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Non-Executive Directors have the same general legal responsibilities to the Company as any other director
Download the Non-Executive Directors' terms of engagement (pdf, 39KB). As members of the Board, all directors are required to:
Provide entrepreneurial leadership of the Company within a framework of prudent and effective controls which enable risk to be assessed and managed.
Set the Company's strategic aims, ensure that the necessary financial and human resources are in place for the company to meet its objectives, and review management performance.
Set the Company's values and standards and ensure that its obligations to its Association Members and others are understood and met.
The Board as a whole is collectively responsible for promoting the success of the Company by directing the company's affairs. In addition to these requirements for all directors, the non-executive directors are expected constructively to challenge and help develop strategy, to participate actively in the decision-making process of the Board, and to scrutinise the performance of management in meeting agreed goals and objectives.
1. Key Accountabilities
The role of the Non-Executive Director has the following key elements:
Strategy. Non-Executive Directors should constructively challenge and help develop proposals on strategy.
Performance. Non-Executive Directors should scrutinise the performance of management in meeting agreed goals and objectives and monitor the reporting of performance.
Risk. Non-Executive Directors should satisfy themselves on the integrity of financial information and that financial controls and systems of risk management are robust and defensible.
People. Non-Executive Directors are responsible for determining appropriate levels of remuneration of executive directors, and have a prime role in appointing, and where necessary removing, executive directors and in succession planning.
In order to fulfil their role, Non-Executive Directors will:
Meet from time to time, if appropriate, as a group without executive directors being present, and at least once a year without the Chairman being present. In this case the meeting is led by the Senior Independent Director.
Be entitled to seek independent professional advice, at the Company's expense, in the furtherance of their duties.
Non-Executive Directors may be asked by the Board to serve on one or more of the board committees. If appointed to a board committee, Non-Executive Directors will be advised of the committee terms of reference, and any specific additional responsibilities involved.
2. Time Commitment
All directors must be able to allocate sufficient time to the Company to perform their responsibilities effectively. Non-Executive Directors will be required to:
(i) Undertake that they will be able to allocate sufficient time to meet the expectations of the role, as set out in their letter of appointment, or as agreed from time to time.
(ii) Disclose their other significant commitments to the Board before appointment, with a broad indication of the time involved.
(iii) Inform the Board of any subsequent changes.
A Non-Executive Director should seek the agreement of the Chairman before accepting additional commitments that might impact on the time he or she would be able to devote to the role as a director of the Company.
3. Duration
Non-Executive Directors are appointed for an initial term of three years. The term may be renewed if both the director and the Board agree. Appointments are subject to the provisions of the Companies Act and the articles of association, including those relating to election/re-election by the Association Members at annual general meetings and the removal of directors. No compensation for lost fees is payable if a director leaves office for any reason.
There is an expectation that appointments are renewed for one term of three years only. In line with the corporate governance code issued by the Financial Reporting Council ("UK Corporate Governance Code"), any extension of a term beyond six years (ie two three-year terms) for a Non-Executive Director will be subject to a particularly rigorous review.
4. Independence
As recommended in the UK Corporate Governance Code, the Board will identify in the annual report each Non-Executive Director it considers to be independent.
The Board will determine whether the director is independent in character and judgement and whether there are relationships or circumstances which are likely to affect, or could appear to affect, the director's judgement. The Board will state its reasons if it determines that a director is independent notwithstanding the existence, of relationships or circumstances which may appear relevant to its determination, including if the director:
Has been an employee of the Company or group within the last five years.
Has, or has had within the last three years, a material business relationship with the company either directly, or as a partner, Association Member, director or senior employee of a body that has such a relationship with the company.
Has received or receives additional remuneration from the Company apart from a director's fee.
Has close family ties with any of the Company's advisers, directors or senior employees.
Holds cross-directorships or has significant links with other directors through involvement in other companies or bodies; or
Has served on the Board for more than nine years form the date of their first election.
In the event that the Board agrees to retain or recruit Non-Executive Directors who do not meet the independence criteria, in order to achieve the appropriate balance between independence and relevant industry experience on the Board, where this would mean that the board composition no longer has a majority of independent Non-Executive Directors, the annual report will include an explanation of the appointment.


Tick-tock, it's twelve o'clock, and you still can't close your eyes. It's six hours before the morning light brings you back to the safety of a living, breathing world. But you're in luck, good reader, because I have ten stories to tell.
Come and see as I lay them out for your pleasure. So, what will it be? Ghosts and goblins? Witches and thieves? We'll follow a professional killer as he begins to realize that his latest hit is more than he bargained for. We'll learn Mamma's dark secret to a long and life. We'll watch the six-legged crawlies as they come out of the woodwork and gather for one final attack, and much, much more.
There is so much to tell and so little time. We must get started. So come. Take my hand, and I'll lead you down the trail of dreams. Don't fear. The woods are dark, and the moon is hidden behind pillows of clouds, but I know the way. I'll take you on a dark journey of love, revenge, betrayal, murder, and things that go bump in the night.


I just adored Jenni and Paul's wedding at the Library Society here in Charleston, and much to my delight, today, it is being featured on The Wedding Row!
"My now husband likes to say that old books brought us together. We met at the American Antiquarian Society, a rare book library in Massachusetts: I went to the reading room to do research for my Ph.D. in American literature; Paul, who works there, helped me track down some obscure 19th-century titles; and the rest, as they say, is history. When we started looking for a place for our wedding reception in Charleston, which is where I grew up, Paul almost immediately happened upon the website for the Charleston Library Society, a private membership library founded in 1748. The absolutely beautiful reading room and the connection to our own story of finding love in -- of all places -- a library made it the perfect, if somewhat unexpected place for our reception. Celebrating our wedding surrounded by our wonderful families, good friends, southern food, and old books made for the ideal wedding day."
Thanks Della and all of the wonderful people at The Wedding Row for featuring us!


