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NEIAS Parker Aero Systems & Equipment Co. Ltd. (NPA) is a joint venture between Parker Hannifin and AVIC Jincheng Nanjing Engineering Institute of Aircraft Systems (NEIAS). We are an aerospace original equipment manufacturer of fuel, inerting, and hydraulic systems for commercial aircraft platforms with world-class engineering, manufacturing, and testing capabilities. NPA is positioned to be a world-class, tier-one supplier for systems inside COMAC's C919 family of aircraft, plus other Chinese domestic commercial aviation programs.
Our state-of-the-art, 6,800-square-meter facility is located in the heart of the Airport Economic Development Zone in the city of Nanjing, with easy access to land and air transportation.
We conduct our business affairs in full compliance with laws, regulations, and directives. We believe that integrity underlies all relationships, including those with customers, suppliers, and employees.
With annual sales of $14 billion in fiscal year 2018, Parker Hannifin is the world's leading diversified manufacturer of motion and control technologies and systems, providing precision-engineered solutions for a wide variety of mobile, industrial, and aerospace markets. Parker Hannifin has 55,000 employees in approximately 300 facilities worldwide, and is traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
Parker Aerospace is a global leader in the research, design, manufacture, and service of flight control, hydraulic, fuel and inerting, fluid conveyance, thermal management, lubrication, and pneumatic systems and components for aerospace and other high-technology markets. Market applications range from commercial and regional transports to military fixed-wing aircraft; from general and business aviation to helicopters and unmanned aerial systems; from launch vehicles to missiles. Parker Aerospace employs 5,500 team members, located in 38 locations worldwide, in seven operating divisions.
China Aviation Industry Corporation (AVIC) is one of the world's top 500 companies and AVIC Jincheng Nanjing Engineering Institute of Aircraft Systems (NEIAS) is the leading fuel and hydraulic systems and component supplier in the Chinese aerospace industry with significant military experience.
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People Who Drink and Drive Won't Be Able to Avoid This Breathalyser Test
August 12, 2014 /in General News /by Publisher
SCIENCEALERT.COM
A laser that detects if there's alcohol vapour inside cars has the potential to reduce the numbers of road injuries related to irresponsible drinking.
Researchers in Poland have created a device that detects alcohol vapour inside moving cars, and it can help detect blood alcohol levels as low as 0.1% in drivers, reports The Verge.
The gadget shoots a laser beam at cars passing at a distance of up to 20 metres and detects the amount of alcohol vapour by calculating the changes in the laser beam as it travels through the car and bounces off a mirror.
Of course, there's one big issue with this system—police won't be able to detect whether the alcohol vapours are from the driver or one of the passengers, which means there could be a lot of unnecessary pull overs.
We're not too sure how this can be improved, but the scientists are now working on this and other issues, such as the distortion caused by air-conditioning systems. There's also the issue of whether this classifies as an invasion of privacy.
While it's still early days, if this new system does prove to be practical, it could offer a better way of monitoring our roads. In Australia 30% of fatalities and nine percent of road injuries are related to irresponsible drinking.
"As far as the commercialisation of the device is concerned, the next step would be to make it more compact, robust and customer friendly, which can be achieved with high probability," wrote the researchers in a paper published in the Journal of Applied Remote Sensing.
Sources: The Verge and The Huffington Post
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Gaming Innovation Group (GiG), world leading igaming platform and cloud-based product provider, has signed a deal to own Sportnco, sports betting and gaming solutions provider, costing €50.8 million.
This contract was announced in December, before the festive season. Due to this new achievement, GiG will take back its position in the gaming industry in 2022. As a result, it will enlarge its footprint by 55 customers within 25 markets.
French-based Sportnco has expanded its footprint across Greece and Spain, as well as in LatAm. Its customers include both live operators like NetBet or Betway, and land-based ones like Olimpo.
Speaking about the future of GiG, the CEO of the company Richard Brown highlighted the significance of securing a strategic status within the market in the early stages of the business. He finds Sportnco a perfect partner according to its geographic location and customer base.
Richard Brown mentioned:
"The contract has come long and it stood out by Oakvale Capital. It had a significant role in M&A contracts including Superbet, Evolution and Scientific Games."
According to Brown, Sportnco managed to foster GiG's strategic plan and delivered a high-quality sportsbook.
Sportnco was anticipated to generate €9 million outcome throughout 2021, with €5 million EBITDA, which is a great achievement in the French market.
"We are particularly focused on retail casino conversion. It's our main strength considering technology, platform and the provided offerings of SkyCity. Applying them permits us to comprehend the working structure of land-based institutions and design products especially for land-based customers".
"The staff of SkyCity has supported much and with their help we succeeded in pursuing more digital advancement."
he added.
Richard Brown and his staff together with Herve Schlosser and his staff of Sportnco are to find new ways of leveraging their expansion in current markets and moving in other locations.
The head of the company expects to complete the transaction during the Q1 of 2021. The contract is to be founded with €23.5 million in new shares of GiG, with the €27.3 million cash.
The transaction will double the company's revenue and expand its product suite.
Brown added:
"If you consider the cost of pursuing an addressable market, it is millions. But this lets us do what we aim for without spending much money and effort".
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Anissim Jakimowitsch Moljarow (; * um 1677 in einem Dorf im späteren Lodeinoje Pole; † 1725 in St. Petersburg) war ein russischer Schiffbauer und Wasserbauingenieur.

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Moljarows Vater Jakim Moljarow war Windmühlen- und Wassermühlen-Sägewerk-Meister und führte seinen Sohn schon früh in dieses Handwerk ein.

Moljarow gehörte zu Peters I. Spielzeugregiment, das auf Befehl Zar Alexeis I. zur Belustigung seines Sohnes Peter I. gebildet worden war. Als 1688 Peter I. sich für eine Spielzeugflottille auf dem Pleschtschejewo-See begeisterte, begann er mit Moljarow, Lukjan Wereschtschagin und anderen Mitgliedern seines Spielzeugregiments Schiffe zu bauen, wobei Peters I. Ausbilder und Freund Franz Timmerman ihr Lehrmeister war. Aus Peters I. Spielzeugregiment entstanden 1691 das Preobraschenski Leib-Garderegiment und das Semjonowski-Leibgarderegiment, sodass nun Moljarow Bombardier im Preobraschenski-Regiment war. Ab 1696 arbeitete Moljarow auf der Linienschiff-Werft in Woronesch, wo Galeeren für die Asowfeldzüge gebaut wurden.

Als Peter I. mit der Großen Gesandtschaft 1697 nach Amsterdam kam, gehörte Moljarow dabei zur ersten Volontär-Zehnergruppe. Er studierte zusammen mit Fedossei Skljajew,  Lukjan Wereschtschagin und anderen Volontären in den Niederlanden, England, Venedig und Dänemark den Schiffbau in Theorie und Praxis. Nach der Rückkehr der Großen Gesandtschaft ließ Peter I. noch ein Jahr lang Moljarow in den Niederlanden Wassermühlen, Pumpen, Pumpwerke und andere Wasserbauwerke studieren. Moljarow erwarb sich neben dem Schiffbau ein umfangreiches Wissen zum Bau von Kanälen, Schleusen, Werften, Hellingen und Docks, und er beherrschte das Baggern.

Im Januar 1699 kehrte Moljarow nach Russland zurück. Peter I. prüfte sein Wissen und seine Fertigkeiten, ernannte ihn zum Schiffbau-Untermeister mit ungewöhnlich hohem Gehalt und schickte ihn nach Woronesch. Er beteiligte sich am Linienschiffbau und leitete alle Arbeiten zur Flussvertiefung und zur Ausrüstung von Docks und Schleusen in der Woronescher Admiralität. Häufig wurde er zum Bau neuer Häfen und Docks eingesetzt, 1705 unterstützte Moljarow den Schiffbau-Meister Fedossei Skljajew, der im Auftrag Peters I. an der Mündung der Tawrowka in den Woronesch die neue Tawrow-Admiralität mit 11 Docks aufbaute. 1709 prüften Skljajew und Moljarow im Auftrag Peters I. in Asow die Möglichkeiten für die Gründung einer Linienschiffwerft, worauf sie Peter I. überzeugten, die Werft in Taganrog zu bauen. Moljarow beteiligte sich am Aufbau des Hafens und der Werft in Taganrog und entwickelte Projekte für Trockendocks auf den  Werften in Tawrow und am in den Don mündenden Osserel.

