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Super Mario World - The Second Reality Project
5 out of 5 based on 74887 ratings.
Storyline: A One-Eyed Big Boo called Zycloboo wants to conquer the Mushroom Kingdom, and like Bowser in "The Second Reality Project 1″ he wants to use the power source from another dimension called the Second Reality to get to his goal. To get Mario out of sight (or maybe for some other reasons?) he warps Mario and his Castle in the Second Reality. Mario's only chance to stop Zycloboo is to find the Power Supply station, which can give him the power he needs for the task - or at least that's what Zycloboo told him, heeheehee! About the game: The levels for itself are most of the time very "big" compared to the typical SMW-level. From the length, they have more of a Yoshi's Island-level. You can find a lot of hidden stuff here and there, dozens of bonus rooms and so on. There are also a few levels, where you can go different roads. Sometimes, the second route is more hidden and harder to beat, but it will lead to a secret exit. There are a lot puzzles in the hack as well, but with one major exception near the end of the game they aren't on the normal route, which means the secret levels are usually more puzzling than the normal ones, but very often they are also more "special". Unlike my first hack, this time it's not necessary to find all the hidden Switch Palaces to beat the final boss, but it could be helpful to find them nevertheless. If you stay just on the normal route (without finding any secret exit) you can complete the game after 55 levels. But in that case, you would leave out 36 additional levels. You see, there is much to explore. ;) About the worlds… nothing outstanding here: World 1 is the typical grassland-World, World 2 is the typical Forest-World, World 3 is the Beach and the Desert, World 4 and 5 aren't really themed. Here you can find Ice-, Canyon-, Cheese-level and whatever. World 6 is the Venom Underground World, which contains some of the first levels I did for this hack. World 7 is the typical futuristic Base-World, with some underground parts (World 7 covers two submaps).
Super Valis IV
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Hammerin Harry
Hammerin' Harry, known in Japan as Daiku no Gen-san (大工の源さん?), is a series of platforming video ga…
Super Soccer Champ
Another football game of Super Famicom.
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One year later... ---- On friday 13th of august 2021 at 7.30 pm, a demonstration march will take place from the starting point of Dam square in Amsterdam. We want to draw attention to the police violence in the Netherlands, but also to the injustice that has unfortunately happened to Sammy. The demonstration is expected to end in the Vondelpark with music. There will also be press present. ---- ackground ---- Samuel Baker was shot dead by the police while they found him in a helpless condition. The police was informed about Sammy's disappearance through a report of the fact that he'd gone missing, but the police didn't think it was necessary to allow for medical assistence or for his friends or mother to come. Instead, two cops from Police Amsterdam New-West chose the path of brutal violence. They shot Sammy dead, the only son of his parents. Sammy was only 23 years old. There would have been so many other ways out, but the Amsterdam police ended Sammy's life with an unimaginable harshness.
Although the state's attorney, Anne Marie Ruijs, has decided on 17.05.2021 to not convict the two murderers of Sammy, in despite of many contradictions and irregularities, Sammy's family continues to fight for the truth to be known. To draw attention to the disproportionate violence that was used to put an end to a human life, Sammy's parents are thankful for all local supporters.
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From death to no-contact, ancient martial art revived in Egypt
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Sohag, EGYPT (Reuters) - Turn the clock back just over half a century and a contest between two men in the ancient Egyptian martial art of tahteeb could see the loser injured, or even killed.
Today however, striking is no longer permitted in this form of stick-fighting, references to which were discovered written inside ancient Egyptian tombs.
In the city of Sohag which lies on the banks of Nile in central Egypt, one martial arts school is working to keep the ancient sport alive.
"Long ago, this game was violent, and about 60 or 70 years ago, it was similar to fighting games, because that was the era known as one of manhood," said Sabry Mohamed, who founded the International Centre for Tahteeb in 2012.
Tahteeb requires a great deal of skill and control, and there are rules which govern how to hold the stick and the kinds of blows permitted, some of which were aimed to be deadly before the martial art became a no-contact discipline.
Sabry has set his sights on organizing international championships for the martial art.
"We can make use of tahteeb by forming an international body that can organize international championships and we'll benefit from this a great deal, monetarily, and also by spreading our culture and heritage to other people."
Reporting by Abd Mohamed El-Ghany; Writing by Mark Hanrahan in London; Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky


