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Police Notebook
Information in the Police Notebook is taken directly from police logs in Holden, Paxton, Princeton, Rutland and Sterling. The Notebook includes all arrests and excerpts of other police activity to give area residents a snapshot of problems handled by their local police. The people who have been arrested are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. The Landmark welcomes news of acquittals; call 508-829-5981. After verification, news of acquittals will be published. Holden
Monday, November 5 9:03 a.m. Caller wants to know what "subsequent" means beside a charge 9:13 a.m. Verizon pole problem 10:18 a.m. Walk-in requesting possible police intervention with retrieving vehicles belonging to late brother 11:51 a.m. Erratic operator on Route 122A just past Holden Hills 11:58 a.m. Arrest: Godbless A. Asante, 40, 11 Twinehurst Pl., Southbridge; operating a motor vehicle with a license suspended, number plate violation 12:01 a.m. Burglar alarm on Reservoir St.; false alarm 2:50 p.m. Caller requesting to speak with officer regarding student 4:10 p.m. Report of gas station attendant pumping too much gas and demanding payment 5:36 p.m. Arrest: Adam Neasom Johnson, 19, 45 Oakridge Rd., Holden; operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license, license not in possession, no inspection sticker 5:52 p.m. Operator in lot on Holden St. possibly slumped over wheel 6:37 p.m. Flashing light at pumping station reported
Tuesday, November 6 6:33 a.m. Two-car motor vehicle accident on Shrewsbury St. in parking lot; operators exchanged info 7:24 a.m. 911 Two calls regarding motor vehicle accident, trash truck vs. pickup truck on Reservoir St. 8:01 a.m. Student hit in face at high school; lookout sent out for suspect 8:09 a.m. 911 cell caller reports pole on fire on Tobin Lane 8:42 a.m. Moving van obstructing traffic on Shrewsbury St. 9:16 a.m. Caller reports being injured from motor vehicle accident; will be transporting self to hospital 9:20 a.m. Water flooding on Main St. near Adams Rd. 9:59 a.m. 911 Rollover accident on Reservoir St. near Worcester line, with entrapment; driver went into water to get dog 10:28 Possible train fire reported; flames coming from top of unit, Providence and Worcester notified; they're aware 10:55 a.m. Suspicious vehicle parked in Honey Farms lot 10:58 a.m. Dog involved in motor vehicle accident transported home 12:29 p.m. Party received scam check 1:30 p.m. Parent brought in items to be checked, found in son's desk, concerned they might be drugs; okay, just Tums 2:05 p.m. Aid Auburn PD with search for individual and vehicle on Towle Dr. 3:10 p.m. 911Report of vehicle stolen and then returned on Main St. 3:18 p.m. Inquiry about toy donations for Christmas 6:45 p.m. Caller reports arriving home to find door unlocked on Highland Ave.; nothing missing, however 7:59 p.m. 911 Report of unknown person knocking on front and side doors on Winthrop Lane; okay, neighbor attempting to wake homeowner 8:22 p.m. Report of lost dog
Wednesday, November 7 12:59 a.m. 911 Domestic disturbance on Fruit St., residence is in Worcester; Worcester PD advised 8:23 a.m. Credit card theft reported 8:58 a.m. Party reporting tricks by older kids on Pinecroft Ave. on Halloween 9:25 a.m. Caller reporting someone continuously calling him 9:59 a.m. Paving crew shut down on Camp St., no detail officer, unregistered equipment and traffic safety; company requests to continue 10:12 a.m. Caller with information about stolen plate found on vehicle at Honey Farms 11:03 a.m. Caller asking for officer to keep peace while husband retrieves belongings on Main St. 12:22 p.m. Report of driver passing school bus with lights flashing when kindergartners were getting off 12:33 p.m. Motor vehicle reported stolen in Auburn found behind Wong Dynasty on Reservoir St. 4:03 p.m. Kids reported running in and out of traffic on Doyle Rd.; no contact 4:15 p.m. Caller says soon-to-be-ex wife threatening to throw belongings out on lawn, doesn't want to go look and cause trouble; advised to get officer when he does retrieve belongings; no belongings on lawn 4:51 p.m. 911 Report of male in house resident doesn't know; yelled at him to leave but he won't 6:56 p.m. Stolen property at high school 10:09 p.m. 911 Report of mother and her boyfriend yelling; child concerned; mother took phone and said it's a misunderstanding 11:00 p.m. Erratic motor vehicle on Shrewsbury St.
Thursday, November 8 6:01 a.m. Coyote in area of Greenwood Parkway 7:17 a.m. Resident concerned about cement trucks speeding on Rte. 31 every day 7:55 a.m. Caller returning to residence to retrieve belongings; doesn't expect trouble 9:15 a.m. Restraining order service 9:27 a.m. High school nurse requesting assistance with party with ring stuck on finger 9:42 a.m. 911 asking for number in Florida; advised to call 411 10:37 a.m. 911 hang-up from Holden St.; trying to call 411 10:50 a.m. Caller reporting road being built on property that was not authorized 11:14 a.m. Assist Auburn police with locating owner of vehicle left in their town 12:10 p.m. Request for assistance to allow school bus to back out on Country Hill Rd. 12:15 p.m. Barre PD requesting information about identity theft charges 4:58 p.m. Domestic on Quinapoxet St., father yelling at daughter, won't let her leave 8:55 p.m. Debris in road on Main St. 9:20 p.m. Anonymous call about West Boylston residents; West Boylston PD informed 10:30 p.m. Driver dropped motorcycle in traffic on Main St.
Friday, November 9 6:17 a.m. Two loose horses walking on Reservoir St., creating traffic hazard; no contact, horses corralled 9:40 a.m. Mountview principal requesting aid to check on someone; okay, out of country 10:21 a.m. Request for officer help with unknown problem with student at high school 11:51 a.m. Arrest: Julia Ann Mahoney, 32, 21 Dillon St., Worcester; warrant 12:42 p.m. 911 Cell phone caller reported to Mass. State Police that a hawk was hit by a car on Shrewsbury St. 2:58 p.m. 911 Report of suspicious motor vehicle in front of neighbor's house on Bancroft Rd.; okay, waiting for neighbor to return home 2:59 p.m. Caller upset regarding ticket son received; wrong name, does have a license 4:32 p.m. Suspicious motor vehicles parked on Sterling Rd. reported; no contact 5:36 p.m. Kids running after cars, arguing on Fort Sumter Dr.; parties spoken to, advised to keep out of road 6:29 p.m. Motor vehicle lockout on Main St. 6:51 p.m. Worker at Friendly's advising kids on skateboards in parking lot, have been told to leave but won't; parties advised by police to leave 7:44 p.m. Caller wants officers to check vacant house, lights on; okay, lights on timers 7:49 p.m. Female hiker reported on Shrewbury St. 8:52 p.m. Youths on skateboards again at Friendly's; dispersed 9:41 p.m. Kids on skateboards in Boyden Rd., flipping off passerby and swearing; parties advised they will be summonsed if police are called about them again 10:24 p.m. Two vehicles racing on Main St.
Saturday, November 10 3:42 a.m. 911 Mass. State Police transferring call, individual saying he was being pulled into car against his will, but now everything is okay; hung up before transfer of call; call back, party agreed to speak with officer 9:49 a.m. Wallet found; message left for owner 9:57 a.m. Caller reporting verbal altercation regarding trespassing 11:22 a.m. Larceny reported on Main St. 11:30 a.m. Walk-in reports window broken on car, items stolen, on River St. at Rail Trail 11:40 a.m. Motor vehicle accident on Main St., no injury 11:42 a.m. 911 Motor vehicle accident with vehicle into the woods and possible smoke on West St. in Paxton; Paxton PD advised 3:44 p.m. Motor vehicle accident on Reservoir St., no personal injury 5:59 p.m. Victim of theft reports credit card stolen was then used at Mobil Station in Rutland 8:45 p.m. Missing Husky from Gail Drive
Sunday, November 11 12:45 a.m. Suspicious motor vehicle on Main St. 1:20 a.m. Gate down at Trout Brook; okay, an event happening there 1:29 a.m. Suspicious motor vehicle on Shrewsbury St.; backseat passenger feeling ill 1:57 a.m. Suspicious motor vehicle travelling north on Rte. 122A with lights off, crossing center line 2:03 a.m. Suspicious motor vehicle on Sagewood Circle 4:11 a.m. Clinton police faxing restraining order over for service 4:28 a.m. Restraining order served 7:32 a.m. 911 Caller reports restraining order problem; individual not on premises when officers arrived 7:37 a.m. Report of two vehicles on sidewalk on Doyle Rd. obstructing view of driveway 7:43 a.m. Two reports of water rushing out of side of building on Main St.; problem resolved 11:41 a.m. Nails in roadway on Highland St. 12:27 p.m. Caller concerned about speeding on Bullard St. 12:41 p.m. Doctor calling to request assistance with notification/ identification of patients at hospital emergency room 2:25 p.m. 911 Motor vehicle accident on Main St. 4:05 p.m. Neighbor requests permission to take bicycle that's been chained to pole for a long time; WRHS will make announcement 5:57 p.m. Skateboarders using front steps of library 8:34 p.m. Arrest: David Michael Hanny, 18, 108 Jackson St., Jefferson; unlicensed operation of motor vehicle, speeding 8:51 p.m. Caller concerned about son overdue, travelling from Marlborough; advised no incidents, call Mass State Police 9:53 p.m. Caller requesting phone numbers for someone who can help injured owl that flew into side of her house 10:28 p.m. Suspicious motor vehicle on Timber Lane; okay, mother out with daughter learning to drive
Monday, November 5 9:50 a.m. False alarm, Pleasant St. 5:42 p.m. Erratic operator, Rte. 31 from Holden
Tuesday, November 6 9:03 a.m. Suspicious auto, Pleasant St. 7:06 p.m. 911 abandoned call, child playing with the phone, Richards Ave.
Wednesday, November 7 10:22 a.m. Walk-in reporting that a tractor trailer just hit a dog, Pleasant St. 5:18 p.m. Area alarm investigated, Maple St. 9:27 p.m. Suspicious auto, Pleasant St.
Thursday, November 8 3:57 a.m. Suspicious noises in the house, party not sure if someone is breaking in, or has broken in, Forrestdale Ave. 6:14 a.m. Suspicious auto, Howe's Farm stand 7:10 a.m. Accident/property damage, Pleasant St. 9:26 a.m. Someone drove over caller's lawn, no damage, Burtemar Circle 1:40 p.m. Suspicious person at the door refusing to leave, Grove St. 3:03 p.m. Assist citizen, USO sign missing, Pleasant St.
Friday, November 9 12:59 a.m. General disturbance, Sunset Ln. Male in custody with security, need assistance. 8:40 a.m. Alarm sounding, Rolling Ridge Ln. 11:03 a.m. Anna Maria security requesting assistance with a hit-and-run who damaged a car and left the scene, Sunset Ln. 2:14 p.m. Walk-in party reporting a truck with a load of leaves blowing all over the road posing a problem, Pleasant St. towards Rutland
Saturday, November 10 7:57 a.m. Check welfare, Old Lantern Circle 11:42 a.m. Car hit pole, West St. 5:27 p.m. Erratic operator, Pleasant St. 7:00 p.m. Six kids at the bank parking lot sitting on the hood of caller's car and asking for alcohol, Pleasant St.
Sunday, November 11 4:50 a.m. Suspicious auto, Worcester Memorial Cemetery 10:00 a.m. Lockout from car at Anna Maria College, Sunset Ln. 10:03 a.m. 911 domestic, Arrowhead Dr. 6:56 p.m. Rutland PD requesting a stop and hold for a green Ford Ranger, driver involved in an assault on Maple Ave. 7:29 p.m. Maroon dodge pulled up in front of house and occupant was looking in the mailbox. Caller's husband went to the door and the truck left heading toward the center, Pleasant St. 11:58 p.m. Caller reporting two male subjects hanging around in the area. Not sure if they belong, Pleasant St.
Monday, November 5 7:57 a.m. 911 hang-up, investigated, Mountain Rd. 9:00 a.m. Officer investigation, Fitchburg Rd. 10:00 a.m. Officer investigation, Clearings Way 1:48 p.m. Suspicious person, Calamint Hill Rd. North 7:03 p.m. Erratically operated motor vehicle, Main St. 7:26 p.m. Arrest: Harry J. St. Nicholas, 49, 372 Pleasant St., Leominster; operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of liquor, third offense 9:05 p.m. Public service, Town Hall Dr.
Tuesday, November 6 4:05 p.m. Traffic control duty, Redwood Dr. 6:08 p.m. Public service, Town Hall Dr. 6:30 p.m. Officer investigation, Town Hall Dr. 10:42 p.m. Request for dog officer, Rte. 140 North/Fitchburg Rd.
Wednesday, November 7 6:53 a.m. Vandalism, Hobbs Rd. 8:19 a.m. Suspicious incident, Dowds Lane 11:04 a.m. Motor vehicle accident, property damage, Mountain Rd. 5:26 p.m. Suspicious motor vehicle, Beaman Rd.
Thursday, November 8 7:58 a.m. Request for dog officer, Calamint Hill Rd. North 10:31 a.m. Request for dog officer, Fitchburg Rd. 11:39 a.m. Request for dog officer, Beaman Rd.
Friday, November 9 6:32 a.m. Request for dog officer, Prospect St. 6:32 a.m. Motor vehicle break-in, Houghton Rd. 6:52 a.m. Motor vehicle break-in, Houghton Rd. 7:04 a.m. Motor vehicle breaking/entering, Houghton Rd. 7:23 a.m. Motor vehicle break-in, Parker Place 7:38 a.m. Motor vehicle break-in, Parker Place 7:42 a.m. Motor vehicle breaking and entering, Houghton Rd. 7:53 a.m. Motor vehicle theft, Houghton Rd. 9:40 a.m. Motor vehicle break-in, Bullard Rd. 3:13 p.m. Request for animal control officer, Beaman Rd. 3:43 p.m. Traffic safety hazard, Worcester Rd. 4:01 p.m. Motor vehicle break-in, Fitchburg Rd.
Saturday, November 10 3:45 p.m. Motor vehicle violation, Hubbardston Rd./Gates Rd. 4:03 p.m. Fire investigation, Beaman Rd. 5:32 p.m. Motor vehicle violation, criminal complaint issued, Main St. Unregistered motor vehicle, operating a motor vehicle with a suspended registration, subsequent offense 10:48 p.m. Fire investigation, Radford Rd. 10:52 p.m. Assist fire department, Radford Rd.
Sunday, November 11 2:15 a.m. Motor vehicle violation, Sterling Rd., citation issued 10:50 a.m. Assist fire department, Mountain Rd. 3:05 p.m. Assist dog officer, East Princeton Rd. 6:18 p.m. Traffic safety hazard, Worcester Rd. 6:44 p.m. Request for animal control officer, Pheasant Hollow Run 7:42 p.m. Suspicious incident, Matthews Lane 10:35 p.m. Assist other police department. Rte. 140 North
Monday November 5 11:39 a.m. Walk-in to speak with officer 2:15 p.m. 911 caller requests officer, East County Rd.
Tuesday November 6 10:13 a.m. Disabled automobile, Maple Ave. 4:52 p.m. Walk-in to speak with officer 7:10 p.m. Caller reports locking keys in car, Miles Rd. 10:26 p.m. Suspicious automobile, Maple Ave.
Wednesday November 7 1:17 a.m. 911 caller reports a disabled automobile on Rte. 56 1:41 a.m. Worcester PD request officer to advise resident on Maple Ave. to contact them. Party not listed at address given. 8:33 a.m. Caller reports smoke outside building, Maple Ave. 10:33 a.m. Burglar alarm, Watson Lane 1:04 p.m. Summons delivered, Vista Circle 4:05 p.m. Caller reports suspicious automobile on dirt section of Emerald Rd. 6:22 p.m. Caller reports that his children saw a suspicious person digging through trash, Sunnyside Ave.
Thursday November 8 5:57 a.m. Walk-in reports that they hit a deer on Pleasantdale Rd. near the Mobile station. Deer took off into woods. 9:51 a.m. 911 hang-up call, Jackson Ave. Upon call back, party does not speak English. 11:15 a.m. Officer requested, Central Tree Middle School. Principal requests officer to assist with student who threatened to harm someone. 4:48 p.m. Walk-in to pick up property from an earlier arrest 9:23 p.m. Caller reports hitting a dead deer that was lying in the middle of Wachusett Street. No damage to vehicle. 11:44 p.m. Walk-in reports disabled automobile, Community Hall parking lot.
Friday November 9 1:15 a.m. Walk-in to see EMS regarding a medical emergency. 10:25 a.m. Walk-in reports large bale of hay in middle of Pleasantdale Rd. DPW advised. 1:15 p.m. Walk-in with complaint of unsafe construction of a handicap ramp at Rutland Pharmacy. Building inspector notified. 3:20 p.m. Caller from Devereux School reporting runaway of student from Worcester school. Worcester PD notified. 4:51 p.m. 911 caller requests officer to check on unwanted party on premises, Pommogussett Rd. 5:24 p.m. Runaway reported, Miles Rd. 5:30 p.m. Runaway in custody, transported to hospital 7:28 p.m. Shelbourne Falls State Police notify having received a 911 hang-up call from a house on Thurston Hill Rd.
Saturday November 10 4:29 a.m. Caller requesting assistance with a broken pipe near her hot water tank. Water leaking and she does not know how to turn it off. 12:25 p.m. Suspicious person, Memorial Dr. 2:36 p.m. Walk-in reports lawn mower missing from her property, Maple Ave. 3:03 p.m. Motor vehicle disturbance, Maple Ave. Caller reports a blue 1967 Chevy Nova doing burnouts and leaving smoke in the area.
Sunday November 11 11:00 a.m. Caller reports a trailer in the middle of the roadway, Wachusett St. 12:20 p.m. Suspicious persons, Maple Ave. Caller reports four people around a house believed to be under foreclosure, carrying pistols. 6:54 p.m. Caller reports a male subject assaulted two people in their apartment on Maple Ave. Subject took off in truck on Route 56 heading toward Paxton. Arrest: Kenneth Maclellan, 36, 32 old Farm Rd. Spencer; violation of an abuse prevention order, two counts of assault and battery, threat to commit murder, vandalizing property.
Monday, November 5 7:10 a.m. 911 hang-up, Carriage Way 7:57 a.m. Caller reporting a breaking and entering incident, Leominster Rd. 8:04 a.m. Lost/found property, Leominster Rd. 12:21 p.m. Animal complaint, Beaman Rd. 3:12 p.m. Lost/found property, Boutelle Rd.
Tuesday, November 6 3:51 p.m. Cat found, Maple St. 7:20 p.m. Suspicious activity, Maple St./Kendall Hill Rd. 11:47 p.m. Disabled motor vehicle, Clinton Rd./Chocksett Rd.
Wednesday, November 7 1:52 a.m. Recovered stolen vehicle, Leominster Rd. 8:30 a.m. Message/summons delivered, Laurel Ave. 9:47 a.m. Vandalism, Upper North Row Rd. 2:34 p.m. Animal complaint, Fox Run Rd. 4:37 p.m. Officer wanted, Leominster Rd. 5:57 p.m. Attempt to deliver message/summons, Old Princeton West Rd. 6:00 p.m. Attempt to deliver message/summons, Laurel Ave. 9:28 p.m. Arrest: Eric S. Sorensen, 28, 15 Laurel Ave., Sterling. warrant
Thursday, November 8 7:29 a.m. Arrest: William S. Rheaume, 19, 21 Laurel Ave., Sterling, warrant 1:48 p.m. Assist citizen, Leominster Rd. 4:09 p.m. Animal complaint, Lucas Rd. 4:44 p.m. Arrest: Nancy Oliver, 38, 4 Stuart Rd., Sterling, warrant 6:50 p.m. Disabled motor vehicle, Leominster Rd.
Friday, November 9 12:24 a.m. Disabled motor vehicle, Interstate 190 10:10 a.m. Suspicious motor vehicle, Leominster Rd. 10:19 a.m. 911 hang-up, Redemption Rock Trail 11:11 a.m. Assist other agencies, Pine St./Maple St. 11:41 a.m. Animal complaint, Olde Parish Ln. 11:57 a.m. 911 hang-up, Waushacum Ave. 7:55 p.m. Disabled motor vehicle, Leominster Rd.
Saturday, November 10 8:25 a.m. Officer wanted, Leominster Rd. 12:56 p.m. Burglary, breaking/entering, Leominster Rd. 12:58 p.m. Larceny, Laurelwood Rd. 2:26 p.m. Burglary, breaking/entering, Heywood Rd. 3:15 p.m. Disturbance, Beaman Rd. 4:14 p.m. 911 hang-up, Blueberry Ln. 4:22 p.m. Disturbance, Griffin Rd. 7:59 p.m. Motor vehicle accident, Kilburn Rd. and Rowley Hill Rd.
Sunday, November 11 6:05 a.m. Burglary, breaking/entering, Leominster Rd. 7:01 a.m. Officer wanted, Leominster Rd. 8:20 a.m. Animal complaint, John Dee Rd. 9:24 p.m. Officer wanted, Chocksett Rd. 5:59 p.m. Disturbance, Leominster Rd. Sterling Police responded to four burglar alarms