Als 1712 der Schiffbau in der Woronescher Admiralität eingeschränkt wurde und die russischen und ausländischen Schiffbau-Meister nach Moskau und St. Petersburg versetzt wurden, ging auch der Dock-Meister Moljarow mit fünf Lehrlingen nach St. Petersburg und wurde nach Ukas Peters I. Meister verschiedener Künste in der dortigen Admiralität. Er projektierte und baute verschiedene Wasserbauwerke und Hafenanlagen. 1714 wurde er Besitzer eines Grundstücks in St. Petersburg, auf dem er sich mangels Mitteln nur ein Holzhaus bauen konnte. Nach einem eigenen Projekt baute Moljarow 1720 in St. Petersburg neben der Isaakskathedrale eine spezielle Helling mit Steintoren am Admiralitätskanal, der die Admiralität mit dem Wassersystem der Neu-Holland-Insel verband. Auf der Helling sollten das  Linienschiff Riga und die Fregatte Wekker aufs Ufer gezogen werden.

In Kronstadt errichtete Moljarow eine mit einer Windmühle betriebene Entwässerungsanlage nach niederländischem Muster für das Abpumpen des Wassers aus dem Kronstadt-Kanal. Im Kronstädter Hafen  baute er Kräne und Pumpwerke. Auch war er an der Entwicklung neuer Artillerie-Methoden beteiligt. Nach einem Projekt Andrei Nartows fertigte Moljarow einige 44-Mörser-Feuerbatterien an als Vorläufer automatisierter Waffen. Für seine Erfindungen und Maschinen erhielt Moljarow das hohe Jahresgehalt von 600 Rubel entsprechend dem doppelten Endgehalt eines Angehörigen des damaligen Spielzeugregiments Peters I.

Moljarow starb 1725 plötzlich an Angina pectoris und wurde in St. Petersburg auf dem Ochtinski-Friedhof begraben. Aufgrund der hohen Wertschätzung Peters I. wurde Moljarows ältester Sohn Andrei dem Wasserbauingenieur Wassili Tuwolkow zur Ausbildung übergeben, mit 200 Rubel für seinen Lebensunterhalt und den seiner Mutter. Der jüngere Sohn Pjotr wurde zum Studium nach England mit 300 Rubel jährlich geschickt.

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COVID Deaths Continue Mounting In LACo, Even As Case Numbers Stabilize
By City News Service Jan 21, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - COVID-19 deaths continued to mount in Los Angeles County today, with more than 250 fatalities reported, but while new cases numbers, positivity rates and hospitalization figures are trending downward, the public health director said it's too early to proclaim the surge over.
The persistently high number of daily deaths in recent weeks is a result of the massive spike in hospitalizations the county experienced over the past month. Estimates released Wednesday by the Department of Health Services showed that since Nov. 3, about 23% of people hospitalized due to COVID-19 have died -- up from 12% in September and October. The average hospital stay for patients has increased to more than nine days, up from less than seven in October.
Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said the county's seven-day average of daily deaths was 179 on Jan. 10, dropping to 174 on Jan. 12. But on Wednesday, she reported 262 deaths. With 27 more deaths reported by Long Beach and five by Pasadena, the countywide death toll from throughout the pandemic rose to 14,416.
But while deaths persist, the county has begun to see a drop in daily numbers of new cases, along with dips in overall hospitalizations and the testing positivity rate. Ferrer reported 6,492 new cases on Wednesday, the lowest total in weeks, although she said the number may be low due to reporting lags and lack of testing availability over the holiday weekend.
Ferrer said the county was averaging more than 15,000 new daily cases on Jan. 8, with the average dropping to about 10,000 a week later.
The seven-day average rate of people testing positive for the virus was 14% as of Wednesday, down from more than 20% at the end of December. The number of people hospitalized averaged more than 8,000 on Jan. 5, dropping to 7,383 on Jan. 15. As of Wednesday, there were 7,263 people hospitalized in the county, according to state figures, including 1,692 in intensive care.
"While it's too soon to tell if we're actually seeing a significant decline in the surge ... we are very hopeful that the actions taken by many are starting to work,'' she said. "Unfortunately, even if cases are beginning to decline, these numbers are still really high and they're doing to continue to drive overcrowding in hospitals and high numbers of deaths.
"The reality for us is that COVID-19 is still rampant at our workplaces, in our neighborhoods and really across every corner of this county,'' she said.
Ferrer also stressed that while hospitalization numbers have dropped, they still remain dangerously high.
"So the end is not yet in sight,'' she said. "With high numbers of daily cases, hundreds more people will require hospitalizations every week.''
The 6,492 new cases reported Wednesday, along with 593 announced by Long Beach and 53 by Pasadena, increased the cumulative countywide total from throughout the pandemic to 1,038,738.
Ferrer continued to urge patience among people trying to make appointments for COVID-19 vaccines, acknowledging website issues that crashed the system for several hours Tuesday after the county announced that people aged 65 and over can be vaccinated.
The website -- vaccinatelacounty.com -- is running again, but due to limited vaccine supplies, available appointments are limited.
The county has also expanded the capacity of its call-in reservation system, which is available from 8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. at 833-540-0473. Officials urged residents to use the call system only if they are unable to make appointments through the website.
Appointments beyond this week remain murky, given dramatic shortages in the county's supply of vaccine doses.
Ferrer said Wednesday the county now expects to receive about 143,900 more doses of the vaccines next week. However, since people need to receive two doses of the medication, spaced three to four weeks apart, the bulk of the vaccine coming next week will be used to administer second doses to people who have already received the first shot.
She estimated that only 37,900 of the doses coming next week will be available for people to receive their first dose.
"This is what I mean by a serious supply problem,'' she said. "We just are not receiving enough vaccine doses to move as quickly as we and you would like us to.''
She said that as of the end of last week, the county had received 685,000 doses, with 307,000 used so far for first doses and 87,000 for second doses. The county is still working to complete vaccinations of hundreds of thousands of health care workers with remaining doses, even as it expands access to people 65 and older.
Ferrer noted that about 30,000 doses of Moderna vaccine the county has received have been taken out of circulation on orders of the state, following allergic reactions suffered by a half-dozen people in San Diego. Ferrer said some doses from that same batch had already been administered in Los Angeles County, with no reports of any allergic reactions. But the remaining doses from the batch remain on hold until the state completes its investigation into the San Diego cases.
County Board of Supervisors Chair Hilda Solis signed an executive order this week opening the shots to older residents.
"We know COVID-19 has been particularly hard on those 65 and older,'' Solis said Tuesday. "Just look at our numbers. Over 99,000 residents 65 and older have been infected with COVID-19; 30,000 of those residents 65 and older have been hospitalized because of COVID-19; and tragically, 9,802 residents in this age group have died from COVID-19. That's out of 14,000 people that have died.
"... This is about equity,'' she said. "Older adults have been unfairly impacted by the virus. They've stayed home for months, isolated, which is as you know a problem in and of itself. But the COVID-19 vaccine is here. Hope is here.''


