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Assessing Kofi Annan's role and impact on Rohingya crisis
By Dr Maung Zarni
From the outset, I have dismissed Kofi Annan's involvement as nothing more than a public relations exercise launched against the backdrop of strident calls for the UN Commission of Inquiry.
That is, after having done background checks on the 3-Rakhine commissioners on his commission, the scope and the underlying philosophy on which the commission seems premised, and the make-up.
It has made its initial impact on the human rights networks internationally
and the Rohingya activists themselves:
The announcement below poured water on the burning coal - calls for COI.
Many seem intimidated, impressed or pleased to get former UN Secretary General Annan and Chair of The Elders (retired heads of state and other famous politicians). The "welcomers"
ignore well-documented criminal role Kofi Annan played in the death of 800,000;
Annan concealed a crucial and urgent cable addressed to him and which he received straight from the field - Rwanda - by Head of the Peacekeeping Force, Canadian Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire on Jan. 11, 1994 warning of the risk of genocide. Annan was the Head of UN Peacekeeping Force in New York headquarters.
Annan chose NOT to share it with the Security Council, not did he follow up such an important piece of evidence deserved.
That was according to the UN-sponsored inquiry led by a former Swedish Prime Minister.
https://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/201/39240.html
The rest is history.
To be fair to those who welcomed it and showed initial enthusiasm, having a 3-member international team including Annan was certainly better than the previous Rakhine Inquiry Commission formed on 17 Aug 2012 - under previous Thein Sein regime. It was chaired by old history tutor at Mandalay and a friend, with another old, but now former friend Kyaw Yin Hlaing as Secretary.
The RIC ended up - again as I expected - up nothing more than a tool for whitewash for the regime-sanctioned mass violence and destruction of Rohingyas that took place in June and Oct 2012.
Now have a quick read at what Annan claimed officially his commission was going to.
http://www.kofiannanfoundation.org/mediation-and-crisis-resolution/advisory-commission-rakhine-state/
There are 4 problems with Kofi Annan Commission:
1) NO ROHINGYA REPRESENTATION
like the previous Burmese-only Presidential Inquiry Commission of 2012, Kofi Annan Commission has absolutely no Rohingya representation. (Burmese Muslims do NOT represent Rohingya Muslims and are NOT seem by Rohingyas as their representational voices, naturally).
2) Of the 3 Rakhines, Saw Khint Tint (Rakhine woman leader) holds well-known and well-documented genocidal views towards Rohingya; 2) Mr WinMra defended the Burmese military as its ambassador mass atrocities in the past at UN and other fora including Geneva and New York, and is currently head of the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission, which does NOT respect ROhingya's right to self-identify; and 3) Dr/Mr Tha Hla Shwe recently denies that there is any racial or religious discrimination - in Rakhine or in Burma; that's rather blatant in law of the passage of 4 race-and-faith-based national laws, and everything else that has been going on including the Burma Army leadership claiming its institutional duties now includes the defence of Buddhism and "Burmese" race.
3) Allegations of mass atrocities repeated in waves are excluded from its focus
In the last 4 years there have been credible and well-documented reports of international human rights crimes committed against the Rohingya. Those reports come from the UN Special Rapporteurs on human rights situation in Myanmar. And they identity the role of state security troops and authorities in these rights abuses. Besides there is a growing body of legal, sociological analyses and field studies which increasingly adopt a common view: a genocide is in the process.
The Commission's scope is only on the two communities - Rakhine and Rohingya the latter of which cannot even be officially mentioned.
4) its sentiment is ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT will lessen the tensions in the communal conflicts and pave the way for future reconciliation between these two communities.
Because the Commission completely ignores or effectively unaware of the state's CENTRAL role in formulating the destruction of Rohingyas as a group it is keen to serve Development up as the panacea.
Kofi Annan had made it clear that his mission was NOT about investigating allegations of international crimes and human rights violations, despite the human rights activists urging him to do so.
Now Kofi Annan has clearly veered off the official scope of his Commission and began to make comments to the media which can only be construed as words of the genocide whitewash.
Kofi Annan downplays claims of Myanmar genocide
This is extremely harmful to the Rohingyas who have jus begun to receive the kind of grassroots and worldwide attention they deserve.
Despite his fame, Kofi is the man who has Rwandan blood on his hand: 800,000 of them.
I will NOT trust this man's integrity, will to stop or motives in getting involved a case which is increasingly described by researchers and scholars, and law practitioners with years of personal and direct understanding of the nature of persecution.
How is Kofi Annan in a position to 'downplay or confirm" any allegations of genocide?
He's spent a total of less than 7 days in Rakhine, chauffeured around in an SUV, accompanied by anti-Rohingya Rakhines and all choreographed by Aung San Suu Kyi's Office in Nay Pyi Daw - over two whirlwind visits.
It took years to collect evidence, interview Rohingyas, army officers, Rakhine, etc. as well as do archival research in Burmese, Bengali and English to try to assess the nature of the persecution and claims of rights abuses.
After nearly 6 years in his capacity as Special Rap on human rights in Myanmar the
Argentinian human rights lawyer Tomas Ojea Quintana has publicly stated that Myanmar is committing a genocide, that UN has an unwritten policy of not calling a genocide genocide and that Aung San Suu Kyi shows no signs of ending it.
I find it extraordinarily IRRESPONSIBLE, ARROGANT AND CALLOUS to dismiss allegations of atrocity crimes by the State of Myanmar - in light of the on-going media reports based on fleeing Rohingya refugees - by now 20,000 - in Bangladesh, telephone transmissions, etc.
Two most recent reports here - one from AFP:
21,000 Rohingya flee to Bangladesh from Myanmar: IOM
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE | Published — Tuesday 6 December 2016
http://www.arabnews.com/node/1020136/world
Myanmar Rakhine: Inside the closed Rakhine region
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-38232929
Additionally, it is extremely stupid for Kofi Annan to make dismissive comments about these allegations whereas in fact there is a growing body of serious longitudinal (multiyear and on-going) studies of the atrocities against Rohingya.
Here is my short-list of studies and analyses.
We must not allow this career UN bureaucrat to let another 800,000 destroyed.
Their destruction may not come as swift as Tutsis in Rwanda.
But as Lancet's Harvard study pointed out - just look at the doctor: patient ratio in the two Rohingya towns of Buthidaung and Maung Daw, you will get a deeply troubling and shocking picture of the kind of existence Rohingyas have been forced to lead - by the national hybrid-gov of Suu Kyi-Min Aung Hlaing:
1: 150,000 Rohingya
1: 670 (non-Rohingya) in near by Sittwe.
Raphael Lemkin, the man who gave us the term genocide, discussed how guns and weapons were not the only instruments of genocide.
Sub-survival level nutritional provisions are a part of a genocidal arsenal.
I condemn both Suu Kyi and Kofi Annan for their criminal irresponsibility in dismissing and downplaying the allegations of genocide.
[1] Confronting the genocide in Myanmar, Katherine Southwick, Asia and
Pacific Policy Society, 1 Dec. 2016.
http://www.policyforum.net/confronting-genocide-myanmar/
[1] The Slow Genocide of Rohingyas, Amartya Sen, Harvard Conference on
the Rohingya Persecution, 4 Nov. 2014.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugHhAwARb98
[1] Recognising the Rohingya People, Editorial, Lancet, 1 Dec. 2016
http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(16)32458-8.pdf
The Rohingya People of Myanmar: Health, Human Rights and Identity,
Lancet, 1 Dec. 2016
Rohingya Face Health Care Bias in parts of Asia, study finds, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2016.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/05/world/asia/rohingya-myanmar-health-care.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0
[1] A Genocide In the Making, Foreign Policy, Sir Geoffrey Nice and
Francis Wade, Foreign Policy, 30 Nov. 2016
http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/11/30/a-genocide-in-the-making-burma-myanmar-rohingya/
[1] Genocide Roundtable, Oxford University Conference on Myanmar's
Democratic Transition and the Rohingyas, 11 May 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-Ww8GLpVUo
[1] Dr. Gregory Stanton at Myanmar Muslims Genocide Awareness
Convention 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR9qkzJexLs
[1] Burma's Million-Strong Rohingya Population Faces 'Final Stages of
Genocide,' Says Report, TIME, 28 Oct. 2015.
http://time.com/4089276/burma-rohingya-genocide-report-documentary/
[1] Clinic Study Finds Evidence of Genocide in Myanmar, Yale Law
School, 29 Oct. 2015
https://www.law.yale.edu/yls-today/news/clinic-study-finds-evidence-genocide-myanmar
[1] The Slow-Burning Genocide of Myanmar's Rohingya, Maung Zarni and
Alice Cowley, Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal, June 2014
http://digital.law.washington.edu/dspace-law/handle/1773.1/1377


