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Equestrians Capture Reserve Champion Honors
In a hard-fought battle, Alfred State College's Western Equestrian Team took Reserve Champion honors at a recent competition. ASC finished behind Cornell in the six-team show event held at Alfred University's Bromley-Daggett's Equestrian Center.
According to Head Coach Marie Dougherty, "This team has made remarkable progress since their last outing just two weeks ago. They practiced incredibly hard and really brought their 'A' game. We might have won top honors two weeks ago but in this show we actually rode better. I had two riders who didn't place in their first shows win first- and second-place ribbons this time out. Now that's something to be proud about."
Dougherty credits ASC faculty member Jess Hutchesson with a huge logistical contribution. "Most people don't understand how much behind-the-scenes logistical work goes into getting a team organized for an event. Jess is a master at this, and it shows. Our team was 'show ready' a full hour before they entered the ring."
Dougherty cites team co-captains Justine Burnett, Almond, individual studies, for outstanding leadership as well.
"Our captains have emerged as outstanding leaders. They motivate the other riders to practice hard and help keep them focused. They are always there for the team whether it's tacking up or putting the final touches on a show outfit. They are always pitching in to help their teammates. We are really starting to gel as a team and it showed over the weekend."
ASC competes in association with the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association (IHSA) in New York's Region 1. Other Region 1 competitors include Cornell, RIT, Alfred University, SUNY Brockport, and Buffalo. Four shows remain in the season to decide which team will represent Region 1. ASC is very much in the running trailing Cornell by 15 points and Alfred University only by six.
The IHSA has some 8,300 riders in sponsored events designed to allow students to compete at all levels of riding skill. The IHSA is comprised of 370 participating colleges and universities. The organization focuses on participation, sportsmanship, fun, and learning.
Faculty Adviser Professor Vicki Bolton calls ASC's Equestrian program a huge success.
"For a start-up club team our Western team has done remarkably well. They can ride with any team in the Region and have already proven to be very competitive with varsity riders. Our hats are off to Marie and the entire team for coming together so quickly. They head down to Hurdale Farm and practice, practice, practice. They are a very motivated bunch. None of us imagined they would be this competitive this quickly. They have won the respect of the teams they compete against and the entire equestrian community."
But to Bolton, it's about more than winning titles. "Here at ASC we are concerned with the entire educational experience of our students. Our Equestrian Club is growing steadily and more and more students are enjoying their equestrian experience here. I have no doubt that some of these young people will be employed in the equestrian field. It's good for the College and it's good for our students."
The team's next show will be Dec. 3 at Alfred University's Equestrian Center. The public is invited to attend and cheer on the home town favorites. For more information on the Alfred State College Equestrian Club contact Vicki Bolton at boltonvl@alfredstate.edu. For more information on the Hurdale Riding Program, contact Marie Dougherty at www.Hurdalefarmhorses.com.
Lady Pioneers Can't Rally Back
The Alfred State College women's basketball team couldn't rally all the way back and suffered a 67-60 loss in Cleveland, OH to Cuyahoga CC. The Lady Pioneers trailed 33-27 at half and by as many as 12 but cut it to three in the final minute, 63-60, but couldn't get any closer.
Camille Romero (Quees Village/Mary Louis) recorded over twenty points in her 5th straight game. She led ASC with 29 points on Friday. Carriola Chambers (Manhattan/Facing History) chipped in 12 pionts while Amie Brooks (Pavilion) had nine.
The Lady Pioneers are now 6-4 on the year and will close out the 2011 portion of their schedule next week with a road contest on Tuesday vs. Roberts Wesleyan JV and a home contest vs. U of Rochester JV on Thursday.
Pioneers Can't Solve #1 Monroe
The Alfred State College men's basketball team could not solve #1 ranked Monroe College (New Rochelle, NY) in the first day of the Mustang Invitational. Monroe raced to a 77-37 victory.
Pat Parker (Queens/Hillcrest) led the Pioneers with 15 points on the day.
Monroe led 44-18 at half as they improved to 9-0 on the year.
The Pioneers take on Harcum (Philadelphia, PA) College in the second day of the tournament. Tip-off is at 7 p.m.
Harcum Downs Pioneers
Posted Date: Sunday, December 4, 2011 - 15:57
The Alfred State College men's basketball team hung tough in the 1st half but could not overcome a early 2nd half run and fell 92-63 to Harcum College at the Monroe College Invitational.
The Pioneers trailed just 45-34 vs. the high powered of Harcum. Harcum came out of the break and put together a 15-0 run and never looked back.
Dashino Charles (Elizabeth, NJ) led the blue & gold with 14 points and six rebounds while Patrick Parker (Queens/Hillcrest) chipped in 11 points and seven rebounds.
ASC wraps up the 2011 portion of their season on Wednesday when they travel to the CC of Beaver County for a 7 p.m. start.
Pioneers Swimmers Finish 3rd at MCC invite
The Alfred State College men's swimming team finished 3rd at the three-day Monroe CC Invitational. The Pioneers scored 346 points in the competition.
Braden Kozlowski (N. Tonawanda) won the 200 back (2:14.57), was 2nd in the 200 free (1:56.44) and 5th in the 500 free (5:26.06). Jake Giglio (Hornell) finished 2nd in the 50 free with a time of 23.27. He was also was 3rd in the 100 fly (58.31) and 4th in the 100 free (53.75).
Mark Pendleton (Beacon) was 2nd in the 200 breast (2:34.85), 4th in the 200 IM (2:18.35) and 4th in the 400 IM (4:59.49). Joshua Tull (Lansing) was 4th in the 200 free (2:06.14) and 6th in the 200 back (2:31.12). Josh Stellrecht (Oakfield Alabama) was 4th in the 1650 free (20:16.45), 5th in the 400 IM (5:22.00), and 6th in the 200 IM (2:25.00). Josh McDowell (Wayland Cohocton) was 5th in the 200 fly (2:49.04) and 6th in 50 free (24.72). Tom Clouse (Pioneer) was 6th in the 100 free (57.30).
The men's 800 free relay team (Tull, Stellrecht, Pendleton, and Kozlowski) was 2nd (8:04.5) while each of the rest of the three relays finished 3rd. 400 IM relay (Kozlowski, Pendleton, Giglio, and McDowell) swam a 4:08.74, the 200 free relay team (Giglio, Stellrecht, McDowell, and Kozlowski) swam a 1:36.46, and the 400 free relay team (Giglio, Pendleton, McDowell, and Kozlowski) swam a 3:37.68.
The lone Lady Pioneer competing, Maggie McBurney (Jamesville Dewitt) was 5th in the 400 IM finishing in 6:14.97. McBurney scored 19 total points in the invitational
The Pioneers head back to Monroe CC on Wednesday for their final swim of 2011 when they battle the Tribunes in a WNYAC dual match.
Pioneers Compete at Niagara
The Alfred State College wrestling team spent the weekend at Niagara CCC and picked up a dual victory and had three wrestlers place at the Thunderwolves Open.
On Friday evening, Zach Race (Fulton/G Ray Bodley) pinned Domenic Lewis in 1:26 in the final match of the evening to life Alfred to a 29-26 victory over Grand Valley (MI) State in the Niagara Duals. In earlier matches, James Barlow (Wayland Cohocton) earned a 16-2 victory, Josh Simons (Campbell Savona) pinned Mike Luck in 4:37, and Jose Pagan (Fredonia) and Lucas Cady (Alfred Almond) earned forfeit victories.
At the NCCC Open, Race and Matt Sowers (Whitesboro) earned 5th place finishes and Justin Hunt (Ripley) was 6th.
Race was 3-2 in the heavyweight competition. He earned two quick pins to advance to the semifinals but fell in his next two matches to fall to the 5th place match. In the 5th place match he won an 8-6 overtime decision over Chris Minorchick (Penn State Dubois).
Sowers fell in his first match at 174 but rebounded to pin Ryan Terwilliger (Penn State Dubois) to advance to the consolation semifinals. After being tripped up, Sowers rebounded to win the 5th place match with a pin of Eric King (Mercyhurst North East).
Hunt won his first two matches at 149 lbs., pin of Steven Rispoldi (Brockport) and a 18-1 tech fall victory over Gabe Unick (Grand Valley), but was unable to keep the momentum going and fell in his next three matches.
Barlow and Simons each were 2-2 on the day as well for the Pioneers.
ASC is returns to the Orvis Activities Center this weekend for their annual home duals event. They are scheduled to take on Niagara CCC at 7 p.m. on Friday and then will host NCCC, Jamestown CC, Stevens Tech, and SUNY Cobleskill in a dual event beginning at Noon on Saturday.
Panicco Meets With Honors Program Students
Dr. Cristiana Panicco, director of the Sant'Anna Institute in Sorrento, Italy, met with members of the Alfred State College Dr. Terry Tucker, dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Eleven Football Players Named All-Region
Eleven members of the Region III Champion Alfred State College football team have been named to the All-Region team. Quarterback Greg Hampton (Uniondale) was named Offensive Player of the Year while Colter Johnson (Warren, PA) was named Special Teams Player of the Year.
Hampton passed for 1,682 yards and 19 scores on the season. He was 113-235 and finished with 125.53 efficiency rate. He also rushed for 81 yards and three scores. He led an offense that averaged 28.2 points per game. Hampton passed for over 200 yards in two contests and passed for a season high 299 yards in the victory over Hudson Valley CC.
Johnson handled both the punting and kicking duties for the Pioneers. He averaged 38.9 yards per punt in his 38 attempts on the season. He had six punts inside the 20, six punts of 50+ yards, and five touchbacks. On kickoffs, he averaged 56.6 yards per kick. Johnson was also 6 for 12 in field goal attempts including a perfect 4 for 4 in the Region III Championship game. His long was 42 yards on the season.
Wide Receivers Devin Simmons (Elmira Free) and Tavon Moore (Syracuse/Bishop Grimes) were also honored.
Simmons pulled in 49 catches for 743 yards and 10 scores on the season. His 49 catches on the season is a new school record. Simmons had three 100-yard receiving games and four games in which he caught two touchdown passes.
Moore caught 25 passes for 449 yards and four scores on the season. Moore had a 100-yard receiving game vs. Hudson Valley CC. He also rushed the ball 18 times for 58 yards.
Running back Desmond Goode (Johnson Mountain, VA) was also honored after having a solid season prior to having a season ending injury. In six games, Goode rushed for a team high 628 yards and four scores. After rushing for 85 yards in the first two games, he racked up four-straight 100-yard games including a 155 yards on 31 carries vs. Wright State Club.
Anthony Turner (Syracuse/Corcoran) led the defensive contingent named All-Region. Turner led the team was 62 tackles (34 solo) and 10 sacks. He recorded eight or more tackles in five games and recorded two or more sacks in four games. He also forced four fumbles on the season.
Rory Spain (Tully), Antonio Williams (New Haven, CT), Robert Howard (Syracuse/Nottingham), David Howell (Rochester/Greece Athena), and Alonzo Joyner (Queens/Information Technology) were also honored by Region III.
Spain had 56 tackles (19 solo) in eight games this season. He was credited with two sacks, a forced fumble, and an interception. He had eight or more tackles in four games this season.
Williams finished the campaign with 40 tackles (19 solo) and six sacks. He registered 12 tackles for a loss on the year. He had eight or more tackles in two games and had three sacks in a victory over the Onondaga Ogres Football Club.
Howard finished with 42 tackles on the season (15 solo) and two sackls. He had six or more tackles in three games.
Howell chipped in 47 tackles (19 solo) on the season. He had 14 tackles for a loss including four sacks. He had three games in which he had six or more tackles and recorded three sacks vs. Onondaga.
Joyner finished the year with 50 tackles (34 solo). He had three tackles for a loss, forced one fumble and led the team with five interceptions. He also was credited with seven pass break-ups. He had two key interceptions in the Region III Championship win vs. Erie CC.
The Pioneers wrapped up the 2011 season with a 6-4 overall and were crowned the Region III Champions after defeating Erie CC 26-20 in the championship game. The Region III title was the first for the ASC football program.
Romero and Kozlowski Named ASC Athletes of the Week
Alfred State College sophomores Camille Romero (Queens Village/Mary Louis) and Braden Kozlowski (N. Tonawanda) have been named the ASC Athletes of the Week by the SID office.
Romero netted 26 points vs. Finger Lakes CC and then had 29 points vs. Cuyahoga CC. She has now scored 20 or more points in each of the Lady Pioneers last five games. She is averaging 21.2 points, 3.4 rebounds, 3.1 steals, and 2.6 assists per game.
Braden Kozlowski (N. Tonawanda) won the 200 back (2:14.57), was 2nd in the 200 free (1:56.44) and 5th in the 500 free (5:26.06) as the Pioneer men's swimming team finished 3rd at the Monroe CC Invitational. He was also part of the 800 free relay team that finished 2nd and the 400 IM relay, 200 free relay, and 400 free relay teams finished 3rd.
Lady Pioneers Press Past Roberts JV
The Alfred State College women's basketball team used a solid press to down Roberts Wesleyan JV 49-46 to snap a four-game slide and improve to 7-4 on the year.
The Lady Pioneers trailed by as many as 12 points early on in the contest before putting on the press to climb back into the game and grab a 30-23 halftime lead. ASC and Roberts battled the rest of the way but the Pioneers held on for the victory.
Camille Romero (Queens Village/Mary Louis) led the way for the blue & gold with 18 points while Amie Brooks (Pavilion) finished with 13.
ASC wraps up the 2011 portion of their season on Thursday when they host the JV Yellowjackets from the University of Rochester. Tip-off is at 6 p.m.


