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There are plenty of claims of US election fraud floating around this week. Most of them fall into three categories:
Too vague to be meaningfully evaluated or investigated
Too small to matter (a few individual ballots being challenged here and there, possibly valid but not enough to affect the results)
Too wild to stand up to any kind of scrutiny
Together, these claims are certainly problematic: they create a fog of doubt about the legitimacy of the democratic process.
But a fourth category is more insidious. A twitter mutual retweeted the thread quoted below. You can click through to read the whole thread, but I have embedded the highlights. It's a well-told story, with several characteristics that make it effective - as well as dangerous.
To start with, the data comes from an authoritative source, the New York Times. Even better in this case: a source associated with "the other side". Surely the liberals can't deny the truths from their own newspaper?
The following information is provided via an anonymous data scientist and another anonymous individual who wrote a script to scrape the national ballot counting time series data of off the @nytimes website.
— CulturalHusbandry (@APhilosophae) November 9, 2020
But, the writer implies, the Times wouldn't want you to know this - it's only because we have cleverly figured out how to get access to their secret data (very enticing):
This is based on their proprietary "Edison" data source which would ordinarily be impossible to access for people outside the press.
The source code used to generate the charts is provided, allowing any reader to 'check the workings' (of course, almost nobody will). A conspiratorial suggestion to download the programs because - presumably - the government will inevitably delete them if they reveal the truth.
I suggest that everyone back up both of these files, bc this is an extremely important data source, and we cant risk anyone taking it down.
(in fact, the provided source code is incomplete - it pulls the data down from the New York Times but it does not do any of the analysis used to produce the graphs later in the thread. Perhaps they don't want us to check the workings after all?)
The thread starts off in a neutral tone, holding back on its strongest claims until later. This allows the evidence to gradually persuade; your mind's skepticism is not activated by any bold accusations.
Charts and data lend authority to any claim, as they appear to provide evidence that validates the words used to describe them:
One of the first things noticed while exploring the dataset is that there seems to be an obvious pattern in the ratio of new #Biden ballots to new #Trump ballots. pic.twitter.com/jJAAF6Pp9X
A series of near-reveals are followed by a retreat from the precipice - they tease us with a hint that we have found the fraud...only to pull back.
How could this be possible? Is this a telltale sign of fraud? Surprisingly, as it will be shown, the answer is no! This is actually expected behavior. Also, we can use this weird pattern in the ballot counting to spot fraud!
Good storytelling.
The explanations are well written, allowing readers to feel they are gaining a true understanding of what's going on. Your mind's desire to know, and flatter yourself with your knowledge, creates a confirmation bias where you increasingly go along with what is being claimed.
like a deck of cards. Since the ballots are randomly mixed together during transport, spanning areas occupied by multiple voting demographics, we can expect the ratio of mail-in #Biden ballots to mail-in #Trump ballots will remain relatively constant over time...
But finally, the dramatic buildup pays off.
Around 4am there, there is a marked shift in the ratio of D to R mail-in ballots. Based on other posts in this thread, this should not happen. This is an anomaly, and while anomalies are not always fraud, often they may point to fraud.
so what happened just before 3am CST in Wisconsin? This did!https://t.co/t7DTmMwIOB
Ta-da! A police car driving 169,000 absentee ballots to...somewhere. Fits nicely with narratives we might remember from old TV shows and historical rumour, about boxes of ballots being delivered by the Democratic "machine" just in time to swing an election.
Now we're on the downhill slope, and the storytelling can be ramped up for a couple of tweets before we get back to the data.
Around 3am Wisconsin time, a fresh batch of 169k new absentee ballots arrived. They were supposed to stop accepting new ballots, but eh, whatever I guess.
(a clarification: they are only supposed to 'stop accepting' ballots that arrive in the mail after polls close. They're still meant to transport and count the votes that have already arrived - which these had.)
You've been waiting, so here's the "explanation" of the big reveal.
than the rest of the ballots quite possibly bc additional ballots were added to the batch, either through backdating or ballot manufacturing or software tampering. This of this being kind of analogous to carbon-14 dating, but for ballot batch authenticity.
Sounds plausible, right? We'll get back to that.
To continue the story: if you aren't convinced by Wisconsin, let's look at Pennsylvania.
lets look at another anomaly: pic.twitter.com/L9cCqJ9mKB
And Georgia. And Michigan. The repetition lulls you into belief. Sure, someone could probably explain the 'anomaly' in one state. But all five of them?
Finally Virginia is thrown into the mix. Same pattern. You haven't heard anything about Virginia this election, have you? Well that just goes to show:
Now in fairness, VA is the only state out of the 50 that has anomalies but has not had accusations of voter fraud, yet. I think this is the exception that proves the rule. Yet to figure out what causes this anomalous shift, but here it is so no one accuses me of holding it back.
I'm not sure what 'the exception that proves the rule' means, but it serves its rhetorical purpose. If they were trying to trick you, they wouldn't have included Virginia. The fact that they have, shows their transparency and rigor.
A final summary to reinforce the key message:
ballot return to be extremely UNIFORM in terms of D vs R ratio, but to drift slightly towards R over time bc some of those ballots travel farther. This pattern proves fraud and is a verifiable timestamp of when each fraudulent action occurred.
Right! Quite a journey there. I can see why people are persuaded. But is any of it true?
The first thing that made me (and should make you) suspicious is that in each of these charts, the Democrat/Republican ratio of most batches of ballots is EXACTLY the same (apart from the so-called anomalies). Not just nearly, but exactly the same. The purported explanation is that they were 'shuffled in the mail like a deck of cards'. Well, anyone who has ever shuffled a deck of cards knows that this isn't what it looks like.
If this was true, a well-shuffled pack would always deal everyone at the poker table an equal hand. There would be no chance of winning - or losing - at blackjack. Tossing a coin ten times would always produce exactly five heads and five tails. But mathematical randomness does not work like that.
Anyone who works with real-world data will recognise that flat graphs like that are never what we see in reality.
In reality, a shuffled pack produces a distribution of outcomes clustered around the average. Sometimes it's higher, sometimes lower, and occasionally it's the exact average. It's not smooth, and there's no way every single batch would have an identical ratio. The probabilities are governed by the binomial distribution, and a real chart of these returns would look less like this (from the Pennsylvania graph above):
and more like this:
This chart was generated from a perfectly shuffled "deck" with exactly 50/50 proportions of each party's votes. It's fairly smooth - but not flat like the charts in the thread. The ratio of votes is never identical from one batch to the next, because real randomness is noisy.
The second reason to be suspicious of the original charts is that they do not reflect how votes are actually counted in those states. Ballots are not mailed into the state capital and shuffled together. Instead, they are mailed into a central point for each county. And every county has different politics, and a very different ratio of Democrat to Republican voters.
If you were watching the results on Tuesday night, Wednesday or Thursday you will remember the votes coming in from different counties - Waukesha, Kenosha, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Allegheny, Maricopa - each with its own profile. Some are more Democrat and some are more Republican. Some got more of their reports in earlier in the night, others later. Mostly they got in-person votes counted first and mail ballots later. By 3am CST, more of the Republican-leaning counties were in and more Democrat-leaning ones still out, but there were a number of batches from Republican counties still to come.
Therefore the real pattern might have looked more like this, with GOP counties mostly coming early and Dem batches dominating later on:
The smoothness of the charts in the original thread is an indication - not of fraud - but that the data is probably wrong. Under no plausible scenario, not even a fraudulent one, would those lines look so flat.
So I asked myself: is it a straightforward fake? Has the author of the thread simply made up the data entirely? That didn't feel quite right either. Time to have a closer look.
I downloaded the program posted in the thread (fortunately the CIA hadn't deleted it yet, phew) and took a look at where the data was coming from. Indeed, it is the New York Times:
state_results = requests.get('https://static01.nyt.com/elections-assets/2020/data/api/2020-11-03/race-page/{}/president.json'.format(formatted_state)).json()
Replace {} with the name of a state in lowercase and you can download it yourself. Here's the Wisconsin version.
So the data is real. Could it simply have been misinterpreted? One possibility was that they might have charted the cumulative D/R share instead of the D/R share of individual batches of ballots. That would explain why they converge on a stable value, because the cumulative share in a swing state quickly reaches a level close to 50% and changes very slowly after that.
However, this doesn't fit either. A cumulative graph would not jump around in the early hours like the graphs in the original thread.
In any case, the psychology doesn't point that way. This was quite a painstaking piece of work, from someone with at least a passing understanding of statistics and the ability to read data. It seems unlikely they would have confused cumulative with batch data. And - feel free to debate this with me - I think this kind of task is most likely to be carried out by someone who believes in what they are doing. No doubt there are people, perhaps even elected officials in the US government, who will say whatever suits them regardless of whether they believe it. But someone who puts together a detailed analysis like this is probably sincere, at least on some level. I'm not saying they don't have an agenda, or a bias. However I do think they are trying to put together a real argument out of real data.
Therefore, I didn't believe the data was either faked or crudely misinterpreted. And yet, it couldn't possibly be saying what the author was claiming.
So I took the next step: recreating what the author had done, to see how far I could get.
My computer didn't have all the right python modules to run their program, so I downloaded them, updated the source code to run under Python 3 (interestingly, the original was written in Python 2, which is more than ten years old), and was able to run the program and recreate the data behind the graphs. So the data is real, the graphs are really produced by the program (plus a second program that was not included) - so what was going on?
To answer that, we have to look in more detail at what the graphs are actually showing us.
Here is a chunk of the relevant data from the Times:
(apologies for poor image resolution).
Each data entry tells us:
The share of votes counted for Biden (so far)
The share of votes counted for Trump (so far)
The total number of ballots counted so far
The most recent time that new ballots were added to the total
As you can see, the number of votes continually goes up - this is cumulative data. That is, each entry includes all the same votes counted in the previous entry, plus the new ones that have just arrived.
The author (or their anonymous data scientist/programmer friend) has converted these cumulative totals into a differential time series. They take each entry and subtract the previous one, to work out how many new votes were added in this batch, and figure out how many were for Trump and how many for Biden.
For instance, take the first two rows of data here:
With 213,227 votes counted, Biden has 50.8% and Trump 47.4%. That's 108,319 for Biden and 101,070 for Trump (and 4,000 or so for third parties or write-ins).
After the next batch, the total votes counted are 279,037: Trump has now pulled ahead with 49.2%, and Biden has 48.9%. That means - in total - Biden has 136,449 and Trump 137,286.
We can simply subtract each candidate's totals before and after, to find out how many votes they got in this batch. Biden got (136449 - 108319) = 28,130. Trump got (137286 - 101070) = 36,216. Total votes in the batch, including third parties, is 65,810. This gives Trump 55.0% and Biden 42.7% - most likely this came from one of the more rural pro-Trump counties.
Straightforward enough arithmetic, right? But can you spot the hidden fallacy in the reasoning? There is a landmine in these figures which makes it impossible to draw the conclusion that the anonymous tweeter wants to draw.
Let's look at another set of figures and see if we can spot the landmine there.
