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Start a Business, Make a Home: PhD Grad on Local Immigrant Entrepreneurs
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By Gregg Sangillo | August 6, 2019
Crossroads Farmers Market in Takoma Park, Maryland.
Here's a factoid you might not know: immigrants are much more likely than US-born adults to start their own businesses. According to the nonprofit National Immigration Forum, the entrepreneurship rate for immigrants in a given month in 2016 was twice that of US-natives.
In her recent doctoral dissertation, Antoaneta "Toni" Tileva takes a closer look at small immigrant businesses in the DMV area. What she found is a group of industrious individuals, unafraid to forge into a wide variety of entrepreneurial endeavors.
"People often think of immigrants and just say, 'Oh, they'll go into food business, construction, or daycare.' But you find people who want to start event planning businesses, successful t-shirt design businesses, graphic design businesses, Internet service providers, and art cafés," she says. "I've just seen a lot of creative enterprises."
Tileva recently earned her PhD in anthropology at American University's College of Arts and Sciences. She spoke with University Communications and Marketing about her dissertation and findings.
True Immersion
Tileva studied three immigrant spaces: a farmers' market in Takoma Park, Maryland, variety stores in Mount Rainier, Maryland, and a women's entrepreneurship program in Falls Church, Virginia. The immigrants typically came from places like El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, and Ethiopia, though she did not categorize them by country of origin. Her research provides a broader look at the local immigrant business experience.
Upon starting this project, Tileva learned that many immigrants are reticent and guarded in today's tense political climate. She realized that simple survey-interrogation research had limitations. Instead, she took a combined approach—asking questions, but also immersing herself in immigrant spaces.
"I thought, 'I can do participant observations.' Just going into the stores and seeing and observing for myself. But then I could still interview entrepreneurs and many people involved in those businesses," she says. "It was kind of pragmatic. It enabled me to get data from both these methods."
Barriers of Entry
Tileva found that while local immigrants do incredible work, they face significant roadblocks to opening and running businesses. If they're working with a nonprofit, it often means being forced to enter extensive training programs, devise business plans, and follow uniform guidelines that might not be appropriate for each specific business. Tileva questions the efficacy of many of these regulations, and she thinks immigrants are hamstrung by red tape.
"There are tremendous barriers of entry to becoming an entrepreneur. And these barriers of entry don't really have to be there. I'm saying, 'Why are they there? Why is there this need for this orderliness?'" she says.
That need for "order," she says, is very much a neoliberal economic fixation. By default, it leads to greater control of public spaces. In some neighborhoods, there's a lot of rhetoric about "cleaning up spaces" or active opposition to businesses that residents think "look trashy," she says.
But small immigrant businesses often rely on a more informal, less orderly structure that suits their customers, and helps ingratiate them in the community. For instance, the farmers' market she observed, unlike many grocery stores, has tables where people can sit.
"It's a much more communal space than people would see in a 'normal farmers' market.' And there isn't that impetus that you have to spend money," she says. "There are moms and kids who are just hanging out. It's just a place for people to be together."
Tileva explains that while farmers' markets are rule-bound to label their prices, local immigrant businesses have good reasons to resist this. It's not so much about bargaining, but price and product discussions enable merchants and customers to interact.
"This is a way of imbuing a space with cultural meaning. It's saying I'm not just there to shop and give you my money. I can have a conversation with you about, 'How is this grown? Tell me a little bit about this [vegetable]?'" she explains.
She notes how microlending institutions generally expect entrepreneurs to devise a business plan, but immigrant businesses can find this daunting.
"They said things to me like, 'It's really difficult for us to think in future terms, because we just got here,'" Tileva recalls.
She says some nonprofits that don't require hard-and-fast plans attract more immigrant businesses, and those businesses are successful.
"If any of these nonprofits allowed some room for not doing things exactly quite by the book, and exactly how it should be, there was almost a multiplier effect. When lowering these barriers of entry, the benefits were tremendous," she says.
There's also the question of how to define "success." Grantmaking and donor institutions, she says, often use language that emphasize how "businesses are growing." But, with immigrant businesses, that doesn't necessarily match reality. It's more the process that matters.
"With a lot of these businesses, it's just a success in and of itself for them to start it."
Grounded in the Every Day
School of International Service assistant professor Erin Collins was an outside member of Tileva's dissertation committee. Collins was especially struck by the sensitivity Tileva showed for her research subjects.
"Her care for the communities with whom she did research—and the ways in which she writes about immigrant placemaking practices—is very powerful because it's very grounded in the every day," Collins says.
Tileva didn't just spotlight those authentic immigrant voices, but also interviewed government and nonprofit officials involved in local immigration matters.
Collins commended Tileva's willingness to broaden her research and engage with everyone. "Toni was just always a very interested and excited scholar. She would read all sorts of things and talk to all sorts of people," Collins says. "She was always talking to people in the halls or at events. That's what makes a good ethnographer. It's someone who is interested and open, who reads and thinks broadly and widely."
Drive and Motivation
Tileva is herself an immigrant and came to the US from Bulgaria when she was 12. While identifying with that immigrant experience, she witnessed small triumphs in these DC-area communities. She saw go-getters putting products out into the world—finding ways to earn money and be part of their neighborhoods. She remembers one woman—a former housekeeper just starting to grow her own vegetables—showing up at the farmers' market with two bags and a desire to sell leafy green chipilín.
