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Martin L. Greenberg (born February 24, 1932) is an American Democratic Party politician and jurist who served in the New Jersey State Senate from 1974 to 1979.

Education and early career
Greenberg was born in Brooklyn, New York on February 24, 1932. His family later moved to Newark, New Jersey and he attended Weequahic High School, where his classmate in the class of 1950 was author Philip Roth. He is a 1954 graduate of Rutgers University and received his law degree from Rutgers Law School in 1956. He served as an Assistant Counsel to Governor Robert B. Meyner and as Assistant Essex County Prosecutor. Greenberg was a law partner of Governor Brendan Byrne at Teltser, Byrne, Greenberg, Margolis & Franconero.

In 1973, while a candidate for State Senator, Greenberg was named Political Director of Brendan Byrne's campaign for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination.

New Jersey State Senator
He was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for State Senator in 1971. He was elected to the State Senate in 1973, defeating Republican Joseph Galluzzi, the President of the Irvington Town Council, by 8,689 votes, 22,290 (60.31%) to 13,601 (36.80%). He was re-elected to a second term in 1977, defeating Rev. James A. Pindar, a Catholic priest and a professor at Seton Hall University, 16,986 (57.80%) to 11,399 (38.79%), with former Democratic State Senator Nicholas Fernicola, running as an Independent, receiving 770 votes (2.62%).

During his six years as a Senator, Greenberg served as Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Greenberg resigned from the Senate in 1979 to become President and General Counsel to the Golden Nugget casino to assist in its efforts to obtain a gambling license in Atlantic City.

New Jersey Superior Court Judge
After leaving the casino industry, he was appointed by Governor Jim Florio to serve as the General Counsel to the New Jersey Turnpike Authority. Florio appointed him to serve as a New Jersey Superior Court Judge in 1992. He was the Presiding Judge in Hudson County, and served as in the Chancery, General Equity, and Probate divisions. After retiring from the bench in 2003, Greenberg became Of Counsel at Walder Hayden.

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Rising Islamophobia makes Birmingham fertile ground for BNP
Posted on April 8, 2006 by Bob Pitt
"This party's for white people, I make no bones about that," says Simon Darby, the man leading the far right's expansion in Birmingham.
The British National Party's regional organiser – already a councillor in nearby Dudley and one of 23 BNP councillors in the country – believes the party can exploit increasing Islamophobia and disillusionment with mainstream political parties to make gains in local elections on 4 May.
The problem with Birmingham, says Mr Darby, is that there are so many non-whites. "Birmingham will become an Islamic city in 10 to 20 years, and to a lot of people that is quite startling, that a city in the middle of England can swap over to sharia law."
Independent, 8 April 2006
See also the Guardian, which reports the backlash among BNP members against Sharif Abdel Gawad, who is contesting a Bradford ward for the party in May's local elections. The BNP leadership has described Gawad as a "totally assimilated Greek-Armenian", indignantly denying that he is a "Pakistani Muslim" as many of the rank and file had apparently assumed. However, this was not good enough for a section of the BNP membership, who still refused to accept Gawad's candidacy "on race grounds".
There is nothing unexpected in the BNP leadership using members of non-Muslim minority groups in their campaign against Muslims. In 2004 the BNP election broadcast featured a Sikh denouncing Islam. BNP propaganda has appealed to both Sikhs and Hindus against Muslims.
In June 2005 Nick Griffin wrote a piece on the killing of a white man in Ipswich. Griffin asked rhetorically who the killer was: "… he's not a Hindu, and Hindus hardly ever attack their non-Hindu neighbours. He's not a Sikh, and we wouldn't expect him to be, because Sikhs hardly ever attack their non-Sikh neighbours (in fact, when it comes to violent crime, both groups seem to have a lower offending rate than the national average). No, he's a Muslim."
Unfortunately for Griffin, his strategy is evidently too sophisticated for some of the brain-dead white supremacists among his members.
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Q: Spacewalk reboot the server after patch installed I am using Spacewalk release 2.9 to manage my CentOS Linux server. using below spacecmd command to push the new packages. I want to reboot the server once all the packages are installed on the machine. I am unsure how to monitor package upgrade and issue the reboot command. Any recommendations to achieve this? I would like to use Ansible playbook to do this reboot.
spacecmd  system_upgradepackage  <hostname> '*' -y

Thanks
SR

A: Ansible can reboot the server without using spacecmd, using the reboot command.
- name: Upgrading via spacewalk
  shell: spacecmd  system_upgradepackage  <hostname> '*' -y
- name: Reboot after upgrades
  shell: reboot
  async: 0
  poll: 0
- name: Waiting for host to come up
  local_action: wait_for host={{ ansible_ssh_host }} state=started

Adapted from: https://www.linux.com/tutorials/ansible-reboot-server-play-book-and-wait-it-come-back

A: I'm not familiar with spacecmd, but you can use the wait_for module to monitor the PID.
From docs:
- name: Wait until the process is finished and PID was destroyed
  wait_for:
    path: /proc/3466/status
    state: absent

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Six Kenya Cup players are named in Uganda's 24-man squad set to travel to Nairobi for Saturday's Africa Gold Cup match against Kenya Simbas from 3pm at RFUEA Grounds.
Uganda named the squad on Tuesday for what is tripling up as Elgon Cup second leg and 2019 Rugby World Cup qualifier.
Philip Wokorach, who plies his trade with Kenya Cup runners up Kabras Sugar, returns to the squad after missing Uganda's 55-6 defeat to Namibia a fortnight ago, their opening match of the campaign.
Nondies winger James Odong, Kenya Harlequins' Aaron Ofoyrwoth and Ronald Musajja and Kabras Sugar duo of Pius Ogena and Asuman Mugerwa(Captain) are others named.
Sevens captain Centre Michael Wokorach, who was influential in 2017 as Uganda and Kenya drew 33-33 at RFUEA, also returns to the squad after missing the Windhoek trip.
Former Kabras Sugar duo of Charles Uhuru and Gerald Sewankambo also make the squad that sees Justin Kimono named as the assistant captain.
The defeat to Namibia left Uganda at position 5 in the 6-team log with no point and a defeat in Nairobi will lower their chances of making it to the Rugby World Cup in Japan.
With Kenya and Namibia bagging two and three wins respectively in the opening matches, the Uganda Cranes will be playing catch up.
Kenya Simbas routinely won the first leg of the 2018 Elgon Cup beating Uganda 16-34 on May 26, in Kampala which means the visitors start from -18 in the Elgon Cup chase.
The Kenya squad to play Uganda will be named on Thursday at RFUEA by head coach Ian Snook.


