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One of the Museum's most popular seasonal exhibitions, the American Museum of Natural History's Butterfly Conservatory is not to be missed. See over 500 free-flying tropical butterflies from all corners of the globe, with species including the beautiful morpho butterflies, paperkites, and multiple species of longwings. Learn more about the lifecycle and ecological importance of these beautiful fliers at the Butterfly Conservatory, open now through May 26, 2014. Lord & Taylor is the proud spons
3.021J Introduction to Modeling and Simulation (MIT)
This subject provides an introduction to modeling and simulation, covering continuum methods, atomistic and molecular simulation, and quantum mechanics. Hands-on training is provided in the fundamentals and applications of these methods to key engineering problems. The lectures provide exposure to areas of application based on the scientific exploitation of the power of computation. We use web based applets for simulations, thus extensive programming skills are not required.
Author(s): Buehler, Markus,Grossman, Jeffrey
Early language and the brain
Virtual Maths, Shapes, Space and Measure, Rearranging Formulae
Interactive simulation, rearranging formulae (letters and numbers)
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Virtual Maths - Basic Structures, shear force point of load
Interactive simulation demonstrating shear force at point of load
Engaging students, engaging industry and engaging enterprise
This reflective case study and poster relates to a specific event staged by students and examines the phases and critical points within the whole process. It identifies some key learning outcomes for all involved
Ukrainians gather in D.C. to honor those killed back home
Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/reuterssubscribe Ukrainians living in the U.S. gather in front of the White House to honor those killed during recent unrest in their home country. Nathan Frandino reports. More Breaking News: http://smarturl.it/BreakingNews Reuters tells the world's stories like no one else. As the largest international multimedia news provider, Reuters provides coverage around the globe and across topics including business, financial, national, and international news. For over 1
Catholic Mass - 2/23/14 - 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time
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Research methodologies for evaluating enterprise education: a tale of a study.
This paper reports on the experience of the researchers in designing and applying a research approach for evaluating a project using a longitudinal design
Le 1er avril 1918 — Émeute à Québec contre la conscription : résistance politique ou ...
Au printemps 1918, la ville de Québec s'embrase. Alors que la guerre s'enlise en Europe, le gouvernement de Robert L. Borden a décidé d'imposer le service militaire obligatoire pour combler les pertes du Corps expéditionnaire canadien. Depuis, la tension n'a cessé de grimper dans la Belle province alors que l'opinion ...
Water Week
Forty-five freshmen have come together to bring awareness to a crisis in the world today. More than 783 million individuals lack access to clean drinking water; that is more than double the population of the U.S.
$100K Entrepreneurship Competition 2014
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Gary Haugen: The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence
Gary Haugen is the CEO of International Justice Mission, a human rights agency that brings rescue to victims of slavery, sexual exploitation and other forms of violent oppression. IJM lawyers, investigators and aftercare professionals work with local officials to secure immediate victim rescue and aftercare, to prosecute perpetrators and to ensure that public justice systems - police, courts and laws - effectively protect the poor. Come hear Gary talk about his new book, The Locus Effect, and
Andy Weir: "The Martian" | Talks at Google
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Afdrogen : Stappenplan
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Political Science 129: Latinos & 2008 Election
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Sustaining enterprise education
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Czesław Marek, né le  à Przemyśl – mort le  à Zurich, est un pianiste, professeur et compositeur polonais. Il s'est établi en Suisse durant la Première Guerre mondiale.

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 Né d'un père avocat mélomane et d'une mère soprano , il étudie le piano dès 1900 avec Hildegarda Schindler, puis avec Fryderyka Morecka, et Stanislaw  Glowacki, avant d'entrer en 1908 au Conservatoire de Lviv avec comme professeur de piano Natalja Loewenhof  et pour l'harmonie Stanislaw Nieviadomski. C'est à Vienne au Imperial and Royal Academy of Musik qu'il poursuivit ses études avec Paule de Conne, et prit des leçons privées de piano avec Theodor Leszetycki, professeur d'Ignacy Paderewski et Arthur Schnabel, et la composition avec Karl Weigl. En 1915 il s'installa définitivement à Zurich et se maria avec la violoniste Claire Hofer, avant de prendre en 1932 la citoyenneté suisse.

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Naissance en septembre 1891
Naissance en Autriche-Hongrie
Pédagogue en musique classique
Pianiste classique polonais
Compositeur polonais de musique classique
Décès en juillet 1985
Décès à Zurich
Décès à 93 ans

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The 10th International Symposium and the General Meeting of International Association for Transport Universities in Asia-Pacific Countries were held by Korea National University of Transportation from October 31, 2017 to November 4, 2017.
The 9th International Symposium for Railroad Universities in Europe and Asia. Russia, Ekaterinburg, Urals State Transport University. June, 2016.
May 14th 2014, Dalian. The last day of the 7th International Symposium for Railway Universities hosted by the Dalian Jiaotong University. The Symposium gathered together 11 IASTU APC member universities, 3 universities as guest participants and managers of the major railway companies of People's Republic of China.
On April 10-12, 2013 Korea National University of Transportation hosted the 6th International Symposium for Railroad Universities in Europe & Asia, and the General meeting of IASTU APC members.
May 31st – June 1st, 2012. Kazakh Academy of Transport and Communication (Kazakhstan) hosted the 5-th International Simposium For Railroad Universities in Europe & Asia.
May 30– June 1, 2011. Nanjing, China. Delegates from Far Eastern State Transport University participated in the 4th International Symposium for Railroad Universities in Europe and Asia, which was hosted by Nanjin Institute for Railway Technology.
October 13-15, 2009. Khabarovsk, Russia. Far Eastern State Transport University (FESTU) hosted the 3rd International Symposium for Railroad Universities in Europe and Asia.
December 12, 2008. Seoul, Republic of Korea. Korean National Railroad College hosted the 2nd International Symposium for Railroad Universities in Europe and Asia.
October 10, 2007. Seoul, Republic of Korea. Korean National Railroad College hosted the 1st International Symposium for Railroad Universities in Europe and Asia.
On June 21-23, 2016, the 9th International Symposium for Railroad Universities in Europe and Asia will be hosted by Ural State University of Railway Transport (USURT, Yekaterinburg, Russia), as well as the next General meeting of the IASTU APC members.
Nanjing, China. 8th International Symposium for Railroad Universities in Europe and Asia was held in Nanjing Institute of Railway Technologies.
Among the topics, discussed at the Symposium, were development of transport corridors and related technologies, Europe-Asia partnership. It was mentioned by all reporters, that new technologies require constant renovation of transport education system. Therefore training of world-class experts, especially for high-speed railways, was the key topic of the Symposium.
On June 10-13, 2015, Nanjing Institute of Railway Technology will hold the 8th International Symposium for Railroad Universities in Europe and Asia, and General meeting of IASTU APC members.


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Councilmen Want to End Dirt Paths to Fresno Schools
Last Year's Hottest Housing Fight Just Got Resurrected — Here's What to Know
Philip McKeon, "Tommy" on '80s Sitcom "Alice," Dies at 55
Walters: California's Half-a-Loaf Syndrome
Julián Castro Endorses Elizabeth Warren in Presidential Race
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is backing legislation that would expand on California's nation-leading data privacy law. (File photo)
California May Broaden Far-Reaching Data Privacy Law
SACRAMENTO — California consumers would have more power to sue corporations for misusing their data under a proposal announced Monday to expand what already is the nation's most far-reaching law protecting personal information.
The revision to the law passed last year is among several sought by Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Santa Barbara Democratic state Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson to make it easier to enforce once it takes effect on Jan. 1, 2020.
The new legislation would expand a consumer's right to sue for damages to include other violations under the law, even if they don't result in a data breach.
"This is basically a bill to enforce the law," Jackson said.
Expands Consumers' Right to Sue
Consumers are able to sue companies that collect their data if their information is stolen or disclosed in a data breach, but only if the company was found to be careless or negligent. That allows suits if the data was not encrypted or the company didn't take other reasonable security measures.
California's European Union-style privacy law will require companies to tell consumers upon request what personal data they've collected, why it was collected and what categories of third parties have received it. It will bar companies from selling data from children younger than 16 without consent. Customers will also be able to ask companies to delete their information and refrain from selling it, so violations could be subject to individuals' and class action lawsuits.
Industry, Business Groups Oppose Changes
The Internet Association's California government affairs director, Kevin McKinley, said it opposes the change, "as it would unwind a key piece of the deal that was struck last year to pass (the law) and to make the law workable for companies both big and small."
The California Chamber of Commerce said the goal of the legislation "appears to be lawsuits and attorney's fees" with "significant new avenues of litigation that will primarily benefit trial attorneys." The chamber predicted the measure would harm small businesses and "kill jobs and innovation."
Gov. Gavin Newsom earlier this month said consumers should get a "data dividend" from the billions of dollars that technology companies make by capitalizing on personal data they collect.
Californians for Consumer Privacy chairman Alastair Mactaggart and Common Sense CEO James Steyer, who both supported the privacy law, praised changes they said would strengthen the measure.
The proposed legislation also removes requirements that the attorney general provide companies legal advice about the law and give them 30 days to fix a problem before he can sue. Becerra said unless the pending law is revised, he will be required to provide unlimited legal opinions to the very companies that are breaking the law.
Newsom Calls for 'Data Dividend'
The law responds to several huge breaches in recent years including those at Target and Equifax. Facebook also has faced criticism after it was revealed that Republican-linked consulting firm Cambridge Analytica collected data from millions of Facebook users without their knowledge.
Monday's announcement is among several attempts to build on the state's privacy law.
Gov. Gavin Newsom earlier this month said consumers should get a "data dividend" from the billions of dollars that technology companies make by capitalizing on personal data they collect, for instance by selling the data to outside businesses that target ads to users.
Another pending bill would require companies to disclose how much consumers' data is worth to them.
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To be sure, the amended law needs to recognize that not all internet businesses are part of the Facebook ecosystem. Consequently for those smaller businesses without the reach of a Facebook, notice of infraction prior to suits makes sense for two reasons. The size of these business entities likely is related to the financial harm which can be done from mishandling privacy protected data since their reach into the internet commerce world is limited. Secondly the size of smaller business constrains their ability to conduct a review thorough or at all of the latest issued regulation.
These comments do not reflect on how the AG should handle breaches by the obviously large and consequential firms on the internet.


