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Victor Chandler International Ltd v (1) Customs & Excise Commissioners (2) Teletext Ltd (2000)
Victor Chandler International Ltd v (1) Customs & Excise Commissioners (2) Teletext Ltd (2000)
A bookmaker whose business was located abroad was not entitled to solicit custom within the United Kingdom by broadcasting advertisements on Teletext. Such an advertisement was an "advertisement or other document" for the purposes of s.9(1)(b) Betting and Gaming Duties Act 1981. * Leave to appeal to the House of Lords refused.
Appeal by the Commissioners of Customs & Excise against the decision of Lightman J by which he granted the claimant ('VCI'), an off-shore bookmaker, a declaration that it could lawfully obtain custom from within the UK by broadcasting advertisements on Teletext, a service run by the second defendant, and Skytext, collectively referred to as "Teletext". The issue was whether the proposed broadcasts by VCI, which would invite and otherwise relate to the making of bets, constituted or would give rise to the issue, circulation or distribution of "an advertisement or other document", contrary to s.9 Betting and Gaming Duties Act 1981. VCI carried on an off-shore credit betting business serving non-UK residents. It wished to extend its business to UK residents and for this purpose proposed to place advertisements on Teletext. The advertisements would appear on screen as Teletext pages, which were generated by the transmission of information created by VCI's computers and transmitted and submitted electronically, via Teletext's central editing system and remote databases, to the relevant broadcasters. The statutory policy of the 1981 Act was to prohibit an off-shore bookmaker from issuing, circulating or distributing "advertisements or other documents" within the UK, so as to prevent loss of revenue from the general betting duty imposed by the Act upon bookmakers based in the UK. Lightman J held that, on the facts, no offence was committed, since "advertisements" in s.9(1)(b) of the Act were limited to advertisements in documentary form, and that the means by which the advertisements broadcast on Teletext were made available for viewing did not involve the issue, circulation or distribution of any document. The judge considered that advances in modern technology had revealed a lacuna in the Act, which it was not permissible for the court to fill by "updating" the statutory language, and as to which it was for Parliament to decide whether, and if so by what means, to fill the lacuna (cf s.42 Gaming Act 1968).
The judge's construction took insufficient account of the technological advances which had taken place since s.9(1)(b) of the Act was first enacted by the Finance Act 1952. Parliament could not have contemplated, in 1952, the means by which advertisements intended to be seen or read could now be created, circulated and distributed electronically. Although the dissemination of VCI's advertisements in that manner did not involve the issue, circulation or distribution of a document in the normal meaning of those words, s.9(1)(b) was an "ongoing" statutory provision, which should be treated as "always speaking". Bennion's "Statutory Interpretation" 3rd Edition section 288 (page 686) considered. R v Westminster City Council, ex parte A (1997) 1 CCLR 85, R v Robert Mathew Ireland (1997) QB 114 and Martin Fitzpatrick v Sterling Housing Association Ltd (1999) 3 WLR 1113 approved. The court was satisfied that VCI's advertisements were of a sort which fell squarely within the mischief at which that s.9(1)(b) of the Act was aimed.
* The House of Lords refused an application by Victor Chandler International for leave to appeal in this case on 29 June 2000.
Sir Richard Scott VC, Chadwick LJ, Buxton LJ
LTL 29/2/2000: (2000) 1 WLR 1296: *(2000) 1 WLR 1544: (2000) 2 All ER 315: Times March 8 2000


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It's well over a month until Radiohead wrap up their 2017 A Moon Shaped Pool Tour at Park Hayarkon in Tel Aviv, Israel on July 19th, but it's already shaping up to be the most controversial show of their career. They've performed in Israel eight times – most recently in the summer of 2000 – but this is the first time they've visited the country since the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement began in 2005.
The movement calls for a complete cultural boycott of Israel until Palestinians are granted the "right of return" and Israel's West Bank barrier is dismantled. It has caused everyone from Elvis Costello to Devendra Banhart to Gorillaz to cancel planned concerts in the country, though many others have ignored it.
On April 23rd, over 50 prominent figures, including Roger Waters, Desmond Tutu, Thurston Moore and TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe, signed a petition urging Radiohead to cancel the show.
"In asking you not to perform in Israel, Palestinians have appealed to you to take one small step to help pressure Israel to end its violation of basic rights and international law," they wrote. "Surely if making a stand against the politics of division, of discrimination and of hate means anything at all, it means standing against it everywhere – and that has to include what happens to Palestinians every day. Otherwise the rest is, to use your words, 'mere rhetoric.'"
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The issue has flared up at recent Radiohead concerts, including their show at the Greek Theater Berkeley where a large banner was held up chastising them for playing the "apartheid" state of Israel. The situation puts Nigel Godrich in an particularly awkward position, as the longtime Radiohead producer also produced the latest album for Waters, the loudest and most passionate voice of the BDS movement.
Through all this, the group has remained quiet. But when we spoke to Yorke for our new cover story about the making of OK Computer, we gave him the opportunity to respond. Here are his complete comments.
I'll be totally honest with you: this has been extremely upsetting. There's an awful lot of people who don't agree with the BDS movement, including us. I don't agree with the cultural ban at all, along with J.K. Rowling, Noam Chomsky and a long list of others.
There are people I admire [who have been critical of the concert] like [English film director] Ken Loach, who I would never dream of telling where to work or what to do or think. The kind of dialogue that they want to engage in is one that's black or white. I have a problem with that. It's deeply distressing that they choose to, rather than engage with us personally, throw shit at us in public. It's deeply disrespectful to assume that we're either being misinformed or that we're so retarded we can't make these decisions ourselves. I thought it was patronizing in the extreme. It's offensive and I just can't understand why going to play a rock show or going to lecture at a university [is a problem to them].
"It's deeply distressing that they choose to, rather than engage with us personally, throw shit at us in public."
The university thing is more of a head fuck for me. It's like, really? You can't go talk to other people who want to learn stuff in another country? Really? The one place where you need to be free to express everything you possibly can. You want to tell these people you can't do that? And you think that's gonna help?
The person who knows most about these things is [Radiohead guitarist] Jonny [Greenwood]. He has both Palestinian and Israeli friends and a wife who's an Arab Jew. All these people to stand there at a distance throwing stuff at us, waving flags, saying, "You don't know anything about it!" Imagine how offensive that is for Jonny. And imagine how upsetting that it's been to have this out there. Just to assume that we know nothing about this. Just to throw the word "apartheid" around and think that's enough. It's fucking weird. It's such an extraordinary waste of energy. Energy that could be used in a more positive way.
This is the first time I've said anything about it. Part of me wants to say nothing because anything I say cooks up a fire from embers. But at the same time, if you want me to be honest, yeah, it's really upsetting that artists I respect think we are not capable of making a moral decision ourselves after all these years. They talk down to us and I just find it mind-boggling that they think they have the right to do that. It's extraordinary.
"It's such an extraordinary waste of energy. Energy that could be used in a more positive way."
Imagine how this has affected me and Nigel's relationship. Thanks, Roger. I mean, we're best mates for life, but it's like, fuck me, really?
[Godrich responds: "I don't believe in cultural boycotts. I don't think they're positive, ever. And actually, I think that it's true to say that the people you'd be denying [the music] are the people who would agree with you and don't necessarily agree with their government. So it's not a good idea. Thom and Roger are two peas in a pod, really, in certain respects. They just have a disagreement about this, but they've never even met. I think Thom feels very protective of Jonny, which I completely get. But I'm not in the middle of Thom and Roger. Fucking hell, I wouldn't like to be in the middle of those two. No.]
All of this creates divisive energy. You're not bringing people together. You're not encouraging dialogue or a sense of understanding. Now if you're talking about trying to make things progress in any society, if you create division, what do you get? You get fucking Theresa May. You get [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu, you get fucking Trump. That's divisive.
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It's the opening. We're basking in language itself. The silence of my friend. My love. The one beyond words in her silence.
Lucy, when you waited until we got to the vet's office to bleed-out on me, and when I thought that your blood was piss or shit pooling in my flip-flop, this was so typical of you, you never whimpered until that last day, your "one bad day" the vet kept repeating in hopes of consoling me
In this totally unsanitary way all I wanted was to mix your blood with mine, keep feeling its warmth on my foot and not wash it off, the memories of the dead being what fuels every revolution inside us, which is to say, it is love that truly accounts for any permanent sense of revolution
I couldn't contaminate myself enough with what blood was supposed to keep apart, with what the heart and love's eyes were supposed to index, a repulsion I was never to have in fact felt at a body for that moment an extension of my own, as if you were dying to tell me I was not singular.
Robert Kocik's A Book of Protections & AUSKO (gain)
In celebration of Ubiquitous Dividend at this year's River to River Festival (sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Counsel and Poets House) ON has produced a companion volume to Robert Kocik's SUPPLE SCIENCE. A Book of Protections includes reproductions of drawings Kocik composed in fall 2013, for the pre-order of SUPPLE SCIENCE. For more information about Ubiquitous Dividend go here and here. We are also posting a PDF of one of Kocik's earliest works, AUKSO (gain), published by Robert Fitterman's Object magazine in 1995, including an afterword by Stacy Doris. AUKSO (gain) inaugurates ON's new Reissues series.
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It's night in San Francisco but it's Sunny in Oakland
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What would it mean to take a snapshot of a large and various literary milieu after a moment of intense activism and struggle? It's night in San Francisco but it's sunny in Oakland includes a fair amount of post/Occupy poems, but also writings which channel the historical exigencies of Bay Area poetics—from SF Renaissance, through Beat, New Narrative, Lang Po, and less identifiable movements and genealogies. Many of these poems remind us that we are in a time after 'the event' in which life inevitably goes on, and more reflective modalities concerning the care for self and the sustainability of certain community dynamics and friendships set in. The heterogeneity of practices speaks less to a 'movement' or inclusive community than an ecology in which divergent practices can complement and support one another, gathering instead around the problem of how one might continue to struggle, plan, and study collectively—in anticipation of events to come.


