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Source: Chicago Daily Tribune
Document title: "Mob Seeks Man Who Wants to Name His Baby Czolgosz"
City of publication: Chicago, Illinois
Date of publication: 28 October 1901
Part/Section: 1
"Mob Seeks Man Who Wants to Name His Baby Czolgosz." Chicago Daily Tribune 28 Oct. 1901 v60n301: part 1, p. 1.
Charles Britton; McKinley assassination (personal response: anarchists); McKinley assassination (sympathizers); lawlessness (mob rule: Irondequoit, NY).
Charles Britton; William McKinley.
Mob Seeks Man Who Wants to Name His Baby Czolgosz
Charles Britton, a Young Farmer, Narrowly Escapes Violence for His
Anarchistic Admiration for Assassin.
Rochester, N. Y., Oct. 27.—[Special.]—Because he chose to name his first born after the assassin of President McKinley, Charles Britton, a young farmer living in the town of Irondequoit came near losing his life to-day.
Britton, who has always been suspected of having anarchistic leanings, has been married about four years. Two weeks ago his wife gave birth to a boy, and the father at the time, in the presence of the nurse and doctor who were attending his wife, made the declaration that he intended to christen the baby Leon Czolgosz Britton.
This morning he took the infant to the house of a priest and requested that it be christened Leon Czolgosz Britton. The priest refused, telling him that he ought to be ashamed of himself.
A mob of about 200 people gathered in front of the Britton home, a small building located on a lonely country road between this city and the village of Irondequoit. Shortly after a vigilance committee arrived and, entering the house, were about to take Britton to the woods and give him a flogging.


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In algebraic geometry, a branch of mathematics, Serre duality is a duality for the coherent sheaf cohomology of algebraic varieties, proved by Jean-Pierre Serre. The basic version applies to vector bundles on a smooth projective variety, but Alexander Grothendieck found wide generalizations, for example to singular varieties. On an n-dimensional variety, the theorem says that a cohomology group  is the dual space of another one, . Serre duality is the analog for coherent sheaf cohomology of Poincaré duality in topology, with the canonical line bundle replacing the orientation sheaf.

The Serre duality theorem is also true in complex geometry more generally, for compact complex manifolds that are not necessarily projective complex algebraic varieties. In this setting, the Serre duality theorem is an application of Hodge theory for Dolbeault cohomology, and may be seen as a result in the theory of elliptic operators.

These two different interpretations of Serre duality coincide for non-singular projective complex algebraic varieties, by an application of Dolbeault's theorem relating sheaf cohomology to Dolbeault cohomology.

Serre duality for vector bundles

Algebraic theorem
Let X be a smooth variety of dimension n over a field k. Define the canonical line bundle  to be the bundle of n-forms on X, the top exterior power of the cotangent bundle:

Suppose in addition that X is proper (for example, projective) over k. Then Serre duality says: for an algebraic vector bundle E on X and an integer i, there is a natural isomorphism

of finite-dimensional k-vector spaces. Here  denotes the tensor product of vector bundles. It follows that the dimensions of the two cohomology groups are equal:

As in Poincaré duality, the isomorphism in Serre duality comes from the cup product in sheaf cohomology. Namely, the composition of the cup product with a natural trace map on  is a perfect pairing:

The trace map is the analog for coherent sheaf cohomology of integration in de Rham cohomology.

Differential-geometric theorem
Serre also proved the same duality statement for X a compact complex manifold and E a holomorphic vector bundle.
Here, the Serre duality theorem is a consequence of Hodge theory. Namely, on a compact complex manifold  equipped with a Riemannian metric, there is a Hodge star operator

where . Additionally, since  is complex, there is a splitting of the complex differential forms into forms of type . The Hodge star operator (extended complex-linearly to complex-valued differential forms) interacts with this grading as

Notice that the holomorphic and anti-holomorphic indices have switched places. There is a conjugation on complex differential forms which interchanges forms of type  and , and if one defines the conjugate-linear Hodge star operator by  then we have

Using the conjugate-linear Hodge star, one may define a Hermitian -inner product on complex differential forms, by

where now  is an -form, and in particular a complex-valued -form, and can therefore be integrated on  with respect to its canonical orientation. Furthermore, suppose  is a Hermitian holomorphic vector bundle. Then the Hermitian metric  gives a conjugate-linear isomorphism  between  and its dual vector bundle, say . Defining , one obtains an isomorphism

where  consists of smooth -valued complex differential forms. Using the pairing between  and  given by  and , one can therefore define a Hermitian -inner product on such -valued forms by

where here  means wedge product of differential forms and using the pairing between  and  given by .

The Hodge theorem for Dolbeault cohomology asserts that if we define

where  is the Dolbeault operator of  and  is its formal adjoint with respect to the inner product, then

On the left is Dolbeault cohomology, and on the right is the vector space of harmonic -valued differential forms defined by

Using this description, the Serre duality theorem can be stated as follows: The isomorphism  induces a complex linear isomorphism

This can be easily proved using the Hodge theory above. Namely, if  is a cohomology class in  with unique harmonic representative , then

with equality if and only if . In particular, the complex linear pairing

between  and  is non-degenerate, and induces the isomorphism in the Serre duality theorem.

The statement of Serre duality in the algebraic setting may be recovered by taking , and applying Dolbeault's theorem, which states that

where on the left is Dolbeault cohomology and on the right sheaf cohomology, where  denotes the sheaf of holomorphic -forms. In particular, we obtain

where we have used that the sheaf of holomorphic -forms is just the canonical bundle of .

Algebraic curves
A fundamental application of Serre duality is to algebraic curves. (Over the complex numbers, it is equivalent to consider compact Riemann surfaces.) For a line bundle L on a smooth projective curve X over a field k, the only possibly nonzero cohomology groups are  and . Serre duality describes the  group in terms of an  group (for a different line bundle). That is more concrete, since  of a line bundle is simply its space of sections.

Serre duality is especially relevant to the Riemann–Roch theorem for curves. For a line bundle L of degree d on a curve X of genus g, the Riemann–Roch theorem says that

Using Serre duality, this can be restated in more elementary terms:

The latter statement (expressed in terms of divisors) is in fact the original version of the theorem from the 19th century. This is the main tool used to analyze how a given curve can be embedded into projective space and hence to classify algebraic curves.

Example: Every global section of a line bundle of negative degree is zero. Moreover, the degree of the canonical bundle is . Therefore, Riemann–Roch implies that for a line bundle L of degree ,  is equal to . When the genus g is at least 2, it follows by Serre duality that . Here  is the first-order deformation space of X. This is the basic calculation needed to show that the moduli space of curves of genus g has dimension .

Serre duality for coherent sheaves
Another formulation of Serre duality holds for all coherent sheaves, not just vector bundles. As a first step in generalizing Serre duality, Grothendieck showed that this version works for schemes with mild singularities, Cohen–Macaulay schemes, not just smooth schemes.

Namely, for a Cohen–Macaulay scheme X of pure dimension n over a field k, Grothendieck defined a coherent sheaf  on X called the dualizing sheaf. (Some authors call this sheaf .) Suppose in addition that X is proper over k. For a coherent sheaf E on X and an integer i, Serre duality says that there is a natural isomorphism

of finite-dimensional k-vector spaces. Here the Ext group is taken in the abelian category of -modules. This includes the previous statement, since  is isomorphic to  when E is a vector bundle.

In order to use this result, one has to determine the dualizing sheaf explicitly, at least in special cases. When X is smooth over k,  is the canonical line bundle  defined above. More generally,  if X is a Cohen–Macaulay subscheme of codimension r in a smooth scheme Y over k, then the dualizing sheaf can be described as an Ext sheaf:

When X is a local complete intersection of codimension r in a smooth scheme Y, there is a more elementary description: the normal bundle of X in Y is a vector bundle of rank r, and the dualizing sheaf of X is given by

In this case, X is a Cohen–Macaulay scheme with  a line bundle, which says that X is Gorenstein.

Example: Let X be a complete intersection in projective space  over a field k, defined by homogeneous polynomials  of degrees . (To say that this is a complete intersection means that X has dimension .) There are line bundles O(d) on  for integers d, with the property that homogeneous polynomials of degree d can be viewed as sections of O(d). Then the dualizing sheaf of X is the line bundle

by the adjunction formula. For example, the dualizing sheaf of a plane curve X of degree d is .

Complex moduli of Calabi–Yau threefolds
In particular, we can compute the number of complex deformations, equal to  for a quintic threefold in , a Calabi–Yau variety, using Serre duality. Since the Calabi–Yau property ensures  Serre duality shows us that  showing the number of complex moduli is equal to  in the Hodge diamond. Of course, the last statement depends on the Bogomolev–Tian–Todorov theorem which states every deformation on a Calabi–Yau is unobstructed.