This is from a little later in the night, when the big initial vote batches have all been counted, and the updates are much smaller. Most of the new batches being reported are only one or two thousand ballots. Try the same exercise with the first two rows of this data.
After batch 1: Trump = 50.6% of 1,087,928 = 550,492. Biden = 47.7% = 518,942.
After batch 2: Trump = 50.6% of 1,089,047 = 551,057. Biden = 47.7% = 519,475
New votes in batch: 1,119. Trump = 566, Biden = 534.
So what share of the votes in the new batch did each candidate get? Trump = 50.6% and Biden = 47.7%. Exactly the same as their vote share for the whole night up to this point.
This is surely an extreme coincidence! Whatever county these votes happened to come from, it has exactly the same breakdown of votes as the whole state? And it's not just that batch - the same pattern is seen with most of the vote batches in the above image.
If this were true, it would indeed indicate something weird was going on with the ballots. But it is not true. Have you spotted why yet?
It is all down to one simple reason: rounding errors.
The data provided by the New York Times is rounded to the nearest 0.1%. For its intended purpose, this is sufficient - they provide the data to support the graphics shown on their news pages, and news pages are fine with 50.6% vs 47.7% - it's close enough.
But the rounding means it is impossible to calculate the exact number of votes for Trump and Biden from the above data. The numbers are approximate, and could be off by 0.05% in either direction: in this case, 560 ballots either way. That doesn't affect the overall totals very much, but look at the number of votes in the individual batch we analysed above: 566 for Trump and 534 for Biden. If the totals in this batch are 560 off, there could be as few as 6 Trump votes in the batch, or more than 1000. That is, the real Trump share could be anywhere from 1% to 100%, and the Biden share 0 to 99%!
The rounding error makes it impossible to work out the vote share in each batch. And vote-share-per-batch is the one piece of information that the whole thread relies on, "anomalies" and all.
The original calculation, instead of treating the 50.6% figure on the first cumulative total as an approximation, treats it as an exact number. The next total also has a 50.6% score for Trump (which in itself is not surprising, since a small batch of new votes will not affect the cumulative share much). If you treat these as exact numbers instead of approximations, the calculation will tell you that the batch has exactly 50.6% Trump votes too, to keep the cumulative score identical.
In reality, that batch probably had somewhere between 400-700 Trump votes and 400-700 Biden votes - there is no way to know the real numbers. The proportions do not follow that artificially smooth line after all.
This calculating error also has some other strange consequences. Let's say the (real) Trump share is gradually creeping up, batch by batch, from 50.6% to 50.63% to 50.649% (all of which are rounded to 50.6%). A final tiny increase to 50.65% will cause the total to be rounded up to 50.7% instead of rounded down. It will appear that 1100 Trump votes have arrived all at once, when in reality they were spread over several batches. This makes it look as if there is a batch of votes almost completely dominated by Trump (or Biden - this effect goes either way). In fact, it could appear as if there are more Trump (or Biden) votes than the total number of ballots in the batch!
And this is exactly what you see in the original author's Wisconsin graph (look from midnight onwards): a long series of identical vote shares, and some wildly high and low outliers in both Trump's and Biden's direction. These outliers represent times when the vote share went up or down just enough for the total to be rounded up instead of rounded down. There are even bigger outliers than the ones shown, but the graph has been cut off at 2.00 presumably to make this less obvious.
So the mystery is solved. There is no "anomaly": just a genuine shift in vote share over the course of the night, because the votes that got counted later include a higher share of mail-in ballots (which take longer to count) and are from different counties. This shift is disguised by the rounding errors that these charts rely on.
Did the original author - or data scientist - realise this? Maybe not. Earlier I mentioned a Python module (it's called pandas - aw, cute) which they used for the data analysis. pandas has a time-series function which automatically works out the differences between batches - the calculation I did by hand above. Perhaps they called it without looking closely at the outputs, or thinking through the implications of the rounding. Maybe they didn't even realise the data was rounded (although it's fairly obvious). I hesitate to accuse someone of lying when it could be a mistake. But the upshot is the same: the whole set of claims made in this thread are wrong, and should be retracted.
Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be (yet) an authoritative source of the real cumulative vote counts which would allow us to create an accurate version of the above graph. Perhaps the Times or Edison will release that at some point. But in the absence of that, just think back to Tuesday night or Wednesday (or Thursday or Friday!) when you were watching the results come in. You may recall that every new batch of votes had a different share for Biden and Trump. In some reports (Arizona, for example) there were batches with a 51%, 57% or 59% Trump share. In Pennsylvania, most (not all) of the late-counted batches were pro-Biden, but by varying amounts - 60% in Allegheny, 73%, 75% or 79% in Philadelphia. The unpredictability of these vote shares was exactly what kept us waiting 4 days for the result to be called. Nobody knew what the Allegheny or Maricopa shares would be until they arrived, so we didn't know if the remaining votes would be enough to push either candidate over the edge and win the state.
If you'd like to see another view on this, here's a twitter thread from @cb_miller_, who independently did the same calculation as me. He has presented the same data in some alternative ways to show how the error works.
Some final thoughts, then - if you want to understand the truth of an assertion you see online, ask yourself:
How good is the storytelling? If it follows a dramatic arc that confirms what you already suspect to be true, try to separate the persuasiveness of that rhetoric from the factual claims being made. Good storytelling doesn't mean that a claim is false, but it also doesn't mean it's true.
Does the data look very clean and simple? Real data is usually a bit more messy, with the patterns not as easy to see.
Does it accord with what you already know? In this case, a bit of thought about how counties report their vote totals would have shown that the claim could not be true.
Does the claim rely on a long series of graphs and claims about data that are hard to check? If you don't have the expertise or time to check it yourself (and few of us do), see if someone you trust has checked and endorsed it for you. That might be a scientist, a trusted media organisation (although I'm aware that not everyone trusts traditional media organisations to the same degree) or a government agency (same). But even if you don't believe everything those authorities tell you, the fact that they are willing to put their name to something might still indicate they are willing to stake some of their credibility on it.
A corollary of this: do you know the name of the person making the claim? Anonymous tweeters are not putting anything at stake by posting stuff like this, so you might choose to put less weight on what they say. Maybe different in a whistleblower situation where someone's safety is at risk, but that's why journalists protect their sources: so you can benefit from the fact-checking the journalist has done, without needing to know exactly where the original facts came from.
Have you heard about it from anyone else? If something really is a genuine scandal, you'll probably hear about it in more than one place. It's much easier for someone to check the details of a report like this and amplify it, than for a whole conspiracy of journalists to get together and suppress it. And in a highly competitive media world, there are enough news sites with plenty of incentive to report any genuine issues - even if you think MSNBC wants to hide the truth, lots of other people don't.
Stay skeptical for sure, but eventually you have to trust someone. A good heuristic is: the more people involved in an activity, the harder it is to hide anything nefarious. There are a lot of people involved in counting votes in a US election, and it seems unlikely to me that widespread malarkey could go on without lots of people spotting it.
Max Magee said…
Seems like you're somewhat unfamiliar with Python versioning (which is one of the major weak-points of Python, so this isn't really your fault). Python 2.7 has been in maintenance mode for 10 years, but it was—-up until this year—-seeing maintenance releases. The core of the Python language is complete, but new modules are only being incorporated into Python 3.x. For example, the 2.7.18 release is date-stamped 2020-04-20. Meaning it was released in April (presumably bugfix, security, or performance improvements were added).
https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-announce-list@python.org/thread/OFCIETIXLX34X7FVK5B5WPZH22HXV342/
As far as Pandas, yes, it is a cute name, but it's also a great data-analysis tool. Python has a history of silly names (starting with Python, which was named after Monty Python)—pandas is presumably Python for ANalysis of DAta and Statistics, however, they just named it pandas because it's cute and fun (or something about PANel Data AnalysiS, but that fits just as poorly).
Petty details aside, I think your analysis of the data is spot on: basically, that you can't draw those conclusions from this dataset because there isn't enough data to slice and dice it the way the original argument attempted. A.k.a.: Somebody skipped sig-fig day in data science school.
You charitably read the intent of the original author to be innocent and well-intentioned, but I would say it's part of the larger effort to discredit our election system and to sow doubt and confusion about our larger democratic institutions. Therefore, I wouldn't be so quick to impute altruistic or didactic motives.
There's an element of Dunning-Kruger at play here too. Folks think they've found a secret conspiracy because they don't understand the nuances and details of how numbers, statistics, or (and particularly the electoral count) data collection work. This author just climbed the peak of Mount Stupid and hit PUBLISH, instead of saying "Huh, maybe it's my analysis is wrong, rather than a vast nation-wide conspiracy."
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201808/the-dunning-kruger-effect-may-help-explain-trumps-support
That all being said, all of this election fraud is completely plausible, and particularly, before strict rules and oversight were imposed, (even presidential) elections were stolen regularly when it seemed possible to do so—both major parties are complicit. See the election of 1876 for some particularly terrible two-party behavior.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/history/ct-opinion-flashback-hayes-tilden-presidential-election-20200925-s55522nok5burjnhopwtt2ijoi-story.html
All of the past history (up to and including 2000 and 2016's election results) puts our democratic systems on shaky ground, and is yet another definitive sign that the electoral college system is past due for an overhaul, if not outright abolition. Conspiracy theories are rife in every election, but when a presidential candidate espouses them, you expect there to be evidence and something real there. Time and time again, after experts (theoretically) made their best arguments in courts of law, they continue to show they had nothing but suspicion and lies to back them up.
https://theconversation.com/why-trumps-election-fraud-claims-arent-showing-up-in-his-lawsuits-challenging-the-results-150505
Leigh Caldwell said…
Hi Max
Thanks for the Python details - I don't use it too often so it looks like I misunderstood the versioning situation slightly. My trusty java compiler usually gets more of my attention.
I suspect you're right about the original author's motives, but I didn't want to make my argument reliant on an assumption of bad faith. If the goal is to persuade people who might be tempted by the original argument, starting off with an accusation of bias may put up their mental defenses and stop them listening (e.g. see this paper by Hagmann and Loewenstein)
Electoral college reform does seem like a good idea, although it would involve the US making a fundamental political choice between privileging the separate interests of states versus the combined interests of the whole nation's population. That choice obviously has long historical roots and has had immense consequences over time, and I imagine it would be pretty hard to change.
Reform of the voting process is a different matter, and I could imagine this whole process motivating a new voting rights act. Perhaps by fighting this lost cause, Trump will inadvertently get his base on board with voting reform! Imagine a bunch of GOP senators being primaried until they commit to implementing a robust, (relatively) fraud-proof voting system that ensures everyone can vote. We can dream.
I did wonder briefly if a more consistently designed, straightforward, transparent nationwide voting process would help reduce conspiracy theorising, but being realistic - it probably won't. There are lots of systems in society without the idiosyncrasies and weirdness of the American voting process, and there are conspiracy theories about most of them. Still, it's a good thing to work towards on its own merits.


