A perfect competition is a free entry and leave to industry. It is a standardized kind of product and it offers homogeneous products like Coca-Cola. It includes large numbers of buyers and seller. Other than Coca-Cola, there are other products like Pepsi, Sprite, 7-up and so many more. Therefore, no individual seller can influence the price tag on the product. Sellers like Coca-Cola are price takers as they have to accept the market price. Earnings is maximizing when marginal income identical with the marginal cost. It could make profits in a nutshell run however the income will equal zero as it pertains to long haul.
A monopoly has a high barrier for a business to get into the industry. It really is a unique type of product which is a one retailer to many buyers on the market. It provides unique goods to the buyer. For instance, Jabatan Bekalan Air Malaysia is the one industry that provides water supply to the whole country. This is because water can be an essential need for each and every citizens of Malaysia. Monopoly is a cost setter. The potential earnings is when marginal earnings is add up to marginal cost. Because of this, long-run earnings can maintain positivity and it'll cause inefficient outcome resulting inactive weight damage.
A monopolistic competition is a differentiated kind of product and many organizations selling products that are similar but not identical. They have low legal hurdle admittance to the industry. For instance, Popular is a bookstore that offers literature and stationeries. It is a company that rivalling for the same band of customers. For the product wise, each companies like Popular and MPH, their product is at least slightly different from each other. Instead of being a price taker, each company encounters downward-sloping demand curve. Additionally it is a cost setter for monopolistic competition. The maximum revenue is when marginal revenue is equal to marginal cost. It can make revenue in the short-run where in fact the long-run profits are add up to zero. The inefficient outcome will results dead weight loss.
Oligopoly can be an industry that controlled by few large firms. It is the differentiated or standard kind of product. Additionally it is has a higher barrier to enter the industry. For instance, DIGI Telecommunication is one of it. It really is a mobile service provider with there is merely a few in Malaysia. The products could be highly differentiated by branding or homogeneous. It is also a non-price competition. You will discover 3 types of technique for this that is Cournot, Stackelberg and Bertrand. Oligopoly is always max revenue when marginal cost is add up to marginal earnings.
Overall, we can easily see that there are a great deal of differences in these four market set ups. Each types of market provide different types of products and causing different cause long-run and short-run.
In this, I've learn on how the market comprises of the certain factors like the number of firms operating, the type of the merchandise being produced, the level of profit, the degree of monopoly that all firm likes, the organizations' action, the rates strategy, the amount of outcome and the efficiency of the market and the admittance and exit into the market. All these factors are collectively called as the market structure.
Microeconomic is a person, household, firm, or industry as an economy's systems in this type of science of economical behavior. Contrast to macroeconomics, the analysis of the aggregate current economic climate. Primarily worried about factors affecting specific economic selections, factor changes influence on the average person decision designers, how their choices are synchronized by markets, and exactly how prices and demand project in individual marketplaces. Theory of demand, theory of the organization, and creation demand for labor and other factors are the main subjects protected under microeconomics.
For this project, I have to elucidate monopoly and its own characteristic. Other than that, I need to differentiate the features of perfect competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, and monopoly.
To deliver the results, I have to find sources, information and answers from either the books from catalogue or from the web.
Monopoly is a market structure where there is a single retailer and large numbers of buyers and reselling products which have no close substitution and have a high access and exit hurdle. For the intended purpose of regulation, monopoly electric power exists when sole firm manages 25% or more of a specific market.
A monopoly is a firm that is the sole vendor in its market.
For a good example to the characteristic above, Jabatan Bekalan Air Malaysia is a monopoly company in Malaysia. It's the sole seller on the market. This is due to the firm is the only real supplier of domestic normal water to the citizen. Therefore, the product is exclusive and causes clients and users to use their products since it is an necessities need. Moreover, there are no other firms that can offer this product. Advertising is also not essential for Jabatan Bekalan Air Malaysia since it has become a good sense that in Malaysia, we can only just get water source from them. Advertising in monopoly market is depending on the products sold. If the products are luxurious products or even tourism market, then the monopoly needs some advertising on the product. Jabatan Bekalan Air Malaysia can also control the price or level of their products but they couldn't control both of it jointly.
It faces a downward-sloping demand curve because of its product.
Like a competitive organization, a monopoly maximizes profit by producing the number of which marginal cost and marginal revenue are equal.
Unlike a competitive firm, its price exceeds its marginal earnings, so its price exceeds marginal cost.
A monopolist's profit-maximizing level of end result is below the level that maximizes the total of consumer and manufacturer surplus.
A monopoly triggers deadweight losses like the deadweight losses brought on by taxes.
Natural monopolies include general public utilities, such as gas and electricity suppliers. Such companies require large volume of modal and huge assets, which is hard for others to duplicate the products. Due to the importance of it towards society, it is becoming legal. In exchange for the right to carry out business without competition, they're regulated. Therefore, they need to follow the manipulated price from the government and they can't simply ask for whatever price they want. As a rule, they're required to serve all customers, even if doing this isn't cost efficient.
A legal monopoly is a company gets an exclusive use of the invented product or process. Patents are granted for a restricted time, commonly it's about twenty years. During this time period, no other companies may use the invented process or product without agreement and contract from the patent holder. Patents allow companies to have a certain period to recuperate the heavy costs of researching and producing solutions and products. An example of an organization that obtained a patent-based legal monopoly is Casino in Genting Highlands, which for a long time held exclusive possession of experiencing a legal casino in Malaysia. Gambling establishment in Genting Highlands provide a legal gamble place for individuals without competition, in other words, it relished a monopolistic position in Malaysia.
A organization that has an exclusive possession of scarce source, such as Linux using the Unix-like computer operating-system, it offers monopoly power over this resource and it is the only firm that can exploit it.
Governments may give a firm monopoly status, such much like the Post Malaysia Berhad. Based on the website Pos Malaysia (Record), Post Malaysia Berhad which was given monopoly status back to the first 1800s with the establishment of postal services first in the Straits Settlements (Penang, Malacca and Singapore) and slowly and gradually, it covered the complete Malaya by early 20th century.


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First lady's 'Let's Move' program gets new director
A noted children's advocate will become executive director of Michelle Obama's "Let's Move!" exercise-and-healthy-eating program for children, the first lady's office announced Thursday.
Debra "Deb" Eschmeyer, co-founder of a public service program called FoodCorps, also becomes a White House senior adviser for nutrition policy.
"For more than a decade, Deb has been leading the way in teaching kids about the importance of healthy eating," Mrs. Obama said. "From classrooms and gardens to kitchens and farms, Deb has made learning about nutrition fun and accessible for kids across the country."
Eschmeyer replaces former Obama personal chef Sam Kass, who held the "Let's Move!" role before leaving the White House late last year.

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Eggs The eggs are folded into a large leaf suspended over a pond or lagoon. When they hatch, the tadpoles drop down into the water and begin growing.
Deamorphin The frog's secretions contain dermorphin, a unique natural opioid that's 40 times stronger than morphine. In recent years, a synthetic version of the chemical has been used illegally in the US as a powerful performance-enhancing drug for racehorses.
The frog's well-adapted hands are used for gripping tree branches and helping it to walk, rather than hop, through its treetop habitat (hence the "monkey" in its name).
The frog uses its incredibly flexible back legs for walking through the treetops and spreading the waxy secretions over its entire body.
Using its feet, the waxy monkey tree frog spreads lipids from glands in its skin by a series of dexterous movements.