Grothendieck duality

Grothendieck's theory of coherent duality is a broad generalization of Serre duality, using the language of derived categories. For any scheme X of finite type over a field k, there is an object  of the bounded derived category of coherent sheaves on X, , called the dualizing complex of X over k. Formally,  is the exceptional inverse image , where f is the given morphism . When X is Cohen–Macaulay of pure dimension n,  is ; that is, it is the dualizing sheaf discussed above, viewed as a complex in (cohomological) degree −n. In particular, when X is smooth over k,  is the canonical line bundle placed in degree −n.

Using the dualizing complex, Serre duality generalizes to any proper scheme X over k. Namely, there is a natural isomorphism of finite-dimensional k-vector spaces

for any object E in .

More generally, for a proper scheme X over k, an object E in , and F a perfect complex in , one has the elegant statement:

Here the tensor product means the derived tensor product, as is natural in derived categories. (To compare with previous formulations, note that  can be viewed as .) When X is also smooth over k, every object in  is a perfect complex, and so this duality applies to all E and F in . The statement above is then summarized by saying that  is a Serre functor on  for X smooth and proper over k.

Serre duality holds more generally for proper algebraic spaces over a field.

Notes

References

External links

Topological methods of algebraic geometry
Complex manifolds
Duality theories

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And so the story goes, Sunday morning, in our Italian household, meatballs must be frying. If not something would be wrong. Mom would be frying the meatballs, dad and my brothers waiting by the stove not patiently to put one on their fork and of course the aroma engulfed the entire neighborhood swooning everyone to our house while they were frying. A traditional Sunday for us, breakfast was being served with meatballs or it wasn't the Sunday we looked forward to period, didn't really care about anything else until the sauce was done and then it was time to dip the bread into the homemade sauce. Oh the story doesn't end there. Then came the yelling from mom, "who ate all the meatballs?" there are none left in the bowl for the Traditional Sunday Sauce! We would all scram!


World-wide, overfishing is one of the biggest threats to the health of seas and their inhabitants. Overfishing also affects many people directly – above all in developing countries. Daily, tonnes of fish are hauled out of the sea. Unfortunately this is much more than can be naturally replenished – a real plundering of the world's oceans.


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Q: How to arrange this pixel address one by one? I am doing map processing. I solved the maze and got the address of the turnings. Below is my result.
(28,136)
(122,136)
(344,391)
(548,493)
(548,191)
(344,191)
(122,391)

But the addresses are not in correct order. My expected output is:
28 136
122 136
122 391
344 391
344 191
548 191
549 493

MY program is below. I programmed to get direction also
for(i=1:tblob)
    if (shape(i).order==1)
        map(i).cen=shape(i).cen;
    end
end

White=[255 255 255];
i=1;
order=1;

left=0;
right=0;
up=0;
down=0;

left(1)=0;
right(1)=0;
up(1)=0;
down(1)=0;
left(2)=0;
right(2)=0;
up(2)=0;
down(2)=0;
left(3)=0;
right(3)=0;
up(3)=0;
down(3)=0;
left(4)=0;
right(4)=0;
up(4)=0;
down(4)=0;

left(5)=0;
right(5)=0;
up(5)=0;
down(5)=0;
left(6)=0;
right(6)=0;
up(6)=0;
down(6)=0;
left(7)=0;
right(7)=0;
up(7)=0;
down(7)=0;
left(8)=0;
right(8)=0;
up(8)=0;
down(8)=0;

x=map(i).cen(1,:);
y=map(i).cen(2,:);

for(z=1:100)
    xi=x+1;
    xj=x-1;
    yi=y+1;
    yj=y-1;

    colorvalxi=color(y,xi,RGB);
    colorvalxi
    colorvalxj=color(y,xj,RGB);
    colorvalxj
    colorvalyi=color(yi,x,RGB);
    colorvalyi
    colorvalyj=color(yj,x,RGB);
    colorvalyj

    if(i>1)
        s=i-1;
    else
        s=1;
    end

    if (left(s)==0)
        if(colorvalxi==White)
            n=1;
        end
    else
        if (right(s)==0)
            if(colorvalxj==White)
                n=2;
            end
        else
            if(up(s)==0)
                if (colorvalyi==White)
                    n=3;
                end
            else
                if(down(s)==0)
                    if(colorvalyj==White)
                        n=4;
                    end
                else
                    break;
                end
            end
        end
    end

    switch(n)
        case 1 %RIGHT
            for(ks=1:1000)
                color_val=color(y,x,RGB);
                if(color_val==White)
                    x=x+1;
                else
                    right(i)=1;
                    instruction(i)=1;
                    i=i+1;
                    x=x-1;
                    map(i).cen(1,1)=x;
                    map(i).cen(2,1)=y;
                    break;
                end
            end

        case 2 %LEFT
            for(ks=1:1000)
                color_val==color(y,x,RGB)
                if(color_val==White)
                    x=x-1;
                else
                    left(i)=1;
                    instruction(i)=2;
                    i=i+1;
                    x=x+1;
                    map(i).cen(1,1)=x;
                    map(i).cen(2,1)=y;
                    break;
                end
            end

        case 3 %DOWN
            for(ks=1:1000)
                color_val=color(y,x,RGB);
                if(color_val==White)
                    y=y+1;
                else
                    down(i)=1;
                    instruction(i)=3;
                    i=i+1;
                    y=y-1;
                    map(i).cen(1,1)=x;
                    map(i).cen(2,1)=y;
                    break;
                end
            end

        case 4 %UPWARD
            for(ks=1:1000)
                color_val=color(y,x,RGB);
                if(color_val==White)
                    y=y-1;
                else
                    up(i)=1;
                    instruction(i)=4;
                    i=i+1;
                    y=y-1;
                    map(i).cen(1,1)=x;
                    map(i).cen(2,1)=y;
                    break;
                end
            end

    end

end

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Dell has reported a 177 percent year-over-year increase in net income for its fourth quarter of 2011, driven by growth in enterprise server and PC sales.
The company's profit was $927 million for the quarter ending 28 January, up from $334 million in the previous year's fourth quarter.
Revenue was $15.69 billion, an increase of 5 percent year over year. Analysts expected revenue of $15.71 billion.
Dell's Large Enterprise division generated $4.7 billion in sales, up 12 percent from a year ago, driven by a strong demand for PCs and servers. Revenue from the Small and Medium Business division grew 12 percent year over year, to $3.7 billion.
However, revenue from Dell's Consumer division declined to $3.3 billion, a drop of 8 percent from last year's fourth quarter, when its PC sales were boosted by the launch of Microsoft's Windows 7 OS.
Dell's focus in the past year was building out its enterprise product and service businesses, CEO Michael Dell said on a conference call. The goal for the current year is to expand that business further into new areas such as the cloud, he said.
The "epicenter" of the company has shifted away from PCs and toward the enterprise, Dell said, meaning toward products for the data center, rather than PCs. "Customers are now viewing Dell in a new light," he said.
The enterprise business grew as companies upgraded older PC and server equipment, said Brian Gladden, Dell's chief financial officer. Dell's margins improved thanks to lower component prices and selling more products in higher price bands, he added.
Overall server and networking revenue for the company was $2.09 billion, up 16 percent. Its desktop and mobility revenue -- which includes laptop sales -- both grew by 4 percent.
Dell will try to keep growing its enterprise business through small acquisitions that strengthen its hardware, software and services offerings, Gladden said.
During the past quarter, after it lost a bidding war for 3Par with Hewlett-Packard, Dell announced plans to buy storage company Compellent for $960 million. It also bought security vendor SecureWorks, cloud integration company Boomi, and medical imaging, archiving and storage vendor Insite One.
Dell has also started selling smartphones and tablets for enterprise users, and hopes to sell services around those devices, said Steve Schuckenbrock, president of Dell Services.
Dell has announced 10-inch tablets this year based on both Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows operating systems. Michael Dell said there are no other viable alternatives for the company to consider. Hewlett-Packard is building mobile devices based on its webOS, while Apple has its iOS for the iPhone and iPad.
Dell expects its consumer business to perform better in the current fiscal quarter, Gladden said.
In January, IDC said worldwide PC sales in the fourth quarter were hurt by competition from tablets and a slowdown in consumer spending. PC shipments totaled 92.1 million units, which is growth of only 2.7 percent and lower than IDC's original forecast of 5.5 percent growth.
Dell expects its revenue in fiscal 2012 to increase by between 5 percent and 9 percent.


