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State Dept. Echoes of Europe's Concerns About Future of Armenian Landmarks in Artsakh
Leave a Comment / Culture, News / June 4, 2022 June 4, 2022
In its 2021 Report on International Religious Freedoms issued on Thursday, the U.S. State Department echoed concerns legislated by a European body about the threat facing Armenian churches, monasteries, and other cultural landmarks that have fallen under Azerbaijani occupation since the end of military actions in the 2020 war.
In its report on Azerbaijan, the State Department cites a resolution adopted by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) relating to the humanitarian consequences of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, where PACE expressed its concerns about the future of the many Armenian churches, monasteries, including the Dadivank monastery, cross-stones and other forms of cultural heritage that came under the control of Azerbaijan.
The State Department report says that the Azerbaijani government has repeatedly denied access to the Armenian pilgrims to the Dadivank monastery. Azerbaijanis continued to be unable to visit many mosques and religious sites due to mine contamination from the fighting, it added.
The State Department report also cited the PACE resolution which expressed "concern about a developing narrative in Azerbaijan promoting a 'Caucasian Albanian' heritage to replace what is seen as an 'Armenian' cultural heritage."
"There were numerous reports during the year of vandalism and destruction of Armenian cultural and religious sites, as well as deliberate actions by the government to sever and distort the connection of religious sites to their Armenian heritage", the State Department said in the report.
On September 27, PACE adopted a resolution condemning the damage "deliberately caused to cultural heritage during the 6-week war, and what appeared to be the deliberate shelling of the [Holy Savior Cathedral] in Shusha and the destruction or damage of other churches and cemeteries during and after the conflict."
"Government actions and rhetoric stating churches were "Caucasian Albanian" prompted international observers, Armenian officials, civil society representatives, and the Armenian Apostolic Church to express grave concerns about the preservation of Armenian ties to historical and religious sites now under Azerbaijani control," said the State Department.
Below are excerpts from the report
On May 4, the [Azerbaijan's] Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated the Azerbaijani-funded reconstruction of the Holy Savior Cathedral in Shusha was "by the original architectural style to restore the historical image of Shusha" and attributed renovations of the site to reflect "Caucasian Albanian" heritage.
Armenian officials said such statements attempted to conceal the church's Armenian roots and structure, including the original spire. In a letter to UNESCO, Armenia's acting Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports Vahram Dumanyan accused Azerbaijan of actively implementing "a policy of falsification of historical facts" by calling the sites of Armenian cultural heritage in the newly returned territory "Caucasian-Albanian." On September 27, Caucasus Heritage Watch (CHW) reported the Azerbaijani government embarked on an extensive campaign after the November 2020 ceasefire to claim Armenian heritage sites either do not exist or have "Caucasian Albanian" origins.
Following the November 2020 ceasefire, leaders of the Armenian Apostolic Church requested that Russian peacekeepers protect the medieval Dadivank Monastery in the district of Kelbajar. The government initially allowed Armenian pilgrims to visit the church, but access became increasingly difficult throughout the year.
According to media reports and Armenian Apostolic Church authorities, two groups of pilgrims were denied access to the monastery in February and April; Forum 18 reported in July that no Armenian pilgrims had been able to visit the monastery since May 2.
Azerbaijani authorities cited COVID-19, flooding, and road damage as reasons for denying access to groups of pilgrims who were ready with Russian peacekeeper escorts to visit the monastery, according to the Armenian Apostolic Church. By year's end, in addition to the monastery, no Armenian pilgrims had been permitted visits to any religious site in Azerbaijani-controlled territory (where no Russian peacekeepers were present) since May 2.
CHW's June and September reports identified other religious and historical sites under the government's control that were destroyed, damaged, or under the threat of destruction due to proximate construction. CHW reported the destruction of Mets Tagher Cemetery, an inscribed stone of Holy Savior Cathedral, and the Sghnakh Cemetery.
CHW said it was concerned about the government's reconstruction of the St. John the Baptist Church (also known as Kanach Zham/Green Church) located in Shusha. Footage after the November 2020 ceasefire showed partial destruction of the dome and bell tower of the church. According to a CHW analysis, the church previously had two cupolas; the analysis cited a February image taken from Google Earth showing a portion of the eastern cupola was still standing at that time. CHW said that based on satellite imagery from April 10, the eastern cupola had been destroyed.
On May 26, BBC reported the removal of a cross atop St. Yeghishe Armenian Church in Sugovushan (Mataghis). A video reposted in March by Armenia's ombudsman Armen Tatoyan on social media had shown soldiers wearing Azerbaijani and Turkish insignia desecrating the church.
In June, The Art Newspaper published a report using satellite images that detailed the destruction of medieval Armenian churches in Agulis, Nakhchivan. The churches were seen in 1977 images but were missing in images from 2016 and 2019.
The destruction included Surb Stepanos (Saint Stephen), likely founded in the 12th to 13th centuries, the medieval Surb Tovma (Saint Thomas), Surb Kristapor (Saint Christopher), Surb Hovhannes Mkrtich (Saint John the Baptist), and other ancient churches, such as Mets Anapat Surb Astvatasatsin (Greater Hermitage Holy Mother of God) and Surb Hakob Hayrapet (Saint Jacob of Nisibis).
The Art Newspaper also chronicled the destruction of Armenian heritage throughout Nakhchivan, which once included 89 churches, 5,840 cross-stones, and more than 22,000 tombstones, according to documentation from 1964-87 collected by independent researcher Argam Ayvazyan. Because religion and ethnicity are closely linked, it is difficult to categorize many incidents as being solely based on religious identity.
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First charted: October 29, 2016
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Victor Jory relished playing villains. His commanding presence made him perfect as an in-charge heavy. His mesmerizing coal-black eyes could hold you in a trance when combined with his distinctive, fascinating clipped manner of speaking with dramatic pauses. Jory was a unique actor indeed whose career took on many facets over 50 years.
Born November 23, 1902, in Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada, the son of Edwin Jory, a horse trader who was a native of Oregon, Jory's mother was a native of Virginia who was one of the few working newspaperwomen in the Canadian wilderness. Actually, his parents were divorced before Vic was born. Born into a very poor environment, an uncle on his mother's side got him a job at $4 a day in a paper mill in Astoria, Oregon.
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When he also found he could earn an extra one dollar by doing "Walk on" bits at Vancouver's Empress Theatre, the acting bug bit Jory. Turning 18, he attended the Pasadena Community Playhouse and attended the University of California for a semester. Vic then began a 10 year roving theatrical apprenticeship that included work in various stock companies across the U.S. Jory eventually made his Broadway debut in 1929 in "Berkeley Square" with Leslie Howard.
Jory was playing the lead in the Norman Krasna comedy "Louder, Please" in California when he was approached by a Fox talent scout. His first film was "Renegades" in 1930 with Warner Baxter.
On December 23, 1928, Jory married actress Jean Inness. They appeared on stage a number of times over the years. Inness made many films ("Gun Fever", "The Gunfighter', "Rosemary's Baby") and TV episodes ("Big Valley', "Gunsmoke", "Peter Gunn", "Rawhide", "Twilight Zone", "Virginian: Return of Golden Tom" with her husband, "Dragnet", etc.) as well as directing 31 plays at the Pasadena Playhouse. Born December 18, 1900, Inness died December 27, 1978. The Jorys had two children, a son Jon who became the director of the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Kentucky, and a daughter Jean Jory Anderson, a public relations director of the theatre department at Utah State University.
Jory was never more at his menacing best than as Injun Joe, one of the meanest, most brutish villains the movies ever gave us pursuing Tommy Kelly and Ann Gillis in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" ('38). Although he made many good films, it seems 1939 was a banner year for Jory, the year he "arrived". Among his 10 films that year were the gangster classic "Each Dawn I Die", Shirley Temple's "Susannah of the Mounties", his first big western "Dodge City" and as the carpetbagger overseer in the immortal "Gone With the Wind".
Oddly enough, after these prestigious pictures, the next year of 1940 saw him playing the lead in two Columbia serials ("The Shadow" and "The Green Archer") and joining the ranks of producer Harry "Pop" Sherman's stock company in two medium-budget westerns ("Knights of the Range" and "Cherokee Strip"). Jory would eventually make 12 pictures for Sherman, including seven Hopalong Cassidy entries.
In 1943, just before WWII military service in the Coast Guard, Jory made one of his favorite films, director Kurt Neumann's suspense thriller for Monogram, "Unknown Guest".
Just because he was now in pictures, Jory did not turn his back on the stage. Jory co-starred on Broadway in "The Two Mrs. Carrolls". Post war, in 1945 Jory did "Therese" with Dame May Whitty and in 1946 was a member of the fledgling American Repertory Theatre in New York.
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In 1958 Vic filmed 78 episodes of the San Diego based "Dragnet"-like cop series, Manhunt" co-starring Patrick McVey. Screen Gems syndicated the show in '59.
In '59, filmed in Milton, New York, Jory acted in what he termed his favorite role, that of a Mississippi general store owner who is dying of cancer and who is afraid of losing his no-good wife (Anna Magnani) to drifter Marlon Brando. "The Fugitive Kind", the Tennessee Williams story, based on his "Orpheus Descending", was poorly received.
Jory took a filming break '60-'62 and returned that year to play Helen Keller's father in "The Miracle Worker". He also began to work hard in episodic television. In 1964, now a craggy-faced 62, Jory essayed the part of Indian Chief Tall Tree in John Ford's adieu to westerns, "Cheyenne Autumn". The role opened up another facet of Jory's career as he began to play elderly Indians in other films ("Flap", "Papillon") and on TV ("Nakia", "Gunsmoke", "Virginian", "Young Maverick"). It was the role of a 109 year old Indian, Iron Belly, in "Mountain Men" that brought the end to Jory's illustrious career in 1980.
Jory died February 12, 1982, at 79, at his home in Santa Monica of a heart attack. He had a long history of coronary trouble. On screen Jory played heavies with all the vigor he could muster, but in real life he was known by his broad smile, and calm, astute, charming manner.


