Konrad Edegger studied construction design and management at the FH Joanneum Graz. He is division manager for special issues since 2016.
Madjid Fazeli studied civil engineering at the Graz University of Technology. He is co-founder of the engineering practice Fazeli-Wolfesberger Ingenieure GesBR. Madjid Fazeli joined convex ZT GmbH working self-employed in 2014.
Sandra Heiligenbrunner completed an apprenticeship in technical drafting, and studied civil engineering at the FH Campus Vienna and after that at the FH Joanneum Graz. She is division manager for building construction since 2016 and authorised officer since 2017.
Florian Knobloch studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Graz. He is division manager for structural design since 2016, and authorised officer since 2017.
Jürgen Lohmann graduated from the HTBLA Ortweinplatz in Graz. He is division manager for construction design since 2016.
Wolfgang Nesitka studied civil engineering at the Graz University of Technology, and made his PhD at the same institution. He was Technical Director at the construction Company Ed. Ast & Co. in Graz, and in the following, Head of the Study Course "Construction Design and Economics" at the FH Joanneum University of Applied Sciences in Graz. He is founding partner of convex ZT GmbH.
Tassilo Szyszkowitz studied civil engineering at the Graz University of Technology, and made his PhD at the same institution. He co-founded the engineering practice Graber-Szyszkowitz ZT GmbH 1981 in Graz, Austria. Since 2006, he is partner of convex ZT GmbH.
Timur Uzunoglu studied civil engineering at the Vienna University of Technology, and made his PhD at the Graz University of Technology. In 2004, he founded convex ZT GmbH. Timur Uzunoglu is teaching Industrial Construction at the FH Joanneum Graz since 2005. He represents the British "Institution of Civil Engineers" in Austria.
Murat Gökçe studied civil engineering at the Istanbul University of Technology and in the following, at the Vienna University of Technology. After fifteen years of management experience in various international companies, he joined the convex group in 2006 as founding partner of convex Ltd. Şti.


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L'hôpital de la Conception est l'un des hôpitaux publics de Marseille (France). Il est situé dans le quartier de La Conception, dans le . Le poète Arthur Rimbaud y rend l'âme le 10 novembre 1891 à la suite de son rapatriement d'Afrique. L'hôpital fait partie de l'Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille.

Les bâtiments du nouveau hôpital ont été construits entre 1982 et 1985.

Accès
L'hôpital est desservi par les lignes 1 du métro (arrêt « Baille » ou « Timone »), et 54 du bus (arrêt « Conception ») de la RTM.

Références

Voir aussi

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 Hôpital_Michel-Lévy
Hôpital Nord
 Hôpital de la Timone

Liens externes

 Site des hôpitaux de Marseille (AP-HM)
 « Classement national et régional » sur L'Express.
 Ph. S. « Marseille : les hôpitaux de la Conception et de la Timone en alerte... pour de faux » sur La Provence, le .

