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By: Steven Loveday
There's no doubt Tesla vehicles are ever-changing.
Those that follow the segment are likely aware that Tesla doesn't rely on traditional model years. This means that its vehicles are continually adapting as new hardware, software, and other technology become available. The software updates happen "over the air," while other changes are made during vehicle production. This YouTuber takes an in-depth look at an "old" Tesla Model 3 versus a newer one. How do they compare?
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Teslatunity looks at a first-production, rear-wheel-drive Long Range Model 3 with a VIN under 6,000. Sharing a driveway with the "old" car is a new, dual-motor Model 3 with a VIN over 101,000. The host also points out that the cars are about seven months apart in age.
While it may be interesting to try to provide a written description of each change, there's no better way than video to actually show the variances side-by-side. The video focuses primarily on interior changes, although the UV coating situation is addressed as well.
Watch the video to learn about the variety of differences between these two cars. Some seem to be positive, while others not so much. It all comes down to your opinion and priorities. Let us know what you think in the comment section below.
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Nicaraguan boy, 10, who was abandoned by smugglers on a road near Mexico-Texas border in April finally reunites with family in Miami while awaiting asylum approval
Wilto Obregón and his mother Meylin Obregón finally reunited with their family in Miami, Florida, on Sunday
Wilto, 10, was seen in a video crying and pleading before a US Border Patrol agent to rescue him after smugglers abandoned him in Texas on April 1
They will be living at his uncle's house in Miami while they await an immigration court to review their asylum request
By Adry Torres For Dailymail.com
Published: 15:42 EST, 7 June 2021 | Updated: 11:21 EST, 9 June 2021
A Nicaraguan boy who made headlines in April when he was filmed crying and begging a US Border Patrol agent for help after smugglers abandoned him has finally been reunited with family in Florida.
Cell phone video captured 10-year-old Wilto Obregón and his mother Meylin Obregón hugging relatives on Sunday at Miami International Airport after landing on a flight from Texas.
'I am excited to be together and to be with my child,' Meylin told Univision.
Meylin and Wilto will be staying with her brother Misael Obregón at his home in Miami while their asylum process is resolved in immigration court.
Misael Obregón with his nephew Wilto Obregón and his sister Meylin Obregón, who arrived in Miami on Sunday night. The 10-year-old boy and Meylin were kidnapped in March in Mexico. Wilto was freed after his uncle paid a $5,000 ransom and Meylin later released without any ransom being paid. The child made headlines April 1 when he was seen in a video crying to a U.S. Border Patrol agent for help after he had been abandoned by smugglers in Texas. He and his mother reunited in Texas on May 28
Misael Obregón (rear center) with his two sons (first and second from left to right), his nephew Wilto Obregón (front center), his sister Meylin Obregón (second to the right) and his girlfriend Yubelki Aragón (right)
Screen grab from a video recorded April 1 that showed Wilto Obregón crying and pleading to a Border Patrol agent for help. It spread throughout social media and highlighted the ongoing crisis at the United States-Mexico border
The trip capped off the pair's whirlwind voyage across the United States-Mexico border, which included both mother and son being kidnapped by an armed gang.
Misael previously told Univision he agreed in March to foot the expense of the dangerous trip so that Meylin could travel with her son and his two teenage boys without the children knowing that they were on their way to America.
While his two sons were permitted to remain in the United States as part of the Title 42 policy that President Joe Biden's administration amended so that Border Patrol officers would not return unaccompanied minors back to their countries of origin, Meylin and Wilto were not as fortunate and were expelled to Mexico.
Misael was reunited with his children on April 6.
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Once in Mexico, Meylin and Wilto were abducted, requiring Misael to borrow $5,000 to secure his nephew's freedom while his sister remained in captivity.
Days following his release, Wilto was smuggled with a group of migrants but was left behind in the Texas desert area.
An off-duty Border Patrol agent came to the boy's rescue after spotting him on the side of the road east of Rio Grande City, Texas, on April 1.
'I was coming with a group and they abandoned me and I do not know where they are at,' the child told the agent in Spanish.
The officer then asked the boy if he had instructed by smugglers to seek an immigration or law enforcement agent in the area for help, but Wilto replied: 'No, I am coming because if I did not, where am I going to go? Somebody could abduct me, kidnap me. I am scared.'
Meylin was eventually released by her captors in mid-April, and turned herself over to immigration officials at the United States-Mexico border where she requested asylum.
She was later transferred to a migrant shelter in Texas and was granted custody of her son, who had been staying at a shelter for unaccompanied minor.
Wilto Obregón and his mother Meylin Obregón were kidnapped in Mexico near the border with the United States after they were expelled by border officials in Texas
At one point Lazaro Gutiérrez, who remained with the former couple's other son at home in Nicaragua, along with Nicaraguan government petitioned the Biden administration to return Wilto. However, Gutiérrez relented after Meylin was released by the kidnappers and he recognized his son's wish to stay with his mother in the US.
US Customs and Borders Protection last monthly report, released May 11, showed that Border agents detained 17,171 unaccompanied children in the southwestern border region in April, down nine percent from 18,890 in March when a record number of unaccompanied migrant children entered US custody.
Overall, Border Patrol agents encountered 178,622 undocumented immigrants seeking to enter the United States in April, surpassing March's total by 5,274.
A border southwestern border report for the month of May is scheduled to be released this week.
Wilto Obregón, a 10-year-old Nicaraguan national, was kidnapped in Mexico in March and freed after his uncle paid a $5,000 ransom. He was later smuggled across the Mexico-United States border, but was abandoned by smugglers in the Texas desert before a U.S. Border Patrol agent rescued him the morning of April 1
United States Vice President Kamala Harris and Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei met at the National Palace in Guatemala City on Monday to discuss the massive flow migrants from the Central America nation and its neighboring countries across the U.S.-Mexico border
The Biden administration said Monday it will be creating task force of prosecutors to combat human smuggling and corruption in Central America as US Vice President Kamala Harris visited Guatemala for talks with President Alejandro Giammattei.
The group will complement other US prosecutors who are working with counterparts in the 'Northern Triangle' countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to build cases against corrupt actors in the region, the statement said.
'It is in our collective interest that we work together,' Harris said at the start of a meeting with Giammattei.
The Guatemalan president urged the United States that going after drug trafficking organizations should also be a key component of tackling corruption.
Vice President Harris is scheduled to meet with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Tuesday.
Nicaraguan boy abandoned near Texas border in April is reunited with family in Miami

