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Breakthrough in Greece? Austerity and Solidarity
By Socialist Project
The Socialist Project
Theme: Global Economy
by International Union of Food and Allied Workers' Associations (IUF)
Greece will hold parliamentary elections on January 25 and Syriza, the left-wing party which has consistently called for debt restructuring and an end to austerity, is leading the polls. The IMF-European Commission-European Central Bank (Troika) are warning of the 'threat' of Syriza coming to power and have forcefully indicated their support for Greece's ruling coalition by conditioning further financial support on the re-election of a pliable government. A Syriza victory indeed threatens the suffocating grip of the European and global austerity regime, and for that reason should be welcomed and actively supported.
For the last four years, a succession of aggressively harsh austerity programs have been imposed on the country by the Troika as a condition for supporting the banks and the treasury. At the Troika's insistence, the minimum wage was reduced by 22%, and 32% for workers under 25. Collective bargaining has been shredded, in blatant violation of international and EU law. Public services have been gutted and there are shortages even of basic medicines. Economic output has declined by 25% compared with pre-crisis levels, a level of destruction normally associated with war. A quarter of the workforce is jobless, with unemployment over 50% for young people. Malnutrition and infant mortality are on the rise.
Worsening Conditions
Unsurprisingly, years of austerity have only worsened the country's capacity to service its debt; the public debt to GDP ratio is now an unmanageable 175% – up by over 34% since 2010. Greece simply has no resources to pay its sovereign debt, as even the IMF has reluctantly recognized. The Eurozone's slide into austerity-induced deflation aggravates the problem. Yet the Troika continues to inflict social and economic damage on a massive scale, and insists that the carnage continue.
All of this was predictable, and at every stage alternatives were feasible. Substantial debt restructuring coupled with increased public investment in the early phases of the crisis would have averted much of the pain, and not only in Greece. Cutbacks in public spending have never lifted a country out of recession. 'Internal devaluation' – lowering costs to make exports more competitive by reducing wages – was never a plausible solution to the Greek debt crisis; the country's negative trade balance has improved, but only because imports have been substantially reduced as a result of the radical decline in consumption.
If the Troika insists on more of the same, and not only in Greece, it is because they have a political project to fulfill: public services, union power, living standards and corporate taxes must be reduced, everywhere. Privatization will plug any fiscal holes.
Austerity is not the product of a deficient grasp of macroeconomics or a failure of 'social dialogue': it is a conscious blueprint for expanding corporate power. The program has been practiced and refined for decades in the developing world, everywhere with similarly disastrous results.
Left Response?
It came to the European Union for the first time with the imposition of extreme austerity in Estonia and Latvia following the 2008 financial meltdown. Despite decades of increasing volatility and cascading crises, a weakened labour movement was unprepared for the crisis and unequipped to articulate and impose a coherent Left response. Labour and social-democratic parties had long been complicit, even active participants in enforcing the new fiscal and political orthodoxy. There was little debate in Sweden when the Baltic economies were ravaged to bail out Swedish banks. Workers in those countries were left on their own, with no real support.
With little effective opposition, European austerity spread; first to Greece, then to Spain and Portugal, then further north. At the same time, austerity's forward march cleared the path for an increasingly aggressive, racist and xenophobic Right which offers simplistic answers to the crisis of the status quo.
Syriza emerged from a groundswell of popular revolt, and that revolt should be encouraged. But an election victory on January 25 will immediately set in motion widespread financial hostility. Even if the party succeeds in putting together a coalition government – and there will be massive pressure to block this – the difficulties will have only begun. Negotiating debt relief will be tough, and Greece could be left no choice but to quit the Euro, triggering massive capital flight. Pressure will also fall immediately on Spain and Portugal, where elections are scheduled for later this year, and Spain's ascendant Podemos has, like Syriza, become a vehicle for hope.
The Greek elections offer a potential breakthrough, but to carry out their program a government of the Left will need massive understanding and support abroad. Unions should be in the forefront of building that support.
This editorial was published on the website of the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations (IUF) – www.iuf.org.
The original source of this article is The Socialist Project
Copyright © Socialist Project, The Socialist Project, 2015
Articles by: Socialist Project


This map for the northern hemisphere Last Glacial Maximum (Weichselian, Valdaian, Würmian, Devensian, Wisconsinan, MIS 2) was compiled by Jürgen Ehlers for 2005 from data and maps assembled and published in the books Quaternary glaciations - Extent and Chronology by Jürgen Ehlers & Philip Gibbard (Elsevier, 2004). A second map compiled plotted onto a Google Earth north polar view is now available below in static form but it is planned to make these maps interactive with Google Earth shortly. Click on map to view a larger version.
At the INQUA Congress in Berlin 1995 it was decided to compile the recent knowledge of the extent and chronology of Quaternary glaciations on a global scale for the INQUA Commission on Glaciation. This information is seen as a fundamental requirement, not only for the glacial community, but for the wider user-community of general Quaternary workers. In particular the need for accurate ice-front positions is a basic requirement for the rapidly growing field of palaeoclimate modelling. In order to provide the information for the widest-possible range of users in the most accessible form, a series of digital maps was prepared.
The glacial limits were mapped in ArcView, the Geographical Information System (GIS) used by the work group. The 'Digital Chart of the World' at a scale of 1:1,000,000 was used as a base map.
2. Morphologically expressed end moraines.
5. Location of key sections through which the glacial limits are defined and dated.
The evidence from each region is discussed in three volumes 'Europe', 'North America' and 'South America, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica', each of which contain a series of maps in digital format accompanied by an explanatory text which includes discussion of the type and quality of data used. All references to the supporting basic publications are included. Where controversial interpretations are possible e.g. in Siberia or Tibet, this is indicated. As a result, all information on Quaternary glaciations worldwide is presented for the first time in a uniform format.


Fall is an excellent time to spray musk thistle, and it's not too late now. Musk thistles are all in the rosette stage during the fall. It is much easier to control thistles in the rosette stage compared to treating blooming plants. Another advantage for treatment in the fall is reduced risk of off-target risk due to drift. Most deciduous trees have lost their leaves and most crops are harvested. A wider window of opportunity for treating musk thistle exists in the fall. The spraying window probably extends until the ground is frozen and the musk thistle plants have shut down activity until warmer temperatures in the spring.
Figure 1. Musk thistle rosettes December 2012. Photo courtesy of Walt Fick, K-State Research and Extension.
Freezing temperatures will start to damage musk thistle plants, with some yellowing and curling of leaves. However, the plants are susceptible to herbicides as long as green tissue exists.
The data in this table reflect residual control of rosettes that germinated during spring 2013. The number of rosettes on untreated plots increased 92% between December 2012 and July 2013, indicating spring germination. The only treatment not providing nearly 100% residual control was 2,4-D LVE applied at 64 fl oz/acre. The active ingredient in Milestone is aminopyralid. Tordon 22K contains 2 lbs/gallon picloram. Chaparral contains aminopyralid and metsulfuron. These products are all labelled for use on range and pasture. Milestone, 2,4-D, and Tordon 22K are also labeled for use on non-cropland sites including roadsides, right-of-ways, and industrial sites. Opensight was not included in this test, but is a product similar to Chaparral that can be used on non-cropland sites.
If you need to treat musk thistle this fall, herbicides exist that will not only control the rosettes at the time of application, but will carryover and control new emerging rosettes next spring. Select a warm sunny day if possible when spraying musk thistle in the fall.


text: Q: Понижает ли мультипроцессорность использование CPU? Вопрос возможно глупый. У меня есть таск на хостинге Pythonanywhere. Он выполняет API запросы на другие ресурсы, а также математические вычисления с полученными данными. У них есть дневные лимиты на использование CPU исчисляемые в секундах. Если я буду использовать библиотеку multiprocessing, разбив свой процесс на несколько процессов, понизит ли это использование CPU секунд?

