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LA teachers' strike: Charter school teachers walk out, too
LA teachers have walked out, striking in torrential rains, protesting the billionaire-backed privatization movement that wants to hand public school funding to charter schools.
So it would be noteworthy that teachers at three charter schools have walked out in solidarity with their colleagues in the largest public school district in the nation in any event -- but doubly so because it's the first time in California history that charter school teachers have gone out on strike.
Although it's rare, teachers at charter schools may organize and seek representation from a union, just as the teachers at the Accelerated Schools did. This is said to be only the second time nationally that instructors at a charter school organization went on strike.
Union representatives for teachers at the Accelerated Schools said more than a year and a half of negotiations with school management failed to yield a contract. At a morning news conference, teachers and their supporters chanted and waved signs outside Accelerated's campus on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
Founded by two former Los Angeles Unified teachers, the three Accelerated schools serve 1,700 students in kindergarten through 12th grade.
Teachers strike at L.A. charter schools too, a first for California [Dakota Smith/LA Times]
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LA's new homelessness stats reveal a crisis that is only worsening
LA has the nation's worst homelessness problem, a (literal) epidemic so terrible it distorts the national statistics.
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Next week is my Southern California nonstop Radicalized and advocacy week: I'm starting with a signing at Burbank's Dark Delicacies on Sunday at 4PM, alongside Leslie S. Klinger & Lisa Morton, who are signing their new anthology Ghost Stories: Classic Tales of Horror & Suspense.
Socal! I'll be in Burbank on April 7, San Diego on April 11 and UCLA on April 12
I've got a couple of hometown appearances coming up, including a rare west-side event: on Sunday, April 7 at 4PM, I'll be at Burbank's Dark Delicacies for a final signing in their old store before they occupy their new digs around the corner, and then I'm taking off my writer hat and putting on my […]


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The grey-crowned woodpecker (Colaptes auricularis) is a species of bird in subfamily Picinae of the woodpecker family Picidae. It is endemic to western Mexico.

Taxonomy and systematics

The grey-crowned woodpecker was originally described as Chloronerpes auricularis. It was later placed in genus Piculus but since about 2007 has been moved into Colaptes by taxonomic systems.

The grey-crowned woodpecker is similar to the wide-ranging golden-olive woodpecker (C. rubiginosus) and has been treated as a subspecies of it. Some authors have treated the two as a superspecies. In addition, research since 2010 has found that the golden-olive woodpecker is not monophyletic, with some subspecies being more closely related to the grey-crowned woodpecker than they are to other golden-olive subspecies.

The specific epithet auricularis means "eared", an appearance created by the confluent, fine patterning of the species' head.

The grey-crowned woodpecker is monotypic.

Description

The grey-crowned woodpecker is  long and weighs about . Males and females have the same plumage except on their heads. Adult males have a light gray crown and nape. They are pale brownish buff on their lores and sides of the head, sometimes with indistinct grayish bars. They have a wide red stripe below the brownish buff and a dull white chin and upper throat; the last has dull grayish bars. Adult females have no red on their head. Both sexes have mostly pale olive to olive green upperparts; their rump and uppertail coverts are barred with pale yellow or yellowish white. Their wings are a brighter olive green than the back. Their tail is pale yellowish olive green with dusky tips on the central feathers and sometimes darker bars or spots on the outer ones. Their underparts are yellowish white or pale yellowish with irregular olive bars. Their bill is dark gray, their iris brown, and the legs gray. Juveniles resemble adult females with less distinct barring on the underparts; the male's red facial stripe is mixed with gray.

Distribution and habitat

The grey-crowned woodpecker is found in western Mexico from southern Sonora and Chihuahua to southern Oaxaca. It inhabits the interior and edges of semi-humid and humid forest, and is also found locally in pine-oak forest. In elevation it ranges from near sea level to .

Behavior

Movement

The grey-crowned woodpecker is a year-round resident throughout its range.

Feeding

The grey-crowned woodpecker forages at all levels from the ground to the forest canopy. Its diet is not known in detail but does include termites, other invertebrates, and berries.

Breeding

The grey-crowned woodpecker's breeding season has not been fully determined but includes at least March and April. Nothing else is known about its breeding biology.

Vocal and non-vocal sounds

What is thought to be the grey-crowned woodpecker's song is "a rapid, shrill, churring rattle." It also makes "a sharp, slightly explosive kea'ah [and] a gruff mewing growh". Its drum is "short and rapid".

Status

The IUCN has assessed the grey-crowned woodpecker as being of Least Concern. It has a large range and an estimated population of at least 20,000 mature individuals; however, the latter is believed to be decreasing. No immediate threats have been identified. "Gray-crowned Woodpecker faces heightened risk because of its specialization on threatened tropical highland forest habitats. The primary threat to this species is loss of this habitat type due to conversion to agriculture, wood harvesting, and livestock grazing."

