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Rose hip soup () is a Swedish soup made from rose hips. It is served as a beverage or as a dessert with milk, cream or vanilla ice cream along with small almond biscuits.

Rose hip soup may be eaten for breakfast. The types of soup for that purpose are generally lower in fruit content and more watery, and may be served with pieces of crisp bread.

Description and preparation
The best rose hips or nypon to make the soup are the large hips of Rosa rugosa, but the smaller hips of Rosa canina and Rosa dumalis are also commonly used. The hips form after the rose petals have fallen off. They are picked after the first frost of the fall, once ripe and red, then dried.
Nyponsoppa is typically made with dried rose hips, water, potato starch (as a thickener), and sugar. The rose hips are boiled until they are soft and then blended with a mixer. The mixture is then run through a sieve and thickened with potato starch.
Rose hips are rich in vitamin C.

See also
 List of desserts
 List of soups
 Swedish fruit soup

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Fruit soups
Swedish desserts
Roses
Fruit dishes
Swedish soups


The Detroit East Medical Control Authority (DEMCA) is one of sixty-one Medical Control Authorities (MCA) in the State of Michigan. DEMCA serves as the MCA for the cities of Detroit, Grosse Pointe, Grosse Pointe Farms, Grosse Pointe Park, Grosse Pointe Woods, Hamtramck, Harper Woods, Highland Park, and the Village of Grosse Pointe Shores; and/or any other area of region as defined by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Division of EMS and Trauma. Our mission is to protect and improve the health and well being of our citizens who require emergency medical services.
To organize and participate in efforts to maintain and enhance quality emergency medical services in the DEMCA area.
To develop and update protocols for the provision of emergency medical services for the practice of life support agencies and licensed medical services personnel for a patient before care is transferred to hospital personnel relating to operations, clinical care, and communications in the define geographical area.
To serve as the MCA designee of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Bureau of EMS, Trauma and Preparedness.
DEMCA has received some requests from field level providers wanting to receive emails when there are major protocol changes and a newsletter. Any field provider wanting to join this distribution should email info@demca.org and provide the email they want us to use and their name.