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5 Signs That You're A Native Mainer
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When someone travels to Maine from away, sites may seem a little weird to them. But for those who are native to the Pine Tree State, they are signs of home.
For those of you that are reading this and you're not from Maine, rather than fight what you see, just embraces it. In the end, you'll find that Maine is a wonderful experience.
Here are 5 signs that you're a native of Maine.
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You Consider This Just A Light Dusting
If you're from Maine, then you know that this is a normal winter in the Pine Tree State. It takes quite a bit of snow to cancel school. Don't fight the digging out experience, just embrace it. Hope you get out ok.
You Know How Much Not To Pay For Lobster
If you're from Maine, then you know you're probably not going to settle for paying more than $10 for a lobster. For people from away, paying a lot for a good lobster boil is normal.
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Blueberry Pie, Anyone?
If you're from Maine, then you know that come summertime, there's probably going to be some blueberry picking and that means blueberry pie. Can't wait to stain my teeth!
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A Beach Day In Maine
This is how we sunbathe, minus the extra clothes.
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It's How We Travel In The Winter
If you're from Maine and especially in the County, then you know we have some of the best, well-groomed trails in the country. If you want to travel to Caribou from Presque Isle, no problem. Hop on your sled and head out. Pay attention to those trail signs!
It's plain to see that we live in the greatest area of the country. Life is good in Maine and we aim to keep it that way.
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'The Jennifer Hudson Show' renewed for second season
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The Jennifer Hudson Show has resonated with viewers, so much so it's been renewed for a second season.
Hudson announced the news during Wednesday's episode after expressing her gratitude for her new platform and the support she's received.
"The Jennifer Hudson Show has been renewed for season 2," she said, to which the crowd responded with a standing ovation. "Don't you want to run and shout?"
Hudson discussed the importance of reflecting on the blessings you once prayed for.
"I think this happens to all of us as adults," she said. "We're so busy doing stuff that we never stop to think about, 'This is what I prayed for, this is what I wanted, it's happening.' And embrace it. Well, this is one of those moments."
She then thanked the crew, the staff, the guests, her fans and her son, David.
"I want to say thank you to my son, who has always been so supportive of his mom and just being such an inspiration of a child and just being there in support," she said.
Created and produced by Hudson and JHud Productions, season 1 of The Jennifer Hudson Show premiered on September 12 and has averaged 5.2 million weekly viewers, according to People.
In a statement to the outlet, Hudson said that "working on this show alongside my incredible team and our amazing partners has been one of the greatest joys of my career."
"I am so thrilled to take it to the next level," she continued. "I can't wait to show you what we have up our sleeves in season 2!"


