Earlier this month, an anonymous source told AFP news agency that the US has started withdrawing non-essential equipment from Syria, though American military personnel remain deployed in the Middle Eastern country. The troop pull-out was announced by President Trump in December 2018.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - US national security adviser John Bolton reportedly plans during his trip to Israel to discuss maintaining US presence in Syria to counter the Iranian threat.
The White House announced the withdrawal of the country's troops from Syria within next the 100 days, stating that with the defeat of Daesh* forces in the region their mission was finally over.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The United States will withdraw its troops from its military base located in the south-eastern Syrian city of Al-Tanf, near the Jordanian border, BuzzFeed reported, citing a militant commander at Al-Tanf.
Located on Syrian territory near the border with Jordan, the military base in al-Tanf is reportedly being employed by the United States to train militants belonging to the anti-government opposition, with Damascus branding the US presence in the area as illegal.
The development comes nearly two weeks after a spokesperson for the US-led coalition's Operation Inherent Resolve against Daesh told Sputnik that there was no terrorist camp near its military base in Syria's al-Tanf.
The development comes amid US media reports claiming that the Russian military had allegedly warned Washington of its plans to attack militants near America's al-Tanf military base in Syria.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The US-led coalition in Iraq and Syria denies allegations that a Syrian militant group has set up training camps near the United States' military base in Syria's al-Tanf, a spokesperson for Operation Inherent Resolve told Sputnik on Tuesday.
Damascus has repeatedly called the US presence in the southern Syrian town of al-Tanf "illegal" and has insisted that American forces withdraw from the region immediately.
During a Saturday press conference in Damascus, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem described the US military presence in the country as illegal, insisting that the American forces should leave the region.
According to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, only Syrian government troops should be located on the country's Southern borders with Israel.
ASTANA (Sputnik) - The US military presence near the Al-Tanf military base and nearby Rukban refugee camp in the south of Syria is "pure aggression and occupation," head of the Syrian government delegation to the Astana reconciliation talks Bashar Jaafari told reporters.


is in charge of daily operation of Ubisoft's vice president Anne Blondel-Jouin said in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Ubisoft will no longer affect game player full experience of DLC charge, which is from "Rainbow Six:" success in obtaining siege experience.
Blondel-Jouin is to say: "(the content) of money is a thing we are very careful, my team is responsible for ensuring that we find the right balance. The key to "
" is that if we add something that is not a real game experience, that's not good. Because you're asking for money from the players for the wrong reason. In the same way, if the content is necessary for the players, that is not good. This (DLC) is a way of passing more pleasure to the players, but they have the right to choose whether they need the extra pleasure. "
" I now use amusement park to play for example, you can go to play all the facilities inside, but you can also go to the store to buy some food, goods, or whatever...... Whether or not you spend the time in the store, you still have a full play experience. No one will force you when you don't want to buy something, but this is another way to get a different entertainment experience. If you are with your child, you have a toy that you want to start with, we will make sure you give you an extra experience. It won't be the case that you can't do anything else that you don't buy. "
" DLC is made for the players who have to buy is not used. There will be no more you can not buy a complete game experience DLC. You now have a game, if you want to expand its play, you can get free DLC, or not. It depends on how you want to expand it. "
" Rainbow Six: Siege "DLC strategy is the player can get all the extra maps, but the new role and the role of the custom content can be paid to buy. Last year's "halo 5" and the recent release of the "Titan 2" has also taken a similar strategy. Players who buy the game can play all the maps and models of the game without paying extra money, which makes them want to stay in the game for a long time.
Blondel-Jouin said the strategy to "Rainbow Six: Siege" in business and daily active number of game player has been successful. She added: "we are very happy with the new character of the Rainbow Six: siege, they can customize the role of weapons and shape. But if they don't do it, they will have the same experience as the rest of the players. It's just a part of our extra income, but the players are willing to pay for it. If the players are not happy, we will not ask them to ask for more money. "
" does have some business impact on us. This also for Ubisoft and game player are much more fair, we also gave the game player an additional proposal, regardless of whether they accept it. This is because the game player who transferred to the highest possible quality products is the responsibility of ubisoft. If you make a nuisance of a toy, no matter what brand it is, no one will buy it. We want the creative team to make the best of the players, and this will be a win-win situation. "
as a player, naturally happy to see manufacturers in this way to the subsequent support of the game, but also hope that more companies can join the ranks of. And when it comes to the text mentioned in the "Rainbow Six: Siege", it has announced a new Japanese DLC, which contains two new roles.
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Bullhorn Seeks to Bridge the Opportunity Divide through Expanded Support of Workplace Development Nonprofits
Bullhorn Joins Pledge 1%, Announces New Partnership with Year Up, and Dedicates $50,000 Donation Match to Help Talent Shine through Circumstance
ENGAGE BOSTON 2018—Bullhorn®, the cloud computing company that helps staffing and recruiting organizations transform their businesses, today announced that it has joined Pledge 1% – a global corporate philanthropy initiative in which forward-looking organizations pledge one percent of their equity, employee time, product, and/or profit to benefit their communities.
While talent is distributed equally, opportunity – unfortunately – is not. To that end, Bullhorn has made it a corporate mission to help close the opportunity gap, both in the initiatives and organizations it supports, and in the customers it empowers.
Bullhorn's official association with Pledge 1% is just the latest example of its core commitment to social responsibility and community service; in 2006, the company launched its philanthropic arm, Bullhorn Cares, through which all employees are allowed and encouraged to volunteer in their communities every quarter. Bullhorn Cares has raised $500,000 since its inception, with $60,000 given to workplace development nonprofits in 2018 alone.
A key recipient of Bullhorn Cares' efforts over the years has been Career Collaborative, a nonprofit organization that teaches unemployed and underemployed adults with low-income jobs how to build careers that change their lives and strengthen their families. Art Papas, Bullhorn's founder and CEO, has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of Career Collaborative since 2015.
Bullhorn's annual North American staffing and recruiting industry conference, Engage, is currently taking place in Boston, Massachusetts, celebrating the theme of The Power of People, and showcasing transformative stories of the staffing industry's bold leadership and dedication to helping adults achieve dignity and provide for themselves and their families through meaningful work. To this end, Bullhorn has partnered with Year Up, a nonprofit organization that helps urban young adults reach their achievement potential. At Engage Boston 2018, Bullhorn will match all corporate and personal donations to Year Up, as well as those to Career Collaborative, up to $50,000.
"If there is one thing I've learned working in the workforce solutions ecosystem over the past 19 years," said Art Papas, "it's that almost everyone has the potential to build a truly rewarding career to provide for themselves and their families. But the reality is that there are millions of smart, hard-working adults that lack the knowledge, mentorship, and self-confidence to pursue those opportunities. They believe that rewarding careers are beyond their reach. Bridging the chasm between potential and empowerment is an enormous opportunity for our communities, and it's the focus of all of our philanthropic efforts at Bullhorn."
To learn more about Year Up, please visit: https://www.yearup.org/
To learn more about Career Collaborative, please visit: https://www.careercollaborative.org/
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The Beacon: July 24th 2002
July 24, 2002 August 8, 2011 neiloseman
The first screening of The Beacon at the Courtyard. Jesus Christ, I hate this film so much now. I can't believe I have to sit through it AGAIN tomorrow. Why did I ever think it was a good script? The audience was a decent size, and mainly consisted of cast and crew's friends and relatives. They all found Behind The Beacon quite amusing. I'll never top the art college screening though. Those guys totally got it. Everyone who came tonight was either too close to it, or too old to realise it wasn't meant to be taken seriously. But I guess perhaps they enjoyed it on some other level. One couple who turned up after hearing about it from a friend absolutely loved it, even buying a copy of the video and asking me to sign it. Aaah. Simon Widdos, the SAS actor who's been promoting the film in Worcester, has made a sale of three copies to a video rental store. Hopefully he'll be able to sell a few more before I have to sign the rights over to Subsurface.
The Beacon: May 30th 2002
May 30, 2002 August 8, 2011 neiloseman
Okay, I admit it. It was behind me and a bit to the left. Satisfied now? So I took the contract to a solictor yesterday, and he had one or two concerns with it. Still, given that a couple of other companies that were interested in it have now come back to me with definite No Gos, and that Subsurface are willing to make an adjustment which the solicitor recommended, I imagine I shall indeed sign it, but not until after the Courtyard screenings, since of course once signed the contract prevents me from distributing the film myself.
The Beacon: May 21st 2002
I got an idea for a movie, and here's my pitch: I get a job and quit my band and you stop being a bitch. But enough of typing the lyrics of the Vandals song I'm listening to right now. On to more salient information, such as the fact that in front of me right now (alright, that's a lie – it's actually behind me and a bit to the right) is a Manufacturing and Distribution Agreement from Subsurface Distribution in Massachusetts, awaiting my signature. I must of course get it checked out by a solicitor, but what it basically says is that they will make 1,000 copies, promote it through street marketing and sending it to 300 film publications and journalists, and then pay me 50% of the sales revenue once they've recouped the costs of the above. So I may yet make my money back on this financial black hole of a movie. Which is good, since I just blew quite a few bucks on a lovely new camera. By the way, I've shut down the on-line ordering system since it was doing less business than a condom machine in the Vatican. (An old Red Dwarf joke there – wasn't that a great show?) You can still buy copies of the film by sending a cheque to me – details on the order page.
Went to The Courtyard to check out a few things for the screening. First up, a slight change to the times: the film will now begin at 8:30pm, with the doors opening at 8:15pm. And guess what's playing on their other screen? Only bleedin' Star Wars. Still, it'll have been out for over a month by then. Hmmm, Star Wars or some dodgy low budget film? Such a decision…
Ah, memories. I was just looking back at the entries for this time last year, as I tried to close off Malvern high street for extended cardboard chase action, budding actors and crew members started calling me lots and the hills reopened as Foot & Mouth Disease retreated. Here we are a year later and this site is till getting a surprising number of hits given that it's winding down, and will probably be gradually reduced in size as the webspace is freed up to make way for soulsearchermovie.com. Anyway, the reason for this entry is not one of pure nostalgia. No, its purpose is to inform you all that The Beacon is being screened at The Courtyard, Edgar Street, Hereford on June 24th and 25th. Tickets are UKP5 (UKP4 concessions). Doors open at 8pm; film starts at 8:15pmp, followed by Behind The Beacon and some spiel from yours truly about Soul Searcher. Be there or be having something better to do.
The Beacon: April 15th 2002
April 15, 2002 August 8, 2011 neiloseman
Finally got to screen the movie to the audience it was designed for: students. The reaction was good – they got it in a way that none of the previous (older) audiences had. Everyone else had taken it too seriously. Hell, I took it too seriously, but that probably makes it funnier. Anyway, a good turn out and a lot of people came back after a short break to watch Behind The Beacon and hear about the next project.
Just a quick one to say the website for my next feature project is now up and running, though I warn you it looks awful at the moment: www.soulsearchermovie.com
The Beacon: April 3rd 2002
Or 4/3/02, as I statesidedly dated my letter to Subsurface Distribution, enclosing a DVD copy of The Beacon for their perusal and hopeful purchase for distribution. Interestingly, the woman in the post office didn't ask if it was porn this time. Perhaps she saw my large hair and dark glasses and made up her own mind. So that would be the DVD finished then, except for me to burn lots of copies, and print out lots of covers, the first of which is currently rendering my typing sluggish as it background-spools its way out of my Epson. I've just completed a poster which features the obligatory context-ignoring quote from a review, in this case last Friday's crit by Malvern Gazette's very own Phill Tromans: "Genius." (As in "You don't have to be a genius to see this film is shit." Not really, of course.) Actually, Phill's review hit the relevant nails on their respective heads, though one wonders if it might have been even more favourable if my early films (the oft-spoken of but rarely aired Bob trilogy) hadn't included so many jokes at his expense. I met with The Courtyard's director and film programmer this morning, who are keen to screen The Beacon for two nights in early June, as part of their next film season. Also involved will be Behind The Beacon, a Q&A session with the director (that's me, folks) and a red carpet. Yes, really. Anyone who wants a complimentary ticket, start being nice to me now.
The Beacon: March 28th 2002
March 28, 2002 August 8, 2011 neiloseman
Burn, baby, burn. Wah wa-waaaaaah! No, it's not an Apple ad, it's the sound of The Beacon making its triumphant debut on DVD. Okay, so there are a couple of things which need changing, but nothing terrible. My VHS deck's box has "JVC – the inventors of VHS!" plastered across it. Proud of yourselves, huh? You poor, poor fools.
An historic day, marking as it did the first meeting of myself and Oscar short-listed producer James Clarke over our next film, Soul Taker. But that's another story, and one which will surely have its own website before too long. But let's not get ahead of ourselves. On the DVD front, I ran out of space on the disc, meaning I had to choose between slightly dodgy picture quality for the film and loads of extras, or good picture quality on the film and less extras. Of course I chose the latter, so I'm afraid there will be no trailers, multi-angle scenes, sound mix deconstruction or Cutting Room feature. Apologies, apologies.