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A Bear's Diary – Part 11
3rd March 2019 Tachybaptus 19th Century, Animals, Fiction, History, Literature 0
It has been a busy month. Our aimless wanderings took us to Guildford, where we have been encamped in a tumbledown barn. The farmer is quite content with our presence, as we are usefully reducing the numbers of rabbits, wood pigeons and other pests that would otherwise have despoiled his crops. For our part we are happy to walk down the edges of fields, close gates behind us, and generally behave as responsible people do in the country.
Occasional performances in the inns of Guildford and on village greens bring in enough money for our modest needs, but on most days we practise our skills in a clearing in a nearby wood. Bruin's fire eating is now of a high standard, and he has progressed from the simple skill of extinguishing torches with which every fire eater begins his act, through the more advanced tricks such as transferring a flame from one torch to another on his tongue, and finally to the spectacle that the audience are waiting for, the 'blow out', in which he appears to shoot a long jet of roaring flame from his mouth.
The torches are metal rods with string bound around the tip to absorb a small amount of ordinary lamp oil. There is not much heat in them, and the flame can easily be extinguished by putting the torch in the mouth to cut off its supply of air – though the flame is real enough, and blisters are a constant trial to the performer, who simply learns to ignore them. The 'blow out' is done by taking a small amount of oil in the mouth a blowing it out in a spray past a burning torch which ignites the vapour. Bruin has to be very careful when performing this trick in the yard of an inn with a thatched roof, and we always have several buckets of water on hand – something that would have saved Jim Crint from the loss of his theatre.
Little Henry's Velocipede act has developed in a surprising way. He had become adept at balancing tricks, including riding his machine poised on only the back wheel. However, he was limited by the fact that it can be propelled only by putting a foot to the ground and pushing it forward, which limits the length of any trick to a few seconds.
While watching him practise, the ingenious Jem was struck by an inspiration. The ordinary grindstone used for sharpening knives, sickles and swords is kept in constant motion by turning a crank handle. Jem thought, What if the principle of this handle could be used to turn the wheel of a Velocipede, and thus keep it in uninterrupted motion? He and Fred went off to a blacksmith to get the necessary metalwork done, and the result is a most curious machine. It has a single wheel turning upon an upright wooden fork at the top of which is a padded leather saddle. At each end of the axle is a crank, the two facing in opposite directions so that they can be pushed alternately with the hind feet, through wooden blocks free to rotate on the handles – or I should say 'pedals' – which are shaped so as to be easily gripped by a bear's claws. I have christened this device with the impeccably Latinate name 'Unirota'.
Henry was happily astounded by this unexpected gift, and has learnt to ride the Unirota in a few days. He now goes everywhere balanced on his machine, as if it were his natural form of locomotion. It has a particular advantage in that it leaves the rider's front paws free, and Angelina is now teaching him to juggle.
Peter and Emily have abandoned their notion of a seesaw performance after a third plank broke under their combined weight. Perhaps this art is more suited to lighter creatures such as humans. They are now learning to walk on a slack rope. We found a length of strong hempen rope in a store outside the town's House of Correction, and had no hesitation in appropriating it, for it was destined for the attention of the unfortunate prisoners who would have had to unpick it to make oakum, strands of hemp which are mixed with tar and used to caulk the seams of ships. Now the rope is stretched between two stout trees, and the ground shakes with heavy thuds as one of the bears falls off yet again. But they are undaunted. As Plutarch says, Πᾶν τὸ σκληρὸν χαλεπῶς μαλάττεται, Everything that is hard is softened with effort.
We have had two pieces of good news. Fred has visited London. For the journey he borrowed one of the farmer's horses in return for the trifling payment of six brace of partridges, and he has just returned and restored the placid grey gelding to its owner.
His friends – he has friends everywhere – told him that Jim Crint's baseless accusation against us bears that we started the fire in his theatre has evaporated, and indeed has Mr Crint himself. It seems that he had insured the theatre against fire, which is only prudent as these places constantly burn down, but that the policy did not cover him against a fire caused by his own negligence. He had indeed been careless in his penny-pinching way, for he ought to have rendered the drapes fireproof by painting them with a solution of alum, and had not troubled to do so. By calling a hue and cry upon us, he had hoped to divert attention from his own failings; but the insurers would have none of his story and refused to pay. Pursued by many creditors, Mr Crint has vanished into the wings, and let us hope that his re-entrance is not in the script.
To our delight Fred told us that he had visited the Admiralty, where he was greeted with the most welcome news one could imagine. The prize court has decided to buy Incroyable, the French privateer vessel we captured, for £1750 – that is, £250 more than we had expected. The extra price was decided in view of her usefulness as a small speedy ship of war, something of which their Lordships stand sadly in need, as our shipyards still cannot match the French in the construction of such vessels.
We have stayed too long in the provinces. Our performances are well rehearsed, our company of bears and men unprecedented. It is time to return to London and show off our skills. Our goal is, in the immortal words of Homer, αἰέν ἀριστεύειν καὶ ὑπείροχον ἔμμεναι ἄλλων, always to excel and to be better than others.
We are returned to London. With our new-found riches, Fred has secured the lease of a theatre in Oxford Street, and we have not delayed in renaming it The Bear Theatre, and have installed a painted plaster statue of a bear on the front. It is spacious but a little decayed and shabby. However, a lick of paint here and there has restored it to an acceptable state. The bears have been helping with a will, and we all smell of the turpentine we had to use to remove the splashes of paint from our fur. Sometimes humans, with their removable clothes, are at an advantage.
We need to live close to the theatre, and Fred has secured us premises in Bell Street, off the Edgware Road and a little way to the north-west of the theatre. The building will soon be demolished to make way for a new row, and it is in a tumbledown condition, but we have seen far worse and it will serve for now.
There has been much excitement in London. The old opera house at Covent Garden had burnt to the ground a year ago – a common occurrence for all theatres, of course, and how we all wish for a system of lighting that does not involve naked flames! It has been rebuilt, and on the 18th it opened for its first performance, not yet a full opera for which they are not ready, but a staging of Shakespeare's Scottish play, which I will not name for fear of bringing bad luck on ourselves. And indeed, the traditional ill fortune associated with this play has manifested itself.
To defray the great expense of rebuilding and furnishing the new theatre, the management has been obliged to raise the price of admission. They have been quite modest in their demands – for example, a ticket to the pit, which used to cost 3s 6d, now costs 4s. However, the increase incensed the public, especially those who bought the cheapest tickets, and their protests grew into a riot which spilled out into the surrounding streets.
Last night the disturbance continued, and it seems that it will continue for some time. The slogan of the rioters is 'Old Prices', and they carry banners with the letters OP. Performances at the opera house continue with difficulty, but the conflict cannot be sustained and one side or the other must yield.
September 21st, 1809.
'Right,' said Fred, 'we're goin' to 'ave an opera.' He has somehow secured the score of La Vestale, a work by the fashionable composer Gaspare Spontini, which created a sensation at its first performance in Paris two years ago. There is a distinct advantage in such a choice: since we are at war with the French, we are at liberty to pilfer their creations without paying them. Thanks to this economy we can stage our performance at 'Old Prices', and we shall have little difficulty in drawing audiences away from the other place.
The libretto is in French, and I am now translating it into English for our performance. That is in itself a novelty, since the opera house at Covent Garden performs its works in Italian, and most of the audience have little idea of what is supposed to be happening on stage.
The plot is risible, as is usual in opera. It is set in ancient Rome, and the heroine is a Vestal virgin, Julia, who is pledged to perpetual virginity and charged with the upkeep of the sacred flame at the temple, which must never be allowed to go out.
Of course – for this is an opera – she is in love with a Roman general named Licinius. Though she strives to shun him and attend to her duties, she is obliged to present him with a wreath when he returns from a successful campaign. The inevitable consequence follows, and while the two are dallying at the temple she forgets to add fuel to the sacred flame, which goes out.
For this grave breach of her duty Julia is sentenced to be buried alive – the Romans were not slack in their administration of punishments. But, by a divine miracle, a thunderstorm relights the flame, and this is taken as a sign that she should be spared – and into the bargain, that she should be released from her vows and allowed to marry Licinius. As it is said, tragedies end with a death, and comedies with a wedding.
September 23rd, 1809.
Fred has engaged a band of musicians and singers, on the strict understanding that they must attend all rehearsals and no substitutions are possible, except in the case of genuine illness.
To play Julia, we have found a young singer named Adelia Catelani, a name to conjure with – though she is not the famous Angelica Catelani who performs to huge acclaim and huger fees in Covent Garden and elsewhere, but her sister-in-law. Nevertheless she sings prettily enough, and we are all delighted with her. In the usual French style, the opera begins and ends with a ballet, and of course it is we bears who will be performing here. They do not have such attractions at Covent Garden.
Fred's plan is to stage our own performance every afternoon, and the opera in the evening. It seems a thoroughly sound idea – and let us hope so, as we have invested all our capital in the lease and repair of the theatre and the hiring of the singers and orchestra. To quote Plautus, Videte, quaeso, quid potest pecunia, See, I pray you, what money can do. Let us hope it does what it can.
We are all busy with rehearsals, and eagerly await the first performance on Monday the 25th.
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Not all high protein foods are equally good for you. The USDA recommends choosing low-fat or lean protein sources, such as skinless chicken, fish, or tofu. Protein sources like steak, hamburger, pork, or duck tend to be higher in fat and calories. Processed meats are high protein foods, but they are also very high in fat, as well as in sodium and other unhealthy additives. Bacon, sausage, ham, hot dogs, canned meat, and some lunch meats have been linked to an increased risk for cancer, and should therefore be avoided or at least eaten in very limited quantities.
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La teoría política feminista es un subcampo de la teoría feminista que trabaja para alcanzar tres objetivos principales:
 Entender y criticar el papel del género en la teoría política y como se interpreta,
 Reformular la teoría política a través de la normativa de género (especialmente igualdad de género), y
 Apoyar la ciencia política en pro de la igualdad de género.

La teoría política feminista abarca un amplio abanico de enfoques. Se superpone con áreas relacionadas, incluyendo la jurisprudencia feminista/ la teoría feminista legal; filosofía política feminista; la investigación empírica en ciencias políticas; y métodos feministas de investigación para su uso en la ciencia política. Los especialistas señalan que, al igual que en la mayoría de teorías feministas, esta "demuestra la forma en que la política, entendida como las relaciones de poder, está presente en nuestra vida cotidiana," por lo que uno podríamos "describir la teoría feminista en su conjunto como una especie de filosofía política". Lo que con frecuencia distingue a la teoría política feminista del feminismo en términos generales, es el examen específico del estado y su papel en la reproducción o la corrección de la desigualdad de género. Además de ser amplio y multidisciplinario, el campo es relativamente nuevo y se encuentra todavía en expansión; la Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy explica que "la filosofía política feminista sirve como un campo para el desarrollo de nuevos ideales, prácticas y justificaciones de cómo las instituciones y prácticas políticas deben organizarse y ser reconstruidas".

Historia
Para comprender mejor la historia feminista más en términos generales, véase feminismo.