The DAFNE project addresses the ongoing transformations in these regions by means of an integrated and participatory approach that can trigger change by promoting a shared learning of the risks and opportunities associated with these nexus-related challenges. The project combines excellence in research across a broad range of disciplines, from engineering and environmental sciences, to social science, economics and law.
In particular, DAFNE strives for effective transboundary cooperation based on scientific evidence and clearly articulated laws and policies that promote fair and sustainable use of water resources. DAFNE will demonstrate the potential of this novel approach in two illustrative case studies, the Omo-Gibe-Turkana and Zambezi river basins. DAFNE will establish a decision-analytic framework (DAF) using a Participatory and Integrated Planning approach for analyzing the two basins from WEF nexus perspective. The DAF multi-step process will quantify the anticipated effects of alternative planning options.
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Oooooooooog. Me need advil and sugar.
by JesIdres on Mon Aug 19, 2002 5:37 pm
And that, folks, is all I'm going to say until I get a full sized anatomically correct Dick Grayson doll.
JesIdres
by Cannonshop on Thu Aug 22, 2002 5:14 pm
Huh... would that be Mr. Grayson as "Robin", or, as "Nightwing"? Either way, you're looking at a short, kinda muscular, thin guy who wants to be "Batman", but, can't quite fill the role. I always thought you had higher aspirations than that...
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Location: Everett,Washington,USA
by Drooling Fan Girl on Fri Aug 23, 2002 5:37 am
I don't know, but that sounds like some pretty good asperations to me.
Drooling Fan Girl
by Avatar Zero on Fri Aug 23, 2002 6:07 am
I had a reply in mind here, but I think DFG's uber-colorful avatar image hypnotized me into forgetting it...
Avatar Zero
Location: WA, USA
Heh, I had fun making it too. I figured out how to use cyan, magenta, and yellow on 3 different layers and using the multipy command in photoshop to make it. It's actually a smaller version of this.
http://members.cox.net/99kincaid/colorgrid216.GIF
http://members.cox.net/99kincaid/coloravatar.GIF If you feel so inclines, you can zoom in on it, it has 216 colors, with no blurring.
I wouldn't complain about it too much though. Trust me, I could have made it much more interesting.
http://members.cox.net/99kincaid/colorgridbox.GIF
http://members.cox.net/99kincaid/tinycolorbox.GIF
This one is fun. After you open it, scroll up and down.
http://members.cox.net/99kincaid/tiniercolorbox.GIF
P.S. But I digress from the topic at hand. What's so bad about short muscular guys?
by JesIdres on Fri Aug 23, 2002 10:40 am
Cannonshop wrote: Huh... would that be Mr. Grayson as "Robin", or, as "Nightwing"? Either way, you're looking at a short, kinda muscular, thin guy who wants to be "Batman", but, can't quite fill the role. I always thought you had higher aspirations than that...
WHAT?!??!?!
It's Nightwing, thankyouverymuch, and he's 5'11. Seeing as I'm 5'6" that's good enough for me. And he's not trying to be Batman. he's said he doesn't WANT to be Batman. Plus he's funnier, prefer hanging out with people instead of bats, and prefers redheads. Plus, he doesn't need a cape, and he drives a motorcycle, which personally I love. And he smiles. (And from the opposite side, he's human which means no chance of killing someone during sex, and wondering if there's even a possiblity of having kids, and he doesn't wear his underoos on the outside)
by Cannonshop on Fri Aug 23, 2002 1:04 pm
JesIdres wrote:
I am chastened. I sometimes seem to forget that Dick's grown up, I can't help it- I remember him too much as Mr. Wayne's sidekick-who-was-always-having-to-be-Rescued. (I started reading comics in the early eighties- from a box of comics dating out of the late '60s. Gotta love garage sales...) Who's drawing Nightwing now? Does he still have his own book, or was that just a limited series?
by JesIdres on Fri Aug 23, 2002 7:22 pm
Rick Leonardo draws him. Still going-though Greg Land was my fav. (he did it for a year)
by Cannonshop on Mon Aug 26, 2002 11:57 am
Hmmm... (makes a note to check the local comic-shops, haven't done that in over a year...)
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Motor Fuel Group agrees new 1 billion litres a year fuel supply contract with BP
Published on 16/04/2019 by Fiona Briggs in Forecourt retailers, Retailer News
Motor Fuel Group (MFG), the largest independent forecourt operator in the UK, has signed a new five-year 1 billion litres a year fuel supply contract with BP.
This announcement comes after MFG's acquisition of MRH last year. The deal commences this month and secures the fuel supply across nearly 250 BP branded forecourts across the UK, including retention of all the former MRH sites.
This is the largest single group re-signing that BP has ever secured in the UK and paves the way for the two parties to now focus on additional sources of value including Wild Bean Café, BP Chargemaster, Ultimate fuels and BP's new loyalty scheme which will be launched later in the year.
Nikki Grady-Smith, BP's UK retail director, says: "We're delighted to announce that we have reached agreement with MFG for the re-signing of their business which now includes the former MRH business. This is a fantastic opportunity to further strengthen our relationship together."
William Bannister, MFG's chief executive officer, says: "The BP brand is a significant part of our fuel offer to customers. I am very pleased that this deal has been signed and that our strong and successful partnership will continue."
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Synopsis : Morton's Toe is a common foot condition, but it is less common to link it to Fibromyalgia.
Before many pain sufferers can get approved painkillers through California's Medicaid called Medi-Cal, they are required to undergo what is commonly referred to as prescription "step therapy," which means a patient must try weaker or cheaper (generic) drugs over a period of sometimes up to two weeks or even months before they can move on to something that is known to be more effective for their condition.
Take for example, the drug Lyrica, which is known to be an effective pain medication for people suffering from Fibromyalgia (www.lyrica.com). Instead of the condition being immediately treated with Lyrica, patients in "step therapy" are told they must try Tylenol, or Vicodin to see if these drugs effectively deal with the problem.
Photograph of a foot illustrating Morton's Toe, where the 2nd toe is longer than the big toe.
Morton's toe is a type of brachymetatarsia, and is the condition of a shortened first metatarsal in relation to the second metatarsal. Other names for Morton's toe include: Morton's syndrome, long toe, boss toe, Morton's foot, LaMay toe, hallicusbradymetatarsalgia, Greek foot, Royal toe, Turkey toe, Sheppard's toe, and Viking toe.
Morton's neuroma is a painful condition that affects the ball of your foot, most commonly the area between your 3rd and 4th toes. Morton's neuroma can feel as if you have a pebble in your shoe or a fold in your sock. Other symptoms may include a burning pain in the ball of your foot that may radiate into your toes or a tingling feeling or numbness in your toes.
Among the issues associated with Morton's toe is that weight distribution causes the front of the foot to widen as weight shifts from the first shortened toe to the other toes. Regular shoes can often cause metatarsalgia and neuromas as your shoe pushes your toes together - hence the case of Morton's neuroma. Wider shoes are often recommended for people who have Morton's Toe problems.
While Fibromyalgia patients wait for their appropriate pain meds to be approved, there's another form of "step therapy" they can consider - Have their feet checked by a foot doctor for a first short metatarsal bone - also known as Morton's Toe. Morton's Toe is a common foot condition, but it is less common to link it to Fibromyalgia.
A short first metatarsal bone causes the foot to over pronate, which leads to pain throughout the body.
Schuler's recommended treatment, in consultation with a podiatrist, is a toe pad under the first toe bone, which re-balances the weight of the foot and reduces pain throughout the body.
A new bill, AB 369, introduced by Assemblyman Jared Huffman, D-San Rafael, makes it easier for pain sufferers to access medication their doctors think will work best for them.
"Step therapy costs the state because of unplanned emergency visits and additional doctor visits because the patient is not getting relief in a timely manner (www.sanfrancisco.networkofcare.org/mh/legislate/detail.cfmbill=AB%20369). It costs the state when there are additional complications from that pain," Huffman said. ''And it costs us indirectly in terms of the tremendous productivity costs. If someone is suffering chronic pain, they can't work."
Schuler's version of "step therapy", diagnosing and treating Morton's Toe, (whyyoureallyhurt.com/mortons-toe/what-is-a-mortons-toe/) as it is related to Fibromyalgia, is worth consideration even if your pain is alleviated by accessible painkillers.
Many people do not want to be on painkillers for life, and a chronic condition like Fibromyalgia could be caused by a common condition that is not commonly understood.
Dr. Burton S. Schuler is a foot doctor, foot specialist (Podiatrist), of Panama City, Fl and the director of the Ambulatory Foot Clinics Podiatric Pain Management Center.
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by Andrew Ross | Sep 27, 2019 | 0 comments
Standard Motor Products, Inc. has announced that the winner of its Shop Team Selfie Challenge is Snowfire Auto Ltd. of Waterbury, VT.
For their prize, Snowfire Auto will receive $5,000 towards a shop appreciation event.
To enter the contest, applicants were asked to upload a selfie of their team to Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram adding the hashtag #MyShopTeamSelfie. The competition was open to legal residents of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia, and parts of Canada.
Commenting on the announcement, Jack Ramsey, Vice President Engine Management Marketing and Sales, SMP, stated, "It's a privilege to support shop teams that work hard to get the job done every day. We're excited to present Snowfire Auto with $5,000 for an appreciation event that benefits their entire team."
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49ers, Seahawks show interest in RB Tyler Ervin at San Jose State pro day
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The San Francisco 49ers and Seattle Seahawks were the two teams that showed the most interest in San Jose State RB Tyler Ervin at the Spartans' pro day today, per Matt Barrows of the Sacramento Bee.
Two teams that seemed most interested in SJ State RB Tyler Ervin -- and stop me if you've heard this one -- were the #49ers and #Seahawks.
— Matt Barrows (@mattbarrows) March 16, 2016
In 2015 alone, Ervin rushed for 1,601 yards on 294 carries with 13 touchdowns including a school record 300 yards against Fresno State. He also had 334 yards on 45 receptions with two touchdowns.
Three 49ers, including Christian McCaffrey, day-to-day ahead of Eagles game, per Shanahan
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San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan spoke with reporters via a conference call on Monday, the day after the team's 19-12 win over the Dallas Cowboys. Here is everything he had to say. Transcript provided by the San Francisco 49ers Communications staff. Opening comments: "Injuries from the game: [DL] Charles Omenihu had an oblique strain, he'll be day-to-day, [RB] Christian McCaffrey, calf contusion, day-to-day, [RB] Elijah Mitchell, groin, day-to-day. Go ahead." I understand what day-to-day means, but is
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On Saturday, ESPN's Jeremy Fowler reported that San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator DeMeco Ryans would interview with the Arizona Cardinals and Indianapolis Colts ahead of the team's Divisional Round playoff game against the Dallas Cowboys. "He's going to do those interviews prior to kickoff tomorrow against the Cowboys," Fowler said on-air. "It's a crazy 72-hour window for Ryans. People around the league believe he has traction in Houston. He played six years there, was a great player, played alongside J.J. Watt and others, well respected. ... Ryans will be firmly in the mix on multiple
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Oasis Lodge No. 67 fed around 180 people Thursday night inside the Fort Morgan Masonic Building at the annual spaghetti dinner held before the Christmas Parade of Lights, according to Oasis Lodge member Dana Speaks.
He said people were coming inside to enjoy some spaghetti before heading out into the cold to watch the parade.
Among those spotted enjoying their spaghetti dinner were Wayne Kellogg, who was the Fort Morgan city treasurer for 35 years before he retired in 2002, and his wife, Sharon Kellogg, along with Jack Benham and Rochelle Wendell.
At another table, Jerry Wathen, decked out in his light-up Christmas sweater, enjoyed the spaghetti dinner with friends Wayne and Sharroll Bernahl.
Still other tables held families, couples, groups of friends and more - all hungry for some spaghetti.
The Masons served salad, pasta and sauce to everyone, along with dessert. They also could be spotted during the meal stirring up pots of boiling water containing even more cooking pasta so that there would continue to be enough available for the hungry crowd.
The spaghetti dinner is held to raise money for the lodge's scholarship program, according to lodge member Mark Hough.
Dan Danford, a former master of the lodge, reported that they served about 240 people at last year's spaghetti dinner.