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You Can Learn with Shoot Like A Girl Mobile Range
A few of you have asked where you or the lady in your life can learn how to shoot. One way is to sign up for a basic firearms course. Another is to look for the Shoot Like a Girl schedule and visit a local Cabela's. Women 16 and older can partake in the opportunity to learn at the virtual shooting range. Check it out.
Shoot Like A Girl Mobile Range Onsite at Cabela's Kansas City, KS
Athens, AL – Women ages 16 and older will be afforded the opportunity to shoot inside Shoot Like A Girl's semi tractor-trailer mobile range at Cabela's April 7th-8th in Wichita, KS. New and experienced shooters are invited to attend this free event during the hours of 10AM-5PM on Saturday and 11AM-5PM on Sunday.
At the event, women gain experience in handling and shooting handguns, long guns and compound bows using state-of-the-art technology. Inside the mobile range, women are guided through a revolutionary introduction process, called the Test Shots™ and Test Flights™ by Certified National Rifle Association instructors and archery coaches. Onsite, at the Shoot Like A Girl Gun Counter, attendees can also compare a variety of firearms including revolvers, semi-automatic pistols, shotguns, and rifles from their firearms partners.
Shoot Like A is committed to educating others about the importance in firearm safety. Those who visit the range will learn about safe responsible gun ownership, the benefits of firearms, and the positive influence the participation of shooting sports can have on your life.
"We are growing the number of women who participate in shooting sports. Shoot Like A Girl produces remarkable results – last year alone produced 5,456 committed gun sales from the women who go through the trailer, and 1,712 committed bow sales," said Karen Butler, president of Shoot Like A Girl.
Shoot Like A Girl is made possible because of Corporate Partners, including Cabela's, that are equally committed to its mission.
The Heartland Tour will be featured at the following locations:
February 10-11 – Cabela's @ Gonzales, LA
March 10-11 – Cabela's @ League City, TX
March 24-25 – Cabela's @ Wichita, KS
April 7-8 – Cabela's @ Kansas City, KS
April 14-15 – Cabela's @ La Vista, NE
April 28-29 – Cabela's @ Richfield, WI
May 19-20 – Cabela's @ Dundee, MI
For sponsorship information or to learn more about SLG2, visit Shoot Like A Girl online, or visit at Facebook and Twitter.
About Shoot Like A Girl:
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The Village / AR2B Architects + Sophie Ponthieu
AR2B architects + Sophie Ponthieu
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According to the daily newspaper «Le Monde», which quotes a report by Parisian notaries dated 26 July 2019, the average price per square metre in Paris has crossed the symbolic line of €10,000. Faced with this new record, the proposal entitled «The Village» questions the functioning of our society. The objective is to create a system that could be similar to the functioning of a village in order to respond to the social, economic and ecological problems that affect our current society. Social: integrate a multi-programmatic logic into the whole project in order to recreate a social network with an organization operating at the level of the building and local services. Economy: Create an economic model within the building based on the integration of a programmatic percentage including offices, shops, tourism in order to meet the high speculative demand and offer a significant number of decent housing at an affordable price. This economic model makes it possible to find a balance between a viable programme and housing in order to create a circular system for its financing. Ecology: The creation of a social fabric with a local and circular functioning allows many advantages such as the sharing of services, waste management, the development of new types of public transport.
The proposal breaks free from the dense urban fabric of Paris by creating a bridge building that allows it to be installed in many sites such as the Seine, the Périphérique, or even railway lines. This strategy offers an opening on the possibilities of building and densification of the city in order to avoid the growing urban. The building is based on a modular system to allow greater flexibility between the different programs, to facilitate its implementation and its reproducibility in the different sites. The module is a 4.80-metre square based on Luis Kahn's system with life spaces and technical spaces integrated into the thickness of the structure in order to facilitate the modularity of the different types of dwellings. The prefabrication of the module in cross laminated timber wood is part of a logic of environmental respect and ease of implementation. In the case of a construction on the Seine, the modules can be transported directly by boat. The proposal aims to question the production of collective housing through research work at the urban, building or housing level.
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Rihanna to Join Adele and Lady Gaga in Grammy Awards 2016 Performance Lineup
By Rhea Pruto ( [email protected] ) Feb 08, 2016 02:17 PM EST Comment
With a trio like this, you make a hit.
Rihanna is officially performing at the 58th Grammy Awards. She will be joining a list of equally exciting artists who were previously announced to perform.
The Grammys took to its official Twitter account to announce the great news of the eight-time Grammy winner's infusion in the all-star lineup. She is joking the likes of Adele, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, The Weeknd, and Kendrick Lamar among others. Rihanna has just released a new single, "Work," featuring rapper Drake.
See y'all at the #GRAMMYs February 15 on @CBS at 8e/5p!! pic.twitter.com/XX0j2OIx1x
— Rihanna (@rihanna) February 5, 2016
This is hardly Rihanna's first time to perform for the Grammy Awards. In fact, she is one of the regulars, if one can call her that. Her past Grammy performances were all memorable too, as detailed by E Online, which serves as a hint of how well fans can expect her to perform this year.
Last year, she performed "Four five Seconds" with Kanye West and Paul McCartney. The trio did not use colorful props and other stage tricks but instead, kept their performance a little more subdued. They opted for a plain white background. Regardless, their performance was praised widely.
On 2013, she delivered two performances on the event. First, she performed her hit song, "Stay." She wowed everyone with her emotional performance with Mikky Ekko performing alongside her. She took to the stage for a second time to pay tribute to Bob Marley with Bruno Mars. They sang "Could You Be Loved."
On 2012, she sang "We Found Love" while dancing her heart out. The performance was also complemented with a lot of theatrics.
The previous year, she and Eminem took the audience by storm with their performance of "Love the Way You Lie, Part 2." Many lauded Rihanna's stunning vocals that night.
Her first time to go onstage was on 2008. She sang her hit song "Umbrella" and also performed "Don't Stop the Music." It was all very pop, which was how she was known for at the time.
In a related news, Adele's participation in the Grammy Awards is a rare feat because she is also set to perform at the Oscars. It is very rare for music artists to perform at two of the biggest award shows in the world.
The Awards Show is airing on Feb. 15. It will be hosted by LL Cool, which has been its host for five consecutive years now.
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Q: A connected group variety is geometrically connected I'm reading J.S. Milne's notes on abelian varieties. A current link is https://www.jmilne.org/math/CourseNotes/AV.pdf .
I have a question to following paragraph on page 14

