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Environmental issues from coal mining and their solutions
01/03/2010· The environmental challenges from coal mining include coal mine accidents, land subsidence, damage to the water environment, mining waste disposal and air pollution. These are either environmental pollution or landscape change. A conceptual framework for solving mine environmental issues is proposed.
Challenges of working in mining Anglo American
01/12/2017· Addressing challenges Tailings management is becoming an ever-bigger challenge for the mining industry. Ore grades are generally declining as the best known deposits are steadily being depleted causing us to need more ore to yield the same amount of metals and minerals.
Challenges of Coal : Chem Mod
Despite its benefits, coal faces lingering challenges, specifically with the pollutants that are emitted into the atmosphere when burned. In fact, coal-fired power plants are the largest source of mercury air emissions in the U.S., which have been linked to a variety of
Mining spotlight on: Key issues facing the mining sector
Mining spotlight on: Key issues facing the mining sector Issue 3 Remaking mining. A series of short articles focused on key issues facing the mining sector. Save for later ; Explore Content. Related topics; Exploring the innovation imperative. Commodities may be broadly moving back into global market balance and even surplus, but the mining sector's challenges are far from over. In a
MINING IN SOUTH AFRICA: THE CHALLENGES AND THE
Coal, 18 Diamonds, 3 Manganese, 6 Chrome, 2 Other,8 Gold, 17 Sector contributions to mining minerals exports in SA (2014) Source: Chamber of Mines estimates; StatsSA. PAGE What I am going to be talking about Mining in South Africa: the challenges and the opportunities 2 September 2016 21 Overcoming our challenges How we can realiseits potential SA mining today SA mining has
The Challenges of the U.S. Coal Industry and Lessons for
The switch from coal-to-gas presents its own challenges to the utilities, leading to the fall of both plant lifespans and capacity factors. This confluence of coal sector trends, is a main driver of the major bankruptcies recently seen in the coal mining sector.
South Africa's coal mining industry facing numerous challenges
15/03/2013· The South African coal mining industry is facing several challenges, the most significant being railway capacity constraints hindering the transportation of
Problems and challenges faced by Coal India Limited
26/09/2013· The machinery available with Coal India Ltd. called open-cast mining allows drilling mostly up to 300 meters below earth's surface, but about 40% of total coal reserves are located at a deeper depth which cannot be extracted using opencast mining. Moreover, open cast mining is more preferred because it is easier, cheaper and safer than newer technology methods. Hence the 40% reserves
Problems Facing Coal Mining and Gas Production in the
PROBLEMS FACING COAL MINING AND GAS PRODUCTION IN THE HARTSHORNE COALBEDS OF THE WESTERN ARKOMA BASIN, OK By A, T. iannacchione, C. A. Kertis, Dm W. ~ouseknecht,~ and J. Ha perry3 ABSTRACT Major problems facing the development of coal and gas resources of the Hartshorne Coalbeds include the complex distribution of minable and un- minable coal, high methane
Coal Problems associated with the use of coal Britannica
Coal Coal Problems associated with the use of coal: Coal is abundant and inexpensive. Assuming that current rates of usage and production do not change, estimates of reserves indicate that enough coal remains to last more than 200 years. There are, however, a variety of problems associated with the use of coal. Mining operations are hazardous.
Negative Effects of Coal Mining The World Counts
The negative effects of coal mining cannot be disputed: Destruction of Landscapes and Habitats: Strip mining also known as surface mining, involves the stripping away of earth and rocks to reach the coal underneath. If a mountain happens to be standing in the way of a coal seam within, it will be blasted or levelled effectively leaving a scarred landscape and disturbing ecosystems and
Five common challenges facing the mining industry Aggreko
Five common challenges facing the mining industry . The mining industry comes with its fair share of challenges; from scarce resources to uncertainty around commodity prices, miners are always looking at ways to overcome barriers to stay competitive. Below we explore 5 challenges currently facing the industry. 1. Access to Energy. As resources in some areas become scarce or depleted, companies
The Challenges of the U.S. Coal Industry and Lessons for Europe 3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In recent years, economic, social, and political forces have reduced the global demand for coal, threatening the historical dominance of coal for power generation, and greatly diminishing the outlook of the U.S. coal mining sector. The development of U.S. shale
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MITIGATING ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL IMPACTS OF COAL MINING
COAL MINING IN INDIA * Dr. Gurdeep Singh Abstract Coal is the only natural resource and fossil fuel available in abundance in India. The major environmental challenges encountering the coal industry are impacts of mine fires, dust suppression and control particularly haul road dust consolidation, treatment of mine waters containing heavy metals/acid mine drainage, restoration of water table
Coal Industry: Ethical Analysis UK Essays
There are also many social challenges facing the coal industry, but we are just going to focus on the negative health effects and employee safety. Coal can cause a lot of health problems. These problems include respiratory issues (bronchitis, asthma attacks, etc.), black lung, congestive heart failure, and some forms of cancer. Mostly people acquire these sicknesses through the extraction
Solutions to Mining Industry Risk Challenges
Operational efficiencies have increased and, as many countries demand more and more commodities (including coal, copper and iron ore) to underpin the expansion of their infrastructure, the mining industry is once again thriving with commodity prices rising. Additionally, the ongoing rapid expansion of a middle class in China, India, other parts of Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe
Rising to the challenge Australian Mining
14/03/2019· Coal exports were particularly strong, posting a record high of $60.1 billion, an 11 per cent rise on the previous year. But as the industry evolves, so too does its challenges. The availability
Coal Coal Problems associated with the use of coal: Coal is abundant and inexpensive. Assuming that current rates of usage and production do not change, estimates of reserves indicate that enough coal remains to last more than 200 years. There are, however, a variety of problems associated with the use of coal. Mining
Sub-Saharan African mining sector to continue facing
03/04/2018· Widespread illegal mining activity and rising regulatory risks are two of the biggest challenges that will face the sub-Saharan Africa mining sector in
Effects Of Coal Mining On The Environment
Coal mining projections. By 2040, the percentage of coal in the power mix will decrease by about 10 percentage points from 38 to 28 percent. But at the same time world demand for energy will grow massively so MUCH more is needed to seriously reduce the damaging effects of coal mining and turning the coal into energy. A global challenge
Key Issues Facing the Mining Industry in 2014
06/03/2014· Accelerating Science Advancing Mining / Coal / Key Issues Facing the Mining Industry in 2014. Key Issues Facing the Mining Industry in 2014 By Christopher Shaffer 03.06.2014 The pressure on mining companies to be efficient, productive, and profitable has never been greater. From a volatile commodities market to financing, safety, and employment issues, the pressure on mining
Mining Industry Trends and Challenges 2018 Deloitte Report
27/03/2018· This year marks the 10 th anniversary of Deloitte's annual mining trend report. Tracking the trends 2018: The top 10 issues shaping mining in the year ahead describes scenarios that could put some mining companies at a competitive disadvantage in today's technological, environmental, and social climate, and offers potential strategies to help companies to thrive in the future.
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"Opportunities and challenges facing the South African Mining Industry" Presentation to the SACEA AGM By Roger Baxter, Senior Executive, Chamber of Mines of South Africa, 17 February 2011 PRESENTATION OUTLINE Mining and minerals, integral to modern society The South African Mining Industry The future The global mining industry Back to the "BOOM" RSA Coal Mining Sector. 2 Page
Mining in South Africa: Industry challenges in 2020
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Anyway, it was stinking hot today. 90 degrees with super crazy humidity. The sweat didn't have anywhere to go. Unreal! About 5 minutes before the pool was filled, a storm rolled in. The boys all came inside, saying it was gonna rain. Sure enough, rain it did. Giant drops. But the kids decided that they could swim in the rain without a problem. They were getting wet anyway, right. Couldn't fault them for their logic, so I joined them.
Crazy when the pool water is colder than the rain. I ended up just standing outside in my swimsuit in the rain. It was so refreshing. Like a cooler shower. I liked it!
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Claims in Harry's book 'a massive disservice' to Duke, says expert
Prince Harry: Commentators laugh at 'todger'
Prince Harry may have done a "massive disservice" to himself by sharing some of the episodes included in his tell-all autobiography, a royal commentator said. In his memoir titled Spare, the Duke of Sussex shared intimate details about his private life, including his mental health, and wrote extensively about his relationship with the press and his role in the Firm as the second son of the King.
However, the memoir also included a few complaints which, royal commentator Jonathan Sacerdoti claimed, made Harry "look quite petty".
Asked whether the Royal Family should respond to the allegations and criticism raised by Harry in the book, the commentator told Express.co.uk: "It's really hard to say whether they should respond, because this stuff is damaging, there is no question about that. But on the other hand, I think it backfires to some extent.
"I think it is much more damaging to Harry than he had perhaps anticipated.
"I think it has done a massive disservice to him to share some of the information and stories he had.
"I think it made him look quite petty at times. One example that comes to mind is the stuff about how his home in Kensington Palace was dark because it was in the semi-basement and one of the Queen's staff parked too near the windows casting a shadow over his life.
"I think similar complaints would not go down well with people who don't live in a palace at all.
"And, bearing that in mind, I think yes it's damaged the Royal Family potentially but it also did quite a lot of damage to Meghan and Harry themselves, and maybe the Palace will be counting on the damage to Harry and Meghan being greater than the damage to the Royal Family and not respond, so far that's what they have done."
The episode recalled by Mr Sacerdoti dates back to when Prince Harry moved onto Kensington Palace grounds, in an apartment he described as "in the semi-basement of the Palace".
Harry described his home as "half buried", adding the situation was made worse whenever an adviser of Queen Elizabeth II at the time, which the Duke called "Mr R", parked his Land Rover Discovery in front of his windows, "blocking out all light".
In Spare, the Duke wrote he had "politely" asked the Queen's aide to move his car by "a few inches" and, when this didn't happen, Harry accused Mr R of asking the Queen to tell her grandson to stop complaining.
Harry added Mr R's wife was somehow "guilty of a traffic violation even more inexcusable than her husband", as she parked her car in a place once used by the late Princess Diana.
Other headline-grabbing episodes included by Harry in the book include his numerous references to his "todger" which, in April 2011, suffered from frostbite after he had taken part in the Walking with the Wounded initiative in the North Pole.
After speaking about the discomfort he felt, Harry recounted being advised by a friend to apply to the sore area an Elizabeth Arden cream Diana used to use on her lips.
The mere smell of the cream, the Duke said, made him feel as if his mother "was right there in the room".