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In Colorado, A Utility Plan to Embrace Efficiency and Solar Without Sacrificing Revenue
James Mandel and Martha Campbell of RMI discuss a groundbreaking model being used in Fort Collins.
James Mandel and Martha Campbell April 01, 2015
A few weeks ago, the city council in Fort Collins, Colorado unanimously voted to accelerate the city's climate action goals to achieve an 80 percent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and carbon-neutrality by 2050. The municipally owned Fort Collins Utilities understood the community's desire for such aggressive action, which will be critical to the success of the effort, and has taken steps to better understand the utility's role in helping the community meet its energy transformation goals. One of those steps was working with Rocky Mountain Institute.
At first glance it may seem as though the utility's revenue is doomed to plummet -- among other elements, the city's approach calls for a rapid scale-up of distributed renewables and building efficiency -- but an exciting innovation suggests otherwise: the integrated utility services (IUS) model.
The IUS utility business model that RMI developed for Fort Collins Utilities deploys energy efficiency and rooftop solar as default options for residential and small commercial customers with on-bill financing and other mechanisms to ensure no increase in customers' monthly utility bills. At the same time, the model preserves utility revenue. This sounds like an unlikely, too-good-to-be-true combination, but our analysis shows that both municipally owned utilities like Fort Collins Utilities and other member- or independently-owned utilities alike can achieve very real success.
Here's how the IUS model came about. In the fall of 2012, RMI published Stepping Up in partnership with Fort Collins Utilities, which assessed the costs and benefits of accelerating the community's greenhouse gas emissions reductions targets. The Fort Collins of that future would look very similar to today: beautiful historic buildings, respectfully renovated to become more energy-efficient; parks and open spaces with more trees and more expansive biking and walking trails; and empty lots developed with transit-oriented, multi-use buildings.
But such a future would also be fundamentally different. In order to hit such aggressive emissions reduction goals, the majority of the ways citizens consume energy (e.g., when driving their cars, heating their homes, and powering their buildings) would need to be electrified. In tandem, the electricity generation mix would need to shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources, such as utility-scale wind, distributed rooftop solar, and storage.
The electrification of the energy system would have significant implications for the utility, including changes to traditional electricity demand -- our research suggested a 31 percent decrease in building energy use and almost 320 megawatts of distributed solar on customers' roofs. And it would imply the emergence of new, non-traditional demand -- our research also suggested that electrification of almost 50 percent of passenger vehicles and a switch to non-gas heating sources for one in three homes would be required.
Given the large changes the utility and its customers would have to make, Fort Collins Utilities approached us with a second set of questions that we think utilities of all stripes should consider:
How can a utility help most of its customers participate in the energy transition (by investing in efficiency, distributed solar, or other opportunities)?
How can a utility roll out these new services without disrupting or destroying its own revenue?
RMI, with the support of an e-Lab working group, the Colorado Clean Energy Cluster, and Fort Collins Utilities, set out to answer these questions through the design of a new utility business model.
The utility business model of the future
The first conclusion we reached was that expanding the area of a utility that typically delivers efficiency and distributed solar programs (known as an energy services program) would be inadequate. To reach mass adoption, we wanted to start with a clean slate. The utility would need to seamlessly weave together various products, services and financing tools that had never been integrated, and do so with an eye toward supporting revenue in the way it has with traditional electricity sales.
This business model would help customers access a broader range of energy services -- including efficiency improvements, distributed renewables, transport and heat system electrification, and demand response -- in one comprehensive package, with monthly payments on the electricity bill. The IUS model could, if designed correctly, align a utility's interest in its financial health with the interests of customers who want to invest in efficiency and distributed solar, and make these investments appealing to a wider range of customers.
Key program features would include:
A package of basic efficiency and distributed solar offerings that, when financed on a customer's bill, do not increase monthly costs
An integrated intake and service-delivery experience for customers
A platform that allows for new services to be offered over time (and for innovative partners to participate in such offerings)
An on-bill financing program that would leverage diverse sources of capital
Here's how the program we developed could work. The utility would contact customers to notify them of the new program and the options available for their home energy goals. An experienced third-party provider would contact customers and walk them through a set of choices for a bundle of services customized to their home. Contractors would then conduct audits and install measures in one fell swoop, keeping installation and procurement costs low.
With high customer adoption and bundling offering a sort of "mass customization," the utility could likely achieve economies of scale that would lower costs even further. Billing, quality control, monitoring and verification, and reporting would continue to be managed by the utility to ensure program success. Customer bills would reflect energy cost savings netted against service charges for the improvement measures. As the program delivered results, customers could consider upgrading for additional services such as new windows or a new refrigerator. The following figure shows one option for how services, energy and cash would flow in such a program.
Our initial analysis shows customers could reduce their bills by roughly 5 percent when participating in the program's basic, bill-neutral package. Since the customers' service charges, like power-purchase agreements, need not escalate as fast as utility pricing (or at all), these savings could rise substantially over time, to as much as a 25 percent bill reduction by 2030, according to one projection we ran (as shown in the figure below).
Meanwhile, utility income could increase, as these services, many of which continue to experience technology-driven cost reductions, are likely to be more profitable than traditional sales of electricity. There is also room to sell new services (just as some utilities are now offering high-speed internet).
Based on public data, our analysis of Fort Collins Utilities' revenue projected over the next 15 years shows how a utility's balance sheet might be affected. We compared a business-as-usual case with an IUS case. The IUS case includes at least a 60 percent adoption rate of the basic package, as well as a 10 percent additional adoption of premium offerings. Depending on the program's financing structure, Fort Collins Utilities' annual revenues in 2030 could remain roughly constant, even as overall kilowatt-hour sales decline. But crucially, revenue net of costs can remain stable (or even increase if this is the goal).
While the utilities and individual customers would do well, the community would see tremendous gains. If 60 percent of the Fort Collins residential market segment participated in a basic package and 10 percent chose to upgrade to additional services (things like energy-efficient windows that might come at a cost premium but deliver great energy savings), Fort Collins' greenhouse gas emissions could drop by more than a half-million metric tons per year. These reductions would achieve 32 percent of what RMI showed was possible across all sectors (electricity, buildings, and transportation) in the Stepping Up report. It would also help customers access 195 MW of distributed-renewable generation capacity by 2030.
Look to the vanguard
In the face of declining overall electricity sales, even publicly traded utilities should explore options like this. Concern abounds in the energy industry about the "utility death spiral," the phenomenon where utilities' revenues are eroded so dramatically by the adoption of distributed energy resources that they find themselves forced to raise their rates continually, causing energy efficiency and renewables to become that much more cost-competitive, further exacerbating utilities' top-line erosion. But some industry players see the advent of a new era. Publicly traded independent power producer NRG's CEO, David Crane, recently wrote in a letter to shareholders:
There is no energy company that relates to the American energy consumer by offering a comprehensive or seamless solution to the individual's energy needs…that connects the consumer with their own energy generating potential…that enables the consumer to make their own energy choices…that the consumer can partner with to combat global warming without compromising the prosperous "plugged-in" modern lifestyle that we all aspire to. […] NRG is not that energy company either, but we are doing everything in our power to head in that direction...as fast as we can.
Just recently, NRG partnered with Green Mountain Power in Vermont to offer products and services ranging from micropower for residential consumers (a package of renewable generation, water and space heating, and storage) to electric-vehicle infrastructure programs for the state. Simultaneously, companies such as Next Step Living, CLEAResult, and Snugg Home seek to create energy-concierge services that provide an interface between utilities, their customers, contractors, electric-vehicle dealerships, and lending agencies.
Utilities have an incredible opportunity in the IUS model and related approaches to leverage their direct access to energy customers and provide them with the very products that are traditionally viewed as a threat. While it will require establishing more nuanced billing and banking systems, among other capabilities, these challenges are not insurmountable. In fact, in many ways, that is exactly what competitors such as SolarCity do well.
Utilities have predominantly viewed their energy-services departments as money pits, administering cumbersome efficiency and rebate programs. But perhaps it's time to circle back and take a fresh look at the activities and services these departments know so well. After all, those services could be utilities' biggest hope for the future.
James Mandel is a Principal at RMI; Martha Campbell is a senior associate at RMI. This piece was originally published at RMI's Outlet and was reprinted with permission.
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Doug Divine and Mark Zachry receive best paper award
HCDE PhD student Doug Divine and Professor Mark Zachry received a best paper award at the 2018 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference for the paper, "Reflecting on Work in Project Based Organizations: Leveraging Email to Construct Activity System Models for Project Work."
HCDE welcomes visiting professor Pernille Bjørn
Bjørn, Professor of Human Centered Computing at the University of Copenhagen, is the recipient of a Fulbright Award to support her research on makerspace methodologies. She will join the department as a visiting professor in the 2018-2019 academic year.
Tyler Fox authors chapter on speculative design for book on HCI methods
HCDE Lecturer Tyler Fox has authored a chapter in a new textbook about contemporary third wave human-computer interaction. In the chapter, "Problematic Milieus: Individuating Speculative Designs," Fox provides an overview of speculative design and describes its value as a theoretical tool for exploring how things come to be in the world.
Mary Colleen Jenkins receives excellence in teaching award
Mary-Colleen Jenkins, a lecturer in the College of Engineering's Engineering Communication Program, is recognized by UW Professional & Continuing Education for excellence in teaching.
HCDE Lecturer Tyler Fox to serve as interim MS and UCD program director
HCDE Lecturer Dr. Tyler Fox will serve as the Interim Director for the HCDE Master's and User-Centered Design Certificate program for the 2018-2019 academic year.
July 5, 2018 UW News
UW News features new book by Professor Rosner
University of Washington News catches up with HCDE Assistant Professor Daniela Rosner to hear about her new book, Critical Fabulations. Rosner's book explores how uncovering design stories from the past can shape how we design more inclusive technology today.
CHI 2018 student reflections
The department of Human Centered Design & Engineering strives to enrich the education of our students by supporting travel to conferences and workshops. In late April 2018, several HCDE students received department awards to travel to Montréal, Canada to attend and present at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). Students Leena Choi & Bonnie Tran, Kristin Dew, Sam Kolovson, Kai Lukoff, and Jasper O'Leary reflect on their experiences.
HCDE 2018 Open House
HCDE welcomed students, future students, alumni, Corporate Affiliates Program members, and friends for our annual Open House on May 29, 2018. View the recipients of HCDE's annual Capstone awards and photos from the event here.
Critical Fabulations by Daniela Rosner
"Whose stories underpin design? And what methods might be possible if designers tell those stories differently?" HCDE Assistant Professor Daniela Rosner explores these questions in her new book, Critical Fabulations, published by MIT Press.
HCDE held its 2018 Graduation & Awards Ceremony on Tuesday, June 5. Guest speaker Sara Zewde presented the graduation address, and for the first year representatives from the undergraduate and graduate student body delivered speeches. See the 2018 HCDE Award of Excellence recipients and a full list of graduates here.
HCDE students experiment with innovative tools for data visualization
Thanks to resources offered by a partnership with the University of California at Berkeley and the West Big Data Innovation Hub, UW faculty are able to take an innovative new approach to teaching Data Science and Information Visualization. UW courses now have expanded access to Jupyter, an open-source web application that allows students to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and narrative.
Cynthia Bennett receives Microsoft dissertation grant
Cynthia Bennett, a PhD student in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering, has received a Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant to support her dissertation on disability-informed human-centered design.
Graduating HCDE students on the meaning of HCDE
What is HCDE? The answer can be different depending on who you talk to. In this video produced by the HCDE Undergraduate Student Association and presented at our 2018 graduation ceremony, HCDE seniors reflect on their major.
Cynthia Bennett receives Dennis Lang Disability Studies Award
HCDE PhD candidate Cynthia Bennett has received the Dennis Lang Student Award from the University of Washington's Disability Studies Program. The Dennis Lang Student Award is given annually to two undergraduate or graduate students who demonstrate academic excellence in areas related to Disability Studies and commitment to issues of social justice as they relate to people with disabilities.
2018 Designing Up
The Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering presents volume six of the annual Designing Up publication. Designing Up features departmental news highlights from the past year, including activities and research conducted by HCDE faculty, students, and alumni.
Jamie Byun shares experience at 2018 iConference
In Spring 2018, HCDE undergraduate student Jamie Byun present an independent research poster at iConference held in Sheffield, UK, thanks to support from HCDE.
Shift Labs and Professor Beth Kolko receive funding to improve maternal and child health
Shift Labs, the medical technology company founded by Human Centered Design & Engineering Professor Beth Kolko, has received funding from Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development to support the development of their DripAssist device to improve maternal and child health.
Video: APL, CoSSaR initiative to mitigate impacts of traffic incidents
With the help of researchers from HCDE's CoSSaR center, law enforcement and transportation agencies are joining forces to mitigate the traffic congestion resulting from major incidents on I-5 through Seattle. In a new video, HCDE Professor Mark Haselkorn (CoSSaR director) and Research Scientist Sonia Savelli describe the initiative aimed at making Seattle and surrounding areas a safer, more resilient place for people, businesses, and the services they rely on.
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Annual WiUX Conference
The HCDE student-run Women in User Experience (WiUX) conference was held May 12, 2018. This year's theme was Breaking Barriers, and the talks provided insight from current professionals who navigate these challenges and have developed confidence in their skills. The UW Daily reports on the 2018 event.
New study examines what smartphone users find meaningful or meaningless
Today's smartphones offer great benefits to society. Apps to gather information, increase productivity, and interact with loved ones are at our fingertips. At the same time, smartphones can be tools of meaningless consumption and distraction. As a result, many people feel conflicted about how they spend time on their phone, and fall into patterns of behavior that they wish they could change.
Video of Kate Starbird disinformation lecture
Watch HCDE Assistant Professor Kate Starbird's lecture delivered as part of the UW Provost's Office lecture series on confronting fake news and misinformation.
May 2, 2018 UW News
HCDE researchers compare crowdsourced exercise plans to personal trainers
A team of researchers led by HCDE PhD student Elena Agapie is studying how exercise plans developed by non experts compare to those developed by personal trainers. The team developed CrowdFit, a platform for exercise planning that relies on crowdsourcing from nonexperts to create workout plans that meet national exercise recommendations and individual user's schedules and interests. The researchers found that nonexperts could create exercise plans as effective as experts under certain conditions. In addition, CrowdFit improved the quality of exercise plans created by nonexperts.
Apps for children should emphasize parent and child choice
UW News reports on recent research by iSchool Assistant Professor Alexis Hiniker (HCDE PhD, 2017) and HCDE Associate Professor Julie Kientz. The researchers found that parents don't need to fear their child playing with new technology devices, but that thoughtfully designed content that intentionally supports parent-child interactions facilitated the same kind of play and development as analog toys.
Nadya Peek to present at three upcoming events
HCDE Assistant Professor Nadya Peek will present her research on digital fabrication at the following events this spring: Teardown, at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland; the Liu Lectures at Stanford; and the ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication at MIT.
Kaitlyn Zhou receives academic excellence medal from Engineering dean
Kaitlyn Zhou, a senior in the department of Human Centered Design & Engineering and Computer Science & Engineering, has been selected to receive the 2018 Dean's Medal for Academic Excellence from the UW College of Engineering. Zhou has the distinction of being the first student studying Human Centered Design & Engineering to receive this honor.