Introducing our keynote and plenary speakers!
We are proud to introduce our speakers for the keynote (on day 1) and plenary (on day 2) sessions at InfoCamp Seattle 2008: Jacob O. Wobbrock and Tamara Adlin!
I have spoken with Jacob Wobbrock through the WSBA Access to Justice Technology Committee a few times. He is very knowledgeable over HCI, accessibility and usability issues. Hearing him speak is well worth the time.
InfoCamp is a hybrid 1/2 unconference (barcamp) 1/2 conventional conference. Given the recent success of Barcamp Seattle and the innovative work from previous sponsors like ASIS&T – the American Society for Information Science and Technology and the University of Washington Information School this should be a great event (I hope they are both sponsoring again this year).
Topics at last year conference included Designing Intuitive Interfaces, Information Overload and the Demise of Usability. The bulk of the content is produced by the attendees in the form of presentations, panels, demos and round tables. If you want to see a topic covered add it to the wiki and help make it happen.
Conference rates are $10 for students and $50 for professionals, volunteers get in free. Register now!
My only suggestion so far is to add a non profit attendee registration rate, of $15 to $20. This would encourage more diversity in the participants.
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Privacy And Paternity
PRIVACY AND PATERNITY:
The Controversial Florida Law That Requires Single Mothers To Publish Their Sexual Histories
By LAURA HODES
Recently, the notification provision of the Florida Adoption Act - enacted last October - has touched off a flurry of controversy in the press and in the courts. The provision applies to a mother who is putting her child up for adoption, and is uncertain of the father's identity or where he lives. It requires her to publish a newspaper ad in order to try to find the father.
The idea is that if possible, a father should not give up his parental rights without his knowledge - a laudable goal. But the method by which this goal is achieved is potentially highly harmful to the mother.
In the ad, the mother must disclose her name, age, height, hair and eye color, race and weight; her child's name, date and place of birth; and - if it is the address that is unknown - the father's name. Moreover, she must also publish her sexual history - a description of every potential father and the dates of their sexual encounters. The ad must run once a week for four weeks in a newspaper in each city or county in which conception might have taken place in the year before the child's birth.
Essentially, the Act pits a woman's privacy rights against a man's parental rights. Moreover, it weights a woman's privacy very lightly, while weighing very heavily the parental rights of a man who, so far, has not come forward, during the pregnancy or afterwards, to claim a child as his.
Therefore, it's no surprise that in July, six mothers challenged the notification provision of the Act. Two are minors; two are having children as the result of rape. All six sought a declaratory judgment that the provision violates their privacy rights, under the U.S. and Florida constitutions.
The Baby Emily Case That Prompted the Florida Law
The Florida legislature was inspired to create the Act after the case of baby Emily - a three-year legal battle in which the baby's father, a convicted rapist, tried to contest the baby's adoption long after she was adopted. The court eventually ruled in favor of the adoptive parents, and against the father.
The Act was intended to prevent similar future suits by ensuring that, before an adoption took place, the fathers' parental rights had been terminated in a way that accorded with constitutional due process standards - with potential fathers being provided notice and an opportunity to be heard.
Before the Act was passed, Florida law (like that of most states) already provided that a father's pre-adoption consent had to be procured if his paternity had been already established or presumed - due to marriage, adoption, a court decision, a paternity test, his formal acknowledgment of paternity, or his "repetitive" or "customary" support to the child or mother during the pregnancy.
Florida law also required consent from a man who had already been identified as a possible father - by the birth mother, or in a pending paternity, custody, or termination of parental rights proceeding.
What, then, did the notification provision add? The answer is that it addressed scenarios in which paternity has been neither established nor presumed, and the birth mother has not identified any father, because she is unsure of his identity and/or cannot locate him.
Obviously, the law poses a serious deterrent to mothers who want to put their babies up for adoption - forcing them to publish the privacy-violating ad in order to do so. As a result, it presents the rare case in which pro-choice and pro-life groups both oppose the same statute.
Pro-life groups object because the Act may be having the effect of increasing abortions; pro-choice groups object because women must expose their sexual history in order to make a choice concerning their children. Now even one of the legislation's sponsors, Florida Senator Walter "Skip" Campbell, has admitted the legislature made a mistake.
The Legal Challenge to the Notification Provision
In this summer's suit by the six mothers, the judge denied the motion for a declaratory judgment. He held that the two mothers who had conceived as a result of rape were not subject to the law, but as for the other four mothers, he held that the law was constitutional. An appeal is planned by the lawyer for the six women, Charlotte Danciu, and seems likely to succeed.
According to the judge's decision, because the Act violates privacy interests, Florida has the burden to show that it serves a compelling state interest, and does so by the least intrusive means.
First, the judge held that a mother clearly has a reasonable expectation of privacy as to her sexual history, and as to public knowledge of her unplanned or unwanted pregnancy or her decision not to raise the child.
Third, the judge held that these interests are not compelling in cases of "forced sexual battery" or "forced rape" (as opposed to consensual "statutory" rape). In those cases, the judge reasoned, the notice provision conflicts with the law criminalizing the publishing or broadcasting of identifying facts of the victim of a sexual offense.
Moreover, he pointed out, Florida law allows for the termination of the father's rights without his consent where the child was conceived as a result of forced rape - meaning that the search for the father is unnecessary, since the adoption can go forward without him and he can never challenge it.
The Least Intrusive Means: Why Not Put the Burden on Potential Fathers?
That left the judge with a final question: Does the Act serve the compelling interest "by the least intrusive means"? The Judge wrote that this issue was not clear, since he lacked empirical evidence as to "the success (or failure) rate resulting from the existing notice requirements," as compared to the success or failure rate of possible alternatives, such as using only birth mothers' initials in the ads.
On this point, the judge was surely wrong to ask for empirical evidence. For one thing, as a matter of law, an alternative means need not be shown to be precisely as effective as the current means. Courts performing "narrow tailoring" analyses, in which they decide if the means taken are truly "the least intrusive" ones, do not generally require empirical evidence - if they did, it would be hard to procure, because by definition, the possible alternatives have not yet been employed in the real world, only suggested in court.
In addition, one could easily imagine far less intrusive alternatives that would accomplish the state's goals. So even though the women's attorney did not present these alternatives to the court, one wonders why the judge did not merely ask if less intrusive means existed.
One alternative is a confidential registry of names of men who believe they may have fathered a child - a proposal that the Act's opponents have already suggested. Lawyers, after consultation with their clients as to possible fathers, would need to check the registry list before proceeding with adoptions. More than 30 states already have this system. Its advantage is that it does not unduly burden or shame women, and it puts some burden on men to assert they have a true interest or concern in acting as father to the child.
Therefore, although the judge denied the women's motion to declare the entire notification provision unconstitutional, he left an opening for their lawyer as she takes her case to the Florida appeals court. The women's attorney needs to present a convincing case to the Florida appeals court of the many less intrusive alternatives that do exist.
Based on these alternatives, let's hope that the Florida appeals court will strike down the Act's notification provisions or that the legislature nullifies the provisions when it meets in March. The provisions severely violate women's privacy, while asking nothing of the men involved - who have, by definition, already failed to make any effort to ascertain their possible paternity. That is neither fair nor legal, and there are alternatives that can serve Florida's and the children's interests in locating the father without seriously harming the mother at the same time.
Laura Hodes, a 2000 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School and a frequent FindLaw guest columnist and book reviewer, is an attorney and writer living in Chicago. Her work can be found on this site's guest columns archive, as well as in Slate and The New Republic Online.