La teoría política feminista como término se consolidó a través de los movimientos de mujeres de liberación de los años 60s y 70s. Anteriormente, muy pocas obras de teoría política consideran explícitamente situación política de las mujeres. El petición de sufragio por parte de John Stuart Mill fue una excepción. A principio del siglo XX, Simone de Beauvoir en su obra El segundo sexo expuso la dinámica de poder que rodean la condición de mujer y sentó las bases de las teorías feministas posteriores exponiendo la sujeción social de las mujeres. En los años 1980 y 1990 , la teoría feminista se expandió en el ámbito legal gracias a Catharine MacKinnon y Andrea Dworkin y su trabajo en contra de la pornografía.

Feminismo liberal
El feminismo liberal marca una aproximación importante a la política feminista qué era especialmente dominante durante la primera mitad del siglo XX. Aun así, algunos de los ejemplos más conocidos de la literatura feminista liberal se publicaron mucho antes, como la obra de John Stuart Mill The Subjection of Women (1869) o la obra de Mary Wollstonecraft  Vindicación de los Derechos de Mujer (1792). Una cuestión imperante del feminismo liberal es el énfasis a la necesidad de alcanzar la igualdad de oportunidades a través de la justicia y los derechos políticos. Además, según la La Enciclopedia Internacional de Ética, "El feminismo liberal tanto el pasado como el presente conserva cierto compromiso con la distinción entre los ámbitos público y privado - una distinción [ que es el ] objeto de mucha crítica dentro la teoría política feminista."

Marxista, socialista, y feminismo radical
Mientras que el feminismo marxista y el feminismo socialista consideraron el clasismo como la fuente primaria de la opresión de las mujeres, el feminismo radical desechó cualesquier teoría política anterior para desarrollar nuevas teorías arraigadas principalmente en las experiencias directas de mujeres.

Temas de Investigación

Epistemología feminista
La expulsión de las mujeres en la ciencia tiene un doble resultado: impedir nuestra participación en las comunidades epistémicas que construyen y legitiman el conocimiento, y expulsar las cualidades consideradas "femeninas" de tal construcción y legitimación, e incluso considerarlas como obstáculos. Un aspecto clave de la teoría política feminista es epistemología feminista que cuestiona la objetividad de las ciencias sociales y filosóficas por establecer que los estándares de autoridad y credibilidad son socialmente construidos, reafianzando el statu quo político y social. Por lo tanto, una solución metodológica feminista es incluir diversas voces que reflejan todos los sectores de la sociedad en el proceso de construcción de conocimiento.

Instituciones políticas con perspectiva de género
La perspectiva de género se refiere a la metodología y los mecanismos que permiten identificar, cuestionar y valorar la discriminación, desigualdad y exclusión de las mujeres, que se pretende justificar con base en las diferencias biológicas entre mujeres y hombres. Las instituciones políticas con perspectiva de género refieren a preguntas tales como ¿qué significa que una institución tenga perspectiva de género?  ¿cómo se puede evaluar si una institución tiene perspectiva de género?, ¿cuáles son las consecuencias de estas instituciones para las personas que trabajan dentro de ellas (de todos los géneros )?. Un ejemplo estas cuestiones es la obra de Eileen McDonagh The Motherless State.

Política de identidad / identidad de grupo
Los teóricos de esta corriente de la teoría política determinan que la teoría feminista cuestiona la construcción de las mujeres como un grupo de identidad. Concretamente se preguntan si es correcto poder relacionar un grupo de mujeres de manera directa con la política. El debate implica interseccionalidad y se cuestionan si las mujeres de distintas razas y culturas son suficientemente similares para formar un grupo político. Otra de las cuestiones que se preguntan, es si por ejemplo, mujeres transexuales deben ser incluidas directamente en el grupo de "mujeres" en tanto que no experimentan como tales durante la infancia o su adultez.

Género y liderazgo políticos
Esta corriente teórica establece que mujeres dirigen de manera diferente como legisladoras, ejecutivas, y jueces. Algunos teóricos de este campo establecen que el liderazgo político está "masculinizado" para excluir de antemano el liderazgo que las mujeres pueden proveer en la esfera pública.

Revistas relacionadas
Politics & Gender
Signs
Feminist Theory
International Feminist Journal of Politics
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Bibliografía

Mujeres iberoamericanas y derechos humanos: experiencias feministas, acción política y exilio. María Dolores Ramos Palomo, Milagros León Vegas, Víctor José Ortega Muñoz (Coords.)
. Comisión Nacional para Prevenir y Erradicar la Violencia Contra las Mujeres, 22 de noviembre de 2018

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Filosofía Política feminista (Stanford Enciclopedia de Filosofía)

Teoría feminista
Teorías políticas

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Insulin signaling is not impaired in hep-barr2–KO mice.
(A) i.p. ITT. Data are shown as mean ± SEM (n = 9 mice per group, 20-week-old males). (B) Insulin-induced phosphorylation of AKT and GSK3α/β remains unaffected by the lack of β-arrestin 2 in hepatocytes. Primary hepatocytes prepared from hep-barr2–KO and control mice were incubated with insulin (10 nM) or saline for 15 minutes. Cell lysates were used for immunoblotting with the indicated antibodies. Representative blots are shown. See complete unedited blots in the supplemental material. (C) Quantification via densitometry (NIH ImageJ software) of the immunoblotting data shown in B. Phospho-protein expression levels were normalized by total AKT or total GSK3α/β expression, respectively. Data represent mean ± SEM (n = 5 mice per group, 16- to 20-week-old males). (D and E). Hyperinsulinemic euglycemic clamp studies. In D, the time course of blood glucose and GIR are shown. Data in panel E were obtained during the steady-state period of the clamp (gray area in D). Values are shown as mean ± SEM (n = 3 or 4 mice per group, 20-week-old males).


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La Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) è una organizzazione non governativa specializzata nella ricerca e soccorso, fondata dagli imprenditori italo-americani Christopher Catrambone e Regina Catrambone. Tra agosto 2014 e ottobre 2015 MOAS ha salvato oltre 14.000 persone nel Mar Mediterraneo, impiegando la nave da 40 metri Phoenix. L'organizzazione ha ricevuto un'ondata di donazioni dopo la morte di Alan Kurdi, che le ha permesso di espandere la propria attività nel Mar Egeo e nel Sudest Asiatico.

Il 12 gennaio 2016 MOAS ha così prestato assistenza ai rifugiati della guerra civile siriana naufragati sulle spiagge dell'isola di Gaidaro. Il gruppo includeva un bambino di 2 anni, divenuto la prima vittima dell'anno tra i migranti.

Operazioni
Le operazioni di MOAS sono coordinate dall'isola di Malta, al centro del Mediterraneo e vicino alle isole italiane di Sicilia e Lampedusa. Italia e Malta sono al centro della rotta migratoria che dal Nordafrica conduce in Europa e negli ultimi anni hanno coordinato ed effettuato centinaia di soccorsi, salvando migliaia di vite in mare.

MOAS opera in stretta collaborazione con il centro di coordinamento dei soccorsi responsabile dell'area per ridurre le morti in mare, fornendo viveri, acqua, giubbotti di salvataggio e cure mediche ai battelli di migranti in difficoltà. Per questo l'organizzazione opera con equipaggi di professionisti, inclusi nuotatori soccorritori, medici ed infermieri. Una volta recuperati a bordo i migranti, l'organizzazione segue le indicazioni del centro di coordinamento per il loro sbarco nei porti di accoglienza.

Phoenix
La nave da ricerca dell'organizzazione, la Phoenix, è un battello da 40 metri e 483 tonnellate di stazza, con scafo in acciaio, costruito nel 1973. L'equipaggio è costituito da 18 persone, inclusi marinai, soccorritori e personale medico. Dispone di una infermeria di bordo, di due RHIB di soccorso e di droni per la ricerca in mare aperto.