The book also featured more serious episodes, including the allegation the Prince of Wales had physically attacked his younger brother during a heated discussion about Meghan Markle in early 2019.
Episodes aiming to show how the relationship between the Duchess of Sussex, Prince William and Kate, Princess of Wales, had been lukewarm at best since the very beginning were also included in the 416-page memoir.
Harry reinforced his attacks in the book with interviews released in the midst of the launch of the memoir, claiming for example the Queen Consort was "dangerous" as she was willing to trade information with the press to rehabilitate her image in Britain.
Neither Buckingham Palace nor Kensington Palace have yet responded to the accusations and criticism lobbed at them by Harry.
Mr Sacerdoti said the Palace has historically shown it has different ways to respond to claims – but they are not "trigger happy" when it comes to responding to the Sussexes.
He also said: "I think they want to just get on with their work.
"I think sometimes they are choosing to react either with silence, which is a reaction of sorts, or with action, which is find some ways to disprove or dispel the myths that some people think.
"If anything does explode massively, then they may release a statement like they have done after the Oprah Winfrey interview or the Ngozi Fulani episode."
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Aker Energy appoints Kadijah Amoah as Country Manager; first Ghanaian woman to lead an oil firm
Business, News February 1, 2020 Kennedy Mornah
Aker Energy AS has appointed Mrs. Kadijah Amoah as Country Director of Aker Energy Ghana Ltd, effective 1 February 2020.
The appointment follows Aker Energy's strategy to strengthen the company's local presence and management in Ghana.
By this, she becomes the first Ghanaian woman to lead an oil firm operating in the country.
"We are very pleased to strengthen our team and presence in Ghana with Kadijah as the Country Director of Aker Energy in Ghana. With Kadijah's experience, I am confident that she will lead with success as we move towards the development phase of the Pecan project offshore Ghana," says Svein Jakob Liknes, CEO of
Aker Energy AS.
Mrs. Amoah will be appointed to the Executive Management Team of Aker Energy AS in addition to heading the country office of Aker Energy in Ghana. She will also work closely with affiliated companies AGM Petroleum Ghana Limited ("AGM") and Aker Ghana Investment Company ("AGIC") in Ghana, two companies with the same majority owner as Aker Energy, and hold directorships in both companies.
Mrs. Amoah, a Ghanaian citizen, is a lawyer by training and holds degrees in law and political science, a master's degree in international business, and awaits the award of a postgraduate diploma in strategy and innovation.
Prior to joining Aker Energy, Mrs. Amoah was a Senior Foreign Lawyer at the German office of Clifford Chance Germany, one of the largest law firms in the world.
"I am extremely pleased to join Aker Energy at such an important stage of the company's history. Building on the Aker group's 180 years' industrial heritage, Aker Energy will, together with AGM and AGIC, take the lead to develop Ghana's oil and gas resources and related industries," says Mrs. Amoah.
"It all starts with the Pecan project operated by Aker Energy; but this is just the beginning. AGM's plans to explore and appraise the SDWT block and AGIC's plans to pursue development opportunities stand as testaments to Aker's commitment to industry development in Ghana beyond the upcoming project," she
Mr. Jan Helge Skogen has held the role of Country Manager since May 2018 and has been instrumental in building a strong organisation and foothold for Aker Energy in Ghana. Mr. Skogen will stay on as an advisor until 1 March 2020.
"Since Jan Helge took on the role in 2018, the mandate was to establish a strong foundation for further growth whilst identifying a long-term, Ghanaian successor. As the company enters a new phase, it was natural to effectuate the leadership transition. I would like to thank Jan Helge for his remarkable effort and commitment over the past two years. When stepping down as Country Manager, he is now concluding a long and notable career within the oil and gas industry, including various assignments as country manager across the globe," says Mr. Liknes.
Source: Aker Energy Ghana Limited
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Kennedy Mornah is an Award Winning Ghanaian Journalist with over two decades of experience in the Ghanaian Media landscape spanning the electronic, print and digital media. He is a Media Consultant, a Corporate MC, Radio and TV Host, Founder and Publisher of the Maritime and Transport Digest Newspaper, Businessman, a Go getter and an optimist. He has worked for renowned media organizations including Diamond Fm in Tamale, Luv Fm in Kumasi, Oman Fm in Accra and Starr Fm in Accra In 2017 he received the Reporter of the Year Award at the Ghana Shippers Awards in Accra, Ghana.
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North Korean regime can't be swayed through diplomacy [Opinion]
Opinion // Outlook
By Jonah Goldberg April 24, 2018 Updated: April 25, 2018 10:39 a.m.
A South Korean soldier walks past a television screen showing pictures of President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at a railway station in Seoul on March 9, 2018. Trump agreed on March 8 to a historic first meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in a stunning development in America's high-stakes nuclear standoff with North Korea.
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Responding to reports that North Korea said it "no longer needs" nuclear tests, Jim Hanson, president of the generally pro-Trump Security Studies Group, credited President Trump.
"No one was expecting anything to come of Trump's fiery rhetoric, except people who understand that diplomacy works better with a credible threat of military force backing it up," Hanson told "Fox and Friends" over the weekend. "It's brought Kim (Jong Un) to the table in ways none of President Trump's predecessors were able to do."
Even though the nuclear-test freeze is mostly symbolic, this strikes me as entirely defensible. Trump critics who don't like his "fiery rhetoric" and unpredictability, myself included, should concede that it has its benefits on occasion.
EDITORIAL: Trump's bluster on North Korea risks disastrous result
I'm not sure it should be chalked up to some grand strategy, though. Trump is fiery and unpredictable all the time. Calling it strategic brilliance only when it works for him is a bit like celebrating the perfect accuracy of a broken clock twice a day.
Still, Hanson's right. In this case, letting Trump be Trump has yielded real diplomatic results that would likely be hailed as "breakthroughs" under, say, a President Hillary Clinton.
The problem is that these diplomatic triumphs are almost certainly meaningless or even dangerous — something that many Trump supporters would be saying right now if Hillary Clinton were president.
The crux of the dilemma isn't Trump. It's North Korea.
Put simply: North Korea is not a normal country. It's not even a normal dictatorship. It is essentially a totalitarian monarchy whose dynastic rulers claim divine origins.
OPINION: Growth isn't necessarily good news for Kim Jong Un
But even totalitarian regimes have domestic interests and internal politics they have to contend with. The Kim dynasty has sustained itself for three generations by force-feeding its own people, including the elites, a powerfully intoxicating ideological brew.
It holds, among other things, that Koreans are the world's superior race and that the North is destined to fulfill its destiny by reuniting the peninsula under Kim's rule. North Koreans are taught almost from birth that Americans are barbarians.
"U.S. imperialist aggressors," Kim said a few years ago, "are cannibals … seeking pleasure in slaughter." He was commemorating a largely fictional U.S. atrocity during the Korean War.
North Korea, in effect a modern Sparta, subscribes to the doctrine of chonmin mujanghwa, or "arming the whole people."
Of course, absolute rulers have a lot of latitude to do whatever they see as being in their self-interest, but facts and their own ideologies get in the way.
The leaders of Hamas cannot accept the legitimacy of Israel; the mullahs in Iran cannot embrace secularism; and Kim almost surely cannot decide that North Korea doesn't need a nuclear arsenal or that he can make real peace with South Korea.
OPINION: Why Kim Jong Un is alienating China
Domestically, accepting the legitimacy of South Korea's government would be tantamount to delegitimizing North Korea's government. The Kim regime is similarly convinced, perhaps with reason, that it needs a nuclear deterrent to survive. Agreeing to disarm, in the leaders' minds, would be suicidal. Moreover, they've been telling their own citizens that having nukes is an existential imperative.
In other words, you cannot simply negotiate a country into negating its reason for existence.
North Korea can be coaxed into some kind of "peace process" with the South as a way to extract more concessions from the West. But that's the same game it's played for decades.
The North Korean regime will never get rid of its nuclear deterrent, because its leaders believe they need it and have told their own people they must have it.
Contrary to a lot of the White House talking points, Kim's trial balloon about "denuclearizing" doesn't mean he's open to disarming. It's 30-year-old jargon for getting America to abandon the South Koreans, paving the way for unification on the North's bloody terms.
President Trump may think, as a source reportedly told Axios he does: "Just get me in the room with the guy Kim and I'll figure it out."
If the president does get in a room with Kim Jong Un, I have no doubt he'll emerge with something he can call a victory. I also have no doubt that it will be very similar to previous American diplomatic victories.
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Well howdy doody folks! It's a little but belated but I hope you all had a fabulous festive period filled with whatever and whomever makes you very happy!
We all had a good time, this year was the first the Johnny (who is 4....and a half!) has really been properly excited about Christmas, the "How many sleeps is it now Mummy?" "Is it Christmas Eve today?" type questions started as soon as the first window in the advent calendar (Lego Starwars, shared between them both!) was opened! The lead up to the big day was filled with Nativity plays, Christmas parties, visiting friend and relations to deliver and collect present, last minute shopping and then..........all too soon it was time for the decorations to come down and "real life" to return!
No more long(ish) lies in, no more lounging in jimjams until lunch time, no more chocolate for breakfast and the seemingly endless rain we had at the start of the month, days and days filled with rain, not even drizzle but proper, persistent rain.....bleurgh!
So my plan to have my word for the year picked and settled by the time "real life" returned stalled slightly in the stark face of grey January reality and I've only now got it settled in my mind.
I will excel, I will improve upon and I will accomplish. And not in a flash (oh no!) in a radiant, glimmering, gleaming, shimmering, sparkle of flair and talent!
And now because I've written it down and all of you know, I'll have to!
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In a Flexible Vertical Double Degree program, students can combine a Bachelor degree and a Master degree from related disciplines for depth of knowledge and specialist skills; or combine degrees from different disciplines for breadth and transferrable skills. These programs offer time and cost savings when compared with studying a Bachelor and a Master degree separately. Students create their Flexible Vertical Double Degree from within one of these groups: Group 1 - Business, Humanities & Social Sciences; Group 2 - Science; Group 3 - Law.
Year 12 or equivalent; there may be prerequisites or levels of assumed knowledge for individual subjects for entry to the Bachelor degree. Students must reach a specified GPA in their bachelor studies to be eligible to transition into the masters component of the flexible vertical double degree.
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Charlie Joe Jackson spinoffs volume 2.
After a text goes wrong, Charlie Joe Jackson's best friend Katie Friedman decides to go a week without her phone. Then she is offered a deal: If she can get ten friends to also give up their phones for a week, everyone gets backstage passes to an upcoming concert. Can she do it?