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President Trump should trust Wharton School…
President Trump should trust Wharton School instincts on trade
In this June 9, 2018 file photo, President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at the G-7 summit in La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
By The Editorial Board | opinion@scng.com |
PUBLISHED: June 16, 2018 at 9:30 a.m. | UPDATED: June 16, 2018 at 10:20 a.m.
Last weekend, President Trump offered perhaps one of his best ideas to date, which is a tariff- and subsidy-free G7.
Since long before he was even a presidential candidate, Trump has been a consistent critic of international trade agreements. As president, he has taken to using tariffs and threats of tariffs in protest of what he considers unfair trade practices that disadvantage the United States.
It was somewhat surprising then for Trump to suggest the elimination of tariffs and subsidies between the United States and other G7 nations, which include Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan.
"You want a tariff-free, you want no barriers, and you want no subsidies, because you have some cases where countries are subsidizing industries, and that's not fair," he said.
"So you go tariff-free, you go barrier-free, you go subsidy-free. That's the way you learned at the Wharton School of Finance."
It's not clear how serious Trump is about the idea of eliminating tariffs and subsidies, but the notion of truly free trade, rather than the managed trade of agreements like NAFTA, is one to get behind.
Protectionism, as the late, great economist Milton Friedman once said, only protects consumers from low prices.
Tariffs might be beneficial to select companies and industries, but they sacrifice the competitiveness of far more others.
As one estimate from The Trade Partnership recently put it, Trump's tariffs on steel and aluminum imports are likely to result in 16 lost jobs for every job created by them. That's 400,000 jobs at stake for the sake of maybe helping American steel and aluminum producers produce far fewer jobs.
There's nothing smart about America shooting itself in the foot for the sake of protecting select industries from global competition. Yet that's what Trump has unfortunately put America on the course of doing, with the resulting trade war merely harming everyone involved.
"In a so-called trade war, driven by reciprocal increases of import tariffs, nobody wins, one generally finds losers on both sides," as International Monetary Fund Director Christine Lagarde recently said.
While it is true that other countries subsidize industries in their own countries and use tariffs to make those industries more competitive in their own countries — for example, Canada's tariff on dairy — it must be noted the United States does the same thing, including monstrosities like the farm bill.
When Trump "points to European auto tariffs, the Europeans can point to U.S. truck tariffs," notes Simon Lester at the Cato Institute. "And then they can keep going down the list: Buy America procurement policies, the Jones Act, barriers to trade in legal and medical services, anti-dumping abuses, etc."
Trump's solution of just repealing all subsidies and engaging in truly free trade is the right way to go.
As a 2010 study from the European Centre for International Political Economy estimated, the repeal of tariffs between the European Union and the United States could produce dynamic welfare gains of up to $86 billion for the EU and $82 billion for the US.
Trade isn't a zero sum game. With greater trade, the world becomes a wealthier and more peaceful place. To get there, world leaders, including Trump, must reject self-defeating protectionist policies and embrace truly free trade.
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Bali's pandemic renters face a rude awakening as prices soar
Bali's pandemic renters face a rude awakening as prices soar
Bali, Indonesia – At the height of the pandemic, Maria, a refugee from the Philippines, was paying 2.8 million rupees ($180) each month to rent a hotel room in Bali, Indonesia.
But when international tourists began to flock to the popular resort island earlier this year, Maria's hotel in Canggu, a seaside town popular with surfers and late-night revelers, saw its prices increase fivefold.
"One day they raised it to 400,000 rupees a day without notice," Maria, who asked to be referred to by a pseudonym, told Al Jazeera.
"Now I stay in a small room near [the provincial capital] Denpasar without air conditioning. It's all I can afford."
As Bali recovers from COVID-19, the cost of accommodation on the island is skyrocketing, a sobering reality for renters, many of them foreigners who sought refuge in Bali during the pandemic.
Bali is experiencing a construction boom as visitors return to the popular tourist island [courtesy of Ian Neubauer]
When Indonesia closed its borders in April 2020, reducing daily visitors from more than 44,000 to virtually zero, many hotels turned to the long-term rental market to survive.
Hoteliers implemented deep discounts to attract some of the tens of thousands of foreigners on the island. Facing increased competition, the island's 4,000 vacation villas have lowered sales prices by 50 to 75 percent to secure renters. With no way of knowing when or if tourists would return, hundreds of hotels were delisted and put up for sale.
But with international travel coming back to life, Bali has become a homeowners market practically overnight.
"I was paying 10 million rupees ($641) a month, and one day the owner told me she would raise the price to 40 million rupees ($2,565)," Gina Marks, an American expat, told Al Jazeera.
See also Putin calls on security services to find 'traitors and spies': Media
For most of the pandemic, Marks lived in a small two-bedroom villa in Seminyak, a waterfront district south of Canggu.
"I understand he had to go up," he said. "But by increasing it so much, I felt betrayed because I kept food on it. [the landlord's] table during the pandemic."
The post-pandemic price correction has not been limited to short-term accommodation. Land and house values in the more popular parts of the island are also appreciating rapidly.
"In Canggu, I would say property has gone up 20 to 30 percent this year," Mark Ching, director of the Tamora Group, a developer of villa and apartment projects, told Al Jazeera.
"There are two reasons behind this. The first is that foreigners can freely travel here again and that has created a lot of confidence for Indonesian investors who saw how quiet things were during the pandemic and how busy the streets are now. There is a crazy race to be among the first to take advantage of it."
The second reason, according to Ching, is the Omnibus Law, legislation introduced in November 2020 that allows foreigners to buy apartments and land while giving them permanent ownership and resale rights.
"It was one of the reasons we started our latest project, but due to COVID, there were few foreign buyers," Ching said, referring to The Tamora apartment complex in Canggu.
"However, lately most sales have been to foreigners taking advantage of the Omnibus Law."
'Going crazy'
In Cemagi, an upcoming tourist district of lush green rice fields located a half-hour drive from Canggu, property prices are rising even faster. In 2019, the going rate for leased land, the most common ownership vehicle available to foreigners building detached villas in Bali, was 8 million rupees ($513) per 100 square meters per year.
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During the pandemic, prices fell to 6 million rupees ($385). Today, the same land is being advertised for 12 million rupees ($770), and villa projects are springing up like mushrooms.
"For two years, during the pandemic, almost nothing was built, but now it is going crazy and there is no way anyone can stop it," Markus Cristoph, the German owner of Udara, a yoga retreat in Jerusalem, told Al Jazeera. Seseh.
Although tourists are returning to Bali, visitor numbers remain well below pre-pandemic levels.
Bali saw around 276,650 arrivals in August, 12 percent more than July but less than half the number reported during the same month in 2019.
Still, local observers say visitors have concentrated on a handful of hotspots on the island.
Rents have gone up so much "because 100 percent of these 20 percent want to stay in Canggu," said Ching of the Tamora Group.
A rapid influx of visitors to Bali is exacerbating traffic congestion on the island. [Courtesy of Ian Neubauer]
Along with Bali's small, winding roads, the sudden increase in population has caused chronic traffic congestion in the area.
The problem is especially pronounced in Berawa, the most popular beach and street in Canggu and home to the new Atlas Beach Fest, the largest beach club in Southeast Asia with a capacity of 10,000 visitors per day.
Next door, Finns Beach Club hosts up to 8,000 people each day.
"I live in Berawa. Every day I find it more difficult to travel," said Ching. "I'm going to have to move."
Internal migration of wealthy expats and Indonesians is also causing property values to rise in other desirable parts of Bali, said Manuele Mossoni, director of architecture firm 2M Design Lab.
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"I think very soon there will be a total saturation of the market in Canggu because they can't house as many people in the same place," Mossoni told Al Jazeera. "Investors are discovering different places like Uluwatu in the south. Balian [an hour's drive west of Canggu] it is another good example where investors have grabbed the land and are waiting for the right time to build."
Mossoni, which had to double its workforce to 30 staff members and move to larger premises this year to meet demand, believes property prices in Bali have yet to go much higher.
"Over the next five years, I think prices will rise even faster than now because there are many people from Europe and America who realize that after the bad period of the pandemic, Bali is a pretty good place to stay."


