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Opinion: The EU Looks To Offshore Its Migrant Crisis. That's A Horrifying Prospect
By Isabella Alexander
Published July 31, 2018 at 2:56 PM PDT
Isabella Alexander (@isabella_writes) is an anthropologist, writer and documentary filmmaker. She lives between the U.S., where she is a professor at Emory University, and North Africa, where her ongoing research is centered on Africa's expanding migrant and refugee crisis and the externalization of Europe's borders. Her latest documentary is.
Moneba was the chief of a hidden migrant camp in the mountains of northern Morocco. The camp was near Melilla — one of two Spanish enclaves that bring Europe's land borders within the African continent. It was the first of many such camps in North Africa I have lived in and researched.
From the edge of the camp, where nearly 100 young men and boys from Guinea slept on the forest floor, they could see the Mediterranean below and the Spanish coast curving along its shores like a green blade of grass in the distance. At one point, in the summer of 2016, more than half of his camp was under age 16.
"I see my little brother in them," Moneba, now 28, told me, explaining why he took so many children and teens that other chiefs turned away.
Moneba successfully crossed by boat into Spain in late 2017. His work as a day laborer makes it possible for him to send his mother and younger siblings in Guinea enough money to rent a home with "a real roof," he said.
"Moneba means 'one who sacrifices himself for his family,'" his mother told me during my visit this summer to her home in rural Guinea. Although it wasn't the name she gave him, she wasn't surprised to learn people now know him as nothing else.
Their family are Fulani, a people whose roots spread across Guinea, Ghana, Chad, Nigeria and Sudan and are estimated to number nearly 50 million. They represent the single largest population of migrants arriving in Europe from the African continent today.
Right now, more people are displaced from their home countries than at any point in recorded history — nearly one in every 112. The international laws that outline displaced people's rights were established after World War II to address Europe's then refugee crisis. These laws were never intended to last as long as they have or to address displacement on a global scale. The countries that signed the Geneva Convention committed to uphold basic human rights of all world citizens, including the right to seek refuge in other countries, yet they are choosing to face new waves of migration in very different ways.
While German Chancellor Angela Merkel opened her country's doors to a record 1 million refugees last year, U.S. President Trump lowered America's resettlement quote to below 50,000, the lowest number in years.
More nations, including the United States, are exploring practices known as border externalization to control the flow of asylum-seekers before they reach their shores.
In the Mediterranean, ships carrying those fleeing poverty and war are being turned around in international waters. In the Spanish enclaves in Morocco, similar populations are being beaten off border fences. Both fail to give migrants the chance to apply for asylum and trap them in transit countries where their basic rights are not guaranteed. These practices, viewed by many as criminal, are seen by others as a highly successful model for border control.
/ Isabella Alexander for NPR
Isabella Alexander for NPR
Moneba, in his apartment in Spain, holds a picture of his younger brother Abdoulaye, who started his migration journey at age 12 but was killed in a detention center in Libya before ever reaching Europe.
Deadly quest for refuge
In recent years, headlines have drawn attention to migration routes like the one Moneba took. Many people die on the journey. An average of 14 migrants drowned in the Mediterranean every day in 2016, according to the United Nations refugee agency. The International Organization for Migration's Missing Migrants Project said a record 629 died this past June alone.
These numbers are good estimates at best. As my research has shown, Mediterranean crossings are poorly reported and authorities in transit countries have incentives to underreport deaths. Three paths commonly referred to as the western (Algeria and Morocco to Spain), central (Tunisia and Libya to Italy), and eastern (Turkey to Greece) Mediterranean routes are active and deadly, raising alarm in destination countries.
Italy, Spain and Greece each receive tens of thousands of people fleeing conflict and poverty across the African continent every year. Yet their individual responses to migration have begun to diverge.
Italy's "zero tolerance"
Italy's newly elected populist right-wing government has drawn criticism from rights groups for a "zero tolerance" approach. That includes closing ports to humanitarian rescue ships and plans to step up deportations before asylum case review.
If "more people leave, more people die," Italy's new Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini claimed of migrants heading to Europe. He is highlighting only the threats along the migratory route, failing to recognize any risks migrants face in their home countries, from Sudan to Syria.
In June, the humanitarian ship Aquarius — operated by the French organization SOS Mediterranée — saved 629 lives after a three-day search and rescue mission, only to spend the following 12 days in the water turned away from port after port. First Italy closed its ports, then Malta. The relief workers and rescued migrants struggled with dwindling supplies and the threat of a forced return to North Africa. Spain finally agreed to open its ports to the Aquarius on June 17.
Spain, under a new center-left administration, took its moment on the global stage to tell the world it saved one ship. But it cannot possibly save them all. Days later, 70 men, 30 women and six children drowned off the coast of Libya.
Every time a ship is turned away from European ports, those aboard are returned to countries they were fleeing.
The world's most trafficked borders by displaced people are just beyond the international waters of the Mediterranean, and the events unfolding there raise an important question. Can European border states close their ports to those fleeing Libya, even after the EU has condemned abuse and enslavement in detention centers across the country?
Moneba (left) sleeps beside fellow migrants he calls his "brothers" in a hidden forest camp in Morocco. He was the chief of about 100 boys and young men from Guinea who hoped to reach Europe. The Spanish enclave of Melilla and the Mediterranean Sea are both visible in the distance.
"Regional disembarkation platforms"
In late June, European Union leaders meeting in Brussels reached a deal that threatens to solve the bloc's migration issues by pushing them southward — effectively abandoning international commitments to basic human rights.
Here are some of the main points they agreed to:
Share responsibilities among member states of migrants rescued at sea.
Create detention centers in Europe, where migrants would wait while their asylum claims are processed.
Tighten the EU's outer borders and increase deportation rates.
Set up centers outside the EU, where ships would disembark migrants rescued at sea, for their cases to be reviewed.
Increase financing for Turkey and North African transit nations to control migration to Europe.
Channel more government aid, and private investment, toward the "socio-economic transformation of the African continent."
In a final statement designed to satisfy the divergent EU views, the leaders agreed to shoulder the job of handling migrants on a "voluntary basis." Who is volunteering? That remains unanswered — though it is clear who is not.
Poland and Hungary refused to accept any new arrivals or alleviate the burden on Spain, Greece and Italy.
Italy's Salvini ruled out opening detention centers to process asylum requests. "The only centers [Italy is] opening are those for repatriation, at least one in each region," he said.
The EU summit statement does not specify what countries would receive aid or offshore processing centers, which it calls "regional disembarkation platforms."
But according to an earlier document leaked before the summit by the EU commissioner in charge of migration, Dimitris Avramopoulos, there were already plans under review to create these "platforms" in North Africa.
The system would allow governments to review asylum applications before migrants reach Europe. It would also trap asylum-seekers in potentially critical situations beyond the purview of the European states reviewing their cases.
Australia's offshore model
Key parts of Europe's new plans have a controversial precedent — in Australia.
Antony Loewenstein, a reporter who has spent the past several years investigating Europe's move toward externalized border controls, revealed in June that officials from individual European countries and the EU had secretly met with Australian officials about their refugee policies.
As part of a complex system established by the Australian government in 2001, migrants and refugees who were imprisoned in privatized detention centers on the Australian mainland were increasingly sent to small Pacific islands that border the country — Manus in Papua New Guinea and the nation of Nauru.
Although access to these centers has been tightly controlled, reactions from the international community have grown louder as news from the inside slowly trickles out — stories of routine abuse, rape and death from beatings or suicide. Australia, which campaigned for three years to gain a seat at the United Nations Human Rights Council, received a scathing report from the council during its first week in session in 2017. In a 20-page exposé, the U.N.'s special rapporteur on torture, Nils Melzer, detailed a system of abuse designed to punish and use migrants as an example to deter future ones.
"It is not because [the refugees] are bad people. It is because in order to stop people smugglers we [have] to deprive them of the product," Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said in a phone call with President Trump in 2017, according to a transcript in The Washington Post. The product he was referring to is their basic right to seek asylum.
According to Loewenstein's reporting, European officials were looking to adopt a similar practice.
If Australia, a democratic nation signatory to international human rights conventions, has successfully outsourced its processing centers with no concrete outside intervention, what is to stop Europe, which receives significantly more migrants, from doing so?
European leaders have an opportunity to learn from Australia's human rights failings and avoid the potentially catastrophic consequences of establishing similar processing centers outside of the bloc in North Africa.
Already, rights experts and nongovernmental organizations have called attention to the contradictions in Europe's outsourcing its migration enforcement. "Just a few months ago, European governments were condemning reports of slave markets in Libya. Today they don't seem to hesitate in trapping them there," Doctors Without Borders said.
Building detention centers in Morocco or Algeria, which have received less negative press than Libya in the past months, would also mean trapping vulnerable populations in countries with sordid human rights records, tight bans over foreign media and international NGOs and a practice of illicitly "deporting" migrants to the desert.
"The primary cause for the massive abuse suffered by migrants in all regions of the world, including torture, rape, enslavement, trafficking, and murder is neither migration itself, nor organised crime, or the corruption of individual officials," wrote Melzer in his exposé. Instead, it is "the growing tendency of States to base their official migration policies and practices on deterrence, criminalisation, and discrimination, rather than protection, human rights, and non-discrimination."
Europe's populist leaders have continued to use sensationalized, often xenophobic rhetoric about impoverished immigrants flooding in.
But the numbers of migrants entering Europe has actually fallen from their 2015 record.
"This is not a migration crisis, this is a political crisis," the outgoing head of the EU presidency, Bulgaria's Boyko Borissov, reminded leaders in his remarks at the end of the summit. "There are 90 percent fewer migrants than two years ago." According to U.N. data, fewer than 45,000 migrants have made it to the EU this year.
Olmo Calvo / AP
Migrants aboard the Open Arms aid boat, run by Spanish humanitarian group Proactiva Open Arms, react as the ship approaches the port of Barcelona, Spain, on July 4. The aid boat sailed to Spain with 60 migrants rescued in waters near Libya, after it was turned away by both Italy and Malta.
Give a voice to the migrants
These days, Moneba occasionally finds work as a day laborer picking fruit on a farm. He shares a small apartment with three other undocumented migrants on the outskirts of Barcelona. He says his younger brother Abdoulaye was not as fortunate. Abdoulaye made multiple attempts to escape Libya but was forced to return again and again to a Libyan detention center, where, Moneba says, he was eventually beaten to death.
Abdoulaye was 12 years old when he left home. His mother told me she remembered how Moneba begged him not to follow him, crying and shouting at him, "I sacrificed myself so that you don't have to take the same risks with your life!"
The voices of youths like Abdoulaye were absent from debates across Europe last month. I can't help but think how powerful their stories would be in proving the dangers of border externalization, before it becomes the new approach to managing global migration flows.
Agreements between Australia and its barrier islands have modeled those written between Morocco and Spain, and between the EU and Turkey. It is easy to imagine the influence this trend could soon have on the U.S. relationship with Mexico and Central American nations farther south. Already, the U.S. has invested heavily in Mexico to bolster its migration enforcement to stop Central American asylum-seekers from coming north.
With populism on the rise around the world, and with the number of individuals displaced by conflict, poverty and climate change projected to grow in coming years, the points of agreement reached at the summit last month will be some of the most pressing challenges we meet as a global community. There is no easy solution, but having conducted research on migration, embedded with smuggling rings and lived in migrant camps, since 2007, I know that pushing European border controls and asylum processing centers south will not solve the problem.
Seeking asylum in foreign countries is a basic human right guaranteed under international law to those fleeing the African continent as much as it is those fleeing the Middle East and elsewhere. At the very least, it is our global responsibility to ensure that migration journeys do not trap individuals in destinations as dangerous as, or more than, those they are fleeing.
Isabella Alexander


