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Q: Restore Activity state after returning to it My ListView consists of some musics that beside each item there is an icon , if the music exists in the SD card, the icon is play icon otherwise it's download icon.
When I click download icon, it starts downloading with a ProgressBar but if I press back button while downloading and then back to the activity again, the progress bar disappeared and play icon comes visible.
How can I update from the last changes when coming back to the activity?
ActivityMusic:
ActivityMusic.myFileDownloadTask task = new ActivityMusic.myFileDownloadTask(info, mAdapter, myList);
task.executeOnExecutor(AsyncTask.THREAD_POOL_EXECUTOR);

My adapter:
ActivityMusic.myFileDownloadTask task = new ActivityMusic.myFileDownloadTask(info, mAdapter, myList);
task.executeOnExecutor(AsyncTask.THREAD_POOL_EXECUTOR);

myfileDownloadTask:
public static class myFileDownloadTask extends AsyncTask<String, Integer, String> {
    //        private static final String TAG = FileDownloadTask.class.getSimpleName();
    final DownloadInfo mInfo;
    public List<DownloadInfo> myList;
    private String url = "";

    //        public DownloadInfoArrayAdapter downloadInfoArrayAdapter;

    public myFileDownloadTask(DownloadInfo info, DownloadInfoArrayAdapter mAdapter, List<DownloadInfo> updateList) {
        mInfo = info;
        info.setDownloading(true);
        mInfo.setDownloading(true);

        mInfo.setDownloadState(DownloadInfo.DownloadState.DOWNLOADING);
        //            downloadInfoArrayAdapter = mAdapter;
        myList = updateList;

    }

    //
    @Override
    protected void onProgressUpdate(Integer... values) {
        mInfo.setProgress(values[0]);
        ProgressBar bar = mInfo.getProgressBar();
        if (bar != null) {
            ActivityMusic.loading.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
            bar.setProgress(mInfo.getProgress());
            bar.invalidate();
        }
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(String result) {
        mInfo.setDownloadState(DownloadInfo.DownloadState.COMPLETE);
        ProgressBar progressBar = mInfo.getProgressBar();
        progressBar.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
        mInfo.setDownloading(false);
        ImageView img = mInfo.getDImageView();
        img.setImageResource(R.drawable.download);
        mInfo.setDImaegView(img);
        mInfo.getDImageView().setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);

        mInfo.setProgressBar(progressBar);
        ImageView img2 = mInfo.getImageView();
        img2.setImageResource(R.drawable.play);
        mInfo.setPImaegView(img2);
        mInfo.getImageView().setEnabled(true);
        mInfo.getImageView().setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);

        mInfo.getImageView().setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                //                    Toast.makeText(ActivityMusic.mcontext, "Ari", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                File mfolder = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + "/Sh_M/" + mInfo.getFilename() + ".mp3");
                DownloadInfoArrayAdapter.mUri = Uri.fromFile(mfolder);
                ActivityMusic.audioWife.getInstance().release();
                ActivityMusic.audioWife
                        .init(null, DownloadInfoArrayAdapter.mUri)
                        .setPlayView(ActivityMusic.mPlayMedia)
                        .setPauseView(ActivityMusic.mPauseMedia)
                        .setSeekBar(ActivityMusic.mMediaSeekBar)
                        .setRuntimeView(ActivityMusic.mRunTime)
                        .setTotalTimeView(ActivityMusic.mTotalTime).play();
                ActivityMusic.relativeLayout.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
                ActivityMusic.isPlaying = true;
            }
        });
        //            downloadInfo.add(new DownloadInfo("", 1000, ""));
        //            myList.add(ActivityMusic.downloadInfo.get(0));
        //            downloadInfoArrayAdapter = new DownloadInfoArrayAdapter(mcontext,R.id.list_view,downloadInfo);
        //            listView.setAdapter(downloadInfoArrayAdapter);
        downloadInfoArrayAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
        //            ActivityMusic.downloadInfoArrayAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();

    }

    @Override
    protected void onPreExecute() {
        mInfo.setDownloadState(DownloadInfo.DownloadState.DOWNLOADING);
        mInfo.setDownloading(true);
    }

    @Override
    protected String doInBackground(String... f_url) {
        //            mInfo.setDownloadState(DownloadInfo.DownloadState.DOWNLOADING);
        int count;
        try {
            URL url = new URL(mInfo.getLink());
            URLConnection conection = url.openConnection();
            conection.connect();
            // getting file length
            int lenghtOfFile = conection.getContentLength();

            // input stream to read file - with 8k buffer
            InputStream input = new BufferedInputStream(url.openStream(), 8192);

            File folder = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + "/Sh_M");
            if (!folder.exists()) {
                folder.mkdir();
            }
            // Output stream to write file
            OutputStream output = new FileOutputStream("/sdcard/Sh_M/" + mInfo.getFilename() + ".mp3");

            byte data[] = new byte[1024];

            long total = 0;

            while ((count = input.read(data)) != -1) {
                total += count;
                // publishing the progress....
                // After this onProgressUpdate will be called
                publishProgress((int) ((total * 1000) / lenghtOfFile));

                // writing data to file
                output.write(data, 0, count);
            }

            // flushing output
            output.flush();

            // closing streams
            output.close();
            input.close();

