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SEN. LOREN LEGARDA, NPC AND NP VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE PUSHED TUESDAY COMMON UNDERSTANDING, HARMONY AND COOPERATION BETWEEN MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS IN BARING HER "AGENDA FOR PEACE AND PROGRESS" IN MINDANAO.
Loren said the agenda is based on the open letter sent by a group of Muslim scholars to Pope Benedict XVI on Oct. 11, 2007, titled "A Common Word Between Us and You."
The senator, an honorary Muslim princess, made the remarks before the Ulama summit held at the Waterfront Hotel in Davao City.
Loren said that the letter gave the message that "Rather than fight each other in conflicts where no one can win, both Christians and Muslims should vie with each other in acts of righteousness and good works; to be fair, just and kind to one another.
"The message is particularly relevant to Mindanao whose diverse social landscape – a land shared by Muslims, Christians and Lumads – suffered conflict, poverty and marginalization over the past three decades."
Loren said it was time to seriously examine and explore new ways for an effective and sustained peace negotiation process that will bring about long-term political settlement.
"In the short term, we need to protect civilians and call for a ceasefire," she said. "We should demilitarize ARMM (Autonomous Region for Muslims Mndanao) and strengthen the National Police Force. As measures of good governance, we must give the Muslims significant representation and participation in government, create the Shari'ah Appellate Court, and immediately mobilize government resources to rehabilitate conflict-affected areas in Mindanao.


It's that time of the year: the time when we here at 4seating wrap up the year in film. The year provided us with no shortage of surprises, which perhaps climaxed with the full-blown international incident that accompanied "The Interview". Interest in the bedeviled film was so high, that it managed to gross a very respectable $18 million in its opening weekend, with a limited theatrical release and groundbreaking online streaming. The innocuous action-comedy may yet end up bringing about a paradigm shift in the way Hollywood markets its films, with the online world now grabbing a slice of the pie previously reserved first for theaters. And theaters have a lot to worry about, with the rise in home theaters providing an ideal venue for a movie in online release.
1. BOYHOOD: this film, shot over a period of 12 years, traces the coming of age of a young boy until he reaches his freshman year of college. Being able to witness actor Ellar Coltrane grow up in real time, right before your eyes, is truly astonishing as the scope of the film takes in traumatic family events with a post 9-11 America as its backdrop. The film manages to capture the elusive essence of life even amidst the drama, and is ultimately uplifting without resorting to 'feel-good' cliches. Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke give moving performances as the boy's estranged parents. The film is an Oscar favorite, and even President Obama named it his pick for 2014. This is one of the most ambitious and unusual films to emerge from Hollywood in years, if not decades.
2. THE BABADOOK: when William Friedkin--the director of "The Exorcist"--said this was the scariest film he's ever seen, audiences took notice. An Australian indie film shot on a low budget, "The Babadook" dispenses with makeup and gore and goes for eerie psychological thrills, as a monster from a children's book comes to life and torments the mother of a mentally disturbed six-year old boy. When we do see the monster, it is one modeled after century-old designs, as if ripped out of a Victorian nightmare; director Jennifer Kent insisted that it be a real figure, neither constructed or enhanced digitally. As the mother slowly descends in to madness, her performance keeps you locked at the edge of your seat.
3. INTERSTELLAR: Christopher Nolan has rapidly risen to become one of Hollywood's most intelligent directors of sci-fi blockbuster fare. He followed up the uber-complicated hit "Inception" with this space opera, which focuses on the search for habitable worlds by means of a wormhole that has suddenly been detected near Saturn. A father's fractured relationship with his daughter is at the heart of the tale, and provides much of the emotional pull. The film finds its way to distant planets of oceans and ice, but kicks into a higher gear when it gets all quantum physics on the viewer. The film is elegantly constructed, but you'll need to put your thinking cap on to fully appreciate what is happening on screen.
4. THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL: another quirky, quasi-surreal comedy from the mind of Wes Anderson, this delightful romp centers around the relationship between a hotel concierge and his lowly assistant, as the former is framed for murder. The young boy helps his mentor escape prison and find the real perpetrator, but the plot isn't really the focus, here--it's all about the decidedly bizarre series of events that are set in motion by what happens. The film's wry, European sense of wit will make it another Oscar favorite, for sure (it's already snagged several Golden Globe nominations).
5. FOXCATCHER: this chilling film was based on the real-life story of wealthy heir John DuPont and his bond with two wrestling brothers, who he ropes into his inner circle as he trains them for Olympic gold. Comedian Steve Carell was praised for his utterly astonishing transformation into the unsettling character of DuPont, although Channing Tatum also gives the performance of his career (at least, to date) as the younger brother. The film deviates from the real story in several significant ways, but this does not detract from the underlying sense of doom which permeates every frame. The ending will shock anyone not familiar with the tale, not so much because it comes as a surprise, but because there is so little explanation for it--and that's exactly how it was in real life. Even those who have no interest in the sport of wrestling will find this a gripping watch.
There were, of course, many other fine films this year that did not make this list. Think I missed a few? Let us know!


Where There's An iWill, Is There A Way?
With the advent of smartphones, handheld devices function as information kiosks. Search upcoming movie showings and order tickets with the click of one button. Open a second window on your phone to review menus and make dinner reservations. But what if you decide that you want to change the dispositive provisions of your existing estate plan, or alternatively, create a brand new estate plan? Can you be just a few clicks away from making a legally enforceable bequest to dear Aunt Sally?
It formally identified the decedent along with a reference to his address.
It demonstrated an intention to appoint the decedent's brother as executor of his estate and nominated an alternative candidate.
It addressed the entirety of the decedent's property and provided for its distribution at a time when the decedent had been contemplating his imminent death.
It authorized the executor to deal with the decedent's affairs.
The decedent's name appeared in type at the end of the document in a place where on a paper document a signature would appear, followed by the date and a repetition of the decedent's address.
In a matter captioned Re: Yu, the Supreme Court of Queensland granted the decedent's brother's application, declared the electronic document to be the Will of the decedent, admitted it to probate and granted probate to the decedent's brother.
As legislators and judicial officers grapple with documents that do not meet the traditional requirements of testamentary formalities, they should expect the clarion call to action of those who seek to rely on their smartphones to communicate testamentary intent and/or create a "do-it-yourself" estate plan. To date, however, no published cases within the United States have recognized a document created on a smartphone as a testamentary instrument.
Accordingly, when seeking to create an enforceable estate plan, a smartphone is best used as a means for placing a call to set up an appointment with a qualified estate planning professional.


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"""
You may define your own custom forms, based or inspired by the following ones.

Examples of customization:
    recipients = CommaSeparatedUserField(label=("Recipients", "Recipient"),
        min=2,
        max=5,
        user_filter=my_user_filter,
        channel='my_channel',
    )
    can_overwrite_limits = False
    exchange_filter = staticmethod(my_exchange_filter)

"""
from __future__ import unicode_literals

from django import forms
from django.conf import settings
try:
    from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model  # Django 1.5
except ImportError:
    from postman.future_1_5 import get_user_model
from django.db import transaction
from django.utils.translation import ugettext, ugettext_lazy as _

from postman.fields import CommaSeparatedUserField
from postman.models import Message
from postman.utils import WRAP_WIDTH

class BaseWriteForm(forms.ModelForm):
    """The base class for other forms."""
    class Meta:
        model = Message
        fields = ('body',)
        widgets = {
            # for better confort, ensure a 'cols' of at least
            # the 'width' of the body quote formatter.
            'body': forms.Textarea(attrs={'cols': WRAP_WIDTH, 'rows': 12}),
        }

    error_css_class = 'error'
    required_css_class = 'required'

