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Sunny Fall Day
Beth 22 October, 2014 17 October, 2016
This is my cat, Peeps, taking a snooze on the back porch on a sunny October day. Peeps has been with me for a few years now. She showed up at my house one winter. I called her Peeps because she used to stand up at the door and peep into the house through the windows. She ran away from me whenever I tried to approach her at first. Not anymore! Now she comes running whenever she sees me or when I call for her. She's an amazing and wonderful cat!
Categories Life, North Carolina, Outdoors, Pets
Puppy Mills in North Carolina
Beth 23 May, 2012 23 May, 2012
This was forwarded to me on the AAMC mailing list.
This is a picture of a puppy currently residing in a puppy mill in North Carolina. Under present state law, because she has "food, water and shelter" she cannot be rescued. Only when she is dead will she probably get out of this cage.
We are hoping (probably against hope) that the legislature might take some time away from passing a fracking bill, to consider legislation that would define the requirements of "food, shelter and water" a bit better than is pictured here, as well as require exercise and veterinary care.
If you agree that this is cruel and inhumane treatment, please let your legislators know. In Moore County, your state representative is Jamie Boles ( jamie.boles@ncleg.net ) and your state senator is Harris Blake ( Harris.Blake@ncleg.net ). You might also address comments to the Senator Pro Tem Phil Berger ( Phil.Berger@ncleg.net ) and Speaker of the House Thom Tillis ( Thom.Tillis@ncleg.net ).
There are a lot of animals in North Carolina that would appreciate your speaking up for them.
Categories General, Life, News, North Carolina	Tags North Carolina, Puppy mills
Scientific Study Links Flammable Drinking Water to Fracking
by Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica, May 9, 2011, 3 p.m.
For the first time, a scientific study has linked natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing with a pattern of drinking water contamination so severe that some faucets can be lit on fire.
The peer-reviewed study [1], published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, stands to shape the contentious debate [2] over whether drilling is safe and begins to fill an information gap that has made it difficult for lawmakers and the public to understand the risks [3].
The research was conducted by four scientists at Duke University. They found that levels of flammable methane gas in drinking water wells increased to dangerous levels when those water supplies were close to natural gas wells. They also found that the type of gas detected at high levels in the water was the same type of gas that energy companies were extracting from thousands of feet underground, strongly implying that the gas may be seeping underground through natural or manmade faults and fractures, or coming from cracks in the well structure itself.
"Our results show evidence for methane contamination of shallow drinking water systems in at least three areas of the region and suggest important environmental risks accompanying shale gas exploration worldwide," the article states.
The group tested 68 drinking water wells in the Marcellus and Utica shale drilling areas in northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New York State. Sixty of those wells were tested for dissolved gas. While most of the wells had some methane, the water samples taken closest to the gas wells had on average 17 times the levels detected in wells further from active drilling. The group defined an active drilling area as within one kilometer, or about six tenths of a mile, from a gas well.
The average concentration of the methane detected in the water wells near drilling sites fell squarely within a range that the U.S Department of Interior says is dangerous and requires urgent "hazard mitigation" action, according to the study.
The researchers did not find evidence that the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing had contaminated any of the wells they tested, allaying for the time being some of the greatest fears among environmentalists and drilling opponents.
But they were alarmed by what they described as a clear correlation between drilling activity and the seepage of gas contaminants underground, a danger in itself and evidence that pathways do exist for contaminants to migrate deep within the earth.
"We certainly didn't expect to see such a strong relationship between the concentration of methane in water and the nearest gas wells. That was a real surprise," said Robert Jackson, a biology professor at Duke and one of the report's authors.
Methane contamination of drinking water wells has been a common complaint among people living in gas drilling areas across the country. A 2009 investigation by ProPublica [4] revealed that methane contamination from drilling was widespread, including in Colorado [5], Ohio and Pennsylvania [6]. In several cases [7], homes blew up after gas seeped into their basements or water supplies. In Pennsylvania a 2004 accident killed three people, including a baby.
In Dimock, Pa. [4], where part of the Duke study was performed, some residents' water wells exploded or their water could be lit on fire. In at least a dozen cases in Colorado, ProPublica's investigation found, methane had infiltrated drinking water supplies that residents said were clean until hydraulic fracturing was performed nearby.
The drilling industry and some state regulators described some of these cases as "anecdotal" and said they were either unconnected to drilling activity or were an isolated problem. But the consistency of the Duke findings raises questions about how unusual and widespread such cases of methane contamination may be.
"It suggests that at least in the region we looked, this is a more general problem than people expected," Jackson told ProPublica.
For those who live in the midst of this problem, the report serves as long-awaited vindication. "We weren't just blowing smoke. What we were talking about was the truth," said Ron Carter, a Dimock resident whose water went bad when drilling began there in 2008 [8] and was later tested as part of the study. "Now I'm happy that at least something helps prove out our theory."
Methane is not regulated in drinking water, and while research is limited, it is not currently believed to be harmful to drink. But the methane is dangerous because as it collects in enclosed spaces it can asphyxiate people nearby, or lead to an explosion.
To determine where the methane in the wells they tested came from, the researchers ran it through a molecular fingerprinting process called an isotopic analysis. Water samples furthest from gas drilling showed traces of biogenic methane—a type of methane that can naturally appear in water from biological decay. But samples taken closer to drilling had high concentrations of thermogenic methane, which comes from the same hydrocarbon layers where gas drilling is targeted. That—plus the proximity to the gas wells—told the researchers that the contamination was linked to the drilling processes.
In addition to the methane, other types of gases were also detected, providing further evidence that the gas originated with the hydrocarbon deposits miles beneath the earth and that it was unique to the active gas drilling areas. Ethane, another component of natural gas, and other hydrocarbons were detected in 81 percent of water wells near active gas drilling, but in only 9 percent of water wells further away. Propane and butane were also detected in some drilling area wells.
The report noted that as much as a mile of rock separated the bottom of the shallow drinking water wells from the deep zones fractured for gas, and identified several ways in which fluids or the gas contaminants could move underground: The substances could be displaced by the pressures underground; could travel through new fractures or connections to faults created by the hydraulic fracturing process; or could leak from the well casing itself somewhere closer to the surface.
The geology in Pennsylvania and New York, they said, is tectonically active with faults and other pathways through the rock. They noted that leaky well casings were the most likely cause of the contamination, but couldn't rule out long-range underground migration, which they said "might be possible due to both the extensive fracture systems reported for these formations and the many older, uncased wells drilled and abandoned [9]."
The water was also analyzed for signs that dangerous fluids from inside the gas wells might have escaped into water supplies. The group tested for salts, radium and other chemicals that, if detected, would have signaled that the produced water or natural fluids in the well's target zone were making it to the aquifers. But those types of fluids were not found. The group did not test for fracking chemicals or hydrocarbons like benzene, relying instead on the saline or radioactive compounds like radium as indicators.
In an interview, Jackson said that gas was more likely to migrate underground than liquid chemicals. Based on his findings, he doesn't believe the toxic chemicals pumped into the ground during fracturing are likely to end up in water supplies the same way the methane did. "I'm not ready to use the word impossible," he said, "but unlikely."
In a white paper [10] the group issued along with the journal article, Jackson and the others acknowledged the uncertainty and called for more research. "Contamination is often stated to be impossible due to the distance between the well and the drinking water," they wrote. "Although this seems reasonable in most (and possibly all) cases, field and modeling studies should be undertaken to confirm this assumption [2]… Understanding any cases where this assumption is incorrect will be important—when, where, and why they occur—to limit problems with hydraulic fracturing operations."
A hydrogeologist closely affiliated with the drilling industry raised questions about the study. "It's possible, assuming their measurements are accurate, that all they have done is document the natural conditions of the aquifer," said John Conrad, president of Conrad Geosciences in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Conrad spoke with ProPublica at the suggestion of Energy In Depth, a drilling industry advocacy group, but said that he did not work for EID.
He said that the thermogenic methane — which many scientists say comes from the same deep gas layers where drilling occurs — could be naturally occurring. He also said the researchers didn't test enough wells to support their conclusions, though he could not say how many wells would have been appropriate.
Conrad said the most likely cause for the contamination identified by the Duke researchers — that the gas was leaking out of faulty well casings — seemed implausible.
"For their assumptions to hold up there would have to be more than just the occasional bad cement job," he said. "They are implying that where you see hydraulic fracturing you should expect to see elevated methane. We are aware of faulty cement jobs. But we don't believe that it is common and we certainly don't believe that it is universal."
The Duke study precedes a national study by the Environmental Protection Agency into the dangers of hydraulic fracturing that is expected to be finished sometime next year. Last year the EPA found that [11] some chemicals known to be used in fracturing were among the contaminants detected in 11 residential drinking water wells in Pavillion, Wy.—where more than 200 natural gas wells have been drilled in recent years—but that investigation is continuing and the scientists haven't concluded that the contamination is linked with drilling or hydraulic fracturing.
The release of the Duke research could immediately shape the increasingly intense public debate over drilling and hydraulic fracturing, especially in some of the areas where the research was conducted. Pennsylvania, which holds drilling companies liable for drinking water contamination within 1000 feet of a gas well, might consider the fact that the Duke researchers found the contamination extended to about 3,000 feet, Jackson said. New York State has a moratorium in place for hydraulic fracturing of horizontally-drilled wells—which cover more area and require more chemicals—through the end of June to allow for more consideration of the risks. "I would extend that at least temporarily," Jackson said.
Congress, too, is taking note.
"This study provides eye-opening scientific evidence about methane contamination and the risks that irresponsible natural gas drilling poses for drinking water supplies," said Congressman Maurice Hinchey, D-NY. "It provides yet another reason why more study of the environmental and health risks associated with hydraulic fracturing is needed."
Hinchey is one of several Democratic members of Congress who recently re-introduced the FRAC Act [12], which calls for public disclosure of the chemicals used underground. The bill, which is currently languishing in the House, would remove an exemption in federal law that prohibits the EPA from regulating hydraulic fracturing.
May 9: This story has been updated to include information from John Conrad that was received after publication.
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Categories North Carolina, Outdoors	Tags Abrahm Lustgarten, drinking water contamination, Duke University, Flammable Drinking Water, Fracking, hydraulic fracturing, methane gas, natural gas drilling
Beth 17 April, 2010 17 April, 2010
I've been working with a new customer, Brad Charles, to construct a web site. I have to say that I don't think I've met such a nice person in a long, long time. I want to give hm a little plug here! If you're in the Southern Pines area and need equine (horse) fencing, please give him a call!
Equine Fencing, Southern Pines, NC
Categories North Carolina, Outdoors, Southern Pines	Tags equine fencing, horse fencing, Southern Pines
Spring is definitely here!
Beth 5 April, 2010 4
According to the Ohio State University Extension fact sheet on wisteria (Wisteria sinensis), it's a member of the pea family! I think wisteria is a beautiful plant, but many here in NC think it's a monster, because it devours its host. Around here, you see it everywhere, growing on any tree or structure it can find. I found this vine on some trees behind our office.
Another sure sign of spring (aside from the haze of yellow pine pollen currently engulfing us), are the blossoming of azaleas. These are in front of my house.
Categories North Carolina, Southern Pines	Tags Azaleas, Southern Pines, Wisteria
Modern dentistry
Beth 3 February, 2010 3
I had an appointment with my dentist this morning and this is what greeted me outside the entrance. They must have had a difficult patient today.
Categories Humor, North Carolina, Pinehurst	Tags dentist, Pinehurst
H1N1 flu that's resistant to Tamiflu
Beth 20 November, 2009 21 November, 2009 1
I just read about a strain of H1N1 flu that's resistant to Tamiflu. Four of these cases have been reported at Duke Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. I wondered if it has possibly infected people in the transplant clinic? A friend had her SCT at Duke one year when the flu was rampant in the transplant clinic. She said that a few of the patients became quite ill. She had the flu herself. She recovered and had a second stem cell transplant.
"All four of the North Carolina patients were hospitalized and were very ill with underlying severely compromised immune systems and multiple other complex medical conditions, according to researchers from the Duke University Medical Center. Three of the four died. No details have been released about how the patients caught the resistant virus or whether there was any contact among them."
Maugh II, T.H. (2009, November 20). Swine flu seems to be trailing off — for now, at least. Retrieved from http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster_shots/2009/11/swine-flu-seems-to-be-tailing-offfor-now-at-elast.html
Categories Duke, Durham, North Carolina, Stem Cell Transplant	Tags Duke Medical Center, H1N1 flu, North Carolina, Swine flu, Tamiflu
Three Harpsichords
Beth 15 November, 2009 15 November, 2009
We went to a concert Friday night in Chapel Hill that featured three harpsichords! The program included music by Bach and a local composer named Edwin McLean. I really enjoyed McLean's music, and will be looking for a CD.
One of the performers, Elaine Funaro, played her new harpsichord (Opus 333). The instrument was built by Richard Kingston. The harpsichord was painted by Durham artist Lisa Creed.
Categories Durham, North Carolina	Tags Chapel Hill, Edwin McLean, Elaine Funaro, harpsichord, Lisa Creed, Richard Kingston
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(MultiUser Dimension Object-Oriented Technology) Same as MUD.
Moo is now operating HP Indigo 7000 series digital presses in London and Rhode Island.
Within a minute, a person in the bleachers spotted the boy in an open field behind the bucking chutes near where the horses and bulls are kept, Von Moos said.
While Moos emphasized that she remains supportive of Collins, she is still struggling to understand the dissolution of the former couple's eight-year relationship.
All of the animals at Mini Moos have their own personalities.
But Andrew, who owns The Garn farm, in St Hilary, near Cowbridge, laughs at any suggestions that his 250 milking cows and 250 beef cattle communicate in a discernibly Welsh moo.
4) MOOs offer the freewheeling interactivity of a connected set of chat rooms, but they frame this unstructured interaction within a relatively fixed and hierarchical textual landscape, a MOO's architexture.
If you have a hundred kids or a thousand kids, if you're helping any of them,'' Moos said, ``you're doing something good for the community.
MOOs that use the Encore Express interface rather than Biogate function slightly differently hut provide many of the same functions along with additional tools.
For example, I recently used MOOs to do such things as participate in a group discussion with an expert on virtual reality, discuss teaching with a faculty member from MIT, and visit a student-constructed room on ancient Egypt.
Mimotopes' state-of-the-art chemistry resources combined with MitoKor's unique mitochondrial biology platform should provide a rich pipeline of small molecule drug candidates, both for partnering and internal development," said Walter Moos, Ph.


