Is Pacific Gas and Electric the first corporate climate casualty?
PG&E service vehicle driving on the freeway in Gilroy, Calif.
The big news this week is the misfortunes of California utility Pacific Gas and Electric, which has filed for bankruptcy to protect itself from more than $30 billion in damages related to California's voracious wildfires. CEO Geisha Williams resigned over the weekend, so the company can figure out next steps.
The irony is stark: One of the true pioneers in the clean energy transition could be one of the first corporate victims of climate change.
It stems back to the state's liability laws: PG&E's high-transmission lines have been fingered as the fire starters for more than one of the devastating fires, which have been exacerbated by an ongoing drought. Which, of course, are being exacerbated by the effects of global warming.
Quite simply, the utility wasn't financially prepared for this. Although other states don't have the same way of handling damages related to a utility's equipment, the situation should be a wake-up call about the need for serious policy overhaul and for business insurance policies — for every sector — that account for ways climate change could reshape the world around us.
Although other states don't have the same way of handling damages related to a utility's equipment, the situation should be a wake-up call about the need for serious policy overhaul.
4. It could be a catalyst for more microgrid projects. As the legacy grid infrastructure becomes more vulnerable to climate conditions — including fires, windstorms and floods — localized projects that make communities and companies less vulnerable to disruptions sure look more appealing. Of course, that could be a harbinger of a whole new wave of cybersecurity and liability issues related to commercial and industrial projects.
5. Mainstream investors finally may realize that climate risks are real financial risks. Over the past four months, PG&E's stock price has been in freefall: its market capitalization is around $3.5 billion, compared with about $24 billion in September. Who got clobbered? Apparently, investors who pay attention to environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues got themselves out in time. Bloomberg reports that of the 1,200 funds that use ESG metrics, just 34 were PG&E shareholders. "People get comfortable with risks that have never been a problem before, then all of a sudden it is," Henry Peabody, a fund manager with Eaton Vance, told the news organization.
This will take months to play out, so stay on the line.


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A quarter would take lower pay to work for environmentally-friendly businesses
By Louron Pratt	 16th January 2020 11:09 am 16th January 2020 11:09 am
Just over a quarter (26%) of UK employees would be willing to take a pay cut to work for an organisation that prioritises protecting the environment, according to research by Totaljobs.
The research, which surveyed 2,000 employees and 250 senior decision-makers in the UK in October 2019, also found that 28% said they would consider quitting their job to work for an organisation they considered to be more environmentally friendly than their current one. This figure jumps to 50% among respondents aged 23 to 38.
This age group was also willing to take the greatest pay drop, theoretically dropping their yearly salaries by an average of £11,400, three times the amount (£3,800) that those aged 38 to 54 would be willing to relinquish. Overall, UK employees were willing to accept an average salary reduction of £8,100 per annum.
Half (50%) would refuse to accept a job if they considered it harmful to the environment, while six in 10 UK employees stated that they investigate a potential employer's environmental impact as part of their application process; this figure rises to 72% for those in the 23 to 38 age group.
The majority (80%) of UK workers agreed that the responsibility of environmental impact lies with their employer, but only 50% felt that their employers were currently doing enough to address the climate crisis.
Gudrun Cartwright, environment director at Business in the Community (BITC), said: "It has never been more important for businesses to be part of the solution to our planetary crises. Young people are no longer begging leaders to change but telling them that change is coming regardless.
"Businesses that ignore it face an imminent existential threat. For those that get ahead of the curve, turning talk into action at speed and scale, the opportunities are immense. Our futures depend on rapid, ambitious action, and we can all make a difference."
Lynn Cahillane, Head of Marketing at Totaljobs, said: "Our research demonstrates just how important environmental concerns are to the UK workforce and how they expect their employers to contribute towards stopping the climate crisis. For employers, this presents a unique challenge, but also an opportunity.
"With a widely reported skills shortage, employers have the opportunity to showcase a clear commitment to reducing carbon emissions and help tackle the climate crisis. A step which could make the difference in attracting the UK's most sought-after workers.
"As well as its growing role in attracting talent, [organisations] also need to address their practices to ensure they are retaining staff, too. The findings tell us that people are prepared to leave their job for a greener role, so businesses that can't communicate their environmental record could potentially suffer."
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Data mining is a concept that has long been linked to the world of consumer marketing. The idea is simple enough—with every purchase, a customer reveals something about his or her habits that can be studied and used to guide a brand's decision-making process. That is provided, of course, that the right systems are in place to digest and utilize the data that has been gathered.
Today, the practice is finally making overdue inroads into the health care industry, a field where demand is exploding for improved IT systems that can turn huge quantities of patient data into meaningful information that can be used by physicians, hospitals and insurers to boost efficiency and improve patient care.
Data's potential to spark industry-wide transformation is huge, and forward-thinking groups like Alignment Healthcare are taking steps to make an impact with data sooner than later. By tapping the power of data to bring benefits to everyone involved—patients, physicians, hospitals and insurers—we are closer to reaching our goal of a more fully aligned health care system.
Likewise, health plans and insurers are generating vast amounts of data pertaining to the costs associated with providing treatment. The close study of these numbers can help health plans to establish more accurate cost structures and better assess the risk acceptance of a given market before putting down stakes.
Because the variety of data available is almost limitless, so are the possibilities. What many health care providers are lacking, however, is a way to turn all of this raw matter into meaningful information that can guide everything from treatment plans to reimbursement levels.
One of the data-based initiatives Alignment Healthcare is most proud of is its predictive modeling program, which the company has implemented to boost the wellbeing of its patients while also driving down the cost of care.


SCRANTON, Pa. -- A fire cleared out an apartment complex in Scranton.
About a dozen people had to leave that place on Amity Court when flames sparked just after 11:30 Wednesday night.
Officials believe the fire started in the basement.
A fire inspector is due Thursday to look into why that building burned in Scranton.
KINGSTON, Pa. -- Arrests were made early Thursday morning in the homicide of an elderly man in Luzerne County.
Three people are locked up in connection with the murder of 71-year-old Joseph Monka, including his own granddaughter.
Investigators found Monka was dead inside his home on Arch Street in Edwardsville Wednesday.
Family and friends became concerned when they hadn't heard from him.
Officials went to check on him and say they found he had been stabbed to death and a dresser on top of his body.
LUZERNE COUNTY, Pa. -- Two hospitals in Luzerne County received a big honor on Wednesday.
Geisinger Wyoming Valley in Plains Township and Geisinger South Wilkes-Barre were honored by the Magnet Recognition Program. The international program recognizes excellence in nursing.
Only a small percentage of hospitals in the U.S. are recognized by the program.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Nittany nation can look forward to parking upgrades outside Beaver Stadium this season.
Penn State announced it is upgrading its grass parking lots outside the stadium in State College.
During three home games last season, several grass lots had to be closed after they were saturated by heavy rain.
In all, about 4,000 spaces will be renovated.
Penn State expects to have the parking upgrades complete by the Nittany Lions' home opener on August 31.