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B. Kovács András (Nagykamarás, 1925. november 24. – Budapest, 1981. május 26.) magyar állatorvos, egyetemi tanár, az állatorvos-tudományok doktora, az Állatorvostudományi Egyetemen a sebészeti és szemészeti tanszék vezetője (1957–1981), hat éven át az egyetem rektora.

Élete
1925. november 24-én született Nagykamaráson, szegényparaszti, napszámos család gyermekeként. Elemi iskolai tanulmányait a szülőfalujában végezte, majd Gyulán érettségizett. A József Attila Népi Kollégium tagja lett, majd a Monostori Károly Népi Kollégium vezetőjeként végezte el a Magyar Agrártudományi Egyetem Állatorvostudományi Karát, ahol 1949-ben szerzett állatorvosi oklevelet.

Már diplomája megszerzése előtt gyakornokoskodott az egyetem sebészeti és szemészeti tanszékén, 1951-tôl pedig tanársegéd lett ugyanott. Közben elvégezte a Magyar Dolgozók Pártja központi pártiskoláját, majd az állattenyésztő továbbképző iskola vezetője lett, ahol szaksegédképző tanfolyamot szervezett állatorvosok számára. 1952 és 1955 között függetlenített aspiránsként dolgozott, majd 1956-ban megszerezte az állatorvos-tudomány kandidátusa fokozatot.

Kómár Gyula professzor áthelyezését követően, 1957-ben, mindössze 32 évesen, egyetemi docensi kinevezéssel megbízást kapott az egyetemén a sebészeti és szemészeti tanszék vezetésére. A tanszéket egészen haláláig vezette, 1963-tól már egyetemi tanárként. Közben, 1959-tôl 1975-ig részt vett az egyetem vezetésében is, igazgatóhelyettesként, rektorhelyettesként, 1966 és 1972 között pedig, hat éven át, mint rektor irányította az intézmény munkáját. 1972-ben megszerezte az állatorvos-tudomány doktora tudományos fokozatot is.

Tudományos munkásságáról több mint 100 tudományos közleménye tanúskodik; aspiránsi témája a sebgyógyulás volt. Számos újítás, köztük az állatorvosi sebésztevékenységet segítő eszközök és műszerek kifejlesztése kötődik a nevéhez. Fontos kutatási területe volt a hibás nagyüzemi tartás következményeként fellépő lábvég-betegségek megelőzése és kezelése volt. Gyakorlati szemléletét tükrözik a több kiadásban megjelent tankönyvei is.

Munkája elismeréseként több kitüntetést is kapott: 1961-ben a Kiváló Feltaláló ezüst fokozatát, 1975-ben a Munka Érdemrend arany fokozatát, 1976-ban pedig a Marek József-emlékérmet. 1980-ban az ő irányításával rendezték meg a XIII. Európai Állatorvosi Sebészeti Kongresszust, ahol a szövetség elnökévé választották.

1981. május 26-án rövid, súlyos betegség után hunyt el, 56 éves korában. Hamvasztás előtti búcsúztatása 1981. június 9-én volt a Farkasréti temetőben. Utolsó útjára június 19-én kísérték a X. kerületi Új köztemetőben, ahol a 10. parcella 1. szektorának 37. sírhelyén nyugszik. A sírján másfél méter magas kopjafa áll, alsó részén írott betűs bevéséssel: elöl a Requiescat felirattal, hátul pedig a dr. B. Kovács András névvel.

Főbb művei
 A csülök ápolása és betegségei (1968, 1977)
 Állatorvosi általános sebészet (1963, 1972)
 A háziállatok sebészeti betegségei (1977, Tamás László társszerzővel)

Külső hivatkozások
 B. Kovács András dr. 1925-1981. Magyar Állatorvosok Lapja, 1981. 36. 579-583.
 Ünnepi szakülés B. Kovács András professzor születésének 60. évfordulóján. Magyar Állatorvosok Lapja, 1986. 41. 6. 372–374.

Jegyzetek

Források
 B. Kovács András oldala a Magyar Állatorvosi Panteonban; hozzáférés: 2022. december 11.
 A földművelésügyi miniszter előterjesztése a Magyar Forradalmi Munkás-Paraszt Kormányhoz dr. B. Kovács András egyetemi docensnek, az Állatorvostudományi Egyetem Sebészeti Tanszéke vezetőjének egyetemi tanári kinevezéséről. Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára, XIX-K-1-c-173, 00248/1963.
 B. Kovács András oldala Mészáros M. János Az állatorvosképzés 1818-tól 2004-ig elhunyt tanárainak és előadóinak sírjai (Budapest, Szent István Egyetem Állatorvos-tudományi Könyvtár, 2007, ISBN-10: 963-9483-72-9, ISBN-13: 978-963-9483-72-9) című gyűjteményének webes archívumában

1925-ben született személyek
1981-ben elhunyt személyek
Magyar egyetemi, főiskolai oktatók
Magyar állatorvosok

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Q: Eclipse with Red Hat Codeready (Fuse Integration) developing for Wildfly Application Server I'm a little bit con-fuse-d with Red Hats Fuse tooling.
Here's what I'd like to do: Design Camel Routes with Eclipse (2020-03) and then deploy them to a Wildfly server (16 or 18) with the wildfly-camel patch applied.
This generally works, BUT:

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*The version of Fuse in the tool is 7.6 (latest) with a highest available camel version of 2.21(!) which is very old. The wildfly-camel patch already supports camel 3.0. on wildfly 18. Question: Is it possible to "update" Fuse Tooling within Codeready to newer versions of camel?

*Fuse itself supports lots of camel components / connectors as can be seen here. But not all of them are available in Codeready. Plus that some of the components state to be compatible for example with camel versions greater than 2.8. Question: How to add these components to the visual design UI of Fuse Tooling?
I fear that it all is a matter of the outdated version of camel, but I want to be sure that I didn't miss anything. To those who know: Are there any plans of updating the Tool for Eclipse?

A: Fuse Tools for Eclipse is primarily designed to work with Red Hat Fuse which, as you rightly point out, aligns to specific supported versions of Apache Camel.
But, you should be able to create your own Wildfly-Camel project (or use one of the examples) and still use the graphical route editor to add newer components. You'll need to drag a Generic component from the palette and then untick Show only palette components, which should show you all the components available, including ones from newer releases of Camel:

Just tested this with:

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*Fresh install of Eclipse 2020.03 with Fuse Tools installed

*Latest clone of Wildfly-Camel-Examples repo

*Opening camel-jms-spring project in Eclipse

*Opening src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/camel-context.xml with the graphical route editor

*Dragging a new Generic component, XSLT-Saxon, from the Palette.