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*My first question is why can we find a field $k'$ that is contained in $R$ and a proper superset of $k$, whenever $k$ is not algebraically closed in Quot$(R)$.

*In the comments to this question k is algebraically closed in field of fractions of k-domain that admits $k$ morphism to $k$. reuns gives an example, with $R=\mathbb{R}[t, i t]$ and $k=\mathbb{R}$. Is this a counter example?
( A connected group variety is a group scheme $V$ over Spec$(k)$ for $k$ a field such that $V$ is separated, of finite type and geometrically reduced over Spec$(k)$)

A: There is a general result that if $X$ is a connected algebraic scheme over a field $k$ such that $X(k)$ is nonempty, then $X$ is geometrically connected. One way of seeing this is to note that the set $\pi_{0}(X_{k^{\mathrm{sep}}})$ of connected components of $X_{k^{\mathrm{sep} }}$ has an action of $\mathrm{Gal}(k^{\mathrm{sep}}/k)$, and so corresponds to a finite etale $k$-algebra $\pi(X)$ (Grothendieck-Galois theory), which can be identified with the largest etale $k$-subalgebra of $\Gamma (X,\mathcal{O}{}_{X})$. The factors of $\pi(X)$ correspond to the connected components of $X$. If $X$ is connected, then $\pi(X)$ is a field $k^{\prime}$ containing $k$, and if $X(k)$ is nonempty, then there is a $k$-algebra homomorphism $\Gamma(X,\mathcal{O}_{X})\rightarrow k$, and so $k^{\prime} =k$. Hence $\pi_{0}(X_{k^{\mathrm{sep}}})$ consists of a single element. [Unfortunately, I don't know a good reference for this.]

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*If $\operatorname{Spec} R\to\operatorname{Spec} k$ is of finite type and connected but not geometrically connected, we can find a subfield $k\subset k'\subset R$ where the inclusion $k\subset k'$ is proper: if one could not do this, we would have a $k$-point, and for such $k$-schemes we know that they are geometrically connected.

*The spectrum of $A=\Bbb R[t,it]\cong\Bbb R[x,y]/(x^2+y^2)$ is geometrically connected - the base change up to $\Bbb C$ is $\Bbb C[x,y]/(x^2+y^2)\cong \Bbb C[t,u]/(tu)$ which has connected spectrum (two lines meeting at a point). On the other hand, $\Bbb R$ is not closed in $\operatorname{Frac}(A)\cong \Bbb C(t)$. So this is a counterexample to the claim cited by Milne as (AG 11.7). (In fact, this result has been removed from the latest edition of Milne's AG text.) Do note that it's not a counterexample to the point made in part 1, since $\Bbb R$ is algebraically closed in $A$ for degree reasons.
The fact that the claim in part 2 is incorrect is maybe not completely surprising - talking about $k(V)$ means we're dealing with some birational property, but it's possible for a connected scheme to only be geometrically connected because of some specific proper closed subset and indeed that's what this example is demonstrating. With additional assumptions, like the fact that $V$ is a group scheme, one may be able to get around this by using the fact that group schemes "look the same everywhere", but I leave this proof for someone else.

