GROWTH HABIT: 6' - 10' high with a 6'-10' spread. Broad densely branched evergreen. Pyramidal shape. Slow growth rate; prefers partial shade.
FOILAGE: Dark lustrous green through the seasons.
FLOWERS: Non-fragrant and large; may bloom from November to April. Available in red or white.
LANDSCAPE VALUE: Excellent for use in borders, mixed plantings or as an accent plant in protected courtyards or against a wall. Synonymous with the south.


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The GFT2505 is a very precise Time Interval Meter. It has five channels: Channel 0 is used as the "Start" time reference for channels 1-4 being "Stops" events of the Time Interval measurement. Each channel can measure the time of the rising edge of one electrical input, to 13 picosecond resolution with > 100 second range. Time Interval samples can be automatically processed to provide Mean, Max, Min and RMS/Jitter.
The instrument uses an internal 10 MHz oscillator or an external very stable 10 MHz source.
The Instrument offers 4 GPIO (4 digital bi-directional signals) under software control for communication to external equipment.
The GFT2005 is a low profile 19", 1U rack instrument with Ethernet interface.
Save the measurement in your file computer.


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Home > Logistics > Rivigo shifts focus from freight marketplace to Relay-as-a-Service
Rivigo shifts focus from freight marketplace to Relay-as-a-Service
October 18, 2019: Logistics-tech unicorn, Rivigo, has today announced a shift in their focus of business from freight marketplace to Relay-as-a-Service (RaaS).
BY Our Correspondent18 Oct 2019 2:01 PM GMT
The shift to the relay trucking model is to address the inefficiencies in trucking.
Our Correspondent18 Oct 2019 2:01 PM GMT
October 18, 2019: Logistics-tech unicorn, Rivigo, has today announced a shift in their focus of business from freight marketplace to Relay-as-a-Service (RaaS). The shift to the relay trucking model that they have launched in August 2019 is explained as to directly address the inefficiencies in trucking and solve the challenges faced by small fleet owners while providing better customer service.
The company has added Rs. 300 crore to its topline registering a 45% annual growth last year, a more than four-fold rate compared to the growth for the entire logistics sector. It is all set to become one of the first unicorns to turn profitable, expecting to become cash breakeven in the current fiscal itself. Focused on profitable growth since the beginning of the year, the company has shifted focus away from building a freight marketplace, says the release.
Commenting on the shift in focus, Gazal Kalra, co-founder, Rivigo, said, "We believe it is important to build a freight marketplace with real value for customers and fleet owners. Through Relay-as-a-Service we directly address the inefficiencies in trucking, solve for the challenges faced by small fleet owners while providing better customer service. It is a necessary step towards becoming a profitable company that looks at a business model that not only adds to the topline but bottomline and elevates the quality of service to an industry benchmark."
The recently piloted RaaS offers Rivigo's technology, access to relay pilots and a countrywide network of relay pit-stops to fleet owners. It also makes its patented fuel solution and maintenance and cashless payment solutions available to fleet owners.
"In a country like India, where the quality of infrastructure and asset is a challenge, end-to-end controls fueled by deeper technology will give customers a better experience and create disruption for the industry in the long run. Hence our focus on strengthening the relay trucking technology and offering it as a service for fleet owners" added Kalra.
Started in 2014 by McKinsey alumnus Deepak Garg and Gazal Kalra, Rivigo has so far raised multiple rounds of funding to strengthen its technology and network coverage and build its patented relay-trucking network, which has been a game-changer for the logistics market in India. The company turned operating EBITDA profitable in March 2019.
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The rain clawed at the glass. Trent remembered hearing that somewhere — the rain clawed at the glass — or reading it, although he hadn't read a book in several years so reading it was less likely. It was a good description, he thought. Probably more than a decade. It was very fitting of the way the rain now clawed at the glass of the little window of his little house. But it was more than that, and meant more than the words he could use to describe it. There was no one else here, so why describe it? His way was common expressions, nothing fancy. But he appreciated rain, and he appreciated that in someone else's imagination, it had claws and it wanted to find its way inside. Or at least past a pane of glass. But for the moment the rain was restricted to roaming the grass plains outside and beating on the roof of the stable and the roof of O'Reilly's house on the other side of the hill and of the feedlot the seven miles down the road where Trent worked on six-day rotation.
Jimmy let out of small huff from his spot on the living room rug.
Jimmy huffed a lot these days, the kind of huff you might expect from an ageing dog who had seen many things and didn't have time for seeing those things anymore. Didn't have time for any of it. To his credit, Jimmy was 91 in dog years. It showed in the way he struggled to stand up off the floor when he wanted to move and in his shaky steps when he'd trek between his selection of favourite spots around the house and most of all it showed in the way his eyes seemed dull. They were dull like how an old camera lens gets mould inside and there's nothing you can do to clean it out.
Aside from soaking up the morning sun when it spilled over the front verandah, Jimmy didn't go outside much anymore, not like when he was a pup and he'd disappear during the day and when Trent got home he'd have to walk up over the hill calling out "Jiiiiiiimmy!" over and over until Jimmy came bounding back through the grass. There was probably no need for Trent to do all this since Jimmy had never once spent a night away from home, not when he was a pup and he'd scratched at the front door and whined to be let inside, all while Trent and Deb ignored him until the dog fell asleep on his bed of old potato bags. Not after Deb left and Trent could let the dog spend all the time inside that he wanted.


This past Wrestlemania weekend, we came to Orlando and were made to feel incredibly welcome, not only by the travelling British fans, but by a whole load of North American (and beyond) fans who were experiencing what we do for the first time.
We've been asked pretty much daily to come and do another show in the US ever since then… and we've listened.
SATURDAY, 12TH AUGUST, we've teamed up once again with our friends at WWN for a double-header of shows at the ELMCOR CENTER, QUEENS, NEW YORK CITY.
Progress will run at 8pm, and there will also be an Evolve show at 4pm in the same building.
Tickets will be available soon from ticketfly.com – we'll let you know when they are.
Obviously no word on a full card yet, but we can confirm that PROGRESS World Champion PETE DUNNE, as well as PROGRESS Tag Team Champions TYLER BATE and TRENT SEVEN will be there, as well as Progress regulars, some of our regular roster who are based in the US, and some wrestlers making their US debuts that day.
And of course, the show will be available on Demand Progress a week or so after it happens.
Exciting stuff. Hope you can join us for the show!