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Q: Restoring annotations from a PDF corrupted by Mac's Preview application from raw PDF text Summary
The 'Preview' Application for viewing and editing PDFs, native to MacOS has an annoyin bug which seems to exist since 'High Sierra' and is still not resolved in the current OS version 'Catalina'.
It manifests in the following way:

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*Multiple PDFs are opened and annotated with several text-highlights or comments

*The PDFs are saved but left open

*The Preview application quits unexpectedly but offers to reopen all files

*When doing so the files contain a seemingly random subset of all saved annotations

*Even when opening the corrupted PDF with Acrobat Reader DC most of the annotations are gone.

Things I tried
Yesterday this bug occurred to me after some significant work on multiple PDF files, causing me to look into the issue.
As the files I had open were stored inside a synced folder, I had access to several versions of the files I was working on.
I noticed two things:

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*for some reason, even versions that were synced at a time when I had made most annotations but before the crash occurred would only display a subset of the annotations.

*the file sizes were increasing with time, making me assume that the missing annotations were still stored in the file but were somehow corrupted and thus not displayed.

This made me think that Preview saved new annotations in some corrupted form, but is still somehow able to handle viewing them - at least for a while until it crashes.
Searching the web for solutions I came across this thread where qpdf was suggested to 'repair' PDFs (qpdf  --qdf  original.pdf  unpacked.pdf) but this didn't fix the problem in my case.
Instead I decided to look at the source of the raw PDF in text format, to see if I could discover something.
As I expected, searching a corrupted PDF for my user name brought up a large list of matches, apparently one for each annotations I had made.
On the other hand, doing the same for a file 'repaired' with qpdf only brought up matches for the annotations that would actually display in the PDF.
I tried to figure out some pattern in the source code of annotations that showed up vs. those that don't, but was not successful so far.
Question
My hope now is that someone can spot what is going wrong in the source code of annotations that do not show up in order to fix this mess.
The question I am interested in is:
Is there some way to edit a PDFs source code (preferably automatically) to recover the annotations that have been corrupted by Mac's Preview app?
Exemplary references
Evidently we first need to figure out know what is going wrong.
As I am not allowed to upload the PDFs themselves, I provide some excerpts from the source which I believe to be relevant, feel free to ask for more snippets!
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I'm not crazy about the commentary I drew for this one. The colors are too garish, for one thing. For some reason I put Helen in the tweed suit I usually drew on Dave, at least until Dave bought a new suit at the beginning of "Mad Science Is Decadent and Depraved." Helen looks pretty good in it, for what it's worth. But really, these commentary strips could be better.
But it's all okay, because this is the first of many Sundays featuring art by Dirk Tiede! Dirk and I both had comics in the original Modern Tales launch lineup; in fact, Dirk's comic, Paradigm Shift, is still going strong at MT. We hit it off at the San Diego Comic-Con and ended up becoming good friends. Of course, everybody likes Dirk. He's a friendly guy. Much later, I drew him and his laser-scientist girlfriend (now wife) into Narbonic as inhuman grant recipients.
I do love Mell's innocent little face. Dirk's drawings of the Narbonic characters always fascinate me because, although he has a manga-esque style, he puts in a lot of detail and gives his figures mostly realistic proportions. So kind of gives me an idea of what my characters would look like if they were human.
Well, except for Mell's hair. That probably wouldn't work in a universe with our physical laws.
Okay, I might as well be up front about this: I find Dirk's version of Dave extremely attractive. I'm not saying it's right. I'm just saying I would do him.
I think this is the only time Helen betrays any great concern about changing gender, except possibly at the very beginning of "Gender Swap." Oh and the Paradigm Shift link is here.
Mell is actually not wearing hose!
And what I want to know is why they're suddenly standing on green.
Mell singing "Proud Mary" is one of my favorite Narbonic images ever … just her dancing pose in the last panel is priceless. Now I can't see it, and I feel oh so sad.
I'm getting the same, Ed.
More of Dirk's Narbonic art, including sketches for today's art, can be found in his sketchbook.
As someone with long, curly, hair who wakes up with behead like a pokemon villain once a week, I can assure you Mell's hairdo is indeed possible. Plausible, even.


Do You Need a Mailbox Lock at Your Residence or Business? Let Us Be Your Postal Box Locksmith.
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You forgot your postal box key. Everyone forgets things from time to time. You just never thought it would happen to you. You may know why it happened. Your life became a little too chaotic. You became forgetful. Now you need your mail, but you don't have a mailbox key. It is lost. This can happen with your postal box at your residence or business.
Another situation occurs when the lock on your mail box no longer works properly. For instance, it clicks open sometimes and other times it fails to open. You may be tempted to pry the postal box open to get your mail. Do not pry your postal box open. It is a federal offense to tamper with a postal box, even your own.
You just moved into an apartment and you do not have the key to your mail box. Maybe you are the manager of the apartment and the new tenant needs keys to the postal box, but you do not have a key.
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We pride ourselves on being able 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to resolve your mailbox lock issues. Before we can replace, repair or install your mailbox lock, you will need to make sure the postal box you want us to work on is actually yours. You can do this by contacting your mailbox provider. Once that is done, we can replace your lock. You then can receive your new key. Call us (775) 507-7177.
What Type of Mailboxes can I Get a Lock for in Reno?
Mailboxes are separated into two categories: U.S. Postal Service and homeowners association mailboxes. The U.S. Postal Service mailbox is serviced by the government, but it belongs to you and/or your company as long as you are at that address. You can request for the post office install or repair your lock on the mailbox. If the post office will give you a new postal box lock depends on their local rules. The time it takes to repair or replace your mail box lock is one to two weeks depending on holiday schedule.
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You moved into a new place. The former tenant or owner may still have the postal box key. You want to change postal box keys for safety reasons.
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Cultivate and Observe different sample of bacteria.
Age 8+ or 6+ with adult supervision.
The Bacteria Farm is a great first biology kit for any budding scientist. Cultivate & observe bacteria from different samples with a variety of experiments. Biology kit is ideal for children age eight or older or for children age six with adult supervision.