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Poland's new Holocaust law is just the latest attempt to officially redefine its history
Undersecretary of State at the Chancellery of the President of Poland Wojciech Kolarski, left, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and Deputy Prime Minister Beata Szydlo, right, place candles at the Monument to the Victims at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau on International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Oswiecim, Poland, on Jan. 27. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)
By Volha Charnysh and
Evgeny Finkel
The Polish Parliament's upper house approved Thursday a controversial bill that aimed, according to its backers, "to protect Poland's reputation and ensure historians recognize that Poles as well as Jews perished under the Nazis." Widely interpreted as criminalizing any mention that some Poles committed crimes during the Holocaust, the law was swiftly condemned by a wide range of Holocaust commemoration bodies, survivors and historians. The United States asked Poland to rethink the legislation. Israel countered with a bill that criminalizes denying or minimizing the role of Nazi collaborators.
But few in the Western media read Polish, and the law's actual scope is actually broader than has been reported. Behind it lies a long-standing government policy of "not leaving history to the historians" — and promoting a narrative of Polish martyrdom.
So far, Western media have characterized the bill as an attempt to criminalize phrases such as "Polish death camps." But the legislation goes beyond that. The bill expands the focus of the government-affiliated Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), an institution created in 1998 to research, document and prosecute crimes by the Communist political police and the Nazis, to include crimes that Ukrainian nationalists perpetrated against Poles and Jews between 1925 and 1950, including the mass murder of Polish civilians in Volhynia and Galicia during World War II.
More important, it expands IPN's mandate to include protecting Poland's reputation at home and abroad. The draft law would impose a punishment of up to three years in prison on Polish and foreign citizens who claim — "publicly and contrary to facts" — that Poland was responsible or co-responsible for the crimes committed by the Third Reich during World War II, or for other war atrocities, crimes against humanity or crimes against peace.
That language is so vague that it could be used to silence debate on any aspect of Polish history that strays from its officially promoted martyrdom narrative. The bill makes exceptions for the arts and research. But the ruling far-right Law and Justice (PiS) party has been politicizing Poland's chief prosecutor's office and getting rid of judicial autonomy — which might make that exemption entirely theoretical.
[Poland's far-right government has launched a new threat to democratic elections]
Poland has had an uneasy relationship with the Holocaust for years.
This bill is just Poland's most elaborate and conspicuous attempt to redefine its history.
After the transition from Communism to democracy, the Polish government launched a "historical policy" (polityka historyczna in Polish). Its aim was to emphasize Polish suffering at the hands of external forces and to minimize Polish complicity or crimes — to shape the understanding and memory of Poland's past to shore up its present political standing. Toward that end, the country established the IPN and began drawing attention to past tragedies in ways that could achieve moral and political gains.
For instance, since the turn of the millennium, Poland has repeatedly asked Germany for World War II reparations. In 2007, the Polish prime minister demanded additional voting rights in the European Union because Poland suffered such heavy losses during World War II. In July 2016, the Polish parliament voted to recognize Ukrainian nationalists' mass killings of Poles as genocide. The ruling PiS party is an especially strong believer in these policies. Not surprisingly, its supporters are substantially more likely to endorse IPN's activities than the rest of the population.
Further, Poland defends the nation against accusations of past wrongdoing, especially in the Holocaust. In 2004, the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs launched the Against "Polish Camps" public relations campaign. The ministry monitors foreign media for offensive statements, demands corrections, keeps a tally of its victories on the website and hosts a how-to guide for individual citizens who want to respond to "offensive" statements in the foreign media.
The right-wing populist PiS, in power since 2015, has ramped up this defense. In January 2016, President Andrzej Duda asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to reevaluate the Order of Merit award issued to Princeton Universitt historian Jan Gross after Gross wrote that, during World War II, the number of Jews killed by Poles exceeded the number of Germans killed by Poles. Arguing that a recently opened World War II museum in Gdansk insufficiently emphasized Polish suffering and heroism, the PiS government took control of the institution in April 2017. And it has now passed this bill, which had languished since PiS originally introduced it in 2013.
Many Poles are frustrated that Western leaders don't understand how the nation suffered during World War II.
In passing this bill, PiS is expressing Poles' irritation that Western leaders are generally ignorant of how Poland suffered at the hands of both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. In 2012, Barack Obama referred to a "Polish death camp" when conferring a Presidential Medal of Freedom on Polish hero Jan Karski. In 2015, then-FBI Director James B. Comey spoke of evil committed by "the murderers and accomplices of Germany, and Poland, and Hungary." The Polish government demanded retractions and restatements, insisting that such phrasing failed to acknowledge that Nazis were the ones who created and ran the death camps in German-occupied Poland.
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It's true that the German Nazi regime planned, organized, and oversaw the murder of 6 million Jews. But that effort would have failed without local collaboration. Most Poles neither harmed nor helped their Jewish fellow citizens. Some even heroically rescued Jews.
But hundreds of thousands Polish Jews were murdered without setting a foot into a German death camp, often by their neighbors in pogroms and "Jew-hunts," as scholars Jeffrey Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg detailed this week. As wartime reports noted, persecuting Jews functioned as a "narrow bridge" on which the German occupier and the Polish civilian could meet. Some Poles created a new trade — "szmalcownictwo" in Polish — in which they identified and blackmailed Jews in hiding. Of course, the szmalcowniks did not represent the Polish state — but they came from throughout Polish society, from the lowest to the highest rungs.
As one of us documented, the well-founded fear of Poles prevented numerous Jews from escaping and hiding. The main Polish underground organization, the Home Army, affiliated with the Polish government-in-exile, sometimes saved and sometimes killed Jews. More often, it simply ignored their cries for help. During and after the war, numerous Poles profited from the property of murdered Jews, a process that, as we have shown, contributed to greater electoral support for far-right xenophobic views decades later.
Relegating discussion of uncomfortable or inconvenient aspects of history to universities and the arts would devalue the lives of Poles who died rescuing Jews, of whom Polish society is rightly proud. Only open discussion can help protect Poland's reputation while educating the world about how Polish citizens of all faiths suffered during World War II.
Volha Charnysh is a fellow at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University.
Evgeny Finkel is an assistant professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University.
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Over at the gethuman blog, speech industry analyst Walt Tetschner has a provocative piece asking whether Nuance Communications is starting to look like a rerun of Lernout & Houspie, the Belgian company that rolled up speech-recognition companies, but collapsed in 2001 due to an accounting scandal.
Nuance continues to be a house-of-cards that is likely to come crashing down. The only question is when. Nuance does not generate GAAP profits. It shows proforma profits by excluding a huge amount of stock compensation. Naive investors buy the stock based on distorted information from top management, but knowledgable management keeps selling the stock. The growth rate is inflated through acquisitions that are enormously over-priced. A lack of transparency and distortion of the truth by Nuance top management continues to make it a challenge to figure out just what Nuance is really doing.
The activities of Nuance Communications bear a striking resemblance to what L&H was doing prior to imploding in early 2000.
Belgian-based L&H was once the world's leading maker of speech technology software. In early 2000, reports of accounting irregularities surfaced that prompted arrest of the company's founders. It sought reorganization under bankruptcy laws in the United States and Belgium. The situation led in October to the firm being declared insolvent and its assets being put up for sale.
A few of the more obvious similarities are 1) a highly aggressive M&A program that was attempting to eliminate competitition and 2) constant distortion of reality by the corporate management.
The two companies routinely grossly overpaid for acquisitions that were being made. They then attempted to distort this. For example: Nuance is paying $160 million for SnapOn and is then attempting to distort this by measuring with speculative future revenue contributions.
It's great to have the biggest stand-alone company in the speech recognition business here in Massachusetts: Nuance Communications. But I wonder if we're starting to see some negative effects... as Nuance seems to believe it owns all of the IP in the speech-rec field. They've been fairly litigious of late, and have yet to win a lawsuit in court.
Today's Globe column focuses on Nuance's latest lawsuit against a rival. This time, the defendant is Vlingo, a 35-person start-up in Harvard Square, co-founded by an ex-Nuance executive, Mike Phillips.
2004 – Burlington-based Nuance Communications, Inc. (then known as ScanSoft, Inc.) files suit against Woburn-based VoiceSignal Technologies, Inc. for infringing a patent related to voice-controlled dialing on mobile phones, and trade secret misappropriation. In 2006, VoiceSignal sues Nuance for patent infringement related to an approach to correcting mistakes used by dictation software. In 2007, Nuance buys Voice Signal for $263 million, ending the litigation.
2004 – Nuance sues ART Advanced Recgnition Technologies, Inc. of Israel for patent infringement over voice-controlled dialing for mobile phones. In 2005, Nuance acquires ART, ending the litigation.
2006 – Nuance sues California-based Tellme Networks, Inc. over two patents related to directory assistance and call center technologies. Microsoft acquired Tellme in 2007, but the lawsuit is still pending.
2006 – Nuance sues SoftMed Systems, Inc. of Maryland, alleging that SoftMed violated patents that cover centralized digital dictation systems and priority voicemail systems. The two companies later settled out of court.
2008 – Nuance sues Vlingo, Inc. of Cambridge over a patent pertaining to adapting speech recognition software to individual users.
Nuance, the biggest speech recognition software company in the world, is suing tiny Vlingo, a Cambridge start-up, for patent infringement. Vlingo co-founder Michael Phillips had been a Nuance employee before starting the company, which focuses on speech recognition on mobile phones. He took a year off to sit out his non-compete agreement before starting Vlingo.
We believe this lawsuit is unfounded. Nuance has referenced a patent that has serious limitations in its coverage. The patent does not apply to vlingo's technology; moreover, we have significant doubts regarding the patent's validity. Vlingo's technology is based on a license of IBM's core speech recognition platform, which is used by hundreds of companies worldwide. Industry observers will recognize this as typical counterproductive behavior of filing frivolous lawsuits in an attempt to stifle competition. Vlingo will fight the lawsuit aggressively to its conclusion, while continuing to build on our tremendous momentum we've gained in less than one year since our public launch.
Some earlier video of Phillips doing a Vlingo demo is here. And Phillips is also mentioned in this Globe column.
Yesterday's column looks at Nuance Communications, one of Massachusetts' biggest software companies, and the dominant player in speech recognition.
When it comes to controlling a mobile phone, car stereo, desktop PC, or GPS device by voice alone, software from Nuance Communications Inc. is fast becoming the equivalent of Intel Inside. In terms of the breadth of its products, and the number of employees it has dedicated to speech recognition, Nuance looms over its bigger rivals, IBM Corp. and Microsoft Corp. But on the local and national tech scenes, Nuance is far from well-known.
"They've taken a fragmented industry and rolled it up into one company," says Daniel Ives, an analyst at Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co., alluding to CEO Paul Ricci's passion for picking up smaller speech recognition companies. (Friedman, Billings makes a market in Nuance's stock, but hasn't done any investment banking for the company.) "Speech recognition is still a green field opportunity, and I view them as the 800-pound gorilla in the space."
There are two videos this week -- one of the demo that Nuance exec Peter Mahoney gave me last week, and another video that Mahoney recorded in response to my column and video, which explains why things didn't go smoothly when he was showing me a TomTom speech-guided GPS.
BusinessWeek says that software developers are angling for partnerships with Google that would give them a prominent spot on the forthcoming gPhone. That includes Burlington-based Nuance Communications, the (almost totally silent) speech-recognition giant.
Wireless industry consultants and marketing executives with knowledge of Google's plans say it has been showing prototypes of a new phone to handset manufacturers and network operators for a couple of months. Its plans have been kept top secret, but Google is expected to tap a company on the Pacific Rim that specializes in mobile design and manufacturing to build a handset to its specs. Google could then apply its expertise in operating software and user applications, says Paul Catalano, a partner at consultancy RelevantC Business Group (RCBG). Google officials won't talk about phones, and industry sources don't expect one before the second half of 2008.


