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This documentary tells the story of Matías De Stefano, an Indigo child who was born in Venado Tuerto, Argentina in 1987. From the moment of his birth he has the ability to remember everything he has done before birth and can understand, in a simple way , how the Universe works. His memories take him to travel the world and share what he knows with thousands of people. His trips help him discover his purpose in life and fulfill a mission that he could not complete thousands of years ago.


I was anxious about Gina Haspel's confirmation hearing. Here is a woman who has spent her life purposefully in the shadows, brought before a committee whose members bask in the spotlight. Here is a career intelligence officer, a keeper of secrets, an agent of dissimulation whose professional future depends, at least in part, on her ability to speak directly and persuasively in a public forum. And close to the entirety of her life remains classified, making her job all the more difficult.
But my fears were misplaced. Haspel played a tough hand extremely well. The headline will be her promise that the CIA won't restart enhanced interrogation during her tenure. But her best moments occurred during questioning. She exposed Dianne Feinstein in a misstatement, defended her integrity against Martin Heinrich's virtue signaling, left Jack Reed speechless, and described the perfidy of Khalid Sheikh Mohamed and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri. KSM was the architect of the 9/11 attack and the murderer of Daniel Pearl, and al-Nashiri was behind the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole, in case you've forgotten.
Many have. Indeed, Haspel noted that the debate surrounding rendition, detention, and enhanced interrogation, and society's condemnation of these policies, took place after the sense of constant threat Americans felt in 2001 and 2002 dissipated. It is one thing to pronounce judgment on Haspel and her agency after the laws have been changed and practices investigated. It is another to imagine how one would have acted in her shoes, working to prevent another mass casualty attack in a confusing, turbulent, and dangerous moment.
Ask Nancy Pelosi. She was one of the first Americans outside the Agency to learn of the enhanced interrogation program. Did she resign in protest? Leak to the media? Loudly condemn the practice upon learning of it?
She did none of these things. According to the New York Times, interrogations began in March 2002. Pelosi was one of four members of Congress briefed on the procedures that September. The congressmen, reported the Washington Post, were "given a virtual tour of the CIA's overseas detention sites and harsh techniques interrogators had devised to try to make their prisoners talk," including waterboarding. No one raised objections. "Instead," the Post continues, "at least two lawmakers in the room asked the CIA to push harder, two U.S. officials said." The next year, when she was read into the program, Democrat Jane Harman wrote a letter protesting interrogations. No such correspondence came from Pelosi.
In fact, Pelosi knew about enhanced interrogation before Gina Haspel did. At her confirmation hearing, Haspel told Susan Collins that she did not learn of the program "until about a year into its existence." That was months after Congress had been informed. "I was told that interrogation experts had designed the program, that the highest legal authority in the United States had approved it, and that the president of the United States had approved it as well as trusted leadership at the Central Intelligence Agency," Haspel said.
Haspel was an employee of the president of the United States. But Nancy Pelosi was in a position to make moral judgments. She had no obligation or responsibility to George W. Bush. She could have raised a ruckus if she wanted to—it's not like she was worried she might ruin her friendship with the president.
So why should Gina Haspel—a long-time, highly capable, well regarded civil servant who would be the first female director of central intelligence and enjoys the support of both Republican and Democratic national security officials—pay for her involvement in a program to which Nancy Pelosi voiced no objection until it became politically convenient?
I can't think of a reason. And I doubt Democrats can think of a reason, either. As Tom Cotton pointed out, if they really held to the standard that no one who had knowledge of interrogations should hold high office, why did Democrats vote to confirm John Brennan as CIA director? Why, for that matter, did Democrats elevate Pelosi to speaker after the 2006 election and again after 2008? Shouldn't her silence have been deafening—and disqualifying?
The Democratic position is all the more absurd because there really isn't a policy dispute here. Haspel made clear that the law's the law. She's not going to waterboard. Democrats were quite open that they voted against Mike Pompeo for secretary of state simply because they disagree with his social conservatism. Pompeo's views are well known. Haspel's are not. And to the extent that we do know her foreign policy views, they fall squarely into the bipartisan consensus. Haspel fought Russians in the Cold War. Do Democrats truly believe she'd be weak on them now?
Who knows what they believe. Because this is not really about Gina Haspel, or interrogations, or Russia. It is about Donald Trump. It is about the reflexive Democratic strategy of opposing and delaying his nominees. There have been more cloture votes during the Trump administration than during the previous four administration's combined. More than 150 nominations are pending in committee, and 98 are pending on the Senate calendar. The Democrats aren't serious about diligence. What they want is to cater to the prejudices of their base.
Gina Haspel is representative of these highly qualified men and women. She doesn't belong on the sidelines. Where Gina Haspel belongs is the front lines.
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"In my 30s this kind of travel was nearly impossible. You are quite lucky to be able to stay connected no matter where you go. This is why I had to wait until retirement to travel," an elderly British man said to me as we sat on the top deck of a fast boat on the way from Bali to Gili Trawangan.
This past month, with Ketner Group's blessing, I was able to cross off one of the top items on my life bucket list and travel to Bali, Indonesia, for an entire month. I've gotten to explore the beautiful beaches and scenery, unique culture, great food and, most of all, see how the other half of the world lives – literally. And yes, while it was a lot of PLAY, there was definitely some work still involved in my travels, as I promised my KG family that I'd work throughout to ensure we did not skip a beat with our clients.
As the man on the boat reminded me, this past month I've felt extremely lucky to be living in an age where my work can be part of my carry-on luggage no matter where I go – as long as there is a strong WiFi connection. And, while I won't bore with you my many pictures of radiant white sand and crystal clear blue waters on this blog (follow me on the Strings app for more on that!), I can offer some insight and best practices on what I learned from being a digital nomad this past month.
Plan for it. For this rule, I don't necessarily mean you have to find the right time to travel and work in order to succeed as a digital nomad – sometimes you have to put "timing" aside and just go for it and see how it turns out!
What I mean is, before you set out on your digital nomad journey, take the time to review your workload, and consider the time difference between where you will be and where the rest of your team and/or clients are. From there, set a schedule that outlines the times you will be online, how you will communicate with your team, and what your projects and assignments will be while you are away. Team work makes the dream work, especially in a fully digital world, so to keep everyone at ease, be sure to communicate with your team and stick to your plan while working remotely. Whether you are 13 hours ahead or just one hour behind, a plan matters.
Find a digital home. As I mentioned earlier, a strong WiFi connection is a must! As I traveled throughout this past month, I was pleasantly surprised and very underwhelmed by the WiFi offered at my different stays. However, no matter where I went throughout Bali, finding a digital café or even a digital workspace that catered specifically to digital nomads was extremely easy. In fact, during my five-day stay in Canggu Beach, I posted up at a members-only workspace called The Dojo, that offered some of the speediest WiFi on the island 24/7, as well as conference call rooms, food, free coffee and water, and a pool in case you needed to take a break to dip in and relax from your workday. So, no matter where you go, make sure you find a digital home for the day to get your work done, and maybe take a swim while you're at it!
Find inspiration from your digital community. As I sat in The Dojo, I couldn't help but overhear the different conversations people around me were having. I met a variety of people, from editorial and marketing directors, to business entrepreneurs and customer service agents. This communal workspace offered the opportunity to not only come face-to-face with all walks of life, but to also easily ask a question if I was interested in learning about a new topic. The Dojo offered additional networking hours where you could come together as a digital community and talk about everything from productivity hacks to brewing the perfect cup of coffee. This space not only offered several opportunities for inspiration, but also a sense of "home" and belonging in a digital world.
Last but not least, remember the key ingredient: "you are lucky" to be able to do this in today's day and age, so take advantage of it. Call me a typical millennial but the phrase "you only live once" is quite ingrained in my brain. As they constantly say here in Bali, "you only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." Thanks to today's technology, the four walls of the office cubicle can now be broken down and substituted for ocean waves crashing in the background.