The Quick Change Artist - Here's a great opener with lots of visual magic including multiple color changes followed by the four aces turning into the four jacks.
Precision Aces - Four aces and three selections are lost in different places in the deck. After a few shuffles, the aces trap all the selections.
The Big Blind- Here's an amazing Texas Hold 'Em demonstration. The performer divines the flop, turn, and river cards from a shuffled deck-and wins the hand with a powerful hand.
Bringing Down the House - It's the strongest blackjack demonstration you'll ever see. The performer deals four suited naturals from a deck shuffled by the audience.
Ladanye's Ambitious Card - Every performer seems to have their own version of this effect. Ladanye's version has a closer that brings the house down. One of the cleanest and strongest versions you'll ever perform.
Arcane Control -The performer gives a stunning demonstration of how he can control cards during a shuffle.
The Player - This is a version of the torn and restored transposition made famous by David Williamson and David Blaine. Jason reworked the effect and gave it a killer presentation. This one is a real crowd pleaser.
Forging Ahead - Here's one of the strongest signature transfers you'll ever do. In Jason's version of this classic plot, you transfer the initials from the face of one card to the face of another card. This effect will eviscerate your audience.
Lucky 50 - A fifty-dollar bet is made that the performer can find a selection from a deck mixed by a spectator. The performer wins the bet and finds the card where no one suspects.
The Set-Up - The performer offers to teach a card trick to the audience. After the explanation they are left with an even greater mystery.
The Ultimate Exchange - The magician makes a card change places with another card that's face up in the spectator's hand!
Through and Through - The performer pushes a single playing card through the table. The effect is repeated. On his second attempt, the entire deck travels though the table - except for one card - the signed selection.
The Gathering - The performer finds three selections using four aces in just one shuffle.
Thought Transference - The performer causes a card the spectator is thinking of to disappear from a packet of cards. The thought-of card reappears under the spectator's hand.
The Big Stack - This is a gambling demo that will bring the house down. The performer shuffles the deck twice and deals himself the four queens. His opponent has the four kings. When the performer shows his hand again it's turned into the four aces.
Best for Last - The performer deals himself every poker hand from lowest to highest. This is a closer that you'll add to your repertoire right away!


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Q: Diffence with AnsiString and AnsiString transfered from UnicodeString in C++ builder I am using C++ Builder XE3 and I have met a weird problem with AnsiString.
Just look at below code
//Code 1: first time
AnsiString temp1 = "test" ;
funcA(temp1,temp1);

//Code 2: second time
String uTemp2 = "test";
AnsiString temp2 = uTemp2;
funcA(temp2,temp2);

Out of my imagine, it works well in the first time, however it throws a "Bad Format" Exception in the second time. And even I just called funcA once with Code 2 the problem remained.
Since it makes no difference when I ShowMessage within temp1 or temp2. I totally can not understand why the two times of call gave me different results.
funcA is from a 3rd library with a little bit complicated code. So before I trace the code of this library I think I should know what the difference is with Code1 and Code2.
Thanks.

A: As far as funcA() is concerned, there is absolutely no difference whether a char* or a UnicodeString was assigned to the AnsiString.  The in-memory representation of the AnsiString data is the same in both cases.  So there has to be an issue inside of funcA() itself that is causing the error, regardless of how you prepare the AnsiString.  But without knowing what funcA() actually does and what input it expects, there is no way to diagnose this problem.  you will have to trace the logic inside of funcA().
You say funcA() comes from a third-party library.  What kind of library is it exactly?  Is it a statically linked LIB, or an external DLL/BPL?  It makes a big difference.  If it is an external DLL/BPL, then you cannot safely pass non-POD data, such as AnsiString, over the DLL boundary unless the DLL/BPL has been compiled with the EXACT SAME compiler, RTL, and Memory Manager as your EXE (in the case of a BPL, that also means enabling Runtime Packages in both BPL and EXE projects).  If that is not the case, then it is likely that the DLL/BPL is using a different RTL/MM that interprets the in-memory AnsiString data differently than your EXE does.  The in-memory data of an AnsiString was changed in CB2009 to include new fields (namely a codepage and an element size), so if the DLL/BPL was compiled in an earlier compiler version, bad things can happen when it tries to use an AnsiString from your newer compiler (and vice versa).

A: The first thing that came to my mind is that there is not an AnsiString from String constructor so that there is no way to assign a String type to an AnsiString.  You do not mention a compiler error so it sounds like the compiler is doing something for you that is the wrong thing.
This posting How to convert String to AnsiString provides a way to do so safely.
Basically you need to reference the String variables char buffer in the assignment so that the compiler will do the right thing.
This is an older Builder AnsiString reference (1997) that provides information about some of the constructors and conversions possible.