NEC maintains a worldwide network of subsidiary companies with more than 100.000 people working worldwide. Operations outside Japan are organised around 5 Regional Headquarters, each of them largely independent in terms of HR policies, practices and tools.
The Internet-of-Things platform research groups focus on creating cognitive Digital Twins of the real-world objects using advanced programming models for cloud-edge computing. Those Digital Twins extend the capabilities of their Real-Twin through situation understanding and knowledge processing. We are working with European partners on topics like Smart Cities, IoT for autonomous driving cars, and smart industries.
NEC Laboratories Europe's IoT group is looking for research scientists to utilize AI-techniques and to develop algorithms for a superior situation modelling and related analytics in Smart City and Smart Industry scenarios for human behavior and crowd mobility.
Part of this research will extend the current 'Digital Twin' mainly state capturing model to be able to represent a more complex (deep) real world situation and its relationships in dynamics, scale and heterogeneity. Therefore the ability to represent, classify and differentiate actual situations will enable us to suggest recommendations to authorities and/or influence assistance systems to optimize situation evolution (Urban Reasoning).
Our work ranges from foundational research and IPR creation to prototype development for transfer to NEC products and services. We are embedded in international research collaborations ranging from collaborative research over large scale pilots for IoT to establishing our technologies in standards.
Our working language is English. The position is initially limited to two years.
We expect a Ph.D. in Computer Science/AI or related fields (or M.Sc. plus equivalent experience).
Please send your application by 30 April, 2019 electronically via the applications web system http://www.neclab.eu/jobs with reference to [1810-308-IOT].


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U.S. Remains Opposed to Drug Legalization, Biden Tells Region
The New York Times on March 5, 2012 released the following:
"By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD
MEXICO CITY — Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. delivered a blunt message on Monday to leaders in Latin America who are contemplating opening the door to the legalization of illicit drugs: The United States will not budge in its opposition.
Mr. Biden, beginning a two-day trip to Mexico and Honduras ahead of a regional summit meeting next month, told reporters that he welcomed a debate over legalization, but then he knocked down the arguments in favor of it.
He said he sympathized with Latin American leaders who are frustrated over violence tied to the drug trade and with the consumption habits in its biggest market, the United States. But the few potential benefits from legalization, like a smaller prison population, would be offset by problems, including a costly bureaucracy to regulate the drugs and new addicts, Mr. Biden said.
"I think it warrants a discussion. It is totally legitimate," he said. "And the reason it warrants a discussion is, on examination you realize there are more problems with legalization than with nonlegalization."
Mr. Biden made his comments shortly after meeting with President Felipe Calderón of Mexico, who has said that "market alternatives" — a phrase that many have taken as code for legalization — should be considered by the United States if it could control the amount of drugs its citizens consume.
At the same time, the Obama administration has proposed reductions in certain antidrug programs for next year in line with a long-planned shift toward training programs instead of expensive equipment like the helicopters used to fight trafficking.
Small amounts of marijuana for personal use are legal in Mexico, but Mr. Calderón has done little to press for any discussions over legalization. Mr. Biden said the subject did not come up in their meeting, which he called wide-ranging and which he said provided him an opportunity to pledge more American help to curtail money laundering and gun trafficking.
Other Latin American leaders, including the presidents of Costa Rica and Colombia, have suggested that legalization should at least be seriously discussed, but none have gone as far as the new president of Guatemala, Otto Pérez Molina.
In a country where drug trafficking and violence has exploded, he has said he would call for the legalization of drugs at a meeting with other Central America leaders.
Analysts suggest that Mr. Pérez Molina, a former army general, and other leaders may be angling for more antidrug aid and, in Mr. Pérez Molina's case, for the United States to lift the suspension of military assistance that has been in place since the civil strife of the late 1970s.
"The growing discussion about legalization comes largely from the struggles on the ground with organized crime and violence," said Shannon K. O'Neil, a scholar at the Council on Foreign Relations who studies American relations in the region. "But in particular cases — that of Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina, for instance — it also likely reflects at least in part the desire to increase U.S. aid to his country, and to lift the ban on weapons sales instituted in the 1970s."
The United States has warned of human rights violations by the Guatemalan military and the police there, said Michael Shifter, president of the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington. "For Pérez Molina, U.S. drug policy ends up making organized crime more powerful, and its human rights policy limits Guatemala's ability to deal effectively with that threat," he said. "That contradiction perhaps best accounts for Pérez Molina's motivation.""
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The older I get, the more I appreciate this holiday. Maybe it's because I'm older and I understand a bit more fully the significance of the holiday.
When JaiseAnn was newborn and I was struggling through some really hard days, I remember being sad that my grandmother was no longer with us. I allowed myself to indulge a few times in "What if my grandma were still alive?" I would picture taking JaiseAnn to her house, watching my grandma play with her, and letting my grandma rock her to sleep with that gentle nature of hers while I slept on the green couch, The Today Show playing on the television--like old times. I imagined eating our favorite burger and fries together and I dreamt of days feeling a little less lonely and a little less burdened as my grandma would talk with me an reassure me that things would get easier..and in the meantime, she'd be there to help me through it.
I miss my grandma. I miss all of my grandparents. I don't have a single living grandparent left and my heart broke in a different place with the loss of each one. Yet, I know they are with me. I know they are helping me, and laughing at my daughter, smiling at my "proud mom" moments right along with me, and working little miracles on the behalf of my family every single day. I know that it is possible that they are here because of the atonement and resurrection of Christ. Because He lives, my family will forever be unified. And for that, of all things, I'm so grateful.
While I know that Easter is more than fun dresses and delicious chocolate bunnies, I still love the little things about the holiday. I tend to be one who embraces the commercialism rather than runs from it. I work hard to focus on the meaning behind religious holidays, but also embrace the little things, too. All things in moderation.