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How to Use a Sewing Machine
How to Make a Straight Stitch or Topstitch on Sewing Machine
Learn how to make a straight stitch or a topstitch with a sewing machine from designer Jennifer Wiese in this Howcast tutorial.
Hi. I'm Jennifer from Workroom Social. Now, let's talk about stitching.
So, once your machine is already set up and you want to start sewing, this is what you do. We're going to do a straight stitch right now. We're going to start with a basic stitch length. We're going to go 2.5 on the stitch length. We've got a pretty low, low-ish tension, between a 3 and a 4, just for what I'm doing here. And I want to sew this fabric in half so that one side is touching the other.
So, I'm just going to make the raw edges touch. I'm going to lift my presser foot and put my fabric underneath. I'm going to line the raw edge with the seam guide on my throat plate at five-eighths of an inch, five-eighths of an inch seeam allowance, which is very common for home sewing projects. I'm going to lower the presser foot. Make sure everything is straight.
And then, I'm going to sew a straight line. So, the best thing to do while you're doing this is you want to hold the fabric. Your fabric's to the left and you're using your seam guide to your right. You want to just let the feed dogs, which are the little teeth that sit underneath the presser foot, you want to let them pull the fabric. You don't want to push. You don't want to pull from the backside. It's going to stretch your fabric and it's really uncomfortable to do that, anyway. So, we're just going to go.
Once we're all set up, we'll sew a straight line. As you're going along, feel free to stop at any point if something is going a little funny or you're not sure if you're going exactly straight or if you need to reposition the fabric. You don't have to sew your straight line all at once. It's okay to take a break.
You'll notice I'm not using pins here, so I want to stop every once in a while and go back and realign my fabric, making sure my raw edges are together.
When I got to the end, I just sewed off the fabric, I'm going to pull my piece of fabric out, cut my tails, and then here is our straight stitch, parallel with our raw edge because we used our seam guide. And now you're ready to make all kinds of fun things.
And that's how you do a straight stitch.
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The Dallas Cowboys Come To The Big Easy For Showdown With Saints Tonight
New Orleans Saints and Dallas Cowboys (Getty Images)
So Saints fans, when the 2015 regular season schedule was released most fans circled the Saints and Dallas game as a big one. With Dallas starting quarterback Tony Romo out and then when Saints quarterback Drew Brees got hurt during the Tampa Bay game, this rivalry game sort of lost it's luster.
Well ESPN is reporting that Drew Brees didn't throw one ball last week leading up to the Saints loss last week to the Carolina Panthers. But it has been a different story this week. They are reporting that Drew Brees has been more active in practice this week and has good range of motion in his arm and shoulder that was injured. They also said all signs point to the fact the Drew should be available for the game against Dallas Sunday night.
The Saints as you know are 0-3 on the season and what is more devastating for the Saints is that the past two losses were to divisional foes in Tampa Bay and the Carolina Panthers.
The Dallas Cowboys are 2-1 on the season and the suffered their first loss last week when the loss to the undefeated Atlanta Falcons.
The Saints and the Cowboys will square off tonight in the Mercedes Benz Superdome in New Orleans. Kickoff for the game is set for 7:30 p.m. and will be televised on NBC.
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What's all this mean to folks looking to make moves? Paths can be very different than the traditional apply-interview-offer format. My path has been relatively the same the last several positions. My motivations have changed, but I have aligned goals to the process I felt would be most advantageous to the value I would bring. I don't "interview". I don't "apply". Though I keep an updated resume together, I have not used it much – certainly not for my last several positions, not even during our early talks. I know my value, and it does not fit on one page.
Figure out what works for you. Then, try to control part of the process to put you in the best position to achieve your goals.
The revelation is that in a traditional hiring process, so much happens within the hiring company that is invisible to the candidate (me). Much of the evaluation comes to reading and evaluating capabilities via a single sheet of paper – that dreaded "one-pager". It's great. I get it. I love one-pagers, too. However, even I realize that if a candidate comes to me with a one-pager AND something that helps showcase his / her ability to deliver, that's the Shangri-la. That's what I want to see – confidence, initiative, creativity, etc. It's not all there on a resume.
My fiancée realized long ago that I can be, in a sense, controlling. My controlling nature comes from a mixture of prioritization and accountability / responsibility. That's also what makes me more entrepreneurial than others. It enables me to go beyond ideas and into execution. My approach to joining a company falls in line with my need to bring more into my locus of control. It enables me to give my best representation while also evaluating the other side.
My strict schedule of going to the gym at 5AM is another way I bring schedule into my locus of control. I go to the gym early when there is less people in the gym. Thus, I can get first dibs on the equipment I want – the equipment that enables me to achieve the fitness goals that I have. Meanwhile, accomplishing my workout in the morning ensures I put this firmly at the top of my prioritization. I ensure that if I get busy later in the day, I have already accomplished my top priority.
I can't control everything, and I doubt I would enjoy life if I could. But I can certainly bring more into my locus of control. There are things that I can help influence and shape. I hold myself accountable. And for the greater good (for my team, my family, my friends, etc.), my accountability ensures better outcomes.
The balance with bringing more into my locus control, though, is the ability to let others take pieces into their own controls and processes. There's the balance.
Happy new year! As is customary for so many, the new year calls for reflections and resolutions. Naturally, this means reviewing 2017 in the year of this blog.
2017 was a productive one for me with 104 posts published. I'm going to start out 2018 publishing once weekly. There's been a lot of changes at work, and I think there are good entrepreneurial posts upcoming. However, I want to focus creative resources for this first part of the year.
Stay tuned for great things ahead!
It's been a little over a week since I wrapped up #100Strangers100Days, and I've given this a little reflection. As you can imagine, I get a lot of questions on what's next and what my lessons have been. I find the question for lessons learned interesting.
When I think about lessons we learn, we learn them because they somehow resonate with us. They resonate with us so we can remember them. When I create my list of lessons learned, they will be my own.
I'm wondering how many people will try to learn their own lessons, or are they looking to me for the Cliff's Notes. Meeting the 100 Strangers required no patented process. Required no money. Demanded little time. (What took a lot of time was everything after the meet.) Anyone can do this.
Again, the lessons will be my own, and though, I might paint them in a light that is best seen and understood by others, they will be mine.
Meeting a handful of Strangers today, tomorrow, over the next two weeks, and learning from the experience (and maybe making some great connections), just requires an initiative. Then, those lessons will be your own. Don't need to blog about them. Don't need to bust out a voice recorder. Don't need to start with "Who are you?" Instead, your lessons and journey starts today, and you can take whatever path you wish.