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Berényi Sándor, született Gansl Sándor (Bicske, 1865. május 3. – Budapest, 1943. február 18.) ügyvéd, jogi szakíró.

Életpályája

Berényi (Gansl) Jakab lovasberényi származású szabó és Kuttner Léni (1841–1907) fia. Jogtudori oklevelét a budapesti egyetemen nyerte el. Pollák Illés ügyvédi irodájában kezdte meg a joggyakorlatot. Jogügyi elöljárója és ügyésze volt a budai izraelita hitközségnek, alelnöke az Országos Izraelita Patronage Egyesületnek és az Izraelita Szünidei Gyermektelep Egyesületnek. Első könyvét Lakbérleti jog és eljárás címen dr. Graber Károllyal közösen írta. Majd 1905-ben dr. Tarján Nándorral együtt megírta A magyar állampolgárság megszerzése és elvesztése című művét. Jogirodalmi működése mellett a felekezeti sajtónak is munkatársa volt.

Házastársa dr. Gonda László orvos és Heller Regina lánya, Gonda Anna (1870–1945) volt, akivel 1893. március 12-én kötött házasságot.

Művei

 Lakbérleti jog és eljárás kapcsolatban Budapest főváros lakbérleti szabályzatával és a m. kir. igazságügyministernek 1894. évi 4873. számú rendeletével - Graber Károly (társszerző) - Budapest, Athenaeum, 1901
 A bérbeadó és bérlő jogviszonya a háborús rendeletek szerint - Budapest, Globus Nyomda, 1917
 Útmutató örökségi ügyekben: a törvényen és végrendeleten alapuló öröklési jog vázlatos ismertetése - Budapest, Székely Nyomda, 1941
 Az 1941. évi lakásrendelet - Budapest, Székely Nyomda, 1941
 A fajvédelem és a házasságkötés jogszabályai - Budapest, Springer Nyomda, 1941

Jegyzetek

Források

 Magyar zsidó lexikon

További információk

 Das geistige Ungarn. Biographisches Lexikon. Hrsg. Oscar von Krücken, Imre Parlagi. Wien-Leipzig, W. Braumüller, 1918.

Magyar jogászok
1865-ben született személyek
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Why knowing a Company's Intrinsic Value is important in the Finance World – Why Value ?
Conundrum of Valuation
In traditional Corporate Finance, success is usually judged by value. It is the perceived or calculated value of assets and investments of a company for fundamental analysis of the company's value and cash flows. While price determines the cost at which the security comes, the Intrinsic Value defines a company's true worth! CEOs and CFOs thus take keen interest to measure, create and Maximize Shareholder Value. More specifically, there are several reasons why you need to determine the "Intrinsic Value".
Intrinsic Valuation exercise elucidates factors influencing company valuation
Company Valuation exercise helps you understand What Value Drivers are driving Intrinsic Value up or down in your business concerning Sales Growth, Margins, Cost of Capital or Investment Rate. The Value impact of each driver on the Intrinsic Value of a business highlights where one needs to work on and how to improve
Opportunities available to you to Increase Company Valuation
Change in Capital Structure Mix. The way a company raises its funds changes its company valuation metrics significantly. Apple having huge Cash Overseas still raised a Debt. If Apple had chosen to repatriate its cash and liquid assets held overseas using the earlier applicable tax rate, it might have had to shell out taxes at a 35-percent rate. With Apple enjoying a low-risk credit rating, raising funds through bonds could have been a relatively cheaper option. The economics of the debt work out better for Apple when the earlier 35-percent repatriation tax is taken into consideration. Change in Capital Structure Mix can alter the Debt ratio making the Shareholder Value rise significantly.
Divestitures. These could be divisions or brand that would require Corporate Actions such as Divestitures, Spinoffs etc, Zee Entertainment divested from its Sports Business to Sony for $385 Million as it was losing money for years (Accumulated Losses of about $100Million) and was no way going to get an IPL contract.
Merger and Acquisitions. HUL acquired GSK consumer for INR 37100 Crores in a Cash and Stock Deal. The transaction was aligned with Unilever's stated strategy of increasing its presence in health-food categories and high-growth emerging markets. GSK HFD is the undisputed leader in the Health Food Drinks category in India, with iconic brands like Horlicks and Boost. With Horlicks being originally introduced in the 1930s as a popular nutritional supplement, and a portfolio of strong products with nutritional claims, GSK HFD was strong support to HUL's product strategy. Synergies in terms of top-line and cost are anticipated to grow the business of HUL in double digits in the near medium term. The strong distribution network is expected to be used as strength to improve the Sales Growth Rate. It tends to increase Company Valuation.
Share Buyback. Concerning the under-priced market worth, and a motive to return surplus cash to shareholders tax-efficiently, the IT services companies like Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, etc undertook Share Repurchase programs. The idea of returning excess cash to its shareholders tax-efficiently, particularly when the Management believes its Intrinsic Value is more than the Market Price - unfolded opportunities to increased company valuation.
Business Model Changes. After 6 years of humbly beginning with the fast-food chain McDonald's, Ray Kroc felt that the ambitions were falling short. He decided to change the business model entirely for the brand to be a promising venture. Instead of making money by selling supplies to franchisees and demanding huge royalties, McDonald's Corporation became the landlord of the franchisees. They bought the properties to lease them out to the franchisors' at large mark-ups in addition to their regular income of a percentage of gross sales from franchisees.
Going Public, Successions or Family Realignment
One needs to know the Business Valuation to understand what they are leaving on the table and what their strategic priorities are. Know your worth even before you step out for a meeting with an Investment Banker. With your homework done, you can be clear with your expectations and finances.
Intrinsic Valuation is the decision maker!
When intending to understand the business model, strategic business options, analysis and decision making for maximizing expected value, Intrinsic Valuation is an important aspect. As you learn, practice and analyze valuation metrics, you get smarter with your decision making.