FDA has announced public workshops on the Reportable Food Registry intended to "explain the purpose of the Registry, how it will work, and the responsibilities of persons required to submit a report regarding instances of reportable food to FDA through the Reportable Food electronic portal." The public workshops will also address the role of public health officials in submitting instances of reportable food to the Registry. Previously, FDA issued and requested comment on a draft guidance titled "Guidance for Industry: Questions and Answers Regarding the Reportable Food Registry as Established by the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007" (see our prior posting here). At that time, the agency indicated that the Registry would be implemented on September 8, 2009. This latest announcement of the public workshops suggests that further delays in implementation of the Registry are unlikely, and that FDA intends to meet the September 8 implementation date. Have you incorporated the Registry requirements into your recall SOP's and training program?


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Is Donald Trump the American version of Le Pen?
August 11, 2015 Kevin Lees	Leave a comment
Over the weekend, Le Figaro pondered whether Donald Trump, the tart-tongued real estate mogul, might be the U.S. version of Jean-Marie Le Pen, the French far-right founder of the Front national (National Front) who's also become notorious for controversial statements and for trampling 'political correctness.'
Le Pen, after all, edged out the leftist prime minister Lionel Jospin in the 2002 presidential election, establishing the Fifth Republic's most lopsided runoff between the noxious Le Pen and the incumbent, center-right Jacques Chirac. Le Pen's daughter, Marine Le Pen, who is working to broader the FN's appeal, is polling high in the 2017 presidential contest and may win one of the two final runoff spots.
There are significant differences between the Le Pen family and Trump. Le Pen pere frequently expressed his doubts about the Holocaust with a heavy dose of anti-Semitic populism — so far, Trump hasn't started questioning the Holocaust or attacking Jewish Americans. But both Le Pen and his daughter developed a significant constituency of French voters by expressing outrage against the influx of immigrants into the country, a concern much closer to Trump's heart (he announced his candidacy by attacking Mexicans, promising to build a wall along the southern US border and billing it to the Mexican government).
More recently, Marine Le Pen has broadened her attacks to include European institutions, including the eurozone, as an attack on the sovereignty of France. In her exclamations of "Oui, la France!" there's more than an echo of Trump's "Let's make American great again" shtick.
But the support that Trump has amassed in the summer of 2015 isn't so unlike the wave of populism that's enveloped Europe (on both the right and the left). Though the US economic recovery has chiefly outpaced that of Europe's, it's not been an easy expansion. Sustained unemployment, tepid GDP growth and stagnant wages have left working-class and middle-class American voters less secure — just like working-class and middle-class European voters.
It's no surprise that since 2010, several new voices of the populist right and the populist left have demonstrated their electoral muscle:
In Italy, comic and blogger Beppe Grillo obtained nearly a quarter of the vote in the 2013 elections, and polls show that he still commands upwards of 25% of the vote. Frank Bruni wrote in May in The New York Times that Trump shares much in common with Silvio Berlusconi, the media tycoon who dominated Italian politics from the mid-1990s to the late 2000s and, like Trump, reveled in controversial pronouncements. But Berlusconi was primed for politics by Bettino Craxi, the Socialist prime minister in the 1980s who was ultimately forced into exile in Tunisia; it's not like George W. Bush or Newt Gingrich developed Trump as a protégé.
In the United Kingdom, anti-establishment candidates running for the Scottish National Party (SNP) wiped out longstanding Labour and Liberal Democratic strongholds in Scotland and, in the current Labour Party leadership contest, the far-left Jeremy Corbyn, a firm anti-austerian who wants to renationalize British railways, leads many surveys against more moderate opponents.
In Greece, the far-left Alexis Tsipras and SYRIZA (Συνασπισμός Ριζοσπαστικής Αριστεράς, the Coalition of the Radical Left) took power in January's elections, and the equally far-left Podemos hopes to pull off a similar victory in Spain's general election in December.
It's not surprising that economic pain, angst about sovereignty, identity and migration and other doubts about ruling political elites are fueling the same kind of anti-establishment reaction in the United States, too, and it's the same instinct that powered the 'tea party' movement of the early 2010s.
It's too soon to tell what Trump's lasting legacy will be on the 2016 presidential race. His poll numbers might soon collapse (or not). He could wipe out before the first votes are cast in the Iowa caucuses or the New Hampshire primary. He might win a few early contests before Republican elites step in (and they will) to deny him the presidential nomination. He's still holding the door open to an independent third-party run in the general election.
But the real template for Trump isn't necessarily Le Pen or Tsipras or Corbyn or Grillo or even Berlusconi, though they all draw support from the same anti-establishment, populist reservoir.
Instead, it's a duo of neophyte businessmen who have taken on powerful (and experienced) political leaders over the past two years to upend the status quo. Though Andrej Kiska and Andrej Babiš aren't necessarily household names, even in Europe, they represent more closely the kind of appeal that Trump — at his best, perhaps — could replicate to upend the Republican establishment.
If I were Corey Lewandowski, Trump's campaign manager, I would be furiously studying each case to extrapolate lessons for Trump.
Kiska (pictured above) is a 52-year old businessman who spent much of his life as a entrepreneur in Slovakia, making his fortune in the installment payments and the credit business. Despite his failures to break into the US market, Kiska shifted to charitable works in 2006, founding Dobrý anjel (Good Angel), a charitable organization that provides funds for the seriously ill.
Running as an independent in the Slovakian presidential election in March 2014, Kiska defeated Slovakia's sitting center-left prime minister Robert Fico. The Slovak presidency is effectively ceremonial, but Fico's victory would have consolidated power between the ruling party and the presidency. Fico's defeat dealt an otherwise popular figure a significant blow — and Kiska's victory preserved a sense of constitutional balance between the executive and the parliamentary.
Going into the election, Fico was a well-liked prime minister and Slovakia's economic record outpaced its closest neighbors; Kiska was a political newcomer. Fico's party, Smer–sociálna demokracia, (Smer-SD, Direction-Social Democracy), still widely leads polls for next year's general election, for example.
Unlike Trump, Kiska didn't campaign on the macho, alpha-male persona of a successful businessman. But Kiska succeeded by planting doubts about Fico's campaign and the fact that Kiska was personally untainted by political corruption and ties to Soviet-era politics. By all counts, he's thrived in the presidential role since taking office last year. The lesson to Trump is that he can dial down the antics and still present a capable challenge to the GOP establishment. Though Trump may embellish the influence that his past donations might have procured, there's no doubt he is right when he showcases the corrosive influence of money on politics in the post-Citizens United world.
Babiš (pictured above) is also a Slovak-born businessman, but the 60-year old made his fortune in the Czech Republic. Like Kiska, he left business to form a political party, Akce nespokojených občanů (ANO, Action of Dissatisfied Citizens) in 2011.
In the 2013 Czech elections, ANO won nearly 20% of the vote, finishing a strong second to the Česká strana sociálně demokratická (ČSSD, Czech Social Democratic Party) in a highly fragmented result. Babiš, who developed Agrofert, an agricultural and food processing company, into one of the most successful companies in the country, later purchased a series of media companies before he turned to politics as one of the wealthiest men in the Czech Republic. Not surprisingly, Babiš argued that he would govern the Czech Republic like a business.
More caustic than Kiska, and more sympathetic to neoliberal policies, Babiš attacked both Czech social democrats and conservatives as corrupt and dishonest, arguing for an end to immunity for political figures. In 2012 and 2013, despite his inexperience, he expertly filled a void for an electorate that had lost trust in the central European country's ruling elite. In that regard, Trump's rhetoric much more strongly resembles that of the pugilistic Babiš.
In the past four years alone, a center-right prime minister resigned after his chief of staff (with whom he had become romantically involved) was caught spying on the former prime minister's wife. It's also a country where a former Social Democratic prime minister won the presidency in early 2013 and immediately tried to outmuscle the Czech parliament in a constitutional power struggle. That gave Babiš the opportunity to present himself as the truth-telling man of action, despite fears that 'Babišconi' would become just another oligarchic leader and despite troubling accusations that he cooperated with the Czech internal police during the Soviet era as well as with the Soviet KGB.
Nevertheless, after the 2013 election, Babiš set aside his differences with elites and brought ANO into the current government — he now serves as the country's finance minister. Though the next Czech elections do not have to be held until 2017, ANO leads polls and there's a good chance that Babiš could become the next prime minister.
The lesson here from Trump is that the righteous 'pox-on-both-your houses' anger of the outsider can be effective so long as it's targeted on the tangible excesses and failures of the ruling class. But it's not enough, as Trump has done, just to call yourself 'smart' and politicians 'stupid.' What made Babiš successful was presenting the devastating case for why Czech politics had become so broken.