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        sender = kwargs.pop('sender', None)
        exchange_filter = kwargs.pop('exchange_filter', None)
        user_filter = kwargs.pop('user_filter', None)
        max = kwargs.pop('max', None)
        channel = kwargs.pop('channel', None)
        self.site = kwargs.pop('site', None)
        super(BaseWriteForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

        self.instance.sender = sender if (sender and sender.is_authenticated()) else None
        if exchange_filter:
            self.exchange_filter = exchange_filter
        if 'recipients' in self.fields:
            if user_filter and hasattr(self.fields['recipients'], 'user_filter'):
                self.fields['recipients'].user_filter = user_filter

            if getattr(settings, 'POSTMAN_DISALLOW_MULTIRECIPIENTS', False):
                max = 1
            if max is not None and hasattr(self.fields['recipients'], 'set_max') \
            and getattr(self, 'can_overwrite_limits', True):
                self.fields['recipients'].set_max(max)

            if channel and hasattr(self.fields['recipients'], 'set_arg'):
                self.fields['recipients'].set_arg(channel)

    error_messages = {
        'filtered': _("Writing to some users is not possible: {users}."),
        'filtered_user': _("{username}"),
        'filtered_user_with_reason': _("{username} ({reason})"),
    }
    def clean_recipients(self):
        """Check no filter prohibit the exchange."""
        recipients = self.cleaned_data['recipients']
        exchange_filter = getattr(self, 'exchange_filter', None)
        if exchange_filter:
            errors = []
            filtered_names = []
            recipients_list = recipients[:]
            for u in recipients_list:
                try:
                    reason = exchange_filter(self.instance.sender, u, recipients_list)
                    if reason is not None:
                        recipients.remove(u)
                        filtered_names.append(
                            self.error_messages[
                                'filtered_user_with_reason' if reason else 'filtered_user'
                            ].format(username=u.get_username(), reason=reason)
                        )
                except forms.ValidationError as e:
                    recipients.remove(u)
                    errors.extend(e.messages)
            if filtered_names:
                errors.append(self.error_messages['filtered'].format(users=', '.join(filtered_names)))
            if errors:
                raise forms.ValidationError(errors)
        return recipients

    @transaction.commit_on_success
    def save(self, recipient=None, parent=None, auto_moderators=[]):
        """
        Save as many messages as there are recipients.

        Additional actions:
        - If it's a reply, build a conversation
        - Call auto-moderators
        - Notify parties if needed

        Return False if one of the messages is rejected.

        """
        recipients = self.cleaned_data.get('recipients', [])
        if parent and not parent.thread_id:  # at the very first reply, make it a conversation
            parent.thread = parent
            parent.save()
            # but delay the setting of parent.replied_time to the moderation step
        if parent:
            self.instance.parent = parent
            self.instance.thread_id = parent.thread_id
        if recipient:
            if isinstance(recipient, get_user_model()) and recipient in recipients:
                recipients.remove(recipient)
            recipients.insert(0, recipient)
        is_successful = True
        for r in recipients:
            if isinstance(r, get_user_model()):
                self.instance.recipient = r
            else:
                self.instance.recipient = None
                self.instance.email = r
            self.instance.pk = None  # force_insert=True is not accessible from here
            self.instance.clean_for_visitor()
            m = super(BaseWriteForm, self).save()
            if not isinstance(r, get_user_model()):
                self.instance.email = ''
        return is_successful

class WriteForm(BaseWriteForm):
    """The form for an authenticated user, to compose a message."""
    # specify help_text only to avoid the possible default 'Enter text to search.' of ajax_select v1.2.5
    recipients = CommaSeparatedUserField(label=(_("Recipients"), _("Recipient")), help_text='')

    class Meta(BaseWriteForm.Meta):
        fields = ('recipients', 'body')

class AnonymousWriteForm(BaseWriteForm):
    """The form for an anonymous user, to compose a message."""
    # The 'max' customization should not be permitted here.
    # The features available to anonymous users should be kept to the strict minimum.
    can_overwrite_limits = False

    email = forms.EmailField(label=_("Email"))
    recipients = CommaSeparatedUserField(label=(_("Recipients"), _("Recipient")), help_text='', max=1)  # one recipient is enough

    class Meta(BaseWriteForm.Meta):
        fields = ('email', 'recipients', 'body')

class BaseReplyForm(BaseWriteForm):
    """The base class for a reply to a message."""
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        recipient = kwargs.pop('recipient', None)
        super(BaseReplyForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.recipient = recipient

    def clean(self):
        """Check that the recipient is correctly initialized."""
        if not self.recipient:
            raise forms.ValidationError(ugettext("Undefined recipient."))
        return super(BaseReplyForm, self).clean()

    def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
        return super(BaseReplyForm, self).save(self.recipient, *args, **kwargs)

class QuickReplyForm(BaseReplyForm):
    """
    The form to use in the view of a message or a conversation, for a quick reply.

    The recipient is imposed and a default value for the subject will be provided.

    """
    pass

allow_copies = not getattr(settings, 'POSTMAN_DISALLOW_COPIES_ON_REPLY', False)
class FullReplyForm(BaseReplyForm):
    """The complete reply form."""
    if allow_copies:
        recipients = CommaSeparatedUserField(
            label=(_("Additional recipients"), _("Additional recipient")), help_text='', required=False)

    class Meta(BaseReplyForm.Meta):
        fields = (['recipients'] if allow_copies else []) + ['body', ]

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Q: SQL datediff translation I am not a SQL user, it happens that I need to know what this type of SQL code means, can you help me please translating it to me?
CASE
    WHEN DATEDIFF(to_date(B.DT_CAREPACK_END),
                  LAST_DAY(date_sub(add_months(current_date, 3), 20))) > 0

A: CASE statements let you introduce some conditional logic.
A full CASE sttatement would have a syntax like:
CASE
     WHEN some logic is true THEN x
     WHEN some other logic is true THEN y
     ELSE THEN z
     END as column_title

In your example, it doesn't look like you've provided the full statement as their is no END keyword.

Basically, this logic is checking when the difference between two dates (date-x and date-y) is positive or not. DATE_DIFF looks at the different between a start date (date-x) and an end date (date-y).
If date-x, the start date, is before date-y, the end  date, then the result is positive. If the start date is after the end date, then the result is negative.

*

*date-x is a date representation of the column DT_CAREPACK_END

*date-y is taking the current_date, adding on 3 months (e.g. 4th September becomes 4th December), is is then subtracting 20 units (presumably days) and then setting that date to the last date of that month.

So, imagine DT_CAREPACK_END (presumably a date when something ends) is in the future and is 2022-10-02.
The inner logic here will take the current date (2022-09-04) and add 3 months to that date, making it 2022-12-04. Then, we are subtracting 20 days which is 2022-11-14. Then, we find the last day in that month, which would be 2022-11-30.
Finally, we look at the difference between 2022-10-02 (start date) and 2022-11-30 (end date). If that is a positive number, then the logic is satisfied. In this case, 2nd October is before 30th November, resulting in a positive logic and therefore the case logic is satisfied.
If the DT_CAREPACK_END is before the current_date logic, then it would be negative.
*N.B. I thought that date_add, date_sub and date_diff functions needed an interval unit to be explicitly stated (e.g. INTERVAL 20 DAY). I'm guessing the default here is days but that's an assumption on my part. I'm working in good-faith that the code snip is syntatically correct. *

Resources:-
Add Months:
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14200/functions004.htm
Date Sub:
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17952_01/mysql-5.7-en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_date-add
Last Day:
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17952_01/mysql-5.7-en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_last-day