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Where to conceal a small colony in modern North America
I'm looking for help hiding a small colony. Imagine a few families, definitely less than 100 people, living in a small community together hidden from the modern world. They use 19th Century technology and seek to remain hidden. Where in North America could this be possible? Assume that they work the land themselves and are self-sufficient.
nuggetheadnuggethead
$\begingroup$ How hidden are you talking about? Just not known about by people around them? All sorts of places. From the tax man? Very much harder. $\endgroup$
– SoronelHaetir
$\begingroup$ @SoronelHaetir I'm mostly asking about being physically hidden from society: airplane flyovers, roads, hikers, and so on. I have a plan for the tax man. $\endgroup$
– nuggethead
$\begingroup$ Welcome to worldbuilding. I provided another answer because I like the question, but for future reference, it's good etiquette to give 24 hours before accepting a question, first so as not to discourage other answers, and then also to give people from around the world a chance to give answers. $\endgroup$
– DWKraus
$\begingroup$ Thanks for the etiquette explanation, DWKraus. I've been on SE for a while but am new to worldbuilding... $\endgroup$
$\begingroup$ Strange question; people do this all the time in the US. AT least one gets that impression from reading the newspapers. $\endgroup$
Sounds like you are setting up something like what exists in M. Night Shyamalan's The Village which is set in Pennsyvania. I think something similar could be set up in any decent sized forest area. Buy a few hundred acres far from the closest town and hollow out a spot in the middle for your settlement. As long as no highways run too close to your land, you could probably even leave it unfenced. Just use the trees to block line of sight. I'd suggest something a little further south so that the winter's aren't horrible. Fighting northern winters with 19th century tech is not fun.
Henry TaylorHenry Taylor
$\begingroup$ Google Earth is a thing, though. $\endgroup$
– ths
$\begingroup$ Yes, your community will be seen. There is no way to avoid that in this modern surveillance society. Maybe the fences and private property signs will be needed after all. $\endgroup$
– Henry Taylor
$\begingroup$ @Henry Taylor yes, similar to The Village but (hopefully) with a better plot and characters! Yeah, Google Earth is a big problem. I suppose I might have to set in pre-google to make it work because that would definitely make it impossible. Thanks for gret answer. $\endgroup$
$\begingroup$ In The Village they were not only hidden from modern society, but modern society was hidden from them, which seems like the more difficult trick. $\endgroup$
– workerjoe
$\begingroup$ They weren't really hidden from modern society, so much as shielded. They had an explicit agreement with the government to disallow entry, reroute air traffic, etc. The Village predated readily available drones, so the already weak premise holds up even less well today. $\endgroup$
– chepner
Hidden in plain sight:
You can't really stop people (at least the government, with satellites) from seeing your community without magic. If nothing else, the folks looking for pot fields will see you growing things in the woods and think you're hiding something. So you need to decide exactly WHAT you're planning to hide. Are you trying to conceal the physical town? Without building the town itself underground, in a historical place, then you can't hide the town. So I'd suggest you need to hide the community.
The Amish live a life just like what you're describing. They live a simple life in a low-tech way, without electricity, cars, etc. But even the Amish have a dependence on the outside for manufactured goods and markets. It's almost impossible to be totally isolated from your surroundings. So think about what it is that your community wants to hide, and specialize hiding that.
So some of these details will depend on exactly what you want to conceal. To physically isolate from the outside world, pick a small island in the middle of the great lakes. I'd go with some place like Beaver Island, which did, actually have such an attempted society. Several attempts have been made to establish insular communities or even independent countries on islands in the great lakes based on ideologies, religions, and such. People will sort-of know you're there, but if you choose to be detached, few people other than in a couple nearby harbors will know about you. With a cover story like, "We're an offshoot of the Mormons/Amish," people will know there are folks there, but that there isn't really anything to see. There are other island areas off of coasts that would provide a similar level of isolation.
Now you need to keep you own people from wanting to leave or know about the outside. Nothing will spread the word about your community like a few ex-members talking about sexual abuse and cult worshipping. What mechanism do you have to keep the members in place? Are they werewolves? Do they all speak a unique language? The physical isolation in the middle of a great lake helps, but someone determined enough WILL leave, and even in The Village, there came a time that someone needed to step outside the fold.
$\begingroup$ You know, an interesting story would be an Amish-style community inhabiting a building in New York City, living a 19th century lifestyle. As the only inhabitants in the building, they'd be able to preserve their isolation and lifestyle considerably - but wouldn't be self-sufficient. $\endgroup$
$\begingroup$ I'm not sure it's so hopeless to hide from government. The thing with cannabis farms that allows them to be detected quite well is that the plants require artificial heating, and it's rather difficult to avoid IR emissions from that. If you're just growing potatoes or whatever, that's not needed. Yes they will probably use fire which would also show up on the heat cameras, but it won't look anything like a cannabis farm. $\endgroup$
– leftaroundabout
$\begingroup$ @leftaroundabout I have heard cannabis growers will clear-cut plots in national forests, plant, and semi-abandon them. Hemp can grow in Siberia, but maybe drug strains aren't optimized for northern climates. vir.nw.ru/hemp/…). $\endgroup$
Indian reservation / Indian reserve
https://native-land.ca/land-area-comparison-canada-and-land-claims/
If you do not want to be found, you can be invisible. Or you can be in an area where people do not look and if they do they assume you are other than what you are. There are very large, very lightly populated tracts of land in North America where native tribes have sovereignty. The Navajo reservation in the US is immense. The linked source estimates 35% of Canada are Aboriginal lands (from the viewpoint of the Canadian government; from Aboriginal viewpoints, most of the country is unceded land).
Persons living in these area might not have to pay tax to state / local government. They might or might not have to pay tax to the native authorities overseeing the land.
I can imagine a scenario where your people live in a remote area in Canada on an Indian reserve. The tribal authority sort of knows some people are up there. They are not sure if they are natives or not. Those people cause no trouble and ask for nothing. The native authority has its hands full with events on their other lands, and so leave well enough alone. Maybe someone checks every couple of years.
The state and national authorities know even less. They might be aware there is a settlement because they see it by plane. They know it is on native lands and assume they are indians, and leave it at that.
Greg Martin
$\begingroup$ +1. This is pretty good, although a lot of the reservations are in the LEAST hospitable places for people with 19th century tech to live (this was often intentional). $\endgroup$
$\begingroup$ This is a creative answer, but native Americans are, as a political body, intensely territorial. Some reservations issue their own passports and require passports for entry. Most have their own government and police forces. IMO, it would have to be a whomping good deal for the Indians to allow such a colony to exist. $\endgroup$
$\begingroup$ The core idea behind this is how you want to set it all up: Have people think that someone else is taking care of it. Agency X thinks it's Y's responsibility, Y thinks Z should do it and Z knows that its obviously X's job. $\endgroup$
– Hobbamok
$\begingroup$ I've worked with indigenous nations and land claims organizations in Canada, and specifically in the north, for over 20 years. Trust me, it ain't gonna happen. The first thing anyone will do is demand to know who the hell these people are and who issued the permits or licenses without going through the proper regulatory and consultation process. $\endgroup$
– Keith Morrison
Frame Challenge
In a comment to another answer you mentioned that your proposal was something like M. Night Shyamalan's "The Village." It would have to be, even to an extent greater than Shyamalan's movie.
It isn't just Google maps/Earth that's the problem. It's hikers and hunters and fishers and mushroom pickers and campers and real estate agents and their clients, and resource developers such as loggers and oil and minerals and... well... the list is very long.
While there are a great many square feet that have never felt the touch of a human foot, there are precious few (if any) square miles that haven't enjoyed the close scrutiny of humanity. And considering the history western civilization has had with small, isolated communities with a strong resentment for outside interference (frequently described as "cults"), it's hard to believe that the moment they were discovered (an inevitability, IMO, the point of this challenge) wasn't also the first day they would be analyzed with a microscope.
And to make things worse, we have drones. Big military drones. Small personal drones. Drones of all makes and models that can travel vast distances at great heights with pretty good cameras.
Your 19th century community would need to engage very, very 21st century legal and political acumen to retain their privacy and isolation. And the moment you allow that, it's really just a group of people pretending to live 19th century standards.
And once you allow that, they can be located almost anywhere in North America. Greater than 60% of the U.S. and probably more than 90% of Canada are rural to wilderness.
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Live Underground
There are many instances of large communities living beneath the surface. The largest one I know of was the City of Derinkuyu in Turkey.
Locate the community in a rural area well away from highways or other communities. I would choose a dense, forested region as it will deter most humans. It will also work to obscure smoke from cooking/heating fires and make aerial detection by satellites and drones harder.
The community's largest difficulty will be growing food. As they would not want to farm above ground, they would need to have sunlight chimneys with mirrors and/or lenses to bring light to the subterranean fields. But still doable with 19th century technology.
Another potential difficulty is the fact that North America has a lot of comparatively hard rock. AFAIK, creating and expanding the community will take time and significant labor in most places with dense forests and may be hard to hide.
JesuismeJesuisme
$\begingroup$ They could live off mushrooms/funghi, and go fully underground. I think the key limitation to the cave approach would be concealing the access points, particularly the traces of human habitation that may accidentally be visible around them. Abandoned mines could also be an option. Ventilation will be a constant challenge under these circumstances, even for a small community in a larger cave. $\endgroup$
– Rick Moritz
$\begingroup$ I had considered underground, but was stumped by food. I've been thinking about the food thing. You can have groves of fruit and nut trees, and use the land beneath as pasture. Plus, if you've ever seen the layouts of native American farming prior to Europeanization, it is not very rigid/straight, with a lot fewer fences, looking from above more like small clearings in the woods. So lots of hard cider and mutton, raspberry brambles and the like. People themselves are unlikely to be all that noticeable. $\endgroup$
Living on an island...
As other answers have said, anywhere on the mainland risks discovery by random hikers, hunters, firefighters, BATF investigators, etc.. Of course you can kill them, but most of them will have told people where they were going, so their disapearance will guarantee some pretty good investigation within a 20 mile area of their last known location and either side of their expected track. In particular, there will be extensive use of helicopters and drones.
