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The Electric Pencil was the first home computer word processor, first released by author Michael Shrayer in 1976 for the Altair, and soon brought out in many different versions for various 8080 and Z-80-based computers such as the SOL-20, North Star Horizon, and TRS-80. Eventually, in 1983, an IBM PC version was released. However, by that time other word processors had eclipsed it in popularity, and it faded away.
Early versions used cassette tape as their document storage method, but it eventually adapted to those newfangled "disk drives" as they began to appear.
This description is based on a version documented in a manual dated 1977; it's possible other versions varied.
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The Hawthorns Clevedon presented their final total cheque to local St. Peter's Hospice, which was the Hawthorns' residents chosen charity over the last two years. In total the residents and staff raised over £8,000 from a range of events and functions, the most recent of which were a post-refurbishment furniture and fittings sale and bazaars and raffles over the Christmas period.
The bazaars saw stalls from charities selling everything from jewellery, homemade jam, chutneys and cakes, homemade wood crafts to books and cards. The stand charge paid by the stall holders and takings from refreshment sales were used to augment the prizes at the raffles, which included a horseshoe gammon from Hovercroft Butcher, a fruit basket from grocer A.D. David, a side of smoked salmon from M&J Seafood and other prizes of wine, chocolates and fragrance. At the family Christmas, there were 250 for lunch including many children and a visit from both Father and Mother Claus.
A key part of our life here is that we work with the residents to give something back to the local community, and stage a wide range of events and activities to raise much needed funds for good local causes, and everyone was so pleased that St. Peter's had benefitted in this way.


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Commentary: The 'Walls Are Closing In' on the Democrats
February 3, 2020 February 2, 2020 Michigan Star Staff
by Roger Kimball
On Friday, as I and about 456,874 other people predicted, the Senate voted against calling yet more witnesses in the make-believe, 100 percent certified partisan impeachment fiasco run by the Democrats and their media cheerleaders.
That vote brought this lucrative entertainment to an end, de facto if not de jure. The official, signed-sealed-and-delivered end will come Wednesday, we're told, when the Senate will vote on whether to acquit the president of the two charges on which he was impeached by the House. Spoiler alert: They will.
A quick refresher. Those two charges were "abuse of power" and "obstruction of Congress."
Let's take them in order. The alleged abuse of power charge stemmed from President Trump's July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Zelinsky. Trump was keen to have Zelinsky look into alleged Ukrainian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. He was also keen to have him look into allegations that Hunter Biden, the son of Joe Biden, who is campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination, was knee-deep in corrupt activities.
"There's a lot of talk about Biden's son," President Trump said, "that [Joe] Biden stopped the prosecution [of Burisma, the corrupt company on whose Board Hunter sat and from which he collected more than $50,000 a month] and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great."
Was that an abuse of power? Opinions vary. I do not think so. Nor do I think the president erred when he went on to tell Zelinsky that Joe Biden "bragged" he had stopped the prosecution of Burisma. He did so, and was gracious enough to be filmed doing it.
As Peter Schweizer has shown in meticulous detail in his book, the Bidens' corruption – like Falstaff's dishonesty – is "gross as mountain, open, palpable." This was not an abuse of power. Far from it. Indeed, I believe that Ted Cruz was right: President Trump, confronted with credible allegations of Hunter Biden's corruption, had a "responsibility" to investigate Biden's activities.
So much for "abuse of power." What about "obstruction of Congress"? Don't worry if you've never heard of that. I hadn't either. In essence, the House alleged that President Trump was guilty of this newfangled tort because, rather than instantly capitulating to their demands, he asked the court to review the case. In other words, he asked for the same due process that protects you and me to protect him.
Not much to build an impeachment case on is it? No treason. No bribery (though the House tried furiously to fabricate such a case). No high crimes or even misdemeanors.
But according to the Constitution (Article II, Section IV) those are the only impeachable offenses: "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors." Those are the reasons, and the only reasons, for which a president may be impeached.
I know, I know: Alexander Hamilton, writing about impeachment in Federalist 65, said that "The subjects of [impeachment's] jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust." That concern is in the background for the Framers. But the fact is that the Constitution does not mention such scruples. Moreover, I do not believe that, in the case of President Trump's phone call, there was any "misconduct" or "abuse or violation of some public trust."
So, as many observers have been predicting since the impeachment clown show began, the president will be officially acquitted in a few days. According to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), the Senate trial was "the greatest cover-up since Watergate" and hence the acquittal will be "meaningless." It pains me to disagree, but I feel constrained to point out to Schumer that President Trump's acquittal will have at least this irrefragable meaning: Donald J. Trump will still be president of the United States.
It is obvious to anyone who is paying attention that "cover-up" is the new phrase of the month and I predict that the Democrats will run with it all the way to November 3. I predict, further, that the charge will have zero effect on the election.
Still, Schumer's contention that the president's acquittal (which he now implicitly acknowledges is a foregone conclusion) will be "meaningless," coupled with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's insistence that the "stain" of impeachment will "forever" be attached to the name of Donald Trump, prompts me to suggest a few courses of action the president might take in his second term (some parts of which might be started even now).
First, to discourage such frivolous, wholly partisan efforts to overturn the results of a free, open, and democratic election, people who have committed felonies by leaking classified material or lying under oath should be prosecuted. A dozen or so indictments would have a clarifying and salutary effect.
I'd start with a few of the women who perjured themselves when lying about Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearings. I'd follow up with some people involved in the "Russian collusion" hoax. And I'd finish by looking into Representative Adam Schiff's (D-Calif.) and Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman's claim that they did not know the "whistleblower" (Eric Ciaramella) and also into who leaked information from John Bolton's memoir and revenge drama.
Second, as for removing the "stain" of impeachment, I propose that when the House flips to the Republicans again next year, a bill be introduced rescinding President Trump's impeachment and publicly exonerating him of any and all wrongdoing.
Third, since the media as well as the Democrats (pardon the pleonasm) clearly enjoy the spectacle of impeachment, I suggest that Barack Obama retroactively be impeached, not for anything as mealy-mouthed as "obstruction of Congress" but for aiding and abetting America's enemies by shoveling billions of dollars to the Iranian mullahs.
Other charges doubtless will be forthcoming when U.S. Attorney John Durham begins handing down indictments in the "Russian collusion" ruse and we have hard evidence that the attempted soft coup against Donald Trump was an explicit creature of Obama's Administration. I've bought stock in popcorn companies in anticipation of this entertainment.
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Weird isn't really the right description for this word, which means something criminal or villainous, though it is rather unusual and tends to be high-flown in its applications. When it started life, in the fourteenth century, it referred to a person of the lowest morals, one who was "guilty of or addicted to atrocious crimes; deeply criminal, extremely wicked", as the Oxford English Dictionary comprehensively puts it.
In the following centuries, it spread its meaning more broadly, so that writers with an urge to pepper their prose with elevated terms can now also apply it to ideas and actions as well as individuals — recent writers have referred to "flagitious acts", "flagitious leadership", and "flagitious foibles and craven crimes". But that usage is hardly new. The career of the entrepreneur William Hudson during the British railway mania of the 1840s was described at the time as "one vast aggregate of avaricious and flagitious jobbing for the accumulation of wealth".
The word is from Latin flagitium, a shameful act, and can be traced back to flagrum, a whip. So it's a close relative of flagellate, to whip or scourge. But, despite the similarity in form and sense, and the opinion of some older authorities, it's not related to flagrant, something conspicuously offensive, which is from Latin flagrare, to burn.
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These words have never been more true. Coming together to look at the back of someone else's head has never been God's design for community. Yes, we gather together to connect with the Father, but it has to be so much more than a few hours on Sunday. If that's all we think about as community, how can we fulfill all the "one another" commands he gives us?
For you have been called to live in freedom, my brothers and sisters. But don't use your freedom to satisfy your sinful nature. Instead, use your freedom to serve one another in love.
So let's stop condemning each other. Decide instead to live in such a way that you will not cause another believer to stumble and fall.
And further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
You were cleansed from your sins when you obeyed the truth, so now you must show sincere love to each other as brothers and sisters. Love each other deeply with all your heart.
Let's learn to live out the day to day of every day together.
Find out how we enjoy our fellowship together.