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A young boy who has been missing since March 12 more than likely died in a tragic drowning accident after falling into a river, Montreal police said Thursday.
Insp. Ian Lafreniere said 10-year-old Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou was last seen near Riviere des Prairies and that there are no images of him elsewhere after that.
"I can't tell you beyond all doubt that it was an accident, but it's the most likely theory," he told The Canadian Press.
The boy's father has repeatedly said he believes his son was abducted and that he would never have gone to the river.
Frederic Kouakou said he was "astonished" to hear about the police theory, which he learned about through the media.
"For me, it's confusion, because my family and I, until proof to the contrary, maintain the theory of abduction," he told reporters.
He called on police and volunteers to "keep the flame" and to continue to investigate the possibility his son could be alive.
"We still haven't reached our objective, which is to find Ariel," he said.
Police divers searched the river on six different occasions this week but found no clues.
The boy left his home in the city's north end to visit a friend's house, and a witness spotted someone matching his description in a park shortly after.
His father said the boy's absence has devastated the entire family.
"The more the days pass, the more it's unbearable," he said.
His wife can no longer stay strong, he said, and his daycare-aged daughter recently asked him where her brother was.
Police say they have received some 700 tips and that a command post is still in place at a shopping centre near where Ariel disappeared.
On Thursday, Lafreniere said police would maintain a "sporadic" presence on the water in the next few days.
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Sarepta, Roche Strike Gene Therapy Licensing Agreement Worth Up To $2.85B
Shanthi Rexaline
Benzinga December 23, 2019
Roche Holdings AG Basel ADR (OTC: RHHBY) said Monday that it has signed a licensing agreement with Sarepta Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: SRPT) to acquire the commercial rights to the latter's investigational gene therapy asset SRP-9001 outside of the U.S. The asset is being evaluated in Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
DMD is a rare degenerative neuromuscular disorder that causes severe progressive muscle loss and premature death.
SRP-9001 works by delivering the microdystrophin-encoding gene directly into the muscle tissue, aiming to produce mucrodystrophin protein, the lack of which causes DMD.
Sarepta is eligible to receive an upfront payment of $750 million in cash and $400 million in equity. Additionally, Sarepta could pocket $1.7 billion in potential regulatory and sales milestones, as well as royalties on net sales.
Sarepta is vested with the responsibility for the clinical development and manufacturing of SRP-9001. The global development expenses will be shared equally by Roche and Sarepta.
The agreement also gives Roche an option to acquire ex-U.S. rights to certain future DMD-specific programs from Sarepta in exchange for separate milestone and royalty considerations and cost sharing.
The companies expect the deal to close in the first quarter of 2020 subject to the receipt of antitrust clearance and the satisfaction of other customary closing conditions.
Roche recently completed its $4.3-billion acquisition of gene therapy company Spark Therapeutics. The deal with Sarepta is likely to cement its position in the lucrative therapeutic area.
Sarepta could tap into Roche's financial and marketing muscle to take its gene therapy products outside of the U.S.
"As a mission-driven organization, we are inspired to partner with Roche with the goal of bringing SRP-9001 to patients outside the United States," Sarepta CEO Doug Ingram said in a statement.
"This collaboration will not only increase the speed with which SRP-9001 could benefit patients outside the United States, but will also greatly expand the scope of territories within which we could potentially launch SRP-9001 to improve and save lives."
Sarepta has two exon-skipping RNA therapies that are approved to treat DMD: Exondys and Vyondys. These two therapies provide it with an addressable market of about 20% of the total DMD patients in the U.S.
Sarepta shares were trading 5.47% higher to $133.07 at the time of publication Monday. Over-the-counter Roche shares were trading 0.67% higher at $40.15.
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Due to the fact that Malta reconfigured its corporate taxation framework in 2007, it is important to appreciate how these changes might affect businesses as well as to develop a thorough understanding of the principles associated with common Malta corporate tax issues. The ultimate intention of this article is to provide insight and clarity when referring to Maltese companies and their relationship with the current corporate tax system.
It is first important to note that Malta modified its corporate tax framework in order to address the issue of tax discrimination. This was essentially accomplished by offering non-residents as well as residents the ability to apply for (and claim) tax refunds. We should also note that clauses including (but not limited to) participation exemptions were put into place in an effort to make Malta a jurisdiction that would remain attractive in terms of tax planning. Since 2007, Malta corporate tax laws have continued to change based upon their desire to remain compliant with updated EU stipulations as well as those associated with the OECD. The main intention is to enable this region to adopt an attractive and competitive flavour that will continue to attract outside entities.
Capital divided into individual shares.
Capital that is not apportioned.
Malta corporate tax laws require that any organisation needs to possess a minimum of €1,164.69 euros in share capital. Furthermore, 20 per cent of this figure is required to be paid in the event that it becomes incorporated. The equivalent amount in a foreign denomination may be utilised to fulfil this regulation. However, keep in mind that this value will be recognised as the chosen currency of the firm. It is therefore subject to all further taxation requests as well as subsequent refunds. This has been enacted to reduce risks associated with the foreign exchange market. Maltese laws also address firms that are associated with variable share capital.
It is normal that an organisation will be established with multiple shareholders in place. However, Malta corporate law has provided a stipulation to incorporate a firm with only one member. It is nonetheless a fact that additional individuals can possess shares. This is extended to trusts, foundations and similar entities.
Although the object associated with a private limited company are defined as unlimited, they are required to be summarised within a Memorandum of Association. In reference to a limited company that is privately exempt, its main purpose of incorporation will need to be clarified.
Public and private companies have different requirements when speaking of directors and secretaries. Public companies will need to have at least two directors. However, private firms are only required to possess one. Please note that a director may also represent the body corporate. Every company (regardless of its incorporation status) is obliged to possess an official secretary. While this is defined as an individual, the director has the potential to occupy the post. A sole director within any private exempt company can also double as a secretary.
All professional practitioners are bound to confidentiality in accordance with the Professional Secrecy Act. Some roles which are required to adhere to these regulations include auditors, trustees, accountants, advocates, notaries, accountants, licensed nominees and officers. Any individual who intentionally divulges company secrets is liable to a fine of €46,587.47 euros, a two-year prison sentence, or both.
According to Malta corporate tax laws, all companies are obliged to hold a minimum of one official meeting every year. A maximum window of 15 months should take place between any two meetings. However, any firm which holds a meeting within the year immediately subsequent to registration is not required to hold an additional gathering during the following 12-month period.
Representatives are required to present a record (memorandum) of the articles of association to the official Registrar of Companies. Additional information will need to be provided in relation to all share capital has been placed within an associated bank account. Once these guidelines have been met, the firm will be provided with a recognised certificate of registration.
If we assume that all of the previously mentioned information has been provided, the process of incorporation will generally take between three and five business days. This will involve due diligence of all documents as well as the remittance of funds. In this respect, Malta corporate tax laws are rather efficient. Any firm which requires a rapid incorporation can pay an extra fee. In this event, the process is completed with 24 hours of the initial request.
As should be expected and in accordance with Malta corporate tax legislation, every company will be required to submit yearly audited statements as per the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). This material should be sent to the Registry of Companies so that they may be observed by the public if desired. However, the government of Malta offers a choice of year-end financial options.
All Maltese-registered companies are defined as residents of Malta. Therefore, they will need to adhere to global taxation on their income (excluding any permitted deductions). Malta corporate tax rates are currently 35 per cent.
All shareholders who are tax residents will receive full credits for any taxes that have been previously paid by the company in regards to profits that have been disseminated in the form of dividends. This is primarily intended to avoid situations such as unintentional double taxation. In the event that the rates associated with dividend taxes are lower than those associated with Maltese corporate tax, it is possible to refund these imputation tax credits.
Once a shareholder receives a payment in the form of a dividend, he or she may claim a tax refund in relation to the tax that has already been paid at the company level. It is important to understand the amount of this refund. Therefore, the recipient will have to take into account the type and the primary source. Any shareholders of a Maltese company who are receiving branch dividend profits (subject to Malta tax) are likewise eligible for similar refunds as those previously described for shareholders.
In accordance with Malta corporate tax laws, all refunds will be paid within 14 business days from the date when the refund is initially due. This is under the assumption that the associated paperwork (including tax returns) have already been filed. Once any owed taxes have been recorded as paid, the refund claim will be validated.
The income itself has been derived from investments defined as Participating Holdings.
Assuming that this income is accumulated from dividends, it is considered a "safe harbour" or it is accordance with anti-abuse regulations.
The income is derived from royalties or passive interest.
Any funds which do not fall within the "safe harbour" status and are not compliant with anti-abuse provisions.
This type of refund is essentially applicable to those who are concerned about the double taxation status. Anyone who is able to claim double taxation relief in relation to a Maltese company is subject to a two-thirds refund.
There may be times when a shareholder has been paid dividends via income that has not been previously addressed within the guidelines mentioned above. In these cases, such individuals are provided with a refund equivalent to 6/7 of the Maltese tax paid by the firm in question. In other words, this clause signifies that such individuals are subject to a Malta corporate tax rate of only five per cent.
Unilateral relief (this also encompasses credit systems for underlying tax relief).
Falling under the jurisdiction of the Flat Rate Foreign Tax Credit System.
Let us now examine each of these scenarios in greater detail.
Foreign tax has already been applied.
This foreign tax has "suffered" as a result.
Any refunds will be provided as credit in relation to the relevant Maltese taxes. However, please note that these figures will not exceed the aggregate liability associated with foreign-sourced income.
Due to current regulations, Malta corporate tax laws prohibit the transfer of dividends between subsidiary firms and parent companies located within the European Union.
In essence, this regulation serves to exempt all royalty and interest payments to a company found within a member state from the associated taxation regulations.
Certain Maltese firms may hold shares in other organisations as participating holdings. Exemptions could be available if one or more of the conditions listed below are met. These apply to gains as well as dividends.
2. A firm is an equity shareholder in another company. It may acquire the shares not held by the other firm (applicable to the laws within the relevant country).
3. The firm is provided first refusal in situations associated with the cancellation, redemption or disposal of any equity shares.
4. The entity is able to maintain a presence within the board of directors or to appoint a representative.
5. The minimum value of the investment equates to €1,164,000 euros (or the foreign currency equivalent). These funds must be possessed for at least 183 consecutive days.
The distribution of profits in accordance with the value of shares.
Accessing assets of distribution (in the event that the company ceases to operate).
The firm is incorporated (or a resident) within the EU.
Foreign tax rates are a minimum of 15 per cent.
No more than 50 per cent of income is a result of royalties or passive interest.
The shares are not a portfolio investment.
Royalties or passive interest have been taxed at five per cent or more.
In order to benefit from this situation, firms will need to provide evidence that their income was derived from overseas sources. This is assuming that the overseas rates were 25 per cent. In essence, a Malta corporate tax of 35 per cent is placed upon the net income of the firm (grossed by the 25 per cent). This credit is then employed against the Maltese payments that would otherwise be due.
There are no withholding taxes associated with the allocation of shares (as well as the dividends from a Maltese firm). All taxes and refunds are distributed in accordance with the currency of the firm. Non-residents are not subject to interest- or royalty-based tax. Finally, there are no wealth taxes or capital duties.
There may be instances when a ruling is required in order to determine the status of an application in relation to Malta corporate tax law. These are bound by Inland Revenue and are ratified (approximately) 30 days after the initial request. We recommend to get in touch with our Malta tax advisors in order to evaluate your tax situation.
Malta fully complies with the appropriate EU directives in reference to corporate taxation. This includes the Royalties Directive as well as the Parent-Subsidiary Directive. Summarily, all Malta corporate tax initiatives adhere to the laws of the European Union. This enables businesses to enjoy a superior sense of integration with all member states as well as with Malta itself.


