Genomics Medicine Ireland Limited ("we", "us" or "our") collects, uses, processes and stores personal data about our staff, healthcare providers, research participants, suppliers, clients and other individuals who come into contact with us.
We take our data protection responsibilities seriously. We understand that personal data must be processed in accordance with the data protection law. In this regard our employees and consultants, and other individuals who handle personal data on our behalf, are expected to comply with applicable data protection law.
This Privacy Statement sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us.
This Privacy Statement is not an exhaustive statement of all of our data protection practices. We may introduce additional user choices on our platforms which will be clearly explained to users as required by law.
We are responsible for complying with this Privacy Statement.
We will only share and receive personal data which is necessary to enable us and the relevant third party to perform our/their duties.
we retain personal data for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which we process it.
We may collect and process personal data in relation to our suppliers and customers (and their staff). We may also collect and process personal data in relation to queries made via our website. We may use contact information collected from such website queries for our newsletter distribution and other marketing, at all times with your consent and in accordance with your preferences.
Some personal data may be categorised as Special Categories of Personal Data (as defined in applicable data protection law). Examples of Special Categories of Personal Data that may be processed by us include, without limitation, genomic data (DNA, RNA, metabolites, proteins, microbiome) and phenotypic data (lifestyle, geographical and clinical information) We will undertake processing of the above-mentioned identity documents and/or any Special Categories of Personal Data with due care.
The processing purposes are clearly specified and, to the extent reasonably possible, you will be informed about these (at the time of personal data collection or as soon as reasonably possible thereafter).
We analyse personal data to test for an association between the clinical and lifestyle (phenotypic and/or genomic) information. We filter this additional data for scientific or clinical relevance and requirements. This may include additional data which can be generated from the laboratory, genomic and clinical information (CNVs, structural variants, haplotypes).
Consent. Personal data can be processed if you have given your consent. The consent relates to the specific purpose for which the personal data is required. We will ensure that you are adequately informed about the processing purposes before consent is requested. If there are multiple processing purposes, separate consents may be required for each processing type. The consent(s) provided will be held on file as evidence of the consent(s) given. Please note that you may withdraw their consent to these types of processing at any time by contacting our Data Protection Officer (see section 12 below).
guaranteeing rights, liberties, and/or the health or safety of our employees, contractors or third parties.
Legal obligation. Personal data can be processed if necessary for the purposes of the discharge of a legal obligation. Such processing may include, for example, the disclosure of personal data if demanded by the judiciary or the tax authority.
You have certain rights under applicable data protection law, as explained below.
Request for inspection and access: you are entitled to apply to us requesting a summary and a copy of your personal data processed by us or on our behalf.
Request for correction/addition/removal: if personal data processed by us are believed to be inaccurate or incomplete, you are entitled to request that we take measures to have these personal data corrected, added to, protected or deleted.
Objection by you: you are entitled to object to the processing of your personal data based on the legitimate interests legal basis.
Request for transfer of personal data: you can request that we provide your personal data in a structured and electronic form to you or, if technically consistent with our information technology systems, to transfer the personal data in an electronic form directly to a third party identified (in writing) by you.
Restriction of processing: you can request that we restrict the processing of your personal data where the accuracy of the personal data is contested, the processing by us is unlawful, or we no longer need the personal data.
Right to object to automated decision-making: you have a right to object to any automated decision making, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you.
Through our policies, we have implemented a range of measures to protect personal data. These measures include, but are not limited to, restricting access to our central IT services, routine and continued vulnerability assessment of all infrastructure, robust password policy for all systems, encryption for data in transit and at rest, data back up and developing and enforcing a clean desk policy.
We operate and encourage a culture of data privacy and security awareness supported by regular employee training at induction and throughout their time working with us. We have appropriate technical and organisational measures in place to protect personal data from unlawful or unauthorised destruction, loss, change, disclosure, acquisition or access. We ensure that all personal data controlled by us is held securely using appropriate security measures.
In the event of the occurrence of a data breach, we will comply with applicable laws governing the reporting of such breaches.
From time to time, we may disclose personal data to third parties, or allow third parties to access personal data processed by us.
Investigating doctors, principal investigators and researcher collaborators (including industry partners).
Public data is retained for 3 years from the date of initial receipt or download. Public data includes already released marketing material, commonly known, easily accessible information, etc. GMI also downloads publicly available genomic data sets, which have their own terms and conditions with their use.
Operational data shall be retained for 5 years from the date of initial receipt. Operational data includes, but is not limited to, data for basic business operations, communications with vendors, employees, CVs, CRM and website queries.
Confidential data shall be retained for 7 years from the date of initial receipt. Confidential data includes, but is not limited to, employee related contracts, external contracts, individual financial information and payroll.
Employee related data shall be retained for duration of employment plus 7 years.
Blood samples shall be retained for 10 years after the study start date.
Phenotypic and biological data are retained indefinitely.
From time to time we may transfer your personal data outside the EEA. We may transfer information internationally to our service providers, business partners, and government or public authorities. When making these transfers, we will ensure that your personal data is protected and transferred in accordance with the requirements of data protection law. This may involve the use of data transfer agreements in the form approved by the European Commission or another mechanism recognised by data protection law as ensuring protection for Personal Data transferred outside the EEA (for example, the standard contractual clauses). For further information about these transfers and to request details of the safeguards in place, please contact our Data Protection Office (see section 12 below).
Should you wish to raise a query or make a complaint about compliance with our personal data processing practices. Please contact our Data Protection Officer (DPO) regarding any questions or concerns relating to GMI's approach to data protection. Please write to the DPO using the email address: dataprivacy@genomicsmed.ie or via the post: FAO The Data Protection Officer, Building 4, Cherrywood Business Park Dublin D18 K7W4.
If you wish, you can raise a query or make a complaint about compliance with our personal data processing practises, please contact our Data Protection Officer.
You may also make a complaint in respect of our compliance with applicable data protection laws to the Irish Data Protection Commissioner. However, we encourage you to contact our Data Protection Officer in the first instance.


