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► LaFerrari number 500 up for auction
► Proceeds to aid Italy's earthquake recovery efforts
► Will be sold on 3 December by RM Sotheby's
Thought LaFerrari production had ended with car number 499? Think again. Sergio Marchionne, Ferrari CEO, announced in August that the company would build one more LaFerrari – bringing the total to 500.
It wasn't an effort at further lining Ferrari's coffers, though, by any stretch. Instead, the last (really, this time) LaFerrari has been 'created as a gift from Ferrari to its home country of Italy'.
Not just as a static display, mind; no, Ferrari is putting its 500th LaFerrari to much more constructive use. It will be auctioned, and the proceeds from the sale will be used to assist Italy in its recovery from the earthquakes that devastated the country in 2016.
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The funds from the auction, which will be carried out by specialists RM Sotheby's, will go towards both Italy's reconstruction and aiding victims of the earthquake.
Rob Myers, CEO and Chairman of RM Sotheby's, said: 'The earthquakes which have struck Central Italy this year devastated the lives of thousands of people, and the money raised by the sale of this LaFerrari could not be put to a better use. The auction will be an historic event, and the generosity of Ferrari will change lives in the areas most affected by the natural disaster.'
Ferrari is no stranger to donating its cars for good causes. It previously donated a 599XX and F430 for earthquake relief, as well as the 400th and final Enzo to a charitable organisation.
What about the car itself?
LaFerrari No. 500 – pictured above – is no standard offering. It features a bespoke livery and interior which pays tribute to Italy, and bears a special plaque. In recent history, LaFerraris have knocked on the door of £4 million at auction; here's hoping this car goes for much, much more.
The auction of the LaFerrari will take place on 3 December, during the Ferrari Finali Mondiali weekend in Florida. You can find out more about the sale here.
Read CAR magazine's LaFerrari review
By Lewis Kingston
Formerly of this parish. Inveterate car buyer and seller; currently owner of a '68 Charger project car


The Aberdares is an isolated volcanic range that forms the eastern wall of the rift valley, running roughly 100 km north-south between Nairobi and Thomson's Falls. Soils are red and of volcanic origin, but rich in organic matter. There are two main peaks, Ol Donyo Lesatima (3,999 metres) and Kinangop (3,906 metres) separated by a long saddle of Alpine moorland at over 3,000 metres. The topography is diverse with deep ravines that cut through the forested eastern and western slopes and there are many clear streams and waterfalls. The Aberdares are an important water catchment area providing water to the Tana and Athi rivers and part of Central Rift and Northern drainage basins.
The National Park lies mainly above the tree line running along the 10,000 ft (3,048 metres) contour with some forest and scrub at lower altitude in the 'salient' area near Nyeri with the boundary running down to the 7,000 ft (2,296 metres) contour. The unusual vegetation, rugged terrain, streams and waterfalls combine to create an area of great scenic beauty in the National Park.
Attractions: Lesatima Peak, Kinangop Peak, waterfalls, walks in the moorlands, Twin Hills, Elephant Hills and Table Mountains. Second largest population of black rhinos in Salient and northern Aberdare. Queen Elizabeth II learned of her accession to the British throne at Treetops lodge. The Kimathi Hideout/Mau Mau caves.
Wildlife: The park is home to most of the larger mammals, having a large population of black rhino. The park has endangered species including the rare bongo, giant forest hog, packs of the now very rare wild dogs and endemic mole-rate and mole shrew. Other game includes leopard, serval, endemic bird species, reptiles and insects.
Roads: The park is readily accessible on tarmac from Nyeri and Naro Moru on the eastern side (160 km from Nairobi). A road crosses the park to connect with another from Naivasha and North Kinangop in the west. The main towns from which the park can be approached are Nyeri (154 km from Nairobi), Nyahururu (188 km from Nairobi) and Naivasha (87 km from Nairobi).
Airstrips: Mweiga Airstrip is next to the park headquarters or Nyeri Airstrip is 12 km from Mweiga headquarters.
Where to Stay: Mweiga and Nyeri both have a range of accommodation to suit all budgets, from basic campsites to upmarket lodges. In the Aberdares, there are two well appointed Forest Lodges, built around waterholes and saltlicks.
There are also campsites and huts for trekkers. These are separately administered and space should be booked and paid for in advance. On an organized trek or climb, hut accommodation or camping is usually included.


Status: Uncommon regular spring and fall migrant statewide. Locally uncommon regular winter visitor statewide.
Documentation: Photograph: 4 Apr 1986 Lake North, Platte Co (Mollhoff 1987).
Taxonomy: Four subspecies are generally recognized (Gill and Donsker 2017): hyperboreus of northern Europe to northwest Siberia, pallidissimus of northwest Siberia to Bering Sea islands, barrovianus of Alaska to northwest Canada, and leuceretes of north-central Canada to Greenland and Iceland. Pyle (2008) and Olsen and Larsson (2004) combined leuceretes and hyperboreus, considering them weakly-differentiated, which we follow here.
Nebraska birds are presumed hyperboreus. Occurrence of the smaller barrovianus is possible, although there are no documented records from the Great Plains; barrovianus winters on the Pacific Coast. Various small Glaucous Gulls from the Great Plains have been attributed to intergrades of barrovianus and leuceretes (= hyperboreus), such as an first cycle male 1 Apr 1938 and a first cycle female 28 Mar 1938 in Colorado and a probable female on the Texas-Oklahoma border 17 Dec 1880 (Banks 1986). See Comments, also comments under Iceland Gull.
Hybrids and introgressants of Glaucous Gull and Herring Gull ("Nelson's Gull") have been reported in Nebraska: 26 Feb 1994 at Lake McConaughy, Keith Co (Gubanyi 1996; Brogie 1998) and another at N.P. Dodge Park, Omaha 3 Apr 2014.
There are later reports 20 Apr 2015 first cycle Lake McConaughy, 1-3 on 21-30 Apr 2018 immatures Lake McConaughy, 25 Apr 2010 immature Lake McConaughy, 26 Apr (year not given) Keith Co area (Brown and Brown 2001), 29 Apr 1975 Lancaster Co, and a worn first alternate individual at Sutherland Reservoir, Lincoln Co 2 May 1998 (Brogie 1999). Migrants pass through from late Feb through the first week of Apr, with immatures lagging as late as early May.
High counts: 15 (five adults) at Lake McConaughy 9 Mar 2001, 11 (three adults) there 14 Mar 1994, and 6 there 31 Mar 1996 (Grzybowski 1996).
There are earlier dates, both surprisingly of adults, at Lake Ogallala, Keith Co 16 Oct 2009, and at Lake Maloney, Lincoln Co 25 Oct 2013.
Migrants appear by the end of Nov and become more numerous in Dec. Individuals found during this period are usually immatures, but note two records of adults cited above, as well as others at Lake Ogallala 30 Nov 2007, and in Phelps Co 10-12 Dec 2009.
High counts: up to 5 at Gavin's Point Dam, Cedar Co 4-19 Dec 1993, and up to 5 at Harlan Co Reservoir, Harlan Co 15 Dec 1996.
Winter: Prior to 1989 there was a single mid-winter report. Rapp et al (1958) listed it as accidental, and Johnsgard (1980) considered it a rare vagrant, based on 12 reports, mostly juveniles. During the 1990s, impressive and unprecedented numbers have been found during mid-winter at reservoirs in the western Platte River Valley.
Reports of adults are few away from Lake McConaughy; singles were at Pawnee Lake, Lancaster Co 18 Jan 2012, Carter Lake, Douglas Co, 5-20 Feb 2003, and Johnson Lake SRA, Gosper Co, 19 Dec 2003.
High counts: 16, including four adults, at Lake McConaughy 22 Feb 1996, 12, including two adults, there 7 Feb 1998, and 9, including two adults, there 15 Feb 1997, and 9 there 30 Dec 2000.
Banks, R.C. 1986. Subspecies of the Glaucous Gull, Larus hyperboreus (Aves: Charadriiformes). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 99: 149-159.