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Who are Egypt's militant groups?
Image source, Twitter
IS' Sinai Province, the most prominent jihadist group, posted video showcasing their weapons
More than 200 people have died in an unprecedented attack targeting a Sunni mosque in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula during Friday prayers, highlighting the alarming threat posed by jihadist militants in the region.
So far, no group has claimed responsibility for the attack, the deadliest of its kind in the country.
So-called Islamic State (IS) is the most prominent and violent of the militant groups in Sinai, with a record of targeting civilians in that area and in mainland Egypt.
Other groups active in the country are mostly aligned with IS's arch jihadist rival, al-Qaeda.
Sinai Province
Sinai Province convoy
IS's Sinai affiliate, Sinai Province, has claimed responsibility for many deadly attacks, mostly targeting the army in Sinai. It also claimed the downing of a Russian airliner in October 2015.
Formerly known as Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, the group first appeared in September 2011 and rebranded itself with an IS pledge of allegiance in November 2014.
The group generally targets Egyptian security forces in northern Sinai, but has also claimed an attack on a tourist site in southern Sinai in April.
In the first part of the year IS stepped up its rhetoric and attacks against Christians in Sinai and elsewhere in Egypt, claiming two deadly attacks on churches in Tanta and Alexandria on 9 April.
IS started to scale up its attacks in Sinai since September, as it started losing territory in Iraq and Syria.
On 24 November, IS boasted about attacks it had carried out earlier in the week targeting policemen in western Arish, the area of the attacked mosque.
In addition to its attacks on Christians, IS has adopted a threatening tone against Sufi Muslims, whom it considers to be heretics.
The head of IS's religious police in Sinai had previously said that Sufis who did not "repent" would be killed. IS has beheaded a number of Sufi men whom it accused of "sorcery".
Jund al-Islam
Screen grab from the video posted by Jund al-Islam
The propaganda and rhetoric of this low-profile group suggests alignment with al-Qaeda.
Its rivalry with IS in Sinai surfaced in November when Jund al-Islam issued a threat to IS militants.
In an audio message released on 11 November, Jund al-Islam claimed responsibility for an October attack on IS militants in Sinai, and vowed to crush the rival group "for committing crimes against Muslims" in the peninsula.
A day later, Jund al-Islam issued another statement condemning the 9 November deadly attack on lorry drivers in northern Sinai, as well as blaming IS and the Egyptian government for the deaths.
In both its recent messages, Jund al-Islam stressed that it did not target "innocent Muslims".
Jund al-Islam's recent communiques follow a lengthy spell of media silence since 2015, and suggest the group is presenting itself as a challenger to IS in Sinai.
The group emerged in September 2013 with a claim of a double suicide attack on the Egyptian military intelligence HQ in the northern Sinai town of Rafah, which borders the Gaza Strip.
It stepped up its propaganda campaign in 2015, claiming rocket attacks on Israel and issuing a propaganda video that hinted at links with al-Qaeda in Yemen (AQAP).
Al-Mourabitoun
Not to be confused with the former Sahara-based jihadist group al-Mourabitoun, this Egyptian faction announced itself in 2015.
However, since its formation, the group has not been observed to carry out any prominent attacks, and has mainly put out statements and threats.
Given its lack of visible activity, it remains unclear where exactly al-Mourabitoun operates in Egypt.
Its propaganda suggests an al-Qaeda orientation, and veteran jihadist media operatives have linked it to an al-Qaeda attempt to check the rise of IS in Egypt.
Its leader, Abu-Umar al-Muhajir, alias Hisham Ashmawi, is a former Egyptian army officer and a senior figure in Ansar Beit al-Maqdis before it pledged allegiance to IS.
In October 2015, Ashmawi called for the killing of Egyptian military officers, and for revenge in response to the deaths of Palestinians by Israel's security forces.
Ashmawi reiterated that message in March 2016, and urged Muslim clerics to play an active role in encouraging young people to embrace jihad.
Ansar al-Islam
This new group, not to be confused with the veteran Ansar al-Islam in Iraq, emerged in November, when it claimed responsibility for a high-profile attack in Egypt's Western Desert.
Ansar al-Islam described the attack, in which more than 50 security personnel died, as "the beginning of our jihad".
The group's attack claim and its founding statement of 3 November was widely circulated by high-profile online supporters of al-Qaeda, which suggested a nod of approval.
Its rhetoric and pledge to fight until the establishment of Islamic law suggest a jihadist orientation.
Ansar al-Islam's statement urged Egyptians to join the jihad, or support the group through words or funds.
Ajnad Misr
Al-Murabitun posted a video featuring its leader, Abu-Umar al-Muhajir
Meaning "Soldiers of Egypt", this group appeared in January 2014, and carried out attacks in Cairo over the summer.
It has possible al-Qaeda associations, in that the Yemeni and African branches of that network posted eulogies on the death of its leader in April 2015.
It also coordinated attacks with Ansar Beit al-Maqdis before the latter joined IS.
But Ajnad Misr has repeatedly said that it tries to avoid civilian casualties in its attacks.
Many of the group's members are now thought to be in prison.
In October 2017, the Egyptian authorities sought death sentences for 13 individuals with suspected links to the group.
The individuals are accused of killing soldiers, police officers and civilians, with a verdict expected in December.
Hasm
The Hasm Movement surfaced in the summer of 2016 and has focused on attacking government and security personnel in Cairo and elsewhere in Egypt.
The Egyptian authorities and media have linked Hasm to the Muslim Brotherhood, which is outlawed in Egypt.
The group's rhetoric is more Islamist and "pro-revolution" than jihadist.
On 1 October Hasm targeted the Myanmar embassy in Cairo with an explosive device to express its solidarity with Rohingya Muslims, it said.
Hasm released its first propaganda video in January in which it showcased its training camps and boasted about the range of attacks it had carried out on the Egyptian authorities.
Slick production and the group's claim of organisation and structure in the video were clearly meant to indicate that Hasm was not a shadowy group, but rather a sophisticated force to be reckoned with.
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Skinner AgSolutions, Inc., a leader in the sale and distribution of agricultural waste management equipment, announced today that they will be co-sponsoring a BIOGAS SEMINAR entitled "New Technology Solutions for Biogas" at World Ag Expo in Tulare, CA on February 12-14, 2019. Other seminar co-sponsors and presenters will include Boerger, LLC; Hamilton Industries, Inc. and Industrial & Environmental Concepts, Inc.
Dairy operators from the Western U.S. have been invited to attend, especially those with current biogas/digester facilities and those planning to add them in the near future. This one-hour seminar will be conducted in the Skinner AgSolutions, Inc. exhibitor's tent at Booth #DS140 at 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. each day during World Ag Expo.
Ron Skinner, President of Skinner AgSolutions, Inc. noted that, "We're pleased to offer this information-packed, one-hour seminar to medium-sized and large dairies attending World Ag Expo. Along with our co-sponsors, we will be providing profit-making biogas innovations and ideas that the attendees can take home and put right into practice." Skinner emphasized that the goal is to help dairy operators maximize gas output from their biogas facilities, thus maximizing their profits.
Skinner AgSolutions is the exclusive distributor of Flygt-Xylem pumps, mixers and related equipment for the agricultural/biogas market. In addition, they are an authorized distributor of Godwin-Xylem, Goulds-Xylem, Boerger, Jash Valves, AL-2 Teknik, and Mapro equipment. They are also an authorized rental distributor of Godwin-Xylem pumps and related equipment for the agricultural/biogas market. Skinner AgSolutions uses these equipment resources to provide custom-engineered solutions for their agricultural customers in three key areas – manure handling, biogas and nutrient recovery.


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Ankara Officially Requests Exchange of Turkish Asylum Seekers for Greek Soldiers
Philip Chrysopoulos - July 6, 2018
Ankara has officially requested the extradition of the eight Turkish soldiers in the process of being granted asylum in Greece in exchange of a "fair trial" of the two Greek junior army officers detained in Turkey. Greek newspaper Ta Nea...
Turkish Soldiers Remain Well-Guarded in Fear of Assassination
Philip Chrysopoulos - June 10, 2018
The eight Turkish soldiers who were granted political asylum in Greece are kept heavily guarded in an undisclosed army camp as authorities fear a possible assassination attempt. According to newspaper Ta Nea, Greek authorities are concerned about the safety of...
ΝΑΤΟ Advises Greece, Turkey to Show 'Calm and Restraint'
Philip Chrysopoulos - June 8, 2018
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has called on Greece and Turkey to show "restraint and calm", after Ankara responded to the release from custody of the eight Turkish ex-soldiers accused of coup plotting by suspending a bilateral migrant readmission deal with...
Turkey Slams Tsipras over Release of Turkish Soldiers
Ankara on Monday slammed Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras after the release of the last of the eight Turkish ex-soldiers who have been granted asylum in Greece. Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag accused Tsipras of failing to keep his promise...
Turkish Foreign Ministry: Greece, Cradle of Democracy, Gives Asylum to Traitors
Philip Chrysopoulos - May 26, 2018
In yet another jab at Greece and its judicial system, Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy on Friday, characterized eight Turkish soldiers as traitors and Greece as a place that harbors them. The Turkish soldiers fled to Greece on an...
Ankara Blasts Greek Court for Granting Asylum to Turkish Soldier
The Council of State, Greece's highest administrative court, on Wednesday granted irrevocable asylum to one of eight Turkish soldiers who sought refuge after the failed coup attempt in Turkey in 2016. Despite objections from the Greek government that had appealed...
Turkish Hackers Attack Athens News Agency Webpage: 'We'll Throw you into the Sea'
Philip Chrysopoulos - May 1, 2018
The Athens-Macedonian News Agency on Monday night was hit by Turkish hackers who wrote threatening messages against Greece. At 11:00 on Monday night a message referring to the eight Turkish soldiers who were granted asylum in Greece appeared on the home...
PM Office: Talk of Exchange of Greek Soldiers for Turkish Asylum Seekers Unacceptable
Philip Chrysopoulos - April 23, 2018
The Greek prime minister's office on Sunday issued a statement saying that any talk about an exchange of the two Greek soldiers for the eight Turkish servicemen who are granted asylum is unacceptable. The statement came after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan...
Erdogan Calls for Peace with Greece and Exchange of Greek Soldiers with Turkish Asylum Seekers
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday called for peace and cooperation with Greece but also asked to exchange the two Greek soldiers with the eight Turkish servicemen who sought asylum in Greece. According to Anadolu Agency, Erdogan spoke on...
Turkish Justice Minister: Greece is a Safe Haven for Criminals from Turkey
"Since the defeated coup, Greece has been a safe haven for criminals from our country," Turkish Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gul said on Saturday, according to Anadolu Agency. The Turkish minister criticized a Greek court order releasing one of eight fugitive...


Jammu and Kashmir Handball team met and interacted with the Secretary, J&K State Sports Council, Dr Naseem Javaid Chowdhary here on Monday.
JAMMU: Jammu and Kashmir Handball team met and interacted with the Secretary,J&K State Sports Council, Dr Naseem Javaid Chowdhary here on Monday.
The team won Bronze at 35th Sub Junior (Boys) National Handball Championship in New Delhi which was held from 26th to 30th December 2018.
The team won by 31-21 against Madhya Pradesh.
The State team was picked for this prestigious tournament by the Association and was screened by Screening Committee of the J&K State Sports Council.
Secretary Sports Council, Dr Naseem Chowdhary appreciated the players and welcomed them with garlands. He also appreciated the coaches and managers of the Handball Association who are tirelessly working for the improvement of sports in the state. Dr Chowdhary further assured enhanced facilities and support for excelling in sports arena.


Is there a better alternative to Snapplr?
Is Snapplr really the best app in Desktop category?
Will Snapplr work good on macOS 10.13.4?
Snapplr is a revolutionary tool to efficiently take and share screenshots. It completely replaces Mac OS X's native capabilities and works in the same way as the system tool, but offers a wide range of options. Its main feature is to upload screenshots automatically to Snapplr.com, giving you a URL in your clipboard that you can share.
A revolutionary feature, called "Live", is the ability to select an area, a screen or a window and get a URL which takes a fresh screenshot on-demand. This means that you can, for example, select the window you are working on, send the URL to a customer or a friend and get immediate and constant feedback. Every time he/she hits "reload" in his/her browser, a new screenshot is sent.
Snapplr also offers the ability to send screenshots via mail, copy them in the clipboard and of course, save them to a file. You can select the destination of the screenshot through a small control panel which is shown at the bottom of the screen while taking the screenshot. Through this panel you can also set a delay between the time you finish selecting and the time the screenshot is actually taken.