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Visuomotor tracking with delayed visual feedback
R. C. Miall, D. J. Weir, J. F. Stein
A rhesus monkey and five human subjects used a hand-held joystick to track unpredictable continuously moving targets. Both monkey and human respond by making discrete ("step-and-hold") corrections of positional error, at an average frequency of 1.33 and 2.26 movements/second, respectively. By delaying visual feedback of joystick position, we could reduce these frequencies in a predictable manner. These results imply that the primate visuomotor system probably does not operate as a "sampled-data mechanism" governed by an asynchronous clock, but that inevitable delays in visuomotor feedback control determine the frequency of corrective movements.
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Miall, R. C., Weir, D. J., & Stein, J. F. (1985). Visuomotor tracking with delayed visual feedback. Neuroscience, 16(3), 511-520. https://doi.org/10.1016/0306-4522(85)90189-7
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Why being fake has never been easier. Welcome to the Down With The Man issue: Part 5.
Privacy. Between spam, phishing and the daily wear-and-tear of your email, it's no wonder many of us craft alter egos for the Interwebs and open email accounts specifically designated for worthless emails. But even that can be too much work. Well, time for a break: say hello to Mailinator, the no-signup, no-registration, no-hassle fake email address generator.
Why is it better than a made-up invalid email? Because it allows you actually get past that first step of email validation when you register for forums, fill out web forms, get free trials, and are otherwise spam-endangered by various one-time signup processes.
Here's how it works: you just make up an @mailinator.com email on the spot — could be anything, from eatspam@mailinator.com to iheartoatmeal@mailinator.com — and Mailinator generates a temporary email account when mail arrives for you. You can check it on the site, via RSS, through a widget, or straight from your browser toolbar — just enough to validate your email for each signup and forget about it.
How music got its groove back. Welcome to the Down With The Man issue: Part 6.
Lately, we've been focusing on the music industry a lot, what with all the massive tectonic shifts it's undergoing. Artists big and small are sticking it to the Big Label Man, anyone from big-leaguers like Madonna and Radiohead to indie mavericks like Ghost Away and Jill Sobule.
It's the very first exclusive for the social networking music site. But even more interestingly, Portishead was also the very first artist to join Last.fm's catalog, with their track Cowboys as the first one to ever be played on Last.fm when the site went live in 2002.
And here's the fascinating thing: traditionally, the music industry has employed an event-based model with album launches, where the launch is heavily promoted and positioned as an object of anticipation by sending the album out to music critics and reviewers well in advance, building up solid media hype. Then, that the record label and retailer can monetize this by pricing the anticipated new release much higher than other stuff.
Recently, in an excellent piece for Wired, the Talking Heads' David Byrne and Radiohead's Thom Yorke tackled the current business model, probing the capacity for change. And we think this Portishead/Last.fm move is tell-tale sign of days to come, where artists use new media and the power of the social web to promote, publish and eventually distribute their work, creating a loop of self-sufficiency that not only puts the fans first, but also completely circumvents the red tape of the Big Labels model.
How to do peer-to-peer sharing without entering Jesse James territory. Welcome to the Down With The Man issue: Part 7.
Speaking of things shaking the music industry, we couldn't gloss over the huge and highly polarized issue of piracy. Worst part: it's a vicious cycle. In a nutshell: a handful of big music retailers (a.k.a. "The Man") dominate 90% of music sales; they exert pricing pressure on everyone else, asking consumers to shell out too much for music, most of which doesn't even go to the artist due to brutal licensing deals; in turn, many music fans flip the bird and just download music illegally through P2P file-sharing.
But there's actually a way to get free music through "file-sharing" that doesn't make you an outlaw.
You may recall from pickings of yore services like Paperback Swap and SwapaCD — networks of everyday people who exchange books and CD's they own via the mail. Now there's a better execution to the same idea: swaptree, officially launched last July, is a similar concept, but has a broader media catalog — books, CD's, DVD's, even video games — and a massive member base of hundreds of thousands of users, with an astounding 30% monthly growth rate.
Seems like the newest media-shaker comes from the oldest medium of all: snail-mail, regarded today as barely a step up from pigeon post.
So how could all this be legal? Flashbacks of copyright class remind us about something known as the "first book doctrine," a loophole in copyright law that allows you to transfer (for payment or not) a lawful copy of copyrighted work (like a book or CD) once you've obtained it. Everyday translation: whenever you buy, find, receive as a gift or get your hands on a book in other ways, it's yours to do whatever you like with. Including swapping. And now it's being applied to other media.
Sure, the big media dictators may not be happy. But in this power- to-the-people age, getting the latest from Postal Service through the postal service is an in-your-face constitutional right "the people" are learning to exercise…and lovin' it.
Starting Monday, we're trying something a little different — because we're all for experimenting with the best ways to tickle your brain.
The idea: because each weekly theme features a bunch of different things across various categories, separating them out will make it easier for you to comment on specific pickings, link to individual articles and generally navigate better across category tags.
So we're keeping the concept of the themed weekly issue, but we're moving away from the "magazine" format where all sorts of different articles rub elbows with each other on the same "page" and share the same permalink. Now, each piece will get its own spotlight as a separate blog post with a separate permalink.
Erm, user-friendliness and all that shebang.
You can start getting friendly with it all on Monday, so stay tuned.