I need it because i'm weak!!!!!
Did your Traction Control button come as standard?? I want one of those too!!!
Jamie, if you pop off the blanking plate where you traction control switch should go. If you see a blue plug behind it, all you have to do is buy the switch from Vx (approx £10.00), fit it and it should work. If the blue plug is not present, then your foobarred.
Excellent work there Paul on your install. Can you fit any rear screens to it?
Cheers, yes that's the next project. Running a rear roofmount from it.
I have a Next Base DVD player that slots onto Headrest with either it's own battery or a power adapter. Kids have never loved long journeys so much.
The blue plug is there!!!!! Gonna go and pick up a TC button later in the week, then the fun begins!!!!!!
did u buy the double DIN facia adapter or did u make it?
if u bought it, where did u get it from?
The facia plate was made for me by a friend. As far as i am aware they cannot be bought.
I've got a double din adapter, was this used as a base for the surround mod? if so i might have a crack at destroying it --oops, sorry, making one!


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Certain provisions of the resolution of the National Bank of Ukraine (hereinafter - the NBU) that discriminate our citizens from the Crimea have been repealed by the Kyiv Administrative Court of Appeal.
In particular, it deals with the Paragraph 1 of the Resolution of the NBU No. 699 of November 03, 2014, according to which all Crimeans are recognized as nonresidents in Ukraine.
What did it mean in practice to citizens who are registered as residing in Crimea? Their economic rights were limited. Both legal entities and physical entities-entrepreneurs were prohibited doing business or performing such bank services as making money transfers, receiving credit, replenishing deposit accounts, using currency exchange, etc.
Of course, experts agreed that the document that would clearly define peculiarities of the economic relations between the Crimea and Ukraine is necessary. However, it caused a lot of problems. First of all ordinary citizens, representatives of small and medium-sized business have suffered.
For more than 10 months the public organization "Regional Center of Human Rights" and the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union were engaged in proving wherever possible including in court that the National Bank discriminated Crimeans.
But today the Kyiv Administrative Court of Appeal allowed the appeal of members of these organizations and repealed the discriminatory provision of the Resolution of the NBU No. 699.
Earlier, on January 22, 2015 the District Administrative Court of the city of Kyiv refused claimants' application for recognition of the actions of the NBU as illegal and repeal of certain provisions of the above Resolution.
Subsequently the Kyiv Administrative Court of Appeal appealed to the Supreme Court of Ukraine with the petition for the appeal to the Constitutional Court of Ukraine concerning illegality of certain provisions of the Law on the Creation of the Free Economic Zone "Crimia" and on the Peculiarities of the Effectuation of Economic Activity in Temporarily Occupied Territory of Ukraine", to what the NBU referred as to the grounds for equaling Crimeans to nonresidents.
The Plenum of the Supreme Court of Ukraine refused the appeal to the Constitutional Court, having stated in the Resolution of July 03, 2015 that the NBU worked with abuse of authority when recognizing through its resolution Crimeans as nonresidents.
Obviously, the Kyiv Administrative Court of Appeal recognized this conclusion as the grounds for the decision to repeal the Paragraph 1 of the Resolution of the NBU. After 10 months of the fight human rights defenders and citizens who had appealed to court, stopped discriminatory treatment of Crimeans from the state represented by the NBU.


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The United States often prides itself on being the world leader on bringing the most economic benefits to its population. But is it true? When it comes to measures of wellbeing – and even on many straight economic growth measures — the European Union leads the way, according to this opinion piece by Kalin Anev Janse, who is secretary general and also a member of the management board of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM). The ESM, often called the eurozone's lender of last resort, is responsible for providing financial assistance to eurozone countries or to banks that need a capital injection. The ESM replaced the temporary European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) in 2012.
The United States and the European Union (EU) have engaged in a friendly economic rivalry for decades. Both have been quite successful, but which of the powerhouses holds the competitive edge? While the two have roughly the same GDP, around €18.9 trillion for the EU and €18.3 trillion for the U.S. at the end of 2015, the EU has a larger population, 507 million citizens versus 319 million, meaning this calculation comes out in the U.S.'s favor.
But simply looking at this headline figure does not give a sufficiently nuanced view of the comparative strengths of the two powerful areas. We need to dig deeper to see how — and more importantly, for whom — the two deploy the wealth they create.
Although counterintuitive on the surface, that exploration will reveal that the EU is better at harnessing that wealth creation for the betterment of its citizens. And that betterment is both intentional and at the core of Europe's economic success.
Since 1994, GDP per capita growth has expanded in parallel in the U.S. and in those countries that use the euro as a currency, the euro area — Figure 1.
Between 1999, when the euro was launched, and 2008, average GDP growth per capita expanded by 1.6% in both geographies. At times the euro area outperformed, such as in the post-2001 technology crisis in the U.S. At others, the U.S. grew more briskly, such as its rebound from the 2008 crisis. Overall, however, they followed the same trend.
But wealth is merely a tool. The question at hand is how that wealth is used. When one looks under the surface of this question, and examines how this wealth is transformed into wellbeing, then Europe's economic success begins to take form and shape. A study conducted by the Boston Consulting Group on economic wellbeing around the world assesses how wealth is translated across three elements and 10 dimensions: economics (income, economic stability, employment); investments (health, education, infrastructure); and sustainability (income equality, civil society, governance and environment).
From 2006 to 2013 Germany and the U.S. both recorded an average GDP per capita growth rate of 1.1%. Germany's ability to convert growth into economic wellbeing was equivalent to an economy growing at an average rate of 6.2%, while the U.S. managed a measly average rate of just 0.5%. Improvements in health services, affordable education and good public transportation have immediate benefits for citizens' lives.
Figure 2 shows the transformative power of these gains, and offers another insight into how the euro area is actually outperforming the U.S.We could go yet another level deeper and unearth how wealth creation has benefitted different slices of the population. Take the bottom 90% of earners in a country.
If we look at growth in real average income for this group over the period 1950-2013, its real wage income grew some 70% in the U.S., dwarfed by gains of 150% in Italy and the United Kingdom and of a whopping 250% in France and Germany. This means that belonging to the "bottom 90%" in Europe is much better than in the U.S. — Figure 3.
Now, if we turn to the top 1% of income earners, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the U.S. all had some 7%-9% of their population in this bracket in 1975. Over the last 40 years, this percentage doubled to 18% in the U.S., but it expanded more modestly in Europe. The United Kingdom's share grew the most, to 13%, followed by Germany at 12%, while in France and Italy it also expanded but remained below 10% — Figure 4. Europe managed to make a much broader base of society wealthier. Was this easy? No, but it was the result of intentional policy decisions and it happened in a very challenging context: while navigating at high-speed the delicate and complex task of growing the union.
The EU gathered in 13 new countries in the last decade (10 in 2004, two in 2007, and one in 2013), all of which were much poorer than the older union members. With the exception of Malta and Cyprus, these countries had a GDP below 75% of the EU average when they joined, making it a particular challenge to embrace the 106.8 million new EU citizens, the equivalent of 27.6% of EU population. The countries quite rapidly gained access to the single market, which allows travel, capital and labor to flow freely. This freedom of movement, access to European subsidies, and investments in the new Member States allowed them to catch up rapidly. For the two 2007 joiners, for example, Bulgarian GDP per capita grew to $7,500 in 2013 from $4,400 in 2006, and in Romania to $9,500 from $5,800 over the same time period. This represents a compounded annual growth rate of 7.9% for Bulgaria and 7.3% for Romania notwithstanding the severest economic crisis of the last 80 years.
Republished with permission from Knowledge@Wharton, the online research and business analysis journal of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania." Publication does not imply endorsement of views by the World Economic Forum.
Author: Kalin Anev Janse is secretary general and also a member of the management board of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM).
Image: A European Union (E.U.) flag flutters. REUTERS/John Kolesidis.