"This showed tremendous drive and motivation to me. She's somebody who thought, 'I don't know anything about farmers' markets, but I know that I have a product that people will love.' And she sold out on the first day. She routinely sells out," says Tileva.
"I know it sounds like a cliché, but immigrants have this really intense work ethic. This thinking of, 'I'm going to make this work, because there's a need for this. And I'm just going to do everything I can to make this work.'"
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Trump's Cult Of Lies
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Gene Lyons May 25, 2016
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
–Voltaire, 1698-1774
The first thing to understand is that before it's a presidential election, it's a TV program. To the suits at CNN, NBC, and Fox News that means it's about ratings and money. So of course they're going to play it as a cliffhanger.
Do they ever say "Tune in Saturday to watch the Alabama Crimson Tide humiliate hopelessly overmatched Kent State!"
So it's going to be with Trump vs. Clinton. Almost regardless of what political scientists and number-crunchers say, the race will be depicted as a nail-biter. The fact that Charles Manson could win Texas' electoral votes with an "R" after his name, while Democrats could take Massachusetts with a Kardashian sister, will prolong the manufactured suspense.
It's going to be a very long six months.
Even so, it's hard to imagine a manifest fraud like Donald J. Trump becoming president of the United States. Surely voters have too much self-respect.
"If Trump came to power," writes Adam Gopnik, "there is a decent chance that the American experiment would be over. This is not a hyperbolic prediction; it is not a hysterical prediction; it is simply a candid reading of what history tells us happens in countries with leaders like Trump. Countries don't really recover from being taken over by unstable authoritarian nationalists of any political bent, left or right—not by Peróns or Castros or Putins or Francos or Lenins or fill in the blanks."
All politicians fudge the truth, exaggerating their successes and minimizing their failures. Trump, however, takes it to a different level. He's a contemporary version of Baron Von Munchausen, an 18th century literary character whose wildly exaggerated military exploits—riding on a cannonball, voyaging to the moon—made him a comic-heroic favorite for generations.
Trump tells falsehoods so brazen as to redefine political lying. To see what I mean, let's compare a couple of Clinton classics that emailers harangue me about all the time.
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."
The beauty of this Clintonian masterpiece lies in the fact that people often misquote it—changing "sexual relations" to "sex." Because according to the evidence assiduously gathered by independent counsel Kenneth Starr, it's literally true and therefore perjury-proof.
Cunning and deliberately deceptive, yes. But sexual relations means "intercourse," and that supposedly didn't happen. Cute, huh?
That's Bill Clinton.
Readers who have never lied about sex are encouraged to vent.
Then there's Hillary infamous Bosnian adventure: "I remember landing under sniper fire," she told a 2008 audience. "There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles."
Confronted with CBS News footage that showed her walking calmly across the tarmac of Tuzla airport from an Air Force C-17 in 1996, Mrs. Clinton basically blamed an overactive memory. She'd actually written about the incident in her 2003 book "Living History" without mentioning the imaginary snipers.
Her press secretary later explained the possible origin of Mrs. Clinton's false memory: "We were issued flak jackets for the final leg because of possible sniper fire near Tuzla. As an additional precaution, the First Lady and Chelsea were moved to the armored cockpit for the descent into Tuzla."
She won't say so but I'm guessing Hillary got scared, and her mind played a trick on her. Confronted with the discrepancy, however, she owned it.
Suffice it to say that is not the Trump method. With a background in professional wrestling, he understands that there's a vast audience out there only slightly more discerning than a potted geranium and willing to believe (or pretend to believe) damn near anything.
Trump doesn't trim or embroider as much as invent huge, thunderous fictions aimed at boosting himself or hurting his enemies—evidence be damned. In Trump World, facts don't exist. He cannot be shamed.
Trump went on Morning Joe recently to attack Hillary's terrible judgement about Libya. See, if people had listened to Donald, the U.S. would never have helped NATO overthrow Ghaddafi.
"I would have stayed out of Libya," he affirmed.
Except that Trump shot a video back in 2011 urging an immediate invasion: "Qaddafi in Libya is killing thousands of people," he said then. "Nobody knows how bad it is, and we're sitting around, we have soldiers all [around] the Middle East, and we're not bringing them in to stop this horrible carnage… Now we should go in, we should stop this guy, which would be very easy and very quick."
The candidate does this stuff every day, on every imaginable topic. It's brutal, demagogic make-believe, demanding his followers blind themselves to reality and enlist in his cult of personality.
So who are you going to believe, Trump or your lying eyes?
Photo: Protesters picket outside the event site before Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump begins a rally with supporters in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S. May 24, 2016. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Gene Lyons is a political columnist and author. Lyons writes a column for the Arkansas Times that is nationally syndicated by United Media. He was previously a general editor at Newsweek as wells an associate editor at Texas Monthly where he won a National Magazine Award in 1980. He contributes to Salon.com and has written for such magazines as Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, Entertainment Weekly, Washington Monthly, The Nation, Esquire, and Slate. A graduate of Rutgers University with a Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia, Lyons taught at the Universities of Massachusetts, Arkansas and Texas before becoming a full-time writer in 1976. A native of New Jersey, Lyons has lived in Arkansas with his wife Diane since 1972. The Lyons live on a cattle farm near Houston, Ark., with a half-dozen dogs, several cats, three horses, and a growing herd of Fleckvieh Simmental cows. Lyons has written several books including The Higher Illiteracy (University of Arkansas, 1988), Widow's Web (Simon & Schuster, 1993), Fools for Scandal (Franklin Square, 1996) as well as The Hunting Of The President: The 10 Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton, which he co-authored with National Memo Editor-in-Chief Joe Conason.