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The Employee Free Choice Act is a bill currently before Congress that would make it easier for workers to organize new unions. It is a huge step towards fixing the broken system that allows employers to get away with intimidation, coercion, and meddling in workers' organizing. It just needs a few more votes to pass in the Senate.
Recently an out of state, anti-union outfit (see below on "UnionFacts") has been flooding our media with ads depicting union leaders as gangsters and saying that unions want to take away the private ballot for workers. Senators Susan Collins and John McCain have been aping the same language to explain their refusal to support the Employee Free Choice Act.
* Labor loves the private ballot; it's nonunion employers who hate it. Every year union members in this country cast thousands of secret ballots: in local leadership elections, national leadership elections, for and against contracts. The Employee Free Choice Act is trying to give more workers--not fewer--the right to a private ballot. It's the out-of-state, nonunion, low-wage employers paying for these "private ballot" attack ads that hate the private ballot. Want proof? Next time you're in Wal-Mart--one of the biggest backers of the ads--ask a worker there how many private ballots have ever been cast by the store's employees on their wages, benefits and working conditions. The answer will be--as it is at all nonunion workplaces--zero.
* If anyone's been acting like gangsters, it's the union busters. Intimidation. Coercion. Fear. These are the weapons used by virulent anti-union companies and the "consultants" they hire to keep employees underpaid, passive and without a voice at work. Workers who try to organize are routinely fired, forced to attend long meetings in which unions are maligned with no opportunity for rebuttal, and pulled into high-pressure "one-on-ones" with supervisors in which they're told the business will close up shop rather than allow a democratic workplace.
* The elections the ads' sponsors are calling for are neither free nor fair. Imagine a municipal election where only one side can campaign inside city limits and has the power to throw out of town any voters who voice the "wrong" opinion. That's the situation workers face when they try to organize through the rigged election system.
* Organizations don't start with an election; they start by organizing. If you wanted to start a neighborhood watch or other community group, would you start by calling an election? Or would you go door to door, talking to your neighbors and asking them to join? With unions as with any other voluntary organization, elections come after the organization exists.
* How would the ad's sponsors restore the American middle class? With more dead-end, low-wage jobs? Because that's what we're getting without organized labor, the movement that gave us pensions and the 40-hour week, ended sweatshops and child labor. Or maybe, just maybe, those low-wage employers paying for the ad are more interested in keeping wages low and workers cowed than in what they call, perversely, "workplace democracy"?
In August 2008, the Eastern Maine Labor Council released a study detailing extensive private ballot voting by union members affiliated to the EMLC in just the past year. The EMLC surveyed 26 affiliated locals and found that 221 workers were elected to office by private ballot, including 13 presidents, 13 vice-presidents, 12 secretaries and 7 treasurers, 55 members of executive boards and an additional 121 other officers in various capacities. In addition private ballot votes on 22 contracts or workplace issues were taken. These numbers do not take into consideration the fact that many locals operate on a three year election cycle and that contracts generally run for three years. If such a vote was in an off year, it was not included in the tallies. View the report, "Truth and Falsehoods," here for more details.


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Bear Creek Spire is a mountain in the Sierra Nevada in Inyo County, California, in the western United States, and is the 46th highest mountain in California and the 225th highest mountain in the United States. Bear Creek Spire is part of the John Muir Wilderness and the Inyo National Forest.

History
Bear Creek Spire was named in 1908 by Joseph LeConte, James Hutchinson and Duncan McDuffie, because of its position at the head of the Hilgard Branch of Bear Creek.

Climbing
The first ascent of Bear Creek Spire was a solo climb by Hermann Ulrichs in 1923 up its west face.
Norman Clyde established the Northeast Face route in October 1931 and a route up the Northeast Buttress in May 1932.