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Invited Talk by Dr. Bernhard Kainz
Dr. Bernhard Kainz
Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London
Date: Tuesday, November 19th, 2019
Location: TranslaTUM auditorium, room no. 22.00.1, Ismaninger Str. 22
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Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI) including Machine Learning (ML) has the controversial potential to replace healthcare professionals in their jobs. ANI/ML technology has already the capacity to augment, educate and democratize expertise for medical front-line personnel, freeing up their time for difficult cases while making them better at their tasks in modern precision medicine. ANI/ML can make the quality of an individual's work better, resulting in better decision making in healthcare, faster diagnosis, improved patient communication, more efficient training and less mistakes.
In this talk I will shed some light on the looming AI bubble in Healthcare, discuss the potential of ML to complement human decision making in clinical applications and will provide an outlook for selected ML applications that have the potential to survive the coming AI winter. We will explore ML methods for population screening, where lack of training and limited expertise lead to missed early treatment opportunities and a high burden on patients and the healthcare system through the 'refer if unsure' approach. Our ML methods also show promising results for complementing sparse data in a meaningful way. I will briefly discuss the impact of ML on image reconstruction tasks that go beyond human capabilities and will conclude with an outlook into the future of autonomous agents in medical imaging, which have the potential to revolutionise patient monitoring and population screening through guided image acquisition.
Dr. Bernhard Kainz is a Senior Lecturer (= Associate Professor) in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London. He heads the human-in-the-loop computing group and he is one of four academics leading the Biomedical Image Analysis, BioMedIA Collaboratory. Human-in-the-loop computing research aims to equip humans with machine-like learning and perceptual abilities. Researchers in this domain believe that machines can complement human intelligence for maximum efficiency.
Bernhard co-creates intensively with King's College London, Division of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, St. Thomas Hospital London and the department of Bioengineering at Imperial. He is a scientific adviser for ThinkSono Ltd., Affordable Imaging stream lead for the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Smart Medical Imaging, and involved in the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare and the Innovate UK London AI Centre for value-based healthcare.
In 2013 he moved from Graz University of Technology in Austria to Imperial College London as FP7 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, working together with Prof. Daniel Rueckert and Prof. Jo Hajnal (KCL). Since then he is pioneering Human-in-the-loop computing methods in the EPSRC/Wellcome trust project iFind.
He finished his Ph.D. in the field of medical visualization, volume graphics and GPU algorithms in the team of Prof. Dieter Schmalstieg at the Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision at Graz University of Technology in Austria. This shaped his research interests towards the interconnection of medical image data acquisition, fast hardware accelerated medical image processing and interactive real-time algorithms.
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Prisoner Daniel DAVIS 1883, 1892 and 1897
Posted on October 8, 2018 February 14, 2019 by Thomas Nevin
CHINESE MINER Ah Tung
NATIVE YOUTH TIN MINING Co. Moorina Tasmania
Born at Castlemaine, Victoria in 1858, Daniel Davis was convicted every few years from 1883, soon after his arrival in Tasmania on board the Derwent, to his discharge from the Hobart Gaol in January 1897. Eleven months later, he drowned accidentally in the Mersey at Latrobe, Tasmania. The inquest was reported on the 29th December 1897.
Prisoner DAVIS, Daniel, photographed by T. J. Nevin
Hobart Gaol March 1883.
TMAG Ref: Q15625
Verso inscription: F. C. (free to colony) Derwent 486 18 months
Daniel Davis and Richard Harris at trial
The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 – 1954) Thu 1 Mar 1883 Page 3 RECORDER'S COURT, LAUNCESTON. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/9026521
ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE
Richard Harris (20) and Daniel Davies [sic] (26), charged with having, at Moorina, on the 29th November, assaulted and robbed Ah Tung of £3 11s, pleaded not guilty. Mr. Miller appeared for the prisoners. Lee Kong was sworn as interpreter. Ah Tung deposed that he was proceeding from a store at Moorina to the Native Youth claim on the night of the 29th November, and was accosted by two men. He was afterwards garotted and robbed by them. After the robbery he picked up a piece of meat and some sugar which had been carried by the prisoners. James Alexander deposed to Harris informing him on the night of the 29th November, when the two prisoners were in witness' hut, that they had robbed a Chinaman that night.
Source: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/9026521
The details in this report by the Hobart Mercury were incorrectly reported by newspapers in northern Tasmania in the ensuing week. The victim's name was changed and so was the date the crime was committed. No information about the work the offenders were seeking or undertaking was given, nor the reason the offenders were in the area. It appears their crime was predatory and premeditated.
The trial of Daniel Davis and Richard Harris
The Tasmanian (Launceston, Tas. : 1881 – 1895) Sat 3 Mar 1883 Page 235 Law Courts
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/200314625
ASSAULT AND ROBBERY. Richard Harris and Daniel Davis pleaded not guilty to the charge of assaulting Ah Kung on the 29th of December, and robbing him of the sum of £3 1ls. Mr. Miller appeared for the prisoner Harris. It appears that the prosecutor was returning on the night in question from a store at Moorina to the Native Youth claim when he was set upon by two men whom he could not identify, and robbed of two £1 notes, a sovereign, a half sovereign, and a shilling. The prisoners admitted to a companion that they had robbed a Chinaman, and their description of the manner in which it was carried out tallied with that given by the prosecutor. Some beef and sugar were picked up by the prosecutor after the robbery, and it was proved that the prisoners had purchased similar articles that morning. The prosecutor admitted having identified a third man named Jones as the offender. His Honor summed up against the prisoners, and the jury returned a verdict of guilty after an absence of not more than a minute or two. SENTENCES. The following were the sentences pronounced.: .. . Richard Harris and Daniel Davis, assault and robbery, eighteen months' imprisonment.
Source: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/200314625
Richard Harris and Daniel Davis were transferred south from the Recorder's Court in Launceston to serve their sentences at the Hobart Gaol in March 1883. Both were photographed on arrival by Thomas J. Nevin. This mugshot (above, TMAG Ref: Q15625) is the first photograph taken of Daniel Davis by T. J. Nevin for police records. The mugshot of Richard Harris, on the other hand, appears not to have survived, for several possible reasons: either Harris did not re-offend; or, he used an alias and kept re-offending; or, indeed, he may have left the colony, and lastly, his 20th century descendants might have destroyed his photo, the latter event believed to be more common than proven. These two entries (below) in convict records give just the barest of details: the photos were kept separately in Photo Books, duplicates of which were pasted to the rap sheet, some mounted as cartes-de-visite, some uncut.
Name: Harris, Richard
Record Type: Convicts
Remarks: Born Tasmania. Tried Launceston
Index number: 30587
Record ID: NAME_INDEXES:1399477
Conduct Record: CON37/1/11 Page 6161