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Iowa Republicans talk about Gov. Rick Perry's entry into the presidential race.
Gwen Ifill and David Chalian marvel at the fact that more Republican candidates, including former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, are getting into the 2012 race in late June.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry roused the audience at the Republican Leadership Conference over the weekend, leading many to wonder if he will make a run for the White House.
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On March 2, Gov. Rick Perry won the Republican gubernatorial primary in Texas by a comfortable 21-point margin. He earned 51.1 percent of the vote, while Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison received 30.3 percent and newcomer Debra Medina 18.6 percent.


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Merriman's Monkeypod to Open on Oahu in 2012
Culinary Correspondent
The Runaway Success of Wailea is Headed for Bountiful Shores Next Summer
Of all the Hawaiian Regional Cuisine chefs, it's possible the Peter Merriman commands the least pomp and circumstance. From Waimea to Waikoloa (on the Big Island) to Kapalua and Wailea (on Maui) or Poipu, Kaua'i, Merriman churns out his comfort food twists on local fare—and he does it well. So when we walked into Monkeypod Kitchen—his newest creation, on the tony hillside at Wailea Gateway Center—a few weeks ago following the Maui Film Festival, it wasn't long after passing through the door that the words "Why isn't there something like this on O'ahu?!" escaped my lips. Well, the wait is over. Almost.
Chef Merriman just announced the second outpost of Monkeypod will reside on the azure shores of West O'ahu, at the Ko'Olina Resort, mid-2012.
http://www.monkeypodkitchen.com
Amidst the Mist: A Tranquil Respite
Inn-Crowd Correspondent
With summer in full swing, anyone not embarking on a European holiday or mainland sojourn tshould consider a neighbor island jaunt to one of many inn experiences we are lucky to have among us. We've written at length about the quaint (and historic) Shipman House in lush Hilo; you've drooled over the elite homes of Pure Kauai, as well as some stunning oceanfront estates on O'ahu. But it's been a while since we directed our gaze towards the coffee-laden hillsides above Kona—and the sublimely serene Holualoa Inn.
Eddie Would... Hang/Eat Here
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New Big Isle Surf Museum and Eatery Spotlights Legendary Waterman, Eddie Aikau
There's a new locale at the Kings' Shops at Waikoloa, on the Big Island of Hawai'i, that pays tribute to one of the most storied, modern day watermen. The Eddie Aikau Restaurant & Surf Museum opened for business this month, and if the celebrity turn-out was any gauge for its future success, well, things are looking bright.
Five Years Later...
This is precisely, to the week, how long we here at B on Hawai'i have churned out interesting and relevant twice-per-month newsletters to our incredibly loyal (and ever-expanding) readership. Although we're not much for self-congratulatory sentiment, the passage of so much time is still pretty hard to believe.
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Hawaiian-produced Film Premiers at L.A. Festival
Cinema Correspondent
Here's a "shout out" to our aloha amigos in SoCal: The Hawaiian production "One Kine Day"—a film that captures the lesser seen side of youth life in the islands—is screening at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival on May 1, 2011. Filmed entirely on location in Hawai'i, this picture follows both newcomer and veteran stars on a ride in the life of a skater-slacker who finds out his 15 year old girlfriend is pregnant.
http://www.onekinemovie.com
GM + Pals Pledge to Bring Hydro-Powered Autos within 4 Years
Automotive Affiliate
A ground-breaking, recent coalition involving ten companies, agencies and universities have banded together to make hydrogen-powered vehicles—and 25 stations to fill them—a reality in Hawaii by 2015. In four short years, the leading company behind the effort, General Motors (GM), aims to kick off plans for a new sustainable energy ecosystem in Hawaii.
Pro Bowl Block Party Kicks Off in Waikiki
We are thrilled to promote the 2011 NFL Pro Bowl—which has made its just return to Hawaii (after a horrendous decision by both the NFL and the former authorities-of-note here in Honolulu).
Win a Harley Softail at the Grand Wailea Resort
Contests Coordinator
Free Harley Davidson Heritage Softail, anyone? For those who can convince their company to take a much needed retreat (or incentive trip) to Maui, and can book more than 15 rooms at the Grand Wailea Resort & Spa before December 31, 2011, you'll have 5 times the chance of winning. You've got plenty of time to start building your case.
Hawaii Hotel Group to Manage Thai Luxe Resort
East Asia Affiliate
Hawaii's own Outrigger Hotels and Resorts has just announced that it will manage the newly penned Outrigger Koh Samui Resort and Spa in Bhoput Beach, Thailand, as of February 1, 2011. The upscale property formerly known as the Destination Beach Resort features 81 luxury villas and suites, a beachside restaurant, a wellness center, three swimming pools, a kids club and multiple bars.
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Celebrity Chef Tour: To Mauna Lani in 2011
Mauna Lani Bay Hotel & Bungalows will host a historic culinary event in early 2011, when James Beard Foundation's "The Celebrity Chef Tour" stops-off here on January 21st and 22nd. Spotlighted chefs Michael Symon (star of Iron Chef America and restaurateur, Cleveland's Lola and Lolita ) and Jonathan Waxman (author and star of Top Chef Masters, also owner of Barbuto in NYC's West Village) will anchor the foodie event.


