I respect what your doing here and if it can help me learn the SEO system to making better traffic come to site then I will support but I want this to be more hands on because most systems try to string you along to make money and you only gain like 30% of what you need to know.
Waiting for the pdf version of this book Dan! It will rock the SEO market.
by the way, is there no way to print it ?
Not yet. I guess I'll make a PDF version available as soon as I'm ready with the whole book.
To print, highlight what you want, copy and paste it into a word doc and print that. I skipped printing the diagrams to conserve paper/ink, but it works well.
@Dan - OK. I'm impressed. You took the criticism on the chin and you used it to make a better course. That diagram is damn fine. Thanks. I'm now really looking forward to the rest of what you've got to say. I've deleted my old comments - no longer relevant!
As I believed the majority of readers would be newbies, I tried to make the diagram as simple as possible (trying to go from easier and basic things to more complicated)&I guess I oversimplified it. I'll look at this over the weekend and make some changes I believe. Thank you for the remark.
Yes but that's only one of the points. Thanks for providing an example, Ray. I guess many users will find it helpful.


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Public hearings provide another opportunity for public comment to help narrow options for light rail transit routes
Before deciding which Link light rail route options should be analyzed as part of its Environmental Impact Statement, the board of Sound Transit - the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority - will hold two public hearings to provide an additional opportunity for public comment. The hearings will be held:
Kane Hall, Room 120
University of Washington Campus
Tuesday, May 5
Filipino Community Center
5740 M. L. King Jr. Way S.
(Bus routes and schedules serving these locations are available by calling King County Metro's Rider Information line at 553-3000)
A number of potential alternative routes for segments of the central Link light rail system serving SeaTac, Tukwila and Seattle were identified through public comments and a series of public meetings held late last year and early this year. Citizens in the affected communities recently have been participating in a round of public workshops to help identify which alternatives are the most promising and should be advanced for more detailed analysis as part of a draft environmental impact statement. The public hearings have been scheduled to allow another opportunity for members of the Sound Transit Board to hear from the public before deciding which alternatives should advance into the enviromental review at its regular meeting on May 14. A separate process is underway in Pierce County for Tacoma's 1.6-mile Link light rail line.
Information about the alternative routes under consideration may be obtained by contacting Sound Transit at 206-398-5000 .
Public comments may also be submitted in writing but must be received by Sound Transit by Friday, May 8, to be included in the official hearing record:
1100 Second Ave., Suite 500
E-mail: main@soundtransit.org
Approved by voters in 1996, Sound Transit is on track to implement a three-county regional transit system plan known as Sound Move. Sound Move will be a seamless blend of three transportation systems: Sounder commuter rail, running 81 miles from Everett to Tacoma/Lakewood; Link light rail, a 24-mile system connecting the cities of Seattle, Tukwila and SeaTac and a 1.6 mile system connecting downtown Tacoma with the Tacoma Dome commuter station; and Regional Express, a bus transit system that will connect the major urban areas of Bellevue, Everett, Tacoma and Seattle with other cities and numerous communities with 20 new, fast, limited-stop bus routes.
Sound Transit plans, builds and operates regional transit systems and services to improve mobility for Central Puget Sound.

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With thirteen loanees currently playing at various temporary clubs, the loan round-up is quickly becoming ever longer. This past weekend saw Liam Bridcutt make his Stockport County debut after some FA wranglings, and whilst he impressed, he was also dismissed in disappointing circumstances.
We'll start at the top in the Premier League, where Michael Mancienne faced arguably his toughest ask in professional football yet, as he started at centre-back for Wolves in their visit to Manchester City. Facing Carlos Tevez, Robinho, and directly Emmanuel Adebayor, he was outmatched physically and had a torrid first half against the Togolese hitman, arguably losing him for the game's only goal and struggled to assert himself. As the game went on he grew into his performance and his positioning improved, but it's likely to be one to learn from rather than forget, as such experiences can make the right player stronger with the right application.
It wasn't much better for Scott Sinclair over at Wigan's DW Stadium, where he came off the bench for the last half an hour in their 5-0 drubbing by Man Utd. He had sporadic involvement, most notably a long-range effort over Ben Foster's crossbar. Franco Di Santo continued the tale of Premier League woe, as despite getting his first start in English league football away to Sunderland for Blackburn, he limped out after sixteen minutes with a hamstring injury, having looked lively in the opening exchanges.
In Holland, Miroslav Stoch continued his run of starts for FC Twente and completed the whole 90 minutes as Steve McClaren's team edged past RKC Waalwijk 2-1. Slobodan Rajkovic missed his second straight game with injury, but Stoch put in a fine performance which was arguably worthy of the man of the match award.
Back to England, and in the Championship, Jack Cork (sporting a black eye due to an unsavoury incident in a reserve friendly you may have read about) made his Coventry City debut as a sub shortly after the hour mark against Swansea City. Patrick van Aanholt continued at left back but the Sky Blues lost their first game of the season to a scrappy second half goal. By all accounts it was the team's poorest performance so far, but Jack appears to have had a neat and tidy introduction to his latest temporary club.
Shaun Cummings, however, put one in the wins column in his first home start for West Brom. The Baggies beat Ipswich 2-0 and should have had plenty more, most notably when Cummings won a second half penalty, skipping past Tommy Smith before being felled in the box. Luke Moore missed the penalty and the gaping open goal rebound, but Cummings continued to impress, only struggling with a tough dropping cross to the far post where Carson made a good save from Balkestein.
Which leaves us with Liam Bridcutt's Stockport debut. After manager Gary Ablett went pleading his case to the FA in midweek, County were able to debut Chelsea's Reserve captain away to Brighton, looking for their first win of the season. He started with a yellow card after ten minutes, but soon started to play and made Carl Baker's first goal of an afternoon which was to finish with a hat-trick. Liam's cross from the right was flicked on and finished at the far post. He continued to be involved but his afternoon ended early, as on 84 minutes he kicked the ball away when Brighton had been awarded a free-kick, which gave the card-happy referee an excuse to show his third red card of the afternoon. Liam was in the wrong, and he will learn from that.
Updated statistics from all of the club's loanees can be found on this page now and throughout the season.