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The five books presented here are chosen based on one criteria: the depth and elaboration of thoughts oh human nature and human condition. They are not strictly philosophical; for example La Rochefoucauld's Maxims might be classified as moral psychology. What makes them philosophical is the fact that the books are still be to be explored in terms of their practical implications, they are still to be tested before being taken as scientific facts. But when put to test against our own experiences of everyday life, they sure pass.
As you will see, some of the books are quite old. Of Wisdom was first published in 1601, but don't let that fool you. If you read them carefully, you will notice a few things: first a lot of arguments sound just as if they were formulated today; second, you will see that the observations apply very well to modern life. Finally, regardless of their age, there are ideas in them that are still to be fully understood and appreciated.
Man's problems remain the same, while our solutions to them evolve slowly. Human nature is unchangeable and human heart corruptible, no matter how far back you go through history.
This selection is more of a philosophical nature. We're also preparing a collection of the most insightful scientific books on the same topic.
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Francois de la Rochefoucauld – Maxims and Other Reflections (1665)
La Rochefoucauld spent several years writing and polishing his Maxims. As a matter of fact, he was not alone in the entire effort – he spent some time with Jacques Esprit and Madeleine de Souvré, Marquise de Sablé who were also working on their own versions of maxims. However, the group fell apart, possibly because of the fact that La Rochefoucauld's originality and pace in producing impactful thought went beyond that of his companions. Later on, Madame de Sablé's published her own Maximes (eighty-one in number), and Jacques Esprit published a book called The Falsehood of Human Virtues (in 1677).
La Rochefoucauld's thoughts cover topics such as virtues, vices, passions and wide array of emotions. Even though Maxims were published before almost 400 years, they still remain a fundamental read for everyone interested in human behavior and a prime example of deep, yet clear and concise thinking.
Some thoughts from the book:
Everyone complains of his memory, and no one complains of his judgement.
We would have passionate desires for very few things if we fully understood what we were desiring.
If we resist our passions, it is due more to their weakness then to our own strength.
Supreme cleverness lies in knowing the exact value of things.
John Gray – Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (2002)
John Gray is one of the most appreciated living philosophers. What's really special about Gray's philosophy (beside its originality) is his reliance on literary fiction when drawing conclusions about the human condition. When I was reading the book for the first time, it struck me that philosophy could be so much fun.
In Straw Dogs, Gray demolishes the idea of so-called "moral progress" (separating and setting it aside from scientific progress). Science might yield cumulative progress, but human morality is susceptible to regress. The same is with the idea of justice: in Christianity and Socratic philosophy justice is timeless, while in reality it is as timeless as fashion. He finally goes on to claim that science itself serves humanity's two needs: for hope and censorship.
Justice is an artefact of custom. Where customs are unsettled its dictates soon become dated. Ideas of justice are as timeless as fashions in hats.
Plato's legacy to European thought was a trio of capital letters – the Good, the Beautiful and the True. Wars have been fought and tyrannies established, cultures have been ravaged and peoples exterminated, in the service of these abstractions. Europe owes much of its murderous history to errors of thinking engendered by the alphabet.
The idea of progress rests on the belief that the growth of knowledge and the advance of the species go together – if not now, then in the long run. The biblical myth of the Fall of Man contains the forbidden truth. Knowledge does not make us free. It leaves us as we have always been, prey to every kind of folly. The same truth is found in Greek myth. The punishment of Prometheus, chained to a rock for stealing fire from the gods, was not unjust.
Humans cannot live without illusion. For the men and women of today, an irrational faith in progress may be the only antidote to nihilism. Without the hope that the future will be better than the past, they could not go on.
Pierre Charron – Of Wisdom (1601)
Charon (1541-1603) was a contemporary of Montaigne. His philosophy essentially develops the ideas of Montaigne in a systematic manner.
His work Of Wisdom is composed of 3 books. In the first book, Charon elaborates man's passions in general, such as love and it's different sorts: ambition or pride, avarice and carnal desire. He then dissects topics of particular emotions (a list that resembles Aristotle's list from Rhetoric): anger, hatred, envy, jealousy, grief. There are several chapters dedicated to something Charon calls "general nature of man" which consists of four features: man's vanity, weakness, inconstancy and misery.
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The Ambitious Man strives to be first, keeps his Eye forward upon the Goal, and upon those that have the Start of him but forgets and takes no notice of the many he hath outstrip himself. He feels more Discontent for The Man that has got before him, than he enjoys Satisfaction for a Thousand that he has left lagging after. Seneca observes very well: "This is the constant Fault and inseparable ill quality of Ambition: never to look behind it.
Ambition has this peculiar advantage, that seeds of it are sown, and the Root of it sits fix'd in the Heart of every one of us. We have a Proverb, indeed, which tells us Nature is contented with a very little; but then we have another too, that says with as great Truth the direct contrary; That Nature is never satisfied, nor capable of being contented at all. A Man never comes to the End of his desires, so as to set up his Rest, but is always for climbing a little higher, and growing a little richer. No Man goes a moderate pace, or chooses to advance leisurely towards greatness and glory…
Ambition is giving Chase to a Vapour, catching at Smoke, instead of Fire and Light; embracing a Shadow, instead of Body and Substance; it is making a Man's whole Happiness precarious, suspending all the Satisfaction and Content of his Mind, upon Popular Opinion, the Humour and the Breath of an ignorant and changing Multitude. It is a voluntary, and consequently the very worst, and most despicable Slavery ; the parting with our own Native Rights and Liberties, and depending upon, the Arbitrary Passions Of other People : 'tis the putting one's self under perpetual Constraint and engaging to act contrary to one's own Sense, in Hopes, by displeasing and disapproving to please and gain the Approbation of Spectators; 'tis a sacrificing our Affections and Reason to the Capriciousness of Spectators; 'tis the prostituting of Conscience to common Opinion; renouncing all love of Virtue, any farther than the World shall please to like, and keep it in Countenance; and 'tis the doing of Good, not for the like of Goodness, but merely in Confederation of the Credit and Advantage to be got by it. In a Word, such Men are like full Vessels, that must be pierced for the Liquor they contain; not one Drop can be drawn from them, unless you give them Vent: nor any Benefit to be had of these Qualities, but such as takes Air.
Giacomo Leopardi – Zibaldone (1898)
Giacomo Leopardi (1798 – 1837) was an Italian philosopher, poet, essayist, and philologist. He is widely seen as one of the most radical and challenging thinkers of the 19th century.
Only a few of his essays were published during his lifetime. He kept an notebook, known as the Zibaldone, or "hodge-podge of thoughts". It contained around 4,500 handwritten pages. His comments about topics as wide as religion, philosophy, language, history, anthropology, astronomy, literature, poetry, and love are unprecedented in their brilliance and suggestiveness. Zibaldone, which was only published 60 years after Leopardi's death, has been recognized as one of the foundational books of modern culture.
Leopardi was a critic of modern ideals. One of the backbones of his thought are the reflections on human nature and its impossibility for improvement.
What was destroying the [ancient] world was the lack of illusions. Christianity saved it, not because it was the truth but because it was a new source of illusions. And the effects it produced, enthusiasm, fanaticism, magnanimous sacrifice, and heroism, are the usual effects of any great illusion. We are considering here not whether it is true or false but only that this proves nothing in its favour. But how did it establish itself amid so many obstacles …? No one understands the human heart at all who does not recognize how vast is its capacity for illusions, even when these are contrary to its interests, or how often it loves the very thing that is obviously harmful to it.
Arthur O. Lovejoy – Reflections on Human Nature (1961)
This book is actually a collection of lectures delivered by professor Lovejoy in 1941. His more famous book is The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea (1977).
While this book contains little original material compared to the four previously mentioned books, it is a great introduction to various theories of human nature and their application. For example, one chapter tells how theories of human nature influenced the creation of the United States Constitution.
The theme that preoccupies Lovejoy's lectures is approbativeness as a distinct feature of a man. Approbativeness is a "love of praise; desire to excel and be esteemed; ambition; desire to display and show off; … desire for a good name, for notoriety, fame . . . and to be well thought of, sensitiveness to the speeches of other people, and love of popularity."
Another important fact that puts Lovejoy's book on this list is that the lectures were delivered during the Second World War. The atmosphere of war certainly directed his attention towards theories which highlighted reversible inclinations of human nature. The book should serve as a great reminder for our time, when books are flooded by the illusion that man's nature has become so good, that it's irreversible and will become only better.
There is nothing in the science of human nature more curious, or that deserves a critical attention from every man so much, as that principle which moral writers have distinguished by the name of self-deceit.This principle is the spurious offspring of self-love. – Jacques Abbadie
The "light of the understanding" in short, is like physical light: "it illuminates everything, but it of itself moves nothing. It shines (elle a du brillant), but it has no strength. . . . If men were controlled by reason, they would be persuaded by philosophers rather than by orators. . . – Jacques Abbadie
Since we find by experience that Pride masters and governs Man, and makes him altogether intractable, we may easily conclude that when he despises and blames himself, his words betray [i.e., play false to] his thoughts; that he makes use of Humility to others, to raise himself above them; and that he would never act so contrary to his haughty and proud Temper did not he conceive that nothing is fitter to make him great than a voluntary Humiliation. – Jacques Esprit
A man who has an admirable rectitude of mind and exactitude of reason for understanding what is most complex and most recondite in the sciences such a man is no sooner involved in some business with another, in which his own interest is involved, than his rectitude of mind deserts him… But let the same man discuss other people's affairs, and he will be found reasoning with the same correctness as before. – Jacques Abbadie
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Children's book celebrates Tłı̨chǫ language and values
Published: June 8, 2021 at 8:16am Meaghan Brackenbury June 8, 2021 Last modified: June 8, 2021 at 9:11am
The cover of How Frog Brought Winter, a story told by Tłı̨chǫ Elder Joe Lazare Zoe and collected by Tłı̨chǫ author Richard Van Camp.
How Frog Brought Winter, a new children's book celebrating the Tłı̨chǫ language and culture, is now available at Yellowknife's Book Cellar.
The story is the second in a series created by the YK1 school district to honour Indigenous knowledge-keepers and revitalize Indigenous languages. The first, How Raven Returned the Sun, was published in English and Sahtúot'ı̨nę Yatı (North Slavey) in 2016.
How Frog Brought Winter was originally told by Tłı̨chǫ Elder Joe Lazare Zoe in Gamèti. A childhood favourite of his late son, Rocky, the story explores how even the smallest creature has a purpose.
Tłı̨chǫ author Richard Van Camp wrote down Zoe's story. He told Cabin Radio he felt an immediate connection when he first heard it from the Elder several years ago.
"He shared the story with me … and I knew that was the one that really showed our values as northerners, as Dene, as Tłı̨chǫ," Van Camp said. "Everyone is needed in the circle of life. Everybody has gifts."
The story is presented in both Tłı̨chǫ and English.
Madelaine Pasquayak – Zoe's niece – translated a recording of his Tłı̨chǫ telling into English, while Dene painter Carla Rae Taylor, from Yellowknife, provided illustrations.
Scott Willoughby, Indigenous language and culture education coordinator for YK1, was the project's catalyst and coordinator.
He said capturing such stories in their original language is powerful and important work.
"It's totally about honouring the Elders," he said, "because a lot of the Elders are getting a lot older, and there's not a lot left that are still first-language Tłı̨chǫ speakers, so it's fun to get this down."
Illustrator Carla Rae Taylor reads How Frog Brought Winter with her children. Photo: Submitted
Taylor said: "Anything to do with reconciliation at this point is so important, and language revitalization is such a huge part of that. It really feels good to be able to create educational resources for young children, and books that Indigenous kids in the North can look at and identify with."
'My greatest joy'
Taylor illustrated How Raven Returned the Sun four years ago. She said she was thrilled to return for another story.
"I read the story, and then I reflect on the words and kind of absorb them. Because I'm half Dene, I think about how the people live so close to the land and survived on the land," Taylor said.
"The drawings start in that place, where I think about the connection to nature and the stories that were told. That's where the images form in my mind, and then I create from there."
Tłı̨chǫ author Richard Van Camp and his son, Edzazii. Photo: Submitted
Van Camp wanted a book he could read with his children that celebrates their Tłı̨chǫ identity.
"When we were growing up, we didn't have the access to the number of northern authors that we do now," he said. "That's my greatest joy, because when I'm reading northern authors, I'm reading my friends. I'm reading my heroes. I'm passing on the values that they share with my family.
"We live in a time of incredible reclaiming. The number-one thing we cherish are the pictures, the songs, the recipes, the names, the prayers, the ceremonies – that's what's most important. You don't need more stuff as you get on in years, you need more spirit inheritance to make you proud of who you are and where you're from.
"This book that Joe Lazare Zoe narrated and is now out in the world is just something else to be even more proud of, being from the Northwest Territories. I certainly am, every day."