However I will say, our shopping last year was more impressive. We didn't stop for a break once, we spent way more (which is probably a good thing we didn't go THAT wild this year) and we basically hit several malls in both Ohio and Kentucky. So for this year, I would like to say we were much more conservative.
So my favorite purchase you may ask? The coolest platform heels you have ever seen!
The next day (well more like night, because we slept like all day Saturday following our eventful shopping experience.) We decided to visit the Dublin Pub in Ohio, with some of his family. We listened to an incredible Irish band called, "Father Son and Friends" and had a wonderful time! (If y'all want to see what they're all about, check em out here.) Before stopping by, we searched the area to take photos of my outfit and just so happened, found the perfect spot, the side door at the Dublin Pub! What a coincidence!
Just a few quick tips about my outfit…I'm really on a black on black kick right now. Black is such a slimming color and I suggest trying it out and adding in a pop of color with a shoe, scarf, or accessory. Sometimes I'll throw on cheetah print shoes, or a blanket scarf to wear has a simple poncho or in this case, these fab shoes!
I love the button fly feature in these jeans which I show pretty often but you can also hide if you are looking for a different look. Also, I'm a huge fan of unique hems on jeans currently! Out with the norm, in with the new! Raw hems are all the rage right now, you could totally create your own with an existing pair at home, or if you love mine, then you can snag these jeans here.
Kyle really captured some fabulous photos and I am thrilled with the final product. Side note, he is also in the process of launching his online photography platform I will share with you very soon! In the meantime, if you would like to book a session with him, let me know!
I've linked my outfit below!


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#AFIDOCS, Documentary, World Premiere
World Premiere of "Visitor's Day" set for AFI DOCS
June 16, 2016 HollywoodGlee	1 Comment
Visitor's Day, the latest feature documentary by acclaimed filmmaker Nicole Opper, will premiere on Thursday, June 23, 2016 at 6:45pm at the AFI DOCS international documentary film festival at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center located at 8633 Colesville Rd., Silver Spring, MD.
Visitor's Day, set at IPODERAC, a home for 72 abandoned boys, tells the story of Juan Carlos, a runaway at age 10 who struggles for self-acceptance in the face of abandonment by his father. Founded in 1966, IPODERAC will celebrate it's 50th anniversary this month, the month of our world premiere. This is also the year they break ground on the first home of it's kind for girls and young women, a fact revealed in the film. The founder and various leaders of IPODERAC will be flying in from Mexico for this premiere.
For 50 years, IPODERAC (www.ipoderac.org) has helped homeless boys become self-sufficient, productive citizens of Mexico. It embodies the values of education, work and sustainability it teaches the children by operating as a social enterprise that generates 75% of its revenues from the sale of 28 varieties of artisan goat cheese.
Opper directed and produced the Emmy® Award-nominated feature documentary "Off and Running" which was an Audience Favorite at Tribeca, won ten international festival awards (including Outfest) and aired on P.O.V. in 2010. Visitor's Day, is supported by a Fulbright Fellowship, New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), Chicken & Egg Pictures and The Independent Television Service (ITVS). Nicole has produced films for The Discovery Channel and a documentary series for Here TV, and was selected for Filmmaker Magazine's annual "25 New Faces of Independent Film."
Filmmaker Nicole Opper
Director's Statement:
I first encountered the IPODERAC boys as an eighteen year old volunteer, and I knew I was witnessing something extraordinary. Eleven years later, I unearthed the journal I kept during my time there. In it, I read that I had vowed to come back and make a documentary about this place. I returned to IPODERAC to fulfill this promise and lived on the premises for a year. While this film is an intimate verite portrait of one young man growing up at IPODERAC, I see this story as a beacon of hope, a tale of redemption and a positive depiction of our neighboring country in the midst of a storm of mainstream media that continues to focus almost exclusively on drug violence and "illegal" immigration.
Visitor's Day also will show at the AFI DOCS festival on Sunday, June 25th at 5:30pm at the Landmark E Street Cinema at 555 11th St., NW, Washington, DC.
Tickets are available at www.afi.com and additional information about the film is available at www.visitorsdaythefilm.com.
"VISITOR'S DAY is an affecting portrait of a neglected boy striving for self-acceptance and maturity." – AFI DOCS Film Festival
(Press release provided by Stephanie Strong)
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Дмитрий Васильевич Крамарчук (1898 — 2 декабря 1945) — генерал-майор ВС СССР, начальник Саратовского военного училища НКВД СССР в 1936—1939 годах и Высшей школы войск НКВД СССР в 1939—1942 годах. Заместитель командующего Московским военным округом в годы Великой Отечественной войны.

Биография
Уроженец села Фаевка (нынешний Новгород-Северский район, Черниговская область). Украинец. В РККА с мая 1919 года, член ВКП(б) с 1926 года. Во время гражданской войны в России участвовал в боях против войск Деникина. В 1936—1939 годах возглавлял Саратовское военное училище НКВД СССР.

С мая 1939 года возглавлял Высшую школу войск НКВД СССР. Комбриг (25 мая 1939 года). Генерал-майор (4 мая 1940 года)а. С июня по декабрь 1941 года был начальником оперативной группы по борьбе с парашютными десантами и диверсантами противника в прифронтовой полосе при УНКВД по Москве и Московской области (с 25 августа 1941 года группа была преобразована в 4-й отдел УНКВД по Москве и Московской области).

Во время обороны Москвы был назначен на должность начальника оборонительного рубежа 15 октября 1941 года, с того же месяца командовал Западной группой войск Московской зоны обороны. Занимал пост коменданта 157-го Московского укреплённого района с 16 декабря 1941 по 25 июля 1944 года. В августе 1944 года назначен начальником отдела военно-учебных заведений Московского военного округа. С марта 1945 года был временно исполняющим должность заместителя командующего войсками по военно-учебным заведениям при штабе Московского военного округа.

Умер 2 декабря 1945 года в результате тяжелого ранения, полученного в автокатастрофе. Похоронен на Новодевичьем кладбище (4-й участок).

Награды
 Орден Красной Звезды (дважды)
 14 февраля 1941 — в ознаменование XX годовщины пограничных войск НКВД СССР, отмечая самоотверженность и мужество в охране границ Социалистической Родины, а также достижения в деле боевой и политической подготовки войск
 26 апреля 1942
 Орден Красного Знамени (3 ноября 1944) — за долголетнюю и безупречную службу в Красной Армии
 Орден Ленина (21 февраля 1945) — за долголетнюю и безупречную службу в Красной Армии
 Медаль «XX лет Рабоче-Крестьянской Красной Армии» (22 февраля 1938)
 Медаль «За оборону Москвы» (1 мая 1944)
 Медаль «За победу над Германией в Великой Отечественной войне 1941-1945 гг.» (9 мая 1945)

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Члены КПСС
Участники Гражданской войны в России (красные)
Начальники Военного института КГБ при Совете министров СССР
Начальники военных вузов СССР
Умершие от ран
Похороненные на Новодевичьем кладбище

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Jason Joel Desrouleaux, known by his stage name Jason Derulo, is an American singer, songwriter and dancer, who has achieved eleven platinum singles since the beginning of his solo career in 2009. Among his biggest hits are songs "Wiggle", "Talk Dirty", "In My Head" and "Whatcha Say".
Jason is a birthday boy today (born September 21, 1989) and we wish him to keep the trend in the development of his career.
Derulo's music is generally pop, but also incorporates R&B and hip-hop influences. Michael Jackson was his main inspiration. 'He is the reason I am who I am today. When I was 4 years old, I saw him for the first time. I saw how he moved the crowd and how people were just so touched', the singer revealed.
Elvis Presley, Madonna, Prince, Usher and Justin Timberlake are among the other musicians, who have influenced Derulo's style.
Derulo released his debut single "Whatcha Say" in May 2009. It sold over five million digital downloads, gaining an RIAA certification of triple platinum, and reaching number 1 in the U.S. and New Zealand.
Jason Derulo is always pretty stylish on the Red carpet, usually combining classic and contemporary men's style elements. He is among the most elegant rappers in suits.


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Q: How to configure docker with django_crontab Hi I'm trying to add a service to my docker https://pypi.org/project/django-crontab/ unfortunately despite reading a bunch of threads on the forum I still can't manage to configure the Dockerfile and docker-compose.yaml correctly. I would like to ask for help and clarification on what I am doing wrong.
Thank you for your reply
DockerFile
FROM python:3.10
RUN apt update
RUN apt-get install cron -y
RUN alias py=python
ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED 1
WORKDIR /fieldguard
COPY . /fieldguard/
RUN pip install --upgrade pip
COPY requirments.txt /fieldguard/
RUN pip install -r requirments.txt
RUN chmod +x docker-entrypoint.sh
ENTRYPOINT ["./docker-entrypoint.sh"]
CMD ["python3", "manage.py", "runserver", "0.0.0.0:8080"]

docker_compoe.yaml
version: "3.9"

services:
  db:
    image: postgres:14.5
    restart: unless-stopped
    container_name: database
    environment:
      - POSTGRES_DB=${POSTGRES_DB}
      - POSTGRES_USER=${POSTGRES_USER}
      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=${POSTGRES_PASSWORD}
    ports:
      - "5432:5432"
  web:
    build: .
    container_name: webapp
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "8000:8000"
    depends_on:
      - db
    environment:
      - SECRET_KEY=${SECRET_KEY}
      - JWT_SECRET_KEY=${JWT_SECRET_KEY}
      - FRONT_URL=${FRONT_URL}
      - EMAIL_PORT=${EMAIL_PORT}
      - EMAIL_HOST=${EMAIL_HOST}
      - EMAIL_HOST_USER=${EMAIL_HOST_USER}
      - EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD=${EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD}
      - POSTGRES_DB=${POSTGRES_DB}
      - POSTGRES_USER=${POSTGRES_USER}
      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=${POSTGRES_PASSWORD}
      - WRONG_SECRET_KEY=${WRONG_SECRET_KEY}
      - DEVICE_SECRET_KEY_REGISTER=${DEVICE_SECRET_KEY_REGISTER}
      - DEVICE_SECRET_KEY_LOGIN=${DEVICE_SECRET_KEY_LOGIN}
      - TOKEN_EXPIRATION=${TOKEN_EXPIRATION}
      - DEVICE_TOKEN_EXPIRATION=${DEVICE_TOKEN_EXPIRATION}
  cron:
    build: .     # same as main application
    restart: unless-stopped
    env_file:
     - .env
    depends_on:
     - db
    command: cron -f  # as a long-running foreground process

docker-entrypoint.sh
#!/bin/sh
# docker-entrypoint.sh

# If this is going to be a cron container, set up the crontab.
if [ "$1" = cron ]; then
  python manage.py crontab add
fi

