Insurance companies, like many others within financial services, are often undertaking large Software Development projects to develop new and improve existing systems.
Often driven by new commercial or regulatory requirements, the types of changes required to modify legacy systems and integrate systems together that were never previously designed to work together are the types of project that typically qualify for R&D Tax Credits.
For an Insurance project to qualify for R&D Tax Credits, it must adhere the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) guidelines that define R&D for Tax Purposes.
The Project must contain Scientific or Technological Uncertainty, which you must attempt to overcome to realise the Advance.
Insurance being a business, rather than a Technological sector, means that the Advance must be relative to the current industry baseline within Technology (or more specifically Software Development). We see that a significant proportion of companies often go wrong with Insurance claims when they baseline their Technology just against Insurance functionality (e.g. a system that can deal with Solvency II requirements). Hence, the Advance can't be that the company is applying Technology for the business needs but rather it needs to be a Technological Advance versus the baseline of software development knowledge and capability.
The industry baseline often sounds like a high hurdle to many competent professionals, but, companies working on implementing Solvency II requirements into an existing platform may need to fundamentally rewrite existing frameworks, introducing new uncertainties around extensibility and performance - the types of challenges that would qualify as R&D for Tax Purposes.
We have seen many forms of Technological Uncertainty on Insurance software projects. For example, it could be where the competent professional/s are uncertain how to achieve the Technological solution in practice or where there are several ways to develop the desired security of the Insurance software, but each way may have potential pitfall for performance, stability and extensibility.
How to design and develop the Technology to take into account each of these would bring about the Uncertainty.


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Karen Skinner	Country Director, Change.org
Karen is a social movement leader, campaign strategist, innovator and thought leader on digital and offline campaigning.
She's also a regular media commentator on issues including the future of democracy, innovation in campaigning and protest, combatting political disillusionment, empowering the voiceless and the triumph of people power. Karen has featured most recently in the Sydney Morning Herald, Daily Telegraph, ABC News and Lateline
In 2012 Karen led the launch of Change.org in Australia. She has grown the user base to 3.6 million meaning one in seven Australians have now signed or started a Change.org petition. A petition now wins a victory every 24 hours in Australia. Karen has empowered petition starters to decriminalise medicinal cannabis, get domestic violence prevention lessons in schools and cap credit card surcharges.
Always at the forefront of campaign innovation, Karen has more than 15 years experience in leading union, political and social issue campaigns across Australia and New Zealand. In the past, that has included serving as the National Student President for the New Zealand University Students' Association, several campaign roles within Australia's leading unions, a marginal seat campaign manager and the National Coordinator for the 'Say Yes' carbon price campaign.

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The Arctic LNG 2 project has made significant development progress since May 2018. Front-end engineering and design ("FEED") work has been completed in October confirming the preliminary cost estimates between $20 billion and $21 billion. Moreover, additional exploration drilling confirmed significant reserve growth at the Project's Utrenneye field, and accordingly, the Russian state reserves commission subsequently increased the field's natural gas reserves to approximately two trillion cubic meters under the Russian reserves classification.
Total consideration includes a payment for the 10% participation interest as well as financing for the Project through the capital of Arctic LNG 2.
The Arctic LNG 2 project envisages constructing three LNG trains at 6.6 million tons per annum each, using gravity-based structure (GBS) platforms. The Project is based on the hydrocarbon resources of the Utrenneye field. As of 31 December 2018, the Utrenneye field's 2P reserves under PRMS totaled 1,138 billion cubic meters of natural gas and 57 million tons of liquids. Under the Russian classification reserves totaled 1,978 billion cubic meters of natural gas and 105 million tons of liquids. Arctic LNG 2 owns an LNG export license.


Luminous skin is the best base for almost every look – and it's actually super easy to nail.
Smooth on liquid foundation using your fingers. Start the application around the T zone and spread it outwards. Remember to spread it right down onto your neck so you don't get an awks makeup line that everyone will want to tell you about but won't.
To groom your brows, use a little brush to shape them, then blend a creamy highlighter crayon along each brow bone to create a sculpted feel. Make sure they're even.
Using a thicker crayon, illuminate your temples and the apples of your cheeks.
Sweep a translucent power over your entire face to set your base, focusing on your oiliest bits. For example, my T-zone is basically a reflector big enough to light a Kimmy K photoshoot, so I go hard there.
Finally, contour your cheeks by dusting bronzer beneath your highlighter.


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Real Estate Downtown
Atlantic Avenue sites to watch in the new year
Eye On Real Estate
January 1, 2014 By Lore Croghan Brooklyn Daily Eagle
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The corner of Atlantic Avenue and Boerum Place is a pretty bleak place. Three projects could really spiff the place up.
* 66 Boerum Place: The foundation is being constructed at this development. Midtown Equities is in charge of the project, with Alex Adjmi as a partner.
The Buildings Department has approved foundations and structural framing work for a three-story commercial building at 66 Boerum Place – which presumably will be the base of the 160,000-square-foot mixed-use development Midtown Equities plans for the site. It will include a combination of new retail, office and residential space, the firm's website says.
A Midtown Equities staffer sent over a rendering – it looks like the final project will be nine stories tall, with lots of glass on the bottom three floors.
* 252 Atlantic Ave.: Construction is at a standstill on Atlantic Galleria, which is on another corner of Atlantic Avenue and Boerum Place.
Pier 1 and Retro Fitness have signed up as tenants of the planned retail building at 252 Atlantic Ave., which is supposed to be 48,750 square feet in size, and two stories tall with a basement.
In September, Adir Cohen, the director of leasing and acquisitions at developer Renaissance Realty Group, said project work had stopped because steel beams had to be brought from Canada, and they'd arrive in three weeks.
It's been three months. It's still as silent as a tomb on the site. What's up?
"I'm not liberty to discuss this right now," said Cohen, who promised to get back to us. We didn't hear from him by deadline.
* 262 Atlantic Ave.: A third project that will liven up the corner of Boerum Place and Atlantic Avenue is waiting for somebody to hit the start button. The 262 Atlantic Ave. site – an empty lot with vehicles parked on it – is right next to 252 Atlantic Ave.
Laundry Capital, a firm that made it big in the self-service laundry business, plans a two-story retail building at 262 Atlantic Ave. The Buildings Department gave its okay last summer.
October 27, birthdays for Matt Drudge, Marla Maples, Brandon Saad
January 1 | By Lore Croghan
BAM Cultural District projects to Watch in 2014
https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2014/01/01/atlantic-avenue-sites-to-watch-in-the-new-year/