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Henry Stuart, Duke of Albany (aka Lord Darnley, 7 Dec 1545 - 10 Feb 1567)
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2.1 spouse
2.2 issues
2.3 Patrilineal ancestors until Top ancestor
reigns and titles
1st Duke of Albany in the peerage of Scotland (20 Jul 1565 - 10 Feb 1567)
predecessor: none. new creation.
successor: James Stuart
Mary Stuart of Scotland (8 Dec 1542 - 8 Feb 1587) married 29 Jul 1565
m. James, King of Scotland (19 Jun 1566 - 27 Mar 1625)
Patrilineal ancestors until Top ancestor
Flaad
Alan fitz Flaad (1070 - 1114)
Walter fitz Alan, 1st High Steward of Scotland (1106 - June 1177)
Alan fitz Walter, 2nd High Steward of Scotland (1140 - 1204)
Walter Stewart, 3rd High Steward of Scotland (c.1198 - 1246)
Alexander Stewart, 4th High Steward of Scotland (1214 - 1283)
John Stewart of Bonkyll (? - 22 Jul 1298)
Alan Stewart of Dreghorn (? - 19 Jul 1333)
Alexander Stewart of Darnley (? - 1374)
John Stewart of Darnley (c.1380 - 1429)
Alan Stewart of Darnley (a.1406 - 1439)
John Stewart, 1st Earl of Lennox (b.1430 - 8 Jul/11 Sept 1495)
Matthew Stewart, 2nd Earl of Lennox (b.5 May 1488 - 9 Sept 1513)
John Stewart, 3rd Earl of Lennox (c.1490 - 4 Sept 1526)
Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox (21 Sept 1516 - 4 Sept 1571)
Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (7 Dec 1545 - 10 Feb 1567)
peerage of Scotland
1st Duke of Albany
20 Jul 1565 - 10 Feb 1567 Succeeded by
James Stuart
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FEMA, SBA Open Disaster Recovery Center in Boardman
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Through July 16, Mahoning County residents and business owners affected by inclement weather May 27 through 29 can apply for aid at a disaster recovery center at the Boardman Township Administration Building, 8299 Market St.
Last month, Gov. Mike DeWine requested that Mahoning County be added to the Presidential Disaster Declaration to receive aid for businesses and residences that were damaged by floodwaters from the storms. Sima Merick, executive director of the Ohio Emergency Management Agency, advised the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, that 20 apartment units in Canfield and four in Boardman were rendered uninhabitable by floodwaters and sewer backups.
In response, FEMA, the U.S. Small Business Administration, Ohio Emergency Management Agency and other Ohio agencies are staffing the disaster recovery center at the township administration building to meet with residents and business owners uninsured for flood damage to help them acquire aid. Representatives will also explain disaster assistance programs, answer questions about written correspondence and provide information about repairs and rebuilding homes to make them more disaster-resistant.
The center is open July 12, 13, 15 and 16 from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. It is closed Sunday, July 14.
To be eligible for funding, residents must first register online at DisasterAssistance.gov, by using the FEMA app or by calling 800 621 3362, says Jassiel Olivero, FEMA media relations specialist. TTY users can call 800-462-7585. From there, they can go to the disaster recovery center to apply in person "and they will walk you through the application process," she says.
Mahoning County is one of 11 counties approved to receive $2.9 million in recovery assistance, Olivero says. Other counties include Auglaize, Darke, Greene, Hocking, Mercer, Miami, Montgomery, Muskingum, Perry and Pickaway. Of the 1,900 visits to open disaster recovery centers in those counties, 1,100 applications have been approved, Olivero said.
FEMA assistance is grant-funded and does not have to be repaid, nor is it taxable and won't affect one's eligibility for Social Security, Medicaid or other federal and state benefits, according to a FEMA release. Homeowners and renters are both eligible for the nontaxable assistance and aid may also be applied to vehicles for uninsured damage caused by the flooding.
For those who don't qualify for FEMA aid, they can apply for a small loan through the U.S. SBA, Olivero notes. Interest rates on those loans for homeowners is 1.938%, 4% for businesses and small agricultural cooperatives, and 2.75% for nonprofit organizations, she says.
SBA loans are for replacing personal property, rebuilding homes and restoring economic strength, said Tamim Choudhury, public affairs specialist with the SBA. Businesses will likely need to get an SBA loan for any uninsured damages because they "usually don't receive federal disaster grants," Choudhury explained in an email.
"They may qualify for loans up to $2 million with an interest rate as low as 4%," he says. "They may also receive economic injury loans with the same terms, in case of revenue losses upon the disaster. All of these loans carry up to a 30-year repayment time."
Choudhury has spoken with the Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber about the loans and plans to visit county businesses that suffered damage from the floods, he says. Typical ports from businesses include loss of inventory, machinery and equipment.
"Some business owners not only have to worry about the physical structural damage, but also about how to run the business with working capital after the flood has halted operations," he says.
Oak Hill Collaborative Offers Internet Safety Seminar
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Mahoning County residents will have an opportunity to gain a better understanding of internet safety this week. The Oak Hill Collaborative is offering a free Internet Safety Seminar at 6 p.m. Thursday at Springfield Fire Station #21,…
Youngstown Financial Adviser Publishes 'No Justificuses'
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – If there is one point that Deanna Rossi wants readers of her new book to come away with, it's that everything they have ever wanted is on the other side of whatever obstacles they are facing. Rossi,…
YSU Accounting Day to Draw 15 Firms to Campus
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – The 26th annual Accounting Student/Practitioner Day, hosted by YSU's Williamson College of Business Administration, is 8:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Friday, Nov. 4, in Williamson Hall. YSU business students will attend panel sessions on, among other topics,…