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Holy Week at the Chapel of the Dukes of Braganza : A Capella Portuguesa, Owen Rees
February 16, 2017 ~ f. d. leone
This recording is a celebration of the vast outpouring of masterpieces which survived the destruction by earthquake of the Lisbon libraries solely due to the dedication of the Vila Viçosa copyists.
It is a collection of Renaissance polyphony celebrating Easter Week in Renaissance Portugal by some big names, Palestrina, Lobo, and Victoria but also includes composers I've never heard before: Manuel Mendes (c1547-1605); Gabriel Díaz Bessón (before 1590-1638); Juan de Esquivel Barahona (c1563-after 1613); Giovanni Giorgi (d1762); Fernando de Almeida (c1600-1660); João Lourenço Rebelo (1610-1661); Ginés de Morata (fl1550-1550); Juan de Castro y Malagaray (c1572-1632).
The following excerpted description of the music and history is taken from the recording Booklet essay © 1996, by Bernadette Nelson, Hyperion, "Holy Week at the Chapel of the Dukes of Braganza."
The ducal palace of the Braganza family, heirs to the Portuguese throne from the mid-seventeenth century onwards, is situated in Vila Viçosa, a small town near the Spanish border in southern Portugal. The palace was built at the beginning of the sixteenth century by Dom Jaime, fourth Duke of Braganza, and survives as the best witness to the former richness and glory of this royal house. One of the most thriving eras was during the time of the fifth and sixth Dukes of Braganza in the sixteenth century, when several Portuguese humanists were at court. Before Dom João (eighth Duke) succeeded to the Portuguese throne in 1640, following sixty years of Spanish rule under the Habsburg monarchs, over three hundred people were employed at the palace, including a very large band of musicians: more than a hundred are recorded there between 1583 and 1626 – a greater number than in any of the cathedrals in Portugal.
The liturgy of Holy Week, with its series of penitential texts and reflections on the suffering and death of Christ, inspired some of the most expressive pieces of vocal music ever written. Motets, Lamentations and responsories by Spanish and Portuguese composers working in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in particular – composers such as Victoria, Cardoso, Esquivel and Juan de Castro y Malagaray – remain as testimonies to the taste at that time for emotional and often dramatic musical statements written in response to the sentiments of the texts.
This music remained fashionable well into the eighteenth century and continued to be performed in the leading choral establishments such as the royal chapel in Lisbon even when Italianate tastes and manners took a firm hold (this happening particularly under the directorship of Domenico Scarlatti (mestre da capella, c1720-1728) who began to recruit large numbers of professional Italian musicians).
Tangible proof of the continued taste for sixteenth- and seventeenth-century music is found in the series of Vila Viçosa choirbooks which include a wide range of choral works dating from this period for up to eight voice parts. Although some of the music in these books – by Victoria, Palestrina and Cardoso – is known through other sources (both printed and in manuscript), a very large proportion is unique. It is thus thanks to the diligence of the copyist that we are still left with an important repertory of works which would otherwise have been destroyed in the Lisbon earthquake.
https://musicakaleidoscope.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/holy-week-morata-cum-descendentibus.mp3
An additional curiosity is the music by a number of composers such as Francisco António de Almeida, Manuel Soares and the Italian Hieronimus Bezzi who played a decisive role in these compilations of Holy Week music: not only did they compose items in a pastiche stile antico, or seventeenth-century manner, but they also even completed – or added contrapuntal parts to – compositions by older composers.
https://musicakaleidoscope.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/holy-week-mendes-asperges-me-excerpt.mp3
The music on this disc has been selected from the Vila Viçosa choirbooks, beginning with items from the multifarious sequence of music traditionally sung during the blessing, distribution of palms, and procession on Palm Sunday, one of the most impressive and elaborate ceremonies in the liturgical year.
https://musicakaleidoscope.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/holy-week-esquivel-barahona-o-vos-omnes.mp3
The liturgy of Holy Week enjoyed a particularly privileged position and, in 1604, special papal dispensation was obtained which permitted the celebration of the daytime Offices of Holy Week to extend well into the night.
Listening to this recording is also a wonderful way to start the day.
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L'assegno al nucleo familiare (ANF) è stato istituito nell'ordinamento italiano dall'art. 2 del D.L. 13 marzo 1988, n. 69, convertito con modificazioni in legge 13 maggio 1988, n. 153.