Eating well and feeling fit and healthy is a central theme in my life. For over 25 years I have been involved with nutrition, health and well-being. As a passionate and avid cook with a cosmopolitan background, I am completely at home with Mediterranean cuisine and bring my experience and know-how as a nutritionist into the wonderful, delicious and nutritious dishes of my homeland, Italy. I am certified through the ILS institute in Hamburg as an internationally recognized nutritionist.
The goal of my consultations and courses is to combine health and enjoyment through an intelligent diet. I invite you to discover the diverse delicacies of Mediterranean food, to bring the Italian sun, atmosphere and gastronomic culture to your table. With my consultations and courses I would like to share with you the joy of cooking and eating, and support you and your health and well-being.
I recently went through a period of temporary lactose intolerance, and Letizia's guidance and advice were invaluable. Lactose can be found in more than just dairy products, and she helped me become more aware of what foods were suitable. This enabled me to adjust my diet and avoid the unpleasant symptoms that come with this condition.
I met Letizia few years ago. Her view of an easy way of cooking to make your life easier and healthier impressed me a lot. She was highly professional and her recommendations easy to follow, even when travelling on business or vacation. After a few discussions with her I won a positive and healthy attitude towards food and eating habits. Since then we have kept in touch and she still gives me suggestions or replies to my questions by Email.
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We are only days away from the Big Brother 15 premiere and we have a little breakdown of the Big Brother 2013 schedule, as it concerns the premiere. With the announcement of the cast on Thursday, it seems like things have been moving way to slow for me. Who just wants to see these new HouseGuests in action on Big Brother 15???
Big Brother 2013 Spoilers: Showmances On Big Brother 15?
With the Big Brother 2013 premiere coming in a few days, let's take a look at another CBS promo for Big Brother 15 and this one focuses on showmances, which always happen on Big Brother, right? The Big Brother 2013 cast has been announced, so who do you think will have the showmances this season?
A new twist announced for Big Brother 2013 was voting by viewers in order to determine the Big Brother MVP each week! Voting for the Big Brother MVP has already opened, even though the Bog Brother 2013 cast was just announced hours ago! You vote for the first MVP without even seeing them play the game yet…good thing we included cast interviews to get to know them a little bit better!
Big Brother 15 Spoilers: Big Brother 2013 Cast Announced!
Not to ruffle your feathers, but we are one hour away from the Big Brother 2013 cast announcement and we could not be any happier and our Big Brother 15 spoilers are getting all worked up! With all the announcements of these twists and turns for Season 15, we are more than ready to find out who the Big Brother 15 cast is! Are you ready?
We are literally two hours away from finding out who the Big Brother 2013 cast is, but before we find out who will be living in the Big Brother 15 house, let's take a look at even more photos of the Big Brother 2013 house! Is it just me or do these photos make you want to move in as well? Check out the photos in our Big Brother 2013 spoilers below!
What a day it was over at CBS yesterday, as they announced some major new twists for Big Brother 15 and as the Big Brother 2013 cast will be announced later today we know one thing: get ready to vote today on who you think is the MVP of the Big Brother 15 house before the new cast even steps foot into it! We have your Big Brother 2013 spoilers right here!
When Does Big Brother 2013 Start?
With the announcement of the Big Brother 2013 cast today by CBS, we are even more excited for Season 15 of Big Brother USA to kick off, but when does Big Brother 2013 start? It is closer than you think, so find out in our Big Brother 15 spoilers below!
With every new season of Big Brother 2013 means new HouseGuests and a new house and we have a look at the Big Brother 15 house, as Big Brother host Julie Chen gives us a house tour in our Big Brother 2013 spoilers video below. There are some twists and turns revealed in the video, so don't miss out!