In my earlier posts on cross-border health care, "Cross-border Workers' Compensation a Reality in California", "NAFTA, Work Comp and Cross-Border Medical Care: A Legal View", "NAFTA, Work Comp and Cross-Border Medical Care: A Legal View: Update", and "Cross-border Health Care and the ACA", I discussed the way some Mexican workers living in Mexico, but working in the US or traveling between the US and Mexico, have been able to get health care on both sides of the border.
An article in Fierce Healthcare.com last month, says that Scripps Health will help run a hospital in Tijuana, along with Sistemas Medicos Nacionales S.A. de C.V. (SIMNSA).
SIMNSA is the medical insurer in Mexico that the Insurance Company of the West (ICW) contracted with some time ago to treat Mexican workers of ICW's US insureds in the San Diego/Imperial Valley area of CA.
According to the article by Ilene MacDonald, the insurer will design, build and operate the facility, and will seek accreditation from the international arm of the Joint Commission, the Joint Commission International (JCI), and will be an affiliate of the Scripps Health Network.
Those who think that cross-border health care, whether general or work comp-related is not going to happen better think again, because it is, and while this is just now involving the areas along the US-Mexico border, with or without that stupid wall some jerk wants to build and have Mexico pay for, medical travel on this continent is moving forward.
The only thing that is not happening yet is travel further down into Mexico and into the other countries in Central and South America. But that will happen, no matter what you or any putz running for president says.
This entry was posted in California, Central America, Cross-border Health Care, Health Care, Health Insurance, Health Plans, Hispanics, Hospitals, insurers, Latin America, Latino, Medical Tourism, Medical Travel, Mexico, Workers' Comp, Workers' Compensation and tagged California, Cross-Border Health Care, Health Care, Hospitals, Latin America, Medical Provider Networks, Medical Tourism, Medical Travel, Mexico, Scripps Health, SIMNSA, Workers' Comp, Workers' Compensation on May 17, 2016 by Transforming Workers' Comp.


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If elected, Heather Mizeur will be the first openly gay governor in the US. Credit: heathermizeur.com
Openly gay Maryland state delegate Heather Mizeur announced July 17 she will run for governor.
If elected, she would become Maryland's first female governor, as well as the first openly gay or lesbian governor in the United States, according to the Washington Blade.
"Diversity is enormously important," she told the Blade. "Not simply to have a gay governor, but to have a governor who can represent the voices of people in communities that have not always had a voice in the process."
Mizeur will compete against two senior Maryland democrats, Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown and Attorney General Doug Gansler, to replace sitting Democratic Governor Martin O'Malley.
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The Kidney Cancer Canada – Cancer du rein Canada Code of Conduct Governing Corporate Funding (the Code) is a policy adopted by Kidney Cancer Canada – Cancer du rein Canada, (the Association) regarding financial relationships with commercial entities. The Code is intended to minimize the impact of real, potential or perceived conflict of interest that may arise when the Association accepts financial support from a company.
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Чабарі́вка — село в Україні, у Васильковецькій сільській громаді Чортківського району  Тернопільської області. Розташоване на річці Чабарівка, на південному сході району.

До 2015 року було центром сільради. Від вересня 2015 року ввійшло у склад Васильковецької сільської громади.

Населення — 1216 осіб (2007).

Історія

Поблизу села виявлено археологічні пам'ятки пізнього палеоліту.

Відоме від 1648.

Діяли «Просвіта», «Сільський господар», «Рідна школа» та інші українські товариства, кооператива.

Релігія
Є церква святого Архістратига Михаїла (1886, мурована), римо-католицький костел св. Архангела Михаїла (1934).

Пам'ятки
Споруджено пам'ятник воїнам-односельцям, полеглим у німецько-радянській війні (1965), насипано символічну могилу УСС (1990).

Скульптура святого Яна Непомука
Встановлений на честь вбитого у сутичці з козаками ватажка польських військових в 1655 році.

За часів УПА під плиту, на якій стояв пам'ятник, виведено запасний вихід однієї з сільських криївок, яку виявили органи НКВС. У роки Другої світової війни фіґура зруйнована. У 1990-х роках встановлена на тому ж місці.

Соціальна сфера

Працюють ЗОШ I—II ступ., клуб, бібліотека, ФАП, відділ. зв'язку, цех розливу мінеральної води, торговельні заклади.

Транспорт
З 1 вересня 2017 року на платформі Чабарівка зупиняється дизель-поїздТернопіль-Гусятин. Відправлення з Тернополя о 9.10.

Відомі люди

Народилися
 Ігор Дейкало- український вчений у галузі кардіології,
 Ігор Мороз - український журналіст, видавець .

Пов'язані із селом
 служив священиком А. Малиновський,
 громадський діяч Я. Стиранка,
 перебував Симон Петлюра.
 В 1929 році в селі Чабарівка, народився польський помолог і багаторічний працівник Університету Природокористування в Познані (Польща), професор Тадеуш Голубович.

Примітки

Джерела
 Дейкало М. Село моє — куточок серця України. — Тернопіль, 1997.
 Дейкало М., Мельничук Б. Чабарівка //

Посилання
  — S. 727.

Села Тернопільської області
Васильковецька сільська громада
Населені пункти Чортківського району