L'assegno al nucleo familiare spesso viene confuso con gli assegni familiari regolati dal T.U. approvato con D.P.R. 30 maggio 1955 n. 797.

Soggetti spettanti
L'assegno viene erogato al dipendente o al percettore di pensione che ne faccia specifica richiesta e per lo stesso nucleo familiare non può essere concesso più di un assegno. L'assegno viene erogato nel settore privato dall'INPS o dall'INPGI mentre per i dipendenti dei comparti ministeri, scuola, agenzie fiscali, vigili del fuoco, conservatori e alta formazione viene erogato direttamente dalle direzioni territoriali dell'economia e delle finanze competenti per provincia.

Il diritto alla percezione delle somme si prescrive in cinque anni. L'importo dell'assegno varia in relazione ai componenti il nucleo familiare, alla presenza o meno di persone inabili ed è inversamente proporzionale al reddito complessivo. Le tabelle vengono aggiornate annualmente.

Motivi di esclusione
L'assegno non spetta se la somma dei redditi da lavoro dipendente ed assimilati è inferiore al 70% del reddito complessivo del nucleo familiare (articolo 2 – comma 10 – D.L. 13 marzo 1988 convertito con legge 13 maggio 1988 n. 153).

Modifiche apportate dalla legge finanziaria 2005
Con decorrenza dal 1º gennaio 2005 - in attuazione del decreto del 4 aprile 2005, attuativo dell'art. 1, comma 559, della legge finanziaria 30 dicembre 2004 -  stabilisce che il coniuge, non titolare di autonomo diritto - con apposita domanda - può richiedere l'assegno per nucleo familiare al datore di lavoro tenuto all'erogazione dell'assegno al coniuge.

Modifiche apportate dalla legge finanziaria 2007
La Legge del 27 dicembre 2006, n. 296 (Finanziaria 2007), comma 11, ha apportato importanti variazioni alla normativa riguardante l'assegno per nucleo familiare. Ricordiamo le principali:

 Sono stati rideterminati i livelli di reddito e gli importi dell'assegno relativi ai nuclei familiari con entrambi i genitori o un solo genitore e con almeno un figlio minore, in cui non siano presenti componenti inabili (tabella 11 "Nuclei familiari con entrambi i genitori e almeno un figlio minore in cui non siano presenti componenti inabili" e tabella 12 "Nuclei familiari con un solo genitore e almeno un figlio minore in cui non siano presenti componenti inabili).
 Per i nuclei familiari con più di cinque componenti oltre i genitori (a partire da sette componenti totali) o il genitore (da sei componenti totali), l'assegno viene maggiorato di un ulteriore 15 per cento nonché di 660,00 euro per ogni componente oltre il quinto.
 Per i nuclei familiari composti da un solo genitore e tre componenti oltre il genitore è previsto un assegno aggiuntivo.
 È previsto un aumento dell'importo dell'assegno del 15 per cento per le altre tipologie di nuclei con figli.
 Sono state aggiornate le decurtazioni per i nuclei composti anche da fratelli, sorelle o nipoti dei genitori o dal genitore.
 Ai fini della determinazione dell'assegno per nucleo familiare, in presenza di nuclei numerosi (almeno quattro figli o equiparati di età inferiore a 26 anni compiuti) vengono considerati al pari dei figli minori anche i figli o equiparati di età superiore a 18 anni compiuti ed inferiore a 21 anni compiuti purché studenti o apprendisti.

Sono rimasti invece invariati i livelli di reddito e gli importi dell'assegno relativi ai nuclei familiari senza figli.

Voci correlate
 Assegni familiari

Collegamenti esterni

Diritto del lavoro

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Q: Doing a cross pivot in Google BigQuery I have asked a previous question about doing a multi-level aggregation query on the X-axis here: Get the top patent countries, codes in a BQ public dataset.
Here is how the query (copied from the accepted answer works) to get:
Top 2 Countries by Count, and within those countries, top 2 Codes by Count
WITH A AS (
  SELECT country_code
  FROM `patents-public-data.patents.publications`
  GROUP BY country_code
  ORDER BY COUNT(1) DESC
  LIMIT 2
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  SELECT
    country_code,
    application_kind,
    COUNT(1) application_kind_count
  FROM `patents-public-data.patents.publications`
  WHERE country_code IN (SELECT country_code FROM A)
  GROUP BY country_code, application_kind
), C AS (
  SELECT
    country_code,
    application_kind,
    application_kind_count,
    DENSE_RANK() OVER(PARTITION BY country_code ORDER BY application_kind_count DESC) AS application_kind_rank
  FROM B
)
SELECT
  country_code,
  application_kind,
  application_kind_count
FROM C
WHERE application_kind_rank <= 2

And I get something like:
country_code     application_kind   count
JP               A                  125
JP               U                  124
CN               A                  118
CN               U                  101

Now I would like to add the following pivot on the y-axis: to get the following:

*

*X: Top 2 Countries by Count, and within those countries, top 2 Codes by Count

*Y: Top 2 family_id by Count, Top 2 priority_date by Count

The final results would then look like:

I am able to build the Y-query in a second query --
WITH A AS (
  SELECT family_id
  FROM `patents-public-data.patents.publications`
  GROUP BY family_id
  ORDER BY COUNT(1) DESC
  LIMIT 2
), B AS (
  SELECT
    family_id,
    priority_date,
    COUNT(1) priority_date_count
  FROM `patents-public-data.patents.publications`
  WHERE family_id IN (SELECT family_id FROM A)
  GROUP BY family_id, priority_date
), C AS (
  SELECT
    family_id,
    priority_date,
    priority_date_count,
    DENSE_RANK() OVER(PARTITION BY family_id ORDER BY priority_date_count DESC) AS priority_date_rank
  FROM B
)
SELECT
  family_id,
  priority_date,
  priority_date_count
FROM C
WHERE priority_date_rank <= 2

However, I am not quite sure how to merge them together, in a single query or in two.