The Super Bowl LI halftime show jumped off with a mesmerizing light display. The glowing orbs executing choreographed moves in the sky above Lady Gaga were actually 300 of Intel's Shooting Star drones. Built as a lightweight platform for high-powered multicolor LEDs, the drones have also made appearances at Disney Springs at Walt Disney World Resort and set a world record in Sydney.
The acrobatics are reminiscent of schooling fish or flocking starlings, causing the spectacle to be referred to as a "drone swarm" by multiple publications. However, there is a significant difference between the drones providing the backdrop for Gaga's grand entrance, and a swarm of bees. Unlike a worker bee, the Shooting Star drones rely on commands issues directly from a central computer to govern their movements.
However, researchers are taking the lessons learned from studying swarm behavior in ants and bees in nature and applying them to robotics. In swarm robotics, each individual has a limited understanding of the big picture, but has an understanding of its environment, the rules governing its own behaviors, and most importantly, the ability to communicate and share information with those around itself. Without a central control structure a collective behavior may emerge from the interactions between individuals and with the environment.
Harvard's Self-Organizing System Research Group produced this admittedly creepy video of a robot swarm self-assembling into different shapes. The small Kilobots manage to create a variety of shapes with only a single overhead light for guidance thanks to their ability to communicate with other nearby robots.
Swarms of robots can revolutionize how we approach transportation, manufacturing, medicine, and more. The Department of Defense is already testing UAV swarms for reconnaissance missions. And looking forward to the not-so-science-fiction future, smaller nano-scale versions of today's robots may make up "programmable matter," a material that can change its shape or properties on demand.


Twelve years ago, Gustav's father mysteriously disappeared after a comet almost collided with the earth. Now twenty years old, Gustav still hasn't given up hope. Convinced his father was somehow "taken" by extraterrestrial life forms, he's devoted his life to figuring out what happened and finding a way to bring his father back. With another comet approaching, Gustav must painfully relive the past and present in order to find clues to the future.