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Evolva publishes financial results for 2015 and updates on projects
30 March 2016 – Evolva (SIX: EVE) today announces its financial results for the period 1 January to 31 December 2015. The news release, annual report and Powerpoint presentation are available on the website.
Press release in English
Press release in German
Annual report in English
Annual report – summary in German
Summary of key items:
Near term focus on three products: stevia, nootkatone and resveratrol
Stevia – Cargill filed with FDA for "No Objection" letter on EverSweet™
Stevia – EverSweet™ launch delayed beyond 2016
Nootkatone – launched in H2 2015, regulatory process for tick repellency approval on track
Nootkatone – expanded collaboration with CDC with focus on mosquitoes that transmit the Zika virus
Saffron – to be partnered, will delay launch past 2016
Vanillin – discussions with IFF for Evolva to take over majority of vanillin business
Production – manufacturing efficiency for launched products improved by c. 50% in last 18 months
Partnerships – entered two new partnerships during year (Takasago and Valent)
Research – strong progress across most of the pipeline and partnerships.
Corporate governance – we expect 2016 to see the start of a succession process at board level
Revenues up 25% to CHF 13.4 million
Cash position of CHF 83 million at year-end 2015. No debt
Neil Goldsmith, CEO of Evolva said, "Although we hit a number of important milestones during 2015, with nootkatone and valencene launched, and excellent results on several development programs (f.x. Roquette and Takasago) we also missed some, with the stevia launch not now taking place in 2016. We have decided to focus on ingredients with clear functional benefits to the end-user, and in the near term emphasise three key products: stevia, nootkatone and resveratrol. We believe these have the combined potential to propel us towards profitability. Outside this focus we will, until we reach profitability, increase the extent we work with partners."
Jakob Dynnes Hansen, CFO, commented, "Revenues were up strongly in 2015. Costs showed an increase as well, reflecting that our products are reaching or getting closer to market. Our cash position is robust. As goal achievement didn't match last year's level, management compensation was reduced and our board voluntarily waived part of their compensation. At our shareholder meeting in May, we will be proposing some adjustments to our compensation policy that continues our policy of adopting best practice."
Operational Review
Products (and partnerships)
Evolva's fermentation-based technologies allow a wide range of natural ingredients to be made in a better way. Typically such ingredients are used in food, drink, cosmetics and personal care, consumer health, household products, pharmaceuticals and agriculture.
Since 2010 (when we commenced our current business focus) Evolva has built a significant pipeline of such ingredients made in yeast. For some ingredients we finance all the work ourselves, for others we collaborate with partners.
In a recent strategic review, Evolva's board and management decided to focus on functional ingredients with clear benefits to the end user. In the next 2-3 years, this means focusing on stevia, nootkatone and resveratrol. Other products, such as saffron, will most likely be developed with partners. We believe our three key products, together with revenues from partnered products, will carry us to profitability. Long term we have no change in our view of our business and its potential – we see a large array of ingredients coming from one R&D and production platform. We have a balanced portfolio of products with no one product dominant in its potential for the company.
In the following sections we will further explain the progress of selected products. Product names in italics are code words for undisclosed products. Additional ingredients are in development.
We continue to see a great opportunity for our Stevia product, which is partnered with Cargill. The need to reduce sugar consumption and the pledges of large food companies to reduce sugar in their products continues to gain momentum. The need for alternatives to sugar is clear and stevia is well placed to be "the next big thing". However for stevia to achieve its full potential, it is necessary to both significantly improve its taste and reduce its cost, both of which we believe our fermentation approach can achieve. We maintain our view that our stevia product can address a USD 4bn market (a number that can be reached on the basis of substituting roughly 50% of the HFCS and 10% of the sucrose used in today's beverages).
Stevia represented our largest research programme during 2015, and at year-end we achieved a technical milestone, triggering a payment of USD 0.5 million from Cargill to Evolva.
In autumn 2015 Cargill unveiled the branding of the next-generation, zero-calorie stevia sweetener under the name EverSweetTM at SupplySide West in the USA, the first commercial target market for EverSweetTM. Cargill representatives have publicly stated that customer feedback to EverSweetTM was very positive, with our high expectations on the excellent taste of the product being confirmed.
During 2015 and early 2016 Cargill has entered material transfer agreements with a double-digit number of potential customers. Early in 2016, Cargill submitted its request for a no-objection letter to the FDA.
However, despite the above progress work during late 2015 and early 2016 has indicated that EverSweet™ production costs are currently above where we and Cargill want them to be for launch. This is as a result of a combination of factors, including strain characteristics; fermentation and downstream processing costs; facility conversion costs, production scale, and current customer indications on pricing. Both Cargill and Evolva have very recently concluded that it is prudent to delay launch until this situation is remedied. As a result we no longer believe that EverSweet™ will be launched in 2016. A development programme has been initiated to resolve the identified bottlenecks and ensure the delay is as short as possible.
Evolva does not see the above delay in commercialisation as significantly affecting the mid to long-term potential of EverSweet™. During 2015, Evolva informed Cargill that it intends to exercise its option to be 45% owner in the EverSweet™ franchise and this intention remains in place, subject to agreement on the final commercialisation terms.
We launched resveratrol at the end of 2014. Equipment availability and operational inefficiencies significantly limited production in 2015. We believe this issue will be resolved by mid-year 2016, in part due to process improvements made by Evolva.
As the result of the production limitations, sales in 2015 were significantly below projections at CHF 0.2 million, and we came close to "selling out" of resveratrol. During 2015 we introduced a yeast strain into production that significantly improves the efficiency of making.
Although sales were below expectations in 2015, the market feedback we obtained on the product is very positive, and we continue to believe in its mid to long term potential – if anything, our expectations have increased. In addition to the initial application in dietary supplements, we are exploring other areas with potential key accounts, including bone health, women's health, oral care and animal nutrition. In October 2015 we participated at the Supply Side West conference in Las Vegas and provided customers with detailed technical support for resveratrol use in consumer healthcare products for bone health, blood glucose control, cognition and cardiovascular health. In September 2015 we made a donation to the University of Toronto (Canada) to support research on the use of resveratrol in managing periodontitis (a serious gum infection that damages the soft tissue and destroys the bone that supports teeth).
Evolva's resveratrol is also being used in two other important studies, one on cognitive health in middle aged adults, and the other in the area of women's health and focused on polycystic ovarian syndrome.
Over the years, resveratrol has been proposed as a safe natural product to support the long term management of conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, cancer, diabetes and many other conditions. In 2015 a multi-centre Phase II clinical study in people with Alzheimer's suggested that the compound, when taken in concentrated doses, may have benefit in slowing progression of this disease.
Nootkatone
In August 2015, we launched nootkatone into the market as a Flavour and Fragrance (F&F) ingredient for food, beverages, personal care and home care products. Following positive market feedback, customers then progressed to integrate our nootkatone into their current and new product formulations. This process is time intensive and sales of commercial product only commenced in December. Sales for the year reached CHF 0.1 million. Since the initial launch we have continued to expand the scope of both customers and markets, substantially increasing the sampling of nootkatone and customer engagement.
We use Contract Manufacturing Organisations (CMOs) in North America to produce our nootkatone and in late 2015, we implemented into production a second generation strain. This new strain delivered 30% improved efficiency compared to the original strain used for launch, lowering the cost of goods to very competitive levels.
In the first half of 2015, we submitted a request to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to classify our nootkatone active ingredient as a biochemical, allowing for a potentially easier and faster process for registration of nootkatone for use against pests. We received approval from the EPA for this classification in August 2015. This keeps us on track to get nootkatone approved for protection against certain pests in the USA in early 2018. This should result in a very significant expansion of the addressable market.
We recently announced the expansion of our work with the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to research nootkatone's effectiveness in tick-control to include an additional focus on mosquitoes, including those that transmit Zika, chikungunya, dengue, and West Nile viruses. CDC research has shown nootkatone both repels and kills the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, and the black-legged tick, Ixodes scapularis which transmits Lyme disease.
Across the various applications for nootkatone, we continue to see the annual sales potential as reaching c. USD 100 million over time.
Our partner, International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (IFF), introduced our vanillin product to the F&F market in mid-2014. Since its introduction, IFF has significantly widened the range of products into which our vanillin is incorporated. However, volumes remain low compared to our original expectations.
In order to more comprehensively explore the potential of our vanillin, we are currently in discussions with IFF to revise our collaboration to enable Evolva to commercialise vanillin in most markets, with IFF receiving royalties and supply guarantees. We currently expect to complete these negotiations in 2016.
Valencene
We have developed a cost efficient manufacturing process at large production scale for valencene. Valencene was launched at the end of 2015 and we are now processing sample requests for prospective clients. We are currently working on a new strain generation with improved productivity and expect to move that into production later in 2016.
We have successfully developed yeasts that make all three of saffron's key ingredients and entered scale up fermentation. Saffron extract and safranal have Flavor & Extract Manufacturers Association (FEMA) GRAS (''generally recognised as safe") status and we are preparing a GRAS submission to FEMA for our product. We provided samples of some of our saffron products to a number of potential customers during late 2015 and received very positive feedback regarding its aroma and options for additional applications.
In line with our revised company focus, we aim to further develop saffron with a partner. This will likely move the launch to 2017 or later.
After delivering an initial yeast strain in May 2015, we provided Roquette with a final, improved version in the autumn of 2015, triggering a final payment of CHF 1.2 million to Evolva. The improved strain exceeds the predefined productivity goals by between 10% and 65%. This concluded our contribution to the specific Roquette product and Roquette will be responsible for the further steps towards commercial production. Evolva is now independently developing an additional product in the Ruby family to which it has retained all rights.
We announced the successful completion of the first phase of the Ajinomoto project in March 2015, which triggered a milestone payment of several hundred thousand Swiss francs. Phase 2 was completed in the second half of 2015, with the delivery of a viable strain and production route to Ajinomoto for the specific ingredient. Ajinomoto intends to further develop, scale up and commercialise this ingredient in-house.
This led to a new agreement with a focused field of Agate ingredients. Evolva is entitled to royalties on potential future product sales by Ajinomoto.
The partnership with L'Oréal progressed well, with a first milestone achieved in January 2015 and a second in November 2015. L'Oréal is performing initial applications tests. Given success in bringing Opal to market, we expect to generate future revenues from the L'Oréal collaboration in cosmetics and from our own commercialisation of Opal ingredients in other areas.