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Home Breaking News Government's Mass Surveillance Justifications Are So Dumb They're "Crazy Pants"
Government's Mass Surveillance Justifications Are So Dumb They're "Crazy Pants"
Aug 8, 2013: 11:26 am
President Obama said last night that the government doesn't spy on Americans:
A handful of congress critters — who rake in the dough by acting as apologists for the NSA — say that spying is necessary to protect American from terrorists.
And the NSA pretends that its spying program is overseen by Congress and the courts.
They're all full of hot air.
The Government Is Spying on American Citizens On U.S. Soil
The government is spying on just about everything we do. It's not just "metadata" (… although that ismuch worse than you think.)
The government has adopted a secret interpretation of the Patriot Act which allows it to pretend that "everything" is relevant … so it spies on everyone.
Former NSA head Michael Hayden just confirmed that the government spies on our communications:
Spying Is Not Used Just to Prevent Terrorism
The NSA isn't the only agency which spies on Americans. Many other agencies — concerned only withdomestic issues — spy on Americans as well.
Moreover, Reuters reports that — since the late 1990s — the NSA has been funneling its spying information to agencies throughout the country to prosecute petty crimes:
A secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information fromintelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans.
Although these cases rarely involve national security issues, documents reviewed by Reuters show that law enforcement agents have been directed to conceal how such investigations truly begin — not only from defense lawyers but also sometimes from prosecutors and judges.
[F]ederal agents are trained to "recreate" the investigative trail to effectively cover up where the information originated, a practice that some experts say violates a defendant's Constitutional right to a fair trial. If defendants don't know how an investigation began, they cannot know to ask to review potential sources of exculpatory evidence — information that could reveal entrapment, mistakes or biased witnesses.
"I have never heard of anything like this at all," said Nancy Gertner, a Harvard Law School professor who served as a federal judge from 1994 to 2011. Gertner and other legal experts said the program sounds more troubling than recent disclosures that the National Security Agency has been collecting domestic phone records. The NSA effort is geared toward stopping terrorists; the DEA program targets common criminals, primarily drug dealers.
"It is one thing to create special rules for national security," Gertner said. "Ordinary crime is entirely different. It sounds like they are phonying up investigations."
The unit of the DEA that distributes the information is called the Special Operations Division, or SOD. Two dozen partner agencies comprise the unit, including the FBI, CIA, NSA, Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Homeland Security. It was created in 1994 to combat Latin American drug cartels and has grown from several dozen employees to several hundred.
"Remember that the utilization of SOD cannot be revealed or discussed in any investigative function," a document presented to agents reads. The document specifically directs agents to omit the SOD's involvement from investigative reports, affidavits, discussions with prosecutors and courtroom testimony. Agents are instructed to then use "normal investigative techniques to recreate the information provided by SOD."
A former federal agent in the northeastern United States who received such tips from SOD described the process. "You'd be told only, 'Be at a certain truck stop at a certain time and look for a certain vehicle.' And so we'd alert the state police to find an excuse to stop that vehicle, and then have a drug dog search it," the agent said.
After an arrest was made, agents then pretended that their investigation began with the traffic stop, not with the SOD tip, the former agent said. The training document reviewed by Reuters refers to this process as "parallel construction."
The two senior DEA officials, who spoke on behalf of the agency but only on condition of anonymity, said the process is kept secret to protect sources and investigative methods. "Parallel construction is a law enforcement technique we use every day," one official said. "It's decades old, a bedrock concept."
"It's just like laundering money — you work it backwards to make it clean," said Finn Selander, a DEA agent from 1991 to 2008 and now a member of a group called Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, which advocates legalizing and regulating narcotics.
"You can't game the system," said former federal prosecutor Henry E. Hockeimer Jr. "You can't create this subterfuge. These are drug crimes, not national security cases. If you don't draw the line here, where do you draw it?"
"I was pissed," the prosecutor said. "Lying about where the information came from is a bad start if you're trying to comply with the law because it can lead to all kinds of problems with discovery and candor to the court."
Current and former federal agents said SOD tips aren't always helpful — one estimated their accuracy at 60 percent. But current and former agents said tips have enabled them to catch drug smugglers who might have gotten away.
It's not just drug offenses. The IRS and many other agencies use the information to go after petty violations of law.
The Washington Post points out:
Surveys show most people support the NSA's bulk surveillance program strongly when the words "terrorism" or "courts" are included in the question. When pollsters draw no connection with terrorism, support tends to wane. What will happen when the question makes clear that the intelligence not only isn't being used for terrorism investigations against foreign agents, but is actively being applied to criminal investigations against Americans?
And Yves Smith notes:
This is only the part we've been permitted to see. Just imagine what else goes on.
Spying Does Not Keep Us Safe
Top security experts say that mass spying doesn't keep us safe.
NSA spying did not prevent a terror attack on Wall Street. While the government initially claimed that mass surveillance on Americans prevented more than 50 terror attacks, the NSA's deputy director John Inglis walked that position back all the way to saying that — at the most — one (1) plot might have been disrupted by the bulk phone records collection alone.
And no, it didn't lead to last week's tip about a new terror threat. AP reports:
An intelligence official said the controversial NSA programs that gather data on American phone calls or track Internet communications with suspected terrorists playedno part in detecting the initial tip.
And the New York Times writes:
Some analysts and Congressional officials suggested Friday that emphasizing a terrorist threat now was a good way to divert attention from the uproar over the N.S.A.'s data-collection programs, and that if it showed the intercepts had uncovered a possible plot, even better.
(Indeed, the government has resorted to lamer and lamer excuses in a failed attempt to justify mass surveillance).
In fact, the argument that the new terror warning shows that NSA spying is necessary is so weak that American counter-terrorism experts have slammed it as "crazy pants".
Remember, top counter-terrorism experts say that mass spying actually hurts U.S. counter-terror efforts. And that we can keep everyone safe without violating the Constitution … more cheaply and efficiently than the current system.
There's No Real Congressional or Judicial Oversight
There is no real oversight by either Congress or the courts. And see this and this.
Indeed, most Congress members have no idea what the NSA is doing.
And a Federal judge who was on the secret spying court for 3 years says that it's a kangaroo court.
Revealing Spying Programs Does Not Harm National Security
The top counter-terrorism Czar under Clinton and Bush says that revealing NSA spying programs doesnot harm national security. Many other counter-terrorism experts agree.
(TechDirt also points out that it makes no sense that whistleblower revelations about spying hurt our security … while U.S. official revelations that they're tapping the communications of Al Qaeda doesn't.)
Spying Is Destroying the Economy
Mass surveillance by the NSA directly harms internet companies, Silicon Valley, California … and theentire U.S. economy. And see this.
Mass spying creates an easy mark for hackers. And IT and security professionals are quite concernedabout government spying
(A handful of fatcats make a lot of money off of mass spying; but the government isn't using the spying program to stop the worst types of lawlessness.)
The American People Hate Spying
Polls show that the public doesn't believe the NSA … and thinks that the government has gone way too far in the name of terrorism.
While leaker Edward Snowden is treated as a traitor by the fatcats and elites, he is considered a hero by the American public. (Remember, in the last 10 years, whistleblowers have had no "legal" way to get the information out).
Even President Obama admits that the terrorism threat is drastically overblown. And yet the American government is doing everything possible to spy on us and to destroy anonymity..
A Congressman noted that — even if a mass surveillance program is started for good purposes — it will inevitably turn into a witch hunt. Surveillance can be used to frame you if someone in government happens to take a dislike to you. Government spying has always focused on crushing dissent … not on keeping us safe. Indeed, every single American is vulnerable to being labeled a terrorist by the government … and so spying is aimed at everyone.
An NSA whistleblower says that the NSA is spying on — and blackmailing — top government officials and military officers (potentially including former presidents; and see this). Indeed, high-level US government officials have warned for 40 years that mass surveillance would lead to tyranny in America.
Spying started before 9/11 … and may have stemmed from an emergency program which has nothing to do with our current situation.
Oh, And Mass Spying Is Illegal
In addition to all of the above-described problems with spying, experts say that the spying program isillegal. Indeed, they point out that it's exactly the kind of thing which King George imposed on the American colonists … which led to the Revolutionary War.
A former U.S. president says that the spying program is so bad that it shows that we no longer have a functioning democracy.
And top constitutional experts say that Obama and Bush are worse than Nixon … and the Stasi East Germans.
This article was posted: Thursday, August 8, 2013 at 5:12 am
Tags: domestic news, domestic spying, government corruption, police state, technology
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New crops, new income
March 27, 2015 - By Emily Loewen
MCC Photo by Nina Linton
An indigenous crop in the Andes, maca grows well at high altitudes, and sells for much more than the traditional crop of potatoes.
From Cochabamba, Bolivia, the gravel roads leading up into the Andes are a maze of sharp switchbacks, steep uphill stretches and drop-offs punctuated by cattle, llamas and herds of sheep.
On mountain slopes, below the snowcapped peaks, lie farmers' fields — plots on an incline so steep it's difficult to imagine planting, weeding and harvesting, especially when an altitude of more than 4,000 metres can make walking a challenge for the unacclimated.
For generations, though, farmers have relied on what they can dig out of these fields to sustain their families.
Traditionally, that's meant potatoes — in a variety of colours and sizes unseen in Canada and the U.S., some white with pink and purple splotches, others long and thin like carrots.
Large trucks bring the crop down from the mountains, driving slowly and clinging to the tight corners. Farmers pile in with their crops, perched in the open backs atop heaps of potatoes.
Unfortunately, farmers say, when those potatoes get to market, they aren't worth enough for producers to support their families.
To get some money in your pocket, that you can have access to education, health . . . that's food security for us."
"You need money for food and for your clothes and for education," says German Perez Saènz, a father of five. "With only potatoes we don't have enough."
But a new crop could mean more money for his family.
With support from MCC, the social development organization of the Bolivian Baptist church (Organización Bautista de Desarrollo Social or OBADES) is training farmers to grow maca, a crop which can currently sell for four times more than potatoes.
Maca is a root crop that is native to the region and, unlike potatoes, can withstand frosts at the high altitudes in the Andes. Once harvested, the maca root is dried and often ground into powder or flour. It may be used locally but is often exported to Canada and the U.S., where maca is sold as a nutritional supplement.
Farmer German Perez Saènz, with sister Sofia Perez, rotates his maca crop as it dries.
In Totorani, where Perez lives, OBADES supports 30 families in growing maca. It provides training and startup seeds there and also to farmers in 14 other communities in the Tunari mountain range.
But convincing farmers to begin growing maca hasn't always been easy. While potatoes don't make large profits, they are a familiar crop in the area and popular across the country.
So, in addition to seeds and training, OBADES works to make it easier for farmers to sell maca, helping to set up producers associations and facilitate contracts with buyers who will process the maca to sell or export.
Before, individual farmers would travel down the mountains to market with their potatoes, paying for transportation and losing a day of work at home. Through the associations, each farmer's maca is weighed ahead of time, then one person takes the product from the whole group to market. Profits are shared based on how much each farmer contributed.
Eventually, OBADES agronomist Edgar Chuquimia hopes the project will lead to creating maca processing facility in the mountains.
All these pieces work together, helping farmers earn more than just enough to get by.
"Our concept of food security is not only to produce something to eat," Chuquimia says, but also that they can be profitable. To get some money in your pocket, that you can have access to education, health and access to the market, that's food security for us."
Emily Loewen is a writer for MCC Canada. Nina Linton is a photographer in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
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So you've been in an accident and someone – an insurance adjustor, or a lawyer, or someone else, it doesn't really matter who it is – asks you to give a formal statement about the accident. Maybe it will be recorded, or on video, and maybe it won't. You figure hey, "I've got nothing to hide. Why not? I'll just tell the truth." Well, there are lots of good reasons you shouldn't, at least not without somebody helping you – somebody who knows this ruse.
Have you ever seen "The Running Man"? It's a movie from the late 1980s starring Arnold Schwartzenegger as a police officer who refuses a direct order to kill unarmed civilians in the street. He's commanding a police helicopter with his team, and after he disobeys the direct order to fire on the crowd, his crew overpowers him and the order is then carried out. Hundreds are slaughtered. And the cockpit of the helicopter has a video camera that records the whole thing. So Arnold is off the hook, right?
Nope. The video footage from the cockpit is skillfully edited to make it appear as though the whole attack was Arnold's idea, and he is labeled "the Butcher of Bakersfield" and thrown into a prison camp. The evidence against him? The edited video. So his refusal to murder innocent people is made to look as though he came up with the idea all on his own.
Almost every day, we see some politician or celebrity claim that a particularly damning quote has been "taken out of context". Sometimes they're even right. But by then, the damage is done – people who heard or read the edited quote, not knowing what else was said or what the conversation was even really about, now think the worst of that politician or celebrity. And most people don't even care to look into the context of the remark – it's been said, and that's that. Careers have been ruined. Perception controls, even when the truth is told.
It's basic strategy, when all you want is to win. Get a person on tape, and ask skillful questions that are bound to get certain responses, whether that's what the person really meant or not. And it happens all the time. Ever have a fight with a loved one, and hear them tell you something that you never said? They perceived something that you never meant to communicate. And yet you did. Did you lie? Nope. Just failed to communicate the truth well. The result is the wrong perception, and your position is lost.
So why am I telling you this? Because it could happen to you. You go for the interview and you tell nothing but the truth. But because you said it a particular way, or because some off-hand remark slipped out at the wrong time, your case has just become very, very difficult.
Don't let this happen to you. Litigation is hard enough without having to explain yourself to people who really aren't interested. As lawyers say, "you can't un-ring the bell".
I have been advising people in these situations for over 21 years. I've defended hundreds of depositions. I've seen these tricks, and I know how to fight against this sort of thing. Call our office before you give any statement at all. The consequences could be serious, and even telling the absolute truth won't help you. It didn't help the Butcher of Bakersfield.


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Савичи () — агрогородок, центр Савичского сельсовета Калинковичского района Гомельской области Беларуси.

Неподалёку расположено Савичское нефтяное месторождение.

География

Расположение
В 44 км на северо-запад от районного центра и железнодорожной станции Калинковичи (на линии Гомель — Лунинец), 166 км от Гомеля.

Гидрография
На севере и востоке мелиоративные каналы.

Транспортная сеть
Транспортные связи по просёлочной, затем автомобильной дороге Калинковичи — Бобруйск. Планировка состоит из 3 параллельных между собой улиц (длинная и 2 короткие), близкой к меридиональной ориентации. К длинной улице присоединяются с запада две параллельные короткие улицы, близкие к широтной ориентации. Застройка двусторонняя, неплотная, деревянная усадебного типа. В деревню переселены жители из загрязненных радиацией после катастрофы на Чернобыльской АЭС мест, преимущественно из деревни Вепры Наровлянского района. Для них в 1986 году построены кирпичные дома на 55 семей.