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Thanks, Mr. Lyons.
Will you permit me to shout this piece from every rooftop in my Trump crazed city?
FireBaron May 25, 2016
Donald Trump appears to believe that whatever comes out of Donald Trump's mouth at any given instant is the unvarnished truth, regardless of any evidence to the contrary, and regardless of any previous statements he made that refute what he just said.
charleo1 May 25, 2016
I think the medical community refers to that as a pathological mental condition, or personality disorder. That could be a precursor to a psychotic episode leading to a complete loss of touch with reality. In other words, just the kind of person we need picking the next 3 Supreme Court Judges, and carrying around the nuclear codes.
I've had my disagreements with Mr. Lyons in the past. But after reading this offering, all is forgiven. Huge fan of Gene Lyons. (Sorry about calling you a hack.)
InformedVoter May 25, 2016
Let me get this straight, a Democrat lies and it's not a lie, just a fib. But when a Republican tells the truth, but the left doesn't like it, they call it a lie.
Charleo1 was correct when he, on several occasions, called "Liens" a hack.
Well, there a lie, lots of lies, half truths, and embarrassing exaggerations in politics, and always have been. But then there is Trump. Where a story he has completely made up, or gotten off the internet, been proven false time and again over the years. So, has absolutely nothing to do with the truth. But he'll stand by that story to the point where one is prompted to question not only his honesty, but his sanity. That goes way beyond the Left just not liking the story.
Trump's statements have been proven to be true. Hence, to call them lies leads to my statements being true. Trump said the illegal population were "rapist, etc" and within 24 hours mountains of proof surfaced, yet low information folks like you continue to say he was lying. All Trump can do is to state the truth, but if one is too stupid to recognize or accept the truth, then that person is just lying to themselves.
The lucky one May 25, 2016
"if one is too stupid to recognize or accept the truth, then that person is just lying to themselves." yup and you're the proof of that.
So you are saying you don't believe the facts and just stick to believing the lies the media fabricate. You help prove my position that lefties are truly low information "people".
atc333 May 25, 2016
Considering that Republicans have owned the rights to most lies told in elections for the past 8 years, as determine by Politifact, ,and Trump's 7% truth, vs. 75% lies as also determined by Poltiifact, perhaps you might want to consider a new "moniker for your posts.
Considering that Politifact is a left organization, it's no surprise they have altered the data to reflect their opinion, and not necessarily the truth. Trump has had his statements vetted and proven to be true. Hillary continues to flaunt "what difference does it make now?" in peoples' faces and you low information folks just lap it up!
RobertCHastings May 25, 2016
Trump has tipped his hand as to his choice of a running mate. With his recent assertion as to the death of Justice Scalia, Trump has joined forces with Jesse Ventura, the only other former presidential candidate to support conspiracy theories as an historical force.
I of John May 25, 2016
Well written piece. I like how all the media nonsense is dispensed with.
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Zhuang, Bin; Wang, Yuming; Shen, Chenglong; Liu, Siqing; Wang, Jingjing; Pan, Zonghao; Li, Huimin; Liu, Rui; Wang, YM (reprint author), Univ Sci & Technol China, Dept Geophys & Planetary Sci, CAS Key Lab Geospace Environm, Hefei 230026, Anhui, Peoples R China.; Wang, YM (reprint author), Univ Sci & Technol China, Synerget Innovat Ctr Quantum Informat & Quantum P, Hefei 230026, Anhui, Peoples R China.
Abstract As one of the most violent astrophysical phenomena, coronal mass ejections (CMEs) have strong potential space weather effects. However, not all Earth-directed CMEs encounter the Earth and produce geo-effects. One reason is the deflected propagation of CMEs in interplanetary space. Although there have been several case studies clearly showing such deflections, it has not yet been statistically assessed how significantly the deflected propagation would influence the CME's arrival at Earth. We develop an integrated CME-arrival forecasting (iCAF) system, assembling the modules of CME detection, three-dimensional (3D) parameter derivation, and trajectory reconstruction to predict whether or not a CME arrives at Earth, and we assess the deflection influence on the CME-arrival forecasting. The performance of iCAF is tested by comparing the two-dimensional (2D) parameters with those in the Coordinated Data Analysis Workshop (CDAW) Data Center catalog, comparing the 3D parameters with those of the gradual cylindrical shell model, and estimating the success rate of the CME Eartharrival predictions. It is found that the 2D parameters provided by iCAF and the CDAW catalog are consistent with each other, and the 3D parameters derived by the ice cream cone model based on single-view observations are acceptable. The success rate of the CME-arrival predictions by iCAF with deflection considered is about 82%, which is 19% higher than that without deflection, indicating the importance of the CME deflection for providing a reliable forecasting. Furthermore, iCAF is a worthwhile project since it is a completely automatic system with deflection taken into account.
Corresponding Author Wang, YM (reprint author), Univ Sci & Technol China, Dept Geophys & Planetary Sci, CAS Key Lab Geospace Environm, Hefei 230026, Anhui, Peoples R China.; Wang, YM (reprint author), Univ Sci & Technol China, Synerget Innovat Ctr Quantum Informat & Quantum P, Hefei 230026, Anhui, Peoples R China.
GB/T 7714 Zhuang, Bin,Wang, Yuming,Shen, Chenglong,et al. The Significance of the Influence of the CME Deflection in Interplanetary Space on the CME Arrival at Earth[J]. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL,2017,845(2).
APA Zhuang, Bin.,Wang, Yuming.,Shen, Chenglong.,Liu, Siqing.,Wang, Jingjing.,...&Wang, YM .(2017).The Significance of the Influence of the CME Deflection in Interplanetary Space on the CME Arrival at Earth.ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL,845(2).
MLA Zhuang, Bin,et al."The Significance of the Influence of the CME Deflection in Interplanetary Space on the CME Arrival at Earth".ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 845.2(2017).