A: Below is for BigQuery Standard SQL and is just demo of the approach and not pretending to be 100% representing requested logic
WITH A_X AS (
  SELECT country_code FROM `patents-public-data.patents.publications`
  GROUP BY country_code ORDER BY COUNT(1) DESC LIMIT 2
), B_X AS (
  SELECT country_code, application_kind, COUNT(1) application_kind_count
  FROM `patents-public-data.patents.publications` WHERE country_code IN (SELECT country_code FROM A_X)
  GROUP BY country_code, application_kind
), C_X AS (
  SELECT country_code, application_kind, application_kind_count,
    DENSE_RANK() OVER(PARTITION BY country_code ORDER BY application_kind_count DESC) AS application_kind_rank
  FROM B_X
), X AS (
  SELECT country_code, application_kind, application_kind_count
  FROM C_X WHERE application_kind_rank <= 2
), A_Y AS (
  SELECT family_id FROM `patents-public-data.patents.publications`
  JOIN X USING(country_code, application_kind)
  GROUP BY family_id
  ORDER BY COUNT(1) DESC LIMIT 2
), B_Y AS (
  SELECT family_id, priority_date, COUNT(1) priority_date_count
  FROM `patents-public-data.patents.publications` WHERE family_id IN (SELECT family_id FROM A_Y)
  GROUP BY family_id, priority_date
), C_Y AS (
  SELECT family_id, priority_date, priority_date_count,
    DENSE_RANK() OVER(PARTITION BY family_id ORDER BY priority_date_count DESC) AS pos_date
  FROM B_Y
), Y AS (
  SELECT family_id, priority_date, pos_date, DENSE_RANK() OVER(ORDER BY family_id) pos_family
  FROM C_Y WHERE pos_date <= 2
)
SELECT country_code, application_kind,
  COUNTIF(pos_family = 1 AND pos_date = 1) `family1_date1`,
  COUNTIF(pos_family = 1 AND pos_date = 2) `family1_date2`,
  COUNTIF(pos_family = 2 AND pos_date = 1) `family2_date1`,
  COUNTIF(pos_family = 2 AND pos_date = 2) `family2_date2`
FROM `patents-public-data.patents.publications`
JOIN Y USING(family_id, priority_date)
WHERE country_code IN (SELECT country_code FROM X)
AND application_kind IN (SELECT application_kind FROM x)
GROUP BY country_code, application_kind

the result is

Obviously, there are number of zeroes above because of intersection logic

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Xit, now Sir Narcissus Le Grand, entertaining his friends on his wedding day — George Cruikshank. Final, double-number, December 1840. Ninety-fourth illustration and thirty-eighth steel-engraving in William Harrison Ainsworth's The Tower of London. A Historical Romance. Illustration for Book the Second, Chapter XXXIX. — "Of the wedding of Sir Narcissus Le Grand with Jane the Fool, and what happened at it; and of the entertainment given by him, on the occasion, to his old friends at the Stone Kitchen," summing up the comic plot involving the gigantic warders and their diminutive, vainglorious friend Xit. 9.8 cm high by 14.7 wide, framed, facing p. 407: running head, "Sir Narcissus Interrupted by the Monkey." If the melodrama ends well for Princess Elizabeth, the conclusion of the comic plot is equally satisfying as the dwarf of the Tower marries Queen Mary's Fool — another Jane. The drinking scene dissolves into a discussiuon of preparations for the executions of Lady Jane Grey and her husband — an an anecdote about one of the most celebrated ghosts of the Tower of London, Anne Boleyn. [Click on the image to enlarge it.]
Sir Narcissus was then conducted to a seat at the head of the table. On the right was placed his lady, on the left, Dame Placida; while the pantler, who, as usual, filled the office of carver, faced him. The giants were separated by the other guests, and Ribald sat between Dames Placida and Potentia, both of whom he contrived to keep in most excellent humour. Peter Trusbut did not assert too much when he declared that the entertainment should surpass all that had previously been given in the Stone Kitchen; and not to be behindhand, the giants exceeded all their former efforts in the eating line. They did not, it is true, trouble themselves much with the first course, which consisted of various kinds of pottage and fish; though Og spoke in terms of rapturous commendation of a sturgeon's jowl, and Magog consumed the best part of a pickled tunny-fish.
But when these were removed, and the more substantial viands appeared, they set to work in earnest. Turning up their noses at the boiled capons, roasted bustards, stewed quails, and other light matters, they, by one consent, assailed a largo shield of brawn, and speedily demolished it. Their next incursion was upon a venison pasty — a soused pig followed,— and while Gog prepared himself for a copious draught of Rhenish by a dish of anchovies, Magog, who had just emptied a huge two-handed flagon of bragget, sharpened his appetite— the edge of which was a little taken off,—  with a plate of pickled oysters. A fawn roasted, whole, with a pudding in its inside, now claimed their attention, and was pronounced delicious. Og, then, helped himself to a shoulder of mutton and olives; Gog to a couple of roasted ruffs; and Magog again revived his flagging powers with a dish of buttered crabs. At this juncture, the strong waters were introduced by the pantler, and proved highly acceptable to the labouring giants. [Chapter XXXIX. — "Of the wedding of Sir Narcissus Le Grand with Jane the Fool, and what happened at it; and of the entertainment given by him, on the occasion, to his old friends at the Stone Kitchen,"pp. 405-406]
The Pantler and the Cook, Peter Trusbut and Dame Potentia; Master Hairun, the bearward; the three giant warders, Og, Gog, and Magog; Ribald, and Winwike (without the dark character, Nightgall the Jailer, dead from a ninety-foot fall) now constitute the core of the group who have gathered to celebrate Xit's good fortune, his establishing his identity, and his nuptials. Consequently, Cruikshank has placed the cocky little fellow, a miniature "miles gloriosus," just to the right of centre, beside his wife, Jane, in the present composition. The party in the Stone Kitchen occurs on the day after the wedding, on Sunday, 11 February 1854, in sharp contrast to the political machinations and reversals in the main plot. As Ainsworth remarks, "the bridegroom [is] attired in his gayest habiliments, bedecked at all points with lace, tags, and fringe; curled, scented, and glistening with silver and gold" (402), as he was at the wedding ceremony on the previous day.
Cruikshank depicts the scene after the consumption of the massive wedding feast when well-wishers toast the recently married couple. Cruikshank gives prominenceto the fashionably-dressed bride, Jane the Fool ("Lady Le Grand"), the lavishly dressed bridegroom standing on the table to place himself at her level, and the Pantler (Peter Trusbut) and the Cook(Dame Potentia), raising their glasses (left).Ribald is paying solicitous attention to Lady Le Grand, who seems to be enjoying the celebration, even though Queen Mary had arranged her marriage to the dwarf. The gigantic warders, holding drinking glasses to scale, are seated to the extreme right, around the table, whereas those rather more dour personages associated with executions, torture, and dungeons (Sorrocold, and Wolfytt)together with the chief warder, Winwike, are sitting in a settle, around the corner from the fireplace, left rear. The servant-boy whom Cruikshank has inserted into the proceedings, just left of centre, repeats the figure in the original steel-engraving of the society of the Stone Kitchen, although Ainsworth does not mention this character at all. The precise text upon which Cruikshank is elaborating is the following:
By the time the cloth was removed, and the dishes replaced by flagons and pots of hydromel and wine, Sir Narcissus was in the height of his glory. The wine had got a little into his head, but not more than added to his exhilaration, and he listened with rapturous delight to the speech made by Og, who in good set terms proposed his health and that of his bride. The pledge was drunk with the utmost enthusiasm; and in the heat of his excitement, Sir Narcissus mounted on the table, and bowing all round, returned thanks in the choicest phrases he could summon. [407]
Shortly Ainsworth will shift modes as the three turnkeys begin to discuss the preparations for the forthcoming executions of Lady Jane Grey and her husband. Mauger, the headsman, recalls seeing a ghost on the night before the execution of Catherine Howard: "and I have no doubt it will appear to-night" echoes the opening scenes of Hamlet. Tradition holds that the female figure who issued from the church porch. . . , shrouded from head to foot in white" is that of Anne Boleyn. Thus, the mood of jollity shifts through the joking and anecdotes of Mauger, Sorrocold, and Wolfytt to the serious political issues that will dominate the conclusion of the novel. Ainsworth has the trio explain why Jane and her husband are to be executed in different locations, Jane on Tower Green, Lord Guildford Dudley on Tower Hill: "Lady Jane Grey would be beheaded on Tower Hill, with her husband, but [the authorities] are afraid of the mob, who might compassionate the youthful pair, and occasion a riot" (408). Ainsworth introduces the scene involving the apparition through the conversation of the turnkeys at the wedding banquet:
It has already been stated that Mauger, Sorrocold, and Wolfytt were among the guests. The latter had pretty nearly recovered from the wound inflicted by Nightgall, which proved, on examination, by no means dangerous; and, regardless of the consequences, he ate, drank, laughed, and shouted as lustily as the rest. The other two being of a more grave and saturnine character, seldom smiled at what was going forward; and though they did not neglect to fill their goblets, took no share in the general conversation, but sat apart in a corner near the chimney with Winwike, discussing the terrible scenes they had witnessed in their different capacities, with the true gusto of amateurs. [408]
The three characters drinking in the sttle, upper left, in Xit, now Sir Narcussus Le Grand, entertaining his friends on his wedding day accordingly are Sorrocold, Wolfytt, and Winwike. However, in the text Mauger is clearly a part of the conversation about the "strange tales concerning that place" (408) where the carpenters are going to raise the scaffold. The illustrator therefore should have added the headsman to this low-key group in the corner, since Ainsworth would have intended this part of the illustration in Chapter 39 to prepare the reader for the ghostly "vision" in Chapter 40.
Earlier illustrations involving the characters from the Stone Kitchen
Left: The steel-engraving that introduces the reader to the fanatical Protestant preacher, Edward Underhill the Hot Gospeller preaching to the Giants in the By-ward. (Chapter 6, February 1840). Centre: The steel-engraving depicting the comic cast in a romantic subplot, Magog's Courtship (Chapter 12, April 1840). Right: The comic relief involving Xit's misadventure in the royal menagerie, the steel-engraving in Chapter 19, >Gog extricating Xit from the Bear in the Lions Tower (August 1840). [Click on images to enlarge them.]
Above: Cruikshank's realistic wood-engraving of the modern-day room in which the Tower's Tudor servants and guards were accustomed to gather, The Stone Kitchen (Chapter 3, January 1840).[Click on image to enlarge it.]
Above: The steel-engraving depicting the comic cast plus the villainous jailer, Nightgall, The Stone Kitchen (January 1840), also in the third chapter of Book the First. [Click on image to enlarge it.]
Carver, Stephen. Ainsworth and Friends: Essays on 19th Century Literature & The Gothic. Accessed 11 September 2017. https://ainsworthandfriends.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/william-harrison-ainsworth-the-life-and-adventures-of-the-lancashire-novelist/
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FII DII Activity details mentioned below. In the cash market today, FII's bought 418 crores stock whereas DII's bought 294 crores worth of stock. In the derivative market, FII's bought 999 crore of Index futures and bought 1173 crores worth of Index options. In the Stock futures segment, FII's bought 473 crores worth of stock futures and bought 85 crores stock options. Click on the chart for Participant wise OI figures.
Today was a day of consolidation for Nifty & Bank Nifty. Broader market did do well though.
RBI Policy was announced where 25 BPS rate cut came about. This was the consensus as per estimates.
Post this, one did see selling from higher levels in both Nifty & Bank Nifty.
As markets moved lower, open interest addition at calls was limited.
Open interest addition was mainly visible in Puts. (10900 PE & 11000 PE).
Open Interest data still looks positive for the series.
Breadth for the market was still better, Advance decline ratio stood at 1.35.
In this series, both FII's and DII's are buying into cash market as well. This is happening after a long time.
After Sp-bsp rejection to take congress into their alliance in U.P, nifty closed at 10795 iip growth was lowest in 17 months n i wrote on 12th jan fii data comment page this is big positive news for smart players as bjp chances r now brighter after 3 side competition and now nifty should break out above 11000 in next 1 week i. e till 19th Jan. My analysis was based on psychology of smart players n logic, but I missed my target by 13 points as nifty touched 10987 n went down again as Priyanka Gandhi Entry in politics news broke out.
Many analysis went late by 13 trading days but I caught direction of nifty right n move of smart money right.. U can see after so so many months nifty croseed 11000 n fii n dii both becomes net buyers in big way on regular basis.. That's what I adjuctly told n for me this was totally Bcoz of brighter chances of bjp to come back in power n budget n rbi policy will in short term boost this sentiment of smart money..
For me mrkt players till elections will keep sharp eye on every political drama n our mrkt will basically move upward or downward on basis of such news.. If any very big positive news which confirms bjp returning into power only then nifty will touch new high before elections else this move for me should end around around 11293.. And from tomorrow banknifty will help nifty to reach around 11293..so I will trade according to this till my upper target will b achieved.. For me banknifty should touch 27900-28000 in this week contracts.. Let's c to catch smart money mind was just a Tukka or I m improving my trading skills day by day.. Haha.. Happy Trading.
Bull's eye.. I gave target of around 11293 before elections n here it is.. Now let's c it has power to go Atleast 100 points more or it will again go below 11000 n even more low before elections.. Only 6 days more remained within which new collaboration between congress, sp, bsp, rld announcement should come..fii has made so much positive positions through call options that now all small traders should b their soft target.. If u bought cheaply than u must sold it costly.. N same will fii do from today.. Hope for best.. Happy Trading..