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October 1, 2012 Featured, Food & Wellness, People
Youth leads the way for new look in CMU's Men's basketball team
With only four returning players from last year's squad, CMU Men's basketball coach Keno Davis will have to be creative in order to implement the high scoring offense his teams are known for.
Archive photo of Keno Davis, originally published on April 23, 2012. (Sean O'Kon | Grand Central Magazine)
Ask new Central Michigan Men's basketball coach Keno Davis what his attitude toward this season is and he will say one thing.
"Excited. I'm excited for this team, excited by our improvement. I'm just excited."
Starting his first year as head coach for the Central Michigan Men's team, Davis certainly doesn't have an ideal framework to work with. With only four returning players from last year's squad, Davis will have to be creative in order to implement the high-scoring offense his teams are known for.
" I expect a team effort," Davis said. "We don't really have a star player to score a lot for us."
Davis says he plans to institute a fast paced, transition based style of play to the team that will probably be the fastest in the MAC.
"We're gonna shoot a lot of 3's, and we're gonna get up and down the court."
The emphasis on shooters in Davis' offense was one of the main reasons veteran wing player Austin Keel decided to return to CMU, after the firing of then coach Ernie Ziegler last season. Keel, a sophomore, says he's ready to embrace a bigger role this year.
"His system favors shooters pretty heavily, so it was a no-brainer for me to return," Keel said. "I'm ready to step up and fill the voids in leadership and in scoring."
Another major issue facing the Chippewas is its youth, as they will look to gain significant playing time from several freshmen players.
"(The freshmen) are coming along real well, we're trying to put some size on them for now," said Keel.
Size looks to be a major issue for the Chippewas, as they return no true center and only one veteran big man to the team. Lacking a presence down low, they will be forced to rely on quickness and shooting to outscore teams. Davis has put extra emphasis on the team's 3-point shooting as well as making foul shots — a major weakness of the team last season.
For these facets of the game to work, the Chippewas will rely heavily on the play of point guards, with transfer senior Kyle Randall and freshman Chris Fowler facilitating the offense.
"Chris (Fowler) and Kyle (Randall) will be key for us to spread the floor and find our shooters. We will look to them often to be our 'generals' on the floor," said Davis.
The optimism about the offense is a necessity for the Chippewas, as they held very poor rankings in most offensive categories last season among Division I programs. Per ESPN statistics, CMU was ranked 325 in field goal percentage, 292 in points per game and 327 in assists per game.
The Chippewas shot 33 percent from the 3-point line and only 64 percent from the foul line, forfeiting many potential points. Fortunately, Davis brings an offensive-based mindset to CMU, and will look to fix the offensive woes of the past three seasons.
Davis says he has a lot of confidence in the team's ability to compete this season, despite the group's youth and inexperience.
"I don't see a single game on the schedule where I can stop and say 'we won't win this game.' We're not afraid of anybody and I feel we can compete with anyone on our schedule," Davis said.
Ultimately, Davis will need to make a strong showing in the first few games of this season and produce some wins for a program where wins have been lacking in recent years. Whether they win with offense or defense, with veterans or freshmen, this team can make a very strong, positive statement and also win the support of its fans by starting off the season well.
The Chippewas kick off the season Nov. 7 in an exhibition game against Lake Superior State University at home.
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Chemistry Australia works to secure a strong and sustainable future for the Australian chemistry industry. One of the fundamental actions needed to achieve this outcome is the establishment of sound and balanced government policy settings that support strong economic growth.
The Australian chemistry industry must be globally competitive and innovative to thrive in the changing operating environment. The industry is proactive in setting a policy work plan to support this vision, as demonstrated in the industry's Strategic Roadmap. The Roadmap outlines the policy settings and the urgent actions required for the Australian chemistry industry to continue to contribute to a thriving Australian economy.
The Roadmap calls on all Australian governments to put in place policy settings that will provide a path for sustainable economic growth in Australia.
Supporting the broader policy settings outlined in the Roadmap, Chemistry Australia has developed policy position statements in a number of areas that reflect the collective priorities and views of the industry. These statements set out core principles and our recommended approach for implementation and include:
Affordable energy, especially through gas, has been a significant source of competitive advantage for Australian industry for over 50 years. In an increasingly globalised market, the industry is calling for action to ensure that Australia can continue to be globally competitive, attract investment and support manufacturing jobs.
Gas as Feedstock
The Australian chemistry industry is unique in using gas for its molecular properties (as a feedstock) to create a broad range of critical products including: fertiliser and silage wrap for our crops; innovative packaging to keep our food fresher for longer; and cleaning products for maintaining health and hygiene in our homes and hospitals.
The industry is calling for a gas market that is deep in capacity, liquid in supply, transparent, informed, competitive, and with adequate price discovery.
Chemistry Australia supports coordinated global action to mitigate the impacts of climate change. Indeed, chemistry plays a key role in this mitigation through the development of more efficient and smarter products, technologies and solutions that help reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. Any unique Australian response needs to ensure that trade exposed industries are not disadvantaged.
Balanced Regulation
Chemistry Australia recognises the important role of regulation in protecting workers, the community and the environment. A balanced regulatory environment strikes the appropriate balance between risk/hazard and the need for innovation and investment. Regulation must be based on the application of sound scientific principles.
Tax Competitiveness
Australia's taxation system must be globally competitive, encourage investment and innovation, and provide an incentive to work and take risks.
Chemistry Australia supports open and fair trade. The Australian chemistry industry must be globally competitive and innovate to thrive in the changing operating environment. Open and fair trade helps to drive innovation investment. Sound trade policies improve market access and provide opportunities for Australian exporters, including downstream users of chemistry.
Chemistry Australia members have access to the latest policy submissions and policy position briefings:
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Two cast members from the Campbell High School Drama Club production of Nunsense. (photo courtesy of Tony Waybright)
Posted By: Larry Felton Johnson November 13, 2018
The Campbell High School Drama Club will perform Nunsense, the popular musical by Dan Goggin inspired by a line of humorous greeting cards. The show will run this Thursday November 15 and Friday November 16 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 in advance, and $15 at the door.
Nunsense began in 1985 as a cabaret show based on the greeting cards, and was expanded into a musical, which became the second-longest-running Off-Broadway production in history.
The Drama Geeks website, where you can also buy tickets to the event, gives this synopsis of the musical:
"The Little Sisters of Hoboken discover that their cook, Sister Julia-Child…of God, has accidentally poisoned 52 of the sisters. While the deceased are delicately stored in the convent's deep-freeze, the remaining sisters decide that the best way to raise the money to pay for their burials is to put on a variety show. It quickly becomes obvious that habits aren't the only things these sassy sisters have worn. The convent features a former circus performer, a wannabe ballerina, a streetwise sista' from Brooklyn, and a spacey sister who lost her memory when a crucifix fell on her head. They all join forces and voices to entertain their way into your hearts. Don't miss this divine musical comedy of superior mother proportions when CHS Drama Geeks bring it to the stage in Livingston Auditorium."
Tony Waybright, president of the Campbell High School Drama Club Boosters Club, wrote in an email to the Courier, "The Campbell HS drama program is exploding and doubled the number of students this year. Even after adding a second drama teacher we knew we still needed additional professional theatre experience – especially with the choreography. We were very lucky (guest director) Monica (Malone) was available."
Waybright wrote, "Campbell HS has a new Performing Arts Center on the way funded by SPLOST-V. The interest and excitement for performing arts is building."
Monica Malone is guest director for the production. In a phone conversation with the Courier she commended the hard work of the cast. She told the Courier that she was called on to direct after the original director was unable to continue. She said that by the time she took over, casting had already taken place, the cast had learned their roles and that the students worked hard and made her transition into the director's role smooth.
She said, "The play is really about sisterhood, and supporting each other when things go wrong."
Malone provided the following biography:
Monica Malone is a Texas native actress and dancer. She studied Musical Theatre at Sam Houston State University with an emphasis in dance. While in school she was able to perform in such shows as Machinal, Cabaret, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and Noises Off. She recently moved to Atlanta to study with the Atlanta Shakespeare Company where she was able to train for a year and performing in their production of Richard II. Monica has loved to choreograph ever since she was young and has been able to start working on her choreography resume with such musicals as 13 the Musical and this production of Nunsense. She is excited to make her directing debut with this show as well! To see Monica's upcoming work, be sure to check out Working: A Musical at Out Of Box this summer where she will step into the role of choreographer once more.
The cast includes Jennifer Balcita, Chloe Campbell, Tina Dorr-Kapczynski, Morgan Jones, Kezia Kennedy, Lynese King, Maddie McLochlin, Sarah Panone and Karishma Tandon.
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Q: Show that a projective transformation is unique. Find the projective transformation $\tau \left ( \left [ 0,0,1 \right ] \right )=\left [ 0,1,0 \right ], \tau ([0,1,0])=[0,1,1],\tau ([1,0,0])=[1,1,1],
\tau ([1,1,2])=[1,1,0]$.
And show that such a projective transformation is unique.
What is a good way to solve this problem? Thanks a lot.