"Coral" is a family of structurally related ingredients with applications in food and beverages, that was partnered with Cargill in early 2015. Work is at an early stage.
"Tourmaline" covers several ingredients with broad applications in F&F, regarding which we entered into a collaboration with Takasago (Japan) in March 2015. Takasago has exclusivity for certain Tourmaline ingredients in F&F and selected additional markets. The project has commenced well and in March 2016, we announced reaching the first milestones, which triggered a payment of CHF 1 million to Evolva.
In March 2015, we announced the signing of an exclusive agreement with Valent BioSciences Corporation, a subsidiary of Sumitomo Chemical (Japan), to co-develop and commercialise a class of high-value active ingredients for use as next-generation agricultural bioactives. The program is proceeding well with early milestones reached.
Until 2010, we focused on the discovery and development of novel pharmaceuticals. Since then, we refocused onto the current business model. As a result we have out-licensed or sold the EV-077 and EV-035/GC-072 products. We still have certain success positions on these products. Main highlights in 2015:
In the first half of 2015, the US government approved the transfer ("novation") of the GC-072 contract to Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (USA). This triggered a payment of USD 4 million to Evolva, following an initial upfront payment of USD 1.5 million in December 2014.
In August 2015, Serodus ASA (Norway), our licensee on EV-077, announced the randomisation of the first patients in a Phase IIa clinical trial with SER150 (EV-077) in patients diagnosed with diabetic nephropathy.
PI Industries (India), our licensee on Pomecins, has discontinued further development and this program is now completely inactive.
Production and cost of goods sold (COGS)
We launch when COGS reach an acceptable level. Typically at the start of production of a new molecule, a production process is not fully optimized and there is lack of scale that together result in a relatively high COGS. Additionally sales are limited but investments into commercial awareness are higher, which lead to a negative impact on the bottom line. But a fast track to market is important to gain commercial insight and raise awareness of our product. Post launch, we continue work to improve the performance of the yeast strains as well as other production metrics that impact COGS. In addition we continuously update our contracts with CMOs to optimise the balance between speed and lowest sustainable COGS. We already have a very strong track record of improvements in production metrics, cutting COGS of our nootkatone and resveratrol products significantly post launch. This provides us with a high degree of confidence that we can build profitable product lines.
At year-end 2015, Evolva's total headcount amounted to 163 full-time employees (year-end 2014: 144), of which 128 (year-end 2014: 116) were primarily involved in research, development and manufacturing, while the remaining staff are employed with managerial, commercial and administrative tasks.
During 2015, the number of shares outstanding rose by 70.3 million to 397.9 million, mainly due to the capital increase in September 2015. This comprised a placing of 62.4 million shares in a 3-for-16 rights issue with an offer price of CHF 0.92 per share. Total gross proceeds were CHF 57.8 million. Credit Suisse acted as lead-manager for the transaction, supported by Bank Vontobel and two selling agents. At the same time, Evolva issued 2.6 million shares in September 2015 which were added to treasury. Option exercise by Evolva employees triggered the issuance of 5.3 million shares over the year. At year-end 2015 Evolva's market capitalisation was CHF 457.6 million (+6% versus year-end 2014). The Evolva share ended 2015 at CHF 1.15, a slight decline relative to the previous year-end. Liquidity stayed around the high level reached in 2014; on average, 2.1 million shares were traded per day in 2015 on the Swiss stock exchange, compared with 2.3 million in 2014. The value traded per day was a respectable CHF 3.0 million in 2015.
Revenue was up by 25% in 2015. The breakdown of overall revenues is as follows:
Revenue from R&D which derives from corporate and public partnerships amounted to CHF 9.1 million, almost the same as in 2014. Two partnerships expired in 2015, while several new ones got underway.
Product sales represented 2% of total revenue. The modest level of product sales reflects that sales of resveratrol were restricted by limited supply of product and that nootkatone was only launched in the second half of 2015.
"Other income" relates primarily to the sale of the EV-035/GC-072 asset to Emergent Biosolutions in 2014 and contributed c. 30% to total revenue in 2015 (2014: 14%).
R&D expenses rose by 52% to CHF 35.0 million. A major part of the increase was due to two non-cash expenses that do not reflect the underlying trend of R&D activities:
An increase of the accrual of CHF 3.0 million for potential repayment on a former DTRA contract, as disclosed in the half-year report in August 2015.
An increase of CHF 2.8 million in depreciation on intangible assets (primarily due to ordinary depreciation on acquired IP from Allylix).
Excluding the above two items, R&D expenses increased by around 26%. This increase was primarily due to the consolidation of R&D expenses at Allylix which was acquired in December 2014. The acquisition was the main driver of the increase in R&D headcount by 24% to 122 at the end of 2015. In addition, recruitments in the fermentation and DSP areas contributed to the increase in staff expenses of 37.5%. Finally, R&D staff expenses were impacted by the transfer of shares to former Prosarix shareholders who are now employed by Evolva.
In addition to staff costs, R&D expenses were impacted by increased research and regulatory activity on several of our programmes, in particular stevia and nootkatone.
Manufacturing expenses increased to CHF 1.6 million reflecting the substantial investment not only in the actual manufacturing of resveratrol and nootkatone but also in internal and external investments in improvement of the yield of these products.
The increase in SG&A expenses results from several areas. A major part is due to additional headcount and activities in Sales and Marketing, reflecting the increased efforts of bringing products to market. Furthermore, the integration of Allylix added both one-time and more permanent G&A expenses while the addition of one member to the Group Management Team (Chief Commercial Officer) in September 2014 also played a role.
Total assets amounted to CHF 232.2 million at the end of 2015 (2014: CHF 212.6 million) primarily due to an increase in the cash position. The cash increase was largely a result of the rights issue in September 2015. The company then issued 62.4 million new shares at a price of CHF 0.92, leading to gross proceeds of CHF 57.8 million. At the same time, we added 2.6 million shares to our treasury for later financing purposes. Exercise of options under our incentive programmes brought CHF 1.8 million in 2015.
Intangible assets declined by CHF 4.2 million due to ordinary depreciation of the patent portfolio. Property, plant and equipment dropped by CHF 2.1 million due to the sale of the former group headquarter in Basel, leading to the removal of both the asset and the related mortgage loan (under liabilities).
Inventory increased by CHF 2 million as a result of manufacturing of resveratrol and nootkatone. Current liabilities declined significantly due to the settlement of a series of liabilities related to the Allylix acquisition.
Total equity grew from CHF 175 million to CHF 203 million.
The net operating cash outflow increased to CHF 31.8 million (2014: CHF 19.9 million) mirroring four key factors: the higher expenses in R&D, manufacturing and commercial activities, the increase in inventory of final products and the settlement of liabilities which Evolva assumed from Allylix.
For 2016, we expect a significant increase in sales of resveratrol, nootkatone and valencene. On the other hand, income related to EV-035/GC-072 (30% of 2015 revenues) will not recur this year. Overall, we expect 2016 revenues to remain around the level of 2015, subject to product ramp and milestone achievement. We expect to see higher revenues in the second half of the year than in the first.
We are investing significant resources in new applications of our lead products and in further improving their manufacturing efficiency, which should both expand commercial potential. We expect modest growth in head-count connected to sales and marketing and production, whilst we expect R&D head-count to be flat.
During 2016 we expect to enter a commercial agreement with Cargill for the launch of EverSweetTM, and for the FDA to issue a No objection letter for the product.
As in previous years, we expect to enter 2-3 new important partnerships for new products and/or for new R&D programmes.
The cash outflow is expected to remain relatively high in 2016 but is well covered with the current cash position.
Press/analyst meeting and conference call at 10.00 AM CET on 30 March 2016
Neil Goldsmith, CEO and Jakob Dynnes Hansen, CFO, will present the results in a meeting for media and analysts at SIX Convention Point in Zürich. The meeting will be accessible via dial-in:
+41 (0)58 310 50 00 (Europe)
+44 (0) 203 059 58 62 (UK)
+1 (1) 631 570 56 13 (USA)
A replay will be available as a podcast for 2 weeks after the call. The link to the podcast will be posted on Evolva's website. The news release, annual report and Powerpoint presentation are available on the website.
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About Evolva
Evolva is a pioneer and global leader in sustainable, fermentation-based approaches to ingredients for health, wellness and nutrition. Evolva's products include stevia, resveratrol, vanillin, nootkatone and saffron. As well as developing its own proprietary ingredients, Evolva also deploys its technology for partners, providing them with a competitive edge and sharing in the returns they make. For more information see www.evolva.com. Questions about our fermentation approach? Have a look at our video.
Neil Goldsmith
neilg@evolva.com
+ 41 61 485 2005 Jakob Dynnes Hansen
jakobdh@evolva.com
+ 41 61 485 2034 Paul Verbraeken
paulv@evolva.com
This press release contains specific forward-looking statements, e.g. statements including terms like believe, assume, expect or similar expressions. Such forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may result in a substantial divergence between the actual results, financial situation, development or performance of the company and those explicitly or implicitly presumed in these statements. Against the background of these uncertainties readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. The company assumes no responsibility to update forward-looking statements or to adapt them to future events or developments.
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Congress on Wednesday evening expelled its MLA-elect Thounoujam Shyamkumar Singh from primary membership for indulging in 'anti-party activities' as he defected and joined the first-ever BJP-led coalition government.
IMPHAL: Congress on Wednesday evening expelled its MLA-elect Thounoujam Shyamkumar Singh from primary membership for indulging in 'anti-party activities' as he defected and joined the first-ever BJP-led coalition government.
Shyamkumar, along with eight legislators, was administered the oath of office and secrecy as minister at Raj Bhavan in the afternoon. As Shyamkumar has failed to respond to the party's show cause notice served to him on the matter, he has been expelled from the primary membership of the party for six years, said S Jeeten Singh, said Manipur PCC secretary (administration) S Jeeten Singh.
"This is probably the first time in the political history of India that an MLA-elect of an opposition party has defected and joined the ruling coalition government directly as a minister," said Manipur PCC president TN Haokip, a few hours before Shyamkumar's expulsion order was released.
Echoing Haokip, the outgoing chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh said it was a "shame" that BJP, that rules at the Centre, indulges in such activities. "I am not angry with Shyamkumar, but he has made a mockery of Indian democracy," Ibobi said at a hurriedly summoned press conference an hour after the swearing-in ceremony of the BJP-led coalition government headed by its new chief minister Nongthombam Biren Singh was over at Raj Bhavan.
Shyamkumar, on the other hand, said, "I support BJP and joined it to abolish corruption. This is the people's mandate and people want a change in Manipur, so I have changed my decision. I will face whatever consequences the decision may lead to." The MLA, who won from the Andro assembly constituency in Imphal East third time in a row, has had a chequered political history. His first victory came in 2007 under the banner of the regional Manipur People's Party (MPP). In 2012, he got elected on a Congress ticket. In September last year, he was one of four Trinamool Congress MLAs who switched sides to Congress.
Shyamkumar's entry into BJP came at a crucial time, when the party was hurriedly stitching together a coalition to get to the magic figure of 31. Eventually, the BJP-led coalition had 32 MLAs on its side. Other coalition partners of the just installed government include NPP and NPF, both with four MLAs, and one each from LJP and TMC besides the Independent MLA.
Soon after Shyamkumar was administered the oath of office and secrecy by governor Najma Heptulla, the Raj Bhavan hall was broke out in applause. He then shook hands with BJP and Congress leaders, including Ibobi Singh, who were sitting in the front row of the tightly packed hall.