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In 1962, in a small alley of the city of gold, a factory was created by two partners who wanted to realize their dream and put into practice the experiences acquired over the years at the "banquet" as workers.
Starting from objects in gold and white sapphires, they arrived to purchase of the first diamonds.
Realizing modelling for third parties for the best companies in the Valenza's gold industry, they gradually employed other twelve employees.
Dreams and ambitions, however, did not stop flying high … from there the decision to gradually stop producing on request and create their own models to be directly sold to the shops of North and Central Italy.
Car and suitcase became the faithful companions along the Italian roads of these two boys who became men, husbands and fathers … until 1999, when one of them retired and De Gaspari Giuseppe & C snc was established with the entry of his daughter Paola and his son Pier Carlo.
Using work, also external, of collaborators in different goldsmith sectors, we produce objects made by CAD drawing combined with manual craftsmanship.
Our catalogue is very large, composed of rings, earrings, solitaires, objects with pearls, cufflinks for men, chokers, pendants, clasps and bracelets.
The set stones are mainly diamonds but there is no lack of coloured stones such as emeralds, sapphires and rubies, semi-precious stones and some hard stones.
Consequently, prices also contain various ranges to satisfy different types of customers.


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Mestosoma huallagae är en mångfotingart som först beskrevs av Chamberlin 1955.  Mestosoma huallagae ingår i släktet Mestosoma och familjen orangeridubbelfotingar. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Category A cricketers seek increase in match fees
PCB announced a performance-based central contract for 20 players, in which match fee across all formats had been equalised
Saleem Khaliq in Karachi
اردو میں پڑھنے کے لئے یہاں کلک کریں
Men cricketers, who were awarded Category A central contract for 2021-22 by Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), are not happy as there was no increase in their Test, ODI and T20I match fee.
In July, PCB announced a performance-based central contract list 2021-22 for 20 players, including three emerging cricketers, in which match fee across all formats had been equalised.
Category A comprises of players like Babar Azam, Hasan Ali, Mohammad Rizwan and Shaheen Shah Afridi. There was a 25 per cent increase in Category A retainer but no increase in their match fee across formats.
On the other hand, there was 25 per cent increase in Category B retainer; Test match fee increased by 15 per cent, ODI match fee increased by 20 per cent and T20I match fee increased by 25 per cent.
Similarly, there was 25 per cent increase in Category C retainer; 34 per cent increase in Test match fee, 50 per cent increase in ODI match fee, 67 per cent increase in T20I match fee.
Whereas there was 15 per cent increase in Emerging Category retainer; 34 per cent increase in Test match fee, 50 per cent increase in ODI match fee, 67 per cent increase in T20I match fee.
ALSO READ: West Indies announce squad for Pakistan Tests
According to sources, Category A players have registered their protest with PCB. A senior cricketer recently talked with Director – International Cricket, Zakir Khan and requested for an increase in match fee of Category A players. However, Zakir gave no assurance of an increase to the aforementioned cricketer. The senior cricketer is confident that the board will not decline his request.
When PCB was contacted regarding this matter, their representative maintained that no cricketer has complained about their remuneration.


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Centaur Technology é uma companhia desenvolvedora de microprocessadores  x86, subsidiária da empresa VIA Technologies de Taiwan.

História

A Centaur Technologies foi fundada em abril de 1995 por Glenn Henry, Terry Parks, Darius Gaskins e Al Sato com aporte financeiro da Integrated Device Technology, a IDT. O negócio começou com o desenvolvimento de microprocessadores x86 menores e mais econômicos que os chips da Intel.

Para que obtivesse sucesso, a empresa fundamentara seu empreendimento em dois elementos: primeiro, um desenho exclusivo, desenvolvido do zero, um núcleo otimizado de maneira distinta aos da Intel; segundo, uma abordagem de gerenciamento única, destinada a alcançar níveis elevados de produtividade. A empresa materializou estes fundamentos em sua primeira série de processadores, lançada ao mercado sob a marca Winchip, registrada pela IDT. Estes microprocessadores apresentavam uma arquitetura totalmente diferente daquela usada nos concorrentes da época; o chip era pequeno e consumia pouco, baseado na arquitetura RISC, possuia um único pipeline e executava as instruções em ordem, o que o aproximava do 486 e o diferenciava de seus concorrentes diretos.

Em setembro de 1999, a Centaur Technology foi vendida à VIA Technologies. Mesmo com a troca de comando, a empresa manteve seu foco em processadores baratos e econômicos, o núcleo anteriormente vendido como Winchip foi melhorado e tornou-se a segunda versão do Cyrix III da VIA, posteriormente nomeado de VIA C3. Desde então, vários processadores foram desenhados pela Centaur e lançados ao mercado com o nome de VIA C3, VIA C7 e VIA Nano.