История
По письменным источникам известна с XVIII века как деревня в Мозырском повете Минского воеводства Великого княжества Литовского.

После 2-го раздела Речи Посполитой (1793 год) в составе Российской империи. В 1795 году владение Ракитских, затем Прозоров. Обозначена на карте 1866 года, использовавшейся Западной мелиоративной экспедицией работавшей в этих местах в 1890-х годах. В 1879 году значится как селение в Колковском церковном приходе. Согласно переписи 1897 года в Крюковичской волости Речицкого уезда Минской губернии работали церковь, хлебозапасный магазин. В 1904 году открыта школа, которая разместилась в наёмном крестьянском доме, в 1912 году для неё построено собственное здание. Имелось почтовое отделение. В 1908 году центр Савичской волости Речицкого уезда Минской губернии.

С 20 августа 1924 года центр Савичского сельсовета Озаричского, с 8 июля 1931 года Мозырского, с 12 февраля 1935 года Домановичского, с 20 января 1960 года Копаткевичского, с 24 марта 1960 года Калинковичского районов Мозырского (до 26 июля 1930 года и с 12 февраля 1935 года по 20 февраля 1938 года) округа, с 20 февраля 1938 года Полесской, с 8 января 1934 года Гомельской областей.

В 1929 году организован колхоз «Коминтерн», работали кузница, стальмашня, кирпичный завод. В 1930-х годах начальная школа преобразована в 7-летнюю (в 1935 году 250 учеников). Во время Великой Отечественной войны оккупанты создали в деревне опорный пункт, разгромленный партизанами. В феврале 1944 года каратели сожгли 253 двора и убили 3 жителей. В боях за деревню и окрестности в 1944 году погибли 416 советских солдат и партизан (похоронены в братской могиле в центре). 115 жителей погибли на фронте. Согласно переписи 1959 года центр совхоза «Тремлянский». Расположены лесопилка, мельница, швейная мастерская, средняя школа, клуб, библиотека, фельдшерско-акушерский и ветеринарный пункты, детский сад, отделение связи, столовая, 2 магазина.

Население

Численность
 2004 год — 218 хозяйств, 571 житель.

Динамика
 1795 год — 20 дворов.
 1897 год — 401 житель (согласно переписи).
 1908 год — 175 дворов, 874 жителя.
 1940 год — 276 дворов, 1104 жителя.
 1959 год — 505 жителей (согласно переписи).
 2004 год — 218 хозяйств, 571 житель.

См. также
 Городские посёлки Белоруссии
 Города Белоруссии

Примечания

Литература
 Гарады і вёскі Беларусі: Энцыклапедыя. Т.1, кн.1. Гомельская вобласць/С. В. Марцэлеў; Рэдкалегія: Г. П. Пашкоў (галоўны рэдактар) і інш. — Мн.: БелЭн, 2004. 632с.: іл. Тыраж 4000 экз. ISBN 985-11-0303-9 ISBN 985-11-0302-0

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Hubby & Lewontin: Problems and Conversations
Detail from Orange Electrophoresis, watercolor painting by Michele Banks 2016.
The beautiful cover of the August issue of GENETICS was created by artist Michele Banks to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of a pivotal moment in the history of evolutionary biology: the 1966 publication of a pair of GENETICS papers using protein electrophoresis to reveal that natural genetic diversity is bountiful. Thanks to a conversation between two specialists from different fields, these papers delivered a jolt of data to a stagnating debate. As part of the GENETICS Centennial celebrations, Brian Charlesworth, Deborah Charlesworth, Jerry Coyne, and Charles Langley discuss this work and its impact in "Hubby and Lewontin on Protein Variation in Natural Populations: When Molecular Genetics Came to the Rescue of Population Genetics"
In 1966, two contrasting views of genetic variability held sway. The "classical" view posited that mutations were rare and harmful, and that most individuals in a population are homozygous for the wild type version of a gene. The "balance" view held that balancing selection often maintained multiple common versions of a gene in a population, with many individuals being heterozygous. But the debate was stuck. "Population genetics seemed doomed to a perpetual struggle between alternative interpretations of great masses of inevitably ambiguous data," wrote Lewontin in 1991.
Part of the trouble was a lack of hard data. In the age before DNA sequencing, describing genetic variation in the wild was a piecemeal task, only possible in a few select cases. Geneticists could study the variability of specific traits with a clear genetic basis, such as snail shell patterns or human blood groups, or they could study major chromosomal variants, such as inversion polymorphisms in wild fruit flies. They could infer the extent of variation through statistical analysis of breeding experiments. But without the ability to isolate specific genes, there was no way to perform an unbiased survey of genome-wide variation.
As a student of pioneering evolutionary geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky, Richard Lewontin was keenly aware of this problem, but could not find the right method to solve it. Then, a few years after graduating, he visited the University of Chicago and met a biochemist, John Hubby, who was analyzing proteins from fruit flies using electrophoresis. Hubby would grind up individual flies, run the protein extract on gels, and detect specific proteins through their enzymatic activity. Each protein migrated through an electric current applied to the gel at a characteristic speed. But if the same protein differed slightly between individuals —whether in charge, size, or shape—its migration pattern might be altered. Lewontin realized the biochemists already had the missing technique that population geneticists sorely needed:
"…not enough credit is given to the effect of talking to other people and dealing with other people. There's too much emphasis on the great creative act of a great mind and it's not like that. […] Here I was with a problem looking for a solution and here a guy was with a solution looking for a problem, and we got together. Many of the things we did in our lab in Chicago arose in the course of a conversation."
—Richard Lewontin, 2004
So convinced was Lewontin of the importance of this insight that he moved his lab to the University of Chicago, where he collaborated with Hubby. The pair quickly began surveying protein variability in Drosophila pseudoobscura, a wild cousin of the famous laboratory fruit fly beloved by geneticists. As Lewontin had hoped, they found electrophoretic variation in D. pseudoobscura proteins showed simple Mendelian inheritance, meaning the protein differences they were measuring corresponded directly to genetic variants. But to their surprise, around a third of the surveyed genes varied between individuals. To quantify this variation across five different D. pseudoobscura populations, they developed a simple summary of genetic diversity, "H" or expected heterozygosity, that is still widely used today. H provides an estimate of the chance that any two alleles at one gene are different, and with this measure, Hubby and Lewontin demonstrated substantial natural variability in all the sampled populations.
But was the richness of protein variation just a fruit fly quirk? The beauty of the new approach was it could be applied immediately to any organism, not just those, like Drosophila, with long histories in the lab:
"Here was a technique that could be learned easily by any moderately competent person, that was relatively cheap as compared with most physiological and biochemical methods, that gave instant gratification by revealing before one's eyes the heritable variation in unambiguously scoreable characters, and most important, could be applied to any organism whether or not the organism could be genetically manipulated, artificially crossed, or even cultivated in the laboratory or greenhouse."
Charlesworth et al. write of the method's immediate impact: "It triggered an explosion of "find 'em and grind 'em" studies of variability in natural populations of numerous different species, from bacteria to humans, which showed that the levels of variability originally found in Drosophila and humans were not unusual."
It also turned out to be a boon for understanding the evolutionary histories of organisms without fossil records. In a parallel eruption of protein electrophoresis studies, geneticists combined the protein data with measures of "genetic distance" between species (such as Nei's "D") to estimate phylogenies and divergence times between populations and species.
Ironically, Lewontin was wrong in predicting the methods would break the deadlock of the classical/balance debate. Instead, the influx of data raised new questions and complications, and stimulated new avenues for debate. Hubby and Lewontin's method is the direct ancestor of today's studies of genetic variation using genome sequence data, but the field's fundamental question remains active: What are the most important causes of genetic variation?
The solution to the problem of natural diversity may well emerge from another meeting between scientists from different fields, drawn into a new conversation.
Charlesworth, B., Charlesworth, D., Coyne, J. A., & Langley, C. H. (2016). Hubby and Lewontin on Protein Variation in Natural Populations: When Molecular Genetics Came to the Rescue of Population Genetics. Genetics,203(4), 1497-1503. DOI: 10.1534/genetics.115.185975
http://www.genetics.org/content/203/4/1497
Hubby, J. L., & Lewontin, R. C. (1966). A molecular approach to the study of genic heterozygosity in natural populations. I. The number of alleles at different loci in Drosophila pseudoobscura. Genetics, 54(2), 577.
http://www.genetics.org/content/54/2/577
Lewontin, R. C., & Hubby, J. L. (1966). A molecular approach to the study of genic heterozygosity in natural populations. II. Amount of variation and degree of heterozygosity in natural populations of Drosophila pseudoobscura.Genetics, 54(2), 595.
Lewontin, R. C. (1991). Twenty-five years ago in Genetics: electrophoresis in the development of evolutionary genetics: milestone or millstone?. Genetics,128(4), 657.
http://www.genetics.org/content/128/4/657
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Q: Rename Folders by Parse XML files in folders I would like to pares XML files in folder and rename the folder based on tags in XML files
E:\Test\Folder1\meta.xml
E:\Test\Folder2\meta.xml
E:\Test\Folder3\meta.xml