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Bernie Madoff's Jewishness
January 8, 2008 /in Featured Articles/by Kevin MacDonald
The Bernie Madoff scandal is endlessly fascinating. As the media has emphasized, many of his victims were Jews and Jewish organizations. Madoff's behavior violated a cardinal rule of Jewish business ethics which is based on trust within the group. Indeed, a New York Times article commenting on effects in the real estate industry noted that
the outsize impact on the industry may have resulted largely because Mr. Madoff … managed his funds much the way that real estate leaders [i.e., Jews]have operated successfully for decades: He provided little information and demanded a lot of trust.
"You have a lot of wealthy people who made a lot of money on handshakes," said Mark S. Weiss, a commercial real estate broker at Newmark Knight Frank, where several brokers had invested heavily with Mr. Madoff. There was "something about this person, pedigree and reputation that inspired trust," he said.
And the main thing about Madoff's pedigree that inspired trust among his fellow Jews was simply that he is Jewish. He traveled in all the best Jewish circles: on the board of Yeshiva University, a major donator to Jewish and Israeli charities, hobnobbing at Jewish country clubs, and living in upscale Jewish ghettos on Long Island, Palm Beach, and the upper eastside of Manhattan.
The Madoff scandal is a textbook example of how ethnic networks operate — and their pitfalls. In traditional Jewish society, like other middlemen groups, business relationships are based on the assumption that one can trust one's co-ethnic. Indeed, Janet Landa notes that this was one of the reasons for the success of middlemen minority groups, such as the Overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia:Close ethnic bonds lower the costs of doing business because there is greater trust within the ethnic group than between ethnic groups. This was certainly true in traditional Jewish society, where a handshake with a co-ethnic was enough to seal the deal, but business with outsiders was undertaken with much less trust.
The Madoff story from the beginning was presented by the media as a Jewish story. This almost certainly is because Madoff got his start among Jewish investors and because some of his victims were Jews. It was not because Madoff was Jewish.
Consider Michael Milken, the notorious 1980s junk bond king, who pled guilty to securities and reporting violations and was sentenced to ten years in prison. (He served less than two years — and is now asking George W. Bush for a pardon.) In that case, the mere mention of Milken and his cronies with all those Jewish names was enough to ignite a major uproar complete with accusations of anti-Semitism. Jewish activist Alan Dershowitz was center stage, even purchasing a full page ad in the New York Times (at a cost of $450,000) and ads in three other newspapers.
To get an idea of how innocuous the references to Jews were during the Milken scandal, the following is the offending paragraph from a review of James B. Stewart's Den of Thieves by Michael M. Thomas in the New York Times Book Review:
James B. Stewart . . . charts the way through a virtual solar system of peculation, past planets large and small, from a metaphorical Mercury representing the penny-ante takings of Dennis B. Levine's small fry, past the middling ($10 million in inside-trading profits) Mars of Mr. Levine himself, along the multiple rings of Saturn — Ivan F. Boesky, his confederate Martin A. Siegel of Kidder, Peabody, and Mr. Siegel's confederate Robert Freeman of Goldman, Sachs — and finally back to great Jupiter: Michael R. Milken, the greedy billion-dollar junk-bond kingdom in which some of the nation's greatest names in industry and finance would find themselves entrapped and corrupted.
Merely a listing of Jewish names was sufficient to bring down the wrath of the Jewish activists.
But Madoff's Jewishness is front and center in this scandal. So perhaps it's no coincidence that both the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times ran articles within a day of each other with statements from various Jewish luminaries reaffirming Jewish ethics and recounting the sense of betrayal Jews felt because Jews were among the victims.
However, the Jews-as-victims angle is at least a double edged sword. As in the Milken case, the default strategy is to proscribe any mention that a person like Madoff, who feeds into all the negative Jewish stereotypes, is Jewish. Indeed, some voices within the Jewish community are bemoaning the fact that Madoff's Jewishness is so central to the media coverage. For example, in a letter to theNew York Times, David A. Harris, Executive Director of the American Jewish Committee wrote, "Yes, he is Jewish. We get it. But was this relevant to his being arrested for cheating investors, or so key to his evolution as a businessman that it needed to be hammered home again and again?"
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I strongly suspect that the answer to Harris's question is 'yes'. For one thing, Madoff seems to have personified the sort of guru I wrote about in The Culture of Critique: Someone with a great deal of personal charisma and a following that can only be described as adulatory. Madoff "was a legend in his social and financial circles, a giant; like a rock-star in that world, that financial realm. His clients thought he was a genius. People literally begged him to take their money."
Like the movements described in The Culture of Critique, Madoff's scheme began within the Jewish community and then spread like a virus to the surrounding society. The analogy with a Jewish intellectual guru like Freud is striking (including the fact that both may be labeled charlatans). Like all of Madoff's original investors, all of the original psychoanalysts were Jews. Like Madoff, Freud was idolized by Jews generally. Historian Dennis B. Klein notes that Jews "treated [Freud] as if he were 'a God-fearing Chief Rabbi,' or 'a national hero.' " And, as noted above, Madoff was a pillar of the Jewish community. There is more than one way to become a pillar of the Jewish community, but without doubt the main one is to be a major donor to Jewish causes, and Madoff certainly fit that profile.
Madoff got his start as a macher (big shot) within the Jewish community, but he certainly went well beyond that. Just as Freud recruited non-Jews like Ernest Jones to front the psychoanalytic movement, Madoff formed relationships with non-Jews who operated feeder funds that attracted largely non-Jewish money. Indeed, the New York Times notes that "if the wealthy Jewish world he occupied was his launch pad, the wealthy promoters he cultivated at Fairfield Greenwich were his booster rocket."
The Fairfield Sentry fund, headed by Walter Noel (who is not Jewish), was the largest feeder fund for Madoff, with a total value of $7.5 billion before the collapse — a sum that dwarfs the reported losses from individual Jews and from Jewish charities. 95% of its money was from foreign investors, mostly from Europe. And the bulk of the rest of the major losers were European and Asian banks.
Another large conduit for non-Jewish money from Europe was Rene-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet whose Access International Advisors lost $1.4 billion. Mr. de la Villehuchet committed suicide because of guilt over his role in losing so much of other people's money: "If you ruin your friends, your clients, you have to face the consequences," as his brother framed it. I can't help quoting the New York Times on Mr. Villehuchet's death because his suicide seems to be the only shred of nobility in all of this.
Mr. de la Villehuchet's attitude appears to be rare. So far, the leading players in Mr. Madoff's case have maintained a stony silence, studiously avoiding apologies or statements of responsibility.
Mr. Madoff's sons have said nothing about how they could have worked at their father's firm for decades without noticing that the money he supposedly managed did not exist. The accountants and regulators who were supposed to protect investors have not explained their failure to do so. And the hedge funds that invested tens of billions of dollars with Mr. Madoff despite obvious red flags have said the fraud was his fault, not theirs.
Assigning the precise role of Jewishess in this scandal will take some time. As in all Ponzi schemes, the early investors are the winners, and in this case we know that Jews were the early investors and that at least some of them made money overall. (Editorial note, January 27, 2009: Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, originally invested $40 million with Madoff, and claimed that they lost $90 when the fund collapsed. They recently announced that they withdrew $130 million since 1989 from this account. In addition, they also had profits of $50 million from another account with Madoff.) (However, there is legal precedent for the winners being required to forfeit their gains, at least from the last 6 years, so some of these ill-gotten gains may be forfeited.) And we know that the really big money came from non-Jews who invested later in the scheme. (See James Murray's TOO article.)