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Cockfighting bill passes the House
By: Ben Winslow
SALT LAKE CITY — A bill to make cockfighting a crime in Utah finally appears poised to pass the legislature.
Senate Bill 134, sponsored by Senate Minority Leader Gene Davis, D-Salt Lake City, passed the House late Tuesday on a 41-33 vote. It must go back to the Senate for concurrence because of a House amendment to the bill before going to the governor for action.
In the House debate, Rep. Earl Tanner, R-West Jordan, declared that roosters fight because it is their nature.
"By animal standards, this isn't such a bad life that these fighting roosters have," he said. "There's nothing inherently immoral about fighting chickens."
Other lawmakers disagreed. Rep. LaVar Christensen, R-Draper, called cockfighting "reprehensible."
"This is heinous," he said.


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Derby boss Nigel Clough was left bemoaning Barclays Premier League officialdom following his side's 2-0 defeat against Stoke in the FA Cup fourth round.
Goals from striker Cameron Jerome in the fifth minute and defender Robert Huth in the 81st eased last season's beaten finalists into the hat for the fifth round.
It was Jerome's opener that most annoyed Clough, the Rams manager claiming he was offside before prodding home his third goal in consecutive appearances - and fourth in five overall - to end Derby's run of four consecutive clean sheets. He said: "You just hope the Premier League officials would do a little better in that situation."
From such a start, the npower Championship club were always on the back foot, and against a resilient Stoke side mustered just one effort on target in the whole match. Even then that was more a cross from a free-kick that goalkeeper Asmir Begovic was forced to tip over the bar.
Asked if he had spoken to referee Mark Clattenburg to air his grievances, Clough added: "I've not, and we're not allowed to until 30 minutes after a game. We don't tend to do that anyway, so we'll just put it in our report.
"For us, it's obviously a crucial moment when you concede a goal after five minutes at home to Stoke, who are eighth in the Premier League, and it doesn't let you get a foothold in the game."
Stoke, though, fully merited their place in the last 16, and now all manager Tony Pulis is hoping for is a home draw for the next round after two on the road so far in the competition.
"It was always going to be a tough game as Derby have been on a great run of late," Pulis said. "We started well, scored the goal, but then I thought we were sloppy after that, and in the last 20 minutes of the first half Derby played really well and caused us problems.
"At half-time we dusted a few down and they went out a little more focused in the second half, and we were pleased with that in the respect that I don't think they had a shot.
"That was testament to the lads and the focus on what they had to do. For me now I just want the next tie to be at the Britannia, and we'll take whoever comes."


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Gary Kessler
E: gkessler@kgswlaw.com
COMMON INTEREST DEVELOPMENTS.
Gary has two decades of experience representing homeowners associations in matters spanning the full spectrum of common interest development law, including matters relating to governing document drafting and enforcement, vendor contracts, Davis-Stirling Act interpretation, community association elections, as well as board member duties and responsibilities.
PROFESSIONAL CID ACTIVITIES
Gary is active in the State Bar of California's Common Interest Development subsection, and served as a member of the State Bar's working group on the California Law Revision Commission's Tentative Recommendation for simplification of the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act. Gary has been named to the Community Association Institute's Amicus Committee, which reviews important appellate cases across the United States relating to homeowners associations. Additionally, Gary was a speaker on common interest development law at the 2010 California State Bar Convention, served as Chairman of the Community Association Institute-GLAC's Publications Committee, and was Editor-in- Chief of CAI's Focus Magazine as well as the HOA Insider Newsletter.
Gary has extensive experience handling employment law matters, including EEO/discrimination complaints, employee discipline problems and workplace privacy issues. His background in employment matters includes service as a hearing officer for the Los Angeles Civil Service Commission, as well as the representation of litigants in labor-related arbitrations, administrative proceedings, and federal and state court lawsuits.
Gary enjoys analyzing and writing about complex legal issues through his appellate work. Judicial opinions in seven of his appellate cases have been certified for publication by the California Court of Appeal, and he is proud to have served as a member of both the California State Bar's Committee on Appellate Courts and the Los Angeles County Bar Association's Appellate Courts Committee.
HEARING EXAMINER/ARBITRATOR/MEDIATOR
Additionally, Gary has served as a hearing examiner for the City of Santa Monica, the Los Angeles Police Commission, the Orange County Employees Retirement System, the San Bernardino County Employees Retirement Association, and the Better Business Bureau. He has also served as a Judge Pro Tem for the Los Angeles Municipal Court, and has been a member of the Los Angeles Superior Court's panel of arbitrators and mediators.
Loyola University School of Law, J.D., 1980
Board of Editors, Loyola Law Review
St. Thomas More Law Honor Society
Loyola Honorary Scholarship for Excellence in the Study of Law
University of California, Berkeley, B.S., 1977, Summa Cum Laude
Phi Betta Kappa
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
United States District Court (C.D. Cal.)
United States District Court (S.D. Cal.)


1. Jaimini Maharishi's Upadesa Sutra, (1997) A translation of the original Sanskrit work of Maharishi Jaimini. This text decodes the teachings hidden within the numerical correspondence of each Sanskrit letter relative to the meaning of the verse.
2. Crux of Vedic Astrology: Timing of Events, (1998) Detailed information on the various houses in Vedic astrology and an introduction to the use of Divisional charts, Narayana Dasa, Shula Dasa and other Jyotish tools. An important text to understand Sanjay Rath's style of horoscope interpretation.
4. Vedic Remedies in Astrology(2000) This book explains various principles of remedial measures in Hindu astrology. The astrological relationship between deities, mantras, yantras, gemstones and many other tools are explained. Well know for the large section on mantras as well as many case studies.
3. Narayana Dasa, (2001) This book is a definitive explication of Narayana dasa which is a Vedic timing technique utilizing the signs of the zodiac.
5. Varga Cakra, (2002) This book is a collected work of various students of Sanjay Rath presented at the Vyankatesha Sharma Varga workshop in 2002. Each chapter focuses on a different divisional chart with multiple case studies.
6. Vimsottari and Udu Dasa's, (2002) This book explains the multitude of conditional naksatra dasas mentioned in Brhat Parasara Hora Sastra.
7. Collected Papers in Vedic Astrology, (2006) Sanjay Rath traveled extensively between 2002 and 2006 teaching workshops through the Sri Jagannath Center. This book is a collection of revised and expanded workshop presentations given during that time period. Topics included: badhaka, ghataka chakra, hora lagna, sarvatobadra chakra, kalpadruma yoga, pancha mahapurusha yoga, naksatra techniques, nadiamsa, manduka dasa, rudramsa, longevity and dream interpretation.