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Timeless liturgy bridges New World and Old
Ukrainian Catholics worship together, determined to keep age-old liturgy alive
MOUNT ANGEL, OREGON — A shady drive, lined with mossy Douglas fir trees, leads to the Goff family farm, with its century-old farmhouse and groves of filberts.
On the last Sunday in August the afternoon scene included the glint of the altar servers' gold robes, chairs arranged under birches, masked worshippers patiently waiting and clutches of children making the most of the last moments before the liturgy began.
Father Richard Janowicz stood in prayer at a makeshift altar.
The priest, longtime pastor of Nativity of the Mother of God Ukrainian Catholic Parish in Springfield, made the trip to the Goff farm to celebrate a Mass with the Andrey Sheptytsky Ukrainian Catholic Apostolate of Portland. This was the group's first anniversary.
After the Mass, Father Janowicz described the apostolate as being a little like the hopeful, would-be founders of a mission that doesn't yet exist. "They have a great dedication to keeping the prayer life and to grow, despite the many challenges of this past year," he said.
The apostolate includes people like Nada Holovcuk, who worshipped in Ukrainian-rite churches in Bosnia as a child.
"When you go to a service you grew up with, it's close to your heart," she said.
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Teachings of Christ
"Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." (John 4:13-14 ESV)
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When You were baptized in the Jordan, O Lord, * worship of the Trinity was revealed, * for the Father's voice bore witness to You, calling You His "beloved Son", * and the Spirit in the form of a dove confirmed the certainty of these words. * O Christ God, * Who appeared and enlightened the world, glory to You! (Troparion, Tone 1)
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and to the ages of ages. Amen.
You have appeared to the whole world today, * and Your light, O Lord, is signed upon us, * who with knowledge praise You in song: * "You have come, and You have appeared, O Unapproachable Light." (Kontakion, Tone 4)
Random Proverb
For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. (Proverbs 2:6 ESV)
Pray Without Ceasing
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.
Wisdom from the Church Fathers
"And the second commandment of the Teaching; 2. Thou shalt not commit murder, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not commit paederasty, thou shalt not commit fornication, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not practise magic, thou shalt not practise witchcraft, thou shalt not murder a child by abortion nor kill that which is begotten."
Ante-Nicene Fathers: Volume VII, Apostolic Teachings and Constitutions, Chapter II. - The Second Commandment: Gross Sin Forbidden.
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So, you've decided you want to make your own successful blog? Awesome! I have been blogging since 2009 and made it my full time income in 2011. Since then, I've never looked back. Blogging for a living is by far the best way to make a living for me, but is that necessarily the case for you? Before I show you how to make your own successful blog, we first need to determine if this is really the path for you, and we also need to figure out what "success" really is.
What Is A Successful Blog?
When I first began blogging back in 2009, the thought of earning a full-time living from it wasn't even something I had considered. To me, at that time, a successful blog was one that would truly help people. I was just getting ready to start a truck driving career, so my very first blog was for an established trucking website. I wanted to document my experiences from truck driving school to company orientation to the physical exams and life on the road. I did not make any money on that blog, but I created a following, an audience, and I was thanked almost daily for blogging about my experiences as a truck driver. I even had a YouTube channel with video blogs which you can still watch here. I had a blast with both my written blog and my video blog. A success indeed.
With that said, my idea of success changed over time. Here I was, spending hours and hours of my time dominating a niche market with an undetermined amount of loyal followers, but I wasn't making any money! So, a new definition of success was born. I still wanted to help people (as I hope you find this very post helpful!) but I also wanted to figure out a way to also earn some money while doing what I love.
At that point, I began creating information sites like SharkSider.com and review sites like DogFoodInsider.com. I start at least 2 new sites per year with this site being one of my more recent ones and FreelanceWriterClub.com being my newest creation. I developed monetization plans for all of them and nearly all of my sites earn me at least $1,500 per month within' about 18 months of creation (some sites earn much more than that).
So now, I earn a great living writing about topics I love while simultaneously helping other people and promoting products and services that deserve to be promoted. Success!
Before you ever get started, you must determine what success means to you.
Before you get started with blogging, you have to consider the reasons WHY you want to be a blogger. Is it because you love to write? Is it because you want to make money from home? Is it because you want to spread information to people for free? Is it a little bit of everything?
In order to truly succeed with a successful blog, there needs to be a perfect storm. Having a strong drive to earn money online is great, but that alone will not help you to create a successful blog. Being a great writer is a fantastic start, but if you don't know how to gain an audience, nobody will see your masterpieces. If you love dealing with search engine optimization, but you don't like to write, you will get burned out very quickly.
The way to know if blogging is for you is if you can truly say that you enjoy ALL aspects of developing and building a blog. That means, you must be willing to learn how to build websites (WAY easier than you probably think), you must be willing to do industry research, you must be willing to learn about how to send people to your website, and you must be willing to write (a lot!).
If you can honestly say that you would enjoy doing all of those things, you are a great candidate to be a blogger. All you really need at this point is a step-by-step plan to get you going. You need someone to show you the right steps in the right order. So, if you're new to all of this and don't know about search engine optimization, industry research, how to build a website, or anything else about building a successful blog, you will definitely want to sign up for a FREE account here.
Every year, literally millions of new blogs are started by people all over the world. How many blogs, out of those millions, do you follow? Chances are, not many. But WHY are so few blogs ever successful?
Whether you're seeking an audience or monetary benefits from your blog, it will need to withstand the test of time. Back when the web was still a new thing, creating a blog and getting noticed was actually pretty easy. As time goes on, it's getting harder and harder. This is another reason you shouldn't wait to start your blog. Start it NOW, because it's getting more and more difficult to get noticed as time goes on.
A few years ago, I would have told you in about 6 months you could have a successful blog. These days, I think it's closer to 12 to 18 months before you will see much success. It will require hundreds of pages of high quality content on your blog. And not just any content, but content people are actually searching for. Do not expect to find success on your blog quickly, even if you work really hard on it. You're looking at a good 12 months or more before you can claim any level of success at all.
Creating a successful blog may be a bit difficult and require a lot of patience, but it is something ANYONE can do. By contrast, what other business can literally anyone start in their free time with almost no capital investment upfront? You don't have to quit your job to start and everything you need to know is available online, for free. If you think starting a blog is for you, do not wait a second longer. Things won't get easier with time, they will get harder. The time to start your blog will never be "just right". So just start now!
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From the first water-driven factory to modern mass manufacture à la LEGO, the Brede Værk makes 150 years of Danish industrial history so palpably clear, that you might almost think that you had been part of it yourself. The central venue is the Brede Klædefabrik, one of the largest 19th-century cloth factories in the Denmark, and now home to an industrial museum whose multimedia effects and hands-on exhibits are a huge attraction for young and old alike. There is something going on here at every minute of the day, thanks to a so-called Active Ticket that sets exhibits in motion and even conjures up a female weaver amongst the spinning engines to act as a personal guide through a part of the factory. Children and adults can also try their hand at producing ball bearings at a conveyor belt before attempting to market them. The steam engine rewards the best teams with an aural show of stomping and gasping. There is also a lot to discover outside the museum. For Brede Værk provides an outstanding example of a complete factory settlement, including the factory buildings, workers dwellings and a director's mansion.