We are still unclear on the role of Jewishness in the lax oversight of the fund. We do know that Jonathan Sokobin, whose job was to monitor market risks for the SEC, did not respond to the critique of Madoff made by Harry Marcopolos, a former employee of a firm that competed with Madoff. We also know that Madoff boasted that his niece, who was a compliance officer for Madoff's firm, had married a former SEC regulator. And we know that in 2006 Madoff sailed through an examination by the SEC based on Markopolos's allegations, being required only to register with the SEC as an investment advisor.
An adequate account would be based on interviews of all the participants in the oversight process in order to shed light on their motivation. These motivations may range from unconscious biases in favor of Madoff because of ethnic ties to active collusion.
Biases resulting from Madoff's status as a macher in the Jewish community are a likely possibility. It would be a bit like having a Jewish psychologist in charge of deciding the scientific status of Freud. The psychologist might consciously attempt to be objective, but the status of Freud as a Jewish folk hero might well get in the way of an unbiased appraisal. It is like questioning the truthfulness of God. In the end, that may be what we are dealing with here.
Kevin MacDonald is a professor of psychology at California State University–Long Beach.
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By SETH BORENSTEIN , AP Science Writer, Associated Press
FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020. file photo, smoke from California wildfires up to 200 miles away obscures the view of traffic traveling on In... FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020. file photo, smoke from California wildfires up to 200 miles away obscures the view of traffic traveling on Interstate 80, looking west in Sparks, Nev. Local schools canceled all outdoor activities as the air quality index approached the "very unhealthy" category for the general population Wednesday afternoon. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)
FILE - In this Friday, July 31, 2020 file photo, a fan sprays water mist as customers sit outside a cafe in downtown Rome during a heat wave with temp... FILE - In this Friday, July 31, 2020 file photo, a fan sprays water mist as customers sit outside a cafe in downtown Rome during a heat wave with temperatures over 34 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit). (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)
FILE - In this Thursday, June 18, 2020 file photo, vendors and rickshaw drivers sleep in the open early on a hot summer morning in Karachi, Pakistan, ... FILE - In this Thursday, June 18, 2020 file photo, vendors and rickshaw drivers sleep in the open early on a hot summer morning in Karachi, Pakistan, as parts of the country continued to experience an intense heat wave. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020 file photo, a man keeps cool with a shirt over his head as he walks alongside The Serpentine in Hyde Park in L... FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020 file photo, a man keeps cool with a shirt over his head as he walks alongside The Serpentine in Hyde Park in London with high temperatures forecast again for many parts of England. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Earth's rising fever hit or neared record hot temperature levels in 2020, global weather groups reported Thursday.
While NASA and a couple of other measurement groups said 2020 passed or essentially tied 2016 as the hottest year on record, more agencies, including the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, said last year came in a close second or third. The differences in rankings mostly turned on how scientists accounted for data gaps in the Arctic, which is warming faster than the rest of the globe.
"It's like the film 'Groundhog Day.' Another year, same story — record global warmth," said Pennsylvania State University climate scientist Michael Mann, who wasn't part of the measurement teams. "As we continue to generate carbon pollution, we expect the planet to warm up. And that's precisely what we're seeing."
Scientists said all you had to do was look outside: "We saw the heat waves. We saw the fires. We saw the (melting) Arctic," said NASA top climate scientist Gavin Schmidt. "We're expecting it to get hotter and that's exactly what happened."
NOAA said 2020 averaged 58.77 degrees (14.88 degrees Celsius), a few hundredths of a degree behind 2016. NASA saw 2020 as warmer than 2016 but so close they are essentially tied. The European Copernicus group also called it an essential tie for hottest year, with 2016 warmer by an insignificant fraction. Japan's weather agency put 2020 as warmer than 2016, but a separate calculation by Japanese scientists put 2020 as a close third behind 2016 and 2019. The World Meteorological Organization, the British weather agency and Berkeley Earth's monitoring team had 2016 ahead.
First or second rankings really don't matter, "but the key thing to take away is that the long-term trends in temperature are very very clearly up and up and up," said Schmidt, who heads NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies that tracks temperatures. "We're in a position where we're pushing the climate system out of the bounds that it's been in for tens of thousands of years, if not millions of years."
All the monitoring agencies agree the six warmest years on record have been the six years since 2015. The 10 warmest have all occurred since 2005, and scientists say that warming's driven by the burning of coal, oil and natural gas.
Temperatures the last six or seven years "really hint at an acceleration in the rise of global temperatures," said Russ Vose, analysis branch chief at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information. While temperature increases have clearly accelerated since the 1980s, it's too early to discern a second and more recent acceleration, Schmidt said.
Last year's exceptional heat "is yet another stark reminder of the relentless pace of climate change, which is destroying lives and livelihoods across our planet," United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said in a statement. "Making peace with nature is the defining task of the 21st century."
The United States, which had its fifth warmest yea r, smashed the record for the number of weather disasters that cost at least $1 billion with 22 of them in 2020, including hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes and a Midwest derecho. The old record of 16 was set in 2011 and 2017. This was the sixth consecutive year with 10 or more billion-dollar climate disasters, with figures adjusted for inflation.
Earth has now warmed 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) since pre-industrial times and is adding another 0.2 degrees Celsius (0.36 Fahrenheit) a decade.
That means the planet is nearing an international warming threshold set in Paris in 2015, Vose and Schmidt said. Nations of the world set a goal of preventing at least 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming, with a tougher secondary goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit).
"We cannot avoid 1.5 C above pre-industrial now -- it is just too late to turn things around," University of Oklahoma meteorology professor Jason Furtado, who wasn't on any of the measurement teams, said in an email. "I also fear that the 2 C threshold is slipping away from us too unless changes become much more immediate in the US and other nations."
Earth has warmed 1.6 degrees (0.9 degrees Celsius) since 1942, when President-elect Joe Biden was born, and 1.2 degrees (0.6 degrees Celsius) since 1994, when pop star Justin Bieber was born, according to NOAA data.
The main reason the agencies have varying numbers is because there are relatively few temperature gauges in the Arctic. NOAA and the British weather agency take a conservative approach in extrapolating for the missing data, while NASA factors that the Arctic is warming much faster than the rest of the globe, hitting 100 degrees (38 Celsius) in the Russian Arctic last June, said NASA's Schmidt.
The pandemic may have added ever so slightly to last year's warming, enough to edge 2020 past 2016 in NASA's calculations, Schmidt said.
Around the globe, people were driving less — and that reduced short-term aerosol pollution which acts as a cooling agent by reflecting heat. Schmidt said fewer cooling aerosols could be responsible for .09 to .18 degrees (.05 to .1 degrees Celsius) warming for the year.
NOAA's Vose and Schmidt expect 2021 to be among the top five hottest years but probably not a record breaker because of natural temporary cooling in parts of the Pacific called La Nina.
NOAA and NASA measurements go back to 1880, while the United Kingdom Met Office has readings back to 1850.
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New BTMs in Australia, Switzerland and the United States
After a week's break to start the new year, Cointelegraph and content partner Coin ATM Radar are tracking some new BTMs that have been installed since New Year's Eve in Australia, Switzerland and North America.
You can find the machines' exact locations with Coin ATM Radar's Bitcoin ATM map.