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Good morning, and thank you for inviting me to testify today. My name is Eric Turner, and I am a Research Analyst with S&P Global Market Intelligence, where I cover financial technology. S&P Global is a leading provider of ratings, benchmarks, analytics and data to the capital and commodities markets worldwide. S&P Global's insights and commitment to transparency, integrity, and superior analytics have been at the forefront of U.S. economic growth since the company's founding over 150 years ago. Beginning with the expansion of our nation's railroad system, to the rise of the world's most liquid and resilient capital markets, to the growth of digital information and technology, S&P Global's essential intelligence has remained independent and has guided important decisions throughout U.S. history.
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The Road to Emmaus: Dwindling Christian communities in Middle East
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Why Christians' disappearance in the Middle East should matter to anyone who cares about tolerance and still hopes for peace in the region.
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Guillen Perez/FlickrPeople praying inside Cairo's Church of the Virgin Mary in the neighborhood of Shubra.
On the ancient cobblestones of Jerusalem's Old City today Christians retraced what tradition holds as the path of Jesus in his final hours of life.
Marking what is referred to in the Roman Catholic religious calendar as 'Good Friday,' there are annual reenactments, in which an actor playing the role of Jesus wears a torn robe and a crown of thorns. He stumbles under the weight of a heavy wooden cross while other actors, dressed as Roman soldiers, beat and torment him along the way.
This somber walk along the "stations of the cross" and the joyous Easter celebrations — with waving palm branches and white flowers, — that will follow on Sunday are all a tactile expression of Christianity's origins. Christianity was born in the Palestinian-controlled West Bank town of Bethlehem and grew out of the fires of the ancient Middle East. It was only later, through the rise of the Holy Roman Empire, that Christendom became a Western religion and an expression of power as well as an expression of faith.
But today the indigenous Christians of the Middle East who see themselves as part of a 2,000-year continuum of the religion's history are steadily disappearing in the land where the faith began. These Christian minority communities are dwindling in every corner of the modern Middle East, and GlobalPost's BELIEF blog begins today a series of posts from around the Middle East that will explore this historic emigration and why it matters to the future of the region.
Pews are emptying in churches of the West Bank town of Bethlehem, where the Bible proclaims that Jesus was born; in Egypt, where the Holy Family fled the wrath of King Herod; in the northern Israel town of Nazareth, where it is believed he came of age as a young boy; in Jordan where Jesus was baptized on the banks of the Jordan River; in Lebanon, where he preached the gospel in the Phoenician town of Tyre; and in Jerusalem, where Christians believe God called upon Jesus to sacrifice his own life so that the sins of humanity could be forgiven.
The Christian belief in Jesus' resurrection, which the Bible says followed on the third day after his death, is what is celebrated on Easter Sunday by all of the denominations and expressions of Christianity all over the world. (The Eastern Orthodox, who follow a different religious calendar, mark the day two weeks from this Sunday.)
This Easter, two years after the tumultuous events of the so-called 'Arab Spring' toppled corrupt and brutal regimes in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia, unleashed war in Syria, and left other governments teetering with insecurity, is a particularly poignant and uncertain time for the indigenous Christians. The forces coming to power in the political vacuum left by these toppled regimes is giving rise to a regional form of political Islam that Christians fear is not boding well for the future of religious minorities like themselves.
As a result, many of the Middle East's indigenous Christians are emigrating to the West. They are flowing into immigrant pipelines to the Americas and Europe that have been established through the last two centuries, but which demographic experts and church historians say are flowing more steadily now than ever.
A personal journey through this story
This Christian exodus is a story I have documented for 15 years in the Middle East. My research on the topic began as a series of articles for The Boston Globe in 1998 when I was the Middle East Bureau Chief based in Jerusalem. I continued my research by retracing the path of Jesus' life in the modern Middle East and wrote a book titled The Body and The Blood: The Middle East's Vanishing Christians and the Possibility for Peace (PublicAffairs, 2001.)
Along the path from Bethlehem into Egypt and then Nazareth, Jordan, Lebanon, and Jerusalem, I interviewed scores of local Christians and clerics and poured through demographic data and parish records to record a steady diminishing presence of the Christian faith among Catholic, Protestant, Coptic and Eastern Orthodox rites. According to the census data kept by the Ottoman Empire, the Christian population in 1914 was 24 percent of what we could call today Israel/Palestine, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Turkey. Today it is less than 5 percent. In British-ruled Palestine, Christians comprised as much as 20 percent of the population (though some put the figure at 13 percent), while today in Israel/Palestine, that figure is estimated at no more than 1 percent.
My sources, a mix of Arab priests, academics, Western church officials and diplomats, offer numerous anecdotes and stories of whole families emigrating, which they say indicates the trend has worsened in the last two years. A long-held fear that the Christian presence in the Holy Land would effectively disappear within a generation is alarmingly on track, they report.
In the last few months, American clergy and congressmen who have been traveling in the region, as well as Secretary of State John Kerry and numerous diplomats and scholars, are hearing reports from the ground that Christian communities, particularly in Egypt, Syria and Iraq, feel threatened and under siege. They say they are caught not only in the tumult of events like all citizens – Muslim and Christian alike — but that they are acutely fearful of a future in which Islamist movements such as the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, the Shia-led government in Iraq and the Islamist opposition fighters advancing in Syria will impose a culture of intolerance and discrimination toward all religious minorities, including Christians.
One Congressman's pilgrimage in the Middle East
Representative Frank Wolf (R-Va.), a veteran religious freedom advocate, just returned from a tour the Middle East warning that the US was eroding its credibility in Egypt, Iraq, Syria and elsewhere by overlooking abuses of religious minorities.
In supporting movements such as the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Wolf said the US was employing a double standard that overlooked civil rights abuses, especially those targeting minority Christians.
He said no one in Egypt was painting a "rosy picture" of the future, adding, that he was "repeatedly told that the new government led by President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood is ignoring women's rights, human rights and religious rights"
In an interview with the Christian News Service (CNS), Wolf said, "I was told people think the United States is developing relationships with the Muslim Brotherhood because it believes the party is going to remain in power," Wolf said. "[T]he feeling is that as long as the Brotherhood protects the United States' interests in the region, it can act with impunity within its borders."
Wolf met with Coptics and other Christians who told him about an overall atmosphere of intolerance that was fostered in television programming and ignored by most Egyptians.
"Churches have been desecrated, and no permits to build new churches have been granted since January 2011," he said, referring to the date when the uprisings that toppled Hosni Mubarak first got underway.
"By most accounts, US policy has not evolved to meet the new realities in Egypt," Wolf said. "We have embraced the Morsi government the same way we embraced the Mubarak government to the detriment of other elements of Egyptian civil society – elements with which we have a natural affinity."
With Egypt receiving more than $60 billion in US foreign assistance over the last three decades, Wolf called for a reassessment in the way aid is given.
"Given the Mubarak regime's human rights and religious freedom abuses, I have long believed this assistance should be conditioned on improvements in these areas," he said.
Syrian opposition seen as unlikely to treat religious minorities well
Wolf also traveled to Lebanon to meet with Christian and Muslim refugees from Syria. In one particularly poignant interchange, Wolf spoke with a Christian couple who told him that only 400 Christians remain in Damascus amid the heavy fighting there. Those who stayed behind, they said, were too old to flee.
"Bashar al-Assad is a brutal dictator and war criminal," Wolf said, but added that "the West must be clear-eyed about who the rebels are, and what they will do if they seize power."
As the administration develops Syria policy, "it must be ever mindful of the very real concerns of Syria's Christian community," he said, adding that there was growing evidence that several factions of the opposition including foreign jihadists from Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere with a view of political Islam that is intolerant to religious minorities.
Calling for a special envoy
Wolf has called for the State Department to appoint a special envoy on religious freedom in the Middle East, but the effort has been thwarted by several prominent Democrats, including Senator Jim Webb, who feel it would be duplicative and potentially counter-productive. Arab leaders, Christian and Muslim alike, have also been suspicious of such steps to highlight the persecution of Christians, seeing them as part of a broad effort to demonize Islam and divide Christian Arabs from their Muslim neighbors. Nevertheless, Wolf urged church leaders in the West to push for an envoy position and to speak out about what is happening not just in Syria, Iraq and Egypt, but across the region.
If the Middle East "is effectively emptied of the Christian faith," Wolf said, "this will have grave geopolitical implications and does not bode well for the prospects of pluralism and democracy in the region."
This article originally appeared on GlobalPost.
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Part II - The Subjugation of the American Indian
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Grant's Underlying Assumption
President Grant was certain that Anglo-Americans and Native Americans could not live side by side peacefully. Moreover, to accommodate U.S. citizens, the Indians would have to change their ways, give up hunting and raiding, and became peaceful farmers and ranchers on reservation land.
From Grant's perspective, his Indian Peace Policy was intended to avert the wholesale extermination of the Indians inhabiting America's Great Plains, forested Pacific Northwest, and desert Southwest, home to no more than three hundred thousand native people; well more than half of whom were nearly defenseless women, children, and old warriors well past their prime.
By contrast, when Grant became president, the White population of the United States was more than 30 million. Moreover, that population grew by more than 10 million every decade from 1870 to 1900. It was this explosive growth that fueled the insatiable demand for land west of the Mississippi ... almost all of which was occupied by native tribes. You didn't need to be a demographer in the Grant Administration to foresee what was about to befall the Indians. Read More
Music Evening at the Capitol Grounds, Washington, D.C., from Harper's Weekly July 23, 1870. Native Americans living west of the Mississippi River experienced life very differently.
The Proper Treatment of the Indians
Just say "No".
Grant's Government Reform
Was Grant's Indian Policy The Best He Could Do?
Exterminate The Indians
Grant's Political Reality
The Chiricahua and Mescalero Apaches
The San Carlos Apache Reservation
How The Apaches Really Threatened Tucson Businessmen
Raiding To Survive
In his inaugural address March of 1869, Grant stated,
"The proper treatment of the original occupants of this land—the Indians—(is) one deserving of careful study. I will favor any course toward them which tends to their civilization and ultimate citizenship."
Ely S. Parker, Grant's Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
Grant appointed Ely Parker commissioner of Indian Affairs. Parker was a Seneca Indian who served as lieutenant colonel under Grant during the Civil War and the first Native to hold the post. Two months later, in an effort to curb abuses by Indian agents, Grant established regulations for a new Board of Indian Commissioners.
The Board selected various Christian churches to administer the operations of different Indian reservations. Through the Office of Indian Affairs, it was hoped that these religious orders would provide honest and competent agents who would establish Indian schools and churches, teach the Indians farming and Christian values, and provide them with quality food and supplies at reasonable prices.
As a result, the Dutch Reform Church took control of the Apache Reservation at San Carlos and appointed John Clum Indian Agent. Clum was an honest agent who permitted the Indians limited self-government and kept the Army and others from stealing government money and supplies intended for the Indians. Although reasonably popular with the Apaches, after 3 years, Clum resigned because of constant Army interference.
A young, brash John Clum (center) Indian Agent for San Carlos Apache Reservation.
[Note: Most armchair historians know John Clum as the Publisher of the Tombstone Epitaph and friend of Wyatt Earp. Few know that he was the only man to ever capture Geronimo.]
Certainly, Grant knew, and you know, that the conflict between the White Man and the Red Man could have been avoided if Anglo-Americans would have just stayed away from Indian land. Unfortunately, no matter what Grant wanted personally, he possessed neither the military resources, nor the political support, to physically keep his own people out of Indian territory that Whites coveted for potential mineral wealth, rich soil, vast timber and grazing lands.
Like his predecessor, President Abraham Lincoln, many of President Grant's policies encouraged White expansion into the West. Lincoln had championed the 1862 Homestead Act. Any U.S. citizen or intended citizen, including freed slaves and female heads of households, would receive title to 160 acres for federal land west of the Mississippi River. All they had to do was make improvements on the property, reside there for at least 5 consecutive years, and never take up arms against the United States. The influx of White settlers was immediate and overwhelming, not merely because of free land, but also the discovery of gold on Indian lands.
During his presidency, Grant signed legislation detrimental to the Indians, including the General Mining Act that allowed White individuals and corporations to stake claims on Indian lands. This law did not require the new claimants to notify the Indians. There was no possibility for the Natives to file suit in Federal Courts to protect their property.
Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce. "It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and broken promises."
As a consequence of this and other legislation and public policies, American Indians suffered atrocities and gross injustices while Grant was president: The Modoc War of 1872-73 in Northern California and Southern Oregon; The Red River War of 1874 in the Southern Plains against the Comanche, Kiowa, and Southern Cheyenne; The Great Sioux War of 1876 in Dakota Territory (aka Black Hills War); The Nez Perce War of 1877 in the Pacific Northwest; The Nez Perce were forced off 7.5 million acres granted to them by the 1855 Treaty of Walla Walla. The other tribes met a similar fate.
Grant tried to reform federal agencies by creating a professional class of government employees. For this he established the Civil Service Commission in the hope of eliminating bureaucratic inefficiencies and corruption caused by nepotism and patronage. He also supervised the development of millions of acres of federal public lands and presided over the private acquisition of land by pioneers, spectators and railroad and mining companies.
