals need deepening work. Port officials expect the Army Corps of Engineers to issue permits shortly for approximately $100 million worth of dredging that will bring channel depth at both facilities down to 45 feet.
The port is also gearing up for investment being generated by the shale oil boom. A survey commissioned last year found that as much as $35 billion is expected to be spent on new or expanded petroleum, chemical and gas facilities in the Houston area over the next few years. ExxonMobil Chemical is already building a new ethylene cracker in the Baytown area and is adding more polyethylene capacity to its facility in Mont Belvieu. At the same time, the Chevron Phillips Chemical Company is building a new ethane cracker at Cedar Bayou while Phillips 66 is adding two 500,000 metric ton capacity polyethylene plants to its Sweeny Refinery. Such has been the level of investment interest that Houston's new Executive Director, Roger Guenther, said he has been receiving calls from area petrochemical companies asking him directly whether the port will able to handle the extra traffic, which he notes is a "first" in his 26-year career at the port.
Mobile Coal
Petroleum is not the only commodity sparking investment interest along the Gulf. Coal, which has not yet found a major outlet on the US West Coast, has been flowing in volume from several southern gateways, including Mobile, Alabama where the McDuffie Coal Terminal accounted for two-thirds of port revenue in the first half of the port's fiscal year. Although total port tonnage at Mobile was down through the half, coal volumes were ahead of budget by 19 percent. This helped offset a 10 percent decline in general cargo volumes. Port Executive Director Jimmy Lyons noted that some steel handled at Mobile, mainly for movement up the Tombigbee River by barge, is not reported in port statistics. Still, general cargo generated $17.7 million in revenue through the period, nearly 10 percent more than expected.
Looking at expanding coal exports, the port is considering a proposal by Birmingham, Alabama-based Walter Energy to build a new $140 million coal terminal on the site of the old Mobile River Terminal, which Walter purchased from Warrior & Gulf Navigation four years ago. The coal company is currently moving its export coal through the McDuffie facility but would need the additional capacity of the new terminal, expected to total between 3 million and 5 million tons annually, to meet the needs of its recently acquired Yellow Creek mine in northern Alabama. While there has been some local opposition to the project, largely because of possible air pollution, Dan Grucza, vice-president of environment for the mining company, said that covered conveyors and fog control devices, including 16 water cannons, would be used to control dust and limit air pollution from handling and loading operations.
Gulfport Restoration
In neighboring Mississippi the Port of Gulfport is one of the few American ports to have a Port Restoration Director position, and Joe Conn has had full-time work in that position as Gulfport both rebuilds and expands its infrastructure following the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina almost ten years ago. In April, the port commission authorized port officials to start advertising for more than $100 million in bids covering new construction, with private investment expected to add another $150 million before the end of the year. This includes a substantial upgrading of facilities maintained by DuPont as well as $58 million to be spent by Island View Casino to restore its main hotel at the port.
Hattiesburg, Mississippi-based L&A Contracting has already been awarded a $55.8 million contract to rebuild the port's West Pier wharf. This will see much of the 3,000-foot-long wharf demolished so that nearly 700 new pilings can be driven and a new wharf face built. The stronger pilings will allow the structure to support three all-electric rail-mounted gantry cranes expected to be acquired from China's Shangai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Company at a cost of nearly $30 million. The new units will replace the port's two existing diesel-powered cranes, which are to be sold or dismantled. In addition, the port is working with the US Army Corps of Engineers on a dredging project that will deepen Gulfport's main entrance channel down to its original 36-foot depth. In March, the federal government agreed to increase the amount it will provide for the project by an extra $1 million while the port will kick in nearly $8 million.
The restoration and expansion work has persuaded Crowley Latin America Services, one of the port's two major shipping lines, to extend its facilities lease for another two years. At the start of this year the Gulf Coast Shipyard Group (GCSG) signed a three-year lease for space on the port's East Pier that will be used to fit out a series of new LNG-powered offshore supply vessels being built for Louisiana's Harvey Gulf.