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Q: Arduino Leonardo in Eclipse VID and PID missing? Has anyone got the Arduino Leonardo to program in Eclipse?
I have no trouble with the UNO, but it seems the VID and PID settings are missing for the ATmega32u4
../src/USBCore.cpp:78:2: error: 'USB_VID' was not declared in this scope
../src/USBCore.cpp:78:2: error: 'USB_PID' was not declared in this scope

Googleing around has uncovered a few GIT projects talking about custom make files from the command prompt there there have recently (in the last month) worked out that they need special patches specifically for the Leonardo. All my projects are in Eclipse already, so it would be good to know how to fix this here.
Perhaps there is a simple #define i can just put somewhere?
[edit] I'm on Ubuntu b.t.w. (in an attempt to avoid a big discussion about windows drivers : P)

A: Ok, so I have worked out that you can add USB_VID and USB_PID to
Project Properties -> C/C++ General -> Paths and Symbols -> Symbols -> Add

If you have multiple configurations its best to do it as your specific one for Leonardo.
If found in the ./hardware/arduino/bootloaders/caterina/Makefile
that the values are as follows:
# USB vendor ID (VID)
# official Arduino LLC VID
# VID = 0x2341

# USB product ID (PID)
# official Leonardo PID
# PID = 0x0036

Ill leave the question as is, so others can find it.
Because:
This then yeilds to the next errors for RXLED1, RXLED0, TXLED1, TXLED0
These are found in the pins_arduino.h file under variants. But when i add this lib to my Arduino core project, it is a problem since the default version of this file is read first.
The simple way to fix this is to add the second pins_arduino.h file into another folder and then add this to the start of the default one:
#ifdef USB_VID
#include "leonardo/pins_arduino.h"
#else
## <the rest of the file goes here>
#endif

You also need to set like this for your specific build configuration so it pre-processor knows what you are doing.
This at least gets you to a compile. I don't really know how well it works in the end.


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Q: Performance issue with line breaks in base64 data with Spring-ws and Castor I have a SOAP service implemented with spring-ws 2.2.0 with a Castor 1.3.3 marshaller.
In the WSDL file there is a base64Binary element:
<xs:element type="xs:base64Binary" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" maxOccurs="1" minOccurs="1" name="bytes"/>

With a CXF client the bytes are encoded on one line:
JVBERi0xLjQKJcfsj6IKNzkxIDAgb2JqCjw8L0xpbmVhcml6ZWQgMS9MIDEwMDQ1NzM1L0hbIDEwMjcxMyA0MDBdL08gNzkzL0UgMTAyNzEzL04...

With 9Mb file, the request is worked in about 40 seconds.
With a SAP client the bytes are encoded with 76 char blocks:
JVBERi0xLjMNCiXi48/TDQolUlNUWFBERjMgUGFyYW1ldGVyczoNCjIgMCBvYmoNCjw8DQovRmls
dGVyIDMgMCBSDQovTGVuZ3RoIDQgMCBSDQo+Pg0Kc3RyZWFtDQp4nB1Su60YMQzjKByFo2gUjcIi
yBysM0MKjfD6FBfJBg5nCLL4E4DGff1+/W7Z8ze///yIKKIJEyGGgEBBQgktWIgwAgosqFCFLriQ
...

And Every LF is encoded with the proper xml entity

JVBERi0xLjMNCiXi48/TDQolUlNUWFBERjMgUGFyYW1ldGVyczoNCjIgMCBvYmoNCjw8DQovRmls
dGVyIDMgMCBSDQovTGVuZ3RoIDQgMCBSDQo+Pg0Kc3RyZWFtDQp4nB1Su60YMQzjKByFo2gUjcIi
yBysM0MKjfD6FBfJBg5nCLL4E4DGff1+/W7Z8ze///yIKKIJEyGGgEBBQgktWIgwAgosqFCFLriQ

With a 3Mb file the request is worked in about 2 minutes and 40 seconds with the cpu at 100%.
Can the performance issue be related to the line breaks in the base64 stream?
Could be a Castor, a spring-ws or a JDK issue?
Any advice?
Thanks


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Q: Python's FTP library connects to an IP but not its domain I'm using ftplib's FTP class to connect to ftp://emi.nasdaq.com. Using the domain doesn't work, but using FileZilla I can see the IP address the domain name resolves to, and the IP address works.
def main():
print("Grabbing data...")
with FTP() as ftp:
    ftp.connect('ftp://emi.nasdaq.com', 21)

Specifically, the domain throws a GAIError ([Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed). I'm using Python 3.8. How can I resolve the domain to its IP before passing it to the FTP class?

A: ftplib docs suggest to use address without leading ftp:// I did
from ftplib import FTP
ftp = FTP()
ftp.connect('emi.nasdaq.com',21)
ftp.login()
ftp.retrlines('LIST')
ftp.quit()

and output was
07-27-13  04:30PM       <DIR>          aspnet_client
03-21-13  09:31AM       <DIR>          Baltic
07-21-21  02:42PM       <DIR>          Basic_NLS
05-21-19  08:29AM       <DIR>          Index
07-21-21  02:44PM       <DIR>          ITCH
08-21-20  02:07PM       <DIR>          Nasdaq Canada
08-05-19  09:31AM       <DIR>          Nordic
07-19-21  10:11AM       <DIR>          Options
12-01-20  09:49AM       <DIR>          Test
07-27-21  10:26AM       <DIR>          Web Based Reports
09-09-21  05:38PM                  168 web.config


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Q: What is meant by elaboration of a declaration statement? Intuitively I understand "elaboration" and have a very mild idea. But I want to know exactly what is elaboration of a declaration?
I came across this word in this context:

Stack dynamic storage bindings are created for variables when their declaration statements are elaborated.

The quote is from "Concepts of Programming languages" Robert Sebesta .

A: From Robert Sebesta's Concepts of Programming Languages 9th edition:

Elaboration of a declaration refers to the storage allocation and
  binding process that takes place when the code containing the
  declaration is executed.

Okay, what does that mean?
Stack Dynamic variables are allocated to the stack. Hardware in the case of native code. Software in the case of a a virtual machine. This means that they are pushed on to the stack when the code containing them is executed. Static variables on the other hand are bound and given values at load time when the program begins running.
How then is this useful? Well, functions generally get sent to the stack when they execute along with the passed parameters. In addition to being faster than the heap, this allows for recursive calls.
As a historical note, Elaboration as a term originated with Algol 68.


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Joris Teepe Extends Rashied Ali's Legacy
News, Joris Teepe
By Stephanie Jones I Feb. 7, 2019
Joris Teepe pays tribute to his mentor with In The Spirit Of Rashied Ali (Jazz Tribes).
(Photo: Yiannis Soulis)
At New York's Smalls Jazz Club this fall, Joris Teepe and his quintet invited listeners to celebrate the inaugural release of the Jazz Tribes label: In The Spirit Of Rashied Ali, an album nearly 10 years in the making.
Teepe, a Dutch-born bassist who splits time between New York and Amsterdam, became part of the legendary drummer's quintet in 2001, and remained a permanent fixture of the ensemble until Ali's death in 2009.
"We felt like we were really on to something," Teepe said about the band, which also included tenor saxophonist Lawrence Clark, trumpeter Josh Evans and pianist Greg Murphy. "And suddenly that got disturbed."
At the time, Teepe and the remaining quintet members faced an unusual dilemma: They sought to continue following their vision, but without their leader. "The bookers weren't interested in booking the Rashied Ali Quintet without Rashied Ali," the bassist said.
Teepe felt the loss as viscerally as he felt a desire to continue exploring his interpretation of Ali's extensive work, which included collaborations with John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane and Archie Shepp among others. In the years following the drummer's death, Teepe's projects served as an incubator for what would become Spirit.
The new release includes a CD packaged inside a 66-page hardcover book, which was written by Jazz Tribes' John Weijers, and features photos and interviews about the drummer's life and legacy. Besides serving as a tribute to Ali, the project reflects an intrinsic quality of Teepe's music: honest expression.
"Before I met him, I was thinking about the music as something rational," Teepe explained. "Playing with him pushed me to think of the music as a way to express yourself as an individual. It's about the energy, rather than if it's a minor or major chord. It's a very honest way of playing."
The release features a five-song suite of Ali's compositions (arranged by Teepe), plus two of the bassist's original tunes, including the slow-building "Alphabet." During the sessions, Teepe gave his collaborators, like saxophonist Wayne Escoffery, plenty of room to improvise.
"I had some clear ideas of where we would go, but in between those anchor points, there's a lot of freedom," he said.
Before recording Spirit, Teepe worked on a few other projects, but nothing seemed to achieve what he'd envisioned. Ideas for Spirit evolved over time, eventually transforming into exactly what Teepe had in mind—to honor the legacy of his friend and mentor.
"The way I think about music was largely influenced by the experience of playing with Rashied," Teepe said. "This time, it really feels right." DB

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주의를 통해 해결을 모색하는 과정에서 결국은 인구절벽이라는 절대절벽에 직면한 것임을 해명한다. 점진적 개혁이 아니라 체제개혁이 필요한 이유, 그리고 이를 위한 주요 정책을 제시한다.
This paper suggests a framework that enables a holistic understanding of variegated Korean socio-economic pathologies and analyses the immanent Korean demographic cliff. We try to elucidate Korean socio-economic anomalies in its general as well as peculiar dimension. Especially the immanent Korean demographic cliff is shown to be an 'absolute barrier'. We propose policies that lead to a systemic change.