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Stop being bullied: Let's sue Mountain View
Fun fact! Roy Stalin is now Google's VP of Housing and Urban Development!
Nato Green: "Mayor Ed Lee, I found locations for the 30,000 units you want to build. They're in the 408."
San Francisco lets Silicon Valley push it around like the school bully in an '80s teen comedy. We're at each other's throats trying to cope with soaring housing costs, while Silicon Valley gets off scot-free for creating problems we get to solve.
Local governments dump housing problems onto the places that do build, mostly San Francisco and Oakland. For example, late last year, Mountain View approved plans to add 3.4 million square feet of office space around the Google and LinkedIn fortresses, adding 20,000 jobs. No new housing. Supposedly the newly elected City Council eventually will vote to allow 1,500 to 5,000 units in the area, but the other 15,000 are San Francisco's problem by default.
Sunnyvale, Milpitas, Palo Alto, Santa Clara and all these tedious South Bay hamlets debase themselves to offer tech titans expansion upon expansion to corporate campuses without any new housing. One UC Davis study suggested those cities have a combined below-market-rate housing deficit of 20,000 units. Mayor Ed Lee, I found locations for the 30,000 units you want to build. They're in the 408.
San Francisco should sue Mountain View and the rest of these fools. San Francisco could challenge all these cities to adopt a Jobs-Housing Linkage Program like we did years ago, to comply with their own housing elements. Even to the point of bringing dreaded California Environmental Quality Act lawsuits against big office projects that don't mitigate the housing problems they send us.
A relevant precedent is Urban Habitat v. the City of Pleasanton. State law requires local governments to adopt a housing element with land-use regulations to meet local housing needs. Pleasanton didn't comply with its own housing element and used a bunch of obscure zoning gimmicks to prevent new housing from being built, especially below-market-rate housing. Pleasanton lost in 2010 and had to rezone and allow more below-market-rate housing. San Francisco could adapt this approach to sue over the refusal to build in the deep south.
We progressives are accused of being NIMBYs, of reflexively opposing higher density new development. I support lots of it. In Silicon Valley. Build all the market-rate housing you want down there. I've been to Mountain View. There's nothing there worth preserving, except Taqueria La Bamba on Rengstorff Avenue. Their carnitas is the rapture. When I started stand-up, the bar Ron's Farmhouse in Mountain View had a weekly comedy night. That fetid hole of regret closed. Build a 50-story luxury condo tower there.
The reason these adorable towns resist more housing is basically racism. It's in the guise of alarms about "preserving neighborhood character," "school overcrowding" and "crime," but that's all code for poor brown people. They moved to a subdivision in 65 percent white Palo Alto to enjoy good schools and make little James Francos in peace. Fine!
South Bay: You left a lot of your rich white people here in San Francisco. Please come collect them. In San Francisco, we're upset about the displacement of working-class communities of color. You can preserve your historic landmark whiteness and we'll happily welcome "those people" here. Bring your people home. That's a win-win.
I know the techies in San Francisco feel embattled and beleaguered. They're blamed for things that are out of their control. I'm here for you, Google Bus riders. I'm concerned that all the hours you spend commuting are bad for your health. I want you to live close enough to bike to work. Santa Clara and Sunnyvale are both "All-America Cities." There's a sign on the freeway saying so. I don't know what that means, but I want you to have down time after work to find out. You deserve linguica from Neto's in Santa Clara. Help me help you.
Tags: big brother, conspiracies, doomed, sf, sprawl
Unstoppable Randite versus Unmovable Bureaucracy: fight!
The Uber model runs into the DMV
There's been a lot of press about Uber's latest problem -- the California Department of Motor Vehicles has announced that ride-sharing drivers, who are in fact using their vehicles for a commercial purpose, need to get commercial plates.
That's not the end of the world -- but it's a big blow to the Uber model, which calls for people to buy cars, with Uber-backed financing, and turn them into taxis without following the rules that apply to taxis. Getting commercial plates takes a little longer (if there are 11,000 Uber drivers in San Francisco, and all of them have to get appointments at the DMV, the backup could take a while.)
But Uber is saying it doesn't care: The company protests the ruling, and will keep right on encouraging people to register their cars as personal, noncommercial vehicles -- the same way the company has offered to pay the fines in some cities for Uber drivers who illegally pick up and discharge passengers at airports.
The same way Airbnb encouraged people to violate city zoning and tax laws and rent out their homes as hotel rooms.
Here's the motto: It's better to ask forgiveness than permission -- particularly if you have a billion dollars or more in the bank and some very powerful people on your side.
Tags: big brother, conspiracies, corporations, sf, sprawl
Today in tasp snake-oil news
Thync:
The forehead and the neck piece generate impulses, controlled by the program you've loaded via a companion smartphone app, that actively jolt the neurons in those two sensitive areas; these programs generate mood shifts that Thync calls "Vibes." At present, there are two sets of Vibes available: One designed to produce relaxation, and another designed to produce alertness. [...]
I barely wait before jacking the setting to 100. There's no point in experiencing something unless you're doing it to the max. At 70, the sensation the device produces is like ants crawling on the surface of your skin. At 100, the ants are on the inside of your skin and dancing a wild myrmecoid folk dance. [...]
The 20 minutes are up sooner than I imagined. I peel the device from my forehead, remove the underlying disposable electrodes, replace my glasses. The difference, I must admit, is palpable: Everything seems more finely etched, crisper. I notice more details in the world around me, and the sense of dullness that three days spent listening to press pitches from moribund industry giants has draped over my brain seems to have been peeled away.
Tags: computers, mad science, tasp, toys
Current Music: Wolf Parade -- I'll Believe In Anything ♬
Like many places of spiritual healing, this place was next to a Papa John's
My Groupon Deal for Sensory Deprivation Therapy Was Not as Profound as Planned
I would describe this experience as having peaceful dreams, and then waking up because your roommate is waterboarding you. This is dumb, and I'm never doing it again. [...]
I know it's not going to happen, but part of me thinks maybe someone will open the door to this tank and steal my kidney. I begin to think, does anyone know I came here? Why didn't they take down any of my information?
No one steals my kidney. Again, I am reminded of the previous float's thought: I am floating in privilege, and my body is soaked in guilt. Eventually, I fall asleep again.
Tags: mad science, religion, tasp
Current Music: Tricky -- Dear God ♬


An FHA 203K loan is a loan backed by the federal government that's given to buyers who want to buy a home that's either damaged or older, and make repairs on it. Here's how it works: Let's say you want to buy a home that needs a brand new bathroom and kitchen. An FHA 203K lender would provide you with the money to buy (or refinance) the house, and additional money to do the necessary renovations to the kitchen and bathroom.
If the house you currently live in needs some updates, or you've found a new house that doesn't quite feel like home just yet, the FHA 203K loan is a great option. This federally insured loan allows borrowers to take advantage of affordable renovation financing, even if they have less than perfect credit.
The 203k loan is one of the most affordable and flexible financing alternatives for home renovations.


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Dobrava-Belgrade orthohantavirus (DOBV), le virus de Dobrava-Belgrade est une espèce de virus à ARN enveloppé monocaténaire de polarité négative (groupe  de la classification Baltimore) de l'ordre des Bunyavirales. Cet orthohantavirus de l'Ancien Monde est l'agent causal de la fièvre hémorragique à hantavirus sévère avec syndrome rénal.

Historique
Le virus a été isolé pour la première fois en 1985 chez un mulot à collier roux (Apodemus flavicollis) trouvée dans le village de Dobrava, dans le sud-est de la Slovénie. L'espèce a ensuite été isolée chez des mulots rayés en Russie et dans d'autres parties de l'Europe de l'Est. Il a également été trouvé en Allemagne, mais sans identifier le réservoir animal local.

Génotypes
On distingue quatre génotypes décrits :

 Dobrava, observée principalement dans le sud-est de l'Europe ;
 Kurkino, observé dans toute l'Europe du Nord et de l'Est ;
 , observé en Estonie et en Slovaquie ;
 Sotchi, observé dans la région côtière de la mer Noire en Russie.

