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Posted on February 24, 2013 April 2, 2018
A View From the Ridge, Part 3
This afternoon marks Youngest's final Blue-Gold Banquet as a cub scout, the one at which he formally leaves because he's now too old. He has chosen to move on to boy scouts and part of the ceremony will involve him and his four compatriots officially becoming members of different troops and when he crosses that bridge, ten years of cub scouting for the PracticalDad family will be finished. Raising kids is a forest-for-the-trees experience except for the moments when you reach a ridge that permits you to view you to see where you are on the journey, providing a panoramic view of where we've been with the kids and where we still need to go.
As the literal and figurative greybeard for this particular pack, I've taken on much and have planned the actual ceremony; walking through the ceremony has struck me as to the passage of time. When we began this process, Eldest was in elementary school and herself a girl scout. Middle began scouting in the first grade and Youngest was only a baby in Mom's arms. What I'll see this afternoon is Eldest back from college as a surprise for Youngest, and Middle in the audience as a high school student. Another trail from the road is circling back onto itself, closing the loop and a look back from the ridge reveals any number of looped trails that we've encountered and passed. Looking ahead shows more valleys with the road but the road itself is changing as the kids continue to age, grow and even mature into adults.
You don't realize the passage of time and how things change until you reach those ridgelines when the trees have thinned out for a short period. When you do reach that point, take a few moments to pause and appreciate both what you've had as well as what you have.
Then plunge down the hill and back into the forest amidst the trees.
I was taken aback to read Paul Krugman's recent column, Kick That Can, over the weekend. There's been considerable press and debate over the economic necessity – or not – of austerity and the events taking place in Greece put a very human face upon it. Austerity is now in the pipeline here at home and the debate is on over how much debt is supportable and at what point the plug is pulled on further spending. Krugman's stance is that the damage of reducing government spending – remember C+I+G+(X-M) – with no other driver available would be too much for the economy. Of course, the bulk of government spending at the moment is directed towards either the sandbox wars or untouchable entitlement spending which add nothing to reinvestment. After reading his column, all that I could think of were forest fires.
The US Forest Service was founded by Teddy Roosevelt as we'd gone through our lumber resources like a hot knife through butter. Protecting the forests meant protecting it from any threat, including that of forest fire. Fire killed trees and left areas denuded for years to come. But through decades of study and experience, the Forest Service learned that there was actually a place and a purpose for fire; while it did damage, it also cleared away the undergrowth that clogged the forest floor and prevented substantive new growth if left untreated. My family and I have driven through smoke-choked areas, the roads marked with signs advising that there were controlled fires ahead. Clear away the debris and invasives and set the stage for the real new growth.
This is also the way of capitalism and why capitalism has proven to be such a good economic model for real growth. Credit is misallocated over time and even with real growth, there is a considerable amount of deadwood that builds up. The downturns are occasions when the deadwood is cleared away and the stage is set again for further growth. In terms of humanity, the effect is one of job loss and economic pain and those are the realities that have to be addressed by public assistance programs and personal preparation. It's not an idea that is popular or pleasant, but it is the reality in which we have to live. Despite our best public and private efforts, things are messy and there will be real-life pain.
Some argue that we haven't had true capitalism for more than a decade and I can ascribe to the idea of bifurcated capitalism, capitalism for the masses who must pay for their financial errors while the Too-Big-To-Fail institutions are protected from their excesses and errors. So much has been spent, so much debt incurred, in preventing any failure that might clear away the undergrowth – and yes, even good wood – that the economic forest is thoroughly dense with should-be dying businesses and kudzu-like predatory practices that siphon off so much real wealth. What's happening now is the opposite of forest fires; it's the rampant addition of fertilizing liquidity across the financial spectrum in the hope that the good wood will somehow grow fast enough that it will eventually actually overtake the forest again. But this is impossible since the fertilizer not only goes to the invasives as well, but they gain even more by leeching onto the healthy growth and siphoning off of them until they finally succumb. The result is a blighted, tangled mess that produces nothing of value.
Despite the best efforts of Forest Service and Federal Reserve, there will be forest fires. But so many aspects have come together that I fear a true conflagration, an economic burn that will lay waste to the nation's economy:
The repeated deficits that ratchet up the national debt to levels that are simply unpayable;
The failure of the Congress to even pass a rudimentary budget that actually addresses our priorities;
The willingness of the Federal Reserve to abet this travesty by expanding their balance sheet to handle the newly printed government debt;
The continuing uncontrolled actions of the Too-Big-To-Fail institutions that further lever themselves to levels of derivatives that make the levels of 2008 pale;
The unwillingness or inability of the government to regulate these institutions and bring their actions to heel;
Further, the failure to meaningfully prosecute for the financial crimes – and yes, they are crimes – so that a truly painful punishment is exacted and a lesson is taught;
The willful compliance of the business networks in propagating a view that all is well and that is out of touch with the reality on Main Street.
Bad news sells but in my worst moments, I have to concede that the next forest fire could rival that which struck the 1920s German Weimar Republic or the 1990s Soviet Union.
While this kind of view is often nay-sayed and derided, the reality is that this concern is permeating our society and especially in how it impacts families and child-rearing. There's been an awareness of helicopter parenting and well-deserved criticism of it since it doesn't augur well for children who must move into adulthood. Sites such as Free Range Kids question whether we've become too over-protective and promote a more balanced view of society's threats. There's an understanding that the economy has shifted tectonically and the conventional wisdom of how to succeed is actually hurting our young people by saddling them with toxic debt. Even before they reach that young-adult level, we're becoming aware that our teens are financially illiterate, even for surviving in an economic consumption model that's simply unsupportable moving forward. The upshot is that while nobody in the mainstream is willing to say it, the concerns are circling at the family level.
As parents, our role is to not just to provide food and shelter, but ultimately to raise children who have the resiliency to survive what life throws at them. There will always be forest fires and it's our jobs to give them the character and tools to manage through them. But our collective failure to press for action only sets the stage for fires that will burn through everything and scar our children for generations.
CIGXM at the Family Level
So the Keynesian view of macroeconomics is based upon the simple formula of C + I + G + (X – M) and the reality is that the Consumer (C) and the Government (G) are tapped out. The business sector with cash is sitting on the sidelines. We're watching multiple countries – principally the US and Japan – setting the scuttling charges on their currencies as they sink them in pursuit of devaluation to spur exports; the fact that the system is cluttered with so much debt that nobody is really going to buy makes the policy folks look dumb. How does this macro play effect my family at the micro level?
If there were an abracadabra solution, I'd send you shill messages with the promise of the real information for only $29.95. But there are no magic answers, no way to fully innoculate yourself unless you opt to move to a doomstead in the midst of Montana and buy your kids their own personalized .38 snubnoses. Mommy! Daddy! The Tooth Fairy brought me a shiny new hollowpoint!! When that idea truly circulates at a mass level, then even the doomsteads won't be safe because we'll have regressed to the most primal level and it's the director's cut of Mad Max at your neighborhood…neighborhood. The solutions are so mundane – like, sooooo not abracadabra – that I've pondered for a week whether to even finish this article.
The management of CIGXM at today's family level is about preparing the kids for that great oxymoron, the constancy of change. People will adapt and change as the fabric of society warps and yaws to the greater movements that occur in the world. In the case of CIGXM, there are three great movements.
The first is that the systemic model of consumption – existing for about three generations now – is exhausted and the efforts to continually stimulate consumption simply and boldly illustrate that we the people have simply become fodder for the greater benefit of a system. We must understand that the majority of policy actions are designed to separate us from our money for the benefit of an economic system whose wealth is predominantly controlled by a very small percentage of the population. If it sounds overtly political, the simple reality is that it is; money and power for certain people are attractors to one another akin to crap and stink. The effective neutering of the regulatory structure via the repeal of Glass-Steagal and the uncontrolled entry of dollars into political coffers has allowed a stench that permeates society and actively affects the health of our younger generations. Understand that the constant ring of buy! buy! support the economy! only serves the true interests of a relatively few.
The second is that in the age of globalization, increases in business spending don't automatically mean an increase in American jobs. The short-term drive for profits means that the cost of labor has become a more flexible factor in cost control than retooling and reinvestment. As with the consumption model, the unfettered access to political votes that comes from uncontrolled campaign finance means that tax advantages also accrue regardless of where the jobs are located.
The final is that we're going to be entering a true national dialogue over the real role of government, particularly at the federal level. The Keynesian model of government spending as an economic driver is also exhausted as the federal debt – nominal and real (accounting for the true unfunded liabilities) – has reached the point that the dollar itself is endangered. Issues such as the legalization of marijuana and gun control will beg the question whether the government exists to serve the people as set out by the founding fathers, or whether it exists to serve itself at the expense of the people. What does it mean if the government propounds the view for decades that a substance is inherently harmful and dangerous but alters that view within the course of weeks with an eye to taxation? What does it mean when local police departments are forced to announce that it cannot or will not answer certain crime calls but the people are actively discouraged from owning the means through which they can protect themselves? Further, what does it mean that the federal government simultaneously purchases immense quantities of ammunition for it's own internal security arm? What is the perceived threat that justifies such prosaic, yet vital, actions?
What this means is that what the family is undergoing isn't recessionary, but actually regressionary. The discretionary spending patterns of past decades are falling away with each thousand dollars of family income lost. Parents will have to be conscious of how their income is spent, knowing that the kids have to be educated with as little debt as possible, the house paid for and their own elder years covered with little expected help from the future government. There will have to be a greater awareness of the world around them and an explicit examination of their own values as those values are expressed in how the family monies are spent.
CIGXM
If you want to have a sense of what's going on at the moment with the economy and what the fuss is about with currency wars, it's helpful to understand the five letters CIGXM. They're aren't random letters and it isn't an acronym; these are the five variables for a basic economics formula for the determination of a country's Gross Domestic Product: C + I + G + (X – M). These aren't random variables but instead delineate the five core categories of aggregate spending that drive a nation's economy. The five are:
I = Investment Spending (aka business investment, what companies spend in order to earn money)
X = eXports Earnings
M = iMport Spending
While they're listed in a particular order, it's more helpful to think of them in some historical context. Each plays a role but not always in equal portions; each however, has provided an outsized contribution in a period of our history so let's look at them in order of history so that it makes some sense. Rewritten as development drivers, the equation could be I + (X – M) + G + C.
Remember that for the first 60 or so years of our nation's history, we were mostly an agrarian nation. The industrial aspect didn't truly take off until around the 1840s when innovations in manufacturing and transportation gave the first outsized push to the national economy. We'd grown beforehand, but it was largely on the back of our agriculture and harvesting of our natural resources until then. But the industrialization began in earnest in the 1840s, especially with the textile industry as mills grew up in river towns across the country, fed by the cheap cotton that now came up in bulk from the south. This was the first stirring of the I – Investment – portion; spending by businesses to domestically produce what was needed by a growing nation. It was one thing to build a transcontinental railroad, but the businesses that built them needed the items to make them run: locomotives, steel, and even the machinery necessary to build them in the first place. Likewise with textiles, guns, and everything else that grew with the young, spreading nation. This I portion drove the economy through the First World War and into the 1920s before it finally collapsed with the Great Depression.
The national development was also spurred through this period by an increasing drive to export American products abroad – the X variable. Developing and spanning a nation required vast amounts of basic manufactured goods, such as steel. With the natural resources here, these industries grew dramatically so that we needed less imported machinery as we manufactured more and more of our own necessary materials. By the First World War, we'd developed a huge export driven machine, especially to the British and French as they desperately fought the Germans. We lent money to them in huge amounts and with the end of WWI, we took over as exporter to the world and ran a massive trade surplus (X – M, with X > M). The thrifty Chinese have used the same mercantilist policies as we did during those years, actually lending us the money – via purchasing of US Government debt and subsequent federal deficit spending – to purchase their goods at Walmart. For about the past two decades, we've imported far more and run chronic trade deficits (X – M, with X < M).
The economy was mired through the first years of the Great Depression as everything – and I mean everything – literally collapsed. Hoover actually did some basically good things, but was constrained by the notion that the government had to balance the books and if there were no tax revenues then there could be no spending. FDR's arrival in Washington led to the adoption of deficit spending that was proposed by John Maynard Keynes, who used this very formula as the basis of Keynesian economics. Keynes was literally saying Dude, if C and I are shot and nobody's got the money for anything, then G is the only gun left in the arsenal, so go for it. In his defense, Keynes didn't mean that the government should go hogwild like a horny cowboy just paid after a cattle drive up the Chisholm trail; he was clear that when things were back on an even keel, the government should pay off the debt. Shore, Jethro, hit the town but jes' 'member that youse gotta set some money aside fore when yer too old to be a-drivin' herd.
Good luck with that. Like PJ O'Rourke once wrote: giving money and power to politicians is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
The truth is that the government continued spending through the Second World War and actually did try to control itself at the end of the war. The budget had to be balanced and that naturally led to huge slashes in defense spending and the question, if G is no longer the driver to pay for I and the world is literally wrecked, what variable becomes the driver? Oh yeah, C – us. There has been a deliberate effort to get the American consumer to part ways with the income in the past three generations and it's been wildly successful as first credit card and then student debt hit massive levels. As the consumer began to actually max out in the 1990s, the federal government's spending reached massive levels and it too began running chronic budget deficits but this government spending helped mask the increasingly tapped-out consumer condition. How? Via immense spending with funding courtesy of the Chinese and easy credit courtesy of the Federal Reserve.
Are you seeing where we now are and where this is going? C is now as tapped as G. There is some controversy as some American businesses – I – have significant money parked offshore and aren't truly using it productively and members in G want to see it come home. But the folks in I – companies like Caterpillar and Apple – are resistant because they simply aren't stupid. Aw hell, Jethro wants more money but if I let him have it, he'll jes' spend it a-whorin' and drinkin' up in Abilene… They recognize that things won't end well and are trying desperately to hang onto the money to tide them over.
So if the domestic C and G are tapped, and I is keeping it locked up away from G because G is a horny drunk. The only driver left is X and the new currency wars of nations actively devaluing their currency are an effort to make their products more affordable to other nations. This is the impetus of Japan as it devalues the currency to keep business flowing to it's export driven economy. This is also partially our strategy, although the other intent is to pay off the debt with a devalued dollar. More countries will take this approach – Venezuela's overnight devaluation of 46% is the newest example -and what some term the race to the bottom will continue. But as everybody pursues X, the value of any trade surplus is negated as the respective currencies are destroyed. Everybody's come to Abilene for one last mind-bending debauch
Any cowboy with a lick of sense knew that an Abilene bender would be followed by a blistering hangover. But the thinking of our present crop of hands in G is this: Hangover? Hell, I caint get no hangover ifen I jes' keep a-drinkin'.
The tagline in the blogosphere is that this isn't going to end well. And it won't.
PracticalDad Price Index: February 2013 Declines
The most recent talk in the macro world is now about currency wars as nations devalue their currencies in a race to the bottom with the goal of making their products more attractive to overseas buyers. The offshoot of devalued currencies can be inflation, which is what the central bankers and treasury folks want. But while all of that is in the macro world, what's happening in the micro world of the grocery shelf in front of you? If the bankers saw the 47 item PracticalDad marketbasket, they'd waste a bit more ink because the February 2013 index fell to 107.81 from January's 108.01 (November 2010 = 100). Strip out the non-food items to isolate the 37 food items themselves and they would see a point rise from January's 113.24 to February's 113.59 (November 2010 = 100). The Food-only Index is still three quarters of a point below the high of 114.33 reached in December 2012.
Month Total Index Food-only Index Spread
11/12 107.06 113.04 5.98
Note that the "spread" between the Total Index and the Food-only Index did rise so that there was greater activity amongst foodstuffs themselves, but again, it's still almost a half point beneath the apogee reached in December 2012.
I recommend that you spend a few minutes and check out the link above. The short video – produced by a Brit – is a good basic explanation of the currency war concept.
Legalizing Pot: The ATM
Nobody's gonna look out for you, kid.
– PracticalDad's Father
My father's comment to me as a teenager came back to me when I read that there was a move afoot in Congress to tax legalized marijuana after passage of the legalization referendums in Washington and Colorado. After decades of demonization and imprisonment, the federal government is simply going to shift gears and tax it for the revenues. My father's message was that the system was built to look out for others, and in the 1970s, others meant minorities and women. But the message is still pertinent even if heavily modified. The system now is built to look out for itself and the people – regardless of race, religion or gender – exist to serve this equal-opportunity system. This latest iteration is a message that I've passed along to my own kids on several occasions.
This article prompted several things to occur to me as I was otherwise occupied today.
The article referenced that probable jurisdiction for the regulation of legalized marijuana would reside with the ATF (aka the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) although it could be renamed the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Marijuana and Firearms. If it does reside there, a little honesty – like that's going to happen – would be refreshing: rename it the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Marijuana, aka The ATM.
Successful politicians understand the importance of the care and feeding of their constituencies. A significant constituency in the law-and-order world is the private prisons lobby, which contributes millions to politicians; they strongly oppose legalization since a fair minority of the inmates are there for marijuana related offenses. Legalization is a threat to their revenue stream and if the Congress is to successfully feed and care for the prison lobbyists, then something must replace the lost revenue stream. If pot is legalized, what's criminalized?
With all of the concern over terrorists – foreign and domestic – and homegrown whackos toting real hardware, then firearms might shift from the ATF to the Department of Homeland Security. DHS has significantly upgraded their weaponry with thousands of real automatic weapons and millions of hollow-point bullets; they sorely need a reason to justify this. Securing and maintaining control of the sheer number of weapons domestically requires the administrative heft of a larger DHS instead of the ATF. If the government can work with the media to sufficiently scare the populace, then having one of the targeted guns could become a truly criminal offense. Wait a minute… Now there's a win-win scenario.
It's our responsibility as parents to look out for the well-being of our children. Make sure that you don't start believing that the government is your ever-dependable ally.
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Back to the Beginning…What is the point of raising a child?
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Basics for Dads
Dad and Mom
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Family Management
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Poll & Know: How the annual global event is designed to raise people's awareness of cancer?
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Poll & Know: How the annual global event is designed to raise people's awareness of cancer?
Cancer is something that can take your life unexpectedly. Different cancer awareness enhances the survival of cancer patients. Social and Economic Impact additionally hurt the quality of cancer care. Individuals, who are not strong financially, don't really get good cancer treatment and these results in their death. Cancer symptoms awareness, as well as cancer survival, both of them are linked to each other. As soon as the patient gets to know that he/she is suffering from cancer, the chances of saving their life with treatments will be higher. The later they know that they have cancer, the danger will be higher. Different cancer awareness Programs are led by the government and numerous associations to get the awareness of the general population to diminish the cancer levels and towards all oncology programs. All such campaigns should concentrate on enhancing awareness about cancer growth side effects, particularly in financially deprived regions.
Right now 8.2 million individuals die from cancer worldwide consistently. To help attract international consideration regarding this issue, the UICC (Union for International Cancer Control) is supporting its yearly World Cancer Day on February 4. This yearly event empowers individuals and associations everywhere throughout the world to bring issues to light about cancer, what we're all doing to beat this destructive ailment, and support governments, associations and people over the world to make a move.
A completely global event organized each year on 4 February, World Cancer Day joins the total populace in the battle against the disease. It expects to spare a great many lives passing every year by bringing issues to light and instruction about the illness, motivating governments and people over the world to take actions.
World Cancer Day every year investigates how everybody, together or independently, can help lessen the global pressure of the serious disease i.e. cancer.
We can aware the people with all the symptoms of cancer so that they can get their illness diagnose as soon as possible.
With the help of these awareness events, we can tell about healthy life styles that individuals suffering from cancer can adopt to improve their health.
With the awareness programs, we can also advice the cancer patients on how they can improve their life and how they can take the best treatment and medications in order to survive the disease.
Also, we can offer back to somebody living with cancer, which can enable them to all the more likely acclimate to changes that the disease brings and help to enhance their personal satisfaction.
With these awareness programs, an individual can share the experiences to give the hope as well as support to others that are influenced by the sickness, and lessen fear around the difficulties of survivor-ship.
To know more just create an online survey using Quick Online Poll Creator and know how the annual global event is raising awareness among people.


