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Title 5 - Administrative Personnel
CHAPTER I - OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
SUBCHAPTER B - CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS
PART 900 - INTERGOVERNMENTAL PERSONNEL ACT PROGRAMS
Subpart F - Standards for a Merit System of Personnel Administration
Appendix A to Subpart F of Part 900 - Standards for a Merit System of Personnel Administration
5 CFR Appendix A to Subpart F of Part 900 - Standards for a Merit System of Personnel Administration
Part I: The following programs have a statutory requirement for the establishment and maintenance of personnel standards on a merit basis.
Program, Legislation, and Statutory Reference
Food Stamp, Food Stamp Act of 1977, as amended; 7 U.S.C. 2020(e)(6)(B).
Employment Security (Unemployment Insurance and Employment Services), Social Security Act (Title III), as amended by the Social Security Act Amendments of 1939, Section 301, on August 10, 1939, and the Wagner-Peyser Act, as amended by Pub. L. 81-775, section 2, on September 8, 1950; 42 U.S.C. 503(a)(1) and 29 U.S.C. 49d(b).
Grants to States for Old-Age Assistance for the Aged (Title I of the Social Security Act); 42 U.S.C. 302(a)(5)(A). 1
1 Public Law 92-603 repealed Titles I, X, XIV and XVI of the Social Security Act effective January 1, 1974, except that "such repeal does not apply to Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands."
Aid to Families with Dependent Children, (Title IV-A of the Social Security Act); 42 U.S.C. 602(a)(5). 2
2 Public Law 104-193 repealed the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program effective July 1, 1997.
Grants to States for Aid to the Blind, (Title X of the Social Security Act); 42 U.S.C. 1202(a)(5)(A). 1
Grants to States for Aid to the Permanently and Totally Disabled, (Title XIV of the Social Security Act); 42 U.S.C. 1352(a)(5)(A). 1
Grants to States for Aid to the Aged, Blind or Disabled. (Title XVI of the Social Security Act); 42 U.S.C. 1382(a)(5)(A). 1
Medical Assistance (Medicaid), Social Security Act (Title XIX), as amended, section 1902 (a)(4)(A); 42 U.S.C. 1396(a)(4)(A).
State and Community Programs on Aging (Older Americans), Older Americans Act of 1965 (Title III), as amended by the Comprehensive Older Americans Act Amendments of 1976, section 307 on October 18, 1978; 42 U.S.C. 3027(a)(4).
Federal Payments for Foster Care and Adoption Assistance, (Title IV-E of the Social Security Act); 42 U.S.C. 671(a)(5).
Part II: The following programs have a regulatory requirement for the establishment and maintenance of personnel standards on a merit basis.
Program, Legislation, and Regulatory Reference
Occupational Safety and Health Standards, Williams-Steiger Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970; Occupational Safety and Health State Plans for the Development and Enforcement of State Standards; Department of Labor, 29 CFR 1902.3(h).
Occupational Safety and Health Statistics, Williams-Steiger Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970; BLS Grant Application Kit, May 1, 1973, Supplemental Assurance No. 15A.
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Assistance and Emergency Relief Act (42 U.S.C. 5196b), as amended; 44 CFR 302.4.
[62 FR 33971, June 24, 1997]
Food Stamp Act of 1977
Social Security Act Amendments of 1939
Wagner-Peyser Act
Older Americans Act of 1965
Williams-Steiger Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970


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"The active season has activated in the loss to the enemy of hair of the geographical extent of his empire, comprehending the most valuable part of his possessions, with the curtailment in the same proportions, of his military strength and resources." -- Bikram Jit Hasrat, in History of Nepal: as told by contemporary chronicles to the governor general to the court of directors.
Sagauli is a sleepy town in north Bihar some twenty miles south of the Nepal's border city of Birgunj, with a tiny cluster of shops and a railway station. There is little to commend it today, and the average traveler hastens through with scarcely a pause, unless a tired freight train shuffles across the highway crossing and halts the flow of traffic for what seems an interminable wait in the sun. It is hard for anyone to imagine that this town ever had any claim to historical pretensions, and the Nepali traveler may be excused if he, too, dismisses it without the slightest flicker of interest. But, tired, dusty and forlorn as Sagauli may appear today, it still had given its name to one of the great turning points in the history of Nepal.
It was at Sagauli in November 1815 that British and Nepali commissioners sat down to negotiate the end of the Nepal-East India Company war. In the process they produced the treaty of Sagauli, which put an end to Nepali expansion and, with minor adjustments, drew the boundaries of today's Nepal. It also left such an impression on the socio-economic life of Nepal that is impossible to understand much of what has followed in the history of Nepal without considering the influence of this treaty.
Observers today show little surprise at the fact that there was a war between Nepal and the British. Almost everyone else in the subcontinent did; why not Nepal? Unfortunately, they tend to see such a war as quixotic. To them it seems obvious that Nepal was hopelessly outmatched and the results predictable. But, as is so often the case in the history, hindsight has been severely limited by the course of subsequent events. The nineteenth century of the East India Company into the greatest power in the subcontinent obscures the fact so well known to every historian of the subcontinent, that there was a time when the East India Company's power was young and when, with a concerted effort, its growth could have been cut short.
The war between Nepal and the East India Company is difficult to bring into sharp focus. It has been given scant attention in the classical texts of Indian history largely because it did not bring Nepal within the administrative ambit of the government of India. British historians of India were for the most part concerned on the birth and development of the Indian national movement. The few historians who touched on the war treated it as a brief interlude in the history of India and have chosen to comment on it, if they commented at all, because of the light the war shed on the character of the Marques of Hastings, governor general of the East India Company at the time, rather than for its own merits.
More recent studies have made a serious effort to understand and explain the causes of the war as well as its significance in the development of Nepal-India relations. It is clear now that the war was not at all quixotic and that Gorkhali troops gave an excellent account of themselves before being forced to the negotiation table.True, they lost territory, but their prestige as fighting men was enhanced, and they preserved their heritage of independence.
This new appreciation of Nepal's role in the war has proved to be very soothing for the growing sense of Nepali nationalism, but it too has failed to discern and discuss a critical aspect of the war and the peace that followed. How, it must still be asked, did this war and the peace of Sagauli affect the quality of life in village Nepal?
The Nepal-East India Company war is now history, of course, and no amount of discussion will change the results. However, the war and the peace of Sagauli still have much to teach us about the Nepal we know today. While it is true that today's forces are marshaled not against the East India Company but against poverty, disease, and the entrenched conservation of rural Nepal, the mistake is to assume that there is no connection between the one and the other. We can fully understand the problems of today only when we know them in their origins, and this forces us to go back through the pages of history, to re-flight and re-live the war and all that it implied. Only then can the full trauma of the treaty of Sagauli be understood.
In the years prior to 1814, the defense of Nepal rested on three solid supports. The first of these was terrain itself. Not only were the Himalayan foothills, where most of the fighting was to take place, uniquely difficult, they were unknown to the British. British generals were ignorant of the trails through the terai forests as well as the passes through the Himalayan Foothills, and this introduced a note of deep uncertainty into their strategy. More important, the men of the line had no experience in mountain warfare of the type the Himalayas imposed. Secondly, there was the courage and tenacity of the Gorkhali soldier, whose spirit was nourished by a record of brilliant successes over a period of more than fifty years. And thirdly, there was the very real possibility that stout Gorkhali Defense would encourage the Marathas and Sikhs to throw their military resources into the fray against the British and broaden the theatre of war.
When efforts to negotiate the settlement of a border dispute between the government of Nepal and the East India Company failed in the summer of 1814, the governor general had issued Nepal a challenge that led to war, and Bhim Sen Thapa had accepted it. Both the British challenge and the Nepali acceptance grew out of two distinct sets of facts. The first set of facts the cause of the dispute. The second explains why war seemed to Nepalis to be an acceptable solution to the dispute.
The first set of facts was rooted in the nature of both the Gorkhali and the East India Company's conquests as well as in official ignorance on both sides of actual conditions in the terai. Neither the East India Company nor the Gorkhali had actually conquered territory in the course of their expansion. They had overthrown leaders and then assumed control of the deposed leaders' governments, and the lands dependent on these governments automatically became theirs. Neither Nepal nor the East India Company had records of their own to establish their title to the lands they claimed. Each was forced to rely on the records, such as they were, of the raja whose claim they inherited as a result of their conquests. They claimed what former rajas had claimed. But no one actually knew the validity of those claims nor the precise boundaries that should be set to them.
Along the southern Nepal border there were no clear titles. The extreme inaccuracy of the maps of the day, built up as they were from reports and hearsay, reflect the confusion that existed about the Terai in general. As far as political claims were concerned, the history of the area was most discouraging. During the pre-Gorkhali period in Nepal, hill rajas regularly raided into the plains as far as they could do so. In reply, the rajas of the plains detended as much of their northern territories as they were able to defend and then organize their territories politically within that line of defense. The limit of the hill rajas' raids and the plains rajas' defense varied according to a number of factors, which for all practical purposes created a twenty mile wide strip along the border whose ownership could easily be disputed. To make matters worse, this border area was infested with a very virulent form of malaria, known locally as aul fever, to which the local Tharu people alone seemed to have been immune. This effectively discouraged the residence of higher ranking government authorities, and left local matters very much in the hands of local people. Border disputes between Kathmandu and the East India Company could have arisen anywhere along the Terai border, but in fact they developed in two specific areas. In both of these areas, negotiations might have settled these disputes had the policies of either government favored a settlement.