More likely would be an offshore community setting up shop on an island which is not too near major routes. Peter Benchley's novel The Island supposes exactly this situation (with pirates). Benchley's community is not fully self-sufficient, requiring regular looting of passing boats, but is reasonably close to it.
Piracy of course requires complete secrecy, so anyone encountering them either has to die or join them. A closed society though merely has to be unwelcoming and turn away visitors. If they only get the occasional lost yachtsman noticing them, word is unlikely to get out for some time. Naturally an aircraft overflying at a reasonably low altitude would see the crops, but it may not be anything they'd particularly comment on afterwards, and most aircraft won't be low enough to see much. It's hard to keep track of exactly which small islands are or aren't inhabited, after all, and some are only inhabited sporadically anyway.
Of course Google Earth will pick up this at some level of detail. Google tends only to use higher-resolution imagery on land though, so you won't be able to see too much; and for anyone to notice this community would require someone to intentionally find this island and zoom in. Eventually this might happen, but it's not that likely. This could even be a plot point for why your protagonist is the first person to find them.
GrahamGraham
They need outside protection
As others have noted, a farming village can't hope to remain undetected just keeping to themselves. So what they need is someone from wider society protecting them.
On the outside you have two options: Either you have a two-part cult (something like "The Innocents live a sheltered live, the Guardians serve them by shielding them."). Then the outside facing cult would be known, would own the land, would provide cover stories, would mostly adapt to modern life and would keep anyone away from the inside cult. In this variant, you may get away without the colony actually knowing.
The other option would be a really long lived notary office. The founder of your colony was really rich, set up an endowment and a contract with the notary office. They act on behalf of the actual owners of the land (the colony as a whole), handle all business with the outside world and keep everyone away. I think in this variant you definitely need someone on the inside knowing. While such a long-running contract seems plausible, the office would want to get in contact at least every decade or so. (This idea is adapted from "One Trillion Dollars", a novel by Andreas Eschbach.)
So on the inside it could be that the cult leader/mayor/priest/xatriarch is the only person with connections to the outside. (I mean, you anyway need a reason why no single person in 125 years ever left the village, so you might as well work in this exception.) There are regular 1:1 meetings and the "ambassador" role is handed down from generation to generation. The ambassador keeps a secret what they actually do when they go into the woods alone every new moon (or whatever).
Jann PoppingaJann Poppinga
Central/Eastern Alaskan wilderness.
Your community will need to identify a large tract of private, undeveloped, forested land with access to water that they know the land-owner never visits. Given that, in certain parts of Alaska, the community will be quite remote and will generally be left alone. Hunting, fishing and basic agriculture done without clearing trees could sustain them without showing a large satellite footprint. Winters will be brutal. Keeping them completely unknown to the county government would be a challenge, but with careful construction of disguised dwellings, or perhaps living in a cave, in the midst of a vast territory, it is not unthinkable. Individuals would probably be seen from time to time, but could explain themselves as hikers or tourists.
wberrywberry
$\begingroup$ Why is everyone assuming satellites? Airphoto surveys are a thing. $\endgroup$
$\begingroup$ @KeithMorrison, not in the Alaskan wilderness they aren't. $\endgroup$
– Mark
$\begingroup$ @Mark, that would be news to NASA and the governments of Alaska and the US who ran the Alaska High Altitude Photography program between 1978 and 1986 to cover the state, and assorted, more targeted programs since then. Of course, more targeted programs have been run since then, often paid for by industry for exploration or planning purposes. Of course, if we want to include satellites, as of 2016 90% of the state was imaged to 2 meter or better resolution. Good luck trying to hide something. Go to the USGS and check out EarthExplorer and zoom in on Alaska. You can count individual trees. $\endgroup$
Frame challenge: Such a colony might die out quickly
Such a small community will have a hard time sparing the calories to feed just a smith.
If the smith dies, or his (single) apprentice is inept, the colony won't make it even into the second generation.
They'll also have no buffer to survive any disaster.
A single bad harvest would force them to give up or die. And a bad harvest can have many causes: Weather, flooding, a horde of wild boars devastating your fields, plant diseases and plant parasites.
They could live as hunters, but then there would be good years and bad years.
The one risk that couldn't be eliminated at all would be human diseases; these can easily kill 10-90% of the population, and below a certain threshold, the colony just isn't viable anymore. (Plus many diseases leave their victims enfeebled, so they can't gather the resources to survive the next winter.)
Long-term, inbreeding will most likely make the colony fail.
It's not very likely to happen in the 1900-today timeframe, but it could be a plot device if some colonist somehow finds out (or knows from pre-colony education) that the general consensus is that a human colony needs roughly 1000 members or more to avoid inbreeding. 100 is far too few for any long-term plans, so the founders would have to be either ignorant, or planned to go out of isolation within a few decades, or have started with 1000 persons but some disaster struckt.
toolforgertoolforger
A strongly appealing scenario for perhaps many people. Hope there are many such communities already out there. Agree that a fully non contact community has a struggle with resources, gene pool, and for most, hard to be long lasting. Have mildly considered similar idea in Australia, set up perhaps in 1840's, and inventing own steam 'gothic' technology. Explored local mountain area and found a few very good sites, one of them showing faint traces of previous long term 'camping'. In a mountain area could always show up as cloud covered spot on mountain in Google Earth, using a cloud generating device. Much of it could be underground. Contact with modern world may not be a problem, just the benefit of a counter cultural refuge. Possible to have PV cells just looking like natural rock etc. Vent for fire in cave, could look like a campers fire just left smoking. Of course if somebody or govt gets suspicious may be difficult to avoid detection, but for most of time nobody is looking.
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[NEF Press Release]
Lewiston, Maine (February 12, 2015) – New England Fights (NEF), America's number-one regional fight promotion, returns to the Androscoggin Bank Colisee in Lewiston, Maine on April 11, 2015 with its seventeenth mixed-martial-arts (MMA) event. Earlier today, the company announced the addition of a professional catchweight bout to the fight card. "Shatterproof 2.0" Derek Shorey (1-1) will meet the returning John "First Class" Raio (2-6) in a "rubber match" at a fight weight of 150-pounds.
Shorey won the last meeting between the two at "NEF XIV" last September via first-round submission. He gained revenge for a submission loss suffered at the hands of Raio when the pair had fought as amateurs two years earlier. The "NEF XIV" bout was promoted as a retirement match for Raio who had decided to step away from active competition to focus on his family and gym First Class MMA in Topsham, Maine. Raio says that he has now found the balance in his life to return to the NEF MMA cage.
"I retired from fighting last September because I wanted to spend more time with my family," said Raio. "They were really supportive during my career and I owed it to them. I have found a balance with my new job at BIW. I am able to train, spend time with my family and operate my gym each day. I love MMA and never stopped training. I was not happy with the way my last fight ended and when the opportunity to compete against Derek Shorey again presented itself, I couldn't turn it down. The idea to fight Derek came from a post on FB that Ben Raven made on Matt Denning's page a few months ago. Derek seemed interested in a rubber match. After getting support from my family, I contacted Matt Petersen and he matched us up."
The two previous bouts between Shorey and Raio had been agreed to at the featherweight limit of 145-pounds. Shorey feels he will have an advantage due to the 150-pound catchweight where he will have to cut very little or even no weight at all.
"I'm excited to fight John again," exclaimed Shorey. "There's almost no weight to cut for a fight at 150, so I'll be fighting him at full strength, and ultimately as the best version of myself that I've ever known. I'm very confident that I will be in the best shape of my life, and due to recent personal events, I think I'm a little colder now than I've ever been. Training at Young's MMA in Bangor as often as I can, being a single parent now, will also drastically improve my game, in every aspect of the sport. John is a really good wrestler and a lot stronger than me, but no one has ever seen what I know I'm capable of, and I plan to change that."
NEF's next MMA event, "NEF XVII," is scheduled to take place on April 11, 2015 at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee in Lewiston, Maine. Bruce "Pretty Boy" Boyington (10-7) will defend the NEF MMA Lightweight Title against number-one contender Jamie Harrison (5-1). In addition, Jarod "Last Minute" Lawton (4-1) meets Dennis Olson (12-7) in a welterweight contest. Tickets for "NEF XVII" start at just $25 and are on sale now at www.TheColisee.com or by calling The Colisee box office at 207.783.2009 x 525. For more information on the event and fight card updates, please visit the promotion's website at www.NewEnglandFights.com. In addition, you can watch NEF videos at www.youtube.com/NEFMMA, follow them on Twitter @nefights and join the official Facebook group "New England Fights."
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Alexander Devasia
Bachelor of Fine Arts - Painting, College of Fine Arts, Trivandrum (1979-1985) and Post Graduation, Faculty of Fine Arts, M. S. University, Baroda (1986-1988)
His solo exhibitions include Mekham-Speaking Clouds (2008) and Song Of The Crowd (2006) Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, Singing In The Rain, Galerie Mueller & Plate, Munich, Germany and Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai (2005), Hotel Apollo, Regensburg (2003 & 2004), Jazz-Club-Galerie, City Museum, Regensburg (2004), Galerie WebKunsthaus, Weßling (2000), Autoren Galerie 1, Munich, Germany (1999 & 2000), Ten Suspended Images, Times of India Gallery, Cochin and Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai (1997 & 1998), Paravoor Public Library, Kerala (1996 & 1993), Work on Paper, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai (1995), Gallery 7, Mumbai (1994), Chitram Art Gallery, Cochin (1993), Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai (1991) and College of Fine Arts, Trivandrum (1983)
A selection of his group exhibitions include Representation – II, Triva Contemporary Art, Trivandrum (2007), Double-Enders, a travelling exhibition Mumbai, Delhi, Cochin and Bangalore (2005), East-West, Galerie Mueller & Plate, Munich (2003), Group Show, King's Foot Gallery, Madison (2003 & 2002), Foreign Artists living and working in Munich, Trafo Neuhausen, Munich and Contemporary Art from India, State Museum for Ethnology, Munich (2001), Artists of the Gallery (paintings), Autoren Galerie 1, Munich (2000 & 2001), Drawings during his travels in the Lakkadives Islands (1996, 1995 & 1993), Poster Campaign Against Religious Fundamentalists organized by Cochin Corporation, Kerala (1993) and Question And Dialogues, M. S. University, Baroda (1988)
Along with Sylvie Bantle he has made some short films and documentaries, Mortuary - Joseph (1999) received the Bronze Award at the 22nd Tokyo-Video Festival, Santhi Bhavan - House of Peace (2000) and Chakara (2001) all 3 documentary films were screened at Hermann Hesse Festival, Germany (2002)
Searching for the Dancing God… Kerala's last Shaman,103 min. (2007), Morning Paper and Tea, 19 min. (2003), Rain, 6 min. (2005), this film was screened at his exhibition preview Singing In The Rain, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai (2006) and a video installation (silent) 23 faces – 23 biographies', 37 min. (2007)
Alexander lives and works between India and Germany.
Mekham speaking clouds - 28th January to 9th February 2008