Simon Moralee's work revolves around management and organisational theory, with specific focus on health care management, as well as international health care systems and health economics. Simon is a University Teacher Fellow whose focus is on student-centred learning and building staff capacity to innovate.
Simon currently teaches on several modules within the BA (Hons) Health Studies and BSc (Hons) Public and Community Health degree programmes and the MA/MRes Applied Health Studies. He also supervises dissertations at undergraduate and postgraduate level and is the module leader for students undertaking BA (Hons). dissertations in Health Studies and Public & Community Health.
Simon is also the Programme Leader for Medical Education, working with the East Midlands Local Education and Training Board on new GP trainer development and mentoring for health care professionals. In addition, Simon has worked with Leicester City Council on management and leadership development for social work managers and with Leicester/Leicestershire GP groups on developing commissioning skills.
In terms of research, Simon is currently part way through a PhD in Institutional Change focussing on individuals' experiences of change to medical education.
Moralee, S. (2013). Individual engagement with change in medical education: an institutional work perspective. British Academy of Management Conference, Developmental paper, September 12.
Moralee, S. (2012). Assessment and Feedback for Undergraduate Health Care Management Students. "It's Good To Talk: Feedback, Dialogue and Learning", National Teacher Fellow Event, De Montfort University, Leicester.
My current doctoral studies focus on institutional actors' experiences of creating and developing changes to medical curricula that encompass knowledge and skills development in leadership and management.


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Q: universal links with redirects using google url shortener The use case is, essentially, this:

*

*the user create some content and uploads it to our server.

*our server responds with the URL.

*the user sends the URL (eg via text message) to another user.

*the other user clicks on the URL. If they have the app installed, they should be taken to the content in the app. If they don't have it, they should still be able to view the content on our site (eg in safari).

This is easy enough, and we have that working, except our URLs are long and we'd like to use shortened URLs. With shortened URLs, the problem is it always opens in Safari, instead of the app, unless we setup a custom domain. (This is described in many places, including here: iOS Universal Links and URL Shorteners).
The docs for google URL shortener indicate that they have overcome this somehow:

Even though App Indexing for iOS is available only in limited release, you can still enable iOS app deep links with goo.gl by implementing App Indexing for iOS. While these deep links may not begin appearing in Search results, they will start working with goo.gl links.

So I installed the app indexing for iOS into our app on a test device and ran it. Then I created a short link but it still opens in my browser, not my app.
Does this really work as advertised? Do I have to wait longer? Install the indexer on more apps? Will a created link open in the app right away, or does the content have to be indexed?
...Or am I missing something else?
Related:

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*Google app indexing for iOS and universal links
UPDATE:
The only way I can see this actually working without a custom domain is if Google added every app they indexed to their apple site association file. All I see is google apps there, so obviously that's not the case.
Stack overflow won't let me link it because it thinks it's a link shortener, but it's close to this:
https://goo. gl/apple-app-site-association

A: You are exactly right: for this to work, Google would need to add your app to their apple-app-site-association file. Unfortunately that would be impossible even if Google wanted to do so, because Apple puts a size limit of 128 kb on that file.
Integrating the App Indexing SDK was a good thought, but doesn't solve this issue either.
What you need is a (free) service like Branch.io (full disclosure: I'm on the Branch team). This is specifically designed for exactly what you're trying to accomplish, and takes care of all the housekeeping tasks you are running into. You'll be able to create branded short URLs that take you to your app (if installed) or website fallback (if not installed), and the AASA file will be generated automatically for the short URL domain.


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Making love is one thing that is very exciting, especially when it is done with a loved one. That is why some people believe having a hot love making session can be medicinal. It could start from the living room to kitchen, the bathroom and ends in the bedroom.
To some, the bedroom is only the place where they can have it, but others prefer anywhere.
For Yoruba actress, Adediwura Gold, she once had it in a car; yes, you heard right. Do you call that a quickie? Well, that is left to you.
Her meme got others responding and some claimed they made love in an uncompleted building, while other named car, kitchen, shower, beach and other places.