It's time for the Nature Book Club again! This month's theme is wildflowers. Don't forget to add your link to the linkup at the bottom of this post.
It's autumn here, so everything is in shades of red, yellow and brown, the veld grass is starting to get dry, and wildflowers are scarce. I'm looking forward to spring, and cosmos flowers everywhere.
Our book selection was A Treasury of Flower Fairies by Cicely Mary Barker. Not a nature study book, but I have daughters who love fairies, and I'm pretty sure I had a colouring book with these illustrations when I was a little girl.
We used the book during our poetry teatimes, and I wrote my own flower fairy poem as well.
And still you remain out of sight.
It's a perfect fairy holiday.
Oh, why won't you come out to play?
Fit for the fairy queen's court.
Alas, those cannot be bought.
Fairy friend, come and frolic with me.
There is nectar and fruit for our tea.
Might I sojourn here some other day?
To make Mother's cosmos bouquet.
We also did some art to go with the poem. We sponged blue and white paint for the sky and used our fingers to make the cosmos flowers. I printed out fairies from some colouring pages I'd downloaded ages ago. We modge podged the fairies onto the canvas, painted them, then added another layer of modge podge afterwards.
Make sure to check out all the co-hosts' fabulous posts too.
Those are NEAT paintings!!! Can't wait to try it with my kids!!!
What a lovely Flower Fairy poem! Our kids adore fingerprint art and would enjoy making flowers this way.
I love the inspiring wildflower fairies poem! Artistically written! Superb!


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\section{Introduction}

The physics of ordered (crystals) and disordered (glasses) solid states
and their interrelation has been subject to investigations in various
model systems \cite{Pusey1986,Ivlev2012}. Such model systems capture
typical features of more complex matter and often allow for the variation
of the interparticle interactions to explore physical regimes otherwise
not accessible. A qualitatively strong variation concerns the
distinction between hard and soft repulsion as in the Yukawa potential
which describes the range from excluded-volume to charge-based
interactions.

Yukawa potentials are realized in both colloidal suspensions
\cite{Bitzer1994,Beck1999,Heinen2011} and complex plasmas
\cite{Ivlev2012}, and since in complex plasmas the damping can be tuned,
this offers a way for the comparison of Brownian and Newtonian dynamics
with the same particle-particle interaction in experimental systems
\cite{Gleim1998}. While in sterically stabilized colloidal suspensions,
the interaction can typically be well-approximated by the hard-sphere
interaction \cite{Pusey1986}, for charged particles in suspensions,
hard-sphere plus Yukawa interaction is more appropriate. In complex
plasmas, the average interparticle distance compared to the particles'
diameters is typically large enough to allow for an approximation of
point-like particles and hence a screened Coulomb potential for point
particles is appropriate. In addition to the screening length, in complex
plasmas also a second repulsive length scale arises from the
non-equilibrium ionization-recombination balance
\cite{Khrapak2010,Wysocki2010} which gives rise to a double Yukawa
potential at interparticle distances $r$ as
\begin{equation}\label{eq:pot}
\frac{U(r)}{k_\text{B}T} = \frac{\Gamma}{r} \left[ \exp(-\kappa r)
	+ \epsilon \exp(-\alpha\kappa r) \right]\,.
\end{equation}
Distance $r$ is given in units of the mean interparticle distance
$1/\sqrt[3]{\rho}$ with the density $\rho = N/V$ for $N$ particles in a
volume $V$. The coupling parameter is $\Gamma = Q^2
\sqrt[3]{\rho}/(k_\text{B}T)$, with the charge $Q$, and $\kappa =
1/(\lambda\sqrt[3]{\rho})$ is the inverse of the screening length
$\lambda$. The second (longer-ranged) Yukawa potential is specified by a
relative strength $\epsilon$, and a relative inverse screening length
$\alpha < 1$. In the limit of vanishing screening, one recovers the
one-component plasma (OCP), the simplest model that exhibits
characteristics of charged systems \cite{Hansen1986}. Motivated by the
success of mode-coupling theory for ideal glass transitions (MCT) for the
hard-sphere system (HSS), cf. \cite{Sperl2005}, in the following, the
glass-transition shall be calculated within MCT \cite{Goetze2009}. Since
for time-reversible evolution operators, i.e., Newtonian and Brownian
dynamics, the glassy dynamics within MCT are identical \cite{Szamel1991},
the calculations are applicable to both complex plasma and charged
colloids.

\section{Methods}

We consider a system of $N$ point-like particles in a volume $V$ of
density $\rho = N/V$ interacting via the pairwise repulsive potential in
Eq.~(\ref{eq:pot}). We investigate the glass transitions in two cases: the
single Yukawa ($\epsilon=0$) and the double Yukawa potential ($\epsilon >
0$). Within MCT, the glass transition is defined as a singularity of the
form factor $f_q = \lim_{t \rightarrow \infty} \phi_q(t)$ that is the
long-time limit of the density autocorrelation function. In the liquid
state, $f_q$ is zero, while in the glass state, $f_q > 0$. At the
transition, the form factors adopt their critical values $f_q^c \geq 0$.
$f_q$ is the solution of \cite{Bengtzelius1984}
\begin{equation}\label{eq:fq}
\frac{f_q}{1-f_q} = {\cal F}_q[f_k]\,,
\end{equation}
which is the long time limit of the full MCT equations of motion. $f_q$ is
distinguished from other solutions of the Eq.~(\ref{eq:fq}) by its maximum
property, thus it can be calculated using the iteration
$f^{(n+1)}_q/(1-f^{(n+1)}_q) = {\cal F}_q[f^{(n)}_k]$ \cite{Franosch1997}
with $f^{(0)}_k=1$ and the memory kernel given by
\begin {equation}\label{eq:Fq}
{\cal F}_q[f_k]=  \frac{1}{16 \pi^3} \int d^3k \frac{S_q S_k S_p}{q^4}
[\mathbf{q}\cdot\mathbf{k} c_k+\mathbf{q}\cdot\mathbf{p}c_p]^2 f_k f_p\,,
\end {equation}
where $\mathbf{p}=\mathbf{q}-\mathbf{k}$; all wave vectors are expressed
in normalized units. Note that the number density does not appear
explicitly in the kernel ${\cal F}_q$, since we express the length scales
in units of $1/\sqrt[3]{\rho}$.

The only inputs to the Eq.~(\ref{eq:Fq}) are the static structure factors
$S_q$. The Fourier transformed direct correlation functions $c_q$, are
related to structure factors through the Ornstein-Zernike (OZ) relation
\begin{equation}\label{eq:oz}
\gamma_q=\frac{c_q^2}{1-c_q},
\end{equation}
where the spatial Fourier transform of $\gamma_q$ is $\gamma(r) = h(r) -
c(r)$ and $h(r)$ is the total correlation function which is related to
structure factor through $S_q=1+h_q$. We close the equations by the
hypernetted-chain (HNC) approximation,
\begin{equation}\label{eq:HNC}
c(r)=\exp{[-U(r)/(k_BT)+\gamma(r)]}-\gamma(r)-1\,,
\end{equation}
 where $U(r)$ is the interaction potential. It was found earlier that HNC
captures well various structural features for repulsive potentials,
especially also for the OCP \cite{Ng1974}. For the HSS, the quality of HNC
is known to be inferior to the Percus-Yevick (PY) approximation in certain
thermodynamic aspects \cite{Hansen1986}, so we expect HNC to vary in
performance for different parameter regions of the Yukawa potentials in
Eq.~(\ref{eq:pot}).

We solve Eq.~(\ref{eq:oz}) and Eq.~(\ref{eq:HNC}) by iteration and use the
usual mixing method in order to ensure convergence \cite{Hansen1986}. We
iterate $n$ times from an initial guess, $c^{(0)}(r)$, until a
self-consistent result is achieved, i.e.,
\begin{equation}
\left[\int_0^R|c^{(n+1)}(r)-c^{(n)}(r)|^2\,\mathrm{d}r\right]^{1/2} <
\delta,
\end{equation}
with $\delta = 10^{-5}$,
where $R$ is the cut-off length of $c(r)$. We employ $R=47.1239$ and a
mesh of size $M=2396$ points. Consequently, the resolution in real and
Fourier space is $\Delta r=R/M=0.0197$ and $\Delta q=\pi/R=0.0667$,
respectively. We use an orthogonality-preserving algorithm for the
numerical calculation of Fourier transforms \cite{Lado1971}. For a
particular $\kappa$ we begin the computation of $c(r)$ at a small coupling
parameter $\Gamma$, successively increase $\Gamma$, and use the outcome as
an initial guess for the subsequent calculation.