Raheel Raza, a leading global voice against Radical extremism is President of The Council for Muslims Facing Tomorrow, founding member of The Muslim Reform Movement, author of the book Their Jihad – Not My Jihad, award winning journalist, public speaker, and advocate for human rights, gender equality and dignity in diversity.
She is a participant in the award winning documentary "Honor Diaries" and also a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee medal for service to Canada. Raheel bridges the gap between East and West, promoting cultural and religious diversity for which she has appeared in print and on TV and radio numerous times including CNN, BBC Hardtalk, Real Time with Bill Maher and Al-Jazeera.
Raheel has been invited to speak locally at places of worship, the private sector, the Justice Department, School Boards and government institutions. Internationally she has addressed audiences at Universities in USA including Harvard & Columbia, in UK at Oxford and Cambridge, other forums across Australia and Europe, the Israeli Presidential Conference in Jerusalem and Tedx Amsterdam. She has been invited to the Parliaments of Sweden, UK, Israel and to Capitol Hill in Washington DC.
In her pursuit for human rights, Raheel is accredited with United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva through The Centre for Inquiry (CFI). She has received many awards for her work on women's equality including the City of Toronto's Constance Hamilton award and the Urban Hero award. She is the first Muslim woman in Canada to lead mixed gender prayers.
Raheel has made a documentary film called "Whose Sharia is it anyway?" dealing with the sharia debate in Ontario, Canada. She runs a Forum for Learning for youth to educate them about the dangers of radicalization and terrorism, and continues to write and speak about the subject. She has taught a course on Islam and Modernity at George Brown College in Toronto for the past five years titled "The Passion and Politics of Islam".
Raheel is Munk Senior Fellow with The Macdonald-Laurier Institute in Canada, sits on the Board of Governors for The Mackenzie Institute, plus on the Advisory Board of The ACTV Foundation (The Alliance of Canadian Terror Victims).
Hi, Ms. Raza. I heard about you on the Chris Plante Show on WMAL (D.C.-area conservative radio station). I tried to find you on Facebook, but found nothing. Do you have a fan page on there or anything?
Whether you decide to accept it or not, I wish you success and strength in your work.
I heard you on the Rex Murphy show. Bravo for your views and what you stand for. Too many people are too afraid to say that Islam has a problem. This has been made worse by the Wahabis who have pushed the Arab version into Asia. An open mind with the ability to question tenets of Islam is required if Muslims wish to embrace modernity. Unfortunately, too many Mullahs have hijacked Islam to brainwash gullible followers and the Muslim world is imploding, as seen in Peshawar and Northern Nigeria. Keep up your great work!