This individual assist the Head Athletic Therapist in managing the day to day sports medicine operations for Elite. Within this role, the individual should be prepared to provide injury prevention strategies, evaluation, treatment and rehabilitation for client medical problems.
• Maintain a complete and up-to-date client records in our provided electronic medical record system.
Please submit cover letter, resume, and references together as one attachment via email to Izzadmaher Satoudian: Izzadmaher@elitewinnipeg.com only full submissions will be considered.


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Home › Epidemics 2023
Coronavirus immunity can last for years, scientists say
"According to two new studies, immunity to coronavirus lasts for at least a year, and possibly for life, strengthening over time, especially after vaccination. The findings could help allay persisting fears that protection against the virus will be short-lived," New York Times.
"Collectively, the studies show that most people who recovered from Covid-19 and are subsequently immunized will not need booster immunizations. However, vaccinated people who have never been infected are more likely to need additional vaccinations, as are the minority who have been infected., but they did not develop a strong immune response, "the article says.
"Both studies studied people who contracted the coronavirus about a year ago. According to one study published Monday in the journal Nature, cells that retain the memory of the virus remain in the bone marrow and can produce antibodies whenever needed. published online on BioRxiv, a biological research website, showed that these so-called memory B cells continue to mature and harden for at least 12 months after the initial infection, "the article says.
"This work is consistent with a growing body of literature suggesting that the immunity caused by infection and vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 appears to be long-term," said Scott Hensley, an immunologist at the University of Pennsylvania who was not involved in the study. Research could allay fears that immunity to the virus is transient, as is the case with the common cold-causing coronaviruses. But these viruses change significantly every few years, Dr. Hensley noted. "The reason we continually contract common coronaviruses throughout our lives may have more to do with variations in these viruses rather than immunity," he said.
"According to Michel Nussenzweig, an immunologist at Rockefeller University in New York who has led the research on the maturation of memory cells, these B cells, produced in response to infection with SARS-CoV-2 and boosted by vaccination, are so potent that they discourage even options. virus, which eliminates the need for additional vaccinations. "People who have had an infection and then vaccinated do develop a powerful response, a powerful set of antibodies, because they continue to produce antibodies," said Dr. Nussenzweig. "I expect them to last for a long time."
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"To study memory B cells specific to the new coronavirus, researchers led by Ali Hellebedi of the University of Washington in St. Louis analyzed the blood of 77 people at three-month intervals, starting about a month after they were infected with the coronavirus. Only 6 of 77 were hospitalized due to with Covid-19; the rest had mild symptoms.Antibody levels in these people dropped rapidly four months after infection and continued to decline slowly for several months after that - the results are in line with other studies, "the newspaper said.
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"Dr. Hellebedy's team took bone marrow samples from 19 people about seven months after they were infected. 15 had detectable memory B cells and 4 did not, suggesting that some people may have very few cells or there won't be any at all. "It tells me that even if you become infected, it does not mean that you have a super immune response," says Dr. Hellebedy. According to him, the data obtained supports the idea that people who have recovered from Covid -19 must be vaccinated.
"5 participants in Dr. Hellebedy's study donated bone marrow samples 7 or 8 months after the initial infection and again after 4 months. He and his colleagues found that the number of memory B cells remained stable during this time," reports The New York Times …
(…) "Dr. Nussenzweig's team studied how memory B cells mature over time. Researchers analyzed the blood of 63 people who had recovered from Covid-19 about a year earlier. The vast majority of participants had mild symptoms, 26 of them also received at least one dose of Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. The team found that the so-called neutralizing antibodies needed to prevent re-infection with the virus remained unchanged for 6 to 12 months, while associated, but less important antibodies gradually disappeared, "the newspaper points out …
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"One year after challenge, the neutralizing activity in participants who were not vaccinated was lower for all forms of the virus, with the greatest losses observed for the variant first identified in South Africa. Vaccination significantly increased antibody levels, confirming the results of other studies; vaccinations also increased the neutralizing ability of the body by about 50 times."
(…) "All experts agree that immunity is likely to work very differently in people who have never had Covid-19. Fighting a live virus is different from responding to a single viral protein given with a vaccine. in those who were infected with Covid-19, the initial immune response had time to mature within 6-12 months before being challenged with the vaccine, "the newspaper concludes. (…)
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Colleen Long
Published: February 15, 2021, 12:20 AM
Tags: Donald Trump, Cyrus Vance Jr., Thom Tillis, Mitch McConnell, politics, Election, Joe Biden, Government
Impeachment isn't the final word on Capitol riot for Trump
FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo President Donald Trump speaks during a rally protesting the electoral college certification of Joe Biden as President in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
WASHINGTON – Donald Trump's acquittal at his second impeachment trial may not be the final word on whether he's to blame for the deadly Capitol riot. The next step for the former president could be the courts.
Now a private citizen, Trump is stripped of his protection from legal liability that the presidency gave him. That change in status is something that even Republicans who voted on Saturday to acquit of inciting the Jan. 6 attack are stressing as they urge Americans to move on from impeachment.
"President Trump is still liable for everything he did while he was in office, as an ordinary citizen, unless the statute of limitations has run," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said after that vote. He insisted that the courts were a more appropriate venue to hold Trump accountable than a Senate trial.
"He didn't get away with anything yet," McConnell said. "Yet."
The insurrection at the Capitol, in which five people died, is just one of the legal cases shadowing Trump in the months after he was voted out of office. He also faces legal exposure in Georgia over an alleged pressure campaign on state election officials, and in Manhattan over hush-money payments and business deals.
But Trump's culpability under the law for inciting the riot is by no means clear-cut. The standard is high under court decisions reaching back 50 years. Trump could also be sued by victims, though he has some constitutional protections, including if he acted while carrying out the duties of president. Those cases would come down to his intent.
Legal scholars say a proper criminal investigation takes time, and there are at least five years on the statute of limitations to bring a federal case. New evidence is emerging every day.
"They're way too early in their investigation to know," said Laurie Levenson, a law professor at Loyola Law School and former federal prosecutor. "The have arrested 200 people, they're pursuing hundreds more, all of those people could be potential witnesses because some have said 'Trump made me do it'."
What's not known, she said, is what Trump was doing during the time of the riot, and that could be the key. Impeachment didn't produce many answers. But federal investigators in a criminal inquiry have much more power to compel evidence through grand jury subpoenas.
"It's not an easy case, but that's only because what we know now, and that can change," Levenson said.
The legal issue is whether Trump or any of the speakers at the rally near the White House that preceded the assault on the Capitol incited violence and whether they knew their words would have that effect. That's the standard the Supreme Court laid out in its 1969 decision in Brandenburg v. Ohio, which overturned the conviction of a Ku Klux Klan leader.
Trump urged the crowd on Jan. 6 to march on the Capitol, where Congress was meeting to affirm Joe Biden's presidential election, Trump even promised to go with his supporters, though he didn't in the end. "You'll never take our country back with weakness," Trump said.
He also had spent weeks spinning up supporters over his increasingly combative language and false election claims urging them to "stop the steal."
Trump's impeachment lawyers said he didn't do anything illegal. Trump, in a statement after the acquittal, did not admit to any wrongdoing.
Federal prosecutors have said they are looking at all angles of the assault on the Capitol and whether the violence had been incited. The attorney general for the District of Columbia, Karl Racine, has said that district prosecutors are considering whether to charge Trump under local law that criminalizes statements that motivate people to violence.
"Let it be known that the office of attorney general has a potential charge that it may utilize," Racine told MSNBC last month. The charge would be a misdemeanor with a maximum sentence of six months in jail.
Trump's top White House lawyer repeatedly warned Trump on Jan. 6 that he could be held liable. That message was delivered in part to prompt Trump to condemn the violence that was carried out in his name and acknowledge that he would leave office Jan. 20, when Biden was inaugurated. He did depart the White House that day.
Since then, many of those charged in the riots say they were acting directly on Trump's orders. Some offered to testify. A phone call between Trump and House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy emerged during the impeachment trial in which McCarthy, as rioters stormed the Capitol, begged Trump to call off the mob. Trump replied: "Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are."
The McCarthy call is significant because it could point to Trump's intent, state of mind and knowledge of the rioters' actions.
Court cases that try to prove incitement often bump up against the First Amendment. In recent years, federal judges have taken a hard line against the anti-riot law. The federal appeals court in Virginia narrowed the Anti-Riot Act, with a maximum prison term of five years, because it swept up constitutionally protected speech. The court found invalid parts of the law that encompassed speech tending to "encourage" or "promote" a riot, as well as speech "urging" others to riot or involving mere advocacy of violence.
The same court upheld the convictions of two members of a white supremacist group who admitted they punched and kicked counter-demonstrators during the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
It's possible federal prosecutors will decide not to bring charges, and if Trump were indicted in one of the many other separate investigations, federal prosecutors could decide justice would be done elsewhere.
Atlanta prosecutors have recently opened a criminal investigation into Trump's attempts to overturn his election loss in Georgia, including a Jan. 2 phone call in which he urged that state's secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, to "find" enough votes to reverse Biden's narrow victory.
And Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr., is in the midst of an 18-month criminal grand jury investigation focusing in part on hush-money payments paid to women on Trump's behalf, and whether Trump or his businesses manipulated the value of assets — inflating them in some cases and minimizing them in others — to gain favorable loan terms and tax benefits.
GOP Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, who voted to acquit along with McConnell and 41 other Republicans, argued that because Trump is no longer in office, impeachment is not the right way to hold him to account.
"The ultimate accountability is through our criminal justice system where political passions are checked and due process is constitutionally mandated. No president is above the law or immune from criminal prosecution, and that includes former President Trump."
Associated Press writers Jim Mustian and Michael R. Sisak in New York and Mark Sherman contributed to this report.
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Andrea Ferrante (born 16 August 1968, Palermo, Italy) is an Italian composer whose music is performed throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas and published by Videoradio and Rai Trade Labels, Edizioni Carrara and Edizioni Simeoli.