We often joke about the 'D' word (divorce) but for those of us who are or have experienced the breakdown of a family relationship it is anything but a humorous experience. Divorce is an unpleasant experience and there are no winners. A successful divorce is not about winning battles but instead about resolving differences. Every 30 minutes an Australian child will experience the divorce of their parents.
Australian studies have shown that children who experience divorce are at risk of poorer outcomes in adult life than their peers who have not experienced family breakdown. Around 120,000 marriages occur in Australia in each year. In the same year around 50,000 marriages will come to an end. At least half of those families have children, meaning that, in each year 25,000 Australian families with children experience divorce. So, if we imagine that in each of these divorcing families there are two children, then in each week in our country 1,000 children are, through no fault of their own, put at risk of poorer outcomes in their adult life as a result of family breakdown.
Research has also shown that an amicable divorce between two parents will significantly reduce the chance of negative outcomes for children in adult life. Why then do so many parents continue to pursue a traditional legal divorce process that will ensure many thousands of dollars are spent, much time is wasted and their children's future welfare is at risk?
For the past 13 years, Family Lawyer, Clarissa Rayward has seen the damage the traditional divorce process causes to both adults and children. "Divorce is not only emotionally and personally draining, it can be financially crippling if poor decisions are made. I believe, above all else, that our relationships with our loved ones are the most important things in our lives. By slowing down, working together and reducing conflict, families can come out of divorce ensuring that our children do not suffer." As an Accredited Specialist in Family Law, Collaborative Lawyer and Mediator, Clarissa has seen the impact of separation and divorce on Australian families and our children. Her focus on keeping families out of the Family Courts is creating a new path for separating families that minimises the emotional and financial toll of divorce.
In her book Splitsville, Clarissa has provided a four step framework to ensure the readers experience of divorce is as pain free as possible. Divorce is said to be the second most difficult grieving event after only the death of a loved one. Divorce creates fear and uncertainty which quickly leads to conflict. By focusing on the big picture, the reader is armed with information that will enable them to finalise their separation and divorce without the need to go to Court- thereby saving not only money but more importantly minimising the personal damage that Court proceedings will cause.
Splitsville is a practical and concise guide for people in the throes of separation and divorce that can save time, money and will protect you and your family from unnecessary harm at this very difficult time. This book is written for Australian audiences and focuses on the Australian legal system.
Highly recommended. Clean process to help you understand the process of divorce and a heap of stories and practical tips to help you avoid a messy divorce as well as a number of things to think about as you start on the separation/divorce journey in terms of your emotions and goal settings that should really help. Also, love that is is Australian content that is spot on from how the legal system and lawyers work and also considering all the Australian case studies.
5.0 out of 5 starsA must read for anyone going through separation.
Really practical and understanding of the process and a guide for both parties.
It really helped me at the beginning of my separation with dealing with what to do next and what I needed to think about when on days I could hardly think straight.
I think everyone contemplating or going through a separation and divorce should read this book.
5.0 out of 5 starsHighly recommend it.
a positive way forward after a divorce. Highly recommend it.
Clarissa has written a very practical and positive book on what could easily have been a complex and negative topic. I highly recommend this book.
With her positive, upbeat style and approach, Clarissa is making real waves in the traditionally conservative legal profession. In Splitsville, Clarissa shows how the difficult issues around separation can be dealt with in a far more practical and positive way than is often the case. I highly recommend this book to anyone looking for a positive step by step process to navigate their divorce or separation.