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Graphic photos: Woman butchers husband to death, just 16 days after white wedding
The couple had their traditional wedding on the 11th of March, 2016. Their white wedding happened two days later on the 13th.
Exactly 16 days later, according to the Congolese Facebook user who took to the social media website to mourn his late brother, the newly wedded wife killed her husband with a machete.
SPONSORED :Fidson Healthcare Reports N838mn Profit before Tax
Fidson Healthcare Plc. released its audited 2015 financial results to the Nigerian Stock Exchange this week, recording an 18% growth in profit after tax from N631mn in 2014 to N744mn in 2015.
This performance is in spite of a 16% decline in turnover to N8.21bn, which was a result of the challenges to sales and distribution faced during the first half of 2015 largely due to the general
elections. The upturn in sales witnessed in the second half of the year was curtailed by the paucity of foreign exchange for the importation of products and essential raw materials, which severely affected product availability.
The financial results also showed an increase of 6% in operating profit from N1.45bn last year to N1.52bn. According to management, the increase is largely as a result of the company's cost optimization strategy and a reduction in selling and distribution expenses. The company's cost improvement trend, which it embarked on a couple of years ago, is in line with its strategy to drive efficiency in the face of a challenging business environment.
There was a 29% increase in finance cost, mainly due to the N2bn fixed-rate Bond issued in November 2014, from N554mn to N715mn. This impacted on Fidson's profit before tax, which marginally dipped from N870mn last year to N838mn – a decline of 4%.
The company continues its focus on extensive brand building as part of its long-term strategy and will be introducing a number of new products into the Nigerian market. This is a direct result of the move to the company's new World Health Organisation Good Manufacturing Practice (WHO-GMP), where local production is being ramped up.
A new product line – Intravenous fluids – to be added to five existing product lines at the new factory will enable Fidson consolidate its manufacturing base in the near future.
See What a Landlord Did To His 37yr Old Pregnant Tenant (Photos)
Tunde Sanusi, has been arrested by the police in Lagos for allegedly beating up his father's tenant, a 37-year-old pregnant woman.
Sanusi was said to have pummelled the victim, Mrs. Dupe Balogun, and damaged one of her eyes for allegedly failing to vacate the house after she had been served a notice to quit.
The building is located on Andrew Street, Lagos Island, while the incident happened on Sunday, March 27.
the landlord had been hard on Balogun for refusing to comply with the notice, allegedly threatening to kill the woman and her son.
The trader said she was ill on that day and was about entering her room on her way back from a hospital around 4pm when an argument ensued between her and Sanusi.
The incident was reported at the Adeniji Adele Police Divison and Sanusi was arrested. Balogun, who is four months pregnant, told the police that the injury would have been much but for the intervention of the neighbours.
She said, "The landlord gave us a notice to quit and always came to our apartment to bang the door, threatening to kill my son and me. As I came back from the hospital around 4pm on Sunday and sat in front of my shop, Tunde (Sanusi), the landlord's son, approached and challenged me, saying I refused to quit the house after receiving the notice. I told him to let my husband return.
"All of a sudden, he started abusing me. Before I knew what was happening, he gave me a fist blow in the eye. The landlord and another child of his joined Tunde to beat me up. It was my neigbours that rescued me."
Sanusi, however, denied beating the tenant, saying the woman fell while she was struggling with him. He also refuted the claim that his father and sister joined him to assault the woman.
The suspect said he met Balogun on his way to the bathroom on that day and she started abusing him.
He said, "I also abused her. She attempted to hold my shirt and I pushed her. Maybe as a result of that she hit her eye on a grinding machine on the premises. I did not touch her; my daddy told me to leave her and he did not touch her either.
"I only told her that her rent was due and that she should pack out from our house. She replied that I should do it myself. She held me and I pushed her. My sister did not beat her."
A police prosecutor, Inspector Philip Osijale, brought Sanusi before a Tinubu Magistrate's Court on one count of assault occasioning harm.
The charge read, "That you, Tunde Sanusi, and one other at large, at Andrew by Rica Street, Lagos Island, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did unlawfully assault one Dupe Balogun by giving her a blow in her left eye and gave her bodily harm, thereby committing an offence punishable under Section 171 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2011."
The accused pleaded not guilty and elected summary trial.
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Newsweek to cease print publication by the end of the year, launching single global digital edition
by Paul Sawers — in Media
Newsweek, the American weekly news magazine published in NYC, is going all-digital from the start of 2013, marking the end of an era for the almost 80-year-old publication.
The last print edition in the United States will be its December 31 issue, and the company will look to grow its tablet and online presence, as well as its global partnerships and events business.
Newsweek Global, as it will be called, will be a single, worldwide edition supported by paid subscriptions. It will be available through e-readers for both tablet and the Web, with select content available through The Daily Beast.
Newsweek was launched in 1933 by Thomas J.C. Martyn, formerly of Time Magazine, with the first issue dated 17 February, 1933. Today, it is among the biggest-selling weekly magazines in the US, behind Time, and is published in four English language editions, as well as twelve local-language global editions.
Newsweek merged with online publication The Daily Beast back in 2010 in a 50/50 joint venture called The Newsweek Daily Beast Company. The magazine underwent a big redesign last year, which followed an announcement a couple of years previous where it laid out its plans to reinvent the magazine after losing readers to online publications. Indeed, on its 75th anniversary, the magazine finally slipped into the red, and the publication reduced its workforce by 160 people to around 400, mostly through a voluntary retirement program.
So perhaps this isn't entirely surprising, and it is the way many publications are going. The focus, it seems, will be on building a strong digital revenue model moving forward, and it will be interesting to see what becomes of Newsweek when the final prints roll out later this year.
"Our business has been increasingly affected by the challenging print advertising environment, while Newsweek's online and e-reader content has built a rapidly growing audience through the Apple, Kindle, Zinio and Nook stores as well as on The Daily Beast," explains Tina Brown, editor-in-chief and founder of The Newsweek Daily Beast Company, and Baba Shetty, CEO, in a joint statement. "Tablet-use has grown rapidly among our readers and with it the opportunity to sustain editorial excellence through swift, easy digital distribution—a superb global platform for our award-winning journalism. By year's end, tablet users in the United States alone are expected to exceed 70 million, up from 13 million just two years ago."
You can read the full announcement here.
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May 28 - The DNV GL Group board of directors has appointed Remi Eriksen as the company's new group president and ceo.
Eriksen succeeds Henrik Madsen, who retires on August 1 after more than 30 years working with the company and nine years serving as ceo. Since 2014, the board of directors has undertaken an extensive search to find a successor for Madsen.
Eriksen most recently served as DNV GL chief operating officer.
He has extensive international experience in the oil and gas, maritime, and renewable energy industries, and has led operating in Asia, Europe and the Americas, explained chairman of the DNV GL Group board, Leif-Arne Langøy.