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Data in the foodservice industry is a hot topic. No longer do foodservice manufacturers complain about not having enough data. Indeed, manufacturers are now inundated with information from multiple sources, both internal and external. Certainly, many have made great strides in turning the information from each individual source into strategic and tactical insights. Data sharing has illuminated operator transaction data for the manufacturer like never before.
We can now understand operator purchase patterns, rebates and billbacks, as well as marketing and promotion activities down to the location level for most accounts. While these insights are significant and valuable on their own, there is untapped potential available by aggregating these sources into one analysis in order to build a greater understanding of our operator customer base.
Combining multiple sources of operator data can reveal valuable insights regarding purchase patterns by operator segment, as well as usage of various marketing and merchandising tools and strategies. For instance, a manufacturer might receive billback data from their distributor partner. They may also have data from rebate or loyalty programs that reward their customers based on case purchases across multiple categories. By themselves, these data sets can reveal a great deal.
Even better, aggregating these sources can start to build a comprehensive, 360 degree view. With a combined view, the manufacturer can visualize a profile of their "ideal" customer based on segment, number of categories purchased and volume. This will lead to more focused efforts against these customers.
Data integration is not easy. Again, manufacturers have access to a great deal of data. However, most sources are in different formats and structures. Manufacturers may receive automated data transfers, but they might also receive data via hard copy or PDF, making the task of aggregation extremely difficult and time consuming.
Datassential has recently developed the tools and processes to help manufacturers analyze data from multiple sources, internal and external, in order to categorize or tier their customers and identify product and brand opportunities. Utilizing their Firefly database, Datassential can match, clean and append operator data into a standard format with all of the necessary data to help manufacturers identify their ideal customer profile. In addition, Datassential can mine the Firefly database to identify all of the other operator NON-customers that fit the profile, and generate higher opportunity, lead lists.
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Reports on the awards given to executives in the home furnishings industry by the Home Fashion Products Association in the state of New York. 'Paradigm Award' presented to Julian Tomchin from Macy's; 'Design Awards' presented to Waverly Lifestyle Group director of design Pamela Maffei-Toolan; Achievements of Tomchin and Maffei-Toolan.
Focuses on the International Interior Design Association (IIDA). Management.
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Reports on the selection of the International Interior Design Association as the name of a new organization unifying several interior design professional organizations. Response by readers to `Interior Design' magazine's request for the name.
Announces the new confederation for interior designers called the International Interior Design Association. Election of Marilyn Farrow as president; Information for those designers interested in membership.
Reports on the holding of the Society of Glass and Ceramic Decorators' DECO 1996 at the Buena Vista Palace in Orlando, Florida on October 6-9, 1996. Target participants; Contact information.
References for the articles published in the fall 2011 issue of "Icon" are presented.
Reports the sponsors that have signed up for the Industry Awards lunch for the houseware sector on May 9, 2003 in London, England. Background of the Industry Awards; List of sponsors; Contact information.
Features the recipients of the 1994 houseware industry awards. Process of choosing the winners; Names of winners and finalists in the different categories.
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Polytrade v Glass Recovery Services - Jul 2015
Polytrade v Glass Recovery Services
It is trite law that a statutory demand cannot be issued where there is a genuine dispute as to the alleged debt. A recent matter in the Supreme Court of Victoria, Polytrade Pty Ltd v Glass Recovery Services Pty Ltd [2015] VSC 164, considers, amongst other things, the appropriate orders for costs when statutory demands are withdrawn (here, before proceedings were filed to set it aside). Warren Jiear, Sarah Drinkwater and Tim Logan discuss below.
The Defendant had issued a statutory demand pursuant to section 459E of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) (the Act), for a total debt owing of $2,698,191 (the Statutory Demand) on the Plaintiff on 24 January 2015, and received on 27 January 2015. The time to comply with Statutory Demand would lapse at the end of the 17th February 2015.
On 16 February 2015, just prior to the Statutory Demand expiring, the Plaintiff engaged solicitors who urgently prepared an application to set aside the Statutory Demand and supporting documentation.
While preparing the application, the Plaintiff's solicitors also wrote to the solicitors for the Defendant (on 16 February 2015 at 9.02am) setting out that there was a genuine dispute as to the debt allegedly owed, requesting that the Statutory Demand be withdrawn, and that the Defendant provide a cheque to the Plaintiff in the amount of $5,000 on account of legal costs expended by the Plaintiff in preparation of the application to set aside the demand and supporting material.
The solicitor for the Defendant responded (at 16 February 2015 3.57pm) saying that their client 'would consider withdrawing the Statutory Demand' but required the Plaintiff to respond to certain queries. The Plaintiff's solicitor responded to the queries at 8.39am on 17 February 2015.
The Defendant withdrew the Statutory Demand by email at 11.15am on 17 February 2015, but did not provide any money in satisfaction of the Plaintiff's costs, as demanded. At no time did the Defendant conceded that there was a genuine dispute.
Accordingly, despite the Statutory Demand being withdrawn, the Plaintiff proceeded to file its originating application, specifically seeking its costs on an indemnity basis. The Plaintiff could not properly file an application for the demand to be withdrawn pursuant to section 459G of the Act, as it had already been withdrawn prior to the application being filed.
Accordingly, the Plaintiff's application was only with respect to costs.
Legislation with respect to costs
Section 459N of the Act provides that "Where, on application under section 459G, the Court sets aside the demand, it may order the person who served the demand to pay the company's costs in relation to the application."
Section 24(1) of the Supreme Court Act 1986 (Vic) provides that orders in relation to costs are at the discretion of the Court (subject to other sections, or Acts). This section applied to the current application due to the operation of rules 1.3 and 63.02 of the Supreme Court Corporations Rules 2013 (Vic).
Precedents referred to
The Judge was pointed to (by the Plaintiff) various precedents, however, the Judge was able to distinguish those cases because either:
Whilst a statutory demand had been withdrawn, there was at least one valid application before the court enabling a costs order to be appropriately made, or
The statutory demand was withdrawn after the application was made to set it aside.
The Judge agreed with the principle that a Court should have power to award costs in circumstances where a statutory demand is withdrawn after an application has been made to set aside the demand. However, that was not the case here.
Whilst the Judge sympathised with the Plaintiff's submission that the service of the Statutory Demand in circumstances where there was an ongoing dispute was an abuse of process, the Court's hands were tied. Associate Justice Randall determined that the Court had no option but to dismiss the Plaintiff's application.
The Judge summarised that the application by the Plaintiff was only ever an application for costs and nothing more.
The Judge did also mention, albeit in passing, that the Plaintiff's predicament was partially of its own doing – in waiting so long before seeking advice after being served with the Statutory Demand. Had the Plaintiff sought advice sooner, its solicitors may have been able to procure withdrawal before being required to prepare an application and supporting affidavit to set aside the Statutory Demand. As it was, the Plaintiff's solicitors were required to prepare those documents urgently, whilst also negotiating with the Defendant, due to the limitation period for making such an application being impending.
Matters to take away
There are a number of matters to take away from this case. We consider the key considerations are as follows:
An applicant will have at best, remote prospects of obtaining a costs order against the issuer of a statutory demand in circumstances where the demand has been withdrawn before an application to set aside has been made. Such an application is merely an application for costs, nothing more.
Creditors should be careful and obtain advice before issuing statutory demands. If there is a genuine dispute as to the debt, a statutory demand should not be issued. As was considered by Associate Justice Randall, in circumstances where the demand is set aside, or the demand is withdrawn after an application to set aside has been made, costs can (and generally will) be ordered against the issuer.
If a company is served with a statutory demand, the company should seek legal advice promptly. Companies only have 21 days after being served in which to make an application to set aside the demand. It may be possible to negotiate for the demand to be withdrawn prior to preparing for such an application, and these opportunities should be explored before going to such a cost. If time is limited when solicitors are engaged, often the only option available is to urgently apply for the demand to be set aside.


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04/08/19 -- Shooting in Park Slope
News Files » Setting » And Here We Are Again... » News Reports » 04/08/19 -- Shooting in Park Slope
Three people were killed and four injured when an unknown number of gunmen stormed an abandoned house on tenth street, Park Slope, New York Safe Zone, on April 7. The deceased are Gitana Masalis (19), Kieran Moore (20), Jared Mansfield (28), and the injured so far identified are Tomas Salas (20) and Rebecca Fitzgerald (22). The two other victims have chosen to remain anonymous.
Military Police were unable to respond when the incident initially went unreported, until an anonymous caller contacted Fort Drum later that evening. Investigations are now being handled jointly by the Military Police and SESA, due to the victims being predominantly SLC-Expressive. The agency has yet to verify whether the attackers potentially held anti-SLC-Expressive idealogies.
Park Slope, although within the New York Safe Zone, has long awaited development, and by many citizens, considered entirely neglected if not abandoned. One anonymous source claimed that the house that was attacked was considered to be an informal shelter for homeless youth.
The suspects have yet to be identified. In a statement made on the morning of April 8, Major Matthew Olson requested that should anyone know anything about the incident that took place on April 7, or have any information on who was involved, to please come forward to the 91st Police Battalion.