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Lennon's Isolation returns in a blistering performance for the icon's 80th birthday.
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Every now and then, the best Late-Night TV Music clip does not air on late-night TV. No, I'm not playing mind games. I'm just trying to give you some truth. And letting you know that today's finest moment comes courtesy of Sean Ono Lennon, who shared a blistering, stripped-down version of Isolation on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert's YouTube site to mark what would have been John Lennon's 80th birthday.
You don't really need anything after that — though of course, you get some anyway. And to be fair, the rest of the brief slate was undeniably sunny and enticing. Take your pick between Lele Pons and Guaynaa, performing Se Te Nota on some sort of weird giant houseboat stage for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and Surfaces, taking to the a much-humbler patio to play their song Sail Away on The Late Late Show With James Corden. Hey, whatever gets you through the night.
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At last, Java programmers can display full class names on a single line!
It's not really 5k. It's ppi is a rather paltry ~108, especially when compared to the lg ultrafine 5k which hits ~218ppi. This seems to be two regular normal 2560x 1440 panels Frankensteined together, but I really don't think it's all that compelling when you could just buy two discrete panels for like 400~.
Also super weird the verge review doesn't mention the complete bog standard ppi especially since the marketing name misleads by labelling it a 5k.
@9935C101Ab17A66 It literally is more than 5K pixels wide, so I don't think the name is misleading.
Is this what people imagine when they see the term "5K display"? I don't think so. Similarly, when somebody sells me a 4K display, I expect something at least in the ballpark of 3,840 by 2,160 pixels. Two 1080p panels don't make a 4K panel. So to me, calling this a 5K display seems pretty misleading.
It's kinda cool, no doubt, but it's only a 5K display in the most legalistic interpretation of the term.


As a College Station Wedding Planner, I'm always watching the trends to be able to offer fresh ideas, new design concepts and twists on the traditional elements of weddings. While many of our clients want to maintain a very customary wedding design, some want to follow the trends! The watercolor wedding trend is one I think we'll continue to see in 2015 and even into 2016... It's perfect for a spring/summer soiree or a beautiful bridal shower!


Toronto, ON (SportsNetwork.com) - The Toronto Maple Leafs signed defenseman Stephane Robidas to a three-year contract on Tuesday.
Robidas, 37, split last season between Dallas and Anaheim and posted five goals and five assists in 38 games.
He missed a large portion of the season with a broken leg and while recovering, he was dealt to Anaheim by Dallas. He had been Dallas' longest- tenured player at the time of the deal, having been with the club since the 2005-06 campaign.
Over 14 seasons in the NHL, including stints with Montreal and Chicago, he has notched 56 goals and 195 assists in 885 games.
Also on Tuesday, the team signed forward Leo Komarov to a four-year contract. He played for Dynamo Moscow of the KHL last season and had 12 goals and 22 assists in 52 games.


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poEdit — безкоштовний та відкритий кросплатформовий інструмент редагування каталогів локалізації для gettext. Тобто, це редактор, призначений для перекладу інтерфейсів програм що підтримують технологію gettext. У цьому випадку всі повідомлення програми, пункти меню, назви і т. д. містяться у спеціальних файлах з розширенням «po». Працювати з такими файлами в звичайному текстовому редакторові досить незручно, це пов'язано з синтаксисом, що тут використовується. Тому зовнішній вигляд Poedit дещо незвичайний. Основне вікно редактора поділене на три частини. У першій — всі повідомлення, що містяться у файлі. Причому, на відміну від багатьох інших редакторів, призначених для роботи з .po, PoEdit не показує ті частини файлу, де міститься службова інформація — номер повідомлення, файл програми, де зустрічається це повідомлення і т. д. Таким чином, перекладач може не відволікатися на зайві рядки. У другій частині вікна міститься повідомлення, яке перекладається в цей час, а в третій частині — власне переклад.

З приємних сторін інтерфейсу PoEdit можна відзначити, наприклад, те, що неперекладені та закоментовані повідомлення підсвічуються та поміщаються на початок списку. Також цей редактор можна використовувати для перекладу програм, які містять повідомлення усередині файлів з кодом. PoEdit проглядає вказаний файл і шукає рядки, що перекладаються.

PoEdit надається під ліцензією MIT.
Програма побудована на інструментарії wxWidgets і, відповідно, може працювати на будь-якій платформі (хоча вивірено лише Unix/Linux з GTK+ та Windows). Ціллю програми є прагнення забезпечити зручніший підхід до редагування каталогів аніж запуск vi та редагування файлу вручну.

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Ось — короткий список можливостей:

 poEdit показує дані у дуже компактному шляху. Рядки поєднані у списку щоб легше було орієнтуватися у великих каталогах та зразу ж бачити яку частину каталогу вже є перекладено, чи потрібно перекласти і яка частина є «неточним» перекладом.
 Працює на системах Unix/Linux та Windows.
 Підтримка форм множини.
 Можливість підсвітки невидимих символів.
 Неперекладені та неточні записи підсвічуються та відображаються зверху списку.
 Автоматична компіляція файлів .mo (при потребі).
 Автоматичне оновлення заголовків.
 Навігатор посилань дозволяє Вам бачити де і в якому контексті цей рядок зустрічається.
 Ви можете використовувати poEdit для сканування джерельного коду і пошуку рядків для перекладу.
 Інтеграція з оточеннями KDE та GNOME. Проте жодне з цих оточень не вимагається.
 Підтримка UTF-8. poEdit розуміє усі кодування, підтримувані ОС, та сам працює у Unicode.
 Підтримка конвертування між варіантами завершення рядка (корисно, якщо Вам потрібно редагувати каталоги вручну під Windows).
 Пам'ять перекладів автоматизує переклад частих фраз. poEdit може витягнути дані з перекладами з усіх Ваших файлів PO, MO та RPM.
 Діалог пошуку пришвидшує навігацію у каталозі.
 Редагування коментарів.
 Менеджер каталогів.
 Підтримка Unicode для Windows NT/2000/XP (часткова підтримка Unicode для Windows 9x). Повна підтримка Unicode для Unix з GTK+ 2.x.
 Перевірка правопису (GTK+ 2.x).
 Інтерфейс poEdit перекладено багатьма мовами

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 KBabel
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 PoNewEdit, SourceForge.net

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Програмне забезпечення, що використовує ліцензію MIT

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I would like to sincerely thank Eastbourne, its mayor and council, Councillor Kathy Ballard, Nicola Metcalfe and of course the seafront office crew for flying a magnificent Red Ensign – the ensign of Britain's Merchant Navy on Merchant Navy Day, September 3.
Also the management and staff, especially Madelaine and Chris of The Grand Hotel. Setting an example to the rest of the hotels in Eastbourne as usual. Let's see more 'red dusters' next year please!
Our civilian merchant seamen tend to regard their service to this nation as underrated despite the fact that their casualty rate in war was historically three times greater than that of the armed services.
September 3 was chosen as MN Day because that was the day war was declared in 1939 and five hours later the first merchant ship was sunk. The last was sunk in 1945 well after hostilities had officially ceased and in between 2,177 British ships were lost and more than 30,000 British seamen. So it's appropriate, I think, to fly the red duster once a year, just to show respect.
Thank you very much, Eastbourne.