Les quatre génotypes ont chacun leur propre réservoir naturel :

 Dobrava : mulot à collier roux ;
 Kurkino : mulot rayé ;
 Saaremaa : mulot rayé ;
 Sotchi : .

Maladie
La présentation clinique varie entre les quatre génotypes. Le sous-type de Dobrava est la plus virulent, avec un taux de létalité de 10 à 12 %, suivi par le sous-type de Sochi avec plus de 6 %, celui de Kurkino, allant de 0,3 % à 0,9 % et enfin le sous-type de Saaremaa, qui semble être principalement subclinique car aucune maladie n'a été signalée malgré un taux de séropositivité relativement élevé.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

 Hantavirus
 Maladies humaines à hantavirus

Orthohantavirus
Virus du groupe V

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Congratulations Aimee and Craig. The sun shone all day on these two at Craigsanquhar House Hotel and the outdoor ceremony was just stunning against the rolling hills of Fife. Big shout out to the staff and suppliers for making it run so smoothly and of course Aimee and Craig who were just unreal! Loved spending the day with you!! Enjoy.


Lying to the north of the hamlet of Avensan, to the south of Moulis and Listrac and to the west of Margaux, Citran is a large property with 90 hectares under vine. It is planted with 58% cab sauvignon and 42% merlot on gravel and clay/limestone.
Japanese owners invested considerably in cellar and vineyard from 1987 and current owners (since 1996) the Merlaut Villars family are exploiting the benefits.


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Jan Nepomuk Josef Buquoy ( Johann Nepomuk Joseph von Buquoy; 28. června 1741 v Praze – 12. dubna 1803 tamtéž) byl český botanik, filantrop a hrabě ze šlechtického rodu Buquoyů.

Mládí a vzdělání

Jan Nepomuk Josef Václav Prokop Vojtěch Liberat z Longuevalu, hrabě Buquoy, svobodný pán z Vaux, zkráceně Jan Nepomuk Buquoy, se narodil 26. června 1741 jako pátý z devíti dětí Františku Leopoldu Buquoyovi a Gabriele Johanně Hermině z Roggendorfu v Praze. Jeho otec byl velký český patriot, což se odráží i na přítomnosti jmen čtyř českých zemských patronů v Janově jméně. Byl nejstarším synem svých rodičů a jedním z šesti jejich dětí, které se dožily dospělosti. Spolu s ním to byly jeho další tři sestry a dva mladší bratři.

Na Janovo vzdělání byl kladen ze strany jeho otce velký důraz a proto byl poslán studovat na Karlo-Ferdinandovu univerzitu v Praze. Svá právnická studia ukončil roku 1762 veřejnou disputací a svou doktorskou práci na téma veřejného práva věnoval tehdejší císařovně Marii Terezii, která na tuto příležitost vyslala jako pozorovatele hraběte Nostice. Jeho hodnocení byla kladná a císařovna nechala mladého Buquoye ustanovit apelačním radou a následně právním referendářem u Pražské apelační komory. Jan Nepomuk byl velmi nakloněn učení reformního katolického kněze Karla Jindřicha Seibta, z jehož okruhu si vybral dva nejbližší spolupracovníky, se kterými na svém novohradském panství zaváděl průkopnické sociální reformy. Byli jimi pozdější litoměřický biskup Ferdinand Kindermann a Bernard Josef Spatzierer.

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Na novohradském panství zaváděl Jan Nepomuk Buquoy mnoho reforem, mezi nimi i zemědělskou. Hlavní pozornost byla soustředěna na dobytek. Zvýšením jeho počtu, zlepšením jeho stavu a rozsáhlejším pěstováním pícnin začalo být získáváno mnohem více hnojiva, což se odráželo na větších zemědělských výnosech. Zajímavostí může být, že tur, který dovážel, pocházel ze Švýcarska. Jeho dalším počinem bylo upravení vodních toků od Pohoří na Šumavě, místa labsko-dunajského rozvodí, až k ústí Černé do Malše. To proto, aby se mohlo splavovat dřevo z hlubokých lesů Novohradských hor až do Českých Budějovic, neboť zdejší přeprava dřeva byla do té doby velmi namáhavá. V roce 1789 byla Janu Buquoyovi za tento významný počin udělena císařská pochvala. Hrabě se mimo jiné zaměřil i na lesy, které pokrývaly drtivou většinu oblasti jeho panství. Začal provádět jejich první odhady a vyměřování, nechal postavit několik mysliven a roku 1796 založil v Jakuli lesnické učiliště, druhé nejstarší svého druhu v habsburské monarchii.

Po konci třicetileté války začal rychle růst počet obyvatel, například počet domů v Nových Hradech se v průběhu 18. století téměř zdvojnásobil. Tato situace inspirovala Jana Nepomuka k osidlování všech končin svého panství. Účelem bylo zvýšení hodnoty panství a budování osad sklářů, lesních dělníků a vorařů pro lepší využití četných hvozdů. Mnoho nově založených sídel však po odsunu Němců po druhé světové válce zaniklo, jako například Malý Jindřichov. Některá však, například Petříkov nebo Černé Údolí, zůstala obydlená. Po tomto kroku nebylo výjimkou pěstování žita a ovsa v skoro tisíci metrech nad mořem. Většinou byla půda novým osídlencům propůjčena na doživotní nájem, tito "kolonizátoři" byli nazýváni dominikalisté, protože žili na dominikálu, tedy panské půdě. Celá řada názvů těchto nových osad zmiňuje jméno jejich zakladatele a jeho rodiny, například: Janovy Hutě, Janovka a Nepomuk vzpomínají samotného hraběte, Terčí Ves (dnes Pohorská Ves), Terčí Dvůr a Terezina Huť jeho manželku, Janova bratra Leopolda skrývá název Leopoldov, synovce a dědice Jiřího Buquoye zase Jiřice a Jiříkovo Údolí, na synovce Ludvíka pamatují Ludvické Hory a na neteř Pavlínu osada Pavlina. Pouze název Johannesberg nevychází od křestního jména nikterého příbuzného, nýbrž od kaple sv. Jana, a možnou domněnku o pojmenování podle hraběte zcela vyvrací český název Svatý Jan nad Malší.