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The Social Dimension in European Higher Education
By Hedda. The conference The Social Dimension in European Higher Education" will be held in Vienna (Austria), on February 25-27, 2015. The conference aims at creating a discursive forum for peer learning in the field of the social dimension, fostering interchange between 3 spheres involved with this, including researchers, policymakers and practitioners. See more...
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STEM research drives top achievers in latest QS World Uni Ranking
By Amy Baker. The 10th annual world league table of top universities as ranked by the QS Intelligence Unit, a reputed division of the global education firm, has been published with a familiar UK and US dominance and a message that it is high-impact scientific and technological research driving the elite institutions such as MIT in the USA (in first position), University of Cambridge and Imperial College London (in joint second). More...
NACAC publishes guide on how to work with agents
By Amy Baker. The US association which represents 14,000 members, and whose position on the use of international education agents in US HE became an international fixation, has published a guide that is designed to help its members navigate the often-unknown waters of engaging education agencies overseas. More...
Morocco's Minister of Higher Education: Students Must Master English to Access Science Universities
By Larbi Arbaoui. After various statements made by Lahcen Daoudi, Minister of Higher Education, in which he highlighted the importance of English for students aspiring to build a bright future, the Moroccan official has reportedly signed a circular making it obligatory for scientific students to master English language before they can be admitted in science Universities.
According to Radio Deluxe, Lahcen Daoudi said "I just signed a circular and all those who do not master English will no longer have access to scientific, technical and economic universities starting from January 1, 2015." More...
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How do UK home students feel about international students?
By Zainab Malik. International students make a vital academic, economic and cultural contribution to the UK's higher education sector, but whose responsibility is it to make them feel welcome? The British Council's Zainab Malik writes about our research on the matter, released today. More...
What makes a global top 10 university?
By Sean Coughlan. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is in first place in the latest league table of the world's best universities. It's the third year in a row that the US university, famous for its science and technology research, has been top of the QS World University Rankings. More...
Researchers Try to Save Some Middle-Eastern Languages From Extinction
By Benjamin Plackett - Al-Fanar. Language is arguably the most universally important of human abilities, making it possible to pass on information and experiences like a baton through generations.
But about half of the 7,000 languages spoken around the world will not last the end of this century, according to the latest predictions. There is no single cause for the extinction of a language. Some of the common causes are the overbearing dominance of a few languages, such as Arabic, French and English, the social stigmas attached to using minority languages and the disruption of traditional ways of life. More...
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Students Rave About the Rewards of Study Abroad
By David Wheeler - Al-Fanar. Asian-Pacific students who participated in study-abroad programs gave a strong endorsement of the benefits, building support for governments and universities to spend more money on such student-exchange programs. Ninety-nine percent of the students said that the experience broadened their perspective on life; 97 percent said that it helped make them the person that they are today. More...
The 5 best universities for mobile technology
By eCampus News staff and wire reports. Spotting colleges and universities with the best mobile device policies is increasingly difficult, as higher education — driven in part by K-12′s mobile adoption — is investing time and money into creating the most friendly mobile atmosphere possible. More...
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Interested in digital badges? 9 critical issues to consider
By Meris Stansbury - eCampus. The promise of digital badges for alternative credentials and skills pathways has not been lost on higher education; yet, there are many concerns—from business, faculty, and students—on the design, and use, of these badges for real meaning. A new framework condenses these concerns into nine critical questions concerning digital badges. More...
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24.5.17 Anthony Hilton, Financial & Business Editor Speaks at Devonshire House
by Charles Russam
Date: 24th May 2017 Time: 6.00pm – 9.00pm
Location: Royal Thames Yacht Club, 60 Knightsbridge, London, SW1X 7LF
Our next Devonshire House Event will be on 24.5.17 at the Royal Thames Yacht Club, 60 Knightsbridge, London, SW1X 7LF and Anthony Hilton will be our Speaker.
Keen observers of Devonshire House matters will remember Anthony Hilton being listed as our Speaker for our Event on 21st February 2017 and had they had been at that Event will have met and listened to Prof Douglas McWilliams, President of CEBR. They swapped!
We are delighted to welcome Anthony Hilton to Devonshire House as our Speaker. Anthony is an author, broadcaster, journalist and lecturer. He is one of most highly regarded economists of today's generation with a shrewd and sometimes wry view on business.
Anthony Hilton will be known to most of us through his incisive articles in the Evening Standard., where he continually sheds light on issues affecting the city and the wider economy both in the UK and internationally. Anthony was City Editor of The Times (1981 to 1983), City Editor of The Evening Standard (1984 to 1989) and in 1989 became Managing Director of The Evening Standard. He held that post for six years before returning to the City Office as Editor in 1996. He has also worked for The Observer, The Daily Mail and The Sunday Express, was Editor of Accountancy Age for five years and served as the Business Correspondent for The Sunday Times in New York for three years. Anthony has been seen regularly on television, filling the commentator's slot on Channel 4′s TV Business Programme for three years and appearing as the expert panellist on The Stocks and Shares Show. He is also heard frequently on radio. He has written two acclaimed books: How to Communicate Financial Information to Employees and City– a study of how the city of London really works. He has received numerous industry awards for business journalism, including the Decade of Excellence and the Wincott Prize for Business Journalism in 2003.
Anthony's Chosen topics is
If the UK's economy is doing so well………………..
Why are the millennials the first generation worse off than their parents?
Why are levels of home ownership falling?
Why is personal indebtedness near its all time peak?
Why do the French produce in four days what takes us five?
Why do more than half UK households need some form of state subsidy?
Why have real wages stagnated for 10 years for the bulk of the population?
Why is the trade deficit the worst since 1948?
Why in spite of five years of tax increases is the budget deficit so large?
Anthony will also give us his views on today's current world order – business and economics – all likely to be changing with some energy. But, as is our practice, there will be plenty of Q&A time for us to assess how all this might affect us, our businesses or the businesses of those we advise.
The evening starts with drinks from 6.00pm. Dinner will be at 6.45pm and Anthony will speak to us at 8pm with formal proceedings scheduled to finish at 9pm. We are limited to 80 – so there is a need to respond quickly! We do have a good number of forward bookings.
As you will see from our website, Devonshire House was set up about forty years ago – with some re re-modelling over the past couple of years. The strong core purpose remains……… we are Director-level professionals in leadership roles who have an instinctive focus on the human side of Enterprise. The reasons why people come to our Events are to do with the overall DHN offering – the Speaker, the Topic, the Director-level people you meet and good food.
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Phytosanitary issues deal with the possibility of plants and goods made from plants to carry diseases and pests. Some countries have an issue with importing or exporting due to insects while others are concerned with fungi or plant diseases. Most of the wood used in making furniture is treated and finished, but treatments vary by country. Some countries are wary over imports because of invasive pests and therefore impose stringent import restrictions.
The economy of our country and every other one, hinges not only on what we make and use, but what we import and export. Trade is a part of daily life as we trade work for pay, and money for goods. Money is made when you have something to offer that others need, but can't make. For countries like the Philippines, you must export in order to thrive. Unfortunately they have had their fair share of termite infestations in recent years and their trade with New Zealand is threatened.
Furniture trade between the Philippines and the US dropped due to our economic downturn back in 2009. Earlier this year Europe issued a mandate that furniture must be made from wood grown on plantations and not from natural forests. New Zealand is currently concerned about importing termites if they continue to import wood furniture from the Philippines.
The furniture industry is already looking to the future, trying different markets out and planning to target audiences in each new market. By keeping production small and finding out what sells in each new market, the furniture makers in the Philippines can lower overhead. Their plans are to make whatever sells best for each individual market, rather than mass produce and ship the same furniture everywhere. With the expected 10% to 15% losses in the European market and the restrictions coming out of New Zealand, expanding into targeted marketing could save the industry. Currently there are only about ten furniture makers in the country that can qualify to export into Europe once the new rules go into full effect in March of 2013.
While furniture is not the only product that is exported from the Philippines, the country is used to about $2 million in furniture trade with New Zealand alone. If the threat of termites can harm the furniture trade, what other trade might termites threaten? Shipping crates and pallets can become infested with termites as well as other pests. US imports are inspected at the port and quarantined whenever pests are suspected.
The best way to make sure you have nothing to worry about, imports or not, is to contact your local pest management professionals. Prevention is always preferable to a cure; termite treatments in Scottsdale are only used when necessary. The initial termite inspection is free.