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Takekawa, J. Y., A. K. Miles, D. H. Schoelhamer, N. D. Athearn, M. K. Saiki, W. G. Duffy, S. Kleinschmidt, G. G. Shellenbarger and C. A. Jannusch. 2006. Trophic structure of avian communities across a salinity gradient in evaporation ponds of the San Francisco Bay estuary. Hydrobiologia 567:307-327.
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It's been a whie since the brother and sister duo have appeared on TV screens in Ireland, or anywhere else for that matter, but now they're back. The red head pair will compete in RTE's latest charity show over the next two weeks.
In Kyiv in 2005 Donna & Joe McCaul could only manage a 13th place finish in the semi-final but they'll be looking to improve their track record by winning 'Failte Towers' a celebrity charity show based on eighties BBC comedy 'Fawlty Towers'. It should be stated that 'Failte' is the Irish word for Welcome which probably makes more sense to our non Irish speaking readers. 12 "celebrities" will face the task of running a hotel for over two weeks with only the help of three hospitality industry experts for help.
24-hour room service, catering for 25 people twice daily and cleaning all rooms every morning are just some of the things likely to push the contestants to the limit of their sanity. Other celebrities that are due to compete are Brian Dowling (Big Brother 2 winner), Evelyn Cusack (RTE weather woman), Claire Tully (Page 3 model) and Jennifer Maguire (The Apprentice 2008 candidate).
The show comes in a long line of RTE celebrity based programming. The powers that be at RTE have already let celebrities run a farm and a radio station, and they've also banished a bunch of "well known" people to the wilds of Connemara for a week to tough it out and face a series of challenging trials.


Attendance tracking is an integral a part of any martial arts faculty that desires to make sure excessive student retention. When college students attending the California schools take a course in drama, they aren't just studying about appearing. WHAT CAN WE TEACH: On the Universal Faculty of Arts in Conyers, Georgia we teach the normal Korean martial arts of Jungdokwan Taekwondo and Haemukwan Hapkido.
It would be best to select a program that is accredited and has a high success ratio from former students. The College of Visual Arts is proud to announce its new Emphasis in Drawing and Illustration. Seven British Faculty of Boston college students were honored this week as part of Celebrating Art, a nationwide art competition.


A Mexican official said on Monday that the government would strengthen measures to protect journalists, the day after a sports reporter became the latest in a long list of media workers to be murdered.
Mexico is one of the world's most dangerous countries for reporters, with at least 124 media workers killed since 2000, according to rights group Article 19.
Encinas said 790 people are under the program's watch, including 292 journalists and 498 human rights activists.
"The mechanism has fundamentally reactive measures, they don't address prevention," Encinas said at Lopez Obrador's daily news conference. "We are going to fully assume our responsibility."
"This goes from people connected to criminal groups, to even authorities from various parts of government," Encinas said of the suspects.
On Monday, the Sinaloa state prosecutor's office said it opened a homicide investigation into the killing of Ivan Camacho, who covered sports for local Altavoz radio. The 36-year-old was found dead Sunday night on a highway in the state, which has seen extensive violence from warring drug cartels.
Lopez Obrador, a leftist who has vowed to wipe out corruption, said the issue would require "permanent follow-up."
He also took aim at reporting that he has described as conservative, unfair and out-of-touch.
"There is a 'fifi' press," Lopez Obrador said, using the term he coined to describe the coverage. "They're our adversaries."