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Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. in Alexandria
The City of Alexandria has honored Martin Luther King, Jr. with a memorial program since 1973. The program is sponsored by the City of Alexandria in cooperation with local religious, spiritual, civic and social organizations.
Alexandria African American Heritage Park
Alexandria Society for the Preservation of Black Heritage
History of Alexandria's African American Community
Collections at the Alexandria Black History Museum
Contrabands & Freedmen Cemetery Memorial
Before the Spirits are Swept Away
Educational Resources at the Alexandria Black History Museum
Past Exhibitions at the Alexandria Black History Museum
The History of the Alexandria Black History Museum
Mission of the Alexandria Black History Museum
News and Information for the Alexandria Black History Museum
Oral History: The Alexandria Legacies Program
Plan Your Visit to the Alexandria Black History Museum
Programs & Events at the Alexandria Black History Museum
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48th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Program
The City of Alexandria honors the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in a virtual community program premiering on Friday, January 15, at 7 p.m. The program, "The Fierce Urgency of Building the Beloved Community," will be presented by the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Planning Committee.
This year's celebration features opening remarks by Mayor Justin Wilson; a keynote address by former Virginia Governor L. Douglas Wilder; entertainment by two-time Grammy nominated singer and songwriter Eric Roberson; music from the historic Alfred Street Baptist Church and Westminster Presbyterian Church choirs; a poem by Alexandria Poet Laureate KaNikki Jakarta; and remarks by community activists and leaders.
Memorial Program Flyer 2021
Program with Biographies of 2021 Participants
History of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Memorial Program
Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Staff Celebration
This year marks the 25th annual staff celebration. This event is an opportunity to reflect and honor the great life and legacy of Dr. King, and recognize that the fight to end discrimination and promote healing and equality involves all of us. City employees can access this program on AlexNet.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Poster Exhibition
The Alexandria Black History Museum with the Office of Historic Alexandria sponsors a yearly Student Poster Exhibition for Alexandria City Public School students, grades 2-5.
The 2021 Poster Exhibition (a virtual exhibition)
Teaching about Martin Luther King, Jr.
The listed resources are recommended for Alexandria City Public School teachers, in preparing classes on the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Preserving African American History
Martin Luther King, Jr. envisioned a nation that embraced diversity and equality and on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, we remember and celebrate his work, his teaching and his legacy.
This year's Keynote Speaker, L. Douglas Wilder, became the first African American governor in the United States and we celebrate his achievements, as his gubernatorial archive finally becomes available at the Library of Virginia.
Preserving the past informs the present and inspires the future. Ensuring the preservation of African American history and the legacy of the work, achievements, excellence, and struggle of those who came before us is vital to telling a more accurate and fuller story of America's history
You can be an active part of preserving a slice of that history by supporting the Alexandria Black History Museum's Moss Kendrix Collection in the Virginia Association of Museum's Top 10 Endangered Artifacts contest. This year's theme, "Conserving Diversity" is dedicated to shining an overdue light on the objects in Virginia's museums that help to tell untold stories of our past. This important archive documents the work and legacy of Moss Kendrix, the father of black public relations, who helped to remove stereotypes in advertising. Help us conserve this collection by voting every day through January 20


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The Experimenting Society
Citation: Donald Campbell (1998) The Experimenting Society. The Experimenting Society (RSS)
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In "The Experimenting Society," Donald Campbell asks, "Can the open society be an experimenting society?" Writing the first version of this essay in 1971 and updating it over time as people photocopied and distributed it, Campbell describes an experimenting society as one that would "vigorously try out possible solutions to recurrent problems and would make hard-headed, multidimensional evaluations of outcomes, and when the evaluation of one reform showed it to have been ineffective or harmful, would move on to try other alternatives."
The article sets up a series of reasons why the experimenting society and Popper's idea of the open society are not compatible. Then, Campbell discusses possible political and methodological ways to bring them together.
The Ideology of the Experimenting Society
Campbell outlines the main characteristics of an experimenting society:
"It will be an active society preferring exploratory innovation to inaction" (38). Campbell argues that "it will be committed to action research, to action as research rather than research as a postponement of action" (39) Here, Campbell cites Lewin, Etzioni, and Dunn, among others.
"It will be a scientific society" characterized by "scientific values of honesty, open criticism, experimentation, willingness to change once-advanced theories in the face of experimental and other evidence" (41). Campbell contrasts this attitude from the use of scientific findings to govern in ways that are "dogmatic, non-experimental" and "non-scientific" (41). Campbell complains that "economists, operations researchers, and mathematical decision theorists trustingly extrapolate from past science and conjecture, but in general fail to use the implemented decisions to correct or expand that knowledge" (42).
"It will be an accountable, challengeable, due-process society. Campbell advocates for open access to evaluation records and "recounts, audits, reanalyses, and reinterpretations of results" through "competitive criticism possible at the level of social experimentation." He also imagines that "citizens not a part of the governmental bureaucracy will have the means to communicate with their fellow citizens disagreements with official analyses and to propose alternative experiments," characteristics that make the experimenting society an open society in Popper's sense (42).
"It will be a decentralized society." Campbell suggests that "through autonomy or deliberate diversification, different administrative units will try out different ameliorative innovations and will cross-validate those discoveries as they borrow from others" (42). This semi-competitive situation with independent groups will allow replication and verification of findings elsewhere, Campbell argues.
"It will be a society committed to means-idealism as well as ends-idealism." By this, Campbell suggests that society committed to improvement will accept that it never reaches the "ends," and that all societal states are just "transitional steps" (42).
"It will be a popularly responsive society, whose goals and means are determined by collective good and popular preference." Campbell argues that "it will be a voluntaristic society, providing for individual participation and consent at all decision levels possible" (42)
The Social Scientist as Servant of the Experimenting Society
In this section, Campbell returns to ideas he set out in the 1970s (Campbell 1973), arguing that social scientists should take a passive role in politics, committing themselves to the "modesty of the physical sciences" and "more often say that we can't know until we've tried." Campbell encourages social scientists to "avoid cloaking their recommendations in a specious pseudoscientific certainty and instead acknowledge their advice as consisting of wise conjectures that need to be tested in implementation" (46).
In this section, Campbell describes the problem of administrators who closely align their political careers with the success or failure of a single idea. To avoid supporting this state of affairs, Campbell strongly encourages researchers to focus on evaluating programs rather than people and to test policies as a way to guide decisions elsewhere rather than evaluate that particular policy implementation.
The Use of Experimentation in the Experimenting Society
In this section, Campbell outlines the value of causal inference to policy evaluation, focusing on randomized trials. He argues that experiments "present special moral problems":
experiments select people from a population and often force participation in the treatment. Consequently, they might be accused as "an authoritarian, paternalistic imposition, treating citizens as passive recipients rather than co-agents directing their own society... rather than as collegial agents of the experiment" (Campbell, 49, summarizing Janousek, 1970)
"The enforcement of assigned treatments also violates the egalitarian and voluntaristic ideals of the experimenting society. The disguised experiment violates these too and, in addition, the values of openness, honesty, and accountability" (49).
Campbell considers several ways to address these wide-ranging problems:
informing control and treatment groups about an experiment in advance
adopting quasi-experimental designs
mutual criticism and "competitive cross-validation" between different evaluation groups, in several ways: (citing Campbell, 1986)
"contagious cross-validation" where local communities test their own ideas and also evaluate other communities' ideas when they consider adopting them. Campbell imagines a network of local communities who might be able to organize to generate "100 locally interpretable experiments" in 5 years, alongside o"a community of applied social scientists familiar with them all, that had cross-examined each others' data, suggested and done reanalyses" (52). Campbell suggests that "from the consensus of this mutually monitoring research community we would advise government and potential adopters" (52).
Competitive replication within national pilot studies could be done by splitting policy evaluation in to smaller units, including "adversarial stake-holder participation in the design of each pilot experiment or program evaluation and again in the interpretation of results" (Krause and Howard 1976, Bryk 1983). Campbell suggests that results be subject to "competitive reanalysis," and that "dissenting-opinion research reports" be encouraged and supported through free access to experimental data and community norms that welcome re-analysis. Campbell suggests that the results of experiments should be communicated back to participants, who he describes as "co-owners" of the findings, and who "would be allowed to use these results in political debates" (55).
Using different measures to evaluate programs as the ones used to evaluate people, since institutions will often adjust their behavior (including reporting behavior) to meet those targets: "nail factories that overproduced large spikes when the quota was set by tonnage, and overproduced small nails when the quota was set by number of items turned out" (55). Campbell also argues that the US military metrics of body counts "created an immoral and irrelevant military goal in Vietnam" (56). Campbell expects that in an experimenting society "social indicators will be used more than they are at present, and the corruption pressures will thus be greater" (56). For this reason, Campbell distances himself from the "accountability movement", writing that "I end up opposing the use of quantitative indicators for achieving managerial control" since it can "create more evils than it cures." In its place, Campbell suggests "the temporary use of quantitative measures in evaluating alternative programs" (56) and using "multiple indicators of the same problem, each of the indicators being recognized as imperfect, but so chosen as to have different imperfections" (56).
"Legitimating and facilitating evaluation by nonprofessional participants and observers" (57). Campbell does not expect that these methods will not be statistical. When results disagree, "we should remember that the statistical analyses involve simplifying assumptions that may be seriously in error" (57). Campbell argues that "it is those who have situation-specific information who make the best critics, and the best judges, of the plausibility of most of the rival hypotheses in their specific setting... in this process we must provide these nonprofessional observers with the self-confidence and opportunity to publicly disagree with the conclusions of the professional applied social scientists" (58).
"Long-term followup" to study the eventual outcomes of an intervention. Campbell offers a review of the methodological, administrative, and political challenges of setting up longitudinal research.
Grappling with the fact of experimentation as "Normal rather than extraordinary or revolutionary science" (63). Experiments are tools for incremental change rather than revolutionary change. Furthermore, revolutions tend to destroy the systems of measurement that make comparison possible. But Campbell does suggest that revolutionary governments might wish to test their own policies once a revolution has concluded.
Campbell concludes by suggesting "organized skepticism" toward the idea of an experimenting society, encouraging others to address the problems he listed "before we can wholeheartedly advocate for an experimenting society" (65).
References of Note
Bryk, A. S. (Ed.). (1983). Stakeholder-based evaluation. Jossey-Bass.
Campbell, D. T. (1973). The social scientist as methodological servant of the experimenting society. Policy Studies Journal, 2(1), 72-75.
Campbell, D. T. (1986). Science's social system of validity-enhancing collective belief change and the problems of the social sciences. Metatheory in social science: Pluralisms and subjectivities, 108-135. University of Chicago Press
Campbell, D. T. (1974). Qualitative knowing in action research. In The Social Context of Method, edited by M. Brenner, P. marsh, and M Brenner, 184-209. London: Croom Helm.
Krause, M. S., & Howard, K. I. (1976). Program evaluation in the public interest: A new research methodology. Community Mental Health Journal, 12(3), 291-300.
Janoušek, J. (1970). Comments on Campbell's" Reforms as experiments." American Psychologist. 25(2), 191-93.
Popper, K. S. (2012). The open society and its enemies. Routledge.
Etzioni, A. (1968). The active society. Free Press.
Dunn, E. S., & Dunn, E. S. (1971). Economic and social development; a process of social learning (No. 04; HM106, D8.).
Theoretical and Practical Relevance
In The Experimenting Society, Donald Campbell asks if a society that conducts social experiments to test policy can be an "open society" rather than a totalitarian one. In the article, he outlines the values of an "experimenting society" and offers a list of challenges for experimenters to address before it will be possible to evaluate the potential of an open, experimenting society. This article is a classic of policy evaluation, and the issues in the article continue to be important as measurement and experimentation become more common in society.
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Former Uruguayan president Julio Maria Sanguinetti (1985-1990, 1995-2000) has published a very insightful article about the state of Mercosur on the Infolatam.com site.
Sanguinetti starts with a quick review of the bloc, noting that the first eight years from 1991 to 1998 were marked by numerous successes, but when Brazil devalued the real in 1999, the institutional fragility of the bloc became clear. Dispute resolving systems were barely in place and didn't work. Argentina then shifted to a highly protectionist trade policy within a common market. What little institutional and legal strength Mercosur retained took a serious blow with the opportunistic suspension of Paraguay earlier this year.
The Treaty of Ushuaia was implemented to vouchsafe the democratic nature of member-states after a nearly successful attempted 1996 coup in Paraguay. This is the mechanism that was used by Argentina and Brazil to suspend Paraguay and let Venezuela into the bloc. But, as Sanguinetti points out, the Treaty requires that extensive consultations with the questioned country take place before it is suspended. His problem with the procedures followed in Mendoza is that these consultations did not take place and that massive political pressure was used to silence Uruguayan objections to a clear violation of the Mercosur treaties by Argentina and Brazil.
As intrinsically distasteful as Lugo's impeachment may have been, Sanguinetti reminds us that it took place through the constitutionally appropriate mechanisms in what amounted to a political trial. It should not have mattered that Lugo was seen as something of a friend by Dilma and Cristina.
What Sanguinetti is getting at is a much deeper systemic problem with inter-American affairs and a central remaining challenge to total democratic consolidation in the region. Elections are an important part of democracy, but their significance is limited when you have an attitude in the political class that because they are in charge they can do whatever they want.
The operating concept here is what Guillermo O'Donnell called 'horizontal accountability', the idea that there are rules, procedures and institutions that restrain the arbitrary actions of the state in a clear and predictable manner. There are clear signs from Argentina and Brazil, let alone Paraguay, that elected leaders at all levels have not quite internalized the idea that in a fully consolidated democracy there is a system of checks and balances that restrain executive caprice. Indeed, the big story right now in Brazil is about the mensalão corruption scandal, which charges that political advisers around Lula were running a 'cash retainer' system to buy votes in congress to get the get governmental legislation through.
The short-shrift given to regulatory and legal restraints by some political actors is amplified when we turn to the international arena. The open secret in inter-American affairs is that most issues are settled through presidential diplomacy, hence the large number of regional summit meetings. Legal and institutional structures are not put in place to effectively govern bilateral and multilateral relations (for example, what is the institutional and juridical strength of CELAC and Unasur?), and when they are in place, they are either ignored or marginalized. This latter case is exactly what we see happening in Mercosur. We don't have the bandwith to list all of the unresolved intra-Mercosur trade spats that have blithely ignored the bloc's internal dispute resolution and juridical mechanisms. Suffice it to say that member-countries have had to either threaten or go to the WTO dispute body to get satisfaction. Sanguinetti's point, which is particularly problematic for a small country like Uruguay, is that the legal frameworks for important groupings such as Mercosur have become just so much window dressing in the face of presidential want and desire in big countries such as Brazil.
There is also an important foreign policy point in Sanguinetti's comments. Brazilian diplomats are very clear that the international sovereignty norm is sacrosanct — one state may not intervene in the internal affairs of another state. Yet, this is precisely what has happened in the Paraguayan case. Indeed, the deeper irony is that while the historical case was that the political right pushed hardest for regime change, the tide has now shifted and it is the left that has the most pronouncements and interventions for its neighbours. This has been particularly evident in the Brazilian case where the willingness of Brazilian presidents and presidential advisors to make direct intervention in the internal political developments of other regional countries has been rising since 2003.
Taken its totality, the critique leveled by Sanguinetti goes a long way to explaining why the increasingly technocratic and regulatory sound states of Chile, Peru, Colombia and Mexico have bound together to for the Pacific Alliance rather than tying themselves more tightly to the ever-more politicized groupings such as Mercosur and even the now predominantly political Unasur. Why to the expense and pain of negotiating and signing onto rules and norms when they are unlikely to have any impact?