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ATLAS goes Pop in Paris!
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The french book version of the ATLAS pop-up book. (Image: Claudia Marcelloni/ATLAS Experiment)
A new French edition of the ATLAS pop-up book, Voyage au Cœur de la Matière (Voyage to the Heart of Matter), will be officially launched from the exhibition Entrée en Matière at Paris' Trocadéro on Tuesday, October 25th. Members of the press wishing to attend can contact Laetitia.Louis@cnrs-dir.fr
The book tells the story of the LHC, the ATLAS experiment, and the fascinating mysteries of our universe that they seek to unfold. Readers will find tabs to pull, things to assemble, and scale-perfect recreations to explore. Watch, as one of the most exciting experiments of our lifetimes literally leaps from the pages.
The English edition of the book was a run-away success, with reviews in publications such as Science, Wired, and countless others. The new French edition takes the total number of copies printed up to 12,000 and reaches out to a whole new audience.
Destination: the Universe. (Image: Claudia Marcelloni/ATLAS Experiment)
Distribution of dark matter in the Universe. (Image: Claudia Marcelloni/ATLAS Experiment)
Discover the book for yourself at a public event and find out about the latest results from the ATLAS experiment. Rendezvous at 17.00 on October 25th in the exhibition Entrée en Matière.
The book also stars at the Astronomers' Ball at Greenwich's Royal Observatory, as part of London Science Festival 2011.
For details of how you can get your hands on a copy of the new French edition, see here. The English language edition is also available.
Pop-up book springs onto the scene
ATLAS pops up at star-studded NY launch
Sharing the Excitement of ATLAS