DOB : 2nd November, 1956.
Recruited from the Gippsland town of Trafalgar, Gary Milroy was a giant ruckman or key forward who played Under 19 football for Carlton from 1974 to 1975, and Reserves football from 1975 to 1977.
Son of the Blues' 1954 Best and Fairest award winner Bill Milroy, Gary was given the honour of wearing Carlton's iconic number 2 guernsey in 1977 – the same number his father had carried for much of his 90-game career at Princes Park. After Bill retired in 1956, number 2 was then handed to a raw young recruit named John Nicholls – who wore with absolute distinction for the next 17 years.
Trivia buffs love the fact that Bill and Gary Milroy were the two Blues who wore Big Nick's number before and after the Great Man – even though Gary didn't manage to play a senior game for Carlton.
In 1978, after leaving Princes Park, Gary played VFA football for Coburg where he was first ruck in their 1979 premiership team.
1979 VFA Club Coburg Premiership Ruckman Gary Milroy.
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Ex-Mayor in Mexico Admits Role in the Murder of a Journalist
By Joshua Summers First Posted: Jun 17, 2021 04:07 AM EDT
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A former mayor in northern Mexico was sentenced to eight years of imprisonment after admitting his role to the murder of a journalist in 2017.
Mexico News Daily reported that a court in Chihuahua state handed down the sentence to the former mayor of Chinipas, Hugo Amed Schultz Alcaraz, on Tuesday, June 15.
According to AFP, Schultz was arrested last December for his involvement in the killing of journalist Miroslava Breach in Chihuahua city.
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Ex-Mayor in Mexico Gets 8 Years in Prison in Journalist's Death
Hugo Amed Schultz Alcaraz's sentence was made shorter after he accepted some of the terms the court has offered to him.
Apart from the eight years of jail time, Schultz, a member of the conservative National Action Party (PAN), was barred from running for public office in the future and the right to appeal.
He was also ordered to provide monetary compensation and make a public apology to Miroslava Breach's family for his role as an accomplice.
According to investigators, the former mayor provided information to the organized crime group that carried out the killing that drew international condemnation.
Juan Carlos Moreno, also known for his alias "El Larry," was allegedly the "intellectual author" of the murder. He was sentenced to 50 years imprisonment last August.
Miroslava Breach, who wrote a series of reports on drug trafficking networks in the state, was shot eight times in the head on March 23, 2017.
"I am very sorry that actions on my part contributed to her (Breach) regrettable murder," Schultz said in his public apology.
As he expressed his apology to Breach's family, the former mayor acknowledged that his contribution affected the journalist's rights, adding that he regretted "the consequences that they resulted in."
"The absence of Miroslava Breach as a critical journalistic voice has undoubtedly affected the right of society to public information," Schultz noted.
Reports said that Jose Luevano Rodriguez, former state leader of the PAN, allegedly ordered his former spokesman Alfredo Piñera to question and record Breach about the sources of her stories.
The said audio recordings were then handed to Schultz, who passed them onto Moreno. More than four years after the journalist's death, there is still an arrest warrant pending for one other suspected intellectual author of the murder and a driver Jaciel "N." Rodriguez and Piñera are still at liberty.
Mexico Journalist Killings
Watchdog Reporters Without Borders rated Mexico as one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists. According to AFP, Miroslava Breach is one of the more than 100 journalists murdered in Mexico since 2000.
Meanwhile, data from Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) showed that between 1992 and 2021, 57 journalists in Mexico were killed. Four of them died due to dangerous assignments.
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SpaceX likely to spin off Starlink satellite business and pursue an IPO
By Vivien Hantusch
SpaceX, the rocket company founded by Elon Musk may spin off its Starlink satellite business and pursue an IPO, SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell told investors at a private investor conference hosted by JPMorgan Chase. While SpaceX itself will stay private for the foreseeable future, Shotwell said that Starlink, SpaceX's burgeoning satellite business, might be "the right kind of business that [SpaceX] can go ahead and take public".
The company has recently launched the fourth batch of Starlink satellites, making it the third launch of V1.0 satellites after the first experimental V0.9 batch in May 2019. With ~240 operational satellites in orbit, SpaceX is now the largest satellite operator by active satellites, surpassing Planet Labs. Shotwell announced in 2019 that there would be around 24 Starlink launches in 2020, if everything goes according to plan.
SpaceX is leveraging its experience in building rockets and spacecraft to deploy the world's most advanced broadband internet system, targeting service in the Northern United States + Canada in 2020 and near global coverage of the populated world by 2021.
With performance that far surpasses that of traditional satellite internet, and a global network unbounded by ground infrastructure limitations, Starlink will deliver high speed broadband internet to locations where access has been unreliable, expensive, or completely unavailable.
– Starlink.com
In 2019, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said that if Starlink could get a few percent of the global telecommunications market, it could net revenue of $30B to $50B a year – or about 10 times the highest annual revenue SpaceX expects from its core rocket business.
By making reusability their primary objective, SpaceX is has completely cornered the market in cheap launch. As a heavily vertically integrated company being its own customer, SpaceX is also able to launch Starlink satellites for about 1/10th of the price per kg of the original Iridium constellation.
With Starship, that price advantage is only going to get bigger. While Falcon 9 can squeeze about 60 of the flat satellites into its fairing, Starship will be able to deliver 400 Starlink satellites into Low Earth Orbit – per launch.
In addition, austenitic stainless steel, in particular Type 301, is much cheaper than carbon fiber, which SpaceX was originally going to use, – by a huge margin: Carbon fiber costs $135 per kilogram, and 35 percent of the stuff must be scrapped, making the true cost of the material nearly $200 per kg, compared to just $3 for stainless steel. 301's – or 30X, which is the customized alloy SpaceX will use later – high melting point and increased strength at cryogenic temperatures are further advantages.
Even without Starlink and Starship, SpaceX is already one of the most valuable private companies, and, during its most recent funding round, was valued at roughly $33.3B. Shotwell has said in the past the high demand for SpaceX shares allows the company to be "very picky about who invests".
While SpaceX was able to demonstrate internet speeds of 610 megabits per second to a C-12 military transport plane in flight, Starlink is still in a very early stage, making it unlikely for the IPO to happen anytime soon.
Also, by retaining a major stake and controlling vote in Starlink, SpaceX will likely still be able to use the income generated by Starlink to fund its ambitious Mars plans. The company may even retain the satellite manufacturing business as a whole, and establish Starlink as a purely service-oriented business with subscription customers and recurring revenue.
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Tesla's Giga Berlin Can Secure Ample Water Supply, Says WSE
Today is the second anniversary of SpaceX Falcon Heavy's inspiring debut flight that launched a Tesla Roadster to space


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Antonio Franco Florensa, né le  à Lérida (Catalogne, Espagne) et mort le  dans la même ville, est un footballeur espagnol qui jouait au milieu de terrain avec le  entre 1934 et 1943.