Alex Rodriguez connected for his seventh and eighth homers of the year, and Ivan Nova pitched the Yankees to a 6-2 victory, ending the team's six-game losing streak.
A-Rod tied the game at 1 in the fourth with his seventh homer, and then broke that tie in the sixth for his second homer off Shields.
In Jorge Posada's first start since Friday, he singled and doubled in three at-bats. He *raised* his batting average to .179.
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\section{Introduction}

From the nucleon-nucleon interactions it is known that when
two partons undergo a scattering with large momentum transfer Q$^2$ in the early
stages of collision, the hard-scattered partons fragment into jets of hadrons
with high transverse momentum ($p_{T}>2$GeV/c)~\cite{pp}. When the hard scattered
partons will traverse the hot and dense nuclear matter created in a high energy
nucleus-nucleus collision, they lose energy through gluon bremsstrahlung with the energy
lost depending on the density of color charges in the matter through they pass~\cite{gy,w2}.
This effect is called jet quenching and the most directly measurable
consequence is the suppression of high transverse momentum hadrons in the final state.
Therefore any modification in the high $p_{T}$ spectrum is probing the high density medium created
in the collision.

All four experiments at RHIC have been reported that the high $p_{T}$ inclusive hadron yields
in central Au+Au collisions are largely suppressed as compared to p+p or peripheral Au+Au
collisions, scaled by the number of contributing binary (nucleon-nucleon)
collisions. In the midrapidity region such suppression was not seen in d+Au collisions at RHIC,
indicating that it is a final state effect associated with the hot and dense matter
produced in Au+Au collisions~\cite{phobos,phenix,star,brahms}.

The observed suppression cannot be explained by energy loss at the hadronic stage, but rather
by the existence of a high color field which leads to the depletion of high momentum particles.
The amount of energy loss is not so straightforward to deduce, because there could be
processes like modifications of the parton distribution functions and the scatterings of the incoming
partons prior to the hard scattering, which are termed as initial state effects.
In order to disentangle the initial from final state effects, the BRAHMS experiment
study different collision systems p+p, d+Au, Au+Au, Cu+Cu, at different energies.

In this paper we are presenting preliminary results from Au+Au at 200 GeV from the
high statistics run in 2004, and also d+Au data, in the context of the above
processes.

In order to measure the high $p_{T}$ hadron suppression in nucleus-nucleus collisions, the
comparison of the hadron $p_{T}$ spectra relative to reference data from nucleon-nucleon
collisions at the same collision energy is needed. The nuclear modification factor is
defined as:

\begin{equation}
R_{AA}(p_{T})=\frac{d^{2}N/dp_{T}d\eta}{T_{AA}d^{2}{\sigma^{NN}}/dp_{T}d\eta}
\end{equation}
where $T_{AA}=<N_{bin}>/{\sigma^{NN}_{inel}}$ accounts for the collision geometry,
averaged over the event centrality class. $<N_{bin}>$, the equivalent number of binary
NN collisions, is calculated using the Glauber model. $\sigma_{inel}$ and
$d^{2}{\sigma^{NN}}/dp_{T}d\eta$ are the cross section and differential cross section
for inelastic nucleon-nucleon (NN) collisions, respectively. In the absence of nuclear
medium effects such as shadowing, the Cronin effect or gluon saturation, hard processes
are expected to scale with $<N_{bin}>$ and $R_{AA}$=1. Any deviation from unity
indicate nuclear medium effects.

In order to remove the systematic errors introduced by the comparison of the measurements
of nucleus-nucleus and p+p collisions, we construct the ratio of central to peripheral
collisions, $R_{CP}$, defined as:

\begin{equation}
R_{CP}=\frac{1/<N_{bin}^{C}>}{1/<N_{bin}^{P}>}\frac{dN^{C}/dp_{T}d{\eta}}{dN^{P}/dp_{T}d{\eta}}
\end{equation}
where $dN^{C(P)}/dp_{T}d\eta$ are the differential yields in a central (peripheral)
collision, respectively. Nuclear medium effects are expected to be much stronger in central relative to
peripheral collisions, which makes $R_{CP}$ another measure of these effects. If the yield of the process
scales with the number of binary collisions, $R_{CP}$=1. \\

\section{Results}

The data presented here were collected with BRAHMS detector system~\cite{brahms-nim}. BRAHMS consists
of a set of global detectors for event characterization and two magnetic spectrometers,
the mid-rapidity spectrometer (MRS) and the forward spectrometer (FS), which identify
charged hadrons over a broad range of rapidity and transverse momentum. Collision centrality
is determined from the charged particle multiplicity measured by multiplicity detectors.
Since BRAHMS is a small solid angle device, the average spectrum is obtained by mapping out
the particle phase space by collecting data with many different spectrometer settings. BRAHMS
is the only experiment from RHIC to perform detailed measurements away from midrapidity.

\begin{figure}
\epsfxsize 16.5cm
\epsffile{Fig1.eps}
\caption{Top row: Nuclear modification factor for charged hadrons at $\eta=0, 1.0, 2.2, 3.2$. Systematic
errors are shown with shaded boxes with widths set by the bin sizes. The shaded band around unity indicates
the estimated error on the normalization to $<N_{bin}>$. Bottom row: Central (red circles) and semi-central
(blue circles) $R_{CP}$ ratios. Shaded bands indicate the uncertainty in the calculation of $<N_{bin}>$ in the
peripheral collisions (12\%). }
\end{figure}