Clean Up City of St. Augustine, Florida: Washington Post blogger Radley Balko documents police body camera storage, material alteration of tapes: what flummery!
Washington Post blogger Radley Balko documents police body camera storage, material alteration of tapes: what flummery!
Police departments must reject unconscionable contracts of adhesion by Axon, f/k/a Taser International. These are public records, and must not be messed with or materially altered.
Taser — now known as Axon — claims part ownership of the footage generated by its police body cameras. That's a huge problem.
The company was willing to give away cameras in exchange for something far more lucrative: software licensing and footage access fees in perpetuity.
Axon even nailed down a choice URL: Evidence.com. This is the portal to law enforcement body camera footage stored in Axon's cloud — the real moneymaker for Axon. The cameras are just the gateway drug.
There are lots of problems with this arrangement. For one, body camera footage is bought and paid for by taxpayers. It's public record. Some states and municipalities restrict access to it under law enforcement exceptions to open-records laws, but it's still public record. It isn't difficult to see the downside of transferring an ownership stake in the footage to a private company.
You consent to Axon's access and use of the Account Content in order to….improve Axon's Products and Services. In addition, for content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos ("IP Content"), you specifically give us the following permission: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, irrevocable, royalty-free, sub-licensable, worldwide license to use any IP Content that you post on or in connection with the Services (IP License).
It doesn't stop there, though. Suppose that someone (like me) complains about the illegality of this arrangement. So maybe the right people hear about this blog article, and decide "OMG! We did not realize California law was being abrogated this way!" The accounts that the District Attorney has with law enforcement's nervous system—Axon—are shut down.
Second, this isn't just any public record. We're talking about evidence in criminal investigations. To have that evidence stored on servers owned by a private company creates some bad incentives. The company's primary client isn't the public; it's the police agency. And it's primary interest isn't just outcomes in courtrooms; it's keeping the client happy. For example, the company might win favor with police agencies — for example, allowing officers to take certain liberties with body camera video in a way that keeps the courts or opposing attorneys in the dark.
Only Albuquerque police really know what happened early one April morning in 2014, when officer Jeremy Dear shot and killed 19-year-old Mary Hawkes, a suspected car thief, after a foot chase.
Dear's body camera was off, he said, and the footage from body cameras of his fellow officers doesn't give a clear picture of the teenager's death. While Hawkes' family accused police of a cover-up, their best evidence—the footage from the other body cameras—is either conspicuously absent or incomplete.
Now, one former police department records keeper is claiming the damaged or missing footage was deliberate, and alleging proof lies in the computer software—called Evidence.com—that the department uses to manage its body cameras.
"I have reviewed the lapel camera video [which two officers] provided to APD Forensic after the shooting of Mary Hawkes," Reynaldo Chavez said in a court statement. "Based on my knowledge of Evidence.com, I can see that [one officer]'s lapel camera video has been altered by changing the gradient of the resolution on the video. I can see as much as the first twenty seconds of [the other officer's] video has been deleted." . . .
Evidence.com also allows users to edit and delete body camera footage. The tools can theoretically be used to highlight important frames of a video, or blur faces in order to protect identities. But Chavez, who had extensive training with the program, claims he saw the editing software put to more sinister use.
Chavez claims that officers in these units were allegedly instructed not to file crime reports until after their body camera footage was viewed. If the footage presented the officers in a good light, Chavez said, they could release the film in the name of transparency. If the footage was problematic, they were allegedly encouraged to claim a faulty camera.
That sort of capability might explain why some police departments are paying Axon nearly 23 times the market rate for storage.
And neither Evidence.com, nor Axon—not even in its prior incarnation as "Taser International," for that matter—are listed in WIC 827 as lawfully able to receive, or disseminate, juvenile records. No corporation is.
As near as I can tell, there is no law, anywhere—but particularly in the laws of the State of California, which matter most for this particular situation—that allows any law enforcement agency, or the District Attorney, to release juvenile records to Axon.
Horowitz still hasn't obtained discovery in his case. Why not?
Because I refused to sign the license agreement with Axon to obtain access to their—not the city, county, or city and county's, but Axon's—website.
One can see why police agencies would leap at the offer Axon made last month. It's also understandable that some local governments may not be able to manage by themselves the storage and infrastructure required to store and process body camera footage and may need to turn to the private sector. But this needs to be done in a smart way. Ideally, it should be handled by an agency or official outside of law enforcement, and the terms of these agreements should be negotiated with input from all relevant parties — not just police and prosecutors, but also civil liberties groups, transparency activists, the media and the defense bar — along with input from experts in areas such as privacy, evidence handling and video editing.


In fact, the judge appeared to believe that you don't get to drive at all if you don't own the vehicle, unless the owner has agreed otherwise. And in this case, the deal was fairly simple: the party of the first part (hereinafter "Passenger") would be physically conveyed from one point to another point of his choosing in a vehicle (hereinafter "Taxi") operated by the party of the second part (hereinafter "Driver") in exchange for monetary compensation. There is no suggestion that the arrangement allowed Passenger to operate Taxi himself if Driver failed to do so adequately, the adequacy of said operation to be determined at Passenger's sole discretion.
Put another way, a customer can't just declare "it's my turn to drive" and kick a taxi driver out of the car so he can take over.
Unless, as noted, the agreement so provides.
The court was told that after the car came to a stop [Passenger] used his foot to push [Driver] out.
"He said 'It's my turn to drive'," a Crown lawyer continued.
Police were alerted and removed [Passenger] from the vehicle while he swore incoherently.
This process didn't take long, it appears, because the taxi had come to said stop in front of a local police station, where the driver had headed after he became concerned his passenger wasn't going to pay.
After hearing the matter, District Judge Mark Hamill—not the man known for playing two different roles in Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law, the oldest son in the pilot episode of Eight is Enough, and much later providing the voice of Malefor the Dark Master in The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon, but rather a judge in Belfast Magistrates' Court—convicted the passenger of assault, disorderly conduct, "criminal damage," and "obtaining services dishonestly." The first two are easy to understand, but it's not clear to me what he criminally damaged, or that he really obtained services dishonestly here. Sounds to me like he just changed his mind and decided it was his turn to drive when it wasn't. Nor does the report say the taxi moved at all after the change in drivers. In any event, assault is assault.
The judge was not persuaded, at least.
"This man was trying to do an honest day's work," Judge Hamill noted of the driver, "and [the defendant] declined to pay a fare, climbed in the front and kick[ed] him out of his own taxi." (Please feel free to write your own joke about Mark Hamill saying it's not OK to use force.) He sentenced the defendant to six months in jail and unsuspended a previous three months to which he'd been sentenced for something else.
The defendant was also fined £75 for possessing cannabis, though it seems likely alcohol was also involved, given the abusive behavior, incoherent swearing, and kicking. To my knowledge, cannabis doesn't cause any of those things.


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"In the assembly plants of Tierra del Fuego, often the only thing that is Argentine is the packaging, the manuals and perhaps the odd wire. Ninety per cent of the inputs come from abroad. That has to change," says Miguel Ponce, a former undersecretary for industry and trade.
The tax-free zone on the desolate archipelago 500 miles from Antarctica, where goods cost two to three times what they do in neighbouring countries, is only the most egregious example of a business culture in Argentina that is often more reliant on protectionism than entrepreneurial vigour.
In a push to prove to the world that his country is "open for business", Argentina's investor-friendly president Mauricio Macri last week held a business forum that saw almost 2,000 international and local executives descend on Buenos Aires.


A. A helicon is a low frequency electromagnetic wave.
Helicons have the special ability to propagate through pure metals, given conditions of low temperature and high magnetic fields. Most electromagnetic waves in a normal conductor are not be able to do this, since the high conductivity of metals (due to their free electrons) acts to screen out the electromagnetic field. Indeed, normally an electromagnetic wave would experience a very thin skin depth in a metal: the electric or magnetic fields are quickly reduced upon trying to enter the metal. (Hence the shine of metals: the electromagnetic waves of light are screened out, leading to a high reflectivity.) However, skin depth depends on an inverse proportionality to the square root of angular frequency. Thus a low frequency electromagnetic wave may be able to overcome the skin depth problem, and thereby propagate throughout the material.
A helicon discharge is a excitation of plasma by helicon waves induced through radio frequency heating. The difference between a helicon plasma source and an inductively coupled plasma is the presence of a magnetic field directed along the axis of the antenna. The presence of this magnetic field creates a helicon mode of operation with higher ionization efficiency and greater electron density than a typical ICP. The Australian National University, in Canberra, Australia, is currently researching applications for this technology. This includes plasma based rockets for interplanetary travel. This experiment can be conducted with fairly affordable equipment, and may be found in university-level undergraduate advanced physics laboratory courses. A metal such as 99.999% pure Indium is commonly used: it is cooled using liquid helium to reach the conditions of low temperature, while the high magnetic field is accomplished using a superconducting solenoid. Ultimately, the experiment characterizes the resonance frequency and resonance width of the Helicon standing waves. It can also be used to measure the magnetoresistance and Hall coefficients of the pure metal.
B.Helicon is a small lunar impact crater that is located on the north part of the Mare Imbrium. To the northwest is the prominent Sinus Iridum formation, a mountain-ringed bay on the mare. Just to the east is the slightly smaller Le Verrier crater. Helicon is a nearly circular crater formation with inner walls that curve down to a relatively flat floor. There is a tiny craterlet located at the mid-point of the interior, and a small craterlet along the southwestern rim.
C.In Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series, Helicon is the name of the home planet of Hari Seldon, discoverer and developer of psychohistory. Helicon was small in population and not particularly rich in resources, and tended to be bullied by its more powerful neighbours. It was noted for martial arts (called 'Twisting' in the Foundation Universe). Hari Seldon claimed that the best Twisters came from Helicon, although his objectivity is questionable. It may be covered primarily by land, as opposed to sea. Tobacco may be grown there, though the only evidence of this is Seldon's father's supposed occupation, labelled by the Encyclopedia Galactica 'a legend of doubtful validity'. In the seventh century of the tenth millennium of the Galactic Era, a large movement of Heliconians convinced themselves that Helicon was the only inhabited world in the Galaxy.
D.Mount Helicon is a mountain in the region of Thespiai in Boeotia, Greece (Kerenyi, 1951, page 172), with an elevation of 1,749 meters (5,735 ft). It is located just off the Gulf of Corinth.
The Hippocrene spring was considered to be a source of poetic inspiration. In the late seventh century BCE, the poet Hesiod sang how in his youth he had pastured his sheep on the slopes of Helicon (Theogony, 23), where Eros and the Muses already had sanctuaries and a dancing-ground near the summit, where "their pounding feet awaken desire" (Hesiod, 8). There the Muses inspired him and he began to sing of the origins of the gods, Thus Helicon became an emblem of poetical inspiration. Hesiod mentions other springs that were the haunt of the Muses: "They bathe their lithe bodies in the water of Permessos or of Hippocrene or of god-haunted Olmeios".
And move with vigorous feet"
E.Helicon (also transliterated Helikon) was a river of the Macedonian city Dion.
There is also a river called Helikon [in Pieria]. After a course of seventy-five stades the stream hereupon disappears under the earth. After a gap of about twenty-two stades the water rises again, and under the name of Baphyras instead of Helikon flows into the sea as a navigable river. The people of Dion (Dium) say that at first this River flowed on land throughout its course. But, they go on to say, the women who killed Orpheus wished to wash off in it the blood-stains, and thereat the River sank underground, so as not to lend its waters to cleanse manslaughter.