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Family Sues Doctors and Pharmacy In The Wrongful Death Of "3 Doors Down" Guitarist
By Sandra | Feb 09, 2018
I remember going into my room, closing the door, and blasting "Kryponite" when I just didn't want to think about anything other than the beat. 3 Doors Down had that sound that really resonated with most of us in the 90s, and even now you can't help but turn it up when it comes on your playlist.
In 2016, we were saddened to learn that lead guitar and backup vocalist, Matt Roberts, had died of an apparent overdose in a hotel outside of Milwaukee.
The musician, who left the band in 2012, was only 38-years-old at the time of his passing and the situation surrounding his death left many people wondering what happened.
Roberts, along with singer Brad Arnold and bassist Todd Harrell formed 3 Doors Down in 1996. Four years later, the band's hit song "Kryptonite", which was co-written by Roberts, skyrocketed to number three on the Billboard Hot 100. The band later released a string of top songs of the 90s, also written by Roberts and the other members, including, "Be Like That", "Here Without You" and "When I'm Gone".
Roberts decided to leave the band in 2012, saying that their heavy schedule was contributing to several health issues for him.
"3 Doors Down will always have a special place in my heart and it saddens me to take this time off," Roberts said at the time. "But my health has to be my first priority."
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Roberts had been rehearsing for a fundraising concert for veterans when he and his father went back to their hotel. Hours later, police were called about a man who was "either asleep or passed out in the hallway of his hotel."
"I was wakened at 8:50 this morning by some detectives beating on my door. It's always scary as a parent, they were in suits and that's when they told me. They asked me if Matt Roberts was your son, I said yes, and they said 'we have bad news to tell you, Matt [died] last night,'" Matt's father Darrell Roberts told CNN.
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An autopsy later revealed that his cause of death was an apparent drug overdose.
"I know he had [a] prescription drug addiction," his father said. "He suffered greatly from anxiety; he never liked crowds or liked places he didn't know about as a baby, as a child, and this was his way of dealing with it and me and him talked about it often. I thought he had beaten it all."
Later it was revealed that Dr. Richard Snellgrove was indicted for unlawfully prescribing drugs in connection with the singer's death.
Investigators filed a federal complaint stating, "Dr. Snellgrove prescribed Controlled Substances to Matthew Roberts for no legitimate medical purposes."
The doctor was charged with distributing and dispensing Lorazepam, Hydorcodone, Methadone and Fentanyl to Roberts.
"There's no satisfaction in seeing a doctor arrested," Darrell told Fox 6 News upon learning of the arrest. "I don't have any bitterness, no anger, nothing like that towards the doctor, but I'm also aware this is a serious issue in the medical community all over the United States."
Now a new law suit issued by the family claims that it was the doctor and pharmacy that were responsible for Roberts's death.
What do you think? Should the doctor and pharmacy be responsible for the singer's death?
Source: Rolling Stone / Rolling Stone / TMZ
Tags: music, celebrity death, lawsuit, three doors down
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Hootie and the Blowfish are one of those bands that helped define the 90s. You couldn't go more than two hours without hearing one of their songs after they hit it big.But as is the case with most bands, Hootie and the Blowfish decided to take a break. In 2008, their lead singer Darius Rucker went solo, and became successful on his own. The only time the band has reunited was for Jason Aldean's High Noon Neon Tour when he was in Atlanta, but now they've decided to return in a major way. Kick your Monday off with us
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The Tragic Story Behind Pearl Jam's "Jeremy", Now Those Involved Reveal What Happened
Pearl Jam is one of those iconic 90s bands that everyone remembers hearing. They were edgier than the popular music, instead fitting in alongside Nirvana in the grunge style of music that was becoming popular. Like Nirvana, Pearl Jam originated from Seattle. The band has remained extremely successful in the years since its inception, but one song they wrote definitely brought the band to the attention of a lot more people. In 1992, their song "Jeremy" was released as a part of their debut album. The song was their first foray into more story-driven lyrics, but a lot of people

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Johnson PTA provides students and teachers with valuable learning and teaching materials.
Some examples of items purchased by PTA include: *Sound system and microphones *Picnic benches *PE Equipment *Risers to be used for programs *Playground resurfacing *Computer equipment *Die cut machine and dies *Front door welcome mat *School Marquee *School uniforms and school supplies *Two $300 scholarships to former Johnson high school students *Cafeteria window shades *Stage curtains *Community Playground The monies to make these purchases were raised by PTA during the Membership Drive, Fall Carnival and Sports Day in May. We encourage you to become a member of our PTA. Membership dues are only $5.00. We are looking forward to another fabulous year. If you can assist PTA in any of these events, please contact our Volunteer Coordinator, Elvia Martinez.
Last year Johnson Elementary had 9625 hours of VISA volunteer hours. The help parents provide teachers is vital to a successful year.
Some of the tasks performed by the volunteers included assisting with PTA sales, helping teachers with the creation of bulletin boards, classroom games and activities, cutting out laminated items, assisting on field trips, Santa and Easter Bunny Pictures and various other activities.
Many tasks can be completed at home. If you are interested in being a volunteer at Johnson, please contact our Volunteer Coordinator, Elvia Martinez.


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Ганс Латша () — германский регбист, серебряный призёр летних Олимпийских игр 1900.

На Играх Латша входил в сборную Германию, которая в единственном матче проиграла Франции со счётом 21:17, получив серебряные медали.

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Q: Spring Boot and @ComponentScan between two jars I have 2 projects.
One is a DAL project that does CRUD operations on a neo4j DB using spring neo4j APIs . This project is packaged as a jar and included in project #2.
Project #2 Is a Spring restful services project that uses spring boot to package and create an executable jar that runes on an embedded tomcat server.
When trying to run my executable jar that Spring boot has created for me I keep getting this exception.
expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate for this dependency. Dependency annotations: {@org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired(required=true)}
Based off of my reading if I am using @ComponentScan I can give the annotation directories to look in. So I give it the base dir for my services project. And I give it the base dir for my included DAL.jar but still no luck here is what the annotation looks like.
Extracted from comments:
Component scan declaration
@ComponentScan({"com.foo.dal.*","com.foo.notification.*"})

Stacktrace:
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'pushCommandsController': Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: com.teradata.dal.example.PushRepository com.teradata.notification.rest.controller.PushCommandsController.repository; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No qualifying bean of type [com.teradata.dal.example.PushRepository] found for dependency:
expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate for this dependency. Dependency annotations: {@org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired(required=true)}

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based off of @chrylis answer:
Made change to @ComponenetScan
@ComponentScan({"com.teradata.notification","com.teradata.dal"})

running in to:
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at org.springframework.boot.loader.MainMethodRunner.run(MainMethodRunner.java:53)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744)
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No bean named 'org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.MessageSourceAutoConfiguration' is defined

MORE DETAIL ON THE DAL PROJECT AND THE SERVICE PROJECT:
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A: Had this same issue for a short while, then @EntityScan did the trick for me, just as adviced here - Spring Boot w/ JPA: move @Entity to different package.
Hope that helps

A: The argument to @ComponentScan is a package name, and those strings aren't valid packages. Drop the .* from them; Spring scans subpackages automatically.

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Many people will have been saddened to hear of the untimely death in March of former Trustee, Nikki Anderson, at the comparatively early age of 69. She was a dedicated and enthusiastic worker for wildlife and conservation and had supported the Wildlife Trust under its various names for over 30 years.
Living in Pembrokeshire, she joined West Wales Wildlife Trust in 1984 and very soon involved herself in activities, running a Watch Group from 1986 – 1998, and doing practical conservation on the local Reserves. When the Brown Hairstreak Butterfly was discovered on West Williamston Reserve in the late 1980s, she took part in the annual egg count every year, becoming an honorary warden during the 1990s.
She became a Trustee of the Wildlife Trust of South & West Wales in 2002 until 2012 and was a supportive colleague when I joined the Board of Trustees in 2004 as a new and very inexperienced Trustee myself. She believed passionately in the Local Groups Forum which got off to a shaky start in 2002/3, but it was not until Nikki took over as Chair in 2007 and persuaded the Groups to work more closely with the Trust and overcome any past resentment, that things really improved. With her tact, determination and persistence, the Forum has matured into the useful interface between Members, Staff and Trustees that it is today. She was justly proud of that achievement, though she never blew her own trumpet and usually gave others credit.
She was generous with her time and served on many other Committees including the Bird Group, the Health & Safety Committee and, of course, the South Pembrokeshire Local Group, of which she was one of the stalwarts from early on who kept it going through difficult times. She worked tirelessly for the local community and was always looking for opportunities where different groups could co-operate for their mutual benefit, particularly if it also benefitted wildlife. She found it difficult to say "No" to any organisation requesting her help and was loyal in her support right up until the end of her life.
In addition to all of this, she brought up two sons and held down a demanding job. She was kind, gentle, thoughtful, encouraging, and I never saw her appear impatient or lose her temper. She touched many people's lives and will be very much missed by all who knew her.