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US Wireless Carriers T-Mobile, Sprint Announce Merger
The third and fourth biggest U.S. wireless carriers, T-Mobile and Sprint, said Sunday they plan to merge, the third attempt they've made to join forces against the country's two biggest mobile device firms, Verizon and AT&T.
The deal, if it happens this time, calls for T-Mobile to buy Sprint for $26 billion in an all-stock deal.
The combined carrier would have 126 million customers, still third in the pecking order of U.S. wireless carriers, but closer to the top two. Verizon has more than 150 million customers, and AT&T more than 142 million.
The latest agreement caps four years of on-and-off talks between T-Mobile and Sprint. Sprint dropped its bid for T-Mobile more than three years ago after U.S. regulators objected and another proposed merger fell through last November.
The new deal could help the combined companies slash costs to make the new business more competitive with industry leaders. But customers could also pay more for wireless coverage because the combined company may not have to offer as many deals to attract new customers.
U.S. regulators at the Federal Communications Commission are expected to take a close look at the merger's effects on customers and whether the deal violates antitrust laws.
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import datetime
from south.db import db
from south.v2 import SchemaMigration
from django.db import models

class Migration(SchemaMigration):

    def forwards(self, orm):
        # Adding model 'DummyTable'
        db.create_table(u'calendar_dummytable', (
            (u'id', self.gf('django.db.models.fields.AutoField')(primary_key=True)),
        ))
        db.send_create_signal(u'calendar', ['DummyTable'])

    def backwards(self, orm):
        # Deleting model 'DummyTable'
        db.delete_table(u'calendar_dummytable')

    models = {
        u'calendar.dummytable': {
            'Meta': {'object_name': 'DummyTable'},
            u'id': ('django.db.models.fields.AutoField', [], {'primary_key': 'True'})
        },
        u'calendar.event': {
            'Meta': {'object_name': 'Event'},
            '_meta_title': ('django.db.models.fields.CharField', [], {'max_length': '500', 'null': 'True', 'blank': 'True'}),
            'content': ('mezzanine.core.fields.RichTextField', [], {}),
            'description': ('django.db.models.fields.TextField', [], {'blank': 'True'}),
            'end': ('django.db.models.fields.DateTimeField', [], {'null': 'True', 'blank': 'True'}),
            'expiry_date': ('django.db.models.fields.DateTimeField', [], {'null': 'True', 'blank': 'True'}),
            'featured_image': ('mezzanine.core.fields.FileField', [], {'max_length': '255', 'null': 'True', 'blank': 'True'}),
            'gen_description': ('django.db.models.fields.BooleanField', [], {'default': 'True'}),
            u'id': ('django.db.models.fields.AutoField', [], {'primary_key': 'True'}),
            'in_sitemap': ('django.db.models.fields.BooleanField', [], {'default': 'True'}),
            'keywords': ('mezzanine.generic.fields.KeywordsField', [], {'object_id_field': "'object_pk'", 'to': u"orm['generic.AssignedKeyword']", 'frozen_by_south': 'True'}),
            'keywords_string': ('django.db.models.fields.CharField', [], {'max_length': '500', 'blank': 'True'}),
            'publish_date': ('django.db.models.fields.DateTimeField', [], {'null': 'True', 'blank': 'True'}),
            'short_url': ('django.db.models.fields.URLField', [], {'max_length': '200', 'null': 'True', 'blank': 'True'}),
            'site': ('django.db.models.fields.related.ForeignKey', [], {'to': u"orm['sites.Site']"}),
            'slug': ('django.db.models.fields.CharField', [], {'max_length': '2000', 'null': 'True', 'blank': 'True'}),
            'start': ('django.db.models.fields.DateTimeField', [], {}),
            'status': ('django.db.models.fields.IntegerField', [], {'default': '2'}),
            'theme_color': ('django.db.models.fields.CharField', [], {'default': "'grey'", 'max_length': '255'}),
            'title': ('django.db.models.fields.CharField', [], {'max_length': '500'}),
            'type': ('django.db.models.fields.related.ForeignKey', [], {'to': u"orm['calendar.EventType']", 'null': 'True', 'blank': 'True'}),
            'zip_import': ('django.db.models.fields.files.FileField', [], {'max_length': '100', 'null': 'True', 'blank': 'True'})
        },
        u'calendar.eventimage': {
            'Meta': {'ordering': "('_order',)", 'object_name': 'EventImage'},
            '_order': ('django.db.models.fields.IntegerField', [], {'null': 'True'}),
            'description': ('django.db.models.fields.CharField', [], {'max_length': '1000', 'blank': 'True'}),
            'file': ('mezzanine.core.fields.FileField', [], {'max_length': '200'}),
            'gallery': ('django.db.models.fields.related.ForeignKey', [], {'related_name': "'images'", 'to': u"orm['calendar.Event']"}),
            u'id': ('django.db.models.fields.AutoField', [], {'primary_key': 'True'})
        },
        u'calendar.eventtype': {
            'Meta': {'ordering': "['name']", 'object_name': 'EventType'},
            u'id': ('django.db.models.fields.AutoField', [], {'primary_key': 'True'}),
            'name': ('django.db.models.fields.CharField', [], {'max_length': '255'}),
            'site': ('django.db.models.fields.related.ForeignKey', [], {'to': u"orm['sites.Site']"})
        },
        u'contenttypes.contenttype': {
            'Meta': {'ordering': "('name',)", 'unique_together': "(('app_label', 'model'),)", 'object_name': 'ContentType', 'db_table': "'django_content_type'"},
            'app_label': ('django.db.models.fields.CharField', [], {'max_length': '100'}),
            u'id': ('django.db.models.fields.AutoField', [], {'primary_key': 'True'}),
            'model': ('django.db.models.fields.CharField', [], {'max_length': '100'}),
            'name': ('django.db.models.fields.CharField', [], {'max_length': '100'})
        },
        u'generic.assignedkeyword': {
            'Meta': {'ordering': "('_order',)", 'object_name': 'AssignedKeyword'},
            '_order': ('django.db.models.fields.IntegerField', [], {'null': 'True'}),
            'content_type': ('django.db.models.fields.related.ForeignKey', [], {'to': u"orm['contenttypes.ContentType']"}),
            u'id': ('django.db.models.fields.AutoField', [], {'primary_key': 'True'}),
            'keyword': ('django.db.models.fields.related.ForeignKey', [], {'related_name': "'assignments'", 'to': u"orm['generic.Keyword']"}),
            'object_pk': ('django.db.models.fields.IntegerField', [], {})
        },
        u'generic.keyword': {
            'Meta': {'object_name': 'Keyword'},
            u'id': ('django.db.models.fields.AutoField', [], {'primary_key': 'True'}),
            'site': ('django.db.models.fields.related.ForeignKey', [], {'to': u"orm['sites.Site']"}),
            'slug': ('django.db.models.fields.CharField', [], {'max_length': '2000', 'null': 'True', 'blank': 'True'}),
            'title': ('django.db.models.fields.CharField', [], {'max_length': '500'})
        },
        u'sites.site': {
            'Meta': {'ordering': "('domain',)", 'object_name': 'Site', 'db_table': "'django_site'"},
            'domain': ('django.db.models.fields.CharField', [], {'max_length': '100'}),
            u'id': ('django.db.models.fields.AutoField', [], {'primary_key': 'True'}),
            'name': ('django.db.models.fields.CharField', [], {'max_length': '50'})
        }
    }

    complete_apps = ['calendar']

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Explaining Salt on Ceres
Occator Crater on Ceres, with its central bright area called Cerealia Facula. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/PSI
Forged billions of years ago from rock and ice, the dwarf planet Ceres was thought to have no active geology. But pictures sent back from the NASA Dawn space probe changed that view when they showed bright, white spots of salt on the surface of
the alien world.
The spots turned out to be remnants of cryomagma, salty water exuded by cryovolcanoes that tap into underground reservoirs and that could play a key role in mixing the ingredients for life on other worlds, such as Jupiter's moon Europa. And in the case of the spots at the bottom of Ceres' Occator Crater, they were much younger than the crater itself, only 4 million years old compared with 20 million years. Research led by the UT Jackson School of Geosciences in partnership with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) delved into the factors that influenced the volcanic activity and formed the distinctive spots — and proposed an explanation for the age gap between the cryomagma and the crater.
Learning more about how these volcanoes work on Ceres could help scientists get a handle on the primary forces that drive their activity, said lead author Marc Hesse, an associate professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at the Jackson School.
"Cryovolcanism looks to be a really important system as we look for life," he said. "So, we're trying to understand these ice shells and how they behave."
The research was published Feb. 8, 2019, in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. The research was co-authored by Julie Castillo-Rogez, a planetary scientist at NASA's JPL. At 585 miles across, Ceres is the largest planetary body in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The presence of the bright spots suggests that heat and energy generated by asteroid impacts could jumpstart geology on Ceres, creating reservoirs of cryomagma that were then brought to the surface by conduits such as fractures.
However, earlier research conducted by other scientists found that the conditions on Ceres would not allow for the cryomagma generated by the Occator Crater impact to flow for more than about 400,000 years.
The age discrepancy between the 4 million-year-old salt deposits and the 20 million-year-old impact didn't make sense. But Hesse and Castillo-Rogez were able to significantly extend the life of the cryomagma by including more up-to-date details on Ceres' crustal chemistry and physics.