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Alaska Community Action on Toxics
Alaska Community Action On Toxics members advocating in DC.
The Alaska Community Action on Toxics started with a community connection and a promise to be kept. Pamela K. Miller arrived in Alaska in 1989 as a research biologist with Greenpeace. In 1994 she established the Community Toxics Investigative and Advocacy Project for Greenpeace Alaska. Then In 1997, she met Savoonga health aide Annie Alowa at an environmental health conference and the tracks of both of their lives changed forever. It was then that Pamela formed Alaska Community Action on Toxics, to keep the promises she had made to the people of Alaska asking for help to deal with toxins.
Annie Alowa lived in Savoonga, along Kookoolik Cape, on St. Lawrence Island, thought to be one of the last exposed portions of the land bridge that once joined Asia with North America during the Pleistocene period. Siberian Yup'ik Eskimos have made it their home for more than two thousand years.
In 1952, as the Cold War took hold of America's foreign policy, the U.S. military established an army post at Gambell and an air force base and radar site at Northeast Cape. Near the air force base were areas used to harvest food by the Yup'iks. Only about a decade later, Annie Alowa noticed her people getting sick. Cancer and miscarriages were on the rise. "When the military shut down its bases in the early '70s it left behind a toxic stew: nine square miles contaminated by 220,000 gallons of spilled fuel plus unknown quantities of solvents, asbestos, heavy metals, and PCBs. One barrel dump contains more than 29,000 drums, some leaking unknown fluids." (Orion Magazine, Tracking Toxics, 2003).
For 20 years, Annie raised the alarm and tried to get the air force to clean up after themselves. Then she met Pamela Miller and together they began to document their case, and approached the Army Corps of Engineers. Initially they were ignored. In December of 1998, Annie was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer and died three months later. Before she died, she asked Pamela to interview her on video. That interview became part of a documentary created by Pamela and Alaskan filmmaker Jean Riordan, "I Will Fight Until I Melt." It raised awareness, got the government's attention and the Corps committed to start cleanup . As the ACAT website notes, "Annie's perseverance continues to inspire ACAT's work to protect environmental health and assure justice."
The sites with potential for toxic exposure to humans that ACAT works to make safe.
ACAT's programs include
Alaska Rural Environmental Justice Program working to eliminate environmental contaminants
Environmental Health Policy & Social Change Program driving a broad range of public support to implement local, national, and international policies
Environmental Health Education Program informing physicians, nurses, teachers, environmentalists, and the general public about the link between pollutants, human health and the environment
Alaska Youth & Community Outreach Program engaging youth and the general public in issues around environmental health.
Wellness & Healing Program to support physical and emotional healing from the effects of environmental contaminants and the effort required to work toward environmental justice.
Green Cleaning Workshop in Kalskag, Alaska
Currently, ACAT is focused on holding corporations and industry accountable for the PFAS chemicals endangering the Alaskan people's health and natural resources. They have been partnering with other environmental organizations to urge state legislators to support and pass Senate Bill 121 to protect the people's drinking water.
Alaska Youth for Environmental Action doing community advocacy work.
If earning a seat at the table is a measure of success, then ACAT has two awards: Pamela Miller was recently appointed to the National Academy of Sciences as a community liaison to develop guidance on PFAS testing and health outcomes; and Viola Waghiyi of Savoonga, the environmental health and justice program director at Alaska Community Action on Toxics, is one of the 26 members chosen for a new White House advisory council on environmental justice.
For Viola, the council will be one way she advocates ""[to] make sure that the priorities – including military toxic contamination and the persistent organic pollutants – are at the forefront with this administration. These have resulted in health disparities never before seen in our people. It is so important because a lot of times we are never at the table when decisions are being made for us miles and miles away. This will ensure that we have a voice at the White House."
Issues Of The Environment: Progressive Effort To Remove Harmful Chemicals From Consumer Products, WEMU, by David Fair, May 12, 2021
Commentary: Legislative action needed to protect drinking water, The Cordova Times, Commentary by Pam Miller, April 22, 2021
Savoonga woman to join White House council on environmental justice: Viola Waghiyi, KTOO, by Kevin S. Fox, April 10, 2021
Learn about these organizations working to support local, sustainable food systems, Alaska Public Media, by Ammon Swenson, April 18, 2021
Urgent action needed to protect Alaskans' health, drinking water, Anchorage Daily News, Opinion, by Pamela Miller, April 13, 2021 (subscription required)
Groups Demand Ban on a Class of Dangerous "Forever Chemicals", Pressenza, April 9, 2021
Alaska sues PFAS makers as lawmakers seek broader action from regulators, Alaska Public Media, by Jacob Resneck, April 8, 2021
Alaska woman named to White House environmental justice council, Anchorage Daily News, by Alex DeMarban, April 1, 2021
New construction at Gustavus airport digs up old concerns about toxic chemicals, KTOO, by Claire Stremple, April 1, 2021
Biden announces environmental justice advisers, E&E News, by Kelsey Brugger, March 29, 2021
Coalition Sues for Stronger Health Protections from Toxic Flame Retardant Chemical, Press Release, Earthjustice, March 22, 2021
Groups Urge Immediate Action by EPA To Improve PFAS Disposal Guidance for Communities, Environmental Working Group, Press Release, February 25, 2021
'Am I going to regret it?': forever chemicals dilemma for breastfeeding mothers, The Guardian, February 15, 2021
Lawsuit Challenges EPA's Dangerously Outdated Plan for Offshore Oil Spills, Center for Biological Diversity, January 30, 2020
EPA report shows increased chemical releases at Red Dog Mine, state pushes back, Alaska Public Media, by Abbey Collins, March 6, 2019
Tracking Toxics, by Bill Sherwonit, 2003, the story of St. Lawrence Island and Annie Alowa
Video, "I will Fight Until I Melt" – Documentary produced by Pamela K. Miller and Jean A Riordan of Southpaw Solutions featuring an interview with Yup'ik elder Annie Alowa (1924-1999).
PRESS RELEASE: Citizen Groups and Alaska Community Action on Toxics Hold Press Conference to Release New Investigative Report on Drinking Water Contamination in Alaska, September 24, 2019
Pamela K Miller
www.akaction.org
Air Pollution, Flooding, Water Contamination, Wildfires
Community Farm/Gardens, Elevation or Relocation of Homes, Fighting Industrial Contamination, Halting Bad Development, Nature-Based Solutions, Renewable Energy


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The project is targeting older people recently discharged from hospital to obtain feedback on their experiences of hospital care, discharge planning and accessing community support services. In addition it has looked at the experiences of older people currently in receipt of home care and community services. The research has focussed on quality of care, patient satisfaction and whether the service needs of older people and their carers are being met.
The aim was to support clinicians in making person centred decisions, to assess and balance the risks associated with Polypharmacy in the elderly. This evidenced improvements in terms of reduced numbers of repeat medications, high levels of staff and patient satisfaction and increased efficiency within the prescribing budgets.
The purpose of the strategic commissioning plan is to set out the Highland approach to commissioning services for older people between 2014-2019 in terms of quantified quality, volume, value and location, and to set out how this is to be achieved.
NHS Highland currently spends around £500m per annum on providing or delivering adult care services, with around half of this on older people. The challenge for this plan is to ensure that this resource is used to achieve the outcomes based on what people have told us they need and our understanding of what would meet these needs. The plan also needs to move us away from traditional ways of thinking about meeting people's needs in terms of beds and buildings and towards a greater emphasis on early intervention and anticipatory support. In achieving this shift, it is intended that a more vibrant and energised care market will be created; maximising potential for self directed support and creating opportunities for greater choice and innovation for how people's needs can be met.
In 2011 the CHCP set out its intention to have an integrated specialist adult service planning mental health, addictions and homelessness. This integrated arrangement is in place in ICHCP, including inpatient mental health services. A paper describing this is available here.
Achieving integration and modernisation of services for adults with mental health issues, addictions and/or who were homeless – forming a one stop response for people with these commonly linked issues. Modernisation of specialist services in our locality to bring about the full close of Ravenscraig Hospital and greater partnership working with the third sector and other partners such as Registered Social Landlords.
The creation of the Community Health & Care Partnership (CHCP) Finance Manager post allows dedicated support and advice to the CHCP Corporate Director and Senior Management Team from one professional covering both parent organisations. The applies to all financial planning, modelling, budget setting, monitoring and reporting processes; included fully integrated financial reporting the CHCP Sub Committee.