Contents of meta.xml
<Title>XYZ</Title>
<Country>US</Country>
<Year>2014</Year>

Parse XML files in folder and rename them with values from three nodes
i have tried several methods , but i have problems with trailing slashes in the end
@ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL enableExtensions enableDelayedExpansion

SET "sourcedir=E:\Test\"

FOR /f "delims=" %%i IN ('findstr /s /m /L /c:"<Country>US</Country>" "%sourcedir%\*meta.xml"') DO (

REN "%%~dpi" "%%~dpi [US]"

)

am sure this is not the best method ,
i have tried several methods , but i have problems with trailing slashes
I expect the output of Soruce:
E:\Test\Folder1
E:\Test\Folder2
E:\Test\Folder3

to be:
E:\Test\Folder1 (2005) [US]
E:\Test\Folder2 (2004) [US]
E:\Test\Folder3 (2002) [US]

Rename Folders by Phrasing Years and countries from respective xml file in those folders

A: I suggest the following batch file for this task:
@echo off
setlocal EnableExtensions DisableDelayedExpansion
set "SourceDir=E:\Test"
for /F "eol=| delims=" %%I in ('dir "%SourceDir%\meta.xml" /A-D /B /S 2^>nul') do (
    set "Country="
    set "Year="
    for /F "tokens=1,2 delims=< > " %%A in ('%SystemRoot%\System32\findstr.exe /R "<Country>[^<][^<]*</Country> <Year>[^<][^<]*</Year>" "%%I"') do (
        if "%%A" == "Country" if not defined Country set "Country=%%B"
        if "%%A" == "Year" if not defined Year set "Year=%%B"
    )
    if defined Country if defined Year (
        set "FilePath=%%~dpI"
        setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
        echo !FilePath:~0,-1!| %SystemRoot%\System32\findstr.exe /E /I /L /C:" (!Year!) [!Country!]" >nul
        for %%J in ("!FilePath:~0,-1!") do if not exist "%%~J (!Year!) [!Country!]" ren "%%~J" "%%~nxJ (!Year!) [!Country!]"
        endlocal
    )
)
endlocal

ATTENTION: The delimiters of second FOR are a left angle bracket <, a horizontal tab character, a right angle bracket > and a normal space character. So make sure to have those four characters in batch file after copying and pasting the code from the browser window.
The environment variable SourceDir is defined with a directory path without backslash at end because it is concatenated with \meta.xml in the next line. It would be syntactically not 100% correct to define this variable with E:\Test as this results in the file name string E:\Test\\meta.xml containing two backslash instead of just one between file path and file name.
For each file meta.xml found by command DIR in source directory or any of its subdirectories the command FOR executes the executable FINDSTR which searches case-sensitive (XML tags are case-sensitive) for country OR year elements with a string value of at least one character. The space character in search regular expression is interpreted by FINDSTR as OR which is not really good documented.
If environment variables Country and Year are defined both after searching for country and year strings in meta.xml, the file path of the current XML file is assigned to environment variable FilePath which always ends with a backslash.
Now it is time to enable delayed expansion. It should not be enabled before in case of a folder name contains one or more exclamation marks as in this case with delayed expansion already enabled at beginning of the batch file the batch file would not work at all. Please read this answer for details about the commands SETLOCAL and ENDLOCAL as much more happens than just enabling delayed environment variable expansion.
The entire folder name with path is output with ECHO and redirected to handle STDIN of FINDSTR to check if the folder name does not already end with (correct) year in round brackets and (correct) country in square brackets. This additional test is inspired by code written by LotPings.
The third FOR executed only if folder name does not already end with (correct) year and country is used to get from file path without the backslash at end the last folder name referenced with %%~nxJ which references the string after last backslash independent if this string represents a file name with file extension or a folder name. %%~J references the current folder name with full path without backslash at end.
Note 1: The batch file is not designed for being executed with source directory being root directory of a drive.
Note 2: The code does not remove a wrong year/country from folder name if the file meta.xml contains now a different year or country. So a folder named already Folder1 (2015) [US] is not renamed to Folder1 (2019) [India] if meta.xml in folder Folder1 (2015) [US] contains now <Country>India</Country> and <Year>2019</Year>.
Note 3: The line parsing done by FOR does not work if the XML file contains multiple XML elements on one line. Country and Year elements must be on separate lines with no other XML elements. So this batch code cannot be used if meta.xml contains for example <Country>India</Country><Year>2019</Year> in one line. Windows command processor has no features to parse XML content in XML manner like PowerShell supports.
For understanding the used commands and how they work, open a command prompt window, execute there the following commands, and read entirely all help pages displayed for each command very carefully.

*

*dir /?

*echo /?

*endlocal /?

*findstr /?

*for /?

*if /?

*ren /?

*set /?

*setlocal /?

A: *

*I'd use a for /d to iterate subfolders and check if a file meta.xml exists

*when parsing the xml use the tags as variable names to store the values.

:: Q:\Test\2019\05\05\SO_55992361.cmd
@ECHO Off
SET "sourcedir=E:\Test\"
PushD "%Sourcedir%" ||(Echo can't locate %sourcedir% & pause & Exit /B 1)
For /D %%F in (Folder*) Do if exist "%%~fF\meta.xml" call :sub "%%~fF\meta.xml" "%%~fF"
PopD
Goto :Eof

:Sub
Set "Country="
Set "Year="
for /f "tokens=1-2delims=<>" %%A in ('findstr /i "country year" %1') Do set "%%A=%%B"
Echo %~2|findstr /EIC:" (%Year%) [%country%]">Nul 2>&1 && Goto :Eof
if defined Country if defined Year (
Echo Ren "%~2" "%~n2 (%Year%) [%country%]"
     Ren "%~2" "%~n2 (%Year%) [%country%]"
)

Sample output:
> Q:\Test\2019\05\05\SO_55992361.cmd
Ren "E:\Test\Folder1" "Folder1 (2005) [US]"
Ren "E:\Test\Folder2" "Folder2 (2004) [US]"
Ren "E:\Test\Folder3" "Folder3 (2002) [US]"

EDIT:   changed batch due to @Mofis hints. And tested successfully on FAT32

A: @ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL
SET "sourcedir=U:\sourcedir"
SET "searchregex=<Country>.*</Country>"

FOR /f "delims=" %%i IN ('findstr /s /m /R "%searchregex%" "%sourcedir%\*meta.xml"') DO (
 rem here, %%i contains the name of the xml file.
 rem detect whether the subdirectory name ends with (year) [country]
 ECHO %%~dpi|FINDSTR /R ".*(.*) \[.*\]\\" >nul
 IF ERRORLEVEL 1 (rem no (year) [country] pattern found
  rem search that particular xml file for the Country tag and select the country to %%c
  FOR /f "tokens=2delims=<>" %%c IN ('findstr /R "%searchregex%" "%%i"') DO (
   rem repeat the search of the xml file for the Year tag and select the year to %%y
   FOR /f "tokens=2delims=<>" %%y IN ('findstr /R "%searchregex:Country=Year%" "%%i"') DO (
    rem now rename - note that a rename target may only be the NAME(extension)
    FOR /f "delims=" %%b IN ("%%~dpi.") DO ECHO REN "%%~fb" "%%~nxb (%%y) [%%c]"
   )
  )
 )
)

GOTO :EOF

Well - that was interesting. I've added in a few things to comply with my understanding of your goal.
First, I set up a regular expression searchregex because that string was going to be used a number of times and I couldn't face fixing it in multiple places.
First, search for your meta.xml files. If the meta.xml file is contained in a directory which ends (year) [country] then I suppose you don't want to rename that directory otherwise you'd get E:\Test\Folder1 (2005) [US] turned into E:\Test\Folder1 (2005) [US] (2005) [US] SO, if the drive:path matches the regex {anystring}({anystring}) [{anystring}]\ then you don't want to process it and errorlevel is set to 0. Note: For safety, perhaps add the /E switch to the findstr so that pattern only gets matched on the outer leaf.)
With those that require renaming, search the particular meta.xml file (I presume you want any filenames ending meta.xml) for the country tag using searchregex and then search the same file again, this time replacing Country in the search by Year which I accomplished using string-substitution because that seemed appropriate at the time.
If we reach the inner command, then we can drop the terminal \ from the pathstring by appending . and then resolving it using a for/f on the constant-string with delims= to get over tokenising.
And finally construct the REN command and ECHO it so that the routine can be tested.
Removing the echo from the echo ren will turn on the rename function.

@ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
SET "sourcedir=U:\sourcedir"
SET "searchregex=<Country>.*</Country>"

FOR /f "delims=" %%i IN ('findstr /s /m /R "%searchregex%" "%sourcedir%\*meta.xml"') DO (
 rem here, %%i contains the name of the xml file.
 rem detect whether the subdirectory name ends with (year) [country]
 ECHO %%~dpi|FINDSTR /R ".*(.*) \[.*\]\\" >nul
 IF ERRORLEVEL 1 (rem no (year) [country] pattern found
  rem search that particular xml file for the Country tag and select the country to %%c
  FOR /f "delims=" %%c IN ('findstr /R "%searchregex%" "%%i"') DO (
   SET "countryline=%%c"
   SET "countryline=!countryline:*<=<!"
   FOR /f "tokens=2delims=<>" %%s IN ("!countryline!") DO (
    rem repeat the search of the xml file for the Year tag and select the year to %%y
    FOR /f "tokens=2delims=<> " %%y IN ('findstr /R "%searchregex:Country=Year%" "%%i"') DO (
     rem now rename - note that a rename target may only be the NAME(extension)
     FOR /f "delims=" %%b IN ("%%~dpi.") DO ECHO REN "%%~fb" "%%~nxb (%%y) [%%s]"
    )
   )
  )
 )
)

GOTO :EOF

This version sets countryline to the contents of the country line, then replaces any characters appearing before and including the first < with < using delayed expansion, then tokenising is applied to the resultant string using <> only to preserve the space in "Burkina Faso".

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Feroze Khan and Alizey Fatima revealed Their Son Sultan Khan's Face to the World
Feroze Khan is a well-known actor in the Pakistani entertainment industry. His mature acting skills have got him a nice place among other actors. He also got a sizeable fan base who love to watch him on screen. Dua Malik and Humaima Malik, his two sisters, are also part of showbiz.
Feroze Khan and Alizey Fatima Son Sultan Khan
Feroze Khan married Syeda Alizey Fatima Raza. In the recent past, their separation news also become popular but later both denied it. One year after the couple's wedding, they became parents to a baby boy called Mohammad Sultan Khan. However, his picture was never shared on social media. This year, however, the couple was also blessed with a daughter named Fatima Khan, disproving the rumour of their separation.
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They are notorious for never sharing photographs of their children on social media. Nonetheless, a video depicting the visage of Feroze Khan's son Sultan Khan is presently circulating on social media. He is wearing a face mask and playing with balls in the video. The child removed his mask, so the woman recording the video requested that he reapply it.
More About Feroze Khan
In 2016, the actor acted with Sajal Aly in the film Zindagi Kitni Haseen Hai. It was found at the time that the two actors were dating. It was evident from their photographs that they are about to be married.
Feroze Khan also chose to leave the social media sector due to his religious beliefs. However, he eventually returned to the business.
Before shifting towards acting, he started his career as a VJ. He strives to cast a variety of roles, whether it be a good character like Aazer in Chup Raho, a negative character like Mir Hadi in Khaani, a comedy like Romeo Weds Heer, or a Sufi character like Farhad in Khuda Aur Mohabbat – season 3. The actor also portrayed some ambiguous roles.
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A BRILLIANT PRODUCER/DJ IN THE MAKING
Manideepa Sarkar on March 22, 2017
Nikhil Chugh, a 22-year-old lad, pursuing his final semester of Computer Science Engineering ( B. Tech ) from DeenDayalUpadhyaya College, University Of Delhi, has had a very inspiring journey so far. He graduated from Tagore International School, Delhi in 2013, and there has been no looking back for him since then. Nikhil says "3. My career as a Producer/DJ Has turned out to be brilliant so far. *Fingers Crossed*". He had an incredible time last year. He crossed a number of milestones and he is proud of them. Nikhil has performed at various major college festivals like DTU, SRCC, JMC. "I got the opportunity to perform amazing clubs like Playboy, Hyderabad and Royalty, Mumbai to name a few." Nikhil was also a star at the Amsterdam Dance Event Artist Showcase and The Grub Fest recently.
NIKHIL CHUGH AT SRCC, DELHI
On being asked about his greatest strength, Nikhil says "I think my biggest strength is my passion for music. I never force myself or think before sitting in front of my computer. I just like doing it. I get up in the morning and the first thing I do is switch on my desktop and play random things on my keyboard. Sometimes, I get really nice ideas, sometimes I don't. I'm just having fun!" Music has always been an integral part of his life for a very long time. Nikhil was a common sight during school fests as well. " I started playing the keyboard when I was in 4th standard and I'm extremely fortunate that I'm doing what I love to do."
Nikhil sounds like a regular guy when he says "My biggest weakness is that I get bored easily and I don't finish my projects. I have made a countless number of drafts till now but managed to complete only a handful of them. If I am getting a nice idea, I start a different project right away leaving what I was doing earlier and this goes on and on. I'm still struggling with this. Though, I'm very strict with myself sometimes and make sure I do not do more than 1 project at a time so I don't get distracted." We can all relate to this Nikhil. Discipline does not come naturally to our generation I suppose.
NIKHIL CHUGH AT ENGIFEST, DELHI TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
A fan of the utterly famous sitcom F.R.I.E.N.D.S., Nikhil likes you watch random YouTube videos in his spare time. Nikhil got through Delhi University admissions through the extracurricular quota, which would be music in his case."I played a number of keyboard pieces and did live looping for my auditions. That was one of the best moments of my life."
Nikhil's first live gig was his opening set for the Industry Giants Lost Stories at DTU in 2016 for more than 15000 people. Nikhil's remix of 'I took a pill in Ibiza' was supported by a number of well-known artists. Nikhil exclaims, "Seeing so many people jump on my own music was one hell of an achievement."
NIKHIL CHUGH AT IGDTUW
Nikhil played in the Artist Showcase representing Black Paper White at the Amsterdam Dance Event. Nikhil says "It was a big milestone". Nikhil's latest incredible feat was playing alongside AnishSood at the Grub Fest 2017.
On being asked where does he see himself in the next decade, Nikhil says "That's a very difficult question. Honestly, I don't know. Sometimes, I see myself as this magnificent producer playing around the globe. Sometimes, I see myself as an Analyst sitting in front of a computer doing a 9-5 job. So, I don't know. Let's see." The ambiguity makes him more determined towards his goal.
A good day for Nikhil is when he manages to achieve what he thought for that day." Like, I plan to mix one of my songs one day or make a nice bass house set. I feel really satisfied if the tasks are completed successfully without any hurry. My day gets even better when I'm able to study a little or complete an assignment so I don't feel guilty of not studying. It should be a nice balance between my music and academics." The way Nikhil manages his passion and academics is an inspiration in itself.
NIKHIL CHUGH AT NYEX, GOA
On being asked if he has made it large, Nikhil exclaims "No, not yet. This is just the start. It's going to one crazy journey!"
" I have met a lot of like-minded people with whom I'm currently working to release some good music very soon!" We sure are waiting for all of it Nikhil. Good luck with your future ventures.
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Now the list of things that you don't care to see or "handle" prior to purchasing are moving like cockroaches in the kitchen when the light comes on. That doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Let's try, the list of things people are willing to "buy blind" greatly outnumbers those items their not.
I suppose there is also an element of the physical shopping that some people may have a hard time giving up. It could serve as a way to "get away" from it all, an escape, "me time" or perhaps it's a way to spend time with a friend or family member. You go shopping, talk and visit, maybe stop for lunch or an early dinner. You can certainly make an outing of it and that might be hard for people to say goodbye to. Yet, more and more I hear people talking about "fighting crowds", "wasting time going from store to store" or "not finding what you want". Internet shopping has always sold itself as the remedy of all these problems. "Buy a new life in the comfort of your own home at three o'clock in the morning, naked." I believe it boasts.
So what keeps the internet from taking over and closing down every store in the world, (besides the things I already mentioned)? Being ripped off. I think we've all fallen victim to it or know someone who has. Once it has happened to you, you're never quite the same as before, like you never fully heal or get over it. You always hesitate right before check out and you spend a considerate amount of time researching the seller. Even in this deep investigate checking, there's still a certain amount of uncertainty. Most of the time sellers have a review or feedback system and their "rating of trustworthiness" comes from people like you, me and our neighbors. I don't know about you, but I don't like some of my neighbors and I wouldn't trust their opinion on anything. You start reading some of these "negative strikes" against the seller and I for one am amazed at the level of stupidity that these people are demonstrating. Spelling errors, grammar errors, contradicting statements, or little of no explanation at what the problem was. One I saw recently was "-". Hey, thanks for the tip, I really appreciate your insight, you saved me from emoticons, 'cause I hate those. Say what?
Only time will tell where the future of shopping going, (speaking of helpful insight). Persevering to "shop on", even after a burn of two, the modern shopper embraces the internet more and more and overlooks the full extent of the consequences of staying home to buy. A certain amount of commerce will be safe of course, but it's not just Wally World that's putting Ma & Pop into early retirement.