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Extinction is the End Game
Posted by xraymike79 in Capitalism, Climate Change, Consumerism, Corporate State, Ecological Overshoot, Environmental Degradation, Peak Oil, Pollution, Wall Street Fraud
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Civilizations are living organisms striving to survive and develop through predictable stages of birth, growth, maturation, decline and death. An often overlooked factor in the success or failure of civilizations are cultural memes—the knowledge, beliefs, and behaviors passed down from generation to generation. Cultural memes are a much more significant driver of human evolution than genetic evolution. Entire civilizations have been weeded out when their belief system proved maladaptive to a changing environment. One such cultural meme holding sway over today's governments, institutions, and society is our economic system of capitalism. The pillars of capitalism represent a belief system so ingrained in today's culture that they form a sort of cargo cult amongst its adherents. Cargo cults are any of the various Melanesian religious groups which focused on obtaining material wealth(manufactured Western goods that came on cargo ships) through magical thinking, religious rituals and practices. Today the term "cargo cult" is used to describe a wide variety of phenomena that involve superficial imitation of a process or system in order to fabricate a successful outcome without even the basic understanding of its mechanism.
The tenets of capitalism are ritually followed in the proclaimed belief that "a rising tide lifts all boats", i.e. so-called improvements in the general economy will benefit all participants in that economy. Centuries of unbridled capitalism have demonstrated beyond any doubt that it does not lift all boats. A new study finds that half of Americans are "shut off from economic growth". The rules of the game are so stacked against the masses that this week a professor said "only all-out thermonuclear war might fundamentally reset the existing distribution of resources." Capitalism's imperative for expansion, growing profit levels, and efficiency has ultimately dehumanized our culture. Not even when our basic life support systems are being torn asunder do the vast majority question the path we are on. We are all a captive audience to the system and those few dissident voices are snuffed out under the wheels of "progress".
Truth be told, the corporate elite have long written off all those people living hand to mouth. Trump's pick for Labor Secretary said, unlike workers, machines are "always polite, they always upsell, they never take a vacation, they never show up late, there's never a slip-and-fall, or an age, sex, or race discrimination case." Massive global unemployment resulting from the automation revolution has not yet been addressed by governments. Roughly half of all jobs in the U.S. are at risk of automation and two-thirds in the developing countries. This is all coming at a time when humans are fast destroying the ecosystems underpinning the very foundation upon which human civilization has developed over thousands of years. Mass migration of climate refugees will only further destabilize governments, stoke ethnic and cultural tensions, and give rise to fascist political movements. No conspiracy is needed to exterminate the "useless eaters", just allow mother nature to take its course and climate change will be killing billions by mid century. Those in military planning know this and periodically express their fear of what is coming, but business-as-usual rolls on.
Capitalism's constant impetus to shift costs, risks, and burdens off industry and onto the environment and society carries on under the guise of "being more competitive". It's a way of externalizing costs to maximize profit and if these costs were truly taken into account, none of the world's top industries would be profitable(Interestingly, the link to this study has been scrubbed from the internet). It's the height of magical thinking to put so much faith in some mystical "invisible hand of the free market" to solve existential threats such as an ever-widening wealth gap and the wholesale destruction of planetary life-support systems. There is no benevolent "invisible hand" turning individual self-interest into the common good. The primary mandate of capitalism is to protect and grow capital. The "invisible hand" is just a bunch of people scrambling to make as much money as possible, not caring or oblivious to those they hurt in the process. Fuck the invisible hand of the market. The invisible hand of mother nature will punish those who squander Earth's rich but finite resources.
it's been clear for some time that we have past the point of no return, triggering multiple tipping points in Earth's living systems. New findings are continually confirming scientists' worst nightmares. A key glacier in the Antarctic that holds back 10 feet of sea level rise was just described as breaking apart from the inside out. In other grim news, the long feared carbon bomb has now been quantified and is projected to release the emissions equivalent of an industrial country like the U.S. in the next few decades, prompting researchers to say that "climate change may be considerably more rapid than we thought it was." Biodiversity loss is another critical threshold we have breeched: "New research shows that local extinctions have already occurred in 47% of the 976 plant and animal species studied." A new study also reveals that the planet's tallest animal is facing extinction after its numbers have plummeted in recent years, with the ominous warning that "many species are slipping away before we can even describe them." Forests are being wiped out by armies of invasive insects. Because of a rapidly changing climate and the vast scale of the problem, the idea that reforestation will somehow save us is a pipe dream. Those forests won't stay healthy enough to serve as carbon sinks and besides, seven times Earth's land area would need to be in cultivation in order to reduce the planet's atmospheric CO2 level down to 350ppm.
Note that the Permian Mass extinction is estimated to have happened anywhere over the course of 200,000 years to 15 million years. The current 6th mass extinction is happening orders of magnitude faster due to a multitude of factors including deforestation, habitat fragmentation, chemical pollution, poaching, etc., making this current disaster very unique in Earth's history:
The team of geologists and biologists say that our current extinction crisis is unique in Earth's history due to four characteristics: the spread of non-native species around the world; a single species (us) taking over a significant percentage of the world's primary production; human actions increasingly directing evolution; and the rise of something called the technosphere. – Link
Perhaps the fate of humans was written in stone once we stood upright and developed tools. To a large degree, modern technology has been an expression of the energy-dense hydrocarbon fuels we discovered and are not willingly giving up anytime soon. Once fossil fuels ignited the Industrial Revolution and the Haber–Bosch process unleashed the human population bomb, nothing could stop the deadly carbon consumption feedback loop, not even decades of scientific warnings.
From a throwback to our primate ancestors, modern humans have been hard-wired to ignore threats that are not immediate or local; global ecological overshoot(of which climate is just one aspect) is imperceptible to the real-time cognitive processing of humans and represents the ultimate under-the-radar threat able to undermine our reasoning and response:
Psychological concepts of how we view the world around us, including 'creeping normalcy' or 'landscape amnesia', block day-to-day comprehension of what accelerating human activities represent—whether it is human population, the number of dammed rivers, forest destruction, or the impact of motor car emissions in a timespan that is geologically brief. Creeping normalcy refers to slow trends concealed in noisy fluctuations that people get used to without comment, while landscape amnesia describes forgetting how different the landscape looked 20–50 years ago (Diamond 2005: 425).
In his study of how societies fail, biogeographer Jared Diamond calls global warming a pre-eminent example of a 'slow trend concealed by wide up and down fluctuations' (2005: 425). He likens the denial of climate change impacts by leading politicians, including former US president George W. Bush (and his contemporary John Howard in Australia), in the late 1990s and early 2000s to the elite of 'the medieval Greenlanders [who] had similar difficulties recognizing that their climate was gradually becoming colder, and the Maya and Anasazi (in Central and North America) [who] had trouble discerning that theirs was becoming drier' (2005: 425). – link
We evolved to react to imminent dangers, not slow-rolling and seemingly invisible catastrophes as an unintended consequence of our cushy lifestyle. From lofty corporate boardrooms to the filthy streets of skid row, the mass of humanity is following the same biological script of overshoot and collapse seen in every organism from bacteria to reindeer herds. Fossil fuels only enabled the destruction to multiply a million-fold, culminating in one final and spectacular explosion of human activity that will leave the planet nearly barren for eons.
Open-ended growth appears to be inherent in nature, all the way from the DNA to the arthropods to mammals, including humans. Open-ended growth is the psychology of a cancer cell. I am not sure I know of a species which has learnt how to limit its own growth. Unfortunately species which transcend their environmental resources can hardly survive – the final arbiter of the climate impasse will be nature itself. ~ Andrew Glikson, Earth and paleo-climate scientist, Australian National University
The beauty and wonder of this planet is being trashed by a naked ape whose cleverness in tool-building has far outstripped his ability to handle it in any restrained or judicious manner. Nature's rich book of life is being pancaked into a cheap, crumpled comic book.
Add in the development of mass consumerism, planned obsolescence, and the hypnosis of corporate-sponsored TV and you have a passive, malleable population happily marching towards the slaughterhouse. It's fitting, then, that the masses would be swindled by a megalomaniac bankruptcy artist who dabbled in Reality TV. Every one of Trump's cabinet picks is a big middle finger in the faces of those who fell for his pseudo-populist rhetoric: billionaires, Wall Street sharks, Goldman Sachs alumni, and hardcore laissez-faire capitalists chomping at the bit to deregulate, monetize, and privatize every last bit of what remains. The allure of capitalism has always been that you're just one lucky break away from becoming one of those fat cats, if only someone would give you a chance. A prescient observation by Ugo Bardi from earlier this year:
Trump is a symptom of the ongoing breakdown of the social pact…capitalizing on this breakdown by…playing on the attempt of the white (former) middle class to maintain at least some of its previous prosperity and privileges. Trump is…an unavoidable consequence of resource depletion. – Link
The bottom line is that a swing towards authoritarianism happens when resources become scarce. Climate change is simply a symptom of humans overshooting the planet's carrying capacity. Free market ideologues are nearly always climate 'skeptics' because acknowledging the reality of human-induced climate change would be an admission that industry must be curtailed or controlled. Left-leaning people nearly always accept the science because it goes along with their criticisms of capitalism which externalizes social and environmental costs for the benefit of just a few at the top of the economic hierarchy. Thus we see parasitic Trump surrounding himself with right-wing, climate denying, fossil fuel corporatists and insiders who will be doing everything in their power to dismantle health and environmental regulations including privatizing social services which are barriers to capitalist expansion.
To be blunt, our chance of developing a sustainable culture passed us by a long time ago. People will try to adapt until they cannot, and myths will be created to explain away harsh realities. A dystopic future in all its horrific glory has arrived: baked-in biospheric collapse, the inherent and irreconcilable contradictions of techno-capitalism, a dysfunctional political system unable to come to terms with root causes, and the cognitive dissonance of the masses blind to the bigger picture. Our numbers are not a safeguard from extinction.
Endlessly Apologizing for a Self-Destructive System
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Capitalism, Climate Change, Corporate $tate, Corporatocracy, Financial Elite, Gross Inequality, Inverted Totalitarianism, James Howard Kunstler, Joel Magnuson, Mass Media Manipulation, Mindful Economics: How the U.S. Economy Works - Why it Matters - and How it Could Be Different, Monopoly Capitalism, Monopsony, Noam Chomsky, Poverty, Regulatory Capture, Richard Wolff, Systemic Disorder, Systemic Fraud in Politics, The Invisible Hand of the Free Market, The Myth of Laissez Faire Capitalism, The Profit Motive
Although I agree with much of what J. H. Kunstler has to say, particularly on his analysis of energy and his critiques of American suburbia, when it comes to his views on the human-made system that is driving this entire train wreck, he gets it dead wrong. Here is a quote from his last blog post:
Now I am, going to reveal to you why it is so difficult to get a live human being on the telephone at these important places: because the more of a racketeering matrix medicine becomes, the more it seeks to evade responsibility for the consequences. That is, the more medicine becomes a criminal enterprise, the less it wants to hear from its client/victims. The same ethos is at work in just about every other realm of corporate enterprise in the USA. Our problem in the USA is not "capitalism," it's racketeering. Why we fail to comprehend it is one of the abiding mysteries of contemporary life.
…It ought to be self-evident that this could only happen in a profoundly corrupt, dishonest, and degenerate society, because it took the form of a social compact that accepted this sort of behavior as okay…
Kunstler is perpetuating a deep-seated myth about capitalism that many in American society repeat. Laying the blame on those victimized by an economic system, which by design exploits, disenfranchises, and discards its subjects, overlooks the fact that the problem is the system itself. Capitalism is not an ethical system, and its overriding force of motivation is always the bottom line. Inequality, conflict, and regulatory corruption are all part and parcel of capitalism. History has borne this out numerous times. Unless someone steps in to break them up, monopolies are the natural result of unbridled capitalism (Mindful Economics, Joel Magnuson):
Corporate money greases the wheels of the political system which then passes regulations discouraging competition and favoring large corporations. Regulatory capture is inevitably what happens when successful capitalists amass wealth and buy off the political class whose lifeblood is, after all, money. Under the present system, we will never see a candidate elected to office without a substantial war chest of funds stuffed with corporate 'donations'. Government does the bidding of capitalists, not vise versa. We saw this in spades with the election of Obama when all his campaign promises of "hope and change" evaporated into thin air as he filled his cabinet with Wall Street and Goldman Sachs cronies. Who wrote the legislation for Obama's healthcare reform? — lobbyists for the healthcare industrial complex where, not surprisingly, "the big bucks are currently earned not through the delivery of care, but from overseeing the business of medicine." The corruption that Kunstler decries is not an aberration of capitalism, but a natural feature of it:
…What chiefly drives this sort of political corruption today is capitalism's structure. For many capitalist enterprises, competitive and other pressures exist to increase profits, growth rates, and/or market share. Their boards and top managers seek to find cheaper produced inputs and cheaper labor power, to extract more output from their workers, to sell their outputs at the highest possible prices and to find more profitable technologies. The structure provides them with every incentive of financial gain and/or career security and advancement to behave in those ways. Thus, boards and top managers seek the maximum obtainable assistance of government officials in all these areas and also try to pay the least possible portion of their net revenues as taxes. Boards of directors tap their corporations' profits to corrupt mostly the top echelons of the government bureaucracy, those needed to make advantageous official decisions.
Individual capitalists act to corrupt government officials to serve their enterprise's needs. Grouped into associations, they do likewise for their industries. When organized as a whole (in "chambers of commerce" or "manufacturers alliances," etc.), they corrupt to secure their class interests. When such corruption is not secret, capitalists articulate their demands to corrupted officials as "good for the economy or society as a whole." Such phrases constitute the "appropriate language" that enables officials publicly to disguise and hopefully to legitimate their corrupt acts.
Strict moral codes, regulations and laws have been imposed to prevent individual or grouped capitalists from corrupting government officials. Evidence suggests, however, that neither civic-minded ethics, nor regulations nor laws have come close to ending capitalists' corruption. Countless government courts, commissions, etc., have hardly ended official complicities in that corruption. Mainstream economics mostly proceeds in its analyses and policy prescriptions as if rampant corruption did not exist. Mass media tend to treat capitalist corruption (at least in their home countries) as exceptional and government efforts to stop it as serious. These, too, are further examples of that "appropriate language" with which modern capitalist societies mask systemic corruption.
~ Richard D Wolff
Noam Chomsky uses the acronym RECD (Really Existing Capitalist Democracy, pronounced 'wrecked') to describe the capitalism that exists in the real world, and he doesn't hold out much hope for civilization surviving it. Any sort of idyllic form of capitalism only exists in people's heads and is kept alive by the myth of laissez-faire capitalism (Mindful Economics, Joel Magnuson):
A democracy cannot exist without an informed and intelligent electorate, and when corporations and monied interests intentionally spin the news, the populous are reduced to conspiracy mongers and what Gore Vidal scoffingly called 'consumer-depositors' in thrall to the financial elite. Alas, the institution intended to educate the public, aka the Fourth Estate, on matters of vital importance has been thoroughly dismantled and perverted by capitalism. The internet, the last bastion of independent and alternative news, is soon to follow suite (Mindful Economics, Joel Magnuson):
If the masses are unable to see through the spin and distortion propagated by a class of greedy parasites, there is one entity that will not suffer the fate of the dispossessed, dying quietly in some dark corner. The Earth is not so forgiving to such continued capitalist assaults, and it's not fooled by propaganda such as 'sustainable development', 'green growth', or 'corporate social responsibility'. Since pre-industrial times, the global temperature has 'only' risen 0.85 degrees Celsius (1.5 degrees Fahrenheit), and we can already see the havoc to civilization's infrastructure that climate chaos is wreaking. With forecasts of average global temperature to be many fold greater by mid century, it would seem that only a miracle will save us.
Systemic Disorder published an important essay yesterday on the systematic destruction of labor rights throughout the world. How long will these myths about capitalism persist until the exploited finally wake up and realize their blood, sweat, and sacrifice are what fills the coffers of the über rich? Many at the bottom of the economic hierarchy bend over backwards to apologize for our current system, calling it everything but capitalism. No matter how often capitalism fails, no matter how many people it kills, it is religiously touted as the only and the best economic system available despite its flaws. Will humans continue to amuse themselves to death, defending a systemically self-destructive system?
We watched the tragedy unfold
We did as we were told
We bought and sold
It was the greatest show on earth
But then it was over
We ohhed and aahed
We drove our racing cars
We ate our last few jars of caviar
And somewhere out there in the stars
A keen-eyed look-out
Spied a flickering light
Our last hurrah
And when they found our shadows
Grouped 'round the TV sets
They ran down every lead
They repeated every test
They checked out all the data on their lists
And then the alien anthropologists
Admitted they were still perplexed
But on eliminating every other reason
For our sad demise
They logged the only explanation left
This species has amused itself to death . . .