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Battlefield and the Unreal Tournament games are purchased 'purely' as online games, you wouldnt purchase them unless you intended to play online as single player mode is just pointless.
The same cant be said for the other games you mentioned. I have purchased, Doom 3, Quake 4 and all the MOH games yet I never purchased them to play only online, and I have never played them online. I have however played them on LAN but thats not why I originally purchased them.


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Home » IANS » Tech makes breakthrough in arts as visual gives way to experiential (2018 In Retrospect)
Tech makes breakthrough in arts as visual gives way to experiential (2018 In Retrospect)
Published on : Thu 27th December 2018, 12:06 PM
By Siddhi Jain
New Delhi, Dec 27 (IANS) Technology was a game-changer in the arts landscape in 2018, pushing the limits of approach and aesthetics — and even the creators — while there was also a visible shift from just seeing art to experiencing it.
Creating multiple copies of an art object using technological "reproduction" was a question dealt in much detail in the writings of leading cultural theorists, but this eventful year showed us how technological "production" itself is making its presence felt in the arts ecosystem.
Delhi-based art gallery Nature Morte's "Gradient Descent" could have easily been just another exhibition, but the human-machine collaboration made it stand out.
Created using algorithms based on Artificial Intelligence (AI), the artworks in India's first ever commercial AI contemporary art expo led the viewers to rethink human creativity and labour.
"While the visual side of the creative task is now shifted to an algorithm — a machine — the machine can only create works based on its own experience and its exposure to visual languages.
"It is here, in the art of teaching the machine and in designing the humanly interpretable concept of the artwork, that the locus of the human's creativity lies within this genre," the gallery had said in a note on the exhibition.
In another event, a dancing AI robot-artist performed in Gurugram and Delhi.
The AI-created artworks came into the limelight as leading global auction house Christie's sent a work under the hammer in one of its October sales.
The "Portrait of Edmond Belamy", created using an algorithm defined by an algebraic formula, sold for $432,500 (roughly Rs 3 crore), which Christie's saw as a signal of "the arrival of AI art on the world auction stage".
What also caught attention was major cultural hubs in the capital designating exclusive spaces for arts experimentation. The Art Heritage gallery and Kaleidoscope Digital Art (KDA) gallery emerged as experimental platforms for artists in the year's latter half.
Asked if we were shifting from just seeing art to experiencing art, the Art Heritage gallery associate director Tariq Allana had earlier, during the opening of artist Abhijit Pathak's show, told IANS: "There are a lot of art installations happening. I recently went to three biennales in Korea, and the Indian artists there are creating experiences even on an international level. Some of the installations in Jaipur's Indian Ceramics Triennale were imposing too".
Pathak, who works in traditional media and had never done installations, was commissioned to create a multimedia experience "Sensorium" in a small gallery space, where he ventured into the third dimension, using fabric, metal, light, sound and the moving image.
The KDA gallery, too, featured several digital artists who worked with digital photography, videos, films, sound and animation, on varied themes: Life around a sacred river, photographic archives, and more recently the cinematic form.
Earlier this year, the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) also presented "Delirium/Equilibrium", an exhibition of video, virtual reality and kinetic artworks, featuring artists who push the boundaries of traditional, static forms to introduce visual experiences that engage the audience.
Dharti Arts Residency, an annual event of the non-profit Serendipity Arts Foundation, also saw four major works that went beyond the concept of artworks hung on walls, but entered the realm of experiential and experimental.
The Foundation's just-concluded Serendipity Arts Festival also saw many installations and digital works, including an interactive game and an augmented reality experience on Goan heritage.
On the global stage, 2018 saw artist Charlotte Prodger bagging the prestigious Turner Prize for her film shot entirely on an iPhone; and auctioneers at Sotheby's being left perplexed when phenomenal street artist Banksy's painting shredded itself after being sold.
The work was renamed "Love is in the Bin" and was bought by the original bidder as her "own piece of art history".
Chinese phone brand Honor too recently unveiled an art installation made from 2000 phone glass-backs, in Hong Kong.
It may thus seem a year of significant deliberation in the realm of art and technology but it is not the first. The writings of cultural theorists like Walter Benjamin and John Berger remind us that technological reproduction was seen as a threat to art, which thrived on individuality and uniqueness.
Tech interventions, nonetheless, seemed to have surfaced more than any previous year in the arts domain. What remains to be seen is how enduring this seeming "paradigm shift" would be.
(Siddhi Jain can be contacted at [email protected])
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'A crack in the door': Glimpses of hope for the future of brain cancer care
Fred Hutch researchers discuss brain tumor treatments in the works — and what's coming next
Neurosurgeon and brain cancer researcher Dr. Eric Holland is among the researchers at Fred Hutch pursuing new and better treatments for patients with brain tumors. Photo by Matt Hagen for Fred Hutch
When Vice President Joe Biden visited Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Monday, he spoke of the hundreds of thousands of people who die from cancer every year, and the millions of lives that could be saved with new approaches to treatment, access to care, prevention and cures.
But for Biden, one person inspired his commitment to the cancer moonshot: his oldest son, Joseph "Beau" Biden, who died last year of brain cancer at the age of 46.
Biden said Monday he'll stick with the job of eliminating cancer for the rest of his life. He's focused on the lives affected by all types of cancer, but mentioned his son's disease and death several times in the panel discussion that included researchers from Fred Hutch and other Seattle-area institutions.
"When you have someone you love who is essentially given a death sentence, you try to learn everything you possibly can [to see] if there is any alternative, any option, anything you can possibly do," Biden said during the discussion.
There are more than 120 different types of brain tumors, afflicting nearly 700,000 people in the U.S. and killing nearly 17,000 every year, according to the American Brain Tumor Association. The Biden family didn't disclose Beau's type of brain cancer, but some have speculated it was likely a glioblastoma, a particularly aggressive type of brain tumor that is among the most common adult brain cancers.
Glioblastoma is universally fatal, said Fred Hutch neurosurgeon Dr. Eric Holland, whose brain cancer research team focuses on this tumor type. Patients with the more aggressive form of this cancer have a median survival of about 15 months following diagnosis, even with the standard-of-care treatment.
Right now, the standard treatment for glioblastoma is a combination of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. There are few options when those fail, but Holland is cautiously optimistic for the future. He believes with an as-yet-to-be-determined combination of immunotherapy and precision medicine, brain cancer researchers may finally make some headway against this long intractable problem.
"For a long time this has been a very hopeless field. A lot of people who were in it were either idealists who were imagining somehow changing the world — or nihilists who knew they couldn't. It's been a very hard problem," said Holland, who puts himself in the idealist camp. "But all that said, I think there actually is a crack in the door right now."
Early days and unique challenges
Holland is quick to point out that nobody has yet shown that immunotherapy can hold a candle against glioblastoma. T-cell therapy, a treatment in which a patient's own immune cells are engineered to recognize and attack their tumors and which is showing promise for certain blood cancer patients, is being used in some small, early-stage clinical trials in glioblastoma at some other research centers. But, even for blood cancers, it's still early days for this experimental therapy.
Brain cancer, especially glioblastoma, poses a series of unique challenges to treatment, Holland said. Some solid tumors arise in organs that can be removed or transplanted, if the cancer is caught early enough. But obviously that doesn't apply to the brain — "that's who you are," Holland said.
The blood-brain barrier, which keeps the brain and its associated fluid tightly isolated from the circulatory system, also poses a challenge — many drugs simply can't access tumors. Glioblastoma is resistant even to those drugs that can get in and it's also more resistant to radiation than even normal brain tissue is.
Finally, unlike some other brain tumors, glioblastoma is very difficult to completely remove surgically because it's so diffuse in the brain.
"The tumor cells are like a puff of smoke in the room, or ants in the grass. They're just everywhere," Holland said.
Holland is hopeful, though, that his particular area of expertise — precision oncology — can lay the groundwork for better treatments for glioblastoma, as it may for any cancer. He's leading the development of Hutch Integrated Data Repository and Archive, or HIDRA, a database to combine patients' clinical information with the genetic information of their individual tumors. The ultimate goal of databanks like HIDRA and the data visualization tool Oncoscape is to better understand how a patient is likely to respond to a given treatment and to tailor their care accordingly, Holland said.
"It's like a much more granular diagnosis," he said.
Unfortunately, even if researchers better understood the molecular details of patients' tumors, there are few treatment options. But one day there will be more alternatives, Holland said, and when that day comes, he believes the framework of precision medicine will help guide the testing and tailoring of those new treatments — be they immunotherapies or new drugs.
Pediatric brain cancer researcher Dr. Jim Olson is investigating ways to improve brain cancer surgery and treatment. Photo by Robert Hood / Fred Hutch News Service
'Following the light' to better brain cancer treatments
Fred Hutch pediatric brain cancer researcher Dr. Jim Olson has been plugging away at a better way to surgically remove brain tumors since 2004, when he led a team that invented the molecule now known as Tumor Paint BLZ-100. This invention, now being tested in five different early-phase clinical trials for cancers including brain cancer, with more than 60 adult and pediatric patients enrolled, "lights up" brain tumors with a fluorescent dye that attaches only to cancerous cells.
Pinpointing what is tumor and what is not could potentially allow brain surgeons to more precisely remove the tumor and leave healthy tissue behind. Removing healthy parts of the brain along with the tumor can leave patients with lasting disabilities, Olson said, but leaving parts of the tumor behind is also dangerous because it can regrow.
"Getting it right is particularly important for brain tumors, because in both kids and adults the likelihood of survival is dramatically higher if most of the tumor is removed," he said.