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Ha vinto due coppe del mondo di specialità nel 2002 e nel 2003.

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The Audi German based automaker will be launching some new models this October, at the 2014 Paris Motor Show, with the A6 model lineup to lead the way.
We are talking about the Audi A6 lineup that has now been updated, with the German carmaker also offering a closer look at the model, through the car`s firs promotional video.
The Audi A6 will come with some gentle touches at the body, but with important upgrades under the body and under the hood.
We are talking thus about the A6 to sport a revised 1.8-liter turbo gasoline unit, which meets the Euro 6 emission standards.
The Audi S6 hasn't been forgotten, the high-end model coming with an upgraded 4.0-liter bi-turbo unit, taken from the RS6, developing a higher 450 horsepower.
Other changes concern the increase performance of the Quattro sedan, which is now able to reach the 0 to 100 km/h mileage in just 4.4 seconds, while the Avant station wagon scores 4.6 seconds.


On Dec. 21, I had an 11 a.m. follow-up appointment at the Harrington Cancer Center in Amarillo.
Upon arriving, I saw two school buses parked in the parking lot. At the time I thought perhaps it was a school field trip. I didn't take notice where the buses were from.
After entering the center and checking in with the receptionist, they informed me a group from Bushland had just finished caroling. How neat I thought, and I was sorry that I had just missed the singing. The receptionist then presented me with a Christmas sack gift. While waiting to see my doctor, I opened up the sack and found a tree ornament with the word "Hope" engraved on it.
When I arrived at home I was showing my wife the ornament and found a card inside. The envelope was addressed: Our Harrington Cancer Center Friend. The card was written by Lilian Rose Coburn from the Bushland Middle School Woman's Choir. It was a well-written message of hope, kindness and Christmas spirit.
I want to thank the choir, staff, administration, and taxpayers of the Bushland ISD for this awesome gesture.
With all the hate, bigotry, and dissension this country faces, America and the Texas Panhandle are still unquestionably the best places on earth to live.
Thank you Bushland ISD - and a Merry Christmas to all.


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BBC crime drama Death in Paradise renewed for season eight
Find out everything you need to know about Death in Paradise season eight
February 01, 2018 - 13:46 GMT Emmy Griffiths The popular crime drama Death in Paradise has been renewed for season eight following the popularity of season seven - will you be tuning in?
The BBC has confirmed that Death in Paradise will return for an eighth series. The popular crime drama follows DI Jack Mooney (Ardal O'Hanlon) and his team as they solve crimes on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie. Executive producer Tim Key said: "We're delighted to be returning to Saint Marie for more fun and intrigue – as well as some big surprises. It's a joy to work on a show that is so loved by its audience and we can't wait to head back to Guadeloupe and start filming later this year."
Ardal plays DI Jack Mooney
Speaking about his role, Ardal told Radio Times: "I've always wanted to play a detective. Always loved detective shows, right back to Columbo, The Rockford Files, Starsky & Hutch." He also described his character as "a sad-sack Met officer working in a dank basement who gets this gig looking after visiting Caribbean officers", adding: "I'm as crippled with doubt as the next actor. For most of us, even the apparently very confident ones, doubt is a big part of life. But I'm of a certain age now, and those kind of things don't plague me the way they might have ten years ago, I embrace the challenge."
READ: Death in Paradise: Fans react as Ardal O'Hanlon makes his debut
The latest season of the show has proven popular, with the premiere attracting 8.2 million viewers. If you need to catch up on season seven, you can watch the current series every Thursday at 9pm on BBC One, or watch on iPlayer.
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How can I get only the uuid?
Hi everyone, this is my first question and I hope that can be resolved.
Which CMIS API / version are you using? With CMIS 1.1 Browser binding you should only get the UUID with the version suffix, not the whole NodeRef + version.
Anyway, it should be quite simple to just split the object ID on the client side to only extract the UUID, i.e. take antyhing between last '/' and first ';', between start and first ',' (if no '/' found), or entire object ID (if no '/' and no ';' found, i.e. in CMIS 1.1 object ID for a folder).