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Plaid Cymru urges Welsh Government not to co-operate unless Westminster changes approach
THE Labour Government must not co-operate with the Westminster Government on the Internal Market Bill until it "fundamentally" changes its approach, Plaid Cymru has said.
It has been described by both Plaid Cymru and the SNP as a "power grab".
The Internal Market Bill is expected to be published later this week and will allow the UK Government to decide how the devolved nations will interact with the UK Government post-Brexit.
Writing to Welsh Government Minister for European Transition Jeremy Miles, Plaid Cymru Shadow Minister for the Economy Helen Mary Jones MS said that the UK Government was acting in "bad faith" and said the nature of the consultation and proposals contained within the White Paper 'made a mockery out of devolution'.
Scotland's constitution minister, Mike Russell MSP, has said that "the Scottish Government could not, and would not, accept any such plans. Nor would we co-operate with them."
Ms Jones said the Welsh Government should take the same approach unless the Westminster Government "fundamentally" changed how it was operating in relation to this Bill.
Helen Mary Jones MS said,
"The proposals [outlined in the White Paper] will see devolved governments having to accept products and services designed to lower standards in other parts of the UK even in devolved areas.
"There are no details on dispute resolution; bodies and structures created to oversee the UK internal Market must be fully independent and equally accountable to Senedd Cymru, the Scottish Parliament, the Northern Ireland Assembly and the UK Parliament.
"It is clear that the UK Government is acting in bad faith and that, given the length and nature of the consultation, the legislation will be in line with the harmful proposals contained within the white paper.
"Ahead of the publication of the legislation this week, I urge you to follow in the Scottish Government's footsteps and clearly express your refusal to co-operate with the UK Government on these matters until it fundamentally changes its approach.
Helen Mary Jones MS added,
"This is a power grab. It is as simple as that. From the laughably short amount of time given for consultation, the fact that this legislation was not proposed jointly with the devolved nations, to the harmful proposals contained within the White Paper itself this entire saga makes a mockery out of devolution.
"The Scottish Government have already said they will no longer co-operate with the Westminster Government until it changes their approach. It's time the Welsh Government showed it was equally willing to defend devolution.
"Do right by the people of Wales. Do right by devolution. Stand up to Westminster and demand that Wales be given the power that it needs to stand on its own two feet.
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Once again it's Saturday. So here's what I enjoyed reading this week, with commentary as to why.
Robert Gordon's magisterial treatise The Rise and Fall of American Growth teaches that weak productivity growth today cannot be explained simply by pointing out mismeasurement, because every decade over the last 150 years has its own sources of innovation and progress that are mismeasured. It's not enough to show that mismeasurement exists; you have to show that it is bigger than the mismeasurement in past decades.
The same mistake is made when we talk about structural factors affecting labor markets. Many commentators argue the labor market has little room to continue improving because structural headwinds will keep it less healthy today than in the past. This does not suffice; every decade the labor market faces headwinds and tailwinds.