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We Did the Improbable: We Ranked the Assassin's Creed Games
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With Assassin's Creed Odyssey's release under a month away and the series not only being one of the first non-Pokémon RPGs I played, but also one of my favorite game series, I figured it was about time I sat down and ranked the mainline games. There is a total of eleven games in the main series currently out (I am not including the spin-offs is because I just have not gotten around to playing all of them). So, without further ado, let us start the countdown!
10. Assassin's Creed III
Not only did we waste three sequences controlling the Templar antagonist Haytham Kenway, the Assassin we got, Connor, was the dullest main protagonist we have been given in the entire series. Add in the American Revolution setting, which really hurt the parkour playstyle of the series, and it is clear why the game is at the bottom of the list. Sure, there are some fans who rank it better, but it is a clear consensus that this game is one of the worst.
9. Assassin's Creed
Look, the series HAD to start somewhere and everyone understands that. However, the game was closed off, repetitive, and really did not age well. Luckily for gamers, Ubisoft is patient with new IPs (see Watchdogs!) and lets the developers build off of foundations to make better games- and, boy, did Ubisoft Montreal deliver better games!
8. Assassin's Creed Rogue
This was technically the first main installment to be made by a different studio, Ubisoft Sofia. This was the same studio who developed the spin-off Assassin's Creed III: Liberation for the Playstation Vita, but Rogue released alongside Assassin's Creed Unity and only on the older consoles. This meant that not only did it receive less publicity and marketing, but also during a time where series fatigue was setting in and Unity had very public issues at launch. Also, I play the series to be an Assassin, not a filthy Templar.
7. Assassin's Creed Revelations
While the Ezio Trilogy is one of the best overall entries in the series, the third part of the series just felt like it was made just to have the series continue being a yearly release. If Assassin's Creed II was released this year, Brotherhood and Revelations would have been the two major expansions next year when no mainline game is scheduled to be released. As it was, the trilogy ended on a bit of a sour note with the third straight game taking place during the Italian Renaissance.
6. Assassin's Creed Unity
The straw that the broke the camel's back. Yet, without the very public backlash the series might not have gotten to the point it is at currently. This release brought Ubisoft Quebec fully into the fold to trade off games with Montreal and showed Ubisoft that maybe they should slow down their release schedule for the series. Maybe it was because I played the game way after the patches were released, but I found the game decent enough and enjoyed the setting in the end.
5. Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
This is the last easy choice of this list. Being the climax of the beloved trilogy and just a step below its predecessor, this game had to be the best of the rest. Do not get me wrong, I only truly hate one game in the entire mainline series, Assassin's Creed III, but there is a clear gold standard and a release that should have a been a major expansion instead of a full game does not make that cut.
4. Assassin's Creed II
There would have been a time that this game would have been a clear Top 2 choice- if not THE choice- and that time would have been between 2009 and 2015. Ubisoft Montreal took the feedback, coupled it with what they learned from the first game, and made what was for the longest time the perfect Assassin's Creed game. Now, progression and risk taking has started to bring about entries that have knocked the former king to the bottom of the gold standard.
3. Assassin's Creed Syndicate
It may be a hot take to have this game as high as I do and above the beloved game in the series, but the first game primarily developed by Ubisoft Quebec was such a breath of fresh air into the series – especially after Assassin's Creed Unity – that it deserves this high ranking. The fact it saw progression in not only being the first to have two main protagonists that you can switch at almost any time but that one of them was the first female protagonist in the mainline series. Not to mention the changes to the gameplay mechanics and the beautiful Victorian era London setting really rose this game to the gold standard.
2. Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
This one hurt; my soul is literally weeping as I type this. This is hands-down my personal favorite game in the series and has seen the most hours poured into it since its release back in 2013. With that said, this is not better than Assassin's Creed Origins. I loved the fully-flushed naval combat; I loved the protagonist, I loved the setting, but there are some issues. This game confirmed the death of Desmond Miles and was the first to really remove the modern world story from the games, though it was eventually continued in the comic books. The setting, like its predecessor, was also not too kind to the parkour gameplay.
1. Assassin's Creed Origins
I think we all knew this was going to be the conclusion… Well, maybe except for my poor, poor weeping soul, but the newest game in the series that pretty much turned the series on its head is the best game in the series. While Assassin's Creed Unity was slowly starting to slip out of the minds of gamers and Ubisoft took a year off from the series, many did not expect what Ubisoft Montreal had in store for the future of the series. It is almost a year later and we are still being wowed by what the studio was able to accomplish and ultimately helped to restore the faith in the series. Now, if Ubisoft can continue to give the studios a bit more time to work on the games, gamers should be fully on board to stick with the franchise.
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Yeah that's right. A-list. Ok fine, P-list. Anyway, IBBB was invited to the GQ Fashion Show and after-party at the Gansevoort Hotel in New York on Monday night. The GQ show was being hosted by Nigel Barker from America's Next Top Model. Normally I wouldn't care less, but now was my chance to achieve one of my life's goals (as you know): Getting a picture with Tyra Banks in a headlock. Yes, one may dream. Sadly though Tyra wasn't there, but that didn't stop me from telling Nigel Barker about my dream. In more unfortunate news, Nigel did not think that was funny and to loosely quote him, "Huh? That isn't funny." Fine. One person nearby who did overhear that comment did laugh so it was a real win-win night for me.
Other celebrity (yes singular) that was spotted at the fiesta was Sean-William-Scott (Stiffler from American Pie). There could have been other celebrities there, but I wasn't focusing on them. I was focusing on hunting down both Tyra Banks and The Olsen Sluts. They can run, but they can't hide. Fine, they can hide.


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Top contractors back Heathrow expansion
By Yoosof Farah2016-02-08T10:17:00+00:00
Firms including Balfour Beatty and Laing O'Rourke throw weight behind Heathrow
Major contractors including Balfour Beatty and Laing O'Rourke have backed a new runway at Heathrow in a letter to Chancellor George Osborne.
Bosses at thirteen firms – which also include Bam, Ferrovial, Mace, Morgan Sindall, Atkins, Mott MacDonald and Turner and Townsend – have signed a letter which calls on the Chancellor to live up to his declaration that "we are the builders" and back expansion at the airport.
The letter says a third runway at Heathrow would bring a "£15.6bn order book to the UK supply chain" and allow the contractors to "continue to invest in tens of thousands of skilled jobs this country badly needs."
It also points out the lack of infrastructure investment in the UK over the last 30 years, saying that last year was the "worst for global growth since the crash" and highlights a 2015 survey from the respected international OECD economic think-tank, which said the UK has "spent less on infrastructure than other OECD countries over the past three decades."
The letter concludes by saying Heathrow expansion will make it the "most sustainable hub airport and Britain the best connected country in the world."
The Davies Commission recommended a third runway at Heathrow last summer at a cost of £18.6bn. Ministers put off making a decision until December, and have since postponed making a final call until this summer, citing concerns over air quality.
Full letter
At the Conservative conference in 2015 you announced "we are the builders". We congratulate you on your vision to build the important infrastructure the country needs and make the hard decisions. We represent some of the largest developers and construction companies in the UK. We applaud your ambition and stand ready to help you deliver it.
We are writing to encourage your support for Heathrow expansion. Heathrow is one of the biggest private developers in the UK, having invested around £11bn over the last 10 years. For over a decade, it has provided a steady base of work to UK construction companies and their supply chains, allowing them to invest in skilled UK jobs through the economic downturn, develop new off-site manufacturing techniques and provided an international showcase for their work so that they can sell their services around the world.
Projects such as Heathrow expansion allow companies like ours to continue to invest in tens of thousands of skilled jobs this country badly needs and new construction techniques that will benefit developers in the UK.
You said recently that we cannot be complacent and assume that 'the good economic news will just keep rolling in. Last year was the worst for global growth since the crash and this year opens with a dangerous cocktail of new threats from around the world.' Coupled with these threats is the OECD's 2015 UK economic survey that said the UK has spent less on infrastructure than other OECD countries over the past three decades.
Heathrow expansion will bring with it a £15.6bn order book to the UK supply chain. Heathrow's new plan will also make it the most sustainable hub airport and Britain the best connected country in the world. The Government's Airports Commission gave its clear and unanimous backing last summer. Let us help you build a better Britain by expanding Heathrow.
Nick Roberts, Chief Executive Officer UK & Europe, Atkins
Leo Quinn, Group Chief Executive, Balfour Beatty
Stephen Fox CBE, Chief Executive, BAM Nuttall Ltd
Alasdair Reisner, Chief Executive, Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA)
Mario Mostoles, Managing Director UK & Ireland, Ferrovial Agroman
Toby Courtauld, Chief Executive, Great Portland Estates plc
Ray O'Rourke KBE, Chairman and Group Chief Executive, Laing O'Rourke Plc
Mark Reynolds, Chief Executive, Mace
Nick Fletcher, Managing Director Infrastructure, Morgan Sindall
Keith Howells, Chairman, Mott MacDonald
David Sleath, Chief Executive, SEGRO
Vincent Clancy, Chief Executive Officer, Turner & Townsend
Mark Dobson, Chief Executive, Wilson James Ltd
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Mechanisation of Mathematics refers to use of computers to generate or check proofs in Mathematics. It involves translation of relevant mathematical theories from one system of logic to another, to render these theories implementable in a computer. This process is termed formalisation of mathematics. Two among the many way of mechanising are: (1) generating results using Automated Theorem Provers, (2) Interactive theorem proving in a Proof Assistant which involves a combination of user intervention and automation.