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Nonviolence Still Wins the Public—and Major Changes
Czech dissident/president, Václav Havel (1936-2012), after nonviolent ouster of Soviets
by Barbara G. Ellis
In mid-December, a man died who for years worked for a nonviolent overthrow of Soviet control over Czechoslovakia that finally happened in 1989. He was Václav Havel, playwright, leading dissident against Soviet domination, and long-time political prisoner. He was the "voice of the crowds" that grew increasingly rebellious after decades of occupation. Result: A demonstration of more than 100,000 in Prague's Wenceslas Square on a bitterly cold November day in 1989 that set off in a "velvet" revolution ending Soviet rule 44 days later. [1]
Just as in the first days of the Arab spring revolt, thousands of Czechs faced a well-armed, riot-trained, and brutal police force ready to do mayhem and murder. But the nonviolent response stunned them because it was totally unexpected. As one foreign writer described the event:
In Czechoslovakia a massive nonviolent protest in 1968 fizzled out, but twenty-one years later, on November 17, 1989, a spontaneous upsurge against Soviet occupation turned into the largest demonstration in the history of the country. Hundreds of demonstrators were injured when the security forces charged the crowd. Over a hundred thousand marchers gathered in Wenceslas Square in Prague, sat down… and [sang] nursery rhymes. They held candles and waved flags. Their leader Václav Havel, speaking in virtually the Gandhian idiom, exhorted them to refrain from violence. …. This was, he declared, "a rebellion of truth against lies, of purities against impurities, of the human heart against violence. "
The Prague demonstration had a chain reaction across the country. Protests and participants grew daily. Thousands of strike committees were formed. Peaceful crowds, holding nothing but candies and flowers, were beaten up by truncheon-wielding police. …
On December 7, the Prime Minister of the Communist government resigned. On December 10, a government of 'national understanding' was announced. By the end of December 1989, the Soviet-dominated regime had surrendered and the Federal Assembly had elected Havel, as the president of Czechoslovakia. [2]
The almost overwhelming negative public reaction to police-state brutality was rare, perhaps because the usual Western response in such street conflicts had been either fight or flight—or never demonstrate. This was an unmovable sit-down—and with singing—even as the heads and bodies in the front rows took the clubbing. But then came police exhaustion, especially with the prospect of having to beat and/or arrest thousands and hundreds more joining them by the minute. The police surrendered and, with what dignity they had left, departed only to find the global media depicting them as beasts. Their victims were seen by a world audience as similar to the non-resisting martyrs in Rome's Coliseum, reportedly linking arms and singing as wild animals or gladiators made a bloody end to their lives. That reportedly stunned spectators into silence, especially stoics such as Seneca to see them walk his talk and remembered and revered to this day. [3]
Western history is full of failed revolts of peasants bearing clubs and pitchforks—usually over starvation or taxes—being mercilessly smashed by a king's or emperor's troops using swords and guns, crucifixions or heads on pikes by city gates. But when they are unarmed and nonviolent, the enforcers are branded as brutes, the dead and injured as heroic and worthy of statues or world-famous paintings. For example, in Manchester, England back in 1819, nervous city officials ordered 1,500 Waterloo cavalry veterans to use sabers, gun butts, and horses to attack a Sunday afternoon family crowd of 50,000 gathered to hear five speakers advocating voting rights for commoners. Results: 18 dead, 500 wounded, the speakers and a London Times reporter all imprisoned for "holding an unlawful meeting for the purpose of exciting discontent." The British government blocked the news, but when the public learned of the "Peterloo Massacre," their shock and fury fell on the army and Manchester's leaders. Artists whipped out paint brushes and pens. The poet Shelley further blackened their reputations for posterity with his "The Mask of Anarchy," reminding survivors that: "Ye are many, they are few. [4]
Cavalry attack at Manchester August 16, 1819 shocked Britain
These British soldiers were little different, except in choice of weapons, from their successors facing Gandhi's nonviolent revolution ("Quit India") seven decades ago. The Brits had tried every weapon—truncheons, fires, bullets, bayonets, jailings, torture, hangings—to stop India's juggernaut for independence from Britain after World War II. They were down to the tactic of religious sacrilege of pouring cow urine on thousands as they sat quietly, once again, on train tracks to paralyze India and British corporations. Yet Gandhi's millions would not be moved. Such scenes, books, and newspapers turned world opinion against the centuries of British atrocities by their enforcers. Nonviolence earned India its independence after nearly four centuries of domination and occupation. [5]
Now, sit-ins are not new to wrest monumental changes, especially from American corporations toward their workers . One labor historian noted:
The sit-down strike was …. reportedly used in 15th and 18th century France, early 19th century England and even in ancient Egypt by a group of stonemasons. The early part of the 20th century saw occasional sit-downs in the U.S., France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Spain, England, Wales and Poland. [6]
Perhaps the most famous and largest sit-down protest in American history was in 1936-37 by 44,000 employees at General Motors' huge complex in Flint, Michigan. Strikers used it for 44 days as their winning weapon to stop unsafe work conditions such as "speed-ups," as well as long hours, low wages, and blocking unionization with the United Automobile Workers. Initially, when they refused GM orders to leave the buildings, the ensuing strike also became the first "Occupy" camp in this country. It got the same degree of heavy mainstream media coverage as the MSM spent on last fall's Occupy camps. And national empathy and support from the working public. [7]
GM's 44,000 workers also had the advantage of seeing sit-down success before they tried it. An epidemic of nonviolent sit-down strikes in the area worked—and fairly quickly. It took only one day (January 29) at Firestone's rubber plant for management to sign a favorable contract, and 48 days at Goodyear's plants. Altogether, 48 sit-down strikes around the country followed for the rest of 1936. [8]
So on December 28, GM's thousands of workers sat down to wait out management's surrender to a UAW contract. They knew what would happen to the company's 43% of market share if cars weren't delivered to dealerships on time. GM officials turned off electricity, heat, and for days tried vainly to block deliveries of food, warm clothing, and blankets by Flint's women. [9]
The sit-down strikers were nonviolent, yet company police fired tear gas into one plant and scattered protesters with a power-wash from a well-aimed fire hose. Those venturing outside were beaten. Then, GM coaxed city police and the National Guard into bombarding one building with gas. Instantly, the UAW Women's Emergency Brigade smashed windows to save workers from being smothered to death. Gunfire wounded 14 strikers. GM's viciousness blackened its reputation all across the nation—and undoubtedly lost millions in sales to Ford, Chrysler, and other automakers. [10]
The king-like mentality of police and the military never changes, despite their being part of the 99% and taking oaths to uphold the Constitution, which most seem never to have read nor understood.
So it was in the American South during the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s when thousands of white racists joined lawmen to keep nonviolent African-Americans from desegregating public places and transit systems, schools, pools, and voting rights. Again, media photo coverage did much to reveal to most Americans what blacks were willing to suffer to overthrow nearly 300 years without civil or human rights: cattle prods, hoses, vicious dogs, clubs, bombs, fires, beatings, jailings, and worse. The recent film Freedom Fighters documents the animal behavior employed to hold back the dawn of equal rights. [11]
Of greater interest to Occupiers is a film depicting the rigorous weeks of training in 1960 of a group of Fisk University students. Their mission was to desegregate Nashville's lunch-counters which eventually led to desegregating all the Tennessee city's public places. Sessions were led by The Rev. James Lawson, an expert on Gandhian direct nonviolent civil-disobedience after researching them in India. They would not be moved no matter what verbal abuse or physical assaults came down from lunch-counter proprietors and staff, customers, or lawmen. How not to react and sit for hours on a restaurant stool could only have been achieved by disciplined resolve, solidarity, nerves of steel, and youth's tough control of bladder-and-bowel systems. Within three months (February to May), Nashville's lunch-counters were desegregated. Several of that nucleus had been so enthusiastic about the surprising results that they started the national Students Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to move into other campaigns that eventually desegregated the South, but the rest of the country. [12]
Their famous example was repeated by another group of students also using nonviolence to protest tuition increases at the University of California/Davis. They sat, arms linked, heads bowed, and silent before the archetypal police bully, sneering and chortling as he pepper-sprayed them repeatedly. That video and photos, seen by millions on the Internet and in the world's newspapers and magazines, was worth ten-thousand words. And it did not favor the police. [13]
When asked why the UC/Davis tactic wasn't used in the January 28 Oakland Occupy event to use two empty buildings, one Portland participant said: "It's pretty hard to sit down and be nonviolent when the cops are throwing concussion bombs and tear gas at you." To which another Occupier veteran said: "If they'd sat down and been nonviolent in the first place, the cops wouldn't have tossed bombs and gas at them." The YouTube video seen by millions revealed black-hooded, ski-masked individuals in the front lines holding garbage-can shields and taunting riot police. [14]
If Occupiers have learned anything since the movement's September founding, it should be that those who delight in publicity from pitched battles with the police aren't winning friends or favorably influencing the 99%. They're turning off potential recruits, vital to Occupy's growth and its tremendous power to change this country's direction.
Worse, many cities are now gradually fusing police departments with the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force, access to sophisticated weaponry from the Defense Department to be used against protesters is not so wild a dream. Indeed, the British government is reportedly exploring the use of nerve gas, banned in war by the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention, but not for 'peaceful' domestic purposes such as …riot control." [15]
Sound cannons, another weapon of war, were first used to disperse airport birds, but then employed in Iraq and against 2009 G20 Summit protesters in Pittsburgh. They were recently used on police pickups to clear Occupy encampments in Oakland and New York's Zuccotti Park. With a near 1,000-foot range, these LRADs (long-range acoustic devices) operating at 300 decibels, can break eardrums and incapacitate. They undoubtedly will replace water-guzzling cannons for crowd control. For the upcoming (May) NATO/G8 summits in Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel undoubtedly will employ them, along with the just-ordered 3,000 state-of-the-art face masks for police. And at his request, the Secret Service will use taxpayer money to pay for rooftop snipers and "aerial-surveillance." [16]
A sound cannon clearing OWS's Zuccotti park on November 15
Against this increasingly deadly armament, tips on escaping kettling or police lines, or employing flashlights and toy smoke devices may provide thrills or fantasies of being Davids defeating Goliaths. But they will do nothing to advance the main purposes of Occupy except needlessly burn up energy, imagination, time, bail money—and give the movement a bad name. A good example happened early this month when an Oregonian headline and story falsely claimed Occupiers smashed a glass door of an upscale restaurant, spray-painted a Honda, broke windshields of an Alfa Romero and BMW, and threw garbage in the streets. One perpetrator admitted guilt next day in an anonymous Portland.indymedia post that the deeds were done by fellow anarchists flying a "black and red flag" out to attack the 1%. They were avenging wrongs symbolized by the carmakers' histories and the lifestyles of the rich, as well as world oppression in general and Portland police shootings in particular. [17]
Rest assured, car lovers among the 99% (even those driving beaters) had to be outraged at the Occupy movement after reading The Oregonian's story. Not to mention readers appalled by garbage tossed in the streets of a city where people sort it by type and clean up after their dogs. No correction appeared in the newspaper, of course, so story and photo caption of a bandana-clad youth undoubtedly will stay in the public mind he was an Occupier.
By contrast, not a cop nor hooligan—nor MSM crews—were in sight when Occupiers recently marched and rallied with two union locals (SEIU 49, Laborers 483) to Dishman Community Center to protest the downsizing of 400 front-line workers at the Legacy hospital chain and the potential draconian cuts to city maintenance workers. And a few days earlier, only a half-dozen bicycle troopers lounged across from the Old Post Office in the trouble-free Letter Carrier union's rally and march that included dozens of Occupiers. And neither cops nor red and black flags turned up at the spirited Valentine's Day demonstration of Occupiers and others picketing the Division Street New Seasons store for firing a 10-year employee seemingly for organizational activities. If ever revenge was called for, it has to be for centuries of atrocities by the 1% against the working classes, not the least of which is today's colossal downsizing rates—15,000,000 unemployed—and the 1%'s union-busting tactics.
The explanation appears to lie in the fact that union outreach, among the many Occupy projects in Portland, is part of the unsung, heavy, and hard work it takes to end corporate rule in America and equalize the staggering economic gap between the 1% and 99%. Cop-fighting exhibitionism isn't the forte of Occupiers doing the movement's heavy lifting.
A visit to Portland Occupy's headquarters at St. Francis Catholic church reveals a daily (and nightly) beehive of Occupiers involved in such meetings and activities aimed at achieving Occupy's goals:
• Replacing the city budget with one designed from input and participation by neighborhood associations, social agencies, and the needy.
• Working with the Mayor on a resolution for responsible banking.
• Forcing a major global grain conglomerate to return jurisdiction to Longshoreman's Local 21 for cargo handling at Longview, Washington.
• Staging a teach-in on how to end corporate control of government and elections by bringing down ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council).
• Considering support to nearly a dozen union locals requesting help in labor disputes (Ironworkers, Oregon Education Association, etc.).
• Promoting ballot measures (e.g., terminating the police horse patrol) at the city's Charter Review Commission.
• Stopping evictions of homeowners either with protesters in their yards or at auctions of foreclosed homes on the county courthouse steps.
• Helping a neighborhood association fight 7-Eleven's plans for a store at a high-crime, high-traffic location.
• Organizing the long-term unemployed into a political force to get President Obama and/or Governor Kitzhaber to sign Executive Orders restarting the Great Depression's WPA which employed millions on public works projects.
• Working with SEIU's outreach in East County to help the houseless and unemployed.
• Traveling to Salem to join other Oregon Occupiers in lobbying legislators to pass laws against corporations being considered as people.
Nationally, Occupiers have the investigative capabilities to help jail banksters and real-estate thieves responsible for Great Depression II. They also have the skills and endurance to bring single-payer health insurance to every American. All such efforts are instruments of the movement's spread even in the smallest community— and achieved nonviolently. According to the multiplier effect of the Rule of 250, one pleased recipient spreads the word to at least 25 others who do the same and, with electronic speed, 250 people are passing the good word. With print media, the ratio has been one letter-to-the-editor represents 100 people. More quickly becomes more. Thus it is with those joining Occupy and sticking to its mission of helping the 99%.
In midst of a national call for "mass action against the suppression of the Occupy movement" at month's end, it was fortuitous that the Portland group just hosted famed activists Margaret Flowers, MD, and Kevin Zeese of Occupy DC as leaders of a nonviolence teach-in to a packed house. Zeese, an Occupy pioneer, recently warned about violence killing the movement—either by police, the 1%, attempts at co-opting by political parties and liberal nonprofits—or public shunning:
People are not drawn to violent movement. Such tactics will shrink rather than expand our base of support. Property damage justifies police violence to many Americans. There is a wide range of diversity of tactics within a nonviolent strategy. Disciplined nonviolence is often more difficult because anger and emotion lead people to want to strike back at the police when they are violent, but disciplined nonviolence is the tactic that is most effective against the violence of the state. [18]
Nonviolence as a weapon for vital and major changes requires the greatest physical, emotional, and spiritual courage of convictions possible in men and women, like that shown by those Czechs. Like those Civil Rights protesters. And those UC/Davis students. They refused to be moved despite the "terrible swift swords" raised against them by the 1% and their enforcers. Thus far, so are dedicated Occupiers in big cities, small towns, and hamlets busy investing time, ideas, energy, money, and elbow-grease to projects fulfilling the movement's chants for the 99%. "End Corporate Greed" and "Banks Got Bailed Out/We Got Sold Out" are certainly among them. Add "Nonviolence." As for a sit-down song, why not Verdi's spine-tingling chorus "Song for Liberty." If that combination inspired and freed the Czechs, and "We Shall Overcome" did the same for African-Americans, it can do the same for Occupiers refusing to be moved in the goal of turning the odds against corporate-controlled America. [19]
[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/18/vaclav-havel/print.
[2] http://www.infinityfoundation.com/mandala/s_es/s_es_nanda_ghandi_frameset.htm.
[3] Ibid. http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/gladiators/gladiators.html.
[4] http//en.eikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_revolutions_and_rebellions. http://www.spartacusw.schoolnet.co.uk/PRpeterloo.htm. Shelley, Percy Bysshe. (23 September 1819/1990). "The Mask of Anarchy, Written on the Occasion of the Massacre at Manchester." The Oxford Anthology of English Poetry. (New York: Oxford University Press), 38, 91.
[5] http://indiaproject.tripod.com/quit.html. Author's recollection of final days of Gandhi's "Quit India" cause.
[6] http://www.workers.org/2007/us/flint-0308. The idea for sit-down strikes, this article says, came from a intra-union baseball game in Akron when players sat down to protest using non-union umpires.
[11] Mullins, Lisa. (2007). Diane Nash: The Fire of the Civil Rights Movement.(Miami: Barnhardt & Ashe Publishers Inc.).
[13] http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://digitaljournal.com/img/8/7/3/i/1/0/0/o/UC-Davis-Police-pepperspray.jpg&imgrefurl=http://digitaljournal.com/article/314733&usg=__Ezd01SgDFLToaMC9AqxTJkRBIjA=&h=459&w=629&sz=102&hl=en&start=6&zoom=1&tbnid=IdVomfAR29djiM:&tbnh=100&tbnw=137&ei=rIhBT6L0BaLL0QGJ45SzBw&prev=/search%3Fq%3DUC/Davis%2Bstudents%2Bbeing%2Bpepper%2Bsprayed%26hl%3Den%26gbv%3D2%26tbm%3Disch&itbs=1.
[14] http://flickr.com/photos/jpaulzoccali/6791267859.
[15] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/government-may-sanction-nerveagent-use-on-rioters-scientists-fear-6612084.html?printService=print.
[16] http://rt.com/news/lrad-acoustic-weapon-zuccotti-383/print. http://news.yahoo.com/police-vs-occupiers-controversial-sound-cannon0weapon-140000455,html. http://www.truth-out.org/print/12638.
[17] http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2012/02/413810.shtml.
[18] http://www.truth-out.org/print/12488.
[19] Verdi, Giuseppe. (1842). "Song for Liberty." Nabucco. Greece's Nana Mouskouri and chorus, World Music Awards: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le2TVHzE4_Q&feature=related.
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Love that little text conversation. Very sweet (and a good idea for use in class too!).
The texting conversation is too cute! I also love the teacher/student picture page you created. Congrats on almost being done with the school year!
Such posts are really admirable.