Snowdonia National Park stretches some 823 square miles through mountainous terrain, picture-postcard villages in the remotest of settings, legendary lakes and the almighty peak that is Mount Snowdon. Despite this, seeing Snowdonia by train is easier than you might think!
Blaenau Ffestiniog was once the 'slate capital of the world'. This heritage mining town is at the very heart of Snowdonia National Park. And it is respectfully yet excitedly shaking off the hardship of its defunct industry. For today it is a hub for adrenaline-fuelled activities.
While the Victorian Mine Tour through the slate caverns continue, appealing to younger generations are the zip wires and trampoline centres that have made some of these caverns a cool home. Up on the slippery slate hillsides don't be surprised by a blur of mountain bikers putting their wheels and their nerves to the test.
Blaenau Ffestiniog is also home to the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways. Whether you're day-tripping or travelling through Snowdonia by train, this 40-mile steam train journey is a stunning way to discover the park and beyond. The track winds through the valleys and past the lakes of the park, stopping upon request at remote village stations and the foot of Snowdon before arriving in Caernarfon.
Tanygrisiau for a visit to the hydro-electric power station.
Tan y Bwlch for nature trails and lake walks.
Plas Halt is close to Plan Tan y Bwlch, which was once the seat of quarry owners the Oakley family and has beautiful gardens. It's the perfect point to pick up the train from one of our pretty Maentwrog holiday cottages.
Penrhyn is a request stop on the edge of the park. While the former station is now a volunteer-run hostel, nearby Penrhyndeudraeth packs in the lush park backdrop.
At Minffordd pick up the Cambrian Coast Line for onward journeys or enjoy easy access (by foot, four wheels or two) to iconic Portmeirion.
Steaming into Porthmadog you've reached the shoreline and can continue northwards on the Welsh Highland Railway. Stay a while in one of our Morfa Bychan holiday cottages on the outskirts of town for an enviable rural spot between country and sea.
Three stops on and you're back in the serenity of mountain country. Stay in Beddgelert in a riverside cottage with the dramatic ridge lines rising all around. Many Wales walking holidays start here and there's no shortage of hill training!
If climbing Snowdon is on your bucket list, alight at Rhyd Ddu and take the path of the same name to the summit. Alternatively just enjoy the epic views!
If you fancy making it at least some of the way up Snowdon, the Snowdon Mountain Ranger is an alternative train option and easily accessible from our Caeathro holiday cottages between Caernarfon and Llanberis.
And if the the beaches of the Llyn Peninsula tease you venture further beyond the park, a 7 minute train journey from Porthmadog brings you to Criccieth. A hotchpotch of history greets you here, if you care to look. An essentially Victorian seaside town resting on a more fought-for history signalled only by the medieval castle and a headland fortress, which divides the town's two beautiful beaches.
What?! Leave the car at home? No, we haven't gone mad. If you can't bear the thought of driving or actually just fancy the idea of a no-drive holiday, then Snowdonia holidays are still doable. In under 3 hours you can get from Birmingham to Aberdovey in the south-west corner of Snowdonia National Park, from Liverpool or Manchester in under four. And if you're heading to the northern activity capital of Snowdonia, Betws-y-Coed, it's 3.5 hours from Birmingham and just over 4 hours from London.
Snowdonia is one HUGE playground! From its northern coastal reaches at Conwy, its eastern edge at Bala, southwards to Machynlleth, and on to Harlech in the west, we challenge you to take on Snowdonia! This is no mountain climbing gauntlet. There are few straight edges (or roads for that matter). But best of all there are spectacles galore. Shall we go explore?


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Academician Andrey Kaprin makes presentation at the Federation Council
Today, the Russian Federation Council held its 505th meeting. Within the framework of Expert's Time session, the senators listened to the presentation by RAS academician, director general at the Herzen Moscow Research Oncological Institute (MROI), chief external oncologist of the Russian Healthcare Ministry Andrey Dmitrievich Kaprin.
In his report half an hour long, the scientist touched upon the key issues regarding the oncological service in Russia: dynamics of oncological diseases, medical staffing problems, scientific potential and replication of domestic technologies, new methods of treating cancer, and impact of COVID-19 on the work of oncological service, etc.
Here are the main theses of his presentation.
How COVID-19 has re-educated us
"In what way has COVID-19 re-educated us? We are more active in using medical teleconsultations, and I think that it is good, as the colleagues in the most distant corners of our country do not feel abandoned."
"During the period of COVID-19 pandemic, no oncological establishments were closed. None of the oncological patients was abandoned. We are grateful for that to the government of the country and the minister. It was the right decision, and all oncological centers could continue their work during the pandemic period." <...> "We can say with confidence that Europe has failed with regard to rendering oncological aid during the COVID-19 pandemic. There were oncological departments under large University clinics in Europe, so the patients could quickly get the help of specialists, while the physicians were free to use the equipment available at the university clinics. However, when the pandemic broke out, all these departments were either closed or repurposed, thus 58% of oncological care capacities (which is a lot) were lost. We chose a different path. In Russia, the oncological service had been built as a network of oncological dispensaries, and all of them were working."
Extract from Andrey Kaprin's presentation.
Oncologists Grow in Number
"Oncologists grow in number, and it looks great, because I, for instance, remember the time when nobody wanted to become an oncologist. At present, however, thanks to the attention paid to oncology, we get increasingly more specialists. Last year, 358 boys and girls applied for 116 budget places at our establishment, i.e., the competition was higher if compared to the State Institute of Theatrical Art for instance. We have even got specialists speaking two foreign languages. Moreover, when there were no more budget places, we would take the most talented guys and paid for their education ourselves concluding agreements envisioning that the specialist remains at our establishment for work after having finished the course of training."
Replication of Domestic Technologies
"What can we replicate in general? Naturally, we can replicate radiotherapy. Besides, we can boast of having other interesting developments. For instance, we are now performing radio embolization of tumors: liver tumors, bone metastases, liver metastases. It looks great, as colorectal cancer in advanced form leads to liver metastases as a rule. Before, the physicians would write off such patients at once, but the new breakthrough method of treatment opens up great prospects for the global oncological practice. We have already received applications from our colleagues working in China and Pakistan who want to visit our center for the purpose of exchanging experience."
Indispensable Radionuclides
"A far as radionuclides are concerned, we are unfortunately falling behind, though Russia is a nuclear power which has actually invented thee radionuclides. <...> Radionuclide tourism is an expensive enough affair. At our institute, we continue to work out radionuclides, new medications, and it makes us very powerful, as we can now treat metastatic patients. We can prolong the life of a patient with certain metastatic sites by 5 years in 38% of cases."
Dynamics of oncological diseases
"What do we have today with respect to the global statistics? We see that it is predominantly lung cancer that takes away the patients' lives. I want to address the Federation Council, as senators are good organizers, and say: do not scold your oncologists for morbidity figures. Many people say that morbidity should be reduced. It is an absolutely wrong formulation. Morbidity if a demographic story: the older we become, the longer the life expectancy is – 80 years or more – the higher is the oncological disease incidence. <...> It has been proved that such adverse factors as smoking, asbestos, overeating, obesity, etc. lead to increase in number of oncological patients."
Photo from the archive of Scientific Russia
Author Yanina Khuzhina
COVID-19 oncology Andrey Kaprin SMRC of Radiology the Russian Federation Council oncology service of Russia
Meeting of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences – 18 January 2022


How much is Chris Pratt Worth?
Chris Pratt net worth and salary: Chris Pratt is American actor who has a net worth of $40 million dollars. Chris Pratt was born in Virginia, Minnesota, and was "discovered" while working at a seafood restaurant in Hawaii. He began his professional career with a role in the horror film, Cursed: Part 3, in 2000, and then went on to a variety of film and television roles. He has since appeared in films like Strangers with Candy, Wanted, Bride Wars, Jennifer's Body, Take Me Home Tonight, Moneyball, The Five-Year Engagement, Zero Dark Thirty, and Movie 43. He also played guest-starring or co-starring roles on television shows like, The Huntress and The O.C.. He is most widely recognized for his starring roles on Everwood and Parks and Recreation. In addition to his on-camera career, he has also provided voice work for Batman, The Lego Movie, and Ben 10: The Ultimate Alien. In 2009, he married fellow actress, Anna Faris, who he met on the set of the film, Take Me Home Tonight in 2007. The couple also has a son, Jack, who was born in August of 2012. In 2014, he appeared in Guardians of the Galaxy and in 2015 he appeared in Jurassic World, both of which were monster hits at the box office. Between June 2016 and June 2017, Chris earned $18 million from his various endeavors. Pratt starred as Andy Dwyer on the TV series Parks and Recreation from 2009 to 2015 and was nominated for a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. He has also starred in films including The Magnificent Seven, Passengers, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. Pratt will continue his roles as Peter Quill / Star-Lord in the Marvel universe and as Owen Grady in the Jurassic Park film series. He has been nominated for many awards and won a Saturn Award for Best Actor for Guardians of the Galaxy.


If you are a shopper you know that the shipping charges are steep and sometimes more than the cost of the product itself. DeliveryCircle provides you the opportunity to save on shipping charges by allowing local delivery folks to deliver your goods for a reasonable price when you schedule your deliveries on our site. So try scheduling a delivery of your favorite restaurant take-out, your dry cleaning, office supplies etc.
Drivers, if you are interested in making some extra cash on the side and without hassle, this is your opportunity. You can deliver items for folks on your way to work or home. You tell us between what zip codes you are willing to deliver and the hours you are available. You must use your own vehicle, carry auto insurance and must pass our background check.
If you are a business, this is your opportunity to connect with more customers and with the drivers who can deliver your products to them. Expand your customer base and reach customers outside your current geographical area.
If your customers want same day or next day delivery they can pick from a list of delivery persons that can deliver the goods to them for a reasonable price.