Regional Cruising Grows
In the cruise sector, the Port of Galveston, Texas, already the fourth busiest cruise port nationally, is planning the construction of a third cruise terminal. In April, the port's governing body, the Wharves Board of Trustees, approved the commissioning of Los Angeles-based McTigue Architecture and Design to accomplish preliminary concept design work for the facility. Within the same month Carnival Cruise Lines announced it will add a third year-round cruise ship to the port starting early next year when the 2,974 passenger Carnival Freedom launches a new seven-day Caribbean program. This will mark the first time that a cruise line has deployed three year-round ships in Texas. The repositioning will represent a 38 percent capacity increase for the line in Galveston. At the same time, the Texas port is moving forward with $10 million in improvements to one of its two existing terminals as part of a five-year deal signed with Royal Caribbean Cruises, which sails year-round from Galveston.
According to port director, Mike Mierzwa, cruising is "a big income earner" for Galveston, with forty percent of the port's operating revenue now coming from the sector. Construction of the new terminal would mean more capacity plus the potential for more business, particularly as competition along the Gulf for cruise ships heats up. Only last year the Port of Houston gained the business of Princess Cruises, which will use the port's newly opened Bayport cruise terminal.
Although Louisiana's Port of New Orleans is considered too distant to be viewed as competition, it is also moving forward with expansion projects and recently completed a $2.3 million upgrade of its Erato Street Cruise Terminal to host Carnival Cruise Line's 3,646-passenger Carnival Dream, the largest cruise ship to be home-ported in Louisiana.
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Haematologists are revolutionising how we treat disease
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Professor Jo Martin
President of The Royal College of Pathologists
Professor Jo Martin, the President of The Royal College of Pathologists explains how haematologists are revolutionising the way we treat and manage disease through innovations like gene therapy.
As President of The Royal College of Pathologists, it's a privilege to belong to an organisation with members who are experts in healthcare research, innovation and treatment. None more so than in the treatment of blood disorders.
The expertise of pathologists is fundamental to the health and well-being of people from birth to the end of life. The majority of the College's 11000 members are doctors and scientists working in hospitals and universities in the UK. The College oversees the training of pathologists and scientists working in 19 different specialties, of which haematology is one.
Pioneering haematologists
An example of how haematologists are revolutionising how we treat and manage disease is the results of a gene therapy trial for patients with Haemophilia A, hereditary genetic condition. People with severe haemophilia A have virtually none of the protein factor VIII which is essential for blood to clot. It puts those affected at risk of excessive bleeding even from the slightest injury as well as causing spontaneous internal bleeding, which can be life-threatening.
Led by College Fellow Professor John Pasi, Haemophilia Centre Director at Barts Health NHS Trust at Barts and Queen Mary University, the trial showed remarkable results. Thirteen patients who were given the gene therapy, a genetically engineered virus which enabled recipients to start producing the blood clotting protein factor VIII, were off their haemophilia medication a year on. Eleven of the patients were also producing near-normal levels of factor VIII.
These results could be transformational for patients with haemophilia, making current treatment with regular intravenous injections of factor concentrates to control bleeding a thing of the past.
The results may also point the way to help correct other genetic diseases such as Von Willibrand Disease a genetic disorder caused by missing or defective von Willebrand factor (VWF), a clotting protein. VWF binds factor VIII, a key clotting protein, and platelets in blood vessel walls, which help form a platelet plug during the clotting process.
Molecular testing is also radically changing how haematologists diagnose blood disorders. An example of cutting edge research leading to mainstream clinical practice is the introduction of minimal residual disease (MRD) analysis in treating children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) – a type of cancer.
MRD analysis is a form of genetic fingerprinting of the leukaemia cells which will allow leukaemia cells to be detected at very low levels. Doctors use this test to tailor a child with ALL's treatment to their individual needs.
The aim is not only to improve the chance of cure in children but to reduce toxicity by not giving them more treatment than they need.
MRD analysis reflects nearly 16 years of work led by the Medical Research Council's paediatric leukaemia trials group. The use of MRD analysis has led to a 10% increase in survival rates for children with ALL.