The early-stage clinical trials are conducted by Blaze Bioscience Inc., a company Olson founded in 2010, and the trials are testing the safety of the tumor paint molecule in different doses. So far, Olson said, he and his team haven't seen any significant toxicity and the drug seems to be lighting up tumors in many of the patients enrolled in the trial, although it's too early to say whether the treatment improves' patients survival.
Brain tumors make up a higher proportion of solid tumors in children than in adults. There are more than 30 types of pediatric brain tumors, Olson said.
Nina Garkavi was diagnosed with a pediatric brain tumor in 2011 at the age of 22. Photo courtesy of Nina Garkavi
Nina Garkavi, who was diagnosed with the pediatric brain tumor medulloblastoma in 2011, said she feels lucky to have come through her treatment alive and (relatively) unscathed, but wonders whether her life would be different now had something like tumor paint been available when she had her two brain surgeries five years ago.
"Would it be different if I had some treatment like that and a surgical version with tumor paint? Would I have the same effects?" asked Garkavi, who had to completely relearn how to walk after her surgeries. The now-27-year-old Seattle University graduate student used to be right-handed but had to teach herself how to write with her left hand, she said, as she had tremors on her right side and her right hand even now sometimes "has a mind of its own."
Building on the back of Tumor Paint BLZ-100, Olson and his team are also working to develop similar molecules that target existing chemotherapies directly to tumors, sparing healthy tissue from chemo's normally toxic side effects.
"One of the most common questions I'm asked when I talk about tumor paint is, if you can deliver light to the cancer, why can't you deliver drugs to the cancer?" Olson said.
Those therapies are still in preclinical studies, but Olson said that since these molecules are much smaller than many other brain cancer drugs, they have the potential to successfully cross the blood-brain barrier and reach the brain tumors.
"We believe that if we 'follow the light' by treating patients whose tumors light up with tumor paint with a subsequent molecule that delivers chemotherapy to the remaining cells in their body, that would have potential to effectively treat the cancer while causing fewer side effects," he said.
Dr. Hans-Peter Kiem is testing a gene therapy approach to protect glioblastoma patients' blood cells from toxic side effects of treatment. Photo by Matt Hagen for Fred Hutch
Protecting blood cells from toxic effects
Fred Hutch gene therapy experts Drs. Hans-Peter Kiem and Jen Adair are leading a small, early-stage clinical trial that takes a different tack against glioblastoma — using gene editing to protect blood stem cells from a drug that can boost chemotherapy's effectiveness against the cancer. Some patients with glioblastoma produce a certain protein in their tumors that make the cancer uniquely resistant to chemotherapy. There is a drug that "can unlock the tumor cell to that chemotherapy," Kiem said in a recent interview, but that drug molecule is very harmful to blood cells.
Kiem and his research colleagues developed a strategy to protect the blood cells from those side effects by engineering the cells in the lab with a gene that shields them from the molecule, known as benzylguanine, and then transplanting the cells back into the patient before proceeding with chemotherapy cycles. Because the patients can now receive benzylguanine safely, they can be treated with lower doses of chemotherapy than the standard treatment dose, meaning the treatment is less toxic overall while still attacking the cancer.
The gene-editing treatment is not a cure, but it is showing promise to give these high-risk patients more precious time. They've now treated 10 patients with glioblastoma in the trial, and "eight are now out far enough that we can say all of these patients have survived longer than the [median survival of] 15 months," Kiem said.
Though new treatments for brain cancer are still highly experimental, they are offering hope for the future, Holland said.
"I think there's a real chance that in many cancers — and brain cancer may be one of them — we can improve what we do for people," he said.
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Solid tumors, such as those of the brain, are the focus of Solid Tumor Translational Research, a network comprised of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, UW Medicine and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. STTR is bridging laboratory sciences and patient care to provide the most precise treatment options for patients with solid tumor cancers.
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Metra's 81-7801C brackets will allow you to install select 5-1/4" or 6-1/2" speakers in the factory speaker openings of select 1984-10 Honda Civic vehicles. Please enter your vehicle information or call an Advisor at 1-888-955-6000 to confirm that these adapters are compatible with your vehicle. Warranty: 60 days.
Good fit for my Kicker CS65 speaker in order to modify the installation on the kick panels.
6-1/2 Speakers: 6-1/2 speakers with the 3-hole or 4-hole bolt pattern can be mounted using the multiple openings around the perimeter of this bracket (if the hole spacing matches).
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After quite a lot of playing with LDAP ACL's, I discovered the way to authenticate users normally using IMP and LDAP, and then restrict them by membership in a particular LDAP group. This allows us to run multiple different Horde installations on the same box and restrict who can log into each by creating an appropriate group. It also allows us to use IMP for authentication resulting in a single login for the users.
I took the example provided for Active Directory groups and modified it to use openLDAP groups. The major difference is that in Active Directory, it appears that the group membership information is stored in the user account using the "memberof" attribute. In openLDAP, the group membership information is (typically, in my experience) stored in the group object using the "member" attribute, so instead of searching the user dn for a list of groups, we end up searching the group object for a list of members.
Here is the modified hook.
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The Acquisition Of Tnt Crust To Strengthen The Position Of General Mills In The Frozen Food Products Market
By Garvit Vyas, 06 December, 2022
The Minnesota-based food giant General Mills, which prominently deals in frozen food, has signed an agreement to take over the TNT Crust company, well known for its better-for-you pizza crust. The ever-growing food and beverages industry has been a key factor in developing frozen food products. The rising demand for fast food by the youth has supported the product's growth.
The acquisition of the TNT Crust by General Mills builds upon the advanced strategy made by the company to expand its frozen foods business in the North American region. The strategy has been developed based on the rising demand for the rapidly growing away-from-home frozen baked foods. For instance, in February, the company's business has raised by 24% in North America, which gives the company a strong base in the region.
Moreover, frozen food is the specific food item that needs to be frozen with some added preservatives until the time of consumption. These frozen foods or meals are precooked and packaged with added ingredients. It includes bakery products, non-vegetarian meals, a combination of vegetable meals, etc. The demand for frozen food has been rising since its inception and has been popular amongst the young generation. Frozen food products have gained popularity recently due to the consumer's changing habits and hectic lifestyle.
Additionally, the major players in the market, like General Mills, are constantly focusing on the launch of newly developed products that are more nutritious and healthier. The demand has been boosted since frozen food is available in organic forms and produced with plant-based raw materials. Hence, the rising health awareness caused the augmented demand for organic frozen foods products in the market.
To expand the company's business, General Mills has been focusing on the prominent factors that will alter consumer choices in the region. Considering the TNT Crust company's acquisition, General Mills is significantly focusing on gluten-free and organic frozen food products, which consumers highly appreciate.
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BP crews work to contain a spill of produced water from one of its pipelines along Sauls Creek east of Bayfield.
Produced water - a byproduct of oil and gas extraction - traveled across a sagebrush and a meadow and into Sauls Creek, an intermittent stream that flows into Beaver Creek, which meets the Los Pinos River a few miles south of Bayfield. This shows the flow path of the spill.
A BP pipeline running along Sauls Creek in Bayfield was discovered ruptured last week, spilling coal-bed methane produced water into the creek and forcing the emergency construction of an earthen dam to prevent contamination downstream.
According to state reports, a 6-inch fiberglass gathering line was found leaking around 7 a.m. Dec. 13, about four miles west of Bayfield on National Forest Service land off County Road 527, also known as Forest Service Road 608.
The produced water - a byproduct of oil and gas extraction - traveled across a sagebrush/grass meadow and into Sauls Creek, an intermittent stream that flows into Beaver Creek, which meets the Los Pinos River a few miles south of Bayfield.
BP reported the creek was dry on Dec. 13, but the next day a state oil and gas inspector found Sauls Creek "contained runoff from snow melt." An early estimate shows the produced water traveled 2,300 feet along the channel bottom.
However, BP on Monday could not say how long the spill had been occurring, how much was released and what the contents of the product were.
The cause of the spill, too, remains unknown.
A Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission representative wrote in an emailed response that more information will be included in supplemental reports and through ongoing water sampling.
A Dec. 15 follow up report indicated hydro-evacuation trucks were removing the standing water in the creek bed, recovering a total of 150 barrels - about 6,300 gallons - of produced water mixed with snowmelt.
The pipeline repair required that County Road 527 be restricted to one lane of traffic for four days last week as BP crews partially excavated the road, according to U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Ann Bond.
Brett Clanton, a BP representative, did not address several of The Durango Herald's questions about the incident. He wrote the spill was isolated within two hours of discovery, the produced water contained no hydrocarbons and that no residents in the surrounding area were affected.
"With safety as our highest priority, we will continue to coordinate with relevant agencies to complete any further remediation efforts as warranted," Clanton wrote.
Produced water is a briny fluid captured in the rock of oil reservoirs that is extracted along with oil and gas. It is considered the largest toxic byproduct of extraction operations, and can contain salt, chemicals, residual oil and heavy metals, though the contents vary from well to well.
BP operates about 30 gas wells in the Sauls Creek area that produce coal-bed methane gas and produced water that is transmitted by pipeline to a processing facility in Bayfield.
BP likely faces "some kind of enforcement action due to impact on waters of the state," oil and gas commission spokesman Todd Hartman wrote in an email.
The company must continue further remediation efforts and water sampling. The temporary dam remains in place as these actions continue, Hartman said.
As of Dec. 19, there have been 19 reported spills in La Plata County in 2016 accounting for approximately 350 barrels of spilled substances, mostly produced water.