# Launch the main container command passed as arguments.
exec "$@"

settings.py
INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'rest_framework',
    'fg_backend',
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'django_crontab',
]

CRONJOBS = [
    ('*/1 * * * *', 'fg_backend.cron.my_scheduled_job'),
]

And cron.py located in fg_backend/
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
import datetime

def my_scheduled_job():
    try:
        with open("logs/{}_{}.log".format(datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d'),
                                                        'CRONJOB'), "a+") as f:
            f.write('{}_SomeTextOnly for test'.format(datetime.datetime.now()))
            # TODO:: CREATE CRON JOB TO DELETE LOGS
            # self.delete_older_logs()
    except Exception as e:
        print(e)

I will be very grateful for your help
I would like to configure django-crontab so that I can add some small shuffles. I know Celerity is also used but I don't need such a big tool.
Thank you very much for your help.

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Q: How to show Java dynamic table in main form instead of new generating form I am trying to display a java table on particular event like, when I click button.
It makes a DB connection, gets data, puts it into the table, and shows the table in new window. But I want to display that table in my main form, i.e. itself button frame.

A: You can try using Angular-js for this kind of stuff. See ng-repeat here.


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About HELP Group
HELP University was founded in 1986 to provide affordable quality educational opportunities for Malaysians. It has since developed into a leading institution of higher learning in Malaysia with an international reputation among universities, research organisations, scholars, businesses, corporate leaders, and governments. HELP University offers a wide and diverse range of programmes covering business, law, management, economics, IT, the social sciences, and the humanities at undergraduate and graduate levels.
The HELP Group has won numerous awards. It was recognised by Forbes Asia in 2011 as one of the top 200 Top Performing companies in Asia Pacific with capitalization below USD 1 billion. It also won the KPMG Shareholder Value Award in 2010, and was ranked 43 among 1,000 public listed companies on the Malaysian Stock Exchange. HELP was also included in the Malaysian Corporate Governance Indext by MSWG, and won the Brand Laureate Award for Best Brand Award for Private Tertiary Education in 2012. In 2011, Group CEO, Datin Chan-Low Kam Yoke, was named Woman Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young.
Business Analytics and Technology Innovation Centre (BATIC)
To prepare for the future we are transforming to become the Analytics-Driven Entrepreneurial University. Our effort is recognised by MDEC which conferred us the Premier Digital Tech University Award. We also received the MDEC Recognition for Certificate Training in data science for students.
To support this transformation HELP invested RM25 million in the Business Analytics and Technology Innovation Centre (BATIC), which will be used to innovate and incubate techno-entrepreneurship. Additionally, in planning is Phase Three expansion of Subang 2 which will add the signature Green-Digital Technology Campus. We are getting bigger, better, bolder in our innovative education investment.
HELP ACADEMY
Department of A-Levels
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Department of University of London Programmes
Faculty of Behavioral Sciences, Education and Languages
Faculty of Business, Economics and Accounting
Faculty of University Foundation Studies
Faculty of Law and Government
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September/October 2007 ›
The Big Cover-Up: A Writer's Role in Book Jacket Design
Timothy Schaffert
The Practical Writer
Walt Whitman didn't have an art director like Gall. When he first published Leaves of Grass, in 1855, he chose the stamped floral design that framed the book's title himself. Whitman is among the many authors who, by invitation or necessity, have designed their own covers. Evelyn Waugh came up with the jacket designs for the first editions of his novels Decline and Fall (Chapman & Hall, 1928) and Vile Bodies (Chapman & Hall, 1930). In 1937, J. R. R. Tolkien's publisher invited the author to provide one of his own illustrations for the first print run (fifteen hundred copies) of The Hobbit. In 2000, Faber and Faber published new editions of Milan Kundera's books that featured covers designed by the author himself. Dave Eggers and Kelly Link call the shots on their covers, but they're also their own publishers (McSweeney's and Small Beer Press, respectively), and their work would likely garner attention with even the dullest of dust jackets. The hardcover edition of Eggers's How We Are Hungry, published by McSweeney's in 2004, features a simple black cover, yet it was reviewed by the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and other major publications.
Don't explicitly depict a book's characters on its cover (unless, of course, it's a movie tie-in edition, in which case it's more than desirable to place, say, an image of Brad Pitt on the cover of Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club).
Novelist Elizabeth Evans has published novels with both small presses and large publishers, and she has designed her own covers for both. When Evans saw the planned artwork for her first book, Locomotion, published by New Rivers Press in 1986, she felt it was out of sync with the book's content. "I offered a painting of mine that is actually described in the title story," she says. "New Rivers liked it, and the amount saved by not using the illustrator—my work being offered for free—allowed them to make a beautiful color cover." Evans offered her artistry again thirteen years later, after seeing the cover concepts for her novel Carter Clay (HarperFlamingo, 1999). Though Evans liked the initial designs, which featured "black-and-white shots of a hulking guy receding up the highway," she was hoping for something more complex.
"To show [my editor] what I had in mind, I made a collage of photos, cut-up playing cards, newspaper clippings, scientific drawings, coins, and a gorgeous hot-pink wrapper from a bar of Chinese soap. That was fun—and since [he] loved it, my suggestion for how the cover might look became the cover." This collage style was also used on the spine, and proved so distinctive that Evans received calls from friends after the novel showed up in an episode of Sex and the City—the book was visible on a shelf in the background of a scene in Sarah Jessica Parker's apartment.
The fact that Chip Kidd designed the cover for his novel The Cheese Monkeys, published by Scribner in 2001, should come as no surprise. He's the art director for Knopf and is considered by many to be not just one of the leading designers of his day, but one of the most influential in the history of book-jacket design. Kidd's design became so detailed (and called for a jacket so complex that it would have to be put on each book by hand) that Scribner finally informed him that some element of the design had to go—the per-book cost would have been prohibitive, given the terms of Kidd's contract.
"I was freaking out," Kidd says. "Nothing can go. It's like saying the bottom can of a pyramid of cans in a supermarket has to go—the whole thing will topple over, at least in my head anyway. We ended up renegotiating the royalty rates so I could keep it all. Which was fine with me and obviously okay with them."
The cover of The Cheese Monkeys was printed just as Kidd had envisioned, but with the tables turned, the designer-turned-author learned that a good book jacket—even one by a top designer—does not necessarily translate into sales. "Often people will come to me, and it's not that they articulate it, but it seems clear early on that they think that simply because I'm going to work on their book jacket: (a) It's going to be good; and (b) the book will sell," Kidd says. "And that's just not a guarantee. Since I've published my own novel, I can hold it up as the primary example. If I couldn't make my own book an instant best-seller with my jacket, there's no guarantee I can do it for you, whoever you are. I think the jacket plays only a small role in whether a book is going to be a success or not."
The members of Readerville.com, an online forum for readers and writers, have been discussing and critiquing book jacket design ever since the Web site launched in 2000. But Readerville founder Karen Templer says the conversation has slowed down in recent months as the marketplace has become riddled with cliché. "Literary fiction—particularly midlist 'women's fiction,' much as I hate to use that term—has now settled fairly firmly on tropes of its own," Templer says. "You take a really lovely stock photo—especially a landscape or cityscape, legs, or shoes—and superimpose some very pretty serif, letter-spaced type, preferably white, thereupon. It's become every bit as cliché as any other genre's covers." Indeed, a glance at the chick-lit table at the local Barnes & Noble, piled high with books such as Fern Michaels's The Marriage Game (legs), Jennifer O'Connell's Insider Dating (legs and shoes), and Robyn Sisman's Summer in the City (cityscape), confirms Templer's theory.
This reliance on conventional images may have evolved from a long-standing, unwritten rule of design: Don't explicitly depict a book's characters on its cover (unless, of course, it's a movie tie-in edition, in which case it's more than desirable to place, say, an image of Brad Pitt on the cover of Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club). Even Peter Curl, the author of the aforementioned 1956 how-to book, warned of the various disasters that can result from neglecting this advice, citing his own mistake in creating a clean-shaven cover portrait of a book's main character, "when in fact he should have a luxuriant mid-Victorian beard!"
Kidd says that an early version of the jacket for Martin Amis's novel House of Meetings (Random House, 2007) featured the faces of two men that Amis claimed didn't look enough like how he imagined his characters. So Kidd worked with Amis to find images that would be more suitable. "It is precisely for this reason that it's rarely a good idea to show a character full-on in the face," Kidd says. "It can also rob the readers of the experience of building in their heads what the characters look like. There's a lot to be said for leaving it to one's imagination."
Author Max Barry would likely agree. He says he's never been more opposed to a cover design than when a designer tried to portray one of the characters in his novel Syrup (Viking, 1999), which he published under the name Maxx Barry. "My beef was that they'd put a guy on the cover who was meant to be Scat, my hero, and in the entire book Scat is never described physically, for what I felt was an important reason," Barry says. "And not only had they depicted him, they had used their marketing manager, who was closer to forty than twenty, and had combed his hair into this ridiculously conservative style and given him glasses and—argh, I can't even think about it. I made my case, but the publisher essentially said, 'Well, we think this is right.'"
The Polish movie poster I suggested my editor consider for the cover of my novel Devils in the Sugar Shop does depict a woman's face, but considering her Peter Max–like trippiness, her blue eye shadow and outrageous bouffant, she really couldn't be mistaken for Ursula Andress—nor does she resemble any particular character in the novel. Ultimately, my editor decided not to use the exact image I e-mailed to him. Instead, graphic designer Kathleen Lynch commissioned an illustrator to recreate the image from Maciej Zbikowski's original drawing. Lynch experimented with contemporary typefaces for the title, but ended up taking a retro approach, incorporating a version of the poster's original lettering. "I prefer to stay as close to the original concept as possible," Lynch says, "because when you start to deviate from that it gets muddled."
So the cover looks almost exactly as I'd imagined it, which produces a new kind of anxiety—the sense of my having stepped deliberately, an unwitting author, into the complicated maw of marketing. In the world of publishing—where art and marketing attempt, implausibly, a graceful dance—neuroses can be expected with every step. But, as Sittenfeld says, "I try not to get too wound up about it because I'm a lot more invested in the writing than the cover, and freaking out about your book cover is, all things considered, a nice problem to have."
Timothy Schaffert is the author of three novels. His latest, Devils in the Sugar Shop, was published by Unbridled Books in June. He is the director of the Nebraska Summer Writers' Conference and the Downtown Omaha Lit Fest.