\section{Single-Yukawa Potential}

\subsection{Glass-Transition Diagram}

\begin{figure}[hbt]
\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{PD1Y.eps}
\caption{\label{fig:PD1Y}Glass-transition diagram for the single Yukawa
potential (filled circles). Transition points are shown together with the
full curve exhibiting Eq.~(\ref{eq:scale}). For comparison, a similar
curve is shown for the melting of the crystal.}
\end{figure}

The MCT results for the single Yukawa case are shown in
Fig.~\ref{fig:PD1Y}. The filled circles for different $\Gamma$ and
$\kappa$ indicate the glass transition points calculated by
Eq.~(\ref{eq:fq}). For $\kappa\rightarrow 0$, the glass transition for the
OCP limit is found at $\Gamma^c_\text{OCP}=366$. When screening is
introduced for $\kappa > 0$, the glass-transition line moves to higher
critical coupling strengths $\Gamma^c(\kappa)$. Figure~\ref{fig:PD1Y}
shows for reference the melting curve for weakly screened Yukawa systems,
described by $\Gamma(\kappa) = 106\,e^{\kappa}/\left(1 + \kappa +
\kappa^2/2\right)$ \cite{Vaulina2000,Vaulina2002}. This expression has
been suggested originally on the basis of the Lindemann-type arguments,
cf. \cite{Lindemann1910}. The Lindemann criterion states that the
liquid-crystal phase transition occurs when in the crystal the
root-mean-square displacement $\langle \delta r^2\rangle$ of particles
from their equilibrium positions reaches a certain fraction of the mean
interparticle distance. Within the simplest one-dimensional harmonic
approximation this yields the scaling $U''(r=1)\langle \delta
r^2\rangle/T\simeq {\rm const.}$, where primes denote the second
derivative with respect to distance. Applied to the Yukawa interaction
this leads to the melting curve above, where the value of the constant is
determined from the condition $\Gamma\simeq 106$ at melting of the OCP
system ($\kappa=0$) \footnote{Note that $\Gamma\simeq 172$ if the
Wigner-Seitz radius $a = \sqrt[3]{3/4\pi\rho}$ is used as a unit length
instead of $1/\sqrt[3]{\rho}$.}. This expression for the melting curve is
widely used due to its particular simplicity and reasonable accuracy:
Deviations from numerical simulation data of Ref.~\cite{Hamaguchi1997} do
not exceed several percent, as long as $\kappa\lesssim 8$. Moreover,
similar arguments can be used to reasonably describe freezing of other
simple systems, e.g. Lennard-Jones-type fluids~\cite{Khrapak2011}.
Remarkably, when comparing the predicted glass-transition with the melting
curve, one observes that both transition lines run in parallel. The
glass-transition line is described by the function
\begin{equation}\label{eq:scale}
\Gamma^c(\kappa) = \Gamma^c_\text{OCP}\,e^{\kappa}
	\left(1+\kappa+\kappa^2/2\right)^{-1}\,,
\end{equation}
which is shown as solid line in Fig.~\ref{fig:PD1Y}, i.e., the glass
transition is found at 3.45 of the coupling strength of the melting curve.

The fit quality given by Eq.~(\ref{eq:scale}) is remarkable for two
distinct reasons: First, the potential changes quite drastically along the
line from a long-ranged interaction at low $\kappa$ to the paradigmatic
hard-sphere system at very large $\kappa$ to be detailed below. Such
simplicity along control-parameter dependent glass-transition lines is not
to be expected and not observed for other potentials, cf. the square-well
system \cite{Dawson2001,Sperl2004}. Second, the non-trivial changes along
the transition lines are apparently quite similar for the transition into
ordered and disordered solids alike, and Eq.~(\ref{eq:scale}) applies to
both. For the mentioned square-well system, ordered and disordered solids
have no such correlation \cite{Sperl2004}.

Since both MCT and the structural input involve approximations, typically
the glass transitions are found for higher couplings than predicted, the
deviation is around 10\% in the densities for the HSS \cite{Goetze2009}.
While one can expect that absolute values for transition points need to be
shifted to match experimental values \cite{Sperl2005}, the qualitative
evolution of glass-transition lines with control parameters is usually
quite accurate and even counterintuitive phenomena like melting by cooling
have been predicted successfully \cite{Dawson2001}. Hence, we assume the
description of the liquid-glass transitions in the single Yukawa system to
be qualitatively correct.

\subsection{Glass-Form Factors}

\begin{figure}[hbt]
\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{fq1Ylarge.eps}
\caption{\label{fig:fq1Y}Critical glass-form factors $f_q$ for the glass
transition in the single Yukawa system. For increasing screening
parameter $\kappa$, the inset shows the location of the respective
transition points on the MCT-transition line, cf. Fig.~\ref{fig:PD1Y},
with the same symbols as in the main panel. The full curve shows the
solution for the HSS within the HNC approximation. The result
for HSS within the PY approximation \cite{Franosch1997} is shown dashed.}
\end{figure}

The different points on the glass-transition lines shall be discussed in
detail in the following. For the well-known case of the glass transition
in the HSS, the critical form factors are shown by a full curve in
Fig.~\ref{fig:fq1Y}. Different from earlier results calculated for $S_q$
within the PY approximation \cite{Franosch1997}, here we also show the HSS
within the HNC approximation to be consistent with the Yukawa results. The
control parameter for the HSS is the packing fraction $\varphi = \rho
(\pi/6)\,d^3$ with the hard-core diameter $d$ as the unit of length. For
HNC, the transition point is found at a packing fraction of
$\varphi^c_\text{HSS} = 0.525$. This value as well as the behavior of
$f_q$ in Fig.~\ref{fig:fq1Y} is very close in HNC and the PY approximation
where $\varphi^c_\text{HSS} = 0.516$ \cite{Franosch1997}. It is seen that
the distribution of $f_q$ is dominated by a peak at interparticle
distances which indicate the cage effect \cite{Goetze2009,Franosch1997};
oscillations for higher wave vectors follow this length scale in a way
similar to the static structure factor. For both PY and HNC, the peak
positions for $f_q$ coincide, for the principal peak even the peak heights
are almost identical. For HNC, the $f_q$ are typically above the PY
solutions resulting in a 10\% larger half-width of the distribution of the
$f_q$ for the HNC. The predicted deviations between HNC and PY are mostly
indistinguishable when comparing to experiments except for the small-$q$
limit where experimental results favor the PY-MCT calculation, cf.
\cite{Megen1995,Goetze2009}.

For the Yukawa potential, overall the critical form factors exhibit
similar features as for the HSS. Different from the HSS, in the OCP limit
the form factors vanish for the limit $q\rightarrow 0$. This anomaly for
charged systems corresponds to the small wave-vector behavior in the
static structure $S_q\propto q^2$ for $q\rightarrow 0$ \cite{Hansen1986}.
Since in the OCP, mass and charge fluctuations are proportional to each
other, the conservation of momentum implies the conservation of the
microscopic electric current, and hence no damping of charge fluctuations
in the long wave-length limit. Considering Eq.~(\ref{eq:Fq}) we shall
demonstrate, that $f_q \propto q^2$ for small wave vectors.

Denoting $\theta$ as the angle between $\mathbf{q}$ and $\mathbf{k}$ we
can expand the direct correlation functions as:
\begin{equation}\label{eq:expanc}
c_{|\mathbf{q}-\mathbf{k}|}= c_k - c'_kq \;\text{cos}\; \theta+
\frac{1}{2} q^2 \text{cos}^2\theta c''_k- \frac{1}{6} q^3
\text{cos}^3\theta c'''_k
\end{equation}
where the primes represent the respective first, second and third
derivatives of $c_k$ with respect to $k$. Substituting
Eq.~(\ref{eq:expanc}) into Eq.~(\ref{eq:Fq}) leads to
\begin{subequations}\label{eq:Fqexp}
\begin {equation}\label{eq:Fqlimitmore}
{\cal F}_q[f_k] \rightarrow S_q \alpha +q^2 S_q \beta\,,
\end {equation}
where \cite{Bayer2007}
\begin{equation}
\alpha=\frac{1}{4\pi^2} \int_0^\infty dk k^2 S_k^2 [c_k^2 +
\frac{2}{3} k c_k c'_k+\frac{1}{5} k^2 {c'_k}^2] f_k^2 \,,
\end{equation}
and
\begin{equation}\label{eq:beta}
\begin{split}
\beta=&\frac{1}{4\pi^2} \int_0^\infty dk k^2
S_k^2 [\frac{1}{3}
{c'_k}^2+\frac{1}{28} k^2 {c''_k}^2+\frac{2}{5} k c'_k c''_k
\\&+\frac{1}{3}
c'_k c''_k+\frac{1}{15} k c_k c'''_k+\frac{1}{21} k^2 c'_k c''_k]
f_k^2\,.\end{split}
\end{equation}
The term linear in $q$ in Eq.~(\ref{eq:Fqlimitmore}) vanishes.
\end{subequations}
Similarly,
the small-$q$ expansion of the static structure factor in the OCP reads
\cite{Baus1980}
\begin{equation}\label{eq:sqlimit}
 S(q)= \frac{q^2}{k_D^2}+\frac{q^4}{k_D^4}[c^R(0)-1]+{\cal O}(q^6)
\end{equation}
where $k_D^2= 4 \pi \Gamma$ represents the inverse Debye length, and
$c^R(q)=c(q)-c^S(q)$ is the regular term of the direct correlation
function, assuming that at large distances particles can only be weakly
coupled, which creates the singular term $c^S(q)=-U(q)/k_\text{B}T$. From
Eq.~(\ref{eq:Fqlimitmore}) and Eq.~(\ref{eq:sqlimit}) we get
\begin {equation}\label{eq:Fqlimitmoreocp}
{\cal F}_q= q^2 \frac{\alpha}{k_D^2} + q^4[\frac{\beta}{k_D^2}
        +\frac{\alpha}{k_D^4}(c^R(0)-1)]+{\cal O}(q^6)\,.
\end{equation}
From Eq.~(\ref{eq:fq}) one can conclude that $f_q$ has the same limit as
$F_q$, hence we have shown that $f_q\propto q^2$ for vanishing $q$.