This June, join us as we defy the confines of the kitchen and look outside. If you need us, we'll be exploring the Great Outdoors.
Like most good ideas, this portable cold-brew coffee kit was born out of necessity.
So the couple simply took their cold-brew recipe, already loved at their shop; scaled it down; found the ideal, sturdy food-grade pouch; and thus Alkemy's cold-brew kit was born. While coffee lovers will appreciate the space-saving, self-contained coffee system, the main draw is surely for those in more adventurous situations, like a summer camping excursion or long cross-country road trip that needs a caffeine jolt. Now you don't have to pack the bean grinder, thermos or ceramic pour-over . . . or subsist on bitter rest-stop coffee. All you need is water and time (the all-in-one brew bag is even reusable).
The kit, which comes with two pouches, makes a total of eight cups of coffee and sells for $18. That's $2.25 per cup of cold brew, or $1.75 if you're working off the replacement pouches that they sell online—a highly economical alternative to one-off cups from a nearby coffee shop. And besides just being convenient, it actually tastes good. "I want them to conveniently make cold brew in the simplest way possible, while maintaining the highest quality of taste," Jin says. He explains how cold brew is less acidic than its hot-brewed counterpart ("The over 50 million heartburn sufferers in the U.S. should be pleased," he jokes), which lets its flavor shine through.
The duo is constantly working to bring new products to their loyal customers, whether they are cold brew-centric or of the spiced chai variety. Right now, they're working on finding the perfect Ethiopian coffee beans for the kit, to give a fruity contrast to the nutty dark chocolate flavor of the Brazilian beans they currently use.
Stuff a cold-brew pouch in your backpack next to the coffee-ready canteen for your next outdoor adventure. Forget that bulky camping stove—you won't be needing it anymore.


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__ConnVirtualDeviceToDistributable_MDL.py_____________________________________________________

Automatically generated AToM3 Model File (Do not modify directly)
Author: levi
Modified: Fri Aug 23 11:33:33 2013
______________________________________________________________________________________________
"""
from stickylink import *
from widthXfillXdecoration import *
from MatchModel import *
from ApplyModel import *
from ECU import *
from VirtualDevice import *
from Distributable import *
from CompositionType import *
from ComponentPrototype import *
from SwcToEcuMapping import *
from SwCompToEcuMapping_component import *
from paired_with import *
from match_contains import *
from directLink_S import *
from directLink_T import *
from apply_contains import *
from backward_link import *
from graph_ECU import *
from graph_match_contains import *
from graph_Distributable import *
from graph_backward_link import *
from graph_directLink_T import *
from graph_directLink_S import *
from graph_MatchModel import *
from graph_apply_contains import *
from graph_SwCompToEcuMapping_component import *
from graph_CompositionType import *
from graph_paired_with import *
from graph_ApplyModel import *
from graph_VirtualDevice import *
from graph_ComponentPrototype import *
from graph_SwcToEcuMapping import *
from ATOM3Enum import *
from ATOM3String import *
from ATOM3BottomType import *
from ATOM3Constraint import *
from ATOM3Attribute import *
from ATOM3Float import *
from ATOM3List import *
from ATOM3Link import *
from ATOM3Connection import *
from ATOM3Boolean import *
from ATOM3Appearance import *
from ATOM3Text import *
from ATOM3Action import *
from ATOM3Integer import *
from ATOM3Port import *
from ATOM3MSEnum import *

def ConnVirtualDeviceToDistributable_MDL(self, rootNode, GM2AUTOSAR_MMRootNode=None):

    # --- Generating attributes code for ASG GM2AUTOSAR_MM ---
    if( GM2AUTOSAR_MMRootNode ):
        # author
        GM2AUTOSAR_MMRootNode.author.setValue('Annonymous')

        # description
        GM2AUTOSAR_MMRootNode.description.setValue('\n')
        GM2AUTOSAR_MMRootNode.description.setHeight(15)

        # name
        GM2AUTOSAR_MMRootNode.name.setValue('ConnVirtualDeviceToDistributable')
    # --- ASG attributes over ---

    self.obj41=MatchModel(self)
    self.obj41.isGraphObjectVisual = True

    if(hasattr(self.obj41, '_setHierarchicalLink')):
      self.obj41._setHierarchicalLink(False)

    self.obj41.graphClass_= graph_MatchModel
    if self.genGraphics:
       new_obj = graph_MatchModel(20.0,620.0,self.obj41)
       new_obj.DrawObject(self.UMLmodel)
       self.UMLmodel.addtag_withtag("MatchModel", new_obj.tag)
       new_obj.layConstraints = dict() # Graphical Layout Constraints
       new_obj.layConstraints['scale'] = [1.0, 1.0]
    else: new_obj = None
    self.obj41.graphObject_ = new_obj

    # Add node to the root: rootNode
    rootNode.addNode(self.obj41)
    self.globalAndLocalPostcondition(self.obj41, rootNode)
    self.obj41.postAction( rootNode.CREATE )

    self.obj42=ApplyModel(self)
    self.obj42.isGraphObjectVisual = True

    if(hasattr(self.obj42, '_setHierarchicalLink')):
      self.obj42._setHierarchicalLink(False)

    self.obj42.graphClass_= graph_ApplyModel
    if self.genGraphics:
       new_obj = graph_ApplyModel(20.0,900.0,self.obj42)
       new_obj.DrawObject(self.UMLmodel)
       self.UMLmodel.addtag_withtag("ApplyModel", new_obj.tag)
       new_obj.layConstraints = dict() # Graphical Layout Constraints
       new_obj.layConstraints['scale'] = [1.0, 1.0]
    else: new_obj = None
    self.obj42.graphObject_ = new_obj