His compositional activity, as shown in the essay Backstage of the creative act, the music psychologist Rosa Alba Gambino, can be divided into two phases: the first (which ends with the composition of the holy La sposa del vento for soloists, chorus and orchestra staged in Palermo in 2000 by Operalaboratorio) in which Andrea Ferrante investigates the Mediterranean sounds of his land through the filter of the contemporary, and the second (after ten years of silence, and in collaboration with his favourite pianist Domenico Piccichè) in which the mature composer's own language is inspired by multiculturalism and the concept of emotion / enjoyment of music that cast its production outside Europe.

His compositional activity ranges from classical music to that for the image, even through recent collaborations in pop music with Giovanna Nocetti and Paolo Limiti (poet and TV presenter) which, exclusively for his music, wrote the lyrics to "The Man of no".

He teaches at the Conservatorio di Musica di Stato "Arcangelo Corelli" in Messina.

Works

Instrument solo
 Arrow (for piano) * Déjà vu (for cello) * Dimenticata (for harp) * Ikebana (for cello) * Improvvisamente (for piano) * La luna riflessa (for piano) * Narrow sequence (for cello solo or cello and piano) * Postludio a un sogno (for piano) * Prezioso (for piano) * Shuluq (for clarinet solo or clarinet and digital sounds) * Solo One (for doublebass)

Voice and piano (or other instruments)
 A mezzodì (for tenore and piano) * Angels from Heaven (for soprano and piano) * Ave Maria (for soprano and piano) * Brindisi (for mezzo-soprano and string quartet) * Christ the King (for mezzo-soprano and piano) * Come un fiore (for soprano and piano) * Compiuta donzella (for mezzo-soprano and piano) * Con il fior della bocca umida (for basso and piano) * Deux Chants (for soprano and piano) * Di miele e di cetra (for soprano and piano) * Due arie marine (for soprano and piano) * Due arie napoletane (for basso and piano) * Due canti frizzanti (for mezzo-soprano and piano) * E lunghe cantilene (for soprano and piano)* Il vento scrive (for soprano and piano) * In cerca del tuo viso (for tenore or soprano and orchestra) * In cerca del tuo viso (for voice and piano) * L'incanto Circeo (for soprano and piano) * L'intensa voglia (for soprano and piano) * L'istinto del mare (for soprano and piano) * L'orma (for soprano and piano) * La sabbia del tempo (for tenore and piano) * Le lampade marine (for soprano and piano) * Le lune di Saffo (for soprano and piano) * Non declinare (for soprano and piano) * Ricorda il tuo calore (for mezzo-soprano and piano) * Tienimi (for basso and piano)

Duos
 A bassa voce (for violin and piano) * Accesi bagliori (for sax soprano and piano) * Ascendente (for trumpet and piano) * Aspettami (for trumpet and organ) * Ci penso ancora (for flute and guitar) * Como la tarde (for violin and piano) * Così ti penso (for sax baritone and piano) * Dimenticata luna (for guitar and harp) * Dolcemente (for horn and harp) * Elegia d'autunno (for flute and organ) * Excentrique (for piano four hands) * Filtrò poi una luce (for viola and piano) * Il canto e la brezza (for cello and harp) * Il fiore d'inverno (for viola and harp) * Impulsive Mush for piano four hands * In riva (for cello and piano) * In lontananza (for horn and piano) * Incandescente (for trumpet and piano) * La danza sconnessa (for flute and piano) * La musa smarrita (for bassoon and piano) * Le jeu oublié (for euphonium and piano) * Minuetto Primo (for 2 cellos) * Minuetto Secondo (for 2 cellos) * Minuetto Terzo (for 2 cellos) * Misurati palpiti (for 2 cellos) * Moving (for euphonium and piano) * Nuance (for flute and harp) * Siciliana (for guitars duo) * Slow Tango (for trumpet and accordion) * Sly (for clarinet and piano) * Tenue (for euphonium and tuba) * Ti cerco ancora (for violin and piano) * Trame (for sax and accordion) * Un tramonto (for violin and cello) * Un'alba ancora (for trombone and piano)