1. Чиссов В.И., Старинский В.В., Петрова Г.В. Злокачественные новообразования в России в 2006 (заболеваемость и смертность). М.: Антиф., 2008. — 248с.
2. Raymond E., Louvet C., Tournigand C. et al. Pemetrexed disodium combined with oxaliplatin, SN38, or 5-fluorouracil, based on the quantitation of drug interactions in human HT29 colon cancer cells. Int J Oncol 2002; 21(2): 361-367.
3. Фармакоэкономика и фармакоэпидемиология — практика приемлемых решений. Ред. В.Б.Герасимов, А.Л.Хохлов, О.И.Карпов. — М.:Медицина, 2005. — 352с.
4. Планирование и проведение клинических исследований лекарственных средств / Ю.Б. Белоусов. — М.: Общество клинических исследователей, 2000. — 579с.
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14. Стандарт медицинской помощи больным со злокачественным новообразованием ободочной кишки. Приказ МЗ и СР РФ №738 от 1 декабря 2005 г.
15. Andre T., Corrado B., Mounedji-Boudiaf L. et al. Oxaliplatin, fluorouracil, and leucovorin as adjuvant treatment for colon cancer. NEnglJMed 2004;350:2343-51.
16. International Multicentre Pooled Analysis of Colon Cancer Trials (IMPACT): Efficacy of adjuvant fluorouracil and folinic acid in colon cancer. Lancet 1995;345:939-944.
17. Hospers G.A.P., Schaapveld M., Nortier J.W.R. et al. Randomised phase III study of biweekly 24-h infusion of high-dose 5FU with folinic acid and oxaliplatin versus monthly plus 5-FU/folinic acid in first-line treatment of advanced colorectal cancer. Ann Oncol 2006;17(3):443-449.
18. Sanoff H.K., Sargent D.J., Campbell M.E. et al. Five-year data and prognostic factor analysis of oxaliplatin and irinotecan combinations for advanced colorectal cancer: N9741. 2008;26(35):5721-5727.
19. Hillnler B.E., Schrag D., Sargent D.J., et al. Cost-Effectivennes projections of Oxaliplatin and infusial fluorouracil versus Irinotecan and bolus fluorouracil in first line therapy for metastatic colorectal carcinoma. Cancer 2005;104 (9):1871-84.
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Doctor Who Monsters  The TARDIS  Doctor Who Fans
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Classic Series Doctors:
First Doctor  Second Doctor  Third Doctor  Fourth Doctor
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New Series Doctors:
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The First Doctor:
William Hartnell
The mystery of the Doctor was introduced by William Hartnell, who played the first Doctor from September 1963 until October 1966.
He was an elderly man with no name, a scientist who spoke of being an exile, who traveled through time and space in a time machine he could barely control, which was stuck in the shape of a police box.
The first Doctor was irritable, forgetful, rude, and sometimes untrustworthy, or at least, he was at first deeply distrustful of Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton, a pair of schoolteachers who followed the Doctor's granddaughter Susan home from school, hoping to solve the mystery of her mysterious and peculiar behavior.
To stop Ian and Barbara from going to the authorities about what they've found, the Doctor willfully abducts them, dematerializing the TARDIS and sending it hurtling tens of thousands of years into the past, knowing full well he might never get them home in his battered old and malfunctioning time machine.
The Doctor's morals seem much more questionable in the early episodes, and at one point in the first story, he seems ready to bash in the skull of a primitive man to aid in his and his companion's escape. It is Ian who has to stop him from committing murder, something which seems very strange to someone introduced to the show even just a few years later.
In the second story, The Daleks, he covertly sabotages the TARDIS as an excuse to explore outside the safety of the ship, putting everyone in danger. This overpowering desire to gain knowledge, regardless of the consequences is established here as a central part of the Doctor's character. This same desire that led him to leave his home planet in the first place, and which leads to the end of his third regeneration, many centuries later.
After a while of traveling with Ian and Barbara, he grows fond of them and mellows towards humans in general, growing more like the Doctor we come to know in later years.
William Hartnell's last story was The Tenth Planet, which was broadcast in late 1966. He left because of deteriorating health, but maintained a love for the show for the rest of his life.
He was able to make a limited appearance again in the tenth anniversary episode, The Three Doctors, but sadly passed away not long after.
The character of the first Doctor appeared in one more story: The Five Doctors, played instead by Richard Hurndall.
Of the twenty-nine stories featuring the first Doctor, only seventeen remain in their complete form due to a misguided policy of the BBC in the early seventies. One of these losses was, unfortunately, the final episode of The Tenth Planet. The first three episodes of this four-part story are intact, but only a few clips still exist from the fourth part, fortunately these clips include the very first regeneration scene.
Look below for more photos and sound clips of William Hartnell as the first Doctor:
Images of the First Doctor: Audio Clips from the First Doctor:
"Have you ever thought what it's like to be wanderers in the fourth dimension?
...To be exiles?"
The Doctor, An Unearthly Child
"I was born in another time, another world."
Susan, An Unearthly Child
The Doctor being condescending:
"You don't understand. And I knew you wouldn't! Never mind."
An Unearthly Child
"But that's ridiculous!"
The mystery of the TARDIS revealed for the first time...
"Our destiny is in the stars..."
The final moments of the first season
The Reign of Terror
"Don't you realize, before you attempt to conquer the Earth, you will have to destroy all living matter!"
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
"Yes. They dare. And we must dare to stop them!"
"Don't call me 'Doc', I prefer Doctor!"
"Emotions. Love! Pride! Hate! Fear!
Have you no emotions, sir? "
The Doctor confronting the Cybermen for the first time, The Tenth Planet
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Coinsilium Group is a blockchain focused investing company, supporting early-stage ventures through investment, acceleration, development and education.
A blockchain is an immutable decentralised database that chronologically records the transfer of ownership of assets, the most well know application being Bitcoin, a peer-to-peer currency and payment network. At Coinsilium we believe that Bitcoin acted as a proof of concept for blockchain technology and now tech entrepreneurs, banks, large corporates and governments are recognizing the other potential applications of this technology.
Coinsilium is the culmination of 2 years' work commencing in 2013 that saw the establishment of one of the world's first bitcoin incubators, Seedcoin. In 2014, we formed Coinsilium and have built up a portfolio of interests in blockchain companies; we also offer a suite of services, including corporate/business advisory, media & communications, investment solutions, brand positioning and other professional services.
Coinsilium now intends to admit to trading on London's ISDX Growth Market in Q4 2015 as the first London listed company focused on blockchain fintech investments.
In parallel with this campaign on Seedrs, Coinsilium is also raising funds via its brokers. The "investment funded" amount above reflects funds being raised through other sources.
Shares purchased pursuant to this Campaign will be held by Seedrs as nominee electronically through CREST by means of depositary interests representing such shares. Any sales of interests on the ISDX Growth Market will be executed through Seedrs's broker and will be subject to broker transaction fees in addition to standard Seedrs fees. Seedrs intends to instruct Cannacord as its broker in relation to this Campaign, although Seedrs may appoint an alternative broker in the event that its terms become uncommercial. Cannacord's transaction fees are currently £30 plus 0.75% commission.
• Invest: Coinsilium invests in pre-VC start-ups within the blockchain sector who are pioneering new applications that commercialize and utilise blockchain capabilities. We source potential investment targets through our network of contacts in the industry and through attracting and filtering the best potential startup companies.
• Accelerate: our startup accelerator program, Block Chain Space, will provide a conducive environment for the founders of early-stage blockchain startups, to receive business development training and to hone their entrepreneurial skills.
• Develop: through our expertise and contacts we are well placed to explore and develop new concepts and applications that utilise blockchain technology, and to generate revenue streams through internally developed IP. We identifiy and develop synergies between early-stage blockchain ventures and more established companies.
• Illuminate: Coinsilium's education and research division offers tools and resources to professional organizations to assist participants in understanding blockchain technology and its potential for industry disruption and business integration.
To date, Coinsilium has made investments in eleven start-ups leveraging blockchain technologies across a wide ecosystem, including mobile wallets, payment gateways and processors, trading platforms, exchanges, security solutions and financial services amongst others.
Coinsilium has helped facilitate investments from Kuala Innovations Limited, an investment company run by Stephen Dattels and Jim Mellon into two of its investee companies, SatoshiPay and Factom. This is the first public demonstration of our growing co-investor network.
As at the date of this Seedrs campaign, the Company has agreed a number of revenue generating consulting and advisory contracts (some of which are only effective following admission to the ISDX Growth Market).
We have developed the first of its kind CPD accredited course on Blockchain technology, titled Bitcoin, Blockchain and Beyond (expected to launch in Q4 2015).
We are designing a seven day Blockchain Tech Lab for developers and CTOs to learn about and experiment with Blockchain technologies, expected to launch in Q4 2015.
Coinsilium is an active member of Innovate Finance and will look to work with them to help promote fintech in the City of London.
We intend to build on the foundations put in place over the last two years and place Coinsilium as an advisory brand focused on this growing sector, and the brands "Seedcoin" and "Block Chain Space" at the forefront of the blockchain industry.
We believe that Coinsilium's early positioning in the sector will attract a significant number of both start-ups and companies to seek our services, both as an investor and mentor for the start-ups and as a partner or guide for more established businesses seeking a better understanding of the potential impact of these disruptive technologies within their respective industries.
We believe it is important that we have an active role as an investor, as we see real value in creating synergies and opportunities between the start-ups that already have an established expertise of this nascent technology and larger companies that have either a desire or a competitive need to understand how this technology can be commercially applied in their industry or business.
We want working capital to help fund the growth of Coinsilium's corporate advisory services and accelerator program which Coinsilium believes is essential to helping our investee companies achieve their milestones and gain meaningful traction and attract further funding for development.
We believe that, as with the internet, it is the early participants and adopters (both technical and entrepreneurial), who typically see the potential before the rest of the world catches up. We believe that early participants are best positioned to embrace and exploit fundamental technological change. As an early participant and investor, Coinsilium is positioned to take advantage of the global market opportunity that blockchain technology represents.
We intend to become a market leader and innovator in blockchain technologies, building a brand and skillset which will attract developer and entrepreneurial talent from around the world seeking our services and advice. We believe that this objective will give us increased access to attractive investment opportunities and support revenue generating activities.
Coinsilium's focus is on identifying early stage opportunities, pre-venture capital that it can acquire interests in and then help support, grow and facilitate access to further funding rounds. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Seedcoin, Coinsilium holds investments in eleven companies, leveraging blockchain technologies. Further details of these can be found in the attached ISDX prospectus and Coinsilium's presentation.
A blockchain is an immutable decentralised ledger that chronologically records the transfer of ownership of digital assets. The first and most widely known application of a blockchain is Bitcoin.
According to Coindesk, investment in the blockchain space is growing with Q1 of 2015 being the largest investment quarter for venture capital to date, with approximately $228m invested in the blockchain industry. The UK is second only to the US in terms of quantum of investment. Total VC and Angel fund investment is projected to surpass $1 billion in investment since 2013. Due to the vast scope of application of blockchain technology and the investment funds flowing in it is no surprise that the market is being compared to the internet in 1996/97. Several big names including, Barclays, UBS, NASDAQ and IBM have publicly stated their involvement in the development of Blockchain-based applications. Furthermore, in June 2015, Santander released a paper stating the potential for the technology to provide up to $20 billion USD in annual infrastructure savings for global banking by 2022.
What are some of the existing and potential use cases of Blockchain technology?
Financial assets can be transferred and traded on the blockchain, reducing default risk, increasing transparency and providing universal access to financial instruments.
Shares issued on a blockchain could significantly reduce the friction of share issuance, clearing and ownership allowing easier trading as well as asset transactions.
Digital works (such as music) could be bought and sold tracking ownership and provenance on the blockchain. Not to mention the possibility that micropayments using blockchain technology could help fund such artists.
Blockchain technology can replace existing centralized data storage and management for large public organisations such as land title registry or the public health system.


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UK construction output fell further in September
By Marcus Leach
The downturn in the construction sector continued in September as official figures reveal a 13.1% drop from a year ago.
The Office for National Statistics' figures have shown further big drops in new building by the commercial and public sectors (excluding infrastructure projects), both of which were down by a fifth from a year ago.
House building saw a 5% bounce in the month but remains 12% below a year ago. Separately, the UK's trade deficit narrowed in September to £2.7bn.
Steve McGuckin, UK managing director of the global programme management consultancy Turner & Townsend, said that this data, and the continued decline of the sector, is a great worry.
"With output tumbling to its lowest level in 13 years, it's almost as if the last decade's construction boom never happened," he said.
"The economy as a whole might be on the road to recovery, but the construction sector is stuck in reverse.
"The fragility of business confidence has taken a toll on private commercial construction. At 17.4% down on the same time last year, it has now fallen past even the low it reached in the 2009 recession.
"Infrastructure is showing some signs of life, returning to growth after falling earlier in the year. But it represents just 18% of new work, and the industry as a whole is still walking wounded.
"The decline in public sector non-housing work comes as no great surprise as the government's austerity measures kick in. But at nearly a fifth down on Q3 2011, the drop has been precipitous.
"Many in the industry had hoped that if they could just limp through 2012, next year would be better. But with the sector continuing to contract, the optimists are being forced into a drastic rethink.
"Yesterday Balfour Beatty, the country's largest construction firm by sales, was forced to issue a profits warning after its order book shrank by 4% in Q3.
"If well-run and diversified construction companies like that are struggling, life is becoming all but unbearable for the industry's mid-sized firms.
"As the big players are being forced to pitch for smaller projects, those in the "squeezed middle" are having to slash margins to negligible levels - and in the most extreme cases, some firms are pitching for work at below cost, simply to keep cash-flow coming in.
"Such desperate measures are clearly unsustainable, and the industry as a whole is having to adapt to a tough environment which is still showing no sign of improving.
"With construction slipping from no growth to painful contraction, even stagnation is starting to look attractive."