For non-vanishing screening, $\kappa > 0$, the small-$q$ behavior of the
form factors is characterized by finite intercepts at $q=0$. This regular
behavior is ensured by the $q\rightarrow0$ limit of $c^S_q =
-4\pi\Gamma/(q^2 + \kappa^2)$. For larger wave vectors, the $f_q$ first
decrease in comparison to OCP -- cf. $\kappa = 5.7$ ($\times$) and 14.0
($\blacktriangledown$) in Fig.~\ref{fig:fq1Y} -- before increasing beyond
the OCP result for $\kappa \gtrsim 30$. For very large screening, the form
factors of the Yukawa potential apparently approach the HSS case.

\subsection{HSS Limit}

By setting $U(d_\text{eff})/k_\text{B}T\sim 1$ for $\epsilon = 0$ in
Eq.~(\ref{eq:pot}) one can define an effective diameter that becomes a
well-defined hard-core diameter for $\kappa\rightarrow\infty$. Along the
glass-transition line $\Gamma^c(\kappa)$ the effective packing fraction
and diameter are given (with logarithmic accuracy) by
\begin{equation}\label{eq:HSSlimit}
\varphi^c_\text{eff} =
\frac{\pi}{6}\left(\frac{\ln\Gamma^c}{\kappa}\right)^3\,,\quad
d^c_\text{eff} = \ln\Gamma^c/\kappa\,,
\end{equation}
where only the definition of the packing fraction has been used.
Figure~\ref{fig:phieff} displays the effective packing fractions along the
single-Yukawa transition line up to $\kappa\approx 100$. For small
$\kappa$, the large effective diameter yields considerable
overlaps among the particles and hence a packing fraction beyond unity.
The effective hard-sphere diameter can be seen in the inset of
Fig.~\ref{fig:phieff}. For $\kappa\gtrsim 40$ the Yukawa potentials'
effective diameter $d^c_\text{eff}$ reaches its asymptotic value.
Together with the findings on the $f_q$ this establishes the crossover of
the glass-transition properties of the Yukawa system to the hard-sphere
limit. The relation in Eq.~(\ref{eq:scale}) fits effective diameters and
densities well for smaller $\kappa\lesssim 10$ and underestimates the
calculated values for larger $\kappa$, as expected.

\begin{figure}[htb]
\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{phi_eff.eps}
\caption{\label{fig:phieff}Effective packing fraction
$\varphi^c_\text{eff}$ for Yukawa potentials along the transition line in
Fig.~\ref{fig:PD1Y}. The horizontal dashed line shows the HSS-HNC limit of
$\varphi^c_\text{HSS} = 0.525$. The inset shows the effective hard-sphere
diameter, $d^c_\text{eff} = \ln\Gamma^c/\kappa$ equivalent to the
effective densities. In both plots, the dotted curves display the
small-$\kappa$ asymptotes derived from Eq.~(\ref{eq:scale}). }
\end{figure}

\section{Double-Yukawa Potential}

\subsection{Glass-Transition Diagrams}

\begin{figure}[bht]
\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{PD2Yscaled.eps}
\caption{\label{fig:PD2Ys}Glass transition diagram for double Yukawa
potentials with $\alpha = 0.125$, $\epsilon = 0.2$ (diamonds) and 0.01
(squares). The single Yukawa data (filled circles) is shown together with
the analytical description by Eq.~(\ref{eq:scale}) (solid curve labeled
$\epsilon = 0$). The single Yukawa points are scaled according to
Eq.~(\ref{eq:scale2Y}) for $\epsilon = 0.2$, and shown by open circles.
Dotted  and dashed curves represent scaled versions of
Eq.~(\ref{eq:scale}) for $\epsilon = 0.01$ and $\epsilon = 0.2$,
respectively. The solid curves labeled $\epsilon = 0.01$ and $\epsilon =
0.2$, respectively, show the solution of Eq.~(\ref{eq:scaleall}).
}
\end{figure}

Progressing towards the double Yukawa potentials, we show in
Fig.~\ref{fig:PD2Ys} the results of MCT calculations for the same relative
screening $\alpha = 0.125$ and a weak ($\epsilon = 0.01$) as well as a
strong ($\epsilon = 0.2$) second repulsion. In both cases, for small
$\kappa$ the transition lines start at OCP and follow the single-Yukawa
line. After a crossover regime, for $\kappa \gtrsim 15$ for $\epsilon =
0.01$ and $\kappa \gtrsim 10$ for $\epsilon = 0.2$, the transitions are
described well by rescaling the original single-Yukawa results according
to
\begin{equation}\label{eq:scale2Y}
\Gamma' = \Gamma/\epsilon,\quad\kappa' = \kappa/\alpha\,.
\end{equation}
In Fig.~\ref{fig:PD2Ys}, scaling by Eq.~(\ref{eq:scale2Y}) is demonstrated
by transforming the MCT results for $\epsilon = 0$ (full circles) into
a rescaled version (open circles) for $\epsilon = 0.2$ which compares well
to the full MCT calculation for the double Yukawa potential (diamonds).
Similarly, formula~(\ref{eq:scale}) can be used to describe all double
Yukawa results for small screening lengths, and the results for large
screening lengths by scaling Eq.~(\ref{eq:scale}) with
Eq.~(\ref{eq:scale2Y}). The dotted and dashed curves in
Fig.~\ref{fig:PD2Ys} exhibit the scaled curves for $\epsilon = 0.01$ and
0.2, respectively. The linear combination of the analytical descriptions
for both length scales reads
\begin{equation}\label{eq:scaleall}
\begin{array}{l}
\Gamma^c(\kappa)/\Gamma^c_\text{OCP} =
\left[e^{-\kappa}(1+\kappa+\kappa^2/2)\right.\\\left.
\qquad\qquad\qquad
+\epsilon\, e^{-\kappa\alpha}(1+\kappa\alpha+\kappa^2\alpha^2/2)
\right]^{-1}\,,\end{array}
\end{equation}
and is demonstrated by the solid line for $\epsilon = 0.01$ in
Fig.~\ref{fig:PD2Ys}. It is seen that Eq.~(\ref{eq:scaleall}) describes
the MCT results for double Yukawa potentials for the entire range of
control parameters including crossover regions. In conclusion, the
MCT predictions for both single and double Yukawa potentials can be
rationalized by a single analytical formula (\ref{eq:scale}) which traces
the melting curve, captures the interplay between large and small
repulsive length scales, and extends for all parameters from OCP to HSS.

\subsection{Localization Lengths}

Another length scale resulting from the dynamical MCT calculations is
given by the localization length. It is defined from the long-time limit
of the mean-squared displacement $\delta r^2(t) = \langle|r(t) - r(0)|^2
\rangle$ as ${r_{s}}^c=\sqrt{\lim_{t\rightarrow\infty}\delta r^2(t)/6}$.
For the glass transition in the HSS, MCT predicts a localization length
within HNC of $r_{s}^c/d = 0.0634$. This scale is quite close to the
classical result of a Lindemann length \cite{Lindemann1910}.

For the single and double Yukawa potential, the evolution of the
localization length with $\kappa$ is demonstrated in Fig.~\ref{fig:loc}.
From a value of $r_{s}^c = 0.070$ for OCP, the localization lengths
increase for the single Yukawa potential, reach a maximum around $\kappa
\approx 10$ and decrease to the values for HSS for large $\kappa$. The
maximum can be interpreted as follows: The widths of the distributions in
$f_q$ seen in Fig.~\ref{fig:fq1Y} correspond to an inverse length scale
equivalent to ${r_{s}}^c$, and the smaller width of the $f_q$ mean an
increase of ${r_{s}}^c$. For large $\kappa$, the localization length needs
to approach the HSS value, hence the ${r_{s}}^c$ decrease again. Both
trends together yield a maximum.

\begin{figure}[htb]
\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{rsc_12Y.eps}
\caption{\label{fig:loc} Localization length for single Yukawa (full
circles) and double Yukawa (diamonds) potential with $\alpha = 0.125$ and
$\epsilon = 0.2$. The open circles show the single-Yukawa data scaled
according to Eq.~(\ref{eq:scale2Y}). The horizontal dashed line shows the
HSS limit for $r_{s}^c$.
}
\end{figure}

The localization lengths for the double Yukawa system follows the
single-Yukawa results for small $\kappa\lesssim 5$ as observed in
Fig.~\ref{fig:PD2Ys} and hence increases; for $\kappa\gtrsim 5$, the
double Yukawa system approaches the scaled single-Yukawa results shown by
the circles. For larger $\kappa$, the evolution follows the scaled
single-Yukawa results and while deviating for $\kappa\gtrsim 50$ from the
scaled results, a scaled maximum is reached around $\kappa\approx 80$.

Altogether, the variation of the localization lengths is around 10\% which
is small compared to other glass-transition diagrams \cite{Sperl2004}.
Hence we conclude that for both single- and double-Yukawa potentials the
MCT results for the localization length are always close to the values
usually assumed for the Lindemann criterion.