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More good news for Mundelein
Mundelein's Chibuike Ebube splits Stevenson's Jackson Qualley, left, and Nick Bonk (23) on Friday night in Lincolnshire. Steve Lundy | Staff Photographer
Mundelein's Chibuike Ebube, right, drives on Stevenson's Matt Ambrose on Friday night in Lincolnshire. Steve Lundy | Staff Photographer
Stevenson's Jackson Qualley, right, shoots over Mundelein's Kyle Enright on Friday night in Lincolnshire. Steve Lundy | Staff Photographer
Stevenson's Matt Ambrose, left, celebrates with a teammate during Friday's game against visiting Mundelein. Steve Lundy | Staff Photographer
Mundelein's Conor Enright shoots over Stevenson's Matthew Kaznikov (35) and Trey Baker on Friday night in Lincolnshire. Steve Lundy | Staff Photographer
Stevenson's Matthew Ambrose dishes off around Mundelein's James Willman on Friday night in Lincolnshire. Steve Lundy | Staff Photographer
Stevenson's Luke Cheing (2) drives past Mundelein's Conor Enright on Friday night in Lincolnshire. Steve Lundy | Staff Photographer
Stevenson's Jackson Qualley, right, drives on Mundelein's Conor Enright on Friday night in Lincolnshire. Steve Lundy | Staff Photographer
Stevenson's Nick Bonk, left, and Matthew Ambrose battle for a rebound with Mundelein's Andrew Silva, right, on Friday night in Lincolnshire. Steve Lundy | Staff Photographer
Stevenson's Nick Bonk, left, shoots over Mundelein's Andrew Silva on Friday night in Lincolnshire. Steve Lundy | Staff Photographer
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Familiar with double-digit deficits against Stevenson, Mundelein's boys basketball team didn't get another "Oh, no" feeling this time.
That's because, oh, yes, these Mustangs are not your old Mustangs.
"We haven't had much success these past few years, but it's a different season this year," said senior forward Jeff Bikus, who's been a varsity starter since he was a sophomore. "I don't think any of us really knew how long it had been since we beat (Stevenson), but we prepared all week. We came into this game expecting to win."
And -- after 11 straight losses to the Patriots dating back to 2012 -- the Mustangs did win.
Bikus scored 15 of his 23 points in the second half, freshman point guard Conor Enright had 10 of his 15 points after halftime, and Mundelein rallied from 14 points down in the second quarter to capture a 69-64 decision in Lincolnshire on Friday night.
Mundelein, which already has more wins than it did all last season, improved to 6-2 and 2-0 in the North Suburban Conference, while handing Stevenson (5-1, 1-1) its first loss. The last time the Mustangs beat the Patriots was on Feb. 17, 2012 (Jalen Brunson's freshman season).
"The credit tonight goes to Mundelein," Stevenson coach Pat Ambrose said. "They were more energized, they hit shots, they moved the ball, and we couldn't stop them."
Mundelein couldn't stop Ambrose's son. Sophomore guard Matt Ambrose, the Patriots' 6-foot-2 varsity rookie, poured in a season-high 27 points, while senior teammate Jackson Qualley added 20 (three 3-pointers).
Ambrose shot 10 of 15 from the floor, including 5 of 8 from beyond the arc.
"Credit my teammates. They got me open," Matt Ambrose said. "Shots were falling tonight. But not enough to win."
When 6-foot-7 Nick Bonk scored in the post to hike Stevenson's lead to 26-12 with 4:41 to go in the first half, it looked like the Patriots might win easily. But Bikus drained his second 3-pointer of the quarter and then made 2 free throws. The comeback was on, and the visitors were within 30-23 at halftime.
"We just reiterated exactly what we wanted to do, and we recognized it," Mundelein first-year coach Matt Badgley said. "(Stevenson), they're such good three-point shooters and such good shooters in general. We just reminded our kids that they're going to make shots, even when we defend them well."
"We thought the second quarter really hurt us," Pat Ambrose said. "We couldn't get stops and couldn't do the right things."
Mundelein threatened to take control of the game in the third quarter, but the coach's kid wouldn't permit it. Ambrose went 5 of 5 from the floor with a pair of 3-pointers. He kept going in the fourth, hitting a turnaround bucket in the lane to tie the score at 45-45 with 7:01 to go.
But Bikus muscled inside to put Mundelein in front, then finished a pass from Enright. Another Ambrose 3 got the Patriots within 49-48, only to see Bikus answer with a pair of free throws, before sinking a 3 off another dish from Enright.
"I just got to credit my teammates," Bikus said. "Conor, the freshman, that kid can play. Whenever he's on the court, I'm a better player. Tommy (Marcotte), James (Willman), (Andrew) Silva, Kyle (Enright), all of them -- I couldn't ask for better teammates this year. It's all clicking. We needed this one."
Mustangs 6-7 freshman Scottie Ebube punctuated the win with a two-handed jam in the final seconds. Willman (11 points) hit 2 clutch free throws in the final minute. The 6-8 Silva finished with 9 points and 9 rebounds.
"They're a good team over there," Matt Ambrose said. "They're improving and getting a lot better."
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Wall Street is destroying retail jobs, according to a new study from the Center for Popular Democracy.
The report found that private equity's investment in retail has led to the direct elimination of 597,000 jobs in the past decade and that am estimated 728,000 people have lost their jobs as an indirect result of firms' investments.
A wave of high-profile retail bankruptcies and store closures in recent years can be attributed in part to investments by private equity firms, according to the report.
Private equity-owned companies are twice as likely to go bankrupt, and 71% of the highest-profile retail bankruptcies since 2012 have been at private equity-owned chains. Of the bankrupt retailers poised to shutter stores in 2019, 70% are backed by Wall Street, among them Payless ShoeSource, K-Mart, Sears and Charlotte Russe, the report noted.
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Private equity firms tend to acquire through leveraged buyouts (LBO), which often leaves retailers with massive debt loads and therefore unable to make critical investments, which can be detrimental in a climate of disruption. For instance, experts attribute Payless' woes to its PE owners, which saddled the company with billions in debt after a 2012 LBO. Attempts to limit losses through 1,000 store closures and the shedding of $435 million in debt via Chapter 11 in 2017 were not enough. Although the retailer picked up new owners after exiting bankruptcy that same year, it was ultimately forced to liquidate all 2,500 of its remaining North America locations in 2019 when it filed its second bankruptcy, leaving 16,000 workers unemployed.
Companies acquired by private equity experience a 12% decrease in employment in the next five years on average, according to a National Bureau of Economic Research analysis of over 3,000 private equity acquisitions. Women and people of color are disproportionately impacted by these cuts, as 76% of retail workers are women while 43% are black, Latino or Asian.
Risky investments are on the rise in 2019, with the share of loans to high-risk firms reaching its highest level since 2013 in May, per the Federal Reserve. Going forward, the new report projects job losses in the retail sector will continue into the foreseeable future.
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If you get injured in a highway collision on a California road and it is not your fault, who might bear responsibility for your injuries and damages? Certainly the driver whose negligence caused or contributed to the accident could bear some liability. But, in certain circumstances, it might also be possible to seek compensation from the state Department of Transportation (Caltrans) or other entities if they were negligent in their duties to repair or maintain the road where your crash occurred.