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Indonesia's new president is determined to transform its defense industry.


At last, the Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy has ended his dharna outside the official residence of Lt. Governor Kiran Bedi.
Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy on Monday ended his sit-in in after a meeting with Lt Governor Kiran Bedi, saying "partial success" was achieved on various demands.
Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy on Sunday warned his 'dharna' outside Raj Nivas, for Lt Governor Kiran Bedi's approval for his government's proposals on welfare schemes and administrative matters.
The protest by Puducherry Chief Minister V. Narayanasamy and his five ministers outside Lt Governor Kiran Bedi's official residence entered third day on Friday.
Puducherry Lt Governor Kiran Bedi has described as "a huge tragedy" the killing of CRPF personnel in a terror attack in Pulwama district in Jammu and Kashmir.
DMK President M.K. Stalin said the Modi government was converting Governors as BJP General Secretaries and extended his support to Puducherry Chief Minister V. Narayanasamy who is protesting outside Lt Governor Kiran Bedi's residence.
DMK on Thursday extended its support to Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy for his ongoing agitation against the state Governor Kiran Bedi.
Puducherry CM V Narayanasamy and his five ministers who are protesting outside Lt Governor Kiran Bedi's official residence against her helmet rule spent the night on road outside Raj Nivas. They slept on the road on a thick sheet and a blanket.
Puducherry Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi led a special drive on road safety on the busy Puducherry-Villupuram main road and requested motorists to use helmet. Bedi asked police personnel to check motorists and ensure that traffic rules are followed.