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Macedonian Largest Party Fails to Form Coalition With Albanians, Loses Mandate
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The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization – Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity (VMRO-DPMNE) failed to reach a coalition deal with the Albanian Democratic Union for Integration (DUI) and gain the parliamentary majority to form the cabinet, local media reported citing the DUI's spokesman, Buyar Osmani.
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EU Looking Forward to Formation of New Gov't in Macedonia - Spokeswoman
BELGRADE (Sputnik) – Earlier in January, Macedonian President George Ivanov gave the conservative VMRO-DPMNE a right to form the government within the statutory period of 20 days, but the party needed to form a coalition with its traditional Albanians partners. According to the national law, now mandate would be given to the second-largest party.
"We could not decide on any of the existing options, no arguments to make a final decision has been put forward so far. The DUI started comprehensive consultations with members of the party, fellow international actors. We have a substantial discussion on all existing proposals," Osmani said, as quoted by the MKD news outlet.
According to media reports, the parties failed to agree on conditions set by DUI leader Ali Ahmeti to his counterpart from the VMRO-DPMNE, Nikola Gruevski, a former Macedonian prime minister, who resigned earlier in January due to the ongoing wiretapping scandal. The DUI leader demanded to make the Albanian language a second official language not only in the areas with the high Albanian ethnic concentration, but throughout the whole country. Ahmeti also urged Gruevski to allow the investigation into the wiretapping scandal.
The political crisis in Macedonia began in 2015 as the opposition accused the ruling conservatives of intercepting telephone conversations of some 20,000 people, including police officers, judges, journalists and diplomats. It resulted in the agreement reached last year between the most influential parties in Macedonia, under which Gruevski had to resign and the parliament was dissolved.
The Macedonians elected a new parliament in the early election in December 2016, after several cancellations. In the vote, the conservative VMRO-DPMNE party and the opposition party SDSM won 51 and 49 seats respectively. However, each party had to gather support of minor parties, such as the DUI, to form a coalition government, as there are 120 seats in the country's legislative body.
Macedonian President to Give Mandate to VMRO-DPMNE Party to Form Gov't Monday
Former Macedonian Prime Minister in No Position to Form Government - Opposition
Slovak Police to Help Protect Serbian-Macedonian Border From Migrant Flows
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Frozen Food Development Recalls Lidl Branded Chopped Spinach Because of Possible Health Risk
This recall has been completed and FDA has terminated this recall.
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Frozen Chopped Spinach
Frozen Food Development is voluntarily recalling specific lots of Lidl branded 12-ounce packages of Frozen Chopped Spinach because the product has the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, Listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.
The recalled Frozen Chopped Spinach was distributed in Lidl retail stores in GA, SC, NC, VA, MD, DE, NY, NJ, and PA.
The product comes in 12-ounce poly bags, and items included in the recall are marked with lot # R17742 or R17963 on the back of the poly bag with a best by date of 09/10/23.
No illnesses have been reported to date in connection with this problem.
The potential for contamination was noted after routine testing revealed the presence of Listeria monocytogenes in 12-ounce packages of Lidl Frozen Chopped Spinach.
The production of the product has been suspended while FDA and Frozen Food Development continue to investigate the source of the problem.
Consumers who have purchased 12-ounce packages of Lidl Frozen Chopped Spinach are urged to return them to the place of purchase for a full refund. Consumers with questions may contact LIDL Customer Care at 1-844-747-5435 Monday thru Saturday 8:00 AM – 8:00 PM Eastern Standard time .
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Following last Friday's mass killing at two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch, which claimed 50 lives, tens of thousands of ordinary people have attended vigils to show their grief and outrage and to express solidarity with the Muslim community targeted by this horrific act of fascist terrorism.
However, even as the population seeks to come to terms with the slaughter, an operation is underway to divert attention from its real, underlying causes. The political establishment in New Zealand and internationally is seeking to cover up its culpability for stoking anti-Islamic racism and xenophobia to justify imperialist war and divide the working class as it faces deteriorating social conditions, growing inequality and poverty.
Writing in the pro-Labour Party Daily Blog, prominent commentator Chris Trotter echoed Ardern, describing Tarrant as a "lone wolf terrorist" who "took advantage of everything that is good about New Zealand" and who "could not have been stopped." The same basic message has been repeated throughout the media.
In reality, Tarrant is the product of the promotion of extreme nationalism by established political parties and the corporate media internationally, including in New Zealand and Australia.
There is no mention in Trotter's column, or most media coverage, of the fact that the Labour Party and the Greens have for years acted in an alliance with New Zealand First, a blatantly xenophobic and anti-immigrant party, which plays a major role in the present Labour-led coalition government.
Deputy Prime Minister and NZ First leader Winston Peters has repeatedly demonised Muslims and denounced "mass immigration" from Asia in terms not very different from those used in the "manifesto" of the Christchurch shooter. Trotter and the Daily Blog have played a particularly foul role in supporting Labour and NZ First's racist scapegoating of Chinese people for the country's social crisis.
Claims that Tarrant acted alone and "could not have been stopped" do not withstand serious scrutiny. Despite official statements that Tarrant was not known to New Zealand or Australian authorities, police and intelligence agencies were warned about the danger of anti-Islamic extremism and turned a blind eye to it.
Yesterday, the minister in charge of the intelligence agencies Andrew Little admitted to the New Zealand Herald that the Security Intelligence Service (SIS) only began "explicitly doing work on alt-right stuff" in the middle of 2018 and a plan to tackle right-wing extremism had not been completed at the time of the Christchurch attack. Little did not explain why this intelligence work only began last year.
According to Tarrant's 73-page fascist "manifesto," he spent two years in New Zealand planning his attack and had contact with nationalist groups throughout the world. He claimed to have received a "blessing" for the massacre from Anders Behring Breivik, the anti-Muslim terrorist who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011. It is also highly possible that Tarrant had contact with neo-Nazis in New Zealand. An unnamed 18-year-old is currently in custody charged with, between March 8 and 15, posting a photo of the Deans Avenue mosque with the words "Target Identified," and messages inciting extreme violence.
Notwithstanding propaganda from Trotter and others that "New Zealand is a good place" and the Christchurch massacre was an anomaly, there have in fact been several previous fascist attacks. In 1989, 22-year-old Wayne Motz was killed in Christchurch's Cathedral Square by a neo-Nazi skinhead who then shot himself. In 2003 two skinheads brutally murdered Korean backpacker Jae Hyeon Kim on the West Coast of the South Island.
The question must be raised: has the far-right been allowed to operate free from interference because it enjoys sympathy and connections with the police and intelligence agencies in Australia and New Zealand?
Internationally, there are close ties between the state apparatus and fascist organisations, including in Germany, where the neo-Nazi Alternative for Germany is the main opposition party in parliament. US President Donald Trump, whom Tarrant viewed as a "symbol of white renewal," has brought fascist advisors into the White House and sought to create an extreme anti-immigrant base in border security agencies, the police and the military.
Rahman said in 2016 and 2017 "we told [the SIS] about our concerns over the rise of vitriol and the rise of the alt-right in New Zealand. We asked them what resources were being put in to monitoring alt-right groups." In May 2018, the Council asked why security agencies were spending "so much on surveilling our community" but not on preventing violence.
New Zealand is part of the US-led "Five Eyes" surveillance network, which spies on millions of people throughout the world, including New Zealand citizens. People travelling to the Middle East have been targeted purportedly because they might be joining ISIS. Muslims have reported being routinely searched and made to feel like criminals when entering and leaving New Zealand.
Tarrant apparently faced no such obstacles during his extensive international travels. Since 2012, he visited Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, France, the UK, Spain, Turkey, Israel, Pakistan and even North Korea. Turkish agencies revealed on Monday they suspect the gunman, who travelled the world while having no apparent job, may have been supported by a "well resourced" organisation.
Police did not prevent Tarrant from amassing multiple firearms. He obtained a gun licence in November 2017 after passing a police background check and joined the Bruce Rifle Club near Dunedin. A former soldier, Pete Breidahl, said he warned police in late 2017 about the toxic culture at the club, describing it as the "perfect breeding ground" for a mass shooting.
The government has announced that an inquiry will be held into the circumstances surrounding the Christchurch massacre. This exercise is destined to be a whitewash. Its role will be to cover up the complicit role of the state agencies and to obscure the fact that governments, including the Labour-NZ First-Greens coalition, have promoted many of the same nationalist and anti-immigrant policies of the far-right.
While fascism is not yet a mass movement, the danger it poses cannot be ignored. Fascism is the tool used by the ruling class to divide and crush working-class opposition to austerity and war. It cannot be opposed by allowing governments to censor the internet and impose other police-state measures, which will be used primarily against the working class and the left. The urgent lesson of the 1920s and 1930s is that fascism can only be defeated by a movement of the working class, united across borders and armed with a socialist program to abolish capitalism.