In the absence of high density medium, that is of jet-quenching process, d+Au collisions
are used to study the modifications due to initial state effects.
Figure 1 shows the pseudorapidity dependence of $R_{dA}$ and $R_{CP}$ for d+Au collisions~\cite{rda}.
At midrapidity, $R_{dA}$ is showing a Cronin like enhancement with respect to binary scaling limit, for
transverse momenta greater than 2 GeV/c. This enhancement is thought to be due to the multiple
scattering of the parton traversing the nucleus prior to the high Q$^2$ scattering that produces the
observed high $p_T$ hadron.
At higher rapidities, the ratio becomes smaller than 1 indicating a suppression in d+Au collisions
compared to scaled p+p collisions at the same energy, which becomes stronger when going
to forward angles.
The bottom row shows the $R_{CP}$ factors as a function of pseudorapidity. At midrapidity
the central(0-20$\%$)-to-peripheral(60-80$\%$) ratio is larger than semicentral(30-50$\%$)-to-peripheral ratio
suggesting also an increased Cronin type multiple scattering effect in the more central collisions.
Conversely, at forward pseudorapidities the more central ratio is more suppressed, indicating a mechanism for
suppression dependent on the centrality of the collision.

\begin{floatingfigure}[r]{0.5\textwidth}
\begin{center}
\epsfig{file=Fig2.eps,width=9cm,bbllx=2,bburx=550,bbury=420}
\caption{Invariant spectra for charged hadrons produced in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$GeV at
$\eta=0$ (left panel) and $\eta\sim3.2$ (right panel).}
\end{center}
\end{floatingfigure}

It has been proposed that this suppression at forward rapidity is related to the initial
conditions of the colliding $d$ and Au nuclei, in particular to the possible formation of the Color
Glass Condensate (CGC) in the initial state at RHIC~\cite{cgc}.

For the Au+Au data which will be presented next, the midrapidity spectrometer was positioned
at 90 degrees relative to the beam axis, and measured charged hadrons at pseudorapidities in
the range $\eta < 0.1$. The forward spectrometer was placed at 8 and 4 degrees, for the
ranges in pseudorapidity [2.4, 2.8] and [3.0, 3.5] respectively. The global detectors were
used for the minimum bias trigger and event characterization. This trigger is selecting
approximately 95\% of the Au+Au interaction cross section. Spectrometer triggers are also
used to enhance the track sample. The IP position is determined with a precision $\sigma <0.85 cm$
by the use of beam counters (BB) placed at $z =\pm 2.2 m$.

Figure 2 shows the measured invariant spectra for inclusive charged hadrons $(h^{+}+h^{-})/2$ at
$90^{0}$ (left panel) and for negative hadrons ($h^{-}$) at $4^{o}$ (right panel), corresponding to
$\eta=0$ and $\eta\sim 3.2$. The displayed spectra are for centralities of 0-10\%, 10-20\%,
20-40\% and 40-60\%. The spectra are from measurements at various magnetic fields (high magnetic
field chosen in order to increase the statistics at high $p_{T}$) and have been corrected for the
acceptance of the spectrometers and for centrality dependent tracking efficiencies.
No corrections for feed-down, decay or absorption have been applied for the FS data.

All the charged hadron spectra exhibit the power law shape, where at forward angles
90\% of the particles are emitted in the region $p_{T} <2 GeV/c$.

Figure 3 shows the pseudorapidity dependence of the $R_{CP}$ ratio in Au+Au collisions,
at $\eta =0$, $\eta\sim 2.6$ and $\eta\sim 3.2$. The observed suppression is
similar at forward rapidities as compared to midrapidity. This result may indicate
that quenching extends in the longitudinal direction.

\section*{Summary}
BRAHMS has measured the rapidity dependence of nuclear modification factors
in d+Au and Au+Au collisions. Away from midrapidity we observe a suppression
of charged hadrons in d+Au collisions, suggesting the enhancement of the
initial state effects in these regions. In Au+Au collisions the suppression
persists over 3 units in pseudorapidity, indicating that the hot and dense
partonic matter could further extend to forward regions.

\section*{Acknowledgments}
This work was supported by the division of Nuclear Physics of the
Office of Science of the U.S. DOE, the Danish Natural Science
Research Council, the Research Council of Norway, the Polish State
Com. for Scientific Research and the Romanian Ministry of
Research.

\begin{figure}
\epsfxsize 16.5cm
\epsffile{Fig3.eps}
\caption{$R_{CP}$ ratio for charged hadrons in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=200GeV for pseudorapidities
$\eta=0, 2.6, 3.2$ as a function of transverse momentum $p_{T}$.}
\end{figure}

\section*{References}

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Q: Passing a value from a page to another in dash plotly I have two pages in dash plotly, and an index file who run the pages :

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*Index.py

*Page 1

*Page 2

I have a variable in page 1 which I want to pass it in page 2 and work with it. ( example of code)
Is it possible in Dash plotly ?
I saw somewhere that I can use Dcc.store, but how can I stock this variable in it ?
First_page = html.Div([
html.Div([dcc.Input(id='date_start', type='text', value='2021')]),
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])

@app.callback(
    Output('someoutput', 'children'),
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#Uploading a certain table
@app.callback(
    Output('datatable', 'data'),
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def function(somedata):
    #Get the VARIABLE
...
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    variable= 12 (result of the operation in funtion)

How can I get the  VARIABLE value (12) and inject it in page 2 please ?
Second_page = html.Div([
html.Div([dcc.Input(id='', type='text', value='')]),
...
...
])

@app.callback ()

def function_page2(somedata_page2):
    #Work with the VARIABLE in first page
...

Thank you .