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Asylum Eligibility
Michael Greenspan and Madelon Baranoski
Michael Greenspan
Madelon Baranoski
Need for Well-Founded Fear of Persecution to be Eligible for Asylum
In Ouk v. Alberto Gonzalez, 464 F.3d 108 (1st Cir. 2006), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit reviewed the decisions of the immigration judge (IJ) and the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), both of whom denied the petitioner's request for asylum. The appeals court considered and described the conditions under which a person should be granted asylum based on a "well-founded fear."
Southy Ouk, a native of Cambodia, entered the United States as a nonimmigrant visitor on February 7, 2003. She was permitted to remain until August 6, 2003, after which time her presence was unauthorized. On February 6, 2004, she applied for political asylum and withholding of removal based on "her political opinion and membership in a particular social group" (Ouk, p 109). In Cambodia, she had been a member of the Sam Rainsy Party, an opposition party to the majority Cambodian People's Party.
At her initial hearing before the IJ on November 19, 2004, Ms. Ouk described how she and her husband were identified as members in the Sam Rainsy Party during a protest that took place in March 1997. She reported that police beat members of opposition parties at that protest. She suffered only minor bruises "as a result of crowd movement." Ms. Ouk also testified that her husband was killed in July 1997 because of his political opposition to the Cambodian People's Party. In addition, she reported that other members of her family, including her father and brother, had been arrested and killed for their political opinions. Following her husband's death, Ms. Ouk hid herself in the city of Phnom Penh for fear of personal persecution at the hands of the Cambodian People's Party.
In addition to her testimony, Ms. Ouk also introduced documentary evidence, including two expert witnesses who assigned a diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
The IJ denied Ms. Ouk's application for asylum, stating that although he found her testimony "generally to be credible," several factors mitigated her contention that she had reason to fear for her well-being based on her political affiliation: (1) although her husband had been persecuted based on political affiliation, Ms. Ouk herself had experienced no such persecution; (2) Ms. Ouk had requested and received a visa for travel to the U.S.; (3) Ms. Ouk's brother and sister, also members of the Sam Rainsy Party, continued to safely live in Cambodia; (4) the most recent Cambodian election saw the Sam Rainsy Party win 24 seats in the National Assembly, and the Cambodian Constitution provides for the peaceful change of government "through periodic elections on the basis of universal sufferage" (Ouk, p 110).
Ms. Ouk appealed the decision to the BIA, who affirmed the IJ's ruling in February 2006. The BIA cited the fact that Ms. Ouk herself had never been seriously harmed and the continued presence of her family members in Cambodia as undermining the reasonableness of her fear of future persecution.
In this appeal, Ms. Ouk argued that: (1) she did have a well-founded fear of persecution based on her political beliefs; (2) the IJ and BIA did not recognize her emotional harm in evaluating her claim; and (3) the IJ and BIA did not consider her mental illness in their rulings.
The U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the decisions of the IJ and the BIA, finding that Ms. Ouk did not have a well-founded fear of persecution based on her political affiliation with the Sam Rainsy Party and thus was not eligible for political asylum.
The court first reviewed the statutory definition of refugee status, 8 U.S.C. § 1158(b)(1)(A) (2004), which is a prerequisite for asylum eligibility. As defined, an alien must show that she has a well-founded fear of persecution "on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinion" (8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(42)(A) (2004)). In such cases, the alien bears the burden of proof for establishing her refugee status, and the substantial-evidence standard is applied. As applied in this case, said standard dictates that the court should uphold the decisions of the IJ and BIA "unless any reasonable adjudicator would be compelled to conclude to the contrary" (8 U.S.C. § 1252(b)(4)(B) (2004)).
The court found that under this standard, Ms. Ouk did not have substantial evidence to support a well-founded fear of persecution. Factors considered in the finding included: (1) Ms. Ouk had never been physically harmed as a result of her political affiliation with the Sam Rainsy Party, aside from minor injuries sustained as a result of crowd movement; (2) she had, in fact, interacted with the government on several occasions with no adverse consequences, including when she was granted a visa to travel to the U.S.; (3) according to the 2003 State Department Country Report on Cambodia, the Sam Rainsy Party holds 20 percent of the seats in the Cambodian national assembly; and (4) two of Ms. Ouk's siblings and her son continued to live in Cambodia without incident. In Aguilar-Solis v. INS, 168 F.3d 565, 573 (1st Cir. 1999), the First Circuit found that "the fact that close relatives continue to live peacefully in the alien's homeland undercuts the alien's claim that persecution awaits his return."
The court disagreed with Ms. Ouk's claim that the IJ and BIA did not recognize her emotional harm in evaluating her claim. It agreed with the assertion of the IJ that she failed to demonstrate any relationship between psychological symptoms, such as PTSD, and past persecution directed at her. However, it did cite Makhoul v. Ashcroft, 387 F.3d 75, 80 (1st Cir. 2004), in which the First Circuit found that "under the right set of circumstances, a finding of past persecution might rest on a showing of psychological harm" (Makhoul, p 80). The court simply felt that these circumstances were not met in this case. While the PTSD diagnosis did testify to the genuine nature of Ms. Ouk's fear of persecution, it did not establish the fear as well founded.
In Ouk, the court held that not all genuine fears are well founded and thus may not satisfy the requirements for those seeking asylum. Despite forensic testimony attesting to Ms. Ouk's PTSD diagnosis, the court held that the "IJ was warranted in finding that she had not shown that it was related to any persecution directed at her" (Ouk, p 111). This distinction is an important one to consider in the forensic evaluation of those seeking refugee status. While seekers of asylum can suffer PTSD (with its very real symptoms) from witnessing harm done to others, it may be the case that they do not, in the court's view, have any reason to fear for their own safety. These patients would not satisfy the well-founded fear criterion and thus would not be eligible for refugee status.
The court, however, acknowledged that this distinction may sometimes be blurred. In its citation of Makhoul v. Ashcroft, it grants that past psychological harm, "under the right set of circumstances," may constitute persecution. In cases such as these, it would then seem possible to seek asylum based on psychological symptoms clearly caused by traumatic events, even if no actual threat of personal harm occurred. This interpretation of the law is more consistent with the current understanding of the etiology of PTSD, which allows that people may suffer psychological harm who witness "events that involved actual or threatened death or serious injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of self or others" (emphasis added) (DSM-IV-TR, American Psychiatric Association 2000, p 467).
The forensic evaluation of those seeking refugee status should therefore carefully consider whether the asylum seekers themselves were the object of a real threat of persecution. If not, the evaluating psychiatrist should comment on the relationship between the trauma and psychological harm (i.e., PTSD), even if no actual threat to self was suffered.
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The UK Government has released a report which outlines £600 billion investments in national infrastructure, including £6.8 billion to make 5G a reality by 2027 and nationwide full fibre coverage by 2033.
The National Infrastructure and Construction Pipeline 2018 is much more than digital infrastructure, though it is nice to see a hefty chunk of change being directed towards tomorrow's connectivity challenges. Over the next three years, the plan is to fund 11 digital infrastructure projects and programmes with a total value of £6.8 billion nationwide full fibre coverage by 2033 and 5G deployment to the majority of the country by 2027.
What is worth noting is not all of this cash will be coming from the public coffers. Of the total, it appears the government will be providing £700 million of new investment, while the rest will be sourced from private investment and public-private partnerships, or has already been allocated.
Some of the projects noted in the pipeline include Virgin Media's Project Lightning (which won't receive any public funding), BDUK's rural full-fibre programme will receive £200 million across the three years, while £529 million will be directed towards 700 MHz Clearance Programme, which is expected to be completed by May 2020.
It might also be worth noting these are not new projects, and not all of them will be receiving additional funding. This report seems to be an effective summary of the major programmes and initiatives the government is involved in.
The report is essentially a report card to hand out to various stakeholders to give greater transparency into how the government is spending tax-payers cash. With the Future Telecoms Infrastructure Review unveiled in July, and promising great things for this small island, it is nice to get a bit more clarity on how the grand connectivity ambitions are going to be realised.