Hôpital à Marseille
5e arrondissement de Marseille

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Queer Dialectics of the Ark: Resolutions and Reflections of 2016
"I will blot out from the earth
the human beings I have created"
The end of 2016 has become a sad joke, a figure of a year that wouldn't die and made everyone miserable in its old age. In some ways, this is a variation on the classic trope of New Year's as the old man of the past knocking on the grave, like the wizened figure from the Pardoner's Tale, while the new year arrives freshly pampered like an infant. The eyes of the old are weary and regretting while the eyes of the young are bright and promising. Yet 2016 has the distinction of never being very childish or cheerful, even in its youth. The beginning of the year was marked for many by the death of David Bowie, the musical legend and queer icon. A series of high profile deaths and tragedies followed throughout the year. There began to be a sense that if we could all get through December 31st, we will have made it onto the ark. Of course, this is a false sentiment. The end of the year will not be the end of death. Nor, judging by the trend of politics and social tensions, will there be a future free of tragedy. January 1st is not so very different from the previous day. Yet every year we approach the new year like a new start. That intention and myth is not without worth and effect. There is a method to the continual starts and restarts, even as the old folds into the new. This method is how we match our collective will to the onward force of time and change. By this method we work entropy into progress. By this method we mourn the dead and hope for new life. There is value to that. Indeed, looking back at 2016, this method - which I will identify with dialectical models of writing - seems to pervade the whole year. If it is true that we can die many deaths before the end, this was a year that challenged the continuity of time with frequent breaks, tragedies and traumas that broke down our sense of life and meaning. Each time we face these cataclysms, we were forced to find a way to keep living anyway. Although few want to return to 2016, there is a lesson to learn from it. It is the lesson of in tragedy, a lesson in survival, a lesson in rhetoric.
I sincerely believe that literary criticism and composition can save lives and change the world. I recall sitting on the train to Washington DC to teach the first class of 2016 to a room full of new students. Taking my seat, I turned on my cell-phone and turned it off a minute later. All over social media was the news that on this day, January 10th, David Bowie had died. Almost a year later, I still have difficulty perceiving this as a world without this Star Child in it. On that first day, I was in shock and didn't know how to even begin processing the tragedy. Faced with an introductory class in a few hours, I threw my grief into the lesson by doing what I often do when I am grappling with such pain: searching for meaning within literature. The terrible irony hit me that the one I most wanted to help me get through Bowie's death is Bowie himself. In that spirit, I began this seminar on Transgender and Social Justice with a music video of Bowie and Queen's "Under Pressure." This was a providential way to begin the course and the year as a whole. In this song, these trans and queer icons left us a lesson on how to live in the face of death and oppression. What do we do when we hear our friends crying "let me out?" Do we "turn away from it all" or "sit on the fence?" "It doesn't work," they inform us." This is a world without absolute security or places to hide. No matter where you go or how much you try to keep your head down and push on, you will have to recon with the hurt and the cries. You can wall yourself off but eventually the pressure will be too much and the flood will take you. The only way to face the pressure, say David Bowie and Freddy Mercury, is to face it head on with something that can out last tragedy and change the world: love. Yes, they admit, "Love is such an old fashioned word." The word and sentiment have been tried over and over again. The horrors keep on happening. Death keeps coming. But love is a dialectic, they say, "love dares you to care for the people on the edge of the night and love dares you change our way of caring about ourselves." Love is not a way to fix death or stop suffering but is a way to face it, fight it, and live amidst it. Love will not silence our opposition but it will give us a counter argument. Love is what must come next.
My favorite method of writing to teach is dialectic argument, a style of writing, narrating, and living that is all about integrating what has happened, what is happening, and what comes next. The structure establishes an argument (thesis), introduces a counter-argument (antithesis), then arrives at a conclusion that continues the argument but takes the counter-argument into account (synthesis). I organize my lesson plans to follow this rhythm. One week will introduce an idea, grounded in one book or one part of a book. The next week we explore a competing idea from the same period, place, or text. The third week we conclude the section by considering how a third text or part of the text attempts to resolve the tension between these ideas. We consider how the synthesis works and how it fails, introducing a nascent thesis and antithesis which usually is the segue into the next section. The paper which comes at the end of the section or the next section likewise is supposed to follow a dialectic and engage in the texts we study. Usually the prompt is not so simple as to generate a rehash of the same thesis, antithesis, synthesis we explored in class but is tight enough to encourage them to use the various points and counter-points we discussed. By asking them to engage with a counter-argument, I hope to teach them compassion for topics they may dislike or an ability to criticize a topic they do enjoy. While books that make us very sad or angry often provoke the sharpest arguments, I try to steer them to critique subjects for which they have some love. Critiques tend to be the most useful and respectful when the critic approaches the text with the sensibility of a friend offering loving advice. When you see some good in the text but want it to be better, to fulfill missed opportunities, and live out its potential, then those who read the argument tend to be more open to the criticism. Also the argument tends to be more measured, nuanced, and specific. Afterwards, by offering our own synthesis of ideas, productive criticism that says "yes and..." or "yes however," we can appreciate how hard it is to resolve these conflicts while also pushing others to generate more goodness.
The last month of Spring classes saw the death of Prince, offering my students one more chance to consider the work of rhetoric before the final paper. Just as he had done in the first class, we watched a landmark performance of Prince: Let's Go Crazy. "Dearly beloved," coos the Artist, "we are gathered here today, to get through this thing called life." A queer icon famous for playing with gender and sexuality in his art and life, Prince knew the great cost of living on through the tragedy of the everyday. Yet his was not a song of despair or stoic perseverance. Prince got through this thing called life by imagining something better than life as it was then bringing others together to share this vision. "Electric word life, it means forever and that's a mighty long time" continues Prince, marking the feeling of excitement and anxiety, purpose and weariness in our enduring existence. "But I'm here to tell you, there's something else," he adds, "the after world." For Prince, the after world is not the same as merely living on through life or death. The after world is "something else" of another kind. "The after world," is what comes next. Imagining such a world is critical in the work of moving from persisting to progressing. Dreaming of, looking for, and working towards "something else" is how we move on after monotony and trauma, beyond life and death. In the wake of Prince's death, we need the promise of "something else" for those of us still trying, "to get through this thing called life." From Bowie and Prince we receive songs and rhythms that progress us forward, a method, a dialectic. Proceeding through Spring semester 2016 with my Transgender and Social Justice class was full of hardships and each time a new wave hit us I tried to get my students to put it into their reading and writing. Dialectical methodologies are all about introducing something new and different. Dialectics are all about conflicting ideas, persons, and movements. By taking such an approach to literature, we saw how all narrative is in some form of an argument where conflicting forces are attempting to resolve some tension. Taken in this way, our music and literature turns from a flat, self-enclosed object of study into an active agent that seeks to engage in the world. Our stories call us to engage with them with the promise that through them we might find a method to carry on.
The story of Noah's ark is a lesson in God's rhetoric. A study of the Bible, starting with Genesis, reveals a dialectic structure to the narrative of God's people. Beginning with God's Creation of humanity, readers can perceive humanity's fall from grace as a counter-argument, a statement of alterity, that will be synthesized again and again in the later books where God seeks to save and liberate humanity from its mutually-imposed bondage. Yet stories can also be begun from a human perspective. Humanity finds itself created and in a garden not of its own making, generations faced with oppression and tragedy that they did not chose. From a human perspective God can seem to be the antagonist, time and again breaking into our ways of life and interrupting it, causing us to reevaluate and rebuild. A exemplary instance comes in the story of the Flood and Noah's Ark. If we begin with the perspective of humanity, life has been continuing apace when seemingly all of a sudden God brings upon the world a deluge that will wipe out all life on Earth. Working together with God, Noah synthesizes a solution with God's terror, the old world will pass away but a part of it will be preserved on a massive Ark. First, there is a dialectic debate between Noah and God, argument meeting counter-argument, and the Ark is the synthesis. Second, from this argument arises the embodiment of this dialectic: the argument of the world will face the counter-argument of tragedy and death to synthesize a future where the world will continue in an altered form. The effectiveness of this synthesis (however horrific it may be) is that it also answers the dialectic from God's perspective as well. God ordered a just humanity and world, the world fell into injustice, the flood and Ark together will bring about a justified world. This structural overview of the Bible, and the story of Noah's Ark in particular, establishes scripture not only as a mythic dialog but a dialectical argument. Noah's Ark is not merely a prop in a story but an embodiment of rhetoric. If we learn the lesson of Noah's Ark, we can apply this dialectic to our own tragedies.
Many readers and illustrators of the Noah's can't help but focus on the animals. While the humans are our direct stand-ins, our mythic ancestors, the animals in and out of the ark tend to get the focus in medieval liturgical plays and manuscripts drawings. There is something more sympathetic about the animals. They did not cause or deserve the punishment of the Flood, yet their destruction or survival is decided on by divine and human forces not their own. While scripture focuses on humanity, it is difficult to read the animals as inconsequential. The decision to save some of them is one sign of their value. The decision to save more of some kinds of animals and less of others is a sign that the animals do not all have the same value. God instructs Noah, "Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals... and a pair of the animals that are not clean... and seven pairs of the birds of the air also" (Genesis 7:2-3). Despite illustrations and common understandings that the Ark contained two of every animal, it did not. The repetition of the phrase "two by two" perhaps contributed to this misunderstanding. Among the animals, there would be a total of fourteen members of "clean" species and only two members of "not clean" species. This distinction is generally understood as those animals that are good to eat, use in work, and sacrifice in contrast with those who are not. Again, not only do the animals have no word in the argument of who will die and who will be saved, they have no word in determining which groups will have a greater level of security and which will be abandoned. Many marginalized and oppressed people understand that the aid or disregard they possess is often determined by others and often distributed based on who will be most useful to those in power. By identifying as the animals, we enter into a larger debate: who among us are the "clean" ones who will be given a greater degree of life and who among us are considered the "unclean" ones whose existence will be minimally tolerated? Are we the sheep or the snakes?
In the wake of LGBTQI rights activism, more plays and illustrations of Noah's Ark have appeared imagining why there are no unicorns in the world. The unicorns, imagined as gay icons, were not allowed in the ark because when they arrived two by two they were in sets of men and men or woman and woman. Not fitting the compulsory statute for heterosexual breeders, the unicorns were left to die. Many of those who lived and died in the AIDS epidemic may identify with these unicorns, abandoned to perish in a natural tragedy while those in power condemned their deaths as the just vengeance of an angry God. Currently, the transgender community may feel they have missed the boat with suicide rates of near or beyond 50% and a steadily increasing rate of homicide. People of color may likewise understand what it means for those in gated communities to exclude and abandon them, allowing only "the good ones" to enter their safe zone if and when they are useful. In election seasons in the United States it is easy to feel like the Ark is being built for the next four to eight years and the politicians are choosing which groups will get a greater or lesser place in their respective futures with entrance contingent on the groups willingness to be helpful to them. When one of the two Arks (candidates/parties) fails, the other Ark may mock those who do not have a preferential place in their establishment. Indeed, the rhetoric that allows certain Arks to win is on the basis of what groups will be considered "clean" and what "unclean" groups will be left to die or culled then domesticated. Countless candidates have offered dominant groups a larger representation in the Ark while promising to drive marginalized groups (the queers, feminists, Muslim and Jewish populations, immigrants, people of color, people with disabilities) into the flood waters. Every four years or so the dialectic of the Ark is performed on a national stage, incorporating many of the arguments and counter-arguments being lived out every day around sex, transgender, racism, religion, science, and animal rights. For this reason, many of us may have lost faith in the Ark and its promises for a brighter future for some, at the expense of the rest.