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The Supreme Court Update - November 4, 2022
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari in three cases:
Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi, No. 21-757: This case concerns the Patent Act's requirement that a patent's "specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it," sufficient "to enable any person skilled in the art . . . to make and use the" invention. 35 U.S.C. § 112(a). The question presented is: Whether enablement is governed by the statutory requirement that the specification teach those skilled in the art to "make and use" the claimed invention, 35 U.S.C. § 112, or whether it must instead enable those skilled in the art "to reach the full scope of claimed embodiments" without undue experimentation—i.e., to cumulatively identify and make all or nearly all embodiments of the invention without substantial "time and effort," as the Federal Circuit held.
Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic International, Inc., No. 21-1043: This case concerns the foreign reach of the Lanham Act. The petitioners in this case, all foreign nationals, were subjected to a $90 million damages award under the Lanham Act for allegedly infringing U.S. trademarks. The question presented is: Whether the court of appeals erred in applying the Lanham Act extraterritorially to petitioners' foreign sales, including purely foreign sales that never reached the United States or confused U.S. consumers.
Arizona v. Navajo Nation; Department of the Interior v. Navajo Nation, Nos. 21-1484, 22-51: These consolidated cases concern a dispute over the Navajo Nation's water rights. The questions presented are: (1) Whether the opinion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, allowing the Navajo Nation to proceed with a claim to enjoin the secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior to develop a plan to meet the Navajo Nation's water needs and manage the mainstream of the Colorado River in the Lower Basin so as not to interfere with that plan, infringes upon the Supreme Court's retained and exclusive jurisdiction over the allocation of water from the LBCR mainstream in Arizona v. California; (2) whether the Navajo Nation can state a cognizable claim for breach of trust consistent with the Supreme Court's holding in United States v. Jicarilla Apache Nation based solely on unquantified implied rights to water under the doctrine of Winters v. United States; and (3) whether the federal government owes the Navajo Nation an affirmative, judicially enforceable fiduciary duty to assess and address the Navajo Nation's need for water from particular sources, in the absence of any substantive source of law that expressly establishes such a duty.
Steven Wells
Nicholas Bullard
Ian Blodger
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Q: Unable to debug library project I just upgraded to the latest Android SDK tools. Now when I set a break point in a library project and the breakpoint is hit I just get a blank .class file and can no longer debug or step the source code. What do I need to do to fix the latest SDK tools to add back support for debugging library projects?
At this point there appears to be no way to debug a library project at all?
.classpath file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<classpath>
    <classpathentry kind="con" path="com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.ANDROID_FRAMEWORK"/>
    <classpathentry kind="con" path="com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.LIBRARIES"/>
    <classpathentry kind="src" path="src"/>
    <classpathentry kind="src" path="gen"/>
    <classpathentry kind="output" path="bin/classes"/>
</classpath>