Somehow it makes little sense that amateur "ham" radio continues to thrive in the age of Twitter, Facebook and iPhones. Yet the century-old communications technology – which demands such commitment that you must generally pass an exam to receive a license — currently attracts around 350,000 practitioners in Europe, and a further 700,000 in the United States, some 60 per cent more than 30 years ago.
*What is it about a simple microphone, a transmitter-receiver and the seductive freedom of the open radio spectrum that's turned a low-tech anachronism into an enduring and deeply engaging global hobby?*For a start, there is that thrill in establishing a magical person-to-person long-distance radio conversation that no commodified internet communication can compete with. In a world of taken-for-granted torrents of e-mails, instant messages and Skype video-chats, there is a purity and a richness in the shared experience of exchanging "73s" during a live "QSO" with strangers on another continent.
Why, the very ham slang that defines the community – 73 translating as "best regards", and QSOs as two-way conversations – tells practitioners that they belong to a special, mutually curious and highly courteous club. And the fact that DXers (long-distance amateur operators) take the trouble to acknowledge received transmissions and conversations by sending their new contacts custom-designed postcards through the analog postal service ... well, that is charm itself in a world where it's considered excessive to end a communication with anything more effusive than a "bestest".
You only need study a handful of these cards to understand, even today, the old-fashioned excitement of connecting with a stranger who might be many thousands of miles away. The postcards – known as QSL cards – can be as quirky and personality-filled as the senders themselves. At times humorous and characterful, at others terse and geographically factual, they have naturally inspired their own subculture that has spurred DXers to collect and display them much as they would colorful foreign postage stamps.
The cards invariably display as a minimum some basic factual information about the sender. This will generally include the radio operator's individual call sign, his (there are not too many "hers") location, and a few details about the signal detected. And just to show that the Twitter generation did not invent the linguistic contractions exemplified in text-message speak, QSL cards too rely on slang and abbreviations to pack information into a tight space.
So cards will display the "RST" – the received radio station's readability, signal and strength; perhaps details of the sender's "XMTR" (transmitter) and "ANT" (antenna); and occasionally a request to reciprocate, expressed as the shorthand "PSE QSL TNX" (please send an acknowledgement card, thanks) or the more chatty "hw abt a crd om?" (How about a card, old man?) Old man, by the way, is not a reference to the recipient's age – just as, on the rare occasions when the DXer is female, she is referred to as a "YL", a young lady, whatever her chronological age.
DXers have been exchanging QSL cards since at least 1916, when Edward Andrews of Philadelphia – call sign 3TQ – recorded the receipt of a card from 8VX of Buffalo, NY. Over the next decade, the hobby took off – so much so that, by 1928, Paul Segal (W9EEA) had formulated an "amateur's code" setting out six key qualities to which practitioners must adhere: "The radio amateur is considerate... loyal ... progressive ... friendly ... balanced ... [and] patriotic," Segal specified, always ready for service to country and community.
Since then, the hobby has captivated royalty and celebrities alike. Among the most celebrated DXers have been the late King Hussein of Jordan (call sign JY1), Queen Noor (JY1H) and Juan Carlos, King of Spain (EA0JC). Had you picked the right moment, you could have chatted to Morocco's King Hassan II (CN8MH), the former Sultan of Oman (A41AA) or Bhumiphol Adulayadej, King of Thailand (HS1A).
If monarchs have never appealed, you could instead have shot the breeze with Marlon Brando (FO5GJ), prime minister Rajiv Ghandi of India (VU2RG) or the CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite (KB2GSD) – not forgetting the singer Cliff Richard (W2JOF), Joe Walsh of The Eagles (WB6ACU) and genuinely beyond-this-world DXers such as Yuri Gagarin and Helen Sharman.
It's little wonder that collectors describe the buzz of receiving a new exotic foreign card as akin to that of philatelists discovering a rare commemorative stamp. That explains why the late Jerry Powell, a New Jersey ham between 1928 to 2000 (W2OJW), proudly displayed the 369 cards he had gathered from Okinawa to Papua.
Another obsessive collector, Thomas Roscoe of Brookfield, Ohio (K8CX), has created an awe-inspiring QSL museum where he displays his trophies from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. (You can see his individual cards at hamgallery.com). Take a journey with Roscoe to Wallis & Futuna Island and Western Kiribati, to Kyrgyzstan and Kerguelen Island; visit "states" whose international status is somewhat contentious, such as the Republic of Ichkeria and the Principality of Sealand; celebrate one-off events such as Operation Desert Storm in Saudi Arabia, or the Queen Mary's last voyage.
But it's not simply the romance of card-collecting that continues to inspire DXers, nor the blunt urge to communicate. Instead, hams talk proudly about belonging to a global "brotherhood," with few rules and little bureaucracy and the ability to transcend language, religion and race – while never quite knowing who they might come in contact with.
Plus, of course, the chance to be a genuine real-life hero. Days after a magnitude 7.3 earthquake devastated Haiti in January, amateur radio operators were busy at work connecting rescuers within the country and contacting survivors' families. When a magnitude 8.8 earthquake hit Chile the next month, and the phone network collapsed, a radio operator named Alejandro Jara broadcast the first information from the ground.
Hams stepped in on September 11, 2001, and during Hurricane Katrina. Then there was Tony Pole-Evans, a bird lover with a short-wave radio on Saunders Island, who famously risked his life during Argentina's 1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands to radio the first news back to Britain that 1,000 soldiers had landed on Goose Green.
How exciting it must have been to intercept that particular radio call. And boy, what a QSL card to top one's collection. You can tweet all you like, but this is the way to communicate.