GpsCycleComputer is a FREE lightweight but powerful application for cycling, mountain biking, skiing, running, hiking or walking.
It records your track and displays it on a map. Map sources can be one or more simple jpeg files or Open Street Map (online or offline) or other similar sources.
The track can be exported in GPX or KML/ format.
Altitude and Speed can be plotted as graph over distance or time.
You can live log your position to crossingways.com.
There is a lap function too.
Operation is easy through menu page and context menu.
It has a good power management (you can switch off your device while logging). GPS can be configured to work only for a short time to log only one point every time interval in order to save battery power.
Many people are in GOING GREEN initiative to save energy and this planet. My app calculates Potential energies of following types - Gravitational, Kinetic, Rest Mass, Elastic, Internal electro-Chemical, Thermal, Electrical and Electromagnetic. (Some work in progress) All computations are via formulas and this app version is 1.1 and there will be few more versions.
All formulas are listed in app. Most of us already know these basic scientific terms of energy so I will not be describing them in detaill here, but feel free to Google/Bing/Yahoo Search, any energy term that you want to know more. I am researching into how I can grab few inputs by automation or programatically.
This application helps users to calculate Destiny number, Heart Number, Personality Number, Purpose Number and Life Goal Number. This calculations based on very old and acurate result Chaldean Numerology and also latest English Numerology. If the Name Number and the Birth Number of a person are mutually incompatible then there are certainly some problems or difficulties with regard to the person's mind, health, career, finance etc. This condition requires appropriate rectification in name so as to make it compatible with birth number.
The new improved version of the program to listen to music!
Almost all countries in the world! Listen to your favorite radio station whenever you want!
This was developed for my 6 year old son. He keeps forgetting the spellings especially during his tests. Hence created this app for him so that I can keep showing him and ask the spelling everyday. Atleast that is the plan. The words are shown in randon to avoid kids to remember the sequence. The words can be added/edited/removed using the config application. Thought of sharing this with others. Please do give me your feedback if you find it useful.
MP3 Taggy Lite is the light version of the Mp3 Taggy Application along with PlayBack funtionalities. The lite version do not have kinetic scrolling and other things which consume memory and this makes it perfect for devices with low ram.
Its very simple and easy to use and lets you edit ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags along with the Attached Pictures of all kind.
The application is created by following Standards of ID3 tags in Mp3 files.
It also contains Search Functionalities which scan phone's memory to find all mp3 files & creates a simple list to move between your music.Functionalities like Search Inside List and Browse File Method Makes it more easy and straight forward to use.
mVu Mobile Viewer is a Windows Mobile application for searching, downloading, creating playlists, and streaming videos from multiple websites, including YouTube and Dailymotion.
* Save videos to device. Multiple concurrent downloads are supported.
Getytv is an advanced YouTube video downloader. It lets you download videos in multiple Formats & Multiple Resolutions.
* Search Progression Numbers on Wait Panel.
* Screen Adaptation, Adapts resolution to common screen resolutions to show the controls properly.
* More Stable formats are shown with a (S) in format selection. Prefer them first.
* URL Downloading now have a Paste From Clipboard feature.
* Blank Format (Included Deep Search to handle this),Multiple Sources are now searched.
* Many Internal Code fixes.
* Multithreads are allowed to be in high priority.
* Same video can be downloaded in multiple formats without re-performing server side search.
* Latest version of Core Player (For Mobile).
"SomethingNew" gives opportunity to discover new music, new genres. Songs are played randomly among more than 10 million tracks.
Now you can keep all your calls, messages, pictures and other data from your Windows Mobile device, even if you switch phones or network providers.
Archive your incoming, outgoing and missed call logs.
Record your incoming and outgoing calls including call to your voicemail.
Store your image, audio & video files.
Sync your contacts and calendar (even to other smartphones).
Search through all your messages and notes.
Go to any date in the past to see what you did, who you called and where you were at.
See a threaded view of your calls and messages with each contact.
See the location of the places where you've been on a map.
View and edit your contacts and calendar, and sync it with multiple phones.
See the strength of your Connections with your contacts, based on the frequency of your calls and messages.
See the statistics of your calls and messages with each contact.
See the photos and videos from your phone in a Gallery, and send them to Facebook.
Share your contacts & calendar events with pre-defined Groups in Rseven.
Erfassen Sie Ihre Arbeitszeiten mobil ueber eine Finger freundliche Bedienoberflaeche.
Zur Auswahl stehen die Zeitereignisse Kommen, Gehen, Pausenbeginn und Pausenende. Ereignisauswahlliste kann frei bearbeitet und somit an eigene Bedürfnisse angepasst werden.
Die Daten koennen, zur weiteren Bearbeitung am Computer, im Dateiformat .CSV exportiert werden.
Die aktuelle Version befindet sich noch in der Entwicklung und ist eine BETA Version. Der Download und die Nutzung ist kostenlos.
- Platform WM mit .NET Compact Framework 2.0 oder höher.
!!! Die erste Download Version hatte noch einen Testdatenbestand im Lieferumfang, dieser kann geloescht werden, indem die Datei /.../vZE1miniappDB geloescht wird. Beim Programm start wird eine LEERE Datenbank angelegt !!!
- Allow you to return at any moment on a trip that you made in a given date.
This version of Break My Bricks will run on all Windows Mobile version up to version 6.5 for all screen resolutions. Hey don't complain, its free! The free version only has 3 levels. If you want more levels, then purchase a copy of Break My Bricks 2 in the Windows Mobile Marketplace! *Note: it might run too fast on some of the newer phones. I will be updating it again soon.
1. A number of bugs have been fixed.


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Q: Full outer join in postgres I have the following table in Postgresql:
sch_code   sch_level   start_date   end_date      flag
1234          P        01-01-2018   31-01-2018    V
1234          S        01-01-2018   31-01-2018    V
5678          S        01-01-2018   31-01-2018    V
8965          P        01-01-2018   31-01-2018    V

The result which I require is as follows.
sch_code    start_P         end_P     start_S     end_S
1234        01-01-2018   31-01-2018   01-01-2018   31-01-2018
5678        00-00-0000   00-00-0000   01-01-2018   31-01-2018
8965        01-01-2018   31-01-2018   00-00-0000   00-00-0000

The queries which i tried with UNION did not provide a result. I have also tried using looped select statements.