Name: Davis, Daniel
Ship: Derwent
Remarks: Tried Launceston Feb 1883
The victim Ah Tung
Newspaper reports of the assault and robbery by Daniel Davis and Richard Harris varied in certain details: the name of the "Chinaman" they robbed and assaulted was reported as either Ah Kung (Tasmanian 3 March 1883), Ah King (Launceston Examiner 28 Feb 1883) or Ah Tung (Mercury 1 March 1883). The date the offense was committed was reported as 29th November 1882 or 29th December 1882. In every instance, however, the location of the crime was correctly reported.
Ah Tung was assaulted and robbed at Moorina, on his return from the store there to the tin mining settlement working the claim of the Native Youth Tin Mining Company. In the 1880s, there was a thriving Chinese community at Moorina and Weldborough, located near St. Helens in the north east of Tasmania. According to Helene Chung, whose great grandfather mined there –
At its peak, Weldborough had about 700 Chinese miners: most of the State's 1,000 to 1,300 or so Chinese. The original pub slept three shifts to a bed. Not roulette but mahjong and fan tan were played in the island's first casino. A lottery was part of gambling and a Chinese man was murdered while taking the proceeds to the bank at nearby Moorina. In 1893 a visiting Chinese opera company performed at Weldborough ….
Source: Helene Chung, 'One Village – Two Names: A Tasmanian Chinese on a Wild Dragon Chase', a paper presented at the Chinese Heritage of Australia Federation Conference, Museum of Chinese Australian History, Melbourne, 1-2 July 2000.
Helen Vivian's report on the Chinese tin mining communities in North East Tasmania (1985) gives an overview of the area as Ah Tung would have known it in the 1880s:
The years 1883-85 saw a partial depression in the North East. The most accessible tin deposits had now been worked out and many gold mines were deserted. The European population had greatly diminished as a result. The Secretary of Mines, however, felt that this was more due to a lack of spirit than a lack of mineral wealth. He opined that the initial expectations of the gold miners had been too high and in his report for 1884, spoke favourably of the tin mining industry:
"The tin mining industry appears to be carried on with vigour, the total quantity of ore produced during the six months ended 30th June (1883) being 746 tons, valued at £38,700. Many of the claims in the District are held by co-operative parties, who are steadily prosecuting their work, attracting little or no public attention. A considerable number of Chinese are employed as tributors."
This period of economic slump apparently affected European wage earners far more gravely than the Chinese, who were by now mainly employed on their own account. Thus, the arrival of 200 or more Chinese in 1885 sparked off a determined anti-Chinese immigration campaign championed by the Tasmanian Trades and Labour Council (T.T.L.C.). Protest meetings were organised against Chinese and other non-British immigrants and a number of resolutions calling for the adoption of a restriction~t policy were presented to the Tasmanian government.
Despite the strong anti-Chinese feeling in sectors of the mining community an attempt to start an anti-Chinese movement in the North East met with very little support….
Source: Helen Vivian, op. cit. 1985:19
1892: two more photographs
Two later photographs were pasted to this rap sheet created in August 1892 at the Police Office Devonport on the occasion of Daniel Davis' imprisonment for larceny, sentenced to six months. Who took these photographs or where they were taken is not clear, but what is clear is that the first mugshot taken by Nevin in 1883 did not find its way onto these later gaol records. What else is not clear is why the photograph on the rap sheet dated 1897 was copied as a black and white version and pasted onto the 1892 rap sheet, which was supposedly created five years earlier when the booking mugshot of Daniel Davis was taken sporting a moustache, arms crossed, hands visible against his chest.
Record Type: Prisoners
Resource: GD63/2/1 Page 416
Detail of above: Name: Davis, Daniel
Discharged from Hobart Gaol January 1897
This photograph of prisoner Daniel Davis, registered as number 696 and dated 1st January 1897, was taken for the purposes of his discharge from the Hobart Gaol, Campbell Street on 16th January 1897.
When this record was created, on the occasion of his discharge from his latest conviction of three months for being idle etc, a summary of eight offences was included dating from the most serious, the assault and robbery in 1883, for which he served 18 months. He was most commonly convicted of larceny, serving 3 to 6 months, almost every year to his death by drowning in 1897.
Detail of criminal record – rap sheet below:
Rap Sheet Details
Photo Reg. No: 696
Date: 1.1.1896
Name: Daniel Davis
Rubber stamped: H.M.Gaol Hobart 4 Jan1897
PARTICULAR MARKS
Star tattooed between thumb and forefinger of left hand.
When Convicted 17.10.96
Where P.O. Latrobe
Offence Idle &
Sentence 3 months
Date of Discharge 16.1. 97
Native Place Castlemaine, Victoria
Ship Derwent Condition F.C.
Religion R. C.
Edication R & W
State Single
Height 5.8 Weight 10.0
Build Medium
Complexion Dark
Color of Hair Black
Color of Eyes Brownish Gray
Trade or Calling Labourer
CRIMINAL HISTORY AND REMARKS
28.2.83 P.O. Launceston Assault & Robbery 18 months
8.9.85 P.O. ditto ((Launceston) Larceny 3 months
14.5.86 P.O. ditto (Launceston) Larceny 3 months
25.8.88 P.O. Latrobe Larceny 3 months
17.9.89 P.O. Launceston Obscene Language 5 days
17.8.92 P.O. East Devonport Larceny 6 months
7.9.95 P.O. Wynyard Larceny 3 months
17.10.96 P.O. Latrobe Idle & 3 months
Resource: GD128/1/2
Death by drowning December 1897
Daniel Davis drowned in the Mersey
Tasmanian News (Hobart, Tas. : 1883 – 1911) Tue 28 Dec 1897 Page 4 NORTHERN NEWS. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/173659505
Launceston, December 28.
From Latrobe comes word that on Sunday a man named Daniel Davis, aged about 40 years, was found drowned in the Mersey opposite Watt's Hotel by Mr Ready, who was walking along the river bank.
He informed the police, and after making a stretcher they had the body removed to the hotel.
It is surmised that Davis wandered away and accidentally fell into the river.
Record Type: Deaths
Date of death: 26 Dec 1897
Registered: Mersey
Registration year: 1897
Resource: RGD35/1/66 no 462
INQUEST
Daniel Davis inquest
Daily Telegraph (Launceston, Tas. : 1883 – 1928) Wed 29 Dec 1897 Page 8 LATROBE. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/154090252
At the inquest held on the body of Daniel Davis, before Mr. P. C. Maxwell, coroner, and a jury (Mr A. Ellis, foreman), a verdict that he came by his death accidentally by drowning, and not otherwise, was returned.
Record Type: Inquests
Date of inquest: 27 Dec 1897
Verdict: Accidentally drowned
ADDENDA: The Joss House 1937
Source: Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 – 1954) Tue 29 Jun 1937 Page 2 Chinese Joss House Presented to Launceston Museum. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/68486167#
LAUNCESTON, Monday, – The joss house presented to the Launceston City Council by Chinese residents of Northern Tasmania will be officially opened by the Mayor (Mr. F. Warland Browne) at the Queen Victoria Museum at 3 p.m. next Thursday.
Brought from China in 1884 by the Chinese miners on the North-East Coast, and established at Weldborough, the joss house has been renovated, and its quaint contents have been assembled at the museum in a special section.
This task has meant a great deal of work for Mr. Chung Gon, jun., and Mr and Mrs A Manchester in the past 18 months.
The Joss House donated to the Launceston City Council 1937. Photo dated 1940
Source: https://www.examiner.com.au/story/4429252/from-asia-to-tasmania-photos/#slide=5
Chinese Memorial and Funerary Oven
Helene Chung: Tin Miners, Addicts and Merchants
Helen Vivian, Tasmania's Chinese Heritage: An Historical Record of Chinese Sites in North East Tasmania, Australian Heritage Commission and Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston, 1985.
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Thomas Nevin at the Canary and Cage Bird Show 1869