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Q: Как удалить ненужные пробелы и скобки из ячеек столбца Уже знакомая таблица и вопрос:

name

0
('mike, rick, morty' )

1
( 'tot, piter, carl')

Как удалить ненужные скобки и пробелы? Нужен такой результат:

name

0
mike, rick, morty

1
tot, piter, carl

Код, образующий таблицу (изменения нужны в cтолбце gr):
d = {'name': ['mike, rick, morty', 'tot, piter, carl', 'brick, nick', 'rick, reaven, bart, homer', 'rick, morty'], 'Date': ['11/05/2011', '9/02/2010', '1/01/2014', '12/20/2020', '9/30/2009'], 'Address': ['AR', 'YU', 'RU', 'EU', 'BY']}
df = pd.DataFrame(data = d)
df['name1'] = df.name.str.split(',')
df['gr'] = df.name.apply(lambda x: list(combinations(df['name1'][df.index[df["name"].eq(x)][0]], 2)))
df = df.explode('gr')
display(df)

A: У вас там во-первых кортежи лежат, поэтому и скобки, а во-вторых там лишний пробел тянется у элементов из-за пробела после запятой в исходной строке.
Лишние пробелы можно победить, добавив регулярку в split, означающую "0 или более пробелов":
df['name1'] = df.name.str.split(',\s*')
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А превратить кортежи в строки можно с помощью str.join, в самом конце кода добавив строку:
df['gr'] = df.gr.str.join(',')

Столбец gr после этого будет выглядеть так:
        gr
 mike,rick
mike,morty
rick,morty
...

split и join - это как бы взаимно обратные операции, одна делит строку на коллекцию по определённому символу, а другая наоборот склеивает элементы коллекции в строку через указанный символ.

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Political Ideas – Thomas Hobbes
4. The Powers of Sovereignty
In this module, we ask what kind of sovereign Hobbes's political theory creates, focusing in particular on: (i) Hobbes's significant influence in defining our modern notions of sovereignty; (ii) the nuances in his formulation of the sovereign; (iii) the idea of the sovereign as an "artificial person", representing the will of all, famously depicted on the initial image or Frontispiece to Leviathan, which Hobbes himself had a hand in designing; (iv) the complicated notion of popular sovereignty underpinning Hobbes's creation of the sovereign; (v) Hobbes's recognition that most sovereigns were historically acquired by war or conquest and the implicit consent of the people governed, rather than literally created by a social contract of natural individuals gathering together; (vi) the absolutism of Hobbes's sovereign.
In this course, Professor Jeffrey Collins (Queen's University) explores the political theory of Thomas Hobbes, primarily through his best-known work Leviathan. In the first module, we are introduced to Hobbes's life and times, and briefly place his thinking into two contexts: those of Humanism and the "New Science". In the second module we zoom in on the historical context of the English Civil War as we attempt to make sense of Hobbes's views on human nature and the individual. In the third module, we move on to consider Hobbes's account of the social contract as the means by which sovereignty is brought into existence, thus creating the political state. Here we look directly at Hobbes's own words in Leviathan, reading the text closely and picking apart its meanings. In the fourth module, we explore the precise nature of sovereignty, exploring the sorts of powers Hobbes argued the sovereign should have. In the fifth module, we explore the themes of liberty and disorder in Hobbes's "science of politics", before, in the sixth and final module, considering Hobbes's influence over later liberal and conservative thinkers.
Jeffrey Collins is Professor of History at Queen's University, Canada. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1999. He has published numerous articles on early modern religion, politics, and political thought, and is regular book reviewer for publications such as the Wall Street Journal and the Times Literary Supplement. His first book, 'The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes', was published by Oxford University Press in 2005; his second, 'In the Shadow of Leviathan: John Locke and the Politics of Conscience', was published by Cambridge University Press in 2020. He is currently working on an intellectual history of Charles I's purported "king's book," the Eikon Basilike, published immediately after his execution in 1649.
Collins, J. (2021, November 11). Political Ideas – Thomas Hobbes - The Powers of Sovereignty [Video]. MASSOLIT. https://www.massolit.io/courses/thomas-hobbes/the-powers-of-sovereignty
Collins, J. "Political Ideas – Thomas Hobbes – The Powers of Sovereignty." MASSOLIT, uploaded by MASSOLIT, 11 Nov 2021, https://www.massolit.io/courses/thomas-hobbes/the-powers-of-sovereignty
1. Hobbes's Life and Times (07:10)
2. The Individual and Human Nature (10:36)
3. Contract and Sovereignty (10:51)
4. The Powers of Sovereignty (09:28)
5. Liberty and Disorder (12:21)
6. Influence (09:49)
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Political Ideas – John Locke
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Political Ideas – Edmund Burke
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Meet the world's oldest supermodel.
She's all style and grace and she's nearly 100.
Iris Apfel -- the style icon from New York who has already famously modeled for M.A.C. and Kate Spade ad campaigns, has appeared on the cover of Dazed & Confused, and was even the star of a Vogue Italia spread -- has finally gone and got herself an agent.
Proving it's never too late to do anything. Ever.
The 97-year-old businesswoman, interior designer and style icon, has been signed by IMG for worldwide representation for modeling, appearances and endorsements. Also on their books? Well, Kaia Gerber, Gigi Hadid and Karlie Kloss, among others.
Known for her amazing outfits and her ever-present large black glasses, Iris found fame after she started her own textile company Old World Weavers in 1950 with her late husband Carl, and the company did nine restoration projects at the White House.
She says she's really looking forward to being a supermodel. "I enjoy it very much. It's very tiring. I can see why they get paid big bucks. It's great fun. I like it a lot. Who would think I would be a 97-year-old cover girl?" but take note, she has no intention of walking the runway -- we hear you! -- at her ripe old age.
But you will be pleased to hear that -- despite that age -- she doesn't have any plans to retire anytime soon.
"I don't think a number should make any difference and make you stop working," she told WWD. "I think retirement is a fate worse than death."
She "radiates creativity and inspiration and we're so excited to explore new and unique opportunities with her, where her natural gifts can be shared with the world," IMG president Ivan Bart said. "At 97 years old, Iris continues to prove that age is just a number and shouldn't be something that defines you."
READ MORE: Are Cindy Crawford And Kaia Gerber Actually The Same Person?
If you want a little Apfel magic yourself, you can get some -- for a price. For the last eight years, Apfel has not only been modelling, speaking and generally being a style legend, she has also been working with Home Shopping Network, where she designs ready-to-wear, jewelry and accessories.
"I design it and then I go on the air and peddle it. It's great fun, and I love it. I have a very interesting clientele that pleases me to no end, everything from young ladies to drag queens," she said.
In 2005, she was also the first living person, who was not a designer, to have her clothing and accessories exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, she's also had a documentary made about her life, and last year a book about her style was released.
She really is Queen of all things fashion.