As of January 12, 2015, there are 337 BTMs in operation around the globe. Here are some of the newest ones.
Down in Tasmania, the Fullers Bookshop in Launceston has changed owners and is rebranding as Volume 2 bookshop. Part of this new look includes a one-way Lamassu BTM, which the operators, BitRocket, say will go live on Tuesday. Fees have yet to be announced, but transactions will be capped at AU$200.
The Launceston BTM will bring the number of Bitcoin ATMs in Australia to 20.
Bitcoin Suisse has announced the installation of a pair of two-way BitXatm machines in Geneva and St. Gallen, an ancient city near the shores of Lake Constance.
The Geneva BTM can be found at Magicom on Rue Paul Bouchet, and the St. Gallen BTM can be found at Restaurant Hörnli right on the Marketplatz.
Both machines charge fees of 5%, and unregistered users can transact up to 500 CHF. If you register "an ID, passport or driver's license to [email protected] and identify yourself at the ATM, then you can purchase bitcoin of up to 5,000 CHF," Bitcoin Suisse writes.
There are four new BTMs in the US to mention, in addition to the CoinOutlet machine at Overstock headquarters that we reported on last week.
In Chicago, operators Red Leaf announced just before New Year's Day that they had installed a one-way Lamassu at Geek Bar Beta in Wicker Park. No details about transaction limits or fees are yet available, but Geek Bar Beta reports it has been accepting bitcoin payments since October. If anyone stops in for a beer and a game of D&D, we would love to hear about the experience.
In Vancouver, Washington, operators Point of Coin have installed a two-way Robocoin kiosk right beside a fiat ATM and a pair of vending machines on the first floor of the Westfield Vancouver Mall. "If you're coming to use the machine for the first time, you'll need to bring your ID with you, as well as your cell phone," Point of Coin notes. "Second-time usage only requires your PIN & cell phone." The machine charges 5% fees and caps transactions at US$3,000 per person per day.
In Grand Forks, North Dakota, the Center For Innovation Foundation University of North Dakota has a new two-way CoinOutlet machine with no fees and no limits on transactions.
In Woodland Hills, California, operators Coin Citadel have installed a one-way Satoshi1 machine at the offices of social gaming company CrowdGather, right on Ventura Boulevard. Buy limits are set at US$1,000 per transaction and US$3,000 per person per day. "CrowdGather will offer access to our machine for any visitors seeing to purchase bitcoins from us, but we also intend to host semi-regular meetups at their offices in order to develop ties to bitcoin developers and startups that we intend to partner with," Coin Citadel CEO Bill Schaefer said.
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Position Reports - Offensive Line
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Virginia loses two and a half starters from last year's line, including the entire right side, in addition to a couple of unused reserves.
RJ Proctor - The interior mauler was a holdover from the London era who started six games last year at left guard. Though he gave us four good years and, when healthy, was a plus guard option for 2J, he ultimately decided to finish his career elsewhere. Proctor grad-transferred following the season to Oklahoma.
Jake Fieler - Originally a member of the 2014 class, Fieler provided a solid bridge into the Bronco era. He graduated this year after three years starting on the interior, including all 13 games last year at right guard.
Marcus Applefield - The former Rutgers standout grad-transferred to UVA last offseason and spent 2018 anchoring the right tackle position, starting all 13 games. He graduated after his one year of eligibility at UVA.
Ryan Bischoff - The former 2015 three-star recruit graduated from UVA this summer with a year of eligibilty remaining. He never made it into Tujague's two-deep.
Ben Knutson - Knutson had yet to make a dent in the two-deep in his three years in Charlottesville before graduating early this summer and moving on as a graduate transfer at Tulane.
Micah Mariteragi - The 2018 three-star recruit completed his redshirt year before leaving this summer for a planned LDS mission trip. He should be slated to rejoin the team in 2021.
The Hoos bring back six linemen with game experience, three of whom are former starters, along with another six rising sophomores and RS freshmen pushing for their first collegiate snaps.
Dillon Reinkensmeyer - RS Junior - 6'6" 300 lb - The longest-tenured O-lineman, Reinkensmeyer has played tackle, guard, and center over his career, but spent all of last year starting at the center spot. Best on the interior.
Chis Glaser - Junior - 6'3" 305 lb - Glaser came on late in his true freshman year to start at RT before moving to LG as a sophomore and picking up seven starts. He's expected to start again on the interior.
Ben Trent - RS Junior - 6'5" 305 lb - The walk-on has made himself a regular piece of the practice rotation, seeing time as a reserve and special teamer in nine games last season. Very athletic, he's expected to challenge for the two-deep on the interior and should continue to be a special teams staple.
Tyler Fannin - RS Sophomore - 6'3" 295 lb - Injuries kept him from breaking into the rotation as a RS freshman, when he was starting to impress as the Hoos' center of the future. He's healthy this year and pushing to start in the middle.
Ryan Nelson - RS Sophomore - 6'4" 315 lb - Last year's breakout youngster, he started all 13 games at LT as a redshirt freshman. Expect him to start again, though it's possible he may slide inside to LG depending how others perform.
Ryan Swoboda - RS Sophomore - 6'10" 300 lb - Showed up in a number of games last year as a reserve tackle and on special teams, the incredibly lengthy tackle may be turning a corner this season, pushing for his first start out of the gate.
Bobby Haskins - Sophomore - 6'7" 285 lb - Expected on the two-deep at tackle, maybe even earning a starting spot, Haskins appeared in all 13 games last year as a true freshman, serving as a reserve and special teamer. Possessing great length but still young and a little light, he's one to watch both for this year and the future.
Gerrik Vollmer - RS Sophomore - 6'5" 290 lb - Didn't get into any action as a RS freshman last season outside of some brief run against Liberty late in the season, but he'll push to make the two-deep at guard or center (official team roster lists him at both positions). A starting spot is probably out of reach at the moment.
Olusegun "Victor" Oluwatimi - RS Sophomore - 6'3" 305 lb - He arrived in Charlottesville as a walk-on transfer from Air Force. Vic is eligible this year and has been impressing in his bid to earn the center spot. Conditioning may be a question, but his athleticism is not.
Joseph Bissinger - RS Freshman - 6'4" 305 lb - Young but very strong, earned Dirty Dozen honors for his offseason S&C work, he'll fight for snaps at guard. May get a foothold as a special package guy, maybe on short-yardage situations where his strength will help with push.
Derek Devine - RS Freshman - 6'6" 295 lb - Will be in the mix for the two-deep on the interior; his wrestling background is proving beneficial to his footwork and hand technique.
Martin Weisz - RS Freshman - 6'6" 310 lb - The former three-star recruit is likely still a year away from pushing for playing time.
Virginia welcomes five new scholarship players to the O-line (one transfer, four true freshmen). While none are expected to be pushed into action come Labor Day weekend, major hits to depth over the course of the season could force some to rotate in over the coming months. Tujague has played one true freshman each of the past two seasons.
Alex Gellerstedt - RS Junior - 6'6" 325 lb - The immediately-eligible grad transfer from Penn State arrived with two years of eligibility remaining, but unfortunately knee surgery this summer ended his RS Junior season before it started. He will hopefully make his UVA debut next year.
Ja'quay Hubbard - Freshman - 6'6" 335 lb - The highly rated tackle prospect was arguably the best high school offensive lineman in Pennsylvania last season. In other years, he'd be a near lock to crack the two-deep, though improving depth may allow him to redshirt.
Kariem Al-Soufi - Freshman - 6'4" 335 lb - The German import is a high-upside prospect. Already possessing D-1 size, he'll need to master some U.S. scheme and technique nuances. He'll redshirt this year, but he's got three-year-starter potential written all over him.
Jonathan Leech - Freshman - 6'5" 270 lb - The freshman from Georgia is a solid prospect, most likely to be slotted at tackle, though he'll need to add a lot of weight during his redshirt year to be D-1 ready.
Zachary Teter - Freshman - 6'5" 300 lb - The Floridian has some good long-term upside, but is expected to redshirt this upcoming year. Most likely to slot at tackle next season.