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Nation's Oldest Anti-Leprosy Organization Welcomes New Hire
American Leprosy Missions | May 31, 2012
Gary Fischer Joins South Carolina-Based American Leprosy Missions as Chief Development Officer
The nation's leading voice in the fight to cure leprosy and related diseases and care for those affected by them is strengthening its team with the hiring of a new chief development officer. Joining American Leprosy Missions' work to bring disease prevention and awareness, cutting-edge treatment and quality care to people worldwide is Gary Fischer of Naperville, Ill. A seasoned professional with experience in both the private-sector and nonprofit worlds, Fischer brings more than 30 years of experience and key relationships to American Leprosy Missions as its new chief development officer.
"Gary's expertise in and knowledge of nonprofits, fundraising, communications, marketing and organizational management make him a great addition to our team," said President Bill Simmons. "In addition, Gary shares our passion sharing the love of Jesus with those affected by leprosy. We look forward to his contributions as we continue American Leprosy Missions' 106-year effort to serve to those affected by leprosy."
Fischer comes to the organization having most recently worked with Douglas Shaw & Associates, where he collaborated with clients nationwide as vice president of business development. He previously served as the first U.S. executive director for Questscope, an international aid group working with at-risk youth in developing countries. His professional background also includes work at the Alzheimer's Association and Prison Fellowship, where he oversaw direct response and charitable giving development. Fischer earned his undergraduate degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
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As an adult, stressful trips take away the fun in holiday making and that's, even more, the case for children. Therefore, make the trip as less stressful as it can be. Make sure all of the suitcases are packed well in advance, arrive at the airport on time and make sure all of the arrangements are made. That allows you time to pass the border security at a leisure pace. Maybe you even have some time for shopping and discovering what the airport has to offer except for terminals and flights.
You won't make children happy with one historical museum or castle after the next. And a few architectural buildings might interest them, but they'll lose their interest if all they see are places that mostly speak to adults. You need to incorporate some children's activities on your holiday plans. LEGOLAND, Ripley, Madame Tussauds, Disneyland are good but somewhat expensive options that everyone will enjoy. But also sights like a toy museum or large playground are things that children will love. A zoo is also a nice place for the whole family to go to. You never grow out of loving animals once you start to like them and there is a kind of animal for everyone. You need to include at least a few of those outings if you want your children to be happy holidaymakers.
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Since entering the electronic atomization industry, BYD electronics, a manufacturing giant, has been steady and steady in accordance with BYD's consistent style. It not only has advanced automatic production lines, but also recently launched its own ceramic atomization technology brand "beem" and planning technology brand logo "beem core". BYD's share price has also risen sharply for two consecutive days. As of November 11, The share price was HK $27.6, up 6.15%.
At present, smore international, Heyuan group, Juwei group, ALD Zhuoling, HCD huachengda, bodi group, Jilu, Skoll, yijiate and other enterprises have launched atomization core technology brands in China. BYD electronics launched the ceramic core technology brand beem. There is speculation in the industry that its purpose is the same as other e-cigarette enterprises. It wants to improve its core competitiveness in the field of e-cigarette through the atomization core technology brand strategy.
Compared with the leadless ceramic atomization core of SIMORE feelm, BYD electronic beem ceramic core adopts the leadless design. Because there is no metal solder joint, it also further avoids the possible heavy metal pollution. The same leadless design in the industry also includes silmo launched by Zhuo Li Neng.
It is reported that beem ceramic atomization core is the first in the world to be applied to a new series of products of maxfel brand. It has the characteristics of optimizing innovative design, patent layout, solving the dry burning pain point of oil leakage, pure and stable atomization performance, coexistence of experience and safety, etc.
According to public information, the trademark "beem core" has been applied for by BYD Precision Manufacturing Co., Ltd. on July 2. At present, the display status is still "under registration". For brands that cooperate with BYD electronics, cigarette bombs will be marked with the technical logo of "beem core" to confirm the use of beem ceramic atomization technology products.
BYD electronics, as a giant in the traditional manufacturing industry, has a wide range of business. It began to enter the e-cigarette industry at the end of 2020, and completed the patent layout and mass production in the first half of 2021. With many years of deep cultivation in electronic intelligent manufacturing, with a professional team and all-round R & D ability, and paying special attention to product R & D, technological innovation and patent layout, BYD has laid a solid foundation for the entry of BYD electronics into the e-cigarette industry.