Finance business partner supporting budget achievement.
Development of annual budget and forecasts linked to tactical operational plans, using proven models, whereupon risk is properly identified and highlighted.
Business relations: identification of cost savings opportunities, u.


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The Illinois Feral Swine Damage Management Program – What is the Current Feral Swine Population Status in our State?
By Brad Wilson
Photos courtesy of the author.
2019 Pope County Sighting
A collaborative effort that began in 2011, involving the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Wildlife Services (USDA-WS) program and Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR), resulted in the apparent elimination of feral swine in the state. Earlier this year, reports from the public and other agencies suggested the presence of a small, isolated feral swine population in one of our most-southern counties. An invasive species, feral swine, also known as wild hogs, can cause damage to diverse resources wherever they are found.
The Illinois landscape contains ideal habitat for feral swine with adequate forest cover and abundant food sources both in acorns and agricultural crops. The first feral swine population in Illinois was confirmed in 2009 among an approximately 28 square mile area in Fulton County. An additional population was discovered just a few years later among an area approximately 31 square miles in size encompassing the counties of Fayette, Marion, Effingham and Clay.
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To address the feral swine problem in Illinois and to protect wildlife, wildlife habitat, agriculture, livestock and human health and safety, USDA-WS and IDNR developed a collaborative feral swine damage management program in 2011.
The population and range of feral swine has rapidly increased across the nation. In the U.S., feral swine have expanded from a small percentage of counties in 17 states in 1982 to at least 35 states in 2019. Feral swine can carry at least 30 viral and bacterial diseases, and nearly 40 types of parasites that can affect humans, domestic livestock and wildlife including threatened and endangered species. Feral swine compete directly with our native wildlife for both food resources and habitat. They may prey on native wildlife, including ground nesting bird eggs, newborn rabbits and white-tailed deer fawns. Feral swine also contribute to the degradation of watersheds, soil and croplands. Annual costs of feral swine damages and the cost to control these damages is estimated to exceed $1.5 billion nationwide, with more than half directly impacting agriculture. These estimates do not include the cost of damages impacted upon natural resources. Those damages are still not fully understood, and it is difficult to determine a specific dollar value for natural ecosystems and native wildlife.
In 2014 the USDA-WS established a nationwide program in response to the rapid expansion and increased damages and disease threats posed by these non-native animals. The program target is to significantly reduce and, where possible, eliminate feral swine populations throughout the United States. The National Feral Swine Damage Management Program is the first nationally coordinated effort aimed at reducing damage and disease threats posed by feral swine.
Through strategic, collaborative efforts, using an integrated damage management program, the USDA-WS and IDNR successfully eliminated feral swine populations in Fulton County and the adjoining counties of Fayette, Marion, Effingham and Clay by the spring of 2016.
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After eliminating those known populations, USDA-WS and IDNR continues to investigate reports of the invasive mammal received from throughout the state. On average, USDA-WS and IDNR investigates nearly 50 reports of feral swine each year. Most reports are the result of recently escaped/loose domestic swine including a variety of potbelly breeds of swine. Most of these swine return to captivity quickly and do not result in self-sustaining breeding populations. However, in 2016 a small and isolated population of feral swine was discovered in Pike County. This population resulted from free-range practices with domestic swine and nearly non-existent fencing. Swine roaming free upon thousands of acres of neighboring properties resulted in reports of the swine venturing as far away as five miles from their source, and extensive property and cropland damage. After significant public outreach and coordination with numerous stakeholders, private landowners and local law enforcement, the USDA-WS and IDNR began surveillance and elimination efforts in 2018. As of 2019 this population has been successfully eliminated. Surveillance of this area will continue among for two more years to ensure no feral swine remain in order to prevent re-establishment of this population. Private landowners have been pleased with the management efforts and in protecting their properties, native wildlife habitat and croplands.
More recently in 2019, reports from the public, stakeholders, and the U.S. Forest Service has led to the discovery of a potential emergent feral swine population in Pope County. USDA-WS and IDNR have begun working with numerous stakeholders and private landowners in this county in order to better understand the size and geographic distribution of this feral swine population as ground surveillance and elimination efforts begin.
To report feral swine sightings or learn more about this invasive animal and the damage they cause, contact USDA-WS at 1-866-4-USDA-WS.
Brad Wilson is a wildlife biologist with the USDA APHIS Wildlife Services in Illinois.


I bought a broken mbp early 2011 on ebay thought it would be fun trying to fix it. It works fine but the led backlight is not working. I tried my logicboard on a different lcd and there was also no backlight. I also tested the lcd and the same no backlight. By looking at the lvds cable and the connector on logicboard I noticed that some small plastic parts from the cable are stuck inside of the lvds connector. I was not able to get them out of the lvds connector. Then i saw that also rwo pins of the connector were missing.f has someone ever tried soldering a lvds connector onto a logicboard??
My main question is, does the screen still work (with backlight out) even minus the two pins, and did it originally have the same issue before you opened the machine and disconnected the display connector? Also, when you say you tried a different LCD, do you mean you tried an entirely different screen assembly, with cable and all? And are you 100% sure this is a known-good screen assembly, i.e. have you seen it working with a backlight on another computer? Sometimes people get into trouble by assuming a part is good when in fact it's not, and that leads them to incorrect conclusions.
If you have tried a screen assembly that you have seen working on another machine, and it still doesn't work, that's conclusive evidence that the board is the problem. On some machines you can bridge the microfuse with tweezers, power on, and if you get a backlight, that tells you that the microfuse is the issue.
I believe that in unibody machines the inverter-type function (light to the screen) and the video signal are both in the same cable, so conceivably some missing pins could have to do with power and therefore lead to the backlight being out. On the other hand, often various pins on a connector are not used at all, and so it's irrelevant that they are broken off...I don't have the schematics, so I just don't know.
I have never soldered a video connector on a unibody, and I wouldn't trust myself to do it. I would search eBay for "MacBook logic board repair", and there are many companies out there that can do these kinds of things (as well as fix the fuse, if that's the problem). Some of these companies know what they are doing, and others are amateurs who should be avoided like the plague. As I mentioned, though, I think the most important thing is to logically determine as absolutely as you can that the board is the problem, before putting it under the knife.


