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Aircell High Speed Internet Takes Flight in Business Aviation
FAA certification and first installation mark official debut of Aircell's exclusive new system for business aviation; development program completed three months ahead of schedule
BROOMFIELD, Colo.
Aircell, the world's leading provider of airborne communications, announces that it has received full FAA certification (STC and PMA) for its new High Speed Internet system in the business aviation market and that shipments have commenced three months ahead of schedule. The system's first installation has been completed by Midcoast Aviation aboard a Bombardier Challenger 605 operated by a Midwest-based flight department.
Powered by the Aircell® Network, the Aircell High Speed Internet system allows passengers and crews to use their own Wi-Fi enabled devices, such as laptops, smartphones and PDAs, to surf the Web, send and receive e-mail with attachments, Instant Message, access their corporate VPN and much more - all in flight at full mobile broadband speeds. The Aircell Network utilizes the latest 3G mobile wireless technology, operating in the continental U.S. over an advanced network of ground stations and Aircell's exclusive broadband air-to-ground spectrum.
"We're very pleased to debut the Aircell High Speed Internet system in the business aviation market. By providing a true high-speed connection, it greatly transforms the travel experience and allows everyone aboard the aircraft to be more productive," said John Wade, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Aircell. "During the acceptance flight for the first installation, there were several passengers surfing the Internet, sending and receiving e-mail with attachments and downloading files simultaneously - and everything worked flawlessly. With certification in hand and the continued overwhelming acceptance of the system, today's milestone paves the way for thousands of business aircraft installations in the coming years," concluded Wade.
The proprietary Aircell system is the only solution in business aviation that provides a true high speed Internet experience that equals what passengers are accustomed to on the ground, while being small and light enough to fit on virtually any business aircraft. It is up to 56 times faster than a traditional dial-up connection. Aircell's High Speed Internet unit for business aviation (ATG 4000) weighs just 11 pounds and its two belly-mounted antennae weigh just 1.25 pounds each.
In addition to its popularity in the business aviation market, the commercial airline version of the service - Gogo® Inflight Internet - has been selected by airlines representing more than half of the North American mainline market. The system is flying today with American Airlines, Virgin America, Delta Air Lines and AirTran Airways. It is coming soon to Northwest Airlines, Air Canada and United Airlines.
High Speed Internet Equipment & Integration Information
The Aircell ATG 4000 High Speed Internet system is a modular add-on to the Aircell Axxess® cabin system. For connecting passenger devices in the cabin, customers can choose to install wired or Wi-Fi connections as part of their installation. The popularity of this new system has generated an order backlog and shipments are being fulfilled according to when orders were received - interested operators are encouraged to see their dealer or contact Aircell immediately.
Please note that aircraft upgrades like the Aircell High Speed Internet system may be eligible for bonus tax depreciation under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
In addition to Aircell's exclusive air-to-ground High Speed Internet system for the continental U.S., Aircell is offering its satellite-based SwiftBroadband product for global service, which will be available in July. Aircell's SwiftBroadband product is powered by Thrane & Thrane.
About Aircell
Aircell is the world's leading provider of airborne communications and a single-source, turnkey provider of equipment, service, and technical support. With a global sales and support presence, its products are offered by virtually every fixed- and rotor-wing airframe manufacturer in business aviation, and are installed aboard the world's four largest fractional ownership fleets. As winner of an exclusive FCC frequency license in 2006, Aircell has built a revolutionary new mobile broadband network for commercial and business aviation. In 2008, the Aircell® Network and its inflight portal, known as Gogo®, revolutionized the commercial airline passenger flight experience by delivering a robust Internet experience at 35,000 feet. The Aircell Network provides airlines with connectivity to operations and a path to enhanced cabin services such as video, audio, television and more. A similar feature set is available to Business aircraft operators. Aircell has facilities in Broomfield, Colorado, and Itasca, Illinois. Aircell's vision is to give everyone the ability to stay In Touch, In Flight®. For more information about Aircell, please visit www.aircell.com.
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Launch of the one-stop-shop in November 2019 Photo: Zambian National Arts Council
Paving the way for increased competitiveness among Zambia's artistic community
NIRAS explores challenges facing the country's arts and culture sector in its effort to transform creative industries into new business opportunities
There are jobs and money to be made in arts and culture if a legal environment exists for creative industries to prosper just like any other business.
The creative sector has never played a big role in Zambia's economy and, until the establishment of the Ministry of Tourism and Arts (MOTA) in 2011, the arts and culture industry never had a ministry of its own. But MOTA's scope is very large – covering wildlife and tourism development – and arts and culture has often struggled for attention and support.
Developing business dimension of creative sector
The Zambian National Arts Council (NAC), the coordinating body of all arts activities nationwide, has been working to develop the business dimension of Zambia's creative sector, but its efforts have been hampered by limited resources and skills.
For a decade now, the EU has contributed to several interventions to improve the competitiveness of Zambian arts and culture. Last year, in the context of the EU Framework Contract Services for the Implementation of External Aid (FWC SIEA) Lot 4 – Human Development and Safety Net – it awarded NIRAS a contract to explore the challenges that continue to plague the sector.
These challenges inhibit the growth of business and make it difficult for artists to reform, restructure and reposition themselves to remain relevant in the ever-growing creative sector.
The assignment involved working closely with the NAC, developing the capacity of its staff and board members to provide business support services and supporting the Council in its policy level work to create an enabling environment for the development of the creative industry in Zambia.
Arts Resource Hub
A key output of the 7-month project was a one-stop-shop – the Arts Resource Hub – to enable creatives access to finance, training and business development services and resources.
Over the course of implementing the six-month-long project, the NIRAS team together with the NAC facilitated an Art Business Forum where more than 100 artists and representatives from the creative sector were invited to a three-day workshop that served as mapping exercise for challenges facing the industry. Following the forum, the NAC recognised the need to adjust its business development services.
In cooperation with a local ICT provider, Hut 2 Hut, NIRAS created a digital catalogue of services that has since been integrated with the NAC website. NAC personnel receive and assess inquiries from artists, match these with and refer them to an expert, and follow up on the request until completion.
Reshaping the legislative landscape
In addition to the one-stop-shop and a capacity development plan for NAC staff that enables the Council to promote and support art for business, the project's legal expert conducted a review of the 1994 NAC Act and related legislation and recommended amendments that must be passed by parliament. The process can take up to one year.
An important part of the legal environment are industry standards, which the legal expert also developed and NAC can adopt in the form of a Code of Conduct. The code comprises a set of values that artists should practice when conducting their business.