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Roc Goudreau, creator of the Tree House Brewing Company logo, was born in Ware, Massachusetts where he started his art career at a young age. After studying painting with Elizabeth Howe Lincoln he went on to study drawing under Dean G. Keller at Lyme Academy of Fine Arts.
Over the years he has won numerous awards at various art shows for his drawings and paintings. During the last 40 years Roc has made a living as a professional artist. He has taught color theory and application techniques at the Northampton School of Design and is one of the founders of Workshop13, a non-profit cultural arts and learning center that supports the development of visual, performing and expressive artists.
3rd & Final Print of this Series!
Tree House 'New Beginning'
After many months of a pandemic, signs of a new beginning are in the air…
The painting takes place at the end of the 19th century. It's late Spring and an early evening shower had just passed. The air is freshly cleansed, and the remaining mist is being carried away on a gentle breeze.
The Tree House, transcending time, witnesses a lovely young brewer returning home with her basket of hops. On the way she is distracted by the playfulness of a curious dove. It was there she contemplates the joy her magical ale will once again bring to her people.
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Q: How to get value of a character in a string c++? Let's say I had a string. How would I be able to get the value of the first character of that string?
For example:
string str = "apple";

I want to get the first character of str which would return 97.

A: What you're looking for is the ASCII-Value/Code of the specific character.
string str = "apple";
char c1;
char c2;

c1 = str[0];
c2 = str.at(0);

std::cout << static_cast<int>(c1) << std::endl;
std::cout << static_cast<int>(c2) << std::endl;