Whites give Grant credit for supporting the U.S. Congress in establishing America's first National Park; Yellowstone. Yet, this magnificent landscape had been home to Native Americans for at least 11,000 years. What was good for Whites was seldom good for Indians. It was a zero sum game. If one side wins, the other side must lose. The land was finite.
Grant knew that his expansionist goals for his nation required the removal of Indians from land coveted by Whites. His Indian Peace Policy, designed to reform the Indian Bureau and remove corrupt agents, also called for rigorous agricultural training on reservations and establishing schools and churches that would transform Indians into Christian citizens who would eventually be given the right to vote. In the meantime, however, the Indians would be "wards of the nation".
Apaches at San Carlos in line to receive rations.
For Grant, cultural genocide was preferable to literal extermination. We might have agreed if in fact these were our only two choices.
"No matter what ought to be the relations between such settlements and the aborigines, the fact is they do not harmonize well, and one or the other has to give way in the end."
Grant, ever the military man, was nothing if not a pragmatist. Moral philosophy had its limits.
"A system which looks to the extinction of a race is too horrible for a nation to adopt without entailing upon itself the wrath of all Christendom and engendering in the citizen a disregard for human life and the rights of others, dangerous to society. I see no substitute for such a system, except in placing all the Indians on large reservations, as rapidly as it can be done, and giving them absolute protection there."
To fortify and accelerate his vision for America Native population in the West, Grant signed the Indian Appropriation Act of 1871. This law halted the Government's recognition of new Indian nations with which it could make treaties. Any tribe not already acknowledged as a sovereign nation could become a Nation and no formal treaties could be made with them. Thus began the official policy of concentrating all Indian tribes onto reservations, for their own good, of course.
In his 1871 address to Congress, Grant claimed,
"Many tribes of Indians have been induced to settle upon reservations, to cultivate the soil, to perform productive labor of various kinds, and to partially accept civilization. They are being cared for in such a way, it is hoped, as to induce those still pursuing their old habits of life to embrace the only opportunity which is left them to avoid extermination."
Three years later, Grant boasted,
"A few years more will relieve our frontiers from danger of Indian depredations."
He was off by a dozen years because so many of the Apaches of Arizona and New Mexico were not properly "cared for" on their reservations.
Dodge City, KS. 1878. Charles Rath sits on 40,000 buffalo hides in the yard of the store he owned with Robert Wright. Wright said of Rath, "He bought and sold more than a million of buffalo hides, and tens of thousands of buffalo robes." Meanwhile, the Plains Indians starved.
Whites, first prospectors, then ranchers and farmers, continued to push Indians off their land, while Grant's army was expected to prevent retaliation. Grant oversaw the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad and the industrial slaughter of buffalo on the Plains that destroyed the Indian's primary supply of food and hides for clothing, blankets, and tepees. The Indians starved or died from malnutrition and exposure, or White Man's diseases such a smallpox and measles.
Was this the best President Grant could do? Perhaps. To be fair, we have to consider that, from the perspective of the U.S. Congress and the federal bureaucracy, the Indians were not U.S. Citizens. They could not vote. They had little political power in Washington and even less in the Western state capitals.
In fact, most good citizens of Arizona and New Mexico Territories clamored for the extermination of the Apaches by any means necessary. Most did not support the federal government's practice of giving these Indians rations. White citizens in the Territories claimed that rations of food, blankets, and clothing enabled the Apaches to continue raiding. Certainly, in some cases this was true.
Moreover, what little sympathy the Western tribes had in the Halls of Power evaporated on June 26, 1976 when news spread that thousands of Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors had annihilated five companies of the 7th Cavalry at the Little Big Horn River in Montana. Almost unanimously, Americans demanded revenge, even though Grant made it clear he consider the massacre to be entirely the fault of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer. "I regard Custer's Massacre as a sacrifice of troops, brought on by Custer himself, that was wholly unnecessary — wholly unnecessary."
Custer's Last Stand by Edgar Paxson.
The Indians won this battle, but lost the war. Congress quickly responded by attaching what the Sioux call the "sell or starve" rider to the Indian Appropriations Act of 1876 enacted just 3 weeks after Custer's Last Stand. It cut off all rations for the Sioux until they terminated hostilities and ceded the Black Hills to the United States. The Agreement of 1877 officially confiscated Sioux lands and permanently established Indian reservations for these "bad" Indians.
Today, there are many who believe the President should have used the Army to keep Whites from violating U.S. law by mining and otherwise settling on Indian Territory. For Grant to use his Army to physically prevent U.S. citizens from encroaching on Indian land would have been political suicide. No doubt he would have been impeached or voted out of office in the election of 1872.
For Grant's Army to shoot down Indians … men, women, and children … in their own villages was not unheard of. Grant didn't like it, but he knew it happened. For his Army to shoot down White prospectors and settlers trespassing on Indian Territory was unthinkable. If Grant had ordered it, most likely few officers would have obeyed. And if they had, the officers would have faced mass desertions or perhaps assassination by their own troops.
For the Indians, President Grant's "large reservations" became the source of continued misery and death. This was particularly true at San Carlos Apache Reservation in Arizona and Mescalero Apache Reservation in New Mexico.
One particular act of treachery by Grant occurred shortly after the 1874 death of Cochise, the great Chiricahua Apache chief. Over the slightest provocation, the president rescinded the [unwritten] 1872 treaty Cochise had forged with General Howard that granted the Chiricahua Apaches a large reservation, in perpetuity, encompassing much of their ancestral homeland in the Chiricahua and Dragoon Mountains and Sulphur Springs Valley in between. Today, this lost Chiricahua Reservation makes up much of Cochise County in Southeast Arizona. [Click on this link for our story related to the Chiricahua Apache.]
With the stroke of his presidential pen, Grant returned the Chiricahua's territory to public domain and militarily forced these Chiricahua Apaches onto the dreaded San Carlos Reservation. The land rush for the former Chiricahua reservation was immediate and irreversible.
Yes, you could argue that a relatively few disgruntled Chiricahua Apaches led by Geronimo brought this travesty upon all their people. Despite many warnings, some warriors continued to raid south of the International Border. In an effort to maintain the peace, Cochise ordered them to stop. But by 1874, Cochise was dead and neither Taza nor Naiche had the powerful influence over the Chiricahuas that their father had.
Moreover, because of a treaty with Mexico, Grant was legally bound to stop this cross-border raiding. So he had his army herd the Chiricahuas onto the San Carlos Reservation where they were forced into close proximity with Tonto and Yavapai bands who were hostile to the Chiricahuas. Hostilities between these groups was easily predictable, as was the flight of many Chiricahuas from San Carlos to avoid Apache-on-Apache violence. The Whites were either unaware or uncaring.
In 1871-72, Crook's army had forced the Tonto Apaches and Yavapai to settle on the Rio Verde Indian Reservation. At the insistence and assistance of the Army, they took up large-scale farming and provided crops, not only for themselves, but for the Army that had conquered them. In 1873, they produced 500,000 pounds of corn and additional quantities of beans and other crops.
Rio Verde proved the wisdom of Grant's Peace Policy. It was a huge success … a success that proved its downfall. Tonto Apache and Yavapai gains threatened White farming and ranching interests in Tucson. Those Tucson businessmen quickly convinced the Federal Government to end the Indian experiment.
In 1874, the Grant Peace Policy morphed into the Indian Removal Policy. Its purpose was to remove the Natives from vast ancestral lands and concentrate them onto relatively small reservations. By doing so, the Government hoped it would be easier and cheaper to control them, as well as open huge tracks of fertile, but uncultivated land to productive White settlement.
General George Crook in the field against Apaches. Crook preferred riding mules rather than horses. His mules name? Apache.
In the Southwest, in 1871-2, General Crook began the roundup. His troops conquered the Yavapai and Tonto Apaches and forced them onto the Rio Verde Reservation. The U.S. Government dissolved this reserve four years later. Its Army then force-marched about 1,500 Indians over high mountains in harsh winter conditions 180 miles to San Carlos. More than 100 died on the trek. In the process, the Yavapai and Tonto Apaches lost their 900 square mile government-guaranteed land in the lush Verde Valley, although many returned after the turn of the century.
Having accomplished his assignment of concentrating these Natives at San Carlos, Crook wrote: … the Indian agents "immediately began their game of plundering." He quickly learned, much to his disgust, that most of the government supplies intended for the Indians were being sold off the reservation by the agents. Everyone was benefiting from the reservation system except the Native Americans forced to live on them.
Soon these Apaches were again dependent on the Government that again purchased huge quantities of vegetables, grain and beef and supplies such as tools and wagons at outrageous prices from Tucson entrepreneurs.
San Carlos was purposely chosen because it was remote. No Whites or Mexicans wanted this miserable area, described at the time as "a desolate sand-waste, a sweltering disease-ridden inferno."
The San Carlos Reservation soil was so poor the Indians had no possibility of becoming self-sufficient farmers. Moreover, they could not prevent the deaths of their infants and small children from malaria that was prevalent there.
To say the Indians were not well cared for on their reservations in general and at San Carlos in particular would be the grossest understatement. This was a huge failure of the Grant administration that was totally avoidable, if ...
IF Grant had known about it, he surely would have considered the deplorable reservation conditions a violation of his Indian Peace Policy and foreseen the Chiricahua's revolts as likely consequences.
From Grant's strong and immediate reaction to the slaughter of Aravaipa Apaches on April 30, 1871 by a Tucson mob, we can reasonably assume that the President's reaction would have been outrage and the immediate use of his military to rectify the reservation's condition. But history does not reveal what Grant knew of conditions at San Carlos after he ordered the various Apache groups forcibly moved there in 1874-75.
For several hundred years, Apaches in general, and the Chiricahuas in particular raided neighboring tribes who were more settled and had much to steal, including guns & ammo, food, horses, and women. This raiding way of life sowed the seeds of their eventual destruction. When the Americans began arriving en mass onto the Apaches ancestral homelands, the Chiricahuas had no friends among neighboring tribes. They had no natural alliances. As the Plains Indians proved at their Battle of Greasy Grass (Little Big Horn), alliances to consolidate overwhelming force was the only way to defeat the U.S. Army in battle.
In Chiricahua history, only two chiefs, Cochise and his father-in-law, the giant Mangas Coloradas (Red Sleeves), had sufficient status to unite the many bands of Apaches and create a fighting force of some 500 warriors under superb leadership. But Mangas was tortured and murdered by soldiers in '63. And Cochise died of natural causes in '74.
Click on this link to read about two rare battles in which Cochise led a fighting force of hundreds of Apaches.
Gall, Hunkpapa Lakota War Chief. 1881.
The united Indian fighting force at Little Big Horn amounted to several thousand warriors led by Sitting Bull and Chief Gall. For the Apaches to gather anywhere near that number of warriors for a pitched battle, they would have had to form military alliances with the Navajo, Zuni, Hopi, Ute, and Tohono O'odham … all of whom were their bitter enemies.
Yet raiding was something Chiricahua Apaches did well. In the 1860's and '70's, the Chiricahuas were the alpha-predator of the American Southwest. Facing overwhelming odds, they knew they had five formidable military assets. (1) The Chiricahuas knew the terrain far better than their enemies. (2) Through generations of hardship, rigorous training, and warfare, the Chiricahuas were physically and mentally tougher than their Anglo and Mexican enemies, and just as ruthless. (3) The Chiricahuas were unsurpassed at guerilla warfare. They were excellent ambush killers. (4) Usually, the Chiricahuas had excellent leadership: Mangas Coloradas, Cochise, Victorio, Juh, Nana, and Chihuahua to name a few. One can argue whether or not Geronimo was an excellent leader. Many Apaches blame him for their miserable fate. (5) Most Chiricahua warriors were willing to fight and die for the sake of their family, their way of life, and their land that Ussen, the Creator, had given them.
In addition to not having any allies, the non-reservation Chiricahuas, termed "hostiles' by the Whites, did have another liability, namely turncoats. Many Chiricahuas, thoroughly exhausted from years of continuous warfare, went to work for the U.S. Army as informants and scouts. The most historically important of these were Chatto and Peaches. Without them serving as scouts, the U.S. Army could never have discovered the hostile's hidden rancherias and the Apache Wars might have continued for another decade or two.
Another liability was trust. General Crook, then General Miles, promised Geronimo and Naiche that, if they surrendered, all Chiricahuas would be exiled to Florida, (wherever that was), for only two years, then all would be returned to their homeland in Arizona. Apaches usually kept their promises. Not so much the Americans. The U.S. broke promises, even ratified treaties, like dried twigs.
Turncoats and treachery aside, their abiding liability however, was far greater than their formidable assets. In a war of attrition, the Chiricahuas were bound to lose eventually. In the 1850's and '60's, there may have been as many as 2,000 Chiricahuas. By 1883, there were a mere 500. By April of 1886, the Chiricahuas could field only 2 dozen warriors against more than 5,000 U.S. soldiers and a couple hundred Apache scouts, plus hundreds of Mexican soldiers, and myriad civil militias. All of the other Chiricahua men, women and children had been or soon would be shipped to Florida as prisoners-of-war.
Naiche, last of the hereditary chiefs of the Chiricahua Apaches, and Geronimo at Fort Bowie shortly after their surrender in 1886. Note: They were given new clothes before boarding the train to prison in Florida.
In 1883, confined and facing lingering death and humiliating cultural annihilation at San Carlos, several hundred Chiricahuas, men, women, and children, bolted the res and headed for the safely of the Sierra Madre in Mexico under the leadership of shaman Geronimo and Chief Naiche.
By now, raiding on both sides of the border was their only means of survival. Any Anglo or Mexican, soldier or civilian, would shoot them on sight or let the Army know their whereabouts. For this reason the Chiricahuas killed every Anglo and Mexican they came across; men, women, and children. Grant's soldiers often did the same to Apaches found off their reservation. So who was to blame? Everyone? No one? Grant? Geronimo? You tell me.
NEXT: Part III - The Tucson Ring