I've been in e-mail contact today with Jeffrey DeRego's wife Cindy. She tells me that he had open heart surgery yesterday to bypass five blocked arteries. The surgery was successful and he's expected to go home sometime next week.
If anyone cares to know for purposes of sending cards or flowers, etc., he's at the Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, New Hampshire. You're also welcome to send cards via us (Jeffrey DeRego, c/o Escape Artists Inc., PO Box 1538, Stone Mountain GA 30086) and I'll see that they get forwarded to him.
I asked if any financial assistance would be useful, and without getting into overly personal details, the answer is "yes." The DeRegos aren't in a good position right now in terms of employment, and while they're applying for state assistance, surgery of this magnitude is still certain to have a very harsh impact. Escape Artists will be making a contribution, and with Cindy's permission, I'm asking the Escape Pod listenership to help out.
I've set up a PayPal address just for this purpose under our corporate account. If you'd like to help Jeff out, please send your contributions via PayPal to derego@escapepod.org. (I hope to have a better link on the sidebar by tonight.) We'll cover PayPal fees, so 100% of funds donated will go to defray Jeff's and Cindy's medical expenses. I'll keep that PayPal address open through September.
Please follow your conscience on whether to help. Jeff's given us some of our favorite EP stories, and I'm happy to do whatever I can for him. If you see fit to help him out too, I'm sure he and his wife would be very grateful. Thanks for your attention.


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Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981
Community Licence Holders
Article 15B
Changes over time for: Section 15B
Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981, Section 15B is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 21 January 2020. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
Changes and effects yet to be applied to Article 15B:
Instrument amended by 1994 c. 22 s. 63 Sch.3 para 17
Instrument rev. in Pt. by 1994 c. 22 s. 65 Sch.5 Pt II
art. 15B(3) repealed by S.I. 2007/916 (N.I.) Sch. 5 para. 8(a) Sch. 8 Pt. 5
art. 15B(4) words substituted by S.I. 2007/916 (N.I.) Sch. 5 para. 8(b)
art. 15B(5) words substituted by S.I. 2007/916 (N.I.) Sch. 5 para. 8(c)
art. 15B(6) repealed by S.I. 2007/916 (N.I.) Sch. 5 para. 8(d) Sch. 8 Pt. 5
art. 15B(7) substituted by S.I. 2007/916 (N.I.) Sch. 5 para. 8(e)
art. 15B(8) repealed by S.I. 2007/916 (N.I.) Sch. 5 para. 8(f) Sch. 8 Pt. 5
art. 15B(9) words inserted by S.I. 2007/916 (N.I.) Sch. 5 para. 8(g)
art. 15B(11)(b) words repealed by S.I. 2007/916 (N.I.) Sch. 5 para. 8(h) Sch. 8 Pt. 5
art. 15B(12) repealed by S.I. 2007/916 (N.I.) Sch. 5 para. 8(i) Sch. 8 Pt. 5
Sch. 1 Pt. 1 words inserted by 2016 c. 11 (N.I.) s. 18(2)
Sch. 7 para. 6 repealed by 2010 c. 2 (N.I.) Sch. 4 (The amendment could not be applied as the relevant affected text is not available on legislation.gov.)
art. 5(2ZA)-(2ZD) inserted by 2016 c. 11 (N.I.) s. 16(2)(a)
art. 5(4A) inserted by 2016 c. 11 (N.I.) s. 16(2)(b)
art. 5A inserted by 2016 c. 11 (N.I.) s. 17(2)
art. 13(1)(c)(ia) words repealed by S.I. 2007/916 (N.I.) Sch. 5 para. 4(a)(ii) Sch. 8 Pt. 5
art. 13B-13C inserted by 2016 c. 11 (N.I.) s. 17(3)
art. 15ZA inserted by 2016 c. 11 (N.I.) s. 18(1)(c)
art. 19D(1ZA) (1ZB) inserted by 2016 c. 11 (N.I.) s. 17(4)(b)
art. 19AB 19AC substituted for art. 19A 19B by 2016 c. 11 (N.I.) s. 19(3)
art. 31A(2A)-(2D) inserted (temp.) by S.I. 2019/648 reg. 5(2)(a) (This amendment is temp. and expires at the end of a period of 2 years beginning with exit day)
art. 31A(3A)(3B) inserted (temp.) by S.I. 2019/648 reg. 5(2)(b) (This amendment is temp. and expires at the end of a period of 2 years beginning with exit day)
art. 109D(1D) words omitted by S.I. 2019/194 reg. 2(5)(f)(ii)
art. 109D(1D) words substituted by S.I. 2019/194 reg. 2(5)(f)(iii)
art. 109D(1BA) inserted by S.I. 2019/194 reg. 2(5)(d)
art. 174(2A)(da) inserted by 2016 c. 11 (N.I.) s. 17(5)(a)(i)
art. 174(2AB) inserted by 2016 c. 11 (N.I.) s. 17(5)(b)
art. 177(1)(ba) inserted by 2016 c. 11 (N.I.) s. 19(4)(b)
art. 177(1A) inserted by 2016 c. 11 (N.I.) s. 19(4)(c)
art. 177(3)(4) inserted by 2016 c. 11 (N.I.) s. 19(4)(b)
art.198 am. (prosp.) by 1997 c. 16 s.18 Sch.3 paras.8(2) 9
Information about resident Community licence holdersN.I.
15B.—(1) A Community licence holder who—
(a)is normally resident in Northern Ireland, and
(b)is authorised by his Community licence to drive medium-sized or large goods vehicles or passenger-carrying vehicles of any class,
shall, on or before the expiry of the period of twelve months beginning with the relevant date, deliver his Community licence to the Department and provide it with the information specified in, or required under, paragraph (4).
(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to a Community licence holder from whom the Department has received a qualifying application (within the meaning of Article 4(2)) for the grant of a licence under this Part.
(3) The Department may issued to any Community licence holder who—
(b)has delivered his Community licence to the Department, and provided it with the information specified in, or required under, paragraph (4), (whether or not in pursuance of this Article),
a document (referred to in this Part in relation to a Community licence as a "counterpart") in such form and containing such information as the Department may determine but designed for the endorsement of particulars relating to the Community licence.
(4) The information referred to in paragraphs (1) and (3) is—
(a)the name and address in Northern Ireland of the Community licence holder;
(b)his date of birth;
(c)the classes of vehicle which he is authorised by his Community licence to drive;
(d)the period of validity of the Community licence in the EEA State in respect of which it was issued;
(e)whether the licence was granted in exchange for a licence issued by a state other than an EEA State; and
(f)such other information as the Department may require for the purposes of the proper exercise of any of its functions under this Part or Part V.
(5) The Department—
(a)may endorse a Community licence delivered to it (whether or not in pursuance of this Article) in such manner as it may determine with any part of the information specified in, or required under, paragraph (4) or with information providing a means of ascertaining that information or any part of it, and
(b)must return the Community licence to the holder.
(6) Where it appears to the Department that a counterpart of a Community licence—
(a)is required to be endorsed in pursuance of any enactment or was issued with an error or omission in the information contained in it or in the particulars required to be endorsed on it, or
(b)does not comply with any requirement imposed since it was issued by any provision made by, or having effect under, any enactment,
the Department may serve notice in writing on the Community licence holder requiring him to surrender the counterpart immediately to the Department and it shall be the duty of the Community licence holder to comply with any such requirement.
(7) Where the name or address of a Community licence holder as specified in the counterpart of his Community licence issued to him under this Article ceases to be correct, the Community licence holder must surrender the counterpart and, in the case of a change of name, deliver his Community licence, immediately to the Department and provide it with particulars of the alterations falling to be made in the name or address.
(8) On the surrender of a counterpart of a Community licence by any person in pursuance of paragraph (6) or (7), the Department must issue to that person a new counterpart of the Community licence.
(9) On the delivery of a Community licence by any person in pursuance of paragraph (7), the Department may endorse the Community licence with the correct name and must return the Community licence to that person.
(10) Where a Community licence holder has not complied with paragraph (1), the Department may serve notice in writing on the holder requiring him to deliver his Community licence to the Department and to provide it with the information specified in, or required under, paragraph (4) within such period (not being less than 28 days from the date of service of the notice) as is specified in the notice.
(11) A person who drives a motor vehicle on a road is guilty of an offence if he fails without reasonable excuse—
(a)to comply with a requirement contained in a notice served on him in pursuance of paragraph (10), or
(b)to compy with a requirement imposed under paragraph (6) or (7).
(12) Where a Community licence holder who is required under paragraph (6) or (7) to surrender the counterpart of his Community licence or to deliver his Community licence is not in possession of it in consequence of the fact that he has surrendered it to a constable on receiving a fixed penalty notice given to him under Article 199, he does not fail to comply with that requirement if he surrenders the counterpart or delivers the Community licence immediately on its return.
(13) Proceedings for an offence by virtue of paragraph (11)(a) shall not be instituted except by the Department or by a constable.
(14) In this Article "relevant date" has the meaning given by Article 15A(8).