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There's a new generation sipping coffee in the breakroom these days, and if you're a part of it (or about to be), your expectations when it comes to corporate social responsibility (CSR) may be even higher than those of your millennial elders.
Gen Z, roughly defined as the generation born between 1995 and 2010—and one of four generations profiled in LiveCareer's 2018 Job-Hopping Report—is a larger cohort than either Gen X or baby boomers, and the first wave of workers from this generation is already taking their place in the workforce. The most racially diverse US generation to date, they'll be looking to align themselves with companies that are purpose driven, early data indicates.
Thanks to smartphones, social media, and crowdsourcing, these digital natives are more global in their world-view than any previous generation. Many have grown up enjoying virtual interactions with members of their generation from across the globe, which means they've been quick to criticize unfair work practices and other varieties of poor corporate citizenship on social media.
What does this mean as they enter the workforce? Very likely that companies that don't think seriously about how their brand is seen in terms of CSR may pay a steep price when it comes to recruiting and retaining talent and customers.
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Businesses and organizations define corporate social responsibility in many ways, but most definitions include an awareness of a company's effect on employees, customers, communities, and the environment. CSR includes a commitment to improving conditions for all stakeholders through ethical governance, use of renewable materials, and partnerships with nonprofit organizations.
Examples range from law and accounting firms engaging in pro bono work to volunteer and fundraising opportunities for employees to social justice initiatives that are hard-baked into the company's mission. An example of the latter would be Warby Parker's Buy a Pair, Give a Pair policy, which provides a free pair of glasses to someone in need for every pair sold. TOMS' One for One is a similar program for shoes.
According to a 2017 survey of 5,000 Gen Zers, they're likely to favor employers that have a range of initiatives in place, from more traditional volunteer and fundraising partnerships with local and national nonprofits to more ambitious approaches—a commitment to reducing toxic materials in manufacturing, fair labor practices domestically as well as globally, and/or a business model that incorporates social good in its core mission.
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From an HR perspective, Gen Z jobseekers are even more likely than millennials to expect employers to have internal programs in place to address gender and racial equity. For example, Gen Zers may seek out the company that takes the lead within its industry on workplace harassment and gender equality, diversity engagement, and environment and social activism, and even accept a slightly lower salary offer to work there.
According to a Cone Communications survey of younger workers, some 75% of respondents indicated that they consider a company's social and environmental practices when considering a job offer, and the same percentage reported they would accept a lower salary to work for a company with a strong CSR program. Two-thirds reported they would not accept an offer from a company that doesn't have a commitment to corporate community engagement.
According to the LiveCareer report, Gen Zers list volunteer experience on their résumés 37% more often than millennials and are 1.4-times more likely than Gen Xers—and 4.2 times more likely than baby boomers—to list these endeavors on their résumés.
The data indicates that younger generations place more value on volunteering and philanthropy and are attracted to companies that incorporate community service into their corporate mission. For example, according to the Cone Communications' 2017 "How to Speak Gen Z" study, 94% believe companies have a responsibility to address social and environmental issues, a strong argument to include information about community engagement and sustainability practices in job ads.
There is also evidence that volunteerism increases employee engagement. More than 80% of millennials responding to a Cone Communications study said they feel more loyalty to companies that provide them with volunteer opportunities and derive more satisfaction from their work when their company provides opportunities to work on social and environmental issues.
For Gen Zers, external corporate responsibility may go further than traditional alliances with big-name nonprofits. This generation often expresses a desire to engage in meaningful work projects that align profitability with social missions, and they are likely to remain longer in roles that offer them these opportunities. As a bonus, allowing younger employees to take the lead on volunteer and community engagement projects provides them with valuable leadership experience and grooms them for similar internal management roles in the future.
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Not only does social engagement provide opportunities for younger employees to develop leadership skills, company-supported volunteerism can also improve morale and brand perception. In fact, in one study, 70% of respondents said volunteering would do more to improve morale in their workplace than company-sponsored happy hours.
At the same time, many employees said they would volunteer more often if they understood that their efforts helped hone work skills and had a direct effect on social problems. This means that employers have the opportunity to increase morale and retention by taking the lead on employee-community engagement with programs and messaging that clearly articulates the values of community service. Such efforts are likely to have the biggest impact of all on Gen Zers, a generation that is interested in their place in the world.
Companies such as Salesforce, Ben & Jerry's, and Bosch are ahead of the curve, leveraging their name for social responsibility as a recruitment tool aimed at younger workers. Big-name corporations that have developed innovative sustainability initiatives include Dell's Legacy of Good, Virgin Atlantic's Change Is in the Air, and Levi Strauss & Co.'s Made of Progress.
Socially conscious, politically engaged, and as interested in creating communities and contributing to them as any generation before them, Gen Z is entering the workforce eager to do meaningful work and understand how their work matters.
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Modular Data Center Designs, More Than Just a Trend?
It's been more than five years since the unveiling of Sun's Blackbox data center and modular designs are becoming more synonymous in the industry and with high-performance and cloud computing. Running servers in shipping containers was initially viewed as a niche play by many in the data center industry, limited to mobile requirements, temporary capacity, or novel designs like cloud computing facilities. But with enterprise users such as: HP, Dell's Data Center Solutions Group, and eBay, having publicly announced an adoption of modular data center design into their data centers, it's been affirmed that this is definitely more than just a trend. With the massive growth in the data center industry and a huge push towards cost effective planning and operation, modular designs are expected to become a viable alternative for expansion and new builds.
The idea of modular data center designs has evolved from the basic premise of using an ISO standard for a shipping container and customizing it to accommodate data center infrastructure. If designed appropriately, extreme levels of performance could be attained in data centers using a consistent design technique, and capital costs could be reduced by standardizing components, construction and the supply chain. In the past few years the modular design approach has since split in two directions. While some vendors have focused on the overall design of a complete data center solutions (e.g., HP FlexDC and i/o's Data Systems i/o Anywhere), others have moved the modular data center design concept down to the rack or row level (e.g., APC InfraStruxure or Emerson SmartAisle).
HP noted a projection by IDC analyst, Michelle Bailey that stated modular deployments will raise from 144 units this year to about 220 units in 2012; a large increase when considering the industries, usually slow, embrace to new technologies.
Tier 1, like many in the industry, was initially skeptical of modular designs. But it's not alone among leading analyst firms in believing that modular designs have a place at the table. David Cappuccio, chief of research for the Infrastructure team at Gartner, discussed the growing appeal of modular designs.
Interestingly, modular data center designs will also be a focal point at the 2012 Uptime Symposium this May. Last year the Uptime Institute's Professional Services unit hired a veteran of HP's modular program, Debbie Seidman, as its new Director of Technical Services. She will be managing Uptime Institute's delivery of Design and Facility Tier Certifications worldwide.
So it seems that with enterprise users embracing it, Uptime making it a focal point at their 2012 Symposium, and the industry starting to adapt to the idea, modular designed data centers might just be the wave of the efficient data center future.