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New urban trend: how Kyiv can become a garden city with streams and rivers
We explain the details of Khreshchatyk transformation with the author of the idea and alteration of other rivers in Ukrainian cities, which will soon flow through their streets
Victoria Gubareva
We found an architect who offers to excavate the Khreshchatyk River, which flows in sewers right under the central street of the capital. Viktor Bilous explained what his idea was, how to implement it, and in which cities it had already been done
Kyiv is threaded with rivers. Once upon a time, back in the chronicle times, they flowed in ravines between the wooded hills of the then unpopulated area, running quietly in drought times, and turning into stormy rivers during the rainy season; mentions of more than fifty small rivers and streams have come down to us from the past. Some still exist today. We can see them on a modern topographic map, but most were hidden underground. Over time and with city development, the rivers turned into gutters, and when they were no longer needed by city planners, they were completely enclosed in sewers.
There are quite a few of them in Kyiv: the Lybid River, Syrets, Skomorokh, Khreshchatyk, Klov. All these rivers flow through collectors. They're marked with a yellow dotted line on the map.
The collector, built during 1888, where the Khreshchatyk stream flows, passes under Khreshchatyk Street. Photo: Vladyslav Vozniuk
"Locking up" took place at different times. For example, this photo of urban explorer Vladyslav Vozniuk shows a brick collector along which the Khreshchatyk stream flows. This collector was built back in 1888. It is located in the very center of the city, right under Khreshchatyk.
The troubles of Khreshchatyk. Source: behance.net
As a result, we have a wide — up to 75 meters in some places — street with a 25-meter carriageway, which narrows on both sides of Khreshchatyk. This not only leads to traffic jams but also makes this part of the city center completely non-pedestrian: with huge facades that are interesting to look at only when moving at the speed of a car.
The trend to bury rivers spread throughout the world during the 20th century, as hiding a stream in a sewer was the cheapest solution, and the advent of cars created the need for road construction. Therefore, two birds with one stone were killed at once, albeit not in a very elegant and gentle way to the environment and city residents. But now, when architects around the world began to ask themselves about the need for public spaces where citizens' social activity should take place, city rivers everywhere began to be freed from collectors, and parks were built around them.
Viktor Bilous is a caring and talented Kyiv architect. And he's also a co-founder of the Lybid Ye public organization. In collaboration with Semen Polomanyi, the architect was preparing projects to transform the city. For example, on the banks of the Lybid River near the Ocean Plaza mall, there could be a public space, similar to some of the Dubai malls, with themed neon sculptures and a place to relax.
The Khreshchatyk project was created in 2014 and finalized in 2016, but everyone recognized it only now. Its core is to raise the Khreshchatyk River from the collectors to the surface. A huge number of people found out about the project, and Viktor Bilous is surprised and glad at the same time that the public is interested in the project, which seems fantastic but is still real. This confirms the growing dynamics of public interest in urban projects.
"The book Small Rivers of Kyiv by Viktor Vishnevskyi had a significant influence on the project's concept. From the book, I learned about the existing river, which to this day flows under Khreshchatyk Street. For me, it was such a surprise, and apparently, amidst everything that happened, the image formed in my head in a second. I can create an original space of family values for people," the architect told us.
And Viktor and his colleague, Semen Polomanyi, started developing the project. An entire team of seven people worked on it, and the project wasn't developed for a week or even a month; it took about six months to create. And not in vain. What materialized at the end looks more like a city of the future, or, at least, a green airport in Singapore. The project proposed by the architects assumes a total transformation of the street. Khreshchatyk can become a green oasis with a 4-meter wide stream, become a public space where you can go for a picnic, do yoga, spend time with children or a dog. A vast park, 1200 meters long. How do you like this idea?
The concept "Restoration of the Khreshchatyk River." Source: behance.net
The project involves, first, releasing the Khreshchatyk stream from the collector, and equipping the green zone around it. At the same time, shops and boutiques will be located on the "first" floor, at the level of a stream, and on top, there will be a huge green lawn canvas with benches and places for rest. The Maidan Nezalezhnosti Square will also undergo changes. Now divided by a road, it will become a single pedestrian area:
"The center should be for people. It should be an environmentally friendly, safe, comfortable, and inspiring space. And above all, it should be for families. In summer we will get a modern green park, and in winter, it will be a territory for winter games for children," says Viktor Bilous.
The project starts from Bessarabska Square; there was a natural bed of Khreshchatyk. In this place, the stream "turns" under Khreshchatyk Street.
Another bold idea is to return the tram to Khreshchatyk. It was once there, but after the military restructuring, it was removed. In one of the variations of the innovative project, tram tracks were laid along Khreshchatyk, which should connect Taras Shevchenko Boulevard and Podil.
Will this work?
If the number of car lanes is reduced, won't there be more traffic jams on Khreshchatyk?
The new project involves reducing the number of lanes on Khreshchatyk to three. Such a bold solution might intimidate car enthusiasts, of course. However, practice shows that reducing the number of traffic lanes doesn't affect the streets' traffic capacity.
Now there are 8 lanes on Khreshchatyk. Back in 2015, the A+S Ukraine company, with the German model as a base, developed several movement models along Khreshchatyk, including a version with pedestrian crossings, which has been implemented now, and also a model that assumes only 4 lanes (2 in each direction). As you can see with the example, it won't lead to a transport collapse. Quite the opposite, traffic will be reduced, and since there will be no road narrowing as at the beginning and the end of Khreshchatyk, traffic jams will go away.
And it should work. When the Embarcadero Highway in San Francisco was taken out of service following the 1989 earthquake, drivers quickly adapted and found other detours. Today, the Embarcadero is a pleasant boulevard with trees, trolleybuses, and conditions for walking and cycling. The same can be done on Khreshchatyk.
"No problem. We can reduce the number of lanes on Khreshchatyk to six. Then we'll fit a stream, and a green area, and bike lanes, and it will also be problem-free for transport," the architect promises.
Embarcadero Highway in San Francisco before and after the earthquake
There's very little water in the photo of the collector, but there's an entire river in the project. Will there be enough pressure?
Enough. It's what Viktor Bilous says and reveals his architectural secrets.
First, for safety reasons, the trickle will be shallow: "It only looks like an Amazon on the project," he jokes.
In reality, the channel's up limit depth is half a meter, and it's maximum. In addition, there are several more ways to increase the water pressure in a city stream:
Making it narrower in some places than in the image. Two meters instead of four.
Building small dams to slow down the flow and thereby increase the water section width.
Installing extra pumps that will additionally pump water into the stream and distill it in a circle.
The last trick was used in Seoul; the water in the famous Cheonggyecheon stream is pumped to keep it flowing. By the way, it was this project that once inspired Viktor Bilous to create the Khreshchatyk project. The architect told how, back in the 2000s, his father, from whom he took over the profession, brought brochures with a project to restore Cheonggyecheon after a visit to Seoul; even then Viktor planned to do something similar in Kyiv. And it's no coincidence.
The story of Seoul Cheonggyecheon resembles the fate of Kyiv's Khreshchatyk. In the distant 1950s, due to active and dense settlement on both sides of the stream, the canal turned into a fetid sewage ditch that posed a biological hazard. The economic situation in the post-war country didn't allow the allocation of huge funds for environmental friendliness and the construction of public spaces, so the stream was completely hidden underground in 1968, and an elevated motorway was erected over it. In 2005, Cheonggyecheon was restored, and the stream bed was cleared, and the track was dismantled.
Releasing Cheonggyecheon Stream from the sewer, Seoul, Korea
Now, on the site of the highway, there is a huge public space 11 (!!!) kilometers long, almost 10 times more than the project of Bilous and Polomanyi suggests! Such a project cost the Koreans $280 million, but now it has become a hallmark of the city for tourists, a place for jogging and walking for Seoul residents.
Cheonggyecheon Stream, Seoul, Korea
"The key thing is to have a green zone: it is the thing that shapes people. And if you look at the visualization, it seems that it's an insanely expensive and unattainable project. But actually, it is not. It can be implemented in parts," says Viktor.
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Ducks and protests against the canal in Leipzig
A refined space around a river in a city is not a new idea at all, and everyone would agree with that. But digging up rivers, releasing them from collectors, one might say, is an urban planning trend!
For example, here is a case from Leipzig, Germany. You can call it fateful because Leipzig is Kyiv's sister city. It was once famous for its canals, created to regulate the effects of flooding, but during the 1950s, more than 3 km of canals were hidden in underground sewers or simply covered with soil. At the end of the 1980s, the Neue Ufer movement was born in the city to restore the canals and return the city to its personality. It included artists and architects who collected materials, held exhibitions, and explained the importance of water restoration in the city. As part of one of the rallies, they installed pegs along the former canals on the streets.
As a result, the movement received city-wide support and grew into an urban project. In the 2000s, they began to restore canals on the streets; new channels were opened every 2-3 years.
Canals in Leipzig, Germany
Of course, it was accompanied by a wave of protests: the Germans demanded to build parking lots for cars or schools, but the city administration stood firm: the canals were needed not only for beauty but also to prevent regular floods in the city. Who needs parking if they all end up underwater?
The city not only escaped the floods but also transformed. Once industrial buildings began to be converted into glass offices, new residential buildings appeared. Leipzig now has a comfortable environment with water in the center, additional activities, the rebirth of former industrial areas and ducks.
Underground rivers are also being restored in the Hague, the Netherlands. There they were buried in collectors between 1910 and 1970. The project was developed by the city residents and local businesses with the support of local communities and companies and was presented at the mayor's office to the Dutch politician and alderman Boudewijn Revis.
Canal restoration project in the Hague, Netherlands. Before and after.
The proposals at the heart of this free project make us rethink and believe that architects can contribute to the environment where we live and that architecture isn't an isolated entity in our urban setting and planning; it is very much a part of our everyday environment.
But you don't always have to go so far to see good examples. Semen Polomanyi's project to restore a stream, enclosed in a collector, is already being implemented in Vinnytsia! There, work is already underway to restore Altman Square, a site in the historical part of the city.
"The Kalicha River was the park's distinctive object during the previous centuries. The stories around it can unite the theme of Altman's childhood, Gardens, and the Lazovskoho Park. Ultimately, the square owes its existence to the river," says the description of the project on the Behance portal.
ALTMAN SQUARE Project by Semen Polomanyi, which will be implemented in September 2022 in Vinnytsia. Source: behance.net
The new project involves releasing part of the stream from the collector, preserving old trees, and, at the same time, constructing a new landscape. Semen Polomanyi is a landscape architect, and therefore thought through everything to the smallest detail: the park will be arranged in a way that water doesn't stagnate after rains, but flows down in cascades, is collected and stored in underground collectors, and later it can be used for irrigation. Thanks to rain gardens and a special approach, the ecosystem will be sustainable, and the renovated park will serve as a functional and beautiful public space.
The Pochaina River in Kyiv was also released from the collector. It was "locked up" in the 1930s to build the Obolon metro station and the Pochaina metro station. In 2016, the Kyiv City Council almost adopted a detailed plan of the territory, which would've finally buried the historical channel (by the way, according to some sources, it was in the Pochaina River that Prince Volodymyr baptized Kyivan Rus). The disastrous decision was prevented by activists, headed by Annabell Morina from Kyiv, head of the Pochaina public association; she fought for the river, and in 2017 the section of the channel acquired the status of a recreational territory, and already this year, work began on the Pochaina revival.
It's expected that the river will be "pulled" out of the collector and freed from (attention!) 900 tons of concrete! The new park will stretch from Bandera Avenue to Natalka Park. Three stages of construction are planned:
the first is from Bandera Avenue to the flood gate near Verbova Street;
the second is from the gateway to Naberezhno-Rybalska Street, the area behind Blockbuster;
the third is the Volkovata Dnieper bay, where our park will connect with Natalka Park.
Visualization of the Pochaina park project from the NEXT SPACE architectural team. Source: hmarochos.kiev.ua
Now the Pochaina River is being freed from concrete, a channel is being formed, the bank is being cleared and paths are being laid. Trees and shrubs will be planted in the spring. The project will be implemented using funds from the city budget and will cost Kyiv 83.5 million hryvnias.
Interesting fact: the NEXT SPACE architectural team was advised by engineers from Seoul who revitalized the Cheonggyecheon River, which you read about a little above. It was those people whose project inspired the author of the bold idea of restoring the Khreshchatyk River, Viktor Bilous.
It is quite possible that with the proper support of the project by the public organization of Viktor Bilous and the correct reaction of the authorities, it will be conceivable to implement a project with a green zone on Khreshchatyk. In this case, Kyiv will also get ducks and a wonderful public space.
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1. Find the story
When I began work on the script for Wisdom of a Fool [the story of Norman Wisdom] it became clear I'd have to be ruthless with which elements of Norman's life I was going to use as a narrative. I researched him heavily, cross-referencing stories, talking to his children and making sure I was speaking from his soul. Through this process, the same key moments continued to arise. They were clear indicators of his motives. The hardest part was choosing what to leave out. I had to decide what would advance the story as opposed to telling an anecdote. Where possible, seek out the family of the icon you're trying to portray, not only out of courtesy but also for research. Being around [Wisdom's adult children] Nick and Jackie has been invaluable. They share many of Norman's traits. Observing those is the ultimate tool for character development.
2. Work on the character
I workshopped the play over five months, tirelessly trying to find Norman's voice and physicality. I wanted to play the man and the persona, as that's what he would default to in the public eye. Doing so makes the moments you drop that persona all the more potent. The audience feel they're getting a glimpse of something new or a side they've not seen before. It's a fine balance. Play only the persona and you're simply impersonating, offering no revelations. Play only the man and you can become disengaged with your audience. They won't recognise or enjoy their idol's story on stage.
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Q: R XML select 2 attributes from a same node xmlAttrs() Going Further in TEI exploration. This is my XML Tei file containing "date" nodes with different attributes  (when, from, to).
I have sucessfully extracted the value of "when" attribute bu using
dateWhen<-unlist(xpathApply(doc, '//date', xmlGetAttr,"when"))