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Solved Samsung Galaxy J7 Battery Drains Fast
The #Samsung #Galaxy #J7 is one of the mid range Android smartphones available in the market that has an excellent display. The phone sports a 5.5 inch Super AMOLED display making it an affordable phone to view various multimedia content while on the go. Under the hood you will find the Exynos 7870 octa core processor which when combined with its 3GB of RAM allows the device to run apps smoothly. Although this is a solid performing phone there are instances when certain issues can occur which we will be addressing today. In this latest installment of our troubleshooting series we will tackle the Galaxy J7 battery drains fast issue and other related problems.
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Problem: Hi my J7 has developed a battery issue, also I think the processor might of been fried. I downloaded a game called "baseball boy" you've probably heard of it. I was playing it for about 45 mins straight and my devices screen got hot and so did the back of my device. I'd say it was hotter if I was fast charging the phone. It's already been back to Samsung twice for the repair, as it's a contract phone with a 2 year warrant (are they obliged to give me a new phone if they can't fix the issue whatsoever?) I've already been back to my mobile network provider (Three) and they won't do anything 🙁 I've been told twice from 2 different people that Samsung should give me a new phone after the third attempt at repairing my device but Samsung have told me themselves that they don't give replacement phones. That's confusing as what am I supposed to do with a phone that's developing issues? Apps are getting slower to open and the battery lasts less than 24 hours. Any advice or help at this stage would be of great help. Thanks.
Solution: The best thing you can do right now is to check if this problem is caused by a software glitch. You will need to backup your phone data then do a factory reset. Once the reset is complete do not install any apps in your phone yet. Make sure that the phone is fully charged then try to check if the battery will still last for less than 24 hours. In case the issue still persists then it's likely that the phone will need a battery replacement. You should have the battery checked and replaced at a service center.
J7 Does Not Start After Drop
Problem: My Samsung galaxy J7 fell from me a few weeks ago, no cracks. I tried turning on the phone and it was a failure. The only thing I saw on it is a blue and green LED light at the top. When I plugged in the phone only the name of the phone comes up then few seconds after it's a black screen then it vibrates twice before the name comes up again.. That's the only thing that comes up on the phone, it's name.. I tried doing the recovery thing on it but the screen won't keep on so it goes away.. What do you think is happening? Do I need a new phone? Thanks in advance…..
Solution: It looks like the drop might have damaged a component inside the phone. To fix this try connecting the phone to its charger and let it charge for at least 20 minutes. Disconnect the phone from its charger then turn on the phone by pressing and holding both power and volume down buttons for at least 10 seconds. In case the phone still does not turn on then you will need to have this checked at a service center.
J7 Not Turning On After Failed Software Update
Problem: I bought a Samsung J7 from a person on Facebook marketplace. From what he told me, he updated the phone to the newest update last week. So, he told me that as he was doing update battery was low. By the time he gotten to phone few hours later, the phone would not turn back. I bought it figured it would be something simple I could do to fix it. But, I have done everything from hard restart to soft restart, I have done the 10 sec. Battery test. I have also let it charge overnight, but with my charger. It's not a original Samsung charger. So, that's pretty much all I know, so I took it to a repair center, all they done was plug it up. Didn't do anything , and just said it was no good nothing could be done.
Solution: It looks like the phone software has been corrupted due to the interrupted software update. The best thing that you can do right now is to first make sure that the battery of the phone has sufficient charge. Fully charge the phone using a wall charger. In case you don't see any charging indicator then proceed with the following steps.
Clean the charging port of the phone using a can of compressed air.
Use a different charging cord and wall charger to charge the phone.
Try charging the phone from a computer USB port.
Once the phone has charged check if you can turn on the phone by pressing and holding both power and volume down buttons for at least 10 seconds. If the phone still does not start then try accessing the recovery mode. From here you will need to wipe the cache partition of the phone then follow this up with a factory reset. Take note that this will erase your phone data.
If the above steps fail then you should consider flashing the phone with its updated firmware file using Odin. you can get the firmware file as well as the instructions on how to flash your phone from the Sammobile website.
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I live a few miles from the stadium and this story has been on the local news.The title of this thread is not accurate, and our local news - to my surprise - was at least responsible enough to say "this does NOT mean the Angels are leaving the stadium".
I raced the Clydesdale class and got 3rd first Moto, it's for racers 220lb and over. No age or skill restrictions. They had cool trophies, damn I wanted one but couldn't stay until 5-6PM on Sunday for the 3rd Moto.
Clicked on link. Ended up watching this suggested video instead.
heard he passed but the source may have got info from a fake news site. Not sure whats up.
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Amazonia: An International Socio-environmental Crisis
HomeDeGrowthAmazonia: An International Socio-environmental Crisis
September 18, 2019 September 18, 2019 By Nathalia Urban
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The whole world stopped to watch and mourn the reports on the Amazon fires, which were immediately mistaken for forest fires due to global warming, but were actually man-made. After the true origin of the fires came to light, many blamed the Bolsonaro government's inability for the situation, as, since taking office in January, the retired militarian has defended the expansion of agribusiness in the Amazon, even at the expense of indigenous peoples' rights. Further perpetuating Brazil's eternal image as a colony of exploration no matter the cost to indigenous peoples lives and the environment, international capital was exempted from the situation.
The Amazon has been explored and destroyed for a long time, and much of that destruction has been done for the enrichment of corporations in the northern hemisphere.
In August 2019, according to data from the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Amazon fires burned 29,944 km² of the biome, which is the equivalent of 4.2 million football fields. The burned territory is more than four times larger than in August 2018, when 6,048 km² were burned. Altogether, the Amazon has 5.5 million km², of which 4.19 million km² are located in Brazilian territory. Behind the clearing of the forest and fire are powerful economic interests: cattle ranching, illegal timber trade and soy production. Some of these products are ultimately destined for the European Union (EU).
After China, the EU is Brazil's second largest trading partner, accounting for 18.3% of its trade. Most imports from the EU are primary products; Brazil exports more agricultural commodities to the EU than any other buyer. In 2018, 41% of EU beef imports came from Brazil. As the EU negotiates with Mercosur members – including Brazil – to remove trade barriers through a free trade agreement with these countries, large Brazilian agribusiness companies exporting to the EU could also benefit from new opportunities with the bloc. The EU therefore, plays a key role in ensuring that its trade policies safeguard the Amazon and the rights of its inhabitants. Additionally, the EU has repeatedly stressed the importance of addressing Brazil's socio-environmental crisis, requiring European negotiators to emphasise these issues under a new agreement.
French President Emmanuel Macron called the fires an "international crisis," a statement that was interpreted by Bolsonaro as a "personal affront" and understood to be a threat about buying Brazilian products, whilst also causing fear among companies in both blocs. At no time was the agreement between Mercosur and the EU put in check. The international market's relationship with the fires is not simple; Europe has purchased products that have been leaving illegally deforested areas for decades.
Multinational cooperation attempts to minimise the ecocide have already been made. In response to the climate crisis in 2007, the creation of the Amazon Fund was announced during COP-13 (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change). The fund was established the following year under Lula's administration and the program emerged as a pioneer initiative to raise funds from the countries of the Northern Hemisphere to maintain the largest rainforest in the world, thus helping to combat climate change. The Amazon Fund has already become the main Brazilian instrument for funding environmental protection actions, monitoring and combating deforestation, as well as promoting the conservation and sustainable use of the Amazon biome. Its resources currently support 103 projects by state governments and civil society to protect the forest, including the Amazon Protected Areas program.
The implementation of the Amazon Fund was prepared by the Ministry of Environment and is administered by the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES). Since the start of its operation, Norway has been by far the largest donor (94%), followed by Germany (5%) and Petrobras (1%).
The Amazon Fund is at risk of extinction due to disagreements between donor nations and the current Brazilian government over two main points: resource allocation and governance. This was exemplified when Minister of Environment, Ricardo Salles announced his intention to compensate landowners – from the Amazon Fund – who were expropriated for being located within protected areas as required by the Forest Code.
Norway and Germany are opposed to changing the rules of the Amazon Fund, which currently does not allow the use of money to pay expropriation compensation. Environmentalists fear that the use of resources for land tenure regularisation in the Amazon, would benefit those who invaded the protected areas of the forest and generate even more deforestation.
Even though Norway was the largest donor to the Amazon Fund, the country is far from respecting of the environment in Brazil. The Norwegian government is the main shareholder of mining company, Norsk Hydro, which is the subject of complaints in the Pará Federal Prosecutor's Office (MPF). Of all lawsuits, 3% are against the Norwegian government, charged of contaminating rivers and communities with heavy metals in the municipality of Barcarena, 40 kilometers from Belem. The region is one of the most polluted in the Amazon rainforest due to unbridled industrial growth.
Indigenous, Quilombolas and other traditional populations who have the right to use their legally protected ancestral lands continue to fight bravely against the attacks. Jair Bolsonaro's neo-colonialist mindset, coupled with the nefarious interests of multinational corporations considers the mere existence of the indigenous as an act of defiance against the establishment. On August 13th, around 2,000 women from 110 different indigenous ethnicities of Brazil gathered in the capital, Brasilia, for the 1st March of Indigenous Women. United around the theme "Territory: our body, our spirit", they've marched against Bolsonaro's government and in defense of the demarcation of indigenous lands, which though recognised by the constitution, has been questioned and challenged by the new government. The march of indigenous women was organised by Articulation of Indigenous People of Brazil (Apib), a national association of entities representing indigenous people. The same association in partnership with the Amazon Watch, produced a report called Complicity in Destruction.
The report identifies and examines the business transactions of Brazilian companies behind the 2017-2019 increase in illegal deforestation and tracks their links to European, US and Canadian companies. The results provide information on the role of foreign economic agents in driving agroindustrial expansion in tropical forests. The Complicity in Destruction report is set against the backdrop of a growing trend of land invasions in Brazil, with indigenous peoples and other rural communities reporting a dramatic increase in conflicts arising from efforts to expand plantations and cattle ranches on their lands.
Complicity in Destruction analysed fines issued by the Brazilian Institute Of The Environment And Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) since 2017 for illegal deforestation committed by 56 Brazilian companies that have been linked to European and North American companies cited.
Additionally, the report identified 27 commodity importers and traders doing business with Brazilian companies. It also unveiled a series of financial connections between dozens of top-tier international financial institutions and Brazil's leading refrigerator companies and major global commodity traders who distribute soy to global markets.