A: You need a FULL OUTER JOIN (see guide here).
And since you can't use a WHERE filter due to potential NULL values, you have to pre-filter the 2 data sets using CTEs (see guide here).
WITH pdata AS (
  SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE sch_level='P'
),
sdata AS (
  SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE sch_level='S'
)
SELECT
  COALESCE(pdata.sch_code, sdata.sch_code) AS sch_code,
  pdata.start_date AS start_P,
  pdata.end_date   AS end_P,
  sdata.start_date AS start_S,
  pdata.end_date   AS end_S
FROM pdata
FULL OUTER JOIN sdata ON pdata.sch_code = sdata.sch_code

If you don't want NULL values in your date fields, simply use COALESCE and provide default values in whichever data type you might be using.

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Putting up a Christmas tree is a cherished holiday ritual for many families around the globe. But the tradition has changed drastically over the years.
Wealthy German families began bringing trees into their homes during Christmastime in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The trees were often decorated with wax candles, sweets, and apples. It was a magical sight, but also a real fire hazard.
The creation of the first light bulb changed the tradition dramatically. During Christmas of 1880, the inventor Thomas Edison hung a strand of electric lights outside his laboratory in New Jersey. In 1882, his friend and partner Edward H. Johnson had the idea to string 80 red, white and blue light bulbs around his Christmas tree.
Decades later, Christmas trees have evolved into fantastic displays of creativity, featuring thousands of multi-colored electric lights and strings.
The national Christmas tree stands in CathedralSquare in Vilnius, Lithuania, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016.


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Zuul 3, a modern solution for CI/CD
Continuous Progress
By Tomasz Szandala
The Zuul 3 gating system is a free and flexible solution for continuous integration, delivery, and deployment.
Zuul 3 brings a new approach to the DevOps challenge. (For more on these important DevOps concepts, see the "CI and CD" box.) Whereas other CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Bamboo, or TeamCity focus on constant building and testing, Zuul's main design goal is to be a gating mechanism. In other words, as soon as a proposed change is verified and approved by a human, it can undergo final tests and be deployed automatically to the production environment. Such a system requires a lot of computing power, but Zuul has been proven reliable and highly scalable by its designers: the OpenStack community.
CI and CD
CI and CD are terms that pop up frequently in discussions of modern software development (Figure 1). CI stands for continuous integration , a practice that focuses on making releases easier to prepare. CD can mean either continuous delivery or continuous deployment , and although these practices have a lot in common, they also have significant differences [1].
Figure 1: Simply put, continuous integration is part of both continuous delivery and continuous deployment. Continuous deployment is like continuous delivery, except that releases happen automatically.
In the continuous integration software engineering practice, developers integrate code into a shared repository several times a day to obtain rapid feedback on code feasibility. CI enables automated build and testing so that teams can work together rapidly on a single project [2] [3].
In the continuous delivery software engineering practice, teams develop, build, test, and release software in short cycles. Continuous delivery depends on automation at every stage so that cycles can be both quick and reliable [4].
In continuous deployment, qualified changes in software code or architecture are deployed to production as soon as they are ready and without human intervention. Developers can focus on building software, and they see their work go live minutes after they've finished working on it [5].
The general concept behind the Zuul series (Zuul 3 at the time of writing) is to provide developers a system for automatically building, testing, and finally merging new changes to a project. Zuul is extensible and supports a number of development platforms, like GitHub and Gerrit Code Review [6].
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From Shetland to British Columbia, Alaska, and the United States: Being a Journal of Travels, with Narrative of Return Journey After, Three Years Exploration Sinclair Thomson Duncan
Published: September 27th 2015
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Excerpt from From Shetland to British Columbia, Alaska, and the United States: Being a Journal of Travels, With Narrative of Return Journey After, Three Years ExplorationSome years ago, I had an opportunity of travelling round the world, leavingMoreExcerpt from From Shetland to British Columbia, Alaska, and the United States: Being a Journal of Travels, With Narrative of Return Journey After, Three Years ExplorationSome years ago, I had an opportunity of travelling round the world, leaving London in a sailing ship going out by the Cape of Good Hope, and after visiting Australia I returned to England by Cape Horn.
After that, I delivered lectures in Edinburgh and other large towns in Scotland about what I had seen and heard while on the voyage, and reports of the lecture appearing in various newspapers being much in my favour, I ventured to publish the whole of my notes in book form.
That venture having become a success, it has encouraged me to publish my travels from Shetland to British Columbia, Alaska, and the United States of America. I spent three years in accomplishing the journey, a portion of my time having been occupied in visiting relatives and other friends.I have endeavoured to give in the following pages what I consider to be a fairly good description of what came under my observation, and I trust that the reading of what I have witnessed in the Western World, and my journeying elsewhere in that far-away land, will be useful information to the public.
At the same time it is hoped it will prove as interesting and amusing as it was to me, especially when among the Indians on islands along the Pacific Coast, and at other places of interest inland when crossing and recrossing from ocean to ocean through the Dominion of Canada.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy.
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Q: How do I make the perl script [makeglossaries] work on WinXP? I got help yesterday on how to make \makeindex work (see link at bottom). I now realize that it would be better if I could make the perl script makeglossaries work, since I currently have to modify the call arguments for makeindex each time I want to define an additional glossary. When I try to run makeglossaries.bat from within TeXnicCenter, I get the following error message:
Can't execute C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\scripts\glossaries\makeglossaries.

The file makeindex is the perl script, and makindex.bat is a file that calls the perl script with the following lines:
@rem = '-*- Perl -*-
@echo off
perl -S "%~dp0makeglossaries" %*

A MWE of some sample code that I would like to be able to compile follows:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{glossaries}

\newacronym{SEM}{SEM}{scanning electron microscope}
\newacronym{TEM}{TEM}{transmission electron microscopy}
\newacronym{UHV}{UHV}{ultra-high vacuum}

\newglossary{variables}{vrb}{var}{List of variables}
\newglossaryentry{ai}{type=variables,name={a$_i$},sort=ai,description={Distribution coefficient}}
\newglossaryentry{ciI}{type=variables,name={c$_i^{I}$},sort=ciI,description={Concentration of element i}}

\makeglossaries

\begin{document}
\section{First Section} \label{Intro}

Intro. At some point, we used a \gls{SEM}, and the variable \gls{ai}.

\section{List of variables} \label{LoV}

\printglossaries
\end{document}

Any ideas on what goes wrong?
EDIT:

*

*makeindex works if used directly (from within TeXnicCenter, but without the makeglossaries perl script)

2 and 3. I am not sure to what degree the script and batch file work as intended. Here is a copy of what I did in the command prompt to examine this:

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001
  Microsoft Corp.
C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\scripts\glossaries>perl makeglossaries
  asfd ^C at - line 1.
C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\scripts\glossaries>@rem = '-- Perl --
C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\scripts\glossaries>perl -S
  "%~dp0makeglossaries" %* Can't execute %~dp0makeglossaries.
C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\scripts\glossaries>perl -S makeglossaries
  Can't locate Getopt/Std.pm in @INC at ./makeglossaries line 66. BEGIN
  failed--compilation aborted at ./makeglossaries line 66.
C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\scripts\glossaries>copy_makeglossaries
  Can't execute C:\Program Files\MiKTeX
  2.8\scripts\glossaries\copy_makeglossaries .pl.
C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\scripts\glossaries>copy_makeglossaries
C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\scripts\glossaries># @echo off '#' is not
  recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or
  batch file.
C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\scripts\glossaries>perl -S "C:\Program
  Files\MiKTeX
  2.8\scripts\glossaries\copy_makeglossaries.pl" Can't execute C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\scripts\glossaries\copy_makeglossaries
  .pl.