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package com.navercorp.pinpoint.plugin.elasticsearch;

import com.navercorp.pinpoint.test.plugin.shared.SharedTestBeforeAllResult;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;

import java.util.Properties;

/**
 * @author Roy Kim
 */

public abstract class ElasticsearchITBase {

    protected static final Logger logger = LogManager.getLogger(ElasticsearchITBase.class);

    protected static int ES_PORT;

    public String getEsHost() {
        return "127.0.0.1";
    }

    public int getEsPort() {
        return ES_PORT;
    }

    public String getEsAddress() {
        return getEsHost() + ":" + ES_PORT;
    }

    @SharedTestBeforeAllResult
    public static void setBeforeAllResult(Properties beforeAllResult) {
        logger.info("ElasticsearchContainer properties:{}", beforeAllResult);

        ES_PORT = Integer.parseInt(beforeAllResult.getProperty("PORT"));
    }

}

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Stephanie A. "Tess" Blair
Dr. Axel Spies
Pulina Whitaker
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Law Flash
Litigation / Trial Practice
ECJ Rules EU-US Safe Harbor Programme Is Invalid
The powers of EU data protection authorities are significantly strengthened by the decision, allowing them to suspend some or all personal data flows into the United States in certain circumstances.
In Maximillian Schrems v. Data Protection Commissioner (case C-362/14), the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled[1] that the European Commission decision approving the Safe Harbor programme is invalid. Further, the ECJ ruled that EU data protection authorities do have powers to investigate complaints about the transfer of personal data outside Europe (whether by Safe Harbor-certified organisations or otherwise, but excluding countries deemed as having "adequate" data protection laws according to the EU). Finally, the ECJ ruled that data protection authorities can, where justified, suspend data transfers outside Europe until their investigations are completed.
Safe Harbor Programme
According to the European Commission, the United States is a country with "inadequate" data protection laws. The European Commission and the US Department of Commerce, therefore, agreed in 2000 to a self-certification programme for US organisations that receive personal data from Europe. Pursuant to the self-certification programme, a US organisation receiving personal data from Europe must certify that it adhered to certain standards of data processing comparable with EU data protection laws such that the EU citizens' personal data was treated as adequately as if their personal data had remained in Europe. The Safe Harbor programme is operated by the US Department of Commerce and enforced by the Federal Trade Commission. Over 4,000 organisations have current self-certifications of adherence to Safe Harbor principles.[2]
The Schrems Case
Mr. Schrems complained in Irish legal proceedings that the Irish Data Protection Commissioner refused to investigate his complaint that the Safe Harbor programme failed to protect adequately personal data after its transfer to the US in light of revelations about the National Security Agency's (NSA's) PRISM programme. The question of whether EU data protection authorities have the power to investigate complaints about the Safe Harbor programme was referred to the ECJ. Yves Bot, Advocate General at the ECJ, said in an opinion released on 23 September 2015 that the Safe Harbor programme does not currently do enough to protect EU citizens' personal data because such data was transferred to US authorities in the course of "mass and indiscriminate surveillance and interception of such data" from Safe Harbor-certified organisations. Mr. Bot was of the opinion that the Irish Data Protection Commissioner, therefore, had the power to investigate complaints about Safe Harbor-certified organisations and, if there were "exceptional circumstances in which the suspension of specific data flows should be justified", to suspend the data transfers pending the outcome of its investigation.
The ECJ followed Mr. Bot's opinion and, further, declared that the European Commission's decision to approve the Safe Harbor programme in 2000 was "invalid" on the basis that US laws fail to protect personal data transferred to US state authorities pursuant to derogations of "national security, public law or law enforcement requirements". Furthermore, EU citizens do not have adequate rights of redress when their personal data protection rights are breached by US authorities.
The EU-US Data Protection Umbrella Agreement
In the last two years, the European Commission and various data protection working parties have discussed ways to improve the Safe Harbor programme and strengthen rights for EU citizens in cases where their personal data is transferred to the United States. Recently, the United States and European Union finalised a data protection umbrella agreement to provide minimum privacy protections for personal data transferred between EU and US authorities for law enforcement purposes. The umbrella agreement will provide certain protections to ensure that personal data is protected when exchanged between police and criminal justice authorities of the United States and the European Union. The umbrella agreement, however, does not apply to personal data shared with national security agencies.
The umbrella agreement also provides that EU citizens will have the right to seek judicial redress before US courts where US authorities deny access or rectification or unlawfully disclose their personal data. Currently, US citizens have the right to seek judicial redress in the European Union if their data—transferred for law enforcement purposes—is misused by EU law enforcement authorities. EU citizens, however, do not have corresponding rights of redress in the United States. A judicial redress bill has been introduced in the US House of Representatives; adoption of the bill would allow the United States and European Union to finalise the umbrella agreement.
Key Findings of the ECJ Decision
The key findings of the ECJ decision are as follows (quotes indicate excerpts from the ruling itself):
"The guarantee of independence of national supervisory authorities is intended to ensure the effectiveness and reliability of the monitoring of compliance with the provisions concerning protection of individuals".
The powers of supervisory authorities include "effective powers of intervention, such as that of imposing a temporary or definitive ban on processing of data, and the power to engage in legal proceedings".
The Safe Harbor programme "cannot prevent persons whose personal data has been or could be transferred to a third country from lodging with the national supervisory authorities a claim. . .concerning the protection of their rights and freedoms".
National courts can consider the validity of the Safe Harbor programme, but only the ECJ can declare that it is invalid.
Where the national data protection authorities find that complaints regarding the protection of personal data by Safe Harbor-certified companies are well-founded, they "must. . .be able to engage in legal proceedings".
Organisations self-certified under the Safe Harbor programme are permitted to "disregard" the Safe Harbor principles to comply with US national security, public interest, or law enforcement requirements.
There is no provision in the Safe Harbor programme for protection for EU citizens against US authorities who gain access to their personal data transferred to the United States pursuant to the Safe Harbor programme. There is only a provision for commercial dispute resolution.
The EU Data Protection Directive[3] "requires derogations and limitations in relation to the protection of personal data to apply only in so far as is strictly necessary", but there is no such requirement applicable in the United States following the transfer of personal data pursuant to the Safe Harbor programme.
The Safe Harbor programme "fails to comply with the requirements" to protect personal data to the "adequate" standard required by the EU Data Protection Directive and is "accordingly invalid".
Other Options to Transfer Personal Data to the United States
Safe Harbor-certified organisations should note that there are other options to transfer personal data to the United States, including express consent and the use of Binding Corporate Rules or EU-approved model clause agreements. Organisations using Safe Harbor-certified vendors may wish to discuss these other options with their vendors. There is, however, a risk that this decision could affect these other options, as national security derogations are likely to override the protection of personal data regardless of how it is transferred, with the only exception being the specific and informed consent of an individual to the transfer of his or her personal data to governmental authorities for national security purposes.
The ECJ decision is likely to take the European Commission by surprise.
The powers of national data protection authorities are significantly strengthened by this decision. They could allow data protection authorities to suspend some or all personal data flows into the United States in serious circumstances and where there is a justifiable reason to do so. There is a risk that a data protection authority could order that the data transfers by an international organisation outside of Europe be suspended from that jurisdiction, whereas data transfers in other European jurisdictions are permitted. To mitigate this risk, the European Commission is entitled to issue EU-wide "adequacy decisions" for consistency purposes.
The European Commission has today announced that it intends to release guidance for Safe Harbor-certified companies within the next two weeks.
[1] See Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) (6 October 2015)
[2] See Safe Harbor List.
[3] Directive 95/46/EC
Copyright © 2023 by Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. All Rights Reserved.National Law Review, Volume V, Number 279
Tess Blair and her team offer full-cycle electronic discovery and information governance services to organizations across the globe. Tess is the founder and leader of Morgan Lewis's eData practice, which seeks to combine great lawyering with technology and process to deliver real efficiency and value to clients. The team includes both lawyers and technologists who support a state-of-the-art data center and technology portfolio to deliver comprehensive counseling and technical services under one roof.
www.morganlewis.com
Special Legal Consultant
Dr. Axel Spies has advised clients for many years on various international issues, including licensing, competition, corporate issues, and new technologies such as cloud computing. He counsels on international data protection (EU General Data Protection Regulation), international data transfers (Privacy Shield), healthcare, technology licensing, e-discovery, and equity purchases. A member of the Sedona Conference on Electronic Discovery, Dr. Spies is frequently quoted in the media for his telecommunications and privacy knowledge.
Pulina Whitaker's practice encompasses both labor and employment matters as well as data privacy and cybersecurity. She manages employment and data privacy issues in sales and acquisitions, commercial outsourcings, and restructurings. Pulina provides day-to-day advisory support for multinationals on all employment issues, including the UK's Modern Slavery Act and gender pay reporting requirements. She also advises on the full spectrum of data privacy issues, including preparing for the General Data Protection Regulation. Pulina has deep experience managing international...