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What Is Croissant Moon Bakery?
Croissant Moon Bakery is a quick service food counter. It is one of the few places to get breakfast in Islands of Adventure. Croissant Moon Bakery also serves sandwiches, pastries, sweet treats, and beverages. Seating is available indoors and outdoors.
Croissant Moon Bakery is located in Port of Entry in Universal's Islands of Adventure.
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Home » Virtual Currencies, Manipulation, Cooperation, and More: CFTC Enforcement Division's 2018 Annual Report
Virtual Currencies, Manipulation, Cooperation, and More: CFTC Enforcement Division's 2018 Annual Report
By Nowell D. Bamberger, Robin M. Bergen & Emily Michael on November 26, 2018
Posted in CFTC, Compliance, Corporate Enforcement, Enforcement, United States
On November 15, 2018, the Division of Enforcement (the "Division") of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC") released its Annual Report on the Division of Enforcement (the "Report"), highlighting the enforcement division's recent initiatives and reinforcing its focus on cooperation and self-reporting. The Report provides a succinct overview of the Division's enforcement priorities over the last year, discusses its overall enforcement philosophy, sets out key metrics about the cases brought in the last year, and highlights its key initiatives for the coming year. While the Division's priorities—preserving market integrity, protecting customers, promoting individual accountability, and increasing coordination with other regulators and criminal authorities—do not mark a departure from prior guidance, the Report does highlight the Division's particular focus on individual accountability and a few target areas of enforcement.
The Division's Report follows the annual results issued earlier in November by the enforcement division of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), and together with that report provides a useful overview of the enforcement environment in the securities and commodities markets over the past year. Notably, while the SEC's report appears to point to shifting priorities over the past year, including an increased focus on retail investors and a step away from the "broken windows" enforcement philosophy, the Division's Report appears to reflect an approach characterized by greater continuity.
Overall, 2018 saw an uptick in enforcement action by the Division over 2017 in terms of the number of cases brought, the total fines imposed, and the number of significant (greater than $10 million) fines imposed. That said, the overall fines imposed and number of enforcement actions filed were not records for the Division, which in prior years saw massive resolutions with global financial institutions arising from the LIBOR and Foreign Exchange investigations. Moreover, many of the most significant resolutions in 2018 concluded years-long investigations into manipulation of the ISDAFIX benchmark and the markets for precious metals, which predate the current Division leadership.
In 2018, the Division filed 83 enforcement actions, imposing approximately $897 million in fines and $50 million in disgorgement and restitution awards. The Division highlighted in the Report that, although 2018 was not a record year in terms of either number of enforcement actions or overall collections, the Division brought a record 10 cases with fines in excess of $10 million.
Two parts of the Report were of particular note. First, the Division's enforcement activities aligned closely with its stated priorities for 2018 and the four "task forces" it created. These task forces focused on spoofing and manipulative trading, virtual currency, insider trading and protection of confidential information, and the Bank Secrecy Act. The Division reports that 2018 was a record year for enforcement matters alleging manipulative conduct and spoofing, with 26 such enforcement actions commenced. And, while the Report does not itself break down the number of virtual currency-related enforcement matters, review of the Division's docket for the last year reveals that the Division brought 11 virtual currency-related cases, which is about 13% of the total number of enforcement actions brought.
The focus on virtual currency cases is notable for at least two reasons. The first is that 2018 was a year in which the CFTC also litigated challenges to its jurisdiction to regulate virtual currencies under the anti-fraud provisions of the Commodities Exchange Act, with two district courts upholding that jurisdiction. Virtual currencies have thus become subject to split regulatory oversight, with the CFTC assuming jurisdiction over fraud in the purchase or sale of virtual currencies themselves, and the SEC assuming jurisdiction over schemes in which virtual currencies operate as securities, for example, in certain Initial Coin Offerings ("ICOs"). The second notable point is that, although the CFTC has not publicly prioritized enforcement actions related to schemes involving retail investors (as the SEC has), the Division's enforcement actions in the areas of virtual currencies over the past year—perhaps more than in any other single area of enforcement—have focused on fraudulent schemes involving the sale of virtual currencies to retail investors. This contrasts, for example, with some of the Division's more significant enforcement matters, including enforcement action related to the precious metals markets and ISDAFIX, which relate principally to the wholesale markets.
Also notable is the Report's highlighting of its whistleblower program, which paid out five whistleblower awards totaling over $75 million—more than the cumulative total of all whistleblower awards previously issued by the agency. This amount includes a $30 million award, the largest in the CFTC's history, related to the ISDAFIX enforcement actions, which in itself represents about 35% of the total money awarded to whistleblowers over the last ten years. While the whistleblower program within the CFTC remains considerably less prominent than its SEC counterpart, the CFTC has put significant effort into promoting the program to the market.
In addition to the points highlighted by the Division in the Report, the Report and the Division's docket are notable for another reason: the relative absence of cases brought by the CFTC related to trading in more traditional commodities, such as agricultural or energy futures. Rather, review of the Division's docket for 2018 bespeaks a distinct focus on virtual currency, foreign exchange, precious metals and similar financial products.
In terms of enforcement initiatives, the Report focused extensively on self-reporting and cooperation. This largely parallels a focus on individual accountability that features in the SEC's annual report and in statements by the SEC, CFTC and other law enforcement agencies over the past several years. The Division noted its view that "a consensus appears to have developed that a robust cooperation and self-reporting program serves as a powerful tool to pursue individual liability," and that it agrees with that consensus. This is not a new focus, as the CFTC issued new enforcement guidance focused on cooperation in September 2017 that emphasized individual accountability and self-reporting. The Report does, however, further illustrate the culture of self-reporting that the Division seeks to encourage. To that end, the Report includes the following anecdote as being consistent with a "true culture of compliance:"
Imagine a CEO standing in front of the company's new hires on their first day on the job. Imagine the CEO telling the new staff about the various trainings to come as part of the onboarding process—compliance, ethics, human resources, and the like. And imagine the CEO telling the new staff that, notwithstanding those various internal company regimes, if they break the law, their problems won't stop with the compliance, ethics, or human resources department. Their problems will come from the CFTC (and perhaps even the DOJ and the FBI). They know this because, the CEO tells the staff, the company is committed to identifying any misconduct, and to reporting it out to the relevant authorities. That's the sort of behavior we're seeking to foster. That's the sort of commitment, we believe, that creates the culture of compliance we want to see in all of our market participants. And that's the end goal at which our enforcement efforts are aimed.
In exchange for such self-reporting, the Division has pointed to a program of providing greater certainty and clear incentives. By way of example, the Report points to the Division's recent settlement with a trader who was accused of fraudulently mismarking swap valuations to conceal significant trading losses. In that case, the Division recognized the self-reporting, full cooperation, and proactive remediation of the trader's employer, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., by issuing the first public declination letter closing its related investigation of the employer without recommending any enforcement action. We find interesting the Report's apparent emphasis on cooperation as a tool to pursue individual accountability as an objective unto itself, although the Report also emphasizes that the objective of all of the Division's activities centers on encouraging compliance.
The Report provides little explicit guidance on the Division's priorities for the coming year. Based on the current administration's areas of focus as well as the consistent statements by the Director of the Enforcement Division, James McDonald, however, we anticipate that 2019 will feature more cases by the Division's task forces: spoofing and manipulative trading, virtual currency, insider trading and protection of confidential information, and the Bank Secrecy Act. We expect the Division to continue to be an active enforcer in the commodities and adjacent markets, marked by significant and headline grabbing enforcement actions in the areas of manipulation and virtual currency.
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'Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb! How have I deserved that the mother of my Lord should come to me? The moment that the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leapt for joy!' Luke 1:39
Mission: We proclaim that human life is a precious gift from God; that each person who receives this gift has responsibilities toward God, self, and others; and that our society, through its laws and social institutions, must protect and nurture human life at every stage of its existence, most centrally, the right to life itself.
Purpose: Through growing involvement in public information and education, pastoral care, public policy, and organized opportunities for prayer and worship, we will work to bring the consistent ethic of the Culture of Life to our Church and to our society.
Emblem: The small heart inside the larger heart represents our weaker, more vulnerable brothers and sisters and the larger heart represents our presence surrounding them, protecting them, no matter how old, how young, or how weak they are. We are all united by the Cross of Christ, who redeems us in the power of His resurrection, heals us in His love, and forgives our sins in His great mercy.
The most powerful welcome in history occurred when Elizabeth welcomed Mary,
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Netronome's exhibition at RSA will focus on the company's role in network security for hyperscale environments and next-generation datacenters. There are fundamental architectural changes that networks are undergoing as they move from complex hardware-defined systems to simple and high-speed software-defined platforms. Netronome's silicon and software product portfolio that focuses on software-defined networks (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) applications will be demonstrated.
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"""
Parse and process output from `git diff` command.
"""

from collections import namedtuple

from GitSavvy.core.parse_diff import HunkLine, SplittedDiff

MYPY = False
if MYPY:
    from typing import Iterator, List, NamedTuple
    from GitSavvy.core.types import LineNo