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Homily: This week's Gospel is about Jesus preparing his disciples for their journey ahead. Their journey coincides with their mission. This means that they were each invited to share the Good News with as many, far and wide, as they could. Jesus asked them to go in peace and love for God and to tell everyone (without fear) about the Kingdom of God. This was not the easiest of tasks but the disciples, all 72 of them, went with courage and hope for the outcome of their mission. Upon their return, they were joyous and encouraged by the reaction they received. Jesus asked them to dwell in that joy. However, he asked them to identify that joy with the love of God as opposed to giving themselves a big clap on the back for the great job they had done! This helps us to realise that when we carry out a good deed or complete a task that has brought happiness to others, we can be satisfied, not just for ourselves but for our service to God. We will be rewarded, but all in God's own time.
1. Lord, help me to spread the Good News, wherever and whenever I can. Grant me the courage and grace to do your will.
2. Lord God, thank you for the family and friends I have in my life. Bless them with courage and hope to support the mission of the Church.
3. Lord God, Gracious God, empower me to always be open to and aware of your grace, always present in my life.
Theme: You are my neighbour!
Homily: We often do not know who our neighbour is. Trust is often broken down and people do not always engage socially with those who live around them. In this parable, Jesus tells us that our neighbour can be anybody we meet, especially a person who is in need of care and support. Our opportunities to give help are plentiful and are presented to us every day. Jesus calls us to begin with love in all of our relationships. We are often too busy to notice another person's loneliness, needs or pain. Jesus asks us to see with a new lens, to view each person as someone to support and show love to. Whether it is the opportunity to give someone a smile, a glass of water or a friendly chat with a friend who is in a quiet mood, all of these actions are doing what God asks us to do.
1. Gentle God, forgive me when I ignore others by walking on by. Sometimes selfishness or fear get in my way and I don't stand up for what is just and right.
2. Giving God, you love me though my troubles and pain, help me to identify myself in and through your love as I work to help others in my life.
3. Gracious God, help me to become a good Samaritan in my life, grace me with the courage I need to carry me over the choppy waters of fear or embarrassment when doing the right thing is not always the 'in' thing.
Homily: When Jesus visits his friend's house, Mary sat down and chatted with him. She did not bother with trying to clean up the room or make tea. Instead, she sat down and conversed with Jesus. She listened to what he had to say. On the other hand, Martha began to fuss and carried on with the jobs she was doing, she did not stop to enjoy her friend's company. Also, she gave out about Mary to Jesus and moaned that she was trying to do everything on her own. Jesus explained to Martha that being busy often caused her to miss out on the important things in life. Sometimes we have too much to do and going to Mass to listen to the Word of God is just another thing in the way of our plans and tasks for the weekend. When Jesus calls us, we should make time for his presence in our lives. At Mass, Jesus comes to us in the person of the priest, in the people in the seats, in the readings and Gospel of the day. Finally, Jesus comes to us himself in the Eucharist. Surely we can make time for Jesus when he comes to us in such a loving and complete way.
1. Jesus, I ask you to slow me down, slow me down to embrace you with my head and my heart. Let me be gracious in your presence and not busy myself with the next task of the day.
2. Loving Jesus, you open your arms for my embrace, you fill my heart with your unconditional love, I thank you today and always.
3. Loving Jesus Christ, you are my alpha and my omega, grant me the grace to be a vessel for your presence to peacefully dwell.
Homily: The disciples saw how much time Jesus spent in prayer. Jesus frequently left the crowd to pray and spend time with God. They saw this and asked Jesus to teach them how to pray in this way. They want to be able to pray like Jesus. The Lord's Prayer is the model for all prayer, because it contains all that we need for real and relevant prayer. Jesus asks us to pray with our hearts and mind, he asks us to go deep into our prayer, to sit with it and let it take on a more meaningful space in our lives. Jesus reassures us that no matter how in vain or unheard we think our prayer is we need to persevere and God will grant us our needs with love and in abundance.
1. Lord Jesus, thank you for teaching us how to pray, just as you pray. Help us always to persevere in prayer and never to lose hope.
2. Sacred heart of Jesus, we love you and ask you to be with us as we pray to God the Father gently calling us on to a deeper and peaceful relationship with God.
3. Loving God, we will make time each day to pray the Lord's Prayer as Jesus taught us to.
Homily: Jesus is asked to settle an inheritance case. He is not impressed and reminds all who are present that storing up goods for one's future is fine but it is not what real life is for. Of course we need to be wise with our earnings and goods but if our whole story revolves around minding ourselves, and making sure we are comfortable at all times, what is the real point of it? Here, Jesus is gently asking us to focus on an authentic life, focus on the important 'goods' that ought to be stored up. Of course, this is about being kind and loving others in the world. A life that is not always revolving around and dedicated to ourselves, which can very often be called greed. Jesus taught us to ask God for what we need today, 'give us today our daily bread', not what I for the next 20 years! It is good to plan ahead, but it is more important to plan for our life in the Kingdom of God. An authentic life cannot be measured in terms of material possessions.
1. Jesus, we seek more and more. We look with envy on what others seem to have – better homes, better jobs, better ways of living. Help us to be grateful for your endless love.
2. Loving God, help me keep my ego under control and realise that just because I say 'I'm worth it' does not always mean I should acquire more.
3. Gracious God, I bless all of those in my family who for one reason or another have not been able to provide for their daily bread. Help me to help them with an open heart.
Homily: Today's Gospel is linked to last week's Gospel. Jesus reminds us again that when we meet God will we bring with us a list of all the 'stuff' we have acquired or a list of all the 'good things we have done? God is not impressed with our barns filled to the rafters, he is not impressed with our healthy bank balances. God is willing us through Jesus, to love one another. Jesus requests that we are ready to talk to God. Today, Jesus asks us to be ready to meet God. Jesus is telling us that God is interested in the quality of our lives and not the quantity of our possessions. Life is a pilgrimage. It keeps moving. A life lived in and through a love of God and each other is what is requested. This is how we build up real wealth not only for ourselves but for others as well.
1. Gracious God, help me to quench my thirst for all that glitters and is gold. Help me have the courage to live according to the Lord 's Prayer.
2. Gentle God, forgive me for my greed and lack of humility.
3. Loving God, I thank you for sharing your love with me and for always loving me.
Homily: In this week's Gospel, Jesus describes the love of God as a fire ablaze. Jesus wants to help us understand the passion and immediacy of God's love for us. Having received God's burning love we will be changed forever. If we truly accept and embrace God's unconditional love for us we cannot be but changed and see life with a different perspective. The Hebrew word for peace, is Shalom. It is a rich word, abundant with meaning. It focuses on integrity, well-being, harmony and unity. When we wish people 'Shalom' we ask for them a whole way of living at peace with God and with themselves. Sometimes we need to be shaken out of our complacency, sometimes we need to be made aware of the immediate need to start afresh and start loving God truly, wholly and deeply.
1. God of love, thank you for loving me and sending the Holy Spirit to guide me when I lose my way.
2. God of hope, forgive me for being hopeless at times. I will work to embrace your hope in my heart and share it with others.
3. God of faith, help me set my heart ablaze with my belief in you. Bless those who shared the gift of faith with me and encouraged me to let it grow.
Homily: A newspaper headline once read 'Alpine Guide Dies Climbing'. When his family and friends marked the place where this man died, they left a stone there. Engraved on the stone was his name and written beside it the words; 'He died climbing'. Today Jesus asks us to die climbing! Every small deed, every small task and every time we act for the good of others is a small climb. This kind of climb is in the direction of the Kingdom of God and a life of peace and rest in God.
1. Lord God, may I never be complacent and unaware of the opportunities presented to me that allow me to work for the Kingdom of God.
2. Saviour God, journey with me as I seek out ways to climb towards greatness in your eyes.
3. Gentle God, Forgive my failures and allow me to begin anew every day.
Homily: Today's Gospel is about people eating together. The Kingdom of God, which is the most perfect community and the goal of the Christian message, is often represented as a banquet. This is a meal for everyone, we are all invited to feast at the table of God. This is something to celebrate and be joyous about as all of our names are on the list of invitees, no one is excluded. The celebration of the Eucharist is the source and summit of our Christian lives. The most beautiful banquet we can ever attend here on earth.
Unfortunately when Jesus attended the meal at the Pharisee's house a sinister atmosphere was established. It should have been an occasion of companionship. Instead, we are told that, 'they watched him closely.' Jesus was being watched in case he made a mistake or broke a rule on the Sabbath.
Today, Jesus tells us that no such rules can be broken at God's table, we are invited for ourselves, and not for what we may or may not do. God asks us to love those who we know may never be able to love us in return. We are asked to love as God loves, unconditionally.
1. Lord God, thank you for calling us to God's table guided by your love.
2. Saving God, help me to continuously seek others to love and serve without looking for a reward.
3. God of peace, bless all who have invited me to their table in love and in peace.