None of the items in this class path seem to correspond to the library project that I am including. This is the class path of the main project, not the library project.
Does anyone know of any new documentation for how to do library projects that came out since the latest tools release? The existing documentation seems to no longer be valid. I used to be able to step and debug any library that was included into a top level Android App. So to fully test a library I could do it through the delivery main app. But now it seems that can no longer be done.
Do I need to set the library to not be a library, then debug and test the library stand alone, then set the library back to being a library right before I deliver? This seems like the SDK has been crippled since the last release.

A: It works for me, but I had to redo my project setup once I updated to the newest Android SDK tools.  I basically removed the library project and re-added it:

*

*Right click project > Properties > Android > remove libraries here.

*Right click project > Properties > Java Build Path > remove libraries
from Source tab.

*Right click project > Properties > Android > re-add
libraries here.

* If you have any libraries with libraries in them then you need to perform these steps on those included libraries as well. You essentially need to do this once for every library in your project when you are upgrading to the new tools.
You should see your libraries' source files within your project in the Navigator tab.  I click on the library source from here and set the breakpoint.  I run in debug and the breakpoint works fine.
Not sure what will happen click the library source from outside your project's context.  Good luck!
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.classpath:
<classpath>
  <classpathentry kind="con" path="com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.ANDROID_FRAMEWORK"/>
  <classpathentry kind="src" path="src"/>
  <classpathentry kind="src" path="gen"/>
  <classpathentry kind="output" path="bin/classes"/>
</classpath>