For those who survive, who make it onto the proverbial Ark, we may question the great cost and value of this survival. For us unicorns and snakes, we question the justice of living to see a new year when so many of our friends, family, and community members have perished. By the flood, the ruler of the world, "blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the ground, human beings and animals and creeping things and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth" (Genesis 7:23). Whole communities, arguments, and ways of life have been blotted out. Voices and songs have been silenced as violence choked and drowned them. We have heard their fear, anger, and sadness. Now we hear only the faint echoes in our ears and hearts. What makes us one of those many or few who get to enter into this new future? Are there not those we admire who die? Have we not lost those who might have done more for the world than we? We may think of many who are cleaner, more useful, and deserving of life than us, yet they are among those we lose as we continue on living. The future is ours but it should have been theirs. Or at least a great portion of the future should have been theirs. Because theirs would have been a better future, a brighter future, a future needing fewer floods and with bigger more inclusive arks. Who are we that survive? What will we do with this unfair gift and debt? Who am I to stand here in the place of transgender siblings who died by the terror of suicide, abandonment, and murder? Who am I to walk away from my encounters with police when my black counter-parts are wheeled away to the morgue? Where is the justice in the Ark? Where is the goodness in the choice and choosers? Those who have passed will not live to account the value of their deaths or see justice in this world. Nor might we ever understand our own survival or see the end of the story. The fullness of time is not ours but we will live to see many different kinds futures. The dialectic will continue. New counter-arguments and new syntheses. We will not see the end of the argument but by being a part of the debate we can shape who the conversation carries forward the meaning of the past. We can teach the world to revalue those who were not chosen for any Ark. We can tell stories that revalue their deaths. We can enter their arguments back into discussion. By taking the Ark as a rhetoric lesson, we can learn how to live out the dialectic the future needs and our history demands.
On Christmas 2016, I received a model of Noah's Ark for my desk. Currently, it is in my office being steered by a little lego figure of me that my partner created. This is a bit of a joke, as she recognizes my office as a bit like my ark where I manage my stress about the world and work with others to get more us through the flood. Like those running around the ark plugging holes, I recall have to explain my simultaneous disappearance from an active public life and the look of barbed intensity when I would be spotted outside the home. During this time, it was all hands on deck in the transgender community. The Trans Lifeline reported an all time high of over 1,000 calls by the end of November. At this time, the usual method of Transliterature changed from meditative pieces on literature to a communications avenue just for getting resources from those who wanted to help and to those who could help. Back in November, when the future of the United States became covered in the floods of hate and fear, I was utterly uncertain which of us would make it onto the boat. Too many didn't. The Transgender Lifeline is a service whereby the trans community and allies takes care of our most vulnerable. On election night, the lines were almost drowned as hundreds of calls inundated with tragedy. Their voices were among those pleading to Noah to be saved as tides of violence and antagonism were on the rise. Not everyone makes it onto the ark and not everyone survives the past the damage done by the counter-argument. We do what we can. We initiate contingency plans and open our doors to those in need of somewhere to weather the storm but we cannot change the world over night. For some time, we will continue try to stay afloat or swim. We have been in this boat before. In ways, we never left it. Many of us have lived through floods before. Yet this experience at seafaring is no assurance that we will make it through this deluge. Nor is there confidence that we will have a place in the world when the storm recedes. This is where symbols again become important.
Beyond signs like arks that keep us going, flag are another way that we communicate to one another, assert our arguments, organize, and reclaim the world. My partner and I were standing in our closet-office, discussing the place white supremacy, Neo-Nazis, and the KKK would have in the new world. I see more of the town I live in while I go for jogs. Along the way I see confederate flags raised. There are those who try to reclaim these flags by saying that they represent "southern pride" not slavery or white supremacy. But you can't reclaim the flag which flew in defense of slavery. You can't erase that. And white supremacy is all about pride for "our (white) people." This is hardly an argument or counter-argument. Arguments can be integrated into a dialectic, add some good. But this is too poisonous. This doesn't play fair. This lies and rewrites history, because history and morality is not behind it. This is how the flood of ignorance works. Ignorance is not only about a lack of knowledge but a willing refusal to acknowledge truth. Ignorance is about ignoring the truth. Hate steers with the gut and clouds the mind. Like a storm and flood it causes trauma, making it hard to determine what is up and what is down. Hate incites desperation when there is enough room on the ark or land for us to share. The confederate flag is not an argument, it is the breakdown of arguments. White supremacy is not a sign of strength but of weakness, the oppressor excusing their actions because they cast themselves as the oppressed. White supremacy is not an argument, it is an ignorant refusal to engage in the facts and reason that define arguments. All it has is storms and floods, flags and hate, gut feelings and swinging arms. In the midst of discussing our concerns in the office, my partner and I concluded, "no, not within these walls. In this home, we follow a better thesis." The decision was made to buy a transgender and gay pride flag, as well as a Black Lives Matter flag. In the first case, they would be our way of saying to ourselves, this is who we are. In the second case, in this world no one can assume we are not racist, anti-transgender, anti-queer, anti-feminist, antisemitic, anti-Islam, or anti-immigrant. Quiet passivity is not going to make the world a better place.
The flags came out at different times and received different reactions. The first one to be pinned in our front room window was the transgender pride flag, boasting stripes of pink, blue, and white. Most people who drove by probably don't know what it is. That didn't matter right away. The flag was for us and for those who knew what it was. Next came the rainbow LGBTQI pride flag. This one people would recognize but would arouse too much fuss. The last addition to be put up in the flag room (newly named) was our Black Lives Matter (BLM) flag. Our support for the movement was nothing new and we deserve no attention for it. The message is the thing that will be read, not us. And when we do appear in the frame (or window) there is a value in a predominantly white town to see a white family speaking out against racism. More than the two flags that came before it, in this town a BLM flag gets a reaction. We have already been asked by our landlord to take down the flags. He says he refuses to help us or pay to fix his property if we are targeted and attacked. Indeed only a few weeks before we moved into house, there was a rash of swastikas drawn across the town. Others in the town have commented, "how could they [our family] bring that into a nice peaceful town like this?" Peaceful here means white supremacy that denies that it is racist. The Blue Lives Matter banners fly over the town center. Of course black lives and police lives can both matter, by such banners make it clear what side of the debate they are on (if there needs to be sides) and whose lives are more valued here. To say otherwise is to start a fight because the assumption is that white supremacy has won. The flags of white supremacy are all around us in different forms. I have little use for those I consider good people but with a dearth of courage. What good is your goodness if you don't flex it for others? As I have observed, often this unwillingness to be brave comes not from too much fear but too little. Those with the privilege of security have the capacity to go through life without much significant danger. Safety is not an evil itself. But too much safety is a crutch that trains us to unconsciously and compulsively defer to the violent systems that cage the submissive and destroy the defiant. This evil unjust peace is why we will not take down the flags. This turf is not securely colonized, it remains up for debate. The debate is underway. A rainbow rises above the flood and the dialectic continues.
On this new year, I feel like Noah in the Holkham Bible (c.1320), looking out of the ark at the end of the storm and with a bird in each hand. The raven will not return with good news (Genesis 8:6-8). The dove will come back with a sign of hope (Genesis 8:9-13). It is clear that Noah is more hopeful, as he gazes toward the dove in the illustration. But what can I see? What does my figure see from the Ark in my office? What word of hope can I share from this perch? There are times I turn up like Noah's dove, with an olive leaf in my mouth, prophesying a new world if only we can hold on and fight our way there. Other times I feel like Noah's raven, flying off into the dark without any good news to share. I must admit that there were times in 2016 that I did not have much hope to offer those in the Ark. Like the raven, I saw the many lives with their heads below water. The Holkham illustration makes clear the cost of such widespread wrath. More of those who were abandoned by the ark are visible in the image than the privileged few who were included. In the lower right hand corner, we see the raven sitting on the drowned corpse of a horse. It is hard to bring back news of a bright future when so much has been lost and will never return. Indeed, this year that began with the death of the Star Child (turned Black Star) David Bowie ends with the death of Star Wars General and Princess Leia. Our heroes have passed away just as the world ahead looks ever more dismal. Yet the nature of our work on transgender, disability, and medieval literature involves digesting a lot of death with the aspiration of biting onto a nugget of hope I try to function more like a dove than a raven. Where is our olive branch? How do we become like the dove in the bottom left corner, finding new life amidst the desolation? Let us remember that the first dove Noah sends out finds no dry ground. The dove finds much the same as the raven. Yet the dove returns. Then Noah waits and tries again. The raven despairs. The raven rejects the logic of the ark. The dove keeps trying even when there is no hope in sight. The dove tries, fails, and tried again, like the movement of a dialectic argument. That stubborn persistence and loyalty to each other may be our hope. This is not hope for any particular future. This hope is a rejection of the world that is, an assertion that the flood of hate will not get the final word. Our hope is our flag, a sign that whatever the future holds, we remain and the dialectic continues.
Read Part 2
Noah's Queer Rainbow:
Conversations with my Gender Fluid Child
How We Live: Words from a Suicidal Transgender Community
What Can We Do Now for the Transgender Community?
Genres of Embodiment: A Theory of Medieval Transgender Literature
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Billionaire businessman, Harry Akande died after a brief illness on Saturday December 5.
The late businessman is described as one of the richest men in Nigeria and was the chairman of Akande International Corporation (AIC) with interest in healthcare, engineering, building construction and power.
He was also a father-in-law of actress, Dakore Egbuson-Akande, and a one-time presidential aspirant on the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) platform.
He is survived by his children including Olumide, his son who is married to actress Dakore Egbuson-Akande.
A statement released by Olumide announcing his father's passing reads;
"Chief Harry Ayoade Akande, Agba Oye of Ibadanland (March 3, 1943-December 5, 2020)
In the early hours of Saturday December 5, 2020, our patriarch Chief Harry Ayodele Akande passed away following a brief illness.
Chief Harry Akande was an astute businessman of international repute whose legacy and influence cut across continents.
But by far his greatest passion was for a better Nigeria that guaranteed equity and justice for all. It is our fervent hope that this will be a reality in the not too distant future.
His passing is a huge shock to his immediate & extended family, friends & associates. We are all grappling to make some sense of it.
As we seek the repose of his gentle soul, we ask you to in turn to uphold us in your prayers while we pass through this very turbulent period of our lives occasioned by the loss of someone as dear as him.
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Q: In Hive, how to combine multiple rows from joined table as single JSON array in first table? I have two tables as follows:
users table
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| user_id   name     age |
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|  1        pete      20 |
|  2        sam       21 |
|  3        nash      22 |
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hobbies table
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| user_id   hobby       |
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|  1        football    |
|  1        running     |
|  1        basketball  |
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I would like to make a single Hive query that can return rows in this format:
{ "user_id":1, "name":"pete", "hobbies":["football", "running", "basketball"] }