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Have you heard of Cyclosporiasis?
Tuesday, 16 July 2019 by Rachelle Williams
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cyclosporiasis is an intestinal illness caused by the microscopic parasite Cyclospora cayetanensis. People can become infected with Cyclospora by consuming food or water contaminated with the parasite.
A person is most infectious when they have diarrhoea, but the parasite may be excreted for several days after symptoms disappear
The time between becoming infected by the parasite (known as the onset) and becoming sick is usually about one week. The Cyclospora parasites infect the small intestine, usually causing watery diarrhea, with frequent, sometimes explosive, bowel movements. Although some people who are infected with Cyclospora do not have any symptoms, other common symptoms include loss of appetite, weight loss, stomach cramps/pain, bloating, increased gas, nausea, and fatigue. Vomiting, body aches, headache, fever, and other flu-like symptoms may also be evident.
With flu season on us in Australia, it is worth being aware that the flu may not in fact be the flu, it may be some other condition like Cyclosporiasis.
The symptoms may last for up to two weeks but there may be sporadic symptoms for a month.
The parasite is killed by heat but iodine and chlorine do not kill it, so water treated with these will not be safe from Cyclospora.
It is a requirement in Australia that once identified as Cyclosporiasis the case must be reported to the Health Department by the testing Laboratory.
Sulphur based antibiotics can be used to treat a Cyclospora case.
Is Australian seafood sustainable?
Monday, 08 July 2019 by Rachelle Williams
The following is from the Fishfiles website, which is an an initiative of the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) to provide accurate and informative information on Australia's sustainable seafood.
Every few years the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) produces Status of Australian Fish Stocks (SAFS) reports and publishes these at fish.gov.au. The reports are based on a consistent national reporting framework developed by fisheries scientists across Australia. These reports bring together all the available information on Australia's key wild catch fish stocks and give a rating (and colour) to each species.
Status of Australian Fish Stock (SAFS) classification framework
Color Stock Status Simplified Definition
Fish stock size (biomass) is above a minimum level (limit reference point) for the stock, and fishing pressure is adequately controlled (there is no overfishing)
DEPLETING Fish stock size is above a minimum level (limit reference point) for the stock, but fishing pressure is too high
RECOVERING Fish stock size is too low but fishing pressure is adequately controlled and stock is recovering
DEPLETED Fish stock size is too low and fishing pressure too high, or fishing pressure has been reduced but recovery not yet detected
UNDEFINED Not enough information available to make a reliable assessment
NEGLIGIBLE Catches are so low as to be considered negligible
For a full description of the SAFS classification system see How are the Status of Australian Fish Stock Reports done on the SAFS website.
For the 2018 SAFS (Status of Australian Fish Stocks) Reports almost 80% of the 406 stocks (120 species) were able to be assessed. Of the stocks assessed around 80% were rated sustainable (green).
The SAFS website provides access to not only the top line results, but also all the information that supports the rating. You can also download the SAFS app, just search SAFS Sustainable Fish Stocks in the Google Play Store or the App Store.
Very important to note that the sustainability status of a species can vary from stock to stock and state by state. Therefore, if you are concerned ask where the fish was caught, then check the status on the App or website.
For more information go to https://www.fishfiles.com.au/Experts/HealthProfessionals/Seafood-sustainability
The 25th Australian Total Diet Study has been released
Friday, 05 July 2019 by Rachelle Williams
The following is from a media release from Food Standards Australia New Zealand and is included here with permission.
Australian Total Diet Study demonstrates safety of the food supply
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) Chief Executive Officer Mark Booth says the results of the 25th Australian Total Diet Study (ATDS), released today, again demonstrate the safety of the Australian food supply.
Mr Booth said 88 foods were tested for 226 agricultural and veterinary chemicals and four metals: arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury.
"The levels of agricultural and veterinary chemicals were generally very low, with a majority of samples having no detectable residues," Mr Booth said.
"Estimated dietary exposures for all but one chemical were below the relevant acceptable daily intakes (ADIs), indicating no public health and safety concerns," Mr Booth said.
"Estimated dietary exposure to the insecticide prothiofos exceeded the ADI for some population age groups. FSANZ informed the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) which subsequently worked with industry who voluntarily changed the way prothiofos is used to ensure that risks for Australian consumers are acceptably low.
"For metal contaminants, all detections were below the maximum levels set in the Food Standards Code and consistent with international levels.
"Estimated dietary exposure to methylmercury (through the consumption of fish) exceeded the provisional tolerable weekly intake (PTWI) for children aged 2 to 5 years. The risks in this case are balanced by the known benefits of fish consumption. FSANZ has published consumer advice to manage dietary exposure to mercury while highlighting the health benefits."
Read our web page summarising the results
Media contact: 0401 714 265 (Australia) or +61 401 714 265 (New Zealand)
www.foodstandards.gov.au/publications/Pages/25th-Australian-Total-Diet-Study.aspx?fbclid=IwAR37o8g3R9HPVqHC2DoeybmkEKfQwIYH9zo7Rddjqd1nvWYuK3GtzBVdCNw
Food security is one of the big issues in not only food safety but food in general
Food security is fundamentally about the right food being in the right place at the right time and for the right people.
It is an essential function, and usually not public, of all governments to ensure food security for their people and strong food safety regulations and culture is essential to making sure this can be met consistently.
The following is from a brochure, "The Future of Food Safety", from the Food and Agicultural Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) and is included here with permission. The full brochure can be found at http://www.fao.org/3/ca4289en/CA4289EN.pdf
Ready access to safe and nutritious food is a basic human right. Yet every year around the world, over 420 000 people die and some 600 million people – almost one in ten – fall ill after eating contaminated food. In fact, foodborne hazards are known to cause over 200 acute and chronic diseases from digestive tract infections to cancer. The ramifications of the cost of unsafe food, however, go far beyond human suffering. Contaminated food hampers socioeconomic development, overloads healthcare systems and compromises economic growth and trade. Opportunities of an increasingly-globalized food market are lost to countries unable to meet international food safety standards. Food safety threats cause an enormous burden on economies from disruptions or restrictions in global and regional agri-food trade, loss of food and associated income and wasted natural resources.
If it is not safe, it is not food. Food security is achieved when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to food that meets their dietary needs for an active and healthy life. Food safety plays a critical role across the four pillars of food security – availability, access, utilization and stability.
Availability – the amount of food of all types available within an area or country – including imports, production, aid and stocks.
Access – the physical, economic and social access people have to food
Utilisation – the available and accessible food must be both safe and nutritious
Stability – the food must be present at all times to ensure that it can be effective
Does your business have to have a recall program?
Wednesday, 26 June 2019 by Rachelle Williams
A food recall is when product is retrieved from customers if there is a possible food safety problem with a food.
There are three type of food recalls; Consumer, Trade and Mock.
A Consumer Recall occurs when the affected food has reached the shelves and is accessible to consumers, for example ; from supermarkets or manufacturers.
It is the most expensive type of recall in terms of the costs of retrieving the product and also on it's potential impact on the company's brand and future sales.
A Trade Recall occurs when the food has only made it as far as the warehouse in the suppy chain and there is no need to inform consumers that it is happening.
Mock Recalls are required for all businesses that must have a recall program. It is a trial of the business's recall program and must be done at regular scheduled intervals to test that the program is effective and to give practice if ever a Consumer or Trade Recall is required.
All businesses which manufacture, import, distribute or wholesale food must have a food recall program.
All recalls must be run according to the Food Industry Recall Protocol;
http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/industry/foodrecalls/firp/Pages/default.aspx
There are specific documents which must be completed or used for recalls, and templates for these can be found at
http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/industry/foodrecalls/recalltemplates/Pages/default.aspx?utm_source=Food+Standards+News&utm_campaign=647a978b5f-Food_Standards_News_Mar-18_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_71d71e1fc3-647a978b5f-310072897
What is Botulism and how can we stop it?
Monday, 24 June 2019 by Rachelle Williams
The following is from the Botulism Fact Sheet on the NSW Health website – https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/factsheets/Pages/botulism.aspx
What is botulism?
Botulism is a rare but serious illness that causes paralysis. Botulism is caused by nerve toxins made by Clostridium botulinum bacteria. Botulism can result from eating food that has been contaminated with the toxin (foodborne botulism) or ingesting food, dust or soil that contains the bacteria that produce the toxin (intestinal botulism) or contaminating a wound with the bacteria (wound botulism). Intestinal botulism affecting children under 12 months of age is known as infant botulism. This is the most common form of botulism.
The symptoms of infant botulism include constipation, loss of appetite, weak suck, weak cry and muscle weakness including poor head control.
Early symptoms of foodborne botulism include weakness, marked fatigue and vertigo usually followed by blurred vision, dry mouth and difficulty swallowing. Nausea and vomiting may also occur. These symptoms may progress to paralysis of the arm muscles and continue down the body to the trunk and legs. Paralysis of breathing muscles can be fatal. Most cases recover if diagnosed and treated early. In foodborne botulism, symptoms may begin from a few hours to several days after eating the contaminated food.
Wound botulism causes similar symptoms to foodborne botulism but may take up to two weeks to occur.
How is it spread?
Infant botulism occurs when infants ingest the spores of the botulinum bacteria that grow in the intestine and produce the toxin. The spores can be found in dust and soil. Raw honey has been shown to cause infant botulism.
Foodborne botulism occurs when the bacteria Clostridium botulinum grow and produce toxin in food which is then eaten without sufficient heating to destroy the toxin. This is more likely to occur with fermented, salted or smoked fish or meat products and home canned or bottled vegetables and fruits.
Wound botulism occurs when spores get into an open wound and produce the toxin. It has been associated with black tar heroin in injecting drug users in parts of Europe and North America.
Botulism is not known to spread from person to person.
Children under twelve months of age are most at risk of intestinal botulism. Older children and adults are not usually affected because they have natural defences in the gut to prevent production of the toxin. Intestinal botulism in adults is very rare are more likely in those with suppressed immune systems or bowel problems.
People who eat home canned fruit, vegetables or meats are at risk of acquiring foodborne botulism.
Those with open wounds that are not properly cleaned and injecting drug users are at risk of wound botulism.
How is it prevented?
People who preserve their own fruit, vegetables or meats should take special care with cooking temperatures, container sterilisation and salt and acidity levels to make sure the process does not encourage bacteria to grow. Discard all canned foods that show any signs of being spoiled or are out of date.
Avoid giving honey to babies less than 12 months of age and take care when preparing, handling and storing solid foods for babies.
Wash any wounds thoroughly with soap (or detergent) and running water.
A doctor can diagnose botulism based on the symptoms and identification of the toxin in the blood or faeces.
Botulism can be treated with an antitoxin. Hospitalisation is usually required. Intensive care with mechanical ventilation may be needed if the breathing muscles have been affected. Infants may require immunoglobulin (a blood product).
What is the public health response?
Laboratories and hospitals are required to notify cases of botulism to the local Public Health Unit. Public Health Units investigate possible cases to identify the source and prevent further cases
Which are the high risk foods?
Friday, 21 June 2019 by Rachelle Williams
The general idea of high risk foods are those foods which when handled poorly will allow bacterial growth and therefore have a much higher risk of being a source of food poisoning (also called food borne illness).
The High Risk Foods in Australia are generally considered to be ; meats, (including poultry and seafood), dairy, eggs, cut fruit and vegetables, cooked rice and pasta. And any foods containing any of them.
These foods are considered as high risk based on scientific evidence over time, including the characteristics of pathogens and their preference for certain foods due to conditions or processing and the history of food poisoning incidents.
Risk in HACCP and other risk assessment processes is a combination of both how often the hazard happens (the frequency or likelihood) and how bad it is when it does happen (the severity).
Another way of determing high risk foods is those foods that are most commonly recalled or are produced in a way that makes them more likely to harbor harmful bacteria.
However, there is a lot of discussion going on around the food industry both in Australia and internationally about what risk actually means in terms of food and food poisoning.
Another question being asked in relation to risk in food and food poisoning is whether there really is any food which does not have some degree of risk and how can we as a food industry be expected to ensure that every food has no risk to consumers.
In the USA, it is the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), section 204(d)(2)(A), which is to be used to set the definition for high risk foods in that country and is based on the following factors
the known safety risks of a particular food, including the history and severity of foodborne illness outbreaks attributed to such food, taking into consideration foodborne illness data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC);
the likelihood that a particular food has a high potential risk for microbiological or chemical contamination or would support the growth of pathogenic microorganisms due to the nature of the food or the processes used to produce such food;
iii. the point in the manufacturing process of the food where contamination is most likely to occur;
the likelihood of contamination and steps taken during the manufacturing process to reduce the possibility of contamination;
the likelihood that consuming a particular food will result in a foodborne illness due to contamination of the food; and
the likely or known severity, including health and economic impacts, of a foodborne illness attributed to a particular food.
The FDA has, to date, considered "high risk" foods to be soft cheeses, seafood, custard-filled bakery products, some fruits and vegetables, and baby formula.
As can be seen, it is not easy to uniformly define and agree to what are the high risk foods and how they are to be determined.
Bill Marler's (the author of Food Safety News www.foodsafetynews.com and a leading lawyer for food poisoning cases in the USA) suggest the following foods for the high-risk list:
Raw milk and products made from it, Raw juice, Raw sprouts, Pre-cut fruit and vegetables (including leafy greens), Raw shellfish and Uncooked flour
Milk and eggs are under recall this month
The following are recall notices from the New South Wales Food Authority and are included here with permission.
The NSW Food Authority advises:
The Egg Basket is conducting a recall of Country Fresh Eggs, Just Eggs, Chefs Choice Free Range and Chefs Choice Cage Free eggs due to potential microbial (Salmonella Enteritidis) contamination.
The products have been available for sale at The Egg Basket and Flemington Markets in NSW.
Country Fresh Eggs
Just Eggs
Chefs Choice Free Range
Chefs Choice Cage Free
Date markings:
Use By 14th June 2019, 20th June 2019, 24th June 2019, 29th June 2019, 5th July 2019, 9th July 2019
Eggs stamped with code: eb24449
Problem: The recall is due to potential microbial (Salmonella Enteritidis) contamination.
Food safety hazard: Food products contaminated with Salmonella may cause illness if consumed.
Country of origin: Australia
What to do: Any consumers concerned about their health should seek medical advice and should return the products to the place of purchase for a full refund.
The Egg Basket
Lactalis Australia Pty Ltd is conducting a recall of various milk products listed below due to the presence of an amount of food grade dairy cleaning solution.
The recalled products have been available for sale in Coles, Woolworths, IGA and other retailers across Victoria, as well as three Coles stores in Southern New South Wales (Deniliquin, Lavington and Albury), and a small number of petrol and convenience stores in the Murray, Riverina and Western districts of NSW.
Product details & date markings:
Pauls Smarter White Milk, 1 litre bottle, 25-JUN, 26-JUN, 27-JUN
Pauls Full Fat Cream Milk, 1 litre bottle, 26-JUN, 27-JUN
Pauls PhysiCAL Skim, 1 litre bottle, 27-JUN
Pauls PhysiCAL Low Fat, 1 litre bottle, 26-JUN
Pauls Rev Low Fat, 1 litre bottle, 28-JUN
Coles Lite Milk, 1 litre bottle, 25-JUN, 26-JUN
Coles Skim Milk, 1 litre bottle, 25-JUN
Coles Full Cream Milk, 1 litre bottle, 25-JUN, 26-JUN.
Problem: The recall is due to chemical/contaminant (food grade dairy cleaning solution) contamination. The milk products may have a yellowish colouring and/or metallic chemical taste.
Food safety hazard: This is a food safety issue and anyone concerned about their health should seek medical advice.
What to do: Consumers with the affected products should return it to the place of purchase for a full refund.
Lactalis Australia consumer service team
Ph: 1800 676 961.
New recall
Thursday, 13 June 2019 by Rachelle Williams
The following is from the NSW Food Authority and is included here with permission.
K S NSW Pty Ltd (a.k.a K S Imp. & Exp. Pty Ltd) is conducting a recall of Chung Jung One Stir Fried Rice Mate and Rice Seasoning. The products have been available for sale at Asian grocery stores in NSW, VIC, ACT, and SA.
Chung Jung One Stir Fried Rice Mate, Vegetable Flavour, 24g.
Chung Jung One Rice Seasoning, Vegetable Flavour , 24g.
Chung Jung One Stir Fried Rice Mate, Shrimp Flavour, 24g.
Chung Jung One Rice Seasoning, Seafood Flavour, 24g
Problem: The recall is due to the presence of undeclared allergens (egg and milk).
Food safety hazard: Any consumers who have an egg and/or milk allergy or intolerance may have a reaction if the product is consumed.
What to do: Consumers who have an egg and/or milk allergy or intolerance should not consume this product and should return the product to the place of purchase for a full refund.
KS NSW
The first World Food Safety Day.
The following is a media release from the Food Safety Information Council Ltd to recognise the first World Food Safety Day. It is included here with permission.
The Food Safety Information Council has released a report card on Australia's food safety record in recognition of the inaugural UN World Food Safety Day 7 June 2019.
Council Chair, Cathy Moir, said that there are an estimated 4.1 million cases of food poisoning in Australia each year that result in 31,920 hospitalisations, 86 deaths and 1 million visits to doctors on average each year.
'The theme of the 2019 World Food Safety Day is 'Food Safety: Everyone's Business'. The Food Safety Information Council's role is to educate consumers and the broader community in safe food handling to reduce the number of cases of foodborne illness in Australia. Our consumer research has shown some major food safety concerns:
A third of all Australian households have at least one vulnerable person at risk of severe illness if they get food poisoning, for example pregnant women, the elderly and people with reduced immunity.
70% of Australians don't know the safe cooking temperature for foods that may be contaminated with Salmonellaand Campylobacter, such as poultry and egg dishes.
36% of Australians are taking a risk by eating raw egg dishes, with 10% eating raw egg dishes at least once a month.
'Everyone has a role to play in reducing the number of cases of foodborne illness. You can greatly reduce the risk of food poisoning for you and your family by following our 6 simple tips:
Always wash your hands with soap and running water and dry thoroughly before handling food and after handling raw meat or poultry, going to the toilet, touching your face or hair, or blowing your nose.
Never handle food for others if you are feeling unwell.
Use a fridge thermometer to make sure your fridge is running at or below 5°C.
Use a meat thermometer to check that high risk foods such as sausages, rolled roasts, hamburger patties and poultry are cooked to at least 75°C in the thickest part of the meat. Egg dishes, such a quiche, should be cooked to 72°C .
Don't put cooked meat or poultry back on the same surface that raw meat or poultry has been on and use separate utensils, such as tongs, for raw and cooked foods.
Wash any equipment such as chopping boards and knives in hot soapy water and dry thoroughly between using them for raw meat or poultry and food like salads that won't be further cooked.
'The Food Safety Information Council is working with our members to build a food safety culture in Australia including running Australian Food Safety Week 10 to 17 November 2019. The 2018 Australian Food Safety Week and summer education campaign included radio and TV community service announcements run nationally, our Youtube video was shown in over 5,000 GP surgeries reaching an audience of 15 million and our media interviews and article reached an audience of approximately 2 million.
'We are currently planning the 2019 Australian Food Safety Week and are inviting organisations who may wish to become involved in our important work to contact us 0407 626 688 or info@foodsafety.asn.au,' Ms Moir concluded.
The Food Safety Information Council is a health promotion charity and Australia's leading disseminator of consumer-targeted food safety information.
Lydia Buchtmann, Food Safety Information Council, 0407 626 688 or info@foodsafety.asn.au