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using testing::Return;

TEST(IsolatorModuleTests, recover_smoke) {
  mesos::Parameters params;
  mesos::Parameter* param = params.add_parameter();
  param->set_key("test");
  param->set_value("value");

  std::shared_ptr<MockContainerAssigner> mock_assigner(new MockContainerAssigner());
  metrics::IsolatorModule<MockContainerAssigner> mod(mock_assigner);

  mesos::ExecutorInfo exec_info;
  exec_info.mutable_executor_id()->set_value("test executor");
  mesos::ContainerID container_id;
  container_id.set_value("test container");

  mesos::slave::ContainerState container_state;
  *container_state.mutable_executor_info() = exec_info;
  *container_state.mutable_container_id() = container_id;
  container_state.set_pid(123456);
  container_state.set_directory("test dir");
  std::list<mesos::slave::ContainerState> container_states;
  container_states.push_back(container_state);

  hashset<mesos::ContainerID> container_ids;
  container_ids.insert(container_id);

  EXPECT_CALL(*mock_assigner, recover_containers(testing::_));
  mod.recover(container_states, container_ids).get();
}

TEST(IsolatorModuleTests, prepare_returns_success) {
  mesos::Parameters params;
  mesos::Parameter* param = params.add_parameter();
  param->set_key("test");
  param->set_value("value");

  std::shared_ptr<MockContainerAssigner> mock_assigner(new MockContainerAssigner());
  metrics::IsolatorModule<MockContainerAssigner> mod(mock_assigner);

  mesos::ContainerID container_id;
  container_id.set_value("test container");

  mesos::slave::ContainerConfig config;
  config.mutable_executor_info()->mutable_executor_id()->set_value("test executor");
  config.set_directory("test directory");
  config.set_user("test user");

  metrics::UDPEndpoint endpoint("test_host", 1234567);
  EXPECT_CALL(*mock_assigner, register_container(container_id, config.executor_info()))
    .WillOnce(Return(Try<metrics::UDPEndpoint>(endpoint)));

  Option<mesos::slave::ContainerLaunchInfo> ret =
    mod.prepare(container_id, config).get();
  EXPECT_FALSE(ret.isNone());

  const mesos::Environment& env = ret.get().environment();
  EXPECT_EQ(2, env.variables_size());
  EXPECT_EQ("STATSD_UDP_HOST", env.variables(0).name());
  EXPECT_EQ(endpoint.host, env.variables(0).value());
  EXPECT_EQ("STATSD_UDP_PORT", env.variables(1).name());
  EXPECT_EQ(std::to_string(endpoint.port), env.variables(1).value());
}

TEST(IsolatorModuleTests, prepare_returns_error) {
  mesos::Parameters params;
  mesos::Parameter* param = params.add_parameter();
  param->set_key("test");
  param->set_value("value");

  std::shared_ptr<MockContainerAssigner> mock_assigner(new MockContainerAssigner());
  metrics::IsolatorModule<MockContainerAssigner> mod(mock_assigner);

  mesos::ContainerID container_id;
  container_id.set_value("test container");

  mesos::slave::ContainerConfig config;
  config.mutable_executor_info()->mutable_executor_id()->set_value("test executor");
  config.set_directory("test directory");
  config.set_user("test user");

  EXPECT_CALL(*mock_assigner, register_container(container_id, config.executor_info()))
    .WillOnce(Return(Try<metrics::UDPEndpoint>(Error("test err"))));
  Option<mesos::slave::ContainerLaunchInfo> ret =
    mod.prepare(container_id, config).get();
  EXPECT_TRUE(ret.isNone());
}

TEST(IsolatorModuleTests, cleanup_smoke) {
  mesos::Parameters params;
  mesos::Parameter* param = params.add_parameter();
  param->set_key("test");
  param->set_value("value");

  std::shared_ptr<MockContainerAssigner> mock_assigner(new MockContainerAssigner());
  metrics::IsolatorModule<MockContainerAssigner> mod(mock_assigner);

  mesos::ContainerID container_id;
  container_id.set_value("test container");

  EXPECT_CALL(*mock_assigner, unregister_container(container_id));
  mod.cleanup(container_id).get();
}

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
  ::google::InitGoogleLogging(argv[0]);
  FLAGS_logtostderr = 1;
  ::testing::InitGoogleTest(&argc, argv);
  process::initialize();
  return RUN_ALL_TESTS();
}

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New York firm Hollwich Kushner announced it has won a design competition for a hotel and office project in Munich, Germany, for developers Art-Invest Real Estate and Accumulata Immobilien. The commission is special to the firm for two reasons: When finished in 2019 after breaking ground later this year, the project will be the firm's first built work in Europe. And on a more personal level, it's also the firm's first project in principal Matthias Hollwich's hometown.


Life Coach - Do The Coaching!
Life coaching is fast becoming one of the leading instruments that successful individuals use to live amazing lives. Many happy clients are attesting that because of life coaching and the help of life coaches they are able to discover what is most significant to them and therefore, align their thoughts, words, and actions, accordingly.
But just what is life coaching?
Life coaching can be defined as a professional relationship between a life coach and his/her client. The life coach aims to work with his/her client in identifying what the individual wants personally and professionally. The life coach also supports the client in achieving a life that the person really wants and loves. This cannot be accomplished of course if the client would not have responsibility over his/her actions.
Through coaching, a client can focus on his/her skills and behavior needed to successfully create personally relevant results. Life coaching may also include physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual areas of his/her life.
Tracing its roots to executive coaching, which itself drew on strategies developed in leadership training and management consulting, life coaching also draws from a wide variety of disciplines, such mentoring, psychology, career counseling, and many other types of counseling.
Life coaching is being used by an increasing number of psychologists and various practitioners to help clients with changes in their professional, as well as personal lives. As of today, no standards to regulate the life coaching profession exists, and so no formal training is needed to pursue a life coaching career or profession.
Life coaching applies mentoring, goal-setting, behavior modeling, behavior modification, values assessment, and other strategies in helping clients. Coaches are to be set apart from counselors, whichever field of counseling they may belong to.
Coaches tend to concentrate in one or more of many areas: career coaching, personal coaching, transition coaching, executive coaching, small business, corporate coaching, and organizational coaching. As the World Wide Web has expanded, life coaching has greatly widened its presence online. Numerous life coaching agencies now offer coaching online, as well as coaching via telephone.
Coaching is definitely not therapy, which usually goes deep on various issues that deal with the past. It is also not consulting, which normally results in giving the client the answers he/she needs. Coaching is more action-oriented and concentrates for the most part on the present and future. The life coach should enable the client to determine his/her own "answers" in the course of the coaching partnership or relationship.
Business owners, entrepreneurs, professionals, and people undergoing changes are just some of the people who usually work with a coach. Regardless of their professional enterprise or place in life, many clients share some characteristics: all are successful, ingenious, and smart individuals who want to get more out of their lives. Having a personal coach is just like having a personal trainer for one's life!
Self-employment has its rewards in any area of business. The comfort of being able to choose the time one works, the workplace, and the charge for one's service are good motivations for anybody considering this career.
In addition to that, a coach can always decide how many clients he/she wants – may it be one client, or 20.
The flexibility of this vocation, along with the gratifying aspects of the job, is expected to ensure that life coaching and the number of practicing coaches will grow considerably in the years to come.