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Where can I find some documentation on how to do this?

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A: In addition to Ben's response on taking a look at the DirectoryInfo and FileInfo classes I would also suggest that you take a look into writing a recursive algorithm.  Once you know how to write a recursive algorithm and use the classes suggested by Ben you should be able to accomplish your requirement with no problem.

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Sir Samuel Gerald Wood Burston OBE (24 April 191514 July 2015) was an Australian grazier who represented the rural sector as President of a forerunner of the National Farmers' Federation, and served as a member of the board of the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Australian Science and Technology Council.

Life
Samuel Gerald Wood Burston was born in 1915 in Adelaide, the eldest son of Sir (Samuel) Roy Burston, a distinguished physician who later became Director-General of Medical Services in the Australian Military Forces. (Roy Burston served in Gallipoli; Sam was born the day before the Anzac landing, and lived to see the centenary of that event celebrated internationally.)

In 1934, Sam Burston joined the Australian Army as a private, and was commissioned as a lieutenant in 1935. In 1939 he studied temperate farming techniques in Britain and Germany. In World War II he was mentioned in dispatches on 30 December 1941, and was the commander of a tank squadron with the 9th Division, which was distinguished at the Battle of El Alamein (1942).

On repatriation he ran his property Marlee, near Naracoorte, South Australia. He later moved to Noss Estate at Casterton, Victoria, where he was a grazier until retirement in 1985.

From 1976 to 1979 Sir Sam Burston (he was knighted in 1977) was President of the Australian Woolgrowers' and Graziers' Council.  In that capacity he was deeply involved in helping resolve the 1978 Live Sheep Export Dispute, through extensive negotiations with the Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser, his Minister for Industrial Relations, Tony Street, and the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Bob Hawke. In 1979, Burston oversaw the merger of the AWGG with seven other rural bodies to create the National Farmers' Federation.

He was a Member of the Reserve Bank of Australia Board 1977–87. From 1979 to 1985 he was a member and occasional acting Chairman of the Australian Science and Technology Council.

In 2012, when aged 97, he was instrumental in assisting Dr Ian Howie-Willis research his book A Medical Emergency: Major-General 'Ginger' Burston and the Army Medical Service in World War II, by sending him 22 parcels of his father's World War II correspondence that had not previously been available to researchers.

Sir Sam Burston celebrated his 100th birthday on 24 April 2015 in an aged care facility in Casterton. He died there on 14 July 2015, survived by two children, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.  Both his wives, Verna and Phyllis, predeceased him.

Honours
Burston was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1966 for services to firefighting. (He had played a role in convincing the then Premier of Victoria, Henry Bolte, to strengthen the Country Fire Authority.)

He was knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours on 14 June 1977, "in recognition of service to primary industry".

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The Recruitment and Employment Confederation's (REC) dedicated hospitality group is advocating that, following the Government's migration cap announcement, there should be a focus on apprenticeship schemes as the major tool for attracting and retaining home-grown chefs and hospitality talent. The Government's plans to cap migration from outside the EU will restrict the number of workers coming into the UK to fill hospitality vacancies. The challenge is to ensure that this change does not lead to a shortage of suitable staff which could, in turn, impact on growth in the sector. Commenting on the issue, Suzanne Letting, REC Hospitality Chair said: "Apprenticeships may take time to give businesses a return on their investment, but we need to take strategic decisions now in order to build a talent pipeline for the future. These schemes present us with an opportunity to select, deliver and monitor our talent, while focusing on retaining that talent once all the necessary skills are acquired. Our mission is to deliver more opportunities in the sector and to build the hospitality workforce of the future."


Home » All Topics » Business » Career » Life » Money » Relationships » A Lesson In Loyalty – Who Can You Trust?
James's story is a lesson in loyalty and trust – or lack off. I had the great pleasure of working alongside him for many years. He was a fantastic character, with a loud booming voice and wonderful attitude towards life.
Leaving school early with very little qualifications, James embarked on a career in accountancy. It wasn't long before he realised that a future sitting behind a desk was not for him. After reading an article in the newspaper about import/export, he decided to start his own business importing items from abroad and selling them to businesses in his local area. It was a good move and soon business was booming. He expanded his organisation to cover all the United Kingdom and was soon recognised as a leading supplier of these goods. He built his reputation on quality, trust and fair pricing.., and was highly respected for it.
James had a daring attitude towards business risk and was always on the lookout for new opportunities to grow, both financially and personally. One day a major player in his industry approached him with an offer to buy his company. After agreeing that his staff would remain place and working conditions would be maintained, James agreed. Weeks later he cashed in a cheque for over £20 million pounds!
Everything changed however when his next investment went wrong. For reason only known to himself, he invested the majority of his fortune into a new business… unfortunately things went wrong and he lost the lot. He ended up bankrupt. To try and retain his family home he contacted friends and former business colleagues – nobody would assist. They were all too busy or too afraid to lend some money or time to help out an old friend in need. As the banks closed in and his belongings were reclaimed, he sunk into a deep depression. His life, his family and his reputation were in tatters. There are appeared to no loyalty from his former friends.
One very cold dark day he contemplated suicide. It took all his family's strength to bring him back from the edge.
James spent the next few months attending counselors, psychologists and medical experts. It was a long road, but he eventually re-discovered his spark again – then set about rebuilding his name, reputation and business empire. Last time we met, he had started five new companies – each of which were highly profitable – and staffed by highly motivated people.
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Last night, Will Ferrell's 'Best Night In Your Life' benefit for the 'Cancer For College' charity took place at The Greek Theater in LA. It was mostly a night of comedy but there was also a star-studded band providing a musical spot and it featured RHCP's very own Chad Smith and Josh Klinghoffer. The set list comprised of two halves with Chris Martin leading the first half and Brad Paisley the second. Josh Klinghoffer also covered a song himself, a cover of Purple Rain.