\section{Conclusion}

In summary, we have demonstrated above the full glass-transition diagram
for the single and double Yukawa systems. While some parallel running
lines for limited parameter ranges have been shown earlier for logarithmic
core potential plus Yukawa tail \cite{Foffi2003star,Sciortino2004}, here
we describe the transition diagrams by analytical formulae. In particular
it could be shown how the HSS limit continuously evolves into the OCP
limit. We have shown that the glass-transition lines resulting from the
combination of HNC and MCT -- two rather complex nonlinear functionals --
can be described analytically over their entire range from the OCP limit
for small $\kappa$ to the HSS limit for large $\kappa$. Qualitatively, the
behavior of the transition line can be estimated by the Lindemann
criterion for melting \cite{Lindemann1910}, while quantitatively, glass
transition and crystal melting are following remarkably similar trends for
stronger coupling.

It is important to note that the present calculations were performed for
point particles with various degrees of charging and screening. The limit
of the HSS emerges from that calculations without actual excluded volume
in the potentials. With the important difference of a finite hard-sphere
radius being present, the possibility that in addition to a Coulomb
crystal a dilute system of charges may also form a Coulomb glass was
explored in the restricted primitive model for a mixture of charged hard
spheres \cite{Bosse1998} and the hard-sphere jellium model
\cite{Wilke1999} as well as for a system of charged hard spheres to
describe charge-stabilized colloidal suspensions \cite{Lai1995}. In
conclusion, the present calculations offer exhaustive analytical
descriptions for glass transitions over a wide range of quite different
interaction potentials. The predictions should motivate data collapse from
computer simulation and different experimental model systems in order to
confirm or challenge the unified picture presented above.

Financial support within the ERC (Advanced grant INTERCOCOS, project
number 267499) is gratefully acknowledged.

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To the east are Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Sciana (Puerto Rico), with a large Spanish flag planted on it, indicating Spain's Caribbean possessions and the line defined by the Treaty of Tordesillas. A Portuguese banner is off of the coast of what is today Brazil. At the border between Central and South America, an area named Paria is indicated as having gold and pearls, as Columbus reportedly found during his voyage.
In South America, Münster includes an illustration of cannibals (Canibali) in the northeast, in present-day Brazil. To the northwest is Catigara, or Cattigara, a city originally referred to by Ptolemy as the most southeasterly point in the known world. Ptolemy placed Cattigara on his Great Promontory, or land bridge between Asia and Africa. This bridge between Asia and Africa having been disproven, Münster believed the Great Promontory to be America and thus located his Catigara on the coast of present-day Peru. To the southeast is the Regio Gigantum, a supposed land of giant Patagonian people as reportedly seen by Magellan on his circumnavigation. The Strait of Magellan is indicated at the southern tip of South America.
To the east of the American continent is the Atlantic Ocean, with the large Portuguese flag in the South Atlantic. Spain and the western edge of Africa can be seen at the eastern border of the map.
To the west of the American continent, the Pacific Ocean (Mare Pacificum) appears for the first time on a map using the modern name given to it by Magellan. The ocean is shrunk so that Japan (Zipangri) appears to be just off the coast of Mexico. Japan's presence on the map appears three years before Europeans' earliest known contact with the country, revealing the influence of Marco Polo's accounts. Many small islands around and to the west of Japan are labeled Archipelagus 7448 insularũ, referring to Polo's account of a series of 7,448 islands—the Philippines. A land mass in the northwest of the map is indicated as India Superior, with the regions of Cathay and Quinsay indicated in China.
South of Japan in the Pacific is a large illustration of the Victoria, the only surviving ship of five on Magellan's voyage. At the southwest border of the map is part of an island named Calensuan, whose origin is unclear, although it may be a variation of Ceylon.
The map title (one of the ways to identify the various states of this map) appears at top in sentence-case serif lettering, with red marks through the capital T in Tabula, O in Occidentales, and I in Indianas. A black leaf motif is printed on either side of the title.
Aside from being the earliest printed map to depict the Americas in true continental form, Münster's use of the name America (here seen as Americam in the phrase printed on South America) cemented it as the name for the New World. The name America had first appeared in Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 wall map of the world, derived from the name of explorer Amerigo Vespucci.
Passage to the West and Verrazzano
Almost as soon as Europeans discovered the Americas, they eagerly searched for a passage that would allow them to traverse the continent by water. In the present map, North America is almost bisected by a large body of water jutting down through what is today Canada, leaving only a thin isthmus connecting it.
Münster's depiction of this misconception in the present map derives from Verrazzano's 1524 voyage. As he passed the Outer Banks of present-day North Carolina, Verrazzano thought he saw a vast "oriental sea," sometimes referred to as the Sea of Verrazzano, leading to Cathay and the Spice Islands. What he likely saw was the long sandbar from the Pamlico to Albemarle Sounds. This misconception is depicted in several sixteenth-century European maps, including Münster's.
This false idea of a vast eastern sea gradually transformed into the myth of a great Western Sea, centering on the story of Juan de Fuca, the Castilianized name of Greek navigator Ioánnis Fokás (Phokás). Little archival evidence survives of Fuca's career, but a chance meeting with an English financier, Michael Lok, in Venice in 1596 gave birth to rumors of Fuca's voyages in the Pacific. Fuca reported that he had been sent north from New Spain twice in 1592 in search of the Strait of Anian. Fuca supposedly traveled up a vast straight at the northernmost point of the west coast of America, around which he sailed for more than twenty days. The Spanish Crown failed to reward Fuca's discovery of an opening in the coast at roughly 47° N latitude and Fuca left the Spanish service embittered. His story lived on in Lok's letters and eventually was published in Samuel Purchas' travel collection of 1625. Fuca's account led to the depiction of a Western Sea in many maps of that time.
Publication of the map and states
The first state of the present map appeared in 1540 in Münster's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia in an added section of updated maps. Münster included a set of continental maps in this modern section, with this map representing America.
Münster then included it in his Cosmographia, starting in 1544, which was very popular, with nearly forty editions published in the following 100 years. Münster's Cosmographia was the first influential German description of the world. The present map in its various states was the best known and most widely circulated map of the Americas until Abraham Ortelius' map of 1570.
This is a seventh state of the map. There are thirteen known states, with differences in the spelling of Atlantica in South America, the use of Temistitan and Penuco in Mexico, as well as several changes:
State 1 1540 Atlātica Temistitan NOVVS ORBIS in North and South America
State 2 ca. 1544 Atlātica Temistitan Regio Gigantium in South America moved to the east of the small river
State 3 1544 Atlātica Temistitan NOVVS ORBIS removed, Die Nüw Welt widely spaced
State 4 1548 Atlantica Temistitan
State 5 1550 Atlantica Temistitan Die Nüw... is moved lower down, and replaced by Nouus orbis
State 6 1552 Atlantica Temistitan Latitude and longitude bars added outside the map
Stare 7 1554 Atlantica (not present) Latitude and longitude bars removed
State 8 1558 Atlantica (not present) Sciona from the foot of the flag is removed
State 9 1558 oua Insula… (not present)
State 10 1559 oua Insula… (not present) Sciona replaced, but in italics
State 11 1561 Nova Insula… (not present)
State 12 1569 Nova Insula… (not present) Panuco removed from the Gulf of Mexico
State 13 1572 Nova Insula… Temistitan Panuco replaced
This important map today is fairly rare on the market, and it is a significant addition to any collection of the Americas.
Schwartz/Ehrenberg, pp. 43, 45, 50; Cortazzi, H. Isles of Gold, pl. 12; Tooley, R.V. Maps and Mapmakers, p. 112, pl. 80; Burden 12.
Sebastian Munster Biography
Sebastian Münster (1488-1552) was a cosmographer and professor of Hebrew who taught at Tübingen, Heidelberg, and Basel. He settled in the latter in 1529 and died there, of plague, in 1552. Münster made himself the center of a large network of scholars from whom he obtained geographic descriptions, maps, and directions.
As a young man, Münster joined the Franciscan order, in which he became a priest. He then studied geography at Tübingen, graduating in 1518. He moved to Basel, where he published a Hebrew grammar, one of the first books in Hebrew published in Germany. In 1521 Münster moved again, to Heidelberg, where he continued to publish Hebrew texts and the first German-produced books in Aramaic. After converting to Protestantism in 1529, he took over the chair of Hebrew at Basel, where he published his main Hebrew work, a two-volume Old Testament with a Latin translation.
Münster published his first known map, a map of Germany, in 1525. Three years later, he released a treatise on sundials. In 1540, he published Geographia universalis vetus et nova, an updated edition of Ptolemy's Geographia. In addition to the Ptolemaic maps, Münster added 21 modern maps. One of Münster's innovations was to include one map for each continent, a concept that would influence Ortelius and other early atlas makers. The Geographia was reprinted in 1542, 1545, and 1552.
He is best known for his Cosmographia universalis, first published in 1544 and released in at least 35 editions by 1628. It was the first German-language description of the world and contained 471 woodcuts and 26 maps over six volumes. Many of the maps were taken from the Geographia and modified over time. The Cosmographia was widely used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The text, woodcuts, and maps all influenced geographical thought for generations.
Antique Maps / World / Western Hemisphere
Antique Maps / America
L'Amerique Suivant les dernieres Relations, avec les Routes que l'on tient pour Les Indes Occidentales par P. Du-val Geographe Ordinaire du Roy. . . 1679.
Pierre Du Val's Wall Map of America & The Pacific Ocean
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Hondius' Impressive Map of the Americas Featuring Anian and Quivira
[English Edition!] Maris Pacifici quod vulgo Mar del Zud
Rare English Edition of The First Map of the Pacific Ocean from the First Modern Atlas
La America Dispuesta segun las ultimas y nuevas observationes de las Accademias, y de Paris, y de Londres [Bay or Sea of the West--Very Rare]
Rare Spanish Language Map of The Americas with the Sea of the West
Scarce map of America, showing California as an island, from the Thesaurus Geographicus, a scarce late 17th century English publication.
L'Amerique Divisee Selon Quelle Est Possedee Par Les Puissances Europeennes Suivant les derniers Traites . . . MDCCLXXIX [Bay of the West]
De La Fosse's map of America is one of the rarest of all maps to show the Bay of the West.