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Ending Gender-Based Violence Key to Health and Well-Being
By Natalia Linou
Physical injuries are some of the more visible, and at times most deadly, consequences of gender-based violence (GBV). But the long-term mental health consequences are often invisible and left untreated. Similarly, the reproductive and sexual health needs of survivors from rape and sexual violence – to reduce the risk of HIV and STIs, unwanted pregnancies and unsafe terminations, and long-term reproductive complications – are often unmet, stigmatised and under-reported.
"Hate Group" Inclusion Shows UN Members Still Divided on LGBT Rights
By Lyndal Rowlands
A group designated as a hate group for its "often violent rhetoric" against LGBTI rights was an invited member of the United States Official Delegation to the annual women's meeting say rights groups.
Travel Restrictions Cast Shadow on UN Women's Meeting: Rights Groups
Increasing travel restrictions have prevented delegates from attending this year's UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), according to several women's rights groups.
Women's Rights Activists: "Nevertheless, We Persist"
By Tharanga Yakupitiyage
Human rights groups have expressed concern for the future of global negotiations on women's rights in a climate of restrictive policies ahead of an upcoming annual UN meeting on the status of women.
The U.N. at 70: Leading the Global Agenda on Women's Rights and Gender Equality – Part One
By Lakshmi Puri
If there is any idea and cause for which the United Nations has been an indispensable engine of progress globally it is the cause of ending all forms of "discrimination and violence against women and girls, ensuring the realization of their equal rights and advancing their political, economic and social empowerment.
Opinion: A Major Push Forward for Gender and Environment
By Joni Seager, Deepa Joshi, and Rebecca Pearl-Martinez
Experts from around the world gathered in New York recently to launch work on the Global Gender Environment Outlook (GGEO), the first comprehensive, integrated and global assessment of gender issues in relation to the environment and sustainability.
Global Citizenship Essential for Gender Equality: Ambassador Chowdhury
By Josh Butler
At a recent panel discussion on women's leadership during the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women, Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury was the lone male voice.
Opinion: 'We Owe It to More Than Half of the Global Population to Do a Better Job'
By Josephine Ojiambo
Undoubtedly, we are at a crucial time in the advancement of gender equality.
Opinion: Rape in Conflict: Speaking Out for What's Right
By Serra Sippel
Earlier this month, President Barack Obama delivered an impassioned speech marking the 50th Anniversary of the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama and the bloody attack on civil rights marchers by police.
Four Ways Women Bring Lasting Peace to the Table
2015 marks anniversaries for two significant commitments made to increasing women's participation at peace tables.
World Misses Its Potential by Excluding 50 Percent of Its People
By Thalif Deen
The meeting is billed as one of the biggest single gatherings of women activists under one roof.
Opinion: It's Time to Step It Up for Gender Equality
By Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
If we look at the headlines or the latest horrifying YouTube clip, Mar. 8 – International Women's Day – may seem a bad time to celebrate equality for women.
Women Seek Stand-Alone Goal for Gender in Post-2015 Agenda
The 45-member U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) concluded its annual 10-day session Saturday with several key pronouncements, including on reproductive health, women's rights, sexual violence, female genital mutilation (FGM) and the role of women in implementing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
OP-ED: Participation Is Key to Women's Equality and Empowerment
By Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury
The largest annual gathering with special focus on issues which impact on women and thereby humanity as a whole is now taking place in New York.
Women Still Walk Two Steps Behind in Arab World
In much of the Arab world, women's participation in the labour force is the lowest in the world, according to the United Nations, while women in politics are a rare breed both in the Middle East and North Africa.
OP-ED: The Care Imperative
By John Hendra and Magdalena Sepulveda Carmona
As the debate about a future global development agenda to succeed the Millennium Development Goals in 2015 gathers pace, there is broad agreement that gender equality and women's empowerment are crucial components.
U.N. Meet on Women Wrangles Consensus to Address Violence
By George Gao
In her opening speech for the world's largest conference on ending violence against women and girls, Michelle Bachelet summoned the spirit of 15-year old Malala Yousafzai, who's skull was shattered on Oct. 9, 2012 by a Taliban bullet.
A Political Tug-of-War Over Militarism and Gender Violence
When the largest single gathering of women met at the United Nations in February last year, the adoption of a future plan of action was undermined by rigidly conservative governments opposed to women's reproductive rights - largely misinterpreted as a right to abortion.
VIDEO: African Communities Strengthen Women's Access to Justice
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OP-ED: Violence Against Women Must End
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The most important lesson I learned from the Peace Corps was an inner sense of humility. By my naturally contrarian nature, I have mixed feelings about having once been a Peace Corps volunteer in Korea. For example, I try to focus on being an international business development consultant, but every so often when a newspaper or magazine discovers I served in Korea during the 1970s as a Peace Corps volunteer, too often the reporter wishes to focus on my past rather than what I'm doing 30 or more years later.
Frankly speaking, I want to use the reporter as much as the reporter wishes to use me. The reporter often wants a human interest story, and I want some free publicity for my business. Usually, what is printed does nothing for my business. But free publicity is still free publicity, so I play along. But all of this ends up making me a bit of a curmudgeon when it comes to talking about the Peace Corps.
Unlike most Peace Corps volunteers who later go on to work in some kind of government work such as at the State Department, in education or at a nongovernmental organization, a minority of us pursue careers in business and law. We usually start working for large companies, but in time at least half of us become entrepreneurs. By choice or fate, sooner or later, many of us find our way back to Korea.
Back in Korea, we have a chance to become reacquainted (that is, humbled) by the Korean language while trying to apply to business what we learned in the countryside three decades ago. Of course, Korea has changed incredibly since when we were so young. But fortunately, culture changes a lot slower than politics and economics. So, in spite of our language deficiencies, we do bring value to the marketplace, and in fact, some of the lessons we learned in the Peace Corps often serve us well today.
For example, most people really don't understand what the Peace Corps is essentially all about. Most folks think the organization is a way for the U.S. government to provide some kind of cheap foreign aid using young people. While there is some truth in that, in fact it is the smaller part of the mission.
Too often, I had to listen to mini lectures on the "Three Goals of Peace Corps" from my director. More than once, I really wanted to scream as I was forced to listen to that mantra yet one more time. But constant reminding of those goals was important, since only one goal dealt with knowledge transfer. The other two goals centered on common Americans being exposed to another country and common people outside of America becoming familiar with common Americans. In other words, the Peace Corps considers its most important mission to be building international human relations.
And building personal relations is ultimately the bedrock for any successful business person. In Korea, personal relations are taken more seriously than in the West, but as a business person anywhere, it is critical to know how to develop and maintain personal relations.
In the Peace Corps, we were taught the importance of trying to build goodwill in our towns and villages. In many ways, as we stumbled through our experiences, the countryside Koreans taught us how to get along with people who were stranger to us than anyone we would regularly meet in our own country. Only decades later did I appreciate what great business training I had received from my co-teachers, the ajumma at my residence and the grandma at my tavern.
We also learned about the importance of nunchi, or quick wit, in dealing with friends and strangers – a skill I have found critical in dealing with Koreans – and it was my big advantage in the U.S. when I was surrounded by many people without nunchi.
But perhaps the most important lesson I learned from the Peace Corps was an inner sense of humility, since as a Peace Corps volunteer, it was obvious I knew much less about life than I had once thought. And that insight, even 36 years later, serves me well in many facets of life, including never overestimating my understanding of my customers and business associates. Reminding oneself one never has the full picture keeps one mindful and curious at work, at home and at play.
And this sense of curiosity has recently introduced me to a new Korean word, janmeori – or petty tricks – an idea of which I was long aware, but it often takes a single word to crystallize understanding. In other words, I'm still learning, and I still find Korea a great place to keep a young mind and heart in spite of my ageing appearances.
By Tom Coyner. Senior Commercial Adviser for IPG and president of Soft Landing Korea.
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Q: Using Drools with Glassfish server I am trying to use simple drools rule  with my dynamic web app. I created my servlet and now trying to integrate my rule. But it gives me error at this line
 RuleBase ruleBase = RuleBaseFactory.newRuleBase();