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The mysterious cave paintings that "fell from the sky" in Namibe
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The Tchitundo-Hulo rock paintings, discreetly drawn in remote caves in southern Angola, are among the most important archaeological remains in the country, but lack of protection threatens the valuable heritage.
They are said to have "fallen from the sky" – the meaning of Tchitundo-Hulo in the local language – and are found about 130 kilometers from the seat of the municipality of Virei, Namibe province, southern Angola, in a desert region accessed by following a sandy track.
All around, the scenery is sand-colored and the ground dry and stony. A few goats nibble on stunted bushes, and the 'sambos' (circular corrals enclosed with branches) of the Mucubal shepherds who live there are visible, invisible but vigilant, always on the lookout for visitors.
"Here, no one thinks they are alone, they are always watching us. And woe to outsiders who come to visit the caves without introducing themselves. There were some tourists who came to visit the caves without informing us, but they weren't allowed to go ahead and had to return," says Paihama Catenga, responsible for the area of culture and tourism of the Municipal Administration of Virei.
It is not known exactly who left the drawings, nor why. Some resemble animal shapes, fish and turtles, others are circles and abstract shapes that could be representations of the sky and the stars.
Experts estimate that the authors were Khoisan or Cuisses-tua, ancestral peoples who were already settled in southern Angola before the arrival of the Bantus, the majority ethnic group in the country.
The 'soba' Ananás, from Virei, says it was his ancestors, "thousands of years ago," but adds that there are other theories.
"Some elders say it was not man-made, that it is supernatural. When the white people came here and asked who did it, they said: we already found it like this, it came from God, it came from heaven," explains the representative of the traditional authorities.
Even because "the paintings were covered and no man paints and then covers them up," he argues.
The soba assures that before the place was respected, following the mucubai's own rules, "but the current culture no longer follows the old ones", accelerating the degradation by the combined effect of climate agents and human action.
The prehistoric drawings, which are said to be more than a thousand, spread between the interior of the two caves and the granite hill that make up the complex, began to be studied in the 1950s by the Portuguese geologist Camarate França.
But even today their meaning remains an enigma and decipherment may never happen due to the risk of disappearance of the engravings, whose access is not controlled and are exposed to the weather.
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Shuchi Talati is a UCS Fellow on solar geoengineering research governance and public engagement with the Climate & Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. Dr. Talati works to guide sound governance and public engagement on research into proposed solar geoengineering approaches to limit global warming. See Shuchi's full bio.
Climate change threatens public health, food security, water availability, and national security – just to name a few areas of impact. Dramatic reductions in emissions and increased investments in measures to adapt to unavoidable impacts are essential but may not be enough to limit severe climate risks—and to date, these actions have fallen far short of what is needed. Some researchers are proposing to do experiments to also test the potential feasibility and effectiveness of geoengineering approaches to help limit climate change, while recognizing that mitigation and adaptation must remain our first-line solutions.


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According to a lawsuit filed in a Texas court this week, makers of some of the most popular mobile apps are collecting user information without the consumer's consent.
The suit against 18 companies, including Facebook, Apple, Yelp and Twitter, says some of the information collected include contact names, phone numbers, e-mail accounts and birthdays.
"The defendants -- several of the world's largest and most influential technology and social networking companies -- have unfortunately made, distributed and sold mobile software applications that, once installed on a wireless mobile device, surreptitiously harvest, upload and illegally steal the owner's address book data without the owner's knowledge or consent," stated the lawsuit.
It also alleges that information taken in secret is a direct violation of policies put into place by app distributers Apple, Amazon and Google. The suit points to research showing that app makers that harvest data can receive at least 60 cents per contact information when sold.
The lawsuit filed in a United States District Court is seeking to halt personal data collection and to have the companies named in the suit destroy any information collected.
Lawyers representing the lawsuit defendants said this issue comes down to the basic notion that you shouldn't take what isn't yours.
"Every second-grader knows that's something, a standard that they should be held to, and we're going to ask the defendant companies, 'Shouldn't you?'" attorney Jeff Edwards said.
Path, one of the companies named in the lawsuit, publically apologized last month after it was discovered that the developer's photo sharing app uploaded an iPhone user's entire phone address book without permission.
This week's lawsuit also comes on the heels of Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Google, Research in Motion and Hewlett-Packard agreeing to a privacy standard that would hold app makers accountable for notifying users on privacy matters.
The accord, sponsored last month by California's attorney general, will set a standard that mandates applications clearly state what personal information is being collected, when it will be collected and how the data will be used.
A similar lawsuit against Apple that was filed in a California court last year was thrown out after the plaintiff's lawyers were unable to prove that data collected by iOS apps did any harm to customers.
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text: W I N T E R / S P R I N G 2 0 1 6 | 3 7 Bob Blue has heard all the prejudices and wrong-headed preconceptions about biodynamic farming. At this stage in his long and illustrious career as a wine- maker, he even feels comfortable enough to joke about them. "They ask me if we drive the tractor naked, things like that. I've heard some good ones," says Blue, Lead Winemaker at Bonterra Organic Vineyards, where he has been working since the Men- docino County winery's first vintage in 1992. The underlying premise of biodynamic agriculture is quite simple, Blue says. "It's all about thinking of the farm in a holistic way. It's about letting people and animals and plants interact naturally to create a healthy and self-sustaining system. When it works the way it's supposed to, I don't have to interfere much at all." Calling his winery a farm reveals a crucial part of Blue's philosophy. Bonterra's three vine- yards—175-acre McNab Ranch, nestled in a box canyon; Butler Ranch, ranging along the sur- rounding foothills at 1,500 to 2,200 feet; and cool, fog-shrouded Blue Heron's Reach —are a far cry from the monoculture practiced by many California grape-growers. Bonterra's Vineyard Director, Dave Koball, has encouraged stands of lavender, olive trees and numerous other plants to thrive throughout the three vineyards. Chickens and sheep roam among the vines, feasting on healthy ground cover between the rows. Boxes for owls and other predatory birds are scattered around the property atop tall posts. The McNab, Butler and Blue Heron vineyards have gone through the painstaking process of biodynamic certification. "Ten percent of the property is kept in a native state," Blue says. "It's crucial to our approach, which is connecting all the systems and making sure they interact fully." "Farming biodynamically isn't a risky venture but rather the future of the industry." The horn of a lactating cow is key to biodynamic preparations that are used as fertilizer and/ or sprays in the vineyards. Sunrise over the Butler Ranch in Mendocino, California.