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Parts of Morocco and Western Sahara came under Portuguese, Spanish and French influence from 15th century. Morocco gained independence from France in 1956 and Spain relinquished authority over most Moroccan holdings during the same period. Status of Western Sahara remains unresolved pending UN-sponsored referendum.
Colonial legal system influenced development of Morocco�s legal system while shari�a courts continued to apply Maliki fiqh to matters of family law. Also local tribunals applying customary law. Following independence in 1956, a Code of Personal Status (al-Mudawwana) was issued, based on dominant Maliki doctrine, adopting some provisions from other schools and legislation in neighbouring countries. Major amendments made to MCPS in 1993.
Maliki majority; also Christian and Jewish minorities.
Constitution adopted 10th March 1972; major revisions in 1992 and 1996. Article 6 declares Islam official state religion and guarantees freedom of worship for all citizens.
Four levels of courts; 27 sadad courts, 30 regional courts, 9 courts of appeal and Supreme Court in Rabat [figures as of late 1980s]. Sadad and regional courts divided into four sections: shari�a; rabbinical; civil, commercial and administrative; and penal. Sadad courts are courts of first instance for Muslim and Jewish personal law. Shari�a sections of regional courts also hear personal status cases on appeal.
Law reporting in Bulletin Officiel.
Spanish and Portuguese power in Morocco and the Western Sahara was in its ascendancy in the 15th century, with several coastal areas being the subject of rival claims. By the early 20th century, the British acknowledged Morocco as part of the French sphere of influence, with Morocco being divided between Spain and France in 1904. A French protectorate was established in 1912. Spanish Morocco faced fierce resistance and a revolt in 1920 nearly succeeded in driving the Spanish out, when a French and Spanish alliance re-established Spanish authority in 1926. Morocco gained independence from France in 1956 and Spain relinquished authority over most of its Moroccan holdings during the same period. The status of the Western Sahara remains unresolved, with contesting claims on the part of the Moroccan state and the Polisario Front (Popular Front for the Liberation of the Saquia el-Hamra and Rio de Oro) which proclaimed a government in exile of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) in February 1976. The region was divided between Morocco and Mauritania in April of that year, with Morocco taking over the remaining one-third of the territory soon after Mauritania succumbed to pressure from Polisario in 1979 and abandoned its claims. Preparations for a long-delayed UN-sponsored referendum on the future of the territory continue.
Under French and Spanish rule, the colonial legal systems influenced local developments outside of the sphere of family law. Shari�a courts continued to apply Maliki fiqh during the first half of the century (in addition to local tribunals applying customary law). Following independence in 1956, a Law Reform Commission was established in order to draft a code of personal status. A Code was passed into law within the next year, based on dominant Maliki doctrines as well as takhayyur, maslaha, and legislation from other Muslim countries (perhaps most importantly the Tunisian Code of Personal Status 1956). Article 82 of the Code directs that "[w]ith regard to anything not covered by this law, reference shall be made to the most appropriate or accepted opinion or prevailing practice of the school of Imam Malik". Major amendments to the Code�s provisions relating to marriage guardianship, polygamy, talaq and mut�a al-talaq were made in 1993.
Schools of Fiqh: The Maliki school is the predominant madhhab in Morocco. There are also Jewish and Christian minorities.
Constitutional Status of Islam(ic Law): The Constitution was adopted on 10th March 1972, and has undergone major revisions in 1992 and 1996. Article 6 declares Islam the official state religion and guarantees freedom of worship for all citizens.
Court System: There are four levels of courts; 27 sadad courts, 30 regional courts, 9 courts of appeal and the Supreme Court in Rabat [figures as of late 1980s]. The sadad and regional courts are divided into four sections: shari�a; rabbinical; civil, commercial and administrative; and penal. Sadad courts are courts of first instance for Muslim and Jewish personal law. Shari�a sections of regional courts also hear all matters of Islamic law affecting Moroccan Muslims.
Notable Features: The minimum marriage age is 18 years for males and 15 for females. There is scope for judicial discretion for males under 18 if there is fear of immorality. Marriage of a minor below the age of majority (rushd) requires the guardian�s consent, and if the guardian refuses, the parties may take matter to court.
Compatibility of age in marriage is the sole right of the wife. The marriage guardian is not to contract the marriage of his ward unless she authorises it. The wali�s right of coercion (ijbar) under certain circumstances was revoked under the 1993 amendments to the Code. The ward may take the matter to court if her guardian refuses consent for her marriage, and if a ward of the age of majority has no father, she may choose either to appoint a wali of her choice or contract her own marriage.
The provisions relating to registration include the requirement of a notarised contract before two witnesses. Preliminaries include the filing of documents attesting to the identity, age, domicile, guardian�s name, husband�s personal status, and proof of dissolution for previously married women, as well as specification of the dower.
Polygamy is not permitted in case of fear of unequal treatment. There is a requirement of notification for the second wife, and the 1993 amendments to the Code also require notification of the existing wife. A woman who did not insert a stipulation restricting her husband�s right to marry polygamously in the marriage contract and whose husband does so may request a judicial divorce on grounds of harm. The Code specifies maintenance as one of the rights of the wife, and obedience as one of the rights of the husband.
Talaq must be registered in the presence of two male witnesses and, under the 1993 amendments, in the wife�s presence (unless she fails to appear at the summons), within the jurisdiction of the marital residence. If talaq is found to have been exercised while the wife is menstruating, the judge shall oblige the husband to revoke it. Talaq uttered while intoxicated, under coercion, enraged, upon condition, by oath or with intention to coerce is ineffective. Talaq to which a number is attached is effective as a single revocable repudiation (except third of three). The wife may seek a judicial divorce on the following grounds: husband�s non-maintenance; husband�s grave and incurable or long-term defect though such right is forfeit if the wife married in full knowledge of the defect or if it occurred after the contract and she implicitly or explicitly accepted it; such harm caused by the husband as makes cohabitation impossible (after reconciliation efforts); husband�s absence for over one year without valid reason; and husband�s oath of abstinence if he does not comply with a judicial decision allowing four months� grace period. All judicial divorces are irrevocable except divorce granted because of the husband�s oath of abstinence or inability to maintain. Regulations relating to khul� are based on classical law. The divorcing husband is obliged to pay compensation if the talaq was on his part. The 1993 amendments to the Code add to this that the qadi shall assess the injury sustained by the arbitrarily divorced wife in awarding compensation, with no upper or lower limits set to compensation awards. The divorced mother has right of custody until puberty for sons and until marriage for daughters.
Law/Case Reporting System: Law reports are published in the Bulletin Officiel.
International Conventions (with Relevant Reservations): Morocco signed the ICCPR and ICESCR in 1977 and ratified both in 1979 without submitting any reservations.
Morocco signed the CRC in 1990 and ratified it in 1993, with a reservation to Article 14 according children freedom of religion, "in view of the fact that Islam is the State religion".
Morocco acceded to the CEDAW in 1993. Morocco submitted the following declarations: Morocco confirmed its willingness to apply the provisions of Article 2 on the elimination of discrimination provided that they do not "prejudice the constitutional requirement that regulates the rules of succession to the throne�(and) do not conflict with the provisions of the Islamic shari�a�"; Morocco also stated that, with respect to Article 15(4), "Morocco declares that it can only be bound by the provisions of this paragraph, in particular those relating to the right of women to choose their residence and domicile, to the extent that they are not incompatible with Articles 34 and 36 of the Moroccan Code of Personal Status". Morocco also submitted the following reservations: Morocco�s reservation relating to Article 15(4) states that "the Law of Moroccan Nationality permits a child to bear the nationality of its mother only in the cases where it is born to an unknown� or to a stateless father, when born in Morocco�"; Morocco also expressed reservations regarding Article 16 stating that equality in family law "is considered incompatible with the Islamic shari�a, which guarantees to each of the spouses rights and responsibilities within a framework of equilibrium and complementary in order to preserve the sacred bond of matrimony".
Background and Sources: El Alami & Hinchcliffe, Islamic Marriage and Divorce Laws of the Arab World, London, 1996; Blanc & Zeidguy, compiled by, Moudawana: Code de Statut Personnel et des Successions (�dition Synoptique Franco-Arabe), 1996; Mahmood, �Morocco� in Statutes of Personal Law in Islamic Countries, 2nd ed., New Delhi, 1995; Mir-Hosseini, Marriage on Trial: A Study of Islamic Family Law, Iran and Morocco Compared, London, 1993; Nasir, The Islamic Law of Personal Status, 2nd ed., London, 1990; Pearl, A Textbook on Muslim Personal Law, 2nd ed., London, 1987; Redden, �Morocco� in Modern Legal Systems Cyclopedia, vol. 6, Buffalo, NY, 1990; Welchman, "Islamic Marriage and Divorce Laws of the Arab World by El Alami & Hinchcliffe," (book review) Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, vol. 3 (1996): 547-550.