When Stompin' Tom Connors died a week or so ago, I thought back to the time I saw him perform live at the Canadian Boy Scout Jamboree at Cabot Beach, Prince Edward Island in July of 1977. His abbreviated concert now seems to me to have been both apt and inappropriate: a contradiction that haunts most of Connors's music, at least as I hear it. For me, it's hard to listen to the thudding polka beat and reedy vocals of "The Ketchup Song" – for instance – and not be utterly embarrassed by the bathos and yet wholly enthralled by his strangely unshakable commitment to Canadian regional quiddities: Stompin' Tom's quirky lyrics voice a wryly ardent poetics of his, of our places, and of our brands.
A duplicitous adolescent nationalism attaches itself to this mid-seventies moment in my own life, like an ideological push-me-pull-you, epitomized in my participation in Boy Scouts that summer.
So, I have been clicking and surfing now for a few days off and on, but can't find any electronic evidence that Stompin' Tom actually performed at the jamboree. My memory might be faulty, sure, there's always a chance of that, but I'm sure, sure it was also real, that this concert happened and that I was there, one among 16000 uniformed, preadolescent boys and their leaders. There must be others who remember him. As I recall things, he might have been the opening act for Anne Murray, who was an even bigger deal then than she might be now, and who had come to the jamboree to film part of an Anne Murray and Friends specialthat was to air on CBC television maybe that fall. This was the first national – even international – scouting event of its kind in Canada since 1961, and the fourth jamboree ever to have taken place. (They now recur at four- to six- year intervals.) The tent-city of boys near the Atlantic seaboard represented a resurgence of idealistic, late colonial Canadian nationalism, ten years after the centennial, for which we were both constructive participants and captive audience. The backdrop of the main stage offered a map of the country, with the provinces coloured in pinks and greens reminiscent of the elementary school geography class wall-hangings we all knew by sight, but enlarged. At the outdoor spectacle – which was staged like an oversized set of "campfire" songs – we heard Anne Murray and experienced a flyover by the Snowbirds jets (which now seems to me like a kind of parodically sentimentalized Canadian militarism).
Snowbird flypast, over the ocean.
Apparently, a kilted and uniformed Prince Charles – as the movement's and the dominion's "chief scout" – addressed us, although I can't remember what he said or even that he was there.
or performing, but I think it's Prince Charles.
(I was even interviewed on tv – it might have been ATV or CBC – as some sort of representative boy scout; I think my scoutmaster had some connections in Nova Scotia, and he was kind enough to get some of his scouts out into view. Sadly for me, there's no tape I know of to prove that this happened, but my parents saw it, all five seconds of it.) But I do remember Stompin' Tom.
This must have been the biggest crowd he ever played to. He would have just turned forty, although he had, as he always did, the worn, pinched thin-lipped face of a perennially older man. He looked country. I don't know how I can picture these details. I was pretty far back in the welter of boys, but I think I can see how he was dressed: black hat, peglegged black jeans, flowered polyester cowboy shirt, tall-heeled cowboy boots, belt with ornate silver buckle, bolo tie, black vest, maybe real leather maybe imitation leather. His own uniform. He played some of his PEI songs I'm certain, "Bud the Spud" and "Lester the Lobster." We all knew these songs, knew the words, and sang along if we weren't too ashamed to sing. They were stupid, they were beautiful, they were awful, they were great. I don't know how it was that we had heard them all before often enough to know them, but it was true that we had. Small-town country radio was almost all there was where I came from. He also did "Sudbury Saturday Night," I think, and some inappropriate drinking songs. He may not have realized he was playing to amassed twelve year olds. Then again, he might have. It was, the way I remember it, a short concert, which is why I think it may have been the opening act. For maybe 30 minutes, he really kicked the heck out of his plywood stomping board, his left leg flailing at the stage: Stompin' Tom had still come stompin'. In the end, he hadn't played enough to wear a hole in the board. So he and the emcee just picked it up, and he finished punching a hole through the middle by hand. It had to be done.
There was one kid in my scout patrol called Huey. His father owned some construction business or other around town; he was a boy-child of privilege, as most of us were in that troop. As we walked back from the concert to our tents, and for the rest of the trip, he must have been cued by the music to ask everybody within earshot over and over again the same two questions about the current top-forty: "Do you like 'Sir Duke'?" "Do you like Fleetwood Mac?" For days afterwards, he wouldn't stop. "Do you like Fleetwood Mac?" "Do you like 'Sir Duke'?" Now I couldn't admit it, but I actually kind of liked Stompin' Tom. Uncool as he was, and so far off the un-Canadian charts, he still kicked it around. The sound of Tom Connors from Skinner's Pond had got into my head, a relentlessly nasal, driven throb that no needy kid's voice could ever dislodge.