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NFU in NB Scholarship Winners: The Next Generation of Farmers
(August 13, 2013) The National Farmers Union in New Brunswick (NFU in NB) is pleased to announce the 2013 winners of the David Frost Memorial Scholarships and the National Farmers Union in NB Scholarship.
Berndien Bakker of Killoween is the winner of the $1000 David Frost scholarship for a daughter or son of a registered agriculture producer in NB, taking a degree program. Bakker will attend the Dalhousie University Agriculture Campus in Truro, NS, in the fall to study animal science in a pre-veterinary program.
Louise Paradis of Drummond is the winner of the $500 David Frost scholarship for a daughter or son of a registered agriculture producer in NB, taking a diploma program. Paradis will attend the Dalhousie University Diploma in Technology program in Business Management, Agriculture, at the Truro, NS campus.
The winner of the National Farmers Union in NB $1000 scholarship for a daughter or son of a registered member of the NFU in NB is Kasadee Allan of Glassville, NB. Allan will attend Dalhousie University Agriculture Campus in Truro, NS, in September to take a degree program in pre-veterinary studies.
The three winners were announced at the NFU Region 1 meeting in Cornwall, PE, on August 6, 2013. The NFU in NB scholarships are awarded to NB high school graduates who are entering a program at a recognized Canadian institution, with priority given to students enrolled in an agricultural program. Academic standing, school and community involvement, demonstrated interest in agriculture, and financial need are all taken into consideration.
Funds will be awarded in mid-January, 2014, following successful completion of the first semester of study and commencement of the second semester. Awarding these scholarships is the way that the NFU in NB has chosen to honour the memory of David Frost, a respected agrologist who worked for many years as a valued consultant to farmers in the upper St. John River Valley. By doing so, the NFU also encourages and supports a new generation of farmers.
The National Farmers Union in New Brunswick is one of two accredited general farm organizations in the province. For more information contact us by email info@nfunb.org or visit us online at www.nfunb.org.
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NEVER FORGET: In 1994, Pfizer paid $20 million after LYING about defective heart valve that killed hundreds
In 1994, Pfizer agreed to pay $20 million to settle claims with the federal government that the company lied to get federal approval for its mechanical heart valve, which ended up killing hundreds, possibly thousands of people.
According to the terms of the settlement, $10.75 million would go to the Department of Justice and $9.25 million to monitoring patients who received the device at Veterans Administration hospitals or pay for its removal. (Related: Pfizer has a shockingly long history of engaging in illegal activities and human experimentation.)
The mechanical heart valve in question is the Bjork-Shiley convexo-concave heart valve. Pfizer acquired the valve after acquiring Shiley Laboratories, the company that originally manufactured the valve and held the patent. From 1979 to 1986, when the valve was finally taken off the market after years of reports of fatal defects, about 86,000 Bjork-Shiley valves were implanted into patients all over the world.
By 1992, at least 300 people in the United States had been killed by the defective heart valve, which could fracture and possibly kill the recipient.
Thousands more people from all over the world would undergo reoperations to replace the valves within years following Pfizer's settlement with the federal government. Dozens, possibly hundreds of these people would end up dying, either as a result of complications caused by the replacement surgery or due to defects in the valves themselves.
Pfizer paid an additional $215 million to 51,000 recipients of Bjork-Shiley valve
Pfizer's deal with the government was strongly criticized by consumer rights activists, who urged government officials to bring criminal charges against the Big Pharma company. They also tried to lobby the government for steeper penalties against the multibillion-dollar corporation.
While these efforts were unsuccessful, it should be noted that Pfizer did not just pay $20 million. In 1992, two years before Pfizer reached a settlement with the federal government, a federal judge in Cincinnati sided with about 51,000 recipients of the defective heart valve who had come together to levy a class-action lawsuit against the Big Pharma company.
Pfizer made an offer to pay $215 million in the settlement, in addition to other benefits. Despite pleas from many of the lawyers in the class action suit, the judge agreed to the settlement.
According to the terms of the settlement, $75 million would be set aside for research into better techniques for identifying which heart valve recipients are at greater risk of experiencing fractures. Between $90 million to $140 million of the payout would go to heart valve recipients for medical or psychological consultations as well as compensation to the patients and their spouses.
This works out to paying between $2,500 to $4,000 per patient. In today's dollars, this would amount to $5,310 to $8,496 per patient. Ross, who was 68 in 1992, noted that the offer of up to $4,000 was just "a drop in the bucket" for Pfizer.
"You never know what is going to happen," she said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. "You try to make the best of it, but you are always living in fear. I feel so violated to think that they could put something in my chest that wasn't perfect."
Learn more about Pfizer and other Big Pharma companies and their illicit activities at BigPharmaNews.com.
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Astha Rajvanshi was there as it happened.
Violent confrontations between police and students erupted at St John's College as Federal Education Minister Christopher Pyne entered the premises to adjudicate the John Howard Debating Cup.
About 50 students gathered near the main entrance of the college on Missenden Road, Camperdown to protest against the Federal government's proposed cuts to higher education.
University of Sydney Union Vice President Tom Raue said the protest was "organised by student activists over the last couple of days in secret, as we didn't want the Liberals to know".
"The main message of the protest was that these attacks are not welcome by students. Liberal politicians are not welcome on the campus that they are destroying," Raue said.
The event was hosted by the Sydney University Liberal Club with Attorney-General George Brandis and Liberal MP Peter Phelps also in attendance.
Over 50 police officers from the NSW Public Order and Riot Squad were present, outnumbering the protestors, and blocked off all entrances to the college as protestors attempted to gain entry.
Pyne's car arrived at approximately 6:30pm through the Missenden Road entry and drove into the underground car park within the college, at which point a forceful confrontation saw a number of students being pushed and shoved to the ground by the police.
SRC General Secretary Mariana Podestá-Diverio described being subjected to police brutality: "One riot policeman punched me in the breast, and another pushed me onto a fallen chair and into a sandstone wall. I was thrown to the ground by riot squad cops twice. My glasses were knocked off my face by one officer who shoved another protester in front of me".
Footage from the scene appears to show a police officer punching a student, and tweets covering the incident report several students being assaulted by riot police.
"I heard several of the riot police talk about how violent they'd been … one of them joked about how he punched a woman in the face," said Raue.
An argument between police and protestors took place later in the evening. "We're going to be seeing a lot of each other and if you're not civil it's going to get very messy," a police officer was overheard saying to a student.
The event concluded around 9:30pm, with protestors and police dispersing from the premises.
"A few people are a bit shaken up, but overall it was a success because it has gotten a lot of media attention," said Raue.
Twitter coverage by Georgia Behrens, Felix Donovan, John Gooding, Georgia Kriz, and Astha Rajvanshi.


第1题:Should heroes be defined as people who say what they think when we ourselves lack the courage to say it? 英雄是否应该定义为这样一种人:当我们缺乏勇气表达自己内心想法的时候,他们却勇于说出自己的真实想法?
第2题:Do you think that ease does not challenge us and that we need adversity to help us discover who we are? 顺境不足以挑战我们,我们需要在逆境来的时候了解自己,是否同意?
第3题:Is conscience a more powerful motivator than money, fame, or power? 良知是不是一种比金钱、荣誉、权利更为强大的驱动力呢?
第4题:Do we need other people in order to understand ourselves? 我们是否需要他人的目光来了解自己?
第5题:Is the world changing for the better? 世界是不是越来越好呢?
第6题:Can success be disastrous? 成功会不会带来灾难?
第7题:Do changes that make our lives easier not necessarily make them better? 让我们生活变得更加的简单的那些变化,是否让我们的生活变得更美好?
第8题:Is there always another explanation or another point of view? 是不是总存在另外的一种观点?
第9题:What motivates people to change? 什么促使人们改变?
第10题:Is deception ever justified? 谎言是否正确?


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William King (1 May 1650 – 8 May 1729) was an Anglican divine in the Church of Ireland, who was Archbishop of Dublin from 1703 to 1729. He was an author and supported the Glorious Revolution. He had considerable political influence in Ireland, including a veto on judicial appointments.