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That UC San Diego-Obama DOJ Settlement: Racial Socialism Via Sweetheart Deal
Peter Brimelow writes: Is Obama a socialist? At VDARE.com, we take the nuanced position that, no, he's actually a "racial socialist"—his objective is, not the public ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange as such, but more crudely the use of state power to shift resources from taxpayers, predominantly white, to his favored constituencies, predominantly minority and above all black. Henry Wolff here exposes, in an article that we are privileged to cross-post with American Renaissance, how the Obama Administration's Department of Justice reached a sweetheart settlement with compliant leftist college bureaucrats to further expropriate California's long-suffering taxpayers, using the excuse of "hate" incidents that had been totally discredited. Of course, the model here is the Clinton Administration's billion-dollar Pigford sweetheart settlement of patently fraudulent black farmer discrimination claims—which predated Obama, although as a U.S. Senator he did his best to keep the fraud going. And, of course, the GOP in its years in power did nothing to intervene to protect taxpayers (with the partial exception, to her great credit, of Rep. Michele Bachmann, along with our friend Rep. Steve King).
Last month, the Departments of Justice and Education ended a two-year-long investigation of alleged racism at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), in return for a commitment by the university to spend millions of dollars on blacks and Hispanics. This is a shocking outcome. Every one of the allegedly racist incidents that sparked the investigation was either ambiguous, mischaracterized or an outright fraud.
The university and the government agencies involved refuse to discuss the agreement—no doubt because they know it will not withstand scrutiny.
Trouble started in February 2010 when a rumor spread through the UCSD campus that a white fraternity, Pi Kappa Alpha, had hosted a "Compton Cookout" at which guests were urged to dress and act like ghetto blacks. The invitation on Facebook was graphic:
Ghetto chicks have a very limited vocabulary, and attempt to make up for it, by forming new words, such as "constipulated", or simply cursing persistently, or using other types of vulgarities, and making noises, such as "hmmg!", or smacking their lips, and making other angry noises, grunts, and faces.
Watermelon would "of course" be served, and the invitation included the following photo:
Jiggaboo Jones, Party Organizer
The UCSD Black Student Union led the campus in protests, and sensational headlines appeared around the country: "White Fraternity Mocks Black History Month with 'Compton Cookout'" and "Racist Frat Boys Will Be Racist Frat Boys . . . on Facebook." USCD Chancellor Marye Anne Fox strongly condemned the party and invited students and faculty to a teach-in "to explore how such incidents continue to occur."
In the midst of the furor, Kris Gregorian, editor of the campus satirical newspaper The Koala, went on UCSD's Student Run Television and mocked the black protesters, saying they should be thankful for a party thrown in their honor, and calling them "ungrateful niggers."
The university set up a website describing its efforts to "battle hate," and the Black Student Union (BSU) announced that the university was in a "state of emergency" and that blacks "do not feel safe on their own campus." The BSU issued a list of 32 demands, including required courses in ethnic studies and changes in admission policies.
About 200 students, most of them black, insisted on a meeting with administrators, including Chancellor Fox, to present the demands. She accepted some demands on the spot, but students interrupted her repeatedly. One waved his finger at her, saying "All you're doing is standing there and looking dumb."
Chancellor Fox
Thousands of students attended the university-sponsored teach-in, but after about an hour, BSU students complained that race problems could not be solved by a two-hour teach-in, and ordered everyone out of the hall. The vast majority left the building for a more radical rally to rail against "institutional racism" at the university.
BSU Students At A Complaint Rally
Later that week, someone found a noose hanging in the campus library. The chairman of the University of California board of regents called it "a despicable expression of racial hatred." Chancellor Fox denounced what she called "an abhorrent act." Campus spokesman Rex Graham said the incident was being investigated as a possible hate crime committed "with the intent to terrorize." Even California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger condemned what was happening at the university as "intolerable acts of racism and incivility." [Governor Condemns 'Intolerable Acts of Racism' at UCSD, NBC San Diego, February 28, 2010]
Hundreds of students again marched on Chancellor Fox's office. She promised that hate would not be tolerated and that criminal acts would be punished, but students occupied her office anyway.
A fourth incident was reported on March 1, when someone put a hood on a statue of Theodore Geisel (better known as Dr. Seuss), and placed a rose between his fingers. The hood, which appeared to be made from a pillow case, had a hand-drawn cross inside a circle on it. UCSD called it "KKK-like," and campus police promised to take fingerprints and do DNA analysis. The U.S. Attorney General and the FBI started investigations. [Mysteries of UC San Diego: The Pillow Case-and-Rose Atrocity, the Disappeared "Follow-Up," and the Non-Existent "Task Force" By Nicholas Stix, April 1, 2010]
But what had actually happened on campus? The Compton Cookout, which started the uproar, was not a campus event at all. On February 18, two days after the first media reports, a black comedian named Nipsey Washington, who is not a UCSD student and who goes by the name of "Jigaboo Jones," posted a video on YouTube explaining that he organized the event to promote a DVD. He said Pi Kappa Alpha had nothing to do with it, adding, "Y'all Fox and ABC and all that, get your facts straight." Later, he complained that black students were "marching and protesting about a damn lie." He was the man in the photo in the invitation to the cookout.
There have been hundreds of news stories about the "racist," white-organized Compton Cookout, but despite Pi Kappa Alpha's denial, and Mr. Washington's attempt to set the record straight, virtually no one has reported the truth.
The noose incident was not a "despicable act of racial hatred" either. A non-white woman came forward and said she and a friend had found a piece of rope, tied a lasso and then a noose, and then left it on a desk in the library. She went to the police to explain that the noose "was not an act of racism" and that she sympathized with the protestors. The police accepted her explanation but did not reveal her identity. The university suspended her.
As for the hood on the statue, the campus police, the FBI, and the US Attorney all seem to have learned nothing, but will not say so specifically. The campus police will say only that putting a hood on the statue "was not a criminal act," and that there appeared to be no connection between the hood and the noose. They will make no documents available about their investigation.
But what about The Koala, and Mr. Gregorian's complaint about "ungrateful niggers"? The Koala is well-known for its irreverent content and for testing the limits of free speech. According to Wikipedia, "Nearly all of The Koala's writing involves making fun of a race, ethnicity, religion, group, people with disabilities, sex, or sexual orientation, as well as recent national tragedies." Mr. Gregorian himself noted that The Koala's "express goal is to offend every group possible," adding that "there's no point in having rights if you can't use them."
A spokesman for Student Run Television pointed out that Mr. Gregorian's appearance "was not too different from typical Koala fodder." Just months earlier, The Koala came under criticism for mocking a student's death in a pole-vaulting accident. The paper also published An Entertainment Magazine for the Islamic Man that included an illustrated article called "The Jizzlam Guide to Sexual Positions During Prayer." Before editing The Koala, after the 9/11 attacks, Mr. Gregorian went around with a sign saying "Will work for box cutters."
Mr. Gregorian was simply exercising his usual bad taste, and was not disciplined by the school. He certainly did not reflect a campus climate of "racial hatred."
What have been the results two years later? In April, UCSD signed a "Resolution Agreement" [PDF] with the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Education (DOE), bringing the two-year investigation to an end, and promising measures that will cost California tax payers millions of dollars.
This is just a partial list of what the university had already done in order to end the investigation:
Created an Office for the Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination.
Provided dedicated space on campus for the Black Student Union and the Hispanic group MEChA.
Set aside an additional $330,000 every year to recruit and retain minority students.
Provided special dorm space for students interested in "multiculturalism and social justice."
Put up a mural celebrating Mexican heritage and found space for a mural for African-American heritage.
Started a search for 12 faculty positions for which the "primary criterion" for hiring was "a demonstrated commitment to promoting diversity."
Set up a taskforce to determine how best to recruit and keep "faculty from underrepresented groups."
Made "a knowledge of diversity, equity, and inclusion" a requirement for all undergraduates.
Allocated "permanent funding" for staff positions in ethnic studies minors.
Agreed to hire a Director of Development for Diversity Initiatives whose main job is to raise money "to promote diversity-related activities on campus."
The university promised to keep doing these things, and also to train all freshmen in how to avoid discrimination and harassment. The university also granted DOJ the right to sue if UCSD does not keep its promises.
The agreement was widely described as "voluntary," but the DOJ agreed to "refrain from initiating litigation regarding . . . alleged incidents of racial discrimination and harassment at UCSD . . . ."
Incidents of racial discrimination? In its press release about the agreement, the DOJ cited the same discredited incidents: "multiple incidents of racial harassment on campus, including public displays of nooses [there was only one noose] and a Ku Klux Klan-style hood, and the hosting of an off-campus party where students were invited to dress as stereotypes of African-Americans." In its account of the agreement, the Los Angeles Times even invented "incidents of . . . students wearing KKK-style hoods." [U.S. ends probe of racial bias at UC San Diego, By Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times, April 14, 2012]
The DOJ's press release claimed it "received additional complaints of discrimination and harassment" during the investigation, but did not name them and refuses to talk about them.
In fact, UCSD, DOE, and DOJ have built a wall of silence around this absurd agreement. Thomas Perez, Assistant Attorney General for civil rights, boasted about the agreement when it was signed, but refused to speak to this reporter. Russlynn Ali, DOE's assistant secretary for civil rights, issued a self-congratulatory press release, but would not speak. DOE and DOJ public affairs officers all refused comment.
Jeff Gattas, UCSD public affairs spokesman, failed to respond to repeated telephone and e-mail requests. [Email Jeff Gattas] Outgoing Chancellor Fox also refused comment. We think we know why.
UCSD's promise to spend what will amount to millions of taxpayer dollars in response to phony "racist" incidents comes at a time of massive budget cuts. Last year, the university announced it would close four campus libraries and liquidate 150,000 books and journals. The medical center library has already been shut down and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography was to be shuttered this year. In 2011, UCSD lost three leading cancer researchers to Rice University, which offered them 40-percent pay increases. At the same time, UCSD increased tuition by nearly 18 percent to offset state funding cuts.
Which is more important: the medical center library or dedicated space on campus for the Black Student Union and MEChA? Cancer research or a special Office for the Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination?
UCSD's capitulation to minority-student bullying and its inability to defend itself against baseless charges of racism is a disgrace. And its so-called settlement agreement with the government is an insult to the taxpayers and students of the state of California.
Henry Wolff [Email him ]is research director for the Virginia-based non-profit, New Century Foundation.