    # Add node to the root: rootNode
    rootNode.addNode(self.obj42)
    self.globalAndLocalPostcondition(self.obj42, rootNode)
    self.obj42.postAction( rootNode.CREATE )

    self.obj43=ECU(self)
    self.obj43.isGraphObjectVisual = True

    if(hasattr(self.obj43, '_setHierarchicalLink')):
      self.obj43._setHierarchicalLink(False)

    # classtype
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    # cardinality
    self.obj43.cardinality.setValue('+')

    # name
    self.obj43.name.setValue('ecu1')

    self.obj43.graphClass_= graph_ECU
    if self.genGraphics:
       new_obj = graph_ECU(260.0,720.0,self.obj43)
       new_obj.DrawObject(self.UMLmodel)
       self.UMLmodel.addtag_withtag("ECU", new_obj.tag)
       new_obj.layConstraints = dict() # Graphical Layout Constraints
       new_obj.layConstraints['scale'] = [1.0, 1.0]
    else: new_obj = None
    self.obj43.graphObject_ = new_obj

    # Add node to the root: rootNode
    rootNode.addNode(self.obj43)
    self.globalAndLocalPostcondition(self.obj43, rootNode)
    self.obj43.postAction( rootNode.CREATE )

    self.obj44=VirtualDevice(self)
    self.obj44.isGraphObjectVisual = True

    if(hasattr(self.obj44, '_setHierarchicalLink')):
      self.obj44._setHierarchicalLink(False)

    # classtype
    self.obj44.classtype.setValue('VirtualDevice')

    # cardinality
    self.obj44.cardinality.setValue('+')

    # name
    self.obj44.name.setValue('vd1')

    self.obj44.graphClass_= graph_VirtualDevice
    if self.genGraphics:
       new_obj = graph_VirtualDevice(480.0,720.0,self.obj44)
       new_obj.DrawObject(self.UMLmodel)
       self.UMLmodel.addtag_withtag("VirtualDevice", new_obj.tag)
       new_obj.layConstraints = dict() # Graphical Layout Constraints
       new_obj.layConstraints['scale'] = [1.0, 1.0]
    else: new_obj = None
    self.obj44.graphObject_ = new_obj

    # Add node to the root: rootNode
    rootNode.addNode(self.obj44)
    self.globalAndLocalPostcondition(self.obj44, rootNode)
    self.obj44.postAction( rootNode.CREATE )

    self.obj45=Distributable(self)
    self.obj45.isGraphObjectVisual = True

    if(hasattr(self.obj45, '_setHierarchicalLink')):
      self.obj45._setHierarchicalLink(False)

    # classtype
    self.obj45.classtype.setValue('Distributable')

    # cardinality
    self.obj45.cardinality.setValue('+')

    # name
    self.obj45.name.setValue('dist1')

    self.obj45.graphClass_= graph_Distributable
    if self.genGraphics:
       new_obj = graph_Distributable(680.0,720.0,self.obj45)
       new_obj.DrawObject(self.UMLmodel)
       self.UMLmodel.addtag_withtag("Distributable", new_obj.tag)
       new_obj.layConstraints = dict() # Graphical Layout Constraints
       new_obj.layConstraints['scale'] = [1.0, 1.0]
    else: new_obj = None
    self.obj45.graphObject_ = new_obj

    # Add node to the root: rootNode
    rootNode.addNode(self.obj45)
    self.globalAndLocalPostcondition(self.obj45, rootNode)
    self.obj45.postAction( rootNode.CREATE )

    self.obj46=CompositionType(self)
    self.obj46.isGraphObjectVisual = True

    if(hasattr(self.obj46, '_setHierarchicalLink')):
      self.obj46._setHierarchicalLink(False)

    # classtype
    self.obj46.classtype.setValue('CompositionType')

    # cardinality
    self.obj46.cardinality.setValue('1')

    # name
    self.obj46.name.setValue('composty1')

    self.obj46.graphClass_= graph_CompositionType
    if self.genGraphics:
       new_obj = graph_CompositionType(280.0,960.0,self.obj46)
       new_obj.DrawObject(self.UMLmodel)
       self.UMLmodel.addtag_withtag("CompositionType", new_obj.tag)
       new_obj.layConstraints = dict() # Graphical Layout Constraints
       new_obj.layConstraints['scale'] = [1.0, 1.0]
    else: new_obj = None
    self.obj46.graphObject_ = new_obj

    # Add node to the root: rootNode
    rootNode.addNode(self.obj46)
    self.globalAndLocalPostcondition(self.obj46, rootNode)
    self.obj46.postAction( rootNode.CREATE )

    self.obj47=ComponentPrototype(self)
    self.obj47.isGraphObjectVisual = True

    if(hasattr(self.obj47, '_setHierarchicalLink')):
      self.obj47._setHierarchicalLink(False)

    # classtype
    self.obj47.classtype.setValue('ComponentPrototype')

    # cardinality
    self.obj47.cardinality.setValue('1')

    # name
    self.obj47.name.setValue('comp1')

    self.obj47.graphClass_= graph_ComponentPrototype
    if self.genGraphics:
       new_obj = graph_ComponentPrototype(380.0,1080.0,self.obj47)
       new_obj.DrawObject(self.UMLmodel)
       self.UMLmodel.addtag_withtag("ComponentPrototype", new_obj.tag)
       new_obj.layConstraints = dict() # Graphical Layout Constraints
       new_obj.layConstraints['scale'] = [1.0, 1.0]
    else: new_obj = None
    self.obj47.graphObject_ = new_obj

    # Add node to the root: rootNode
    rootNode.addNode(self.obj47)
    self.globalAndLocalPostcondition(self.obj47, rootNode)
    self.obj47.postAction( rootNode.CREATE )

    self.obj48=SwcToEcuMapping(self)
    self.obj48.isGraphObjectVisual = True

    if(hasattr(self.obj48, '_setHierarchicalLink')):
      self.obj48._setHierarchicalLink(False)

    # classtype
    self.obj48.classtype.setValue('SwcToEcuMapping')

    # cardinality
    self.obj48.cardinality.setValue('1')

    # name
    self.obj48.name.setValue('stem1')

    self.obj48.graphClass_= graph_SwcToEcuMapping
    if self.genGraphics:
       new_obj = graph_SwcToEcuMapping(540.0,920.0,self.obj48)
       new_obj.DrawObject(self.UMLmodel)
       self.UMLmodel.addtag_withtag("SwcToEcuMapping", new_obj.tag)
       new_obj.layConstraints = dict() # Graphical Layout Constraints
       new_obj.layConstraints['Text Scale'] = 0.77
       new_obj.layConstraints['scale'] = [1.0, 1.0]
    else: new_obj = None
    self.obj48.graphObject_ = new_obj

    # Add node to the root: rootNode
    rootNode.addNode(self.obj48)
    self.globalAndLocalPostcondition(self.obj48, rootNode)
    self.obj48.postAction( rootNode.CREATE )

    self.obj49=SwCompToEcuMapping_component(self)
    self.obj49.isGraphObjectVisual = True

    if(hasattr(self.obj49, '_setHierarchicalLink')):
      self.obj49._setHierarchicalLink(False)

    # classtype
    self.obj49.classtype.setValue('SwCompToEcuMapping_component')

    # cardinality
    self.obj49.cardinality.setValue('1')

    # name
    self.obj49.name.setValue('sctemc1')

    self.obj49.graphClass_= graph_SwCompToEcuMapping_component
    if self.genGraphics:
       new_obj = graph_SwCompToEcuMapping_component(620.0,1080.0,self.obj49)
       new_obj.DrawObject(self.UMLmodel)
       self.UMLmodel.addtag_withtag("SwCompToEcuMapping_component", new_obj.tag)
       new_obj.layConstraints = dict() # Graphical Layout Constraints
       new_obj.layConstraints['scale'] = [1.0, 1.0]
    else: new_obj = None
    self.obj49.graphObject_ = new_obj

    # Add node to the root: rootNode
    rootNode.addNode(self.obj49)
    self.globalAndLocalPostcondition(self.obj49, rootNode)
    self.obj49.postAction( rootNode.CREATE )

    self.obj50=paired_with(self)
    self.obj50.isGraphObjectVisual = True

    if(hasattr(self.obj50, '_setHierarchicalLink')):
      self.obj50._setHierarchicalLink(False)

    self.obj50.graphClass_= graph_paired_with
    if self.genGraphics:
       new_obj = graph_paired_with(157.0,804.5,self.obj50)
       new_obj.DrawObject(self.UMLmodel)
       self.UMLmodel.addtag_withtag("paired_with", new_obj.tag)
       new_obj.layConstraints = dict() # Graphical Layout Constraints
    else: new_obj = None
    self.obj50.graphObject_ = new_obj

    # Add node to the root: rootNode
    rootNode.addNode(self.obj50)
    self.globalAndLocalPostcondition(self.obj50, rootNode)
    self.obj50.postAction( rootNode.CREATE )

    self.obj51=match_contains(self)
    self.obj51.isGraphObjectVisual = True

    if(hasattr(self.obj51, '_setHierarchicalLink')):
      self.obj51._setHierarchicalLink(False)

    self.obj51.graphClass_= graph_match_contains
    if self.genGraphics:
       new_obj = graph_match_contains(277.5,713.5,self.obj51)
       new_obj.DrawObject(self.UMLmodel)
       self.UMLmodel.addtag_withtag("match_contains", new_obj.tag)
       new_obj.layConstraints = dict() # Graphical Layout Constraints
    else: new_obj = None
    self.obj51.graphObject_ = new_obj