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Restaurants and gyms were spring 'superspreader' sites. Occupancy limits could control Covid, new study predicts
By Elizabeth Cooney Nov. 10, 2020
People keeping social distance as they line up in front of a supermarket in the Corona neighborhood of Queens in New York in April. JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images
Using cellphone data from 1 in 3 Americans, researchers have identified the indoor public places most responsible for the spread of Covid-19 in the spring, and they argue that sharply limiting the occupancy of these locales — chiefly restaurants, gyms, cafes, hotels, and houses of worship — could control the raging pandemic without resorting to lockdowns.
Their analysis also explains how disparities in risk contribute to the disproportionate disease burden borne by people of color who have been less able than higher-income white people to work remotely and who tend to visit grocery stores and other places that tend to be smaller and more crowded than those in white neighborhoods.
"It corresponds to what we thought from the beginning, that there are certain activities that lead to spread more than other activities," said Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security who was not involved in the study. "When you are thinking of targeted public health interventions, it's important to focus on those activities where that's occurring and not being overly blunt and blocking and stopping all activities that may not necessarily have been a major contributor to spread."
Mining mobile phone data, scientists tracked 98 million people's hourly movements from March 1 to May 2 to places they visited regularly, and then mapped their movements to nearly 533,000 locations onto models of infectious disease spread. The simulated transmission rates accurately predicted actual daily case counts in neighborhoods of 10 large metropolitan areas, including Chicago, New York City, and San Francisco. That allowed them to identify which "superspreader" venues pose the greatest risk, which socioeconomic factors matter, and what works to diminish the danger.
"Our results suggest that infection disparities are not the unavoidable consequence of factors that are difficult to address in the short term, like differences in preexisting conditions," Jure Leskovec of Stanford and co-authors wrote in their paper published Tuesday in Nature. "On the contrary, short-term policy decisions can substantially affect infection outcomes by altering the overall amount of mobility allowed and the types of [places] reopened."
In Chicago, for example, 10% of the places people visited accounted for 85% of the predicted infections. Full-service restaurants, fitness centers, and places of worship had the highest overall risk for disease transmission, but that varied depending on the neighborhood. Across the 10 cities, snack bars and cafes were visited more often by people in high-income neighborhoods, but risk of disease transmission was higher in these businesses located in lower-income neighborhoods.
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Cellphone records don't reveal the race, ethnicity, or income of their users, but the scientists discovered that their models were still able to predict higher infection rates among racial and socioeconomic groups based on census data. A larger proportion of people who went to restaurants in low-income areas than high-income neighborhoods were infected, for example. People in lower-income neighborhoods bought their food at smaller, more crowded grocery stores with 59% more people per square foot compared to markets in wealthier neighborhoods where more white people lived. They also visited grocery stores more often and spent 17% more time shopping there.
The risk of Covid-19 infection climbed with the time spent in indoor public spaces. The study's model predicts that setting an occupancy ceiling of 20% of maximum capacity for all these public spaces could cut new infections by more than 80% while reducing the overall number of visits by 42%.
Analyzing what happened in the spring limits its applicability to the fall, said Adalja, who is also an infectious disease physician. There are many more mitigation measures in place now in public places, from face coverings to temperature checks to occupancy limits. "If you went to a restaurant in early March, it's a very different experience than going to a restaurant in early November."
There are also limits to what mobility data can tell us now, he said.
"We've seen in the epidemiology that now it's not restaurants or even large gatherings that are driving spread, but small gatherings," he said, although the summer surge in Sun Belt states was partly driven by people crowding into bars. Heading into winter, spread has happened more in people's homes than in public places. That means "people wouldn't be captured by mobility data because they're at home, right there in their neighborhood."
Related: 'They're not really doing anything': As Covid-19 cases spiral, leaders around the U.S. lose urgency on prevention
Finding ways to help people stay home could help erase differences in people's movements based on their income. In the Chicago metro area, overall visits to public places plummeted 54% in March, but in April people living in the lower-income neighborhoods were 27% more likely to travel to public places than people from higher-income neighborhoods. The authors said the gap probably reflects frontline workers holding jobs that could not be performed remotely.
Beyond capping occupancy at grocery stores, the scientists urge policymakers to open emergency food distribution centers. They also advocated for free, widely available testing in high-risk neighborhoods. To improve the lives of people who can't work from home, they recommend better paid leave policy or income support so people can stay home when they are sick. For essential workers, they encourage better infection prevention in their workplaces, including high-quality PPE, good ventilation, and distancing when possible.
"These findings could have a valuable role in guiding policy decisions on how to reopen society safely and minimize the harm caused by movement restrictions," Kevin Ma and Marc Lipsitch of the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health wrote in a commentary published with the study.
Cases and deaths are already climbing, ahead of winter, when the virus can spread more easily in cold, dry weather that sends people indoors.
"I do think it's going to be something where we have to get the entire population taking this very seriously, realizing that their behaviors have the most influence on the trajectory of these cases," Adalja said.
In a teleconference with reporters, co-author Serina Yongchen Chang from Stanford said the researchers have been watching gross trends in Chicago showing that mobility is rising, but while infection rates did jump in the summer, they did not reach earlier pandemic levels from the spring.
"The behaviors that people are doing as they are moving around are having a meaningful impact on transmission: better social distancing, going to different places in different ways," she said. "All of that is having an impact."
The next step for the researchers is to make an interactive tool available to local officials navigating trade-offs between health and economic consequences when they consider reopening public places in their neighborhoods, Leskovec said on the call.
"Policymakers should be able to test different types of reopening based on the impact of the mobility on infections over time, as well as the disparities in infections across demographic groups," he said.
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Liz Cooney is the author of STAT's Morning Rounds newsletter.
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skywalker says:
Comment by skywalker on November 12, 2020 at 3:43 pm
I think you got it perfectly lmao. I can't believe it just as much you can't lol.
PS says:
Comment by PS on November 12, 2020 at 9:02 am
This doesn't make sense. Illinois shut down eat in dining, schools, salons, etc in mid March and things didn't start to open up until late May. Basically, the bulk of the data for this would have come from the first 3 weeks of March.
Comment by Lu on November 11, 2020 at 10:44 am
So let me make sure i have this straight. Non-white low income folks are getting infected at gyms, restaurants, snack-bars, grocery stores and bars. Really. Does the paper explain how someone on a "low-come" can afford to eat out at restaurants, afford alcohol thats marked up at bars, and afford gym memberships and stopping by local snack-bars when they are not working out or getting drunk? Whats really beautiful though is that the model can predict all this. Simply amazing. Of course it wouldn't have thing to do with the fact that thats because a model's ability to predict is based upon the data it is fed. If you feed a model data that says that non-whites commit more crimes and then ask the model to "predict" who is going to commit more crimes, guess, go ahead and guess what the model is going to predict. Science, you can't beat it. Unless of course your a stupid little piece of RNA wrapped up in a protein overcoat and PhD's don't impress you at all. Its been over 100 years since the Spanish Flu, they didn't even know what RNA was. Are we any better today at stopping this? We are sooooooo much smarter. Aren't we?????
Latty hawkes says:
Comment by Latty hawkes on November 11, 2020 at 9:34 am
This article is offensive! Couldn't you report this Covid update without your racist statements? Covid doesn't have a color!
Comment by Jennifer on November 10, 2020 at 9:35 pm
this is an infomercial if you follow the link
I think this is actually an infomercial if you follow the link
Elsa says:
Comment by Elsa on November 10, 2020 at 6:00 pm
You are yet another confused person, writing about something totally irrelevant to the article's topic. Just trying to get attention, right? Stop that nonsense, please – direct it to another more applicable venue.
MaisieTaylor says:
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One of the world'd oldest grapevines
The grapevine of the Versóaln variety at Katzenzungen Castle
Nestled amidst chestnut and apple trees, Katzenzungen Castle is perched atop a rocky hill overlooking Prissian-Tisens. The commendably renovated and well-preserved Renaissance Castle is a favorite venue for romantic weddings, and is also used for exhibitions and other cultural events. The first documented mention of the structure was in 1244, when Henricus de Cazenzunge passed his splendid castle down to the counts of Thun and Fuchs.
In the heyday of the Baroque period, a grapevine was planted at the foot of the hill, which has lived through counties, empires and dictators – and has now become archetypally symbolic of South Tyrolean wine history. The vine belongs to the ancient Tyrolean grape variety, Versóaln, which was once widespread. The origin of the name is not known for certain: it could be derived from the dialect word verdolen, meaning "green" (the color of the Versóaln berries), from Soal meaning "rope" or from versóaln meaning "to rappel", possibly in reference to the security halters used during the grape harvest on the steep terrain.
A study carried out by the University of Göttingen determined that the grapevine at Katzenzungen Castle is 350 years old. The Versóaln vine is thus one of the oldest ungrafted vines in the world. Its canopy, which hangs on traditional pergolas made of chestnut wood, encompasses 300 square meters – a world record for a single vine – making Katzenzungen Versóaln the largest vine in the world as well. Laimburg Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry produces 500 to 600 precious, numbered bottles of wine annually from its grape yield: the pale-yellow white wine, with glints of emerald, has inviting notes of citrus fruit and firm, well-sustained acidity.


Years passed and made the history of centuries they wrote themselves in the reflection of human acts and though in real they have been guided by the Fate to be as they have been.
Years, centuries, decays and millenniums are destined to be with the lapse of time and with the wheel of time to revolve. Each year brings something new and changes as compare to the past, future years are much steadfast and present time is evidence of it. Time has its three phases all majorly known to human natural and common world present, past and future.
Years are speech to them, so do the centuries when they have been converted. Past has been converted and very much viewed to the world in the present world. Regarding future time and years, recently worldly time frame of the year 2011 and steadfastly moving to 2012. So many predictors predicted already about the coming era. The predictions referred to so many certain and uncertain realities or might be assumptions. What ever be the happening are there.
This article is not about the predictions but of analysis of the practical study of time of this century and the passed decays about humans and all over circumstances all around the world.
This is a magical process of bring activity into manifestation. Magic is an ancient word for manifestation, so this earthly world life as well. Human fate is understood and preserved in heavenly book so the practical happenings and surroundings are uplift them in real and in realm of human actions.
This world is based up on the connections, all the certainties and the uncertainties are in magnetism of miraculous heavenly and worldly connections. Up in the heavens the Nebula is evidence of the predictable or unpredictable happenings, the planetary nebula signifies Birth of new stars of new lights and the death of the previous ones.
The significance of heavenly bodies like nebula is much worthy to cover up here because directly or indirectly the Astrological effect of these heavenly bodies upon human life and its worldly wheel is very vital and evident. Astrology is not only subject but it is living place of breathing celestials that generates light is equal to life, darkness is equal to death, chance is equal to action, travel is equal to battle to survive or remain in the circumference or be the giant in size to command the juniors.
Consequently, the reality of the world history of human life and time which is emerged with each other so deeply. It is understood that human travelled from the journey of last many previous ages. Man has been searched out and learned out a lot from ages to ages, from centuries to centuries.
Man was unaware of the fact to be sheltered so he lived in caves and then learned about make homes and then landmarks. They were not aware to adhere the fact to be land owners and then with passage of time became kings of lands and the emperors…….. now a days as presidents …….Man who was unknown of his own structure (at that time) yet start to fight with his fellow man for the land for the corners to be own just own his greed to have his name over ………..similarly man made home with learning time frame and ages and today humans are genius in mega structures. Man made mega structures are now the wonders of world in architect.
Building homes to mega structures, these builders (humans) achieved so much that till at this 21st century perhaps there are any material or corner of the object that could not be used but still human innovative mind working on more to invent.
Building homes from first instant to till yet is a first example of basic necessity, second one is food ——– Regarding this element what could mention like from early ages people use natural food items and not much obtained of the levels but today again if we analyze man travelled a lot and learned many new ways from ages to ages, from centuries to centuries and now the food items are on its peak even the marinated food, the preserved one, the fast food made by quick mode machines, fried items etc. So man has overcome and invent and preserved the ways for food and again man worked and learned with the passage of time from ages to ages and from centuries to centuries and reached at the time 2011.
The third basic need of man is clothing, so the human who once knew nothing to cover his body but sustain leaves for that purpose, gradually sew and knit and today man invented so many ways to dress up, and to bump off the entire his outlook. Clothing factories, even the import export business based over this need, the marvelous brands and brand clothing, the trend and culture developed up to the rank of world famous fashion shows …………….. So again and again even for the third basic need man travelled and learned from ages to ages and centuries to centuries and today reached at the edge where one can be fully veiled and on the contrary can select two short pieces to cover the shames, the decision and the variety is there with the learning, with passage of time, with converting years and with the steadfast centuries that could travelled by man mind imaginative powers, innovative psyche, ought to be style or it might say exterior circumference of the time physical reality.
The fundmentalities has been conducted and the other aspects of live where humans connected with religions, myths, generations, their mind structure, the psyche, their outer and inner developments, culture, social systems, environmental truth and realities about himself and the other living beings, about the living places, discovering lands and countries man has been tremendously travelled and developed a lot.
Man has invented the lands and then named them amaze the world by made them countries then made boundaries, divide the races, rule over the nations, divide the world in first standard first world, second world and the third…. the boundaries defined with the respective level of mental veils and levels. This is the same human with the converse time invent the ways of ruling and create them of politics and cultural social politics that could rule over not only land but over the same humans just reflection like ………….But what the inside? World knows the reality and the people sane enough to study the history and literature …………..
Change is the converse and converting and some time the less knowing gives the feeling of fear and pity of tragedy and sometime more of more knowing do the same ………..So man having the machines and mechanical world all around, planes, the cars having the airplanes engines, highest speed, fast as light or more than light. These are undoubtedly called achievement, the success of knowledge, and practice of knowledge and education ……..
What if we roam the world and still see the differences, the exterior dimensions like still in the world people are living in jungles, still they have no basics available to them and yet on the contrary there is world where the same being (human) that is approaching to command the celestial bodies and inventing lives there and could try to be cohabitant there………….
Every start has end somewhere so does this time, years, and centuries as well …………this notion of time, and study of years significant of ultimate truth that man is here in this phase of world to basically recognize himself and his Creator (whose given identities and subtleties) to whom man instinctively and naturally imitating …………..though it had been 8000 and 5000 BCE Stone Age to the travelling era of 2012 or would be 2020 or up to more than 3050 or from the creation reality of Adam to the last man of world ……..
It is worth mentioned in preserved sculpture (Fate book) of it would be better in Creators' Ultimate Knowledge.
The NEW AGE and Indigo Generation may define themselves more clearly enough to world for us as middle generation I still think and feel that there could be better idea or way to describe the whole subjective idea in descriptive way and yet not achieved in that way could idealized in imaginative corner…….