In short, Complicity in Destruction reveals the significant role of individual foreign actors, whether they are commodity buyers or financial institutions financing the activities that are fueling deforestation in Brazil, and the genocide of indigenous peoples.
The Brazilian government should not be exempted from blame, after all this was orchestrated by them. However, we should be careful not to fall into traps which reproduce colonialist discourses and which question the sovereignty of the Amazon, as proposed by some countries. We should also be aware of the people who profit the most of this crime, are the people who are far away from Brazil.
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One of you lot will know about this
The mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, has said Manchester should have an underground railway, as the cost of the delayed Crossrail project in London swelled to £17.6bn.
Burnham proposed a "Crossrail for Manchester-type scenario" where new railway lines would be built under central Manchester to help people get across the increasingly gridlocked city.
There is presumably some metric by which we can decide whether to tunnel or not. Whether to have a Tube or not.
What are they an does Manchester pass?
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28 comments on "One of you lot will know about this"
Bloke in Wales says:
He's obviously getting jealous that some other public sector parasite is getting to waste £17.6bn of other peoples' money, and wants to get in on the action.
Tractor Gent says:
He's got some weird plan for transport there in the next decades. The pic looks like a target with radial & circumferential lines. Perhaps he's going to move Rochdale, Oldham, Bury etc so they fit neatly on his target. As for tunnelling, I think Manchester is probably a lot of alluvium. Good luck with tunnelling that.
No, there's no set formula. It's always and everywhere a matter of (1) politics and (2) whether can they afford it. Newcastle has a metro, Birmingham doesn't – go figure. In France, every village and hamlet has a shiny new tram network, despite no visible need.
Looking round the Crossrail site it talks about a funding envelope of £17.6Bn, but I saw something in a DuckDuckGo search that said it might need another £2.6Bn. So call it £20Bn for ease. It also looks like that includes Opex until it goes cash positive, so it isn't just Capex.
Also on the Crossrail website the length appears to be 42km.
So, to a 1st order fag packet approximation, you could start at £500m per km, but that will be driven by how many stations are needed and also fixed costs, such as cost of tunnelling machines, which decreases in per km terms the longer the tunnels.
Mark T says:
The first thing any new transportation system needs – or more accurately doesn't need – is a unionised labour force that demands 50k + a year to simply open and close the doors. I would suggest several hundred electric autonomous driving buses with a nominal fixed fare payable by electronic card and running 24/7 with some basic software to manage intervals between buses and peak and off peak services. Use existing bus lanes and effectively create a tram system without a tramway. Even allowing for the usual padding by the public sector and the inevitable squandering of money on the ubiquitous 'consultants' it could easily be done for a couple of hundred million and you never know, the low fuel cost, almost zero labour cost and lack of pollution might actually benefit the general public (as opposed to the bus companies, a heavily unionised labour force and the usual suspects of associated public 'servants' and crony capitalists.)
You could have a cheap 'cut and shut' one like the Circle/Metropolitan/District lines, but there's a fair bit of disruption as you dig entire roads up (and the utilities pipes/cables below). Deep lines are unbelievably expensive.
Perhaps some sort of levy on the fat cat organisations in Manchester? A billion on the BBC, for example? Only fair.
Hills plays a big part. London is flat. Hong Kong's MTR skirts the coast. Newcastle is a light rail system and mostly reuses former surface heavy rail lines.
Also, it's usually either light rail or underground rail. Manchester already has light rail, that tips the cost/benefit balance away from adding on another system. Croydon wasn't served by the Tube, so they had an open choice between underground and light rail and went with light rail being more cost effective than trying to extend to the underground network.
And I think that "a" "cross-rail"-type system would be useless. To do underground railways you need a network, not a line from one side of the city to the other.
A quick Google shows Greater Manchester already has oodles of surface rail, any improvements should be some non-radial links. Eg, improve the Trub Chords and that would link the Rochdale end of the Metro to the Bury end of the Metro. If you can then link to Bolton that gets you to Wigan and Eccles.
MyBurningEars says:
@jgh
Ignorance speaking here maybe but what's a "Trub Chord"?
They need a Tesla battery.
If you wanna be hip. All the cool kids have Tesla batteries.
Tax payers should be for it as it will cost a lot less than Crossrail. Burnham should love it because it will be immediate.
Oh, wait. Long construction period is a benefit, as people won't realize what a turd you are until you are out of office.
I hope he doesn't read this, as he'll want to do BOTH!
Fred Z says:
As the Instapundit often writes, the metric is whether the project has sufficient opportunities for graft.
If so, it will proceed, if not, then not.
It's not fair: Glasgow has an underground and Manchester doesn't. Boo bloody hoo.
The Edinburgh tram fiasco amused me: the city had old railway lines it could have used for commuter traffic, and a mainline that could had a spur built to serve the airport. Instead it opted for the vanity tramway from the airport to the city centre. There should have been jail time for that.
Locally we have been treated to a guided busway that (I assume) is a financial calamity, but I'm open to persuasion if someone knows better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridgeshire_Guided_Busway
@dearieme
Is it true that the tram is actually slower (town to airport) than the bus?
As mentioned above the type of tunnel is a big factor, 'cut and shut' where you dig down then just put a roof on vs underground boring.
Boring is much more expensive and slower, but then cut and shut is incredibly disruptive.
Vancouver used a combination when building the line to the airport, you can see where tunnel goes from round to square. There were a number of lawsuits from business owners following construction for the cut and shut claiming the disruption was excessive, took about 10 years to resolve I think.
@MBE: I don't know but it wouldn't surprise me.
Last I saw they were discussing extending the line, which I assume means building the originally planned leg down to Leith docks. Jail time!
@MyBurningEars July 20, 2019 at 4:31 pm
Yes. Slower, higher fare and dumps passenger much further from airport doors than bus
@dearieme July 20, 2019 at 5:03 pm
Extending? Yep and insane; but you know public sector motto – when in a hole, keep digging8
Bongo says:
@MBE – I can confirm the bus is quicker than the tram, having made the journey from Waverley last year.
If you are tight, or hard up, and prepared to walk 1k from Ingliston P&R, then the tram at £1.70 is cheaper by far.
Andrew M – Birmingham metro is quite nice. Been around for 20 years or so. Have used it a few times when travelling that way.
Instead it opted for the vanity tramway from the airport to the city centre. There should have been jail time for that.
Completed just in time for SNP loonies to turn Scotland into a zero carbon wasteland by shutting down air travel!
London (north of the river) has lots of underground rail lines because the London clay is perfect for tunnelling. Sarf of the river (Wot! At this time of night?) the geology changes so the rail lines are mostly on the surface.
I'm sure Excavator Man or some other luminary can put me right on this layperson's understanding.
djc says:
South of the river was originally low lying marsh, not good for tunnelling. Also the first Undergound line (Metropolitan/Circle) ran around the edge of the city so the cut and cover method was not too disruptive. So apart from geology what matters is how valuable the land is above the route.
formertory says:
Manchester should have a Crossrail / Tube solution if it wants it. The first, wholly binary, decision point is whether all those people who – if it is built – will see their houses / shops / premises increase hugely in value (vide London Crossrail) are prepared to pay for it. Buggered if I can see why I should subsidise their (largely) tax free windfall profits.
John Cowan says:
formertory: If that's true (and it probably is) then a venture capitalist (or consortium, more likely) should be willing to front the money for the system, to be repaid from a windfall-profits tax.
John Cowan: absolutely. Lots of ways of cutting that particular cake.
Bloke on M4 says:
it's incomparable. London had the underground dug well before the snowflake era, when no-one cared if you destroyed some wildlife, archaeology or an old building. Or that much about personal safety. Brunel built the GWR at a similar rate to HS2. By hand.
Andrew S. Mooney says:
One reason why an underground line in the city centre will never happen is this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian_telephone_exchange
The exchange is basically a massive cold war bunker used to help maintain telecommunications with the United States in the event of a nuclear war. It's still technically in use as BT use it for cabling.
The reason lies not in it's size which is awkward enough, but in the geology itself, in that the GUTE was excavated into the coal measures that are under Manchester at that depth, and so it is constantly filling up with ground water that needs to be drained via pumps. – Imagine a complex of new-build rail tunnels that are even larger than the exchange and the whole idea just seems daft for that reason alone.
Further, all of the jerry built office blocks and residential towers that are being slung up around the Deansgate area with dodgy Asian money mean that that part of the city is completely off limits to tunneling as well, because of their pilings and foundations.
From there, then you've got the listed stuff like the Corn Exchange, the Midland Hotel and the central library, then there is also the complete buried canal spur running under the Great Northern Warehouse by the exhibition centre, as well as tat like the national football museum and the Cathedral.
Finally, you've got the lefties whining about the loss of anything related to the Peterloo massacre ("The People's History Museum"), and all the BBC and media production people who all wish they could move back to London. They hate the place as it is, and would hate it even more if the public transit system worked.
@Andrew S. Mooney
Thanks. Led me to: Interesting vids on GUTE
https://www.youtube.com/user/hogshawrabbits/videos
Apols in advance, this is going to be a long post…
(1) costs
Ballpark figures: a single track km in tunnel is about £100-150m. This doesn't include signalling, power or stations. A train carriage is £1-2m.
While London clay was a benefit to the men manually digging the London underground 150 years ago, modern tunnelling gear can handle anything, but unexpected changes in what's being tunnelled through is the main cause of time and cost overruns. Solid rock is actually pretty cheap to tunnel through because there aren't the subsidence issues to worry about.
What's expensive are underground stations, land take in expensive areas and doing stuff that hasn't been done before — in Crossrail's case, integrating 3 particular different types of signalling is one of those things that just hasn't been done before and is proving slow and expensive; the other major cost/time over-run is Bond St station which is a large underground station in an expensive location; other stations have seen less extensive/expensive over-runs.
(2) why Crossrail in London
Paddington and Liverpool St stations were full. Paddington has 13 platforms and Liverpool St 18 (reduced from 14 and 19 respectively by the need to fit maximum-length trains in all platforms). The tracks leading to/from the stations can carry 48 trains per hour each way. Given long-distance services need about 15 minutes to turn round and shorter-distance ones 5-10 minutes, the size of the stations is a limiting factor and it's just not feasible to expand them. On lines that don't terminate, 30 trains per hour is feasible, so an extra two "through" platforms solves that particular problem.
Paddington is also badly positioned; more-or-less everybody arriving there wants to continue further East, and the tube is at capacity. A high-capacity full-size railway fixes that, too. Branching off to serve Canary Wharf also relieves the overcrowded Jubilee line.
(3) Manchester?
There are already a number of "proper" railways that cross Manchester. Victoria and Piccadilly stations are busy, but hardly at capacity; the through lines that already exist are not being used to their full capacity at the moment. Metrolink which — like the Croydon tram — uses abandoned railway formations outside the central area is pretty good, it gets busy but not mental; its limit is the on-street section through central Manchester: putting some of that underground would allow more, longer trams and shorter journey times (sharp corners are slow) but from what I can see that isn't what's being proposed.
Pcar on Nick Griffin was correct then