Does it look like it is working? At least it is doing something, and I guess that means that Perl is working(?). The file copy_makeglossaries.bat calls the file copy_makeglossaries.pl. I wanted to see if adding an extension to the extensionless perl script would help, but it did not change things.

The old question from yesterday:
How do I make [\makeindex] work fully on my WinXP system (works on a different system)

A: You need to install Perl. There's a free version for Windows: ActivePerl Community Edition.
To debug, don't start with the editor but

*

*Check if makeindex works at all, run it yourself

*Test the Perl script

*Test the batch script

*Now you could test the editor integration


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Seeking an answer: Community members threatened by crime seek solution at forum
Community members seek answer for crime
Seeking an answer: Community members threatened by crime seek solution at forum Community members seek answer for crime Check out this story on thenewsstar.com: http://tnsne.ws/1ml5qNO
Julie Landry Published 12:10 p.m. CT July 17, 2014 | Updated 10:15 p.m. CT July 17, 2014
Monroe Councilman Ray Armstrong speaks Thursday at the Emy-Lou Biedenharn Recital Hall at ULM, where community leaders gathered to discuss the state of crime in Monroe (Photo: EMERALD MCINTYRE/ THE NEWS-STAR )Buy Photo
The president of the Monroe Chamber of Commerce worries Monroe is developing a reputation that's it's not a safe place to live.
The president of the local Realtors association points to declining prices for homes.
Community members in Ouachita Parish gathered at the University of Louisiana at Monroe on Thursday morning to discuss crime in Monroe and its effects. City Council Chairman Ray Armstrong coordinated the forum.
"We are here to talk about a common enemy, and that enemy is crime," he said.
Speakers included John Denison, former television anchor; Sue Nicholson, president of the Monroe Chamber of Commerce; Courtney Hornsby, president of the West Monroe Chamber of Commerce; Deanna Norman, president of the Northeast Louisiana Association of Realtors; Michael Echols, director of business development at Vantage Health Plan; Ouachita Parish Sheriff Jay Russell; Rev. Roosevelt Wright of the New Tabernacle Baptist Church and Annmarie Sartor, external communications manager at CenturyLink.
Armstrong referred to the speakers as a "broad representation of Ouachita Parish."
The problem discussed
The chief topic of discussion initially seemed to be public perception as an indicator of residents' overall safety.
"Crime is a problem for all of us, whether you think it's a real problem, or whether it's a perception of crime — perception is reality," Armstrong said.
Nicholson said, "We are very concerned about this being a safe, welcoming community, and the image that people have coming in that perhaps it's not as safe as they want."
Armstrong said in the past year, there have been an average of 20 break-ins a month in Zones 5 and 7 of the city, which the Garden District and Mid-City areas. He did not mention crime rates in other zones.
Norman discussed statistics from the real estate market in North Monroe and West Monroe. In North Monroe, the number of homes put on the market increased from 236 to 257 over the past two years. In West Monroe, the number of homes put on the market also rose from 588 to 599.
Norman said these changes are "nothing," inferring that "people are staying in the communities they want to stay in."
However, she said in the last year in north Monroe, the average list price decreased by $7,000 and the average selling price dropped by $5,200. In West Monroe, the average list price increased by $6,900 and the selling price rose by $6,400.
"That's a big difference," Norman said. "And the perception is, 'Where is it safe?'"
Wright told the assembly, "As I listen to all the conversations, it appears that all the stats and things that were given were given from Sterlington, were given from Swartz, were given from downtown, but most of the crimes happen in the south side. ... All the stats were given for other places."
Norman also discussed her own feelings of vulnerability while conducting business in Monroe.
"I am the biggest target walking," she said. "I'm a female. I'm getting out of a nice car, chances are my hair's all done... I have 'target' written all over me. I'm the biggest walking target in Monroe, whether we want to think so or not."
She continued, "I wouldn't go to certain places at certain times, none of us would. But I mean that's ridiculous: I can't go on Louisville (Avenue) at any given time and go to the Dollar Tree... but I can't."
Wright said, remarking on conditions in south Monroe, "Maybe others are afraid to walk the street, but we have to live where somebody's getting shot."
The solutions offered
Armstrong suggested community leaders conduct a comprehensive study on crime and its root causes, saying it would cost $250,000 to complete. He said the funding could be collected through community grants.
"We don't even have the questions at this point in time that we need to ask, and certainly we need to develop answers," Armstrong said.
Denison said, "We have to get a handle on the generational situations that breed the opportunity for people to seek out crime."
Echols discussed initiatives for development in downtown Monroe, including sidewalk and lighting improvements. "We want to make sure that our employees are safe downtown, so we're working on lighting initiatives. We're working on security initiatives."
Armstrong proposed that cameras be placed on police cars and officers as well as on drones to patrol high-risk areas.
Wright focused on reorientation of youth through recreation programs such as Deputies Making a Change, urging other law enforcement agencies in the region to adopt similar programs.
"At some point, there's a large number of young people who are growing up in a violent community, and they're developing a violent mentality, and that violent mentality is something that all the police presence is not going to be able to deal with. We have to start at the bottom," Wright said.
Russell noted that 85 percent of the inmates at Ouachita Correctional Center are in jail on drug-related offenses and still more suffer from mental illness. He said there are no facilities in Ouachita Parish adequately equipped to treat mental illness, resulting in many of the mentally ill ending up imprisoned.
"They shouldn't be in jail, they should be getting mental help, but they're not," Russell said. "So what do we do with them? You put them in a cell."
And yet, according to Russell, "Our jailers and our correctional facility, they aren't trained to deal with mental issues such as the ones that they're putting in jail. They should be treated for this mental illness." But Russell estimated that only 27 beds are available in Ouachita Parish for those suffering from mental illness.
The sheriff insisted that the financial draw for the uneducated to deal drugs and participate in other illegal activities is too tempting compared to the option of making minimum wage.
"You can't continue to lock up people. ...That's not deterring crime," Russell said.
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It seems natural for Robert Webster Jr. to dress up as a vampire on the eve of Halloween.
"I'm a huge Halloween jerk," he said. "I'm the Clark Griswold ('Vacation' movies) of my neighborhood. I have the most lights of any house, so when I saw the opportunity to audition for 'Dracula' I said 'Of course'. I hadn't read the script and I hadn't read the book since I was a child.
When offered the role, the Indianapolis resident jumped at the chance.
"He's an iconic character," said Webster. "Everyone knows Dracula.
Webster is playing the title role in Main Street Productions' "Dracula" presentation, which runs October 7-17 at the Westfield Playhouse. Thursday, Friday and Saturday shows are at 7:30 p.m. Sunday shows are at 2:30 p.m.
Brand Davis directs Steven Dietz's adaptation of Bram Stoker's "Dracula". The set is in 1890 with period costumes.