Ve stínu zemědělství rostla v Nových Hradech i kultura. Jan Nepomuk sice pořádal koncerty povětšinou jen v buquoyské vile v Praze, nezapomněl však ani na své panství v jižních Čechách. V roce 1796 nechal vystavět malou venkovskou vesničku v zámeckém parku podle vzoru Trianonu u Versailles, jež sloužila k zábavě šlechtictva. Za zmínku stojí i významný počin jeho manželky Terezie, která roku 1756 založila přírodní park v okolí říčky Stropnice a nazvala jej Vallonchéri (Krásné údolí). Údolí přiléhá od jihozápadu k Novým Hradům a dříve sloužilo jako bažantnice. Dnes se park jmenuje Tereziino údolí, místně Terezino či Terčino údolí, a je jedním z turisticky nejvyhledávanějších míst v regionu. Za svého života plánoval hrabě i stavbu zámku, plány mu však zkřížil hladomor v sedmdesátých letech 18. století.

Cílem Jana Nepomuka bylo odstranit chudobu a proto založil organizaci sbírající a rozdělující milodary chudákům. Buquoyský chudinský ústav byl prvním zaopatřovacím zařízením podobného typu v Evropě. Kněží z Nových Hradů měli za úkol jej "propagovat" při svých kázáních, aby se dostal do povědomí ostatních měšťanů. Sám hrabě se zavázal, že veškeré zpronevěřené peníze a zkažené naturálie vynahradí z vlastního. Ústav evidoval všechny místní chudé a rozlišoval je podle stupně chudoby. Tato evidence byla průkopnickou inovací hlavně kvůli zapisování příčin strádání daných osob. Jako první myšlenku chudinského ústavu převzal klášter ve Vyšším Brodě a poté mnoho měst v jižních a severních Čechách, pár míst v Dolních Rakousích a dokonce i v Bavorsku. Nápadem se inspiroval i Josef II., který Jana Nepomuka Buquoye, i přes jeho nesouhlas, jmenoval státním úředníkem pro reorganizaci zaopatřovacích ústavů a likvidaci nadačního a bratrského jmění. V roce 1783 byl jmenován prezidentem vrchního nadačního ředitelství a roku 1784 prezidentem dvorské nadační komise. Novohradský hrabě byl s Josefem II. ve stále větší rozepři, a to až do císařovy smrti v roce 1790. Zřizoval rovněž školy, neboť vycházel z předpokladu, že vzdělání přinese lidem lepší výchozí šance pro jejich životní existenci a tím zmírní, či dokonce odstraní chudobu.

V letech 1783–1791 se zasložil o výstavbu poutního kostela Panny Marie Dobré rady v Pohoří na Šumavě.

Jan Nepomuk Buquoy zemřel 12. dubna 1803 v náručí převora opatství Arrouaise v Artois, Dona Gosseho.

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Universal Pictures and Flicker Alley present Universal Pictures new 4K restoration of the 1929 silent classic, The Last Warning, accompanied by a newly recorded score from Arthur Barrow. Adapted from Thomas F. Fallon's 1922 Broadway play of the same name, The Last Warning is based on the story The House of Fear by Wadsworth Camp and centers on an unsolved murder that occurs during a live Broadway performance. When the victim's body goes missing, the death remains unsolved and the theater is condemned. That is, until years later when a suspicious new producer arrives to restage the play with the original cast and crew. As one of the last silents Universal produced, The Last Warning was later released as a part-talkie with roughly sixty feet of sound scenes added.
The Last Warning was Paul Leni's final film before his untimely death, and a prime showcase for Universal's 1920s leading lady, Laura La Plante. A visual artist at the peak of his career, Leni s camera never stops shifting, offering cutaways and trick shots involving nervous could-be culprits, a highly suspicious sleuth, and cast members who suddenly disappear in the darkened theater. The result is a cinematic funhouse that restlessly cross-examines the suspense of the story s stage play against the real murder mystery saga, all unfolding amid the outstanding production design of Charles D. Hall.
Part of Universal's ongoing silent restoration initiative, The Last Warning honors the studio's rich film history that has spanned more than a century. Universal's team of restoration experts conducted a worldwide search for The Last Warning's available elements, ultimately working with materials from the Cinémathèque française, and the Packard Humanities Institute Collection in the UCLA Film & Television Archive. NBCUniversal's restoration team was able to stabilize and deflicker the film as well as repair scratches, warps, and dirt. The 4K digital restoration was completed by NBCUniversal StudioPost.
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The IHI Triple Aim challenges us to prepare practice-ready graduates who work together to improve the patient experience, improve the health of populations, and reduce healthcare costs. But health profession education programs committed to transforming curricula to teach proficiency with interprofessional collaborative practice competencies face multiple challenges at the individual, program, and institutional levels. Grounded in four years of experience, this panel will reflect on the process of institutionalizing interprofessional education and building meaningful, cross-college collaborative partnerships that have transcended multiple administrative changes at the institutional level and grown to become the foundation of a core interprofessional longitudinal curriculum at the University of Kentucky.
James Ballard, MS, Ed
Associate Director of the University of Kentucky Center for Interprofessional HealthCare Education Research and Practice.
Mr. Ballard received a B.A. in psychology from the University of Notre Dame and an M.S. in educational psychology from the University of Kentucky. Currently he is pursuing a doctoral degree in educational leadership. His professional interests include adult cognitive and intellectual development, interprofessional bias and stereotyping, experiential education, and achievement motivation among adult learners.
Andrea L. Pfeifle, Ed, PT
Director of the Center for Interprofessional HealthCare Education, Research and Practice at the University of Kentucky
Dr. Pfeifle promotes teamwork and excellence in patient and community centered care through interprofessional education, research, and practice. Dr. Pfeifle graduated from the University of Kentucky with a BHS in Physical Therapy, a Master of Science in Instructional Systems Design and a Doctor of Education in Curriculum and Instruction. Dr. Pfeifle has published and presented numerous times in the areas of faculty development, sustainable instructional design principles in medical and health sciences education, assessment and evaluation of individual student and program level outcomes during experiential education. She is a national leader, advocate, and active consultant for faculty development, instructional design and implementation of collaborative learning models and program evaluation to support interprofessional education and collaborative practice.
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Dr. Turner received her DDS degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed a two year NIH sponsored postdoctoral training in Diagnosis and Management of Craniofacial Pain at UNC-CH. She received her JD degree magna cum laude from North Carolina Central University in 1995 and was admitted to the North Carolina Bar in 1996. Dr. Turner has had a strong interest in community issues since her days at a dental student when she was a student leader in the "Student Health Action Clinics" for indigent persons in the Chapel Hill region. Her interest in bilateral engagement was enhanced after members of her college began developing community partnerships to serve the triple roles of sustainable clinical centers to address severe access to dental care problems; clinical research on community identified oral-systemic health links; and development of community based training sites for dental students. Her ACE Fellowship project focused on university engagement. Dr. Turner has published in both dental and legal journals and is a frequent speaker at regional, national and international meetings.
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I love the idea of making a bunch of simple DIY Christmas gifts to give to friends and hosts in the month of December.(or anytime!) So each Wednesday this month I'm going to feature a DIY project from across the interwebs to share the ideas I've discovered!
I can't think of anyone that wouldn't appreciate a gift like this: you can make a multitude of flavors (think spicy, vanilla or mint!) and all you need to add is heated milk. Then stir away, sip and enjoy.
I'm thinking of handing these out to my co-workers around the holidays.
ps. you must take a look at Amberlee's blog, www.giverslog.com and get inspired for a holiday DIY project! I especially love her Gift Guide for any occasion.
This looks like a great idea! I was toying with the idea of infusing olive oil and bottling it up all nice and pretty as gifts this year. Delicious and affordable!
totally bookmarking this!! Amazing idea, especially for office people. Our building is so cold!