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Vol. 8 No. 2 (2021): Special Issue "The virus in sight: visual culture in the face of pandemics in the 20th century" /
Other Research Articles
The Visual Creativity of Protests in Romania (2016-2019)
Gizela Horvath Partium Christian University
https://doi.org/10.37467/gkarevvisual.v8.2649
Imagetext, hashtags, symbols, video mapping, placards, visible space-occupation, image politics of protests
After the pictorial turn, it is not surprising that political messages are more and more often presented in a visual form. Today, the battle between great ideas is not only fought via texts, but also through real and virtual images, or, through imagetexts. This paper tackles the image politics of the Romanian post-2016 anti-government popular resistance through some typical cases of imagetext: hashtags, symbols, video mapping, posters and some cases of visible space-occupation. These examples can present the anonymous (in some cases professional) artistic creativity, which helps the formation of social solidarity and crystallizes the message of the resistance.
Adi, A. (2017). Protester profiles. In #rezist – Romania' 2017 anti-corruption protests: Causes, development and implications (pp. 51–16). Retrieved from http://www.romanianprotests.info
Armanca, B. (2017). Humor as a form of symbolic communication during the February 2017 protests in Romania. In #rezist – Romania' 2017 anti-corruption protests: Causes, development and implications (pp. 103–107). Retrieved from http://www.romanianprotests.info
Bălan, S. (2018, December 9). Până la prima bătaie de clopot. Retrieved April 2, 2019, from DoR (Decât o Revistă) website: https://www.decatorevista.ro/pana-la-prima-bataie-de-clopot/
De vorba cu tinerii care au facut proiectii video la protestele din Piata Victoriei din ambulanta veterinara. (2017, February 22). Retrieved April 2, 2019, from Ziare.com website: http://www.ziare.com/internet-si-tehnologie/tehnologie/de-vorba-cu-tinerii-care-au-facut-proiectii-video-la-protestele-din-piata-victoriei-din-ambulanta-veterinara-1454740
DECLIC: Fă Cunoștiință Cu Echipa. (n.d.). Retrieved April 1, 2019, from https://www.declic.ro/fa-cunostiinta-cu-echipa
Îi lăsăm să fure #REZIST? (n.d.). Retrieved April 1, 2019, from https://www.declic.ro/stiri/rezist-osim
Magyari S.. (2017). Tűntetésfolklor, avagy egy csendes lázadás nyelvi jelei. In Diskurzusok az alkonyról. A 2017/es Argumentor műhelykonferencia kötete. (pp. 117–127). Nagyvárad-Debrecen: Partiumi Kiadó and Debrecen University Press.
Mitchell, W. J. T. (1987). Iconology: Image, text, ideology (Paperback ed., [Nachdr.]). Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press.
Prezenţa la vot a românilor la parlamentarele din ultimii 27 de ani. (2016, December 12). Retrieved March 31, 2019, from Stiriletvr.ro—Site-ul de stiri al TVR website: http://stiri.tvr.ro/prezenta-la-vot-a-romanilor-la-parlamentarele-din-ultimii-27-de-ani_812404.html#view
#Rezist: Proteste împotriva OUG 13/2017. (2017). București: Curtea Veche.
Roberts, E., & Stan, C. (2017, February 6). Romania protests continue despite repeal of corruption decree—CNN. Retrieved March 31, 2019, from https://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/06/europe/romania-protests-update/index.html
Stănescu, S. (2018, March 23). [One World Romania] Interviu cu Ruxandra Gubernat. Retrieved April 2, 2019, from
DoR (Decât o Revistă) website: https://www.decatorevista.ro/one-world-romania-interviu-cu-ruxandra-gubernat/
Toma, V. (2017, February 9). Tanarul din apartamentul caruia s-au facut proiectii la proteste, chemat la Politia Locala. Retrieved April 2, 2019, from Revista 22 website: https://revista22.ro/actualitate-interna/tanarul-din-apartamentul-caruia-s-au-facut-proiectii-la-proteste-chemat-la-politia-locala
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what is the sha1 checksum of soffice 6 for macos executable?
Hi all: I like to use the libreoffice 5 and 6 on the same HighSierra MBP.
In general terms, I mount de image disk, copy the executable to the desktop; then rename to LibreOfficeX where X is 5 or 6 according to the version I use. Then I droped it on the Applications Folders.
To download them use waterfox with downloadthemall extension which automatically computes the checksum and verified it.
From version 6.0.X I have the problem when I launch libreoffice6 the O.S says "LibreOffice6" is damaged and can't be opened. You should move it to the Trash.
So can anybody confirm if its correct that checksum ? I have downloaded from other mirrors and the same checksums appears at the downloaded dmg file and binary file.
Are you absolutely sure that the last digit of the downloaded dmg is "X"? If no, then are you keeping it in secret on purpose to make it difficult to confirm the checksum for unknown version (having to check all released versions)?
See http://downloadarchive.documentfounda..., where you can find all checksums under Details for each download.
Hello Mike, using your link; I downloaded 6.0.3 and it actually runs fine. Thanks a lot!
Hi Mike; I'm sorry to confuse the whole idea. What I want to explain is that since version 6.0.1 I have this issue.
All downloaded dmg files (four times with different browsers) gave me the correct checksum on the dmg file. But when launch the renamed libreoffice6 app; the OS complaints that is corrupted.
My first try is validated a.
How to add ttf font files to LibreOffice on Linux?


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Q: Doubt on Implication of Logical reasoning Its evident that in the truth table of $p \to q$
When $p$ is False and $q$ is True, Then $p \to q$ is True.
But in some instances i could not convince myself about this truth value.
For example:
$p$: Quadrilateral is Cyclic
$q$: Opposite angles are supplementary
Now is $p$ is False and $q$ is True, how can $p \to q$ can be True?


The day before Thanksgiving I came into town, and I mt my mom at this new spot that I was hearing people talk about Pies and Pints downtown Birmingham. I was excited about the prospect of good food and they did not dissapoint, well kind of. I ordered the chipotle chicken pizza and it was just ok. But my mom ordered the Classic, and I am so glad she doesn't eat much because it was absolutely delicious, and I ate her left overs, and a good deal of her pizza while were sitting there. That pizza was so good that contemplated going back on Sunday for another helping an hopefully some for the road, but I digress.
The atmosphere was modern with plenty of clean lines, and did I mention how great that "Classic" was. I was weary when I saw it had mushroom and banana peppers on it but the flavors have never complimente themselves o well that it created a glorious 6 part harmony in my mouth.
So I was in search of good food while I was in manhattan recently. The fact that I live in Alabama, i had not been impressed with anything I put in my mouth in New York with the exception of maybe a sprite with lime I had at the bar at my hotel. Everything I was eating just seemed to be subpar in comparison to the food i'm accustomed to eating, because in the south let;s face it, we life big food and big flavor, and the big apple was lacking.
We happened upon this spot called the meatball shop by way of google and we took our chances, because my dad calls us the "black italians" because we love italian food so much. I called an Uber and headed right to the spot. The spot was like something I had seem on televisuoin my entire life. I was quaint well lit and while it was moden i was very reminicinent of a homestyle restaurant.
The menu however was everything but homestyle. They had red sauce white sauce, gravy, YOU NAME IT! They had meats for meat balls, anything your heart could imagine. They bring out a dry erase menu, and you just have your way and build your meal however you please. Mine was great. My sister's was digusting. My dad's was gross to me, and great to him, gross me. That's the beautiful thing about restaurant, you can go in any direction and make it delicious to you. Whether the people you're with like it or not, it's your plate.
Pros: Customizable. I love the menus, leaves very little room for error.
Verdict: If came across one I wouldn't be oppose to returning. It would proabably be a great dat night spot or a great place to go with friends after work.
2 dining experiences. I'm a fan of them both!
When I really begin to think of places that I would indoctrinate into tradition Fisher's would be one of those places. Actually I could probably build an entire resort out of their entire set up. What I love about Fisher's is that they offer 2 unique dining experiences. You can sit dockside, and enjoy the breeze outside, and check out all of the yachts that are docked or you can sit upstairs in the dining room for a multi course high star meal. Both meals are exceptional, and both experiences are worth writing home about (as you see I am lol).
From the frozen palmer to the oysters, to the awesome dishes I had Fisher's is one of those places I could come for a night out with friends, a date night or just a quite night alone. After dinner you can take a casual stroll up the dock and really enjoy yourself. This place was completly up my alley.
Cons: The summer in Alabama tends to be sticky, so eating outside isn't always delightful, if you've spent your day sweaty.
When I return to the gulf coast with a special someone, I'll be sure to review the dining room.