A woman accused of serving a cheeseburger smeared with her bodily fluids to a customer at Jack's Restaurant in early January has turned herself in to the Columbus Police Department.
Sky Juliett Samuel, 18, is in custody at the Lowndes County Adult Detention Center after turning herself in Monday morning. The CPD issued a warrant for Samuel's arrest Friday.
Samuel has not yet been before a judge but is expected to be charged under Mississippi Code of 2013, stating a person who "knowlingly sell(s) unwholesome bread or drink" is guilty of a felony. If convicted, Samuel could face up to five years in prison.
Jack's Family Restaurants, Inc. released a statement Friday promising cooperation and support with the CPD during the investigation and said it has also launched its own internal investigation.
Samuel allegedly served the cheeseburger smeared with menstrual fluid and saliva on Jan. 10. She was first accused when another employee shared details of the incident with her mother, who posted about the incident on Facebook.
COLUMBUS, Miss. (WCBI) – The Mississippi State Department of Health and a restaurant chain are investigating an alleged contamination incident after a social media post goes viral.
A post on Facebook claims a person who was employed at Jack's put blood on a customer's hamburger during a drive thru order.
The poster also claims her daughter was fired for trying to report the alleged intentional contamination.


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Financial Finks: Ratting out to Regulators
David Kinnear
The investigations into alleged FOREX rate rigging have taken a new twist with revelations that investigators planted informants in various banks and convinced them to turn on their coworkers by secretly recording conversations and accessing other incriminating evidence. Now U.S. and British regulators stand ready to issue criminal indictments against traders suspected of collusion in manipulating FOREX markets.
Prepping the Fix
At 30 seconds before 4 p.m., a one-minute-long period known as the "fix" begins each day in the world of foreign currency trading. The significance of this one-minute period is that FOREX trades made during that time set the currency exchange rate benchmarks relied upon by global corporations, fund managers and investors worldwide to value contracts and other assets. Prices are checked, deals are completed, and the trading day has reached its zenith after just 60 seconds. But now allegations have surfaced that it was not only the firm's client orders that were displayed on traders' screens during that crucial period, but also those of competitor's clients.
"The Cartel," "The Bandits' Club" and "The Mafia"
Apparently some traders held private chat sessions — with names suggestive of less than orthodox trade chatting — by which they exchanged information on each other's client orders and agreed on how to trade at the fix. Both U.S. regulators and the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) are looking into allegations that FOREX dealers — including those trading at major banks — colluded with each other via the chat rooms in order to "fix" the fix.
Biggest Market — Least Regulated
While sales of stocks and bonds that generally relate to pricing for a future date are highly regulated by government agencies, FOREX trading is a "spot trade" not considered to be an investment product and, therefore, is not subject to strict rules and regulations, although FOREX trading is a 5.3 trillion dollar-a-day market. According to former Delaware Sen. Ted Kaufman, "This is a market where there is no law, and people have turned a blind eye." However, market laws regarding inside information and the sharing of confidential client information do apply to FOREX, and it is these laws that the suspect traders allegedly violated in their schemes to nudge the fix — even slightly.
FBI Moles Inside Banks
Although it is not yet clear which banks may have been infiltrated with informants working for government agencies, the situation seems to have involved existing employees engaging their coworkers in exchanges —conversationally and possibly electronically — regarding criminal wrongdoing and then recording the disclosures. The targeted banks have not been identified; however 12 major banks control over 80 percent of the spot FOREX volume.
David draws on 20+ years' experience in both legal practice and in business services delivery since his own call to the Bar in 1989. With several years in the startup environment, including as a co-founder in the legal tech space specifically, he brings a unique and timely perspective on the role of data, automation and artificial intelligence in the modern and efficient delivery of services for legal consumers. Having been both a corporate buyer of legal services and a services provider, he identifies the greater efficiency and value that can be achieved in legal operations for corporate buyers especially.
An attorney, David worked for law firms Pinsent Masons and Linklaters in London before moving to New York to join Credit Suisse. As CAO, he helped negotiate & execute the relocation of Credit Suisse into its new NYC global HQ. Subsequently, David directed major global outsourcing, shared sourcing, HR operations & process efficiency initiatives including the digitization of records, the global roll-out of PeopleSoft HRMS & Y2K. David has worked extensively in the UK, US, Philippines, India and China markets in the areas of data management, human resources and business process outsourcing.
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Former St Kitts & Nevis PM denies claims of London arrest
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Former Prime Minister of St Kitts and Nevis, Dr Denzil Douglas (FILE)
Former Prime Minister of St Kitts and Nevis, Dr Denzil Douglas has rubbished claims that he was arrested at the Gatwick airport, in London.
According to an article in the Daily Mail, dated December 8, he was detained by members of the UK Border Force, while attempting to leave the country with more than £70 thousand.
In a statement issued on Sunday, he described the article as totally false, malicious and libellous.
Dr Douglas said "Let it be known that I again emphasise that I was never detained or arrested at the London Gatwick Airport on the 16th of November or at any other time. I have committed no crime and I am under no investigation."
He said the article is nothing more than a tool of distraction being used by the Prime Minister, to divert the attention of citizens.
"The one-term government of Dr Tim Harris seems to have found a reporter in the Daily Mail to push their false and libellous story to distract from our call that Minister of Tourism, Lindsay Grant and Culture Ambassador Jonel Powell must resign now" he said.
His call for the resignation of Grant and Powell, follows a default judgment in the High Court in October for breach of trust, breach of fiduciary duty and misappropriation of US$460 000, belonging to a client.
The client in question, claimed that the money was transferred to the bank accounts of Grant and Powell at the St Kitts branch of the First Caribbean International Bank, in May of 2013.
The money was meant to be used for the purchase of a condominium, through the Citizenship by Investment programme. In February of this year, the St Kitts High Court determined the terms of the default judgment, ordering Grant and Powell to pay damages.
The former Prime Minister believes the article was fabricated as payback for his calls to have them step down or removed from office. He said his lawyers are addressing the article and will advise him accordingly.
Dr Denzil Douglas is the leader of the Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party. He served as Prime Minister from 1995 until his party was voted out of office in 2015.
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Q: Hasse Digram Leveling I have the following Hasse diagram for the divides relation on the set $\{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10\}$. I felt that everything is in the right place, but my professor is saying that one of the elements is not on the correct level. I looked up some more information on how the levels work and it seems like the only condition is that if $x\preccurlyeq y $ then $x$ should be lower than $y$ in the Hasse diagram. With this in mind, I think that I can put $10$ on the same level as the $4,6,$ and $9$, but it doesn't seem incorrect to be where it is. Here is the definition on proofwiki.