According to one prominent participant at the recent Steps to a Healthier U.S. Workforce symposium, for the first time a wide variety of professional disciplines were brought together to address an issue that may be critical for the survival of U.S. businesses: integrated health management.
Near the end of the two-day Washington, DC conference, organized by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Joseph Fortuna, M.D., medical director for Delphi Corp., spoke with OH.com's senior editor about the value of the event and why U.S. companies need to pay attention to integrated health management. Fortuna supervises the medical and occupational health activities of more than 73 facilities worldwide for Delphi, a Fortune 100 company.
OH: What do you mean by "integrated health management?"
Fortuna: For too long we've separated workplace safety and health from public health. We want to maintain our safety record in the workplace and also encourage our workers to have healthier behavior to prevent disease and accidents inside and outside the workplace. We also need to sustain and support these healthier lifestyles. It's in our best interest as companies to do that and I think it's in the best interest of employees. It's a win-win situation.
You're talking about holistic medicine, looking at the person, the environment, the machine all in a group. I think that's really a new trend.
OH: Do you believe it is urgent for U.S. companies to adopt this approach to their workers' health?
Fortuna: If we can't cut health care costs we're not going to survive. Controlling costs doesn't mean just shifting them to the federal government or some other party.
This is a global economy. We're competing against nations with different cost structures and to sustain our growth we've got to be able to move toward a more productive and competitive labor situation. Companies are now outsourcing even more experienced jobs. It's a whole different world.
The industrial environment is made up of man, machine and material. We've done a lot to improve material processing efficiency, and we've done a whole lot to make the machine part very, very efficient. We've done relatively little to improve the health and efficiency of our human capital.
So we're talking about reducing demand for health care, not just changing its price or who pays for it.
OH: Is this really new?
Fortuna: Some people say they've been doing it all along. That's probably true. There have been isolated efforts, but if it were wildly successfull we wouldn't have had this conference.
OH: How do you begin to do this?
Fortuna: First you need to know your organization extremely well. You need to know it culturally, where the biases are, where the skeletons are. You need to analyze where the problems are, in terms of the health status of your employees, by cost and by condition. Second, you need to be something of a politician and set in place cooperative intervention programs using existing resources to help people move into healthier lifestyles; the recognition and management of their disease processes. This includes both safe behaviors and health behaviors. There's really not that much difference between the two. And this has to be done everywhere: at work, at home, on the road - everywhere.
You've got a great way to get messages across, in the workplace. We do a lot to tell our employees about the health of the company, stock price. But not until recently have we begun to seen how effective good messaging techniques can be in changing behavior that not only helps employees but also helps us as companies be better, healthier and more productive places to work.
OH: Is this a cooperative effort?
Fortuna: It can't just be where you are losing the most money. You've got to work with unions and workers to come to a common understanding. For example, maybe you go to the unions and say, "We've got a lot of people in this company with diabetes or who are pre-diabetic. What are we going to do about them collectively? You guys in the union need to help us. It's not just for us, or even for them. It's for their families."
OH: What is "presenteeism" and how does that figure in here?
Fortuna: I personally think that one of the biggest effects of bad health, is presenteeism. That's when an employee shows up to work but isn't fully present, isn't productive, commits unsafe acts, and so on. We're not talking about the number of widgets per hour, but quality.
Let's say you have an individual who has a migraine headache, and hasn't been properly diagnosed for that condition. She's going to have a period from 24 to 48 hours after the onset where she isn't going to be able to function very well. The products put out by that person aren't going to be so good.
If we put out a batch of bad product, our customers may have to shut down their production line. Well that's a disaster. We've got to do everything we possibly can to avoid this.
Absence is another huge problem. Who comes in to do the job? Someone less qualified, not as experienced, not trained as well. We'll have more accidents. So there are safety, quality and productivity consequences to absenteeism and presenteeism.
OH: Are these hidden costs?
Fortuna: The health status of workers involves a whole bunch of costs. Part of it is direct costs. Health care costs are going through the roof. But that's not the majority of the problem. Indirect costs are far more important.
It's one thing to know what you pay out of pocket for managed care. It's another thing completely to know what you're really paying for, the lost quality, the absence rate, presenteeism. It's increasingly clear that for every dollar we're losing in direct costs we're losing 4 to 10 in indirect costs.
OH: Is this about individual change or organizational change?
Fortuna: There are three different levels: individual, organizational, and societal. It involves all three.
The Birth of a New Community?
OH: What's fired your interest in this?
Fortuna: My interest is there's so much opportunity. It's a great place to be and a great time to be there. We've got a nation that's bleeding at the seams economically because of the ravages of our bad collective health. There are other things involved too, but this is a very major part of it. And it's an opportunity.
It's a culture change. It's not going to happen over night. The closest I think of if is the environmental situation back in the 60's.
OH: What was the value of the NIOSH conference in advancing the movement toward integrated health management?
Fortuna: I think you witnessed the birth of a community. This was embodied the first day when someone asked, "What is ROI (return on investment)?" We brought together diverse cultures of people here. Some have a great background in health, but don't know jack about economics and the economics of health. That's really what it's going to take. To be successful we've to have a collaborative multi-disciplinary approach.
OH: What barriers do you see to success?
Fortuna: Companies in this country have a fundamental problem: we manage from quarter to quarter, and not for the long haul. Other countries look at things from a longer-term perspective. We've got to keep that in mind, otherwise we won't have a workforce in the future. Or we'll have an unskilled workforce.
Second, this movement has got to be able to communicate effectively with senior management and make the business case. We need to know how to sell it, the right words to use. And we need to learn how to motivate people to do it.


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Lewis Hamilton is 2/5 with Bet365 to win the Formula One World Drivers Championship after winning the Hungarian Grand Prix to take a 24-point lead into the summer break.
After the thrills and spills of the German Grand Prix, it was a more strategic race at the Hungaroring, where Ferrari's decision to delay a pit-stop for Sebastian Vettel appeared to cost them the chance to challenge Hamilton for victory.
Vettel emerged from the pits behind the Mercedes of Valtteri Bottas and although he passed the Finn with five laps remaining he was unable to put pressure on the championship leader. Nine races remain in the season, beginning with the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps on August 26th.
Hamilton has won three times in Belgium including in two of the last three years, while Vettel's only success came in 2013.


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ASTRO Advocacy Day: Radiation oncologists implore Congress to improve access to cancer treatment options
Radiation oncologists have come to Capitol Hill today to urge Congress to support policies that safeguard cancer patients' access to high-quality, value-based health care. The doctors will meet with Congressional leaders during the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Advocacy Day.
Radiation oncologists will emphasize several legislative priorities in meetings with policymakers: (1) allow radiation oncologists to participate in an advanced alternative payment model (APM) which will serve to stabilize Medicare payments and ensure patients have access to quality cancer care; (2) remove restrictive prior authorization requirements that unnecessarily delay patient access to cancer treatments; (3) support stable funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Cancer Institute (NCI); and (4) protect medical access to radioactive material.
"Radiation oncologists from across the country are here to provide House and Senate lawmakers front-line stories about obstacles that patients encounter every day just to receive proven, trusted treatments for their cancer," said Paul Harari, MD, FASTRO, Chair of the ASTRO Board of Directors. "More than one million cancer patients are treated with radiation therapies each year, either to cure their cancer or relieve pain or symptoms. Radiation oncology provides immense value to the nation's health care system and insurance delays jeopardize patient's health and cause them unnecessary stress when cancer survival should be their primary focus."
Value-based Alternative Payment Models (view infographic)
In 2017 ASTRO proposed an alternative payment model for radiation oncology (RO-APM) that incentivizes radiation oncologists to adhere to nationally recognized clinical guidelines for five of the most common cancers treated with radiation therapy (breast, prostate, lung, colorectal, and head & neck). The RO-APM would allow radiation oncologists to participate fully in the transition to quality initiatives that improve cancer outcomes and reduce costs.
Most American cancer patients are Medicare beneficiaries, and a stable and fair system of compensation for Medicare providers is critical to ensure access to lifesaving cancer treatments, such as radiation therapy. The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) reformed the health care system by accelerating the shift from "volume" to "value" in patient care.
Radiation oncologists will thank legislators for their support for a RO-APM, while also urging them to work with the Administration to move forward expeditiously with the launch of a value-based RO-APM that aligns closely with proposals from ASTRO and the radiation oncology community. ASTRO urges Congress to ensure that CMS adheres to complete transparency in releasing the details of the RO-APM and incorporates stakeholder feedback to avoid unintended consequences.
"The clock is running out and the need is urgent for an advanced alternative payment model for radiation oncology treatments. We urge Congress to work with the Administration to launch an RO-APM to protect patient's access to life-saving cancer care in community, rural and hospital-based settings," said Dr. Harari.
To realize the goals of MACRA, it is critical that an RO-APM be implemented before the freeze on key radiation therapy Medicare payments expires on December 31, 2019.
Prior authorization obstacles to patient care (view infographic)
Radiation oncology and cancer patients have been particularly hard hit by prior authorization's unnecessary burden and interference in care decisions. Radiation oncologists increasingly are restricted from exercising their clinical judgment in what is in the best interest of the patient; yet they are held accountable for the outcomes of treatments where decisions have been taken out of their hands.
In a recent ASTRO member survey, nearly all radiation oncologists (93%) said that their patients face treatment delays due to prior authorization, and a third (31%) said the average delay lasts longer than five days – a full week of standard radiation treatments. These delays cause added stress and anxiety to a patient already concerned about their health. Importantly, there is between a 1.2 to 3.2 percent increase in patient death for each week of delay in starting cancer treatments.
ASTRO recently signed a letter with the American Medical Association (AMA) and many other medical specialty societies, concerning Medicare Advantage prior authorization policies. ASTRO supports the contention that CMS should require Medicare Advantage plans to align their prior authorization requirements with the Consensus Statement on Improving the Prior Authorization Process.
Cancer research funding (view infographic)
ASTRO recently signed onto a coalition letter in support of increased federal cancer research funding in FY 2020. The letter asks congressional leaders for their support of robust and reliable funding for medical research conducted through NIH and NCI. Currently, 80 percent of federal funding for the NIH and NCI is spent on biomedical research projects at local research facilities across the country.
The federal investment in cancer research has played a role in every major innovation in the fight against cancer, including significant advances in radiation oncology, and has led to a decline in the overall number of cancer deaths in the United States. As of 2016, cancer death rates are down 27 percent over the past 25 years. Research has contributed to averting 2.4 million cancer deaths (1.8 million in men; 825,000 in women) to ensure researchers are able to continue their work, ASTRO urges Congress to increase NIH's budget by at least $2.5 billion in FY20 and NCI's budget by at least $378 million.
Access to radioactive source material (view infographic)
Finally, ASTRO members will advocate to preserve access to radioactive source-based technology in health care. Limiting health providers' access to radioactive isotopes would subsequently limit cancer patients' access to lifesaving radiation therapy treatments. ASTRO continues to support policies that enhance the safe and effective use of radioactive materials.
ASTRO Advocacy Day: Radiation oncologists implore Congress to improve access to cancer treatment options. Appl Rad Oncol.
By News Release| April 30, 2019