Droni Schiebel
La Phoenix imbarca due aeromobili a pilotaggio remoto Camcopter S-100 dell'austriaca Schiebel, utilizzati per la ricerca in mare aperto. Questi droni ad ala rotante hanno un'autonomia di 100 km (praticamente la distanza tra Malta e Sicilia) o 6 ore di volo ed una velocità massima di 200 km/h. Una volta individuata un'imbarcazione necessitante di soccorso, le telecamere dei velivolo possono fornire immagini in tempo reale sia alla nave madre che ai centri di coordinamento a Malta ed in Italia, con una risoluzione tale da consentire la lettura di messaggi scritti su fogli dai migranti

Missioni

2014
La Migration Offshore Aid Station partì per la sua prima missione lunedì 25 agosto 2014, che sarebbe durata 20 giorni. La Phoenix salpò dal Porto Grande (Malta) verso mezzogiorno, dopo la conferenza stampa tenuta a Birgu. Nel pomeriggio, mentre rientrava verso Malta per caricare altro equipaggiamento, la nave effettuò il suo primo soccorso a favore di un pescatore maltese la cui imbarcazione, col motore in panne, andava alla deriva al largo di Delimara (vicino Marsaxlokk); il pescatore e suo figlio attrassero l'attenzione dell'equipaggio agitando le braccia e rimasero affiancati alla Phoenix fino all'arrivo dei soccorsi.

Il primo soccorso a migranti venne effettuato il 30 agosto, con il recupero di un gruppo di 250 palestinesi e siriani, inclusi 40 bambini. Lo stesso giorno, la Phoenix prestò assistenza a 96 migranti subsahariani alla deriva su un gommone e salvati da un mercantile. L'8 settembre due soccorsi portarono a bordo 700 migranti, tra i quali 83 donne e bambini, compreso un neonato di 2 giorni. Altri 1.500 migranti furono recuperati in ottobre, portando il totale ad oltre 3.000 vite.

L'organizzazione lanciò in ottobre una raccolta fondi, che nel 2015 raggiunse la cifra di 70.000 dollari. A febbraio MOAS lanciò un appello all'industria marittima ed ai naviganti, chiedendo di rispondere attivamente all'emergenza. I marittimi in transito nel Mediterraneo erano infatti sopraffatti dal numero di rifugiati in transito dalla Libia all'Italia dopo che missioni tipo l'Operazione Mare nostrum italiana non erano più operative. Dichiarò MOAS: "A causa del gran numero di imbarcazioni di migranti e dell'assenza di asset dell'Unione europea per intercettarli, le imbarcazioni commerciali sono diventate la prima linea del soccorso. Eppure, mercantili e marinai civili sono impreparati per questo tipo di travolgente situazione di emergenza. Essi non hanno personale medico e non hanno familiarità con le cure da prestare alle persone coinvolte. E questa rappresenta una parte importante del processo, che non si limita al solo salvataggio ma anche al prendersi cura di naufraghi che possono versare in condizioni critiche per le loro vite, come abbiamo imparato a Lampedusa."

2015
MOAS continuò ad operare nel Mediterraneo centrale tra maggio e settembre 2015. In questa campagna prestò assistenza ad oltre 9.000 rifugiati, portando il totale delle vite salvate alla fine del 2015 ad oltre 12.000.

2016
Da dicembre 2015 MOAS iniziò ad operare nel Mar Egeo, utilizzando la Topaz Responder, una nave da soccorso offshore da 51 metri presa in leasing, dotata di due lance da soccorso ad alta velocità, battezzate Alan e Galip in onore dei due fratellini curdi la cui morte aveva scioccato il mondo nel settembre 2015. Il 2 gennaio annunciò di aver salvato una nave con 39 migranti, 11 dei quali feriti dalla violenza dell'impatto con gli scogli di un'isola. Un bambino di tre mesi in severa ipotermia venne recuperato e stabilizzato.

Tra giugno e settembre 2016 si stima che il solo Topaz Responder abbia portato in salvo 16.000 persone.

La fondazione e i partenariati
MOAS è stata fondata dopo il tragico 2013, quando due barconi, uno carico di migranti provenienti da Eritrea e Somalia ed uno di rifugiati siriani, erano affondati sulla rotta tra Nordafrica ed Europa.
Ogni anno migliaia di migranti, la maggior parte provenienti dall'Africa subsahariana, rischiano la vita in mare tentando la pericolosa traversata su imbarcazioni precarie. Christopher e Regina Catrambone hanno dato vita al progetto nel 2013 con lo scopo ultimo di eliminare per quanto possibile le perdite di vite in mare.

MOAS ha ricevuto vari riconoscimenti da quando è entrato in attività, tra i quali l'Ordine al merito della Repubblica italiana e la Medaglia per il Servizio della Repubblica maltese (Midalja għall-Qadi tar-Repubblika), un premio per l'impegno civile da parte del think tank maltese Today Public Policy Institute nel novembre 2015 e, nel 2016, The Geuzen Medal olandese.

L'organizzazione è composta da operatori umanitari, professionisti della sicurezza, personale medico e operatori marittimi esperti, impegnati per risolvere la situazione dei migranti e per combattere i pericoli che devono affrontare nel tentativo di trovare una vita libera dalla violenza. Il direttore del progetto è il brig. gen. (rit.) Martin Xuereb, capo di stato maggiore della difesa di Malta

Medici senza frontiere ha collaborato con MOAS da maggio a settembre 2015 a bordo della Phoenix, attendendo alle cure di 6.985 persone recuperate dal personale MOAS, con una squadra di sei persone, tra personale logistico, reporter e personale medico..

A seguito dell'intensificarsi dei flussi migratori tra la Turchia e la Grecia, il MOAS, al fine di soccorrere le persone che cercano di raggiungere l'Europa attraverso il mar Egeo, firmò il 19 dicembre 2015 una convenzione con Corpo italiano di soccorso dell'Ordine di Malta (CISOM). Le équipe sanitarie composti da medici e infermieri del CISOM, sono stati imbarcati sulla Topaz Responder, 24 h per un totale di 134 giorni, calcolati sino alla fine della missione che è terminata il 30 aprile 2016. I risultati dell'Aegean SAR Operations sono stati: 1154 migranti salvati, di cui 205 bambini, 30 operazioni SAR, 80 terapie salvavita somministrate .

Nella successiva campagna del 2016 in Mediterraneo centrale, il Topaz Responder lasciava Malta il 6 giugno con a bordo una squadra sanitaria della ONG italiana Emergency, collaborazione terminata già in agosto per motivi economici.

Sempre a giugno, la Phoenix, grazie ad una convenzione tra MOAS e Federazione internazionale delle società di Croce Rossa e Mezzaluna Rossa, partiva invece con il personale sanitario di bordo fornito da Croce Rossa Italiana. Da agosto anche sulla Topaz Responder il personale della CRI subentrava a quello di Emergency. Su ognuna delle due navi hanno operato a turno una squadra costituita da un medico, due infermieri ed un team coordinator.

Onorificenze

Note

Voci correlate
 Croce Rossa Italiana
 Corpo italiano di soccorso dell'Ordine di Malta
 Emergency

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Associazioni mediche
Organizzazioni caritatevoli
Organizzazioni non governative
Enti e associazioni di soccorso
Soccorso marittimo
Enti e istituzioni nautiche
Crisi europea dei migranti


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Back to Light is the fifth studio album from Bomb The Bass, the Electronica  collective formed around British producer and musician, Tim Simenon. Released in 2010, the album is produced by Bomb The Bass in association with Gui Boratto.