A: Join the tables and use collect_list to get the hobbies per user into an array.
select u.user_id,u.name,collect_list(h.hobby) as hobbies
from users u
join hobbies h on u.user_id=h.user_id
group by u.user_id,u.name

Use collect_set to get unique values in case there are duplicates.

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GST shall be levied and charged on the taxable supply of goods and services made in the course or furtherance of business in Malaysia by a taxable person. GST is also charged on the importation of goods and services. A taxable supply is a supply which is standard rated or zero rated. Exempt and out of scope supplies are not taxable supplies. GST is to be levied and charged on the value of the supply. GST can only be levied and charged if the business is registered under GST. A business is not liable to be registered if its annual turnover of taxable supplies does not reach the prescribed threshold. Therefore, such businesses cannot charge and collect GST on the supply of goods and services made to their customers. Nevertheless, businesses can apply to be registered voluntarily. Almost all countries collect income tax, which is a percentage of what you earn as an individual. Another way the government gets revenue is by collecting tax from business operations, like sales tax and duties on items that are bought or sold. We need to pay tax so that the government can operate. GST is one method of collecting taxes which works better than others.
The concept behind GST was invented by a French tax official in the 1950s. In some countries it is known as VAT, or Value-Added Tax. Today, more than 160 nations, including the European Union and Asian countries such as Sri Lanka, Singapore and China practice this form of taxation. Roughly 90 percent of the world's population live in countries with VAT or GST.
On services provided by restaurants, hotels, telecommunications services, professional services by architects, engineers, lawyers etc.
The proposed GST will replace the Government Sales Tax and the Service Tax.
Sales Tax was introduced on the 29th February 1972 as a single stage consumption tax, levied, charged and paid on goods manufactured in Malaysia and imported.
Manufacturers of taxable goods whose annual sales turnover exceed RM100,000 is required to be licensed under sales tax act. Those with annual sales turnover does not exceed RM100,000 are required to apply for a certificate of exemption from licensing.
Sales tax is levied on locally manufactured goods at the time the goods are sold or otherwise disposed of by the manufacturer. It is called a single stage tax because sales tax is to be charged once only, either at the input or at the output stage.
Service tax was introduced on the 1st March 1975 as a single stage consumption tax, levied, charged and paid on specific services provided by a taxable person in Malaysia.
Service tax is charged and levied on selected taxable services as prescribed in the Second Schedule of the Service Tax Regulations 1975.
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On the face it might look like that above mentioned three things (How to Start a Preschool, How to Run a Preschool and How to Market a Preschool) are different from each other, but in fact all three are entwined with each other, having difference with regard to time line of investment only, the ONE thing which encompasses entire elements of Preschool is the 'Preschool Curriculum'. And, 'Preschool Curriculum' is one thing which is completely absent from the Preschools of India – be it Franchised Preschool Chains or other Preschools.
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The Journal's East-West perspective is dedicated to exploring, presenting, and understanding the necessary interdependence of all world communities — current, past, and future — as originally envisioned by the Sì Xiàng (四象), the four creatures who stand at the cardinal directions of the universe and affirm China's historic emphasis on living in attunement to nature. Contributions regarding how artistic expressions, in their infinite uniqueness, relate to this shared humanity are welcomed from all regions of the world.
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The Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce in partnership with PwC were delighted to host a trade mission to Sydney of Israeli Assistive Technology Companies. The delegation was led by PresenTense, a leading accelerator that promotes inclusive and impactful entrepreneurship. PresenTense has helped over 100 entrepreneurs launch social and tech ventures every year since its inception.
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Seminar - Open to the Public
"The 'Periphery Doctrine' and Israel's Quest for a Middle East Identity" with Yossi Alpher
Wed., Mar. 11, 2015 | 9:00am - 10:30am
Taubman Building - Allison Dining Room, 5th Floor
Middle East Initiative Speaker Series
A seminar with Yossi Alpher, former director, Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Tel Aviv University, on his book Periphery: Israel's Search for Middle East Allies.
Moderated by Professor Michael C. Hudson, MEI Visiting Scholar, Spring 2015.
How does an isolated and besieged, newly-born country project form grand strategies for survival against the enemies that encircle it? This is the story of Israel's periphery strategy that emerged in the mid-1950s and remains relevant today to Israel's ties in and around the Middle East.
A light breakfast will be provided.
About Yossi Alpher:
Yossi Alpher is a veteran of the Mossad and former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University. His book "Periphery: Israel's Search for Middle East Allies" draws extensively on his intelligence and strategic studies careers.
About Periphery:
Since its establishment in 1948, Israel has sought alliances with non-Arab and non-Muslim countries and minorities in the Middle East, as well as with Arab states geographically distant from the Arab-Israel conflict. The text presents and explains this regional orientation and its continuing implications for war and peace. It examines Israel's strategy of outflanking, both geographically and politically, the hostile Sunni Arab Middle East core that surrounded it in the early decades of its sovereign history, a strategy that became a pillar of the Israeli foreign and defense policy. This "periphery doctrine" was a grand strategy, meant to attain the major political-security goal of countering Arab hostility through relations with alternative regional powers and potential allies. It was quietly abandoned when the Sadat initiative and the emerging coexistence between Israel and Jordan reflected a readiness on the part of the Sunni Arab core to deal with Israel politically rather than militarily.Yet this periphery strategy had been internalized to some extent in Israel's strategic thinking and it has begun to resurface as the rise of political Islam in Egypt, Turkey, Gaza, southern Lebanon and possibly Syria, coupled with the Islamic regime in Iran, has generated concern in Israel that it is again being surrounded by a ring of hostile states—in this case, Islamists rather than Arab nationalists.
By looking at Israel's search for Middle East allies then and now, the book explores a key component of Israel's strategic behavior. And it raises the issue of how a country perceiving itself surrounded by enemies can develop grand strategies to ensure its survival.