Dillon Reinkensmeyer - He's the old man of the group. While he may not wow anyone with measurables or statistics, he's arguably the most important guy because he's the voice of experience in an otherwise young stable. The emergence of a couple of sophomores at the center spot (Fannin and Oluwatimi) mean Dillon likely shifts over to guard this season, but I'd wager he's still the one tasked with making the reads and calls, being Tujague's eyes on the field and reporting back to Anae between series. To me, right now given the question marks elsewhere on the line, the MVP goes to the guy who's going to take the young talent under his wing and lead them by steady example.
Victor Oluwatimi - He's very close to going from walk-on transfer from a mid-major to the starting center on an ACC division contender. Tujague likes his athleticism, and he's been getting consistent praise from behind the scenes about his sit-out year last season. As with any player who has yet to play a single college down, immediate expectations are to be tempered. But the potential is there for him to grab the role and hold onto it for the next three seasons.
Ryan Nelson (RS So)
Bobby Haskins (So)
Chris Glaser (Jr)
Joseph Bissinger (RS Fr)
Victor Oluwatimi (RS So)
Tyler Fannin (RS So)
Dillon Reinkensmeyer (RS Jr)
Ryan Swoboda (RS So)
This is still a younger unit than you'd prefer. The position was underrecruited at the tail end of the London era (the 2014 through 2016 classes), and that means we're short on upperclassmen a few years later. The future is bright with lots of young talent in the freshman and sophomore classes, but whether it can all come together this year is still debatable. The loss of Proctor was also disappointing, as he would've provided valuable experience to the middle of the line, but we understand he wasn't originally a Tujague recruit, and we're grateful for the four years he gave us.
We've got four guys who should be in the mix at tackle. Nelson and Reinkensmeyer are relative veterans who each have experience on the edges, though they're also versatile enough to play inside at times. The wild cards are youngsters Swoboda and Haskins, each of whom have fascinating physical profiles as long athletic tackles, but don't have starting experience yet. By the end of the season, and at the start of next season, these two could very possibly be the starting bookends, but for the moment, we think Tujague values the experience Nelson brings on the blind side while the other two get their feet wet on the right edge.
Reinkensmeyer, while an intriguing option at tackle, we project to stay in the middle. He's being displaced from the center position (where he started most of last year) with the emergence of Oluwatimi and Fannin, both of whom have long-term upside on the ball. We'd be OK with either getting the start. Putting Reinkensmeyer at RG accomplishes two things; first, it keeps his experience in the interior where he can continue to captain the line and make adjustment calls based on pre-snap reads; second, it puts his experience on the otherwise-green right side, letting the veteran stabilize that side between two first-time starting sophomores. Chris Glaser feels like a no-brainer at the moment at the LG spot, where he had seven starts last year.
So most likely we're looking at two juniors and three sophomores lining up in front of Perkins come Labor Day weekend. Three of them have starting experience, and two others have real game experience, but we're still looking at counting on young guys who have never played a meaningful snap to not only provide depth but maybe even start. If injuries force us to dip into the second line, there will be more cause for worry.
With all that said, the roster is more attuned to the needs of the system and its coaches than it has been in a long time. There are no London-coached players left in this group; other than Reinkensmeyer (who pledged to London but matriculated with Bronco's staff), every player listed was specifically targeted and brought to UVA to fit into this scheme and culture. Even better, looking at the two-deep, everyone other than Haskins has at least two years in college behind him, which is two years to physically develop, to learn the playbook, and to develop chemistry with teammates. Yes, next year will be ideal, when the starters are most (if not all) juniors and seniors. But at a minimum, take some solace in that this group is entirely 2J's guys, and they've got the athletic profile to execute what he wants to do. So this is improving (last year we graded this group out as a C-, so a C+ is incremental progress). The question will be does the youth manifest as inconsistencies in execution? Or in just having physical difficulty matching up against more experienced or talented opponents?
The end verdict is likely that this unit will be fine against a lot of the schedule; maybe not dominant, but will get the work done. However, still expect some struggles when facing down some of the more veteran, talented, well-coached front sevens we'll see like the ones at Notre Dame and Miami. Pitt, whose front seven is always one of the program's strongest units, will provide a good early benchmark for where we're at this year in the long-term rebuild.
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With a HYMERCAR on a Mercedes-Benz chassis, you'll soon be hooked on those impromptu getaways! The fabulous vehicle dynamics and superb driver assistance systems leave you free to enjoy your trip to the full. What's more, the intelligent interior layout, optimised noise and heat insulation and efficient compressor refrigerator mean you have everything on board that you need for that little big adventure!
Versatile: the large folding side table in the Grand Canyon S opens up to provide an ample surface. What's more, it can be partially collapsed or folded away completely as required, so you don't have to store it separately while on the move.
The compact kitchen unit in the HYMERCAR Grand Canyon S has generous work surfaces and plenty of extra-deep drawers with high-quality soft-close mechanisms and ample space for pots and pans or crockery. All you need to prepare even the most elaborate meals! The practical hooks on the side of the kitchen cabinet are ideal for keeping tea towels handy.
All HYMERCAR models are equipped as standard with the comfort sleeping system, consisting of high-quality disc spring bed frames and cold foam mattresses. Thanks to the extra body width, the HYMERCAR Grand Canyon S has a particularly generous interior allowing for a large 195 × 140 cm bed.
The roomy compact bathroom in the Grand Canyon S is lavishly and practically equipped – with a folding designer washbasin in solid surface material plus a modern bench toilet complete with level indicator and toilet roll holder.
The Mercedes-Benz Sprinter-based HYMERCAR comes with an extensive safety package as standard. The electronic stability control package includes an anti-lock braking system (ABS), traction control system (TCS), electronic brake force distribution (EBD) and hydraulic brake assist system (BAS) Also included are the latest generation adaptive electronic stability program (ESP), load adaptive control (LACS), rollover mitigation and roll movement intervention (ROM/RMI), enhanced understeering control (EUC) and trailer stability assist (TSA). Even greater driving safety in wet and rainy conditions is ensured by the automatic Brake Disc Wiping and Electronic Brake Prefill systems.
The fuel-optimised 7-speed automatic transmission 7G-TRONIC PLUS guarantees a smooth drive and is available as an option.
The standard crosswind assist helps keep the vehicle in lane in strong winds thanks to automatic braking interventions.
The lane departure warning system sends acoustic and visual signals to the driver if they unintentionally leave their lane. This helps reduce the risk of accidents caused by falling asleep at the wheel.
The optional blind spot assist alerts the driver to vehicles in their blind spot via visual and acoustic signals.
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Repair (reconstruction) and warming of the suburban housefront. Part 1.
Finish of the veranda and the loggia of suburban house.
Repair of suburban house and bath-house. Roof at home and bath-house floor.
Reconstruction of blind area of suburban house. Part 3.
Construction of open verandah. Development of front porches.
In given report we will tell of work to reconstruction of the electrical wiring of suburban house performed by our company in one of suburban settlements of Sergiyevo-Posadsky district of Moscow Region.
Task in hand: To execute reconstruction (total replacement) of old electrical wiring, including connection to electric pole, as well as to mount the system of automatic pumping out of water from semi-basement.
In more detail with progress of work it is possible become acquainted in our photogallery. Total performance time of works on reconstruction (total replacement) of the electrical wiring and development of the system of automatic pumping out of thawed and rail waters from ground floor accounted for 10 days.
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Q: How to deploy Serverless Framework to AWS from Azure Pipeline? I'm wanting to get familiar with Azure DevOps and setting up CI/CD through it.  For the backend services, I want to use Serverless Framework (SF).  I'm getting stuck trying to add credentials to the CI pipeline for SF.
I'm following the instructions in this documentation page but I'm getting this error in the deploy step.