Once the revised Act and Code of Conduct are in place, Zambia will be well on its way to ensuring an enabling environment for creative businesses to thrive, a development welcomed by artists across the country.
For further details, visit the NAC's website: https://www.arts.gov.zm/
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Schools for parents in Haskovo region
On October 14 Sdruzhenie "Shans I zakrila" organized the first "School for parents" within the project. It involved 35 representatives of the Roma community, parents of children from "Nikola Y. Vaptzarov" Primary School in Haskovo.
The aims of the training were to raise the capacity of the parents for positive parenting, to help them acquire skills to support the education of their children and to improve their communication with the teachers and the school staff.
Through group work, case studies and interactive games the participants shared their views on parenting, discussed the qualities and behaviour of the good parents and reflected on the perspectives for a better life that education could provide to the children.
At the end of the training the parents shared that they were satisfied with their participation and would like to take part in such initiatives in the future.
Till the end of April 2020 nine more "Schools" will be organized in Haskovo and 135 parents will be involved.
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Casino Project, Yukon
MiningOther CommoditiesOthers
Mine Type :
Open-pit
Producer of :
Copper, gold, silver, and molybdenum
Yukon, Canada
Reserves :
965.2Mt
Life of Mine :
Estimated Investment :
£1.86bn ($2.5bn)
Western Copper and Gold
The Casino project is a copper-gold-molybdenum-silver mining development located in Yukon, Canada. It is considered to be one of the biggest underdeveloped copper-gold deposits in the world.
The open-pit project is proposed to be developed by Western Copper and Gold through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Casino Mining Corporation.
A feasibility study for the project was released in January 2013, while additional exploration and drilling activities were carried out subsequently. An updated resource report based on the 2019 drilling campaign was published in July 2020.
The project is currently in the process of obtaining the environmental impact assessment (EIA) approval.
The Alaskan port of Skagway, located approximately 560km from the project site will serve as the export hub. Image courtesy of Christopher Michel.
The Casino copper, gold, molybdenum and silver mining project is located in Yukon, Canada. Image courtesy of Alchemist-hp.
The Casino project will feature a conventional open-pit, truck and shovel operation with drill and blast. Image courtesy of Craig Dietrich.
The mine life of the Casino project is estimated to be 22 years while the total pre-production capital investment is estimated to be approximately £1.86bn ($2.5bn).
Project location and geology
The Casino copper-gold project covers a mining tenement of approximately 13,124ha on the north-westerly trending Dawson Range Mountains in the Yukon Territory of Canada, approximately 300km north-west of Whitehorse and 150km away from Carmacks.
The deposit lies on the Patton Porphyry, an east-west elongated tonalite porphyry stock of the Upper Cretaceous-age, which intrudes Mesozoic granitoids of the Dawson Range Batholith and the Paleozoic schists and gneisses of the Yukon Crystalline Complex.
The northern, southern, and eastern contact of the stock is brecciated due to the intrusion of the tonalite stock into the older rocks. Younger, non-mineralised dykes intrude the tonalite stock and surrounding granitods and metamorphic rocks forming a pipe-like body to the west and a dyke-like body to the east.
Mineralisation
The Casino Project is a porphyry deposit with four primary mineralisation types of copper, gold, and molybdenum occurring in breccias, granitoids, and schists. Higher mineralisation grade occurs in breccias and gradually decrease outwards to the granitoids and schists.
The leached cap mineralisation (CAP) is a gold-rich zone with depleted copper while the supergene oxide mineralisation (SOX) zone that occurs as a thin layer overlaying the supergene sulphide zone is copper-enriched, with traces of molybdenite.
The copper mineralisation at the supergene sulphide mineralisation zone has an average thickness of up to 60m and a depth of up to 200m below the leached cap. The hypogene mineralisation occurs as stock-work veins and breccias in alteration zones throughout the project area.
Ore reserves
The proven and probable mill-ore reserves at the Casino project were estimated to be 965.2 million tonnes (Mt) grading 0.204% copper, 0.240g/t gold, 0.0227% molybdenum, and 1.74 g/t silver, as of January 2013.
The measured and indicated mill resources for the project were estimated to be 2,173.3Mt grading 0.16% copper, 0.18g/t gold, 0.017% molybdenum, and 1.42g/t silver as of July 2020.
The Casino Project will feature a conventional open-pit, truck and shovel operation with drill and blast.
The final pit design is based on a floating cone shell with proposed 45° inter-ramp angles for the majority of the slope sectors with up to a maximum vertical wall of 200m at the inter-ramp angle.
The haul roads are designed with a width of 36m to accommodate the 360t haul trucks.
The Casino process plant will house separate processing facilities to treat sulphide and oxide ore. The project is estimated to process approximately 120,000 dry tonnes of ore-material per day or 43.8 million dry tonnes a year.
The run-of-mine (ROM) ore at both facilities will undergo crushing in a primary gyratory crusher to reduce the ore size to less than 200mm. Sulphide ore will undergo secondary crushing in a semi-autogenous (SAG) mill while secondary crushing for the oxide ores will be carried out in a cone crusher.
The crushed ore material at the sulphide processing facility will be introduced into a froth flotation circuit to concentrate and separate copper and molybdenum sulphide minerals and produce a concentrate of copper and molybdenum. The bulk concentrate will be separated into copper and molybdenum concentrates.
The crushed ore at the oxide ore processing facility will undergo leaching with cyanide solution to produce a pregnant leach solution from which gold and silver will be recovered with the use of activated carbon in carbon in column (CIC) tanks. Copper will be recovered from the pregnant leach solution by the sulphidisation, acidification, recycling, and thickening (SART) process.
The final products of the mine will be packaged and trucked to the Alaskan port of Skagway, located approximately 560km away from the site for export.
The project site is currently accessible by small aircraft via an existing 760m airstrip. A 132 km-long unpaved road from Freegold Road, approximately 70 km northwest of the village of Carmacks, as well as a new airstrip are proposed to be constructed as part of the project.
The process and potable water requirement for the project are expected to be received from the nearby Yukon River.
The project will require self-generation of electrical power which will be developed in two phases. A 20MW initial supplementary power plant comprising three internal combustion engines (ICE) and dual fuel-driven generators will be constructed before the construction of a main 125MW gas-fired combined-cycle main power plant.
The liquefied natural gas (LNG) required for the power plant will be trucked from Fort Nelson, British Columbia, and stored on-site in a large 10,000 m3 LNG storage tank.
Contractors involved
The Casino project technical report with updated mineral resource estimate was prepared by Arizona based M3 Engineering & Technology Corporation (M3), while the open-pit design for the mine was provided by Knight-Piésold.
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We are a well established Womens's Institute in Hullbridge. Our meetings take place on the 4th Thursday of each month at 7:45pm at Hullbridge Centre, Windermere Avenue. As well as very varied speakers we take part in beetle drives and quiz nights, and have coffee mornings and afternoon teas in members homes. Our outings in the past years have included Leeds Castle, Hatfield Show and a Bless 'Em All Variety Concert. Along with Essex Federation we have taken part in a "Big Walk, Little Splash" campaign to get us all fit. Our walks have included Fambridge Wildlife Park, Southend Pier, Old Leigh and a visit to Paycockes. We welcome new members.