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Q: Partial derivatives on connected subset of $\mathbb R^{n}$ Let $U \subset \mathbb R^{n}$ be open and connected. Let $\space f:U \rightarrow \mathbb R$ be differentiable such that $\partial_{1}\space f(x)=0$ for all $x\in U.$ I need to prove or disprove that the value of $f(x)$, for $x=(x_{1},...x_{n})$ does not depend on $x_{1}$.
I tried finding a counter-example $U \subset \mathbb R$ to disprove the claim, but I had no luck, since any open and connected subset of $\mathbb R$ where we can have continuous functions would be an open interval, in which the claim holds (please correct me if my reasoning is wrong).
Could anyone give me some advice on how to find a possible counter-example? Or maybe, if the claim is true, some advice on how to prove it? What I thought about was to use the fact that if $U$ is open and connected in $\mathbb R^{n}$, then it is path connected, but I'm not sure how this would help me prove the claim. Thanks in advance!

A: If the set is convex, then one could use the mean value theorem to show that $f$ does not depend on $x_1$. So a counter-example must be on a non-convex set (as was pointed out).
I have a counter-example on the set $U = \mathbb{R}^2\setminus\{ (0,y): |y|\leq1\}$. The idea is to "paste" two functions which don't depend on $x$ and are zero for $|y|> 1$. Then our new function is smooth other than on the line segment $\{ (0,y): |y|\leq1\}$, which we remove. I provide the counter-example below:

 Define $f:U\to \mathbb R$ by $$f(x,y) = \begin{cases} -e^{{-y^2}/(1-y^2)}, & |y|<1, x<0 \\ e^{{-y^2}/(1-y^2)} & |y|<1, x>0 \\ 0, & \text{otherwise}  \end{cases}$$


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ANOTHER ARGUMENT FOR REVISITING BAKER V. CARR AND REYNOLDS V. SIMS: California's Far North Deplores 'Tyranny' of the Urban Majority.
From Hollywood to Silicon Valley, California projects an image as an economically thriving, politically liberal, sun-kissed El Dorado. It is a multiethnic experiment with a rising population, where the percentage of whites has fallen to 38 percent.
California's Great Red North is the opposite, a vast, rural, mountainous tract of pine forests with a political ethos that bears more resemblance to Texas than to Los Angeles. Two-thirds of the north is white, the population is shrinking and the region struggles economically, with median household incomes at $45,000, less than half that of San Francisco.
Jim Cook, former supervisor of Siskiyou County, which includes cattle ranches and the majestic slopes of Mount Shasta, calls it "the forgotten part of California."
In the same state that is developing self-driving cars, there's the rugged landscape of Trinity County, where a large share of residents heat their homes with wood, plaques commemorate stagecoach routes and the county seat, Weaverville, is an old gold-mining town with a lone blinking stop-and-go traffic light.
The residents of this region argue that their political voice is drowned out in a system that has only one state senator for every million residents.
This sentiment resonates in other traditionally conservative parts of California, including large swaths of the Central Valley, which runs down the state, and it mirrors red and blue tensions felt in areas across the country. But perhaps nowhere else in California is the alienation felt more keenly than in the far north, an arresting panorama of fields filled with wildflowers and depopulated one-street towns that have never recovered from the gold rush.
"People up here for a very long time have felt a sense that we don't matter," said James Gallagher, a state assemblyman for the Third District, which is a shorter drive from the forests of Mount Hood in Oregon than from the beaches of San Diego. "We run this state like it's one size fits all. You can't do that."
Well, you can. But you shouldn't. Plus, an Independence Day angle:
Residents here have long backed a different proposal for a separate state, one that would be carved out of Northern California and the southern reaches of Oregon. Flags of the so-called State of Jefferson, which was first proposed in the 19th century, fly on farms and ranches around the region.
I think that Congress has the power to reform state legislatures directly, under its Guarantee power. In fact, you wouldn't even have to change the case law. While the courts stepped in to remedy one kind of unfairness with Baker and Reynolds, Congress can step in on its own where necessary to guarantee a "republican form of government." And unresponsive rule by far-away urbanites with different lifestyles is precisely what our Framers rebelled against, and thus can't qualify as the kind of state government the Framers intended.
Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 7:13 am