AWS provider credentials not found. Learn how to set up AWS provider credentials in our docs here:

These are the steps to reproduce:

*

*Create a SF service, initial a git repo and add it to the Azure project.

sls create -t aws-nodejs-typescript -p api-hello-service
cd api-hello-service
git init
git add .
git commit -m 'initial commit'
git remote add origin <origin>

*

*In the Serverless Framework Dashboard, go to org and create an access key (save the key for later)

*In the Azure DevOps GUI, refresh the Repo page and click the "Setup Build" button

*Select the Node.js template as a base.

*Customize the pipeline
# azure-pipelines.yml
trigger:
- main

pool:
  vmImage: ubuntu-latest

steps:
- task: NodeTool@0
  inputs:
    versionSpec: '16.x'
  displayName: 'Install Node.js'

- script: |
    npm install
    npm install -g serverless
    serverless deploy
  displayName: 'npm install and build'

*

*Set the variable SERVERLESS_ACCESS_KEY as described in the documentation earlier with the access key create in SF Dashboard earlier. (check "Keep this value secret")

*Hit save & run

Deploy step fails:
Starting: npm install and build
==============================================================================
Task         : Command line
Description  : Run a command line script using Bash on Linux and macOS and cmd.exe on Windows
Version      : 2.201.1
Author       : Microsoft Corporation
Help         : https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/utility/command-line
==============================================================================
Generating script.
========================== Starting Command Output ===========================
/usr/bin/bash --noprofile --norc /home/vsts/work/_temp/dec6f028-dba1-4c47-8718-cb65524f31a1.sh
npm WARN deprecated querystring@0.2.1: The querystring API is considered Legacy. new code should use the URLSearchParams API instead.
npm WARN deprecated superagent@7.1.6: Please downgrade to v7.1.5 if you need IE/ActiveXObject support OR upgrade to v8.0.0 as we no longer support IE and published an incorrect patch version (see https://github.com/visionmedia/superagent/issues/1731)
npm WARN deprecated querystring@0.2.0: The querystring API is considered Legacy. new code should use the URLSearchParams API instead.
npm WARN deprecated querystring@0.2.0: The querystring API is considered Legacy. new code should use the URLSearchParams API instead.

added 474 packages, and audited 475 packages in 16s

88 packages are looking for funding
  run `npm fund` for details

found 0 vulnerabilities
npm WARN deprecated querystring@0.2.1: The querystring API is considered Legacy. new code should use the URLSearchParams API instead.
npm WARN deprecated querystring@0.2.0: The querystring API is considered Legacy. new code should use the URLSearchParams API instead.
npm WARN deprecated querystring@0.2.0: The querystring API is considered Legacy. new code should use the URLSearchParams API instead.
npm WARN deprecated superagent@7.1.6: Please downgrade to v7.1.5 if you need IE/ActiveXObject support OR upgrade to v8.0.0 as we no longer support IE and published an incorrect patch version (see https://github.com/visionmedia/superagent/issues/1731)

added 425 packages, and audited 426 packages in 6s

87 packages are looking for funding
  run `npm fund` for details

found 0 vulnerabilities
Running "serverless" from node_modules

Deploying api-hello-service to stage dev (us-east-1)

× Stack api-hello-service-dev failed to deploy (0s)
Environment: linux, node 16.17.0, framework 3.22.0 (local) 3.22.0v (global), plugin 6.2.2, SDK 4.3.2
Docs:        docs.serverless.com
Support:     forum.serverless.com
Bugs:        github.com/serverless/serverless/issues

Error:
AWS provider credentials not found. Learn how to set up AWS provider credentials in our docs here: <http://slss.io/aws-creds-setup>.
##[error]Bash exited with code '1'.
Finishing: npm install and build

Update:
Default generated serverless.ts
import type { AWS } from '@serverless/typescript';

import hello from '@functions/hello';

const serverlessConfiguration: AWS = {
  service: 'api-hello-service',
  frameworkVersion: '3',
  plugins: ['serverless-esbuild'],
  provider: {
    name: 'aws',
    runtime: 'nodejs14.x',
    apiGateway: {
      minimumCompressionSize: 1024,
      shouldStartNameWithService: true,
    },
    environment: {
      AWS_NODEJS_CONNECTION_REUSE_ENABLED: '1',
      NODE_OPTIONS: '--enable-source-maps --stack-trace-limit=1000',
    },
  },
  // import the function via paths
  functions: { hello },
  package: { individually: true },
  custom: {
    esbuild: {
      bundle: true,
      minify: false,
      sourcemap: true,
      exclude: ['aws-sdk'],
      target: 'node14',
      define: { 'require.resolve': undefined },
      platform: 'node',
      concurrency: 10,
    },
  },
};

module.exports = serverlessConfiguration;

Update: 2
Looks like I was missing app & org in my serverless config.
Now I'm receiving Error: You are not currently logged in. To log in, use: $ serverless login.
Am I setting the API key incorrectly?

A: if you want to use credentials configured as a part of Serverless Dashboard, you need to set corresponding app and org in your configuration, and then expose SERVERLESS_ACCESS_KEY as env var in case of CI/CD setup. So, in your case, adding configured org and app to config should resolve the problem.