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24-bed former care home fails to sell at auction
David Bale
Published: 9:27 AM February 13, 2020 Updated: 9:27 AM October 11, 2020
Sunnymeade in Buxton, after it reopened as a guesthouse in late 2019. It failed to sell at auction. Picture: David Bale - Credit: Archant
A 24-bedroom former care home in north Norfolk failed to sell at auction.
Sunnymeade in Crown Road, Buxton, went under the hammer at Auction House East Anglia's sale at Dunston Hall Hotel on Wednesday, February 12, soon after it reopened as a guest house.
With a guide price of £700,000 bids during the auction reached £747,000. But the auctioneer said it could not be sold at that price, and later added: "We are talking with the vendor. We have had bids post auction but not enough to tempt them. Hopefully, we will get it over the line in the next few days."
The building dates back to 1895 and Sunnymeade is its original name.
It was converted to a care home in 1985, but that facility shut suddenly in August last year. The owners then decided to close it down, and it reopened as a guest house in November last year.
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Iron Man: Legacy (2010-2011)
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION PART 1 The second action-packed story arc begins here! Come back with us to a time when Tony Stark lost his company and his fortune to his greatest enemy, Obadiah Stane. Forced to rebuild a new company from scratch, Tony arrives in a run-down Los Angeles neighborhood and brings the people jobs, hope, and a new beginning- but unbeknownst to Tony, this district is under the iron thumb of the super-villain lords of L.A. - The Pride! The Runaways' super-powered parents will do everything they can to destroy this new enterprise, but this is Tony Stark they're messing with here. And he, and the people he's inspired, won't give up the streets without a fight!
Fred Van Lente
Art by:
Steve Kurth
Cover by:
Juan Doe
Collected Edition
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Technological interventions to help boost JK's horticulture produce: Dy CM
By Guest on 12:26 am July 6, 2017 No Comment
The Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh has said that the new and latest technological interventions would increase the Horticulture productivity besides providing new job avenues to the youth of the state.
The Dy Chief Minister was interacting with people and group of school children during his visit to the 'Rise in Kashmir' exhibition held at SKICC here today organized by Sansa Foundation.
The objective of holding the exhibition is to create awareness and sensitize horticulturists about the central and state policies as well as the achievements being registered.
Dr Singh said that for ensuing sustained development of horticulture sector and increasing its productivity throughout the country, the union government has started 'Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture' (MIDH) in every district of Jammu and Kashmir, North East and Himalayan states. "Under the scheme the funds are being provided on 90:10 ratio and an amount of Rs 51.52 crore have been earmarked to the state for boosting the horticulture activities," he added.
Dr Singh said that the present government lead by Mr Narendra Modi has ensured that the new technological interventions are adopted in different sectors so that their productivity gets increased, quality enhances and new avenues of employment are created.
He said that due to the constant endeavors of the union government head away has been achieved in every facet of life and people in every part of the country are getting benefitted from these.
The Deputy Chief Minister further asked the participants of the exhibition to carry a positive message about the situation in the state to the other parts of the country and that as ambassadors of propagating peace. He said that the step would go a long way in dispelling the wrong notions being created by certain quarters about the situation in the state.
While interacting with the students, the Dy Chief Minister asked them to pursue their careers in different fields so that they can make a mark for themselves as well as the state. He said they should also get the requisite information about the various technologies and their interventions in different fields and facets of life.
The Deputy Chief Minister also went round the stalls established by the different government departments of the states, other states and different corporations.
Technological interventions to help boost JK's horticulture produce: Dy CM added by Guest on 12:26 am July 6, 2017


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Q: How to process Map in spark? I am new to Spark programming and I am trying to find out the number of times that a string occurs in a file against a key.
Here is my input like this:
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2017-04-13 15:56:57.147::ProductSelectPanel::1291::PRODUCT_SALE_ENTRY::INAPHYD00124::1::CROC0008::CROCIN 120MG 60ML SYP::5::0::
2017-04-13 15:57:01.008::ProductSelectPanel::1599::PRODUCT_SALE_WITH_BARCODE::INAPHYD00124::1::CROC0008::CROCIN 120MG 60ML SYP::4::1::1013065197
2017-04-13 15:57:09.182::ProductSelectPanel::1118::ALTERNATIVE_PRODUCT_ENTRY::INAPHYD00124::1::CROC0005::CROCIN 500MG TAB::0
2017-04-13 15:57:15.153::ProductSelectPanel::1121::NO_STOCK_PRODUCT::INAPHYD00124::1::CROC0005::CROCIN 500MG TAB::0::0::
2017-04-13 15:57:19.696::ProductSelectPanel::1118::ALTERNATIVE_PRODUCT_ENTRY::INAPHYD00124::1::CROC0005::CROCIN 500MG TAB::0
2017-04-13 15:57:23.190::ProductSelectPanel::1291::PRODUCT_SALE_ENTRY::INAPHYD00124::1::CALP0005::CALPOL 500MG TAB::110::0::
2017-04-13 15:56:57.147::ProductSelectPanel::1291::PRODUCT_SALE_ENTRY::INAPHYD00124::1::CROC0008::CROCIN 120MG 60ML SYP::5::0::
2017-04-13 15:57:01.008::ProductSelectPanel::1599::PRODUCT_SALE_WITH_BARCODE::INAPHYD00124::1::CROC0008::CROCIN 120MG 60ML SYP::4::1::1013065197
2017-04-13 15:57:09.182::ProductSelectPanel::1118::ALTERNATIVE_PRODUCT_ENTRY::INAPHYD00124::1::CROC0005::CROCIN 500MG TAB::0
2017-04-13 15:57:15.153::ProductSelectPanel::1121::NO_STOCK_PRODUCT::INAPHYD00124::1::CROC0005::CROCIN 500MG TAB::0::0::
2017-04-13 15:57:19.696::ProductSelectPanel::1118::ALTERNATIVE_PRODUCT_ENTRY::INAPHYD00124::1::CROC0005::CROCIN 500MG TAB::0
2017-04-13 15:57:23.190::ProductSelectPanel::1291::PRODUCT_SALE_ENTRY::INAPHYD00124::1::CALP0005::CALPOL 500MG TAB::110::0::
2017-04-13 15:56:57.147::ProductSelectPanel::1291::PRODUCT_SALE_ENTRY::INAPHYD00124::1::CROC0008::CROCIN 120MG 60ML SYP::5::0::
2017-04-13 15:57:01.008::ProductSelectPanel::1599::PRODUCT_SALE_WITH_BARCODE::INAPHYD00124::1::CROC0008::CROCIN 120MG 60ML SYP::4::1::1013065197
2017-04-13 15:57:09.182::ProductSelectPanel::1118::ALTERNATIVE_PRODUCT_ENTRY::INAPHYD00124::1::CROC0005::CROCIN 500MG TAB::0
.......

My Spark program is like this.
final Function<String, List<String>> LINE_MAPPER=new Function<String, List<String>>() {

            @Override
            public List<String> call(String line) throws Exception {
                String[] lineArary=line.split("::");
                return Arrays.asList(lineArary[3],lineArary[6]);
            }
        };
        final PairFunction<String, String, Integer> word_paper=new PairFunction<String, String, Integer>() {

            @Override
            public Tuple2<String, Integer> call(String word) throws Exception {

                return new Tuple2<String, Integer>(word, Integer.valueOf(1));
            }
        };
        JavaRDD<List<String>> javaRDD =lineRDD.map(LINE_MAPPER);

After doing map transformation  i am getting like this:

[[PRODUCT_SALE_ENTRY,CROC0008],[NO_STOCK_PRODUCT,CROC0005],[NO_STOCK_PRODUCT,CROC0005],[PRODUCT_SALE_WITH_BARCODE,CROC0008],[PRODUCT_SALE_WITH_BARCODE,CROC0005],[PRODUCT_SALE_WITH_BARCODE,CROC003],....]

but i want the result like..
[[NO_STOCK_PRODUCT,[CROC0005,4]],[PRODUCT_SALE_WITH_BARCODE,[CROC0008,2]],[PRODUCT_SALE_WITH_BARCODE,[CROC0005,1]],....]

Please help me.
Thanks in advance.

A: It looks like you need to treat each key+string pair as a composite key, and count the number of occurrences of that composite key.
You can do something like this by using countByValue() (see the JavaDoc). However, as the documentation says:

Note that this method should only be used if the resulting map is
  expected to be small, as the whole thing is loaded into the driver's
  memory. To handle very large results, consider using rdd.map(x => (x,
  1L)).reduceByKey(_ + _)...