but now I want to extract the values of "from" and "to" attributes at the same time and xmlGetAttr doesn't more than one attribute.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="parser.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
   <teiHeader>
      <fileDesc>
      </fileDesc>
   </teiHeader>
   <text>

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<date from="1715-12-13" to="1715-12-27">Dudit mois de décembre</date> Quelque temps avant la fin du mois

   </text>
</TEI>

I'v tried this
dateFromTo<-unlist(xpathApply(doc, '//date', xmlAttrs,c("from","to")))

but I took all attributes of date nodes
And also this didn't work
frames<-getNodeSet(doc, '//date')
dateFromTo<-xmlAttrs(frames[[1]]) [c('from','to')]

with NULL respond
Can someone give a hand ? Thanks

A: Couldn't you do something like this
sapply(c("when","from"), function(x) xpathSApply(doc, '//date', xmlGetAttr, x))

For a reproducible example, I'll use a PLOS One article in xml format.
library(XML)
doc <- xmlParse("http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchObjectAttachment.action?uri=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0084312&representation=XML")
sapply(c("contrib-type","xlink:type"), function(x) xpathSApply(doc, '//contrib', xmlGetAttr, x))

    contrib-type xlink:type
[1,] "author"     "simple"
[2,] "author"     "simple"
[3,] "author"     "simple"
[4,] "author"     "simple"
[5,] "author"     "simple"
[6,] "editor"     "simple"