Trios
 D'un tratto (for flute, violin and piano) * Free Emotion (for sax soprano, cello and piano) * Il petalo blu (for flute, viola and harp) * Il sentiero del vento (for violin, doublebass and accordion or Piano) * Mare – Le lampade marine (for soprano, cello and piano) * Notte velata (for harps) * Trine (for violin, cello and piano)

Quartets
 Chiaroscuro (for trumpet quartet) * D'improvviso (for string quartet) * D'incanto (for string quartet) * D'intensa intesa (for sax quartet) * Eclectic turn (for sax quartet) * Il cuore stregato (for string quartet) * In appearance (for trombone quartet) * Infinity land (for string quartet) * Itinere (for clarinet quartet) * Kirkos (for sax quartet) * La danza delle fate belle (for flute quartet) * L'enigma svelato (for brass quartet) *Poetica (for string quartet) * Le stelle di Lyra (for brass quartet) * Un gesto appena (for flute, violin, cello and piano) * Vespro (for string quartet)

Quintets
 Di bianco velato (for english horn, 3 clarinets and bass clarinet) * Di te che avvolgi (for clarinet, sax, violin, cello and piano) * Innovative quintet (for wind quintet) * Narrami, o Musa... (for brass quintet)

Ensembles
 Come allora (for trombones ensemble) * In the frame (for trombones ensemble) * Insolito stupore (for ensemble) * Intens brass (for brass ensemble) * Ottoni d Irlanda (for brass ensemble) * Parodia di un burattino (for wind quintet and piano four hands

Choir
 Deck the halls (simple Christmas song for choir) * Jesus, Jesus rest your head (simple Christmas song for choir) * Laudate Dominum (for professional children s choir and piano) * Yo no tengo otra voz (for soprano, choir and piano)

String orchestra
 Cinque Miniature (for string orchestra) * Elegante (for accordion and string orchestra) * Il bacio mancato (for flute and string orchestra) * L'orizzonte e oltre (for viola and string orchestra)

Orchestra
 Di impeto lucente (for brass orchestra) * Nel passo del sole (for synphonic band) * Rapsodia in verde (for junior orchestra)

Concerts
 Concerto Primo (for flute and orchestra) * Concerto Secondo (for horn and orchestra) * Morricone's Concert (for two pianos and orchestra)

Recordings
 The Sensual Style, Francesco Bruno (fl), Maurizio Rocca (vn), Adriano Fazio (vc), Domenico Piccichè (piano), introduction by Giovanni Sollima, Videoradio Labels, 2011.
 Free Emotion, Domenico Piccichè (piano) et al., Introduction by Ennio Morricone, Videoradio-RAI Trade, 2011.
 Axios-Ferrante. Axios String Quartet, Videoradio-RAI Trade, Milano 2011, VRCD000784. Introduction by Lalo Schifrin
 Over the Horizon, Videoradio-RAI Trade, Milano 2011, VRCD000784. Introduction by Michael Giacchino
 Mare''. Arpinè Rahdjian (soprano), Domenico Piccichè (piano), Giorgio Gasbarro (cello), Undici07 Records, Palermo 2012.

References

External links
 Ferrante's website

1968 births
Living people
Italian composers
Italian male composers

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"I grew up in a family that was very much interested in nature. I was kind of always headed in that direction," said Cannings, a biologist, author and now federal candidate for the NDP.
Cannings has authored a dozen books on the natural environment and B.C. Several of those books deal with birds, a particular fascination of his.
"They are a window into that natural world. We can enjoy the diversity of birds and get excited when we see a new one. They do interesting things, they fly thousands of kilometres every year in their migrations, so we can kind of live vicariously through them," he said.
Cannings' interest in the sciences is matched by his family. His wife of 30 years, Margaret Holm, is an anthropologist and their son Russell, now living in New Zealand, is also an avid birder and a high school teacher. Their daughter Julia still lives in Penticton and teaches English as a Second Language for South Okanagan Immigrant and Community Services.
So how does a scientist end up running for political office?
"It wasn't part of my career plan at any moment, until 2012 when somebody from the NDP called and asked 'Would you consider running for the NDP in the next provincial election?'" said Cannings, whose initial thought was to turn down the offer.
Cannings already had an enjoyable and fulfilling career, but when his wife, friends and colleagues urged him to say yes, he decided to try.
Running for the federal seat in this election was a natural progression, according to Cannings.
"In many ways, I am more concerned about what is happening to Canada as a whole. We need more voices from the scientific world, from the environmental world in Ottawa, in Parliament," said Cannings, adding that he is concerned about a wide range of issues, from social justice to income equality and the decline of democracy in Ottawa.
"All those things that concern a lot of people here are my concerns as well," he said adding that the more involved he became, the more he is impressed with the people behind the NDP.
If elected, Cannings suspects he won't have much time to continue his writing career, but he expects those skills to still be important.
Cannings already has a lot of experience working with both governments and people, having sat on the B.C. Environmental Appeal board and the Forest Appeal Board.
"It really taught me how directly peoples lives can be affected by government. I think it was very good training for someone that wants to get into work as an MP or as an MLA. It really opened my eyes to a lot of things," he said.
Cannings is also on the board of the Nature Conservancy of Canada, the country's largest conservation organization with a budget of over a million dollars and close to a billion dollars of assets.
Besides other scientists, that exposed him to CEOs and bankers with some of Canada's biggest corporations.
But even at those high level meetings, Cannings remains true to his passions.


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"""Tests for adjacency."""

from absl.testing import parameterized
import tensorflow as tf
from tensorflow_gnn.graph import adjacency
from tensorflow_gnn.graph import graph_constants as const

as_tensor = tf.convert_to_tensor

class HyperAdjacencyTest(tf.test.TestCase, parameterized.TestCase):

  @parameterized.parameters([
      dict(
          description='rank-0, simple graph',
          indices={
              const.SOURCE: ('node', as_tensor([0, 1])),
              const.TARGET: ('node', as_tensor([1, 2])),
          },
          expected_shape=[]),
      dict(
          description='rank-0, hypergraph',
          indices={
              0: ('node', as_tensor([0, 1, 2])),
          },
          expected_shape=[]),
      dict(
          description='rank-1, variable size',
          indices={
              const.SOURCE: ('node.a', tf.ragged.constant([[0, 1], [0]])),
              const.TARGET: ('node.b', tf.ragged.constant([[1, 2], [1]])),
          },
          expected_shape=[2]),
      dict(
          description='rank-1, fixed size',
          indices={
              const.SOURCE: ('node.a', as_tensor([[0], [1], [2]])),
              const.TARGET: ('node.b', as_tensor([[0], [1], [2]])),
          },
          expected_shape=[3]),
  ])
  def testShapeResolution(self, description: str, indices: adjacency.Indices,
                          expected_shape: tf.TensorShape):
    result = adjacency.HyperAdjacency.from_indices(indices)
    self.assertEqual(result.shape.as_list(), expected_shape)