A: This answer of mine shows the general approach of how to compute a projective transformation in the plane given four points and their images. Just plug your numbers into that algorithm and you end up with the required transformation matrix.
How to show that a projective transformation is unique depends on what definitions you have established. Usually you assume the contrary: suppose you had two distinct transformations with the desired properties. Then you could perform one and the inverse of the other and would end up with a combined transformation which fixes the four preimage points but which is not the identity.
Consider one dimension lower first: given a projective transformation of the projective line, which fixes three points. Show that it is the identity. You can do that by observing that the cross ratio of any four points remains fixed under projective transformations, and that knowing the cross ratio with respect to three given points already uniquely defines any point on the line.
To take this approach to the plane, you can use your four points to establish something like a projective coordinate system. Usually you would use $[0,0,1]$ as the origin, $[1,0,0]$ as the point at infinity in the $x$ direction, $[0,1,0]$ at infinity in the $y$ direction, $[1,0,1]$ as the unit step in the $x$ direction and $[0,1,1]$ as the unit step in the $y$ direction. The last two can be seen as projections of a single point $[1,1,1]$, i.e. join $[1,1,1]$ with $[0,1,0]$ and intersect the resulting line with the $x$ axis to obtain the unit step there, and likewise for $y$. So these four points $[1,0,0],[0,1,0],[0,0,1],[1,1,1]$ define this coordinate system. Any other point can be projected onto the axes and cross ratios computed there will give its $x$ and $y$ coordinate.
The choice of coordinates in the basis I just used was just for convenience. Any other four points can serve the same purpose, as long as no three of them are collinear. Computing the coordinates of a point with respect to such a projective basis would mean performing some joins and intersections and computing some cross ratios. These coordinates cannot change under projective transformations, and uniquely define each point in the plane. Both of these properties can be shown fairly easily.
Once you have that, showing that a projective transformation is unique boils down to showing that no three of its preimage points are collinear. In fact, if they were collinear, the matrix you'd get from the algorithm I suggested would be degenerate, i.e. not have full rank.