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Эбонит — вулканизированный каучук.

 Эбонит-сырец в вымышленной вселенной The Elder Scrolls — невероятно прочное тёмно-фиолетовое стекловидное вещество, по легенде — кристаллизованная кровь богов. Из него делают дорогое оружие и прочные доспехи двух видов: эбонитовые и даэдрические. Торговля эбонитом нелегальна, добыча контролируется империей.


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Shaft 1 reaches a depth of 500 metres below surface
as mine development advances at Ivanhoe's Platreef platinum-group
elements, nickel, copper and gold project in South Africa
Project development work focused on critical path to enable initial
production of concentrate by 2022
Shaft 2 early-works surface construction has advanced
to box-cut development stage
Project financing process progressing with technical
and environmental due diligence underway
MOKOPANE, SOUTH AFRICA – Ivanhoe Mines' (TSX: IVN; OTCQX: IVPAF) Executive Chairman Robert Friedland, Chief Executive Officer Lars-Eric Johansson and Ivanplats' Managing Director Dr. Patricia Makhesha announced today that Shaft 1 has reached a depth of 500 metres below surface, more than half way to the planned final depth of 980 metres, at the company's Platreef platinum, palladium, rhodium, gold, nickel and copper mine.
The 7.25-metre-diameter Shaft 1, which is expected to reach the Flatreef mineralization at a depth of approximately 783 metres in the third quarter of next year, will be used for initial access to the Flatreef Deposit and early underground development.
The first shaft station, completed in September at a depth of 450 metres, will be used as an intermediate location for water pumping and shaft-cable termination. As shaft sinking advances, an additional three shaft stations will be developed at mine working depths of 750 metres, 850 metres and 950 metres.
"Our focus is to keep advancing the Platreef Project along its critical path," said Mr. Friedland. "Our continued development of shafts 1 and 2 will provide access to the Flatreef Deposit and help to ensure that the project is able to meet the scheduled, first phase start-up of the underground mine and concentrator by 2022."
Mr. Friedland added "Our team is dedicated to building a state-of-the-art mine that will produce metals that are essential to our urbanizing planet. It is a mine that matters to all of our stakeholders and an achievement that we will be able to proudly recount to our grandchildren. Building a major, new platinum-group-metals mine in the current market takes long-term vision, unwavering resolve and a clear focus."
The sinking of Shaft 1 is continuing to advance at a rate of 40 to 50 metres per month. Approximately 40% of Platreef's shaft-sinking team now is comprised of employees from local communities who had no previous mining experience. New employees received intensive, on-site training for underground-mining and completed a workplace-safety induction program.
"We pride ourselves on having a highly-skilled, safety-focused workforce, and we have been impressed by the willingness of our senior staff to help pass on these skills to the next generation of miners," said Dr. Makhesha.
Platreef's Shaft 1 sinking headgear and related surface infrastructure.
Shaft-sinking crew during development of the 450-metre station.
Shaft 2 early-works surface construction advancing to box-cut development
Early-works surface construction for Shaft 2 began last May with initial curtain grouting around the box cut. Further work includes the excavation of a surface box cut to a depth of approximately 29 metres and construction of the concrete hitch for the 103-metre-tall concrete headgear (headframe) that will house the shaft's permanent hoisting facilities and support the shaft collar. The early-works construction is expected to be completed in the third quarter of next year.
Shaft 2 will have an internal diameter of 10 metres and the capacity to hoist six million tonnes per year. The headgear design for the six-million-tonne-per-year permanent hoisting facility has been completed by South Africa-based Murray & Roberts Cementation.
Shaft 1 expected to intersect the Flatreef mineralized zone at a depth of 783 metres
A geotechnical drill hole (GT008) drilled vertically below Shaft 1 indicates that the shaft will intersect the upper contact of the Flatreef Deposit (T1 mineralized zone) at an approximate shaft depth of 783 metres. The grade for the T1 mineralized zone at this location is 4.83 grams per tonne (g/t) 3PE (platinum, palladium and rhodium) plus gold, 0.33% nickel and 0.15% copper over a vertical thickness of 12 metres (see Figure 1).
A well-developed chromitite stringer, marking the stratigraphic contact between the T1 and T2 mineralized zones, is expected to be intersected at a shaft depth of 792.1 metres. This will be followed by the T2 mineralized zone, which grades 4.14 g/t 3PE + gold, 0.35 % nickel and 0.18% copper over a vertical thickness of 11.26 metres (at a 2 g/t 3PE+gold grade cut-off).
Members of Platreef's shaft-sinking team in Shaft 1 at a depth of 500 metres.
Figure 1: Downhole plot of Shaft 1 geotechnical drill hole GT008 displaying grade shells at a 2 g/t 3PE+Au cut-off grade.
Note: Metres quoted in text are based on depth below shaft bank; metres in Figure 1 are quoted based on drill hole depth below surface.
Development work focused on initial production by 2022
The Platreef Project, which contains the Flatreef Deposit, is a Tier One discovery by Ivanhoe Mines' geologists on the Northern Limb of South Africa's Bushveld Igneous Complex, the world's premier platinum producing region. Ivanhoe plans to develop the Platreef Mine in three phases: 1) An initial rate of four million tonnes per annum (Mtpa) to establish an operating platform to support future expansions; 2) a doubling of production to eight Mtpa; and 3) expansion to a steady-state 12 Mtpa.
On July 30, 2017, Ivanhoe issued an independent definitive feasibility study (DFS) for Platreef that covers the first phase of development that would include construction of a state-of-the-art underground mine, concentrator and other associated infrastructure to support initial production of concentrate by 2022. As Phase 1 is being developed and commissioned, there would be opportunities to refine the timing and scope of subsequent phases of expanded production.
Mr. Johansson said the July study's results demonstrate Platreef's robust economics, which first were highlighted in the March 2014 preliminary economic assessment and further reinforced by the January 2015 pre-feasibility study.
Mr. Johansson also noted that the project has shown significant improvement insafety and achieved a Lost Time Injury-Free (LTIF) record in the latest quarter. As of end of October 2017, the project had achieved 132 days without a lost-time-accident. Various initiatives have been implemented by Ivanplats and Aveng Mining to improve the safety culture on site.
Key features of the July 2017 Platreef DFS include:
Indicated Mineral Resources totalling 346 million tonnes at a grade of 3.77 g/t 3 PE +gold, using a 2 g/t cut-off, contain an estimated 41.9 million ounces of platinum, palladium, rhodium and gold. An additional 52.8 million ounces of platinum, palladium, rhodium and gold are contained in Inferred Resources totalling 506 million tonnes at a grade of 3.24 g/t 3 PE +gold, using a 2 g/t cut-off.
Enhanced Mineral Reserve totalling 124.7 million tonnes grading 4.40 g/t 3 PE +gold contain 17.6 million ounces of platinum, palladium, rhodium and gold – an increase of 13% compared to the 2015 pre-feasibility study – following stope optimization and mine sequencing work.
Development of a large, safe, mechanized, underground mine with an initial four Mtpa concentrator and associated infrastructure.
Planned initial average annual production rate of 476,000 ounces of platinum, palladium, rhodium and gold, plus 21 million pounds of nickel and 13 million pounds of copper.
Estimated pre-production capital requirement of approximately US$1.5 billion, at a ZAR:USD exchange rate of 13 to 1.
Platreef would rank at the bottom of the cash-cost curve, at an estimated US$351 per ounce of 3PE+Au produced, net of by-products and including sustaining capital costs, and US$326 per ounce before sustaining capital costs.
After-tax Net Present Value (NPV) of US$916 million, at an 8% discount rate.
After-tax Internal Rate of Return (IRR) of 14.2%. The actual return to project equity owners is expected to be higher as a result of the significant amount of project financing that is being raised.
Figure 2: Net total cash cost + SIB capital (2017 mines in production and selected projects), US$/3PE + gold oz.
Source: SFA (Oxford). Data for Platreef Project and Waterberg are based on each project's reported DFS and PFS parameters respectively, and are not representative of SFA's view.
Figure 3: Total 2017E global primary platinum-equivalent production.
Source: Production estimates for projects other than Ivanhoe's Platreef Project have been prepared by SFA (Oxford). Production data for the Platreef Project (platinum, palladium, rhodium, gold, nickel and copper) is based on reported DFS and PEA data and is not representative of SFA's view. All metals have been converted by SFA (Oxford) to platinum equivalent ounces at price assumptions of US$1,076/oz platinum, US$761/oz palladium, US$1,235/oz gold, US$821/oz rhodium, US$5.07/lb nickel and US$2.42/lb copper. Note: As the figures are platinum-equivalent ounces of production they will not be equal to 3PE+Au production.
Proposed mining methods
Mining zones in the current Platreef mine plan occur at depths ranging from approximately 700 metres to 1,200 metres below surface. Primary access to the mine will be by way of a 1,104-metre-deep, 10-metre-diameter production shaft (Shaft 2). Secondary access to the mine will be via a 980-metre-deep, 7.25-metre-diameter ventilation shaft (Shaft 1). During mine production, both shafts also will serve as ventilation intakes. Three additional ventilation exhaust raises (Ventilation Raise 1, 2, and 3) are planned to achieve steady-state production.
Mining will be performed using highly productive mechanized methods, including long-hole stoping and drift-and-fill. Each method will utilize cemented backfill for maximum ore extraction. The current mine plan has been improved over the 2015 PFS mine plan by optimizing stope design, employing a declining Net Smelter Return (NSR) strategy and targeting higher-grade zones early in the mine life. This strategy has increased the grade profile by 23% on a 3PE+Au basis in the first 10 years of operation and 10% over the life of the mine.
The ore will be hauled from the stopes to a series of internal ore passes and fed to the bottom of Shaft 2, where it will be crushed and hoisted to surface.
Future expansion options
Given the size and potential of the Platreef Resource, as demonstrated by the phased expansions outlined in the PEA, Shaft 2 has been engineered with a crushing and hoisting capacity of six Mtpa.
This allows for a relatively quick and capital-efficient first expansion of the Platreef Project to six Mtpa by increasing underground development and commissioning a third, two-Mtpa processing module and associated surface infrastructure as required.
A further expansion to more than eight Mtpa would entail converting Shaft 1 from a ventilation shaft into a hoisting shaft. This would require additional ventilation exhaust raises, as well as a further increase of underground development, commissioning of a fourth, two-Mtpa processing module and associated surface infrastructure, as described in the PEA as Phase 2 of the project.
Platreef Mine illustration of first-phase surface infrastructure and host communities.
Project financing and strategic discussions continuing
On July 19, 2017, Ivanhoe Mines announced the appointment of two leading mine-financing institutions, in addition to the three leading financial institutions appointed earlier this year, to arrange project financing for the development of the Platreef Project. The five Initial Mandated Lead Arrangers (IMLAs) will make best efforts to arrange a total debt financing of up to US$1 billion for the development of Platreef's first-phase, four Mtpa mine. Preliminary expressions of interest now have been received for approximately US$900 million of the targeted US$1 billion financing. Negotiation of a term sheet is ongoing. In addition, preliminary discussions have commenced with leading financial institutions around the financing of the black economic empowerment partners' contribution to the development capital.
The IMLAs appointed Export Development Canada (EDC) to direct the technical, environmental and social due diligence phase of the project. Chlumsky, Armbrust & Meyer LLC (CAM) and IBIS ESG South Africa Consulting Pty Ltd (IBIS) were appointed as Independent Technical Consultant (ITC) and Independent Social and Environmental Consultant (ISEC), respectively. Site visits were conducted during July and August 2017, with initial letter reports issued to the potential lenders. The final due diligence reports are expected by the end of this year.
Continuing strategic discussions concerning Ivanhoe Mines and its projects are ongoing with several significant mining companies and investors across Asia, Europe, Africa and elsewhere. Several investors that have expressed interest have no material limit on the provision of capital. There can be no assurance that the company will pursue any transaction or that a transaction, if pursued, will be completed.
Ivanhoe Mines indirectly owns 64% of the Platreef Project through its subsidiary, Ivanplats, and is directing all mine development work. The South African beneficiaries of the approved broad-based, black economic empowerment structure have a 26% stake in the Platreef Project. The remaining 10% is owned by a Japanese consortium of ITOCHU Corporation; Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation; and Japan Gas Corporation.
The scientific and technical information in this news release has been reviewed and approved by Stephen Torr, P.Geo., Ivanhoe Mines' Vice President, Project Geology and Evaluation, a Qualified Person under the terms of National Instrument (NI) 43-101. Mr. Torr is not independent of Ivanhoe Mines. Mr. Torr has verified the technical data disclosed in this news release.
Detailed information about assay methods and data verification measures used to support the scientific and technical information, are set out in the Platreef 2017 Feasibility Study NI 43-101 Technical Report dated September 2017, available under Technical Reports at www.ivanhoemines.com and on Ivanhoe Mines' SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com.
Ivanhoe Mines is advancing its three principal projects in Southern Africa: 1) Mine development at the Platreef platinum-palladium-gold-nickel-copper discovery on the Northern Limb of South Africa's Bushveld Complex; 2) mine development and exploration at the tier one Kamoa-Kakula copper discovery on the Central African Copperbelt in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC); and 3) upgrading at the historic, high-grade Kipushi zinc-copper-silver-germanium mine, also on the DRC's Copperbelt. For details, visit www.ivanhoemines.com.
South Africa: Jeremy Michaels + 27.82.772.1122
Certain statements in this news release constitute "forward-looking statements" or "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable securities laws. Such statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may cause actual results, performance or achievements of the company, the Platreef Project, or industry results, to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements or information. Such statements can be identified by the use of words such as "may", "would", "could", "will", "intend", "expect", "believe", "plan", "anticipate", "estimate", "scheduled", "forecast", "predict" and other similar terminology, or state that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken, occur or be achieved. These statements reflect the company's current expectations regarding future events, performance and results, and speak only as of the date of this news release.
The forward-looking statements and forward-looking information in this news release include without limitation, (i) statements regarding early-works construction is expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2018; (ii) statements regarding Shaft 2 is to be sunk to a planned, final depth of 1,104 metres; (iii) statements regarding Shaft 1 is expected to reach the Flatreef mineralization at a depth of approximately 783 metres in the second quarter of 2018; (iv) statements regarding the planned mining of the Flatreef Deposit will incorporate highly productive mechanized mining methods, including long-hole stoping and drift-and-fill mining; (v) statements regarding the first phase estimated annual production of 476,000 ounces of platinum-group metals and gold; and (vi) statements regarding Ivanhoe's plans to develop the Platreef Mine in three phases: an initial annual rate of four Mtpa to establish an operating platform to support future expansions; followed by a doubling of production to eight Mtpa; and then a third expansion phase to a steady-state 12 Mtpa.
In addition, all of the results of the Platreef DFS constitute forward-looking statements and forward-looking information. The forward-looking statements include metal price assumptions, cash flow forecasts, projected capital and operating costs, metal recoveries, mine life and production rates, and the financial results of the Platreef DFS. These include statements regarding the Platreef Project IRR of 14.2% after tax, the Platreef Project's NPV of US$916 million at an 8% discount rate after tax (as well as all other before and after taxation NPV calculations), estimated all-in cash costs (including the life-of-mine average estimate of US$351 per ounce of 3PE+Au net by-product credits), capital cost estimates (including pre-production capital of US$1,544 million), proposed mining plans and methods, a mine life estimate of 32 years, a project payback period of 5.3 years; the expected number of people to be employed at the Project; and the availability and development of water and electricity for the Platreef Project.
Readers are cautioned that actual results may vary from those presented.
All such forward-looking information and statements are based on certain assumptions and analyses made by Ivanhoe Mines' management in light of their experience and perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments, as well as other factors management believe are appropriate in the circumstances. These statements, however, are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking information or statements including, but not limited to, unexpected changes in laws, rules or regulations, or their enforcement by applicable authorities; the failure of parties to contracts to perform as agreed; social or labour unrest; changes in commodity prices; unexpected failure or inadequacy of infrastructure, industrial accidents or machinery failure (including of shaft sinking equipment), or delays in the development of infrastructure, and the failure of exploration programs or other studies to deliver anticipated results or results that would justify and support continued studies, development or operations. Other important factors that could cause actual results to differ from these forward-looking statements also include those described under the heading "Risk Factors" in the company's most recently filed MD&A as well as in the most recent Annual Information Form filed by Ivanhoe Mines. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking information or statements. Certain of the factors and assumptions used to develop the forward-looking information and statements, and certain of the risks that could cause the actual results to differ materially are presented in the "Platreef 2017 Feasibility Study, September 2017" available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and on the Ivanhoe Mines website at www.ivanhoemines.com.
This news release also contains references to estimates of Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves. The estimation of Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves is inherently uncertain and involves subjective judgments about many relevant factors. Mineral Resources that are not Mineral Reserves do not have demonstrated economic viability. The accuracy of any such estimates is a function of the quantity and quality of available data, and of the assumptions made and judgments used in engineering and geological interpretation, which may prove to be unreliable and depend, to a certain extent, upon the analysis of drilling results and statistical inferences that may ultimately prove to be inaccurate. Mineral Resource or Mineral Reserve estimates may have to be re-estimated based on, among other things: (i) fluctuations in platinum, palladium, gold, rhodium, copper, nickel or other mineral prices; (ii) results of drilling; (iii) results of metallurgical testing and other studies; (iv) changes to proposed mining operations, including dilution; (v) the evaluation of mine plans subsequent to the date of any estimates; and (vi) the possible failure to receive required permits, approvals and licences.
Although the forward-looking statements contained in this news release are based upon what management of the company believes are reasonable assumptions, the company cannot assure investors that actual results will be consistent with these forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this news release and are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. Subject to applicable securities laws, the company does not assume any obligation to update or revise the forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date of this news release.
Shaft 1 reaches a depth of 500 metres below surface as mine development advances at Ivanhoe's Platreef platinum-group elements, nickel, copper and gold project in South Africa