Teenage boys have been waiting for this news for years.
According to a new study, squeezing breasts can prevent cancer. Yes, really.
More specifically, the, ahem, fresh research from UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found that mechanical force can stop the rapid growth of cancer cells as well as guide them back to a normal, healthy growth pattern.
The findings were presented Monday at the annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology in San Francisco. In the studies, researchers grew malignant breast epithelial cells in a flexible silicone chamber.
They would squeeze the silicone when the cells reached a new stage, and found that the compression aided in stopping the growth, according to MSN News.
"People have known for centuries that physical force can influence our bodies," said Gautham Venugopalan, a leading member of the research team at the University of California in Berkeley.
"When we lift weights our muscles get bigger. The force of gravity is essential to keeping our bones strong. Here we show that physical force can play a role in the growth - and reversion - of cancer cells."
However, the study's researchers are not advocating a friendly or firm squeeze as a cancer treatment, as the Huffington Post pointed out.
"Compression, in and of itself, is not likely to be a therapy," said Daniel Fletcher, professor of bioengineering at Berkeley and faculty scientist at the Berkeley Lab, in a statement. "But this does give us new clues to track down the molecules and structures that could eventually be targeted for therapies."


AC Milan midfielder Andrea Pirlo has denied reports he is joining Chelsea.
The 30-year-old has been linked with a move to Stamford Bridge - after he was quoted in saying that he would be tempted to join former boss Carlo Ancelotti at Chelsea.
But the Italy international has denied the quotes saying he was tempted.
He said: "I have never spoken to the Irish Independent [one of the newspapers which carried the quote].
Pirlo, who is under contract at the San Siro until June 2011, made 26 league appearances as AC Milan finished third in Serie A last season.


Can anyone throw some light on Archiver data restoration and subsequent consumption. I've got hot storage configured. Now, how would I use data backed up to the Archiver with the Reporting module for instance? Can somebody please help explain data restoration and/or consumption from the Archiver in SA operations/reporting?
The Archiver can be queried like a Concentrator or Broker to retrieve data. If you want to run a report or a query against that data, you simply target it as your data source. If you have multiple Archivers, they can be combined into a single data source by using a Broker just like you would with multiple Concentrators.
Anything in that list can be queried as normal. You can pull more or less meta keys, but that will affect storage on your Archiver. Raw logs can be compressed much better than metadata.