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Q: flask database reset migrate i have created a database for the Flask application,
class Post(db.Model, SearchableMixin):
    __searchable__ = ['body']
    id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
    body = db.Column(db.String(140))
    timestamp = db.Column(db.DateTime, index=True, default=datetime.utcnow)
    user_id = db.Column(db.Integer, db.ForeignKey('user.id'))
    language = db.Column(db.String(5))
    # for the comment foreign key
    comment = db.relationship('Comment', foreign_keys = 'Comment.post_id',
        backref = 'post', lazy = 'dynamic')
    photo = db.relationship('Photo', foreign_keys = 'Photo.post_idn',
        backref = 'post', lazy = 'dynamic')

    def __repr__(self):
        return "<Post {}>".format(self.body)

class Photo(db.Model):
        id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key = True)
        user_id = db.Column(db.Integer, db.ForeignKey('user.id'))
        photo_url = db.Column(db.String(200))
        upload_time = db.Column(db.DateTime, index=True, default=datetime.utcnow)
        new_field = db.Column(db.String(100))
        post_id = db.Column(db.Integer, db.ForeignKey('post.id'))

        def __repr__(self):
            return '<Photo {}>'.format(self.photo_url)

when i run flask db migrate and upgrade, it states that

[2018-11-25 21:07:03,439] INFO in init: Microblog startup INFO
  [alembic.runtime.migration] Context impl SQLiteImpl. INFO
  [alembic.runtime.migration] Will assume non-transactional DDL.

However, when I try to run Photo.query.all() in flask shell, it gives me the below errors ' No such column: post_id'
I believe this is a databse migration issue. Any one has any idea what i should do?
And i am willing to delete the whole database and re-migrate everything again. Can someone advice me how to do so. Thanks.

A: You have created post_id as foreign key. So you must create a Post model for post db table with a column named id.

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Stand Up! (Hardcover)
Be an Upstander and Make a Difference
By Wendy L. Moss
Magination Press, 9781433829635, 112pp.
Publication Date: December 3, 2019
Do you want to be an Upstander who makes the world a better place by standing up to bullying and injustice in your school, home, or community? If so, this book is for you You may doubt that one kid can make a difference. You can't fly like Wonder Woman or scale walls like Spiderman, but you could be a hero to someone else by speaking up. Small changes can lead to bigger and bigger changes
Chock full of quizzes, examples, practical advice, and small steps you can take in your real life, Stand Up : Be an Upstander and Make a Difference takes readers through the ways to be an Upstander, including being kind to yourself, having empathy for others, spreading kindness, and dealing with conflicts.
Wendy L. Moss, PhD, ABPP, FAASP, has her doctorate in clinical psychology, is a licensed psychologist, and has a certification in school psychology. Dr. Moss has practiced in the field of psychology for over 30 years and has worked in hospital, residential, private practice, clinic, and school settings. She has the distinction of being recognized as a diplomate in school psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology for her advanced level of competence in the field of school psychology. Dr. Moss has been appointed as a fellow in the American Academy of School Psychology. In addition, she is the author of Bounce Back: How to Be a Resilient Kid, Being Me: A Kid's Guide to Boosting Confidence and Self-Esteem, and Children Don't Come With an Instruction Manual: A Teacher's Guide to Problems That Affect Learners; coauthor, with Donald A. Moses, MD, of The Tween Book: A Growing-Up Guide for the Changing You; coauthor, with Robin A. DeLuca-Acconi, LCSW, of School Made Easier: A Kid's Guide to Study Strategies and Anxiety-Busting Tools; coauthor, with Susan A. Taddonio, DPT, of The Survival Guide for Kids With Physical Disabilities & Challenges; and has written several articles.


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By Suzanne Simard
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By Steven Pinker
Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe (Paperback)
By Brian Greene
The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged): Adventures in Math and Science (Hardcover)
By Adam Rutherford, Hannah Fry
Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy (Hardcover)
By David J. Chalmers
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Paperback)
By Nicholas Carr
The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World (Paperback)
By Jamil Zaki
The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills (Hardcover)
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By Jim Holt
On the Origin of Species (Paperback)
By Charles Darwin, William Bynum (Introduction by), William Bynum (Notes by), William Bynum (Editor), Damien Hirst (Illustrator)
Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World (Paperback)
By Vaclav Smil


Greed is most certainly good at the Barbican Centre this September. Feast your eyes on millionaire megalomaniacs and adolescent beggars during their Colour of Money season from 10 – 20 September.
The Barbican Film season programme will include a wide selection of drama films that explore wealth, poverty, corruption and consumerism. We're particularly looking forward to attending the special preview of controversial documentary Tigers (2014) and rediscovering Scorsese flicks Casino (1995) and Wolf of Wall Street (2014).
For a full list of the films showing and to buy Barbican tickets to the season, visit their website.
Magnificently monolithic, the enormous Barbican Centre houses screenings, concerts, theatre, exhibitions and two symphony orchestras: the LSO and the BBC. Navigating its walkways and levels can be a little difficult at times. To reward yourself for your effort, soak in some gin 'n' juice at the Centre's Gin Joint (if you can find it). The Lounge serves pretty good tapas and has even better views of the super-sized pond (Barbican call it a 'lake') below.