Praying you both get things fixed.
Oh dear Cyndi, I do hope you can get that fixed!
Thank you all for the prayers.. thank you Cathy too. The leak has stopped. It stopped once before but started back...Papa put a smile on my face with the timing of your prayers and the leaking stop. I wanted to report that your prayers are powerful and heard.
I WILL get up on that roof (it's flat). I just need a ladder. I just pray I can sort it.
Judy .. I hope you can get your leaks detected and fixed .
Cyndi, I'm glad the leak stopped and I pray you can sort it out. Stay safe if you get up on a ladder.
Very glad to hear that Cyndi!!
My computer died. I'll try to get back asap.
Judy, I'm sorry your computer died. I've missed you. I pray you can come back soon.
Awww, I hope you get it fixed soon Judy, you are missed!
I'm trying to use Sunny's setup, but everything is different in here.
It's good to see you, Judy. Feel free to ask questions about the new forum if you want to. We could post a number of links to people's threads if that would be easier for you. It is hard to find some threads if you don't know where they are.
Just ask us Judy, I'm sure we can help.
setup but everything is different. Her keyboard isn't even like mine.


Andy made a mistake on for the show on the name of the founder of Christian Science.... what was the incorrect name he used and what is the actual name?
What was the condition of Andy's facial hair on the show about Christian Science?
What are the commonalities between Christian Science, Mormonism and the religion of Islam?
What is the common theme and idea for all the religions Andy has covered to get into heaven?
What did Andy say about the 7th Day Adventist? Are they Christian?
What verse did Andy quote the most during this series?
Salvation is not by Grace alone but either a combination of Grace and Works or strictly works.
Jeff you got it man I will get your book to you!