Anybody have any adivce (good or bad) about teaching in North Carolina? Im planning on moving there from Detroit next year!
What do you teach? I am an elementary teacher in NY wanting to relo to raleigh. The wcps' is very organized, and though my research concludes there is a need for teachers, I have been unable thus far to secure a position for the fall.
Why would you solicit bad advice?
My wife works in Michigan's Public School system and we were (still are?) looking at relocation to the Raleigh area as a career change for me. Naturally, we were interested in how easily she could find employment in her same field as well as the pay and benefits she could expect to receive. One of my prospective employers in Raleigh was the Wake County Public Schools also.
North Carolina schools are operated far differently than in Michigan. The differences are probably not significant to you if you are a new teacher seeking employment . If you are an experienced teacher, you will be surprised at the breadth and depth of differences.
Search for other posts on this topic too. The rapid population growth in the Raleigh area is driving significant increases in: student counts, the number of teachers required to instruct them, the quantity of available teaching positions, and a lot of interest from teachers nation-wide.
I am certified k-5 self contained and 6-8 language arts and social studies (MI). Im looking to relocate to NC in the fall of 09 and not neccessarily Raleigh. Have you had to take the Praxis test?
I am not an Educator so I am probably exempt from the Praxis test. My background is Construction Management. I was drawn to WCPSS by its massive school construction program forecasted for the next 15 years or so. My wife is a Special Ed Para-professional (primarily autistic students for 14 years) but I don't recall her mentioning any test by that name either.
The web link will give info regarding school systems throughout NC.
Hey Detroit City, sorry for chiming in so late. You might be exempt from taking the Praxis if you can submit documentation for an equivalent test. And it seems like they will take any standardized test from a reciprocal state. I didn't have to take it since I took the test in CO, but I'm also certified in MI. Get your certification together. Make sure you are ready to go to teach when you get here. No one will hire you without a valid NC license. I had some issues with Wake's hiring practices. DM me if you want details. If you really want a teaching job, there are many to be had. Durham is always hiring it seems. And you might want to check out Johnston County. You will not get paid what you do in MI, but I'm sure you already know that. Good luck.
Are you currently in NC? if so, when did you arrive? What issues did you have with Wake's hiring process, if you don't mind me asking. Which area do you suggest in terms of living? I know it seems everyone says the triange yet there must be other areas just as interesting. Is traffic that bad?
It depends on where you are looking to teach in North Carolina. CMS is among the top paying school district in North Carolina but as a former CMS teacher, I certainly wouldn't recommend teaching there. Because the school system in Detroit is crumbling, many Detroit teachers have accepted jobs with CMS...only they may find that they'll be leaving one crumbling school district for another. If you are considering the Charlotte area, nearby Union County schools would be a better choice - if you're lucky enough to secure a position. Do your research first. Good luck to you.
I worked for Durham Public Schools from 2002-2005 and am returning to the area this summer and will work for Wake County. I am originally from WI and I had a WI teaching license and when I first moved to NC I did have to take the Praxis. NC gave me a 1 year temporary license and I took the Praxis during my first year teaching in NC.
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Standard BioTools Inc. (formerly Fluidigm) is an American company engaged in the design, manufacture and sale of biological research equipment based on integrated fluidic circuit technology.  The company's founders leveraged their semiconductor experience to create integrated circuits that carried fluids rather than electrons.  In 2009, the company was described as "the world's leading manufacturer of microfluidic devices."  Among the applications to which the company's products are put to use are protein crystallization, genotyping, DNA analysis and PCR.

Business model
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It is a public company traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange, previously under the ticker symbol FLDM, and then under LAB.

Fluidigm has a number of academic partners whose engagement is aimed to provide a wow factor to exemplar product uses; partners include Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, the Broad Institute, the Genome Institute of Singapore and Kyoto University.

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History
The company was founded in 1999 as "Mycometrix" by Stephen Quake and Gajus Worthington.  The company was formed to commercialize technology developed by Quake at the California Institute of Technology referred to as microfluidic large-scale integration and "branded" under the name Integrated Fluidic Circuits.  Richard DeLateur came on as chief financial officer in 2006; he was a 20-year veteran of Intel.  At the time, the company's chief executive officern (CEO) remained Gajus Worthington.  As of 2015, Worthington remained with the company as president and CEO, while Quake was a member of the company's scientific advisory board as of 2011.

The company completed a successful initial public offering (IPO) in February 2011, raising about $75 million.  This followed a failed, ill-timed IPO in 2008.  As of the 2011 IPO, Fluidigm had not yet become profitable, but had accumulated nearly $200 million in debt. Following a $250 million investment from Casdin Capital and Viking Global Investors in April 2022, Fluidigm changed its name to Standard BioTools.

Operations
At the end of 2014, Fluidigm had a headcount of 500 personnel.

In addition to its headquarters and laboratory facility in South San Francisco, California, which it expanded in 2014, the company in 2005 established the first biochip manufacturing facility in Singapore.  The Singapore facility was in 2009 led by Grace Yow, who also held the position of Fluidigm vice president of worldwide manufacturing.

Products
Fluidigm's products typically consist of single-use biochips, instrumentation for handling biochips and software for instrument operation and data collection and analysis.  No Fluidigm products had been approved for clinical use in the United States as of 2009.

Fluidigm's first commercial product was aimed at the protein crystallization market and was launched in 2003 under the brand "Topaz".  The company's second marketed product targeted high-throughput DNA amplification and was launched in 2006 under the brand "BioMark".  By 2013, BioMark had been adapted to real-time PCR and was capable of running >9000 reactions in parallel.  A high-throughput genotyping system, FLUIDIGM EPI, was introduced in 2008.