Broken Hill City Council operates a kerbside household waste service for all residents on a weekly basis.
Council provides a Dark Green Mobile Garbage bin (MGB) for household and domestic waste and a bright green lidded Bio Insert bin for green waste.
Residents are asked to place their mobile garbage bins at the edge of the kerb, the MGB handles should be directed towards your house, with a distance of approximately one (1) metre from any sight obstructions such as trees and parked cars, otherwise your bin may not be emptied.
Household waste bins are collected once a week between 6am and 2pm (including Public Holidays).
Green waste bins are collected once a fortnight between 6am and 2pm (including Public Holidays).
For household collection days please contact Customer Service on (08) 8080 3300 or email council@brokenhill.nsw.gov.au.
For green waste collection days please view the map below and corresponding area calendar.
Bin not collected! What do I do?
Ensure the bin was put out at the correct time, facing the right direction, clear of obstructions. If this is correct contact Customer Service on (08) 8080 3300 to arrange pick up.
Contact Council in regard to stolen or damaged bins and arrangements can be made for their maintenance or replacement.
Council provides a special waste collection service, these bins have a yellow lid and are collected from the residence instead of the kerb. This service is available where all adult persons normally resident, have a physical disability, that precludes them from placing the mobile garbage bin kerbside.
To ensure the contents do not stick to the bottom of the bin, line with newspaper.
To prevent odours, place equal quantities of plant matter such as prunings and grass clippings to food scraps and kitchen waste.
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Topeka ? A bill that would impose retail sales taxes on virtually all online purchases made in Kansas is now on its way to the full House.
The House Taxation Committee voted Wednesday to advance a bill that would impose that tax, regardless of whether the retailer has a physical presence in Kansas.
House Bill 2756 represents a kind of challenge to a 1992 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that said states can only tax so-called "remote" sales if the retailer has a physical presence or "nexus" in the state.
For that reason, most sales made through online retail outlets run by companies that also operate brick-and-mortar stores such as Walmart and Best Buy are already taxed.
Committee chairman Rep. Steven Johnson, R-Assaria, however, said the House bill redefines what constitutes a physical presence using a concept some have called a "cookie nexus," which essentially says if a company operates a website or smartphone app that is accessible in Kansas, then those outlets constitute a physical presence in the state.
If the bill passes, beginning Jan. 1, 2019, Kansas would start collecting sales tax not only on online sales of merchandise, but also on digital music, video and software downloads, and even items purchased on "marketplace" websites such as eBay that only provide a platform for individuals to buy and sell items.
It would also apply to companies, including Amazon, that, in addition to selling their own merchandise, act as third-party distributors or "fulfillment centers" for other online outlets not currently subject to sales tax.
It would apply to any online retailer that makes either a minimum of $50,000 in sales or 100 transactions in a year.
In essence, Johnson said Wednesday, it would apply to the purchase of any item which, if purchased in a brick-and-mortar store, would also be subject to sales tax.
A 2017 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office suggested if states had more power to tax online sales, the 45 states plus the District of Columbia would stand to gain a combined $8.5 billion to $13.4 billion a year in revenue.
Of that, the GAO estimated Kansas would gain between $113 million and $170 million a year.
City postpones work group to study police complaint process amid resignations from Community Police Review Board
City of Lawrence creates adult scholarship program for Parks and Rec, expands youth program
City of Lawrence closes lower level of New Hampshire Street parking garage; parking in other levels to be free this week
The City of Lawrence has closed the lower level of the New Hampshire Street parking garage until further notice. ...
Affordable housing, development hurdles among concerns raised by Lawrence residents regarding development code
Meeting will gather input on recommended changes to development code that determines how city grows
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MINNEAPOLIS -- Miguel Sano took batting practice and ground balls prior to Monday's 1-0 loss to the Mariners, but it may still be a bit before the Twins' slugger returns to game action.
Sano has been on the 10-day disabled list since May 1 (retroactive to April 28) with a left hamstring strain, and Twins manager Paul Molitor said that while Sano is making progress, he still isn't 100 percent healthy.
"I think he still is a little tentative, for me, and how he's going about it," Molitor said. "I don't know how you would judge the level of effort he's giving on some of the running he's doing, but to me, it's not very close to 100 percent. The swing's fine and he looks pretty good taking grounders and those type of things. But those hamstrings, like I've said -- to practice and try to get ready to where you can go compete in a game and then be able to sustain for nine innings, multiple days consecutively -- that's a challenge with that type of injury."
Molitor said the Twins hope to get Sano into a game "sooner than later" and that it helps that the team is in the midst of a strong stretch of play. But the ultimate deciding factor will be whether they believe he is fully healthy.
"Mostly, it's about doing the right thing for the right player at the right time," Molitor said.
Twins catcher Jason Castro will have surgery to repair a meniscus in his right knee, Molitor said on Monday.
The 30-year-old backstop, who was Minnesota's starting catcher to begin the year, went on the 10-day DL on May 5.
Molitor said Castro will undergo a partial meniscectomy.
"He went out to Colorado. The opinion there is that surgery was recommended," Molitor said. "It's disappointing. Hopefully we'll get a little better feel on the length of rehab once the procedure is completed tomorrow morning."
Castro has been battling the knee injury for much of the season. Molitor said he has been told that the recovery length could be 4-6 weeks.
"It's one of those things where you know he has a history, and then he tweaks it," Molitor said. "Then he feels good. Eventually, it starts flaring up again, so you try to find out what's going on. Finally, between different people talking it over and analyzing his history and himself, and the images they were able to get through testing, this is probably the right thing to do."
• Ervin Santana threw to batters on Monday for the first time this season. It was a big step in his recovery from a Feb. 6 surgery in which a calcium deposit was removed from his right middle finger.
"He threw all of his pitches, had a good day," Molitor said. "He'll do that again on Thursday, with the idea of pitching an extended game next Monday."
• Twins right-hander Trevor May will head to Triple-A Rochester on Thursday to make a rehab start, Molitor confirmed. In his first start back since he underwent Tommy John surgery last spring, May threw three scoreless innings at Class A Advanced Fort Myers on Saturday.
"We've tweaked his schedule a couple of times as far as an extra start at extended before we start the rehab clock and those sorts of things," Molitor said. "But once we got him to Fort Myers, our goal was for him to have just one appearance there before moving him to higher competition."