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Liandra Gaykamangu: "My swimwear is an extension of what I care deeply about"
Liandra Gaykamangu: "My swimwear is an extension of what I care deeply about"
Last updated . 17 November 2021
For a snapshot in time, we asked eight people around the country to reflect on Australia Now. Here, Liandra Gaykamangu, Creative Director & Founder of Liandra Swim in the NT, shares her thoughts on what the global pandemic has taught her.
Keep reading our Australia Now series here.
You were born in East Arnhem Land, but moved to Wollongong in 2000 with your mum. What drew you back to the Northern Territory?
Dad passed away in December 2019 when I was eight months pregnant with my third baby. When I returned home for his funeral, I found it comforting to have my wider family around me. I also wanted my kids to know their family, culture and language and thought it would be good for them to spend time in East Arnhem Land learning who they are. There was always an expectation in my family that I would achieve as much as I could and then bring that back to my community and make a positive impact. My parents always pushed me to achieve. When I left high school for university, Dad said to me: "Don't forget who you are and where you're from. Come home when you're ready." After his passing, it felt right on a personal and professional level to make the move.
The remote beaches of East Arnhem Land in the NT. (Image: Tourism NT/Hayley Anderson)
You have a teaching degree. Why swimwear?
My mum remarried a surfer and we spent a lot of our family time on the beach. The ocean is a naturally comforting place for me; I am a Yolngu woman, and it is integral to our culture and livelihoods. I love swimwear and it felt like a comfortable place for me to use fashion and wrap it in education and give people an opportunity to learn about Indigenous women, our culture and stories. My swimwear is an extension of what I care deeply about. It's who I am.
Tara Top and Tara Bottom from the Liandra Swim Community Collection. (Image: Tim Henry)
What are you most proud of with Liandra Swim?
My swimwear is wrapped up in all the things I love – it merges tradition with sustainability and education. I am really proud of my partnership with David Jones and our first runway at Afterpay Australia Fashion Week. I am also really proud of our growing Liandra Swim community and love seeing women wearing Liandra Swim.
Tell us about your new line, the Community Collection?
I wanted to put the focus on my beautiful Milingimbi Island. This collection is inspired by the landscape and my experience of being from there. My hand-drawn prints are a contemporary take on Aboriginal art and culture. I have some incredible artist family members who I look forward to working with, when the timing is right, because I want to do those songlines justice. I am not launching a collection just to make money. It has to make sense and be done correctly with appropriate conversations and family consultations.
What has launching Liandra Swim taught you about yourself?
To always believe in myself. I had people say, 'Swimwear is an oversaturated market'. But I stayed true to my vision and now, being able to partner with David Jones and being recognised by international magazines such as Vogue in the US, Elle (Italy), Harper's Bazaar and The Zoe Report after just a few years in the game validates that. I am glad I followed my gut and my dream.
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Proud Yolngu woman, Liandra Gaykamangu returned home to Milingimbi in the Crocodile Islands in East Arnhem Land, after rthe launch of her swimwear line, Liandra Swim. (Image: Yasmin Steel)
How do you perceive Australia right now?
I am the co-CEO of an NFP, Enterprise Learning Projects, which supports Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to achieve their goals in business and entrepreneurship, so I have a lot of conversations around social enterprise and I see conversations shifting, which is exciting. The batons are being passed to the next generation. And I can't speak for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. But I am in a position to take that baton from those in fashion, education and the social enterprise space and continue to open discussions.
Social enterprise is not a new term for Indigenous Australians, is it?
No. It's not. For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, community impact has always been a part of how we do business. I have to make money, because that is how you grow and stay in business. But money is not how I, as an Aboriginal woman, view success or how I see our biggest impact.
How do non-Indigenous Australians find pride in our Indigenous history?
I highly recommend for non-Indigenous people to connect with their local Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander community first before feeling the need to explore beyond that. It's a huge sign of respect to understand the stories of the Country you live on and engage with every day. It's really important to know that Australia is versatile in terms of culture and language so stories may be similar, but there will always be differences. It is also good to be mindful of history and how that has impacted people. Australia is a very big place with varying cultures, languages and impacts. Lean into your local community and engage with where you spend most of your time. Then go and explore all Indigenous Australia has to offer, so you can get a deeper understanding of why we have, and need, so many different voices, faces and perspectives.
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import com.ait.lienzo.client.core.shape.Rectangle;
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import com.ait.lienzo.client.core.types.Transform;
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import com.google.gwt.event.shared.GwtEvent;