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By Erin Snyder - January 01, 2021
Of all the movies we've discussed on this blog, Fruitvale Station's relationship with the holidays (specifically New Year's Eve) is by far the most tragic. The film takes place almost entirely over the course of that day and the following morning, when Oscar Grant was killed by police on his way home from celebrating.
The movie is less concerned with plot than with painting a picture of the 22-year-old victim, showcasing his relationships with his mother, daughter, and girlfriend. That's not to say there isn't a story - the events are absolutely structured into a narrative - but the real takeaway isn't how or why this occurred so much as the implications they have for the characters.
Oscar, played by Michael B. Jordan, lost his job a few weeks before the movie started and has been keeping this from his girlfriend Sophina (played by Melanie Diaz) and his mother (Octavia Spencer). Sophina is already upset with him after catching him having an affair, so he's reluctant to say or do anything that will make her angrier.
He's been out of prison for less than a year and is naturally worried about being pulled away from his family again. At one point, he has an opportunity to sell some drugs, which would help him with his financial problems, but instead dumps them into the ocean. He eventually comes clean with Sophina about his job and assures her he's really ready to get his life together. He wants to propose but is having a hard enough time getting together money for rent, let alone an engagement ring.
In addition to New Year's Eve, it's also his mother's birthday, so he spends a portion of the day preparing and eventually celebrating with his family. Afterward, he and Sophina drop their daughter off with her sister and go into town to celebrate with friends. At Oscar's mother's suggestion, they take the subway to avoid the danger posed by the roads.
On the train ride after the celebration, Oscar is accosted by an old enemy who recognizes him from prison. A brief fight breaks out, and police show up. Rather than deescalating the situation, they arrest Oscar and his friends. When Oscar objects, they pin him to the floor and eventually shoot him in the back. He's taken to a hospital, where he later dies, leaving his family to grieve. The last line of the movie is given to his daughter as she asks her mother where her father is.
Structurally, the movie is set up to mimic a typical story about someone turning their life around. It never spells out the New Year's symbolism, but it's implicit in Oscar's choices onscreen. All of this is tragically ironic, of course: because this is a true story, we know the new life he's trying to embrace is about to be ripped away from him.
The movie even opens with cellphone footage of the shooting, in case anyone watching is unaware - it wants us to know what's coming, even as it uses narrative tropes to make us unconsciously hope for a different ending. All of that makes the resolution even more devastating.
Is it even worth talking about the directing at this point? Fruitvale Station was Ryan Coogler's first feature film, and I feel like "went on to make Creed and Black Panther" says more than I could hope to. Suffice to say, this was excellently made. If you haven't seen Fruitvale Station and want to understand why studios were willing to hand him massive budgets, this will answer that question.
But that's far from the only reason you should watch. It's a fantastic movie, start to finish. It's touching, dramatic, and effective. Jordan of course stands out, but the entire cast does great work.
Obviously, this is highly recommended. It's an incredible movie.
2013 Drama Erin Snyder Highly Recommended Movie New Years