France has a problem with simmering anger in the suburbs by African and Arab immigrants. Many immigrants are complaining about unemployment and poor housing along with being discriminated against. This is according to CTV.
Let me ask you a question. Why is it the government's fault that unemployment is so high? It appears to me that the socialized and highly regulated French system is to blame. Also it is not the government's responsibility to ensure that everyone is employed.
Maybe the French should rethink the burdens they place on their economy. In 1996 the French government began to offer incentives to companies to reduce the work week to 35 hours from 39.
While looking out for the worker the French government has neglected smart business practices. Also according to the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) "hourly workers now have less control over when they can take vacations than their white-collar counterparts." And worse yet many workers complain that they have to work much harder now than they did.
In a book by Timothy B. Smith call France in Crisis he claims that among the rich Western European and North American nations France has had the poorest record of job creation and most drastic increase in unemployment during the last quarter of the twentieth century.
It is speculated that one of the reasons for the poor economy is the dramatic increase in social spending. Government spending in France went from 46% of the GDP in 1980 to over 54% in 1998. Even with all the spending poverty increased and income equality remained high.
The unemployment rate reached 12.6% in 1995. Worse yet the youth unemployment rate reached 30%. These are the official numbers according to Smith. According to Smith the French system is not necessarily a socialist "state" as it was in 1980, but has now become a welfare state.
Whatever you want to call the French system it is pretty obvious it is not working. Hopefully Americans watch the news casts with an understanding of their history. If so the conclusion should be that excessive regulation and collectivism does not work.