Alternative(s): Hanebado! - The Badminton Play of Ayano Hanesaki!
Manga Summary: Tachibana Kentarou is a high-school badminton coach who has a lot more enthusiasm than some of the members of his very small team. One day, he meets the quiet-voiced student Hanesaki Ayano, who is effortlessly physically capable and experienced in badminton. He tries to recruit her, but she seems to have no interest in the sport at all. Due to a series of circumstances, she eventually ends up joining the team. Coach Tachibana is determined that with her on board, they'll be champions!
Hanebado! Vol. 6 Ch. 28 This is Fun!
Hanebado! Vol. 4 Ch. 17 I Learned.
Hanebado! Vol. 3 Ch. 13 You're Not Alone.
Hanebado! Vol. 2 Ch. 9 Because You're Our Club Member.


Fellows will deal with research study, financial policy, technical help, and financing operations that add to the World Bank objective of getting rid of hardship and increasing shared success.
Introduced in 2013, the World Bank Group (WBG) Africa Fellowship Program targets young gifted African nationals who are finishing or just recently finished a Ph.D. in a location pertinent to the World Bank's work. The fellowship program has actually been really effective considering that its creation, developing a strong pipeline of young African skill thinking about a profession in advancement, in worldwide organizations, African federal governments, believe tanks, and academic community.
The program uses picked fellows a six-month task at World Bank Group (WBG) workplaces in Washington D.C. or in nation workplaces to acquire hands-on experience in the operations of the WBG. This consists of understanding generation and dissemination, style of international and nation policies, and the structure of organizations to attain inclusive development in establishing nations. While gaining from research study and development in numerous sectors, fellows will likewise deal with research study, financial policy, technical help, and financing operations that add to the World Bank's objective of getting rid of hardship and increasing shared success.
The WBG's Africa fellows have actually shown to be important resources for their employing systems. They add to the work program of their particular systems and to the World Bank's objective. While doing so they (i) acquire a much better understanding of the World Bank's operations; (ii) gain access to quality information for their research study; (iii) connect with and gain from experienced specialists in the field of advancement.
Be a Sub-Saharan nationwide who are current Ph.D. graduates, or existing doctoral trainees within a year of finishing or finishing from a Ph.D. program in all pertinent field of advancement, consisting of, however not restricted to economics, education, health, governance, energy, farming, facilities, demography.
Fellows will invest a minimum of 6 months at the World Bank workplaces in Washington, D.C. or in field workplaces, getting hands-on experience in advancement work. This consists of understanding generation and dissemination, style of international and nation policies, and the structure of organizations to attain inclusive development in establishing nations. While gaining from research study and development in numerous sectors, fellows will likewise deal with research study, financial policy, technical help, and financing operations that add to the World Bank objective of getting rid of hardship and increasing shared success.
This year, thanks to a generous contribution from the UK's Department for International Advancement (DFID), there are 10 extra fellowship positions with an unique concentrate on forced displacement.
The 10 chosen fellows will deal with forced displacement research study in the context of operations led by the World Bank Group (WBG) or the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, or the Middle East. For these extra 10 positions, prospects from refugee and internally displaced neighborhoods and/or with tested experience on forced displacement will be offered a top priority. Picked prospects with a strong interest in the location of forced displacement will deal with research study programs targeting refugees, internally displaced individuals (IDPs), and host communities.Fellows will be anticipated to finish a research study job or prepare a term paper to provide to personnel. High-standard documents might be released internally. Particularly, chosen individuals will:.
Picked prospects will then be alerted and, upon approval, will be worked with as short-term experts for a minimum of 6 months.
Fellows will get specialist charges, round-trip economy class flight to Washington, D.C. or a WBG nation workplace from their university, and employee's settlement insurance coverage.
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\section{Introduction}
Darkness is a non-visible barrier, which greatly limits the scope of human
vision. In order to broaden the scope of human vision, night vision imaging
has emerged. Night vision imaging is a kind of imaging technology, which can
transform the non-visible scene into visible image by using photoelectric
detection and imaging equipment under the condition of low light environments
[1]. Night vision imaging technology, which like turning night into day, has
greatly expanded human vision. Now, night vision imaging has been widely used
in military reconnaissance, security monitoring, automobile assisted driving
and other fields.

Since 1934, the first infrared image converter tube was invented by G. Holst
\emph{et.al}, night vision imaging technology has developed for nearly a
century. Because of its irreplaceable role in military affairs, night vision
imaging has been widely concerned since its birth. However, the conventional
night vision imaging technology still has some insurmountable difficulties,
e.g., the performance of infrared focal plane array (IRFPA) is quite lower
than that of charge-coupled device (CCD) and complementary metal oxide
semiconductor (CMOS); only grayscale image can be generated directly.
Consequently, the imaging quality of night vision imaging is far from that of
visible light imaging.

In this letter, we propose a novel night vision imaging method. In theory,
this method is based on the second-order intensity correlation of light field
[2-7]. In the experiment, one infrared laser and one visible laser are coupled
together to form a mixed laser beam that is modulated by a spatial light
modulator (SLM). Then, the modulated light is separated into two beams by a
dichroic mirror (DM). The infrared laser illuminates the object and the
reflected power is collected by a photomultiplier tube (PMT). The visible
laser does not interact with the object and is directly detected by a
conventional CCD camera. One monochromatic image is reconstructed by
cross-correlating the output signals of the two detectors. Thus, the object's
information detected by infrared non-visible light is expressed by visible
light via intensity correlation of light. Similarly, the other monochromatic
image can be produced by another pair of infrared laser and visible laser. A
colorful night vision image can be obtained via simple data processing. In
fact, the image of the object is produced by the CCD rather than the PMT
detector. Moreover, the IRFPA is not used in this method. Consequently, a
night vision image with high quality comparable to classical visible light
image can be produced by this method in theory.

Conventional night vision imaging techniques directly output grayscale images.
Then, the grayscale night vision image is transformed into monochrome or color
image by using image fusion processing to make it easier to observe [8-11]. In
conventional color night vision imaging, image fusion processing and visible
light reference image are essential [12-14]. However, a accurate visible light
reference image can not be obtained in some environments, which reduces the
effect of pseudo-color. In this approach, two monochromatic images can be
directly output via two pairs of infrared laser and a visible laser. These two
monochromatic images present different details and features of the object.
Through simple data processing, a color night vision image can be directly
produced without any pseudo-color image processing and visible light reference image.
\section{Theory}
We depict the method of true color night vision imaging based on intensity
correlation of light in Figure 1. Through the band-pass filters installed on
two filter wheels, the light illuminates on the SLM surface can be selected
arbitrarily. In this scheme, only one wavelength visible laser and one
wavelength infrared laser illuminate SLM at each time. For simplicity, we take
an infrared laser $E_{1}$ and a visible laser $E_{2}$ as examples to
illustrate the imaging process. The quasi-monochromatic infrared laser $E_{1}$
and the quasi-monochromatic visible laser $E_{2}$ are coupled together by DM3
to form a mixed beam. This mixed laser beam illuminates a SLM, and the
modulated light is separated into two beams by DM4. The object is illuminated
by an infrared laser, and the reflected light is detected by a PMT. The light
detected by the PMT can be expressed a
\begin{align}
& E_{1}(x_{pmt},t)\nonumber\\
& =\int d\omega_{1}dq_{1}e^{-i\omega_{1}t}V(q_{1})E_{1}(\omega_{1
)H_{1}(x_{pmt},q_{1};\omega_{1})T(x_{o}).
\end{align}

The quantities $x$ and $q$ represent transverse position and wave vector,
respectively. The SLM produces spatial amplitude modulation of the light
represented by the random spatial mask function $V(q)$, which is taken to be
the same for $\omega_{1}$ and $\omega_{2}$ [15,16]. The functions $H_{1}$ is
transfer function that describe propagation through the DM4 to PMT. The
function $T(x)$ represents the object. The visible light reflected by DM4 does
not interact with the object and is directly detected by a conventional CCD
camera, which can be expressed a
\begin{equation}
E_{2}(x_{ccd},t)=\int d\omega_{2}dq_{2}\,e^{-i\omega_{2}t}V(q_{2})E_{2
(\omega_{2})H_{2}(x_{ccd},q_{2};\omega_{2}),
\end{equation}
where the function $H_{2}$ describes propagation through the DM4 to CCD
camera. For later convenience we subtract the background, which comes from the
average intensities of light received by the PMT and the CCD by a DC block
[17,18]. \begin{figure}[ptbh]
\centering
\fbox{\includegraphics[width=1.0\linewidth]{Fig.1.eps}}\caption{The
diagrammatic sketch of true color night vision imaging based on intensity
correlation of light. DM: dichroic mirror, FW: filter wheel, SLM: spatial
light modulator, CCD: charge coupled device camera, PMT: photomultiplier
tube.
\label{fig:false-color
\end{figure}