Mosul's collapse is Nouri al-Maliki's fault: Iraq's prime minister failed to rule inclusively.
If jihadists control Iraq, blame Nouri al-Maliki, not the United States.
Civilian children stand next to a burnt vehicle during clashes between Iraqi security forces and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, on June 10, 2014.
The collapse of Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, has little to do with the withdrawal of American troops and everything to do with the political failure of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
As the U.S. pullout began under the terms of a treaty signed in 2008 by then-President George W. Bush, Maliki, the leader of a Shiite political party, promised to run a more inclusive government—to bring more Sunnis into the ministries, to bring more Sunnis from the Sons of Iraq militia into the national army, to settle property disputes in Kirkuk, to negotiate a formula on sharing oil revenue with Sunni districts, and much more.
Maliki has since backpedaled on all of these commitments and has pursued policies designed to strengthen Shiites and marginalize Sunnis. That has led to the resurgence of sectarian violence in the past few years. The Sunnis, finding themselves excluded from the political process, have taken up arms as the route to power. In the process, they have formed alliances with Sunni jihadist groups—such as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, which has seized not just Mosul but much of northern Iraq—on the principle that the enemy of their enemy is their friend.
The fall of Mosul is particularly poignant because that was the city where peace and prosperity seemed most likely in the early days of the American occupation. David Petraeus, then the three-star general who commanded the 101st Airborne Division, applied his theory of counterinsurgency to all of Nineveh province, of which Mosul was the capital. And, for a while anyway, it worked.
While most U.S. commanders in post-Hussein Iraq were ordering their soldiers to bust down doors and arrest or shoot all men who seemed to be insurgents, Petraeus and his team took steps to create a government. Using funds pilfered from Saddam Hussein's coffers, they vetted candidates for a citywide election (selecting leaders from all factions and tribes), started up newspapers and TV stations, coordinated fuel shipments from Turkey, and reopened businesses, communication lines, and the university. This game plan was classic "nation-building," a phrase anathema to most Army generals and the secretary of defense at the time, Donald Rumsfeld. The idea was not to make the people of Mosul love America, but rather to make them feel invested in the future of the new Iraq.
Petraeus' campaign wasn't entirely about civil affairs. Mosul was home to many of Hussein's top officers and, in the wake of his downfall, a hotbed of emerging Sunni militias, who would wage a war of resistance against both the Shiite government and the American occupiers. Petraeus made remarkable progress in turning Mosul around, but toward the end of his yearlong tour of duty, protesters began to riot, Petraeus responded by setting up a counterterrorist operation, and the conflict turned more violent. Then he and 101st Airborne (along with all 120,000 of the American troops who'd taken part in the invasion) were ordered home. In Mosul, his division was replaced by a single brigade, with one-third the number of troops and a commander who had no interest in what Petraeus had been doing and instead reverted to what most commanders were doing—raiding, arresting, and shooting men that they thought might be bad guys—thus fueling the insurgency.
But here's the point: To the extent that these campaigns worked, it wasn't just because of the military presence. It was, more, because specific commanders understood that war, as Clausewitz famously wrote, is "politics by other means," and that in post-Hussein Iraq this meant setting up structures of local government that included (or co-opted) all factions and tribes willing to reconcile with the new order.
One problem always was, and still is, that Maliki had no interest in conciliatory politics on a national level. And that's why he's now facing a monumental, even terrifying armed insurgency. His troops in Nineveh province simply folded when they came under attack, not because they weren't equipped or trained to fight back but because, in many cases, they felt no allegiance to Maliki's government; they had no desire to risk their lives for the sake of its survival.
Meanwhile, the ISIS commanders have picked up the hundreds of weapons and dozens of vehicles that Maliki's army has left behind. They've also looted the banks and taken over communication centers. Some of them have returned to Syria to resupply their comrades fighting there. (The ultimate goal of ISIS, as its name suggests, is to create an Islamic state in Iraq and Syria.) Others have used the resources to march southward.
These jihadists are very competent fighters. They reportedly seized Tikrit (Saddam Hussein's hometown) from the north, east, and west. Maliki has rallied his remaining troops to Taji, just north of Baghdad, to prevent or deter an assault on the capital. Some U.S. officials are optimistic that he'll succeed. Given the ongoing fighting in Syria, ISIS might not want to waste its soldiers and ammunition on a protracted battle in Iraq. (Its triumphs so far have been, by and large, uncontested.) Still, no one claims much confidence in this prediction. In any case, unless Maliki can rally a counteroffensive, the northern half of Iraq seems to have been ceded to Islamists.
One hope for Iraq is that ISIS might have gone one rampage too far. While stomping through Mosul, some of their militiamen stormed the Turkish consulate and kidnapped Turkish diplomats. Under international law, that amounts to an attack on Turkey, and it's unlikely that the Turks will simply shrug. Iran, which has emerged as Maliki's main ally, has no interest in seeing Sunnis—much less millenarian Sunnis—regain power in Baghdad. A strange alliance among all three may come to life to beat back this equally strange insurgency.
In one sense, this is a hopeful sign. The countries in the region have to form indigenous alliances to stave off these radical threats. The United States can help, but there is no way any American politician is sending back tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of troops: They didn't compel or convince Maliki to adopt a smart policy before, and they wouldn't be able to do so now.
But this could be yet another sign of a breakdown in the entire Middle East. The war in Syria, which can be seen as a proxy war between the region's Sunnis and Shiites, is now expanding into Iraq. The violence will intensify, and the neighboring countries will be flooded with refugees (half a million have already fled Mosul), with few resources to house or feed them.
Depending on what happens in the next few weeks, or maybe even days, we may be witnessing the beginning of either a new political order in the region or a drastic surge in the geostrategic swamp and humanitarian disaster that have all too palpably come to define it.
Correction, June 11, 2014: This post originally misidentified Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the former leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, as Ayman al-Zawahiri, the current leader of al-Qaida.