I am starting to type this post for the third time in the span of a week. We've been off-line more than we've been on, and it seems every time I want to work on the blog we're offline. I'd already typed several paragraphs, but their timeline no longer makes sense and I'm starting over.
Last night's sunset over the dinghy dock at Black Point.
We had a quiet night Sunday at Wax Cay, mostly alone. Monday's cruise was in relatively deep water along well-established routes. Traffic was busy, with great weather just before a big forecasted blow. Everyone that was moving was heading for cover someplace, us included.
I'm glad I managed to get the last post out when I did, around 8:30 Sunday evening. That's because a little over an hour later, the Internet disappeared entirely. Louise had already turned in for the night, so she was unaware until Monday morning. I spent perhaps an hour moving the SIM card around among the three devices which can accept it, but none would find a data signal from any spot on the boat. My T-Mobile SIM, which had also been roaming with no problems, also went offline, and after an hour or so of trying I finally concluded the cell tower had gone off-line and I turned on the TV.
Our anchorage at Big Majors Spot. That's the supply boat leaving Fowl Cay, threading his way through. Pig Beach is off-frame to the right. And, yes, the water is really that color all the time.
Monday morning we awoke still off-line, and nothing gets us moving faster after our first cup of coffee than having no Internet. Normally we at least check the weather, the major news headlines, and email before getting under way. We remained offline until less than an hour before arriving at Big Majors.
We arrived at Big Majors Spot around 2pm, threaded our way through the crowded anchorage, and dropped the hook in ten feet, as close as we could get to the protection of the island (map). We were all secure by 2:30, and not long afterward our friend Tom dropped by in their tender to suggest cocktails aboard their Outremer catamaran, Mac, around 4pm, followed by homemade chocolate cake. We didn't want just cake for dinner so Louise made a big salad to bring along.
We tendered over to Mac at the appointed time and did not return home until late in the evening. We know Tom and Tammy from our motorcycling days in California, when we saw them nearly weekly at group dinners. They had a guest aboard, Eva from Frankfort, Germany, whom we very much enjoyed meeting. It was great catching up with them and talking boats and cruising. What, in the motorcycle world, we used to call "telling lies and kicking tires."
We went to cocktails in relative calm, but we had a bit of a wet ride home as the forecast wind swiftly moved in. Wind speeds climbed throughout the night to roughly 30kt steady with gusts to 35 or so. Fortunately, holding in this anchorage is excellent and we did not witness anyone drag.
Sharks and rays hanging out at the Black Point Dock. Fishermen throw them scraps as they clean their catch.
Winds persisted well above 20kt for the next two days, more or less pinning everyone down to the anchorage. That did not stop the large, powerful Bahamian speedboats from ferrying boatloads of tourists to the beach to look at the pigs. Having done the whole pig thing on our first visit, we simply admired from afar. It seems that the most aggressive ones have been removed, and there is now a gazebo and a bunch of signage on the beach, along with some feed bins.
When we arrived Monday we had very slow but usable Internet access, and I was able to get an email out to the courier service to release my package from Fort Lauderdale. We were also able to check email and load a few pages when we we returned from dinner Monday night. I presumed that would persist and thought nothing further of it. So we were surprised when we awoke on Tuesday with, again, no Internet.
Unlike the situation at Wax Cay, where I literally had no data signal showing on any device, here at Big Majors both SIM cards registered 3g service. But no data would go through. Periodically I would do a ping test, and once in a great while some pings would come back with round-trip times of over ten full seconds. Whereas I think the tower at Norman's Cay had gone down entirely, here I think the tower was simply overwhelmed by well over a hundred boats (which means likely four to five hundred individuals) all pinned down by weather with little else to do.
I ended up spending the day working on the backlog of projects around the boat, at least the ones I could do entirely indoors. Tom, Tammy, and Eva bashed their way over for afternoon cocktails, and after saying goodbye, we bashed our way over to Staniel Cay for a nice dinner at the Yacht Club and to pick up my package, which arrived on the morning flight.
Sharks resting under a boat at Staniel Cay Yacht Club.
Wednesday the winds started to abate, decreasing steadily throughout the day. We judged it still not optimal for leaving, although many boats did, including Mac, since Eva had a flight to catch out of Nassau. The Internet started working in squirts, adding credence to my overloading theory, and periodically throughout the day we'd get a message or email on one of our phones. Still not enough for browsing, although we could very patiently get the low-bandwidth version of the weather site to load.
I again spent the day doing projects, including installing the new grill element we just had delivered. By the evening we were again able to get email to load and check the news and social media. We had a quiet dinner aboard, although too windy to eat on the deck.
Yesterday morning we were finally able to load tide and weather information at will, and start to work on timing for making our outside run in Exuma Sound to Georgetown. It was pretty clear that our earliest window was Saturday, and we were tempted to simply remain at Big Majors another night, and perhaps go back over to the yacht club for a sandwich at the bar. It is, after all, a lovely anchorage, if a bit crowded, and there is always good people-watching.
Our anchorage at Black Point. Vector is third from left.
The lousy Internet connection persuaded us otherwise, and we decided to take our chances at Black Point Settlement instead. While less than ten miles away, Black Point has its own BTC office and tower, which we hoped would not be as overloaded as the one on Staniel Cay. We weighed anchor after lunch and made the short two hour hop to Great Guana Cay and the Black Point Settlement anchorage (map).
We splashed the tender in time to make it to happy hour at Scorpio's. We also enjoyed a nice walk through town, our first real stretch in a long while. We remained at Scorpio's for dinner and enjoyed meeting Byrne and Pat from the catamaran Spray. It was a pleasant evening and we returned to Vector at twilight. Upon arrival I discovered that the white all-around light on the stern of the tender had broken off and was trailing in the water; amusingly it was still illuminated, even with the LED bulb submerged and the globe full of water.
No sooner had we arrived back than some very loud live music cranked up from one of the establishments ashore. It went on well into the night; I ended up watching TV with my headphones on and Louise put her earplugs in to go to bed. Moving to Black Point was the right choice; our Internet was more or less back up to full speed.
This morning we went ashore to offload trash. Black point has a free collection bin on the dock, with a donation box attached. By contrast, garbage is several dollars a bag at Staniel and also in Georgetown. We also strolled down to the "blow hole" on the sound side of the island, passing Good Friday services in progress at the local church.
The Blow Hole. Hard to get a shot when the water is shooting up.
It's looking "ok" for a run down Exuma Sound tomorrow, so after we returned we decked the tender and weighed anchor for Cave Cay, the last accessible cut to the sound. It was an acceptable but choppy ride, with numerous waves splashing against the pilothouse windows. Tonight we are anchored in a familiar spot, across from the Cave Cay Marina (map). Still no services ashore here, so I grilled pork chops for dinner.
It's quiet here. A Krogen is about a half mile from us, and I can see four sailboats down near Musha Cay, David Copperfield's private resort island. I expect a quiet and pleasant night, and if conditions permit, tomorrow morning we will exit Cave Cay Cut and head down Exuma Sound to Elizabeth Harbor. If the weather does not cooperate, we'll remain another night. At least we have good Internet coverage here, courtesy of the uncrowded tower on nearby Little Farmers Cay.
Louise in front of the sand flats at Black Point.
Ahoy Vector, re your internet woes, here's hoping Elon Musks plan to internet the world with satellites turns out to be feasible. Imagine an internet connection in the middle of the Atlantic, at, hopefully, a reasonable cost.