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On the 50th anniversary of the uprising of 1967, Sector 7-G Recordings and Sterling Toles present Resurget Cineribus. The original 2005 recordings have been remastered by Bonati Mastering with a high fidelity to the dramatic intent of the original production.
Sterling Toles' Resurget Cineribus is the story of "Detroit 1967" reappearing in the world as a human being, Dennis Edward Toles, Sterling's father. In 2002, the year he turned 50, Dennis came over to Sterling's basement studio as he routinely did to catch up. What started initially as Sterling's idea to record him "talking shit" over a Marvin Gaye record suddenly became Dennis' chilling account of what was happening in his life, the second the music became silent.
Dennis was seeking to heal from an addiction, by returning to the work that led him to that addiction, to fund his recovery. Around this time, Sterling was ruminating on news clips about the uprising of 1967 and the possibility of setting these to a musical score. Also around this time, Sterling discovered the city's motto Resurget Cineribus which means "it shall again rise from the ashes" which was adopted in 1805 when the settlement of Detroit burned down. Consumed with the notion of fire and rebirth, Sterling listened as his father shared a recent incident of waking up to a molotov cocktail lighting up his living room. Sterling saw, both literally and metaphorically, that the combustible events of 1967 were unfolding inside of his father in the present day. He saw Dennis' longing to transcend his past, to return to it in order to break free of it, as mirroring the desire of the city itself to be reborn.
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The True Meaning of Smekday
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In the chaotic turmoil that follows the Boov invasion of Earth, eleven-year-old Gratuity Tucci finds herself driving her mother's car to Florida, where all of the humans are being relocated, with her cat and a renegade extraterrestiral named J. Lo as her copilots.
Publisher: New York : Disney-Hyperion Books, 2009
Edition: First Disney-Hyperion paperback edition
Branch Call Number: J REX
Characteristics: 423 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
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The Boov are taking over the planet! 11-year-old Gratuity Tucci is forced to move and goes on a road trip to Florida with her cat "Pig" and new alien friend "J. Lo".
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Ifrit Mar 26, 2019
To the many fans who have loved the book - I highly recommend you also check out the audiobook/CD version. It is read by Bahni Turpin, an actress who has appeared in many tv shows over the years, and her hilarious interpretation of "J-Lo" is the best audiobook performance I've heard. Expect to hear your kids speaking in J-Lo's voice for months afterward...and I'm pretty sure some of J-Lo's catchphrases ("er...WHAT now?" comes easily to mind) will pop up in your own day-to-day conversation as well.
What happens when aliens arrive and claim ownership of Earth? After her mother is kidnapped by the alien Boov, eleven-year-old Gratuity decides to drive to the humans' relocation area in Florida, by herself along with her cat, Pig. Along the way, she meets a Boov named J-Lo, who turns her car into a hovering vehicle. Things get even weirder when another alien race comes along. I read this book alone the first time, then to my family over the summer holidays. I was reading it aloud on one of the BC Ferries when a stranger came up and asked about the book. Fantastic and fun! (submitted by SB)
JCLJohnK Oct 06, 2018
This book was recommended to be me because it's hilarious. It's hilarious in the same vein as Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, and Jon Scieszka. Everyone who made that comparison is correct. But that's not why I love this book. I love this book because the main character is one of the most compelling and delightful I've encountered in a long time. I love this book because of core relationship that drives it is an utter delight. I love this book because the story is fantastic. It's also silly and laugh out loud funny.
jameehale Aug 16, 2017
My son and I loved this book. The movie was really silly compared to the book. As usual, the book was so much better.
ssmartin7 Apr 26, 2017
I thought this book was an extremely funny, original and also touching take on the post alien invasion apocalypse theme. Not many books make me laugh out loud and get tears in my eyes but this one did both!
ArapahoeStaff1 Feb 16, 2017
As the original story behind the movie, "Home," this science fiction story of the friendship between Tip and an alien is hilarious, compassionate, and true to what we've seen in the movie, but with more explanation and an engaging plot line. I was absolutely satisfied with this story, and though we see the movie was not made completely true to the original story, it was fun to make the connection from book to movie! If you loved the movie, it's time to go back to what came first.
allosaurusrock Aug 16, 2016
This book is absolutely hilarious, and I love J. Lo's character. The author gave a very interesting style that made you really feel the book.
FindingJane Dec 04, 2015
The Boov are under the impression that humans are a foolish, child-like, inferior race, one that needs their gentle, loving hands to take guide and care of them. Most of them don't learn differently…but one Boov is about to get an education.
In this viewpoint on what an alien invasion would be like, the author takes us into the mind of one determined Gratuity "Tip" Tucci, an 11-year-old girl separated from her mother by the hated Boov and willing to cross the entire state to get her back. The book is many things: a journal, essay, comedy, social commentary and adventure story, et al. The social commentary comes from the uncomfortable notion of what happens when alien beings treat us the way we've often treated aboriginal natives of countries that we've conquered. All our wrongful deeds are held up as in a brightly polished mirror—the renaming of holidays and homes, the relocation of the natives, the sudden poverty induced by said relocation and the substitution of inferior food for the excellent fare we once prepared for ourselves. It makes you squirm to read it with its dead-on portrayal of what happens when the shoe is forcibly placed on the other foot.
But the book remains for the most part rather light hearted in spirit, the fun coming in liberal doses between its liberal message. The author avoids moralizing and preaching, except on the part of people we're clearly meant not to take seriously. The heart of the book is the growing fondness between Tip and her alien companion as each learns from the other and both unite to face a common threat. This novel enlivens the spirit as gleeful fun and sobering treatise. Hurrah for Smekday!
mvkramer Oct 15, 2015
Hilarious! I loved this fast-moving tale of a girl just trying to get through an alien invasion and find her mom. Gratuity is an excellent character, resourceful, clever and funny - and I loved J. Lo the Boov! Give yourself a treat and listen to the audiobook version - the reader is excellent.
nguyentran Sep 23, 2015
Let's play touch the tree! Oh wait... we can survive land....
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"This seems like an awful lot of trouble for one flat tire," I said.
The Boov stuck out his head.
"Flat tire?"
I stared back blankly for a second, then walked around to the other side. The tire was still flat.
"The car, it should to hover much better now!" he called happily.
"Hover?" I answered. "Hover better? It didn't hover at all before!"
"Hm," the Boov said, looking down. "So this is why the wheels are so dirty."
"You don't even have a gun!"
"Yes! YES!" he shouted, nodding furiously, as though I'd somehow proven his point. "NO GUN! So I will have to ... have to ..." His whole body trembled. "... SHOOT FORTH THE LASERS FROM MY EYE-BALLS!"
I fell into a row of shelves. That one was new to me.
"Shoot forth the lasers?"
"SHOOT FORTH THE LASERS!"
"you can do that?"
The Boov hesitated. His eyes quivered. After a few seconds he replied, "Yes."
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It was Moving Day. Should that be capitalized? I never would have capitalized it before, but now Moving Day is a national holiday and everything, so I think it should be. Capitalized.
Tucci's essay, entitled "The True Meaning of Smekday," was only one of many items in the unearthed time capsule, including a lock of Daniel Landry's hair and a recording of DJ Max Dare's single "Hit the Road, Smek (Moove, Boov! Mix)."
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We found the bathrooms, which were labeled 'Aliens' and 'Femaliens.'
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You have no room to laugh, that's all. I'm not doing any worse with Boovish than you did with English.'
Get off of the car,' J.Lo huffed. 'I am an English superstar.'
Uh-uh. There's no comparison. 'Gratuity' in written Boovish has seventeen different bubbles that all have to be the right size and in the right place. 'J.Lo' in written English only has three letters, and you still spelled it 'M-smiley face-pound sign.
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Mmmyes ...' said J.Lo. 'But it is technically not really a koobish. Is more alike a kind of singing pumpkin.'
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Craig on the Legitimacy of Judicial Review & Political Constitutionalism
Paul P. Craig (University of Oxford - Faculty of Law) has posted Political Constitutionalism and Judicial Review (EFFECTIVE JUDICIAL REVIEW: A CORNERSTONE OF GOOD GOVERNANCE, C. Forsyth, M. Elliott, S. Jhaveri, A. Scully-Hill, M. Ramsden, eds., Oxford University Press, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
The principal academic challenge to the legitimacy of judicial review is presently the work of political constitutionalists. Their main focus hitherto has been constitutional review, but there is now also literature challenging non-constitutional review, which is explored in this paper. The structure of the argument is as follows. In part one the political constitutionalist argument against constitutional review is considered. I do not claim to add to the sophisticated literature on this issue, but its relevance to the Human Rights Act 1998 will be considered. The implications of political constitutionalism for judicial review in administrative law are however much less well-developed. Thus parts two and three critically assess what are termed the radical and moderate view of political constitutionalism. In part four legal constitutionalism is revisited and a moderate view thereof is presented that best captures the legitimacy of judicial review in administrative law, and provides a balanced account of the inter-relationship of courts and the political process in delivering accountable government. In part five the relationship between legal and political constitutionalism is clarified, while part six addresses some of the broader criticisms of legal constitutionalism in the light of the moderate version thereof presented in this paper.
Griffith is properly regarded as a leading exemplar of political constitutionalism and he was strongly opposed to constitutional review of statute.1 He was almost certainly a rights-sceptic, stating that it was 'misleading to speak of certain rights of the individual as being fundamental and inherent in the person of the individual'2 and that 'so-called individual or human rights are no more or no less than political claims made by individuals on those in authority'.3 Griffith was also undoubtedly a court-sceptic, viewing proposals for a Bill of Rights to be policed by the courts as objectionable because 'law is not and cannot be a substitute for politics',4 and that such proposals merely 'pass political decisions out of the hands of politicians and into the hands of judges or other persons'.5 Griffith opposed rights-based constitutional review because the rights to be included and their interpretation was controversial. Thus speaking of Article 10 ECHR Griffith opined that 'it sounds like the statement of a political conflict pretending to be a resolution of it',6 and that incorporation of the ECHR into domestic law would result in the judiciary interpreting 'woolly principles and even woollier exceptions'.7
The general issue as to whether there should be constitutional review of statute has generated a veritable mountain of literature. The debate has now assumed prominence once again. Waldron8 and Bellamy9 are the leading opponents of rights-based constitutional review of statute.10 Waldron is a court-sceptic, but not a rights-sceptic. Bellamy's position is more complex. He is certainly a court-sceptic, and is also more sceptical about rights insofar as he believes that citizenship should not be equated with a narrow concept of individuals being rights-holders against the state but comprises a 'continuously reflexive process, with citizens reinterpreting the basis of their collective life in new ways that correspond to their evolving needs and ideals'.11
There is nonetheless much common ground in the reasons for their court- scepticism. Thus the central premise to Waldron and Bellamy's argument is the prevalence of disagreement concerning the rights that should be included within any Bill of Rights and their interpretation. For both writers such disagreement pervades the very foundational ideas of justice on which society is grounded. They maintain therefore that whether viewed in terms of process, or in terms of outcome, it is preferable for such matters to be decided ultimately by the political and not the legal process. The detailed arguments for and against this position are complex, and I do not intend to add anything directly to this debate. It is however necessary to clarify the focus of this challenge, since there are differences between Waldron and Bellamy.