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Q: How does one run QML tests on a Ubuntu Touch Phone? My application has QML tests using QtTests that I run locally on the desktop via qmltestrunner. I am interested in running these tests on the device to simulate real conditions like the on-screen keyboard being visible and so on. How do I run it on the device?
As an example take the Ubuntu Clock App whose source code you can get by,
bzr branch lp:ubuntu-clock-app

On the desktop I run the tests by by,
cd ubuntu-clock-app/tests/unit
qmltestrunner -input tst_alarmLabel.qml (inside tests/unit folder)

I pushed the source code to the (phone, x86 Emulator) and tried running it by,
adb push ubuntu-clock-app /tmp
phablet-shell
cd /tmp/ubuntu-clock-app/tests/unit
qmltestrunner -input tst_alarmLabel.qml

However I got the following crash,
/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/qt5/bin/qmltestrunner: invalid option -- 'i'
/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/qt5/bin/qmltestrunner: invalid option -- 'n'
/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/qt5/bin/qmltestrunner: invalid option -- 'p'
/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/qt5/bin/qmltestrunner: invalid option -- 'u'
/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/qt5/bin/qmltestrunner: invalid option -- 't'
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

When trying to run without the -input parameter since it is not recognised, I got,
phablet@ubuntu-phablet:/tmp/tests/unit$ qmltestrunner tst_alarmLabel.qml
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Note: I had to install qtdeclarative5-dev-tools and qtdeclarative5-test-plugin on the phone to get qmltestrunner and QTest 1.0.