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package org.apache.toree.magic.builtin

import java.io.{ByteArrayOutputStream, OutputStream}
import java.net.{URI, URL}

import org.apache.toree.dependencies.DependencyDownloader
import org.apache.toree.interpreter.Interpreter
import org.apache.toree.utils.ArgumentParsingSupport
import org.apache.spark.SparkContext
import org.scalatest.mock.MockitoSugar
import org.scalatest.{GivenWhenThen, Matchers, FunSpec}
import org.mockito.Mockito._
import org.mockito.Matchers._

import org.apache.toree.magic._
import org.apache.toree.magic.dependencies._

class AddDepsSpec extends FunSpec with Matchers with MockitoSugar
  with GivenWhenThen
{
  describe("AddDeps"){
    describe("#execute") {
      it("should print out the help message if the input is invalid") {
        val byteArrayOutputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream()
        val mockIntp = mock[Interpreter]
        val mockSC = mock[SparkContext]
        val mockDownloader = mock[DependencyDownloader]
        var printHelpWasRun = false

        val addDepsMagic = new AddDeps
          with IncludeSparkContext
          with IncludeInterpreter
          with IncludeOutputStream
          with IncludeDependencyDownloader
          with ArgumentParsingSupport
        {
          override val sparkContext: SparkContext = mockSC
          override val interpreter: Interpreter = mockIntp
          override val dependencyDownloader: DependencyDownloader =
            mockDownloader
          override val outputStream: OutputStream = byteArrayOutputStream

          override def printHelp(
            outputStream: OutputStream, usage: String
          ): Unit = printHelpWasRun = true
        }

        val expected = LineMagicOutput
        val actual = addDepsMagic.execute("notvalid")

        printHelpWasRun should be (true)
        verify(mockIntp, times(0)).addJars(any())
        verify(mockIntp, times(0)).bind(any(), any(), any(), any())
        verify(mockSC, times(0)).addJar(any())
        verify(mockDownloader, times(0)).retrieve(
          anyString(), anyString(), anyString(), anyBoolean(), anyBoolean(),
          anyBoolean(), any[Seq[URL]], anyBoolean(), anyBoolean()
        )
        actual should be (expected)
      }

      it("should set the retrievals transitive to true if provided") {
        val mockDependencyDownloader = mock[DependencyDownloader]
        doReturn(Nil).when(mockDependencyDownloader).retrieve(
          anyString(), anyString(), anyString(), anyBoolean(), anyBoolean(),
          anyBoolean(), any[Seq[URL]], anyBoolean(), anyBoolean()
        )

        val addDepsMagic = new AddDeps
          with IncludeSparkContext
          with IncludeInterpreter
          with IncludeOutputStream
          with IncludeDependencyDownloader
          with ArgumentParsingSupport
        {
          override val sparkContext: SparkContext = mock[SparkContext]
          override val interpreter: Interpreter = mock[Interpreter]
          override val dependencyDownloader: DependencyDownloader =
            mockDependencyDownloader
          override val outputStream: OutputStream = mock[OutputStream]
        }

        val expected = "org.apache.toree" :: "kernel" :: "1.0" :: "--transitive" :: Nil
        addDepsMagic.execute(expected.mkString(" "))

        verify(mockDependencyDownloader).retrieve(
          expected(0), expected(1), expected(2), true)
      }

      it("should set the retrieval's transitive to false if not provided") {
        val mockDependencyDownloader = mock[DependencyDownloader]
        doReturn(Nil).when(mockDependencyDownloader).retrieve(
          anyString(), anyString(), anyString(), anyBoolean(), anyBoolean(),
          anyBoolean(), any[Seq[URL]], anyBoolean(), anyBoolean()
        )

        val addDepsMagic = new AddDeps
          with IncludeSparkContext
          with IncludeInterpreter
          with IncludeOutputStream
          with IncludeDependencyDownloader
          with ArgumentParsingSupport
        {
          override val sparkContext: SparkContext = mock[SparkContext]
          override val interpreter: Interpreter = mock[Interpreter]
          override val dependencyDownloader: DependencyDownloader =
            mockDependencyDownloader
          override val outputStream: OutputStream = mock[OutputStream]
        }

        val expected = "org.apache.toree" :: "kernel" :: "1.0" :: Nil
        addDepsMagic.execute(expected.mkString(" "))

        verify(mockDependencyDownloader).retrieve(
          expected(0), expected(1), expected(2), false)
      }

      it("should add retrieved artifacts to the interpreter") {
        val mockDependencyDownloader = mock[DependencyDownloader]
        doReturn(Nil).when(mockDependencyDownloader).retrieve(
          anyString(), anyString(), anyString(), anyBoolean(), anyBoolean(),
          anyBoolean(), any[Seq[URL]], anyBoolean(), anyBoolean()
        )
        val mockInterpreter = mock[Interpreter]

        val addDepsMagic = new AddDeps
          with IncludeSparkContext
          with IncludeInterpreter
          with IncludeOutputStream
          with IncludeDependencyDownloader
          with ArgumentParsingSupport
        {
          override val sparkContext: SparkContext = mock[SparkContext]
          override val interpreter: Interpreter = mockInterpreter
          override val dependencyDownloader: DependencyDownloader =
            mockDependencyDownloader
          override val outputStream: OutputStream = mock[OutputStream]
        }

        val expected = "org.apache.toree" :: "kernel" :: "1.0" :: Nil
        addDepsMagic.execute(expected.mkString(" "))

        verify(mockInterpreter).addJars(any[URL])
      }

      it("should add retrieved artifacts to the spark context") {
        val mockDependencyDownloader = mock[DependencyDownloader]
        val fakeUri = new URI("file:/foo")
        doReturn(fakeUri :: fakeUri :: fakeUri :: Nil)
          .when(mockDependencyDownloader).retrieve(
            anyString(), anyString(), anyString(), anyBoolean(), anyBoolean(),
            anyBoolean(), any[Seq[URL]], anyBoolean(), anyBoolean()
          )
        val mockSparkContext = mock[SparkContext]

        val addDepsMagic = new AddDeps
          with IncludeSparkContext
          with IncludeInterpreter
          with IncludeOutputStream
          with IncludeDependencyDownloader
          with ArgumentParsingSupport
        {
          override val sparkContext: SparkContext = mockSparkContext
          override val interpreter: Interpreter = mock[Interpreter]
          override val dependencyDownloader: DependencyDownloader =
            mockDependencyDownloader
          override val outputStream: OutputStream = mock[OutputStream]
        }