Early life
King was born in May 1650 in County Antrim, to James King and his wife; his parents were recent immigrants from Aberdeen. He was educated at The Royal School, Dungannon, County Tyrone, and thereafter at Trinity College Dublin, graduating BA on 23 February 1670 and MA in 1673.

Career
On 25 October 1671, King was ordained a deacon as chaplain to John Parker, Archbishop of Tuam, and on 14 July 1673 Parker gave him the prebend of Kilmainmore, County Mayo. King, who lived as part of Parker's household, was ordained a priest on 12 April 1674.

His support of the Glorious Revolution in 1688 served to advance his position. He became Bishop of Derry in 1691. He was advanced to the position of Archbishop of Dublin in 1703, a post he would hold until his death. He gave £1,000 for the founding of "Archbishop King's Professorship of Divinity" at Trinity College in 1718. Much of his correspondence survives and provides a historic resource for the study of the Ireland of his time. He died in May 1729.

King's years as a bishop were marked by reform and the building of churches and glebe houses, and by the dispensing of charity. He was generally regarded as a man of sense and good judgment, and his political influence was considerable: he was always consulted on judicial appointments and at times seems to have had an effective veto over candidates he considered unsuitable. His influence declined after the appointment of Hugh Boulter as Archbishop of Armagh in 1724, as Boulter was also consulted on judicial appointments, and the two could rarely agree on a suitable candidate.

Boulter's preferment to the See of Armagh, passing over his own more obvious claims, was a bitter disappointment to King. He took petty revenge at their first meeting by refusing to get up from his chair, saying that he was too old to stand; he might reasonably have pointed out instead that he was a martyr to gout, from which he had suffered for forty years and from which he died five
years later. He was a vocal opponent of Wood's halfpence during the 1720s.

After King's death, Bishop Theophilus Bolton purchased 6,000 of King's books to establish the Bolton Library in Cashel, County Tipperary.

Works
As a man of letters he wrote The State of the Protestants in Ireland under King James's Government in 1691 and De Origine Mali in 1702, translated into English with extensive notes by Edmund Law in 1731 as An Essay on the Origin of Evil; it was also subject to a well-known critical discussion by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, published as an appendix to Leibniz's Théodicée.

References

Further reading
 C. S. King, ed. A great Archbishop of Dublin, William King, D.D., 1650-1729: His autobiography, family, and a selection from his correspondence; 1906, Longman,Green.
 Philip O'Regan; Archbishop William King, 1650-1729 and the Constitution in Church and State; 2000, Four Courts Press, .
 Robert S. Matteson, A large private park: the collection of Archbishop William King 1650–1729. Cambridge: LP Publications, 2003. (Libri Pertinentes, no. 7) 2 vols ; co-published with Tempe (Arizona): Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2003.
 Fauske, Christopher, ed. Archbishop William King and the Anglican Irish Context, 1688-1729; 2004, Four Courts Press, .
 Fauske, Christopher, A Political Biography of William King; 2011, Chatto and Pickering, .