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Clovis and Folsom projectile points
Clovis (left) and Folsom (right) fluted projectile points from the Dent and Lindenmeier sites, northern Colorado Plains. The "flute" on each is the large flake scar that begins at the bottom of the spear point and travels up toward the tip.
Map of Colorado Clovis site locations
Map includes Clovis isolated finds and lithic scatters as coded in the the Colorado COMPASS prehistoric site database, together with Colorado Clovis sites mentioned by name in the text but not entered into COMPASS.
The term Clovis refers to the earliest widespread archaeological culture to have occupied North and Central America, ca. 13,250–12,800 years ago. Since the discovery of the first Clovis artifacts in the 1930s, debate has raged over such fundamental issues as whether people who left behind Clovis materials were, in fact, the first Americans; where in the Old World Clovis ancestors originated; and whether Clovis people disproportionately killed megafauna (such as mammoths and mastodons) and avoided smaller game. From the time the term Clovis emerged to describe first Americans, Colorado's Clovis record has played a central role in these discussions.
In 1932 Regis College geology professor Father Conrad Bilgery began excavating the Dent site located just south of Greeley, recovering numerous mammoth bones and a large fluted projectile point. The following year, Colorado Museum of Natural History (today's Denver Museum of Nature & Science) paleontology curator Jesse Figgins agreed to continue Bilgery's work. About five years before, Figgins had overseen paradigm-shifting field research at the ancient Folsom site in northeastern New Mexico, where he discovered small, thin, fluted projectile points amidst the bones of now extinct giant bison. This work resolved a debate that had flummoxed archaeologists and the public since the mid-1800s: whether humans had lived in the Americas during the Ice Age. They clearly had, and they hunted mammals.
The Dent spearpoints reminded Figgins of Folsom projectiles writ large. He therefore referred to them as "Folsomoid" and surmised that they were simply hefty Folsom points, engineered to better penetrate thick-skinned mammoths. This interpretation changed some years later, however, after excavations at the Blackwater Draw site in east-central New Mexico exposed mammoth bones and Dent-like spearpoints below Ice Age bison bones and Folsom points. This indicated that the more robust fluted points were older than finely flaked Folsom and should be distinguished as such with distinct terminology. Because Blackwater Draw is located near the town of Clovis, New Mexico, an archaeological culture by that name—long thought to be North America's oldest—was born.
Had Figgins recovered evidence for the greater antiquity of the large spearpoints observed at Dent, he would doubtless have named the new artifact type accordingly, and what have been known for eight decades as Clovis points would have been named for their Colorado site instead. But Clovis it was, and the debates raged on. As of this writing, most archaeologists agree that humans occupied at least parts of the Americas no less than a thousand years or so before Clovis time; Clovis ancestors occupied northeast Asia prior to immigrating to the New World; Clovis technology developed in the New World (rather than having been transported from the Old World); and Clovis people ate more than just mammoths.
Clovis Tool Kit
Although the distinctive Clovis projectile point is the most commonly recovered and best-known component of the Clovis tool kit, Clovis hunter-gatherers manufactured a wide variety of implements. These include other chipped stone artifacts, such as massive bifaces and other more specialized stone tools (e.g., scrapers, blades and blade cores, perforators, and gravers). Clovis sites have also yielded occasional bone and ivory cylindrical rods—often interpreted as the parts of composite spear-throwing devices, or atlatls, to which Clovis hunters affixed Clovis points—and in one case, an ivory shaft straightener.
Although it is virtually impossible not to appreciate the functionality and sheer beauty of the Clovis tools, it is crucial to keep in mind that after 13,000 years of exposure to the ravages of geologic and geochemical processes, the vast majority of objects they made have disintegrated. All known hunter-gatherers manufacture a wide array of perishable items (e.g., clothing, blankets, and baskets), but the more time passes, the less likely such materials will survive.
The disproportionate preservation of material culture has also prompted many archaeologists to interpret Clovis people as specialized big-game hunters. Today we find almost exclusively stone, bone, and ivory hunting tools dating to Clovis time; therefore, it follows that Clovis people must have emphasized hunting at the expense of other pursuits. That is not necessarily or even likely true, although this perspective persists in some archaeological literature and many museum exhibits.
Clovis Sites
Clovis-era sites include kill sites, camps, caches, a human burial, and many isolated occurrences of Clovis projectile points. The sites occur across North America and as far south as parts of Central America, although it remains unclear whether the thousands of isolated projectile points recovered all date to precisely the same time frame; those found in the eastern United States may be a little younger than those found west of the Mississippi River. Archaeologists also debate where Clovis projectile point technology arose and whether the technology spread from north to south, east to west, or along some other trajectory.
Unequivocal Clovis kill sites occur principally in the western United States, though a few occur elsewhere. Archaeologists identify Clovis kills by an indisputable association between Clovis projectile points and the bones of now extinct megafauna, principally mammoths and mastodons. Blackwater Draw and the Dent site are examples of only fourteen or so widely accepted Clovis kill localities in North America. Campsites are even rarer than kill sites and are identified by a wider array of artifact types and more diverse subsistence remains than single-species kills.
Like kill sites, caches occur more frequently in western North America than elsewhere. They consist of intentionally buried collections of Clovis bifaces, projectile points, blades, flakes, and other artifacts. Roughly two dozen caches have been documented in the United States—four of them in Colorado, including the well-known Drake Cache. Drake included thirteen complete Clovis projectile points made of exquisite stone from the Alibates chert quarries in the Texas Panhandle. Archaeologists consider the Anzick site in Montana to be a cache as well because it yielded eighty-six Clovis artifacts. However, that cache, unlike the others, accompanied the burial of a one- to two-year-old child with a genome similar to that of ancient Siberians and fifty-two contemporary Native American populations.
Clovis in Colorado
Colorado is physically and historically at the heart of Clovis archaeology. The Dent mammoth kill was the first professionally excavated Clovis site, which is located at roughly the geographic center of all widely known North American Clovis kills, camps, and caches. As noted, four of the twenty-three published Clovis caches on the continent—17 percent—are located within Colorado's borders. Although the density of isolated occurrences of Clovis points and Clovis points accompanied by scatters of chipped stone debitage (lithic scatters, or when artifact diversity is high, open camps) is lower in Colorado than in some regions, the state's site database shows that nearly two dozen such localities have been documented to date.
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I recognized, that the package kmod-scsi-core is not build with kernel 2.6.39.1. I don't know what happened, but the package/kernel/modules/block.mk refers to sd_mod.ko, which is not available in build_dir/linux-cns3xxx/linux-2.6.39.1/drivers/scsi.
sd_mod is already included in the kernel for cns3xxx, therefore there is no .ko being built. This should probably reflected in menuconfig (there are several of these for various targets).
* opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package sdparm.
If I use --nodeps, installation works.
But the harddisk is still not recognized at all. How can I check, if the sd_mod.ko is correctly compiled into the kernel? I selected it as * in make menuconfig and flashed my board again- but without success (I don't think that the integration is done correctly at the moment).
Can be closed- it's fixed by 27297.