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The text below was the basis for remarks Dr. Ford delivered at an event on October 28, 2010, sponsored by the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
For those who are believers in what I call the "credibility thesis" – that is, the idea that a lack of progress in demonstrating disarmament "credibility" is the main "missing ingredient" that has helped ensure that the post-Cold War world has seen so little progress in preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons – this must have been a disheartening year. To hear its adherents tell the story over the years, bringing great numbers of countries together in a strong united front against proliferation only awaited a long-overdue commitment by the nuclear weapons states, and above all, the United States, to move more rapidly to abolish nuclear weapons.
To be sure, I never thought the "credibility thesis" argument was very strong to begin with, in light of the fact that proliferation challenges have on the whole worsened over the last two decades, even while the arsenals of the nuclear superpowers have been plummeting. Nevertheless, it was frequently argued to me in my last government job – and has been asserted by officials from the Obama Administration, though less and less as time goes by – that a hearty re-endorsement of nuclear "zero" as the ultimate goal would do the trick: moving faster on disarmament was the key to getting nonproliferation under control.
Well, that was then and this is now. I won't say that nothing has been done during the last two years on nonproliferation, for in some regards current policy is quite sound and represents, to its credit, more continuity than change. That said, however, the major points that are said to count as significant recent advances – the theatrics of the Nuclear Security Summit last spring, agreement upon a Final Document at the 2010 Review Conference of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), and the augmented sanctions now coming into force against Iran – don't look much like we're turning too much of a corner as a result of our disarmament-friendly rhetoric.
To be sure, I welcome the Nuclear Security Summit's renewed public declarations in favor of securing unsafely stored nuclear material. These proclamations, however, amount to no more than governments' commitments somehow to do better on their own. No one passed the hat for any serious sort of cooperative effort; countries are left on their own recognizance to come back in a couple of years and recount what they will no doubt describe as progress; the Summit's much-vaunted four-year deadline is naively optimistic; and the entire effort went to great lengths to avoid what is in some respects the real long-term issue – namely, the continuing proliferation of fissile material production technology and indeed the ongoing creation of new material itself.
Marvelous work has been done over the years in securing nuclear materials in the Former Soviet Union under the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program, but compared to that vigor, the results of this year's Summit look pale and anemic indeed. This year's new pledges are welcome, but this is hardly a revolution, and it represents only an incremental step beyond what was already being done.
To the extent that one values the mere fact of agreement upon some kind of final document at the NPT Review Conference (RevCon) as a victory in itself – a position which Obama Administration officials denied ahead of time, though they seem more sympathetic to the idea today – I suppose one could call the RevCon a nonproliferation victory. It may well be that the current additional emphasis given to disarmament in U.S. statements contributed to that agreement.
In fact, even if mere statements and rhetoric are to be the yardstick of success after all, whatever of merit might be said to be in the Final Document must be set against what other governments themselves proclaimed as their beliefs and policies at that same Conference. In that regard, as I have outlined elsewhere, our disarmament push seems to have won us no real progress. Since the Final Document also managed artfully to avoid saying anything about the contemporary crisis over Iran that has most shaken the foundations of the nonproliferation regime, it is particularly hard to take it seriously as evidence of nonproliferation progress.
To be sure, the RevCon's pronouncements do contain vague language about the importance of preventing proliferation, but the Final Document doesn't really go beyond what was said on this score in the 2000 Final Document. Given all the accelerating proliferation problems of the intervening period, however, it is hard not to regard a repetition of such platitudes as hopelessly inadequate to current needs, even rhetorically.
If anything, the 2010 RevCon Final Document is conspicuous in its substance less for anything to do with nonproliferation than for the rhetorical concessions the U.S. made on issues related to disarmament and the Middle East (i.e., Israel). Our agreement to its contents is thus an additional example of what we are willing preemptively to give in the hopes that our concessions will somehow, at some point, be repaid in the currency of nonproliferation rectitude. The Final Document is, in other words, an additional U.S. investment in the "credibility thesis" rather than an example of its validity.
I am very much happier with the Iran sanctions that are coming into force. We don't owe this to disarmament progress, however, but to Iran's own intransigence and continued provocations. To all appearances, the new sanctions are indeed beginning to bite. This is good progress – building, it is worth noting, on the precedent of the Bush Administration's Banco Delta Asia sanctions against North Korea, and implemented by some of the same hard-working officials – but as much as I applaud the current administration's success in imposing additional penalties upon Iran, there is little sign that it is affecting Iran's willingness to comply with its nonproliferation obligations.
More importantly from the perspective of evaluating the "credibility thesis," however, we seem to owe our success in implementing these sanctions principally to the Iranians themselves. Does anyone think that we'd see these sanctions today had Iran not last year been revealed to be building yet another secret enrichment facility near Qom, had it not rejected the October 2009 deal for the international provision of more highly enriched uranium, had it not continued to spurn the generous diplomatic proposals of the "P5+1" group, and had its volatile president not continued to spout threatening venom at every opportunity?
For that matter, who really thinks we won Russian and Chinese support for the current round of Security Council sanctions by talking more warmly about nuclear weapons abolition – a scenario in which those governments seem to have no interest whatsoever, and may actually fear? If we "bought" their support with concessions elsewhere, we must have used some other currency.
Meanwhile, unfortunately, Syria continues to stonewall the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in its efforts to investigate the North Korean-built plutonium production reactor destroyed in 2007, while North Korea's own nuclear program continues entirely unchecked. (Indeed, Pyongyang conducted its second nuclear test last year.) Worrisome indications of the Burmese military junta's interest in nuclear weaponry have surfaced, Russia has agreed to build a nuclear reactor in Venezuela (now that it has finished building one for Iran), and Pakistan is apparently now going to get a new Chinese nuclear reactor in violation of Nuclear Suppliers Group rules.
Other countries are refusing to follow the model of the no-fissile-material-production pledge made by the United Arab Emirates to the Bush Administration, and Saudi Arabia has said that it now desires an enrichment capability. For its part, Egypt has been revealed to have had safeguards problems on account of undeclared work on uranium and the unexplained presence of highly-enriched uranium particles – and today talks with remarkable candor of how Iran's development of nuclear weapons could help lead it and other Arab governments to reevaluate their commitment to the NPT.
So there is much to worry about on the nonproliferation front, and things are not precisely improving notwithstanding the president's soaring rhetoric in Prague in 2009 and his Nobel Peace Prize for committing to nuclear "zero." Don't get me wrong: my point is not to complain that the Obama Administration hasn't "solved" all of today's proliferation problems. (After all, the Bush Administration didn't solve all of them either, and it had eight years.) Instead, my point is that they seem spectacularly unaffected by Washington's Prague-era disarmament posturing.
There will surely be those who will argue that the credibility thesis has yet truly to be tested – that is, who will chalk up the world's failure to unite in solving all these problems to our failure to do more, and more quickly, in moving toward "zero." A global united front in support of vigorous nonproliferation would really have materialized, it will be said, if we had only done more to disarm.
This counterfactual argument for disarmament absolutism, of course, is essentially unfalsifiable – and thus intellectually dishonest – because unless and until we are actually at "zero," it will always be possible to try to blame continuing problems on our not being quite there. Indeed, as we have seen with the enormous nuclear reductions undertaken to date, it will no doubt remain possible for the absolutists to argue – as I have heard from senior foreign diplomats such as Sergio Duarte of Brazil and Abdul Minty of South Africa – that the anticipated nonproliferation benefits from our nuclear cuts haven't materialized because we allegedly didn't make these cuts for the right reasons, or with the correct frame of mind. Promises of future nonproliferation cooperation on the basis of this sort of demand are clearly crafted in order to ensure that their makers will always have a way to avoid making good on them.
But perhaps one can take heart from my conclusion that there is not the kind of connection between disarmament progress and nonproliferation progress that many critics of U.S. policy – and its current practitioners – have long asserted. For one must concede that the disarmers have something of a point, by their lights at least, that the U.S. has not moved heaven and earth to meet their demands.
Believe it or not, I spend a fair amount of time hanging out with nuclear disarmament activists, and it is hard to miss their sense of disappointment in the Obama Administration. To be sure, more thoughtful members of the disarmament community – among them the Arms Control Association's Daryl Kimball – still defend the president's approach. Significantly, however, Kimball points more to Obama's impact upon broader disarmament and nonproliferation debates than to the president's concrete accomplishments in ridding the world of nuclear weapons, and he argues that it is somehow really up to Congress to do more. (I'll leave aside the fact that Congress has been controlled by supermajorities of President Obama's Democrat allies.) "Transformative" results seem curiously hard to identify beyond disarmament rhetoric.
Many others in the disarmament community appear more openly unhappy with all that has not changed in U.S. nuclear policy. In a dynamic that has remarkable parallels in U.S. domestic and economic policy in this election season, some of the truest of the True Believers in the disarmament world seem demoralized and disheartened that this long-awaited and perhaps fleeting chance "to get some runs on the board" for disarmament has produced so few results. For them, the great hopes raised by the president's Prague speech of April 2009 have been succeeded by long months of disappointment with the current administration. In their eyes, President Obama is turning out, on nuclear matters, to be little more than a sort of "Bush Lite" president, albeit one wrapped in pleasing disarmament-friendly rhetoric.
In this respect, the disarmers' complaint is not one that I share – or at least, to the extent that the disarmers make a valid point about the surprising degree of continuity in U.S. strategic policy, I do not view this as something to complain about. It must be admitted, however, that from the perspective of the disarmament community, the last two years haven't quite turned out as planned.
The United States has signed a new strategic treaty with Russia, but it entails only minor or notional reductions, and ends up with operationally deployed warhead numbers consistent with comments coming out of the Pentagon at the end of the Bush Administration and only slightly below the bottom end of the range band set by Bush's Moscow Treaty of 2002. And even this modest treaty is nonetheless bogged down – in a Senate that seems likely next week to become much more hawkish – on account of its potential impact upon missile defense and conventional global strike programs, and because the administration seems unwilling actually to commit to serious out-year funding for the nuclear modernization program it claims to support. No one thinks that the long-promised "next step" in Russo-American negotiations will be anything but vastly more difficult, if indeed it proves possible at all.
We have modified our declaratory policy – a little – but have rejected calls to adopt a "no first use" policy and to declare that the only use of nuclear weapons is to deter other such weapons, and we have rejected nuclear force "de-alerting." U.S. diplomats also remain "resolutely negative" on the idea of a Nuclear Weapons Convention, on the articulation of disarmament timelines, and on developing a global and legally-binding set of "negative security assurances." We re-support a Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty (FMCT) on Clinton-era terms, but our flexibility has not broken the impasse at the long-paralyzed Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. Meanwhile, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) seems unlikely either to be ratified by the Senate or to come into force even if it were.
All of these facts seem to make the disarmers very glum indeed, and will no doubt fuel accusations that serious multinational nonproliferation cooperation would have been possible if only the United States had actually done what President Obama led everyone, including the Nobel Committee, to expect of him. From my perspective, however, I am actually encouraged – both by the degree of moderation shown by the administration and by the likelihood that the "credibility thesis" was an illusion in the first place.
In my view, to borrow a phrase from the late paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, disarmament and nonproliferation are "nonoverlapping magisteria" to a degree notably greater than one might expect from listening to the disarmament diplomats. (I do not say that these issues are irrelevant to each other, nor that any serious chance for disarmament does not depend critically upon reliable nonproliferation. My point is merely that disarmament progress is apparently not the key to nonproliferation progress.) This is probably not a bad thing, because if disarmament posturing was never the way to "round the corner" on nonproliferation cooperation to begin with, we need not worry too much now about imperiling such cooperation it by insisting upon a prudent and sensible security posture.
All of which leaves me more hopeful than you might expect given the grim proliferation trends that we still face. In responding to those trends, I would suggest, we already know what we need to do. We should wean ourselves from too-clever-by-half schemes that pretend to offer miraculous solutions – notably, the promise that "it will be alright if we just disarm faster" – and we should recommit ourselves to the hard, ongoing slog of working with every tool available to prevent proliferation, little bit by little bit, every day, for the indefinite future. There is no "silver bullet" solution: such promises are illusory, and can indeed do harm by distracting from the hard work we need to do.
The basic things we need to keep doing – if perhaps even more vigorously – are for the most part things on which the United States is already working, and has been for years. The "basics" to which we need to return our focus are components of longstanding U.S. policy that all administrations have pursued (albeit to varying degrees and with varying emphases) since the end of the Cold War.
We need to restrict the spread of dual-use proliferation-facilitating technologies, improve and properly fund nuclear safeguards, stop proliferation transfers, help secure nuclear materials worldwide, insist upon rigorous nonproliferation compliance and ensure the swift and painful imposition of severe penalties upon those who violate their nonproliferation obligations, and work to deny proliferators whatever strategic gains they may hope to win by the development of nuclear weapons.
These are the basic sinews of an enduring American nonproliferation policy – not a partisan, or idiosyncratically presidential one – and they form a path along which we must work diligently and persistently to lead the international community.