The C1 Single-Cell Auto Prep, or C1 system, was released in the early 2000s aimed at delivering 96 single-cell capture and processing events in parallel.  One aim of development forward from the C1 system is increasing parallel throughput.  This initial line of instruments purportedly cost about $200,000 apiece to purchase in 2011.  One reported use for the instruments is "to identify signatures of induced pluripotent stem cells".

In May 2021, Fluidigm introduced CyTOF XT, a forth-generation CyTOF platform that enables system-level biology at single-cell resolution, designed for clinical trials. CyTOF technology provides a high-resolution proteomic profile of each cell, which distinguishes it from all other cells and reveals the heterogeneity of the sample. Fluidigm also announced proteomics sample barcoding.

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Q: Changing an unhandled exception to a handled one in a finally block Consider this program:
using System;
static class Program {
  static void Main(string[] args) {
    try {
      try { throw new A(); }
      finally { throw new B(); }
    }
    catch (B) { }
    Console.WriteLine("All done!");
  }
}

class A : Exception { }

class B : Exception { }

Here, an exception of type A is thrown for which there is no handler. In the finally block, an exception of type B is thrown for which there is a handler. Normally, exceptions thrown in finally blocks win, but it's different for unhandled exceptions.
When debugging, the debugger stops execution when A is thrown, and does not allow the finally block to be executed.
When not debugging (running it stand-alone from a command prompt), a message is shown (printed, and a crash dialog) about an unhandled exception, but after that, "All done!" does get printed.
When adding a top-level exception handler that does nothing more than rethrow the caught exception, all is well: there are no unexpected messages, and "All done!" is printed.
I understand how this is happening: the determination of whether an exception has a handler happens before any finally blocks get executed. This is generally desirable, and the current behaviour makes sense. finally blocks should generally not be throwing exceptions anyway.
But this other Stack Overflow question cites the C# language specification and claims that the finally block is required to override the A exception. Reading the specification, I agree that that is exactly what it requires:

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*In the current function member, each try statement that encloses the throw point is examined. For each statement S, starting with the innermost try statement and ending with the outermost try statement, the following steps are evaluated:

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*If the try block of S encloses the throw point and if S has one or more catch clauses, the catch clauses are examined [...]

*Otherwise, if the try block or a catch block of S encloses the throw point and if S has a finally block, control is transferred to the finally block. If the finally block throws another exception, processing of the current exception is terminated. Otherwise, when control reaches the end point of the finally block, processing of the current exception is continued.

*If an exception handler was not located in the current function invocation, the function invocation is terminated, and one of the following occurs:

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*[...]

*If the exception processing terminates all function member invocations in the current thread, indicating that the thread has no handler for the exception, then the thread is itself terminated. The impact of such termination is implementation-defined.

An exception isn't considered unhandled, according to my reading of the spec, until after all function invocations have been terminated, and function invocations aren't terminated until the finally handlers have executed.
Am I missing something here, or is Microsoft's implementation of C# inconsistent with their own specification?

A: I think problem is how .NET exception handling is built on top of Structured Exception Handling which has slightly different rules about throwing inside a finally block.
When exception A happens SEH tries to find the first handler able to handle your exception type and then starts running all finally blocks, unwinding to it, but based on SEH logic there are no such handlers, so it cries about unhandled exception before .NET can enforce its own rule.
This explains the top level handler (but only the one that can handle exception type A) fixing the problem.
The IL by itself looks valid:
.method private hidebysig static void  Main(string[] args) cil managed
{
  .entrypoint
  // Code size       49 (0x31)
  .maxstack  1
  IL_0000:  nop
  IL_0001:  nop
  .try
  {
    IL_0002:  nop
    .try
    {
      IL_0003:  nop
      IL_0004:  newobj     instance void A::.ctor()
      IL_0009:  throw
    }  // end .try
    finally
    {
      IL_000a:  nop
      IL_000b:  newobj     instance void B::.ctor()
      IL_0010:  throw
    }  // end handler
  }  // end .try
  catch B
  {
    IL_0011:  pop
    IL_0012:  nop
    IL_0013:  ldstr      "B"
    IL_0018:  call       void [mscorlib]System.Console::WriteLine(string)
    IL_001d:  nop
    IL_001e:  nop
    IL_001f:  leave.s    IL_0021
  }  // end handler
  IL_0021:  nop
  IL_0022:  nop
  IL_0023:  nop
  IL_0024:  ldstr      "A"
  IL_0029:  call       void [mscorlib]System.Console::WriteLine(string)
  IL_002e:  nop
  IL_002f:  nop
  IL_0030:  ret
} // end of method Program::Main

Mono has the same problem http://ideone.com/VVoPx6

A: Pavel Krymets's answer has shown that the C# compiler fairly directly translates try/catch/finally to CIL .try/catch/finally, and Hans Passant's comment on my question points out where the CIL specification requires the current behaviour. So insofar as there is a problem, it is indeed a conflict between the C# compiler and the C# specification.
Something I noticed is that the Roslyn compiler includes experimental new language features, and one of those new language features deals with try/catch: it supports exception filters with a try/catch if syntax:
try {
  ...
}
catch (Exception e) if (...) {
  ...
}

One of the major points of exception filters is that they run before any finally blocks to determine if an exception has any handler at all. The language specification has not yet been updated to cover this: the language specification included with the Visual Studio 2015 Preview is the old C# 5.0 language specification. However, it would be difficult if not completely impossible to specify the behaviour for that in such a way that it would to claim that finally blocks are executed before an exception is considered unhandled. Given that, I'd say it's fairly certain that not only is the current behaviour intentional, it's also fairly certain that the spec will be updated to match.
I'm accepting Pavel Krymets's answer, because even though it does not completely answer my question by itself, it is the largest step towards a complete answer.