    Change = NamedTuple("Change", [
        ("raw", str),
        ("type", str),
        ("head_pos", LineNo),
        ("saved_pos", LineNo),
        ("text", str)
    ])
    Hunk = NamedTuple("Hunk", [
        ("raw_lines", List[str]),
        ("changes", List[Change]),
        ("head_start", LineNo),
        ("head_length", int),
        ("saved_start", LineNo),
        ("saved_length", int)
    ])

else:
    Hunk = namedtuple("Hunk", "raw_lines changes head_start head_length saved_start saved_length")
    Change = namedtuple("Change", "raw type head_pos saved_pos text")

def parse_diff(diff_str):
    # type: (str) -> List[Hunk]
    """
    Given the string output from a `git diff` command, parse the string into
    hunks and, more granularly, meta-data and change information for each of
    those hunks.
    """
    hunks = []
    for hunk in SplittedDiff.from_string(diff_str).hunks:
        head_start, head_length, saved_start, saved_length = hunk.header().parse()
        changes = _get_changes(hunk.content().lines(), head_start, saved_start)
        # Remove lines warning about "No newline at end of file"; change.type will == `\`.
        changes_filtered = [change for change in changes if change.type != "\\"]
        hunks.append(
            Hunk(
                hunk.text.splitlines(keepends=True),
                changes_filtered,
                head_start,
                head_length,
                saved_start,
                saved_length
            )
        )

    return hunks

def _get_changes(hunk_lines, head_start, saved_start):
    # type: (List[HunkLine], LineNo, LineNo) -> Iterator[Change]
    """
    Transform a list of `+` or `-` lines from a `git diff` output
    into tuples with the original raw line, the type of the change,
    the position of the HEAD- and saved- versions at that line, and
    the text of the line with the `+` or `-` removed.
    """
    head_pos = head_start
    saved_pos = saved_start

    for line in hunk_lines:
        yield Change(line.text, line.mode, head_pos, saved_pos, line.content)
        if line.is_from_line():
            head_pos += 1
        elif line.is_to_line():
            saved_pos += 1


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Paris 1900-Athletics events. MACCRACKEN Josiah (USA) 2nd in shot put and 3rd in hammer throw.


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Yves Brunier : Arquitecto paisajista / [editor Michel Jacques ; traductor Clarita Pagani].
Material type: Book; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publisher: [20--]Availability: Items available for loan: Biblioteca [Call number: TRADUCCIONES Caja 1] (1).
Arquitectura paisajista / Alba I. di Marco de Testa.
by Di Marco, Alba Irene.
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filed: August 10, 2011 • Australia
Wind farm proposed for Port Kembla site
Credit: BY GREG ELLIS, Illawarra Mercury, www.illawarramercury.com.au 10 August 2011 ~~
Enough wind power to provide the energy needs of up to 10,000 homes could be generated near the Port Kembla coal loader within two to three years.
Port Kembla Port Corporation chief executive Dom Figliomeni yesterday revealed a wind farm was proposed for a site adjoining the coal loader and that an analysis of the site was about to begin.
Mr Figliomeni told the Illawarra Innovative Industry Network (i3net) the energy would be for port users and/or the energy grid.
"We are effectively in negotiation with one party on [the wind farm] at the moment," he said.
Mr Figliomeni said the port corporation had received five expressions of interest.
No approval for construction had yet been sought but he expected at least seven turbines would be built.
"They reckon they can fit seven but we may look at extending that," he said. "The site is adjacent to the coal stockpile next to the road."
Mr Figliomeni said he was aware of some community concerns about wind turbines so he and port corporation chairman Nick Whitlam had decided to visit a wind farm at Tarago, near Goulburn.
Mr Figliomeni said he wanted to satisfy himself that locating a wind farm at Port Kembla would have no negative impact on the community.
"We wanted to do that before we made a decision to award a tender.
"The agreement will allow the company to undertake an analysis to assess the suitability of the site … ie, is there enough wind and is it coming from the right direction."
Mr Figliomeni said no construction would take place unless the site was deemed suitable.
"It would then have to go through the relevant approval process before they can construct anything," he said. "Where they would go is nowhere near a residential area. That I think is critical. It is effectively within the port."
Mr Figliomeni said the road between the coal loader and the sea was well away from residential areas and he was confident no-one would hear the turbines.
The site was also considered good because there was always wind in the area.
Mr Figliomeni said the size of the wind turbines being proposed were two to three megawatts (MW) each.
Most 2MW wind turbines generate enough electricity to supply the energy needs of more than 1000 homes annually, and seven 3MW turbines would produce enough for more than 10,000 homes a year.
He said there had already been interest expressed from port users.
Source: BY GREG ELLIS, Illawarra Mercury, www.illawarramercury.com.au 10 August 2011


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class Author < ActiveRecord::Base
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  has_many :bibliomes, :through => :bibliome_authors
  has_many :authorships
  has_many :articles, :through => :authorships
  has_many :author_journals
  has_many :journals, :through => :author_journals
  has_many :coauthorship
  has_many :coauthors, :through => :coauthorship, :source => :coauthor_id
  has_many :author_subjects
  has_many :subjects, :through => :author_subjects
  has_many :author_pubtypes
  has_many :pubtypes, :through => :author_pubtypes

  validates_uniqueness_of :fore_name, :scope => [:last_name, :suffix]

  def full_name
    ["#{last_name || ""}", "#{fore_name || ""}"].join(", ")
  end

  def init_name
    ["#{last_name || ""}", "#{initials || ""}"].join(" ")
  end

  def merge_with(author)

  end

  def to_l
    full_name
  end

  def see_also
    case initials.length
    when 1: Author.find(:all, :conditions => ["last_name = ? AND initials like ? AND id != ?", last_name, "#{initials.first}%", id])
    when 2: Author.find(:all, :conditions => ["last_name = ? AND (initials = ? OR initials =?) AND id != ?", last_name, initials.first, initials, id])
    else return
    end
  end
end