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In Conversation With… Charlie Kerr of Hotel Mira | From The Strait
Here at FTS, we've had Hotel Mira's Perfectionism album on repeat since it first came out. They've recently dropped a fantastic new video for "The Eyes On You", featuring a bit of a farewell to their Perfectionism era. We're always glad to chat with frontman Charlie Kerr, so we caught up with him to talk about the making of the video, what he's been up to while the world shut down, and what he might be doing if wasn't a musician.
From The Strait: Tell us about the process of making the video for "The Eyes On You".
Charlie Kerr: It was a lot of fun. The crew were really kind and creative people. So, lots of cracking jokes. And Lindsey is just immensely talented so it was easy to let her drive the ship. We had some great discussions in terms of what we were going for leading up to it, so it was mostly just a good time.
FTS: Our last chat with you was right before the world shut down. How has the past year and a half changed things for you?
Charlie Kerr: I wrote a lot. I wrote a screenplay and an album's worth of material and filmed a starring role in a tv show that comes out not long from now. We were lucky enough to have success on the radio and had a lot of people consider "Perfectionism" their quarantine album. Which was cool for a bunch of reasons. At times I thought maybe I would never get to perform live ever again which I weirdly came to terms with but I still practiced my singing for hours a day. My dad had a health scare which kind of put a lot in perspective for me. It was a whirlwind that's for sure.
FTS: If you weren't a musician or actor, what do you think you would be doing instead?
Charlie Kerr: My set of skills is almost comically limited. This is pretty much the only thing I have ever excelled at. But maybe I would try my hand at stand-up or something? I am a good listener, maybe I would make for a decent counsellor. But for better or worse I kind of feel as though I am right where I belong, telling stories etc.
FTS: What would you say is your all-time favourite Hotel Mira song? Are there any that you're no longer a fan of?
Charlie Kerr: I think my favorite HM song is either "Speaking Off The Record" or "This Could Be It For Me". They both did a lot for my career and I felt like I never compromised while writing either. Some of the really early songs I don't really recognize myself in anymore. But I think that is healthy. I like growing and changing. And I think everything was necessary, creatively to get to this point. The trial and error of making The Matt And Sam's Brother record comes to mind as it was an amazing learning experience that I think taught me a ton. Essentially, it all feels valuable in retrospect even if it's not exactly how I wanted it to sound. I listen to Circulation and I am proud of how bold we were but it feels like I am listening to someone else's band. It's surreal but I kind of love it.
FTS: If each Hotel Mira band member was a superhero, what would their superpower be?
Charlie Kerr: I don't know if they count as superheroes but I feel like the band dynamic is almost identical to the teenage mutant ninja turtles. With me Being Leonardo, Cole being Raphael, Clark being Donatello and Mike being Michaelangelo.
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Q: Localhost access log shows 500 response but Tomcat log (catalina.out) shows no stack trace I'm investigating the root cause of some 500 (Internal Server Error) responses coming from my Java/Spring app.  I can see evidence in localhost_access_log of these 500 responses:
10.0.2.171 - - [20/Sep/2020:22:21:31 +0000] "POST /item HTTP/1.1" 500 5979