An artists that experiments with different forms or art, from traditional to digital.
Chris Elliman is the architect of these compositions, finding subjects and people to tell stories about and weaving meaning in the images that form the piece of art. It is a quality I love about art in general, but specifically about surreal art. The following is an image based thought of mine, regarding why art means different things to different people, which I am hoping I will be able to convey in writing, if it fails to come across, I am very sorry in advance. A painting is painted on a sheet of glass, on one side, stands the artist and his or her interpretation of the piece and on the other side, stands the viewer, with his or hers. The painting is visible to both at the same time, even though it is the same image, the two sides have a different view of it, where one is the mirror image of the other. In real life, that difference is dictated by your experiences, giving each one of us, our own personal feeling about a piece of art. The million little facets of your character, that have developed throughout your lifetime, are the qualities that make you, you... they are the very things, that are going to shape your perspective, when forming an opinion about anything, in this case a piece of art. That is why, I am really puzzled when people push others to like or dislike something, based on arbitrary rules. So celebrate your differences, as variety, in opinions, is what makes life interesting. All that said, to enjoy all of the wonderful details Elliman has infused into his paintings, press the images to enlarge them and have a look at the video below, to see how he does it.
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A delegation of Indian investors from various sectors came on a three-day visit here during the course of which they met Ethiopian officials to discuss multi-sector projects that would benefit the two countries and strengthen the long standing Ethiopian-Indian diplomatic and socio-economic relations.
The 24 business delegates came from sectors including IT, infrastructure, hospitals, power and natural gas, paper and industries, plastic, mining, stainless mills and, for the first time, from the entertainment industry.
"The delegation members received positive response and information that will be able to help them establish the kind of business they would like to invest in and they would like to come back in a month or two to investigate more on the opportunities and business environment," said Ishwarya Lakshmi, editor in chief and publisher of World Reflections Magazine, who organised the visit along with the Ethiopian embassy in Delhi. she told IANS.
"This is a mutual benefit because it will help create job opportunities for both nations," she told IANS.
For most of the delegates, this was their first visit to Ethiopia. They understand that Ethiopia is the fastest growing economy in Africa and the infrastructure development is suitable for new opportunities compared to other African countries they have been to, says Ishwarya, adding that Ethiopia is exceptionally open to investment and development potential.
The delegates met officials from the ministry of health (MoH), ministry of mines (MoM), ministry of water, irrigation and energy (MoWI), ministry of foreign affairs (MoFA), and ministry of information, technology and communication (MoITC) among others. The Indian embassy here helped them with the guidelines of the business environment and provided them relevant information, according to Ishwarya.
Among the delegates, she also states, some of them would like to come back in a few weeks or months to plan and go ahead further with their investment plans. In order to help them get an insight as well as information about the country, delegates from the Ethiopian Investment Commission made a presentation about Ethiopian investment policy, investment and market opportunities and showed the priority areas for Indian investors.
Questions raised by the business representatives were answered and finally they agreed to work in the areas of mining, health and other investment areas.
A printing company would like to establish a new technology paper and printing plant. The printing sector in Ethiopia is monopolised by the government and is of no good quality, according to an owner of a small printing enterprise who requested anonymity.
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(Heron Bay, ON) – On March 21, 2019, officers from the Anishinabek Police Service (APS) Pic River / Pic Mobert Detachment with the assistance of members of the Fort William and Ginoogaming Detachments executed a search warrant at a Pic Mobert First Nation residence.
The investigation resulted in the seizure of four firearms. A 27 year old male & a 27 year old female from Pic Mobert First Nation were charged with unauthorized possession of a firearm & careless storage of a firearm. The female was also charged with uttering threats.
Both individuals have been released from custody and will appear in the Ontario Court of Justice on May 15, 2019.


Malta Under-21 coach Silvio Vella has selected a squad of 20 players for the friendly match against Switzerland Under-20 and the UEFA Under-21 Championship Group Six qualifying match away to Turkey.
The friendly against Switzerland U-20, on Friday 23rd March at the Centenary Stadium (kick-off 13.00), is in preparation for Malta's away qualifier against Turkey on 27th March.
Vella has awarded a first call-up to goalkeeper Andreas Vella who has been playing well for BOV Premier League side Mosta this season. Other newcomers in the Malta Under-21 squad are Sliema Wanderers defender Kurt Shaw, Pietà Hotspurs midfielder Dylan Agius and foreign-based duo Conor Borg, who is on the books of Italian Serie A club Roma, and Andrea Borg, the Peterborough United forward.
Conor Borg, who has been training regularly with Roma's senior squad since recovering from a long-term injury, is 20 while Andrea Borg is only 18.
Valletta defender Jean Borg has been named in the senior Malta squad for the friendly match against Luxembourg on Thursday, 22nd March but will be rejoining the Under-21 squad ahead of their trip to Turkey.
The Malta Under-21 team suffered a narrow 1-0 home defeat to Turkey in their last UEFA U-21 Championship qualifier, played at the Centenary Stadium on 10th November, 2017. The Maltese youngsters are still looking for their first point in the group which also contains Belgium, Hungary, Sweden and Cyprus.
The match against Turkey, on 27th March at the Oba Stadyumu in Alanya (kick-off 18.00), will be followed by four home qualifiers for Malta between June and October 2018.
forwards Jurgen Degabriele (Hibernians); Joseph Mbong (Hibernians); Kyrian Nwoko (Valletta); Andrea Borg (Peterborough United FC, England).


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BioHaven Floating Islands launched in South Africa!
Today saw the well-attended launch of the BioHaven floating island concept in South Africa. 16o people turned up and were treated to a morning of interesting events and a buffet lunch kindly sponsored by Klein Joostenberg Bistro. The audience were provided with details of this "concentrated wetland effect" technology and the benefits it offers. Many left with a new and invigorated understanding of how wetlands work.
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Geneva could still be at risk, scientists say (Photo: Switzerland Tourism/Stephan Engler).
Nearly 1,500 years ago a tsunami triggered by a rockfall swept Lake Geneva, engulfing its shores with a wall of water up to 13 metres high, Swiss scientists reported on Sunday.
Keen to find out more, Kremer's team swept the deepest part of the lake with high-resolution radar.
They uncovered a huge, oval-shaped pile of sediment, more than ten kilometres long, five kilometres wide and five metres thick.
The thickest point was in the south-east, indicating an origin in the "delta" where the River Rhone flows into the 73-kilometre long lake.
"Our numerical simulations with a shallow water model show that delta collapse in the lake generates a large tsunami at various locations along the shore, where a wave of 13 metres is observed after only 15 minutes, and at Geneva where a wave of eight metres arrives 70 minutes after the mass movement is initiated," the researchers wrote.
Over the last 10,000 years, several big slips have occurred, and they could happen again as sediment is building up on the delta slopes -- posing a threat to more than a million people living on the lake shores, said the letter.


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Cà dell'Acqua è una frazione del comune italiano di Borgo San Giovanni.

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La piccola località rurale di Cà dell'Acqua venne citata per la prima volta nel 1375, quando le terre vennero acquistate da Ursina Visconti, vedova di Matteo.

Nel Seicento la località fu proprietà della famiglia Trivulzio.

In età napoleonica (1809-16) Cà dell'Acqua fu frazione di Cazzimani, recuperando l'autonomia con la costituzione del Regno Lombardo-Veneto.

All'Unità d'Italia (1861) il comune di Cà dell'Acqua contava 543 abitanti. Nel 1865 Cà dell'Acqua venne aggregata definitivamente a Cazzimani.