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The Chief Minister Fabian Picardo and the Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia met virtually with over twenty UK Parliamentarians from the All Party Group on Gibraltar this morning.
The meeting was chaired by Sir Bob Neil MP and it included Members of both the House of Commons and the House of Lords from the Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat, Scottish National Party, Democratic Unionist Party and the Ulster Unionist Party.
The Chief Minister updated those present on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and answered questions on the in-principle agreement for a future relationship with the European Union which was concluded on New Year's Eve. The Deputy Chief Minister addressed a number of practical aspects which followed the end of the transitional period on 31 December 2020.
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Jim Fenton The Enterprise @JFenton_ent
The guard looks ahead after a disappointing 2018-19 season that is leading to roster changes this summer.
WALTHAM – He has played with 49 different teammates since being drafted by the Celtics five years ago this month.
Marcus Smart has seen them come and he has seen them go as the franchise has gone through massive roster changes during his time with the Celtics.
This summer, Smart is going to be getting some more new teammates after a disappointing 2018-19 season is leading to further alterations.
After spending three seasons with Al Horford and two seasons with Kyrie Irving, Smart is about to be calling them ex-teammates as they are expected to leave as early as next week via free agency.
"I mean, in today's game, nothing really catches us by surprise,'' said Smart when asked about the impending departures of that duo. "A little bit, it did (surprise me), but those guys have every right to do what they feel is best for not only them and their family and their career.
"Regardless if those guys stay or leave, I have nothing but love for them, always will. I wish them nothing but the best.''
Smart met the media Tuesday afternoon during a lunch break at his annual youth basketball camp at Brandeis University.
He is already back to work preparing for the 2019-20 season with training camp opening in three months. The team will have a new look after drafting four players last week and the Celtics will be diving into free agency next week.
It will be a challenging time for the Celtics after having such high expectations at this time last summer, but Smart is ready for whatever lies ahead.
"I see my role as big as ever now,'' said Smart. "Just because, once again being that longest-tenured Celtic going into my sixth season and already understanding Brad (Stevens, the head coach) and this organization and the system that he likes to run and just that's who I am.
"I've got to be that times 10 now because we're going through some things. We did have a bad year. We've just got to keep everybody on the same track.''
The Celtics went from the Eastern Conference favorites to a team that won 49 games and barely earned home-court advantage in the opening round.
Things fell apart after winning the opening game of the second round against the Milwaukee Bucks with four straight losses. There was something off about the Celtics all season long, though Smart disagreed the team was not connected.
"Even during the regular season, it wasn't a disconnect,'' he said. "It was a lot of people kind of got in and it was like the telephone game. You tell one person this and by the time it gets back to you the whole narrative changed. That's just kind of how it goes.
"You only control what you can control. As a player you focus in getting in the gym, getting yourself better and let the front office handle the front office stuff.''
Smart said he has been in contact with Irving recently but the two did not discuss basketball-related matters. Irving is expected to sign with another team, perhaps the Brooklyn Nets, in July.
"I talk to him, nothing about basketball,'' said Smart. "We're playing basketball our whole lives year round, every day, so I just checked on his well being, his mental state, how his family's doing. We check on each other, things like that.''
Even with all the changes that are coming and the lower expectations, Smart is eager to get back on the court and get the Celtics on the right track.
"I'm excited. We're excited,'' he said. "As competitors, you have a season like we did last year, it leaves a funny taste in your mouth. We use that as our motivation and to keep going.
"We're very excited. Whatever team or whatever people or whoever is on the court or whoever is on this roster with us, we're excited to have them and we're going to go out there and fight.''
Smart downplayed the notion that Boston is going to gain a reputation as a place that is not attractive to top players with Irving and Horford exiting.
"I think it kind of speaks for itself,'' he said. "You've got the Patriots, you've got the Bruins, you've got the Red Sox and you've got the Celtics. You name me another city that's got four teams in different categories like that all known for winning championships.
"I mean, it gets no better than that. I don't know who's saying that or why they're saying that. Who knows? But for me being here and experiencing it for myself, Boston is definitely a place you want to be, especially if you're trying to play for a championship.''
Smart has received recognition for his play during the past season when he kept getting better at the defensive end.
The 25-year-old Smart was named to the NBA's all-defensive first team for the first time and on Monday night, he received the league's hustle award.
"It felt good from the standpoint of I'm not the only one saying it,'' said Smart of the all-defensive honor. "That doesn't determine the type of defender I am. Whether I got it or not, I'm still going to be the defender I am.
"I appreciate the award. It was kind of cool seeing my name up there with those guys and being on that level. It's a good feeling but it's not done. I'm still going to be me with or without it.
"I didn't even know there was (a hustle) award. It was good. I throw my body around a lot. I know I don't score 20 points. I don't shoot the lights out or dribble like some guys in the league. I just do it the way I was taught to play.''
Jim Fenton may be reached at jfenton@enterprisenews.com. Follow him on Twitter at @JFenton_ent.