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O gavião-cuco-de-peito-pintado ou falcão-cuco-madagascariense  (Aviceda madagascariensis) é uma espécie de ave de rapina da família Accipitridae.

É endémica de Madagáscar.

Os seus habitats naturais são: florestas subtropicais ou tropicais húmidas de baixa altitude e regiões subtropicais ou tropicais húmidas de alta altitude.

Referências
  BirdLife International 2004.  Aviceda madagascariensis.   2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.   Dados de 24 de Julho de 2007.

https://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?lang=PT&avibaseid=C8E60C392E11B876

http://ornitologia-2012.blogspot.com/2012/04/falcao-cuco-madagascariense-aviceda.html
Acipitrídeos
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Münchhausen trilemma
Title: Münchhausen trilemma
Subject: Foundherentism, Foundationalism, Infinite regress, I know that I know nothing, Critical rationalism
Baron Münchhausen pulls himself out of a mire by his own hair (illustration by Oskar Herrfurth)
The Münchhausen trilemma is a term used in epistemology to stress the purported impossibility to prove any truth even in the fields of logic and mathematics. The name Münchhausen-Trilemma was coined by the German philosopher Hans Albert in 1968 in reference to a Trilemma of "dogmatism vs. infinite regress vs. psychologism" used by Karl Popper;[1] it is a reference to the problem of "bootstrapping", after the story of Baron Münchhausen, pulling himself and the horse on which he was sitting out of a mire by his own hair.
It is also known as Agrippa's trilemma, after a similar argument by Sextus Empiricus, which was attributed to Agrippa the Skeptic by Diogenes Laertius; Sextus' argument however consists of five (not three) "modes". Popper in his original 1935 publication mentions neither Sextus nor Agrippa, but attributes his trilemma to Jakob Fries.[2]
1 Trilemma
2 Agrippa and the Greek skeptics
3 Fries' trilemma
4 Albert's formulation
Trilemma
If we ask of any knowledge: "How do I know that it's true?", we may provide proof; yet that same question can be asked of the proof, and any subsequent proof. The Münchhausen trilemma is that we have only three options when providing proof in this situation:
The circular argument, in which theory and proof support each other (i.e. we repeat ourselves at some point)
The regressive argument, in which each proof requires a further proof, ad infinitum (i.e. we just keep giving proofs, presumably forever)
The axiomatic argument, which rests on accepted precepts (i.e. we reach some bedrock assumption or certainty)
The first two methods of reasoning are fundamentally weak, and because the Greek skeptics advocated deep questioning of all accepted values they refused to accept proofs of the third sort. The trilemma, then, is the decision among the three equally unsatisfying options.
In contemporary epistemology, advocates of coherentism are supposed to be accepting the "circular" horn of the trilemma; foundationalists are relying on the axiomatic argument. Views that accept the infinite regress are called infinitism. Advocates of fallibilism, on the other hand, point out that while it is indeed correct that a theory cannot be proven true, it can be proven false (test method) or it can be deemed unnecessary (Occam's razor). Thus conjectural theories can be held as long as they haven't been refuted. This position is taken for granted in the natural sciences.
Agrippa and the Greek skeptics
The following tropes for Greek skepticism are given by Sextus Empiricus, in his Outlines of Pyrrhonism. According to Sextus, they are attributed only "to the more recent skeptics" and it is by Diogenes Laertius that we attribute them to Agrippa.[3] The tropes are:
Dissent – The uncertainty of the rules of common life, and of the opinions of philosophers.
Progress ad infinitum – All proof requires some further proof, and so on to infinity.
Relation – All things are changed as their relations become changed, or, as we look upon them from different points of view.
Assumption – The truth asserted is merely a hypothesis.
Circularity – The truth asserted involves a vicious circle (see regress argument, known in scholasticism as diallelus)
[165] According to the mode deriving from dispute, we find that undecidable dissension about the matter proposed has come about both in ordinary life and among philosophers. Because of this we are not able to choose or to rule out anything, and we end up with suspension of judgment. [166] In the mode deriving from infinite regress, we say that what is brought forward as a source of conviction for the matter proposed itself needs another such source, which itself needs another, and so ad infinitum, so that we have no point from which to begin to establish anything, and suspension of judgment follows. [167] In the mode deriving from relativity, as we said above, the existing object appears to be such-and-such relative to the subject judging and to the things observed together with it, but we suspend judgment on what it is like in its nature. [168] We have the mode from hypothesis when the Dogmatists, being thrown back ad infinitum, begin from something which they do not establish but claim to assume simply and without proof in virtue of a concession. [169] The reciprocal mode occurs when what ought to be confirmatory of the object under investigation needs to be made convincing by the object under investigation; then, being unable to take either in order to establish the other, we suspend judgment about both.[4]
With reference to these five tropes, the first and third are a short summary of the ten original grounds of doubt which were the basis of the earlier scepticism.[3] The three additional ones show a progress in the sceptical system, and a transition from the common objections derived from the fallibility of sense and opinion, to more abstract and metaphysical grounds of doubt.
According to Victor Brochard, "the five tropes can be regarded as the most radical and most precise formulation of skepticism that has ever been given. In a sense, they are still irresistible today."[5]
Fries' trilemma
Jakob Friedrich Fries formulated a similar trilemma in which statements can be accepted either: [6]
dogmatically
supported by infinite regress
based on perceptual experience (psychologism).
The first two possibilities are rejected by Fries as unsatisfactory, requiring us to adopt the third option. Karl Popper argued that a way to avoid the trilemma was to use an intermediate approach incorporating some dogmatism, some infinite regress and some perceptual experience. [7]
Albert's formulation
The argument proposed by Hans Albert runs as follows: All of the only three ("tri"-lemma) possible attempts to get a certain justification must fail:
All justifications in pursuit of certain knowledge have also to justify the means of their justification and doing so they have to justify anew the means of their justification. Therefore there can be no end. We are faced with the hopeless situation of 'infinite regression'.
One can justify with a circular argument, but this sacrifices its validity.
One can stop at self-evidence or common sense or fundamental principles or speaking 'ex cathedra' or at any other evidence, but in doing so the intention to install certain justification is abandoned.
An English translation of a quote from the original German text by Albert is as follows:[8]
Here, one has a mere choice between:
an infinite regression, which appears because of the necessity to go ever further back, but isn't practically feasible and doesn't, therefore, provide a certain foundation;
a logical circle in the deduction, which is caused by the fact that one, in the need to found, falls back on statements which had already appeared before as requiring a foundation, and which circle does not lead to any certain foundation either; and finally:
a break of searching at a certain point, which indeed appears principally feasible, but would mean a random suspension of the principle of sufficient reason.
Albert stressed repeatedly that there is no limitation of the Münchhausen trilemma to deductive conclusions. The verdict concerns also inductive, causal, transcendental, and all otherwise structured justifications. They all will be in vain.
Therefore certain justification is impossible to attain. Once having given up the classical idea of certain knowledge one can stop the process of justification where one wants to stop, presupposed one is ready to start critical thinking at this point always anew if necessary.
This trilemma rounds off the classical problem of justification in the theory of knowledge.
The failure of proving exactly any truth as expressed by the Münchhausen trilemma does not have to lead to dismissal of objectivity, as with relativism. One example of an alternative is the fallibilism of Karl Popper and Hans Albert, accepting that certainty is impossible, but that it is best to get as close as we can to truth, while remembering our uncertainty.
In Albert's view the impossibility to prove any certain truth is not in itself a certain truth. After all, you need to assume some basic rules of logical inference in order to derive his result, and in doing so must either abandon the pursuit of "certain" justification, as above, or attempt to justify these rules, etc. He suggests that it has to be taken as true as long as nobody has come forward with a truth which is scrupulously justified as a certain truth. Several philosophers defied Albert's challenge; his responses to such criticisms can be found in his long addendum to his Treatise on Critical Reason (see below) and later articles (see publication list).
Critical rationalism
Duhem-Quine thesis
Gödel's incompleteness theorems
Pyrrhonism
Tarski's undefinability theorem
What the Tortoise Said to Achilles
^ Dogmatismus - unendlicher Regreß - Psychologismus Albert, Traktat über kritische Vernunft, 1968, p. 11, cited after Westermann, Argumentationen und Begründungen in der Ethik und Rechtslehre, 1977, p. 15.
^ Robert Nola, "Conceptual and Non-Conceptual Content", in : ^Karl Popper: A Centenary Assessment vol 2, 2006, p. 158.
^ a b Diogenes Laërtius, ix.
^ Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhōneioi hypotypōseis i., from Annas, J., Outlines of Scepticism Cambridge University Press. (2000).
^ Brochard, V., The Greek Skeptics.
^ J. F. Fries, Neue oder anthropologische Kritik der Vernunft (1828 to 1831).
^ Karl Popper, "The Logic of Scientific Discovery", p. 87
^ Albert, H., Traktat über kritische Vernunft, p. 15 (Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1991).
Hans Albert, Treatise on Critical Reason, Princeton University Press, 1985, chap. I, sect. 2.
For Hans Albert's scientific articles see List of Publications in Hans Albert @ opensociety.de
Epistemic regress at PhilPapers
Baron Münchhausen
Paramore, Evidence, Proof theory, Proofreading, Mell
Foundherentism
Epistemology, Foundationalism, Coherentism, %s%s, Bertrand Russell
Truth, Infinity, Consciousness, Proposition, Aristotle
I know that I know nothing
Epistemology, Socrates, Latin, Sic, Skepticism