Biographie

Il commence à jouer avec l'Espanyol de Barcelone en 1932. En 1934, il est recruté par le FC Barcelone où il joue jusqu'en 1943. Il est capitaine de l'équipe lors des dernières saisons. Il joue 131 matchs et marque 3 buts. Il est membre de l'équipe championne de la Coupe d'Espagne en 1942.

Le , un match d'hommage est organisé en son honneur entre le FC Barcelone et le Real Madrid (victoire 4 à 0 du Barça).

Il devient ensuite entraîneur de l' entre 1944 et 1947.

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 Vainqueur de la Coupe d'Espagne en 1942 ;
 Champion de Catalogne en 1935, 1936 et 1938.

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Naissance en octobre 1911
Naissance à Lérida
Décès en juin 1996
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With Australopithecus bahrelghazali (Abel) and Sahelanthropus tchadensis (Toumaï),
two hominids fossils, Chad is a potential Cradle of Humanity
2001 07 31 Le Figaro Chad, Cradle of Humanity
2002 07 11 Le Figaro p. 10 The Oldest Ancestor of the Man is Chadian
Alain Beauvilain : Toumaï, l'aventure humaine. Editions de La Table Ronde, Paris, 2003, 239 pages, 23 photographs. ISBN 2-7103-2592-6.
Price 2003 of the Overseas Sciences Academy (France)
Nodé-Langlois Fabrice : "True history of Toumaï". Paris, March 11, 2003, p. 26.
DOCUMENT on July 19th, 2001, a French and three Chadians discover our older ancestor.
In exclusiveness, extracts and photographs of their account
The cranium of Toumaï, old more than 6 million years old, as it was at the time of its discovery, and never presented to the public, capped with a sandstone crust blackened by manganese. Photography Alain Beauvilain.
True history of Toumaï
Fabrice Nodé-Langlois
There was Lucy, the grandmother of all us. Today there is Toumaï. Its complete fossilized cranium, a man more than 6 million years old, made the headlines last July in the British scientific review of reference, Nature, but also of the media of the entire world. A new candidate for the oldest human ancestor had been just baptized. The scientific name of this new species discovered one year ago : Sahelanthropus tchadensis, in reference to these which lived, 3 million years before Lucy, in the desert of Chad, 2 500 km west of the Rift valley, hitherto regarded as the cradle of humanity.
The scientific father of Toumaï is French, Michel Brunet of the University of Poitiers. His smile completed with beard also appeared in the world press last summer. For this paleontologist, already discoverer in 1995 of the jaw of Abel, the first Australopithecus found in West Africa, Toumaï crowns a career carried out with tenacity and perseverance from the Afghan valleys to Cameroon. For the public, but also a number of journalists, it is whithout doubt, the valiant Poitevin who discovered the cranium of Toumaï.
The readers of Le Figaro know that historical reality is different (1). It is the human shutter of this adventure which the work published the day after tomorrow by the editions La Table Ronde (2). The author is not Michel Brunet, but one of the discoverers on the ground, Alain Beauvilain.
This 19 July 2001, when the hominid cranium was seen in the sandstones of Djurab, Michel Brunet, head of the Franco-Chadian Paleontology Mission, was in Poitiers. This day, in the furnace of the Sahara, pushing forward the prospection of fossiliferous sites, reduced to the minimum, included only two cars and four men: three Chadians, Ahounta Djimdoumalbaye, Fanoné Gongdibé, Mahamat Adoum, and a Frenchman, Alain Beauvilain. It is the young person Ahounta, Bachelor student at the university of Djamena, specialist in the sorting of tiny fossil teeth, who found Toumaï.
Michel Brunet, on several occasions, qualified Ahounta as "the best fossil hunter in the team". In spite of this recognition, he and especially his three companions will be largely occulted from the press kit announcing the discovery, diffused in July 2002. And, more largely, almost erased from history.
Alain Beauvilain, geographer, author of a thesis on the north of Cameroon, is of those researchers who have Africa under their skin. After having taught at the university of Yaounde (1978 to 1989), he was in service at N'Djamena. He fells in love with the Chadian desert, for so long prohibited for science by the war and mines, and he organized twenty-eight scientific missions of prospection, most of them in search of fossils.
The first part of 'Toumaï, the Human Adventure' plunges us deep into the Djurab, this 19th July 2001. With simplicity, the geographer recounts the emotion of the first meeting with the Ancestor. He also details how him and his comrades pack the fossils in toilet paper, or recycle the mineral water bottles to protect the smallest samples, how the vehicles get stuck in the sand, or in the mud when the rain, as rare asit is violent, floods the Sahara. Alain Beauvilain continues with the events leading up the discovery, and recalls the circumstances when in January 1992 he invited Michel Brunet, who hunt the dinosaur in Cameroon, to give a conference to N'Djamena. In January 1994, the paleontologist from Poitiers carried out his first mexpedition in the Chadian Desert. The north of the country is depicted by the author as a natural and human inheritance as ignored as it is attractive, with its giant volcanic craters and its singular cave paintings.
The second part of the work is less exciting. It however shows at which point a discovery of the scale of that of Toumaï is the fruit of patience and perseverance, and how much the man must remain humble vis-a-vis the desert. As a geographer, Beauvilain explains how the wind and sand expose and cover the fossiliferous layers, and how he gradually learned to read the Djurab that he loves so much. The former "technical assistant" of the franco-chadian paleontology expeditions takes good care not to delve into the specialist debate about the identity of Toumaï : human ancestor or guenon ancestor of the gorillas? This controversy is just briefly mentioned.
In the months which followed the discovery of Toumaï, the atmosphere on the ground will be spoiled. At the time of the first return to the site "TM266", in October 2001, two researchers were added to the quartet of discoverers. One day, when examining the fossiliferous field with a fine comb, Beauvilain pointed out to one of these scientists from France who had just passed by the cheek teeth of a large herbivore, the Deinotherium, without seeing them. "If you knew what one tells on your back, you would make like me : to pass without seeing. Let the paleontologists find the fossils ", says him one. It is all there. The geographer, qualified as an "employee" in a mail of Michel Brunet, then tells the adventures which preceded the media advertisement last summer. To finish on a bitter note: "With my family I left Chad on December 31, 2002, after having worked twenty-four years in Central Africa. Professor Michel Brunet arrives at N'Djamena January 5, 2003. It will be his seventh mission in the desert. A photographer joined him on the 12th. Provided with a cast of Toumaï, they left on the 14th to discover TM266... "