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The Minister and the Mill Girl
In December 1832, the body of a young pregnant woman was found hanging at a Tiverton, Rhode Island farm. She was identified as Sarah Cornell a worker in a textile factory in nearby Fall River, Massachusetts. Evidence implicated Methodist minister Ephraim Avery and the community was outraged that a man of the cloth had seduced and murdered an innocent mill girl. But Sarah Cornell was far from innocent and she had reasons hate Reverend Avery that had nothing to do with her pregnancy. Could Sarah Cornell have planted evidence against Avery before taking her own life? The story of the minister and the mill girl would put the town of Fall River at the center of a national controversy 60 years before Lizzie Borden would do the same. And the outcome would be just as inconclusive.
Date: Decenber 20, 1832
Location: Tiverton, Rhode Island
Victim: Sarah Maria Cornell
Cause of Death: Strangulation
Accused: The Reverend Ephraim Kingsbury Avery
On Friday, December 21, 1832, the body of a young woman was found hanging from a cord tied to the roof of a hay stack in on the farm of John Durfee in the town of Tiverton, Rhode Island, just across the border from Fall River, Massachusetts. Durfee sent for the coroner and when the news reached Fall River, local ministers and mill overseers hurried to the scene to help identify the body. The Reverend Ira Bidwell recognized the girl as Sarah Maria Cornell, a member of his Methodist congregation. The identification was verified by John Smith, overseer of a weaving room at the Fall River Manufactory where Sarah Cornell had worked. Sarah's doctor, Thomas Wilbur also confirmed her identity and added that she was pregnant when she died. Dr. Wilbur speculated that she had killed herself in despair. She had told him that the father of her unborn child was a married Methodist minister named Ehpraim Kingsbury Avery.
An ad hoc coroner's jury first agreed with Dr. Wilbur's assessment and declared her death a suicide and she was hastily buried on Saturday. But by Sunday new evidence came to light. In Sarah's bandbox a penciled note was found which read:
If I should be missing enquire of the Rev Mr. Avery of Bristol he will know where I am Dec 20th S M Cornell.
An anonymous letter was found in Sarah's trunk, requesting a meeting with her on December 20. On closer inspection, the cord around her neck did not indicate suicide. While the loop was so tight it could not be cut off without cutting her skin, it was tied with a clove hitch, a knot that would not have automatically pulled tight. The body was exhumed and examined more closely. Bruises were found on her abdomen suggesting that an abortion may have been attempted.
People of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, primarily Congregationalists, were suspicious of the rising Methodist Episcopal Church that some equated with Freemasonry. On Sunday the coroner declared that Sarah Cornell was murdered and a warrant was issued for the arrest of Methodist minister Ephraim Avery.
The Mill Girl
Sarah Cornell had been a tailor by trade but found she could make more money by working in the textile mills that were rapidly expanding throughout New England. Like many mill girls she frequently relocated because of new opportunities and changing personal situations. Sarah had also gained an unsavory reputation that she had trouble outrunning. In Providence, Rhode Island she was accused of shoplifting. She changed her name and moved to Jewett City, Connecticut where she worked in the weaving room of a mill until she was dismissed after being seen leaving the building late in the evening accompanied by a young man.
During this time she had also converted to Methodism and several times had tried to become a member of the church but her reputation had always stood in her way. In Slatersville, RI she was admonished for lewd behavior and later, after a church trial, was expelled for fornication and lying. In Lowell she had a relationship with a mill clerk that ended with more rumors of lewd behavior. She travelled Lowell, Massachusetts and as far north as Dover, New Hampshire, but could not shake her reputation as a bad girl.
Sarah met the Reverend Ephriam Avery when he was beginning his assignment as Methodist minister in Lowell. She asked him for job as a domestic servant. Avery claimed that she was never hired but another witness said she was hired but dismissed by Avery's wife after one week of service because she did not like the attention her husband gave her. Sarah got a job as a servant in Lynn, MA but was terminated on suspicion of theft. She returned to Reverend Avery and asked him to give her a certificate of good standing with the Methodists so she could join a church in another community. He gave her the certificate but she did not leave Lowell.
She had gotten another mill job in Lowell, but the overseer confronted her with the rumors of her loose behavior. She admitted to an illicit relationship but claimed that she had reformed. The overseer agreed to let Sarah keep her job if she would confess her sins to Reverend Avery. When she did, Avery was unsympathetic. Rather than offering forgiveness, he began the process of another church trial against Sarah. Her confessions to Avery would guarantee that she would be expelled again for fornication.
Before the trial ended, Sarah fled to Dover, New Hampshire, got another mill job and attempted to join a Methodist church there. Meantime, in Lowell, Dr. William Graves went to Rev. Avery to ask about Sarah's whereabouts. He had been treating her for gonorrhea and she left without paying the bill. When the minister of the Dover church contacted Rev. Avery about Sarah, Avery told him that she was guilty of fornication, theft and lying, and he told him about the "foul disease" she had. His letter ended:
"Now if you want her in your church, you may have her."
Sarah sent several letters to Avery confessing her sins and asking forgiveness but got no response. Finally she went to Lowell and confronted him in person and he agreed to sign a certificate of forgiveness that would allow her to join a church in New Hampshire. But the day after giving Sarah his signature he wrote to the minister in New Hampshire, revoking his forgiveness saying:
"we should all of us here be opposed to her joining anywhere…Alas! Alas!! Alas!!! This morning direct information was brought that she had told a known willful falsehood—her standing being as it is I have not taken any pains to enquire into the cause."
Sarah left New Hampshire, and after a few stops in Massachusetts, went to live with her sister and brother-in-law in Woodstock, Connecticut. She stayed connected to the Methodist church by attending classes but did not try to join a church. That summer she also attended a Methodist camp meeting where hundreds of people slept in tents and attended four days of prayer and services. She was seen there by Reverend Avery (who had since been transferred to Bristol, Rhode Island) and several other Methodist ministers she had known in Lowell.
That fall, Sarah became aware that she was pregnant. She told her sister, and then related what had happened at the camp meeting. She said she had approached Reverend Avery asking him to return her letters of confession. In her sister's words, this is what Sarah said:
"They sat down; some conversation followed about Avery having burned the letters. He said he had not, but would on one condition, and settle the difficulty. At that time he took hold of her hands, and put one onto her bosom or something like it. She said she tried to get away from him, but could not. She said he then had intercourse with her, and they returned to the camp. He promised to destroy the letters, on his return to Bristol."
Her sister also said that Sarah had been "unwell as females are" eight days before the camp meeting, confirming that the conception had happened there. Sarah was advised by her brother-in-law and his lawyer to move to Rhode Island where, if necessary, she could sue Avery for support. Sarah moved to Fall River, Massachusetts, on the Rhode Island border— not far from the town of Bristol—where she knew she could get mill work. She stayed in Fall River until her death on December 20.