The object's image is produced by measuring the intensity cross-correlation
function [19,20]. We thus obtain {\small
\begin{align}
&  G(x_{ccd},x_{pmt},t)\nonumber\\
&  =\left\langle \left\vert E_{1}(x_{pmt},t)\right\vert ^{2}\left\vert
E_{2}(x_{ccd},t)\right\vert ^{2}\right\rangle \nonumber\\
&  -\left\langle \left\vert E_{1}(x_{pmt},t)\right\vert ^{2}\right\rangle
\left\langle \left\vert E_{2}(x_{ccd},t)\right\vert ^{2}\right\rangle
\nonumber\\
&  =\int d\omega_{1}d\omega_{2}dq_{1}dq_{2}d\omega_{1}^{^{\prime}}d\omega
_{2}^{^{\prime}}dq_{1}^{^{\prime}}dq_{2}^{^{\prime}}\nonumber\\
&  \times H_{1}(x_{pmt},q_{1};\omega_{1})H_{1}^{\ast}(x_{pmt},q_{1};\omega
_{1})\\
&  \times H_{2}^{\ast}(x_{ccd},q_{2};\omega_{2})H_{2}(x_{ccd},q_{2};\omega
_{2})\nonumber\\
&  \times e^{-i(\omega_{1}-\omega_{1}^{^{\prime}})t}e^{-i(\omega_{2
-\omega_{2}^{^{\prime}})t}T(x_{o})T^{\ast}(x_{o})\nonumber\\
&  \times C(\omega_{1},\omega_{1}^{^{\prime}},\omega_{2,},\omega_{2
^{^{\prime}};q_{1},q_{1}^{^{\prime}},q_{2}{},q_{2}^{^{\prime}}{}),\nonumber
\end{align}
} where
\begin{align}
&  C(\omega_{1},\omega_{1}^{^{\prime}},\omega_{2,},\omega_{2}^{^{\prime
};q_{1},q_{1}^{^{\prime}},q_{2}{},q_{2}^{^{\prime}})\nonumber\\
&  =\left\langle E_{1}(\omega_{1})E_{1}(\omega_{1}^{^{\prime}})\right\rangle
\left\langle E_{2}(\omega_{2}^{^{\prime}})E_{2}(\omega_{2})\right\rangle \\
&  \times\left\langle V(q_{1})V(q_{1}^{^{\prime}})\right\rangle \left\langle
V(q_{2}^{^{\prime}})V(q_{2})\right\rangle \nonumber
\end{align}
is the intensity cross-correlations function in the spatial and temporal
frequency domain evaluated at the output surface of the SLM [15]. Here, the
mask function $V(q)$ is taken to possess spatial correlations that follow
Gaussian statistics [15,16]. Thus, the image expression can be rewritten a
\begin{align}
&  G(x_{ccd},x_{pmt})\nonumber\\
&  =I_{1}I_{2}\int dx_{ccd}^{^{\prime}}dx_{pmt}^{^{\prime}}W(x_{ccd
^{^{\prime}},x_{pmt}^{^{\prime}})\\
&  \times H_{1}(x_{pmt},x_{pmt}^{^{\prime}};\omega_{1})H_{2}(x_{ccd
,x_{ccd}^{^{\prime}};\omega_{1})O(x_{o}),\nonumber
\end{align}
where $I_{a}=\left\langle \left\vert \int d\omega E_{a}\left(  \omega\right)
\right\vert ^{2}\right\rangle $ with $a=1,2$ being the product of the average
intensities of the detected light and the calculated light, respectively. The
function $W(x_{ccd}^{^{\prime}},x_{pmt}^{^{\prime}})$ is the spatial Fourier
transform of $\left\langle V(q_{pmt}^{^{\prime}})V^{\ast}(q_{ccd}^{^{\prime
})\right\rangle $. The transfer functions $H$ is written in position space.
$\left\langle T(x_{o})T^{\ast}(x_{o}^{^{\prime}})\right\rangle =\lambda
O(x_{o})\delta\left(  x_{o}-x_{o}^{^{\prime}}\right)  $.

Equation 5 shows that one night vision image is restructured via a pair of
infrared laser and visible laser. According to the color formation mechanism
of correlated imaging [16,21], this reconstructed night vision image show the
color of visible light rather than grayscale image produced by conventional
night vision imaging technology. Correspondingly, the other visible laser and
infrared laser can also produce a monochromatic night vision image. A color
night vision image can be obtained by processing these two monochromatic night
vision images. In this process, the indispensable pseudo-color image
processing in the conventional color night vision technology is not used in
this method.
\section{Experiment}
The experimental setup is illustrated in Figure 1. Two near-infrared lasers
with $\lambda_{1}=785$nm, $\lambda_{2}=830$nm (Changchun New Industries
Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. MLL-III-785, MDL-III-830) are coupled
together to form a mixed beam by DM1 (Thorlabs, DMLP805). Then, this mixed
beam is filtered by two filers (Thorlabs FL05780-10, FL830-10) mounted on a
filter wheel (Daheng Xinjiyuan Technology Co., Ltd. GCM-14). Similarly, two
visible lasers with $\lambda_{3}=532$nm and $\lambda_{4}=635$nm (New
Industries MLL-III-532, MDL-III-635) are coupled together to form a mixed beam
by DM2 (Thorlabs, DMLP605). The output beam is filtered by two filers
(Huaxusheng NBP535, Thorlabs FL635-10) mounted on a filter wheel (Daheng
GCM-14). In this experiment, only one wavelength visible laser and one
wavelength infrared laser are illuminate on the surface of SLM at each time.
In this scheme, $\lambda_{1}=785$nm and $\lambda_{3}=532$nm as a pair of
beams, while $\lambda_{2}=830$nm and $\lambda_{4}=635$nm as a pair of beams
participate in imaging.  \begin{figure}[ptbh]
\centering
\fbox{\includegraphics[width=1.0\linewidth]{Fig.2.eps}}\caption{top row: two
reconstructed monochromatic night vision images with different wavelengths,
(a1) $\lambda_{1}=785$nm and $\lambda_{3}=532$nm, (a2) $\lambda_{2}=830$nm and
$\lambda_{4}=635$nm, (a3) the reconstructed color night vision image. bottom
row: (b1) conventional night vision image, (b2) conventional color night
vision image produced by CbCr lookup table method (look-up table is shown in
the upper right corner), (b3) color image with visible light source.
\label{fig:false-color
\end{figure}In the following, we take the infrared laser $\lambda_{1}=785$nm
and the visible laser $\lambda_{3}=532$nm as an example to illustrate the
imaging process. The infrared laser and the visible laser are coupled together
by the DM3 (Huaxusheng LP690) to form a mixed beam. This mixed beam is
converged on the surface of two-dimensional amplitude-only ferroelectric
liquid crystal spatial light modulator (FLC-SLM, Meadowlark Optics
A512-450-850), with 512$\times$512 addressable 15$\mu m$ $\times$15$\mu m$
pixels. The wavelength modulation range of SLM is $450$nm-$850$nm. Then, the
modulated light is separated into two beams by the DM4 (Huaxusheng LP690 ).
The infrared laser beam illuminates an object and its reflected power is
detected by a PMT (Hamamatsu H10721-20). However, the visible light beam does
not interact with the object and is directly received by a conventional
visible light CCD camera (the imaging source DFK23U618). One green night
vision image is produced by cross-correlation the SLM signal and the output
signal of PMT. Correspondingly, we can obtain a red night vision image with
$\lambda_{2}=830$nm and $\lambda_{4}=635$nm.

Figure 2 compares the night vision image reconstructed by the novel method,
the conventional night vision image, and classical visible light image. Figure
2a1 and Figure 2a2 present the experimental result of two reconstructed
monochromatic images of different wavelengths with 200000 sets of data. Figure
2a3 is the color night vision image processed by the above two monochromatic
images. Figure 2b1 is a night vision image produced by conventional near
infrared camera (Intevac MicroVista-NIR). Figure 2b2 is a pseudo-color night
vision image generated by CbCr lookup table method [22]. Figure 2b3 is a
classical visible light image output by a CCD camera (the imaging source
DFK23U618). Figure 2a3 shows that color night vision image can be directly
produced by our approach. Figure 2a3 and Figure 2b2 obviously show the color
night vision image produced by our method does not completely restore the
natural color of the object, but the color night vision image obtained by this
scheme is more natural and friendly to human eyes than conventional software
pseudo-color method.

\begin{figure}[ptbh]
\centering
\fbox{\includegraphics[width=1.0\linewidth]{Fig.3.eps}}\caption{Top row: The
reconstructed color night vision images with different realizations. The
numbers of frames are (a1) 10000, (a2) 40000, (a3) 70000, (a4) 100000. Bottom
row: The PSNR (b1) and SSIM (b2) curves of reconstructed image with different
realizations.
\label{fig:false-color
\end{figure}The image quality of this imaging method is significantly
dependent on the amount of data. Figures 3(a1-a4) present the reconstructed
color night vision images with different frames of data. To quantitatively
analyze the quality of the reconstructed image with different number of data,
peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) and structural similarity index (SSIM) are
used as our evaluation index. Figure 3b shows that the image quality is
significantly improved by increasing the number of data. Certainly, the amount
of data used in reconstructing image can be greatly reduced by using image
processing and other methods [23-30]. \begin{figure}[ptbh]
\centering
\fbox{\includegraphics[width=0.8\linewidth]{Fig.4.eps}}\caption{Top row (a):
different objects (visible light image). Second row (b): The corresponding
reconstructed color night vision images produced by this method. Third row
(c): The corresponding color night vision images obtained by false color image
fusion processing. Bottom table: The CCI curves of the images with different
targets.
\label{fig:false-color
\end{figure}