    # Add node to the root: rootNode
    rootNode.addNode(self.obj51)
    self.globalAndLocalPostcondition(self.obj51, rootNode)
    self.obj51.postAction( rootNode.CREATE )

    self.obj52=match_contains(self)
    self.obj52.isGraphObjectVisual = True

    if(hasattr(self.obj52, '_setHierarchicalLink')):
      self.obj52._setHierarchicalLink(False)

    self.obj52.graphClass_= graph_match_contains
    if self.genGraphics:
       new_obj = graph_match_contains(387.5,713.5,self.obj52)
       new_obj.DrawObject(self.UMLmodel)
       self.UMLmodel.addtag_withtag("match_contains", new_obj.tag)
       new_obj.layConstraints = dict() # Graphical Layout Constraints
    else: new_obj = None
    self.obj52.graphObject_ = new_obj

    # Add node to the root: rootNode
    rootNode.addNode(self.obj52)
    self.globalAndLocalPostcondition(self.obj52, rootNode)
    self.obj52.postAction( rootNode.CREATE )

    self.obj53=match_contains(self)
    self.obj53.isGraphObjectVisual = True

    if(hasattr(self.obj53, '_setHierarchicalLink')):
      self.obj53._setHierarchicalLink(False)

    self.obj53.graphClass_= graph_match_contains
    if self.genGraphics:
       new_obj = graph_match_contains(487.5,713.5,self.obj53)
       new_obj.DrawObject(self.UMLmodel)
       self.UMLmodel.addtag_withtag("match_contains", new_obj.tag)
       new_obj.layConstraints = dict() # Graphical Layout Constraints
    else: new_obj = None
    self.obj53.graphObject_ = new_obj

    # Add node to the root: rootNode
    rootNode.addNode(self.obj53)
    self.globalAndLocalPostcondition(self.obj53, rootNode)
    self.obj53.postAction( rootNode.CREATE )

    self.obj54=directLink_S(self)
    self.obj54.isGraphObjectVisual = True

    if(hasattr(self.obj54, '_setHierarchicalLink')):
      self.obj54._setHierarchicalLink(False)

    # associationType
    self.obj54.associationType.setValue('virtualDevice')

    self.obj54.graphClass_= graph_directLink_S
    if self.genGraphics:
       new_obj = graph_directLink_S(512.0,764.0,self.obj54)
       new_obj.DrawObject(self.UMLmodel)
       self.UMLmodel.addtag_withtag("directLink_S", new_obj.tag)
       new_obj.layConstraints = dict() # Graphical Layout Constraints
    else: new_obj = None
    self.obj54.graphObject_ = new_obj

    # Add node to the root: rootNode
    rootNode.addNode(self.obj54)
    self.globalAndLocalPostcondition(self.obj54, rootNode)
    self.obj54.postAction( rootNode.CREATE )

    self.obj55=directLink_S(self)
    self.obj55.isGraphObjectVisual = True

    if(hasattr(self.obj55, '_setHierarchicalLink')):
      self.obj55._setHierarchicalLink(False)

    # associationType
    self.obj55.associationType.setValue('distributable')

    self.obj55.graphClass_= graph_directLink_S
    if self.genGraphics:
       new_obj = graph_directLink_S(722.0,764.0,self.obj55)
       new_obj.DrawObject(self.UMLmodel)
       self.UMLmodel.addtag_withtag("directLink_S", new_obj.tag)
       new_obj.layConstraints = dict() # Graphical Layout Constraints
    else: new_obj = None
    self.obj55.graphObject_ = new_obj

    # Add node to the root: rootNode
    rootNode.addNode(self.obj55)
    self.globalAndLocalPostcondition(self.obj55, rootNode)
    self.obj55.postAction( rootNode.CREATE )

    self.obj56=directLink_T(self)
    self.obj56.isGraphObjectVisual = True

    if(hasattr(self.obj56, '_setHierarchicalLink')):
      self.obj56._setHierarchicalLink(False)

    # associationType
    self.obj56.associationType.setValue('component')

    self.obj56.graphClass_= graph_directLink_T
    if self.genGraphics:
       new_obj = graph_directLink_T(500.5,1037.0,self.obj56)
       new_obj.DrawObject(self.UMLmodel)
       self.UMLmodel.addtag_withtag("directLink_T", new_obj.tag)
       new_obj.layConstraints = dict() # Graphical Layout Constraints
    else: new_obj = None
    self.obj56.graphObject_ = new_obj

    # Add node to the root: rootNode
    rootNode.addNode(self.obj56)
    self.globalAndLocalPostcondition(self.obj56, rootNode)
    self.obj56.postAction( rootNode.CREATE )

    self.obj57=directLink_T(self)
    self.obj57.isGraphObjectVisual = True

    if(hasattr(self.obj57, '_setHierarchicalLink')):
      self.obj57._setHierarchicalLink(False)

    # associationType
    self.obj57.associationType.setValue('type')

    self.obj57.graphClass_= graph_directLink_T
    if self.genGraphics:
       new_obj = graph_directLink_T(442.5,1065.0,self.obj57)
       new_obj.DrawObject(self.UMLmodel)
       self.UMLmodel.addtag_withtag("directLink_T", new_obj.tag)
       new_obj.layConstraints = dict() # Graphical Layout Constraints
    else: new_obj = None
    self.obj57.graphObject_ = new_obj

    # Add node to the root: rootNode
    rootNode.addNode(self.obj57)
    self.globalAndLocalPostcondition(self.obj57, rootNode)
    self.obj57.postAction( rootNode.CREATE )

    self.obj58=directLink_T(self)
    self.obj58.isGraphObjectVisual = True

    if(hasattr(self.obj58, '_setHierarchicalLink')):
      self.obj58._setHierarchicalLink(False)

    # associationType
    self.obj58.associationType.setValue('component')

    self.obj58.graphClass_= graph_directLink_T
    if self.genGraphics:
       new_obj = graph_directLink_T(741.5,1062.0,self.obj58)
       new_obj.DrawObject(self.UMLmodel)
       self.UMLmodel.addtag_withtag("directLink_T", new_obj.tag)
       new_obj.layConstraints = dict() # Graphical Layout Constraints
    else: new_obj = None
    self.obj58.graphObject_ = new_obj

    # Add node to the root: rootNode
    rootNode.addNode(self.obj58)
    self.globalAndLocalPostcondition(self.obj58, rootNode)
    self.obj58.postAction( rootNode.CREATE )

    self.obj59=apply_contains(self)
    self.obj59.isGraphObjectVisual = True

    if(hasattr(self.obj59, '_setHierarchicalLink')):
      self.obj59._setHierarchicalLink(False)

    self.obj59.graphClass_= graph_apply_contains
    if self.genGraphics:
       new_obj = graph_apply_contains(290.5,974.0,self.obj59)
       new_obj.DrawObject(self.UMLmodel)
       self.UMLmodel.addtag_withtag("apply_contains", new_obj.tag)
       new_obj.layConstraints = dict() # Graphical Layout Constraints
    else: new_obj = None
    self.obj59.graphObject_ = new_obj

    # Add node to the root: rootNode
    rootNode.addNode(self.obj59)
    self.globalAndLocalPostcondition(self.obj59, rootNode)
    self.obj59.postAction( rootNode.CREATE )

    self.obj60=apply_contains(self)
    self.obj60.isGraphObjectVisual = True

    if(hasattr(self.obj60, '_setHierarchicalLink')):
      self.obj60._setHierarchicalLink(False)

    self.obj60.graphClass_= graph_apply_contains
    if self.genGraphics:
       new_obj = graph_apply_contains(440.5,974.0,self.obj60)
       new_obj.DrawObject(self.UMLmodel)
       self.UMLmodel.addtag_withtag("apply_contains", new_obj.tag)
       new_obj.layConstraints = dict() # Graphical Layout Constraints
    else: new_obj = None
    self.obj60.graphObject_ = new_obj

    # Add node to the root: rootNode
    rootNode.addNode(self.obj60)
    self.globalAndLocalPostcondition(self.obj60, rootNode)
    self.obj60.postAction( rootNode.CREATE )

    self.obj61=apply_contains(self)
    self.obj61.isGraphObjectVisual = True

    if(hasattr(self.obj61, '_setHierarchicalLink')):
      self.obj61._setHierarchicalLink(False)

    self.obj61.graphClass_= graph_apply_contains
    if self.genGraphics:
       new_obj = graph_apply_contains(342.0,1034.0,self.obj61)
       new_obj.DrawObject(self.UMLmodel)
       self.UMLmodel.addtag_withtag("apply_contains", new_obj.tag)
       new_obj.layConstraints = dict() # Graphical Layout Constraints
    else: new_obj = None
    self.obj61.graphObject_ = new_obj

    # Add node to the root: rootNode
    rootNode.addNode(self.obj61)
    self.globalAndLocalPostcondition(self.obj61, rootNode)
    self.obj61.postAction( rootNode.CREATE )

    self.obj62=apply_contains(self)
    self.obj62.isGraphObjectVisual = True

    if(hasattr(self.obj62, '_setHierarchicalLink')):
      self.obj62._setHierarchicalLink(False)

    self.obj62.graphClass_= graph_apply_contains
    if self.genGraphics:
       new_obj = graph_apply_contains(462.0,1034.0,self.obj62)
       new_obj.DrawObject(self.UMLmodel)
       self.UMLmodel.addtag_withtag("apply_contains", new_obj.tag)
       new_obj.layConstraints = dict() # Graphical Layout Constraints
    else: new_obj = None
    self.obj62.graphObject_ = new_obj

    # Add node to the root: rootNode
    rootNode.addNode(self.obj62)
    self.globalAndLocalPostcondition(self.obj62, rootNode)
    self.obj62.postAction( rootNode.CREATE )

    self.obj63=backward_link(self)
    self.obj63.isGraphObjectVisual = True

    if(hasattr(self.obj63, '_setHierarchicalLink')):
      self.obj63._setHierarchicalLink(False)