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Computer Game Puts Army Officers in Shoes of Afghan Village Elders
By Stew Magnuson
The Army is testing a strategy video game that teaches captains who are being sent to Afghanistan how to think like a local village elder.
"CultureShock: Afghanistan" is currently being tested at the U.S. Army Engineer School captains career course at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. The purpose of the game is to teach cultural awareness and show officers what drives the decisions of local leaders whom U.S. forces may encounter.
IDS International of Arlington, Va. designed the game to be played from the point of view of a village leader. It begins when the previous leader has passed away and control of the village has been passed down to a son, Tom Viehe, a research associate at IDS, said on the sidelines of the Association of the United States Army annual conference.
"You enter the game having no influence at all, and you have to build that influence," Viehe said.
Students log in each day and play the game for five to 15 minutes. They make decisions based on events that occur in the daily life of an Afghan village. Some are relatively mundane such as crop and labor issues. Others deal with Taliban spring offensives and corruption. Each daily login represents about a week in the life of a village.
The game is "bound by the real world physical, political and cultural restrictions of Southern Afghanistan," company literature stated. IDS works with Afghan-Americans to ensure realism, Viehe added.
Students can access a reference a guide called "AfghanPedia" in order to make queries about cultural points, Viehe said. At the end of the eight-week class, instructors gather data to see how the students' analytical and cultural understanding improved.
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Now, lets be sure here that the words do not have to be traditional wedding vows. Evoking your own special thoughts will become your unique and meaningful wedding vows. You want your words to express your commitment to your future life partner, so make sure your vows reflect how you truly mean to live in this relationship. Perhaps include previously authored literary passages, consider quoting a romantic poem, or lyrics from a special song. Remember the significance of this occasion and make this momentous.
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Unveiling temporal correlations characteristic of a phase transition in the output intensity of a fiber laser
Aragoneses, A., Carpi, L., Tarasov, N., Churkin, D.V., Torrent, M.C., Masoller, C. and Turitsyn, S.K. (2016). Unveiling temporal correlations characteristic of a phase transition in the output intensity of a fiber laser. Physical Review Letters, 116 (3),
We use advanced statistical tools of time-series analysis to characterize the dynamical complexity of the transition to optical wave turbulence in a fiber laser. Ordinal analysis and the horizontal visibility graph applied to the experimentally measured laser output intensity reveal the presence of temporal correlations during the transition from the laminar to the turbulent lasing regimes. Both methods unveil coherent structures with well-defined time scales and strong correlations both, in the timing of the laser pulses and in their peak intensities. Our approach is generic and may be used in other complex systems that undergo similar transitions involving the generation of extreme fluctuations.
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.033902
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© 2016 American Physical Society. Unveiling Temporal Correlations Characteristic of a Phase Transition in the Output Intensity of a Fiber Laser. A. Aragoneses, L. Carpi, N. Tarasov, D. V. Churkin, M. C. Torrent, C. Masoller, and S. K. Turitsyn. Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 033902 – Published 22 January 2016 -Funding: ERC project ULTRALASER; Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (14.B25.31.0003); Spanish MINECO (FIS2012-37655-C02-01), European Office of Aerospace Research and Development (EOARD - FA9550-14-1-0359); CNPq Brazil, Russian Foundation for Basic Research (15-02-07925); Presidential Grant for Young researchers (14.120.14.228-MK); and Russian Science Foundation (Grant No. 14-21-00110).
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Recently, I had the blessing of some time off before starting a new full-time job. In line with my 8 poker goal of , I decided to capitalize on the opportunity to take a special poker vacation, with Prague as my chosen destination. While I did a good bit of touring over the three days I was there you should too!
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Remember how great they said it would be? Remember the promises they made about filling out your taxes on a postcard? Remember how they ignored the experts who told us all what Congress was actually passing?
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According to a recent NBC/WSJ poll, only 17 percent of Americans think their taxes went down, and a majority don't think they got any tax cut at all. And this isn't partisan. Only 33 percent of Republicans think they got a tax cut.
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MBB welcomes the European Commission's commitment of strengthening the Single Market through the Industrial Strategy
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The Malta Business Bureau welcomes the publication of the European Commission's New Industrial Strategy: Building a stronger Single Market for Europe's recovery. The strategy outlines the EU's commitment to ensure that its industrial vision learns lessons from the COVID-19 crisis and helps drive the transformation to a more sustainable, digital, resilient and globally competitive economy.
The Communication proposes a set of instruments including a Single Market Emergency Instrument, a structural solution to ensure free movement during future crises; enforcing the Services Directive to ensure that Member States comply with their obligations to not introduce disproportionate requirements on foreign companies; strengthening market surveillance of products by supporting national authorities to increase capacity; and mobilising investment to support SMEs, including addressing payment delays, providing measures to address solvency risks and implementing Alternative Dispute Resolution schemes.
MBB President Simon De Cesare stated, "The revamped Industrial Strategy is a very good step forward aimed towards solidifying the Single Market, which is the EU's biggest and most successful project. We particularly welcome the initiatives to ensure minimal disruption in the Single Market during future crises, as it will allow for smoother cross-border movement of goods and services which were severely disrupted during the pandemic."
"In addition, we are very happy to see two key issues raised by the MBB in the 2019 report on the Single Market, 'The Impact of the European Single Market on Maltese Businesses', have been taken up. Specifically, the commitment for greater enforcement on the obligations of the Services Directive which will ensure that Member States do not introduce protectionist requirements, as well as providing support to Member States' market surveillance authorities to increase their capacity to better be able to go about their duties and ensure a fair level playing field for all companies," concluded Mr De Cesare.
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Basic Electronics » Electro-magnetism. Concept check.
Hey everyone, I just wanted to go over some basic concepts.
If I have a mathematically perfect oscillator, that can vibrate at any frequency, and I make a current pass through the wire at 545THz, will the wire start glowing green?
Also, if I have a fast enough, perfect oscilloscope, and I shine a green light at the probe, will I see a sine wave of 545THz?
I know that such switching speeds are impossible by any modern technology, but will the above happen if we did have fast and sensitive enough equipment?
The wire wouldn't glow at all unless it got hot enough to emit photons. Then it is probably the material that determines the color rather than the frequency that is used to heat it up.
Liekwise, wouldn't you have to shine the light on a material that will generate a voltage when bombarded with photons before you could have an electronic signal?
Well I thought about that, because if you apply a 400Mhz voltage to a wire it starts emmiting 400Mhz electro-magnetic waves (Radio, cell phones, WiFi, etc...) So if you apply 545THz voltage, shouldn't it start emmiting 545THz electro-magnetic waves?
The resistance of the wire increases with frequency, due to the skin effect. This happens because of eddy currents caused by the rapidly changing magnetic field from the alternating current. The skin depth at 545 THz in copper would be about 3nm which is much smaller than the wavelength of light of the same frequency. That's a fancy way of saying "metal is opaque".
I suppose it would but you can't see electro-magnetic waves so there's no color or glow necessarily associated with it.
Sorry! :-) That was a lot of hand-waving, though, and a gross oversimplification. There actually is a lot of research going on in terahertz oscillators. It's just more complicated than a high frequency in a wire because of the physics involved at those frequencies.
Well ok. I should have stuck with my first I don't know - LOL!
545 THZ? I'd like to see an oscillator do that first. A wire resonant to that frequency would be really really short.
hexorg, to specifically answer your questions, the answer is no, and no.
well, I guess is you had an oscillator that COULD make 545 thz it would glow green... I think fastest alternating current so far is around 500 Ghz, but don't quote me on it cause I don't actually remember where I read that.
No, it would not glow green. There are energy transference issues, directional issues, and more. The great thing about postulating is you can suspend the laws of physics to do so- the problems with it is you suspend the laws of physics.