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JCM 2000 DSL 50. Bought in 2001. Used to be my brother's.
Ever have a tool or thing that you've used for a long time? Something that you've taken with you as you've traveled across a country or two? Well, its time that I move on from my glorious half-stack that has been with me for the better part of thirteen years, and most active for the first ten.
Back in 2005, I begged my dad for an Orange 4×12 guitar cabinet to compliment my brother's Marshall JCM 2000 DSL 50 head which I had commandeered since I was active in a band. Much to the chagrin of my bandmates, they would have to help me carry the cabinet in numerous venues across Canada, until enough was enough and I had to get casters installed.
Aside from its beautiful black/gold/orange totem I had developed a setting that I still hold true to this day in my digital solid state devices (or at least as close as I can get it).
The head symbol is of the band I was in for 10 years, and the omega/headphone-face is my own thing. Both have scars from being on the road. Well worn I think.
In 2012 I dubbed my Marshall/Orange rig as Angie, after having the artwork for "Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying…" done, it was only apparent that I needed to realize the robot character as something tangible in reality to give my serious musician hobby some meaning.
Ol' Angie was collecting dust for the last three years, so I needed to get rid of her. I contemplated selling off the speakers and turning the Orange cab into a half-shelf/half-cat bed ("No…ol' yeller is my dog…") but I decided to trade it off to a good buddy of mine where she'll be loud and proud. Selling her off to some stranger just doesn't feel right otherwise…
I have to thank my dad for buying those to two pieces of equipment, and I really hope he realizes that I've maximized the usage of that rig for the ten years that I've had them together, being on stage with them probably about two-hundred times. It's been on stage with Left Spine Down, Dope Stars Inc., Bile, and its last tour with Cyanotic. Well used in the bands Far From Ruin, and The Rabid Whole. Getting it's warmed up debut in my hometown of Regina, SK, before travelling as far as Montreal, Vancouver, Austin, Los Angeles, and New Orleans. I might as well be talking about myself.
I'm looking forward to playing on new gear that I can (one-man) carry around with me, but… *cue song Nothing Compares To You*
End of an era, and start of a new one.
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Artists Flipping Me The Bird (2013).
These pictures were taken during the first leg of the "Built To Fuck, Born To Tour", ending at COLD WAVES II. The Rabid Whole providing direct support for BILE, back in September 2013. It was a very memorable time, especially in Chicago. I got to meet some new people, and get some of my friends in on this. I thought I'd post these on here instead on leaving them on facebook, hoping they'd reach a wider audience. -G
Krztoff from BILE — This is when I first had the idea to get this theme going. I realized the potential of other musicians I'd meet along the way. He. Was. Hammered. http://bilenyc.net/
Brendin from Sagan/Armor/BILE — Brendin probably showed the most attitude of this group of pictures. He has a weird sense of humour, but by the end of the tour I had made a decent imitation of him. I thought of stealing this chair for the rest of the tour, for other people to sit in, but I realized that the damn trailer was already packed. http://www.facebook.com/BrendinRossOfficial
Rainbow from The Birthday Massacre — At our Toronto show, Rainbow showed up, so I just HAD to ask him to have a seat, and flip me off. http://www.thebirthdaymassacre.com/
Reece from All But Over — We had a day off in our home-base of Toronto. I chose to work at my day job, and got my boss (who is also a great singer) to participate. http://www.allbutover.com/
Avi and Matt from ART vs. INDUSTRY — We stayed at Matt and his lady's place in NJ, and Avi flew in to check out our show in PA (or was it DE?). Super cool guys, and their music kicks dick. http://artversusindustry.bandcamp.com/
R.H. Bear from BILE — Sitting at a McDicks, in Chicago. Bear was super cool, and told some crazy ass stories throughout the tour. But I'm sure the tatts from head to toe could tell a whole lot more! http://www.bilenyc.net
Chalsey Noelle from The Rabid Whole — I didn't want my band members to be in this gallery, 'cause I thought that'd be pretty close to putting myself in the gallery. Right after I took Bear's picture, Chals asked "I wanna be in it!!!" Fine, Chals, you get to give the biggest middle finger of them all! http://www.therabidwhole.com
Eric Powell from 16Volt — In the dressing room at Cold Waves II at the Metro, in Chicago. Eric may look like a bagel-loving biker, but beyond the "I don't give a fuck"-vibe from this photo, he's a nice guy! http://16volt.com
Burton C. Bell from FEAR FACTORY — He is my fav singer of all time. He stopped by Cold Waves II to participate in the festivities, and sing on-stage with some of the acts! When I asked him for a favor, he seemed hesitant, but knowing it was showing me his middle-finger salute, he didn't seem to mind. http://fearfactory.com/
Chris Connelly from Revolting Cocks/Ministry…the list goes on! — Mr. Connelly was sitting right beside our, and Bile's merch booth, selling some of his stuff too. Paul Barker walked in to talk to him about something, but after he left, I was too chicken-shit to stop him for a pic. Chris, however, obliged. Fucking awesome! http://chrisconnelly.com/
Mark Durante from The Waco Brothers/KMFDM — I passed by Mark in the hallway, and he said something (I forget), then said "Don't listen to me, I'm a crazy old man!" The stupid thing was I didn't recognize him right away. It was in the dressing room when Oscar (from my band) mentioned it to me, that he used to be in KMFDM, that I just had to contain myself. We sat down with him and heard his brief story being in KMFDM, and got this pic (which is probably my favourite). The shirt just goes with it! http://durantula.com/
Zoog Von Rock from ANGELSPIT — I'm pretty sure Zoog snuck his way into Cold Waves II. I was happy to see him. He's an eccentric guy, and makes me laugh. Truely a man's artist. If you're ever at his place, ask him about the Tennessee Moonshine. He offered me water, and gave me that! http://www.angelspit.net/
Brian from The Gothsicles — He was taggin' along with Zoog. Nice guy! I wasn't familiar with The Gothsicles (even though I heard the name a few times. DUDE! Eggplant wizard from KID ICARUS!), but I really liked his participation in my little gallery. The last one I got…or will it be? http://www.thegothsicles.com/
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There's a good reason why Venezuela and several other Latin American countries rank very high in world corruption rankings: These nations have so much red tape that people grow up knowing that they have to grease a lot of palms to get almost anything done.
That was the first thing I thought when I read a new World Bank report showing that Latin America is, in many ways, the world's most bureaucratic region.
The report, titled "Doing Business 2018," examines the number of legal procedures people around the world have to complete to do simple things such as starting a business, obtaining a building permit or registering a property. Its results are staggering.
To start a domestically owned new business, whether it's a big factory or a small store, Latin American and Caribbean countries require an average of 8.4 legal procedures, more than in any other world region.
By comparison, in sub-Saharan Africa, the average is 7.6 procedures, and in the United States and high-income European countries, it's 4.9 procedures.
But the numbers are more amazing when you compare countries. In Venezuela, you need to go through 20 legal procedures to start a business. In Argentina it is 13 procedures, in Brazil it's 11 and in Mexico it's eight. Canada requires only two procedures; New Zealand, only one.
The legal steps to start a new business in Venezuela take 230 days. In Brazil it's 79 days, in Argentina it's 25, and in Mexico, it's 17. But it's easier in Chile, where it takes seven days, and in Canada, with 1.5 days. In New Zealand, it takes just a half-day.
Red tape is one of the big reasons, according to Transparency International's annual corruption ranking, that several Latin American countries are among the world's most corrupt. Since few people have the time to go through the required government paperwork, they either bribe a government employee to speed up the paperwork or simply skip acquiring government permits.
Construction done without permits is one of the reasons so many buildings and houses collapsed during the recent earthquake in Mexico, and in the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. A lot of construction didn't follow safety rules because of hard-to-meet legal requirements.
Why is Latin America a world champion of bureaucracy? Among other reasons, it's because populist governments have given public jobs to millions of people for political reasons, and needed to find something for them to do. So they created new bureaucratic requirements, and appointed inspectors and office workers to enforce them.
And when responsible governments won elections, they were reluctant to fire needless public employees because that would have triggered protests. So years went by, and bureaucracies grew to ridiculous levels.
Asked what can be done to reduce red tape and corruption in Latin America, Maria Amparo Casar, president of the Mexicans United Against Corruption and Impunity advocacy group, told me: "Three things: technology, technology and technology."