I didn't really want to be home on the one year anniversary of Trinity's death, and I really wanted a God beam photo for week 9 of 52. We've had so much rain that I took the two chances I had last week to capture a sunset, hopefully with crepuscular rays.
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package org.apache.cassandra.hints;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.BeforeClass;
import org.junit.Test;

import org.apache.cassandra.SchemaLoader;
import org.apache.cassandra.cql3.statements.schema.CreateTableStatement;
import org.apache.cassandra.db.DecoratedKey;
import org.apache.cassandra.db.Mutation;
import org.apache.cassandra.db.partitions.PartitionUpdate;
import org.apache.cassandra.io.util.DataInputBuffer;
import org.apache.cassandra.net.MessagingService;
import org.apache.cassandra.schema.KeyspaceParams;
import org.apache.cassandra.schema.TableMetadata;
import org.apache.cassandra.utils.ByteBufferUtil;
import org.apache.cassandra.utils.FBUtilities;
import org.apache.cassandra.utils.UUIDGen;

public class HintWriteTTLTest
{
    private static int TTL = 500;
    private static int GC_GRACE = 84600;

    private static Hint makeHint(TableMetadata tbm, int key, int creationTime, int gcgs)
    {
        PartitionUpdate update = PartitionUpdate.fullPartitionDelete(tbm,
                                                                     ByteBufferUtil.bytes(key),
                                                                     s2m(creationTime),
                                                                     creationTime);
        Mutation mutation = new Mutation(update);
        return Hint.create(mutation, s2m(creationTime), gcgs);
    }

    private static DecoratedKey hintKey(Hint hint)
    {
        return hint.mutation.key();
    }

    private static Hint deserialize(ByteBuffer bb) throws IOException
    {
        DataInputBuffer input = new DataInputBuffer(bb, true);
        try
        {
            return Hint.serializer.deserialize(input, MessagingService.current_version);
        }
        finally
        {
            input.close();
        }
    }

    private static Hint ttldHint = null;
    private static Hint liveHint = null;
    private static File hintFile = null;

    @BeforeClass
    public static void setupClass() throws Exception
    {
        System.setProperty("cassandra.maxHintTTL", Integer.toString(TTL));
        SchemaLoader.prepareServer();
        TableMetadata tbm = CreateTableStatement.parse("CREATE TABLE tbl (k INT PRIMARY KEY, v INT)", "ks").gcGraceSeconds(GC_GRACE).build();
        SchemaLoader.createKeyspace("ks", KeyspaceParams.simple(1), tbm);

        int nowInSeconds = FBUtilities.nowInSeconds();
        liveHint = makeHint(tbm, 1, nowInSeconds, GC_GRACE);
        ttldHint = makeHint(tbm, 2, nowInSeconds - (TTL + 1), GC_GRACE);

        File directory = Files.createTempDirectory(null).toFile();
        HintsDescriptor descriptor = new HintsDescriptor(UUIDGen.getTimeUUID(), s2m(nowInSeconds));

        try (HintsWriter writer = HintsWriter.create(directory, descriptor);
             HintsWriter.Session session = writer.newSession(ByteBuffer.allocate(1024)))
        {
            session.append(liveHint);
            session.append(ttldHint);
            hintFile = writer.getFile();
        }
    }

    private static long s2m(int seconds)
    {
        return TimeUnit.SECONDS.toMillis(seconds);
    }

    @Test
    public void isLive() throws Exception
    {
        // max ttl is set to 500
        Assert.assertTrue(Hint.isLive(s2m(0), s2m(499), 500));  // still live
        Assert.assertFalse(Hint.isLive(s2m(0), s2m(499), 499)); // expired due to hint's own ttl
        Assert.assertFalse(Hint.isLive(s2m(0), s2m(500), 501)); // expired due to max ttl
    }

    @Test
    public void hintIsLive() throws Exception
    {
        Assert.assertTrue(liveHint.isLive());
        Assert.assertFalse(ttldHint.isLive());
    }

    @Test
    public void hintIterator() throws Exception
    {
        List<Hint> hints = new ArrayList<>();
        try (HintsReader reader = HintsReader.open(hintFile))
        {
            for (HintsReader.Page page: reader)
            {
                Iterator<Hint> iter = page.hintsIterator();
                while (iter.hasNext())
                {
                    hints.add(iter.next());
                }
            }
        }

        Assert.assertEquals(1, hints.size());
        Assert.assertEquals(hintKey(liveHint), hintKey(hints.get(0)));
    }

    @Test
    public void bufferIterator() throws Exception
    {
        List<Hint> hints = new ArrayList<>();
        try (HintsReader reader = HintsReader.open(hintFile))
        {
            for (HintsReader.Page page: reader)
            {
                Iterator<ByteBuffer> iter = page.buffersIterator();
                while (iter.hasNext())
                {
                    hints.add(deserialize(iter.next()));
                }
            }
        }

        Assert.assertEquals(1, hints.size());
        Assert.assertEquals(hintKey(liveHint), hintKey(hints.get(0)));
    }
}


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Hawk Harrelson is a finalist for the Ford Frick Award
By Craig CalcaterraOct 2, 2013, 12:31 PM EDT
I'm just gonna leave this here:
Congratulations to Hawk Harrelson, who has been named a finalist for the 2014 Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in baseball broadcasting.
— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) October 2, 2013
Hey, there are people who like Hawk. They are almost all White Sox fans who, when you press them, talk about Hawk as a "familiar voice" or someone with whom they have nice associations with White Sox baseball. Rarely, however, do they say that they actually think he's a particularly good announcer. Just that they sort of like him. In this way Harrelson to his fans is a lot like "Fat Bottomed Girls" is for me. Something that makes me feel good when I hear it but, when asked to assess its actual merit in objective terms, well, I can't really do it.
The Frick Award, though, is not about warm fuzzies felt by a minority of partisans. It's presented by the National Baseball Hall of Fame to a broadcaster for his or her "major contributions to baseball." I suppose his introduction of the term "he gone!" has some value — I've used that, like, three times on Twitter in the past four years, I believe — but I don't know if it's "major."
Anyway, Good luck, Hawk. I'm sure you're a nice man and that you'll say interesting things if you win it.


Bible Colleges: Do others recognise your call?
Do others recognise your call?
It's an important question. How do you know that you have a call from God to lead others?
Do others follow you now?
It may sound trite, but think about it this way. We know from Romans ch.12 that God will not call you to do something that He will not equip and prepare you for. Otherwise, His will would not be good, pleasing or perfect. So, if the Good Lord is not going to call you to a life of frustration and disappointment, there should be evidence already of what He has set you aside for.
1. Frst: and most important - internal evidence, within your own spirit. It was no accident that Gideon was fist called a Mighty Man of Valour by the Angel of the Lord in Judges ch.6 v.12, long before there was any external evidence of this - but Gideon acted on the revelation he was given, thus demonstrating the truth of Hebrews ch.11 v.3 and Romans ch.4 v.17 - that God calls into reality whatever was not already in existence to fulfill His words.
2. Acting on the Revelation - it would have done Gideon no good to go around confessing "I am a mighty man of valour" if he didn't also act on this word from God. The same is as true for us as it was for the Israeites in the Wilderness. The revelaed Word will only be of benefit to you if you combine it with faith. Fortunately for us, that faith is also a gift available for all of us if we ask.
Of course there is a question related to this. How do you know it is God speaking and not just the after-effects of a rich meal and a good nap? Remember, all the answer you need to questions like this can be found in one Book. In James ch.1 we are told that at times like this when we are questioning which route to take, rather than being double-minded in a state of indecision or attempting to do two things and being distracted from our purpose - we can act for wisdom, and be confident that we will receive it.
In Colossians ch.3 v.15 the Apostle Paul reminds us that we can let the peace of Christ rule in our hearts - that when faced with a choice, if one option will give us no peace inside, then it would be folly to go don that route.
Another obvious test is that the Good Lord will never call you to do something that contravenes the principles He has already laid down in his Word. Another good reason to know your Bible - so you can be thoroughly equipped.
3. Assuming you acted in obedience to the revelation you have; there should be some evidence for other more mature believers to assess. Be careful. We in the church are often far too nice, too diplomatic - we don't want to upset people. There is a reason why Proverbs ch.27 v.6 tells us that the wounds from a friend are faithful. Sometimes it hurts to be told that you are wasting your time.
Particularly value feedback from someone already in leadership who is doing what you would like to do - they have already experienced and acted on a similar call. They will know what you are going through. Their honest advice should be sought after and acted upon.


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Alice Beckington (30 de julho de 1868 - 4 de janeiro de 1942) foi uma pintora americana.

Nascida em St. Charles, Missouri, Beckington estudou na Liga de estudantes de Arte de Nova York, onde foi aluna de James Carroll Beckwith e Kenyon Cox. Viajou à Paris para estudar na Academia Julian, onde seus instrutores foram Jules Joseph Lefebvre, Benjamin Constant e Charles Lasar. Quando retornou aos Estados Unidos, Beckington começou a expor seus trabalhos, tendo feito exibições na Exposição Panamericana e na Exposição Universal de 1904.