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Everyone Goes Through This, You Are Not That Special
Lady Bird is an accomplishment, an absolutely breathtaking experience that accomplishes a lot, on screen, quickly and shows, in-depth, mother daughter relationships that is full of familial tension. It's a treat for people and is quite relatable; full of drama, and real themes that can be a little too close to home. This movie isn't about what we like to talk about, behind closed doors and at a very personal level. Family drama is always with us, no matter who we are and this film depicts that accurately, though in a more extravagant and colorful way. This movie is inspired by Gerwig's own life and is presented as her debut feature. While often times, you may feel as if the movies may be a bit too self-indulgent, this movie has not left any stones unturned when it comes to bringing the audience a slew of thrillingly real and deeply personal stories.
A story of family, love and life
Lady Bird takes the protagonist through her mature time, as she becomes Danny's sweetheart (no intimacy; too much "respect," Danny says) and then comes in with a faster, richer masses, departing Julie adrift. The movie will try to rejigger her work to be cool enough to earn the high view of snotty Jenna. Careful intimacy with Danny is accompanied by Young man No. 2, Kyle (Timothee Chalamet), a charismatic brooder who's a drummer and, Sweetheart Bird realizes, a not-ideal partner in ways absolutely not the same as Danny.Crises are skirted, secrets presented strongly, lessons are discovered. Lady Bird is too best if you accept demonising anybody, or for ennobling Ronan's brash but coming in contact with protagonist with techniques that produce her appear pretty much than relatably human being. Gerwig and her cinematographer, Sam Levy, maintain a lightly idealised shine in the exteriors and the low-light interiors.
Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird is a fascinating story of love, life and arriving old. Christine McPherson (Saoirse Ronan), a 17 yr old personal proclaimed 'female parrot' feels caged in her small community hometown of Sacramento, California.NEW YORK street lights, shiny magazine influenced beauty, the illusive enchantment of story book love and an irrepressible penchant for complex affluence beckon Sweetheart Bird to multiply her wings and soar into horizons of no dreams deferred and the undisguised voyage of life.A lovely, kaleidoscopic voyage of running after personal passions, conquering beat and increasing to the task, Lady Bird is a must watch.
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Mak Filiser's Poem Is Really Phyllis McCormack's Poem. They're Both Good.
I came across a poem supposedly written by Mak Filiser called "Cranky Old Man." Filiser, it's written, died in the geriatric ward of a nursing home and staff found his poem as they were cleaning his room.
After researching, I discovered the poem wasn't written by Filiser but by a UK geriatric nurse, Phyllis McCormack, in 1966. Her version is about an older woman and is titled, "Look Closer." "Cranky Old Man" is an adaptation of McCormack's work by David Griffith (or someone) written for the American market.
This is the photo of "Mak Filiser" that accompanied "Cranky Old Man." The story may be fake, but the person in this photo is real. I feel conflicted posting it because I don't know if the man gave consent. But his face and the poem do evoke similar feelings.
* Crabbit. (cra·bit) Dialect, Scottish slang. adjective. 1. ill-tempered, grumpy, curt, disagreeable; in a bad mood [esp. in the morning].
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Home » Judaism 101 » Mitzvot » Philosophy of Mitzvot
The Commandments: Part One
Sep 11, 2004 | by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan
Understanding the origin and obligation of mitzvot.
An excerpt from Rabbi Kaplan's "The Handbook of Jewish Thought"
The means through which Israel gains the good for which God created the universe are the commandments. If Adam would have kept his one commandment (not to eat from the tree), then he would have immediately attained this goal. Since he did not, numerous commandments are required.
It is for this reason that the Torah contains many commandments. It is thus taught, "God wanted to benefit Israel; He therefore gave them Torah and commandments in abundance." The essence of the Torah is its commandments.
There are basically two types of commandments. In some places the Torah mandates certain action. This is a positive or mandatory commandment (mitzvah aseh). In other places, the Torah prohibits certain action. This is a negative or prohibitive commandment (mitzvah lo saaseh). There is a tradition that God included 613 commandments in the Torah. Of these, 248 are positive, while 365 are negative.
Many of these commandments, however, deal with the laws of purity and sacrifice, and were thus only applicable when the Holy Temple stood in Jerusalem. Therefore, of all the commandments, only 369 apply today. Of these, 126 are positive, and 243 are negative.
Even of these, however, many only pertain to special cases or circumstances. The total number of commandments which apply to everyone under all conditions is 270. Of these, 48 are positive, and 222 are negative.
Revelation at Sinai
All the commandments, including their interpretations and laws, were given to Moses during the 40 days that he spent on Mount Sinai. God thus told Moses, "Come up to Me on the mountain and stay there. I will give you tablets of stone, as well as the Torah and commandments which I have written, so that you may teach them" (Exodus 24:12). Everything was thus given on Sinai.
There were numerous commandments that had been known at earlier times. The seven universal ("Noahide") commandments had been given to Adam and Noah. Later, circumcision was given to Abraham, and a dietary law not to eat the sciatic nerve (gid ha-nasheh), to Jacob. Jacob's son, Judah, instituted the levirate marriage (yibum). Detailed laws of marriage and divorce were given to Amram in Egypt.
We do not learn laws from acts done before the revelation at Sinai.
The Israelites were also given other laws before they reached Mount Sinai. The rules of the Sabbath were initially given to them when they first received the manna. Likewise, the laws regarding the honor due one's parents and certain judicial regulations were given at Marah, shortly before the Israelites came to Sinai.
Nevertheless, the final authority for all the commandments was their revelation at Sinai. As soon as the Israelites entered into this covenant with God, they were only bound by the Torah as revealed by Moses. At this time, they were absolved of all previous commandments. It is for this reason that we do not learn laws from acts done before the revelation at Sinai.
Therefore, although the Torah embodied earlier laws, and was written over a 40-year period, its commandments all became binding at the instant of their acceptance at Sinai. As a religion, therefore, Judaism did not evolve, but came into being at once with the revelation at Sinai.
Oath and Covenant
The Israelites accepted the Torah through both an oath and a covenant.
In presenting the Torah to the Israelites, Moses bound them by an oath. This oath was taken by all Israel at Mount Sinai. It is eternally binding, on all future generations.
The covenant consisted of three elements. First was circumcision for all males, just before the Exodus. Second was immersion for the entire people just before the revelation at Sinai. Third, they offered sacrifice. It was through this that the Israelites declared, "We will do and obey" (Exodus 24:7).
When a gentile converts to Judaism, he must accept all the commandments, in the same way that all Israelites did originally.
Whenever a gentile converts to Judaism, he essentially duplicates this oath and covenant. He must accept upon himself all the commandments, and then if he is male, undergo circumcision. Both male and female must then immerse in a valid mikveh. In this manner, they enter a covenant in the same way that all Israelites did originally.
It was this oath and covenant that established the special relationship between God and Israel for all time. Moses thus said, "You are standing before God your Lord… to enter into the covenant and oath that God your lord is making with you today. Today, He will thus permanently make you His people, and He will be your God, as He swore to our fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It is not with you alone that I am making this covenant and oath,.. but also with those who are not here this day" (Deut. 29:9-14).
Binding Nature
The Torah and its commandments were given only to Israel. It is thus written, "Moses bound us by the Torah, an inheritance for the community of Jacob" (Deut. 33:4). Similarly, "[God] declared His word to Jacob, His decrees and laws to Israel; He has not done this to any other nation" (Psalms 147:19, 20).