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You are a Desktop Technician in a company's IT Department. You need to find the hardware specifications of a desktop, however the device does not have an operating system installed. Which of the following options will display this information?
The BIOS (Basic Input Output System) firmware application will display information like the CPU, RAM and hard drive information. It is not necessary to have an operating system installed to utilize the BIOS.
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Сла́вное (до 1945 года Бака́л Тата́рский; , ) — село в Раздольненском районе Республики Крым, центр Славновского сельского поселения (согласно административно-территориальному делению Украины — Славновского сельского совета Автономной Республики Крым)

Население

Всеукраинская перепись 2001 года показала следующее распределение по носителям языка

Динамика численности

 1806 год — 136 чел.
 1864 год — 105 чел.
 1889 год — 200 чел.
 1892 год — 154 чел.
 1900 год — 284 чел.
 1915 год — 307/84 чел.

 1926 год — 280 чел.
 1939 год — 271 чел.
 1974 год — 1475 чел.
 1989 год — 1347 чел.
 2001 год — 1262 чел.
 2014 год — 914 чел.

Современное состояние
На 2016 год в Славном числится 12 улиц; на 2009 год, по данным сельсовета, село занимало площадь 100 гектаров, на которой в 454 дворах проживало более 1,1 тысячи человек. В Славном действуют школа-детский сад, сельский дом культуры, музей, библиотека, пожарная часть, отделение почтовой связи, сельская врачебная амбулатория ОПСМ, православный храм святителя Тихона Московского. Славное связано автобусным сообщением с райцентром и соседними населёнными пунктами.

География
Славное — село на северо-западе района, в балке Джугеньская-Ахтанская, недалеко от её впадения в Бакальское озеро, высота центра села над уровнем моря — 8 м. Ближайшие населённые пункты — Котовское в 6 км на юго-запад и Стерегущее в 2,7 км на север. Расстояние до райцентра около 29 километров (по шоссе), ближайшая железнодорожная станция — Красноперекопск (на линии Джанкой — Армянск) — примерно 70 километров. Транспортное сообщение осуществляется по региональным автодорогам  Черноморское — Воинка и  Славное — Берёзовка (по украинской классификации —  и )

История
Первое документальное упоминание села встречается в Камеральном Описании Крыма… 1784 года, судя по которому, в последний период Крымского ханства Аджи Бакал входил в Мангытский кадылык Козловскаго каймаканства. После присоединения Крыма к России (8) 19 апреля 1783 года, (8) 19 февраля 1784 года, именным указом Екатерины II сенату, на территории бывшего Крымского ханства была образована Таврическая область и деревня была приписана к Евпаторийскому уезду. С началом Русско-турецкой войной 1787—1791 годов, весной 1788 года производилось выселение крымских татар из прибрежных селений во внутренние районы полуострова, в том числе и из Бакала. В конце войны, 14 августа 1791 года всем было разрешено вернуться на место прежнего жительства. После павловских реформ, с 1796 по 1802 год входила в Акмечетский уезд Новороссийской губернии. По новому административному делению, после создания 8 (20) октября 1802 года Таврической губернии, Бакал был включён в состав Хоротокиятской волости Евпаторийского уезда.

По Ведомости о волостях и селениях, в Евпаторийском уезде с показанием числа дворов и душ… от 19 апреля 1806 года в деревне Бакал числилось 15 дворов, 133 крымских татарина и 3-е ясыров. На военно-топографической карте генерал-майора Мухина 1817 года деревня Ачибакак обозначена с 12 дворами. После реформы волостного деления 1829 года Бакал, согласно «Ведомости о казённых волостях Таврической губернии 1829 года» отнесли к Аксакал-Меркитской волости (переименованной из Хоротокиятской). На карте 1836 года в деревне 26 дворов, как и на карте 1842 года деревня Бакал обозначена с 26 дворами.

В 1860-х годах, после земской реформы Александра II, деревню приписали к Биюк-Асской волости. Согласно «Памятной книжке Таврической губернии за 1867 год», деревня была покинута жителями, вследствие эмиграции крымских татар, особенно массовой после Крымской войны 1853—1856 годов, в Турцию и вновь заселена татарами. В «Списке населённых мест Таврической губернии по сведениям 1864 года», составленном по результатам VIII ревизии 1864 года, Бакал — владельческая татарская деревня, с 18 дворами, 105 жителями и мечетью при колодцах (на трехверстовой карте Шуберта 1865—1876 года в деревне Бакал обозначено 20 дворов). В «Памятной книге Таврической губернии 1889 года», по результатам Х ревизии 1887 года, в деревне Бакал числилось 38 дворов и 200 жителей. Согласно «…Памятной книжке Таврической губернии на 1892 год», в деревне Бакал, входившей в Бакальское сельское общество, было 154 жителя в 29 домохозяйствах.

Земская реформа 1890-х годов в Евпаторийском уезде прошла после 1892 года, в результате Бакал приписали к Агайской волости.
По «…Памятной книжке Таврической губернии на 1900 год» в деревне, входившей в Бакальское сельское общество (куда кроме деревни входили одноимённые рыбный завод с 1 двором и 2 жителями, соляной промысел с 2 дворами и 13 жителями и кордон — 1 двор и 12 человек), числилось 284 жителя в 51 дворе. По Статистическому справочнику Таврической губернии. Ч.II-я. Статистический очерк, выпуск пятый Евпаторийский уезд, 1915 год, в Агайской волости Евпаторийского уезда числились: деревня Бакал — 49 дворов со смешанным населением в количестве 307 человек приписных жителей и 84 — «посторонних».

После установления в Крыму Советской власти, по постановлению Крымревкома от 8 января 1921 года № 206 «Об изменении административных границ» была упразднена волостная система и в составе Евпаторийского уезда был образован Бакальский район, в который включили село, а в 1922 году уезды получили название округов. 11 октября 1923 года, согласно постановлению ВЦИК, в административное деление Крымской АССР были внесены изменения, в результате которых округа были отменены, Бакальский район упразднён и село вошло в состав Евпаторийского района. Согласно Списку населённых пунктов Крымской АССР по Всесоюзной переписи 17 декабря 1926 года, в селе Бакал (татарский), в составе упразднённого к 1940 году Киргиз-Казацкого сельсовета Евпаторийского района, числилось 58 дворов, все крестьянские, население составляло 280 человек, из них 259 татар, 14 русских и 7 украинцев, действовала татарская школа. Постановлением ВЦИК РСФСР от 30 октября 1930 года был создан Фрайдорфский еврейский национальный район (переименованный указом Президиума Верховного Совета РСФСР № 621/6 от 14 декабря 1944 года в Новосёловский) (по другим данным 15 сентября 1931 года) и село включили в его состав, а после создания в 1935 году Ак-Шеихского района (переименованного в 1944 году в Раздольненский) включили в состав нового. Видимо, тогда же село определили центром сельсовета, что зафиксированно в справочнике на 1940 год (в коем состоянии село пребывает всю дальнейшую историю). По данным всесоюзной переписи населения 1939 года в селе проживало 271 человек. На километровой карте Генштаба 1941 года село называлось просто Бакал, а в последнем доступном предвоенном источнике — на двухкилометровке РККА 1942 года — Бакал татарский.