Paraguay's central bank left its monetary policy rate steady at 5.25 percent, saying the economy continues to expand moderately while inflation has been on a downward trajectory in recent months but the outlook remains consistent with the inflation objective.
In December Paraguay's inflation rate eased to 3.2 percent, below BCP's 4.0 percent target, while the economy was estimated to have expanded 4.0 percent in 2018 and is forecast to expand at the same rate in 2019.
In November the IMF said BCP's policy rate was supportive of growth and credit is growing by an annual 14 percent, boosting domestic demand.
"External developments, including economic developments in Brazil and Argentina pose downside risks, but Paraguay has demonstrated resilience to past recessions in these countries. Monetary policy will have to strike a balance between supporting the economy and preventing overheating," the IMF said on Nov. 15, 2018.


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Clean Truck Program rolls along
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The NWSA and partners help drivers get ready for new emission standards
Inderpal Tatla's new truck doesn't spew plumes of black exhaust into the air like his old one did. Instead, his 2012 Cascadia Freightliner emits mostly water and nitrogen as he hauls containers up and down Interstate 5.
There was plenty of life left in his 2004 truck and he hoped to squeeze more out of that investment, but he upgraded so he'd be ready when The Northwest Seaport Alliance banned higher-polluting trucks from its international terminals. Tatla says the change was a financial challenge, but a worthwhile one.
"Climate change and pollution are really scary and if there is something we can do about it, we should," Tatla said. "It's always painful to take those initial steps, but they pay off later on."
Eleven years in the making, the ports of Seattle and Tacoma have worked with truckers to make those initial steps a little less painful. Starting Jan. 1, 2019, NWSA international container terminals will only be serviced by trucks with 2007 and newer engines or certified equivalent emission control systems.
Diesel emissions increase the risk of asthma, cancer and heart disease and newer engines emit 90% less diesel particulate matter than those manufactured before 2007. While the Clean Truck Program was a voluntary initiative to reduce port-related diesel and greenhouse gas emissions, it also brought on complex challenges.
The seaport is serviced by nearly 4,000 trucks, many of which are driven by owner-operators who could not easily buy a new truck that cost anywhere from $30,000 to $60,000 or even more. Some said upgrading would put them out of business. Many drivers are immigrants, and some had problems understanding how to apply for programs designed to assist them, Tatla said.
With thousands of drivers, hundreds of trucking companies and multiple terminal operators, NWSA Chief Operations Officer Dustin Stoker, said the Clean Truck Program is one of NWSA's most significant initiatives. "The amount of coordination, communication and work with so many stakeholders is very complicated."
A decade in the works
The Clean Truck Program was proposed in 2008 after the ports of Seattle, Tacoma and Vancouver, British Columbia, agreed to reduce emissions. The Northwest Ports Clean Air Strategy called for an 80% reduction in diesel particulate matter per cargo ton by 2020.
"It is about being proactive and working together so that we can demonstrate good environmental stewardship particularly around air quality," said Jason Jordan, Port of Tacoma's environmental programs director.
The agreement meant changes for ships, harbor crafts, locomotives and every other vehicle servicing the ports. The 2016 emissions inventory showed significant improvement and gave much of the credit to stricter fuel and engine standards and more efficient operations.
The Clean Truck Program was originally set to go into effect Jan. 1, 2018, but as the date approached only 53% of trucks were compliant.
"Determining how many trucks are needed is a complicated calculus," said Sara Cederberg, NWSA's environmental senior project manager. With twice as many trucks serving the NWSA gateway than the Port of Vancouver, British Columbia, turning away nearly half of the trucks seemed extreme.
Cederberg said it was difficult contacting independent drivers, but as the deadline drew closer, truckers organized. "It took some time, but we all agreed that we wanted cleaner air," she said. "But there was a lot of debate about how to do it, who should pay for it and timing."
In early 2018, the NWSA Managing Members voted to extend the deadline through the end of the year. And efforts ramped up to help truckers prepare for the new, carved-in-stone deadline.
Helping drivers
Tatla bought his new truck in 2017, but missed out on a scrapping program run by NWSA and the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency.
Using various pots of grant money, the program gave truckers as much as $27,000 to scrap older trucks and purchase newer ones.
The program scrapped 413 trucks before it ran out of funding.
Tatla secured a loan on his own to buy his new truck, but some weren't as fortunate. Lenders consider the loans risky, Graham said, and many truckers faced annual percentage rates of 20 to 25%.
Helping truckers get manageable rates required a team effort and changing a state law that prohibited the port from using public money for privately-owned equipment. Once the law was amended, the NWSA joined the Department of Ecology, the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency and the City of Seattle in pooling $2.8 million to fund a loan loss program.
The program backed loans offered by Harborstone Credit Union and Opportunity Fund. The loans are capped at 7 years and 15%, Graham said. The first 157 loans included a $6,000 bonus for those scrapping a non-compliant truck.
Sound Outreach was enlisted to provide financial counseling for truckers. The alliance also partnered with the California South Coast Air Quality Management District to provide 10 deeply-discounted trucks for purchase if truckers scrapped a truck with a pre-2007 engine.
"Climate change and pollution are really scary and if there is something we can do about it, we should." - Inderpal Tatla, truck driver serving the NWSA gateway
Driving differently
Tatla drives more than 60,000 miles per year and so far his new truck is trouble free. He considers himself lucky, because "I know people who've had to spend money on repairs after buying new trucks."
This doesn't surprise Mark Sturdevant of Warner Truck Centers. "The new trucks are very complicated and sensitive to lack of maintenance," said Sturdevant, who spoke to drivers at a summer workshop, hosted by the NWSA and the African Chamber of Commerce of the Pacific Northwest.
Replacing an emissions system could cost $13,000 or void the trucks' warranty, so educating truckers about how to drive and care for the new trucks is vital.
Newer trucks have as many as seven computers and numerous sensors. Those who are proactive, read and understand their owner's manual, visit knowledgeable mechanics and contact manufacturers to determine their truck's duty cycle will find that new trucks are as reliable as older, simpler models, Sturdevant said.
Additionally, drivers must avoid idling for too long so they don't build up soot in their diesel particulate filters. The soot burns off when the exhaust system heats up while hauling loads on longer trips. If soot builds up, truckers might have to pull over and push a button to initiate the filter regeneration process. This could take up to 45 minutes. The good news, Sturdevant said, learning to stay in front of the process will eliminate this downtime.
Tatla enjoys his new truck but remains nervous about possible pricey repairs and maintenance down the road. He'd like the NWSA to find a way to subsidize these expenses.
There aren't plans to do this, Jordan said, "although we are turning over every stone and looking at every opportunity to continue to help truckers and the trucking community."
While the NWSA is committed to allowing 2007 and newer engines and equivalents through 2025, other West Coast ports have implemented much stringent initiatives. As of October 2018, new trucks entering service at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach must be model year 2014 or newer. In Vancouver, British Columbia, engines can't be older than 10 years.
In addition to the cleaner-burning trucks, the NWSA is also requiring RFID tags to enter international terminals to collect data that can be used to make operations more efficient. This could translate to more income for drivers through faster turn times, Stoker said.
Tatla hopes the Clean Truck Program someday improves his bottom line, but for now he's content knowing he's part of a team effort to improve air quality.
"I am a very environmentally-friendly person," Tatla said. "I would love to see generations after us living on this planet in a healthy atmosphere."
NWSA-operated breakbulk terminals set new record
NWSA YTD November TEU volumes down 9.5%
The Northwest Seaport Alliance & Port of Seattle Response to US Coast Guard Draft PEIS
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The Northwest Seaport Alliance announces partnership with Busan Port Authority to further decarbonization of ports at United Nations Climate Conference
The Northwest Seaport Alliance is a marine cargo operating partnership of the ports of Seattle and Tacoma. Combined, the ports are the fourth-largest container gateway in the United States. Regional marine cargo facilities also are a major center for bulk, breakbulk, project/heavy-lift cargoes, automobiles and trucks.