Therefore, no law appearing in the Torah is binding on any people other than Israel. The only exceptions are the universal (Noahide) laws, which are known by tradition to be binding on the entire human race. This is usually indicated by a special scriptural redundancy, where the commandment is repeated especially for gentiles.
Therefore, there is no case where the law is stricter for gentiles than for a Jew. There are a few exceptions to this general rule, but these are all governed by specific traditions.
Immutable Commands
One of the foundations of our faith is the affirmation that the commandments were given for all times. It is thus written, "Things that are revealed to us belong to us and our children forever, to keep all the words of this Torah" (Deut. 29:28).
It is forbidden to add or subtract any commandment from the Torah.
It is therefore forbidden to add or subtract any commandments from the Torah. It is thus written, "All this word which I command you, you shall be careful to do it. You shall not add to it, nor diminish from it" (Deut. 13:1). It is forbidden even to interpret a commandment so as to add a prohibition not included in the tradition.
God gave the Sanhedrin the power to legislate new laws as they were required. These laws are called 'rabbinical commandments" (mitzvot de-rabanan). When legislating, however, the Sanhedrin had to be most careful to distinguish their legislation from actual Torah laws. There are major differences in strictness between "rabbinical commandments" and commandments of the Torah (mitzvot de-oriyta).
The Ten Commandments served as an introduction to the other commandments. They contain the essence of the entire Torah.
The Ten Commandments had formed the basis of morality and religion even in the times of the Patriarchs. They contain the main principles necessary for the survival of the Jewish people, both religiously and ethically.
God gathered the entire Israelite people to the foot of Mount Sinai and publicly declared the Ten Commandments. They were then written on two stone tablets. These tablets were placed in the Holy Ark, which was eventually stored in the Holy of Holies in the Temple.
It was through the Ten Commandments that the covenant was sealed. It is thus written, "[God] proclaimed to you His covenant, which He commanded you to keep -- Ten Commandments -- and He wrote them on tablets of stone" (Deut. 4:13).
In some places, the Tablets were called "tablets of the covenant" (lucot ha-brit). This indicates that they contain the words through which the covenant at Sinai was sealed. Elsewhere, they are called "tablets of the testimony" (luchot ha-edut), since they are permanent, tangible testimony to the existence of this covenant. The Tablets thus represented the physical reality of the covenant, the special relationship between God and Israel.
The reading of the Ten Commandments was originally included in the daily liturgy. There were, however, heretics who claimed that only these ten were actually given by God. Because of them, the reading was deleted. Moreover, it was legislated that they not be read as part of any public service. Although the Ten Commandments are of cardinal importance, all the commandments were given by God and are essential to Judaism.
Personal Tastes
The main significance of the commandments is the fact that they were given by God Himself. They are therefore the only means through which we can approach Him and fulfill his purpose in creation.
The commandments make Judaism more than a mere religious philosophy. It is a way of life involving action and observance, rather than a mere confession of faith.
The commandments define a higher, Divine logic.
The commandments should be observed because they were given by God, and not because logic demands it. The commandments themselves define a higher logic, as it is written, "Observe and keep [the commandments], for this is our wisdom and understanding in the sign of the nations" (Deut. 4:6).
Similarly, the commandments should not be kept because of one's personal tastes, but because of their divine origin. It is thus taught that one should not refrain from eating pork because it disgusts him, but because it is forbidden by God.
It is likewise prohibited to keep any commandment as a superstitious luck charm. In no case were the commandments given for our own material pleasure.
From "The Handbook of Jewish Thought" (Vol. 1), Maznaim Publishing. Reprinted with permission.
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(2) Karen, September 15, 2012 4:09 PM
I just got out of prison and was fortunate to stumble into writings of Aryeh Kaplan while spending time there. Now I am out, and I am doing all I can to learn more. Your site and information is most helpful. thank you.
(1) moshe kerr, March 27, 2006 12:00 AM
The oath/brit relationship
Bnai Adam had 6 commandments not 1. Noach through prophesy gained an even deeper vision of the commandments and understood 7 commandments. Avraham through prophesy gained an even deeper vision of the brit of Adam and kept all the commandments. Moshe the man of Elohim our Teacher what Avraham perceived Moshe publically revealed as the depths of the commandment relationship vis a vis the brit of Adam and Noach. The Torah was revealed at Sinai because all nations of the world could accept or reject the Torah. The midrash specifically mentioned Esau and Ishmael because as descendents of Avraham, they not only rejected the Torah revelation but the essential brit of bnai Adam. This has scriptural precedent in Avraham's doubts if the nations kept the oath/brit of bnai Noach or not, hence he instructed her to tell to any one that asked that she was Avraham's sister. What Avraham had a doubt by the time that Israel lived in Egypt have a large population the king that knew not Yosef had clearly rejected the bnai noach government of Yosef. The oath/brit of bnai noach intails not doing acts of sexual immodesty, theft or oppression to one's allied peoples. A brit being a formal alliance. A precedent for this examine the public Torah reading on Yom HaKippor. The brit revelation of Sinai did not constitute as a new brit but rather a deep and historic revelation of the brit of bnai Adam. The first word of áøàùéú contains àù áøéú. Because bnai Adam profaned their oath/brit the floods destroyed the world and the Talmud coined the term "fear of heaven". The B'hag learned that each individual in every generation has an obligation to cut the oath/brit. His precedent being King David's tikkun of 100 blessings. The prophet Havakuk understood that a blessing was in the family of an oath. That's why R. Yochanan taught that a blessing requires The Name and Kingship to thereby distinguish a blessing from a praise. The Book of Ester understands Kingship as choice. The Gra learned that "the King" was a hint unto the Elohim. According to the 29th middah of R. Yose HaGalle a hint means a numerical value. The numerical value of "the King" equals "Haman". The end of the 3rd chapter of Megilla, teaches that reading the Megilla requires Kavannah. The kavannah being when the name of Haman is pronounce to make a noise with the intent of wiping out the name, and when "the king" is read a person should have the intent to accept the Torah, because that's what happened on Purim! The bali tosafot learned Elohi Avraham as being as if kingship: first that otherwise the standing prayer lacks kingship and therefore does not qualify as a blessing, and secondly because kingship requires choice. Just as we pray on the festivals that Hashem chose us! The B'hag understood that if a person had intent to stand before a Safer Torah and pray the "standing prayer" that this person did a commandment from the Torah, though the nusoch of the 18 blessings is rabbinic the intent to cut a brit is one of the 613 commandments. To cut a brit requires an oath. No oath no brit period. To make an oath a person has to stand before a Safer Torah. The prayer of the Anshe Knesset HaGadol entailed standing before a Safer Torah. Where's the best place to pray, and what's in that place?! RaMBaM and Rashi dispute if a blessing is in the family of an oath from the Torah or from the rabbis. Depending upon which sheta that you learn R Akiva R Yochannan and Rash Lakish that a blessing qualifies as an oath. Hence prayer requires kavannah and a person who prays without kavannah is as if he did not pray. The simple meaning of the words do not help a person to fulfill his obligation because prayer requires kavannah
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Boiling down was the term used in Australia for the process of rendering the fat from animal carcasses to produce tallow. It was a common activity on farms and pastoral properties to produce tallow to be made into soap and candles for domestic use.