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Dizzee Rascal has been awarded an MBE
"To be recognised for my work is an extraordinary privilege"
Amy Fielding
Dizzee Rascal has been awarded an MBE.
London rapper Dizzee Rascal, who is set to release his seventh studio LP on the 30th October, will recieve an MBE as part of the Queen's Birthday Honours.
Dizzee Rascal released his first album, 'Boy In da Corner', in 2003. He won the 2003 Mercury Prize for his debut, and follow up albums including 'Showtime' and 'Maths + English' were certified platinum records. He has charted five UK number-one hits, including his collaborative track 'Dance wiv Me' alongside Scottish DJ/producer, Calvin Harris.
Elsewhere, Rap duo Krept and Konan were also awarded the British Empire Medal for services to music and the community in Croydon. It follows the announcement that BBC Three's The Rap Game UK, featuring the duo alongside DJ Target, will return to the screen later this month.
Lovely stuff. New album #E3AF out October 30th pre order link in bio.
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Dizzee Rascal MBE Grime UK
Use of drill lyrics in criminal trials to be reviewed by The Crown Prosecution Service
New 12-part series celebrates UK independent record stores
1989 acid house rave VR experience planned for Coventry City of Culture
U K, G?: the electronic music collectives opening up conversations around mental health
M-Beat: the return of a jungle pioneer
New documentary on Brazilian grime scene to be released next year


Anushka Sharma is a prominent Indian actress and a model appearing in Bollywood movies. She has successfully established her career in film business giving numerous hit flicks in the Bollywood film industry.
Anushka was born on 1st May 1988 in Ayodha, UttarPradesh. She is the daughter of Colonel Ajay Kumar Sharma and Ashima Sharma. Her elder brother, Karnesh Sharma is a film producer. She did her schooling from Army School in Banglore and later earned a degree in arts from Mount Carmel College.
Anushka was passionate about modeling and moved to Mumbai to pursue her modeling career. She joined Elite Model Management and in 2007, she got chance to make a runway debut at Lakme Fashion Week. She did campaigns fro various brands and products and finally, she chose acting career.
In 2008, Anushka made her acting debut starring the movie, "Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi" along with Shah Rukh Khan that earned her positive reviews along with Filmfare award nominations for Best Actress and Best Female Debut.
She was seen in several other movies like "Badmass Company","Band Baaja Baraat", "Ladies vs Ricky Bahl" and much more. However, her career rose to prominence after her success in Yash Chopra's "Jab Tak Hai Jaan" co-starring Shah Rukh Khan and Ka, Rina Kaif. Her performance in the movie was highly acknowledged by people and she won a Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Her other successful movies are "Pk", "Dil Dhadakne Do", "Sultan", "Ae Dil Hai Mushkil" that not only collected huge revenue in the box office but also helped her establish herself as a versatile actress in B-town. She has received several accolades and award nominations for her outstanding performances in the movies.
Apart from acting she has also produced movies under her production banner, Clean Slate Films. Her own produced movies "NH10" and "Phillauri" performed well at the box-office. She is all set for another Bollywood flick, "The Ring" that is soon to be released.
Anushka Sharma is a popular actress in the industry who is also listed on the highest paid actresses in India. She has an estimated net worth of approx 220 crores which she makes from movies and various brand endorsements. She is the brand endorser for TVs Scooty, Nivea, Pantene and many more.
Anushka Sharma owns luxury cars of famous brands like Mercedes, BMW, Range Rover and owns multiple properties in India enjoying a lavish life.


Review the top Marcellus news stories from the past week. During a swing through New York, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said he wants to eliminate fracking, and tragedy struck the oil industry as two workers were killed while repairing a Texas pipeline.
Read more about job cuts at Chevron here.
A swing through upstate New York is providing Bernie Sanders with a fresh opportunity to contrast himself with Hillary Clinton on fracking — an oil and gas drilling method that's been banned in the state.
In a lengthy riff at a rally in Binghamton, New York, Monday, Sanders hit Clinton for promoting fracking as secretary of state and only offering conditional opposition to the practice.
Sanders said eliminating the practice is critical in fighting climate change, one of his top issues.
Read more about Bernie Sanders and fracking here.
Read more about Peabody filing Chapter 11 bankruptcy here.
Read more about the dropping rig count here.
WOODSBORO, Texas (AP) — Officials say two workers have been killed and another was hurt during a high-pressure release as the men did repairs on a South Texas gas pipeline.
Refugio (ray-FYOO'-ee-oh) County authorities say the accident happened Tuesday afternoon at a Southcross Energy Partners plant near Woodsboro.
Read more about the fatal Texas accident here.


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Machaeroidinae (Макаероидинае — "бодежолики") је изумрла потпородица плаценталних сисара из изумрле породице Oxyaenidae, која је у периоду од раног до средњег еоцена настањивала подручје Азије и Сјеверне Америке. Ову породицу сисара су чинили родови Apataelurus, Diegoaelurus, Isphanatherium и Machaeroides, и несврстане врсте Machaeroidinae sp. (CM 2386), Machaeroidinae sp. (FMNH PM 1506) и Machaeroidinae sp. (USNM 173514). Стручни назив за чланове ове потпородице сисара је макаероидини.