A: It's traditional to place an element as close to the bottom of the Hasse diagram as possible; if that convention is followed, then $10$ does indeed belong on the same level as $4,6$, and $9$, and I'd bet that that's what your instructor has in mind.

A: $1$ has $0$ prime factors.
Each of $2$, $3$, $5$, $7$ has $1$ prime factor.
Each of $4$, $6$, $10$ has $2$ prime factors.
$8$ has $3$ prime factors.
That doesn't make the Hasse diagram incorrect simply as a Hasse diagram, but for some purposes it's not as good.


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Rob George 20th Jun, 2018
HAVING performed to sell out audiences in more than 50 countries across the world, from Sydney to Seattle, the Simon and Garfunkel Story is currently playing in the West End at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue.
This is officially the biggest and most successful theatre show celebrating the lives and careers of folk rock sensation Simon and Garfunkel, 50 years since the most successful folk rock duo of all time recorded their first hit single The Sound of Silence.
Featuring a full cast of talented West End actor-musicians, the Simon and Garfunkel Story takes you back to the 'Groovy' times of the 1960s. It tells the story of both Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, from their humble beginnings as Rock 'n' Roll duo Tom and Jerry, right through to their massive success, dramatic break-up and finishing with a stunning recreation of the 1981 Central Park re-formation concert.
Using a huge projection screen, the show features 1960s photos and original film footage, whilst a full live band performs all of the hits, including Mrs Robinson, Cecilia, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Homeward Bound, The Sound of Silence and many more!
With every performance creating a standing ovation, be sure to be at Swan Theatre next Friday from 7.30pm.
Tickets are £19.50 and £18.50 for concessions.
Call the venue's Box Office on 01905 611427 or visit www.worcesterlive.co.uk for more information.
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Landour, a small cantonment town contiguous with Mussoorie, is about 35 km (22 mi) from the city of Dehradun in the northern state of Uttarakhand in India. The twin towns of Mussoorie and Landour, together, are a well-known British Raj-era hill station in northern India. Mussoorie-Landour was widely known as the "Queen of the Hills". It is where a group of forty IAYP Silver level participants from Purukul Youth Development Society, Dehradun along with five escorts went for their Adventurous Journey and for them it was an experience they will never forget.
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Symir Torrence exits Duke game in need of stitches
Symir Torrence did not return for Syracuse after a head injury in the first half of Saturday's matchup against Duke.
By James Szuba@JamesSzuba Feb 27, 2022, 10:31am EST
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The Syracuse Orange men's basketball team suffered a blow when Symir Torrence took a hard hit to the head in the first half against Duke. After driving baseline and creating contact, Torrence fell to the ground where he remained for extended time until he was helped off the floor by a Syracuse team trainer. No foul was called on the play.
Torrence exited the game with a bloodied forehead and would not return. He would need stitches to address the wound, according to Syracuse Athletics.
Going forward, Torrence's status for Monday night's game against North Carolina is unclear. Donna Ditota of Syracuse.com reports Torrence is in concussion protocol.
"He's hurt," Jim Boeheim said. "I doubt if he'll be back for a while."
Torrence also suffered a sprained knee ligament in the first meeting against Duke back on Jan. 22, which caused him to miss one game. He's averaging 2.2 points, 2.4 assists and 1.4 rebounds in 11.5 minutes per game.