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imagine a bunch of clones, with the same mental talents and skills. They all start with equal amounts of money. For some reason, they all play poker with each other. What happens? Their skills are the same, so their stakes will fluctuate randomly with the luck of the deal. If stakes could range across the integers, each would stay at an average value of what they started with.
But without debt, anyone who gets a bad run and runs out of money is out of the game. And given enough time, someone *will* run out of money. One fewer player, with their money distributed among the others. The process will repeat, and the end point is a single person with all the money. Not because of desert, but because of random walks and the elimination of the zero point.
But that's an artificial example (why don't they stop playing poker?); is there something more realistic? Take the same clones, and same equal division of money, as well as equal division (as best can be arranged) of physical resources. They'll farm, craft, and trade. Equal abilities and equal starting points, they should stay equal, right? -- No. Random fluctuations strike again: weather and pests hurting or help crops, weather delaying or sinking trade, diseases or cancers striking at people's health, even for clones. So wealth will fluctuate -- and then stuff happens even before the bankruptcy effect. "It takes money to make money", "the rich get richer" -- those with more money can afford economies of scale, or take more risks (an economy of scale of risk and investment, really) and pull further ahead, not because of talent but simply because they have more wealth.
And that's the ethical effect. Less ethically, there's extorting an unfair share of the surplus value of trade from the desperate, bribing government to favor one's own enterprises, and using hired gangs or superior weaponry to outright steal more.
Am I saying the rich never earn their wealth through superior merits? No. But given that even a completely egalitarian initial condition can lead to concentration of wealth just from random walks and economies of scale, let alone less ethical uses of superior wealth, I think this constitutes a robust null hypothesis against claims of total desert. Not that we want to enforce egalitarianism regardless of effort -- that's been tried and failed -- but it doesn't leave much sympathy for outrage at the existence of any income or wealth tax whatsoever.
 Buy more contiguous land, get more use out of a tractor. Pay more up front for something better made, spend less on maintenance. If it takes the same effort to manage $100 as $1000, the $1000 gets better returns. Etc.
 A and B can cooperate with equal effort to make a dollar. They should split it fairly, right? But say A had $10, B has $0.10, and it takes $0.10 a week to live. A can say "take ten cents or I won't work with you",, having a 100 weeks to try to find another partner, while B only has a week to find a fairer deal or die.
 C works 2000 hours a year and earns $100,000. D has a bunch of rental wealth, and makes $100,000 for no effort. C pays more in taxes. Is that fair?
 Of course, merits such as intelligence, attractiveness (is that fair?) or work ethic are themselves results of genetic and childhood lotteries, so the question of whether one entirely deserves the benefits of one's randomly allocated merits is an interesting question of its own.
Edit: Milton Friedman and Bill Bennett on the wages of luck, the justice of amelioration (education and guaranteed minimum income) and the non-existence of free will.
In real life, with non-clones possessed of different genetic and memetic heritages, the effect of random chance -- while present -- is hardly overpowering. And whether or not a given person "deserves" his wealth, an entity which has the power to take one man's wealth has the power to take another man's wealth too -- and there is no guarantee that this entity will preferentially take the wealth of the less deserving.
the effect of random chance -- while present -- is hardly overpowering.
That's debateable. Or subject to empirical study rather than hot air debate. And as my added article has Friedman and Bennett noting, genetic and memetic (not to mention financial) heritage is itself random chance.
no guarantee that this entity will preferentially take the wealth of the less deserving.
No, but that's what democracy is for.


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All That Glitters (Part Two)
While I was in Macedonia and Kosovo, I met with various NGOs and organizations, including IOM (Skopje and Pristina), an NGO working in domestic violence and several organizations that deal specifically with trafficking in persons. Without exception, they denied that the trafficking route from Albania through Macedonia and on to Kosovo (and from there, the EU) had shown a marked increase since the speedboat moratorium. It was a route that had been in use for some time but that was not unduly impacted by the (temporary) change in laws. One of the difficulties in examining the phenomenon of trafficking is that, as laws have changed and police forces have become more aware of the issue, traffickers have increasingly gone underground. It makes trafficking harder to study and, therefore, harder to fight. What is the real story? It's almost impossible to say. While organizations based in Albania claim that Albanians are trafficked through Kosovo, this is not borne out by the organizations working on trafficking in those countries. Who is telling the truth? Who knows what the truth is? I do believe, however, that speedboats are still traveling between Albania and Italy, carrying both drugs and human beings, though perhaps not quite as frequently as before the moratorium on their usage.
During my last day in Pristina, such a lovely, wonderful city that is difficult to believe the chaos and conflict that took place here not so long ago, I met with a woman, let's call her Molly, who runs a trafficking survivor assistance NGO. Molly started the organization after she lost her job (she worked as an economist for the Ministry of Labor) when the Serbs fired all the Albanians working in government positions shortly before the war broke out in Kosovo. Initially, Molly's organization dealt with returning refugees and then they began to see an increase in trafficked women as women and girls, both from Kosovo and abroad, who were bought and sold to feed the demand of foreign soldiers and peacekeepers. Kosovo is a destination as well as a transit and source country which, like Albania, has seen a growing trend in the number of women trafficked internally.
Then Molly told me a story about a well known and well respected businessman in Pristina who, to all outward appearances, is a successful business owner and entrepreneur. He is also heavily involved in trafficking women and girls. Several of these women were being helped by her organization. This businessman held on to the children of these women so that they would be too afraid to escape in case he harmed their children as retribution. He had called these women repeatedly, telling them that they would never make the money they made with him with anyone else, that he was the only one that understood them. Bravely, Molly phoned him and told him that these girls were fragile, that they were damaged psychologically and that they really needed some help. He agreed that they were "damaged goods" but he said that he wasn't too worried because he knew they would return to him because only he could provide for them. Molly told him that he should be careful because one of them may call the police out of a desire for protection and that could cause him problems. He laughed and informed her that "the police are my friends. What do I have to fear?" And yet, to the outside world, this man was a role model to the community, somebody whose business success they would like to emulate.
On one of the main thoroughfares in Pristina, there is a huge billboard on the side of a building of former Kosovar President Ibrahim Rugova, an ethnic Albanian who was widely popular. Despite converting to Christianity later in life, he remains beloved, even in a predominantly Muslim nation. He is wearing the trademark scarf that he kept on even in summer. He wore this scarf to represent the "bondage of Kosovo" and he proclaimed that, when Kosovo was free, he would remove his scarf. He didn't live to see this goal entirely accomplished, having died in 2006 of lung cancer.
While people in this region don't wear scarves in summer, they do wear blinders. If people continue to idolize material goods without questioning where they come from, if they continue to lionize traffickers for their material wealth, if the government continues to pronounce trafficking dead, how can we fight it? Before trafficking can be effectively eliminated in the Balkan region, the bondage of outward appearances, the slavery to the superficial must be addressed.
Posted Aug 7th, 2007
Amy Burrows
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Greg Harris
I found it interesting the way you describe how one's ability to provide materials goods to those in need (or in perceived need, in the case of more luxurious consumer goods) could be a root of the problem. I haven't spent much time thinking about the issue, and I think it's important to face the issue on several fronts, but I think it would be pretty hard to attack the problem by in some way putting a stigma on material wealth. Consumer education is hard to begin with, and then to think that you would have to stigmatize wealth, which is the fundamental desired thing, AND put the burden on the consumer to do their homework to find out whether the desired thing came from licit or illicit sources, I feel like that is a lot to ask of a consumer. Perhaps naively, I feel like the more practical thing would be to stigmatize and publicize the traffic itself, but I guess that is not easy either. Kudos to you for working on this, how can you expose and reform a hidden social problem? I've never thought of it before.
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