Webster said he avoids seeing other productions before the show and will try to give the role his own touch.
"I once went to audition for 'Harvey' (and) I made the mistake of watching the move," said Webster. "I went to the audition and made Jimmy Stewart to death. I was so mad at myself because I didn't do it.
The biggest challenge for Webster is getting the Romanian accent for the right character.
Kelly Keller, a resident of the Fishers, plays Van Helsing.
"When it first happened and they announced their season, I was very excited," Keller said. "Growing up, it was a story I read and liked it a lot. Van Helsing pursues Dracula and is ultimately responsible for his death. He's the guy who has some vampire hunting experience. This one is very close to the novel.
Lawrence resident Sabrina Duprey plays Mina Murray.
"She is one of the two main girls targeted by Dracula," Duprey said. "She is a very good Victorian lady. She wants to put her fiancé at ease and get to the bottom of what's going on.
Durprey said maintaining the British accent for the role is still a challenge.
"I also have to get used to the physical nature of it," she said. "Modern women are able to slump or stand as they wish. Victorian London women, (there are) certain ways they won't act. It was a fun challenge.
Noblesville resident Nathaniel Taff plays Murray's fiancé Jonathan Harker.
"I get a lot of good scary scenes with Dracula. That's what I love about it, "said Taff, a 2012 Noblesville High School graduate.
Indianapolis resident Shannon Clancy, who plays Lucy, graduated from Noblesville High School in 2016. She spent her first two years in high school in Westfield.
"This is my first real theater production," Clancy said. "I usually did musicals or Shakespeare plays."
In the room, Lucy is bitten by Dracula and returns from the dead.
"This show is a lot of firsts for me," Clancy said. "This is my first kiss on stage, the first time I die on stage and also one of the first times I played a lead role. It gets really fun to be able to act both monstrously and crazy. and also pure and kind. "
Lawrence resident Xavier Jones plays John Seward. He said the British accent is the hardest thing for him.
"Other than that, I try to bond with other characters and have good chemistry on stage," he said. "It is done quite easily. "
To learn more, visit westfieldplayhouse.org
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Fittingly, there will be a blood drive inside the mobile unit at Versiti Blood Center Indiana from 2 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on October 13 in the Westfield Playhouse parking lot, 220 Union Street. Anyone who donates will receive a free ticket valid for any main street. The productions are broadcast during the 2021-22 season. To register, visit westfieldplayhouse.org/special-events.
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Immigrants, Advocates, & Lawmakers Respond to Chad Wolf's Resignation
Chad Wolf, dhs, Donald Trump, human rights abuses, Blog
On Monday, January 11th, Trump's acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf officially stepped down. Although he was never officially confirmed by Congress, that didn't stop Wolf from implementing cruel and unconscionably inhumane immigration policies that will plague our system for years to come. As news broke of Wolf's tenure officially coming to an end, immigrants and… Continue »
Politicized DHS Goes All In To Aid Trump's Campaign
Chad Wolf, Frank Sharry, Ken Cuccinelli, Press Releases
DHS might as well declare itself a Trump Super PAC An Associated Press story from Ben Fox and Elliot Spagat, "Trump administration turns to immigration as vote nears," details how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is acting to advance the electoral prospects of Donald Trump. DHS's illegally appointed acting leaders, Chad Wolf and… Continue »
Senate Hearing on "Threats to Homeland Security" Should Focus on Ken Cuccinelli Himself
Chad Wolf, Douglas Rivlin, Hearings, Ken Cuccinelli, Press Releases
"His own manipulation and falsification of intelligence reports makes him a threat in and of himself." Today, Acting Director of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli, known at DHS as the Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Deputy Secretary, will testify before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government… Continue »
10 Reasons Chad Wolf Should Be Resigning, Not Testifying at His Nomination Hearing
Chad Wolf, Coronavirus, Donald Trump, Douglas Rivlin, USCIS, Press Releases
Tomorrow morning, Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf will appear before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee for his official nomination hearing. There are a litany of reasons why Wolf should be resigning rather than sitting for his nomination hearing – below are 10 reminders: Illegally appointed and serving unlawfully. According to the Government… Continue »
Forced Hysterectomies in a Georgia Detention Center: The Culmination of Cruelty that Voters Have the Power to End
Chad Wolf, Detention, Douglas Rivlin, human rights abuses, ICE and CBP Abuse, Ken Cuccinelli, Press Releases
Trump's Dehumanization of Immigrants "Sets the Tone In Which These Kinds Of Serious Human Rights Abuses Are Allowed To Happen" For almost four years in office and since the day he announced his campaign, Donald Trump has systematically dehumanized immigrants. He degrades them with his words and persecutes them with his actions. He has… Continue »
Chad Wolf and Ken Cuccinelli Need to Resign "They've Betrayed America"
Chad Wolf, Frank Sharry, Ken Cuccinelli, USCIS, Press Releases
Damning new revelations from a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) whistleblower make it crystal clear that the acting DHS leaders Chad Wolf and Ken Cuccinelli have betrayed the country and their duties. They are responsible for covering up Russian attacks on our democracy and minimizing the white supremacist terrorist threat in America. These two illegally-appointed… Continue »
Chad Wolf's "State of the Homeland Address" Leaves Out What DHS Identifies As the 'Gravest Terror Threat' to the Nation
Chad Wolf, Douglas Rivlin, Highlights, Press Releases
"This was the best Trump campaign speech your tax dollars could buy." In a rah-rah event held at Hitchcock Hall at DHS HQ, unlawfully appointed Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf delivered his "State of the Homeland Address," which amounted to a Trump campaign rally speech, complete with partisanship, lies, omissions and the presentation of… Continue »
At DHS Speech, Will Chad Wolf Admit that White Supremacists Are 'Gravest Terror Threat' to National Security?
Chad Wolf, Donald Trump, Douglas Rivlin, white supremacy, Press Releases
At 11 AM Eastern today, unlawfully appointed Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf will deliver the 2020 "State of the Homeland Address" (watch the livestream here). Will he admit what DHS's apolitical experts have recently assessed, that white supremacist-linked domestic terrorism is the biggest security threat facing America? Or, as we suspect, will Wolf instead deliver… Continue »
So Much for the "Law and Order" Party: Trump Defies Supreme Court Ruling on DACA
Chad Wolf, DACA, Dreamers, Frank Sharry, Press Releases
Continues Drive to End Popular Program and Put Dreamers on a Path to Deportation On Day One of its convention, the Republican Party portrayed itself as the "law and order" party. But as we have learned the hard way, it's critical to watch what they do and not what they say. Take the Trump administration's… Continue »
Who is Chad Wolf?
Chad Wolf, DHS Watch, Immigration 101, Blog
How did he rise to the top of DHS despite serious questions about the legality of his appointment? What was his role in Trump's family separation policy? Chad Wolf is now the acting secretary for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), though his elevation to acting secretary is in question by Congress. He is taking… Continue »