Foi uma das fundadoras da Sociedade Americana de Pintores em Miniatura, tendo sido presidente da organização por vários anos. Entre 1905 a 1916 ensinou pintura em miniatura na Liga de Estudantes de Artes. Beckington também foi membro da Federação Americana de Artes e da Sociedade de Pintores em Miniatura da Pensilvânia. Além disso, foi uma das artistas, junto com Theodora W. Thayer, que fundaram a colônia artística de Scituate, Massachusetts.

Nascidos em 1868
Mortos em 1942
Pintores dos Estados Unidos
Pintores do século XIX
Pintores do século XX
Naturais do Missouri
Alunos da Academia Julian

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UK's new female PM aims for a new inclusive politics
Posted by ginalazenby in Politics
We have just survived the most interesting week in politics that the UK has ever had, perhaps since the end of the second World War. (A big shout out to the BBC News channel for their fantastic coverage). Witnessing the vacuum in power when all the key men left, then seeing the women stepping forward, has been really inspiring and quite frankly, a relief! As I said in my blog post last week … when it gets messy, bring on the women.
However, a good friend in Sydney pointed out to me, we don't really want to pin our hopes on a female leader if she is just going to be another Margaret Thatcher who did nothing to champion women in politics. In her eleven year reign Mrs Thatcher brought just one woman into the Cabinet! I have been reflecting on this.
Will Theresa be another Thatcher?
The long shadow of Margaret Thatcher as an anti-feminist does indeed still loom large in any conversation about women political leaders, with many men simply thinking any woman will be the same. Apart from any personality issues, I believe Margaret Thatcher was a woman of her time and I don't think there was any other way to act than to be either one of the men, or better than them at their own game. She did prove that a woman could do, what was probably perceived as a man's job, and run the country. Thirty years later, having passed through the era-shifting portal of the millennium, we are in a very different world. There are now many female leaders around the globe, albeit the UK ranks as 48th with the number of senior women politicians that we have! David Cameron was very disappointing in his championing of women unlike Canada's new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who swept to power last November and created a balanced cabinet with equal number of men and women.!
I do truly hoped that the women who are increasingly stepping into national political roles in the UK will bring something different using their feminine power and not " just do what men do" as Germaine Greer opined in the Times last month. She noted that as more women rise to the top they simply step into a "man-shaped world" …. "a world run by women is not the same as having a world run by say, feminists or socialists….." she said.
I think we have been through a dramatic shift in the last year and the last fortnight in particular. Remember during the General Election in 2015 when half the speakers on the TV debates were female (Scotland, Wales, Green Party leaders). That was a first and many of them were widely judged to have performed better than the men.
Something has changed and there is an appetite for female leadership, ney, I think we could call it a hunger right now. We are actually expecting the women to be different and I believe that is giving them a mandate to bring their authentic leadership style to the table. I don't think it will be long before we have a new language about leadership with these women setting the agenda and showing a new way.
The BBC last night had a reporter in Swindon asked people what they wanted from their new Prime Minister (a good time filler while we waited for Theresa May to meet the Queen at the Palace). People were asked to write one word on a card that summarised what they were looking for. Here are those words:
A Do-er
Yes those qualities will have been curated …. but they are largely what the feminine brings, especially the last two. And Theresa May did not disappoint during her first few hours as Prime Minster on Wednesday evening as she demonstrated most of those qualities. You can read her speech here (with annotations from the Guardian) or watch on the BBC here.
Everybody could see that no plan had been put in place by the people championing to leave the EU … but Theresa has made some bold appointments to handle this. She appointed some of the men who wanted Brexit to happen and they are now heading up a brand new government department to clear up the mess they created.
Theresa May's first speech was filled with inclusive language. She spoke of:
the precious, precious bond (between the countries in the UK)
that word unionist is very important to me (the original full name of the Tory party)
we believe in a union not just between the nations of the United Kingdom but between all of our citizens – every one of us
fighting against the burning injustice
The government I lead will be driven, not by the interests of the privileged few but by yours
we will think not of the powerful, but you …..
Women Leaders are really taking on inequality
Much of the language during the referendum has been about putting the "Great" back into Britain but what did that really mean? and who has benefited from any initiatives that have been driving the economy forward? The answer is the few… and women leaders are now taking on this issue of wealth inequality. I would indeed have been disappointed if Theresa May had simply repeated about making Britain great again but the final call in her Maiden speech as Prime Minister, was "Together we will build a better Britain".
She did talk about needing a vision for a new post-Brexit Britain and making a success of leaving the EU, but I also heard her put fairness and inequality right at the heart of her plans. What she said was more akin to a socialist reforming agenda such as we heard when Tony Blair first came to power in the 90s. She made a promise that new laws and initiatives would be specifically targeted to the many working people and not the few … the 1% rich.
This wealth inequality is what Christine Lagarde, CEO of the International Monetary Fund put at the top of the international agenda at the World Economic Forum's Davos meeting at the start of 2014. That was when a report from Oxfam showed that 85 people were in possession of half the world's wealth. Two and a half years later at the Femme Q feminine intelligence conference in Berlin, co-organiser Scilla Elworthy, announced that "now 62 of the richest billionaires have more wealth than half of humanity". The last two years of austerity programs have simply made the rich richer and it is this inequality and increasing deprivation of opportunity that corroded the trust which people had in their political leaders. All pleadings from Westminster during the Referendum fell on deaf ears as they came over as more empty promises. Theresa May seemingly listened and has got the message from the country outside the capital. Forget us at your peril.
How the media have reported this rise of the feminine
The Evening Standard spoke of the country having had "enough of malicious male egos … and there's a matriarchal yearning". Our new Prime Minister will be joining Angela Merkel, and possibly Hillary Clinton, on a world stage "cleaning up all the male mess. The Germans call it the Femokratie."
Meanwhile an interesting essay in the Daily Mail last Saturday noted that "femininity is no longer the insuperable obstacle to leadership that it was in the past." Sadly the page was headlined with "Why are women suddenly ruling the world?" which is both inspiring and threatening. The accompanying graphic was an image of the planet with a woman's foot in a black stiletto shoe striding over it. We have to shift the conversation about the rise of women to the top key leadership positions as some kind of take-over instead of what it is, the fair representation of half of the population. That will come with time as the culture and culture-narrators in the media become accustomed to female power as a norm.
What do women bring ?
So far, Theresa May is showing that there might just be a different way in politics. She is not a showy, egoic character with an obvious connection to the old boy's network of Westminster. She says, and everybody agrees, that she just got on with the job. In a leadership contest at another moment in time, her lack of a high profile and charisma could have stood against her but now, after the drama of the Post-Referendum fall-out with the main characters leaving, a quiet, calm, sober figure …. a vicar's daughter with a proven track record as a hard worker … is absolutely what we need. Satirists and impressionists are having to trawl through media archives searching for the very few recordings of Mrs May. She has either been elusive or her last of participation in there Boy's Club has made her invisible.
Many women operate under the radar and remain invisible
I just came across a blog post from a friend, Karen Sands, a Leading GeroFuturist who describes herself as a "visionary with wrinkles" and champions the benefits of aging, particularly the gifts brought by older women. Karen was writing about how women, and their efforts/accomplishments in later life, tend to be invisible. At age 59, Theresa May kind of fits into that category.
Karen says, "Women have the opportunity to harness their dominant feminine aspect, to go with the flow, making changes and collaborating with others in ways that go unnoticed by a society so focused on the visible, on the ego. When we fly under the radar of the good old boys' network, we can make significant, sustainable changes without anyone standing in our way. This is why women must step forward today and act on their power to make a difference—through their votes, their purchases, their leadership, their vision, and yes, their success. Striving for meaningful, sustainable, and profitable success is necessary if we are to have the resources and power to lead significant change." A good mandate here for Theresa.
So fingers, our new PM may be our second female Prime Minister but let's hope she is the first to be a real champion of the feminine with pro-female policies heralding a new era and bringing a soft power leadership to the UK.
Meanwhile, I have joined the Women's Equality party (just one year old now) and if the movement for a cross-party Progressive Alliance movement does continue to get going, we have four years until the next general election to work out better alternatives to what we have now.


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