Track listing

Personnel
Artwork By [Sleeve Optics] – Lopetz 10
Mastered By – Simon Francis
Mixed By – Foppe Talman, Tim Simenon
Producer – Gui Boratto (tracks: 1 to 9), Martin Gore (tracks: 10), Paul Conboy, Tim Simenon

References

External links
   Back To Light on Discogs.com

2010 albums
Bomb the Bass albums
Studio !K7 albums
Albums produced by Tim Simenon


Back in elementary school, Gabriel Debenedetti would race outside every morning to grab The New York Times. He started with the sports section, so he could discuss the previous night's events with classmates. Soon, he started reading the other sections too. Eventually, that young reader would go on to cover politics for New York Magazine.
Though Debenedetti is busy covering national politics, he found time to return to Princeton University, from which he graduated in 2012, for a conversation with students from The Princeton Summer Journal. Debenedetti mostly writes articles that shed light on the less salacious and sensationalized side of politics. He aims to report on important political events across the country that might not be as widely covered.
Sure, other topics might generate more buzz, but he knows his job isn't to write viral stories. Debenedetti writes to educate others. "There's not really a world in which people will not continue to need the news, and to need to know what's going on around them," he said.
Megan Garber feels similarly. To Garber, a culture writer at The Atlantic and a Princeton alum from the class of 2002, staying informed is crucial to one's sense of self. "How can anyone achieve their full potential if they don't understand the world?" she asked. Like Debenedetti, Garber sees her role as a journalist as educating others on current events so they can navigate the world as informed and thoughtful individuals.
As a culture reporter, Garber covers a bit of everything. When asked about her latest story, she mentioned a review she was writing of the new romantic-comedy movie, Dog Days. This is something that many forget about journalism today: Though heavy political events dominate headlines, there are writers covering fun, lighter topics, and that's just as important. Many people grow tired of reading about so much negativity every day, and sometimes a funny movie review adds some much needed levity.
It's a strange time to be a journalist. In the current political climate, some Americans are skeptical of the media and like to discredit reporters. And the "fake news" phenomenon doesn't make the job any easier. Though the incentives to go into journalism might seem slim, the hunger for credible and well-researched reporting is precisely why we need more journalists. So why are journalists like Debenedetti and Garber important? Because they speak the truth—something we desperately need.
This entry was posted in Features, News, Uncategorized and tagged Career, Feature, Journalism, Princeton on August 17, 2018 by pusjp.


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What's going on with all these Assassin's Creed Ragnarok listings?
By Austin Wood 2020-01-08T18:12:30Z
Don't count your Vikings before they invade
(Image credit: Ubisoft)
Alleged product listings from Amazon Germany and Gamestop Italy have rekindled longstanding rumors that the next Assassin's Creed game will be set in Viking times. However, while a Division 2 Easter egg and a report from Kotaku support the idea of a Viking Assassin's Creed, these store listings are exceedingly dubious.
These listings show two different editions for what they're calling Assassin's Creed Ragnarok. Naturally, both listings cannot be found online, purportedly because they were pulled shortly after they leaked, so we've only got archived images to go on. Nearest I can tell, a screencap of the GameStop Italy listing was originally shared on Reddit by the user BrownyOfficial. However, as commenters quickly pointed out, it's an obvious fake. It has the same presell number as the Xbox One version of Watch Dogs: Legion - Resistance Edition. To demonstrate the point, another Redditor whipped up an equally convincing hoax using the Watch Dogs page as a base, so we can cross that one off the list.
The Amazon Germany listing seems to have been posted by YouTuber and Twitter user J0nathan, who's discussed Assassin's Creed Vikings rumors multiple times in the past, though I can't say whether they found it or merely shared it. This one looks more legitimate at first blush, but after a closer examination, I'm confident it's a fake as well.
After comparing this listing to the Amazon Germany pages for Cyberpunk 2077 and Bethesda's Starfield, the first line of the description stood out to me. Firstly, other games open with some variant of the line "Dieser Artikel wurde noch nicht veröffentlicht," written in green. This loosely translates to "This [product] has not yet been published." The alleged Ragnarok listing, meanwhile, has "Derzeit nicht verfügbar" written in orange, which translates to "Not currently available."
This is kind of weird, but it's the next line in the alleged Ragnarok description that really undermines this listing: "Ob und wann dieser Artikel wieder vorrätig sein wird, ist unbekannt." This isn't on any other Amazon Germany game pages that I could find, and it translates to "It is unknown whether and when this article will be back in stock." This made me wonder if another Amazon Germany product listing could have been used to create the Ragnarok listing which has caused so much fuss. I ran the latter through Forensically's image clone detection tool, and when set to the lowest setting, it turned up this:
(Image credit: Future)
Tools like Forensically are by no means all-seeing, but the fact that only the words "Assassin's Creed Ragnarok" as well as the top of the product description were flagged as potential clones stood out. The question then became, is there a product on Amazon Germany with the words Valhalla Edition in its title (which could've been used as a substitute in the name of the game), and the two aforementioned out-of-place lines in its description? As it turns out, there is: a sold-out listing for the Valhalla Edition of Jotun. It's got the title, the orange text, and the description. What's more, the second and third images for Jotun's listing match the dimensions of the "Box art coming soon" placeholder in the Ragnarok listing.
It would be fairly easy to make a convincing fake for Ragnarok using Jotun's page as a base, and while I can't 100% confirm that's what happened here, it sure looks that way. All that being said, it's still entirely possible, and arguably likely, that the next Assassin's Creed is indeed a Viking game. Ubisoft loves to tease announcements in its own games, and that Division 2 Easter egg was pretty direct. With PS5 and Xbox Series X revving up, I wouldn't be surprised if we see Assassin's Creed Whatever announced as a next-gen launch title in the coming months.
Some fake screenshots of Ragnarok cropped up last May, and fake or not, we really want to play a Viking sandbox game after seeing them.
Austin Wood
As a staff writer and former freelancer, Austin focuses on day-to-day news happenings which serve as the perfect cover-up for his Destiny 2 column. He majored in journalism, loves to hate headlines, and never takes his Switch out of the dock.