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Here we will look at what she said on the collaboration between the Shah and the mullahs.
Maryam Rajavi explained that the mullahs used to collaborate with the Shah and his notorious secret police (SAVAK) before the 1979 revolution. She said that those in the Shah's regime that are still left, sided with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the paramilitary Bassij members. This shows there is no difference between the two regimes.
Maryam Rajavi said: "The mullahs go to great lengths to propagate monarchist social media propaganda and the fantasy of the Shah's remnants aspiring to return Iran to the past. They do this to defy the prospect of a free and democratic future. Otherwise, it is common knowledge that the return of the monarchist fascism, which was overthrown by a widespread revolution and with chants of "death to the Shah" by millions of Iranians, is impossible."
She further advised that the blood of the martyrs that had been spilled in pursuit of the revolution had not been wasted. Rather, it allowed the Iranian people to see more clearly the wrong that had been done by the Shah and the mullahs.
Maryam Rajavi quoted Massoud Rajavi, the leader of the Iranian resistance as saying that the martyrs' blood " ascended to the sky, became denser, and descended again as the dew of awareness on the Iranian people so that they could distinguish between right and wrong".
She assured us that it was no accident that Iranians' response to reactionary ideology was resistance. Even after 40 years of rule by Supreme Leaders Ruhollah Khomeini and Ali Khamenei, Iran is "the flower garden of struggle and uprising instead of the salt marsh of despair".
Maryam Rajavi quote Mr. Rajavi again, this time in relation to the life and death test for the Iranian people in the context of Khomeini's rule. In this speech, Massoud had said that it would be naïve to assume that one could attain freedom without paying the price. Instead, he said, it was the Iranian people's responsibility and duty to resist and rebel against the mullahs' rule.
He said: "Due to concrete historical, social, and class reasons, a great threat exists, and each individual, each group and each movement, consistent with their method of confrontation and addressing that threat, acquires its role as well as its value; some surrender, some cooperate, some retreat, some feel they are owed something, some weep, moan and complain, and others rise up, wage a resistance and struggle against that threat."
In our next piece, we will look at what Maryam Rajavi had to say about the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) and the two recent uprisings against the regime by the Iranian people, which are examples of the Iranian society's defiant spirit.
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In September 2007, the National Science Foundation, Arctic Social Science Program funded this three-year project under grant #OPP-0715461. The objective of the project is to analyze how the creation of Alaska Native business corporations (spawned by the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971) transformed institutional arrangements between Alaska Natives, state governments, ecosystems, and regional-global economies, and how these Native corporations have contributed to particular outcomes in indigenous groups' biocultural health as measured by indigenous and cross-cultural models of sustainable livelihoods and ecosystem services. The study compares development, socio-environmental change, and livelihoods in two separate biocultural regions: Bering Straits (Inupiat) and Southeast Alaska (Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian), which are served by two regional and more than a dozen village corporations.
This project is funded under the International Polar Year Initiative. It examines how the impacts of rapid climatic change among the peoples of the circumpolar rim affect land use and ethnicity. Using anthropological fieldwork and semi-structured interviews of members of local northern populations in Alaska, Fennoscandia, and Russia, as well as their representative organizations and government resource managers, we aim to establish the current "rules of the game" with respect to definitions, eligibility criteria, and accompanying land and resource rights. Given the variety of different criteria by which states justify special resource allocations, such as ethnic heritage, form of livelihood, residency, or even population size, CLUE seeks to uncover negotiated and path-dependant patterns of ethnicity in the context of these evolving rules and increasingnatural resource pressures, rapid climate change and resultant "rationalizations" of livelihoods.
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Thornton., T.F. and Kitka, H. (2015) An Indigenous Model of a Contested Pacific Herring Fishery in Sitka, Alaska. International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research, 6(1): 94-117.
Thornton, T. and Hebert, J. (2014) Neoliberal and neo-communal herring fisheries in Southeast Alaska: Reframing sustainability in marine ecosystems. Marine Policy.
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Food sovereignty and sharing the future of the herring in the North Pacific A project with Shingo Hamada of IUCN CEESP on how the exchange of food gift weaves inter and intra-communal social networks in the mid of the herring conservation controversy in the North Pacific.
I direct and teach primarily on the Environmental Change and Management MSc course and offer an elective on Indigenous Peoples and the Environment.
How has the 2013 Village Law impacted power dynamics concerning village forest governance in Indonesia?
Climate change and Amazonian Indigenous peoples: Adaptation, development and social-ecological systems.
Ma, Y., Lan, J., Thornton, T., Mangalagiu, D. and Zhu, D. (2018) Challenges of Collaborative Governance in the Sharing Economy: The case of free-floating bike sharing in Shanghai. Journal of Cleaner Production.
Ma, Y., Rong, K., Mangalagiu, D., Thornton, T.F. and Zhu, D. (2018) Co-evolution between urban sustainability and business ecosystem innovation: Evidence from the sharing mobility sector in Shanghai. Journal of Cleaner Production, 188: 942-953.
MacCall, A.D., Francis, T.B., Punt, A.E., Siple, M.C., Armitage, D.R., Cleary, J.S., Dressel, S.C., Jones, R.R., Kitka, H., Levin, S., McIsaac, J., Okamoto, D.K., Poe, M., Reifenstuhl, S., Schmidt, J.O., Shelton, A.O., Silver, J.J., Thornton, T.F., Voss, R. and Woodruf, J. (2018) A heuristic model of socially learned migration behaviour exhibits distinctive spatial and reproductive dynamics. ICES Journal of Marine Science.
Punt, A.E., Okamoto, D.K.,MacCall, A.D., Shelton, A.O., Armitage, D.R., Cleary, J.S., Davies, I.P., Dressel, S.C., Francis, T.B., Levin, P.S., Jones, R.R., Kitka, H., Lee, L.Y., Mclsaac, J.A., Poe, M.R., Reifenstuhi, S., Silver, J.J., Schmidf, J.O., Thornton, T.F., Voss, R. and Woodruff, J. (2018) When are estimates of spawning stock biomass for small pelagic fishes improved by taking spatial structure into account? Fisheries Research, 206: 65-78.
Thornton, T.F., Ma, Y., Lan, J. and Mangalagiu, D. (2018) Disruptive Innovation and Win-Win Strategies for the Sharing Mobility Economy..
Woodall, L.C., Andradi-Brown, D.A., Brierley, A.S., Clark, M.R., Connelly, D., Hall, R.A., Howell, K.L., Huvenne, V.A.I., Linse, K., Ross, R.E., Snelgrove, P., Stefanoudis, P.V., Sutton, T.T., Taylor, M., Thornton, T.F. and Rogers, A.D. (2018) A Multidisciplinary Approach for Generating Globally Consistent Data on Mesophotic, Deep-Pelagic, and Bathyal Biological Communities. Oceanography.
Chaudhury, A.S., Thornton, T., Helfgott, A., Ventresca, M.J. and Sova, C. (2017) Ties that bind: Local networks, communities and adaptive capacity in rural Ghana. Journal of Rural Studies, 53: 214-228.
Chaudhury, A.S., Thornton, T.F., Helfgott, A. and Sova, C. (2017) Applying the robust adaptation planning (RAP) framework to Ghana's agricultural climate change adaptation regime. Sustainability Science: 1-20.
Comberti, C., Thornton, T., Bennett, A., Root-Bernstein, M. (2017) Climate Change Adaptation, Development and Archaeology in the Amazon..
Lan, J., Ma, Y., Zhu, D., Mangalagiu, D., and Thornton, T.F. (2017) Enabling Value Co-Creation in the Sharing Economy: The Case of Mobike. Sustainability, 9.
McNeill, J.L. and Thornton, T. (2017) Pipelines, Petitions, and Protests in the Internet Age: Exploring the Human Geographies of Online Petitions Challenging Proposed Transcontinental Alberta Oil Sands Pipelines. Annals of the American Association of Geographers.
Sova, C., Thornton, T.F., Zougmore, R., Helfgott, A. and Chaudhury, A.S. (2017) Power and influence mapping in Ghana's agricultural adaptation policy regime. Climate and Development, 9(5): 399-414.
Thornton, T.F. (2017) Coastal lakes and lagoons as dynamic sites of exchange among the Tlingit of Alaska. Maritime Studies, 16(4).
Thornton, T.F. and Comberti, C. (2017) Synergies and trade-offs between adaptation, mitigation and development. Climatic Change, 140(1): 5-18.
Bhagwat, S.A., Economou, A. and Thornton, T. (2016) The Idea of Climate Change as a Belief System: Why Climate Activism Resembles a Religious Movement. GAIA, 25(2): 94-98.
Chaudhury, A.S., Helfgott, A., Thornton, T.F. and Sova, C. (2016) Participatory adaptation planning and costing. Applications in agricultural adaptation in western Kenya. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 21(3): 301-322.
Chaudhury, A.S., Ventresca, M.J., Thornton, T.F., Helfgott, A., Sova, C., Baral, P., Rasheed, T. and Ligthart, J. (2016) Emerging meta-organisations and adaptation to global climate change: Evidence from implementing adaptation in Nepal, Pakistan and Ghana. Global Environmental Change, 38: 243-257.
Comberti, C., Thornton, T. and Korodimou, M. (2016) Addressing Indigenous Peoples' Marginalisation at International Climate Negotiations: Adaptation and resilience at the margins.
Hunt, W., Hartley, R. McCune, B., Ali, N. and Thornton, T. (2016) Maritime Alpine Cairns in Southeast Alaska: A Multidisciplinary Exploratory Study. A Multidisciplinary Exploratory Study. Report prepared for the Tongass National Forest, National Forest Service and supported by the National Science Foundation (Project 1230132) Arctic Social Sciences Program, Division of Polar Programs. Anthropology Department, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Pyhälä, A., Fernández-Llamazares, Á., Lehvävirta, H., Byg, A., Ruiz-Mallén, I., Salpeteur, M. and Thornton, T.F. (2016) Global Environmental Change: Local perceptions, understandings and explanations. Ecology and Society, 21(3).
Sova, C.A., Thornton, T.F., Zougmore, R., Helfgott, A. and Chaudhury, A.S. (2016) Power and influence mapping in Ghana's agricultural adaptation policy regime. Climate and Development: 1-16.
Thekaekara, T. and Thornton, T.F. (2016) Ethnic Diversity and Human-Elephant Conflict in the Nilgiris, South India. In, Locke, P. and Buckingham, J. (eds.) Rethinking Human-Elephant Relations in South Asia: Conflict, Negotiation, and Coexistence. Oxford University Press. pp. 300-329.
Thornton, T. and Mamontova, N. (2016) Hunter-Gatherers and Fishing Rights in Alaska and Siberia: Contemporary Governmentality, Subsistence, and Sustainable Enterprises. Chapter 9 in, Hunter-Gatherers in a Changing World. Springer.
Thornton, T.F. (2016) Discovering Opportunities for Adaptation in the Arctic. Cultural Anthropology.
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Thornton, T.F. and Wanasuk, P. (2016) Indigenous Tourism as a sustainable social-environmental enterprise: The political ecology of tourism in Southeast Alaska. 1.1 in, Nepal, S. and Saarinen, J. (eds.) Political Ecology and Tourism. Routledge. pp. 21-38. ISBN: 9781138852464.
Thornton, T.F., Notti, E., Sattler, M. and Owletuck, G. (2016) Alaska Natives and the State's Political Economy: Changing Power Relationships. Chapter 9 in, Thomas, C.S., Savatgy, L. and Klimovich, K. (eds.) Alaska Politics and Public Policy: The Dynamics of Beliefs, Institutions, Personalities, and Power. University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks. pp. 273-312.
Wanasuk, P. and Thornton, T.F. (2016) Aboriginal Tourism as Sustainable Social-Environmental Enterprise (SSEE): A Tlingit Case Study from Southeast Alaska. International Indigenous Policy Journal, 6(4).
Cardwell, E. and Thornton, T.F. (2015) The fisherly imagination: The promise of geographical approaches to marine management. Geoforum, 64: 157-167.
Comberti, C., Thornton, T.F., Wylliede Echeverria, V. and Patterson, T. (2015) Ecosystem services or services to ecosystems? Valuing cultivation and reciprocal relationships between humans and ecosystems. Global Environmental Change, 34: 247-262.
Sova, C., Vervoort, J., Thornton, T., Helfgott, A., Matthews, D. and Chaudhury, A. (2015) Exploring farmer preference shaping in international agricultural climate change adaptation regimes. Environmental Science and Policy, 54: 463-474.
Sova, C.A., Helfgott, A., Chaudhury, A., Matthews, D., Thornton, T. and Vermeulen, S. (2015) Multi-level Stakeholder Influence Mapping: Visualizing Power Relations Across Actor Levels in Nepal's Agricultural Climate Change Adaptation Regime. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 28(4): 383-409.
Thorn, J., Thornton, T.F. and Helfgott, A. (2015) Autonomous adaptation to global environmental change in peri-urban settlements: Evidence of a growing culture of innovation and revitalisation in Mathare Valley Slums, Nairobi. Global Environmental Change, 31: 121-131.
Thornton, T. and Hebert, J. (2015) Neoliberal and neo-communal herring fisheries in Southeast Alaska: Reframing sustainability in marine ecosystems. Marine Policy, 61: 366-375.
Thornton, T., Deur, D. and Kita Sr, H. (2015) Cultivation of Salmon and other Marine Resources on the Northwest Coast of North America. Human Ecology, 43(2).
Thornton, T.F. (2015) Place as Education's Source. In, Kan, S. (ed.) Sharing our Knowledge: The Tlingit and their Coastal Neighbors. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln. pp. 364-379.
Thornton, T.F. (2015) The Ideology and Practice of Pacific Herring Cultivation among the Tlingit and Haida. Human Ecology, 43(2): 213-223.
Thornton, T.F. and Deur, D. (2015) Introduction to the Special Section on Marine Cultivation among Indigenous Peoples of the Northwest Coast. Human Ecology, 43(2): 187.
Thornton, T.F. and Thornton, P.M. (2015) The Mutable, the Mythical and the Managerial: Raven Narratives and the Anthropocene. Environment and Society: Advances in Research, 6(1): 66-86.
Chaudhury, A., Sova, C., Rasheed, T., Thornton, T.F., Baral, P. and Zeb, A. (2014) Deconstructing Local Adaptation Plans for Action (LAPAs) - Analysis of Nepal and Pakistan LAPA initiatives. Working Paper CGIAR, Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).
Guitierrez, A. and Thornton, T. (2014) Can Consumers Understand Sustainability through Seafood Eco-Labels? A U.S. and UK Case Study. Sustainability, 6(11).
Kaul, V. and Thornton, T.F. (2014) Resilience and adaptation to extremes in a changing Himalayan environment. Regional Environmental Change, 14(2): 683-698.
Thornton, T.F. (2014) A Tale of Three Parks. In, Stevens. S. (ed.) Indigenous Peoples, National Parks and Protected Areas: A New Paradigm Linking Conservation, Culture and Rights. . pp. 108-129.
Thornton, T.F. and Hope, I. (2014) "Our tears never left this ground": An appreciation of Tlingit ritual oratory. AlterNative, 10(2).
Weiland, P. and Thornton, T.F. (2014) Listening to (Some) Barking Dogs: Assessing Hernando de Soto's Recipe for the Development of the Amazon Natives of Peru. Harvard Journal on Racial and Ethnic Justice, 30(2014).
Sikka, M., Thornton, T.F. and Worl, R. (2013) Sustainable Biomass Energy and Indigenous Cultural Models of Well-being in an Alaska Forest Ecosystem. Ecology and Society, 18(3).
Thekaekara, T., Vasanth, N. and Thornton, T.F. (2013) Diversity as a Livelihood Strategy Near Mudumalai, Tamil Nadu: An Inquiry. In, Purushothaman, S. and Abraham, R. (eds.) Livelihood Strategies in Southern India: Conservation and Poverty Reduction in the Forest Fringes. Springer. pp. 49-69.
Bhagwat, S.A., Breman, E., Thekaekara, T., Thornton, T.F. and Willis, K.J. (2012) A battle lost? Report on two centuries of invasion and management of Lantana, camara L. in Australia, India and South Africa. PLoS ONE, 7(3).
Sikka, M. and Thornton, T.F. (2012) Sustainable wood-biomass energy systems: climate and development solutions for forest communities. Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN).. 1-8.
Thornton, T. (ed.) (2012) Haa Léelk'w Hás Aaní Saax'u / Our Grandparents' Names on the Land. University of Washington Press. pp. 256. ISBN: 9780295988580.
Thornton, T. (2012) Watersheds and Marinescapes: Understanding and Maintaining Cultural Diversity Among Southeast Alaska Natives. Watersheds and Marin in, Johnston, B.R., Hiwasaki, L., Klaver, I.J., Castillo, A.R. and Strang, V. (eds.) Water, Cultural Diversity and Global Environmental Change. SpringerLink. Commissioned by UNESCO-IHP.
Thornton, T. and Maciejewski Scheer, A. (2012) Collaborative Engagement of Local and Traditional Knowledge and Science in Marine Environments: A Review. Ecology and Society, 17(3:8).
Thornton, T. (2011) Language and landscape among the Tlingit. Chapter 13 in, Mark, D.M., Turk, A.G., Burenhult, N. and D. Stea (eds.) Landscape in Language. Transdisciplinary perspectives. John Benjamins Publishing Company. pp. 275-289. ISBN: 978-9027202864.
Thornton, T.F. (2011) Already here and rich. In, Holder Spude, C., Mills, R.O., Gurcke, K. and R. Sprague (eds.) Eldorado! The Archaeology of Gold Mining in the Far North. University of Nebraska Press. 376 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8032-1099-8.
von Glasenapp, M. and Thornton, T.F. (2011) Traditional ecological lnowledge of Swiss alpine farmers and their resilience to socioecological change. Human Ecology, 39(6): 769-781.
Hunn, E.S. and Thornton, T.F. (2010) Tlingit birds: An annotated list with a statistical comparative analysis. Chapter 13 in, Tidemann, S. and Gosler, A. (eds.) Ethno-ornithology: Birds, indigenous peoples, culture and society. Earthscan. pp. 181-209. ISBN: 978-1-84407-783-0.
Thornton, T. and Manasfi, N. (2010) Adaptation - genuine and spurious: demystifying adaptation processes in relation to climate change. Environment and Society, 1(1): 132-155.
Thornton, T.F. (2010) A tale of three parks: Tlingit conservation, representation and repatriation in southeast Alaska's National Parks. Human Organization, 69(2): 107-118.
Thornton, T.F. and Kitka Sr. and H. (2010) The Tlingit Way of Conservation: A Matter of Respect. In, Painemilla, W. and Rylands, A.B. and Woofter, A. and C. Hughes (eds.) Indigenous Peoples and Conservation: From Rights to Resource Management. Conservation International. pp. 211-218. ISBN: 9781934151396.
Thornton, T.F., Moss, M.L., Butler, V.L., Hebert, J. and Funk, F. (2010) Local and traditional knowledge and the historical ecology of Pacific herring in Alaska. Journal of Ecological Anthropology, 14(1): 81-88.
Thornton, T.F. (2009) Anatomy of a traditional cultural property: the saga of Auke Cape. The George Wright Forum, 26(1): 64-75.
Thornton, T. (2008) Being and Place among the Tlingit. University of Washington Press. pp. 280. ISBN: 9780295987491.
Hunn, E.S., Johnson, D.R., Russell, P.N. and Thornton, T.F. (2007) Huna Tlingit gull egg harvests in Glacier Bay National Park, 2007.Piatt, J.F. and S.M. Gende (eds.) Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5047 Proceedings of the Fourth Glacier Bay Science Symposium, October 26–28, 2004. U.S.. 193-195.
Thornton, T. (2007) Alaska Native Corporations and Subsistence: Paradoxical forces in the construction of sustainable communities. Chapter 2 in, Maida, C.A. (ed.) Sustainability and Communities of Place. Bergham, Oxford. ISBN: 978-1-84545-016-8.
Thornton, T. (2007) The cultural ecology of berries in Glacier Bay. In, Piatt, J.F. and Gende, S.M. (eds.) Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5047. Proceedings of the Fourth Glacier Bay Science Symposium, October 26-28 2004, US. U.S. Geological Survey. pp. 29-34.
Wheeler, P. and Thornton, T.F. (2005) Subsistence Research in Alaska: A thirty year retrospective. Alaska Journal of Anthropology, 3(1): 69-103.
Thornton, T.F. (2004) The geography of Tlingit character. In, Mauze, M. (ed.) Coming to Shore. Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions and Visions. University of Nebraska Press, USA. pp. 363-384. ISBN: 978-0803282964.
Hunn, E.S., Johnson, D.R., Russell, P.N. and Thornton, T.F. (2003) Huna Tlingit traditional environmental knowledge, conservation and the management of a "Wilderness" Park. Current Anthropology,, 44(Supp): 167-194.
Thornton, T. (2002) From Clan to Kwáan to Corporation: The continuing complex evolution of Tlingit political organization. Wicazo Sa Review, 17(2): 167-194.
Thornton, T. (2001) Subsistence in Northern Communities: Lessons from Alaska. The Northern Review, 23(Summer 2001): 82-102.
Hope III, A. and Thornton, T.F. (2000) Will the time ever come? A Tlingit sourcebook. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Indigenous Knowledge Network, University of Alaska.
Thornton, T. (1999) Tleikw Aaní, The Berried Landscape: The structure of Tlingit edible fruit resources at Glacier Bay, Alaska. Journal of Ethnobiology, 19(1): 27-48.
Thornton, T. (1998) Haa Aaní, Our Land. Introduction in, Haa Aaní, Our Land: Tlingit and Haida Land Rights and Use. Sealaska Heritage Foundation, Alaska. ISBN: 9780295976396.
Thornton, T.F. (1998) Alaska Native Subsistence: A Matter of Cultural Survival. Cultural Survival Quarterly, 22(3).