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The investment will increase the refinery's output yield and generate around 4,300 construction jobs
Motiva Enterprises LLC, a subsidiary of Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company Saudi Aramco, has recently announced plans to invest around $6.6 billion in its Port Arthur refinery, to enhance its petrochemical business.
Sources close to the matter state that the company plans to buy a new $4.7 billion worth steam cracker to produce ethylene, used to produce polyethylene, and other petrochemicals. Moreover, Motiva considers building a $1.9 billion complex that would produce paraxylene and benzene, cite sources.
Reportedly, the two projects would be complete by 2022, based on the firm's decision to move forward with the investments and procure required permits. The project is expected to create thousands of new construction jobs and boost the nation's largest oil refinery in the petrochemical sector.
Incidentally, the project comes at a time when several new petrochemical projects are rolling out on the Gulf Coast, with refineries looking to diversify their businesses to meet the growing demand for motor fuels in the next couple of decades.
According to Angela Goodwin, spokesperson, Motiva, the company is actively seeking opportunities along the Gulf Coast. She said that the final investment decisions by the Board of Directors might take place after 2019 and is reliant on strong investments, competitive incentives, and regulatory support.
Reliable sources cite that the petrochemical project, on full capacity, would generate 4,300 construction jobs and would support around 255 permanent jobs with an average annual salary of about $80,000.
For the record, in April 2018, Aramco signed MoUs worth $8 billion-$10 billion with Technip FMC and Honeywell UOP to identify petrochemical production technology for an upcoming Port Arthur chemical project. Further, In June, Motiva said that it would focus on growing its petrochemical business and potentially acquiring other oil refineries.
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