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All the Things Covid-19 Will Change Forever According to 30 Top Experts
Fast Company, 2020
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The COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in a new era of tech-enhanced business processes.
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The COVID-19 pandemic abruptly changed how the world does business. Work shifted, where possible, into people's homes and online in accordance with social distancing guidelines. As a result, businesses' longstanding resistance to remote employees dissolved, and the lines between work and family life, long blurred, blended overnight. Even when life returns to some form of normal, some of these changes will stick, according to tech journalist Mark Sullivan's interviews with CEOs and business leaders from a cross-section of industries.
During the COVID-19 lockdowns, companies shifted the way they do business to accommodate employees working at home. These shifts may become permanent.
The line between work and home life blurred as pets and children intruded into video meetings, but such moments enhance human connection.
Healthcare businesses have worked to identify and solve longstanding interoperability issues that obstruct cooperation among different agencies trying to share information about COVID-19.
Businesses will rethink aspects of their operating models.
Workers and their school-aged children rely more now on cloud-based internet technologies than ever before. Businesses are working more flexibly with employees. Normalizing remote work is a big win in the tech sector, says the CEO of HackerRank, Vivek Ravisankar. Companies can hire quickly from a larger pool of talent, without geographic limits.
Venture capitalist Jeff Richards travels 200,000 miles for work every year, but – like everyone else – during the shutdown, he had to conduct critical meetings over video chat. Business travel will bounce back, but it's clear that many more meetings will take place over video in the future.
"Zoom has crossed the Rubicon from 'corporate' to 'consumer' as everyone in my family age 5 to 75 now knows how to use it. That's a game-changer." – Jeff Richards"
Analyst Tim Barjarin of Creative Strategies says COVID-19 is a death knell for open office environments. Corporate CIOs have told him they're willing to allow up to 25% of their staff to work remotely, which will significantly reduce the need for office space.
Trend Micro CEO Eva Chen foresees a return to the "small-town model" of clusters of offices with more employees working remotely. Steve Case, CEO of Revolution, says entrepreneurs might take this moment to consider relocating to non-coastal locations to boost their business in "startup cities."
People are now using technology such as Facebook Messenger in new, creative ways to connect with their friends and family. Everlaw CEO AJ Shankar predicts that employers will readjust their expectation that home-based workers will always be "on," and will reach a more family-friendly understanding that evenings are family time.
"Company 'headquarters' will be located in the cloud, shifting how we protect enterprise data in the virtual cloud and how we secure data from more diverse endpoints."– Eva Chen "
The "new normal" in education is likely to incorporate the flexibility the pandemic has made necessary. On-site work and learning will integrate with more online learning. Flatiron School CEO Adam Enbar cautions against the shortcomings of Zoom: he is adamant that it can't replace the classroom experience. He predicts technologists will create more robust remote educational experiences.
Khan Academy founder Sal Khan says the pandemic shows that internet access is a necessity for everyone. He hopes that the "digital divide" will shrink and finally close. However, Micheal Hendrix of Ideo points out that the pandemic has accelerated some changes that have been coming anyway. For example, he says it will cause more people to appreciate the need for robust encryption protocols.
Healthcare providers must remove obstacles to interagency cooperation while various entities are trying to share pandemic data. In the process, they will probably accelerate an industry-wide shift to digital tools, including telemedicine. Biotech companies will consider "diversified outsourcing" to guard against future supply chain breaks and to stockpile tissue and blood. Quantum computers, which should be online by the middle or end of 2021, will prove to be a powerful tool in facing the next pandemic. Concerned about misinformation, Ara Katz of Seed Health emphasizes that scientists have the responsibility of communicating accurate information about medical issues to the public.
"COVID-19 is a reminder of how science informs decisions, shapes policy and can save lives. The antidote to this current infodemic may be as important to our collective future as a vaccine" – Ara Katz"
Since people are experiencing pandemic trauma collectively, Alma CEO Harry Ritter hopes the public – and employers' – attitudes about mental health will shift, and that they will come to regard access to mental health services as essential to human well-being.
Businesses will rethink aspects of their operating model.
Domestic travel has learned new lessons from COVID-19. As it reopens, TravelPerk CEO Avi Meir predicts more train travel, since trains are a less crowded option for public transit. Michael Masserman at Lyft says that as cities reopen they will look to support social distancing during commuting – emphasizing ride share, bicycling and scooters.
"There will also be an opportunity for local governments, as well as key advocates and stakeholders, to consider reshaping our cities to be built around people and not cars." – Michael Masserman, Lyft"
The crisis shut down "fast money." Expensify CEO David Barrett believes venture capitalists will now have to look beyond tech start-ups' latest funding rounds and revenue projections. Instead, they will need to evaluate qualitative traits that signal stability over the long haul and, in the face of adversity, they are likely to widen their perspective to include companies' team members, culture and overall structure.
Bright Machines CEO Amar Hanspal predicts a sea change in manufacturing, including quick adoption of management software and automation and less far-reaching supply chains. He explains that current manufacturing occurs in "centralized factories with low-cost labor," far from the output's selling point. He believes this dynamic cannot survive extreme "uncertainty."
The most important business skill during a crisis is flexibility, according to Sarah Stein Greenberg, director of Stanford University's d.school. One challenge is to survive for now, while, at the same time, "holding space" to generate the ideas of the future. To accomplish this, organizations should separate generating ideas from critiquing them.
Will Lopez of Gusto says small retailers who depend on foot traffic to survive must develop other revenue streams to meet future shocks. Going forward, restaurants will continue their relationships with delivery services, for example, and boutiques will continue to make their products available online.
Mark Sullivan is a senior writer for Fast Company.
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Full Body Workout Routine | What Really Builds Muscle?
If you want to build muscle and/or increase your strength, there are a huge number of training programs that you could choose from to help you achieve those goals.
And although many of these can be useful, especially for more advanced trainees, if you are just starting out (or returning after a long layoff), or if you simply haven't had much in the way of results from your efforts so far, the very best way to build muscle as fast as possible is with a full body workout routine.
So in this article I'll explain what a full body workout involves and why this is such an effective way to train; I'll give you what's probably the best routine there is to get started with, and I'll also give you a few tips on how to get the most out of your training.
As its name suggests a full body workout is one where you train your entire body (directly or indirectly) in the one workout. This could mean doing one exercise for every body part, or (more sensibly) it could mean doing just 3 – 5 exercises which together target all the major muscle groups.
In fact all you really need for an effective full body routine is a squat or deadlift variation together with an upper body push and an upper body pull. You could add some arm work at the end if you wish; but that's about it.
You also have the option of doing the same workout each time you train (which would normally be three times per week), or you could alternate two or even three different workouts. However doing the same workout each time will soon lead to recovery issues, so the best plan is to start off with two different workouts and alternate them. Then later on you could switch to three different workouts if you wish. So this would mean you'd be doing each workout just once per week, but you'd still be training all your major muscle groups three times per week.
Why Use Full Body Workouts?
A full body workout program allows you to train each body part more frequently, whilst still maintaining a relatively modest overall training frequency (three times per week). This has been shown to be ideal for beginners, and it can also work really well for early intermediates too.
Beginners are in the unusual situation of being able to make consistent progress at a far more rapid rate than intermediate or advanced trainees ever could. And because they can only use relatively light weights they are not placing too much overall stress on their bodies, so they recover more quickly. It therefore makes sense to train in a way that takes full advantage of this – and the full body workout routine does just that.
Also full body workouts tend to be focused on the big compound exercises, as this is the only way you can effectively train your whole body with just a few movements. And compound exercises are the best muscle builders because they work more total muscle when you perform them, they produce more overall metabolic stress and muscle damage, and they also elicit a much greater hormonal response than the smaller exercises do.
Here's a great full body routine that will give you rapid gains in muscle size and strength. Don't be fooled by its simplicity – the simple programs are often the best. You don't need lots of different exercises or large amounts of training volume at this stage. Just follow this as it is and you'll be amazed by the results.
The sets listed above are your work sets. Always do at least two warm-up sets first with around 60% and 80% of your working weight. This will prepare your body for the heavier work, so you'll be able to handle more weight, and it will also reduce your risk of injury.
So for example if you are going to be squatting with 175 lb, start with 105 lb and do 6 or 7 reps. Then increase to 140 lb and do 5 or 6 reps. And finally move up to 175 lb and do 3 sets of 6 – 8 reps.
Just alternate these two workouts over your three weekly visits to the gym. So in week 1 you'll do workout's A, B and A, and then in week 2 you'll do workout's B, A and B – and so on.
After you've been training for a while and have made some decent gains, you could add an extra exercise to the end of each workout. Add barbell curls to workout A and parallel bar dips to workout B. Do both of these for 2 sets of 8 – 10 reps.
When you first start out the most important thing is to practice your technique and perfect your form on each of the exercises. So start with light weights that you can easily handle. Do the number of reps at the top end of the ranges specified above for each of your sets, and then simply add a little weight to each exercise every time you do it.
Add 10 lbs to your squat and deadlift and 5 lb to all your other exercises until you reach the point where you cannot do this number of reps on all your sets. When that happens stay at the same weight until you can. Then increase as before.
If you get to a point where you fail to make any progress on an exercise for three workouts in a row you'll need to take a step back and build back up again. So reduce your weights by 10 – 15% (only on the exercise(s) you have stalled on) and then continue to progress as before.
The full body workout routine described here is probably the most effective and result producing workout regimen you will ever find for someone who is new or relatively new to weight training. But if you are a bit more advanced you'll probably find a slightly different approach will work better for you. And the ideal intermediate routine (the upper/lower split routine) is the subject of my next post.
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I'm looking to start building some muscle again after being away from the gym for years. I like the look of this routine but is the smaller volume really enough to simulate muscle growth for the first 6 or so months?
Yes, it's just what you need when you first start back. You can add some more volume in later on.
Fantastic. I look forward to making some gains on this program then!
Rack is always taken in my gym and there is only one, is it possible to switch the barbell row with DB row and the standing press for DB overhead press?
Yes, those are perfectly acceptable alternatives, although you don't really need a rack for either barbell rows or standing presses. You do need one for squats though.
Because it's a full body routine, so you are training each body part (at least to some degree) every workout. So any more than three times per week would be too much. If you have been training a while and are looking for a good 4 day plan check out my upper/lower body routine.
Hi David. First of all I want to thank you. I was very reluctant to do this full body routine. But I am very glad I did. The change in my lifts and my body has been amazing. Everybody around me has noticed a big difference and keeps talking about it.
Now my question. How do you feel about a deloading period? And what do you recommend would be a good deloading routine?
Glad to hear you are doing well with this JP. Yes, once you are past the beginner stage having a deload week, or even a week off, every 2 – 4 months is definitely a good idea, and will only improve your long term gains. If you want to deload with this routine, just train twice that week (so each workout is done just once), and reduce your weights by about 30% (but do the same number of reps). Or you could keep the weights the same but just do one set of each exercise.
Hello David. I've been having some shoulder pain from bench press. Any suggestions on what would be a good way to replace bench press to a more shoulder friendly exercise?
Yes, if you tuck your elbows (rather than flaring them out to the side as many people do) it makes the bench press more shoulder friendly. But if you are doing that and still having problems you could try bench pressing at a slight incline, or use dumbbells instead of a barbell. Or you could simply shorten the range of motion a little by placing a board on your chest.
I have access to a real gym three times per week. Two of those days MUST be consecutive since I work four, ten hour days. Is it safe to a three day, full body routine if I have to go two of those days back to back?
It is if the workouts are very dissimilar. But personally, I still wouldn't. Better to do a lower body routine followed by an upper routine (or vice versa). Your third workout could be full body, or you could just alternate upper, lower, upper etc.