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Congress-ruled states may pass resolution against CAA
By FPJ Bureau
One suggestion is that such a resolution would be moved by a member of an Assembly, not by the government.
Former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram
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New Delhi: The Congress-ruled states are likely to pass resolutions against CAA in the coming weeks and also halt the process of National Population Register. Sources said they are evaluating legal ramifications of the proposed resolution.
One suggestion is that such a resolution would be moved by a member of an Assembly, not by the government. The Congress has informed its Chief Ministers and alliance partners to adopt a resolution against CAA.
So far Kerala has passed a resolution against CAA, while the Trinamool Congress-West Bengal government has already said it is against the new law.
Bhopal: Congress urges use of ballot paper in civic body polls
The Opposition meet on Monday asked all the like-minded CMs to stop the NPR process. "The CAA, NPR or NRC is a package which is unconstitutional, as it specifically targets the poor, the SC/STs and linguistic & religious minorities.
NPR is the basis for NRC. We demand the withdrawal of CAA and the immediate stoppage of the nationwide NRC/NPR," a resolution by Opposition parties said.
"All the CMs who have announced they will not implement NRC in their state must consider suspending the NPR enumeration as this is a prelude to the NRC," said the resolution. Earlier the Congress Working Committee also issued a resolution on CAA.
The CWC said the Narendra Modi government had "unleashed the brute state power to suppress, subjugate and stifle the voice of youth and students across the country.
"A concerted attack on the Constitution, rampant unemployment, commercialisation of education, unprecedented fee hikes and autocratic refusal to listen to the voice and concerns of youth-students have led to spontaneous protests across university campuses," it said.
Meanwhile, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram attacked the Modi government over the state of the economy, saying if unemployment rises and incomes decline, there is a danger of youth and students "exploding in anger". "The nation is engrossed with the anti-CAA, anti-NPR protests. Both present a clear and present danger," PC said.
"If unemployment rises and incomes decline, there is the danger of youth and students exploding in anger," he said. "The circle of incompetent management is complete.
Modi government started in July 2014 with CPI inflation at 7.39%. In December 2019, it was 7.35%. Food inflation stands at 14.12%. Vegetable prices are up 60%. Onion prices are over Rs100 per kg. This is the 'achhe din' promised by the BJP," he said.


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Toronto's Alexander Kerfoot has been suspended for two games for Boarding Colorado's Erik Johnson – Is it too much?
Kerfoot suspended two games
Toronto Maple Leafs forward Alex Kerfoot has been handed a two-game ban for his hit on Colorado Avalanche defenseman Erik Johnson, the NHL's Department of Player Safety announced Monday.
The incident occurred in the second period of Saturday's contest.
Johnson remained in the game and Kerfoot was handed a two-minute minor for boarding.
Kerfoot's absence will keep him out for the remaining two games of the Maple Leafs' road trip.
The 25-year-old is bogged down in a six-game pointless streak and will have to wait longer to get back on the scoresheet.
The Vancouver native's bottom-six spot in the lineup will go to either Dmytro Timashov or Nick Shore.
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Of course, that statement only rang true if one assumed that "nobody" was the president's nickname for himself. But at least Trump is learning. After campaigning on the idea that his success in business would make him uniquely qualified to enact change in Washington from day one, Trump and his defenders in Congress have argued that he needs some time to get a feel for his new gig — but fear not, he's a fast learner.
The trouble is, Trump seems to have taken a very narrow lesson from the health-care debacle. Like a child who has learned not to touch hot pans after burning his fingers — but remains eager to play with his mother's hot iron — the president now knows that health care is complicated, but has gained little humility about the legislative process more broadly.
By April 29, Republicans need to pass a spending bill to avert a government shutdown. That bill is going to need Democratic support in the Senate. But it also may very well need the support of tea-party hard-liners in the House. And the latter aren't keen on voting for spending bills that don't defund Planned Parenthood. When Obama was president, the House GOP relied on Democratic votes to keep the government open. But now, with the donkey party out of the White House — and Republicans likely to be blamed for any government failure under their watch — Democrats might be willing to force a shutdown over Trump's border wall.
Then, the GOP needs to come to agreement on a 2018 budget proposal, raise the debt ceiling, and, according to Trump and Paul Ryan, pass some kind of tax reform.
That seems like a rather full plate for a party that couldn't even get a vote on a bill it had seven years to write. But Trump is pretty sure he can walk, chew gum, and freestyle rap at the same time.
The Trump administration is looking at driving tax reform and infrastructure concurrently, according to a White House source with direct knowledge.
It's a major strategic shift — infrastructure was likely going to be parked until next year — and is only possible because of last week's healthcare debacle. President Trump feels burned by the ultra conservative House Freedom Caucus and is ready to deal with Democrats. Dangling infrastructure spending is an obvious way to buy the support of potentially dozens of Dems, meaning he wouldn't have to bargain with the hardliners.
The administration may have made some progress on that front Monday, when it received a list of 26 requested projects from North America's Building Trades Unions. More than half of those projects are privately financed, according to McClatchy, and many are looking merely for regulatory measures to expedite the permitting process. The one project seeking taxpayer funding is the $20 billion Gateway project, which would add new rail capacity between New Jersey and New York.
Regardless, trying to build an infrastructure plan from scratch, while refining a tax-reform plan — and then pass them both, simultaneously, seems a bit hubristic.
Although, a lot depends on how liberally Trump is using the phrase "tax reform." Right now, American corporations are hoarding $2 trillion overseas. There's already a modicum of bipartisan support for allowing those companies to repatriate that money at a reduced rate, and then plowing the onetime windfall into infrastructure spending.
But even then, Trump will have little guarantee of Democratic support. Team Blue has internalized Mitch McConnell's infamous insight — in American politics, the opposition party derives little electoral benefit from helping the other side's president secure bipartisan accomplishments.
Thus, to gain enough Democratic votes to compensate for the House Freedom Caucus's allergy to government spending, Trump will probably need to put forward a good deal of direct public investment, not merely targeted tax credits and regulatory reforms.
And even if he makes a real effort to reach across the aisle, he's already given the Democrats plenty of pretexts for slapping his hand away. To name just one: Democrats could refuse to play ball until he released his tax returns.
Nearly four years ago, President Obama proposed a "grand bargain" combining corporate tax reform and infrastructure spending. The opposition party sat on its hands.
Trump's bet is that a president with less legislative experience — and a long history of insulting and defaming the opposition party — will have more success. Granted, Trump has some big advantages over his predecessor. His party controls both houses of Congress, and a lot of vulnerable red-state Senate Democrats are up for reelection in 2018.
Still, it's hard not to suspect that Trump is setting himself up for another, bitter learning experience.


The former president and chairman of Oklahoma-based First State Bank of Altus is heading to jail for four years.
67-year old Paul Doughty approved a series of loans to companies he controlled that led to the bank's failure in 2009 at a cost of $25 million to the FDIC insurance fund.
His partner in several business ventures, Fred Anderson, also 67, pled guilty to one count of bank fraud and testified against him at the trail. He is serving 18 months in jail.
The jury heard that in 2006 and 2007, Doughty and Anderson recruited buyers for 19 Colorado real estate lots priced at approximately $700,000 each. Doughty approved and issued 14 lot loans to buyers, totaling more than $10,000,000 in loan proceeds for the seller, Mountain Adventure Property Investments. MAPI was a Colorado company that Anderson had an indirect ownership interest in and where he served as president and manager.
Evidence at trial showed that each loan exceeded Doughty's individual lending authority at FSB, and most of the loans were issued without approval of FSB's loan committee, including a $580,000 loan to Anderson's personal company. The jury heard that Doughty and Anderson presented lots to borrowers as "zero money down" investments, and that the down payments for the purchases were often advanced or refunded to the buyers by Anderson on behalf of MAPI. Doughty and Anderson also assured the buyers that MAPI would make all payments on the loans to the bank. The jury heard that on the few occasions when Doughty presented a Colorado loan to FSB's loan committee, he misrepresented the source and amount of borrowers' down payments and the borrowers' responsibility for making payment on the loans.
Second, trial evidence showed that Doughty funded five so-called "senior life settlement" loans through FSB in 2008. Each loan was $2.5 million, and one of the loans went to Anderson's personal company. Doughty and Anderson recruited borrowers to take out these "self-paying" loans to provide money for investments in Altus-based Quartz Mountain Aerospace. Evidence at trial showed that a portion of the loan proceeds was invested in QMA, and another portion would pay the loan's interest. The remaining proceeds on the loans would buy and maintain third-party life insurance policies, where the death benefits on the third parties were intended to repay the loan's principal. The jury heard that each loan exceeded Doughty's lending authority, and that he issued at least $10,000,000 in senior life settlement loans without FSB's loan committee or board approval. With each loan, Doughty and Anderson directed $125,000 in "service fee"" to Altus Ventures, a company under their control. The jury heard evidence that at the time the loans were issued, the fees to Altus Ventures were not disclosed to FSB or to the borrowers taking out those loans.
Third, the jury heard evidence that in January 2008, Doughty arranged a $2 million loan from FSB to Ethanol Products Group, a startup company in which both Anderson and Doughty had ownership interests. Evidence showed that Doughty advanced the $2 million from FSB, above his individual lending authority, without approval by FSB's loan committee or board. Soon before issuing the loan, Doughty e-mailed Anderson his "cash strategy" for two other companies they controlled; the "strategy" showed all the EPG loan proceeds would be directed to companies controlled by Anderson and Doughty, ultimately diverting $100,000 in "officer bonuses" to Anderson and Doughty.
The jury heard evidence over seven days, and deliberated about seven hours before reaching a verdict. The jury acquitted Doughty on three charges.


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