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Angelo Dawkins Says He Wasn't Frustrated Being Left Off WrestleMania 37 Card, Gives WM 38 Dream Match
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Though WrestleMania 37 was a two-night affair, the Street Profits (Montez Ford & Angelo Dawkins) did not compete on either night.
Instead, The Street Profits got their shot at the WWE SmackDown Tag Team Titles the night before WrestleMania 37 on a WrestleMania edition of SmackDown.
They were unsuccessful in claiming the gold as The Dirty Dawgs (Dolph Ziggler & Robert Roode) defeated the Street Profits, Chad Gable & Otis and Dominik Mysterio & Rey Mysterio in a fatal four-way tag team bout.
Asked by Ryan Satin on Out of Character if he was disappointed that he wasn't part of WrestleMania, Dawkins replied, "Nah. Not at all. Everything happens for a reason. Patience has always been...I'm always proud of myself for being a very patient guy. I have a feeling that we're going to be on the year's WrestleMania. If we're not, we're going to be on next year's WrestleMania. I'm just going to have that mindset. Patience has always been a key for me and Tez. We both pride ourselves on that, no matter what. We've had to deal with that in NXT as well. We didn't get on TakeOver until 2019. We had been a tag team for two years and had been doing pretty good, so it was a whole thing of being patient and not trying to force the issue. If it's time and they feel it's time, then it's time. If they don't feel it's time, then let's go back to the drawing board and see what we can do to be better and what we can do to make them see, 'we cannot leave them off this card. We need to find a place for the Street Profits to be.' Whether it's talking smack, bringing back the Monday After Weekend Update. I don't care. Patience is very key. It wasn't frustrating at all. It was 'okay, cool,' we'll do what we have to do to get on this one.'"
The Street Profits were part of WrestleMania 36 where they successfully defended the Raw Tag Team Titles against Austin Theory and Angel Garza.
Asked for his WrestleMania 38 dream match, Dawkins replied, "I have to go with a triple threat. Us vs. New Day vs. Usos for all the marbles. Both tag team titles on the line. We beat New Day at Survivor Series. We have yet to beat the Usos. They probably have the best rivalry in tag team history, New Day being donned the greatest tag team in WWE history. Usos are right up there with them at the mountain top and we are the new kids on the block that are still trying to find our way but we scratched the surface because we beat New Day, but now we have to beat the Usos. If we beat them both, we're right there with them."
The Street Profits were victorious over New Day (Kofi Kingston & Xavier Woods) at Survivor Series 2020. The Usos (Jimmy & Jey Uso) are the reigning SmackDown Tag Team Champions while RK-Bro (Riddle & Randy Orton), who defeated Street Profits at WWE Day 1, are the reigning Raw Tag Team Champions.
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Company doubles new customer orders year over year, and customer loyalty remains strong with 75% of 2020 customers repurchasing in 2021 , increases funding to $107 million to build out the next phase of company development
SAN JOSE, CA — (January 20, 2022) — Pavilion Data Systems, the leading data analytics acceleration platform provider and a pioneer of NVMe-oF, today announced major successes on multiple fronts in 2021, underscoring the strong demand for its dense high-performance data analytics platform and laying the groundwork for increased momentum in 2022. Pavilion Data Systems raised a $45 million round led by Kleiner Perkins and Artiman Ventures. This funding, combined with the rapid growth of its customer base, strong business momentum, and key executive hires, including Dario Zamarian as CEO, positions Pavilion to address the increasing need for a high-performance, dense, and scale-out flash storage platform for analytics and AI/ML applications.
"Pavilion is proving its market acceptance across a broad range of industry verticals as an analytics acceleration platform for legacy and next-generation applications," noted Zamarian. "2021 saw the company grow its employee base by 50% across all functions. This, combined with additional funding from our investors, our expanded leadership team, and the strong position of our flagship HyperParallel Data Platform™ will enable us to take data analytics acceleration to the next level."
Pavilion's total outside capital investment increased to $107 million after the $45 million round led by Kleiner Perkins and Artiman Ventures. All existing investors participated in the funding, including Korea Investment Partners, SK Telecom Ventures, Taiwania Capital, Tyche Partners, DAG Ventures, and RPS Ventures. This investment round also was joined by new investors Mirae Asset, Liberty Street Advisors, and Gaingels.
"Many organizations in the federal and commercial space are already using Pavilion to make the most of their applications and accelerate their workloads," stated Wen Hsieh, Partner at Kleiner Perkins. "Pavilion's platform enables users to build a bridge between their existing and future needs. We see that its unique ability to accelerate legacy as well as next-generation applications is making it a prime choice for many users. My partners and I are excited to have co-led this round, as the funding will help Pavilion establish itself as a leader in the data analytics and AI/ML acceleration market."
In 2021 Pavilion significantly increased deployments within federal agencies and increased penetration into analytics use cases in Fortune 500 companies, including a top-20 banking institution, a top credit agency, and one of the largest hedge funds in the country. Nearly 80% of all deployments were to accelerate analytics, legacy and next-generation, ML, and streaming applications. Pavilion doubled its new customers, and customer loyalty remains strong with 75% of its 2020 customers repurchasing in 2021. Pavilion also opened new sales offices in Atlanta, Boston, and London, and it directly addressed the public sector by opening a sales division focused on federal government customers to support its strong presence in the federal space. The company continued its expansion into the life sciences, financial, and media and entertainment industry verticals.
"We needed an external storage platform that matched the performance we get from internal NVMe SSDs to support a mission critical SQL analytics use case running on VMWare 7," said Ken Boyer, Director Global Storage MGMT at IQVIA. "The Pavilion platform enabled us to meet this challenging requirement that could not be met with other options. It's really exciting to see this recognition and endorsement of Pavilion by the investment community to build upon their momentum and accelerate their roadmap. We look forward to seeing continued momentum of their data analytics acceleration platform."
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Awards Granted to Pavilion Data Systems:
In May 2021, Frost & Sullivan recognized Pavilion with its North American Technology Award, citing its innovative approach to NVME-oF (Non-Volatile Memory Express over Fabrics), the most advanced development in data storage.
In January 2022, DCIG named Pavilion as one of the Top 5 Storage Solutions for Life Sciences. Pavilion's data analytics acceleration platform, consisting of the Pavilion HyperParallel File System and Pavilion HyperOS, was singled out among 15 contending providers for having exceptional performance, deployment capability, data protection, and technical support, among other factors.
In January 2022, GigaOm named Pavilion as a "Fast Mover" in the "GigaOm Radar for High-Performance Scale-Out File Systems," claiming that Pavilion provides "a compelling, no-compromise architecture built around NVMe and maximum performance," "one of the greatest GPUDirect implementations available," "a superb security-oriented architecture," and "great scalability and performance. "
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Three Scenarios for the Ongoing Hybrid War in Brazil
This article tries to present some possible scenarios for what would be the next logical step in Brazil's ongoing Hybrid War: the irregular war.
One World recently published an article by Andrew Korybko, in which he questioned whether Brazil would or wouldn't join Latin America's recent wave of popular protests and color revolutions. This article tries to present some possible scenarios for what would be the next logical step in Brazil's ongoing Hybrid War: the irregular war.