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Intercell's smart move for Iomai
Lisa Urquhart
Intercell has finally decided to splash some of its not inconsiderable cash pile on the $189m acquisition of US-company Iomai, in an agreed deal that could make the Austrian company one of the biggest players in the travellers' vaccine market.
The tie up will see Intercell pay for the acquisition with its shares and $119m from its cash reserves, that were sitting at an attractive $430m as of March 31. The price at $6.60 a share does not on the surface look cheap, given that before the announcement Iomai's shares had been trading at $2.92, giving it a market capitalisation of $75m. But it appears that Intercell has netted itself a bargain according to the EvaluatePharma NPV Analyzer, which shows the company's total value is $323m, based on consensus estimates from analysts.
Pricing aside, the group, which also reported narrowing first-quarter losses today on the strength of its vaccines programme, looked to have also landed itself a company with a very good strategic fit. Iomai's three most advanced candidates, which include a vaccine for travellers' diarrhoea and treatments for pandemic flu, slots perfectly into Intercell's own development portfolio.
Offering the travellers' diarrhoea product with Intercell's existing phase III Japanese encephalitis (JE) vaccine, Ixiaro, could allow that group to extend the use of the JE vaccine outside of its current focus of the US military and kick start its wider service for tourists, which the group estimates could be worth $1bn. Ixiaro is expected to receive regulatory approval by the end of this year.
But what many believe that Intercell has paid for, and judging from the final price, fought off competition for, is Iomai's novel transcutaneous immunisation (TCI) technology. The approach uses a patch containing a powerful adjuvant that is fixed on skin over the site of an injected vaccine. The adjuvant passes across the skin and is carried to the lymph nodes, where it works to boost the patient's immune response to the vaccine.
Vaccines themselves can also be transported directly through the skin, as in the case of Iomai's travellers' diarrhoea patch, which the company is hoping will tap into the estimated $750m market for the disorder.
Government interest
The TCI technology has already caught the eye of the US government, which last year awarded Iomai a $128m contract through the Department of Health and Human Services to develop it for use alongside vaccine shots for pandemic flu. In impressive phase I/II trials the patch was shown to boost the effectiveness of bird flu vaccines allowing full protection from one shot in 73% of patients.
The H5N1 vaccine is usually administered in two doses at between three and four week intervals. The ability of an adjuvant patch to cause effectiveness after one shot would in the event of a bird flu pandemic help to stretch supplies and cut down the time to complete a mass vaccination programme.
Alongside Iomai's phase II pandemic flu TCI programme, the US group will also bring a phase II TCI treatment for the elderly, who tend to have low immune responses to traditional flu vaccines, as well as a phase I needle-free seasonal flu patch.
It is not only the US health authorities that are looking at the technology. Last month, the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) awarded the group a grant worth almost $1m to perform preclinical work on a patch-based version of the anthrax vaccine that could be used as part of the biodefence stockpile programme.
But Gerd Zettlmeissl, Intercell chief executive, has indicated that the group will not be pursuing the programme, given the nature of government contracts that tend to change along with administrations.
Wider applications
With such an interesting technology that has wide applications, Intercell could now be well placed to increase the scope of its own partnering activities, which already include heavy hitters Novartis and Merck & Co, by offering vaccine makers a simple, non-invasive way of making their vaccines more effective.
The group's own vaccine portfolio could be made more potent, as the use of TCI could cut the number of doses from its own JE vaccine down from two to one, potentially increasing take-up. Intercell is also keen to utilise TCI in its numerous hospital-acquired infection vaccines and its second most valuable product, a phase II hepatitis C vaccine.
Iomai's platform technology could also tie into the group's own vaccine boosting products, that includes the IC31 adjuvant, which got Novartis so excited that it signed a deal to use it in its own flu vaccines.
As such, it looks as if the traditionally cautious Intercell, whose shares climbed 6.5% today to a record high, has spent both well and wisely on this occasion.
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La geometria algebraica és una branca de les matemàtiques que combina l'àlgebra abstracta, especialment l'àlgebra commutativa, amb la geometria.

La geometria algebraica es pot comprendre com l'estudi dels conjunts de solucions dels sistemes d'equacions algebraiques. Quan hi ha més d'una variable, les consideracions geomètriques es tornen importants per entendre el fenomen. Podem dir que la matèria en comença quan abandonem la simple solució d'equacions i la qüestió de comprendre el conjunt de totes les solucions del sistema es torna tan important com trobar alguna solució. Això duu a aspectes molt sofisticats de les matemàtiques, tant conceptualment com tècnicament. En termes més tècnics, s'ocupa de l'estudi de les varietats definides per equacions polinòmiques.

Els objectes d'estudi fonamental de la geometria algebraica són les varietats algebraiques, que són manifestacions geomètriques de les solucions de sistemes d'equacions polinòmiques. Exemples de les classes més estudiades de varietats algebraiques són: corbes algebraiques, que inclouen rectes, circumferències, paràboles, el·lipses, hipèrboles, corbes cúbiques planes com ara les corbes el·líptiques, i corbes quàrtiques com la lemniscata de Bernoulli i els ovals de Cassini. Un punt del pla pertany a una corba algebraica si les coordenades satisfan una certa equació algebraica. Les qüestions més bàsiques de la geometria algebraica inclouen l'estudi de punts d'especial interès com els punts singulars d'una corba, els punts d'inflexió i els punts de l'infinit. Qüestions més avançades impliquen la topologia de la corba i les relacions entre les corbes obtingudes a partir de les diferents equacions.

La geometria algebraica ocupa un lloc central en les matemàtiques modernes i té moltes connexions conceptuals amb camps tan diversos com l'anàlisi complexa, la topologia i la teoria de nombres. Inicialment un estudi dels sistemes d'equacions polinòmiques de diferents variables, el tema de la geometria algebraica comença s'acaba la resolució d'equacions, i esdevé fins i tot més important entendre les propietat intrínseques de la totalitat de les solucions d'un sistema d'equacions que trobar una solució en particular; això porta a una de les àrees més profundes de totes les matemàtiques, tant conceptualment com tècnica.

En el , la geometria algebraica es va dividir en diverses subàrees.
 El corrent principal de la geometria algebraica es dedica a l'estudi dels punts complexos de les varietat algebraiques i més en general dels punts amb coordenades en un cos algebraicament tancat.
 La geometria algebraica real és l'estudi dels punts reals en una varietat algebraica.
 La geometria diofàntica i, més generalment, la geometria aritmètica és l'estudi de punts d'una varietat algebraica amb coordenades en cossos que no són algebraicament tancat i que es donen en teoria de nombres algebraics, com són els cossos dels nombres racionals, dels nombres algebraics, els cossos finits, de funcions algebraiques, i el de nombres p-àdics.
 Gran part de la teoria de la singularitat es dedica a l'estudi de les singularitats de les varietats algebraiques.
 La geometria algebraica computacional és una àrea que va sorgir en la intersecció entre la geometria algebraica i la computació algebraica, amb l'auge de la computació. Consisteix principalment en el disseny d'algorismes i el desenvolupament de software per a l'estudi de les propietats de varietats algebraiques explícitament donades.

Gran part del desenvolupament del principal corrent de la geometria algebraica en el segle XX es va donar en el marc de l'àlgebra abstracta, amb un èmfasi creixentment centrat en les propietats "intrínseques" de les varietats algebraiques independentment de cap forma particular d'embedding de la varietat en les coordenades de l'espai ambient; sempre en paral·lel als desenvolupaments de la topologia, de la geometria diferencial i complexa. Una fita clau d'aquesta geometria algebraica abstracta és la teoria d'esquemes de Grothendieck que va permetre usar la teoria de feixos en l'estudi de varietats algebraiques de forma molt similar al seu ús en l'estudi de varietats diferenciables i analítiques. Aquest resultat s'obté estenent la noció d'un punt: en geometria algebraica clàssica, es pot identificar un punt d'una varietat afí, a través del teorema dels zeros de Hilbert, amb un ideal maximal de l'anell de coordenades, mentre que els punts de l'esquema afí corresponent són tots ideals primers de l'anell. Això significa que un punt d'aquest esquema pot ser o bé un punt usual o una subvarietat. Aquest plantejament també permet una unificació del llenguatge i de les eines de la geometria algebraica clàssica, principalment centrats en punts complexos i en la teoria de nombres algebraics. La demostració de Wiles del llargament no resolt darrer teorema de Fermat és un exemple del potencial d'aquest plantejament.

Nocions bàsiques

Zeros de polinomis simultanis of simultaneous polynomials

En la geometeria algebraica clàssica, el principals objectes d'interès són els conjunts de col·leccions en què polinomis desapareixen, en el sentit de tots aquells punts que satisfan simultàniament una o més equacions polinòmiques. Per exemple, l'esfera de dues dimensions de radi 1 en l'espai euclidià  pot ser definit com el conjunt de tots els punts (x,y,z) tals que

Es pot definir un cercle "inclinat" en  com el conjunt de punts (x,y,z) que satisfan les equacions de dos polinomis

Varietats afins
Es parteix d'un cos k, que en geometria algebraica clàssica és sempre el dels nombres complexos , tot i que gran part dels resultats a què s'arribaran també apliquen simplement assumint que k és algebraicament tancat. Es considera l'espai afí de dimensió n sobre k, anotat An(k) (o més simplement An, quan k és clar pel context). Quan es fixa un sistema de coordenades, es pot identificar An(k) amb kn. L'objectiu de no treballar amb kn és el d'emfasitzar que hom "s'oblida" de l'estructura d'espai vectorial de kn.