My one and only other previous experience of live improv was in the hands of the venerable Mischief Theatre team and a performance of Lights! Camera! Improvise! in London in 2015. It was a heck of an evening to see them weave a movie from a mixture of inputs from the audience, and was quite a team for The Same Faces to follow.
Founded by Tom Young, The Same Faces have been performing in Leicester and Northampton for a number of years and have swelled their ranks of performers to allow a huge amount of variety to not only the show but those bringing it to the stage. For my first encounter with the group, the performers I was to see were Tom Young himself who was joined by Dave Gotheridge, Jen Kenny, Thomas Lawrence and Becky Moore and musician David Burton. The format is simple, through a series of games the audience provide key ingredients to allow the performers to bring the stage alive with their impulsive talent. These can vary from the very simple addition of numbers or colours, to specialist subjects, careers or locations.
It is an expected hit and miss, however the talent on stage keeps the evening firmly in the hit department far more often than the other. Often it crashes into the quite superb realms of shear brilliance as that moment of inspiration clicks and we sit in amazement at how an ice cream palour has become an almost perfect venue for a film noir and the stirring adventure, The Maltease Whippy.
Also at the top of the bill is Greatest Hits, which provides like the Mischief show, a scary skill of these improv teams, the way they can form songs before our eyes. Tom Young's reggae takedown of the Daily Express was a particular highlight of the evening, and Jen Kenny manages to provide a scarily catchy number entitled "Look Away Now". Music rears its head later as well in the show to more success in the problem solving bartender scene. By the way of song, the performers tell their problems (provided by the audience) and also in song, the bartender (Jen Kenny) solves them. It works, somehow, more often than not and by the end, performers and audience alike and happily singing along to "Forget The Bruce".
Very occasionally scenes don't work as is the danger of nights like this, and for me a casualty on the night was the Question This round, which didn't gel, but such is improv, next month it could be the best round as the worlds of inspiration collide. One moment that everything perfect did happen was during the Party Quirks round and the handing of the quirk of "only being able to talk in pick up lines" to Thomas Lawrence. It was such a perfect moment, that party host Tom Young abandoned guessing the quirk (the object of the game) for a while to see how long he could go on. It turned out quite a while and provided one of many highlights in the evening.
It is safe to say that it took me a while to finally get to see The Same Faces and after seeing them, this is an obvious mistake on my part. They are a bunch of highly talented performers, who clearly work well together and provide not only an entertaining and funny evening, but also a really friendly environment to boot as well. There are very few ways that you could get as much entertainment for two hours for a fiver than this.


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Q: Can I prove a function is continuous by looking at the domain? I came across the following question in a calculus book: For the function $$f(x)=1-\sqrt{1-x^2}$$ show that it is continuous on the interval $$-1≤x≤1$$ The solution in the book showed that the one sided limits were equivalent to f(x) at the points x= -1 and 1. It also showed that there exists a limit at the point c that is equal to f(c). They demonstrated this by showing that the left and right hand limits are equivalent at c. $$-1<c<1$$ My question is, why do you need to use limits to determine that this function is continuous from $$-1≤x≤1$$ Can't you just say that the domain of this function is $$-1≤x≤1$$ and therefore it is continuous?

A: There are plenty of functions that are defined on an interval but discontinuous on it.  Consider
$$f(x)=\begin{cases}
x-5 & -1 \le x < 0 \\
x+2 & 0 \le x \le 1
\end{cases}$$
The domain of this function is $[-1,1]$ but it is not continuous at $x=0$.

A: I think you are essentially using circular logic and only picturing continuous functions. A function can literally have any values it wants on its domain and be perfectly valid. For an extreme example, consider
$$f(x)=\begin{cases}
 1\text{,}\hfill &\text{if }x\text{ is rational;}\\
 0\text{,}\hfill &\text{if }x\text{ is irrational.}\\
\end{cases}$$
Then $f$ has a natural domain of the entire real line, but has a discontinuity on every interval.