Етимологија назива

Опис
Представници потпородице Machaeroidinae су биле копнени предатори који су по свом изгледу наликовали на представнике изумрле потпородице мачака Machairodontinae. Имали су дуге сабљасте горње очњаке и кратке доње очњаке, издужене лобање са танком вилицом, и кретали су се плантиградно. Ове врсте сисара нису посједовале трећи пар горњи и доњи кутњака (M3/m3) у својим вилицама.

Систематика

Историја класификације
У почетку, ова потпородица сисара је била уврштена као племе Machaeroidini унутар изумрле породице Limnocyonidae и изумрлог реда Hyaenodonta (који су тада били класификовани као потпородица Limnocyononae и породица Hyaenodontidae), но у каснијим истраживањима је препозната као представник изумрле породице Oxyaenidae. У истраживању из 2019. године, род Isphanatherium је уврштен као могући представник потпородице Machaeroidinae, иако је у ранијим истраживањима био уврштен као дио породице Hyaenodontidae.

Класификација
Класификација потпородице Machaeroidinae:

Филогенија
Доље приказан кладограм представља филогенетске везе потпородице Machaeroidinae.

Временска распрострањенст родова из потпородице Machaeroidinae унутар породице Oxyaenidae

Види још
 Класификација сисара
 Oxyaenidae

Референце


The people he is talking to most, I would say, are a scary bunch from an environmental policy angle.
Donald Trump, the first real estate developer ever elected president, will have many similar opportunities to twist federal policy to his advantage. Indeed, issues of the environment and public lands offer a president and his appointees enormous latitude to alter federal policy.
Trump has said he wants to throw open public lands to oil and coal extraction. He wants to end clean air rules meant to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. And he wants to throw out the "Waters of the U.S." rule, adopted by the Obama administration to clarify which water bodies are shielded from development under the Clean Water Act.
On many other matters, we know almost nothing about Trump's plans, because environmental issues were almost never discussed during the campaign, and Trump has never worked in government. Among the policies outlined on his campaign website, no environmental platform is described. His new transition website, greatagain.gov, offers an ambitious energy development manifesto but no environmental agenda.
▪ Environmental Protection Agency secretary: Scott Pruitt, Oklahoma attorney general, is a climate change denier leading a legal assault on the EPA to block greenhouse gas regulations and its powers under the Clean Water Act.
▪ Interior secretary: Montana Rep. Ryan Zinke, is a climate change skeptic who wants to expand the use of public lands for fossil fuel extraction and has opposed designating new national parks.
▪ Commerce secretary: Wilbur Ross, a billionaire oil and coal investor, will oversee the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which monitors climate change and protects saltwater species, including salmon.
▪ Energy secretary: Rick Perry, former Texas governor, is a climate change denier with deep loyalties to the oil industry.
California environmental groups are so alarmed that some are assembling a "survival fund" of sorts to sustain important programs that might be eliminated by Trump. Some of these programs operate in partnership with the state to improve water quality and restore habitat. Without federal support, they could grind to a halt.
Trump's influence will be especially broad, because Republicans will control Congress. They will be unlikely to check Trump's regressive environmental policies, and he'll be unlikely to veto those coming from Congress.
Doremus said a Trump administration could easily change many environmental programs, although some might take years.
Trump wants more offshore oil drilling in federal waters. This is governed by a five-year plan that identifies areas available to lease, and the Obama administration just approved a new plan that starts in 2017. Trump could amend it to add new leases, a process that could take a year or more.
Trump has also suggested he wants more logging in federal forests. This would require amending separate timber harvest plans governing each national forest. But so-called salvage logging of dead trees, possibly including those killed by drought, could be expanded faster.
Other moves would be relatively easy. Doremus says it's likely Trump will weaken or throw out the roadless rule, a 2001 Forest Service policy to protect wilderness qualities by decommissioning old roads and limiting new ones. It's been opposed by off-road vehicle enthusiasts. Trump could wipe it out with a pen stroke, although lawsuits would likely follow.
Other rules could simply be sloughed off by failing to defend them in court. For instance, the Obama administration is appealing a federal court decision that struck down its policy regulating fracking on Bureau of Land Management energy leases. Trump could order Interior to drop the appeal, rendering the fracking rules null and void.
In some matters, California could throw its own legal weight around to protect environmental values.
California, for instance, is one of the few states with its own Endangered Species Act. But because of chronic underfunding of the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, California rarely enforces its law and allows the federal ESA to protect wildlife instead.
At least 550 species nationwide await protection under the federal ESA, a list likely to grow under Trump. California could step up to protect those critters within its borders using its own ESA law. But this would require more manpower and money than state leaders have been willing to invest.
Similarly, California can remain a leader on climate change even if Trump believes it's a Chinese fabrication. The state can continue demanding the world's strictest vehicle emission controls, incentivize green energy and strike partnerships on emission control with other states and nations.
But it probably can't rely on the federal government as a partner any longer. For example, California has few tools of its own to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.
The water infrastructure bill approved by Congress last week will hand Trump powerful new tools, thanks to amendments by Sen. Dianne Feinstein. One clause grants the secretary of Interior, for the duration of Trump's first term, single-handed authority to approve and build new water-storage reservoirs without a customary vetting by Congress first. It also provides $335 million for the secretary to support these projects.
This power applies throughout the West. But in California it lists four specific projects eligible for federal support: Sites reservoir in Colusa County; Temperance Flat reservoir on the San Joaquin River; and enlarging Shasta and Los Vaqueros reservoirs.
This means Trump already holds unprecedented power over California's environment, and he hasn't been inaugurated yet.
Matt Weiser is a freelance writer who previously covered environmental issues for The Bee from 2005 to 2015. He can be reached via Twitter at @matt_weiser.


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Testing 1, 2, 3!
Get ready, Homestead-Miami Speedway fans - NASCAR Testing is back!
On August 26, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series teams will descend upon South Florida and Homestead-Miami Speedway for a day of testing at the 1.5-mile track.
The best part? YOU can come watch!
Open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., fans can watch the test session from the Speedway Club on the 4th floor in the main administration building, or from the Pit Road Cabanas in the infield. When you arrive on-site, park in the parking lot on SW 336th Street and 137th Ave and take the tram to the infield.
Here's the rundown:
WHO: **ALL DRIVERS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE**
Joey Logano, driver of the No. 22 Ford Fusion, Penske Racing
Dale Earnhardt Jr., driver of the No. 88 Chevrolet SS, Hendrick Motorsports
Kyle Larson, driver of the No. 42 Chevrolet SS, Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates
Kevin Harvick, driver of the No. 4 Chevrolet SS, Stewart-Haas Racing
Clint Bowyer, driver of the No. 15 Toyota Camry, Michael Waltrip Racing
Martin Truex Jr., driver of the No. 78 Chevrolet SS, Furniture Row Racing
Trevor Bayne, driver of the No. 6 Ford Fusion, Roush Fenway Racing
Ty Dillon, driver of the No. 31 Chevrolet SS, Richard Childress Racing
Denny Hamlin, driver of the No. 11 Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing
Ryan Blaney, driver of the No. 21 Ford Fusion, Wood Brothers Racing
WHAT: One car/one driver will be testing a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series car to try different setups and handling in preparation of the Ford EcoBoost 400 in November.
WHEN: August 26, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
WHERE: Homestead-Miami Speedway, 1 Ralph Sanchez Speedway Blvd, Homestead, FL 33035
Florida's Turnpike South to Ralph Sanchez Speedway Blvd (Exit 6)
Left on to Ralph Sanchez Speedway Blvd
Left on SW 336th Street
Left into parking lot (walk to Gate #4)
US1 North to SW 344th Street (Palm Drive)
Right on to SW 344th Street (Palm Drive)
SW 344th Street (Palm Drive) to Ralph Sanchez Speedway Blvd
Right on to SW 336th Street
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