Did you ever consider that Aunt Melba's Christmas cookies could be a way to help you say "Jesus loves you" this time of year? For many, the holidays are a time of joy, but for others it's a time of intense need. We want to share seven ways you can spread some cheer in your home while blessing others.
1. Surprise your neighbor with a batch of homemade cookies.
Homemade Christmas cookies can be a great way to strike up a conversation with neighbors you may not know very well. Building relationships with neighbors can lead to opportunities to share about the hope you have this Christmas (and every Christmas). Aunt Melba's recipe for Christmas cookies is provided here as a fun activity for kids, grandkids, or church groups.
2. Clean out your closets and donate clothes.
Many of us have extra clothes that hang unused in our closet for most of the year. Those clothes can be gift to people both close to home and around the world. Take some time this season to gather extra clothes from your closet, identify a good charity that accepts donations of clothes in your area, and drop off the clothes.
While most of us gather with our families this Christmas, many refugees are far from home, displaced in camps throughout the Middle East. This is a sobering thought. Much of the time, they have faced tragedy through the loss of friends and loved ones. Take time with your family to pray for refugees. Pray they will receive aid and comfort and experience God's love in some way. Learn more here, how GAiN meets critical needs for victims of conflict, disaster, famine, and epidemics throughout the world by providing food, water, shelter, and medicine — all in the name of Jesus.
4. Assemble winter kits for people in need.
5. Deliver greeting cards to the residents of a senior center.
Festivities abound during the holiday season. However, elderly folks living in senior centers frequently miss out on holiday gatherings. Seniors, especially those with few family members close by, love visitors. Cards containing encouraging messages given to residents provide a special treat—and if you add a drawing from a budding young artist, that's even better!
6. Volunteer at a food pantry or soup kitchen.
According to Feeding America, 42 million people face the threat of hunger daily in the United States. One in five children go hungry every month. Hunger affects how people perform at work and how children perform in school. A couple hours sorting food at a local food pantry or serving meals at a soup kitchen can mean so much to hungry hearts. You'll be surprised how rewarding those few hours can be!
7. Make hot cocoa or apple cider, gather your family, and read the Christmas story.
You don't need chestnuts roasting over an open fire—just a warm drink, a Bible, and your family or friends. Matthew 1:18–2:12 is a good place to start. Luke 1-2 is another side to the story of the birth of Jesus.
Joining together to brighten someone's day blesses both the giver and the receiver. Enjoy your time spreading joy to people around you! And if you want to expand your reach, we can help you share the kindness of Jesus to people living in tough places in the world!
As the humanitarian partner of Cru, Global Aid Network (GAiN) expresses the love of Jesus Christ in the toughest places on earth by relieving suffering, restoring dignity, and revealing hope. We accomplish our mission, in partnership with international Cru ministries, through food and agriculture, clean water, and critical aid. Our partners at Cru work in more than 191 countries in the world.


The West Hartford Fire Department extracted two people following a single-vehicle crash on Farmington Avenue Wednesday night.
West Hartford police and fire units responded to an incident Wednesday night on Farmington Avenue near Westland Avenue involving a vehicle that had flipped over.
Police said that the car, a four-door Subaru hatchback, was headed westbound on Farmington Avenue when the single-car crash occurred.
Fire Department Battalion Chief Eric Munsell said that the incident was reported at 7:23 p.m. Wednesday. A steady rain was falling at the time.
Munsell said that the driver of the Subaru struck the curb and a tree in the center island, flipped over, and came to rest on its roof. The driver and a passenger were extricated and transported to an area hospital with what Munsell said were minor injuries.
No information was provided about the driver or the passenger.
"A steady rain was falling at the time.
These islands are intended as "traffic calming" features. While they do work, in too many cases they are poorly marked and are difficult to see in bad weather or with sun glare. Just making the road narrower would have been less expensive and would not have placed obstacles in the middle of the road.


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Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha (Hardcover)
By Robert A. Jacobs
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The Cold War reconsidered as a limited nuclear war
"[A] grimly important analysis of the cold war."—Andrew Robinson Nature
"Inexorable clarity and care for his fellow humans mark Robert Jacobs's guide to the Cold War as a limited nuclear war, whose harms disfigure any possible future."—Norma Field, author of In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century's End
In the fall of 1961, President Kennedy somberly warned Americans about deadly radioactive fallout clouds extending hundreds of miles from H‑bomb detonations, yet he approved ninety‑six US nuclear weapon tests for 1962. Cold War nuclear testing, production, and disasters like Chernobyl and Fukushima have exposed millions to dangerous radioactive particles; these millions are the global hibakusha. Many communities continue to be plagued with dire legacies and ongoing risks: sickness and early mortality, forced displacement, uncertainty and anxiety, dislocation from ancestors and traditional lifestyles, and contamination of food sources and ecosystems.
Robert A. Jacobs re‑envisions the history of the Cold War as a slow nuclear war, fought on remote battlegrounds against populations powerless to prevent the contamination of their lands and bodies. His comprehensive account necessitates a profound rethinking of the meaning, costs, and legacies of our embrace of nuclear weapons and technologies.
Robert A. Jacobs is a professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute of Hiroshima City University. He is the co-founder of the Global Hibakusha Project, conducting field research on radiation-affected communities in more than twenty countries.
"Inexorable clarity and care for his fellow humans mark Robert Jacobs's guide to the Cold War as a limited nuclear war, whose harms disfigure any possible future."—Norma Field, author of In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century's End
"Jacobs leaves behind the division of nuclear power into civilian and military spheres. He argues convincingly that propagandists drew this line in order to clear the way for the unhindered pursuit of nuclear weapons. In so doing, he masterfully shows how military leaders waged a limited nuclear war on the environment and human bodies."—Kate Brown, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Nuclear Bodies is an urgent book, a work of great ethical gravity and political import that grapples with the pernicious legacies of radiological colonialism. Jacobs unsettles conventional distinctions between war and peace, exhorting us to reimagine the Cold War as a limited nuclear war."—Rob Nixon, author of Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Publisher: Yale University Press
Science / Radiation
Social Science / Disease & Health Issues


At this moment the current water temperature in Fishermans Rest is -. The average water temperature in Fishermans Rest today is -.
Today Saturday, 20th of April of 2019, the sun rose in Fishermans Rest at 7:02 am and sunset will be at 8:06 pm.	In the high tide and low tide chart, we can see that the first high tide was at 3:31 am and the next high tide at 3:09 pm. The first low tide was at 9:21 am and the next low tide will be at 10:07 pm.
Today we have 13 hours and 4 minutes of sun. The solar transit was at 1:34 pm.
The heights today are 3.3 ft, 0.7 ft, 3.7 ft and -0.6 ft referenced to Mean Lower Low Water (MLLW).
We can compare these levels with the maximum high tide recorded in the tide tables for Fishermans Rest which is of 4.3 ft and a minimum height of -1.3 ft.
The following graph shows the progression of the tidal coefficient in the month of April of 2019.These values give us a rough idea of the tidal amplitude in Fishermans Rest, forecast in April.
Large coefficients indicate important high and low tides; major currents and movements usually take place on the sea bed. But bear in mind that this tidal amplitude may be greatly affected by the weather and you should also consult the weather forecast in Fishermans Rest and the wind and wave forecast in Fishermans Rest before you go fishing.
The moon set at 8:05 am at 256° southwest. Eventually, the moon will rise again in the southeast (107°) at 9:35 pm.
The lunar transit is the time at which the moon crosses the local meridian (Fishermans Rest, 83.5° W) at 2:18 am.
The solunar periods indicate the best times of day for fishing in Fishermans Rest. The major periods correspond to the lunar transit (passage of the moon over the meridian) and the opposing lunar transit and last approximately 2 hours. The minor periods begin with the rising and setting of the moon and its duration is approximately 1 hour.