    # type
    self.obj63.type.setValue('ruleDef')

    self.obj63.graphClass_= graph_backward_link
    if self.genGraphics:
       new_obj = graph_backward_link(411.0,883.0,self.obj63)
       new_obj.DrawObject(self.UMLmodel)
       self.UMLmodel.addtag_withtag("backward_link", new_obj.tag)
       new_obj.layConstraints = dict() # Graphical Layout Constraints
    else: new_obj = None
    self.obj63.graphObject_ = new_obj

    # Add node to the root: rootNode
    rootNode.addNode(self.obj63)
    self.globalAndLocalPostcondition(self.obj63, rootNode)
    self.obj63.postAction( rootNode.CREATE )

    self.obj64=backward_link(self)
    self.obj64.isGraphObjectVisual = True

    if(hasattr(self.obj64, '_setHierarchicalLink')):
      self.obj64._setHierarchicalLink(False)

    # type
    self.obj64.type.setValue('ruleDef')

    self.obj64.graphClass_= graph_backward_link
    if self.genGraphics:
       new_obj = graph_backward_link(671.0,883.0,self.obj64)
       new_obj.DrawObject(self.UMLmodel)
       self.UMLmodel.addtag_withtag("backward_link", new_obj.tag)
       new_obj.layConstraints = dict() # Graphical Layout Constraints
    else: new_obj = None
    self.obj64.graphObject_ = new_obj

    # Add node to the root: rootNode
    rootNode.addNode(self.obj64)
    self.globalAndLocalPostcondition(self.obj64, rootNode)
    self.obj64.postAction( rootNode.CREATE )

    self.obj65=backward_link(self)
    self.obj65.isGraphObjectVisual = True

    if(hasattr(self.obj65, '_setHierarchicalLink')):
      self.obj65._setHierarchicalLink(False)

    # type
    self.obj65.type.setValue('ruleDef')

    self.obj65.graphClass_= graph_backward_link
    if self.genGraphics:
       new_obj = graph_backward_link(792.5,943.0,self.obj65)
       new_obj.DrawObject(self.UMLmodel)
       self.UMLmodel.addtag_withtag("backward_link", new_obj.tag)
       new_obj.layConstraints = dict() # Graphical Layout Constraints
    else: new_obj = None
    self.obj65.graphObject_ = new_obj

    # Add node to the root: rootNode
    rootNode.addNode(self.obj65)
    self.globalAndLocalPostcondition(self.obj65, rootNode)
    self.obj65.postAction( rootNode.CREATE )

    self.obj66=backward_link(self)
    self.obj66.isGraphObjectVisual = True

    if(hasattr(self.obj66, '_setHierarchicalLink')):
      self.obj66._setHierarchicalLink(False)

    # type
    self.obj66.type.setValue('ruleDef')

    self.obj66.graphClass_= graph_backward_link
    if self.genGraphics:
       new_obj = graph_backward_link(672.5,943.0,self.obj66)
       new_obj.DrawObject(self.UMLmodel)
       self.UMLmodel.addtag_withtag("backward_link", new_obj.tag)
       new_obj.layConstraints = dict() # Graphical Layout Constraints
    else: new_obj = None
    self.obj66.graphObject_ = new_obj

    # Add node to the root: rootNode
    rootNode.addNode(self.obj66)
    self.globalAndLocalPostcondition(self.obj66, rootNode)
    self.obj66.postAction( rootNode.CREATE )

    # Connections for obj41 (graphObject_: Obj0) of type MatchModel
    self.drawConnections(
(self.obj41,self.obj50,[153.0, 663.0, 157.0, 804.5],"true", 2),
(self.obj41,self.obj51,[153.0, 663.0, 277.5, 713.5],"true", 2),
(self.obj41,self.obj52,[153.0, 663.0, 387.5, 713.5],"true", 2),
(self.obj41,self.obj53,[153.0, 663.0, 487.5, 713.5],"true", 2) )
    # Connections for obj42 (graphObject_: Obj1) of type ApplyModel
    self.drawConnections(
(self.obj42,self.obj59,[161.0, 946.0, 290.5, 974.0],"true", 2),
(self.obj42,self.obj60,[161.0, 946.0, 440.5, 974.0],"true", 2),
(self.obj42,self.obj61,[161.0, 946.0, 342.0, 1034.0],"true", 2),
(self.obj42,self.obj62,[161.0, 946.0, 462.0, 1034.0],"true", 2) )
    # Connections for obj43 (graphObject_: Obj2) named ecu1
    self.drawConnections(
(self.obj43,self.obj54,[402.0, 764.0, 512.0, 764.0],"true", 2) )
    # Connections for obj44 (graphObject_: Obj3) named vd1
    self.drawConnections(
(self.obj44,self.obj55,[622.0, 764.0, 722.0, 764.0],"true", 2) )
    # Connections for obj45 (graphObject_: Obj4) named dist1
    self.drawConnections(
 )
    # Connections for obj46 (graphObject_: Obj5) named composty1
    self.drawConnections(
(self.obj46,self.obj56,[420.0, 1002.0, 500.5, 1037.0],"true", 2),
(self.obj46,self.obj63,[420.0, 1002.0, 411.0, 883.0],"true", 2) )
    # Connections for obj47 (graphObject_: Obj6) named comp1
    self.drawConnections(
(self.obj47,self.obj57,[523.0, 1122.0, 442.5, 1065.0],"true", 2),
(self.obj47,self.obj66,[523.0, 1122.0, 672.5, 943.0],"true", 2) )
    # Connections for obj48 (graphObject_: Obj7) named stem1
    self.drawConnections(
(self.obj48,self.obj58,[680.0, 962.0, 741.5, 1062.0],"true", 2),
(self.obj48,self.obj64,[680.0, 962.0, 671.0, 883.0],"true", 2) )
    # Connections for obj49 (graphObject_: Obj8) named sctemc1
    self.drawConnections(
(self.obj49,self.obj65,[763.0, 1122.0, 792.5, 943.0],"true", 2) )
    # Connections for obj50 (graphObject_: Obj9) of type paired_with
    self.drawConnections(
(self.obj50,self.obj42,[157.0, 804.5, 161.0, 946.0],"true", 2) )
    # Connections for obj51 (graphObject_: Obj10) of type match_contains
    self.drawConnections(
(self.obj51,self.obj43,[277.5, 713.5, 402.0, 764.0],"true", 2) )
    # Connections for obj52 (graphObject_: Obj11) of type match_contains
    self.drawConnections(
(self.obj52,self.obj44,[387.5, 713.5, 622.0, 764.0],"true", 2) )
    # Connections for obj53 (graphObject_: Obj12) of type match_contains
    self.drawConnections(
(self.obj53,self.obj45,[487.5, 713.5, 822.0, 764.0],"true", 2) )
    # Connections for obj54 (graphObject_: Obj13) of type directLink_S
    self.drawConnections(
(self.obj54,self.obj44,[512.0, 764.0, 622.0, 764.0],"true", 2) )
    # Connections for obj55 (graphObject_: Obj14) of type directLink_S
    self.drawConnections(
(self.obj55,self.obj45,[722.0, 764.0, 822.0, 764.0],"true", 2) )
    # Connections for obj56 (graphObject_: Obj15) of type directLink_T
    self.drawConnections(
(self.obj56,self.obj47,[500.5, 1037.0, 523.0, 1122.0],"true", 2) )
    # Connections for obj57 (graphObject_: Obj16) of type directLink_T
    self.drawConnections(
(self.obj57,self.obj46,[442.5, 1065.0, 420.0, 1002.0],"true", 2) )
    # Connections for obj58 (graphObject_: Obj17) of type directLink_T
    self.drawConnections(
(self.obj58,self.obj49,[741.5, 1062.0, 763.0, 1122.0],"true", 2) )
    # Connections for obj59 (graphObject_: Obj18) of type apply_contains
    self.drawConnections(
(self.obj59,self.obj46,[290.5, 974.0, 420.0, 1002.0],"true", 2) )
    # Connections for obj60 (graphObject_: Obj19) of type apply_contains
    self.drawConnections(
(self.obj60,self.obj48,[440.5, 974.0, 680.0, 962.0],"true", 2) )
    # Connections for obj61 (graphObject_: Obj20) of type apply_contains
    self.drawConnections(
(self.obj61,self.obj47,[342.0, 1034.0, 523.0, 1122.0],"true", 2) )
    # Connections for obj62 (graphObject_: Obj21) of type apply_contains
    self.drawConnections(
(self.obj62,self.obj49,[462.0, 1034.0, 763.0, 1122.0],"true", 2) )
    # Connections for obj63 (graphObject_: Obj22) of type backward_link
    self.drawConnections(
(self.obj63,self.obj43,[411.0, 883.0, 402.0, 764.0],"true", 2) )
    # Connections for obj64 (graphObject_: Obj23) of type backward_link
    self.drawConnections(
(self.obj64,self.obj44,[671.0, 883.0, 622.0, 764.0],"true", 2) )
    # Connections for obj65 (graphObject_: Obj24) of type backward_link
    self.drawConnections(
(self.obj65,self.obj45,[792.5, 943.0, 822.0, 764.0],"true", 2) )
    # Connections for obj66 (graphObject_: Obj25) of type backward_link
    self.drawConnections(
(self.obj66,self.obj45,[672.5, 943.0, 822.0, 764.0],"true", 2) )

newfunction = ConnVirtualDeviceToDistributable_MDL

loadedMMName = 'GM2AUTOSAR_MM_META'

atom3version = '0.3'


One man was fatally shot during a confrontation with a licensed firearm holder on Sundown Crescent, Kington 10 on Monday.
The police say the unidentified man is of dark complexion, slim build and is about 6 feet long.
He was clad in a black hoodie, gray pants and a pair of red shoes.
The police say about 9 o' clock last night the licensed firearm holder and another individual were walking along the road when they were allegedly held up at gunpoint by the unidentified man who proceeded to rob them.
A confrontation ensued during which the assailant was reportedly shot.
The police were summoned and the injured man was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead.