But when I look at the corresponding log entries in catalina.out, I don't see any stack trace or error.  The logging just sort of stops:
2020-09-20 22:21:31.170 [http-nio-8080-exec-248] INFO  c.a.e.w.w.s.c.QueueController - POST REQUEST to /item received
2020-09-20 22:21:31.170 [http-nio-8080-exec-248] INFO  c.a.e.w.w.service.SnsTopicManager - Processing Request. ItemId=304513

There should be additional INFO-level logging after this, but clearly something is going wrong, hence the 500 response.  Usually, a 500 response is due to an uncaught exception and there's an accompanying stack trace to explain the issue, but not in this case.
How can an Internal Server Error be happening here with no stack trace or other error info being logged?


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Ruby Yang, Anne Cheng
At a Buddhist temple in rural Cambodia, a man who resided there for over a decade is arrested for sexually abusing at least 17 boys. Investigators track down victims Se Bros, a high schooler who was first to report the abuse, and Monk Ry, who lived together with the abuser at the temple. As Bros and Ry contemplate on whether to testify in court, the chief monk reveals that the monks knew about the abuse all along. Gateless explores how a Buddhist temple intended for the pursuit of peace and tolerance can become a place where children are violated.


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Photons penetrate the attenuating material close to the aperture of pinhole collimators in nuclear medicine, broadening the tails of point spread functions (PSFs) and degrading the resolution of planar and SPECT images. An analytic approximation has been developed that models this penetration contribution to the PSF for knife-edge point pinhole apertures. The approximation has the form exp(-gamma r), where r is the distance on the detector surface from the projection of the point source through the pinhole. The rolloff coefficient gamma is a function of the photon energy, point source location and the design parameters of the collimator. There was excellent agreement between measured values of gamma from photon transport simulations of I-131 point sources (364 keV emission only) and theoretical predictions from the analytic formula. Predicted gamma values from the analytic formula averaged 25% greater than measured values from experimental I-131 point source acquisitions. Photon transport simulations were performed that modelled the 364 keV and less abundant 637 and 723 keV emissions and scatter within the scintillation crystal. Measured gamma values from these simulations averaged 12% greater than the experimental values, indicating that about half of the error between the analytic formula and the experimental measurements was due to unmodelled 637 and 723 keV emissions. The remaining error may be due in part to scatter in the pinhole region and backscatter from gamma camera components behind the scintillation crystal. The analytic penetration model was used in designing Metz filters to compensate for penetration blur and these filters were applied to the projection data as part of 3D SPECT image reconstruction. Image resolution and contrast were improved in simulated and experimental I-131 tumour phantom studies. This analytic model of pinhole aperture penetration can be readily incorporated into iterative 3D SPECT pinhole reconstruction algorithms.