  @parameterized.parameters([
      dict(
          description='rank-0, sizes missmatch',
          indices={
              const.SOURCE: ('a', as_tensor([0, 1])),
              const.TARGET: ('b', as_tensor([1])),
          }),
      dict(
          description='rank-0, sizes missmatch for hyper-graph',
          indices={
              0: ('a', as_tensor([0, 1])),
              2: ('c', as_tensor([0, 1])),
              1: ('b', as_tensor([1])),
          }),
      dict(
          description='rank-1, dense',
          indices={
              const.SOURCE: ('a', as_tensor([[0, 1]])),
              const.TARGET: ('b', as_tensor([[0, 1], [2, 3]])),
          }),
      dict(
          description='rank-1, ragged value',
          indices={
              const.SOURCE: ('a', tf.ragged.constant([[0, 1], [0]])),
              const.TARGET: ('b', tf.ragged.constant([[1, 2], []])),
          }),
      dict(
          description='rank-1, ragged splits',
          indices={
              const.SOURCE: ('a', tf.ragged.constant([[0, 1], [0, 1]])),
              const.TARGET: ('b', tf.ragged.constant([[1, 2], [0], [1]])),
          }),
  ])
  def testRaisesOnIncompatibleIndices(self, description: str,
                                      indices: adjacency.Indices):
    self.assertRaisesRegex(
        Exception,
        r'Adjacency indices are not compatible: \(0, a\) and \(1, b\)',
        lambda: adjacency.HyperAdjacency.from_indices(indices))

  def testRaiseOnExtraPositionalArguments(self):
    self.assertRaisesRegex(
        TypeError, 'Positional arguments are not supported',
        lambda: adjacency.HyperAdjacency.from_indices((0, []), False))

  def testNodeSetName(self):
    adj = adjacency.HyperAdjacency.from_indices({
        const.SOURCE: ('node.a', tf.ragged.constant([[0, 1], [0]])),
        const.TARGET: ('node.b', tf.ragged.constant([[1, 2], [1]])),
    })
    self.assertAllEqual(adj.spec.node_set_name(const.SOURCE), 'node.a')
    self.assertAllEqual(adj.spec.node_set_name(const.TARGET), 'node.b')
    self.assertAllEqual(adj.node_set_name(const.SOURCE), 'node.a')
    self.assertAllEqual(adj.node_set_name(const.TARGET), 'node.b')

  def testGetIndices(self):
    indices = {
        const.SOURCE: ('node.a', as_tensor([0, 1])),
        const.TARGET: ('node.b', as_tensor([1, 0])),
    }
    adj = adjacency.HyperAdjacency.from_indices(indices)
    indices_dict = adj.get_indices_dict()
    for tag in (const.SOURCE, const.TARGET):
      self.assertAllEqual(indices[tag][0], indices_dict[tag][0])
      self.assertAllEqual(indices[tag][1], indices_dict[tag][1])

  def testIndices(self):
    adj = adjacency.HyperAdjacency.from_indices({
        const.SOURCE: ('node.a', as_tensor([0, 1, 2])),
        const.TARGET: ('node.b', as_tensor([2, 1, 0]))
    })
    self.assertAllEqual(adj[const.SOURCE], [0, 1, 2])
    self.assertAllEqual(adj[const.TARGET], [2, 1, 0])

  @parameterized.parameters([True, False])
  def testValidateArgSupport(self, validate):
    adj = adjacency.HyperAdjacency.from_indices(
        {
            const.SOURCE: ('node.a', as_tensor([0, 1, 2])),
            const.TARGET: ('node.b', as_tensor([2, 1, 0]))
        },
        validate=validate)
    self.assertAllEqual(adj[const.SOURCE], [0, 1, 2])
    self.assertAllEqual(adj[const.TARGET], [2, 1, 0])

  def testMergeFixedSizeBatchToComponents(self):
    adj = adjacency.HyperAdjacency.from_indices({
        const.SOURCE: ('node.a', as_tensor([[0, 1], [1, 0], [0, 1]])),
        const.TARGET: ('node.b', as_tensor([[1, 2], [1, 1], [0, 0]])),
    })
    result = adj._merge_batch_to_components(
        as_tensor([2, 2, 2]), {
            'node.a': as_tensor([2, 2, 2]),
            'node.b': as_tensor([3, 3, 3]),
            'node.c': as_tensor([4, 4, 4]),
        })
    self.assertAllEqual(result[const.SOURCE],
                        [0, 1, 1 + 2, 0 + 2, 0 + 4, 1 + 4])
    self.assertAllEqual(result[const.TARGET],
                        [1, 2, 1 + 3, 1 + 3, 0 + 6, 0 + 6])

  def testMergeRank1BatchToComponents(self):
    adj = adjacency.HyperAdjacency.from_indices({
        const.SOURCE: ('node.a', tf.ragged.constant([[0, 1], [1], [0]])),
        const.TARGET: ('node.b', tf.ragged.constant([[1, 2], [1], [1]])),
    })
    result = adj._merge_batch_to_components(
        as_tensor([2, 1, 1]), {
            'node.a': as_tensor([3, 2, 4]),
            'node.b': as_tensor([4, 3, 2]),
        })
    self.assertAllEqual(result[const.SOURCE], [0, 1, 1 + 3, 0 + 3 + 2])
    self.assertAllEqual(result[const.TARGET], [1, 2, 1 + 4, 1 + 4 + 3])

  def testMergeRank2BatchToComponents(self):
    adj = adjacency.HyperAdjacency.from_indices({
        0: ('node',
            tf.RaggedTensor.from_uniform_row_length(
                tf.ragged.constant([[0, 1], [1], [0], [0]]), 2)),
    })
    result = adj._merge_batch_to_components(
        as_tensor([2, 1, 1]), {
            'node': as_tensor([3, 2, 4, 1]),
        })
    self.assertAllEqual(result[0], [0, 1, 1 + 3, 0 + 3 + 2, 0 + 3 + 2 + 4])

  def testRelaxation(self):
    incident_node_sets = {0: 'a', 1: 'b', 2: 'c'}
    original = adjacency.HyperAdjacencySpec.from_incident_node_sets(
        incident_node_sets, index_spec=tf.TensorSpec([2], tf.int64))
    expected = adjacency.HyperAdjacencySpec.from_incident_node_sets(
        incident_node_sets, index_spec=tf.TensorSpec([None], tf.int64))
    self.assertEqual(original.relax(num_edges=True), expected)
    self.assertEqual(
        original.relax(num_edges=True).relax(num_edges=True), expected)

class AdjacencyTest(tf.test.TestCase, parameterized.TestCase):