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Libram of the First Language: Truename Magic Reborn
by Interjection Games
Interjection Games
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In the eyes of the universe, a rose by any other name is simply not a rose at all!
**For those of you who are leery about trying truenaming after it went wrong about a decade ago, feel free to download the free preview document, which contains everything necessary to play the class through level 3.**
There are those who claim that the universe was not created by eons of divine toil. The Allfather did not forge each of the first dwarves and set them in the mountains as one would precious gems. Nature was not woven as one would weave a tapestry. Instead, a booming voice called out unto the void at the beginning of everything. It named the earth and sky. It named the winds and water. It named the grasses and the fish, the trees and the and birds. It named everything, and everything came into being. Granted, the very idea of an alternate beginning makes a number of religions very upset and more than a little uncomfortable. Those who make these claims are the truenamers, and, moreover, they claim to have found the First Language that made it all happen.
The Libram of the First Language is a reboot of the concept of codified truemagic. First introduced to the d20 system back when version 3.5 of Dungeons and Dragons was officially supported, the original truenamer was the original skill-based caster, a brilliant idea in theory, but was plagued by mechanics that forced a specific playstyle on both the player and the Game Master. Any deviation from a campaign wherein monsters had a CR that was exactly equal to the party level resulted in either an overpowered or totally useless party member. This almost always resulted in a creatively-starved GM, a bored player, or both.
Remastered herein, the truenamer is, as always, a flavorful, alternate approach to magic, but now features mechanics that do not force specific behaviors on the entire game to make it work.
This new truenamer's design focuses on the following main points.
The truenamer features a skill-based casting system based on the level of the spell to be cast, not the HD of the target to be affected. This removes the lingering uncertainty of whether or not the next combat will include an enemy that is effectively impossible to cast upon.
Checks made to cast spells resemble concentration checks rather than skill checks, thus eliminating the need to build in safeguards against players who find ways to get +50 to skill checks by level 10. There is no longer the inherent need to be a powergamer or be useless.
Inflections, the system's metamagic equivalent, do not simply add +20 to the skill check needed to cast the spell. Instead, the DC increase is more modest, but the DC of that particular spell increases sharply for the rest of the day. Players must choose whether they want a few boosted uses of their favorite spells or many unboosted uses, thus making every round potentially very important for the rest of the day.
Reversible spells, the absolute coolest part of the classic truenamer, have been salvaged and are present in the largest two of the four codices presented in this product.
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Rural Credits: Hearings ... Sixty-seventh Congress ... on the Bills S.4280 ...
Av United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency
Mr. PETERS. The State law permits us to count as cash reserves deferred credits and the Federal reserve system does not permit us to count as our reserve any of our deferred credits, and that is where the difference arises. Mr. APPLEBY. I have introduced a bill increasing the dividends to the member banks-national banks and State banks. It is now 60 per cent, you know. The bill I have introduced calls for division after all expenses on a 50-50 basis, thereby increasing the dividends of the local bank probably from 6 to 10 per cent. Would not that have a tendency to get more of the State banks and trust companies who are out in the system if they received a better return for their money?
Mr. PETERS. I think that that would be an incentive to the larger banks in the city to join. I dare say it would not have much influence on the smaller banks in the country.
Mr. APPLEBY. Do you not think, as a matter of good banking, that a greater percentage than 25 per cent of all the banks in the country-that is, the number that has now joined-should join; do you not think it would be a good proposition if practically all of the banks were members of the Federal reserve system? Would not that have a tendency to strengthen the system and put you all on the same basis, provided the national laws are amended to meet the peculiar banking laws of the States? In other words, I have an idea as a bank director of a State bank in my home town that the Federal reserve system has never been sufficiently attached to get a majority, at least, of the banks to come in. Would not the system be better if the majority were in, rather than 25 per cent carrying the load?
Mr. PETERS. That is possibly true. It might be possible to amend the Federal reserve system so as to make it attractive enough for a large percentage of the country banks to join.
I want to add in that connection that the paramount reason in the minds of the country banks throughout the country for not joining the system, if you take them as a whole, is this: It is the fear of supervision.
Mr. APPLEBY. What have they to fear from supervision?
Mr. PETERS. You know the way the country banks were treated in 1920 in the matter of par clearance. The Federal Reserve Board said that-and I am not speaking with reference to the merits of it at all, but merely the means that were used to enforce it: "We are going to have par clearance throughout the country; it is the law, and we are going to have it." And they proceeded along that line, and I do not think there is any question but what they used methods to enforce par clearance throughout the country that were coercive, that were arbitrary, and it did a great deal to alienate the good will of the country banks toward the Federal reserve system. It is a scar that is going to take a long time to erase.
Mr. LAWRENCE. And is it not a fact now they do not have par clearance? Mr. PETERS. We are not having par clearance now.
Mr. LAWRENCE. The fact is that the Federal Reserve Board requires all the remittances to the Federal reserve banks to be without exchange. But the Federal reserve banks at the same time defer the credits, so as to get an interest charge really on the country banks?
Mr. PETERS. That is true.
Mr. LAWRENCE. So that it is not par clearance after all?
Mr. PETERS. There is now not par clearance.
Mr. APPLEBY. Then, on the other hand, from an agricultural standpoint there has been a great demand for a dirt farmer to become a member of the Federal Reserve Board. This committee passed out such a bill and it became a law, and a dirt farmer has been appointed a member of the Federal Reserve Board. Will that have a good effect on the rural communities?
Mr. PETERS. That will probably have a tendency to increase the confidence of the farmers throughout the country in the Federal reserve system.
Mr. STEVENSON. Right there, before you close, what reason has the farmer for being suspicious of the Federal reserve system? I am a farmer; my people are farmers; and it is the only thing in the world that saved us. Member banks of the Federal reserve system were able to rediscount when we were in a terrible fix, and the reason they should be suspicious is hard to understand, except a lot of loud-mouthed "hot air" has been sent around by a lot of people who do not know anything and who do not care whether they tell the truth. Some of these banks that have had trouble and par clearance may have had a grievance, but so far as the farmers are concerned they have not had any.
Mr. LAWRENCE. What I said I did not intend to be as a criticism of the Federal reserve bank at all. There are some things that ought to be remedied. Mr. BLACK. We all agree that they made mistakes.
Mr. PETERS. I want to say with particular reference to that that I have been connected with the par clearance fight from the beginning. I was chairman of the committee that brought the first litigation in the Atlanta district; it is not a case of "sour grapes with me. I have nothing to criticize the Federal reserve system for except the things they did which they ought not to have done. It is a human organization, and they made some mistakes. However, there are some press agents throughout the country who are trying to lead the country to believe that the Federal reserve system saved everybody, but I want to tell you that the little country bank saved the farmer in our section and he saved him without the aid of the Federal reserve system.
You may say we got the benefit of it indirectly. I suspect we did get indirect benefit from it. But, nevertheless, we are the people who stood by the farmers. Mr. BLACK. Most of the banks in my country are national banks; and if they have not been dealt leniently with by the Federal reserve system, they could not have survived.
Mr. PETERS. How about State banks?
Mr. BLACK. We do not have very many State banks in my section.
Mr. STEVENSON. Our large banks are State banks and member banks, and there were some 12 or 14 little ones. Ours is a large county, and they were scattered all over the county, and all of them were dependent on these two large State banks and national banks in my town; and you say they took care of the farmer without the help of the Federal reserve system. They put their paper through the Federal reserve system, right through the three large banks, member banks, in my town, and at least three of them would have gone into the hands of a receiver if they had not done it.
Mr. PETERS. I said indirectly we no doubt got benefits.
Mr. STEVENSON. They come mighty near getting it directly.
Mr. BLACK. One more question, Mr. Peters: If Congress in its judgment should see fit to amend the law so as to require the Federal reserve banks to accept these items and give credit for them the same day that they received them and count as part of reserve, that would help the situation very considerably, would it not?
Mr. PETERS. I do not know of anything that you could do that would be more attractive to the country banks than to abolish deferred credits.
Mr. STEVENSON. Then what suggestion have you to make as to what should be done to stop this par-clearance trouble? What legislation would be feasible in that line? That has been the worst sore spot of all.
Mr. LAWRENCE. Mr. Stevenson, would not that very fact cure most of the par-clearance trouble?
Mr. STEVENSON. It might.
Mr. LAWRENCE. The banks would be willing to accept checks at par if they were credited in the Federal reserve at par.
Mr. NELSON. That is the crux of the whole thing. I will tell why. We had that situation absolutely in our State from the fact that the First Wisconsin National Bank of Milwaukee has the system of taking everything at par and crediting it immediately; and if a check for any reason is not paid, it is simply charged back when it comes there; and in that way it becomes really a par system and many of the banks of the Federal reserve system in our State will send their deposits through the First Wisconsin National Bank at Milwaukee, and then when they need to replenish their deposits with the Federal reserve system they send a check.
Mr. LAWRENCE. My experience with the Federal reserve system has been this-we are a national bank and a member of the Federal reserve system. We make all our deposits with Kansas City and St. Louis regular commercial banks, and then when we want to build up our deposits with the Federal reserve system we send a check on those banks, which is credited that day.
Mr. PETERS. In further reference to the country banks joining the Federal reserve system, let me bring another idea to your mind, gentlemen. The benefits that have come to the city banks through membership in the Federal reserve system have been the savings they have been able to put into effect by placing the cost of clearing out-of-town items entirely in the Federal reserve banks. That is a very heavy expense to the city banks.
Mr. NELSON. The committee will now stand adjourned subject to call. (Thereupon, at 12.45 o'clock p. m., the committee adjourned to meet at the call of the chairman.)
COMMITTEE ON BANKING AND CURRENCY,
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
Friday, February 16, 1923.
The committee met at 10.30 o'clock a. m., Hon. Louis T. McFadden presiding. The CHAIRMAN. This is a continuation of the hearings on the Capper bill, S. 4280. Senator Harris, of Georgia, is present and desires to make a statement in connection with some legislation relating to rural credits, and we would be glad to hear the Senator now.
STATEMENT OF HON. WILLIAM J. HARRIS.
Senator HARRIS. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I will take just a moment of your time. I am on the Appropriations Committee and Senator Warren put me on more subcommittees than anybody else, and I have been working all the time, and I have not had time to be in the Senate as much as I would have liked.
When the Capper bill passed, I supported it, and I did not notice the provision about the admission of the small banks to the Federal reserve system. You gentlemen have a bill that I sent over here some months ago in regard to that, and I want to ask you to-day if you would please ignore my bill, and then change the Capper bill
The CHAIRMAN. What page is that on?
Senator HARRIS. It is on page 37, section 206. The Capper bill provides that any place the population of which does not exceed 6,000 inhabitants, a bank may, within the discretion of the Federal Reserve Board, be admitted to membership if it possesses a paid-up unimpaired capital of at least $30,000; and then in towns of less than 3,000, the $15,000 bank shall be admitted on the same terms, provided they will increase the capital stock to $25,000 or to $50,000 within three years.
The only difference between that and mine in that regard is this: My bill leaves it to the Federal Reserve Board to decide when a bank shall come in, but it forces the banks to add to their capital account each year 20 per cent of their earnings.
If you will pardon me for a personal reference, in my State I was vice president of the Georgia Bankers' Association; I own a country bank, and I was a stockholder in 25 country banks, because my insurance company had stockholders and agents in all these banks, and I have been in touch with the bankers of the State for that reason; and I know that under the Capper amendment here, or that section, there is not one bank in ten almost that would taken advantage of that, whereas they would in my bill; and if you would consider adding to the Capper bill the provisions of mine here, that would allow them to increase their capital stock not less than 20 per cent of the earnings and leave it to the Federal reserve system.
The Senate Banking and Currency Committee added that provision to my bill originally, and I thought it was an excellent thing to do, and I have been very much interested in this. The Federal reserve system has not given the assistance to our people that it would have done if these 12 banks could have come in. During the last three years, for instance, under the Capper bill probably not one in ten, if they had been members, could have increased their capital; they would have had to have gone out.
Mr. WINGO. Judge Brand, of this committee, who has had this matter up with me before and I have compared the difference between the proposal you are discussing and the one that is in the Capper bill. As I gather, the principal difference is that you reach the same measure of capital stock for initial admission, but you provide that the Federal Reserve Board may make the rules and regulations which shall prescribe the fixing of the time within which and the method by which the unimpaired capital of such bank shall be increased out of its net income to equal the capital which would have been required if such bank had been admitted to membership under the preceding sections of the bill, whereas the Capper bill fixes an absolute three-year limit. You permit the department broader leeway, but you wind up with a proviso requiring at least 20 per cent a year to be added to the capital stock.
Senator HARRIS. You have stated it better than I did. I think Senator Capper would be very glad to accept mine. I have talked with him about it to-day, and I think when I show him how much better this will work in my section of the country that he will be glad to accept mine in lieu of his; and I thank you very much.
The CHAIRMAN. We are very glad to have had your statement.
Gentlemen of the committee, Mr. Clawson, of the Minneapolis Surety Co., is here this morning and would like to make a statement in regard to the matter that is under consideration here; that is, a collateral issue to rural credits, in connection with the insuring of warehouse receipts, representing grain or other commodities in storage and warehouses. Mr. Clawson, we I will hear from you now. Please give the stenographer your full name.
STATEMENT OF MR. WILLIAM H. CLAWSON, MINNEAPOLIS SURETY CO., MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.
Mr. CLAWSON. I come from out in the Northwest, where we have a very vital interest in the proposed legislation to facilitate the credit to farmers, and there is a possibility of a feature being overlooked that may cause the actual putting of legislation into practice that will be somewhat difficult or which may possibly defeat the very ends that Congress desires to effectuate and that the people desire.
Most any legislation extending facilities of credit will undoubtedly authorize the Federal land banks and farm-credit departments of those banks to accept as collateral storage tickets, warehouse receipts, and things of that kind. I have particular reference to grain-storage tickets. We get to know a lot about those things up our way.
The grain-storage ticket, as a matter of fact, is worth no more than the credit of the particular little elevator that issued it. That may be very good and sound, and it may not be worth anything. As a matter of practice, you haul in a load of grain to my elevator and take a storage ticket for it. That grain does not stay there in my elevator, but I ship it right on out to the terminal and sell it and put the money away down in my pocket. There are several reasons for that, and one is that the average grain elevator throughout the grain belt is about 20,000 bushels' capacity. The primary purpose of the elevator is to buy and ship grain. The storage of grain is a collateral thing that is a necessary evil for the elevator man to handle, and if he were to keep in his elevator all of the grain that is brought in for storage it would not take long until his elevator would be running over and he would just have to quit business.
So he ships the stuff out and sells it and gets the money for it. He may use that money in his business or he may put it aside to meet those ticketswhich he does not do-or he may speculate with it, and when the time comes that that farmer comes in with his storage ticket for his grain, if the elevator man in the meantime has lost some money the farmer is out, except in so far as he is protected by the license bond of that warehouseman.
In North Dakota the warehouseman's license bond is $5,000, and in Montană it is the same; in South Dakota it varies a little and may be $5,000, $6,000, $7,000, or $8,000. In Minnesota it varies also. Just in the last year, since the 1921 session of the legislature, it is based upon the report of how much storage the man handled last year. But the license bond is almost invariably inadequate when a loss comes.
The commission houses in the terminal points of Chicago, Duluth, and Minneapolis almost invariably advance money to the little elevator out over the country with which to handle the grain business. They charge the elevator on their books with so much money advanced. A shipment of grain comes in and the credit is taken on the other side of the book, and the elevator draws again for some more money if it needs it; and finally, if the commission house gets the notion that the elevator man is not conducting his business along proper lines, or is about to fail, or anything else, they find it out first and they just refuse to honor a draft the next time, and the grain he shipped has all been credited up to money advanced; they have the grain and the money, and there stands the elevator man out in the country with an empty house, storage tickets, and no money.
When a failure of that kind comes it is almost invariably four or five times as much as the penalty of the license bond. I come to know that because I have the pleasure of paying those claims and endeavoring to figure out pro rata of those storage tickets, prorating the penalty of the bond amongst the holders of the tickets; and it has occurred to me that in presenting those storage tickets as collateral-they will be presented, of course, by the smaller banks--the farmer puts them up with his bank, and that bank will in turn endeavor to put them up as collateral to the Farm Credit Bureau; and when the bank presents
those the Farm Credit Bureau should be authorized by whatever law is enacted to require security in its discretion. If they are not satisfied that those tickets are absolutely worth par, they should require the bank that is offering them to give additional security; in other words, they should be authorized to do it if in their discretion they think best.
Now, if the bank presenting them presents with them a bond on a form approved by the Attorney General of the United States or the Federal Land Board, in a penalty which in the discretion of the Credit Bureau is sufficient to insure that that collateral will be worth par when it is necessary to call upon it, the Government is protected and the bank offering that stuff must furnish the bond. If there is any reason why the bank does not furnish the bond, if anybody thinks that the expense is too much, or if the bank does not agree that it ought to have to furnish it, the land bank is still at liberty to accept it without the bond or to decline it if they see fit. But if there is no provision for requiring additional security or requiring a bond of indemnity-guaranteeing that those storage tickets will be worth par, your Federal land bank in the exercise of a sound discretion in the protection of the Government is bound to turn down a very large portion of the loans presented; and oftentimes those are going to be loans turned down where they are needed most, where the purpose of this bill extending credit will be defeated, because your land bank is bound to turn down stuff which is guaranteed would be backed up and the money passed on to where it is needed.
The surety companies-and there are a great many of them acceptable to the United States Government-can take no longer chance than the Government ought to take. A surety company makes its money between two points-the possibility of loss and the probability of loss. The Government ought to be insured in so far as possible in the handling of this thing against the possibility of loss, and the surety companies can take the chance on the probability of loss, and if the surety company turns it down-and we do on the license bond-you would be surprised at the great number of elevators failing to secure license bonds which we turn down because we do not think they are financially sound, or we do not think the management is good, and sometimes we think the moral risk is bad. If the insurance company turns them down, your Federal landbank man is still at liberty to accept without bond, or he is at liberty to decline it.
Mr. MACGREGOR. What has the land bank got to do with it?
Mr. CLAWSON. I say "land bank "-whatever bureau or facility you have for distributing the credit that the Government is expecting to extend. I have not in mind any particular bill. I understand there are several bills here, but I understand that the purpose of all is to facilitate the extending of credit to the farmers, and that is always done through the farmer's local bank. The local bank takes his paper and passes it on, the same as they do in the War Finance Board.
The CHAIRMAN. Mr. Clawson, is it the practice of the insurance companies to issue these guaranties on these certificates of warehouses financed by national banks? Are the national banks insisting on that insurance or depending
on the local bank? Mr. CLAWSON. There is nobody insisting upon it. The only insurance that there is to those storage tickets now is simply the license bond. Nobody is insisting on it. But I am just suggesting it as being a thing that the agency of the Government-whatever you want to call it has discretion to require additional guaranty on those things if in its judgment such guaranty is necessary protect the Government.
Mr. MACGREGOR. Are these storage tickets in the same class as warehouse receipts?
Mr. CLAWSON. Practically; they are warehouse receipts, is what they are. Mr. MACGREGOR. Is not your proposition covered by the bill here, which requires the Comptroller of the currency to determine whether the laws of such State afford adequate protection to advances made upon the security of warehouse receipts covering agricultural quantities.
Mr. WINGO. What section is that?
Mr. MACGROGOR. It is page 15, agricultural credits. That is, if the laws of the State of Minnesota are not sufficient to cover it, then it is up to the State to make them so, otherwise it would not be approved by the Comptroller of the Currency.
Mr. CLAWSON. And if that were true, I have an idea that the Comptroller of the Currency would find to his surprise that the laws of pretty nearly every