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West Chester, Ohio, USA - Color-Logic--developer of the Process Metallic Color System--has announced their certification of Aurora Special Effect Films, a product of RMS Packaging in Peekskill, New York. The company offers a complete line of iridescent substrates for a broad range of applications, including labels and packages. Commenting on the certification, Color-Logic Director of Sales and Marketing Mark Geeves said: "Color-Logic certification tests demonstrated the compatibility of Aurora Special Effect Films and the Color-Logic Process Metallic Color System. Printers producing labels, packaging, displays, gift wrap, household goods, and other products can confidently use Color-Logic and Aurora Special Effect Films to create striking metallic solutions for clients."
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Polycythemia Vera and Essential Thrombocythemia: Diagnosis, Risk-Stratification, Management Updates
Caleb Rans, PharmD
The diagnosis of PV and ET is established on the basis of suspected clinical signs and symptoms, as well as laboratory findings, with bone marrow morphology as the mainstay of diagnosis.
Polycythemia vera (PV) and essential thrombocythemia (ET) are both chronic Philadelphia-chromosome-negative myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) characterized by clonal proliferation of myeloid cells.1,2 Compared to PV, ET is more heterogeneous, primarily driven by JAK2, CALR, and MPL mutations, with up to 20% of cases classified as "triple-negative."1 Additional disease characteristics include splenomegaly, hemorrhage, thrombosis, leukocytosis, microcirculatory symptoms, and risk of fibrotic or leukemic transformation.1
In a review article published in the American Journal of Hematology, Ayalew Tefferi, MD, of the department of medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota and Tiziano Barbui, MD, of Hospital Papa Giovanni XXIII in Bergamo, Italy, summarized current literature surrounding the diagnosis and risk-stratification of PV and ET. They also reviewed currently available and upcoming therapies in clinical development.
Diagnosis and Risk-Stratification
The diagnosis of PV and ET is established on the basis of suspected clinical signs and symptoms, as well as laboratory findings, with bone marrow morphology as the mainstay of diagnosis. Practically, the detection of the JAK2 V617F mutation in peripheral blood is both sensitive and specific for differentiating PV from other causes of elevated hematocrit. Serum erythropoietin level, which is subnormal in more than 85% of patients with PV, is also measured to eliminate potential false-positive and false-negative mutation test results. Mutational testing for JAK2 exon 12 is needed for patients who lack the JAK2 V617F mutation, but exhibit a subnormal serum erythropoietin level as approximately 3% of PV patients are JAK2 V617F-negative.1
When assessing thrombocytosis, the discovery of JAK2 V617F, CALR or MPL mutations verifies the presence of an underlying MPN. Conversely, the lack of these mutations does not eliminate the possibility of an MPN since ET can be classified as triple-negative. As a result, bone marrow evaluation is often needed to distinguish ET from other myeloid disorders, including prefibrotic primary myelofibrosis.1
The current risk stratification in PV includes 2 risk categories:
High-risk (age >60 years or presence of thrombosis history)
Low-risk (absence of both factors)
While in ET, risk stratification is divided into 4 categories:
Very low risk (age ≤60 years, no thrombosis history, JAK2 wild-type)
Low risk (age ≤60 years, no thrombosis history, JAK2-mutant)
Intermediate risk (age >60 years, no thrombosis history, JAK2 wild-type)
High risk (thrombosis history or age >60 years, JAK2-mutant)
The risk stratification model for both MPNs is designed to evaluate the probability of recurrent thrombotic complications.
Risk-Adapted Therapy
Table. Selected Treatment Recommendations for PV and ET1
Risk Category Summary of Recommendations
Low-risk PV or ET, in the absence of extreme thrombocytosis • Low-dose aspirin (81 mg/day; range 40-100 mg/day) has antithrombotic value in PV, among all risk categories
• Evidence supports phlebotomy for all patients with PV
• Low-dose aspirin has been shown to be effective in alleviating vasomotor disturbances associated with ET or PV
• Pruritus can be managed using nondrug measures
Low-risk PV or ET, in the presence of extreme thrombocytosis • In cases of PV or ET with extreme thrombocytosis, the use of aspirin can lead to bleeding complications
• In the presence of platelets >1000 x 109/L, screening for ristocetin cofactor activity is advised and consideration be given to withhold aspirin therapy if the result shows <20% activity
High-risk PV or ET • In addition to low-dose aspirin and phlebotomy to a hematocrit target of 45%, high-risk patients with PV or ET should receive hydroxyurea (starting dose 500 mg twice daily), as first-line cytoreductive drug of choice, in order to minimize thrombotic risk (the dose of hydroxyurea is titrated to keep platelet count in the normal range)
• PV or ET patients who are either intolerant or resistant to hydroxyurea should be treated with INF-α (started at 45 mcg once weekly; pegylated preparations preferred) or busulfan (started at 2-4 mg/day)
• In PV patients not responding to hydroxyurea, INF-α, or busulfan, and in the presence of intractable pruritus or drug-refractory symptomatic splenomegaly, it is reasonable to treat with JAK2 inhibitor therapy
Abbreviations: ET, essential thrombocythemia; PV, polycythemia vera
To read the comprehensive list of recommendations containing qualifying remarks, readers should refer to the full publication in the American Journal of Hematology.
Expert Perspective: Polycythemia Vera
"The biggest development in PV this past year is the submission for potential approval of ropeginterferon alfa-2b (ropeg) in the US, which was approved in Europe in 2019 for the treatment of PV in patients without symptomatic splenomegaly," explained Srdan Verstovsek, MD, PhD, of the department of leukemia at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
"This drug was approved in Europe based on the outcome of the phase 3 PROUD-PV study, but the most important part that led to its approval, however, was continuous observation of patients enrolled in the two arms over the next few years. Superiority of ropeg over control emerged after 2, 3, and 4 years of treatment," he said in an email interview.
Other Recommendations and Concluding Remarks
The authors noted that the median survival in younger patients may exceed 30 years and is similar for older patients with PV and ET. Consequently, they explained the importance of avoiding nonevidence based treatment strategies that may increase the rate of leukemic or fibrotic transformations, and shorten life-expectancy, which has been previously observed with anagrelide, chlorambucil, pipobroman, and radiophosphorus.1
1. Tefferi A, Barbui T. Polycythemia vera and essential thrombocythemia: 2021 update on diagnosis, risk-stratification and management. Am J Hematol. Published online September 24, 2020. doi:10.1002/ajh.26008
2. Bose P, Verstovsek S. Updates in the management of polycythemia vera and essential thrombocythemia. Ther Adv Hematol. 2019;10:2040620719870052. doi:10.1177/2040620719870052
Essential Thrombocythemia Hematologic Cancers Myeloproliferative Disorders Myeloproliferative Neoplasms Polycythemia Vera
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Summary: You can store parse trees, or ASTs, directly in a Git repo, but then you have new problems.
Git stores a file structure as trees, using Objects for files and Tree Objects for directories. The tools usually ignore empty directories, but the internal object store has no problem handling them. So, every so often, I wonder why someone doesn't store the full AST, or just the parse tree, in the repository, instead of just the files.
To summarize the code, I'm using a grammar, from the Instaparse tests, that groups 'a's and 'b's from the string "aaaaabbbaaaabb". After parsing the text, I apply an Enlive transformation that removes the A nodes from the parse tree. I then render the result back into a tree, made of lists and hash-maps, to be stored in the Git repo using JGit and a custom JGit WorkingTreeIterator. Inside the custom tree iterator, I lazily convert each node into a JGit Entry with a FileMode of TREE or REGULAR_FILE, depending on if the node has children.
The Enlive transform and the render function are not required, but, in this case, I wanted to manipulate the tree before saving it.
Style Independent: The stored representation is immune to statements that parse, or even compile, equivalently. The argument of tabs versus spaces, variable declaration alignment, and other, slightly pedantic, coding style arguments become meaningless, because only the parser or compiler's "view" of the code is stored.
Hard Version Dependency: The stored structure is directly dependent on a compiler version and any bugs or limitations of that version. Assuming the stored tree is tagged with language version information, the language developers would need to release a migration script, a translator, or keep previous versions available for long periods of time, as opposed to just relying on customers to change their own code.
Code Generator Required: Assuming only the tree is stored, checking out code from a repository would require a human-readable code generator, like what most decompilers do today. While this would allow for personalized code styling, it is an additional language specific tool to build and maintain.
Diff and Merge Tool Limitations: Most mainstream diff and merge tools focus solely on the contents of the stored blobs and assume node order independence. Whether this requires different algorithms or a different workflow, the tools will have to change to handle large trees and forests.


The Commander series is a line of products conceived for the Commander format. From 2013 on, a Commander product was released every year, each containing five 100-card decks. This product is generally targeted at non-tournament play. While the audience is obviously Commander players, they are also interesting for other formats like free-for-all multiplayer or Cube Draft.
On average, Commander sets feature 50-60 all-new cards. The new commons are available in all decks, uncommons are available in all decks of the card's color, rares are available in one deck only, and mythic rares are the new Commanders themselves.
Commander Theme Decks — Two decks, Magic Online only (August 2009).
Commander — Five wedge colored decks (June 2011).
Commander's Arsenal — 18 foil cards and other goodies (November 2012).
Commander 2013 — Five shard colored decks (November 2013).
Commander 2014 — Five mono colored decks (November 2014).
Commander 2015 — Five enemy colored decks (November 2015).
Commander 2016 — Five 4-color decks (November 2016).
Commander Anthology — Four previous Commander decks together in one package (June 2017).
Commander 2017 — Four tribal decks (August 2017).
Commander Anthology Volume II — Four previous Commander decks together in one package (June 2018).
Commander 2018 — Three 3-color decks and one 2-color deck (August 2018).
Commander 2019 — TBA (August 2019).


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A bottle of Jack Daniels, a box of antidepressants showing its empty blister packs, rolling papers and cigarettes, all on the table as a kind of first aid kit, becomes a self-portrait of Yann Leto in the doldrums. This painting, Knock out, despite occupying a modest place in his current exhibit, The Round, gives some emotional intimacy to a set of works in which the quadrilateral is the leitmotiv of a confrontation between two bodies […]
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Enrique Marty, when our everyday life is cracking up
Failed sculptures, false monuments, fallen idols, fanatics and misfits, big feet and delirious brains. Enrique Marty expresses over and over again the "sense of failure" (Sense of failure was the title of one of his latest shows), the absurdity and the misunderstanding that, far from jamming the gears of the world, lubricates them. But not all is lost. If there is one thing the Salamancan artist believes in, it is catharsis — that fear and […]
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