I totally agree. Doing much of the paperwork online — at least for the estimated 62 percent of Latin Americans who have access to the internet — would help save time, eliminate the need to bribe public employees and get millions of people out of the shadow economy. It's a political problem that can largely be solved with technology.
Andres Oppenheimer is a Latin America correspondent for the Miami Herald.
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Ensuring success of all students the theme of three-day MTSS conference
Fermin Leal July 30, 2019
More than 3,000 educators from throughout California are gathering this week for a conference aimed at sharing practices that support the academic, behavioral and social-emotional success of all students.
"All our students have potential," State Superintendent Tony Thurmond told attendees on Monday during the third annual California Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) Professional Learning Institute (PLI).
"It's up to all of you to bring out that potential. It's up to all of you to know their names, faces and stories," Thurmond said.
The three-day conference at the Long Beach Convention Center is hosted by the Orange County Department of Education, the Butte County Office of Education and the UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools. It includes teachers, administrators, counselors, social workers and other educators interested in learning how the MTSS framework creates equity for all students.
As the state superintendent mentioned, this year's theme is "All Means All: Know My Name, Face and Story."
In 2016, OCDE was tapped by the state to be the lead agency on an initiative to scale up California's Multi-Tiered System of Support framework, which aligns new and existing strategies to meet each student's academic, behavioral and social-emotional needs.
The comprehensive, data-driven approach of MTSS builds on the strengths of each school and provides a foundation of core supports for all students, additional assistance for some and targeted interventions for those with the greatest needs.
"All Means All" has emerged as the official motto for California MTSS, and the annual institute has become a major draw for educators and community members committed to creating inclusive and equitable school conditions for students and families.
"We have a momentum that's starting to form," Linda Darling-Hammond, president of the state Board of Education, said during Monday's keynote address. "We're building a system designed around student learning, one that reaches beyond the classroom."
The conference also includes dozens of workshops where stakeholders are invited to learn — and share — promising practices that emphasize excellence, equity and access for all learners.
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I did a little cleanup on the zone initialization feature wizard and posted it on the Ubiquiti forums. We'll see what others think. It seems the biggest downside to having zone-based rules is that it significantly increases boot time. I'm not worried about it taking a few minutes, but apparently with large (100K+) rule sets, it can take 15 minutes to boot some of their bigger systems.
I've been working on a zone initialization wizard. Ever since I got a couple EdgeRouter X's for home, I've been really loving the features. We use zone-based rules and structure at work with some of the larger sized PaloAltos. When I saw zone support, I had to explore it, and found that a wizard was needed to get past the complexity of building out all the permutations of rulesets. Personally, I wish zones were more like bound objects [where] one could simply include 1-to-many of in source and destinations of firewall rules rules… but I'm still happy to see what this has to offer.
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Mr. Trump, Keep it to Yourself
President Trump has spooked a lot of people in the U.S. and around the world with his "fire and fury" response yesterday about North Korea followed by today's Tweet about how much stronger he has made America's nuclear military force (in six short months mind you, amazing), and he isn't afraid to use it.
The President has for all intents and purposes drawn down a red line that he will have to defend or be shamed for not doing so. So what, one more missile fired by North Korea or one more bellicose threat from the young nut-job Kim Jong Un and we instantly attack; with nukes???
In spite of the unprecedented opposition this President faces from both sides of the isle, nearly all of the national media, and a large fraction of the U.S. population President Trump is following through on campaign promises in the areas of immigration, trade, regulation, international relations, and globalization that should all please a conservative, or a nationalist, or just someone hoping for a reversal of fortune for the country. He has done it quietly, largely with the pen mind you, but also just simply by allowing the qualified people he has appointed to lead departments and agencies to do their job as guided by his policy proposals as a candidate.
He should do the same with North Korea. Stop the unnecessary public rhetoric on this critical national security issue; in particular on Twitter. The President should use back channels, the strength of America's State Dept as led by Rex Tillerson, his Generals and use actions instead of words.
My sources in the military, both active and inactive, say there is little chance a decapitation strike can hit the necessary targets, and there are hundreds of them, fast enough before North Korea can launch against Seoul, Tokyo, Guam, or maybe Hawaii and Alaska. The North Korean's will know what is coming and how quickly once the decision is made to attack by the U.S.. Therein lays the risk and challenge. How do you take out this mad man and his military arsenal in a way that doesn't result in the death and destruction of our friends and infrastructure in SK and Japan?
You can rest assured if the Pentagon gets the green light from the President to attack we will have the South Korean military, the Japanese military, and maybe even the Chinese military on our side and participating from the start. China has been preparing along their border with North Korea for weeks, so too Japan and South Korea. Undoubtedly, authorities on Guam, in Hawaii, and Alaska are taking whatever steps they can to prepare and defend. Though take note, America hasn't taken the time or the money to provide adequate civil defense infrastructure for large scale missile attack, or God forbid nuclear attacks. Only the political class and the very wealthy can rely on that type of protection and escape.
North Korea has been abetted for decades by successive U.S. Presidents and leaders in Asia while the risk the country presents to the region and the world has grown. No leader has had the courage to risk carnage on the Korean peninsula or the region. Assuming the intelligence on North Korea's capability and desire to attack the U.S. is accurate, for the U.S. then it is only a question of when to respond. Sanctions, and deference have not worked. In 2017 we are left with two options: containment, or attrition.
Those options change if Kim Jong Un shoots first; then the dogs of war will be fully unleashed.
We have rarely been closer to conflict with NK since the 1950's. What makes this time different is the man in the White House. He has advocated for a preemptive strike on NK in the late 1990's when he thought they were just a few years from acquiring nuclear capability, and he is a tough guy in public. It may be that the best choice for America is preemptive action. We have the capability, though those most at risk are largly not Americans.
Mr. President, take it behind closed doors. In public the use of diplomatic speech is required, or a whole lot of nothing; think Alan Greenspan as Fed Chairman.
Show America you are tough and capable when you have decided on action and succeed in taking out NK and Mr. Un.
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Carla Bruni Appears in New Photo Shoot for Bulgari
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Carla Bruni, the singer songwriter, model and wife of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, appears in a new promotional campaign for iconic luxury brand Bulgari.
She features in Bulgari's high jewellery Diva collection campaign, shot by American fashion, portrait, and documentary photographer Terry Richardson.
The campaign marks the former first lady of France's first modelling appearance for a jewellery brand
Aged just 19, she signed with City Models at age 19 before going on to work for renowned designers and fashion houses such as Christian Dior, Givenchy, Paco Rabanne, Sonia Rykiel, Christian Lacroix, Karl Lagerfeld, John Galliano, Yves Saint-Laurent, Shiatzy Chen, Chanel and Versace.
Bruni has previously talked about her passion for jewellery, and in particular a gemmed bracelet given to her by her aunt.
"I loved that bracelet," she has said. "I loved its joy, its fantasy – I dreamed of one day possessing such a wonder of my own! I was told that, like me, it came from Italy to Paris. Perhaps that was part of why I loved it, too.
Founded by Sotirios Voulgaris in 1884, Bulgari has grown to become one of the world's most iconic fashion and jewellery brands.
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Zinalrothorn é uma montanha nos Alpes valaisanos próximo de Zinal de onde tira o nome. Com 4221 m de altitude, é um dos cinco cumes que formam um conjunto chamado de "Coroa Imperial": o Weisshorn (4505 m), o Zinalrothorn (4221 m), o Ober Gabelhorn (4063 m), o Matterhorn (4478 m) e o Dent Blanche (4356 m).