S'anomena a una funció f : An → A¹ polinòmica (o regular) si pot ser escrita en forma de polinomi, és a dir, si hi ha un polinomi p en k[x1,...,xn] tal que f(M) = p(t1,...,tn) en tot punt M amb coordenades (t1,...,tn) en An. La propietat que una funció sigui o no polinòmica (o regular) no depèn de la tria del sistema de coordenades en An.

Quan es tria un cert sistema de coordenades, es poden identificar les funcions regulars de l'espai n-afí amb l'anell de les funcions polinòmiques en n variables sobre k. Per tant, el conjunt de les funcions regulars en An és un anell, denotat com k[An].

Es diu que un polinomi esvaneix en un punt si en avaluar-se en aquest punt dona zero. Sigui S el conjunt de polinomis en k[An]. El conjunt d'esvaniment de S (en anglès vanishing set of S o zero set) és el conjunt V(S) de tots els punts en An on tots els polinomis en S esvaneixen. Simbòlicament,

Un subconjunt de An que és V(S), per un cert S, és anomenat un conjunt algebraic. La V denota varietat (un tipus específic de conjunt algebraic que es definirà més endavant).

Donat un subconjunt U de An, una bona pregunta és si es pot recuperar el conjunt de polinomis que el generen. Si U és qualsevol subconjunt de An, es defineix I(U) com el conjunt de tots els polinomis el conjunt d'esvaniment dels quals conté U. La I denota l'ideal: si dos polinomis f i g tots dos s'esvaneixen en U, llavors f+g s'esvaneix en U, i si h és un polinomi qualsevol, llavors hf s'esvaneix en U, llavors I(U) és sempre un ideal de l'anell de polinomis k[An].

Dues preguntes naturals que sorgeixen són
 Donat un subconjunt U de An, quan és U = V(I(U))?
 Donat un conjunt de polinomis S, quan és S = I(V(S))?

S'obté resposta a la primera pregunta introduint la topologia de Zarinski, una topologia en An els conjunts tancats del qual són conjunts algebraics, i que reflecteix directament l'esctructura algebraica de k[An]. Llavors U = V(I(U)) si i només si U és un conjunt algebraic o, equivalentment, un conjunt tancat de Zariski. La resposta a la segona pregunta ve donada pel teorema dels zeros de Hilbert. En una de les seves formes, diu que I(V(S)) és el radical de l'ideal generat per S. En llenguatge més abstracte, hi ha una connexió de Galois, que dona lloc a dos operadors de cloenda; poden ser identificats, i naturalment juguen un paper important en la teoria; vegi's l'example.

Per diferents raons, pot ser que no sempre es vulgui treballar amb l'idela complet que correspon a un conjunt algebraic U. El teorema de la base de Hilbert implica que els ideals en k[An] sempre són generats finitament.

Un conjunt algebraic és irreductible si no pot ser escrit com la unió de dos conjunts algebraics més petits. Tot conjunt algebraic és una unió finita de conjunts algebraics irreductibles amb un descomposició única. Així doncs, els seus elements són anomenats els components irreductibles del conjunt algebraic. Un conjunt algebraic irreductible és també anomenat varietat. Resulta que un conjunt algebraic és una varietat si i només si pot ser definit com el conjunt d'esvaniment d'un ideal primer d'un anell polinòmic.

Alguns autors no distingeixen de forma clara entre conjunts algebraics i varietat i utilitzen el terme varietat irreductible per fer-ne la distinció quan cal.

Història

Abans del segle XVI
Algunes de les arrels de la geometria algebraica daten del treball dels grecs hel·lènics del segle V a.C. El problema delià, per exemple, consistia a construir una longitud x tal que el cub de costat x contingui el mateix volum que el paral·lelepípede a²b donats els costats a i b. Menecme (circa 350 a.C.) va considerar el problema geomètricament fent intersecar la parella de plans cònics ay = x² i xy = ab. En el segle III a.C., Arquimedes i Apol·loni van estudiar sistemàticament problemes addicionals sobre seccions còniques usant coordenades. Matemàtics àrabs medievals, com ara Ibn al-Hàytham en el segle X, van solucionar algunes equacions cúbiques per mitjans purament algebraics i posteriorment van interpretar els resultats geomètricament. El matemàtic persa Omar Khayyam (nascut l'any 1048) va descobrir un mètode per solucionar equacions de tercer grau fent intersecar un paràbola amb un cercle i sembla que va ser el primer a concebre una teoria general d'equacions cúbiques. Uns anys després d'Omar Khayyam, el Tractat sobre equacions de Xàraf-ad-Din at-Tussí va ser descrit per Roshdi Rashed com la "inauguració dels inicis de la geometria algebraica". Això va ser disputat per Jeffrey Oaks, que defensa que l'estudi de corbes a partir d'equacions va originar-se amb Descartes al segle XVII.

Renaixement
Aquestes tècniques d'aplicaar construccions geomètriques als problemes algebraics també van ser adoptades per un cert nombre de matemàtics del Renaixement com ara Girolamo Cardano i Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia en els seus estudis de l'equació cúbica. La majoria dels matemàtics (notablement Blaise Pascal, que estava en contra de l'ús de mètodes algebraics i analítics en geometria) dels segles  i  van preferir el plantejament geomètric en problemes de construcció, en detriment de l'algebraic. El matemàtic francès François Viète i posteriorment René Descartes i Pierre de Fermat van revolucionar la forma convencional d'entendre la construcció de problemes a partir de la introducció de la geometria de coordenades. Es van centrar principalment en les propietats de les corbes algebraiques, com ara les definides per equacions diofàntiques (en el cas de Fermat), i en la reformulació algebraica dels treballs del grecs clàssics sobre còniques i cúbiques (en el cas de Descartes).

Durant el mateix període, Blaise Pascal i Girard Desargues van plantejar la geometria des d'una perspectiva diferent, desenvolupant les nocions sintètiques de la geometria projectiva. Pascal i Desargues també van estudiar les corbes, però des d'un punt de vista purament geomètric: l'anàleg de la construcció amb regla i compàs dels grecs. Finalment, la geometria analítica de Descartes i Fermat va prevaldre, ja que proporcionava als matemàtics del  eines quantitatives concretes que necessitaven per estudiar els problemes físics usant el càlcul, inventat recentment per Newton i Leibniz. Tanmateix, a finals del segle XVIII, gran part del caràcter algebraic de la geometria analítica va ser subsumida pel càlcul infinitesimal de Lagrange i d'Euler.

Aplications
Actualment, la geometria algebraica té aplicacions en l'estadística, en la teoria de control, en la robòtica, en els codis de correcció d'errors, en la filogenètica i en el modelatge geomètric. També té connexions amb la teoria de cordes, la teoria dels jocs, l'aparellament de grafs, els solitons i la programació lineal entera.

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The Nissan Midnight Edition was first debuted on the 2016 Nissan Maxima SR, and it was so popular, that this specific edition actually comprised 85% of Maxima SR sales for that year. Thanks to such popularity, the Nissan Midnight Edition has spread to the six core models in the Nissan lineup. If you're in the Cuyahoga Falls, Akron, Hudson, New Franklin, or Kent, OH area and you like aggressive, dark, and mysterious styling cues, you'll have plenty of options with the Nissan Midnight Edition lineup.
The total package price does differ from model to model, though there is certainly a uniting thread through it all in terms of the design language, aesthetic choices, and color scheme. Each Midnight Edition model shares the following: blacked-out mirror caps, special edition floor mats, and blacked-out wheels. Of course, each individual model sees some other special treatment, too, but the nuances are part of the fun of this special lineup. The models also share a decidedly cool aura, giving you an upscale, low-profile ride that is both sophisticated and aggressive. And, spoiler alert-despite what the name "Midnight Edition" might suggest, black isn't the only exterior color option. Fans of color will appreciate the choices between Black (hey, it's only right to include), White, Gray, or Red (if you're feeling flashy).
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Nissan estimates the package is worth $2195, but it only costs $1195*!
Without the Midnight Edition Package, these features would run about $990, but the package only costs you $490*!
This equipment would run you about $2290 without the Midnight Edition Package, but you can have this package for just $990*!
The best part is, all of these features alone would add up to $1990, but you can have the Nissan Midnight Edition Package on the Rogue for just $990*!
Nissan offers an estimate for the total cost of this equipment if you didn't get it through the Midnight Edition, which is $1895, yet this package will cost you just $1195*!
Nissan estimates the value of this equipment to be $2395, but you can have the Nissan Pathfinder Midnight Edition Package for just $1195*!
*Nissan price estimates not final, dealership sets final price. See your dealer for specific pricing information.