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Andrew Scheer still holds his U.S. citizenship, after stating during the 2019 federal election campaign that he was in the process of renouncing it. Read more here: ctv.news/MaaB9KE #Scheer #citizenship #dualcitizenship #cdnpoli
"Knowing that I won't be prime minister, I discontinued that process," Andrew Scheer revealed about his dual citizenship, as he rides out being lame-duck Conservative leader until a successor is chosen. Meanwhile, any chance of previous interim leader Rona Ambrose returning to politics was doused by her joining the board of Juul.
Moistly against cheesecake
Steven Del Duca @StevenDelDuca
When you're baking or cooking it's important to measure what matters. #onpoli
Ontario Liberal leader Steven Del Duca made a parody attack ad to accuse Doug Ford of shooting a cherry cheesecake recipe video (filmed at his late mother's house) as a distraction from dealing with COVID-19 deaths in long-term care facilities. The province then announced an independent commission towards improving that system.
Snowbirds captain Jennifer Casey honoured with a flyover. "Operation Backup Inspiration" launched from B.C.'s Lower Mainland, with rules that included no formation flying. It was a tribute to the Canadian Forces public affairs officer, who died after one of the 60-year-old jets on the Snowbirds tour crashed in Kamloops.
The grandmother of the future
Elon Musk tweeting "Take the red pill," to the approval of Ivanka Trump, was a lot for the journalist mother of Grimes to take in: Sandy Garossino elicited some sympathy from Gerald Butts over Musk's antics since the birth of X Æ A-12. She then deleted her critical tweets, tried to explain that she actually likes the guy, then deleted that, too:
The Cut @TheCut
"If your partner went through a challenging pregnancy and childbirth in the last two weeks, and you were over 16 years old, would you be blaring MRA bullshit on Twitter right now?" she tweeted Seems Like Grimes's Mom Really Doesn't Like Elon MuskA hostile tweet suggests she is not a fan.thecut.io
Incel ideology was allegedly behind a murder at a Toronto massage parlour. Police provided evidence that changed the charges against a 17-year-old suspect, accused in a deadly stabbing on February 24, to "murder—terrorist activity." The classification appears to be the first of its kind related to involuntary celibate views.
Finally, wringing out the mask
Atticus, the mysterious Instagram poet who only identifies his origins as somewhere in Western Canada, has been riding the zeitgeist by selling masks like his own. His legacy is considered in a London Review of Books piece on "Instapoetry." Clare Bucknell notes he "writes about women in a way that makes you suspect he's never met any."
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Hamsters are small rodents who are part of the subfamily Cricetinae in scientific classification.
There are about two dozen hamster species, but only five of them are kept as family pets.
The most popular hamster kept in captivity as a pet is the Syrian or Golden hamster (Mesocricetus auratus).
Depending on the species, hamsters vary in size.
The European hamster is the largest hamster species and can grow to be 34 cms (13.4 inches) in length.
As the name suggests, the smallest hamster species is the dwarf hamster which tops out at 9-10 cms (3.5 -4 inches).
There are many animal superstitions, but hamsters don't seem to be involved in such beliefs.
But there was a huge demand for hamsters in China during the Year of the Rat.
Hamsters have stocky little bodies with short stubby legs and small ears.
Most hamsters have tails that are so small they can be hard to see.
The Chinese hamster is the only hamster with long tail relative to its body size.
Hamsters have large cheek pouches where they can store large amounts of food.
When their cheek pouches are full, it can make a hamster's head double in size.
While it looks comical, filling their cheeks with food is a hamster survival technique.
Hamsters use their cheek pouches to transport food to their burrows to store and eat later.
Hamsters are proficient at digging and will make elaborate burrows.
Hamsters can make burrows that are over a half-metre deep with more than one entrance.
Hamster burrows may also have more than one room, with sections reserved for things like storing food or nesting.
Wild hamsters will use their underground burrows to hide from predators during the day.
Those rumours you heard about hamster mothers sometimes killing and eating their young are true.
There are several reasons that could prompt a hamster mom to kill and eat her babies.
The stress and fear in raising babies, especially with a new hamster mom, may prompt a hamster to kill and eat her pups.
If humans handle hamster pups too much, they could leave their scent on the babies, confusing the mother.
If a hamster mom can't relate to her pups by their scent, she may reject them and then kill them.
A hamster mom may kill and eat her pups if she thinks there aren't enough food and water resources available for them.
Depending on the hamster species, they can live an average of between 2 – 3 years in captivity.
This is the second time we have featured hamsters as our Animal of the Month. Check out our blog post from December 2014 to see our tweets about hamsters the first time!