Toponímia
Zinalrothorn deriva da localidade de Zinal e de "Rothorn" para "monte rosa", logo o "monte rosa de Zinal".

Ascensões
 1864 - Primeira ascensão por Leslie Stephen e Florence Crauford Grove e os guias Melchior Anderegg e do filho deste Jakob Anderegg a partir de Zinal pela vertente Norte (ZS, III)
 1933 - Ascensão pela aresta Sudeste, par Caspar Mooser, Émile-Robert Blanchet e Richard Pollinger
 1945 - Direta da face este por André Roch
 1971 - Paul Etter realiza a primeira invernal da face Este

Ver também
 Cumes dos Alpes com mais de 4000 m

Montanhas dos Alpes
Montanhas da Suíça
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After graduating Valedictorian from my high school, I attend Bryn Mawr College and study Anthropology and Biology. I am hardworking, incredibly organized, and keep myself busy. I work three jobs, run a club, and conduct anthropological biology research.
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Q: What properties of a sheaf can be check at formal fibers? Let $A$ be a Noetherian ring $X=SpecA$ and $Y$ a projective scheme over $A$. Let $f:Y \to X$ be the structure morphism. Let $\mathscr{F}$ be a coherent sheaf over $Y$. Suppose $x\in X$ is a closed point, let $\hat{Y}_x$ be the formal fibre of $Y$ along $x$ and $\hat{\mathscr{F}_x}$ be the pull back of the sheaf to the fibre

My question is : What kind of properties of $\mathscr{F}$ can be check at each closed fibre? In particular, I am looking for proof that $\mathscr{F}$ is ample if $\hat{\mathscr{F}_x}$ is so for each closed point $x$ over the corresponding ring (or maybe it is wrong?).

I guess we need to make use of theorem of formal functions, and the properties desired should be explained using cohomology.

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The English-style and Western-style equestrian club teams at Slippery Rock University recently qualified individual riders for national championships after successful showings in each team's most recent competition.
Jess Dietrich, a junior recreational therapy major from Eastlake, Ohio, qualified for the English-style Intercollegiate Horse Show Association finals, May 3-6, at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg, by winning the Advance Walk Trot Canter competition at the IHSA Zone 2 finals in Lenoia, New Jersey. The English-style club team placed third out of 14 teams in Region 5 and qualified four riders for the Zone 2 championships.
Aubrey Braham, a junior mathematics major from Grove City, who previously qualified for nationals as the Zone 2, Region 5 high point rider, also became the Western-style Reserve Champion in Open Reining at the IHSA Western Semifinals last month, where the Western-style club team placed sixth out of 27 squads for the highest finish in its history.


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Valeria Lvovna Auerbakh (en ), plus connue sous le nom de Lera Auerbach, née le  à Tcheliabinsk, est une compositrice russe.

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Elle est née à Tcheliabinsk, une ville de l'Oural située à la frontière sibérienne. Lera Auerbach perpétue la tradition des compositrices, compositeurs et pianistes virtuoses des . Elle est la plus jeune compositrice du catalogue de la prestigieuse maison d'édition musicale internationale Hans Sikorski, célèbre pour avoir présenté Prokofiev, Chostakovitch, Schnittke, Goubaïdoulina et Kantcheli. La musique de Lera Auerbach se caractérise par sa liberté de style et sa juxtaposition de langages musicaux tonal et atonal.

Elle a joué pour la première fois au Carnegie Hall en mai 2002 en présentant sa propre Suite pour violon, piano et orchestre avec Gidon Kremer et le Kremerata Baltica. Depuis lors, la musique de Lera Auerbach est présente chaque saison au Carnegie Hall. En 2005, elle s'est vu décerner le prestigieux Prix Hindemith du , en Allemagne.

Ses compositions ont été commandées et jouées par Gidon Kremer, le Ballet royal danois, le Ballet de Hambourg, David Finckel et Wu Han, Vadim Gluzman, Kremerata Baltica et l'Orchestre Ensemble Kanazawa, pour n'en citer que quelques-uns. Elle s'est produite en récital au piano sur des scènes aussi prestigieuses que le Grand Hall du Conservatoire de Moscou, l'Opéra de Tokyo, le Lincoln Center de New York, le Herkulesaal de Munich, le Konzerthaus d'Oslo, le Symphony Hall de Chicago et le Kennedy Center de Washington.

Une nouvelle commande du Ballet royal danois, à l'occasion du bicentenaire de Hans Christian Andersen, a permis à Lera Auerbach de collaborer pour la deuxième fois avec le chorégraphe John Neumeier. Le ballet est une version moderne du conte de fée classique La Petite Sirène. La première a remporté un vif succès en avril 2005.

Les poèmes et la prose de Lera Auerbach sont également publiés en Russie.

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Compositrice russe de musique classique de la période contemporaine
Écrivain russe du XXIe siècle
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