В 1944 году, после освобождения Крыма от фашистов, согласно Постановлению ГКО № 5859 от 11 мая 1944 года, 18 мая крымские татары были депортированы в Среднюю Азию. Указом Президиума Верховного Совета РСФСР от 21 августа 1945 года село, под названием Бакал-Тат (так, с точкой в конце, было подписано на карте 1942 года, что и перекочевало в текст указа) было переименовано в Славное и Бакальский сельсовет — в Славновский. С 25 июня 1946 года Славное в составе Крымской области РСФСР, а 26 апреля 1954 года Крымская область была передана из состава РСФСР в состав УССР. В период с 1954 по 1968 годы к селу присоединили посёлок Романовку. В 1958 году образован совхоз «Славное», который позже был преобразован в племовцесовхоз «Славное», а затем в госплемзавод «Славное».

Указом Президиума Верховного Совета УССР «Об укрупнении сельских районов Крымской области», от 30 декабря 1962 года Раздольненский район был упразднён и село присоединили к Черноморскому. 1 января 1965 года, указом Президиума ВС УССР «О внесении изменений в административное районирование УССР — по Крымской области»>, вновь включили в состав Раздольненского. В 2000 году ГПЗ «Славное» был реорганизован в ОАО "Племзавод «Славное». По данным переписи 1989 года в селе проживало 1347 человек. С 12 февраля 1991 года село в восстановленной Крымской АССР, 26 февраля 1992 года переименованной в Автономную Республику Крым. С 21 марта 2014 года — в составе Республики Крым России.

Экономика
Специализация предприятия — разведение овец цыгайской породы, молочное скотоводство, садоводство, земледелие.

Известные жители
В селе жили и работали Герои Социалистического Труда Александр Григорьевич Гаврилов и Мария Терентьевна Чуприна.

Культура
В местном Доме Культуры ведут деятельность:
 Заслуженный народный ансамбль песни и танца «Славноцвит»,
 Заслуженный украинский народный хор,
 Духовой оркестр,
 Детский образцовый хор «Славновские колоски».

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Uses: Uses for agates are to make ornaments such as pins, brooches, paper knives, inkstands, marbles and seals.
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Agate is the most creative stone made by "Mother Nature". Agate is chalcedony formed from layers of quartz. Chalcedony is a form of Silica and it is composed of very fine uneven splintery mineral quartz. Although agates may be found in various kinds of rock, they are associated with volcanic rocks and can be common in certain metamorphic rocks.
Agate is primarily formed by the deposit of silica from solution. It is also a common method of fossilization, as the organic remains of some living thing are gradually replaced by quartz. "Agatized coral" from the Tampa Bay area is an excellent example, as are all of the specimens of petrified wood.
The stone was given its name by Theophrastus, a Greek philosopher and naturalist, who discovered the stone along the shoreline of the river Achates sometime between the 4th and 3rd centuries BC.
Agate is one of the most common materials used in the art of hardstone carving, and has been recovered at a number of ancient sites, indicating its widespread use in the ancient world.
There are many forms of Agate and they are: Madagascar Agate, Asia Agate, Moss Agate, India Black Skin Agate, Plume Agate, Blue Lace Agate, Banded Agate, Montana Agate, Red Agate, Fire Agate, Crazy Lace Agate, Argentina Agate, Dry Head Agate, Mexican Lace Agate, Laguna Agate, Banded Agate, Graveyard Agate, Botswana & Tree Agate. Natural Agate color is clear or milky white, gray, blue, green, pink, brown and it is often artificially colored.
Country's of origin for the Agates are: USA, India, Morocco, Czech Republic, Brazil & Africa.
Uses for agates are to make ornaments such as pins, brooches, paper knives, inkstands, marbles and seals. Because of its hardness and ability to resist acids, agate is used to make mortars and pestles to crush and mix chemicals.
In medieval times, the wearing of agate was said to bring God's favor and make one agreeable and persuasive, giving victory and strength to the wearer and protection from all dangers. Wearing agate was also thought to give pleasant dreams and cure insomnia. Early Greeks made amulets of agate for protection from the elements of the sea.
Agate is a very protective stone. It is especially protective for children, and makes an excellent stone for children's amulets, medicine bags, jewelry, or just to carry around in a pocket.
Emotionally, agate gives courage, emotional strength, self-confidence, and dispels fears. It can also lessen feelings of envy by grounding the emotions. In the same way, it assists with acceptance of all things.
Color: Nearly any color, even colorless.
Luster: Dull vitreous to greasy.
Transparency: translucent, can be transparent or opaque.
Crystal Habits: usually as banded or layered botryoidal masses with microfibrous structure.
Cleavage: Cryptocrystalline quartz shows no cleavage, although parting may occur along layers and splintery fracture can develop parallel to microfibrous orientation.
Associated Minerals: Agate is commonly associated with siliceous volcanics.


The property rental sector of UK includes apartments and flats with complete compact vanity units. In the recently reported findings from an interim report, rent controls and other policies associated with these which are being implemented well in other countries cannot be replicated easily in the private rent sector of UK.
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) made the interim report and which was commissioned by the NLA (National Landlords Association). The interim report looked into the evidences provided by countries which had strong regulatory policies like Ireland, Netherlands and Germany as well as in the United Kingdom.
In Ireland where it generally influenced or provided the model for the proposal of the Labour Party's campaign in the general election which was held last month, the report suggests that controls that were introduced within the last few years had only limited effect on the system of governance. The country is currently experiencing a crisis in the housing sector. There is a rapid increase in rentals and a stagnant housing production.
Germany has often been cited as one of the perfect example of a nation that has a stable private property sector in the rental industry. It is also deemed by many to have the system of limitless security and a system of in-tenancy rent stabilization. These scenarios have been cushioned in the past by the low prices in housing programs and low demands. The initial rents in the country are above the current market price especially in areas of high demand.
The interim report also highlighted that in New York and San Francisco, the main beneficiaries of rental policies are those belonging to the middle class houses while the younger generation hardly participates.
The chairman of the NLA pointed out that the interim report should be read by those in the leadership position in the Labour party as well as the London Mayor hopefuls. According to the chairman, the people in these organizations seem to ignore the academic evidences and the rejection of rental policies by the electorate last May.
There are plenty of private sectors in other countries facing massive problems in areas where there is high demand.


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CIRAS Helps Cline Tool Assess and Enhance Safety, OSHA Compliance
January 22, 2016 • Jeff Eckhoff
CIRAS NEWS Manufacturing
Sometimes, you just want to know.
Cline Tool, based in Newton, recently completed a 15-month project with CIRAS to evaluate its safety plans and procedures. The result? Cline now has a new Safety Committee to address safety procedures, processes, and compliance moving forward. And its Board of Directors is much more confident after being reassured that Cline has a strong program in place that meets OSHA requirements.
Jason Benson, Cline Tool's chief financial officer, said the company turned to CIRAS to "get a realistic view of where we're at with our safety program."
Cline Tool's high-tech manufacturing equipment includes a DMG MORI SEIKI machine cell.
Jim Poe, CIRAS project manager, said the goal of safety transformation planning is to guide companies through a maze of regulations and "to help manufacturers provide a safe working environment for their associates."
Poe started the process by walking through Cline Tool's manufacturing plant and making assessments through the eyes of an OSHA inspector. "He saw where we might have challenges to overcome, which laid out the framework for our sessions," Benson said.
The 12-session program involves assessing current conditions, document practices, emergency action plans, job hazards, and trainings. Poe also reviews topics such as storage of flammable liquids, machine guarding, electrical safety, indoor air quality, and other items specific to the location. Companies move through the program at their own pace, usually over a period of 12 to 18 months.
Jim Poe
"Jim helped us to break the work down into manageable pieces," Benson said. "He gave us relevant federal guidelines to follow and how that translates into real-world documentation and processes."
As a result, the company has initiated regular safety walks by Safety Committee members to identify and resolve potential issues, completed Job Hazard Analysis documents for all shop positions, and refined its lock-out/ tag-out procedures. Cline also started a new safety training process for new hires, created an annual safety training schedule for existing employees, and added eye-wash stations throughout the shop area.
"We all felt like we had a safe shop … but we realized just how many areas could use some improvement," Benson said. CIRAS was flexible and anxious to share its knowledge, he added.
"Any manufacturer could find a lot of value in a program like this."
> For more information, contact Jim Poe at jrpoe@iastate.edu or 515-290-1398.
This article originally appeared in the Fall 2015 edition of CIRAS News. You can find the rest of this issue and more of CIRAS News on our website.