  @parameterized.parameters([
      dict(
          description='rank-0, simple graph',
          source=('node', as_tensor([0, 1])),
          target=('node', as_tensor([1, 2])),
          expected_shape=[]),
      dict(
          description='rank-1, variable size',
          source=('node.a', tf.ragged.constant([[0, 1], [0]])),
          target=('node.b', tf.ragged.constant([[1, 2], [1]])),
          expected_shape=[2]),
      dict(
          description='rank-1, fixed size',
          source=('node.a', as_tensor([[0], [1], [2]])),
          target=('node.b', as_tensor([[0], [1], [2]])),
          expected_shape=[3]),
  ])
  def testShapeResolution(self, description: str, source: adjacency.Index,
                          target: adjacency.Index,
                          expected_shape: tf.TensorShape):
    result = adjacency.Adjacency.from_indices(source, target, validate=False)
    self.assertEqual(result.shape.as_list(), expected_shape)

  @parameterized.parameters([
      dict(
          description='rank-0, sizes missmatch',
          source=('a', as_tensor([0, 1])),
          target=('b', as_tensor([1]))),
      dict(
          description='rank-1, dense',
          source=('a', as_tensor([[0, 1]])),
          target=('b', as_tensor([[0, 1], [2, 3]]))),
      dict(
          description='rank-1, ragged value',
          source=('a', tf.ragged.constant([[0, 1], [0]])),
          target=('b', tf.ragged.constant([[1, 2], []]))),
      dict(
          description='rank-1, ragged splits',
          source=('a', tf.ragged.constant([[0, 1], [0, 1]])),
          target=('b', tf.ragged.constant([[1, 2], [0], [1]]))),
  ])
  def testRaisesOnIncompatibleIndices(self, description: str,
                                      source: adjacency.Index,
                                      target: adjacency.Index):
    self.assertRaisesRegex(
        Exception,
        r'Adjacency indices are not compatible: \(0, a\) and \(1, b\)',
        lambda: adjacency.Adjacency.from_indices(source, target))

  def testRaiseOnExtraPositionalArguments(self):
    self.assertRaisesRegex(
        TypeError, 'Positional arguments are not supported',
        lambda: adjacency.Adjacency.from_indices(('a', []), ('b', []), True))

  def testNodeSetName(self):
    adj = adjacency.Adjacency.from_indices(
        source=('node.a', tf.ragged.constant([[0, 1], [0]])),
        target=('node.b', tf.ragged.constant([[1, 2], [1]])))
    self.assertAllEqual(adj.spec.source_name, 'node.a')
    self.assertAllEqual(adj.spec.target_name, 'node.b')
    self.assertAllEqual(adj.source_name, 'node.a')
    self.assertAllEqual(adj.target_name, 'node.b')

  def testIndices(self):
    adj = adjacency.Adjacency.from_indices(
        source=('node.a', as_tensor([0, 1, 2])),
        target=('node.b', as_tensor([2, 1, 0])))
    self.assertAllEqual(adj.source, [0, 1, 2])
    self.assertAllEqual(adj.target, [2, 1, 0])

  @parameterized.parameters([True, False])
  def testValidateArgSupport(self, validate):
    adj = adjacency.Adjacency.from_indices(
        source=('node.a', as_tensor([0, 1, 2])),
        target=('node.b', as_tensor([2, 1, 0])),
        validate=validate)
    self.assertAllEqual(adj.source, [0, 1, 2])
    self.assertAllEqual(adj.target, [2, 1, 0])

  def testMergeFixedSizeBatchToComponents(self):
    adj = adjacency.Adjacency.from_indices(
        source=('node.a', as_tensor([[0, 1], [1, 0], [0, 1]])),
        target=('node.b', as_tensor([[1, 2], [1, 1], [0, 0]])))
    result = adj._merge_batch_to_components(
        as_tensor([2, 2, 2]), {
            'node.a': as_tensor([2, 2, 2]),
            'node.b': as_tensor([3, 3, 3]),
            'node.c': as_tensor([4, 4, 4]),
        })
    self.assertAllEqual(result.source, [0, 1, 1 + 2, 0 + 2, 0 + 4, 1 + 4])
    self.assertAllEqual(result.target, [1, 2, 1 + 3, 1 + 3, 0 + 6, 0 + 6])

  def testMergeRank1BatchToComponents(self):
    adj = adjacency.Adjacency.from_indices(
        source=('node.a', tf.ragged.constant([[0, 1], [1], [0]])),
        target=('node.b', tf.ragged.constant([[1, 2], [1], [1]])))
    result = adj._merge_batch_to_components(
        as_tensor([2, 1, 1]), {
            'node.a': as_tensor([3, 2, 4]),
            'node.b': as_tensor([4, 3, 2]),
        })
    self.assertAllEqual(result.source, [0, 1, 1 + 3, 0 + 3 + 2])
    self.assertAllEqual(result.target, [1, 2, 1 + 4, 1 + 4 + 3])

  def testAdjacencyRepr(self):
    adj = adjacency.Adjacency.from_indices(
        source=('node.a', as_tensor([0, 1, 2])),
        target=('node.b', as_tensor([2, 1, 0])))
    self.assertEqual(
        "Adjacency("
        "source=('node.a', <tf.Tensor: shape=(3,), dtype=tf.int32>), "
        "target=('node.b', <tf.Tensor: shape=(3,), dtype=tf.int32>))",
        repr(adj))

  def testRelaxation(self):
    original = adjacency.AdjacencySpec.from_incident_node_sets(
        'a', 'b', index_spec=tf.TensorSpec([3], tf.int64)
    )
    expected = adjacency.AdjacencySpec.from_incident_node_sets(
        'a', 'b', index_spec=tf.TensorSpec([None], tf.int64)
    )
    self.assertEqual(original.relax(num_edges=True), expected)
    self.assertEqual(
        original.relax(num_edges=True).relax(num_edges=True), expected)

if __name__ == '__main__':
  tf.test.main()

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SINGAPORE – SEPTEMBER 18: Felipe Massa of Brazil and Williams looks on in the garage during practice for the Formula One Grand Prix of Singapore at Marina Bay Street Circuit on September 18, 2015 in Singapore. (Photo by Clive Rose/Getty Images)
D.O.B: 25/04/81
Nationality: Brazilian
GP's contested: 250
GP wins: 11
Poles: 16
podiums: 41
Career Points: 1124
Championships: 0
Car number: 19
Felipe is the man that is not supposed to be racing in 2017. He retired from the sport at the end of 2016 after finishing his 250th Grand Prix. In that time he almost won the world championship, but after pumping his fists in the air at the win, a few seconds later it was cruelly snatched away. Fans worldwide will always remember the moment when he realized Lewis Hamilton had snatched it from underneath him, emotion took over and he sat hi his Ferrari and sobbed uncontrollably. He had a horrid accident in Hungary the following year when a spring fell off David Coulthard's car ahead of him on track and bounced up and penetrated his helmet, almost taking out his left eye. He sat the rest of the season out, but was never quite the same again. In 2017 he will hopefully lead Williams to their strongest season in a decade.