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Deborah Littleton personifies the ideal of a dedicated employee, her colleagues say. Littleton, academic advisor in the College of Arts & Sciences, has been a source of timely and accurate information for students and faculty for almost two decades advising upper-division undergraduates first in the School of Social & Behavioral Sciences and now in the College.
Colleagues describe Littleton as a knowledgeable and punctual professional, who is innovative in handling problems and a caring advisor of her students — attributes that make her September's UAB Employee of the Month.
Littleton approaches these tasks with an expansive understanding of the concerns of UAB students and the priorities of the administration. She brings a positive spirit and a unique empathy to her interactions with each student advisee.
That was especially evident in the aftermath of April's devastating tornadoes. Littleton acted as a liaison between distressed students and faculty to ensure coursework was completed in time for graduation.
To navigate the waters of graduation for students and faculty, Littleton has to stay current on all of the current catalog language. Her comprehensive knowledge of the undergraduate curriculum is grounded in her own first-hand experience of UAB as a respected, active alumna.
Littleton has generously guided students in their academic progress on campus and energetically worked to ensure retention and graduation. Of course, often she has to help her students and faculty through crisis.
Nikolaos Zahariadis, Ph.D., professor of government, has had to deal with cases of students having to fulfill the foreign language requirement of their international studies major with languages that are not offered at UAB.
Littleton advises juniors and seniors and began teaching freshman courses in 2010. She's teaching two freshman-experience courses this fall.
Colleagues say Littleton never lets the demanding nature of her job get in the way of her commitment to students. Renato Corbetta, Ph.D., professor of government, says Littleton does an incredible job guiding political science and international studies majors through the maze of graduation requirements.
Littleton also leads recruitment efforts for the social sciences, including UAB Transfer Day and UAB Day for prospective students. Holly Brasher, Ph.D., associate professor of government, says these programs are extremely well run and well organized.
Littleton says she is grateful for the honor bestowed upon her by her colleagues, especially considering she is just doing what she loves to do each day.
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EOC to pregnant women: Have prenatal checkups
The Bacolod City Emergency Operations Center Task Force (EOC-TF) is encouraging pregnant women to undergo prenatal checkups.
In advising pregnant women to be "vigilant," EOC-TF One Hospital Command Center (OHCC) administrative officer, Dr. Claire Capiral, stressed that prenatal checkups are important "to note if there are complications before delivery."
The OHCC monitors the daily healthcare capacity, which pertains to data regarding the Capacity Utilization Rate (CUR) and bed availability of the seven hospitals in Bacolod, a press release from the city said.
The OHCC aims to facilitate hospital admission, thereby ensuring that all moderate-to-severe patients won't be refused admission to the health facilities.
"Pregnant women can experience changes in their immune systems that can make them more vulnerable to respiratory viruses. These changes, plus the fact that there is no vaccine for Covid-19 yet, mean that expectant mothers should be proactive when it comes to safety measures," City Administrator Em Ang, who is also the EOC executive director and deputy for admin and operations, said.
Pregnant women are at an increased risk for Covid-19 and at increased risk for other adverse outcomes, such as preterm birth.
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The EOC recommends pregnant women to follow certain health protocols, like wearing of face masks and face shields, practicing good hand hygiene, physical distancing and staying at home if possible, especially during the last trimester of pregnancy.
"The EOC likewise advises these women to seek early consultation when experiencing symptoms or if there's a history of close contact with a confirmed COVID-19 case," Ang added.
Meanwhile, the Philippine Obstetrics and Gynecologist Society (POGS) has set guidelines for admission of expecting mothers to hospitals amid the pandemic, among which is to undergo a prior Covid-19 test.
"It would be best if you test negative for Covid-19. It's very difficult to be referred to hospitals if one has a complicated pregnancy and no swab test was done or worse, the patient is positive for COVID-19. In both ways, admission is costly because of isolation and PPE," acting City Health Officer, Dr. Edwin Miraflor Jr., said.
"So if you're expectant, please stay at home," he added.
Miraflor stressed that General Community Quarantine guidelines set curfews for vulnerable groups aged 14 below and 65 up, the immunocompromised, those with comorbid conditions and pregnant patients.
Recently, a pregnant woman in Bacolod had to be rushed for a caesarian section after it was belatedly discovered that she had a breech pregnancy – a case where the baby is positioned bottom first instead of head first during labor.
"If she had been diligent with her prenatal care, she should have been scheduled beforehand and hadn't put her life and her baby at risk," Capiral said.
Capiral also emphasized that pregnant patients should go to the nearest birthing facility at the first sign of labor.
"It would be easier to accommodate and facilitate transfer to a higher facility of care if needed, upon assessment by a trained midwife or doctor. If seeking consultation is at the late stage of labor, it will be very difficult for admission referrals when the need arises," she added.*