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Value for money is one of the central factors influencing consumer choice, and higher education is no exception, especially when the cost of studying for a university degree rises at levels well above the rate of inflation. The global financial crisis has had a significant impact on the UK economy, prompting a raft of belt-tightening initiatives by the government, including changes to higher education funding policies and increases in tuition fees for undergraduate study. The financial crisis has also negatively impacted employment prospects for recent graduates. The net effect is a trend towards larger numbers of British students looking abroad for study opportunities.
At World Education Services (WES), we have seen a surge in education-related applications for credential evaluation from the UK since 2008 (Figure 1). In predicting application volume to U.S. universities, we assess the number of education-related credential evaluation applications from addresses in a particular country in the second half of the year (Q3-Q4) prior to the beginning of the next academic year.
WES application data show an increase of 22 percent in UK applications from Q3-Q4'2008 (Fall 2009) to Q3-Q4'2010 (Fall 2011). Preliminary numbers from Q3-Q4'2012 (Fall 2013) show a 13 percent increase in applications as compared to the same period in 2010. Combined with anecdotal evidence from other sources, these figures suggest that more UK prospects will be applying to U.S. universities and colleges for the 2013-14 academic year.
The growth trend can be attributed to two major factors. Firstly, the cap on tuition fees that British universities can charge grew almost threefold to £9,000 (nearly $15,000) beginning in September 2012. Not surprisingly, this has raised major concerns about affordability, and applications have suffered as a result. In total, UK universities received 255,600 applications from UK 18-year-olds by the January deadline for Fall 2013 programs. This compares with more than 264,500 for the 2010/11 cycle, the year before the introduction of the new fees.
A second factor relates to evidence suggesting that British students are choosing degree programs more selectively based on graduate employment prospects. One in five UK graduates couldn't find a job at the end of 2011, an unemployment rate similar to that of high school graduates. With the depreciated value of a British college degree and bleak career prospects at home, students are becoming more selective about their study options and increasingly open to studying on full-degree programs abroad.
U.S. higher education institutions interested in recruiting British students can respond to the new demand by communicating the long-term benefits of studying at their institution, in addition to promoting the overall value of the U.S. educational experience.
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Using genetically engineered baker's yeast, researchers have come up with a shortcut to making artemisinin, a frontline drug against malaria. Christopher Paddon of Amyris Inc. of Emeryville, Calif., and his colleagues describe their process April 10 in Nature.
Last year the team reported that they could ferment the bioengineered yeast to make amorphadiene, a precursor of artemisinic acid. In the new study, they improve the yield of the precursor and then spell out a process for converting artemisinic acid to artemisinin itself. The researchers say the overall strategy could streamline artemisinin manufacturing.
Artemisinin, which the sweet wormwood plant produces in its leaves, is an ancient malaria remedy. In recent years, artemisinin-based drugs have become mainstays against the parasite when combined with another drug (SN: 6/16/2007, p. 381). Current artemisinin production requires growing the plants for m


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Q: SQL group uniquely by type and by position Given this dataset:
ID  type_id  Position
1   2        7
2   1        2
3   3        5
4   1        1
5   3        3
6   2        4
7   2        6
8   3        8

(There are only 3 different possible type_ids) I'd like to return a dataset with one of each type_id in groups, ordered by position.
so it would be grouped like so:
Results (ID): [4, 6, 5], [2, 7, 3], [null, 1, 8]

So the first group would consist of each of the entries type_id's with the highest (Relative) position score, the second group would have the second highest score, the third would only consist of two entries (and a null) because there are not three more of each type_id
Does this make sense? And is it possible?

A: something like that:
with CTE as (
  select
      row_number() over (partition by type_id order by Position) as row_num,
      *
  from test
)
select array_agg(ID order by type_id)
from CTE
group by row_num

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of, if you absolutely need nulls in your arrays:
with CTE as (
    select
        row_number() over (partition by type_id order by Position) as row_num,
        *
    from test
)
select array_agg(c.ID order by t.type_id)
from (select distinct row_num from CTE) as a
    cross join (select distinct type_id from test) as t
    left outer join CTE as c on c.row_num = a.row_num and c.type_id = t.type_id
group by a.row_num

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One of the "feel-good" stories from the first round of the NCAA basketball tournament (aka, "March Madness") last week was the upset victory of the 12th-seeded, Liberty University Flames over the 5th-seeded, Mississippi State Bulldogs. Liberty is the largest evangelical university in the country (if you include their online students), and this was their first-ever NCAA tournament win in basketball. So there was a lot to celebrate. Even the commentators seemed to get wrapped up in the upset. Who doesn't love an underdog?
In the coverage of the Liberty win and their subsequent game against Virginia Tech (which Liberty lost), the commentators discussed an emotional situation on the Liberty bench where Associate Head Coach Brad Soucie (shown above) was at work. For most of the season Coach Soucie's wife, Kendra, has been battling breast cancer, and she had made the journey out to San Jose to support the team. The game announcers were, rightfully, very sympathetic with the difficult situation and how the family was handling it. They mentioned that the Soucie's had decided to forego chemotherapy and surgery and to opt for "natural" treatment options.
I don't know the details of this situation so it may seem unwise for me to comment, but I do so out of genuine concern for my brothers and sisters dealing with the horrors of cancer. I write as someone who has a PhD in cell biology and who has taught at the university level for over 22 years. I write as person, who has had a grandparent and both parents battle cancer. I write as someone who has been fighting leukemia for six years. Please, do not deprive yourself of the gift of scientific medicine that God has given us!
Yes, cancer is still the second leading cause of death next to heart disease. Yes, there are a lot of people who will get cancer, who will not be successfully treated. Yes, sometimes the treatments themselves are difficult to endure and cause additional pain and suffering. Yes, there is a time, when the fight has been lost or is no longer worth fighting and one should stop treatment. But modern medicine has increased the survival times for many types of cancer. The current, 5-year survival rate for a breast cancer patient whose disease is contained in the breast when discovered is 99% with the use of modern, scientific medicine (i.e, surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, and newer, targeted therapies). The average 5-year survival rate for women with invasive cancer (cancer that has spread into lymph nodes outside the breast) is now 85% - again, with the use of modern medicine. There has been a significant improvement in the last 40 years. Modern medicine has made breast cancer highly treatable and highly survivable – if it is treated properly and promptly.
The Soucie family appears to be bypassing treatment options that have been shown to work at a high-level for almost all types of breast cancer and, instead, is relying on treatment methods that have not been shown to work at all. In general the "natural" treatment options, which involve special diets, enemas, and dietary supplements, only work in the anecdotal world of feel-good stories. There are no large-scale, controlled studies that demonstrate the efficacy of these alternative approaches. Every alternative treatment that I have investigated – from magnets, to coffee enemas, to acupuncture, to vitamins, and many others – have absolutely no legitimate scientific foundation. If you want to try the anti-cancer properties of magnets or special diets, go ahead, but please do not forgo the treatments of modern medicine. The longer a person waits to attack the cancer, the greater the odds that it will spread to remote areas of the body. Breast cancer that has spread into other organs has a 5-year survival rate of only 27%.
Mrs. Soucie is a mother of three children. If she treats her cancer properly, she is likely to be able to serve God and her family for many years to come. If she decides not to treat her cancer but rather pursues the false promises of the natural healers, she runs the risk that her life will be cut short unnecessarily. If you know someone, who is considering going down this path, please encourage them to locate the best cancer center or doctor they can find for their particular disease. There are many new, targeted therapies that are coming out every year. The only reason that I am alive today is because I had access to new, scientifically-tested treatments for my disease. God is doing a great work through the field of medicine. It's far from perfect. The world is still fallen and will be until Jesus comes again. Let's not add senseless and preventable deaths to the trials we already face in this life.


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Before joining the firm, Shirel served for four years as the Director of the Corporate Finance Department at the Israel Securities Authority ("ISA"), overseeing traded companies' compliance with the provisions of the Securities Law and regulations, and enforcing General Accepted Accounting Principles.
Prior to that, Shirel served for eight years in numerous professional and senior management roles in the ISA, where she took part in substantial legislative processes made to the Israeli Companies Law (Amendments 16, 17, 18-19, 20) and the Israeli Securities Law, and dealt extensively with the interpretation of these laws and their application on companies traded in the Tel Aviv stock exchange, and helped to formulate the ISA's stance for government bodies, public commissions and courts.
During her tenure as Director of the Corporate Finance Department in the ISA, Shirel led regulatory reform on debt settlement of bondholders in various aspects including disclosure, corporate governance, dividend distribution, financial reporting, the role of the public trustee, and bondholder rights.
Shirel has expertise in aspects concerning capital market, including securities law, specifically capital raising and debt (public and private), disclosure obligations, the description of the corporations business chapter in annual reports (Barnea), controlling shareholder transactions, corporate governance and Board responsibilities, executive wages, dividend distribution, tender offers, mergers and acquisitions, financing and liquidity, accounting, debt arrangements, and the Israeli Business Concentration Law.
During her time as a Director in the ISA, Shirel lectured at the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University ("Regulation of the Capital Market") and was a member in the CPA Council. Before working at the Israel Securities Authority she worked four years at Balter, Guth, Aloni & Co., specializing in civil litigation.
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MBA specializing in finance, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2004
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