text:
Non-canon articles, Short stories
Farscape Tales
Crackers DON'T Matter!
This article is non-canon.
This article covers a subject that has been deemed non-canon by either the author or the Farscape licensees, and thus should not be taken as a part of the "real" Farscape universe.
The Farscape Tales was a series of short stories, primarily published in Farscape: The Official Magazine. Each issue featured one such story, and a final story was published in the Farscape RPG in 2002.
Stories[edit | edit source]
Farscape: The Official Magazine, Issue 1
"Many a Mile to Freedom" by Keith R. A. DeCandido
Who are the strange bunch of misfits infiltrating a crime lord's lair and what are they after?
This story is set between "Won't Get Fooled Again" and "The Locket".
"Brotherly Love" by Keith R. A. DeCandido
This issue, we explore the darkest depths of Bialar Crais' mind... in the midst of a full-scale attack from unknown aliens!
Set between "Self-Inflicted Wounds - Wait for the Wheel" and "...Different Destinations", but before "Lese-Majeste".
"Samsara" by Greg Cox
A group of lizard-like aliens called the Lacertae claim that one of Talyn's crewmembers has a shocking connection to their race. Which crewmember is it and what is the secret?
Set between "Green Eyed Monster" and "Losing Time"
"Double Trouble" by Lily Taylor
Scorpius sends Lieutenant Braca to hunt down Crichton - but other entities are looking for the human as well...
Set between "Incubator" and "Meltdown".
"Faces" by Ricky Manning
Taking place during "Season of Death", "Faces" follows the episode's events from Rygel's own unique perspective.
This story takes place at the same time as "Season of Death".
"The Old Voodoo" by John Kenneth Muir
Crichton and Rygel meet up with a fortune teller who forsees bad things in store for the Moya crew...
Set between "Beware of Dog" and "Won't Get Fooled Again"
"Lese-Majeste" by Greg Cox
Crichton and the gang visit an intergalactic library. Surely they can't get into any trouble there...?!! Surely they can...
Set between "Self-Inflicted Wounds - Wait for the Wheel" and "...Different Destinations", but after "Brotherly Love"
"Make a Wish" by John Kenneth Muir
Rygel invites some aliens on board Moya to celebrate his Anniversary of Ascendancy. You just know there's gonna be trouble...
Set between "...Different Destinations" and "Eat Me", but before "Crichton Interruptus".
"Home Alone" by Greg Cox
In "Scratch 'N' Sniff" we found out what happened to Crichton and co. on the planet LoMo (sort of), and now it's time to find out what happened to Pilot while the gang were away (...sort of).
This story takes place during the events of "Scratch 'N' Sniff".
Farscape: The Official Magazine, Issue 10
"Yummy Mummy" by Joshua Mapleston
Crichton and Aeryn are wary when Chiana and Jool bring to cute little aliens on board Moya - are they right to be suspicious...?
Set between "Meltdown" and "Scratch 'N' Sniff".
"Crichton Interruptus" by Lily Taylor
The Moya gang meet up with a rather attractive alien species with a deadly secret.
Set between "...Different Destinations" and "Eat Me", but after "Make a Wish"
"Horizons" by Rockne S. O'Bannon
It's a story set in the future - at Rygel's funeral. That's all we're saying...
Well after the end of the series
The Farscape Role-Playing Game
"Ten Little Aliens" by Keith R. A. DeCandido
Crichton, D'Argo, Crais, and seven other beings from different species are unwillingly engaged in a contest.
Shortly after the events of "The Flax".
Retrieved from "https://farscape.fandom.com/wiki/Farscape_Tales?oldid=30630"


text:
IV. (Ürestarisznyájú) Frigyes  Hátsó-Ausztria hercege 1402-től és tiroli gróf 1406-tól III. Lipót legkisebb fiaként született.

Frigyes uralma Tirolban, Hátsó-Ausztriában, délnyugat-Németországban és Elzászban szétszóródott Habsburg területeken formálisan már 1402-ben megkezdődött. Később, 1406-ban, legidősebb bátyja, Vilmos, halála után, második bátyja, Lipót lett a család feje, aki Frigyest tette meg Tirol egyeduralkodójává. Majd 1411-ben, Lipót halála után, ő lett Felső-Ausztria ura is. Frigyes uralkodásának első éveire a kül- és belpolitikai konfliktusok nyomták rá a bélyegüket. 1406/07-ben szembe került a helyi nemesekkel és kompromisszumra kényszerült a svájci Appenzell függetlenségi mozgalmaival, amelyek 1411-ben megalapították a Régi Svájci Konföderációt.

Amikor a konstanzi zsinaton XXIII. János ellenpápa mellé állt, Luxemburgi Zsigmond német-római császár kiátkozta őt. A helyi lakosságnak köszönhetően Tirolt sikerült megőriznie, de elvesztette az észak-svájci Aargaut, a Habsburgok ősi birtokát.

1425-től a Tirolon kívüli hatalma is stabilizálódni kezdett. Központját Meranóból Innsbruckba költöztette.

1407. december 24-én elvette Pfalzi Erzsébetet (1381–1408), Rupert német király leányát Innsbruckban, de az asszony a következő évben meghalt.

1411. június 11-én elvette Braunschweig-Göttingeni Annát, Frigyes braunschweigi herceg leányát. Egy fiuk élte csak túl szüleit, Zsigmond.

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Ausztria uralkodói
1382-ben született személyek
1439-ben elhunyt személyek
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A high level of disruption from the hurricane season is causing short-term volatility in Atlantic markets but the recent rally is supported by stronger fundamentals, Maritime Strategies International (MSI) said.
Oil demand growth has been out-performing expectations, with the US International Energy Agency's (IEA) most recent estimate for global growth this year at 1.7%, supported by a very strong second quarter.
The fourth quarter is looking healthy for demand and "will see a major increase in refining activity which drives our expectations of increasing spot rates across the market," MSI said.
"Contributing to the improving platform for the tanker market have been two key features of the second half of 2017: global oil stocks are being drawn down and scrapping is increasing," Tim Smith, MSI Director for Oil and Tanker Markets, said.
Reduced floating storage also means more tonnage returning to the market. OPEC estimates a 40 million barrel drop in floating storage since the start of 2017. Compliance with OPEC output quotas has been lapsing, but nonetheless has contributed to the rebalancing.
The second major driver to the improvement is scrapping volumes, which have shifted up a gear to the point where sizeable amounts of tonnage are being removed from the market. The impact of recent activity will be limited but should this trend continue, MSI said it will be supportive for earnings.
As a result, MSI forecasts that at the end of the fourth quarter, a seasonal pick up in refining and demand will see average spot rates on the key TD3 route rise to USD 34,300/day and support the increase in T/C rates to around the USD 26 to USD 27,000 /day mark.
"At this stage though we are not expecting major support in Q1 18, unless we see a sustained surge in global demand growth," MSI concluded.
Posted on October 19, 2017 with tags MSI, Tanker market.


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PILES of human bodies in the back of a truck may be one of the worst signs of how humanity has atrophied for some people. Last week we awoke to reports that 72 migrants had suffocated to death in a truck. Nobody knows how those who crammed these people into boats or trucks were able to live their lives normally. Were these distressed people really that worthless in the eyes of those who only think about making money?
The public held a commemoration ceremony in Budapest following the death of those 72 people. The aim was to ensure the incident is not forgotten and to draw attention to the human traffickers. At that same time people found themselves speechless in the face bodies of children being washed up on the Libyan shore. This time it was not the war but human traffickers who killed those defenseless people and that too before the very eyes of Europe.
Europe is facing the worst migrant crisis since the WWII and unfortunately, it is failing the test. Last year, Europe hit the headlines when it decided to cease helping refugees fighting for survival on the high seas. But now the refugee problem has become too great to permit such ruthless decisions to be taken. Last month, readers may recall, the 28 members of the EU struggled with each other to "not to" allow refugees in their countries. Members of the EU, with some of the world's largest economies must be acting out of the idea that "the fewer the refugees there are, the better I will grow and protect my own line," and regard sheltering large numbers of migrants as an ethical and economic burden.
The increasing number of people seek refuge in Europe has forced EU countries to take steps in this regard. The establishment of a camp for refugees on the Macedonian border in the wake of acts of violence along the border last week and the German decision to admit Syrian refugees and not to deport them are of course reasons to rejoice. However, Merkel has also issued a warning: "If we don't succeed in fairly distributing refugees, then of course the Schengen question will be on the agenda for many," she says. The Schengen agreement allows freedom of movement among most EU countries. These words may appear quite justified bearing in mind that most refugees and migrants seek to go to Germany. Yet one cannot refrain from asking, did Turkey, Jordan or Lebanon, which have currently admitted more than four million refugees, insist that they be fairly distributed among the countries of the Middle East? Of course, not. The people seeking shelter behind our borders are wretched people seeking to save their lives in the face of war. And we have a responsibility to take care of them for Allah's approval. Contrary to what some Europeans think, we regard this as an opportunity to grow and improve ourselves and acquire depth.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius described some European countries' refusal to accept refugees as a scandal. Fabius also criticized Hungary's decision to put razor wire along the border to halt the flow of refugees as "incompatible with the values of the EU." But what are those EU values? Are they based on growth and development, or on humanity? If humanity is more to the fore, then Europe should never have initiated this fight over refugees, which is surely a blot on its perceived reputation. Of course, we need to exclude some European politicians and most of the people of Europe from this. Many politicians have stood up for the refugees, and the people of Europe are making efforts to protect them. Although anti-migrant incidents have taken place in Germany, the great majority of people have condemned these, and thousands are known to have attended "welcome to refugees" activities.
There may be those who are thinking, "How can the EU possibly do all that?" The EU does have the means to do it. Anyone who is interested can have a look at Turkey, a country in a far weaker economic position as compared with many European countries and which has assumed the responsibility for taking care of all refugees' needs. Such sacrifice would also return to European countries in the form of a fine moral value. Europe just needs the will to take some concrete measure to help these refugees.
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