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Putin Says He Decided To Take Crimea Just Hours After Yanukovych's Ouster
March 09, 2015 13:29 GMT Updated March 09, 2015 14:25 GMT
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his visit to the Crimean port of Sevastopol on May 9, 2014.
Russian President Vladimir Putin says he told senior security officials of his decision to take Crimea just hours after embattled Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych abandoned power.
In a trailer for a documentary to be aired on state television, Putin describes an emergency Kremlin meeting he said ended about 7 a.m. on February 23, 2014.
Putin said he ordered the military and security agencies "to save the Ukrainian president's life."
"As we were parting, I told all my colleagues: 'We will have to start work to return Crimea to Russia,'" Putin said in the trailer, shown on March 8.
Russia annexed Crimea in March 2014 after deploying troops to the region, engineering the takeover of its parliament, and staging a referendum denounced by Kyiv and the West as illegitimate.
After initial denials by the Kremlin, Putin eventually acknowledged on television that Russian troops were sent to the Black Sea peninsula, but he and other officials have continued to portray the will of the people of Crimea as the driving force behind what they call its "unification" with Russia.
The trailer (in Russian):
Russian officials and media have also cast the annexation of Crimea as a necessary step to avert what they claim was the imminent threat of violence at the hands of the pro-Western forces that ousted Yanukovych in months of massive protests in Kyiv.
Kremlin critics dismiss that argument as absurd.
Yanukovych fled Kyiv on February 22, 2014, shortly after he and opponents signed a deal that called for the creation of a national unity government, a presidential election by December 2014, and a return to an earlier Ukrainian constitution that would have curtailed Yanukovych's powers.
In the TV trailer, Putin said he had summoned security chiefs for the Kremlin meeting to save Yanukovych because "they would have simply destroyed him."
He said they hatched a plan to extract Yanukovych from Ukraine "by land, sea, and air."
The Russian servicemen who secured government buildings and confronted Ukrainian units in Crimea became known as "little green men" after their uniforms, which bore no insignia.
Putin signed laws that the Kremlin says make Crimea part of Russia on March 21, 2014, five days after the referendum in which authorities said some 97 percent of those who cast ballots voted in favor.
Kyiv and Western governments said the hastily organized vote was held at the barrel of a gun and rights activists say opponents of Russian rule, including many members of the large Muslim Tatar minority, have faced a campaign of reprisals and abuse.
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev shifted Crimea from Russia to Ukraine in 1954, when both were republics of the Soviet Union.
Putin has sought to justify the annexation by claiming that Crimea is "holy land" for Russia.
Despite initially trying to keep it secret, Putin has sometimes seemed to find it hard to contain his pride over the operation to make Crimea part of Russia, joking about little green men and decorating officers involved.
Journalist and author Anne Applebaum said on Twitter:
The annexation of Crimea was followed by a conflict between Ukrainian government forces and Russian-backed separatists who have seized control over parts of two eastern provinces, Donetsk and Luhansk.
Fighting has eased following a European-brokered February 12 cease-fire deal in the conflict, which has killed more than 6,000 people since April, but Kyiv and Western governments fear the Kremlin wants to keep Ukraine riven and destabilized for decades to come.
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using FluentAssertions;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;