Last week's economic news included a survey of senior loan officers, Freddie Mac's average mortgage rates, and new jobless claims. An index reading for consumer sentiment was also reported.
According to the Federal Reserve's Survey of Senior Loan Officers,72 institutions surveyed reported that all types of residential real estate loans saw easing of lending standards or no change in lending requirements. Demand for real estate loans eased, which likely influenced financial institutions decision not to tighten lending criteria for home loans. In contrast, banks surveyed indicated tighter lending requirements for auto loans and credit cards.
Freddie Mac reported lower average mortgage rates last week.30-year fixed rates averaged 3.90 percent; 15-year fixed rates averaged 3.24 percent and the average rate for a 5/1 adjustable rate mortgage rates averaged 3.22 percent. Discount points averaged 0.40 percent for 30-year fixed rate mortgages and 0.40 percent for 15-year fixed rate and 5/1 adjustable rate mortgages. Lower mortgage rates were good news for home buyers who continue to face high home prices coupled with competition by cash buyers.
First-time jobless claims increased by 10,000 new claims to 239,000 new claims. Analysts expected a reading of 231,000 new claims based on the prior week. The week-to-week reading, which can be volatile, was eclipsed by the four-week rolling average of new claims, which hit its lowest reading since March 1973.
The bump in weekly first-time jobless claims was caused by a backlog in jobless claims filed in Puerto Rico. In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, Computer and infrastructure problems caused delays in claim filing.
Consumer sentiment dipped in November to an index reading of 97.8 as compared to an expected reading of 100.7 and October's reading, also 100.7; Indicators of rising inflation concerned consumers, according to the University of Michigan, which conducts the survey.
This week's scheduled economic news includes the National Association of Home Builders Housing Market Index, housing starts, building permits issued and weekly reports on mortgage rates and new jobless claims. Monthly readings on inflation and retail sales will also be released.


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There are now 167,698 cases across the North West as Knowsley overtakes Nottingham as Covid-19 hotspot
There are 33,126 cases in Lancashire, 8,083 in Bolton, 4,942 in Bury, 4,949 in Cheshire East, 4,640 in Cheshire West and Chester, 5,521 in Cumbria, 2,906 in Halton, 5,256 in Knowsley, 16,014 in Liverpool, 16,421 in Manchester, 7,226 in Oldham, 6,433 in Rochdale, 6,491 in Salford, 6,647 in Sefton, 4,616 in St Helens, 5,342 in Stockport, 5,382 in Tameside, 4,791 in Trafford, 4,624 in Warrington, 7,591 in Wigan and 6,697 in Wirral.
Jon MacphersonChief Reporter
Another 5,468 coronavirus cases have been confirmed across Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Cumbria and Cheshire in the last 24 hours
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The North West has now recorded a total of 167,698 confirmed coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic.
Analysis of the latest Public Health England figures by LancsLive shows that a further 5,468 people tested positive for the virus in the last 24 hours across Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Cumbria and Cheshire.
This is the biggest daily increase in the second wave of the virus and comes as the UK also reported its highest daily rise in lab-confirmed Covid-19 cases since the outbreak began in March.
Figures released this afternoon (October 21) show that in Lancashire, another 1,269 cases were recorded since yesterday while Cumbria's tally also rose by 218.
There were a further 501 cases in Manchester, which will enter Tier 3 lockdown restrictions on Friday, and another 507 in Liverpool.
Cheshire's case total rose by 244 while there were also more than 200 new infections registered in Blackburn with Darwen, Bolton, Knowsley, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford and Wigan.
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Knowsley has now overtaken Nottingham as the local authority with the highest Covid-19 infection rate in England, separate PHE data shows.
Liverpool, one of the first areas to be put into Tier 3 by the government, has seen a week-on-week fall in new cases, as has Manchester.
However figures from Public Health England reveal worrying increases in other parts of Greater Manchester, with sharp rises in Salford, Oldham and Bolton.
Rossendale also saw its infection rate jump from 334.3 per 100,000 to 514.8 in the seven days to October 17, propelling it into fifth place.
The North West now has nine of the top 10 highest infection rates in the county and 18 of the top 20.
The number of Covid-19 patients admitted to the region's hospital on Sunday (October 18) – the most recent daily figures available - rose from 209 to 276 compared to October 11.
There are now 2,042 in North West hospitals, up from 1,399 the week before, with 186 on ventilators.
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The data below includes the total number of cases and overall infection rate for each area since the pandemic began. Many of these cases will no longer be active.
These are the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus by North West borough as of today (October 21):
The latest figures for the North West come as the Government announced a further 26,688 lab-confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the UK on Wednesday, taking the total number to 789,229.
This is a jump of more than 5,000 on the 21,330 positive cases confirmed on Tuesday and the biggest since the outbreak began.
Experts have previously warned that describing the daily figure as a record could be "misleading" as it is not clear how many people were actually infected during the height of the first wave, due to a lack of community testing at the time.
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The daily number of positive cases has climbed steeply in recent weeks and has nearly doubled in the last fortnight.
The daily figure was 19,724 positive cases seven days ago (October 14) and 14,162 a week before that (October 7).
The number of patients in hospital and on ventilators is also increasing.
Last month, two of the Government's top advisers, Professor Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance, warned that cases could reach around 50,000 a day by mid-October if cases doubled every seven days.
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import paleomix.common.versions as versions
from paleomix.resources import rscript

def requirement(
    module: str,
    specifiers: str = "",
) -> versions.Requirement:
    return versions.Requirement(
        call=("Rscript", rscript("common", "requires.r"), module),
        # d0fd3ea6 is a magic value printed by the requires.r script. This is used to
        # ensure that we can differentiate between the version and any other output
        regexp=r"d0fd3ea6: (\d+)\.(\d+)(?:\.(\d+))?",
        specifiers=specifiers,
        name="R module: {}".format(module),
    )