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Last Thursday morning I was invited to contribute to Jason Mohammad's very popular (and very good) BBC radio Wales programme.
The topic under discussion was the news, dutifully reported on several news sites that Welsh football fans were calling for a boycott of Mars bars after claims that the confectionery super company had 'snubbed' Wales and its fans by flaunting its support for England in the forthcoming European championships.
The problem seemed to be that Mars had not attached its support to Wales, who have, remember, qualified for their first major tournament since 1958 and that the rebranded Mars bars for the tournament – #Believe, rather than Mars is emblazoned on the wrapper – were offending the sensibilities of football fans across the country. Selling the bars festooned with associated English propaganda in Welsh shops was simply beyond the pale. On Twitter there were some calling for the removal of said bars from Welsh stores.
Unlike many of my countrymen and women I refused to be offended by the Mars campaign.
That said, it's undeniable that some were genuinely offended and saw Mars' actions as arrogant and provocative. Proof again, if further proof were needed, that England was seen as the whole of Britain and that Wales did not matter one iota.
For me, this row is about cultural identity. And though, as Raymond Williams pointed out some time ago, in terms of the relationship between England and Wales, we have moved on somewhat from the old perspectives of England as conqueror, coloniser, exploiter and big neighbour, some tensions still exist. From time to time these tensions surface and illustrate that Welsh identity is still defined in opposition to Englishness.
This is an evasive, not to say patronising, piece of PR – but it actually gets to the heart of the matter. Of course, Mars are hoping that all UK supporters buy their chocolate and support as they say, "their country". They are not explicitly anti anyone – but they are, most definitely, pro England. They have a partnership with the English FA which began in 2009.
Mars have clearly spent widely on their England publicity. The flagship of the campaign is a Henry V style pastiche featuring Harry Kane, Danny Welbeck and Jamie Vardy. In the one minute ad we see various signifiers of English culture make their way across the channel to the bemusement of a few stereotypical Frenchmen. It' supposed to be light-hearted, of course, but the main intention is to tap into the goodwill and expectancy ahead of the tournament. Mars wants to place itself at the centre of the fan experience – the theory is that the sporting environment, live or otherwise, delivers the consumer to the advertiser in precisely the right state of mind to be receptive to persuasive messages and constant presence.
The unpalatable fact for those in Wales who are disappointed at Mars' behaviour is that it probably doesn't matter at all to the company. England are Mars' concern and the Scottish episodes in 2006 and 2010 indicate that they are prepared to live with a little flak if they can reach their target audience. Private companies are generally motivated by little more than the making of money – they have no moral obligation to act as cultural arbiters. Mars pay England a lot of money for access and the inescapable fact is that there are over 50 million people in England and 3.1 in Wales. That's the bottom line.
← BBC gets out of the kitchen as government turns up the heat.


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Set for a spring release in 2019, this is the new Chemical bros record which features the single Free Yourself. The ever evolving duo continues to explore new sounds, and I can't wait for this to hit streaming and downloads - Or just leak out in advance.


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New results presented at the Quark Matter Conference
The activities of the LHCb collaboration have expanded far beyond the original core aims. The excellent performance of the detector has allowed the experiment to make important contributions to a wide range of research sectors becoming in this way a general purpose detector in the forward region. The results presented this week at the Quark Matter 2018 conference in Venice, are a perfect example demonstrating such extended LHCb capabilities. In addition to measurements in the "standard" lead-lead ion (PbPb) and proton-lead ion (pPb) LHC collision conditions, LHCb has been able to perform measurements with data taken in a unique configuration: a fixed-target operational mode. In fact, the LHCb vertex locator (VELO) was built with the possibility of injecting gas at very-low pressure into the interaction region, allowing for recording collisions of the LHC circulating proton beams with target nuclei at rest. This mode has been so far succesfully operated with He, Ne and Ar gases.
The LHCb collaboration presented a wide range of results on charm production in various types of collisions. These include the production of the Λc baryon in pPb collisions and of D0 and J/ψ mesons in the fixed-target collisions with He and Ar. The production of heavy quarks in nucleus-nucleus interactions is well suited to the study of the transition between ordinary hadronic matter and the hot and dense Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). The production of J/ψ mesons in nucleus-nucleus interactions, its possible suppression in the quark-gluon medium and/or later charm-anti-charm quark recombination are all studied in order to shed light into the mechanisms governing such a phase transition. The LHCb pPb and fixed-target results utilising proton interactions with different nuclei at different energies provide precious reference results in conditions in which the formation of the QGP is not expected. The images above show a signal mass peak of Λc baryons decaying into a proton, a K and a π (above left) as well as of D0 mesons decaying into a K and a π (above right).
In ultra-relativistic heavy nuclei PbPb collisions, two-photon and photonuclear interactions are enhanced in ultra-peripheral collisions (UPC). The collisions are either coherent, where the photon couples coherently to all nucleons, or incoherent, where the photon couples to a single nucleon. In the case of coherent J/ψ production in UPC, the photon-lead interaction can be modelled by the exchange of a colourless propagator, identified as a single object called a Pomeron, that interacts with the photon. The LHCb collaboration reported at the conference the cross-section measurement of coherent J/ψ production in PbPb collisions at 5 TeV and compared this to predictions from different phenomenological models. The image shows that the coherent J/ψ production (blue line) can be clearly separated from the other contributions in the natural logarithm of the J/ψ transverse momentum squared distribution.
Bound states of heavy quark and antiquark, such as the charmonium J/ψ and ψ(2S) as well as the bottomonium Upsilon particles, are very important tools to study properties of the QGP. It is expected that the experimentally observed rate of different bound states should be modified depending on the temperature of the QGP. Therefore the measurement of charmonium and bottomonium suppression can be used as a kind of QGP thermometer. The left image above shows different Upsilon states measured in pPb collisions at √s=8.16 TeV as a clear example that the LHCb detector is very well armed to study this interesting physics sector owing to its excellent particle identification and mass resolution.
High-energy collisions involving ions have the best chance to produce gluon condensates, where the gluon wave functions start to overlap producing a collective behaviour. This condensate would be similar to the phenomenon predicted by Bose and Einstein 93 years ago and observed in other boson systems such as ultra-cold atoms. Saturated gluons are expected to be observed only at small angles relative to the beam axes, where the number and the size of the gluons are the largest. LHCb has the unique capability of measuring photons coming from these high density gluon regions. The announcement of initial measurements of these photons caused a lot of excitement at the Quark Matter conference. The image above (right) shows the angular distribution between isolated photons and other particles taken during the 2016 pPb run. This sample is from a region where theorists expect that gluons are saturated. The peak at the angle π indicates the presence of photons from gluons. The blue band is the background from other processes. This is the first indication that gluons can be probed in this region, never achieved by any experiment so far. Members of the theory community expressed interest in studying the upcoming LHCb results and are discussing the mathematical tools that can confirm the discovery of this new form of matter.
Read more in the LHCb presentations [1], [2], [3], [4] and [5]. The LHCb papers and conference contributions will be available shortly.
Observation of a new particle consistent with long-hunted Eggs ball
Long life(time) of the exceptionally charmed particle Ξcc++