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Mathematical and Quantitative Methods
Forthcoming / International Economics / Mathematical and Quantitative Methods
A Portrait of Development Economics in the Last Sixty Years
Barros, D. and Aurora Teixeira; "A Portrait of Development Economics in the Last Sixty Years", Journal of Economic Development, forthcoming.
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Forthcoming / Mathematical and Quantitative Methods / Microeconomics / Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics
Unlocking the black box: A comprehensive meta-analysis of the main determinants of within-region income inequality
Barros, D. and Aurora Teixeira; "Unlocking the black box: A comprehensive meta-analysis of the main determinants of within-region income inequality", Review of Regional Research, forthcoming.
Forthcoming / Mathematical and Quantitative Methods
Estimating the Employment Band of Inaction with Multiple Breaks due to Labor Market Reforms
Mota, P. R. and P. B. Vasconcelos; "Estimating the Employment Band of Inaction with Multiple Breaks due to Labor Market Reforms", Mathematics in Computer Science, forthcoming.
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by Gabriel Klaasen
Engineering News article here
Power failures have become routine in South Africa. At the same time, the country wants to wean itself off the coal that generates more than 80% of its electricity and makes it the world's twelfth‑biggest source of greenhouse gases.
Most of South Africa's power stations are near the end of their lives. An average of about 1 000 MW of capacity is set to be decommissioned annually over the next decade, which presents an ideal opportunity to begin overhauling the energy system. The question is how.
The government aims to cut emissions to net-zero by 2050. Its energy blueprint envisions the construction of scores of solar- and wind-powered plants. But there are widespread doubts that those projects can happen fast enough, or be reliable enough, to replace coal. So a controversial fossil fuel remains part of the planned energy mix: natural gas.
"Electricity capacity will have to be replaced," Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe said on June 11 during an interview in Mozambique's capital, Maputo, where he suggested that new pipelines could be built to tap more natural gas from the country's offshore fields. "Gas is an alternative," he said. "It can be a game changer."
Plans to use natural gas to produce at least a quarter of almost 12 000 MW of additional power by 2030 are hotly contested. The fuel generates less than half the greenhouse gases that coal does, but replacing the dirtiest fossil fuel with a cleaner one will make South Africa's emissions target difficult to meet.
Financing for gas-fired plants may also be hard to come by. Several development finance institutions, which are crucial funders of many energy projects in Africa, are revising their investment mandates to exclude the fuel. South Africa may have to rely on companies such as General Electric Co. and Exxon Mobil Corp. that have expressed interest in developing the new gas projects.
"Gas is seen as a bridge to transitioning South Africa away from coal power while allowing the country to maintain its goals of economic generation through industrialization," says Shridaran Pillay, Africa director at risk advisory service Eurasia Group. "I do not think that renewables in South Africa could be scaled to a level where they would provide the same opportunity to replace base-load generation in a way that gas can at this stage."
Elisee Sezan, CEO of General Electric's gas power business in sub-Saharan Africa, sees the current capacity and cost of batteries as the main limiting factors to the expanded use of green energy.
The limitations of being heavily reliant on renewables have been seen in California, which had two days of rolling blackouts in part of the state last year when the worst heat wave in at least 25 years overwhelmed the grid. The state is investing in battery storage to ensure a reliable power supply.
But some say that problem will be resolved as battery storage technology evolves and costs fall over the next few years. The risk is that South Africa won't be able to take full advantage if it gets locked into relatively new gas infrastructure and fossil fuels.
"From an economics perspective, it doesn't really make sense to build significantly more new coal or gas – even running existing coal becomes more expensive than building new solar in the late 2020s," says Emma Champion, an analyst at BloombergNEF. She says she doesn't anticipate any significant increase in power demand for the next decade, so it would make more sense to keep existing coal-fired plants running for longer while adding renewable capacity, rather than developing gas projects.
Technology exists to recondition lithium batteries, extending their life span to about 15 years, according to Sabine Dall'Omo, CEO of Siemens AG's South African unit. "Gas does seem to be a transition technology," she says. "But I do believe, looking at what coal is going through, that these assets will be more difficult to fund going forward."
Recent efforts to develop new coal projects in South Africa have been thwarted by court challenges or a lack of financing.
Andy Calitz, secretary general-elect of the Switzerland-based International Gas Union – a trade group that advocates for the use of gas – says South Africa needs the fuel to turn around its struggling economy and address a 33% unemployment rate.
"South Africa's first energy priority is to secure a reliable power supply, secondly to have more affordable electricity and energy prices, and thirdly to address climate change. This cannot be done without gas," says Calitz, who previously worked as an electrical engineer at Eskom Holdings – the country's State power utility – and later as CEO of LNG Canada. "Let investors decide about the risk of the assets being stranded."
Plans to develop gas-fired plants date back to 2015, but they fell by the wayside as then-President Jacob Zuma's administration pivoted toward nuclear plants.
Gas staged a comeback after the ruling African National Congress forced Zuma to step down and replaced him with his deputy, Cyril Ramaphosa. In March the government selected Turkey's Karpowership as a preferred bidder to supply about 1 220 MW of electricity from gas-fired floating power stations, a contract worth an estimated $16-billion over two decades. But the company's environmental permit applications have been rejected amid opposition from environmental activists.
Eskom, which supplies about 90% of South Africa's power, plans to convert existing turbines from diesel to gas. It's also considering rehabilitating some decommissioned plants to use the fuel. It says financing options remain available.
South Africa already imports gas from Mozambique through a pipeline to chemical and fuel plants operated by Sasol. Massive new gas deposits have been found off the coast of Mozambique's northern Cabo Delgado province, though their development has been delayed by an Islamist insurgency.
South Africa is also looking to produce more of its own gas. French giant TotalEnergies is considering developing a field off South Africa's southern coast that contains an estimated one-billion barrels of gas condensate. The government says that there's also potential to tap shale gas reserves in the semidesert region of Karoo.
"In an alternative universe, one would immediately eliminate fossil fuel-generated energy such as coal and petroleum," Mantashe told lawmakers on May 18. "We are committed to a just transition and have begun investing in clean technologies to ensure that we transition from a high- to low-carbon economy, while ensuring security of energy supply."
Sasol, Central Energy Fund to open new 'gas bridge' to Mozambique
By Susan Comrie for amaBhungane 19 Jul 2022 original article here Amidst an unprecedented load shedding crisis, the Central Energy Fund is pushing ahead with Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe's plan to build a 'gas bridge' to Mozambique, while Eskom calls for up to 6,000 megawatts of new gas-fired power to urgently be added to the grid. […]
Avoid using gas as 'transition' fuel in move to clean energy, study urges
by Fiona Harvey 10 May 2022 original article here Countries should Analysis says countries can save money by switching from coal straight to renewable energies An interconnection gas hub in Baumgarten an der March, Austria. High prices for gas have reversed the logic of using it as a 'transition' fuel. Photograph: Joe Klamar/AFP/Getty move from […]
Stop oil and gas exploration madness, SA scientists urge government
By Tony Carnie 30 Mar 2022 original article here 'Energy security should be based on science, not narrow, short-sighted political and vested interests. History will judge the current South African government harshly if it fails to act decisively now for the sake of its people and the greater good of the planet.' Three senior local scientists […]
Mantashe gushes on gas: 'It will save us from importing'
24.03.2022 by Lameez Omarjee original article here Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe is "enthused" by the prospect of gas discoveries, as it will attract foreign investment. The gas industry, which is currently being developed, will support the country's energy transition in a big way, he said. Domestic gas resources will eliminate the need for imports, […]