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.drools.util.ChainedProperties.<init>(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/ClassLoader;Z)V
    at org.drools.RuleBaseConfiguration.init(RuleBaseConfiguration.java:395)
    at org.drools.RuleBaseConfiguration.<init>(RuleBaseConfiguration.java:251)
    at org.drools.common.AbstractRuleBase.<init>(AbstractRuleBase.java:147)
    at org.drools.reteoo.ReteooRuleBase.<init>(ReteooRuleBase.java:160)
    at org.drools.reteoo.ReteooRuleBase.<init>(ReteooRuleBase.java:137)
    at org.drools.RuleBaseFactory.newRuleBase(RuleBaseFactory.java:87)
    at org.drools.RuleBaseFactory.newRuleBase(RuleBaseFactory.java:75)
    at org.drools.RuleBaseFactory.newRuleBase(RuleBaseFactory.java:38)
    at server.HelloServlet.runRules(HelloServlet.java:148)
    at server.HelloServlet.NewRule(HelloServlet.java:181)
    at server.HelloServlet.doGet(HelloServlet.java:82)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:734)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:847)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.service(StandardWrapper.java:1523)

And Here my  Helloservlet.java class
@WebServlet("/HelloServlet")
public class HelloServlet extends HttpServlet {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
@EJB HelloBean bean;

@PersistenceUnit
EntityManagerFactory emf;

/**
 * @see HttpServlet#HttpServlet()
 */
public HelloServlet() {
    super();
    // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
}

/**
 * @see HttpServlet#doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
 */
protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
    PrintWriter out=response.getWriter();
    out.print("<title>servlet page</title>");
    out.print("
 " +request.getServletPath() + "
");
    out.println("
" + bean.sayHello("nabiyin") + "
");
MyUser user=(MyUser)emf.createEntityManager().createQuery("select u from MyUser u").getResultList().get(0);

try {
NewRule();
} catch (Exception e) {
    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
    System.out.println("HATAAAAA");
    e.printStackTrace();
}

    out.print("age: " + user.getAge());

    if (user.getAge()<23) {
        out.println("hello");
    }

    out.print("");
}

public void runRules(String[] rules, Object... facts)
throws Exception
{
    RuleBase ruleBase = RuleBaseFactory.newRuleBase();
    PackageBuilder builder = new PackageBuilder();

    for(String ruleFile : rules)
    {
        System.out.println("Loading file: "+ruleFile);
        builder.addPackageFromDrl(
                new InputStreamReader(
                    this.getClass().getResourceAsStream(ruleFile)));
    }

    Package pkg = builder.getPackage();
    ruleBase.addPackage(pkg);

    WorkingMemory workingMemory
        = ruleBase.newStatefulSession();

    for(Object fact : facts)
    {
        System.out.println("Inserting fact: "+fact);
        workingMemory.insert(fact);
    }

    workingMemory.fireAllRules();
}

public  void NewRule()
throws Exception
{
    System.out.println("New rule started");

   Number n1=3 , n2=1, n3=4 , n4=1 ,n5=5;
   new HelloServlet().runRules(
          new String[]{"model/NewRule.drl"},
            n1,n2,n3,n4,n5);

    System.out.println("New rule finisheds");
}

/**
 * @see HttpServlet#doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
 */
protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
}

A: I recommend using the rule engine as a singelton EJB in your web application, to avoid every web session creates its own rule engine instance (for the simple demo above not important).
Can you try to work with the current libraries and try again. (maybe current is the wrong word, but there is a difference!)
Look at the samples in the current drools distribution or this simple sample: http://javadude.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/drools-expert-read-rules-from-string-and-database/
..
import org.drools.KnowledgeBase;
import org.drools.KnowledgeBaseFactory;
import org.drools.builder.KnowledgeBuilder;
import org.drools.builder.KnowledgeBuilderFactory;
import org.drools.builder.ResourceType;
import org.drools.definition.KnowledgePackage;
..

(Experts might correct if I am wrong)

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Rabban al-Qas (* 1. Juli 1949 in Komane) ist ein irakischer Geistlicher und emeritierter chaldäisch-katholischer Bischof von Dohuk.

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Rabban al-Qas empfing 1973 das Sakrament der Priesterweihe für das Bistum Amadiyah.

Am 3. Dezember 2001 wurde al-Qas Bischof von Amadiyah. Der chaldäisch-katholische Patriarch von Babylon, Raphael I. Bidawid, spendete ihm am 1. Februar 2002 die Bischofsweihe; Mitkonsekratoren waren der chaldäische Erzbischof von Kirkuk, André Sana, und der chaldäische Bischof von Alquosh, Abdul-Ahad Sana. Von 2007 bis 2010 war Rabban al-Qas zudem Administrator der Erzeparchie Erbil.

Rabban al-Qas wurde am 11. Juli 2013 Bischof des vereinigten Bistums Zaku und Amadiyah. Am 27. Juni 2020 hob der chaldäische Patriarch Louis Raphaël I. Kardinal Sako die Vereinigung der Bistümer wieder auf und stellte das Bistum Amadiyah unter dem neuen Namen Bistum Dohuk als eigenständiges Bistum mit dem bisherigen Bischof Rabban al-Qas wieder her. Am 24. Dezember 2021 wurde Rabban al-Qas durch Azad Sabri Shaba als Bischof von Dohuk abgelöst.

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Chaldäisch-katholischer Bischof
Person (Dohuk)
Person (Zaxo)
Kurde
Iraker
Geboren 1949
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The Allied Victory
On April 12, 1945, President Roosevelt died suddenly. Harry S. Truman, vice president for less than three months and untutored in foreign affairs, entered the White House. Truman told reporters that he felt "as if the sun, moon, and the stars" had fallen upon his shoulders, but he was determined to follow through on FDR's vision of a United Nations. Secretary of State Stettinius met in San Francisco with delegates from nearly 50 nations, and signed the U.N. charter on June 26. Unlike the League
The Aftermath of World War II
The Grand Alliance was a military success—Germany and Japan were defeated by the fall of 1945. However, despite the agreement to organize the United Nations, nothing close to a lasting ideological or political alliance was formed among the Allies during the Second World War. There were simply too many irreconcilable differences between them, exacerbated by a traditional distrust that commenced with the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.
Actions taken by the Allied powers during the war likew
On April 12, 1945, President Roosevelt died suddenly. Harry S. Truman, vice president for less than three months and untutored in foreign affairs, entered the White House. Truman told reporters that he felt "as if the sun, moon, and the stars" had fallen upon his shoulders, but he was determined to follow through on FDR's vision of a United Nations.Also discusses the reasons for the dropping of the A-bombs on Japan are given with differeing opions given.
Atomic Bombs
This video shows footage of WWII and it is accompanied by music. It shows effects of the Atomic Bombs and you can also hear some of the politicians of the time giving part of their speeches.
The End of WW II
This slide presentation lists the last events in World War II. There is reference to the peace conferences, to the destruction of Germany and to the Atomic Bombs.
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(Part 2) This part concludes the audio version of the Rabbit Ears Productions' version of the classic fairy tale, "Red Riding Hood" (one single image).
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One of a series called "Simsala Grimm: The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm." An animated cartoon version of the classic tale about the little girl who saves her grandmother from the wolf. This Disney-like quality video can be enjoyed by all ages. Part 1 of 3 (9:50)
The Goose Girl (Part 2)
Part 2 of 2 concludes the classic tale from the Brothers Grimm called
The Goose Girl. This story is read by American male Grant R. Barrett. We see and hear only the reader, sitting and reading aloud. He invites the viewer to visit his website to hear more vintage stories and songs. (7:32)
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Professional Stop Motion Video- Old stop motion featuring one of the brothers Grimm's classic fairy tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids. The wolf tries to get into the house of the seven kids (goats) but they hear the gruff voice. He again tries to trick them by changing his voice but they see his black claws. As usual, the wolf keeps trying and trying. Scratchy music. (10:00)
Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, Part 1 of 2
In this animated cartoon film the mother goat leaves the house while her children remains inside the house. A wolf is hungry and spies on the house and its plump occupants. After the mother has disappeared, the wolf tries to enter frequent times. He tries once by swallowing chalk. He covers his paws with white paint so his feet look like those of goats. He then tricks the kids that he is their mother. When the door opens, he eats all but one last kid. The mother comes home and discovers her
Mrs. Kennedy Speaks Following JFK's Death
Less than two months after her husband was killed, Mrs. Kennedy made a newsreel tape, thanking the American people for all their expressions of sympathy after JFK's death. The tape was played in movie theaters, before the feature film was shown, and is now maintained in the National Archives.
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Circles and Pi
Investigate the circumference and area of a circle. Examine what
underlies the formulas for these measures, and learn how the features of the irrational number pi (π) affect both of these measures.
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What Happens On Wall Street - Song
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Here is a song that allows children to learn about different types of weather. Great video for learning the weather.
The Arts in Every Classroom: Working With Local Artists
Students and teachers at P.S. 156 (The Waverly School of the Arts) in Brooklyn, New York, benefit from the school's established relationships with artists from local organizations. This program focuses on a first–grade class creating original works with visiting artists — a dancer and a writer.
Assessment in Math and Science-That Would Never Work Here, Either!
Workshop 7. That Would Never Work Here, Either!: Seeing Assessment Reform in Action, Part II (90 min.)
'Involving students in assessment is often the key to engaging them in learning. This workshop will continue to follow Barbara and Scott as they use assessment to encourage their students to improve their performance. Providing opportunities for students to assess their own work and that of their peers will be the focus of this workshop. Content Guides: Mary Hibert Neuman and Jude
How to Calculate Sales Tax
This two minute video teaches how to find the sales tax. To find the sales tax you multiply the sales tax rate by the price before tax. Also, to find the final price, you add the price before the tax with the sales tax. The video uses animation. Teachers may wish to use the area's sales tax base for practice after students view this video.