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Fresh details on '16 fundraising arrive Thursday
The latest waypoint in the 2016 race for president is Thursday, when the deadline arrives by midnight for candidates to tell federal regulators the details of how much they've raised for their campaigns — and how much they've spent on them.
Many of the major White House hopefuls have already boasted about their recent fundraising efforts, including the two leading contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination: Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
They each raised more than any of the Republicans who have said what they collected from donors between July 1 and Sept. 30.
Among those who have yet to share their totals are former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and front-runner Donald Trump, the "really rich" real-estate dealmaker whose mild forays into fundraising include selling his trademark "Make America Great Again" hats.
"I thought I'd have spent about $20, $25 million dollars up until this point. You know what I've spent? Like nothing," Trump said on Wednesday, crediting media coverage for negating the need to spend on paid ads.
Here's a look at what we know so far about the state of presidential campaign finance in the third quarter, and what we expect to learn when the candidates' official reports are filed with the Federal Election Commission.
CLINTON, SANDERS RAISE ABOUT THE SAME AMOUNT — IN DIFFERENT WAYS
Clinton's campaign said it raised $28 million in the three month ending Sept. 30. That's less than what she raised in the early months of her campaign, but more than any previous non-incumbent Democratic presidential primary contestant in the third quarter of the year before Election Day.
Most of the money came in through dozens of traditional fundraising events, where the price of entry was often the legal maximum donation of $2,700.
Sanders brought in about $26 million, but did so largely through small contributions collected online. He continues to show off his fundraising prowess, harvesting about $2 million in new contributions in the hours that followed Tuesday night's Democratic debate.
"We are doing it the old-fashioned way: 650,000 individual contributions," Sanders said in his closing statement of that appearance, adding: "We are averaging 30 bucks apiece. We would appreciate your help."
CARSON THE EARLY LEADER IN GOP CONTEST
Lots of Republican voters sent a message this summer in preference polls that they want an outsider as their nominee. That's reflected in how they're giving to the candidates, too.
Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson appears likely to post the best haul of the more than a dozen candidates in the GOP field, with about $20 million. But his campaign also spent heavily, burning through $14 million over the same time period.
Carson spent most of that money raising money, according to figures the campaign provided to The Associated Press. Still, Carson had about $11 million in available cash as of Sept. 30.
Carson's closest known competitor is Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, whose campaign raised $12.2 million in the third quarter. Although he has been a senator since 2012, he also is running as an outsider, with a focus on the many times he has broken with Senate Republican leadership over issues such as shutting down the government to defund implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
Former technology executive Carly Fiorina, who has never held elected office, raised $6.8 million for her campaign — four times as much as she collected at the start of her campaign. Her boost came after strong debate performances that also led to a rise in some national preference polls.
LOWER FIGURES FOR OTHERS IN GOP
Others in the Republican race found the summer months a tough slog for fundraising. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul raised $2.5 million and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio about $6 million. Paul recently devoted time to a separate bid to keep his Senate seat, leading some to question if he's still in the White House race.
"I wouldn't be doing this dumb-ass livestreaming if I weren't," Paul said in a recent Internet video. "So, yes, I still am running for president. So get over it."
Rubio's campaign argues that it can make its money go the distance because of its extreme frugality. The campaign told top donors that it began October with $11 million socked away. As evidence of its tight ship, Rubio's campaign manager Terry Sullivan has said he must personally approve all expenses over $500.
But Rubio is also getting a boost from a nonprofit group that doesn't disclose its donors. While the campaign hasn't purchased any television commercials, the group Conservative Solutions Project has already spent millions of dollars on ads.
HOTLY ANTICIPATED REPORTS
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Ohio Gov. John Kasich haven't yet had to disclose any information about their fundraising, because they entered the contest later than the other candidates. That changes on Thursday, when both file their first reports.
Christie and his aides have played down expectations about their total. "We're doing fine," Christie recently said during a swing through New Hampshire. "I'm proud of what we did in the third quarter fundraising, which is always a really difficult quarter given the summer and everything else."
Also yet to say how much he's raised is Bush, a fundraising leader for the three-month period that ended June 30. He raised $11.4 million in June during his first two weeks as an official candidate, a faster daily fundraising rate than any other candidate.
He and his aides have suggested that they've raised more than they did in their first two weeks, but less than Carson's $20 million. Bush also said he plans to release a list of his top money-raisers on Thursday.
Such disclosure isn't required by law, but many candidates, including Clinton, have done so in the name of transparency. He hasn't yet said precisely what information he'll be sharing.
WHAT WE WON'T LEARN: THE BIGGEST DONORS
Only the official campaigns face a Thursday fundraising reporting deadline. Their super PAC counterparts can wait until January to disclose their newest financial details and donor names.
While contributors can give a maximum of $2,700 per election to campaigns, they face no such restrictions with super PACs. Those groups must be legally separate from the campaigns, but are often stacked with a candidate's most trusted aides.
As of June 30, super PACs and other outside groups tailored to presidential candidates had raised more than three times as much as the candidates themselves.
Republished with permission of the Associated Press.
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Amendment XIV, Section 2
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Guest Essayist: Timothy Sandefur, Author and a principal attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation
Amendment XIV, Section 2:
Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
The end of the Civil War brought radical changes to the United States Constitution. Leaders of the victorious Republican party hoped now to make the principles for which they waged such a punishing war into a permanent part of the Constitution. The Fourteenth Amendment renounced the "states' rights" theories that so prevalent before the war, by declaring first that all Americans are citizens of the United States first and foremost, and only secondarily of the states where they reside. States had formerly, enjoyed authority to determine both state and federal citizenship; now the nation would determine both. Second, the Amendment prohibited states from depriving Americans of their "privileges or immunities"—i.e., of the rights that belong to all Americans—or of equal protection of the law, or of life, liberty or property without due process of law. These new guarantees ensured that the theory of "paramount national citizenship," for decades the backbone of the Republican anti-slavery crusade, would be enshrined forever in the nation's highest law.
But the Amendment was not concerned only with these crucial abstract principles. It was also a matter of practical politics. The second section of the Amendment—pointing toward the future Fifteenth Amendment—punished any state that deprived people of the right to vote. Southern states, after all, could be expected to take steps to bar their former slaves—now citizens—from exercising their new rights as citizenship. Rather than banning such interference outright, as the Fifteenth Amendment would do, this provision declares that if a state deprives "any of the male inhabitants" who are 21 or older from voting in a federal or state election, that state will lose seats in the House of Representatives.
This provision that overrode the Constitution's infamous "three-fifths" clause, whereby Congress was apportioned on the basis of the white populace along with "three-fifths" of the slaves, and it marked the first steps toward a democracy in which all races could participate. Of course, there was also a steely political reality behind Congress's choice of language: if southern states were restored to the union, and apportioned Congressmen on the direct basis of population, the Republicans might soon find themselves outvoted in Congress, destroying their unique opportunity for constitutional reform. Thus the Amendment permitted states to deprive people of the right to vote on account of their having "participat[ed] in rebellion, or other crime."