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stated on May 26, 2020 in a tweet:
"Twitter is completely stifling FREE SPEECH" by adding a fact-check label to Trump's tweet.
President Donald Trump arrives at an event in the White House Rose Garden on May 26, 2020, in Washington. (AP/Vucci)
By Bill McCarthy May 27, 2020
Trump's Pants on Fire claim that Twitter is 'completely stifling free speech' by fact-checking him
Twitter tagged a Trump tweet containing false claims with a "get the facts" button that linked to news articles.
The First Amendment's free speech protections guard against government interference. Twitter is a private company that can set its own terms and policies, experts said.
Twitter did not ban Trump from the platform or remove his posts. They added links to more information, which experts said is protected as counterspeech.
President Donald Trump lashed out at Twitter for tagging a misleading tweet with a "get the facts" button, accusing the company of trampling his right to free speech.
"Twitter is completely stifling FREE SPEECH, and I, as President, will not allow it to happen!" Trump said May 26 in one of several tweets attacking the social media platform.
....Twitter is completely stifling FREE SPEECH, and I, as President, will not allow it to happen!
The charge came after Twitter marked Trump's unsubstantiated claims about mail-in ballots with a label that linked to news articles and said, "Get the facts about mail-in ballots."
For years, Twitter has let users like Trump — who has over 80 million followers on the platform — broadcast falsehoods unchecked. Now, Trump has promised "big action" against the company and threatened to "strongly regulate, or close them down."
But six legal experts who study the First Amendment told us Twitter hasn't violated Trump's constitutional rights. It's a private company, and it hasn't blocked Trump's speech.
"Assuming Trump means to suggest that Twitter has violated his First Amendment right to freedom of speech, he is completely wrong," said Mary Anne Franks, professor of law at the University of Miami School of Law.
"They're not stifling free speech — they're exercising free speech," added UCLA School of Law professor Eugene Volokh. "They are letting him speak, but responding to the speech with their own. That's their First Amendment right, just as it's his First Amendment right to criticize them."
Twitter is a private company
The first problem with Trump's attack is that it misconstrues the Constitution's First Amendment protection of free speech.
"The First Amendment was specifically designed to protect you against the government," said Kate Klonick, assistant professor of law at St. John's University School of Law.
Twitter isn't a public utility or an arm of the government. "There's no right to speech on Twitter, a private platform," said Ellen Goodman, professor of law at Rutgers Law School.
As a private entity, Twitter can set its own terms of service and strike or flag posts accordingly, said Nicole Ligon, the supervising attorney of the First Amendment Clinic at Duke Law.
"The president's free speech is not impaired simply because he disagrees with Twitter's policies," Ligon said, noting that "he has plenty of other channels" to speak freely.
"They censor speech all the time that is constitutionally protected," such as nudity and hate speech, added Ashutosh Bhagwat, professor of law at the UC Davis School of Law.
Twitter is acting within its rights
The second problem with Trump's claim is that Twitter has marked one post, a move that legal experts said is itself protected under the First Amendment.
"Twitter did not delete his false claims, but merely added the option of accessing correct information to them," Franks said. "This is a very modest exercise of another treasured free speech value, namely counterspeech."
Volokh, the UCLA law professor, said protections for counterspeech trace back to a "famous line" from former Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis.
The line, from a concurring opinion in Whitney vs. California, was endorsed in New York Times vs. Sullivan, a landmark 1964 Supreme Court decision about defamation. Brandeis made a case for counterspeech, writing that "the fitting remedy for evil counsels is good ones."
"Simply responding to speech with speech of your own is the very sort of 'counterspeech' that the Supreme Court has said is the proper response for speech with which one disagrees," Volokh said.
It's possible that Trump was speaking of free speech in a more vague way. In a general sense, people often "conflate the robust rights that they're guaranteed under the First Amendment with general freedom of speech principles," Klonick told us.
But that argument also falls flat in this case. Franks said it would be "nonsensical," since Twitter didn't remove anything but instead "offered correct speech in response to incorrect speech."
If Twitter started taking down Trump's tweets, Volokh said, then people could reasonably argue that the platform was stifling free speech in this broader sense, even if such action wouldn't cross the First Amendment's free speech clause. But that's not what Twitter is doing.
"What would be a violation is if the government told Twitter to ban Trump's speech, and then only his speech as a private person, and not the office of the presidency," Goodman said.
The bigger First Amendment threat, experts told us, is Trump's vow to take action against Twitter — something he can't unilaterally do.
"The First Amendment protects Twitter from Trump," Klonick said. "The First Amendment doesn't protect Trump from Twitter."
Trump said, "Twitter is completely stifling FREE SPEECH."
Six legal experts told us Trump is wrong. The First Amendment limits the government, not private platforms like Twitter. Twitter's decision to mark one tweet as misleading is itself protected under the First Amendment.
We rate Trump's statement Pants on Fire!
Donald J. Trump on Twitter, May 26, 2020
Laurence Tribe on Twitter, May 26, 2020
Cornell Law School, "First Amendment," accessed May 27, 2020
Justia, "New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964)," accessed May 27, 2020
Justia, "Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927)," accessed May 27, 2020
PolitiFact, "No, California Is Not Sending Mail-In Ballots "To Anyone In The State," As Trump Falsely Claimed," May 26, 2020
Email interview with Ellen Goodman, professor of law at Rutgers Law School and co-director and co-founder of the Rutgers Institute for Information Policy & Law, May 27, 2020
Email interview with Eugene Volokh, professor of law at UCLA School of Law, May 27, 2020
Email interview with Mary Anne Franks, professor of law at the University of Miami School of Law and president of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, May 27, 2020
Email interview with Nicole Ligon, lecturing fellow and supervising attorney of the First Amendment Clinic at Duke Law, May 27, 2020
Phone interview with Kate Klonick, assistant professor of law at St. John's University School of Law, May 27, 2020
Phone interview with Ashutosh Bhagwat, professor of law at the UC Davis School of Law, May 27, 2020
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Says left-wing activist John Sullivan "incited (the) insurgence of (the) US Capitol."
By Bill McCarthy • January 8, 2021
A man who stormed the U.S. Capitol in a horned fur cap is an "Antifa thug."
"They just happened to find 50,000 ballots (in the Georgia U.S. Senate runoff elections) late last night."
stated on January 2, 2021 a phone call with the George secretary of state:
After a "major water main break," Georgia election workers counted "18,000 ballots, all for Biden" that they pulled from suitcases and with no election observers present.
Chief Justice John Roberts visited Jeffrey Epstein's private island.
stated on December 15, 2020 a radio show segment:
An optional microchip for COVID-19 vaccines "would give officials information on who has and has not been vaccinated" and "tracks the location of the patient."
stated on December 8, 2020 a TV handoff:
"You know what the biggest lie is, is that restaurants are spreaders of COVID. There's no science for that."
stated on December 3, 2020 Facebook posts:
Video footage from Georgia shows suitcases filled with ballots pulled from under a table and illegally counted after election observers were told to leave.
By Bill McCarthy • December 4, 2020
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The coronavirus pandemic is "effectively over" in the United Kingdom and "there is absolutely no need for vaccines."
stated on November 18, 2020 a virtual roundtable:
"666,000 teachers have been laid off already since March."
By Bill McCarthy • November 20, 2020
"Big victory moments ago in the State of Nevada. The all Democrat County Commissioner race, on same ballot as President, just thrown out because of large scale voter discrepancy."
"Pennsylvania and Michigan didn't allow our poll watchers and/or vote observers to watch or observe."
stated on January 9, 2021 in a screenshot:
A second impeachment means Donald Trump loses his lifetime pension, travel allowance, Secret Service detail, and his ability to run for public office.
By Daniel Funke • January 11, 2021
Says Mike Pence changed "his Twitter banner photo to Biden and Harris."
stated on January 8, 2021 in an interview with Ohio reporters:
Summer "protesters outside the White House were met with tear gas, rubber bullets, a full militarized response. While ... rioters were able to breach the Capitol."
By Jon Greenberg • January 11, 2021
Video shows man upset because he was added to the no-fly list for storming the Capitol.
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stated on January 10, 2021 in a story:
"Trump signs Insurrection Act - General Flynn to be appointed vice president."