In an interview given to Venezuelan Telesur, aired December 26th 2019 , former president and now main opposition leader Lula da Silva made clear that he is well aware that the first inflection point in the current Hybrid War was a series of mass demonstrations in June/July 2013. He said: "The 2013 demonstrations were carried out as part of the coup against the Worker's Party (PT). They were articulated to assure the upcoming coup. They hadn't any specific demands. These demonstrations started as part of the coup, fueled by the Brazilian mass-media and, as I believe, from the outside. I think that the US played some role in the Brazilian demonstrations [of 2013]."
A little context on the matter
Right after US' then vice-president Joe Biden visited Dilma Rousseff and had his proposal of sharing Brazil's recent discovered oil reserves denied, a sudden rise in the bus tickets in Sao Paulo, the country's main economic center, led to brutal police repression. That, in its turn, sparked mass mobilizations all across the country, that rapidly abandoned the fare-rise protest slogans and became more abstractly 'anti-corruption'. Those movements can be traced as the origin of both 2016's parliamentary coup against Rousseff and the turning point in the plan of overthrowing PT's government for good from the executive power in Brazil. To those familiar with the terms, it's not hard to see now, from a certain historic distance, the patterns of a Color Revolution, at least, not to say a full-on Hybrid War.
Having succeeded, in a relatively short period of time, in overthrowing the Worker's Party government and electing their very own candidate (the openly fascist Jair Bolsonaro), there was no further need for igniting the second stage of the Hybrid War: Irregular War. Everything leads us to believe that, in fact, launching an irregular war in case Bolsonaro hadn't won the 2018 elections was a valid card in the game.
Bolsonaro, a politician with a long parliamentary career had gathered, in previous years (that is, since 2013 at least) great support from the lower ranks of the Armed Forces and managed to acquire the support of paramilitary armed militias in his home state, Rio de Janeiro. A strong paramilitary basis allied with the explicitly violent speech used during his campaign provide us all the hints of what would be the measures taken hadn't he won against Lula-backed Fernando Haddad. The Hybrid War structure of fake-news spreading WhatsApp groups plus locally armed militias hasn't been demobilized after the elections, though. On the contrary, activity shows higher than ever.
On the other hand, as a consequence of the regime change's success without having to unleash irregular war, the Worker's Party's (PT) structure (that is, both its parliamentary and unionist/social movement strong connections) was left untouched, even with its main leader, Lula, politically imprisoned.
Then, very curiously, amid Chile's and Ecuador's social upheaval and Bolivia's coup-d'-état, Lula da Silva was released from prison after 580 days of the illegal arrest, that, among other things, prevented him from running for elections in which he'd win – in all scenarios – in the first round. Pointing that, Korybko asks how long would it take for the mass mobilizations that are striking the continent to reach the South American giant.
Scenarios for possible Hybrid Wars Development
Some points have to be taken into consideration, as I think.
First, as previously stated, Hybrid War was successful in Brazil still at its Color Revolution stage. It produced government change, reinstalled pro-neoliberal forces to power, but due to that, there wasn't an excuse to use violence, that is, to unleash violence against the opposition. So, the PT remaining the main opposition force, it remains as a threat to the pro-US government. But let us remember that there is a growing right-wing pro-neoliberal paramilitary structure being openly built, not to mention the possibility of using the Armed Force through anti-terrorist laws that could frame and repress mass mobilizations.
Second, 13 years of PT's government have left a total of US$ 380bn in reserves, which could prevent the social catastrophe of Bolsonaro's neoliberal reforms to be noticed right away (last week, in fact, Bolsonaro announced he would re-brand, but nevertheless keep, Lula's major welfare policies). We shall nor forget that the three countries in the region that have genuine anti-neoliberal protests are Chile, Ecuador and Haiti, precisely those who have been struck by these policies the longest. To sum it up, these two factors are enough to put the opposition in a defensive position, which is made quite clear from Lula's speeches after his release.
These speeches, of which the two most important are the one proffered in São Bernardo, right after he was released (November 9th, 2019), and the second the opening speech at PT's 7th Congress (November 23rd, 2019), coincide in aligning in general terms, the Party's policy for the upcoming period.
From both of these speeches it becomes clear that for Lula, PT's the main strategy is going back to office through the 2022 elections, probably inspired by recent progressive electoral victories in Argentina and Mexico. Very surprisingly, at the São Bernardo Speech (and to the disappointment of the majority of the party's grassroots militants), he fully acknowledged Bolsonaro's victory (even though the fraud-imprisionment narrative had been the dominant, so far), and praised mass struggle only against the set of the current president's violent neoliberal reforms, not against the government itself.
In fact, with this tactic, Lula buys some extra-time for organizing the progressive forces along the continent. It is clear that some warmongering heads backing Bolsonaro are but waiting for an excuse to start its irregular war against the opposition, preventing future setbacks for the pro-Washington government, in the frame of what is being called the "Fortress America" strategy, a long-term US-backed economic and military stronghold against Russia and China.
So, this being said, it is clear that the deadline for an outburst of Irregular War in Brazil was postponed for the time-being, at least until 2022. In this case, three scenarios can be clearly outlined, for now.
a) 2022 is the new 2002 scenario
Lula or his candidate win the 2022 elections through a tactic of broad alliances with center and center-right-wing groups of Brazilian traditional politicians, trying to repeat the coalition that led him to power in 2002. Given the great shadow power conferred to these elites during Bolsonaro's government (their representatives are the ones applying de facto the neoliberal agenda), and the fact that the PT has become unnecessary for these elites to maintain power, this scenario would rather mean Lula's final capitulation to these elite's program and being so much as a figurative president for the upcoming term. In this scenario, the final strike to Lula and the PT could be given through institutional/mediatic means.
b) The Bolivian scenario
Lula or his candidate win the 2022 election through a more narrow but strong left-winged coalition, based in the mass movement to be built and renewed in the course of the struggle against Bolsonaro's neoliberal reforms and backed by an alliance of local left-winged mayors (which are to be elected in 2020). Despite this possible coalition's program (that could be more or less radical, depending on the development of events and agreements made), this scenario would inevitably set the frames for the unleashing the irregular war stage of Brazilian Hybrid War, much like in the latest Bolivian coup's fashion.
c) Preemptive Counter-revolution
The most unstable of the three scenarios. Given the possibility of a worldwide economic crisis in the near future, this third scenario accounts for a rapid decline in Bolsonaro's support and a fast rise in the spontaneous mass movement against neoliberalism due to the effects of economic recession before the end of Bolsonaro's term. On these circumstances the mass movement's agenda is likely to radicalize and overcome the PT electoral program, and the government would pass on to Irregular Warfare in the fashion of a preemptive counter-revolution.
Despite being "officially" postponed to 2022, the upcoming major event in Brazil's ongoing Hybrid War could be precipitated by a number of reasons. This forces us to think that the opposition (both parliamentary and extra-parliamentary/social) has to prepare for a stronger blow in the years to come, and to fortify its strongholds in order to take less damage. This all isn't only a matter of an internal struggle (as it's posited by many), but the insertion and instrumentation of Brazil's inner contradictions in the broader picture of a new phase in the global battle for hegemony that is being carried on by the USA and China, mainly.
By Andrew Korybko
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