Below is a list of all compositions by Julius Röntgen, classified by instrument(s) and/or voice. The overview consists solely of original compositions. Partly due to the efforts of musicologist John Smit a large number of works have been digitalised and republished over the past couple of years. The Netherlands Music Institute (NMI) published a number of chamber music compositions for the first time (available through the NMI webshop) as well as several symphonic works which are available from Donemus Publishing. The works which have not yet been digitized/published are photocopies of the original manuscripts from the Röntgen archive and are available on request.
About 50 compositions by Julius Röntgen – chamber music in different settings, choir pieces and symphonic repertoire – are being published by Donemus Publishing and for sale through the webshop of Donemus. Scores up to 8 instruments are for sale and all other scores can be rented.


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NSA dumps docs about its Snowden response, reveals that Snowden repeatedly raised alarms about spying
Cory Doctorow 8:00 am Mon Jun 6, 2016
Since the earliest days of the Snowden revelations, apologists for the NSA's criminal spying program have said that Snowden should have gone "through channels" to report his concerns, rather than giving evidence to journalists and going public.
Snowden has vigorously disputed this narrative, insisting that he repeatedly contacted his superiors about the spying he was being asked to abet. The NSA denied that they had any record of this, and Snowden supplied specifics.
This detail allowed Vice and others to file targeted Freedom of Information Act requests for the relevant documents, and for the NSA's own search for them, and deliberations on how to spin them. After a FOIA lawsuit, the Agency has released hundreds of documents, which show that a combination of cover-up, spin, and error led them to make their statements about Snowden's alleged failure to "go through channels."
The initial drafts of the document overstated the degree to which the NSA's IG invited whistleblowers to report legal violations. It started by claiming, "The NSA OIG [Office of Inspector General] also provides briefings to various NSA training classes, including the new hire orientation class." But on June 3, 2014, the IG's Executive Officer admitted, "Technically we are not quite briefing [that class] yet… still trying to get OIG on schedule."
Similarly, it claimed, "The OIG also issues agency-all messages covering policies and avenues for reporting suspected mismanagement and violations of law, policy, and regulations." But on June 4, the counsel to the Inspector General noted the agency-all messages "aren't as focused as the two [post-Snowden] ones you mention, and we might need to massage the words a little."
As the finished Q&A document makes clear, before Snowden's leaks, the most regular notice on reporting to all NSA employees from the IG pertained only to "waste, fraud, mismanagement of Agency resources, and abuse of authority." After that, in the spring of 2014, the IG sent out a notice stating that NSA/CSS Policy 1-60 "requires that NSA/CSS personnel report to the OIG possible violations of law, rules, or regulations," as well as things like mismanagement. It also cites the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act (ICWPA).
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Woman describes experience of being tracked with an Apple AirTag
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If the Silk Road founder had used a BusKill, he'd be a crypto billionaire somewhere in eastern Europe right now instead of serving life in prison
Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is currently serving multiple life terms in a high security federal penitentiary. He was captured in 2013 by law enforcement while using his laptop in a public library. Agents managed to distract him and grab his laptop before he could erase any of the incriminating information on it. If the… READ THE REST
Phone-sized Faraday bags tested
Many products promise to completely isolate phones from the rest of the electromagnetic world—Faraday cages for your gadgets. As Matt Blaze points out, modern cellphones rarely stop talking completely, even when they're supposedly turned off or in "Airplane" mode. He put three commercial pouches and three DIY ones to the test. At least in the… READ THE REST


And yet Johnson will presumably now push the deal in public? Really?
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson was seemingly scathing of Theresa May's Brexit plan in private – before he ended up backing it and choosing not to resign in protest.
The Mail report that he equated pushing the policy as 'polishing a turd' – to which he added that it was lucky the government had some 'expert turd polishers'.
Meanwhile The Sun reckon BoJo branded the Cabinet agreement 'an absolute stinker'.


You have seen paddle boats in ponds and lakes. They usually consist of 2 seats, you get in and with leg power pedal around in circles enjoying the view and obtaining a little exercise at the same time. Well the newest trend in fishing boats uses pedal power, looks like a kayak and the best part – it uses no gas !
I have thought about learning to kayak for a long time. I have so many friends that paddle around the lake and it is a great relaxing form of exercise. With Keuka Lake just outside my back door, I really should make this a priority. Now with this pedal drive system, it makes owning a kayak a little more enticing. I could use it for a form of relaxation and exercise and Kirk can use it for fishing.
You would be limited to the amount of equipment to take with you, but you would never have to worry about the gas can. I really like that part of the equation, especially with the price of gas. This would be easily transported from one lake to another, or to take with you to another state when going on vacation, it can be used for more than just fishing, it takes no gasoline, you can quietly sneak up on the fish and it adds a healthy element to your lifestyle.
This would be a great addition to your Lakefront Home . For owners that have their homes in vacation rental programs, what a great asset this would be for potential renters.
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EUR (Esposizione Universale Roma) is a neighborhood in the southern part of Rome, built by Mussolini during the 1930s and famous for its rationalist architecture. It was meant to show the power of the empire. A whole neighborhood as a piece of propaganda. This book explores the neighborhood in a visionary and oneiric manner, emphasizing the subliminal messages and the weird references to the Roman empire and its grandiosity.


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» Liquid Saturation
A single wallforming polymer soluble in water
Fri, 13 Sep 2019 | Liquid Saturation
Addition of a miscible liquid, a non-solvent for the polymer
When ethanol is added to an aqueous solution of gelatin, there is a competition for the water molecules, and some of the water is removed from the gelatin. The partially dehydrated polymer begins to aggregate and a phase rich in gelatin, the coacervate, separates from solution. The addition of excess ethanol causes the formation of a gelatinous mass which is not satisfactory for microencapsulation. As ethanol is added, the coacervate is formed and tends to envelop water-insoluble powders or liquids. Phase diagrams are useful to describe the appropriate concentrations to select for coacervation (Kondo, 1979a, Deasy, 1984a).
As an example, rose oil has been encapsulated by this process above room temperature. A limited amount of ethanol was added, and the temperature was decreased to harden the gelatin microcapsules. After separation the microcapsules were washed with ethanol and dried. A number of polymers other than gelatin may be used, such as agar, pectin, methylcellulose and polyvinyl alcohol, and a number of other hydrophilic organic liquids have been employed - namely acetone, dioxane, isopropanol (Kondo, 1979a). Other modifications of this method include temperature control, pH adjustment and hardening with formalin (Khalil et al., 1968; Nixon et al., 1968). The core material to be encapsulated should have a low solubility in water in order to obtain an appropriate yield of product and may be either liquid or solid.
A useful development of this process is the formation of nanoparticles which are so named because their size is in the nanometer range. Because of their small size, they may be considered as useful drug delivery devices for parenteral purposes. The preparation of nanoparticles involves the treatment of a solution of gelatin containing a suitable surfactant, at appropriate temperature and pH with ethanol, so that the coacervate region is just reached, as indicated by an increase in turbidity. The coacervate is redissolved so that the molecules exist in the 'rolling up region'. To prevent aggregation of the nanoparticles, the mixture is homogenized. The rolled up gelatin can entrap the core material and then the nanoparticles are hardened with an agent such as glutaraldehyde (Marty etal., 1978; Kreuter, 1978).
Addition of a water-soluble salt
Gelatin and other hydrophilic colloids may be treated with various salts such as sodium sulfate which tend to desolvate the colloid, effecting coacervation. This process tends to require a high concentration of salt, 20-30%, which should be removed by treatment with water. Salts with different water-binding capacity according to the Hofmeister series may be used. It is usually necessary to harden the microcapsules by temperature change, pH adjustment or treatment with formaldehyde to obtain a satisfactory product (Khalil etal., 1968; Deasy, 1984a).
Change of temperature
It has been indicated in a number of reviews that temperature change will promote coacervation-phase separation (Madan, 1978; Sparks 1984). The phase separation is believed to be brought about as a result of a decrease in solubility of the polymer. Thus, a decrease in temperature will promote phase separation of gelatin from solution while an increase of temperature will effect a phase separation for methylcellulose, ethyl hydroxyethylcel-lulose and hydroxy propylcellulose (Sparks, 1984).
Temperature change is more often used in conjunction with other phy-sicochemical factors such as the use of non-solvents and pH adjustment to effect the appropriate coacervation condition. For example, a dispersion of a drug, aspirin, in gelatin was added to mineral oil then phase separation was promoted by a reduction in temperature then isopropyl alcohol was added and the product was hardened with formaldehyde (Paradissis and Parrott, 1968).
Addition of an incompatible or non-wall-forming polymer
The addition of a polymer which has a high affinity for water has been used to induce coacervation-phase separation of the coating polymer, gelatin. Thus, a core was incorporated in a gelatin solution containing 10 to 25% polyethylene glycol to cause phase separation (Kondo, 1979a). Starch has also been noted to induce phase separation when gelatin is used as the wall-forming material (Madan, 1978). A low concentration of the non-wall-forming polymer may also aid in the control of the viscosity of the solution.
Adjustment of pH
There are a number of polymers which are soluble in water and which possess either or both acidic and basic groups in their structure. Thus, an alteration of the pH causes a change in the ionization of the polymer, leading to insolubility. This effects a phase change and under the appropriate conditions, cores, either liquid or solid, suspended in the polymer solution can be encapsulated when the pH is adjusted. The polymer solution containing the suspended core is allowed to drop into a buffered solution and encapsulation takes place; alternatively, the pH of the aqueous polymer solution containing core is slowly changed. The water-insoluble drug sulfadiazine was encapsulated by permitting an alkaline solution of cellulose acetate phthalate containing the drug to drop into a solution of acetic acid (Milovanovic and Nairn, 1986).
A number of polymers such as casein, phthalylated gelatin, a copolymer of methacrylic acid and methylacrylate have been used to encapsulate various core materials such as photographic materials, solvents and oils.
Addition of reacting ions
Cores of biologically active cells in a suspension of a sodium alginate have been encapsulated successfully by permitting the mixture to flow dropwise into a dilute solution of CaCl2. The calcium ions caused immediate gelling of each droplet. The microcapsules were collected and subsequently treated with a polylysine solution to provide a permanent, semi-permeable membrane. In this process the calcium ions react with the alginate ions to produce a colloid-rich phase entrapping the core material (Lim and Moss, 1981).
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The season in the South of Sri Lanka, starts from october until may. This is a very famous place to observe Blue Whales. Whale Sharks and Manta Rays can also surprise us during the dive. Most of our dive sites are between 15 m to 30 m deep and open toward the deep blue. We have fantastic rock formations and many kind of nudibraches. All underwater activities are conducted by well-trained and experienced PADI Instructors to ensure your absolute safety and enjoyment. Weligama have also an attractive sandy bay, the ideal base for snorkeling from the shore.