The Hearing
The Saturday after the body was found, Reverend Avery had learned of the suspicions against had planned to travel to Lowell on Monday to gather evidence of Sarah Cornell's bad character. On Sunday, before the coroner had officially declared the death murder, a delegation from Fall River and Tiverton persuaded the Bristol authorities to arrest Avery. On Monday a large vigilance committee arrived by ferry from Fall River to bring Avery back to stand trial in Tiverton, but Bristol authorities would not release him. The hearing to determine whether Ephraim Avery would be tried for murder was held in Bristol.
The hearing began on December 25, 1832—Christmas Day was not an official holiday at the time. Justices John Howe and Levi Haile would hear the case. The prosecution brought in all the evidence to suggest that Sarah Cornell was murdered and that Reverend Avery had the motive and opportunity to be the murder. They proved that he had not been in Bristol on December 20, but was on an island with a bridge to Tiverton. The anonymous letter had been written on distinctive pink stationary, which matched stationary in Avery's possession and John Orswell, the engineer of the ferry King Phillip testified that Avery had handed him the letter to deliver to Miss Cornell. But the court would not allow the letter into evidence since it could not be proven that Avery wrote it. Even more damaging to the prosecution, the court would not allow the testimony of Sarah's sister and brother-in-law or Dr. Wilbur, regarding Sarah's assertion that Avery was the father of her unborn child.
The defense brought in witnesses that testified to Reverend Avery's good character and Sarah Cornell's bad character and had co-workers of Sarah's that testified that she was suicidal. They also had witnesses who stated that Avery could not have given the letter to John Orswell, and could not have been in Tiverton on December 20.
On January 7 the justices gave their opinions. Both agreed that there was not enough evidence to try Reverend Avery for murder or even that it was murder and not suicide.
Fearing the inevitable negative public reaction, Avery fled quickly and quietly, travelling to the home of Simeon Mayo in the town of Rindge, New Hampshire. While probably not in any physical danger, Avery correctly assumed that the people of Fall River and Tiverton would not be satisfied with the ruling. Should they come after him again, residing in a state without a border with Rhode Island would complicate the extradition process.
The people of Fall River and Tiverton did not accept the Bristol ruling and issued another warrant for Avery on the grounds that he was held and examined outside the county where the crime was committed. Deputy Harvey Hamden, began a search for Avery that took him to Lowell, Boston, and in a remarkably short time, to Rindge, New Hampshire. Hamden had obtained the proper Hew Hampshire warrants and in Rindge met with a deputy Sherriff and a posse who rode with him to Mayo's house. Mayo feigned ignorance but let the men into his house where they found Avery. Though he had grown a beard and was wearing green-tinted spectacles Hamden recognized him. Avery was arrested and taken back to Tiverton.
Trial: May 6. 1833
Ephraim Avery's murder trial was held in the city of Newport and lasted 27 days. It followed much the same course as the previous hearing. Once again Sarah's words to her sister and her doctor regarding the father of her unborn child were not admitted. Medical testimony regarding questions of suicide versus murder and the exact age of the fetus was quite prolonged with each side summoning experts to support their point of view. The defense provided witnesses who could seemingly account for every minute of Reverend Avery's time at the camp meeting and again attacked Sarah Cornell's morality and sanity. But the circumstantial evidence against Avery was so strong that the defense claimed, not only that Sarah Cornell committed suicide, but that she first planted evidence that would implicate Reverend Avery.
In the end, the jury could not find enough evidence to convict Ephraim Avery of murder
Verdict: Not guilty
Aftermath:
Ephraim Avery left court for Bristol ahead of the public announcement of the verdict. He did not remain there long, by June 5, Avery was in Boston awaiting a Methodist church trial. He was acquitted by the church of the charges of murder and "improper connexion."
He returned to Bristol and tried to preach but his congregation was now divided with many opposed to his continuing there. He was burned in effigy twice in Bristol and at least four times in Fall River. After 1834 Avery was never again stationed in the New England conference of the Methodist church. His role gradually diminished and by 1837 he was dropped from their roster. Avery and his family eventually settled in Lorain County Ohio where he died a farmer in 1869.
Though the murder of Sarah Cornell brought national notoriety to the town of Fall River, Massachusetts, it would be overshadowed 59 years later by another Fall River killing—the murder of Andrew and Abby Borden.
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Kasserman, David Richard. Fall River Outrage: Life, Murder, and Justice in Early Industrial New England . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986.
Avery, Ephraim K.. A Report of the Trial of the Rev. Ephraim K. Avery, Before the Supreme Judicial Court of Rhode Island, On an Indictment for the Murder of Sarah Maria Cornell.Providence: Marshall and Brown, 1833.
Clarke, M.. Sarah Maria Cornell, or the Fall River murder: a domestic drama in three acts. New York: No. 5 Chatham Square, 1833.
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Labels: 1830s , Abortion , Fall River , Massachusetts , Rhode Island , Strangulation
The fact that the knot would not have automatically pulled tight is, by itself, an indicator of murder, or at least assisted suicide. By who? That's up for debate. But that knot is evidence that she did not kill herself.
Why would he rape her knowing she had gonnorhea?
Whomever wrote this should have proofread it before posting. There are many grammatical errors in it.
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It should be "Whoever wrote this" since it is the subject of the sentence. "Whom" is only used as the object of a verb or preposition. Yes, we should all proofread.
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Q: Variations on Gauss lemma I have some issues understanding the statement and precise application domain of Gauss lemma. Here is my problem, which I believe I can solve by appealing to it: let $f, g, h$ be monic polynomials of $\mathbb{Q}[X]$ such that $fgh = X^n - 1$. I would like to concluce, since they are monic, that they are all in $\mathbb{Z}[X]$.
However, Gauss lemma states that since $X^n-1$ is reducible over $\mathbb{Q}$, it is also reducible over $\mathbb{Z}$. But can I obviously deduce that the $f, g, h$ of the hypothesis are over $\mathbb{Z}$?

A: The answer is yes. If $fgh = X^n-1$ with $f,g,h$ monic in $\mathbb Q[X]$ then $f,g,h \in \mathbb Z[X]$. The way to see it is using the usual statement of Gauss Lemma: The product of primitive polynomials is primitive. A primitive polynomial is one such that the gcd of it's coefficients is 1.
Now to see how this implies the assertion find $a,b,c$ minimum positive integers such that $af$, $bg$ and $ch$ have integer coefficients, then they are all primitive primitive so by Gauss Lemma their product
  $$(af)(bg)(ch) = (abc)(X^n-1) $$
is also primitive, which is obviously false if $abc>1$.


This is our almost approved Mission Itinerary below. Study it and make sure you understand our current plan. We will be having a meeting later this year to discuss the excursions and side trips that are optional and take more time and money. Click on STEPS ALONG THE WAY to see what you need to do to book your Trip Plan to Bulembu and Kruger.
You may be tempted to continue your trip after leaving Bulembu and embark on some of the possible excursions that we have done in the past.
Click here to see more about Excursions and Side Trips.