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Bulletin of the Geological Society of France and the Office of Geological and Mining Research, June 2004.
Toumaï, the Human Adventure.
This adventure, above all is that of the author, a geographer who worked in Africa for thirty years, and who devoted much effort on the promotion of natural sciences in Chad. The main part of this book is devoted to his field expeditions in the hostile environment of the Chadian Desert, confronted with extreme temperatures, difficulty of travelling, sandstorms, and equipment failures. Despite all these obstacles, the great satisfaction which discovery yields is often present, and Alain Beauvilain can speak about it without useless emphasis.
If the adventure finishes rather badly for the author, it is not because of an inhospitable environment, but because of human nature in some of its not very attractive aspects. When paleontological research started in Chad in the 1990's Alain Beauvilain contributed significantly to it but our geographer notes that cohabitation with certain paleontologists from France was as easy as it was with geologists, when it was a question of exploring the volcanos of Tibesti or the meteoritic craters lost in the middle of the desert. When the scientific stakes go up with the discovery of hominid remains, the resulting atmosphere is degraded, where abuse of power becomes the order of the day, discourtesy, and the mania for secrecy. July 19th, 2001, at the time of a field expedition with three Chadians, one of them, Ahounta Djimdoumalbaye, a student of natural science, discovered the well preserved cranium of an ancient hominid, which became universally known under the name of Toumaï (following a questionable fashion for giving nicknames to paleontological specimens), and who will be introduced as the earliest known representative of the human line (even if other interpretations were proposed). Things then turn really bad, because the cranium was not found by "the right" people. To some extent the scenario of discovery is not what was wanted in certain circles of French paleontology. Alain Beauvilain then discovered the sordid aspects of the small world of the paleoanthropology : it will be necessary for him to undergo vexations, administrative (even political) pressures, the rewriting of history, all driven by a thirst for being glory in the media. Everyone knows that scientists are no more saintly than other men, but this account leaves a feeling of indisputable disgust. Perhaps some people will regret that Alain Beauvilain did not throw a modest veil over the matter which really lacks elegance, but it is not useless to reveal such behaviour, known in scientific circles, but often ignored by the public. And if anyone feels that they were wrongly criticized, then nothing is to prevent them presenting their own version of the facts.
The press tells us that attempts were made to withraw the book, which is definitely disturbing, from sale. Thus hasten to read it, it is edifying.
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(Historians and Geographers), 2004, n° 386.
Alain Beauvilain, geographer, doctor and senior lecturer in Paris X-Nanterre, remained twenty-four years in Central Africa, where he undertook his work of thesis and taught many years at the University of Yaounde. At the following day of the disorders in the North of Chad and the Françoise Claustre afffair, he took part in at the side of local researchers and French teachers on expediion, with the location of the fossiliferous deposits revealed by erosion in the ancient sediments of the Chadian basin until the discovery of "Toumaï" the subject of this book. Conceived like a detailed account, almost from day to day, the patient search of layers and the collecting of the most interesting parts without anything to hide the difficulties of the task in the middle of the desert, the work thus patiently carries out us from one campaign to the other until the event which, in July 2001, rewarded this collective search: the discovery of a complete cranium of Australopithecus, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, west of the great African Rift!
The work, abundantly illustrated, is in four parts. The first, around fifty pages long, reports "the discovery of Toumaï", reports the circumstances leading up to it and recalls the other lucky finds which prepared the way since the find in January 1995 of "Abel", Australopithecus barhelghazali, in the north of the country, a good quarter century after the discovery in 1961, by Yves Coppens, of "Tchadanthrope". There follows a chapter packed with "the start of the researches", an occasion to evoke their slow progression and the accompanying efforts carried out in parallel in the capital for "developing the acquired knowledge and to restore it to the authorities and the Chadian population '' (p. 60 to 149). In the third part, "the research of the parents", that is to say a new thorough examination of the discovery site in search of other evidence of human presence and of "biogeochronologic markers" in a satisfactory quantity with, in conclusion, some elements of interpretation proposed by the author who, one must remember, is not a specialist in paleontology.
The work ends with about fifty pages evoking the immediate repercussions of the event, at the local and international levels, as well as the efforts of the discovery team to avoid being robbed of their discovery. Because the history from then on, becomes rather rocambolesque and, vis-a-vis at the obvious risk of collecting notoriety, one includes/understands better the reasons behind the meticulous description of the successive excavation campaigns which comprises the heart of the book. The goal is to testify, indeed, to the eyes of the world, the quality of the sustained effort and the role played in the discovery of the oldest fossil hominid by a welded team of obstinated researchers thus refuting, even with the consent of Yves Coppens, of the scenario of the "East Side Story" which he erected a scaffolding on the basis of the many human fossils until then discovered in East Africa.
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data <- data.frame(id=c(1,2,2,2),
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and this line of code that's working fine:
df<-cast(data,id~code,fun.aggregate=sum)