The investment in real estate should be one of the best ways to use your money in the market, but in order to have the benefits that this can give you, great care must be taken to avoid committing the typical mistakes that investors make to the market. time to take your first steps taking you to situations in which nobody would like to be.
Not knowing where you are standing or how things are handled in the market where you will make the next investment can be fatal. Find out how properties are valued in the place, which are comparable, which benefits are within that market niche can allow you to estimate future results.
Rushing in money matters is always a mistake because the trouble can cloud your sight and can lead you to make mistakes that can be fatal for your investment. Arming yourself with patience when investing will help you make better decisions and observe the full picture of the situation in which you find yourself.
Expecting too much can lead to a great disappointment, for this, being realistic will save you from bad moments within the real estate. Be honest with yourself and seek to do what you can really do to avoid encountering situations that you can not imagine or know how to handle.
You have to learn to manage the money you have because only then you can make the right moves to get the expected benefits. Spending too much money on things you may not know how they work can lead to large losses that could easily be avoided.
It is essential to know what is being done and in what ways it can be done in order to understand the path you take avoiding any mistakes. You must study the investment, the market, the places and the strategies to be able to get the one that best suits you.
Nobody is oblivious to mistakes in certain moments of life, even the most prepared have encountered errors that have had to overcome showing that despite the obstacles, you should always go ahead in this way to achieve the successes that both you are searching.


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Judge OKs $3.1M lawyer fees in Branstad discrimination case
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Lawyers who represented a former state official found to have been discriminated against by former Gov. Terry Branstad should be paid $3.1 million for their work on the case. Judge Brad McCall said the attorneys earned significant fees for their work. They successfully represented...
Iowa appeals ex-Gov. Branstad $1.5M discrimination verdict
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The state of Iowa has appealed to the Iowa Supreme Court a lawsuit in which a jury concluded former Gov. Terry Branstad discriminated against a former state official because the official is gay, Gov. Kim Reynolds said Friday. A jury awarded former Iowa Workers' Compensation...


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Q: Ubuntu 16.04 booted to BusyBox, fsck repaired, now sudoers.so file has no contents Upon bootup, my Ubuntu 16.04 system booted to busybox (initramfs). I ran fsck on the boot drive, found and resolved errors. The system now boots fine, but I am unable to do anything as sudo. I get the following error:
sudo: error in /etc/sudo.conf, line 0 while loading plugin `sudoers_policy'
sudo: unable to load /usr/lib/sudo/sudoers.so: /usr/lib/sudo/sudoers.so: file too short
sudo: fatal error, unable to load plugins

/usr/lib/sudo/sudoers.so now contains no content. The file ownership and permission appear to be fine. Is there a way to rebuild the file?

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Advancing Cancer Knowledge Through Garden Weeds?
Hard to believe that a common weed could give scientists advanced information about aging and cancer development. But it can, according to a team led by scientists from Texas A&M University and the University of Cincinnati.
Arabidopsis, a plant found throughout the world, exhibits a new set of essential telomere proteins. Located at each end of a chromosome and composed of DNA and protein, the main function of telomeres is to protect the ends of the chromosome, but they also play a key role in cell division and, researchers believe, cellular lifespan.
After finding these telomeres in the plant, the multi-institutional team then identified the human counterpart, a discovery that could be beneficial in understanding human cancers and cellular aging. Their work is published in the current issue of the journal "Molecular Cell" and was funded by the National Institutes of Health.
This finding could pave the way for several new lines of study. "At the very least, it will give us a better understanding of the fundamental composition of telomeres and how they function," notes Dorothy Shippen, professor of biophysics and biochemistry at Texas A&M. Another researcher adds, "It could also give us new insight into how damaged telomeres block cell division." And the more we understand about cell division as it relates to cancer, the better.
The Arabidopsis plant is found worldwide and is related to the radish, cabbage and mustard plant family. Because of its genetic makeup, it has been used for decades as a model organism for studies in the cellular and molecular biology of flowering plants.
A full report can be found at Science Daily.