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Stevens & Wilkinson's Clemson Core Campus Precinct Recognized by the American Institute of Architects' South Carolina Chapter
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COLUMBIA, S.C.– April 2018 – Stevens & Wilkinson, a full-service architecture, engineering and interior design firm, announced today that the Clemson University Core Campus Precinct earned a 2018 Merit Design Award by the American Institute of Architects' (AIA) South Carolina Chapter (AIASC).
Following a 2002 Campus Master Plan decision to demolish and replace three major buildings in the middle of its main campus, Clemson University and Stevens & Wilkinson set out to fundamentally reimagine the university's entire Core Campus Precinct. The design team, consisting of Stevens & Wilkinson, VMDO Architects and Sasaki, diligently worked to develop a clear and engaging vision for the Precinct's evolution. What came of this was a forward-looking approach to housing, academics, dining and student life programs combined into an intense, innovative and dynamic mixed-use center where current and prospective students can now connect with Clemson's traditions in a new and exciting contemporary atmosphere.
"The Core Campus Precinct project embodies all the aspects of the 'Clemson experience' and is one of the most complex higher education projects of its kind," said Ashby Gressette, AIA, principal and president of Stevens & Wilkinson. "This new building has paved the way for other institutions to create similar spaces of this nature, and we look forward to seeing its influence in the higher education sector of our industry."
Comprised of nearly 286,000 square feet, with a construction cost of approximately $83 million, the Core Campus Precinct achieves the growing demands for contemporary housing and dining options. The primary goals for this project included capturing the best of the "Clemson experience;" advanced coordination of future projects outlined in the Campus Master Plan; creating a facility to enable recruitment and retention of students; and achieving LEED Silver Certification, which U.S.G.B.C. confirmed the project accomplished late last year.
The purpose of the Design Awards program is to encourage and recognize distinguished architectural achievement, to honor architectural teams, their clients and consultants who work together to improve the built environment, and to demonstrate and raise public awareness of the architect's role in shaping the quality of life through superior design.
AIASC announced this year's award recipients at their annual Design Conference in conjunction with ArtFields, a renowned nine-day art competition. Held in the small town of Lake City, S.C., the conference began on April 18 and ended on Friday, April 20. This year's theme, Community: By Design, focused on the power of art and design in creative place-making, especially as it pertains to small rural communities.
Stevens & Wilkinson greatly contributed to the success Lake City has experienced over the last decade by designing the projects that helped ArtFields come to life, projects including the National Bean Market Museum where the ceremony for this year's Design Awards was held. In addition to the National Bean Market Museum, Stevens & Wilkinson also worked on the following projects in Lake City: The Ragsdale Museum, Jones Carter Art Gallery, Village Green, the Ronald E. McNair Science Park and Life History Center, Imperial Building, and Comfort Stations.
About Stevens & Wilkinson:
Founded in 1919, Stevens & Wilkinson is a full-service architecture, engineering and interior design firm committed to providing clients with "Smart Design Solutions." The firm's combined design capabilities lead to projects executed with creative, innovative and holistic design solutions. Learn more: www.stevens-wilkinson.com.
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District 9 an Underappreciated Gem
Just sign on the dotted line, sir.
Directed and Co-written by Neill Blomkamp
2009, 112 mins., Rated R (language, violence)
TriStar (in DVD)
What would we do if they came? What if they were a million strong, looked nothing like us, and were starving? Would we treat them like so many other "huddled masses" that washed up on our shores? Would we act out of kindness, or something more sinister?
These are among the questions raised by the superb South African science fiction film District 9. The film is set in Johannesburg, above which a large alien spacecraft has hovered for three months without a peep. Earthlings finally burn a hole in the ship and board it, where they find a million wretched, hungry creatures cowering amidst the bodies of starved comrades on an inoperable ship. The solution? You see it every day on the news—a refugee camp, the District 9 of the title.
Benevolence inexorably yields to ennui, then intolerance. After all, to human eyes the aliens are a degenerate race; they are filthy, have a habit of wandering out of the camp and engaging in crime, and their favorite cuisine is cat food. Worst of all, they breed like rabbits. Despite the high death toll in the crowded, unsanitary camp, the alien population climbs to 2.5 million. Johannesburg residents have taken to calling the aliens "prawns," because their tentacled faces and unusually shaped bodies are suggestive of bipedal shrimp. That contemptuous label is emblematic of what residents see as the only viable solution: colonization. They want the unsavory alien brood removed from sight and responsibility.
This movie is shot as a documentary within a documentary. Multi-National United (MNU), a munitions manufacturer and wholesaler, has been awarded a contract to relocate the prawns from District 9 to a new area two hundred and forty kilometers from Johannesburg. Company high flier Wilkus Van De Merwe (Sharlto Copley) is put in charge of an operation that will fast track him to top management levels if he gets it right. Part of getting it "right" means paying attention to the demands of pesky alien rights advocates, such as getting prawns to "agree" to relocation by "signing" permission forms. If an alien swats at a form it's considered a "scrawl" of consent and each interaction is carefully documented in a highly edited video that's essentially a made-for-TV show starring Wilkus. All goes according to plan until a sweep of the camp exposes Wilkus to a biotech device that mutates his right arm into an alien appendage. This is just what MNU has been waiting for as the aliens have weapons that are activated genetically. MNU—led by Wilkus's own father-in-law—stands to make tens of millions if it came provide the genetic key that activates a gun that instantly liquefies its victims. And they're perfectly willing to murder Wilkus and harvest his DNA in the name of profit. Of course Wilkus escapes—there's no movie otherwise—and what ensues is a manhunt through Dante's Inferno, an alien refugee camp teeming with junk, weapons stashes, and a controlling Nigerian gang that's running its own profit scheme by selling prostitutes and cat food to the prawns for money, metals, and objects. Like Avatar, District 9 reverses the usual good guy/bad guy formula, but its variations on Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis are more intelligently handled.
How many metaphors do you want to draw between District 9 and contemporary life? The story line is, most obviously, a parallel to South Africa under apartheid, but it would be far too easy to let it go at that. One of the reasons the film did not get the theatrical play it deserves is because it also touches raw nerves on issues such as Indian reservations, racial segregation, nativism, global racism, the treatment of war refugees, and disaster relief efforts. Indeed, replace Johannesburg with New Orleans, the MNU with FEMA, and the prawns with African Americans and you've still got the same story. In District 9 Wilkus starts to learn a few things about humanity from an alien dubbed "Christopher Johnson." Chances are that this movie hurtled through your town at warp speed as its message that multiculturalism fares badly under capitalism isn't a feel-good message. We suggest that you seek out the video and learn from Christopher Johnson.
PETA Actions Make a Good Cause Look Bad
Does this look like a suffering animal to you?
The word is out from Gobbler's Knob, Pennsylvania—Punxsutawney Phil has seen his shadow and we can expect six more weeks of winter. As a New Englander, this amuses me no end. Six more weeks would be mid-March and if winter is over by then, New Englanders are as happy as, well, a groundhog in a heated burrow.
This brings me to one of the sillier protests in recent memory. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has issued a call for Punxsutawney Phil to be (literally) put out to pasture. According to PETA, shy groundhogs are traumatized by their once-yearly forced public appearances and the annual ritual could be more humanely enacted with a robot groundhog. PETA points to Phil's several attempts to escape his home in the local library as proof that inside his tubby body beats a born-free heart.
Good grief! PETA has done fine work in the past—especially in raising awareness of the cruelty of leg traps, the fur trade, and animal testing by the cosmetics industry—but organizational leaders need a serious course in power and politics. Rule one: Never expend political capital on a Straw Man debate. Rule two: Never waste it on a lost cause. Rule three: Never spend it in such a way that it will make it harder to be taken seriously in the future.
Punxsutawney Phil is the most pampered rodent on the planet. While his cousins are shivering in the wild and trying to avoid being lunch for raptors, road kill, or target practice, Phil enjoys central heating, a team of handlers, and regular meals. He lives like a rajah! Of course he tries to get out. He does so for the same reason house cats go Stalag 17 on occasion: instinct. But would Tabby be better off left to dodge foxes and Volvos?
Groundhog Day, as it's been known in North America since the 19th century, is actually much older than the little ceremony in Pennsylvania, which dates to 1887. In many Christian lands February 2 is Candlemas, a blessing marked by the lighting of candles to commemorate the Virgin Mary's re-emergence in society after giving birth to Jesus. (Jewish law required women to live in isolation for forty days after childbirth.) But the lighting of candles is surely a holdover from Pagan religions. Everybody is anxious for more light about this time of the year. Tribal Celts often lit bonfires for the holiday of Imbolc in the belief that they were replenishing the sun. Pre-Christian Germans held their own versions of Groundhog Day using badgers or bears. Wonder what PETA would think of that? More to the point, PETA isn't going to reverse centuries of cultural practice.
Mostly, though, PETA's call is bad because it makes the organization look ridiculous, thus reducing the likelihood of being taken seriously in the future when it takes on a far more worthy cause. If I didn't know better I'd say that PETA was being run by a group of sophomores whose zeal exceeds their intellect. It's admirable that they care so much, but for heaven's sake—get a grip! One cannot take on every cause and retain the energy to fight the Good War when it comes along. Are there any adults at PETA HQ? Do any of them comprehend the difference between good PR and publicity at any cost?
As noted, PETA has done great things in the past. But it will not do so in the future if it insists on making itself the punch line of cheap jokes. Chill out, gang. Go to Pennsylvania, have a few laughs, and be thankful that at least one woodchuck lives better (alas!) than a lot of tenement dwellers do. For the record, my Pennsylvania grandfather was a farmer. For him woodchucks were stew material.