Then I create the following variables:
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CODE <- "code"

and use the variables as arguments in the cast function:
df <- cast(data, ID~CODE, fun.aggregate=sum)

Then I get the following error:
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How can I use variables instead of the columns' name with the cast function?

A: You need to construct a formula:
cast(data, as.formula(paste(ID, CODE, sep="~")), fun.aggregate=sum)

However, package reshape has been superseded by package reshape2 (have a look at its function dcast and see @Ananda Mahto's comment). The reshape function in base R might also be of interest to you.

A: You can use do.call() as well:
do.call("cast", args = list(data = data, formula = paste(ID, '~', Code), fun.aggregate = "sum"))

Arguments can (but don't have to) be delivered as strings.

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Pair of Man's Solid Brass Spiral Ear Ornaments
Kenyah/Kayan Dayak People, Sarawak, Borneo
diameter: 2.6cm, combined weight: 90g
Acquired in the UK, from the estate collection of Dr George Yuille Caldwell (1924-2016). Dr Caldwell, an English-born physician moved to Singapore in the 1950s, from where he built up a collection of mostly Borneo-related textiles and other ethnographica.
Ear ornaments of brass were signs of prestige and power. This pair of Kenyah Dayak solid cast brass ornaments of spiral form meant for a man weigh about 45 grams each and as such are both ear pendants and weights, designed to help stretch the earlobes to exaggerated lengths.
They also have a superb smoothness and dark-golden patina that has come from years of handling and wear.
Earrings of this size and weight would have been reserved for a person of significant prestige.
A related, single ear pendant of spiral form is illustrated in Hoeket al(2004, p. 228).
The examples here are in fine condition, and have a good 'feel' in the hand from age and wear.
Brinkgreve, F., & D.J. Stuart-Fox (eds), Living with Indonesian Art: The Frits Liefkes Collection, Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde, 2013.
Hoek, C., et al, Ethnic Jewellery: From Africa, Asia and Pacific Islands, Pepin Press, 2004.
Richter, A., The Jewelry of Southeast Asia, Thames & Hudson, 2000.
Rodgers, S., Power and Gold: Jewelry from Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, The Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva, 3rd ed. 1995.


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Filchneria omvat de volgende soorten:
Filchneria amabilis (Jewett, 1958)
Filchneria balcarica Balinsky, 1950
Filchneria furcifera Navás, 1936
Filchneria heteroptera (Wu, 1938)
Filchneria irani (Aubert, 1964)
Filchneria kuenluensis (Šámal, 1935)
Filchneria mesasiatica Zhiltzova, 1971
Filchneria mongolica (Klapálek, 1901)
Filchneria nuristica (Brinck, 1950)
Filchneria olgae (McLachlan, 1875)
Filchneria shobhaae (Singh & Ghosh, 1969)
Filchneria tau (Klapálek, 1908)