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CLEVELAND – April 11, 2018 – PRLog — An orange wave is taking over the country. After a March 2018 board meeting, The Orange Effect Foundation is proud to announce that since it began awarding grants in late 2015, the foundation has funded over 85 children in 17 states nationwide. The most recent set of grants, awarded in mid-March after a thorough application review process, provides 26 children with more than $50,000 in funding for speech devices, summer speech camps, and over 400 hours of speech therapy.
These grant awards will change lives. Speech devices will empower children with the ability to communicate needs, wants, and thoughts with friends, families and teachers. Summer speech camp will empower children with the confidence they need to navigate social settings. Speech therapy sessions will empower children with skills and tools required to communicate clearly.
The Orange Effect Foundation awards quarterly grants through a competitive application and review process. The next grant application deadline is May 15, 2018. For more information and to obtain a copy of the grant application visit theorangeeffect.org.
The Orange Effect Foundation (theorangeeffect.org) strives to ensure that every single person has the ability to communicate. The foundation, while officially formed in 2014, actually began back in 2001 when the founders' son was born with autism. Early intervention has led him to be a very heartwarming and independent young man. The Pulizzi family wanted to give back by empowering other children with the therapy and tools they need to communicate effectively.
In 2007, Golf for Autism was started, in time raising over $130,000 for autism and speech therapy services. This year's event will be held on August 6, 2018, at Elyria Country Club. For more information, please contact theorangeeffect.org.
A native of Cleveland, Maureen graduated from Cornell University and the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs. She is a former congressional liaison with a background in nonprofit communications. Maureen believes strongly in the mission of the Orange Effect Foundation as she has a nephew with autism and a daughter who benefited significantly from speech therapy.


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Poland–a family redeemed
By Jayna Richardson
This story begins in 2007 when the FamilyLife leaders in Poland, Wiesiek and Magda Grabowski, organized a marriage conference in their town. They invited a couple who were in serious crisis. Unfortunately, only the husband, Alfred, attended. They talked with him during the lunch break, and he told them about his difficult marriage and how he wanted to save it. His wife was going to a psychologist and considered this sufficient. The Grabowskis encouraged Alfred to trust God. During the evangelistic talk, he received Jesus as his Lord and Savior.
In February 2009, the Grabowkis held a parenting conference, and Alfred came with his wife, Felicia. They were planning to divorce, but they came to the conference because they wanted to learn how to be good parents to their son. The talks throughout the conference emphasized the importance of a strong marriage in the lives of children. It meant a lot to Alfred and Felicia. They understood that they couldn't be good parents to their son if they divorced. So they decided to stay together and work on their marriage with God's help. By the end of the conference, Felicia committed her life to Jesus just as Alfred had two years earlier.
After the conference, they signed up for the Grabowskis' summer Family Bible Camp. Two weeks after the camp, Alfred and Felicia visited with the Grabowskis and told their full story in detail. They were so eager and so happy—and in love. They said that they received three things at the conference: Jesus, each other, and a baby. They were expecting another baby! Felicia also told about the damage she had suffered by listening to the advice of her unbelieving psychologist. Now they want to grow in faith.
Who invited Alfred and Felicia to the parenting conference in the first place? The midwife who delivered their first baby. Praise the Lord!


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Le muscle stylo-hyoïdien (Musculus stylohyoideaus en latin) est un muscle de la partie supérieure du cou.

Description

Insertion crâniale : il nait de la face postéro-latérale de l'apophyse styloïde de l'os temporal.
Trajet : il descend presque verticalement, oblique de dehors en dedans et de l'arrière vers l'avant.
Insertion caudale : il s'insère sur le corps de l'os hyoïde.

Innervation
L'innervation est assurée par le nerf facial.

Action
Le muscle stylo-hyoïdien attire l'os hyoïde vers le haut et l'arrière lors de sa contraction.

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Pathologie

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 Diaphragme stylien

Stylo-hyoïdien