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Vivo Y15a With MediaTek Helio P35 Launched in the Philippines: Price, Specifications
By Asit Kumar Das
Vivo announced a new entry-level smartphone in the Philippines market known as Vivo Y15a. This smartphone carries an entry-level smartphone likes a 6.51-inch LCD display, 13MP primary camera, and a 5,000mAh battery.
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The device will be available in two different color options as Green and Mystic Blue. In terms of pricing, the Vivo Y15a is priced at PHP 7,999 (USD 160 / INR 12,000 approx.).
The Y15a comes with a 6.51-inch IPS LCD display that offers an HD+ screen resolution of 720 x 1600 pixels, a 20:9 aspect ratio, and a 60Hz refresh rate.
Under the hood, the device is powered by an octa-core MediaTek Helio P35 chipset that is paired with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage that can be further expanded via a microSD card.
In terms of photography, the device comes with a rectangular-shape camera island that is home to a dual-camera setup comprising of a 13MP primary camera, and a 2MP depth sensor, and an LED flash. On the front side, the device has an 8MP selfie snapper.
Connectivity features of the device include dual 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.0, GPS, and microSD card support. The device is backed by a 5,000mAh battery that comes with 10W charging support.
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We believe in the opposite approach. We believe in supporting people who are up-and-coming, as well as established. We believe in sharing the struggles behind the success, not just the accomplishments. And we believe in getting to know the person and their philosophy, not just their art, product, or business. We believe that by telling more stories we can make a bigger impact on our communities and the world. If only a handful of stories are told, then only a handful of people can benefit from the power of storytelling. We think communities are better when we know each other at a deeper level, but that's not possible if we are only exposed to the stories of a select group and tiny percentage within the community.
We value diversity: We take pride in the diversity you'll find on our site. You'll find people of all different backgrounds, races, countries of origin, religions, sexual preferences, gender identifications, professions, education levels, colors, shapes, and sizes featured on our site. Relative to almost any other media organization, on a typical day, even a cursory glance at our homepage will highlight how much more diverse we are relative to almost any other media outlet. This is intentional. We strive to make our platform accessible to groups that have traditionally been underrepresented in the media.
Authenticity over polish: We publish people's stories in their own words, even when there are grammatical issues because we believe it's important to highlight that not all successful people sound the same, have flawless writing skills, etc. If every time you see a feature of someone successful in the media and everything about them is perfect – from editing their responses to photoshopping their images to remove every "imperfection," you may get the false idea that successful people are perfect and that if one is not perfect, they might not be capable of success. We want to debunk this myth by showing that success comes in many forms/styles/education-levels/writing-styles, etc. That said, we all make mistakes, so if you notice an error in your submission after the fact, we are more than happy to work with you to correct it.
What happens with the information and pictures you submit to us
If you participate in a Q&A interview (our primary feature format), your answers and pictures will only be used for the interview and promotion of the interview. It will not be used for ANY other purpose. We do not sell your data, and we also do not use the information you provide to analyze it for marketing purposes.
We use Google Analytics to keep track of our website traffic. However, we DO NOT aggregate, share, sell or otherwise use data for any other commercial purpose other than keeping track of our traffic.
We may reach out to you in the future via email or social media to see if you are interested in collaborating with us again on another series, event, project etc. If you ever want us to stop reaching out you can let us know easily by clicking the "preferences" button in any of our emails to you.
Where are we based
We are based in Los Angeles, California, where we started our first site VoyageLA.com. Our mailing address is: 9415 Culver Blvd, STE 207 Culver City, CA 90232. This is the co-working space from where we first started, though we now work out of multiple co-working places and many of our contributors and outreach team are remote. Given our access to phones, e-mail, Skype, and other digital forms of communication, our contributors have the flexibility and freedom to work from wherever is convenient to them.
Why we ask for recommendations
The power in most media organizations is concentrated among a tiny group of people in the editorial department who decide who will get coverage and who won't. Often, these editorial elites can be removed from the heart of the community. By valuing recommendations we are able to take power out of the editorial office and distribute it to the people – so that the community is helping to drive coverage decisions rather than a small group of editorial elites. This allows us to feature thought-provoking art that may not be the most commercially successful (yet), and/or highlight the stories of trailblazing women that are making a difference in all fields.
What we are most excited by
On our platform, we have been blessed and amazed to see what people we featured a few months or years ago have accomplished since because we were able to connect with them when they were still an up-and-coming artist or entrepreneur. We want our site to be a positive and inspirational place, but know the path is not always easy. We have been particularly touched by the stories of people who we happened to connect with at a time of personal or professional difficulty in their life, like when they were making a career change to leave a 9-5 and pursue a passion. We love getting updates about how them sharing their story helped their business, self-confidence, re-connected them with old clients/followers who never knew their personal story, or allowed them to chronicle and journal their journey.
We can't wait to read and share your story!
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Ninoska Huerta
You both Mayank and Sid, are my heroes, you represent the creativity and effort, so you are an example for many young people, congratulations your dreams come true.
Farrah Chow-Quan
"We think if people knew more about the lives, journeys, struggles, values and background stories of the local business owners, artists, etc they would be more engaged with them, more likely to do business with them and support them in other ways. " Love this!!
Love the work you're doing to highlight local community leaders and dreamers!
Astrid Voxx
I believe this is a GREAT idea and I can't wait to be a part of both sides, the interviewee and the interviewer! Let's get going! Astrid Voxx
Danielle Bigby
What a wonderful mission! I've always said, the best asset an entrepreneur has is her story and persona. I love that you are embracing that and showcasing it. Thank you!
Rick Canut
Excellent philosophy!
Yes…. I'd like to submit my input for Montreal, Canada… In my opinion the coolest city in the world… Of course I have insight… Guy Laliberte just launched Pyramide (used to own Cirque du Soleil) which will be on display in Miami later this year… I can get first hand interviews…
Catherine Ramirez
Love this magazine even more now after reading this 🙂
Dave Ziegelman
Thank you for what you do and for featuring me in a story!! So psyched!
Vanessa Jules
Mayank and Sid, you as well have such an incredible story. I love what VoyageMia stands for. This whole mission and vision is incredible. Thank you for being brave and creating such a wonderful platform, and allowing our voices to be heard.
Nicole Cosentino
What a beautiful story and incredible mission! I love that your team is putting the spot light on all the dreamers out there doing all the hard work to make it! So excited about all the stories!
IamDubC
Mayank and Sid… Thank you for implementing a vision that not only helps but uplift the very communities our families migrated to to provide a better life for their child 🙏🏾 Your tremendous work will NEVER go unnoticed
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Local StoriesFebruary 5, 2019