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Tag : C9 Licorice
C9 Fudge: "Eventually, I want to be part of the first team that makes NA go far at Worlds."
Fudge spoke to Inven Global's Nick Geracie to discuss his LCS debut, what Cloud9 changed between losing to Evil Geniuses and dominating FlyQuest, and how his high standards aren't set by playing on C9, or with Perkz, but by himself.
C9 Licorice: "After the games against FLY we realized we maybe weren't that good at playing slowly..."
Cloud9 swept Evil Geniuses out of the post-season in far better form than they showed against FQ, but compositional adjustments were also vital to the dominance displayed in that series. C9's play was sharper and much more towards the fast-and-loose style the team has been known for this season.
C9 Licorice: "Personally, I'm always looking at Team Liquid to be our biggest rival."
After the team's eighth win against Dignitas, C9 Top Laner Eric "Licorice" Ritchie spoke to Inven Global's Nick Geracie about Dignitas' summer struggles, the reason for his solo deaths in the early game, and who he expects to challenge C9 down the stretch.
LCS pros discuss differences between regular season and post-season ahead of Summer Playoffs
Lara Lunardi
Following the conclusion of the 2019 LCS Summer Split, Inven Global's Lara Lunardi spoke to Team Liquid's Yiliang "Doublelift" Peng, Cloud9's Eric "Licorice" Ritchie, and Tanner "Damonte" Damonte and Philippe "Vulcan" Laflamme from Clutch Gaming to discuss their respective teams' approach to the 2019 LCS Summer Playoffs.
C9 Licorice: "Since other teams don't have priority on Akali, we've been able to get it in a lot of drafts."
"What happens a lot of the time when a champion gets nerfed is people just stop playing it, even if it's still good," explained the C9 Top Laner.
C9 Licorice: "Coming into NA LCS, I just didn't want to play scared, but I definitely didn't think I would have as much success as I did throughout the year...I thought I would be C9 Maokai."
Throughout the history of League of Legends esports, North America has been subject to criticism for a lack of talent development when compared to other major regions. To date, North America has impor


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Q: Solving Cubic when There are Known to be 3 Real Roots When solving for roots to a cubic equation, the sign of the $\Delta$ tells us when there will be 3 distinct real roots (as long as the first terms coefficient, $a$, is non-zero.) Namely when $\Delta$ is positive.
The equations to find the 3 roots are:

*

*$x_1 = -\frac{1}{3a}(b + C + \frac{\Delta_0}{C})$

*$x_2 = -\frac{1}{3a}(b + \frac{C(-1 + i\sqrt 3)}{2} + \frac{2\Delta_0}{C(-1 + i\sqrt 3)})$

*$x_3 = -\frac{1}{3a}(b + \frac{C(-1 - i\sqrt 3)}{2} + \frac{2\Delta_0}{C(-1 - i\sqrt 3)})$

Where: $$C = \sqrt[3]{\frac{\Delta_1 + \sqrt{\Delta_1^2 - 4\Delta_0^3}}{2}}$$
By the given equation, $\Delta_1^2 - 4\Delta_0^3 = -27a^2\Delta$, I know that when $\Delta$ is positive the square root in $C$ will produce an $i$. So when $\Delta$ is positive $C$ is effectively: $$C = \sqrt[3]{\frac{\Delta_1 + i\sqrt{4\Delta_0^3 - \Delta_1^2}}{2}}$$
So obviously the $i$ in $C$ cancels with the $i$s in the $x_2$ and $x_3$ roots, and we get 3 real roots. But for the life of me I cannot work out how. Can someone help me break those steps down?

A: You are dealing with the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casus_irreducibilis
In the case of three real irrational roots, one may express them using cube roots of complex numbers that have both real and imaginary real part. There is no way to separate the real and imaginary parts of these cube roots in any sort of closed form. All you know is that the cube root of $\alpha$ plus the cube root of $\bar{\alpha}$ is real.
This topic is discussed in many Galois theory books; I think it predates Galois, not sure. Maybe not: in the book by Rotman, he says that Cardano and others of the time grew frustrated when they could not separate out the real and imaginary parts of the roots of such a cubic, and they tried all sorts of involved trickery. Then he says they were doomed to failure, and proves it.