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Moneta Announces Closing of Financing
Moneta Porcupine Mines Inc.
Symbol:TSX: ME
TIMMINS, ON, Dec. 24, 2018 /CNW/ - Moneta Porcupine Mines Inc. (TSX:ME) (OTC:MPUCF) (XETRA:MOP) (the "Company") announced the closing of a non-brokered private placement ("Placement").
The Company issued 3,333,334 common shares on a flow-through basis at a price of $0.15 per share for gross proceeds of $500,000 ("Gross Proceeds").
Ian C. Peres, President and CFO commented, "This flow-through financing was fully subscribed by a long term strategic investor. This, in tandem with our other strong shareholders, will be instrumental as we release what we believe could be a transformational updated NI 43-101 resource estimate on our Golden Highway Project in January 2019."
The Gross Proceeds of the Placement will be used to incur Canadian exploration expenditures that are "flow-through mining expenditures" (as such terms are defined in the Income Tax Act (Canada)) on the Company's Golden Highway project, which will be renounced to the subscribers with an effective date no later than December 31, 2018.
There were no purchase warrants or finder's fees associated with this Placement and the subscriber agreed to a common share resale restriction that expires in one year, in December 2019. The Placement is subject to a standard four month hold period and final regulatory approval.
About Moneta
The Company holds a 100% interest in 5 core gold projects strategically located along the Destor-Porcupine Fault Zone in the Timmins Gold Camp with over 85 million ounces of past gold production. The projects consist of the Golden Highway, North Tisdale, Nighthawk Lake, Kayorum and Denton projects. The Golden Highway Project covers 12 kilometres of prospective ultramafic/mafic volcanic/sedimentary rocks along the DPFZ hosting a NI 43-101 indicated resource estimate of 1,091,000 ounces (31.1 Mt at 1.09 g/t Au) and 3,204,000 ounces inferred (83.3 Mt at 1.20 g/t Au), clustered within four kilometres.
The Company's public documents may be accessed at www.sedar.com. For further information on the Company, please visit our website at www.monetaporcupine.com or email us at [email protected].
SOURCE Moneta Porcupine Mines Inc.
For further information: Gary V. O'Connor, CEO and Chief Geologist, 416-357-3319; Ian C. Peres, President and CFO, 416-579-3040
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Move left using the left arrow key. Move right using the right arrow key. Move up using the up arrow key. Move down using the down arrow key. Select the block you want to use by hitting 'space'.
The goal of Bloxorz is actually pretty simple, especially when considered alongside most of the other puzzle games online. You need to get the block to fall into the square hole. Accomplishing that goal and progressing to the next level, on the other hand, can be quite difficult; especially as you reach the later stages in the game. There are 33 stages in total to complete, each one a bit more difficult than the last. Accomplishing your goal is going to take patience, a solid plan and a lot of thinking. For that reason, this game is perfect for kids. It really helps you children develop the skills they need to identify a problem and find the solution and it helps them build those skills while they're being entertaining. They'll get hooked on this one, but you don't have to worry that they're wasting time. The skills your kids will develop with this one are extremely beneficial and will give them a leg up with school and with life.
One of the greatest lessons Bloxorz offers is that patience is a virtue. Getting frustrated or rushing through the stages in this puzzle game won't help you win. There are stages in the game your kids will struggle with. As a parent, you can help them out when they get stuck. Try playing on your own to understand how the game works. Make it as far as you can in the game by yourself and challenge your kids to make it further than you did. This gives them a larger goal to focus on. Instead of just playing to reach the next level, they'll be playing to try to best you. This also gives them a great lesson in friendly competition. Just be sure you always make yourself available if they need help. If you find yourself getting frustrated (which you likely will) take a step back from the puzzle and try again once you're feeling more calm. You'll be amazed be how much easier it can be if you allow yourself a little bit of distance from it.
Instead of a mouse focused control scheme like you would use with many of the puzzle games online, Bloxorz mainly features arrow key controls which helps your kids develop hand eye coordination. You have to use the arrow keys to move your block around the screen to get the block into the hole to complete the level being careful not to fall off the edges of the puzzle. If your block falls off the edge, you'll have to start over again from the beginning of the stage. As you progress, you will also be introduced to bridges and switches which you'll need to use to complete the stage. To use a switch you simply need to move your block to rest on top of it. You do not need to remain on the switch for it to stay active.
What makes the switches in Bloxorz so different from the switches you'll find in similar puzzle games is that there are two different types of switches indicated by either an 'X' or a circle. 'X' switches are 'heavy' switches. They require pressure to become active. In order to activate the switch your block will need to be directly on top of the switch on its end. Round switches (the circle ones) are 'soft' switches. Soft switches require less pressure. You can activate soft switches by pressing it with any part of your block. Switches also cause bridges to behave in different ways. Red and green lights will indicate which bridge you are working with. Some switches will open or close bridges each time you move over it. For example, moving over the switch once will open the bridge. Moving over the same switch a second time with close the bridge. Keep that in mind. It's important.
There are different types of foundation blocks that made up different parts of the levels in Bloxorz. This is yet another feature that sets this game apart from many of the other puzzle games online. You need to watch out for orange blocks. If you move your block on top of an orange block while your block is vertical, the block will fall and take your block with it. Sometimes you can use this to your advantage. Other times, it will cause you to fail the level. The last thing you need to worry about is a third type of switch - the teleport switch. This is indicated by a '( )' shape. These switches will split your block into two smaller blocks which can be controlled individually. The smaller blocks will be transported to other areas of the puzzle. You can make the smaller blocks hole again by moving them so they're next to each other. Your smaller blocks will be able to operate soft switches but not heavy switches. If you find yourself needing to use a heavy switch, do anything that needs to be done with the smaller blocks (and there will always be something that needs to be done with them) and then turn them back into your large block to use the heavy switch you need to use. You can only complete the level with your large block.
Overall, Bloxorz is an excellent puzzle game you'll love to play and that your kids will love to play. The greatest thing about this game is that to be successful at it you really need to think carefully about the moves you make. This teaches your kids the importance of careful, critical thinking and also teaches them that using their brain to solve problems can be fun. If you want to do well in this game, you need to carefully look at the puzzle presented to you and figure out exactly what you need to get through. Look at the switches. Figure out how the switches will act and how you need to use them. This is a great puzzle game you can play on your own, play with your kids and have a great time with - all while improving your own skills and helping your children do the same.
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Q: How do we know the position of fixed point in this Q? Q: A particle moves on a given straight line with a constant speed v. At a certain time it is at a point $P$ on its straight line path. $O$ is a fixed point. Show that (OP×v)is independent of the position P.
My solution:
I considered the axis to be X-axis I.e as 1D motion. Points P & O on it. O to be the starting point from where the particle started.
$OP = x$ $\hat{\mathbf{i}}$
$OP$ X $v$ = vi X x$\hat{i}$(OP) = 0 since $ixi$ =$0$.

Solution from my textbook:(Different way than mine)

My questions regarding this solution :
Q1: Why did they consider point O to be at a distance y axis ? Since about point O , no description related to its position is given.
Also , Can we consider point O to be at any point ? Like somewhere in Z axis.
Q2: The Q says that we have to find $OPxV$ independent of the position P. Then , In this solution = $-y*v*k$. We have $(OPxV) $dependant upon the magnitude of y & v & direction k. The value will change w/ time.

A: The equation of the line is $ P(t) = P_0 + t v $
$OP(t) \times v = ((P_0 - O) + t v ) \times v = (P_0 - O) \times v + t (v \times v) = (P_0 - O) \times v $
Thus the cross product is independent of $t$.