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Why 2017 Was the Deadliest Year for Environmental Activists
Scores of protesters were murdered in land disputes in 2017, some at the hands of gangs and governments.Tuesday, July 24, 2018
By Elaina Zachos
A deforested patch of land splits the Amazon Rain Forest in Brazil, the deadliest country for environmental activists.
photo by RAPHAEL ALVES, AFP, Getty Images
Like some environmental activists, nurse and anthropologist Isela González risks her life every day.
"Once, outside a trial, someone approached me and threatened me with death for helping indigenous communities," recalls González, who is the executive director of the pro-indigenous nongovernmental organisation Alianza Sierra Madre. "With these killings, they want to put terror not only into the indigenous communities but to [those that help] as well."
The lives of countless peaceful protesters are jeopardised each year in land and environmental disputes, and a new study says more than 200 people were killed last year. That makes 2017 the deadliest year yet.
"It affects me morally and physically," González says. "But at the same time, the desire for justice and reparations for the fallen defenders, for their families, and above all that this never happens again—that's an energy that compels you to keep working."
An Increasing Death Toll
According to the international environmental organisation Global Witness, 2017 saw a total of 207 killings of environmental activists, or defenders. That's more than 2016, making 2017 the deadliest year on record.
Agribusiness, which is any business that earns revenue from agriculture, had the most deaths associated with it, with a reported 46 activists killed in disputes over large-scale agriculture projects. Agribusiness was followed by the oil and mining industry, which has historically been the most dangerous field for activists, with 40 killings. Poaching and logging were tied for third with 23 reported deaths each.
"Our statistics only represent the tip of the iceberg," says Ben Leather, the lead investigator on the study and senior campaigner at Global Witness. "Because of the difficulties in reporting and verifying, the numbers are most certainly higher."
Global Witness used data sets from national and international sources, such as annual reports and other public information. The organisation only included verifiable deaths in the report, fact-checking information like the names of defenders and their causes of death.
The total death toll was likely much higher, Leather says, due to underreporting. Numbers couldn't be found for countries with especially restricted free speech, like China, Russia, and some parts of central Asia. Africa, the study says, had a deceptively low reportage that could be due to undocumented killings.
Nearly 60 percent of the murders took place in Latin America. Brazil was the deadliest country overall, with 57 killings. The Philippines saw 48 deaths—the largest number seen in an Asian country—and Mexico's defender death rate increased fivefold, from three killings in 2016 to 15 in 2017.
According to the study, 30 killings were linked to the army and 23 to the police. Gangs, security guards, landowners, poachers, and other non-state actors allegedly carried out at least 90 killings.
"Corruption is a big issue here," Leather says. "Those officials who ought to be defending the rights of activists are actually complicit in these attacks."
Contrary to the rest of the study, Honduras showed the opposite trend. The Central American country had fewer environmental activist killings than previous years, but civil society there is the most repressed it's ever been.
"There are a whole range of tactics used to silence defenders and the killings only represent the sharpest edge of that," Leather says.
In addition to individual killings, 2017 saw more massacres of defenders than any other year. In at least seven cases, more than four defenders were killed at a single time, which shows that perpetrators are feeling more emboldened, Leather says. In the past, killings have rarely been prosecuted.
"The report is about much more than just data," Leather says. "It's about a widespread culture of impunity that is allowing violence."
Despite the risks, environmental defenders continue to fight.
"I keep going because it's my job. To abandon these communities, to abandon my work, would be like giving up in the face of terror and threats," González Díaz says. "Yes, of course I have a lot of fear, but also—all the defenders have coping mechanisms. We've prepared ourselves for this. I think it's a life decision that one takes."
In many of these fields, buyers' decisions can have an impact, says Global Witness. Consumers can write to companies and tell them to make sure local people are being respected throughout the supply chain. People can also ask their representatives to put pressure on countries to prosecute these crimes.
In agribusiness, one particularly controversial plant is palm oil. Forests have been felled to make room for palm oil plantations, and the edible oil is in about half of all packaged supermarket products, from chocolate, margarine, and ice cream to shampoo and lipstick.
"If you're consuming products with palm oil in them, you could write to the company and ask exactly what they're doing to tackle this issue," says Leather.
Other crops that have contributed to land disputes include coffee, sugar, and fruit, such as bananas and pineapples. Mining and logging, which are still dangerous fields for environmental defenders, contribute to products from electronics to furniture.
"A lot more needs to be done if we're to reverse this trend," Leather says. "People should not need to die or be threatened just to protect their land or their environment. If we can take a stand, hopefully we can persuade our governments and businesses to do likewise."
This story was originally published on NationalGeographic.com in English
Rachel Brown contributed reporting and translation help to this story.
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He may not be returning to the USS Enterprise in this summer's Star Trek Beyond, but that doesn't mean William Shatner is done with Captain Kirk just yet. In an interview , Shatner says he would return as Captain Kirk if the opportunity presented itself; but, only on one very-real condition: That he would be a mature version of the character.
Shatner went on to reveal he met with J.J. Abrams, the producer of the new Star Trek films, in 2009 to discuss a role for the reboot. The meeting went nowhere, and the role never happened. But, with this year being Star Trek's 50th anniversary, there is still plenty of time for Shatner to get more involved with the franchise.
Audiences are anxious for the return of that staccato patter.
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Mc galaxy releases another international collaboration with Jamaican international Raggae / Dance hall star Beniton titled "Bounce it Remix".
The Awai Ibom Star who's Hit song Sekem remix was recently featured in a Walt DIsney Movie 'Queen of Katwe' and also remixed by to American producer Swizz Beatz has teamed up with Beniton, an international Raggae / Dancehall superstar artist to set the dance hall on fire with a new song titled Bounce It Remix.
Recently on his Instagram page, He recently fired haters who underrated his music and his talent, and also advised people to work hard and believe in God.
He motivated people with his grass to grace story and he was supported by Sheyman, Jmartins and lots more. Check his instagram page @mcgalaxymcg for the video.
His new song Bounce it Remix is a Club Banger produced by Mcg Empire's first Ghanaian Producer Kuvie, co produced by the KrizBeatz and guitar by Fiokee.
Ladies, if you can bounce what your mama gave you, this song is definitely for you.