Shams Charania reports that the Grizzlies are dealing Troy Daniels and a 2018 second round pick to the Suns in exchange for a protected 2018 second round pick.
This is a strictly financial move for the Grizz. Troy Daniels was one of 16 guaranteed contracts the Grizzlies had on the books and with JaMychal Green still unsigned, Memphis needed to move someone in hopes of still working out a deal with Green. The Suns add Daniels who averaged eight points in 67 games last season. He's not on the fantasy radar.


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SGA approves computer purchases
Ray Strunk, Reporter|September 14, 2017
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Student senators listen to the officer address at the beginning of the first SGA meeting of the year.
Despite reservations from several senators, Student Government Association approved the purchase of four new computers to be used in the SGA Office, for a total of $4,480.41. The funds will come from the $5,000 SGA allocates per semester for office supplies. The purchase accounts for 89.6 percent of the allocated funds.
The bill passed with 34 of the 39 present senators voting in favor.
SGA Advisor Nancy Loosle said that some of the computers being replaced were ten years old.
At-Large Sen. Alexis Landreth said that she opposed the purchase because of the cost.
"I just believe that we can get it for cheaper," Landreth said.
"It just doesn't make any sense," LAS Sen. Eugene Potts said. "We've got one of the better computer science programs in the state — probably the best in the state."
"They could build you a computer a lot cheaper."
Marshall Johnson, SGA treasurer, agreed the price was too high, but said options were limited due to a contract through the university.
"Personally, I don't want to spend this much on it — I mean, if I could get a cheaper option or a better option, I would have," Johnson said. "But this is the only option we have going through the university."
Johnson said he expects the new computers, three all-in-one desktop units and one laptop, to last upwards of five years.
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Fake Pres. Bardo • Sep 17, 2017 at 10:42 pm
I see students are taking after me.. If there is a budget for new shiny things then use it. If not, then find a way to make the budget bigger for new shiny things.
It seems excessive at $1100 per computer, but hey if it can write a paper, look up cat videos, and play the newest call of duty while staying within the budget then why not.
You never know when someone is going to take away your budget for shiny new things. When they do, you better hope you have already spent every penny.
Fake Pres. Bardo.
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Nameless Shocker • Sep 15, 2017 at 9:48 pm
As someone who had worked with Information Technology Services at WSU, ITS would offer FREE computer upgrades to computing technology and devices that are older than five years old. Why didn't the Association inquire about FREE upgrades, instead of just outright purchasing new computers from the contracts?
Half the time, their Association is not even in their offices. And it's not like they are computing data that would necessitate these upgrades.
Senators, please make sure you that you review all the options from here on. The Association needs to reconsider this purchase to save their budget.


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ROBINSON WITH POINT TO PROVE IN PLYMOUTH
By Bradley Gains
There's a case of unfinished business for Donald Robinson in the BBL this season as he strives to win a trophy with the Plymouth Raiders.
The 6'4″ guard was a leading player in the league last season when he amassed over 500 points with the Glasgow Rocks but was left empty-handed, something he aims to atone for with his new side.
"Returning to the UK was to accomplish a goal. The main goal I set for myself was to win some silverware this season and be a well respected team in this league."
Robinson was snapped up by ex-coach Gavin Love in the summer as one of three players signed from Raiders' league rivals with Gabe Haskins and Ben Eaves also returning for a second season in the BBL, which he believes to be a benefit.
He said: "I think it helps a lot having a year under my belt in the BBL because I know what to expect now, what it really takes to win and how this league is ran. It's a good league to start off your career as a professional basketball player."
Jay Marriott replaced Love as head-coach just weeks before the season and the Plymothian has not been afraid to make changes with Louis Sayers and Tom Woods signed to add depth before Americans Garrius Holloman and Jarvis Jones faced the axe as Trevor Setty and Matt Pressey came in to replace their compatriots.
And Robinson admits it wasn't easy having to adjust to a change of coach so close to the season but has praised the new coaching combination of Marriott and his assistant David Brock.
"It was a hard thing to do, just knowing that we were right there where we wanted to be and then had to start all over from scratch knowing new guys were coming in.
"Jay (Marriott) and David (Brock) have been doing a great job with coaching as far as getting us prepared for each game and teaching us new things, they're new to this so we're all one big team/family and we're learning together."
The transition period was bound to be a working process and it took two opening defeats before Plymouth to hit the ground running. They triumphed in overtime against Newcastle before collecting a convincing 89-73 win from their long road trip to take on the Rocks.
Robinson said: "Those two victories were against 2 top teams in this league and yeah we started off slow but it was a learning curve for us and we used that as our motivation."
The 24 year-old American proved to be a thorn in the side of his former club with a 30 point showing and is once again showing the BBL his ability to step up in big games by being a reliable go-to scorer. Robinson netted 54 points in the two games to lead his side and is well aware of the added pressure of being a key player, particularly in important games.
"I not only thrive in those type of games, I also know that my role plays a big part for the team and if I don't play my part then I'm not only letting myself down but also my teammates."
The Raiders will have to cope with more change after releasing Swedish-American Andreas Schreiber prior to their recent game against Glasgow and the 6'11" centre has since joined league leaders Worcester. Once again, Marriott has acted swiftly by drafting in Morakinyo Williams on a week-to-week basis.
Plymouth will look to continue their win streak this weekend and Robinson gave his verdict on what the Raiders need to do for the rest of the season if he is to fulfil his BBL ambition.
"We need to just play as a team and have trust in one another and everything will fall into place because the talent and youth that we have are the key things for a team like us."
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Q: Adding percent labels to a stacked barplot in R I currently have a stacked barplot with the data how I want it, other than the fact I am unsure of how to add percentage labels to break down how much of each sample belongs to each color/category.
I just need to know what packages/code would be helpful in adding the percentages so I can see the specific breakdown of the last two columns in particular.
I have the following code and plot:
tbl10 = read.table("combinedtest.Q")
names1 = read.table("names_sorted.txt")[,1]
bp=barplot(t(as.matrix(tbl10)), col=c("aliceblue","antiquewhite","aquamarine","black","blue","blue4","blueviolet","brown1","brown4","cadetblue","chartreuse","chocolate1","coral1","cornflowerblue","cyan","darkgoldenrod1","darkgray","darkgreen","darkmagenta","darkolivegreen1","hotpink","darkseagreen2","darkslateblue","deeppink","firebrick1","khaki1"),xlab="", ylab="Ancestry", border=NA)
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