Laverne Sherrill, 94, Falls City, NE, passed away February 9, 2019 at Falls City. She was born October 28, 1924 at Falls City to Edwin and Lena (Brecheisen) Oberst.
She married Howard Meyers in 1945 and they were later divorced. She then married Tasker Sherrill on December 4, 1965 at Sisseton, SD. He passed away February 13, 2005.
Lavern is survived by her step-daughter, Cheryl Walsh, sister, Velma Koenig of Houston, TX, nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, brothers, Robert, Virgil and Kenneth Oberst, sisters, Mildred Pflaum and Juanita Hanika.
A graveside service will be held on Saturday, July 13, 2019 at 11:00 AM at Steele Cemetery with Reverend Young Je Kim officiating.
There's still time to send flowers to the Graveside Service at the Steele Cemetery at 11:00 AM on July 13, 2019.


A four bedroom house that sleeps eight. Peschino – Little Peach Tree – sits on the lower slopes of a quiet, wooded farming valley that is on the border between Tuscany and Umbria. It is approached by a kilometre of farm track through fields of sunflowers, tobacco, trees and wild flowers. Just 3 kilometres away is the border with Umbria, where the old custom house still stands. The house is completely private and not over-looked.
Entrance to the villa is from the drive, which opens onto the ground floor. Immediately to the left, you will find the kitchen; well-equipped and spacious, the kitchen has a five-ring gas hob, electric oven, fridge-freezer, dishwasher, microwave and bread-maker, plenty of cupboard space and work tops. A doorway leads to the dining room, which extends over the width of the house and has French windows at the front and back – the large dining table can accommodate twelve people. A doorway, at the far side of the dining room, leads to a utility area with washer-dryer and a WC. At the back of the kitchen is a comfortable sitting room with sofas, armchairs and a TV. From here, there are French windows that open out to the back garden.
From the back of the dining room, is a set of stairs that lead up to a second sitting room with sofas, easy-chairs and a large wood-burner in the fireplace. At the front end of this room, is a door leading onto a small loggia with external steps leading down to the garden and pool area. A double, en-suite bedroom comes directly off the upper sitting room, while the hallway on the opposite side has two twin bedrooms that share a second shower room. A second passageway leads to a bathroom with bath-tub and shower, and a second double bedroom.
All the bedrooms have beautiful views over the surrounding fields and wooded hillsides.
Outside, is a stone pizza oven, BBQ and outdoor dining furniture.The pool is 10m x 5m and has a thermal cover, which extends the swimming season; it has a paved surround and sits upon a grassy terrace and there are sun-loungers along the perimeter. The garden is planted with shrubs and flowers, and has lovely views along the valley. The Umbrian town of Trestina is 15-minutes' drive by car and has shops, supermarkets and restaurants. The medieval walled Tuscan town of Cortona is a 30-minute drive. There are villages and restaurants within 10-minutes' drive. There are many day trips possible from Peschino to the surrounding historic and cultural centres of Umbria and Tuscany. As well as Cortona, within an hour you can visit Perugia, Deruta, Assisi, Arezzo, Sansepolcro, Siena, Gubbio, Orvieto, Montepulciano and other hill towns. Florence is 90-minutes by car or the fastest train.


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Alabama's Largest County May Throw Out Ballots After Change In Instructions
By Cherranda Smith
Some Jefferson County, Alabama voters may have their ballots thrown out after a court ruling overrode voting instructions that came with the ballots they received and ultimately mailed in.
Absentee voters in Alabama are typically required to have two witnesses or a notary present when their ballot is signed and must sign the ballot, too.
On September 30, a federal judge allowed the county's election officials to provide a waiver with absentee ballots, allowing voters with some medical conditions to avoid the state law signature requirement due to pandemic health concerns.
Election officials mailed out ballots with the waiver attached to voters in the centrally-located county, which boasts 500,000 registered voters.
On October 13, the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit reversed this provision, making a witness' signature required again, leaving some absentee voters' ballots in limbo.
Voting rights activists including Deuel Ross, a lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, are pushing the county to protect these voters' ballots as it is unclear if the county election officials have done anything to protect the ballots without witness signatures.
This new rule change comes as local and state election officials around the country struggle to provide voters with accurate information due to ongoing court proceedings dealing with election rules.


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The scientific study of human evolution and culture is about a hundred years old. This volume surveys its achievements and methods. Originally published more than forty years ago, the volume's contributors include people who have shaped anthropology's future. As Gluckman says in his Preface, the contributions "point to the horizons of increasing understanding of man, his evolution and his social setting, as seen by a rising generation of scholars."
The book includes chapters on how man gradually became different from other primates-on the origin and nature of language and its contribution to our peculiarities as human beings. It surveys the long history of human culture and societies and the theories about their similarities and differences; it discusses human equality and inequality, and it considers, from the anthropologist's point of view, economics, politics, law, religion, medicine, and the arts.
In recent decades the various branches of anthropology-physical, cultural, psychological, and social-have become more specialized, and each branch is increasingly linking itself to its appropriate cognate, biological, psychological, or social sciences. Yet there remains a central common field to anthropology, as the science of man, for practitioners in all its branches. This book develops that common interest and deals with the specific problems of various parts of the field. The book brings out the basic nature of anthropology and the extraordinary fascination that lies in the systematic study of the exuberant variety of human societies and customs.


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Magna Grecia becomes his sires 17th individual Group 1 winner
Magna Grecia, son of Invincible Spirit won the Gr.1 Vertem Futurity Trophy Stakes in Doncaster on Saturday on only his third start becoming his sire's 17th individual Group 1 winner. Magna Grecia held on gamely from Phoenix Of Spain (Lope De Vega) to win the mile contest at Doncaster.
Bred by Woodnook Farm out of the Galileo mare Cabaret he was sold at Tattersalls December sales for 340,000gns as a foal.
Aidan O'Brien said of his winner, the ninth he has saddled in this race most recently known as the Racing Post Trophy: "I'm delighted with him. He is still a bit babyish, but he's coming forward lovely. We think a mile will be his thing next year. Maybe he will stay further. "He showed plenty of pace in the spring. He kept going and he's a big, strong horse, so maybe he will get a mile and a half. Donnacha thinks there's a chance he'll get a mile and a quarter. He was happy with him and said he put his head down and battled for him. "The lads usually look at the Guineas and we train them for that and see after that."
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