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If you must be absent, please notify Bridget Wenk, bridget.wenk@ctrcc.com, as soon as you know about the absence. Each person is important to the choir!
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This week marks the start of order taking for most server vendors that announced support for Second Generation Intel Xeon Scalable CPUs as well as Intel Optane DC persistent memory. At launch, Intel was quiet on suggested pricing for persistent memory modules, opting to give ultimate pricing control to their system provider partners. While we have seen grey market pricing for PMEM leak out over the last several days, Cisco is one of the first to publicly show pricing in their UCS server configurator.
Today the OpenStack community announced the release of its 19th version its open source cloud infrastructure software, Stein. The latest update enhances bare metal and network management while allowing the launch of Kubernetes clusters much faster. OpenStack Open Infrastructure Summit is right around the corner in Denver, Colorado (April 29-May1). StorageReview will be in attendance at the show.
HP has announced updates to its HP Z6 and Z8 G4 Workstations withthe new Intel Xeon Scalable processors and Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory technology. With this new support, the HP Z6 and Z8 G4 will be able to combine the necessary memory and storage for compute-intensive workflows such as machine learning, multi-media and VFX.


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Research from both NEJM Catalyst and Deloitte demonstrates that most health care leaders are trying to do more with the clinical data generated from costly and time-consuming EHR systems. In fact, 78% of Deloitte survey respondents say clinical analytics will be their top investment priority in the next three years. And 77% of NEJM Catalyst Insights Council members report that guiding clinical leadership is their top goal for their analytics efforts.
With that in mind, analytics became the focus of a forum convened by NEJM Catalyst. Our editors moderated a day of discussions with health care leaders and analytics experts – sponsored by Deloitte. These industry experts candidly shared their optimism and frustration about the potential for data in their organization and across the industry.
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The Oregon International Port of Coos Bay recently hired Paola Avola, Brooke Walton, Makenzie Marineau and Linet Samson at the Port's administrative office in Coos Bay and Mike Fisher and Wes Wear in Charleston. Avola brings more than 25 years of experience in financial management to her role as the port's new finance manager. She previously worked as a senior accountant for the Petaluma Health Center and, most recently, as business analyst for the multi-jurisdictional Sonoma County Library in Santa Rosa, Calif. Walton was hired as communications manager. She previously owned and operated two businesses in the Coos Bay-North Bend area. Marineau joined the communications team as a communications specialist. She worked in communications and volunteer management in higher education, the nonprofit sector and politics. Samson was hired as office manager. She has a background in healthcare administration and as a consultant for small business owners and nonprofit organizations.


Despite sticking to a strict rehabilitation regime, Sydney FC's Heather Garriock looks set to sit on the sideline for the remainder of the Westfield W-League season after aggravating an injury to her hip.
Despite sticking to a strict rehabilitation regime, Sydney FC-s Heather Garriock looks set to sit on the sideline for the remainder of the Westfield W-League season after aggravating an injury to her hip.
An incident at training this week has further strained her troublesome hip and leg muscle, making it impossible for the crestfallen captain to continue playing at this stage.
"I-m really upset because there was always hope I was going to come back from the first injury but now I-d probably be dreaming," said a disappointed Garriock.
The Sydney skipper was cleared to start last Saturday-s top-of-the-table clash with the Queensland Roar with instructions to only play one half, but she put in a determined effort and pushed on for a further thirty.
"Training was pain-free that week with rehab going to plan and I pulled up well after the game so I was happy," she said.
But it was at the beginning of this week-s preparation for the upcoming game against Canberra that Garriock came to grief.
"It-s part and parcel of football but I don-t think I-m going to be able to come back for the remainder of the season," Garriock explained.
Despite the poor prognosis the Sky Blues- midfielder remains hopeful of playing her part in taking the inaugural Westfield W-League championship, if Sydney can make the season decider.
Garriock believes her side is yet to show its best form on the playing field but has the talent needed to take the title.
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A strong set of values are important to guide realization of the Schools mission and vision. These include the following:
a)Excellence in all aspects of the activities of the School and its departments.
b)Nurturing activities related to training, supervision and mentoring at School and department levels.
c)Integrity as a core aspect of all practices related to teaching, service and research.
d)Equity and social justice with regard to social characteristics including gender, religion and ethnicity.
e)Responsibility, accountability and leadership in meeting health and other societal needs.
f)Effectiveness by striving to produce intended results and achievement of the Schools mission and vision.
g)Efficiency by ensuring competent delivery of activities with minimum expenditure of time and resources.
h)Responsiveness to changes in both internal and external conditions.
i)Innovativeness and entrepreneurship in all activities of the School.
j)Partnership that is strategic within the School and between the School and with her major stakeholders.
k)Diversity; embracing and constructively making use of differences both within the School and the University and with institutions external to the School.
The stated mission, vision and the values of the School forms, in part, the basis of analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenge (SWOC) the School faces in achieving its mission and vision. The corporate strategic planning process of the University, which is in progress, has culminated in the definition of thirteen key strategic areas that the University will need to address. These were also considered during SWOC analyses the results of which formed the basis for defining core objectives for the next five year rolling strategic plan.
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