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At the Bathurst-street end of the block are about 30 cells, built in three decker style. They are dark, ill ventilated, and stuffy, were originally intended for the use of convicts awaiting shipment to Port Arthur and do not appear to be fitted for other than temporary quarters … Opening into this yard [Yard 3] are a number of cells, kept as much as possible for Supreme Court first timers, in order to remove them, to some extent at least, from the contaminating influences of the old hands in crime … The next yard and block of cells are also set apart for the use of first timers , and the cells and yard in the next division are appropriated to the use of prisoners under examination or fully committed for trial. At the back of the block is a model prison, in which the silent system is carried out. The cells here are only used for "Supreme Court men," who are confined in them for one month after sentence, which time they pass in solitary confinement day and night, with the exception of one hour during which they take exercise in the narrow enclosure outside the cells, pacing up and down five yards apart, and in strict silence. There can be no doubt this is, to some at least, a much-dreaded punishment.
The Nevin family solicitor since 1868, Attorney-General William Robert Giblin, had requested Thomas J. Nevin to visit the Port Arthur penitentiary, 60 kms south of Hobart, with a view to photographing prison inmates during the visit of the former Premier of Victoria, Sir John O'Shanassy and Howard Spensley, Solicitor-Genera of Victorial, in January 1872. W. R. Giblin's decision was in force by October 1873 when Thomas J. Nevin photographed William Smith per Gilmore 3 on discharge from the Hobart Gaol. This early prisoner mugshot was printed from his negative and stamped verso with government contractor's stamp which included his name, T. J. Nevin, his studio address and the Royal Arms insignia printed on colonial warrants. The Royal Arms insignia was printed on all government contractors' documents and displayed prominently at their business premises.
QVMAG 1985:p131 & copy at AOT Ref: 30-3244.
Above: Wall chart or poster of Tasmanian prisoners photographed in the 1870s by T. J. Nevin. These sorts of documents aimed at tourists called prisoners "convicts". The poster was produced by the Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority ca. 1991 with photographs taken of "Supreme Court men" by Thomas Nevin, selected from the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery's Beattie Collection. Photo copyright © KLW NFC Imprint 2009 ARR.
Several of these convicts were indeed incarcerated as transportees at the regional Port Arthur penintentiary, 60 kms from Hobart, at some time during their criminal careers, and some were local offenders or "native". But they were not photographed because they had been transported convicts per se as some sort of museological collection (transportation ended in 1853), but because they were habitual offenders, absconders, and recidivists. Their photographs were commissioned by the Tasmanian government in 1872 and used by the Town Hall Municipal Police Office, the Supreme Court next to the Hobart Gaol, and the Prisons Department in the course of daily detection and surveillance. All of these photographs of the so-called "Port Arthur convicts" were taken by the brothers Thomas J. Nevin and Constable John Nevin at the Hobart Goal whether prior to the prisoners' temporary relocation after arrest from the Hobart Gaol to the Port Arthur prison in the early 1870s and/or after being returned from Port Arthur to the Hobart Goal between 1873-1874 when the process of closing the Port Arthur site was systematically commenced and concluded by 1877. All prisoners by July 1873 with sentences longer than 3 months were being received at the prison in Hobart Town from regional lock-ups, including the Launceston Gaol. Thomas J. Nevin was the government contractor who held exclusive rights to the commission while still an independent commercial photographer (1871-1876), and thereafter continued jointly from the Hobart Gaol and the Town Hall's Municipal Police Office with his brother Constable John Nevin when appointed full-time to the civil service at the Town Hall (from 1876 to the mid 1880s).
Photo copyright © KLW NFC Imprint 2009 ARR.
Publisher: Launceston, Tas. : Examiner Office, 1938?
Historic photographs showing convicts at Port Arthur in 1874 will be exhibited at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery at Launceston from tomorrow to May 2.
The work of T. J. Nevin, the photos are being shown at Launceston for the first time.
Many of the men shown in the pictures had been transported to Port Arthur as young boys 40 years earlier.
The curator of fine art at the museum, Mr. John McPhee, said yesterday that the photos had "a quality far beyond that of records".
"Just once rascally, occasionally noble always pathetic, these photographs are among the most moving and powerful images of the human condition," he said.
Some of the seventy cartes-de-visite identification photographs of Port Arthur convicts taken in the 1870s (QVMAG) at about the time the settlement was closed (1876) have been attributed to Nevin because they carry his studio stamp. He possibly held the government contract for this sort of criminal recording work, although Long believes that he was merely a printer or copyist and suggests that the most probable photographer was the commandant A. H. Boyd. However, professional photographers were employed to take identification photographs in Australian prisons from the beginning of the 1870s (see Charles Nettleton) and while a collection of standard portrait photographs and hand-coloured cartes-de-visite undoubtedly by Nevin is in the Archives Office of Tasmania no photographs by Boyd are known.
Detail of the poster above. Photo copyright © KLW NFC Imprint 2009 ARR.
Photo copyright © KLW NFC Imprint 2010 ARR.
The Dictionary of Australian artists : painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870, edited by Joan Kerr.
Publisher: Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1992.
Description: xxii, 889 p. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 27 cm.
Recto and erso of Booking photograph of Thomas Harrison.
The carte-de-visite copy bearing T. J. Nevin's government contract stamp is a prison identification photograph of William Smith per Gilmore 3 held at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston.
QVMAG 1985:p131 & AOT Ref: 30-3244.
Why does this carte of Smith bear T. J. Nevin's studio stamp? The question has been asked by photo historians with little consideration to the realities of government tender. It is not a commercial stamp but one signifying the photographer's status as a government contractor. This prisoner cdv was one of several chosen by Thomas Nevin to register and access his commission with Treasury, and renew his contract under the terms of the tender. Only one was required per batch of 100, the verso stamp used to identify the photographer's joint copyright under contract. The registration lasted 14 years from the second year of registration (1872-1874 to 1886).
[Below]: Prisoner no. 9438, SMITH, William: The record below was incomplete, noted on his police gazette record when received from Port Arthur. His Ticket of Leave was gazetted on 5-9 September 1873 when T. J. Nevin first photographed him. Smith was then convicted of larceny in 1875, and of burglary and uttering in 1879. He was discharged to freedom, on 9th June 1883.
William Smith per Gilmore 3 was discharged with a Ticket Of Leave on 10 September 1873, received from Port Arthur. Note that his age and physical measurements were not recorded at the Police Office because he was not in reality there at Port Arthur, and no photograph existed prior to his release. When Thomas Nevin photographed him on discharge in 1873, William Smith was dressed and ready for freedom. The photograph exhibits a degree of liminality of the prisoner's state: free on a ticket of leave but classed as a criminal. William Smith re-offended again in April 1874, and was discharged 12 months later.
Wm Smith discharged 1st April, 1875. Photographed again on release by T. J. Nevin.
Wm Smith per Gilmore 3 Warrant for arrest 23 April 1875.
Thomas Nevin's face-to-contact with William Smith while photographing him was used as an adjunct in the written description issued by police of Smith's coming under suspicion for theft just three weeks after his release on 1st April, 1875. Smith was arrested 3 months later in July 1875.
William Smith was arrested at Richmond, notice of 9th July, 1875.
In their dark-grey uniform and black leathern caps, with their criminal visages, shaven of the covering Nature had given to aid them in the concealment of their vicious propensities and villainous characters, they were, in truth, a forbidding, repulsive lot. Yet very far from unintelligent, at least, in some marked instances. A villainous shrewdness and a perverse cleverness writ in many a cunning, gleamy eye and heavy brow ; and a dogged determination to be read in the set of the jaw, and the style of the gait, were as the translated speech of artfully calculated, daring crime.
The first prisoner carte-de-visite of William Smith per Gilmore 3 is numbered "199". This, the second photograph by T. J. Nevin of the same prisoner William Smith is numbered "200". The numbers were applied when these two photographs among several dozen more were salvaged by John Watt Beattie from the Hobart Gaol Sheriff's Office ca. 1915 and displayed in his museum in Hobart from 1898. Some were sent to an exhibition at the Royal Hotel in Sydney in 1916 in conjunction with a display of convictaria associated with the fake convict hulk Success.
Employees of the State Library of Tasmania who devise records for the search engine TROVE at the National Library of Australia apparently wish to suppress the fact that Thomas J. Nevin photographed this and many more prisoners in the 1870s with catalogue entries such as the one below (webshot)- "No photographer name or studio stamp appears on the original photograph", in accordance with the vague prevarications and error of the few authors, e.g Warwick Reeder 1995; Chris Long, 1995, etc, which appeared in print, for example, the A-Z directory Tasmanian photographers 1840-1940, Winter, G. (ed) 1995, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. The game of politics over T. J. Nevin's photographic works has a certain appeal in tiny enclaves, it seems.
Webshot 2013. How about correcting this, Trove?