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Audit Ordered After 125,000 Left Off Voter Rolls During New York Primary
by Rachel Stockman | 4:18 pm, April 19th, 2016
The New York City Comptroller is ordering an audit after the New York City Board of Elections confirmed more than 125,000 voters in Brooklyn were removed from the voter rolls. This comes among widespread confusion and trouble at various polling locations.
Comptroller Scott Stringer said this in a statement:
"There is nothing more sacred in our nation than the right to vote, yet election after election, reports come in of people who were inexplicably purged from the polls, told to vote at the wrong location or unable to get in to their polling site. The people of New York City have lost confidence that the Board of Elections can effectively administer elections and we intend to find out why the BOE is so consistently disorganized, chaotic and inefficient. With four elections in New York City in 2016 alone, we don't have a moment to spare."
There is also an ongoing lawsuit filed by a group which claims several hundred voters had their party registration changed without their consent. A hearing was held today in federal court. Here is a copy of the audit letter sent to Michael J. Ryan, Executive Director of the New York City Board of Elections.
Stay with LawNewz.com for updates.
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COVID-19: Nigeria's Women Affairs Ministry Distributes Sanitary Pads To Women, Girls To Cushion Effects Of Lockdown
Nigeria's Ministry of Women Affairs has embarked on a project to distribute about one million sanitary pads to women and teenage girls across the country in order to cushion the effect of COIVD-19.
Minister of Women Affairs, Dame Pauline Tallen, while inaugurating the project at Kado Village, Abuja, lamented lack of access to menstrual health and hygiene products, education and sanitation facilities among vulnerable women and teenage girls.
She disclosed that each beneficiary would receive at least four packs of sanitary towels.
She said, "This project is hinged on the fact that girls' and women's choices of menstrual hygiene materials are often limited by costs, availability and social norms.
"Therefore, providing access to menstrual hygiene products will go a long way to solve the problem to a great extent."
Tallen applauded the First Lady, Aisha Buhari, for supporting Nigerian women and girls while also thanking Procter and Gamble for providing 4000 sanitary towels for the first phase of the project.
While acknowledging that COVID-19 pandemic had further worsened access to menstrual management materials, Elizabeth Jeiyol, Water Supply Sanitation and Collaborative Council National Coordinator for Nigeria, urged all stakeholders to team up to change the negative social norms surrounding menstruation so that women and girls can practice menstruation in dignity.
Chizoma Opara, Acting Coordinator of the "Clean Nigeria" campaign, stressed the importance of institutionalising menstrual health and hygiene management at all levels in Nigeria.
She added that this can be achieved by putting an end to open defecation in Nigeria through the provision of hygiene facilities for the populace particularly women during menstrual period.
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Design Group Italia's IoT team has recently been awarded a 2nd place prize for its concept project Mindswing, presented at the Wearable Technology 2016 competition, which took place during Venice Design Week. The project will be exhibited at Museo di Palazzo Mocenigo in Venice until the end of October.
Mindswing started about a year ago as an internal research project focused on finding new application fields for BCIs (Brain-Computer Interfaces).
In the most basic applications, which require a few electrodes to be placed around the head, these kinds of interfaces enable users to receive feedback about their mental activity and are used in commercial products to help with relaxation and developing mindfulness.
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The DGI team decided sports could be an interesting field of application, and more specifically, golf. Universities had already conducted some research in this area, showing promising results in performance improvement for golf players. The team used these studies as a starting point for the project.
The Headband is worn around the head and collects brainwaves and signals; a bone-conduction audio system provides aural feedback without blocking the user's hearing.
The smartphone app uses Bluetooth to collect data from both the Headband and the Glove Sensor, analyzing and providing real-time feedback during the preparation phase before the shot, and analytics about the quality of the movement after the shot.
The use is divided into two phases: the first requires the user to make 80-100 shots and indicate for each one if it was good or bad; this step is necessary to create a brainwave profile associated with good shots, which is unique for each golfer. After that, the user can begin to receive feedback during the preparation phase before each shot, being notified of when he is at the maximum concentration level and should actually do the shot.
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Part Three: Media Camp...
Girls' Sexualities and the Media
Mediated Youth
Edited By Kate Harper, Yasmina Katsulis, Vera Lopez and Georganne Scheiner Gillis
This anthology provides exciting, innovative research focused on the construction of adolescent girls' sexuality in the media. The volume includes a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives from the humanities and the social sciences, addressing how girls and others respond to, work with, and even resist prevailing media representations of girls' sexualities and how they use contemporary media as a form of sexual expression.
The authors consider a wide array of sexual attitudes, behaviors, and expressions not commonly seen in the sexualities literature, including the voices of «other» girls whose voices are often ignored, particularly racial/ethnic minority and indigenous girls, sexual minorities, and girls from non-U.S. settings. The use of ethnographic data, in conjunction with media analysis techniques, provides a unique approach to the media studies genre, which tends to highlight an analysis of media content, as opposed to the ways in which media is used in everyday life.
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https://doi.org/10.3726/978-1-4539-1091-7
Foreword (Catherine Driscoll)
Girls' Sexualities and the Media: The Power of the Media (Yasmina Katsulis, Vera Lopez, Kate Harper, and Georganne Scheiner Gillis)
Part One: Historical and Contemporary Media
Part Two: Media Use and Self-Representation
Part Three: Media Campaigns and Literacy Projects
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PART THREE MEDIA CAMPAIGNS AND LITERACY PROJECTS |13 "Hey Media, Back Off and Get Off My Body": SPARK is Taking Sexy Back Deborah L. Tolman, Lyn Mikel Brown, and Christin P. Bowman The usual images: A video of little girls dressed in fishnets, revealing outfits, and high heels—performing "All the Single Ladies" with all of Beyonce's moves. An ad for jeans depicting a young woman flashing her breasts at a sur- veillance camera with the caption: "Smart may have the brains, but stupid has the balls. Be stupid." A t-shirt that reads "Who needs brains when you have these?" Heavily made-up, carefully coifed five-year-olds prancing down a run- way in pitch perfect impersonation of adult models on any episode of the run- away hit television show Toddlers and Tiaras. Costume stores jammed with Halloween attire for school-aged girls: French maids, sexy witches, and barely- there cheerleader outfits. Alternative images: A video of girls saying what sexy means to them: "Women's bodies are not marketing tools!" An ad from a popular tween brand that girls have recaptioned: "I am more than eye candy…Why can't Candies treat me that way?" A group of girls wearing white t-shirts with "Being sexy is not a look, it's a feeling!" and "Use your imagination INSTEAD OF ME to sell cars, clothes, airfare, cologne, burgers, or booze!" projected onto them. An In- tervene in Halloween costume fashion show won by a girl dressed cleverly as hipster candy—Eminem the M&M. An auditorium jammed...
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Here's a fun fact: the "snood" is actually, and I hate to mention this, "an erectile, fleshy protuberance attached near the base of a turkey's beak". I'd rather play with a turkey snood than a Game Boy Advance Snood any day!
Now here's another fun fact: Snood is pretty darn popular. The Snood franchise has had a widespread effect across the globe, being used as a means of assisting terminally ill children and also keeping Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak off of Facebook at work. At its peak in 2001, over 1.5 million users were playing this darn game on their PC. And Snood still has its own website. It has its own Twitter account. It would probably have its own sandwich if people would just stop saying "I totally coughed up my Snood last night." They're still cranking out Snood games for PC, Mac, and iOS, including the bile-inducing "Snoodoku". Not only is that a terrible name for a video game, but it also costs $19.99. Carol Vorderman must be spinning in her grave. ...What, she's not dead? Then what's she doing laying about in that filthy tomb?
I'm not opposed to a game's success. It's nice that some guy named Dave in his basement created a fun gaming sensation that millions have enjoyed worldwide. No, I'm a bit more steamed that it's the exact same game as Puzzle Bobble (also known as Bust-A-Move in North America), just with, uh, more "snoods". I've already seen this game before, but it was more fun when Taito developed it. Dave is no Taito.
As soon as I started up this game, I felt a twitch in my right eye. After a brief excursion to the local hospital, I determined that I was neither having a stroke, nor did a housefly decide to pull a swan dive into my iris. It was the awful music that blared from the speaker. This doesn't sound like a 32-bit, far superior Game Boy Advance soundtrack at all! This music was dumped straight out of any random European Game Boy Color title with its rolling, bubbly synths that sound like someone is drowning a pennywhistle in cod liver oil. The entire game is like this, filled with low-quality chiptune music. It's a bad sign when muting the game makes life better.
Still waiting for Bub and Bob to saunter on-screen.
I like how, on the options menu, you can "select character", as if it makes a significant difference on the gameplay. (It doesn't.) All the Snoods were designed, seemingly, by Kindergarten students. There's blue Jake, the all-around cool dude, er, I mean, Snood; Midoribe, a green square who's probably square; Spike, the angry purple triangle thing; Geji, a turquoise spiky menace; Numbskull, whose name implies what he is; Zod, the angry RED thing; Sunny, the upbeat yellow snood with 'tude; and Mildred, a gray old chainsmoking Snood whose facial expression is a clear indication that she'd rather be watching re-runs of Hollywood Squares from 1985 than participate in this game.
Then, before the first level, we get a shot at a Snood being pumped out of a machine, who then says "Ey, how ya doin'?" Not so good, Snood, not so good.
Just as in Bust-A-Move, you're presented with a series of levels, each a bit more treacherous than the last. Within the puzzle playing space, a bunch of different coloured snoods are arranged in some sort of coherent design. Your goal is to shoot different (and random) coloured snoods from a cannon at the bottom of the playing field to connect with others of the same colour. Matching 3 or more together makes them disappear; if others were hanging below, those get dropped, too. The level ends when all snoods are wiped out, and then you move on.
I will argue one thing: compared to other games with the exact same premise, Snood's a bit more relaxed when it comes to actually getting your piece to fit where you want it. Though mistakes can still be made, I found that pieces do go where you actually intended more often in Snood. All in all, the game doesn't play terribly — it just plays derivatively.
Now how in the heck am I going to get a blue snood up there to detach all the white ones? Nothing will get into that space, no matter what type of accelerator you think you can attach to your cannon. (No, there are no accelerators. Put that potential happiness away.) So I'm basically stuck right there, and that's how my game ends.
Thanks, Snood. You're a real cool dude. I bet you wear muscle shirts, look at yourself in the mirror at the gym, and drive a souped-up Mustang. But underneath it all, you're just a frightened little lad who wants to fit in with the big boys. Snood is the puzzle game that wants to fit in, but with its lackluster presentation and overall rehashing of an idea already well explored, it's little more than "another game for Game Boy Advance". Snood's competent but dispensable.