A: For example, let's try the equation $x^3 - 2 x^2 - x + 2 = 0$: $a= 1$, $b = -2$, $c = -1$, $d=2$, $\Delta_0 = 7$, $\Delta_1 = 20$.
$$C = \sqrt[3]{10 + 9 i \sqrt{3}}  = \sqrt{7} e^{i\theta} = \sqrt{7}(\cos\theta + i \sin\theta)$$
where
$$ \theta = \dfrac{1}{3} \arctan(9 \sqrt{3}/10)$$
Then
$$ \Delta_0/C = \sqrt{7} e^{-i\theta} = \sqrt{7} (\cos \theta - i \sin \theta)$$
so
$$ \eqalign{x_1 &= -\dfrac{1}{3} \left( -2 + \sqrt{7} (\cos\theta + i \sin \theta) + \sqrt{7} (\cos\theta - i \sin\theta)\right)\cr
&= \dfrac{2}{3} - \dfrac{2\sqrt{7}}{3} \cos \theta}$$
$$ \eqalign{x_2 &= -\dfrac{1}{3} \left( - 2 + \sqrt{7} (\cos(\theta + 2 \pi/3) + i \sin(\theta + 2 \pi/3))  + \sqrt{7} (\cos(\theta - 2 \pi/3) + i \sin(\theta + 2 \pi/3))\right)\cr
&= \dfrac{2}{3} - \dfrac{2\sqrt{7}}{3} \cos(\theta + 2\pi/3)}$$
and similarly
$$ x_3 = \dfrac{2}{3} - \dfrac{2\sqrt{7}}{3} \cos(\theta - 2\pi/3)$$
It turns out that $x_1 = -1$, $x_2 = 2$, $x_3 = 1$ (which is no accident: I chose the polynomial to have those roots).

A: Given $x^3+a x^2+b x+c x+d=0$, substitute $x=y-a/3. $ This gives  $y^3+p y+q=0$ where $p,q$ are determined by $a,b,c,d$ and the substitution. Now let $y=u+v$. We have $$0=(u+v)^3+p(u+v)+q=(u^3+v^3+q)+(u+v)(3u v+p).$$ Suppose  there are non-zero $u,v$ such that $$u^3+v^3+q=0=3u v+p.$$  Substituting $v=-p/3u$ into $0=u^3+v^3+q$ and letting $w=u^3$, we have $$w^2+q w+(-p^3/27)=u^3(u^3+q+v^3)=0.$$ Solve the quadratic equation in $w . $  Let $u$ be any complex cube root of (either value of) $w$. Then $x=y-a/3=u+v-a/3=u-p/3u-a/3$ solves the original cubic....When there are 3 real solutions for $x$ and they are not an arithmetic sequence, the values of $w$ will not be real numbers and you need the cube root of one of them. One way is to put $w=r. cis (t)=r(\cos t+i\sin t)$ with $r>0$ and $t\in (0,2\pi). $ The cube roots of $w$ are $r^{1/3}cis ((t+2\pi  n)/3)$ for $n\in \{0,1,2\}.$.....The main idea in this method of solving the cubic  equationis to change the variable to a sum $u+v$ and see if the equation can be split into 2 simpler equations.


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Q: What's the difference between these two object instantiation approaches? Suppose I have a class named A:
Class A
{
...
}

And what's the difference between the following 2 approaches to instanciate an object:
void main(void)
{
    A a;  // 1
    A *pa=new A();  // 2
}

As my current understanding (not sure about this yet):

*

*Approach 1 allocate the object a on the stack frame of the main() method, and so this object cannot deleted because that deletion doesn't make sense (don't know why yet, could someone explain that?).

*Approach 2 allocate the object a on the heap of the process and also a A* vairable pa on the stack frame of the main() method, so the object can be deleted and and the pa can be assigned null after the deletion.
Am I right? If my understanding is correct, could someone tell me why i cannot delete the a object from the stack in approach 1?
Many thanks...

A: Object a has automatic storage duration so it will be deleted automatically at the end of the scope in which it is defined. It doesn't make sense to attempt to delete it manually. Manually deletion is only required for objects with dynamic storage duration such as *pa which has been allocated using new.

A: *

*The objects live time is limited to
the scope the variable is defined
in, once you leave the scope the
object will be cleaned up. In c++ a
scope is defined by any Block
between { an the corresponding }.

*Here only the pointer is on the stack and not the object, so when
you leave the scope only the pointer
will be cleaned up, the object will
still be around somewhere.

To the part of deleting an object, delete not only calls the destructor of your object but also releases its memory, this would not work as the memory management of the stack is automated by the compiler, in contrast the heap is not automated and requires calls to new and delete to manage the live time of an object.
Any object created by a call to new has to be deleted once, forgetting to do this results in an memory leak as the objects memory will never be released.

A: Approach 1 declared a variable and created an object. In Approach 2, you created an instance and pointer to it.
EDIT : In approach 1, the object will go out of scope and will be automatically deleted. In approach 2, the pointer will be automatically deleted, but not what it is pointing to. That will be your job.

A: Allocation does two things:
1) Allocates memory for the object
2) Calls the constructor on the allocated memory
Deletion does two things:
1) Calls the destructor on the object
2) Deallocates the memory used by the destructed object
When you allocate on the stack (A a;), you're telling the compiler "please make an object for me, by allocating memory, then call the constructor on that memory.  And while you're at it, could you handle calling the destructor and freeing the memory, when it goes out of scope?  Thanks!".  Once the function (main) ends, the object goes out of scope, the destructor is called, and the memory is freed.
When you allocate on the heap (A* pa = new A();), you're telling the compiler "please make an object for me.  I know what I'm doing, so don't bother calling the destructor or freeing the memory.  I'll tell you when to do it, some other time".  Once the function (main) ends, the object you allocated stays in scope, and is not destructed or freed.  Hopefully you have a pointer to it stored somewhere else in your program (as in, you copied pa to some other variable with a bigger scope).  You're gonna have to tell the compiler to destruct the object and free the memory at some point in the future.  Otherwise, you get a memory leak.
Simply put, the "delete" command is only for objects allocated on the heap, because that's the manual memory management interface in C++ - new/delete.  It is a command for the heap allocator, and the heap allocator doesn't know anything about stack allocated objects.  If you try to call delete on a stack allocated object, you might as well have called it on a random memory address - they're the same thing as far as the heap allocator is concerned.  Very much like trying to access an object outside array bounds:
int a[10];
std::cout << a[37] << "\n"; // a[37] points at... ? no one knows!

It just isn't meant to do that :)
Edit:
P.S. Memory leaks are more important when you are allocating memory in a function other than main.  When the program ends, leaked memory gets deallocated, so a memory leak in main might not be a big deal, depending on your scenario.  However, destructors never get called on leaked objects.  If the destructor does something important, like closing a database or a file, then you might have a more serious bug on your hands.

A: Imagine stack as void* stack = malloc(1.000.000);
Now, this memory block is managed internally by the compiler and the CPU.
It is a shared piece of memory. Every function can use it to store temporary objects there.
That's called automatic storage. You cannot  delete parts of that memory because its purpose is
to be used again again.  If you explicitly delete memory, that memory returns back to the system,
and you don't want that to happen in a shared memory.
In a way, automatic objects are also get deleted. When an object gets out of scope the compiler places
an invisible call to object's destructor and the memory is available again.

A: You cannot delete objects on the stack because it's implemented in memory exactly that way -- as a stack. As you create objects on the stack, they are added on top of each other. As the objects leave scope, they are destroyed from the top, in the opposite order they were created in (add to the top of the stack, and remove from the top of the stack). Trying to call delete on something in the stack would break that order. The analogy would be like trying to pull some paper out of the middle of a stack of papers.
The compiler controls how objects are created and removed on the stack. It can do this because it knows exactly how large each object on the stack is. Since the stack size is set at compile time, it means that allocating memory for things on the stack is extremely fast, much faster than allocating memory from the heap, which is controlled by the operating system.

A: stack memory is not being managed on the same way as heap memory.
there is no point to delete objects from stack: they will be deleted
automatically upon end of scope/function.


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Bruno Loubet's luxurious canape combines oysters, a rich beef consomme jelly, freshly grated horseradish and chives. The earthiness of the beef and the saltiness of the oysters makes a winning combination in this oyster and horseradish canape recipe.
To begin, add the port, vinegar and beef consomme to a small saucepan and bring to the boil. Simmer and reduce to 200ml. Meanwhile, soak the gelatine in cold water until soft.
Squeeze any excess liquid out of the gelatine and add to the consomme mixture. Stir well, then line 2 large plates tightly with cling film. Pour the jelly on to the cling film, creating a 2-3mm thick layer of jelly on each sheet. Place in the fridge to set.
Shuck the oysters and place on crushed ice. Cut the jelly into 16 pieces and place the pieces on to the oysters. If necessary, use the blade of a small knife to help you.
Sprinkle some chopped chives and freshly grated horseradish on top to finish and serve immediately.
With thanks to Bruno Loubet from the Great British Chefs.
Publication Date: November 10, 2015 by Bruno Loubet for Great British Chefs.