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On March 22, 2011, in a long-awaited decision, the Southern District of New York ruled against Google's amended settlement agreement with the Author's Guild and other publishers. This case, which began back in 2004 when Google had partnered with major university libraries in a plan to scan their library collections and make them available on the Internet, has raised a litany of issues relevant to the copyright community and will probably require Congressional action.
Shortly after it was formed in 1998, Google laid the groundwork to scan the world's approximately 150 million books and make them accessible to users of Google's internet-search engine. In its first five years, Google focused its efforts on its search engine and on growing the company. By 2004, however, Google announced that it was collaborating with several libraries, including world-renowned research institutions like those at Michigan, Harvard, and Stanford, to scan and digitize books and other literary works in their collections. Google intended that once scanned, these books and literary works would be indexed electronically in the familiar Google interface, thereby allowing users of Google to easily search by title and other bibliographic information. Users would also be able to preview these works by viewing "snippets," i.e. several lines of copyrighted text.
By the end of 2004, Google announced that it had completed around 10% of its efforts at digitizing the world's library. Threatened by these efforts, the publishing industry worked to stymie Google's progress. With both authors and book publishers growing increasingly concerned by Google's actions, the Association of American Publishers ("AAP") and the Author's Guild combined efforts and mounted a class action lawsuit, suing Google for fairly straightforward copyright infringement in 2005. Specifically, the lawsuit alleged willful copyright infringement in connection with Google's systematic reproduction, without permission, of millions of copyrighted books.
After years of negotiating, it appeared that the parties had finally reached a compromise in 2008. As required in class action suits, they submitted their proposed agreement to the Southern District of New York (the "Settlement Agreement"). The Settlement Agreement, which was preliminarily approved by Judge Sprizzo on November 17, 2008, called for Google to pay approximately $125 Million to publishing companies and to authors. However, the largest red flag seemed to be the scope of the proposed Settlement Agreement, as it applied to thousands of authors and millions of books and included all literary works published here in the United States and registered with the United States Copyright Office and those published anywhere before January 5, 2009. Notably, to be excluded from the Settlement Agreement, authors and copyright owners had to "opt-out" on a title-by-title basis by May 2009. It quickly became clear that the proposed Settlement Agreement went far beyond the alleged acts of infringement in the initial suit and essentially created a new business model for Google and created a roadmap for Google Books.
After public outcry, the "opt-out" date was reset to September 8, 2009 and the court hearing—i.e. a "fairness hearing," which is required for a class action settlement—was scheduled for October 7, 2009. On October 7, 2009, Judge Chin, who had become a judge on the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and was sitting by designation as a judge in the Southern District of New York, postponed the fairness hearing and set a new date for the submission of a revised settlement agreement. New notices describing the revised agreement were published, and new time frames were announced for opting–out, filing objections, and for the date of the fairness hearing.
The fairness hearing was eventually held on February 18, 2010. By this time it was clear that what was originally lodged as a relatively straightforward copyright claim by authors and publishers against Google, had evolved into a complicated settlement agreement between parties who were once adverse, delineating a "roadmap" for a new digital book business, with Google clearly in the driver's seat (the "Amended Settlement Agreement").
Ultimately, the question presented to the Court most recently in the fairness hearing was whether the terms set forth in the Amended Settlement Agreement were "fair, adequate, and reasonable." More than thirteen months after presiding over the fairness hearing, Judge Chin decided that they were not, rejecting the Amended Settlement Agreement on both copyright and antitrust grounds.
In an almost 50-page opinion, Judge Chin focused primarily on the appropriateness of the scope of the relief to be granted by the terms set forth in the Amended Settlement Agreement. Judge Chin said the lawsuit was about the scanning of books and display of snippets, while the Amended Settlement Agreement would implement "a forward-looking business arrangement that would grant Google significant rights to exploit entire books, without permission of the copyright owners."
While Judge Chin acknowledged that "the digitization of books and the creation of a universal digital library would benefit many," he also concluded that "the Amended Settlement Agreement would simply go too far." He reasoned that "Amended Settlement Agreement would permit this class action — which was brought against Google to challenge its scanning of books and display of "snippets" for on-line searching—to implement a forward-looking business arrangement that would grant Google significant rights to exploit entire books, without permission of the copyright owners. Indeed, Judge Chin intonated that the Amended Settlement Agreement would give Google a significant advantage over competitors, rewarding it for "engaging in wholesale copying of copyrighted works without permission, while releasing claims well beyond those presented in the case."
The parties to the Amended Settlement Agreement, who have been negotiating for over five years, are clearly disappointed by the outcome, as the ruling essentially calls for both sides to return to the table to negotiate yet another iteration of a settlement agreement. On a more fundamental level, the decision is disappointing to Google and other proponents of the Amended Settlement Agreement who believe that the Agreement had the potential to open access to millions of books that are hard to find or otherwise unavailable.
What seemed to trouble Judge Chin and which seemed to be at the root of the "fairness" prong of his analysis was that there were also a number of interested parties who had a stake in the outcome of the decision but who were not privy to the negotiations. These opponents of the Amended Settlement Agreement —who include authors, publishers, competitors, and various individuals—are pleased by the decision and welcome the chance for more discourse and for the parties to revisit negotiations. Notably, Amazon and Microsoft objected to the Amended Settlement Agreement on the grounds that it would violate copyright law. The Department of Justice also objected to the Amended Settlement Agreement on the grounds that it would go beyond the scope of the current copyright law. Although none of these entities were part of the underlying suit, Judge Chin seemed to heed their objections, as his decision addressed the scope of the agreement, the spirit of copyright law, and the apparent monopoly that the Amended Settlement Agreement would create for Google.
While the Amended Settlement Agreement had an opt-out provision, there were several concerns that seemed to underscore Judge Chin's decision to overturn the Amended Settlement Agreement. First, he said, "many authors of unclaimed works undoubtedly share similar concerns." Second, he explained that "it is incongruous with the purpose of the copyright laws to place the onus on copyright owners to come forward to protect their rights when Google copied their works without first seeking their permission." Finally, he said "there are likely to be many authors—including those whose works will not be scanned by Google until some years in the future—who will simply not know to come forward." In simplest terms, Judge Chin found the Amended Settlement Agreement unfair.
While noting that "the privacy concerns are real" for those who were parties to the suit and those tangentially affected, Judge Chin decided that privacy concerns alone were not a basis to reject the proposed settlement. Instead, Judge Chin seemed particularly troubled by Google's methodology and brazenness. By the time of the fairness hearing, it was estimated that Google had scanned more than 12 million books. Judge Chin characterized Google's practice as "wholesale, blatant copying, without first obtaining copyright permissions," which he said seemed to undermine "the earnest efforts" of Google's competitors. In fact, Judge Chin stated that "while its competitors went through the 'painstaking' and 'costly' process of obtaining permissions before scanning copyrighted books, Google by comparison, took a shortcut by copying anything and everything regardless of copyright status," again emphasizing the fairness prong of his inquiry.
Judge Chin's decision makes it clear that he believes that Google alone should not have control over the book search market. Judge Chin clearly recognized that the proposal he rejected "would further entrench Google's market power in the online search market." In fact, Judge Chin ended his opinion urging Google to take a more cautious approach, stating that "certain additional privacy protections could be incorporated, while still accommodating Google's marketing efforts." Conversely, if Judge Chin would have upheld the Amended Settlement Agreement, the effect would have been akin to rewriting copyright law for Google and Google only.
While everyone seems to agree that a digital library would be a welcome public benefit, the Amended Settlement Agreement was ultimately rejected because Google would end up at the epicenter of this "public benefit" and this seemed unfair, inadequate, and unreasonable to other interested stakeholders by Judge Chin's account.
The decision, however, may not be as bleak for Google as it seems at first blush. For example, it seems that many of Judge Chin's objections could be mitigated if the proposed Google Books program was made an "opt-in" program rather than an "opt-out" agreement. But this solution only scratches the surface of what clearly is a much larger policy debate.
Although the decision did not address the more complicated issues at the center of the initial lawsuits, namely, whether Google's digitization of books constitutes copyright infringement, the suit prompts us to think about the complexity of issues facing digitization efforts. The decision—and the underlying debate—underscores the fact that our copyright law is struggling to keep pace with the digital transition and that some legislative change in the copyright arena is necessary.
While the decision on the Amended Settlement Agreement certainly garnered a fair amount of press and has been seen as a call to action for Congress, the decision has had little impact for Google users to date. There are currently over two million books already in the public domain which presently can be viewed free on the Google Books site. Notably, to date at least 15 million books have been scanned by Google. While Google's search engine is free to users, Google collects substantial revenue from the advertising that appears on its web pages, including those on which images of, and information from, copyrighted books appear. The Google Books site also allows users to shop at the Google eBookstore which features over three million eBooks available for purchase. As a result of existing agreements between Google and various different publishers, users are already able to view extensive previews of these books. If the Amended Settlement Agreement would have been approved, users would have been able to see longer previews and potentially buy those books, but little else would have changed. As for the participating libraries, they continue to work with Google, sending thousands of books a week.
The question now is whether Google will budge? Without some legislative change first, it is unlikely. That's why, after years of negotiations, in light of the outcome, Google will probably attempt to get Congress involved to modernize some of the copyright laws. The sine qua non is that the decision beckons Congress to intervene and to address the deficiencies in the current copyright law and allow for the mass digitization of copyright works, whether under Orphan Works legislation or otherwise.
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Hammer Award: ADA Chris Scruggs
Daniel Connolly of The Commercial Appeal has recently outed Mike Cross, former Collierville and Shelby prosecutor, and Judge Jim Lammey for racism on social media.
We commend Mr Connolly's enterprise and, seeing that we have our own research on prosecutorial and other criminal justice misconduct, we decided to follow his lead.
Our criterion for membership of our rogue's gallery is something an ADA Hammer like Chris Scruggs would appreciate. Three strikes and you're in for good. When we document three perversions of justice, you get our Hammer Award.
Shelby Co. District Attorney's office has a hammer award, given to prosecutors who break the rules to get convictions. This is our Hammer Award.
ADA Chris Scruggs
The first recipient of our Hammer Award is Chris Scruggs. He's a long time prosecutor and has headed up the West Tennessee Drug Task Force, an inter-agency unit, which works with the Multi Agency Gang Unit and its Organized Crime Unit.
Drug prosecutions are especially problematic, as a large part of mass incarceration. There are perverse incentives including civil forfeiture, which engenders corruption, and the imposition of minimum sentencing laws has made this area especially problematic.
Chris Scruggs taken to Federal Court
Celitria Watson (L) and April Malone
We first encountered Chris Scruggs in the Federal case taken by April Malone and Celitria Watson against three DAs and three MPD police officers. In this case, Ms Watson had an automated cloud back-up app running on her phone, She was able to prove that the version of a wiretap log of her text messages had been altered by the prosecution and police to add incriminating statements. In addition, a bogus bank Suspicious Activity Report was used to obtain the wiretap warrant. The prosecution team was aware of the fabricated evidence.
Ms Malone and Ms. Watson were able to prove their innocence and their cases were severed and dismissed, but Kendrick Watson, Celitria's brother and April's significant other, was given and additional nine years on his sentence using the same fabricated evidence. April's mother, Patricia Malone, took a misdemeanor plea for time served.
Chris Scruggs and Planted Weed
Our piece on Thorne Peters' bust at Imbiblio's night club describes how Chris Scruggs had to recuse himself from a second trial of Peters and others because of his misconduct in the first case.
In the initial December 2008 raid, some weed which had been thrown down in commonly accessible areas was found, but this was not allowed as evidence because there was no search warrant. The arrest affidavit was altered months later to add a small baggie of weed supposedly found in the cruiser used to transport Peters, and the case was dismissed.
In addition to the evidence tampering, this case showed the abuse of bail. Peters was held on $400K bail and ended up serving 19 months on a charge which had a maximum penalty of less than one year. Peters' insistence on his day in court called the DA's bluff. The DA's expected to plead out, which would make the weakness of their case moot.
Peters was again arrested in July 2009 on the evidence of a confidential informant, Ashley Egan, who was paid $2000 for her testimony. Egan was later sentenced to several terms of imprisonment, was described by her SCSO handlers as a junkie and was a client of the mental health court, which usually requires mental health treatment for its defendants. Chris Scruggs, who had been cited for his role in the 2008 bust, recused himself from this case in October 2010, after the snitch testimony had been given.
Third Strike: Jason White's case
The 2016 cases of Jason White, Kristina Cole and Montez Mullins is especially egregious. Bartlett police intercepted a package containing a pound of meth, relabeled it with Kristina Cole's address, got a dubious warrant for the altered address, and busted her. They confiscated her phone and sent some text messages to a phone they thought, but never proved, belonged to her incarcerated boyfriend, Jason White. They subsequently added Montez Mullins, who admitted to organizing the shipment, to the docket. The defendants were sentenced to a total of 113 1/2 years.
The arresting officer testified to the changing of the destination address and the bogus text messages on the stand, so Scruggs, as the prosecutor, would have known these facts while being briefed on the case before trial. Cole and White were innocent bystanders to Mullins' prison meth distribution scheme.
Chris Scruggs: Congratulations
Chris Scruggs is a deserving recipient of our first Hammer Award.
We will be awarding future Hammer Awards to prosecutors, judges, law enforcement and individuals who get three strikes for overzealous enforcement of mass incarceration.
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