The inclusion of the world "male" was also a calculated political move, and it also sparked a clash among the Amendment's friends. Never before had the U.S. Constitution conditioned the right to vote on sex, and in fact, at the time the Constitution was originally ratified, some states allowed women to vote. But no state allowed women to vote in 1868, and had the Amendment been written in language that included female suffrage, the proposal would have faced far more opposition within the Northern political coalition. But adding a provision that explicitly allowed states to disenfranchise women put the nation's imprimatur on discrimination, and offended many of the same female activists who had helped lead the Abolitionist movement. Some of them—including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony—now opposed any guarantee of voting rights that was not gender-neutral. The former slave Frederick Douglass was more pragmatic. He believed strongly in women's suffrage, but that was a goal for another day. "Woman has a thousand ways to attach herself to the governing power of the land and already exerts an honorable influence on the course of legislation." But "the Negro is mobbed, beaten, shot, stabbed, hanged, burnt, and is the target of all that is malignant in the North and all that is murderous in the south."
Although section 2 was largely rendered obsolete by the Fifteenth and Nineteenth Amendments—which barred states from discriminating on the basis of race or sex when it comes to the right to vote—it has still played an important role in shaping the power of states to deprive certain groups of voting rights. In a 1974 case, the Supreme Court ruled that states may disenfranchise felons, pointing out that the Fourteenth Amendment explicitly allowed this. And in 1970, Justice John Marshall Harlan, whose grandfather had been the lone dissenter in Plessy v. Ferguson, relied partly on the language of section 2 to conclude that the Fourteenth Amendment did not allow Congress to interfere with a state's power to determine voter qualifications.
That the Amendment's language regarding the right to vote was so quickly superseded by the Fifteenth Amendment should come as no surprise. The Fourteenth Amendment was just one step in a long-overdue effort to make the Declaration of Independence's promise of equal liberty a reality for all.
Timothy Sandefur is a principal attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation and author of Cornerstone of Liberty: Property Rights in 21st Century America (Cato Institute, 2006) and The Right to Earn A Living: Economic Freedom And The Law (Cato Institute, 2010).
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What is CDAIT?
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"Gluing" IoT
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Bent on solving real-world problems, the Center for the Development and Application of Internet-of-Things Technologies (CDAIT, pronounced si-ˈdāt) fosters interdisciplinary research and education in Internet of Things (IoT)-related domains and bridges sponsors with Georgia Tech researchers and faculty as well as with industry members with similar interests. Central to its value proposition is the belief that only a holistic approach, i.e., mindful of the complexity of the entire IoT value chain and the intricate relationships between the various links, can generate superior results. CDAIT's broad overarching goal is to expand and promote IoT's huge potential and transformational capabilities.
CDAIT's Leadership
Alain Louchez
Co-Founder and Managing Director
"The expression 'Internet of Things' (IoT), for which there is no lack of definitional efforts, is a catchphrase that has been adopted around the world to describe something inherently disruptive, i.e., the immersion of almost anything and everything (previously 'out of scope') into the communications space thanks to the timely convergence of scientific, technological, and societal advances and trends. Through embedded intelligence, the Internet of Things will transform the dimensions of the economy and society on a scale not experienced before. Nothing will be forever fixed. Inert will become active; delayed, instantaneous; offline, online; and static, dynamic. The Internet of Things, which has two intertwined and yet different elements, i.e., the 'Industrial IoT' and the 'Consumer IoT', will give rise to what could rightfully be called a 'pulsating world' (i.e., sending and receiving data). Since the potentially connectable things are extremely diverse and their number is very large, incommensurately bigger than the number of people, the resulting challenges, both technological and human, are broad and significant.
In order to address those challenges, we have created a Center exclusively focused on the development and application of IoT technologies, which can link this ebullient and promising market with the wide range of IoT-related expertise already present within Georgia Tech's colleges and Interdisciplinary Research Institutes (IRIs), including the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), Georgia Tech's applied research arm. With access to a community of world-renowned faculty and researchers and exceptionally talented students, CDAIT can uniquely support projects that span the whole IoT value chain. As a global, nonprofit, partner-funded center of excellence in IoT, CDAIT aims at boosting creativity, productivity gains and revenue generation while exploring head-on surrounding societal issues such as ethics, privacy, trust, regulation and policy. The interaction between CDAIT and its sponsors is characterized by a strong emphasis on practical applications with tangible proof points and ROI."
Jay Sexton
"Working in close collaboration with sponsors and partners is essential to CDAIT's mission. We strive to create an open inter-organizational workspace where CDAIT is used as an efficient sounding board and a source of innovation for the development of successful IoT programs, products and services, cementing in the process a true 'partner intimacy'. Through our various Working Groups, we explore critical IoT dimensions, both technological and non-technological, in order to provide our members a clear and actionable understanding of what the Internet of Things entails. While we aim to advance related scientific and technical knowledge, we remain focused on helping to solve the business issues and challenges of an emerging space whose contours are not yet well-defined."
Margaret Loper, Ph.D.
"CDAIT's technological support manifests itself through a wide variety of ways, e.g., original IoT research conducted at CDAIT and other GT units associated with the center; workshops on specific IoT topics; sharing of pre-published information on related GT work; development of relevant education and training programs; and discussions on scientific and technical IoT-related issues. Given the diversity and fast-paced expansion of the IoT arena, research avenues are bound to change over time and across markets. As a result, CDAIT's work focus may evolve throughout the value chain, from the data capture all the way through to the information extraction. Critical research themes are expected to be around the IoT core building blocks, i.e., activities that hold everything together such as component integration (architecture design, modeling, simulation, emulation, testing and Cyber-Physical Systems optimization); quality of service (resilience and power sourcing); confidence and interoperability (security, privacy, trust, ethics, identity protection, safety, standards & protocols) and the crucial connection between technology requirements and business models."
Cynthia Curry
Communications Liaison
"Effective communications both within and outside CDAIT are critical. Keeping members updated on and possibly involved in IoT-related activities in Atlanta and across the State is an important component of CDAIT's communications strategy. As CDAIT becomes an integral element of its sponsors' marketing communications strategy, we anticipate members will include their role in CDAIT as a way to increase their visibility and position their organization in the IoT space. This is especially true here in Atlanta where the vibrant tech community is fast becoming the city's hallmark."
Co-Founder and Chairman of the Executive Advisory Board
"CDAIT relies on financial sponsorship from industry and looks for sponsors whose objectives are tightly aligned with the center's. Like any other research center at Georgia Tech, CDAIT is a vehicle for focusing on technologies such as those enabling the Internet of Things, which are crucial to the advancement of society and leading to interdisciplinary collaboration. It is a critical means by which Georgia Tech fulfills its mission to serve industry through relevant research, innovation, continuing education, and education of students to become leaders in technology-driven companies.
Comments, feedback and suggestions from sponsors are key to an effective functioning of the Center. Depending on the membership level, CDAIT's sponsors may participate in four avenues of collaboration such as core projects, customized projects & services, ongoing access to programs & services, and IoT awareness activities. Only Charter Sponsors, who have the highest level of involvement with CDAIT, are invited to have one representative on the Board. The Executive Advisory Board advises CDAIT on its strategic direction, research, and project activities."
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