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HomeThanksgiving Day HeadlineSurfer.com Politician of the Year Joyce Cusack: 'My word is my bond'
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Post Date:November 26, 2015
Headline Surfer video / Joyce Cusack speaks out against Council members having to bring their own brown bag lunches while municipal leaders are provided lunches at the monthly Mayors Roundtable. The county government arrangement was subsequently changed to include County Council members being provided lunches for free.
DELAND, Fla. -- Joyce Cusack is not afraid to speak up when something doesn't seem right and she is always willing to recognize good works.
One thing that stuck in her craw -- not for the cost, but the cause. In replacing the Volusia County of Governments with the Mayor's Roundtable, the county agreed to buy lunch for the municipal leaders at their one-a-month get-together at a community meeting room at Daytona Beach International Airport. That Cusack would have to bring her own bag lunch did not sit well with her -- considering she and her colleagues on the dais were the county's policy makers.
And so the policy was changed (you can watch the video to see her take on the situation).
Cusack had a lot to say in 2015, right from that first County Council meeting in January.
Take her opening statement, for example: "To the members of the Volusia County Council, and to the staff and to the citizens of Volusia County, I am extremely honored to have been given the opportunity to represent you as the at-large member on this council to be the at-large member in the case that every person that lives in Volusia County would have the opportunity to cast a vote in this election. And of the 154,627 people that voted for the at-large position, 84,174 or 55% of the voters in Volusia County gave me that esteemed honor. And I'm grateful."
Cusack continued, " To those that chose not to vote, chose not to be a part of this great celebration in my election, I say to you, I represent you and I will do all possible to earn the respect and courtesy of all of you. I'm honored that you would give me, a little girl from New Smyrna Beach, an opportunity to live and work and play in this great county we call Volusia County. I hope we can do some great things together. I want you to know that this is a partnership... I'm honored to be here today and to live in America, a country that provides an opportunity for all of its citizens.
Cusack concluded, "To the staff, I look forward to the next four years. I want you to know that I'm your partner, that they said four years ago, I left here giving the shots (vaccinations and such), I was the nurse of Volusia County for 13 years. Now I'm calling the shots. But remember, there are (seven) of us that will help be a part of calling the shots. I thank you, I applaud you and I look forward to our partnership."
And finally, it was Joyce Cusack who stuck to her guns when it came to the biggest issue of the year in politics -- beach driving.
At a May 7 public hearing, Cusack said she understood the concerns that had been raised by the individuals on both sides of this issue. She had previously pledged she would oppose further efforts to restrict beach driving and her vote would reflect this promise.
Cusack, who campaigned in 2014 for re-election with a promise she would not vote to take cars off the beach, said she would keep her pledge despite seeing merit in supporting two developments - a Westin and a Hard Rock Cafe. When it came to voting, Cusack stood alone against three related ordinances. "My word is my bond," Cusack said. "I will be voting 'no' today because I feel committed that I must do those things that I have indicated and promised that I would do."
Joyce Cusack, the at-large county councilwoman, who campaigned in 2014 for re-election with a promise she would not vote to take cars off the beach, said she would keep her pledge despite seeing merit in supporting two developments - a Westin and a Hard Rock Cafe. When it came to voting, Cusack stood alone against three related ordiances.
"My word is my bond," Cusack said. "I will be voting 'no' today because I feel committed that I must do those things that I have indicated and promised that I would do.
"The traffic-free zones for the Hard Rock and Westin would total 1,316 feet, close to the size of 4 ½ football fields. That equates to 87 beach parking spaces combined that will have to be replaced by developers and must provide direct access to the beach.Both hotels will have to provide a number of amenities including spa services and a concierge desk.
The projects would also have to be finished before beach driving is eliminated behind the properties. The Westin and Hard Rock would have to be completed by May 7, 2017, and Dec. 31, 2018, respectively.The third ordinance would allow new development and existing sites in the core district — between University Boulevard and Silver Beach Avenue — to invest in their properties in exchange for the elimination of beach driving behind their properties.
In order to get rid of beach driving behind properties, developers would have to replace a parking spot for every 15 feet of beach driving lost if the lot is on the east side of State Road A1A. Parking lots on the west side of the road would have to provide one space for every 10 feet of beach driving lost.
And so the beachside projects with cars to be removed were passed with one dissent -- that of Joyce Cusack, the HeadlineSurfer.com Central Florida Politician of the Year on this Thanksgiving for a second year in a row.
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And if you figured out what A and B was, could you apply this formula to not only the people you want to date, but yourself as well?
I'm still trying to figure out the A and B, LOL.
I think there should be some kind of valid formula to understand human nature or human characteristics. It's just stupid to keep making the same durn mistakes over and over again in a relationship. If there were a formula, you wouldn't have to keep guessing… Is this the one? Should I take that step out on faith with him or her? Can I trust them enough not to disrespect me and break my heart?
I mean that's so scary. I'm not afraid to admit it and say, I'm terrified like a mo'fo when it comes to being with a guy. As a Virgo, or it might just be my nature, I have to know what's going to happen. This could be my writer's brain doing because we're so in control of a story, but we have no control over life.
But we shouldn't be and I know this is bad, but damn! It just really pisses me off when I take that leap of faith and give him my heart and in the end I'm feeling like a tissue on the bottom of his shoe!
That is why I think we need a formula.
How about that? And I think it can also apply to me as well, right? LOL.


Yes, Shakespeare again... my apologies (but not really).
It also has a very promising start; a father is about to be executed for entering the city, but he gets the chance to explain himself to the duke. He tells him that he had a wife and two sons; twins. When they were born, there was an exceedingly poor wife who gave birth to another set of twins, and the father bought them to give to his twin sons, so they could attend them.
So when he, his wife, their twin sons and the bought twin brothers sail back home, there is a storm. They tie themselves to a wooden beam, mother, a son and a slave on one side and father, a son and a slave on the other side. And of course the beam breaks in half, and of course they are separated until the boys are all grown up.
Oh, and they didn't bother to give them separate names, too. Since they looked so much alike.
So when one of the twins, the one who lived with his father, decides to search for the other half of his family, this brings them to a city forbidden to their origin, where the father is arrested. And then mayhem and error happens. The slaves mix up their masters, one's wife doesn't get why her husband is suddenly in love with her sister, and a smithy demands payment for the commissioned chain he'd just given to his customer. Lots of facepalms assured.
I thought that this was a very clever play, and I'd recommend it to anyone who hasn't read Shakespeare yet because they think it'd be too difficult.
PS: apparently it was Shakespeare-day yesterday. I hope you celebrated this with writing a sonnet or sighing 'Romeo, oh Romeo' a few times.