        val expected = "org.apache.toree" :: "kernel" :: "1.0" :: Nil
        addDepsMagic.execute(expected.mkString(" "))

        verify(mockSparkContext, times(3)).addJar(anyString())
      }
    }
  }
}

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Here we are in 2017, over 40 years since the mass infections to thousands of haemophiliacs through the use of contaminated blood products began.
With your help I believe we can push this petition to the 10,000 signatures required to warrant a response from the British government.
Please help if you can by signing.
The government must accept responsibility for the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS. The contaminated blood scandal has cost the lives of over two thousand people with bleeding disorders such as haemophilia. This was a totally avoidable tragedy and those who remain alive are seriously ill with Hepatitis B, C, HIV and exposure to CJD.
We have not been compensated for the extreme harm to our health nor had a public inquiry since it began in the 1970's and 1980's. Despite cross-party support calling for proper compensation there appears to be no political will from the Department of Health or the prime Minister. Despite a long awaited apology which was finally delivered by David Cameron last year, there is still no meaningful compensation for victims, and justice is denied. MPs were deliberately blocked a few years ago by party three-line whips from having the opportunity to debate Lord Alf Morris of Manchester's Contaminated Blood Bill in the house of Commons. If the Bill had been heard and passed, it would have given legal implementation of all the recommendations made by Lord Archer of Sandwell in his independent report in 2009, but once more the government denied the victims proper acknowledgement of their suffering.
It is an absolute disgrace that no government will accept their moral responsibility to acknowledge the wrongdoing of past governments, but choose to sweep it under the carpet and hope the public won't find out about this blood scandal.
If lessons can't be learned and the government doesn't accept responsibility for the NHS contaminated blood scandal, then what is effectively biological murder will continue to be ignored.
What's more, the British public should be concerned because the government has recently sold Plasma Resource UK, the company which supplies plasma and other blood products to the UK to a venture capitalist Bain Capitol. Bain Capitol is an asset stripping company whose sole interest is making money.
Haemophiliacs were not protected by the state, so how can we trust it to protect the rest of the British public and to supply safe blood supplies for the future? We the public must demand that this government acknowledges the sins of the past and explains why they have now endangered the safety of every UK citizen, by selling Plasma Resource UK to a venture capitalist.
Please support the call for a public inquiry and force the government to tell the truth. I am a victim of the last blood scandal and I have been forced to live off scraps of money from inadequate trust funds, which are discriminatory and divisive in the way they have been set up. The final insult is that ATOS and the DWP are now trying to force the victims, many of whom are facing liver failure and cancer, back to work even when they have been medically retired from employment.
What kind of cruel government infects a community of people with state supplied contaminated blood and then insists they are fit for work? Please sign the petition now and demand that the government accepts responsibility for the NHS contaminated blood scandal.
I will deliver the signatures to Number 10 Downing Street and invite the media.
This video is about the hemophilia population infected with HIV and hepatitis.


February 18, 2010- All of my friends have reminded me that I have a face for radio, and I have countered with the fact that "the camera adds 10 lbs"... (I actually say 15lbs and they correct me to 10lbs); regardless the message is an important one. The following segment was broadcasted on Fox 25 in Boston and provided an opportunity to talk about some of the important trends and issues in college admissions. Those that know me, know that I could have used another 25 minutes, but in the world of TV it's about sound bites and short snip-its, so what can a long-winded guy like me do? Regardless, our support team stood ready and responded to a number of parents/viewers to help them gain a deeper understanding of the trends/issues in college admissions.


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The Ocean Flyway: The Surprising Open Water Routes of Songbird Migrations
September 21, 2017 0 Comments	102 views
Author: Joe Smith / Source: Cool Green Science
Blackpoll Warbler. Photo © Scott Heron / Flickr through a CC BY-SA 2.0 license
If you are fascinated with migration, it is a good time to be alive. Sophisticated tracking technologies are revealing migration routes and destinations that have long been inscrutable.
One recent revelation is that small songbirds are bypassing land and making direct flights southbound over the Atlantic Ocean during fall migration in September and October.
It's an unlikely proposition that a bird that is only the weight of two sheets of paper would opt to fly between one and two thousand miles in a straight shot across open water. It would seem that the better bet would be to take a leisurely route over land where a safety net of habitat awaits below.
Blackpoll warblers, Connecticut warblers, bobolinks and perhaps other species all make this paradoxical choice, setting off across a watery abyss as they make their way to winter destinations in South America.
We know that plenty of birds heading to Central America from the U.S. fly 600 miles across the Gulf of Mexico, but without hard evidence, we've been hesitant to believe that a longer open water route to South America was happening.
The big news came in 2015 when Bill DeLuca and colleagues confirmed the long-suspected overwater route of blackpoll warblers.
From departure points in New England, the birds made a two to three-day flight to the Caribbean islands of Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and Haiti. From there, they made a shorter flight to the South American mainland to spend their winters in Venezuela and Colombia.
DeLuca et al. 2015. Migration routes, stopover locations and winter distributions of five blackpoll warblers (a–e) breeding in northeastern North America, as inferred from light-level geolocators. (f) An adult male blackpoll warbler in breeding plumage. (Photograph by Robert Royse.) Maps (courtesy of Google Earth) were created using the R package 'ggmap'
Prior to this work, earlier researchers pieced together the story of blackpoll migration by using data gathered from radar, bird banding records and sightings in the U.S. and Bermuda. Although they made a strong case, without direct proof some doubt remained. Now we know they got it right.
Bermuda offered migration detectives some critical clues, because any birds appearing there were either lost, swept off course by weather, or intentionally migrating through the airspace above the island.
In the early 1960s, William Drury and J.A. Keith made the case that Bermuda was on the path of a songbird "regular overwater migration route." They noted that species which wintered in South America were more likely to be seen in Bermuda during fall. If it was just lost birds showing up there, all species would have an equal chance of turning up.
One additional and dramatic bit of circumstantial evidence for the ocean flyway came in 1987 during the confluence of a hurricane and migrating birds over Bermuda. Observers there estimated that 10,000 bobolinks as well as "thousands of Connecticut warblers" took refuge on the island. If you have ever gone looking for a Connecticut warbler, you know that this is truly a staggering observation!
We now know from recent tracking studies of individual birds that Connecticut warblers and bobolinks indeed take an overwater route across Bermudan airspace.
Tracking work by Emily McKinnon and her coauthors that was published this year shows that Connecticut warblers lift off from the east coast and fly for two days before making landfall on Caribbean Islands (Cuba, Haiti and Dominican Republic). They then…
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José Manuel Pesudo Soler (* 1. Juni 1936 in Almazora, Spanien; † 5. Dezember 2003 in Valencia) war ein spanischer Fußballspieler und -trainer.

Karriere
Pesudos Karriere begann bei der zweiten Mannschaft des FC Valencia. 1958 kam er in die erste Mannschaft Valencias. 1961 wechselte er zum FC Barcelona, wo er 1966 als Torhüter mit den wenigsten Gegentoren ausgezeichnet wurde. Von 1966 bis 1971 spielte er wieder für Valencia und konnte dort in seiner letzten Saison die spanische Meisterschaft gewinnen.

Nach dem Ende seiner Spielerkarriere trainierte er noch einige mittelklassige Klubs.

Erfolge
 Spanischer Meister: 1971
 Spanischer Pokalsieger: 1963, 1967
 Messepokal: 1966
 Trofeo Zamora: 1966

Weblinks

 Profil bei BDFutbol.com mit Bild

Fußballtorhüter (Betis Sevilla)
Fußballtorhüter (FC Alicante)
Fußballtorhüter (FC Barcelona)
Fußballtorhüter (FC Valencia)
Fußballtorhüter (Gimnàstic de Tarragona)
Fußballtrainer (FC Villarreal)
Spanier
Geboren 1936
Gestorben 2003
Mann

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