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Old Post Office is a historic post office building located at Oneonta in Otsego County, New York, United States. It was built in 1915, and is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, Oscar Wenderoth.   The original portion of the building is nearly square, seven bays on each side.  It is built of Indiana limestone, with Concord granite trim in the Classical Revival style.  It features a giant portico supported by six massive Corinthian order columns.  In 1980, the building housed city offices moved from the Old City Hall.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. It is located within the Oneonta Downtown Historic District established in 2003.

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Oneonta
Government buildings completed in 1915
Neoclassical architecture in New York (state)
Buildings and structures in Otsego County, New York
National Register of Historic Places in Otsego County, New York
Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in New York (state)


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Title: Interspecific Aggression by the Wheatear in a High-Mountain Passerine Community
Home » Interspecific Aggression by the Wheatear in a High-Mountain Passerine Community
Interspecific Aggression by the Wheatear in a High-Mountain Passerine Community
Authors: ZAMORA, REGINO
Keywords: Acanthis cannabina, Agrodroma campestris, Alauda, Alauda arvensis, Alaudidae, Anthus, Anthus campestris, Carduelis, Carduelis cannabina, Communis, Communis communis, Curruca communis, Emberiza, Emberiza cia, Emberizidae, Fringillidae, Linaria, Linaria cannabina, Motacillidae, Muscicapidae, Oenanthe, Oenanthe oenanthe, Phoenicurus, Phoenicurus ochruros, Spain, Sylvia, Sylvia communis, Sylviidae
Abstract: Dominant/subordinate interspecific relationships of seven passerine species nesting in the high-mountain of the Sierra Nevada (S. Spain) were studied. The dominant species was Oenanthe oenanthe, and the subordinates Phoenicurus ochruros, Anthus campestris, Emberiza cia, Alauda arvensis, Carduelis cannabina and Sylvia communis. The degree of subordination was not related to population size, body size or foraging substrate overlap, although the dominant species' aggression was mainly directed at the two species more ecologically similar to it, viz. P. ochruros and, to a lesser degree, A. campestris. Aggressive encounters were more frequent during the reproductive period. P. ochruros was attacked by O. oenanthe five times as often as A. campestris, and this difference was attributed to their different foraging strategies.
Alauda (Birds), Alauda arvensis (Birds), Alauda arvensis (Birds), Alaudidae (Birds), Anthus (Birds), Anthus campestris (Birds), Carduelis (Birds), Emberiza (Birds), Emberiza cia (Birds), Emberiza Cia (Birds), Emberizidae (Birds), Fringillidae (Birds), Linaria (Birds), Linaria cannabina (Birds), Motacillidae (Birds), Muscicapidae (Birds), Oenanthe (Birds), Oenanthe oenanthe (Birds), Phoenicurus (Birds), Phoenicurus ochruros (Birds), Sylvia (Birds), Sylvia communis (Birds), Sylvia communis (Birds), Sylviidae (Birds)
Fri, 2015-06-12 17:04 -- Arpit Deomurari


Wikipedia, well known as the free online crowd sourced encyclopedia, lets users make edits to pages when they are needed. But because the temptation for trolling is so high, the IP address of each person who makes a change is logged. This makes it easy to find who it is and to block them from trolling more.
One US senator troll didn't know about this, apparently. Deciding to skip the trial and sentencing, this pol decided he or she was going to get ahead of the curve and finish writing current history (since we all know Wikipedia will live on longer than any of us).
Edward Snowden has been in the headlines for weeks now. The former NSA contractor first revealed himself in June after leaking information about top secret US spy programs, including PRISM and XKeyscore.
His first interview was done in Hong Kong, where he was hiding from US extradition. Since then, Snowden has been stuck in legal limbo at the Moscow airport seeking asylum in any nation that will take him. He recently was granted a one year stay in Russia.
To be accurate, it is not known whether the Wikipedia editor is a US senator or not. Because the IP traced to Capitol Hill, it is possible that he or she is an intern or staffer and not a senator, The Daily Dot points out. But looking at the IP's other edit history, this was apparently the first malevolent act from Senator Troll, or whoever it is.
What other edits have from from this Senate IP? Earlier this year he or she added to the entry for "Five People You Meet In Heaven," modified part of an entry for a magnum revolver, added credits to a San Francisco tiki bar entry, and fixed the spelling of the word "conspiracy" on another. Changing Edward Snowden from "dissident" to "traitor" looks to be the first page the senator has trolled so far though.


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