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June 2016 - Participation in Athletics Continues to Grow
There are now 2.49million people taking part in athletics in England each week, newly released official figures have shown.
The number of people aged 14+ who take part in athletics, including running, on a weekly basis has risen 5% in the year to April 2016 Sport England's Active People Survey has found.
This means there are over 1million more people taking part in the sport each week compared to 10 years ago. The latest figure for those aged 16+ taking part on a weekly basis also rose to 2.35million.
With this summer's Olympic and Paralympic Games providing a great opportunity for more people to be inspired to take up athletics, as well as a wide range of ways to take part in the sport in communities across the country, England Athletics is confident the number of people involved will continue to rise.
England Athletics Chief Executive Chris Jones commented, "The latest figures from Active People are very positive and we have now seen 10 years of more and more people coming into the sport.
"This on-going long term trend is one that is a tribute to the work of many people, many of whom are volunteers working in clubs, in providing a very diverse range of ways people can enjoy athletics and be part of the sport.
"The past 10 years has seen more people from a wide cross section of the community becoming involved in athletics, for example we have seen a doubling of the number of women involved in the sport. We will continue to work hard, alongside people across athletics, to inspire and enable this widespread growth to continue, and to make athletics and running accessible to all members of the community.
"The Rio Olympic and Paralympic Games give another opportunity for people to be inspired to become involved in the sport where they are."
England Athletics Head of Running Participation Matt Birkett said, "Running is physical activity at its simplest. It's sport in its purest sense and a form of exercise in which anyone can be involved. It is this natural simplicity, as well as the obvious benefits to an individual's health and wellbeing, that attracts such a wide variety of people to take up and continue running.
"A diverse network of voluntary, commercial, charitable, and public sector organisations, and a huge number of volunteers, play an essential role in driving this sustained growth in participation by providing a wide variety of opportunities to get involved and stay involved. We are incredibly grateful to everyone who helps make the sport so attractive and accessible.
"Although we are delighted to see more and more people experiencing the benefits that athletics and running offers, we remain committed to working in partnership with others to build opportunities that make the sport even more accessible and inclusive."
The Sport England Active People Survey 10 (Quarter 2) figures cover the year to the end of April 2016 and are based on weekly participation of 30min or more.
The are now over 1 million more athletes taking part on a weekly basis compared to 10 years ago.
Over the same period the number of women participating has now more than doubled.
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More information on the Active People Survey can be found at www.sportengland.org.


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Frank B. Shaner, left, hosts "Make Me Laugh," a comedy show that features Melveen Leed, Mel Cabang and Jody Ballesteros (not pictured) on Saturday. Shaner's radio career is back on track after more than a year off the airwaves.
Frank B. Shaner is refreshed and ready for comedy along with his KUMU gig
By Jason Genegabus
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You can finally stop asking the question, "Where's Frankie B?" A year and a half after Frank B. Shaner's abrupt departure from 105.1 KINE's morning show, he's resurfaced at KUMU-FM and describes his time away from the spotlight as "the greatest" in his life.
"Make Me Laugh: Classic Series"
With Melveen Leed, Mel Cabang and Jody Ballesteros
Place: C'est Sibon Showroom, Pagoda Hotel, 1525 Rycroft St.
Time: 7:30 p.m. Saturday
Call: 545-3642
"I was running on the radio for 25 (years) straight," he said Monday afternoon, prior to a rehearsal with Melveen Leed, Mel Cabang and Jody Ballesteros, who he will introduce as host of this weekend's "Make Me Laugh: Classic Series" at the Pagoda's C'est Sibon Showroom. "For myself, it was a really good time to go back and take stock of what life was dealing (me) at the time."
BORN AND raised on Oahu, the 57-year-old Shaner worked a short stint in the travel industry before giving radio a try.
But as anyone who has tried to break into the business will tell you, getting on the air is more than just walking into a station and signing up. At first, Shaner had a hard time.
"Then I said I'd work for free, and boom, I got four jobs," he said with a laugh. "I don't think they called you an intern back then. They just called you go-fer."
Starting at KIKI in 1978, Shaner went from an unpaid assistant to weekends and overnights on the radio. He remained as an on-air personality throughout the 1980s, moving over to KINE in 1994. Shortly thereafter, he was joined by co-host Brickwood Galuteria, who remained at the station when Shaner was removed in January 2004 after returning from vacation.
"(It's) a crazy business ... it's corporate decisions, and they needed to make shifts and changes and so forth. That's how it goes sometimes. And as they say, one door closes and another door opens."
BESIDES LOSING his morning show gig, Shaner was dealt another blow last year when the Aloha Festivals decided to replace him as host of its annual falsetto contest and remove his name from the event entirely, after a decade of involvement.
But Shaner doesn't hold a grudge against the festivals' powers-that-be.
"Hey, listen -- the whole essence, the reason, for the falsetto contest is to find new talent," he said. "The Aloha Festivals folks were terrific, and we had a nice partnership over there. It was just time to pass the torch on, and they're doing a great job."
Without steady employment and the falsetto contest out of his hands, Shaner spent most of 2005 taking things one day at a time. He was forced to sell an apartment in Chinatown to raise funds, while also relying on personal savings and emcee gigs to make ends meet.
"It was close, but everything worked out nicely," said Shaner. "I have pake blood, see? If I have five bucks, I going put three away. And I'll share one, and keep one for me. You've got to look ahead a little bit down the road, always."
THAT ROAD happened to lead back into radio, when Shaner accepted a position as morning show host on KUMU in August. It was a surprise of sorts, since he had figured his radio career had ended after a quarter of a century.
Now he's back to rising before the sun comes up, making a short commute from Makiki to the station's studios on Amana Street. Instead of Brickwood, he now has Mandy Suganuma by his side .
Other than a couple of small parties, Saturday's concert marks Shaner's return to the stage as a comedian. Although he's officially the night's host, expect a lot of interaction with Leed and Cabang.
"Just to come out and play and goof around with them, it's absolutely fabulous," said Shaner. "And this young lady, Jody B, you're going to see some fresh comedy. And I've been working on some stuff, so we'll see what happens.
"This is the second half of the game for me. We're all rested, and we're going to come back. It's going to be good fun."
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