So, just map each of your values (such as [PRODUCT_SALE_ENTRY,CROC0008] to a pair of the form  ((PRODUCT_SALE_ENTRY,CROC0008), 1L), then reduceByKey() (example here).
I've only done this in Scala, not Java - I think you may need to use mapToPair() e.g. as shown here. This will give an RDD of the form:
((NO_STOCK_PRODUCT,CROC0005), 4),
((PRODUCT_SALE_WITH_BARCODE,CROC0008), 2),
((PRODUCT_SALE_WITH_BARCODE,CROC0005), 1),
...

which is close to what you asked for.

A: Thank you DNA, Its works great.
finally my code like that:

JavaPairRDD<String, String> keyValuePairs = lineRDD.mapToPair(obj -> {
            String[] split = obj.split("::");
            return new Tuple2<String, String>(split[3],split[6]);
        });

         JavaPairRDD<Tuple2<String, String>, Integer> newRFDD=keyValuePairs.mapToPair(obj -> {
            return new Tuple2<Tuple2<String, String>, Integer>(new Tuple2<>(obj._1, obj._2),1);
        });
         JavaPairRDD<Tuple2<String, String>, Integer> result = newRFDD.reduceByKey((v1, v2) -> {
                return v1+v2;
            });
         result.map(f->{ return f._1._2()+"\t"+f._2()+"\t"+f._1._1(); }).saveAsTextFile("file:///home/charan/offlinefiles/result");
         System.out.println("result :"+result.take(10));

and output would be:

CROC0005    620 NO_STOCK_PRODUCT
CROC2107    15  PRODUCT_SALE_ENTRY
CROC2120    7   NO_STOCK_PRODUCT
CROC0229    2   NO_STOCK_PRODUCT
CROC0009    1   NO_STOCK_PRODUCT
CROC0005    1250    ALTERNATIVE_PRODUCT_ENTRY
CROC2302    2   ALTERNATIVE_PRODUCT_ENTRY
CROC2807    5   PRODUCT_SALE_ENTRY
CROC0213    2   ALTERNATIVE_PRODUCT_ENTRY
CROC20221 18    ALTERNATIVE_PRODUCT_ENTRY.


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Gittings puts claims modernisation among LMA's top priorities for 2018
David Gittings, CEO of the Lloyd's Market Association (LMA) today told chief executives from across the Lloyd's managing agency community that Brexit, electronic placing, claims modernisation, and further development of the LMA Academy in Lloyd's overseas hubs are top of the LMA's priority list for 2018.
Speaking today at the LMA's annual CEO meeting, Gittings highlighted the challenges facing the industry ahead of exiting the EU, but expressed support for Lloyd's Brussels subsidiary and optimism that solutions would be found around resolving continuity of contracts after Brexit.
Gittings also confirmed the LMA Board's support for the proposals on an electronic placing mandate noting that Lloyd's were actively addressing LMA's suggestions in relation to this.
Gittings highlighted the success of claims modernisation in 2017, including the cross market launch of the Single Claims Agreement, providing a new satellite imagery service for Lloyd's claims practitioners and developing the Claims Expert Hub, which will help to reduce the estimated £1bn market spend on claims experts incurred by the Lloyd's market over the past two years. He added that LMA will continue to support the Target Operating Model (TOM), following the announcement that claims transformation will become an important focus for TOM in 2018.
Gittings concluded by emphasising LMA's unparalleled access to and influence in Lloyd's which is greatly valued by its members, and thanked the LMA Board and the market for their ongoing support. All Lloyd's managing agents and members' agents continue be members of the LMA."
James Milne, Head of Communications
Lloyd's Market Association
E james.milne@lmalloyds.com
About the Lloyd's Market Association (LMA)
Formed in 2001 and located in the heart of the Lloyd's Building in the City of London, the Lloyd's Market Association represents the interests of the Lloyd's underwriting community. All underwriting businesses at Lloyd's are members, together managing gross premium income of around £32billion per annum.


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9 shows in total - Don't miss it!
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Getting to know Jesus better in twenty-eight days—a challenge for preachers, believers, and skeptics. Reflection without Advent, repentance without a day of repentance and prayer. The divine services in February have a lot of potential.
Maybe you have heard of Elon Musk, the 47-year old business magnate and billionaire best known for his role as co-founder of Paypal and SolarCity, and creator of Tesla and SpaceX. He is a competent and highly sought after individual in many subject areas and scientific disciplines. He knows a lot and has high-level discussions with many experts. In a recent interview he revealed his secret. The key to his vast knowledge, his skills, and his success is: he reads. The tech entrepreneur reads a lot: two books a day and that since his childhood. This is how he absorbs sixty times more knowledge than the average person. And Musk is still learning. He applies his newly acquired knowledge and occupies himself with a wide variety of topics.
Now, no one is expected to grapple with solar energy, artificial intelligence, or rocket technology. But the man can certainly serve as a model for Christians.
We must learn to know Jesus. If we want to become like Him, we have to get to know Him in and out.
Jesus' life is described in the gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The four gospels take up some 83 pages in our Bible. If we read one page a day and start to understand one special event in the life of Jesus after another, and begin to grasp His nature, we will have learned more about Jesus in several weeks than in all the years before.
Then we will not only be familiar with the popular stories of the prodigal son, the woman who was caught in the act of adultery, or the one disciple's attempt to walk on water … but we will also know what Jesus said to Nicodemus about the rebirth of water and the Spirit, what Jesus' thoughts were about the Sabbath, and which topics Jesus argued over with the scribes.
The focus of our Sunday sermons in February 2018 is Jesus, a sermon cycle that could not be more focused on the practical side of faith. This is not a question of scientific theology, of classifying the signs of the times, or cultural specifics. This is about the nature and strength of character of our most important role model.
During his mission on earth, Jesus was not interested in creating a new economic or social system. This hope was disappointed then and would be disappointed today. God deserves our love, our sacrifices, our reverence, and our praise. The governing authorities receive our taxes and dues. These symbolize our financial responsibilities we have toward society. This is the content of the first Sunday service.
Jesus taught His disciples the Lord's Prayer, a model prayer, which we Christians have prayed in many languages and versions over the course of the centuries. We say it before the absolution is pronounced, when we are on the road, at home, or alone and want to concentrate on the essence. However, we do more than just attribute the authorship of these words to Jesus. In fact, He is a model for us in praying. Jesus taught us how we should pray so that God answers: Jesus taught humility, gratitude, and deep faith in God—all of which must form the basis of every single prayer. Jesus also exhorted that we seek in prayer: the justice of God, the will of God, and peace with our fellow human beings. Praying as Jesus did can be exhausting but at the same time it guarantees that our prayer is heard—the content of the second Sunday service.
Jesus suffered as a human being. He endured physical pain and bore the imperfections of human beings—especially those of His disciples. Jesus was tempted in the wilderness, He was denied, insulted, and spat on. Jesus knows what temptation means. He also knows our life as well as our afflictions. Jesus shares in our suffering. He grants us grace, His word, and His nearness. He is our example in temptation and right next to us in temptation. This is the content of the third Sunday service.
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Remove and dispose offsite of the existing flood boxes including the existing piles, pipes, headwalls, or flap gates. The existing flood boxes have corroded and are in need of replacement. All the material is to be appropriately disposed offsite.
Flood Boxes are to be backfilled with in situ material compacted to the specifications included in the design drawings. Any other related works may be required on an as needed basis.


THIS fireball? was HUGE!! As big as a full moon, falling from the sky. It was SOOOO bright white and had a thin line of (police light) red at the bottom .. kind of like a crescent. It was unlike ANYTHING I've seen before!!!! And I am a regular night sky watcher. I've seen green metorites .. rocket launches .. shooting stars ... and fizzling meteors. But this ... this was different. VERY different and like nothing I've ever seen!!!! I live in Northern California ~ Shasta County ~ Redding, California. (grew up in the Bay Area). I work in the medical field. I love science and everything astrological. Did anyone else see what I saw???????????? What was it??!!!!


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While Play to Grow officially starts at 10:00 AM, parents and children may arrive as early as 8:30 AM for extended free play while our Family Educators set up.
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