Boiling down was industrialised in the 1840s, providing the rural sector with a valuable export commodity. It was particularly significant as it came during the 1840s economic depression when the pastoral industry was at a standstill and sheep and cattle otherwise had little value in the colonies.

Beginnings

The export market for Australian wool suffered a severe price slump in the 1840s. Low demand for cattle and sheep to stock new pastoral runs and the small local market for beef, mutton or lamb meant cattle and sheep had little value in the colonies. Boiling-down works provided a vital source of income to the squatters when sheep were selling for as low as sixpence each. Pastoralist George Russell built a boiling works at Golf Hill Station, in the Western District (Victoria), and expressed his belief that, "melting down the Stock has been the salvation of the colonies."

Henry O'Brien of Yass experimented with boiling down sheep in large cauldrons to extract the tallow (fat for soap and candle making). He publicised his experiments in an article that appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald on 19 June 1843. It was reprinted in various other colonial newspapers and is credited with kick-starting the production of tallow as a new export industry in rural Australia. Even when the wool price recovered, boiling down works helped maintain a minimum price for sheep of around five shillings per head.

Langlands and Fulton operated an iron foundry at 131 Flinders St West, Melbourne, Australia, where Fulton developed a technique for boiling-down sheep for tallow around in 1843-44 when squatters slaughtered their otherwise worthless sheep in the thousands due to a rural depression.

In Victoria, Joseph Raleigh is credited with one of the first large scale boiling-down works, when in 1840 he erected a plant near the Stoney Creek Backwash in Yarraville. From a very small quantity of 50 tons of tallow produced in 1843, to 430 in tons in 1844, over 4500 tons, worth £130,000 were produced in 1850 in Victoria alone.

Robert King opened the first boiling down works in the Bremer River area of Ipswich, Queensland in 1847, followed by John Campbell and John Smith, creating a self-contained village of Town Marie.

Further reading
K. L. Fry, "Boiling down in the 1840s: A Grimy Means to a Solvent End," Labour History  No. 25 (Nov., 1973), pp. 1–18

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Q: "I haven't" "I hadn't" "I didn't" Which one is the best in the context? Please imagine you liked Super Mario when you were a kid and that you are going to play it for the first time in a decade or two.
Before playing it, you'd say
"Oh, I haven't played Super Mario since I was a kid."
wouldn't you?
Then, what about when you are playing?
1A) Oh, I haven't played Super Mario since I was a kid.
1B) Oh, I hadn't played Super Mario since I was a kid.
1C) Oh, I didn't play Super Mario since I was a kid.
How about when you have just finished playing it?
2A) Oh, I haven't played Super Mario since I was a kid.
2B) Oh, I hadn't played Super Mario since I was a kid.
3C) Oh, I didn't play Super Mario since I was a kid.
Thank you.