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Varta receives funding to further develop its lithium-ion technology
German batteries maker Varta will further develop its lithium-ion technology thanks to funding from the German-government-supported IPCEI ("Important Project of Common European Interest"). The funds will help it develop the latest generation of small-format lithium-ion cells with even higher energy densities, and transfer this technology on to larger formats for use in energy storage devices, robots and mobility applications.
These new battery formats are to be optimised on a pilot line and transferred to mass production. Varta is also continuing to invest in research and development activities for battery cells in special formats, which are increasingly in demand for IOT applications, for example.
"We managed to transfer our lithium-ion technology in Germany into highly profitable mass production. With the IPCEI, we will further expand Varta's lithium-ion technology, accelerate the development of the latest generations, and bring new products to market. I am pleased that politics is supporting this project, thus strengthening the battery industry," said Herbert Schein, Varta CEO.
The Federal Ministry of Economics (BMWi) and the states of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg are supporting the battery industry in Germany and Europe within the framework of an IPCEI. The federal and state governments are providing Varta with funding of up to 300 million euros for the project until the end of 2024.
"The establishment of innovative and sustainable battery cell production in Germany is a high priority for us. It is necessary to remain competitive, create new jobs and secure prosperity in line with the transformation of energy and transport. Today we are taking a big step towards our own large-scale production of battery cells for automotive and industrial applications," said Peter Altmaier, Federal Minister of Economic Affairs and Energy.
Varta continues to invest in the expansion of its lithium-ion mass production and will create around 1000 new jobs in Ellwangen and Nördlingen in Germany by the end of 2021.
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We present the first two-round multiparty computation (MPC) protocols secure against malicious adaptive corruption in the common reference string (CRS) model, based on DDH, LWE, or QR. Prior two-round adaptively secure protocols were known only in the two-party setting against semi-honest adversaries, or in the general multiparty setting assuming the existence of indistinguishability obfuscation (iO).Our protocols are constructed in two steps. First, we construct two-round oblivious transfer (OT) protocols secure against malicious adaptive corruption in the CRS model based on DDH, LWE, or QR. We achieve this by generically transforming any two-round OT that is only secure against static corruption but has certain oblivious sampleability properties, into a two-round adaptively secure OT. Prior constructions were only secure against semi-honest adversaries or based on iO.Second, building upon recent constructions of two-round MPC from two-round OT in the weaker static corruption setting [Garg and Srinivasan, Benhamouda and Lin, Eurocrypt'18] and using equivocal garbled circuits from [Canetti, Poburinnaya and Venkitasubramaniam, STOC'17], we show how to construct two-round adaptively secure MPC from two-round adaptively secure OT and constant-round adaptively secure MPC, with respect to both malicious and semi-honest adversaries. As a corollary, we also obtain the first 2-round MPC secure against semi-honest adaptive corruption in the plain model based on augmented non-committing encryption (NCE), which can be based on a variety of assumptions, CDH, RSA, DDH, LWE, or factoring Blum integers. Finally, we mention that our OT and MPC protocols in the CRS model are, in fact, adaptively secure in the Universal Composability framework.


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Q: Delphi 6 convert ucs-2 little endian file to utf8 i am trying to import a csv file that has ucs2 little endian encoding. I am using a jedi compnonent(jvCsvDataset) for collecting-manipulating the data. The component cannot read the data with this encoding and i need to convert it to utf8. The thing is that i need to do it within delphi 6.
Are you aware of a "ucs2decode" function or any other method?
Thanks in advance!

A: Read the file in a WideString, then use UTF8Encode, perhaps like this:
function ReadUCS2FileToUTF8(const FilePath: string): UTF8String;
var
  f: TFileStream;
  d: WideString;
begin
  f := TFileStream.Create(FilePath, fmOpenRead or fmShareDenyWrite);
  try
    SetLength(d, f.Size div SizeOf(WideChar));
    if Length(d) > 0 then
      f.ReadBuffer(d[1], Length(d) * SizeOf(WideChar));
  finally
    f.Free;
  end;
  Result := UTF8Encode(d);
end;

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package rocks.bottery.bot.recognizer.witai;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonAnyGetter;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonAnySetter;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnore;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonInclude;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonPropertyOrder;

@JsonInclude(JsonInclude.Include.NON_NULL)
@JsonPropertyOrder({
    "value",
    "grain",
    "type"
})
public class Value implements Serializable
{

    @JsonProperty("value")
    private String value;
    @JsonProperty("grain")
    private String grain;
    @JsonProperty("type")
    private String type;
    @JsonIgnore
    private Map<String, Object> additionalProperties = new HashMap<String, Object>();
    private final static long serialVersionUID = -278075153666779909L;

    @JsonProperty("value")
    public String getValue() {
        return value;
    }

    @JsonProperty("value")
    public void setValue(String value) {
        this.value = value;
    }

    @JsonProperty("grain")
    public String getGrain() {
        return grain;
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    public void setGrain(String grain) {
        this.grain = grain;
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    @JsonProperty("type")
    public String getType() {
        return type;
    }

    @JsonProperty("type")
    public void setType(String type) {
        this.type = type;
    }

    @JsonAnyGetter
    public Map<String, Object> getAdditionalProperties() {
        return this.additionalProperties;
    }

    @JsonAnySetter
    public void setAdditionalProperty(String name, Object value) {
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