namespace CodeKatas.StringTowerKata
{
    [TestClass]
    public class StringTower0705
    {
        [TestMethod, TestCategory("Unit")]
        public void ShouldReturnOneFloorCorrectly()
        {
            //act
            string[] layout = CreateTower(1);
            //assert
            layout.ShouldBeEquivalentTo(new[] { "*" });
        }
        [TestMethod, TestCategory("Unit")]
        public void ShouldReturnTwoFloorsCorrectly()
        {
            //act
            string[] layout = CreateTower(2);
            //assert
            layout.ShouldBeEquivalentTo(new[] { " * ", "***" });
        }
        [TestMethod, TestCategory("Unit")]
        public void ShouldReturnFourFloorsCorrectly()
        {
            //act
            string[] layout = CreateTower(4);
            //assert
            layout.ShouldBeEquivalentTo(new[] { "   *   ", "  ***  ", " ***** ", "*******" });
        }

        private string[] CreateTower(int numberOfFloors)
        {
            string[] floorLayout = new string[numberOfFloors];
            for (int currentFloor = numberOfFloors; currentFloor >= 1; currentFloor--)
            {
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                string floorPlan = floorPadding + "".PadRight(currentFloor + (currentFloor - 1), '*') + floorPadding;
                floorLayout[currentFloor - 1] = floorPlan;
            }
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Victoria Danzig, L.C.S.W., helps clients overcome self-sabotaging behaviors and address the negative beliefs which block their best intentions.
A Licensed Clinical Social Worker in La Jolla, CA, Victoria has been a therapist for 35 years and in private practice since 1985 working extensively with clients who suffer from traumatic experiences and addictions. As a volunteer, Victoria has also trained staff and volunteers in AIT and been a case consultant for Shakti Rising, a social change organization transforming the lives of women, girls, and the larger community.
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