Figure 4 compares the images obtained by visible light imaging, the novel
color night vision imaging, and conventional color night vision imaging based
on pasedu-color image fusion. Figures 4(a1- a3) show the three visible light
images. Figures 4(b1- b3) show that the three color images produced by this
night vision method. Figures 4(c1- c3) show the three color night vision
images obtained by pseud-color fusion processing with CbCr look-up method
[22]. The color colorfulness index (CCI) is used to quantitatively compare the
colorfulness of these three methods. It is surprising that the CCI of the new
color night vision imaging is significantly better than that of conventional
color night vision imaging and conventional color visible light imaging.
Figure 4(A-a) and Figure 4(A-b) show an interesting phenomenon that some
materials appear monochromatic in visible light, but the night vision images
obtained by this method can be color. Although the night vision images
produced by this method are only red, yellow and green to human eyes, as shown
in Fig. 4d, these different colors can be distinguished in computer vision.
\section{Summary}
In summary, true color night vision imaging based on intensity correlation of
light has been demonstrated in this article. Through the spatial intensity
correlation of light, the object's information detected by infrared
non-visible light is expressed by visible light. A color night vision image
comparable to classical optical imaging can be directly reconstructed without
any pseudo-color image processing and visible light reference image. Although
the reconstructed image is not completely restore the natural color of the
object, the color image obtained by this method is more natural and friendly
to human eyes than that obtained by other pseudo-color methods. Theoretically,
this scheme can obtain night vision images with the same quality as
conventional visible light imaging because the IRFPA is not used in this
scheme. A surprising found is the CCI of the reconstructed night vision image
is significantly better than that of conventional visible image, which seems
incredible because visible light image is generally considered to have the
richest colors. This new true color night vision imaging method provides a
promising solution to military reconnaissance, security monitoring and
automatic drive.
\section{Funding}
This project was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China
under Grant Nos. 11704221, 11574178 and 61675115, Taishan Scholar Project of
Shandong Province (China) under Grant No. tsqn201812059.

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France offers grants up to €1,500 to replace oil-fired boilers
Financial aid of up to €1,500 is temporarily available to households looking to replace oil-fired boilers with a more environmentally friendly heating systems.
Published: 23 November 2022 15:31 CET
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The temporary 'coup de boost' aims to encourage households to replace their oil-fired heating systems (chauffauge au fioul) and is in addition to the 'coup de pouce chauffage' (heating helping hand) scheme that is already underway to help under the energy saving certificates scheme (CEE).
All households that are primary residences – this aid is not available to second-home owners – equipped with an oil-fired boiler can benefit, with the amount for which they are eligible means-tested according to household resources and the replacement system chosen.
Households with modest incomes benefit from a higher premium.
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connection to a heating network supplied mainly by renewable or recovered energy.
The total amount of financial help from the two schemes is €4,000 to €5,000 for low-income households; and from €2,500 to €4,000 for middle and high-income households.
For the connection of an individual house to a heating network, the amount of the bonus increases from €700 to €1,000 for low-income households; and from €450 to €900 for middle and high income households.
Estimates for the replacement of an oil-fired boiler must be accepted between October 29th, 2022, and June 30th, 2023, and work must be completed by December 31st, 2023.
The Coup de boost fioul aid can also be combined with MaPrimeRénov to replace an oil-fired boiler, meaning the least well-off households in France can benefit from aid of up to €16,000 to replace an oil-fired boiler with a pellet boiler or a combined solar system.
Since mid-April 2022, MaPrimeRénov' financial aid has increased by an additional €1,000 for the installation of a renewable energy boiler. This can now reach €11,000 for the most efficient boilers (pellet boiler, combined solar system) and for households with modest incomes.
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In France the State pays at least some of the election campaign costs, with the budget calculated according to how many votes the candidate ends up getting.
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On Friday, the government body (la Commission nationale des comptes de campagne et des financements politiques – or CNCCFP) released its findings for the 12 candidates who ran in the April 2022 presidential campaign.
All of the candidates had their accounts approved, but 11 out of the 12 were refused reimbursement on certain items. Here are some of the items that did not get CNCCFP approval;
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Jean Lassalle – the wildcard 'pro farmer' candidate who received about three percent of votes cast in the first round of the 2022 election – bought "19 tickets to attend a rugby match" according to the CNCCFP's findings. The organisation said it would not be reimbursing the tickets and questioned "the electoral nature of the event".
The total cost of the tickets was €465 (or €24.50 each).
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According to the CNCCFP, however, the caffeine needed to keep a presidential campaign running did not qualify under the country's strict campaign financing rules.
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Hard-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon's was told that the 1.2 million stickers that were bought – to the tune of €28,875 – to advertise the campaign would not be reimbursed. Mélenchon justified the purchasing of the stickers – saying that in the vast majority of cases they were used to build up visibility for campaign events, but CNCCFP ruled that "such a large number" was not justified.
Mélenchon was not the only one to get in trouble for his signage. Extreme-right candidate Éric Zemmour was accused of having put up over 10,000 posters outside official places reserved for signage. The same went for the far-right's Marine Le Pen, who decided to appeal the CNCCFP's decision not to reimburse €300,000 spent on putting posters of her face with the phrase "M la France" on 12 campaign buses.
Emmanuel Macron – who won re-election in 2022 – will not be reimbursed for the €30,000 spent on a professional photographer Soazig de la Moissonière, who works as his official photographer and took the picture for his campaign poster.
The CNCCFP said that Macron's team had "not sufficiently justified" the expenditure.
Expensive Airbnbs
Green party member Yannick Jadot reportedly spent €6,048 on Airbnbs in the city of Paris for some of his campaign employees – an expense that the CNCCFP said that public funds would not cover.
Translating posters
The campaign finance body also refused to reimburse the Mélenchon campaign's decision to translate its programme into several foreign languages at a cost of €5,398.
The CNCCFP said that they did not consider the translations to be "an expense specifically intended to obtain votes" in a French election.
Best and worst in class
The extreme-right pundit Zemmour had the largest amount of money not reimbursed. Zemmour created a campaign video that used film clips and historic news footage without permission and also appeared on CNews without declaring his candidacy – because of these two offences, CNCCFP has reduced his reimbursement by €200,000. He has been hit with a separate bill of €70,000 after he was found guilty of copyright infringement over the campaign video.
The star pupil was Nathalie Arthaud, high-school teacher and candidate for the far-left Lutte Ouvriere party, who apparently had "completely clean accounts". A CNCCFP spokesperson told Le Parisien that if all candidate accounts were like Arthauds', then "we would be unemployed".
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IOM, the Ecuadorian Ministries of Health and Urban Development and Housing, the Pan American Health Organization and the World Health Organization are commemorating World Environment Day today with an agreement to carry out a Surveillance and Control Plan in all 122 potable water systems built by IOM's development programme for communities along Ecuador's northern border.
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Since 2001 IOM has been carrying out social and productive infrastructure projects in the provinces along the Northern Border with funds from USAID and in coordination with the Ecuadorian government through its Northern Development Unit (UDENOR). The projects aim to improve the health of the population and to promote development of these communities, which receive Colombians who cross the border into these areas.
Some 218 basic infrastructure projects have been built providing these poor communities with much-needed services including drinking water, sanitation systems and roads. These projects have benefited more than 371,342 people.
The Ecuadorian government, civil society and the international community provide continuous assistance to persons arriving from Colombia, some of whom will apply for refugee status in Ecuador.
Currently there are 13,663 Colombian refugees and 44,303 asylum seekers in Ecuador, about 46 per cent of them live in the northern border region. Most of the refugees and asylum seekers live in extremely vulnerable conditions.
For more information contact: IOM Ecuador, Ana Guzman, Tel: (593-2)-225-3948 Email: aguzman@oim.org.ec
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By Myanmar Business Today
Anti-smuggling mobile teams have seized over K264 million worth of contraband on the Mawlamyine-Yangon trains in two raids in January, according to the Ministry of Commerce.
"There's a mobile team operation codenamed "Hlote Shar 2," or "Movement Two," on Yangon-Myawaddy route. There are also checkpoints in the towns of Nyaung Khar Shay and Waw that inspect trucks and other vehicles. So the smugglers are shifting to trains to move their goods. We didn't search the trains along the way to avoid disturbing the travellers and seized the goods only after they reached the Yangon Central Station," said a deputy director from the committee on control of illegal trade.
Since its inception in September 2012, the committee has seized K27.85 worth of smuggled goods in 5,344 cases as of January 15, it said. According to the statistics of the committee, Muse-Mandalay route, a major channel for goods moving to and from the Chinese border, accounted for most of the seizures with K20.69 billion worth of contraband seized. Myawaddy-Yangon route, which connects the commercial capital with the Thai border accounted for K2.67 billion worth of seized goods.
The seized goods include ingredients used in betel nut paraphernalia, speakers and sound boxes, automatic sewing machines, tailoring equipment and beer among others. However, some goods were found to be licensed and returned to their owners afterwards, the authorities said.
The committee said it is also monitoring the flow of goods at the international airports and port terminals to uncover smuggling activities.
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