A: A is normal.
C is ungrmmatical in my British English dialect, whch doesn't allow a simple past with since. I believe this is not true of all varieties of English.
1B is possible but not in the circumstances you describe. When you use the so-called "past perfect" you are choosing to view the event(s) from some later time in the past; so if you are telling somebody about it tomorrow, then you might say "I hadn't played SM since I was a kid", implicitly setting the temporal focus to when you played it today (in the past when you are talking).
For the same reason, 2B is just about possible: for some reason you are choosing to set the temporal focus at the time (just past) when you were playing it. But 2A would be just as good.

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The sections of the bowl that represent vitamins and minerals are quite small, but these ingredients are critical nonetheless. Vitamins and minerals play vital roles in tissue growth and maintenance; the immune system cannot function normally without them. Fruits, vegetables, grains and meats are all natural food sources of vitamins and minerals and provide the precise balance that is necessary for good health.
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Q: QModbusTcpClient cant connect to PLC Im trying to connect to PLC device. I set all configuration in device correct, I was sucessfull connected and tested communication between PC and PLC device by ModbusSlave software.
My QT code is:
    PLC = new QModbusTcpClient();
    m_port = 502;
    m_host = "10.100.101.2"; //PLC IP
    PLC->setConnectionParameter(QModbusDevice::NetworkPortParameter, this->m_port);
    PLC->setConnectionParameter(QModbusDevice::NetworkAddressParameter, this->m_host);
    PLC->setTimeout(5000);
    PLC->setNumberOfRetries(10);

    qDebug()<<"State: " << PLC->state();

    qDebug()<<"Try to connect...";
    if(!PLC->connectDevice()){
        qDebug()<<"Not connected to PLC: " << PLC->errorString();

    }
    else{
        qDebug()<<"State: " << PLC->state();

        while(PLC->state()!=QModbusDevice::ConnectedState){
        QThread::msleep(5);
        }
        qDebug()<<"Connection to PLC succesed" << PLC->state();
        emit PLCConnected();
    }

The output is:
State:  QModbusDevice::UnconnectedState
Try to connect...
State:  QModbusDevice::ConnectingState

A: first, what does PLC->connectDevice() do?
second, you can not wait for connection in the same thread, just subscribe to QModbusDevice::stateChanged signal and look for state changes


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Harlan Kelly Charged For Taking Bribes In Public Bidding Process
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General Manager Of San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, Harlan Kelly Charged With Honest Services Wire Fraud For Taking Bribes In Public Bidding Process
Bribes Included Family Trip To China With Hotel Stays, Meals, and Gifts
SAN FRANCISCO (STL.News) Harlan Kelly, the General Manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SF PUC), has been charged in a federal criminal complaint with honest services wire fraud, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Craig D. Fair.
The complaint alleges that Kelly, 58, of San Francisco, engaged in a long-running bribery scheme and corrupt partnership with Walter Wong, a San Francisco construction company executive and permit expediting consultant who ran or controlled multiple entities doing business with the City of San Francisco. The complaint alleges that as part of the scheme, Wong provided items of value to Kelly in exchange for official acts by Kelly that benefited or attempted to benefit Wong's business ventures.
"Public officials owe their honest services to the people of San Francisco," said U.S. Attorney Anderson. "Bribery scams undermine our faith in City government. Our investigation into City Hall corruption will continue."
"The allegations against Harlan Kelly and the nine other individuals charged in this case are extremely troubling. The citizens of San Francisco deserve nothing less than transparency, honesty, and integrity from their city officials. However, through the course of this ongoing investigation, the FBI has uncovered a pattern of criminal activity committed by those in positions of trust," said FBI Special Agent in Charge Craig D. Fair. "The FBI is surging our resources in this investigation, and we urge anyone with information on this matter, or any other suspected public corruption, to come forward and contact the FBI."
The complaint alleges that Kelly, appointed in 2012 to be the SF PUC's General Manager by Mayor Ed Lee, developed an extensive relationship with Wong that involved coded text messages, multiple international trips paid for or subsidized by Wong, cash exchanges, free meals, and even personal car service provided by Wong or by Wong's employees to Kelly. One example in the complaint alleges that Wong paid travel and expenses for Kelly and his family during a March 2016 vacation that the Kelly family took to Hong Kong and China. The complaint alleges Wong paid for hotel expenses and incidentals such as meal and jewelry purchases. The complaint also alleges that Kelly's airfare was purchased with a credit card to create a record of the expense, but the airfare was later reimbursed by Wong with cash deposited into Kelly's bank account. The complaint further alleges that Kelly acknowledged the gifts he received from Wong in China using an encrypted messaging application, writing to Wong: "Thank you for the best family vacation ever! A little something for everyone!"
The complaint further alleges that during this same time Wong was seeking a multi-million dollar contract from the SF PUC for Green Source Trading, LLC, a company Wong ran through his son, to convert thousands of San Francisco city streetlights to smart LED technology. Shortly after the bidding for that contract ended, the complaint alleges Wong performed extensive repair work on Kelly's personal residence, provided to Kelly at a substantial discount.
As part of Wong's agreement with the government, he pleaded guilty to conspiracies to commit honest services fraud and money laundering and is now providing information to the government. According to the complaint, Wong provided evidence that he gave these benefits to Kelly because of Kelly's position at the PUC, and Wong expected that Kelly would in return use his official position to benefit Wong's business ventures, including helping Wong's attempts to win business from the PUC to convert streetlights to LED. The complaint alleges Kelly and Wong repeatedly communicated about the project before it was bid, and during the bid process Kelly provided Wong with confidential non-public information, including documents containing inside information that were hand-delivered to Wong. Kelly engineered at least one delay in the process, the complaint alleges, to benefit Wong. These acts gave Wong an unfair competitive advantage in the bid process, though in the end Wong withdrew his bid due to multiple contract changes.
The charges contained in the criminal complaint are mere allegations. As in any criminal case, the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.
Kelly is charged with one count of honest services wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1343 and 1346. If convicted of this count, he faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000, or not more than the greater of twice the gross gain or twice the gross loss. However, any sentence following conviction would be imposed by the court only after consideration of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and the federal statute governing imposition of a sentence, 18 U.S.C. § 3553.
Kelly is out of custody and is expected to make his initial appearance in federal court in San Francisco on December 8, 2020, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler.
The case is being prosecuted by the Corporate Fraud Strike Force of the U.S. Attorney's Office. The case is being investigated by the FBI and IRS Criminal Investigation.
SOURCE: USDOJ.Today
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