        } catch (Exception e) {
            Log.e("Error: ", "");
        }
        return null;
    }

}

A: When you play with Activities, try saving the state and restoring back when Activity  is Resumed. Check https://stackoverflow.com/a/151940/1403009 for further information


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Lesson 1: The Propensity Score
Inferencia causal
Universidad de Columbia
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This course offers a rigorous mathematical survey of causal inference at the Master's level. Inferences about causation are of great importance in science, medicine, policy, and business. This course provides an introduction to the statistical literature on causal inference that has emerged in the last 35-40 years and that has revolutionized the way in which statisticians and applied researchers in many disciplines use data to make inferences about causal relationships. We will study methods for collecting data to estimate causal relationships. Students will learn how to distinguish between relationships that are causal and non-causal; this is not always obvious. We shall then study and evaluate the various methods students can use — such as matching, sub-classification on the propensity score, inverse probability of treatment weighting, and machine learning — to estimate a variety of effects — such as the average treatment effect and the effect of treatment on the treated. At the end, we discuss methods for evaluating some of the assumptions we have made, and we offer a look forward to the extensions we take up in the sequel to this course.
Module 4: Propensity Score
Lesson 1: The Propensity Score10:16
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In the previous module, we took up the model based approach to the estimation of causal effects, focusing on linear regression in lessons 2 and 3. We saw that in a completely randomized experiment, the estimator tossed or hat adjusted, which is equal to the difference in the treatment and control group means adjusted for the difference in covariant means. That this guy is unbiased for the average treatment effect. It also has smaller variance than the unadjusted estimator below. It's important to note that we made no assumption that the regression model is correctly specified nor that the average treatment effect that add value X of the covariates was actually equal to the average treatment effect. In other words, we could have had heterogeneous effects across the covariate values. Now in observational studies, we know that the difference between the treatment and control group mean is generally neither unbiased nor consistent for the average treatment effect, because of the confounders. But, we know that the conditional expectation of Y given treatment assignment and the confounders should be by the unconfounded in this assumption equal to the conditional expectation of the potential outcomes Y at level z given the confounders. So, this suggest modeling the conditional expectation function of the observed data, and using our estimate of this to estimate the average treatment effect. In lesson three, we did just that, again using linear regression. Unlike the case of the completely randomized experiment however, we saw that if the regression function was not specified correctly, the estimate of the average treatment effect was biased. Unless it just so happened that the means of the confounders were equal in the treatment and control groups. But in observational studies, the difference in means in the treatment and control groups can be substantial. To remove the bias from estimates of the average treatment effects in observational studies, the previous analysis suggests two remedies. First, one might attempt to model the regression function non-linearly. However, a researcher often doesn't have enough knowledge to specify a functional form. Well, then one might try non-parametric model. Second, one might attempt to make the covariate distributions the same in the treatment and control groups as would happen in a completely randomized study. A traditional way to achieve such balance is by matching. For each unit in the treatment group, we find an observation in the control group with the same covariate values. The difference in the outcomes between the two units would then be unbiased for the average treatment effect at the value X of the confounders. Now both approaches, estimating the regression function or matching, they both may become unwieldy when there are many covariates. This is the so-called curse of dimensionality. In the past 30 years, great advances have been made in computing that have allowed significant progress to be made in both directions. Now, we will discuss some of these advances, but to place them in context and to understand the role of certain key ideas, and also as the majority of empirical studies are not conducted using these latest advances, it's useful to start with the propensity score that comes from the seminal article by Rosenbaum and Reuben. The propensity score also figures prominently in weighting approaches. So, it's important for us to understand the score and its properties very well. So, let's talk about the propensity score. It is simply the probability of treatment given the covariates. Rosenbaum and Reuben showed that if treatment assignment is strongly ignorable given covariate X, by which this meant two things. One, treatment assignment is unconfounded given the covariates, and two, zero is less than the propensity score is strictly less than one, then treatment assignment is strongly ignorable given e of X. The second condition just means that at every value of the covariates, the units could be exposed to either the treatment or control condition. So, Rosenbaum and Ruben also showed that the distribution of the confounding covariates is the same in the treatment group and the control group for subjects with the same propensity score. This is important. The results are not hard to prove. First, the probability of assignment given the propensity score and the potential outcomes. So, the probability that Z is one is just an expectation of Z. So, it is just that expectation. Now, you use iterated expectations and get the second line. So, we're going to shove in a more fine and then the e(X), Y(0 ), Y(1) is coarser. So, we know that by the tower property that the third line that that'll give the expectation e of X given e of X and the potential outcomes but that's just e of X. So, where we use the unconfoundness assumption in the second to the last equality. The result is important because it implies that the expectation of Y given the treatment assignment and the propensity score is equal to the expectation of the potential outcome Y(z) given the propensity score. So, even though it might be difficult to non-parametrically model, the conditional expectation is a function of many covariates due to the curse of dimensionality, it might be easier to do so as a function of the scalar propensity score. The estimated regression functions may then be used to form an estimate of the average treatment effect at that propensity score and averaging over the distribution of propensity score would then give an estimate of the average treatment effect, which is the integral over the average treatment effect at the propensity score, averaged up against that. That the distribution of the confounding covariance is the same in the treatment group and the control group for subjects with the same propensity score follows by a similar argument. So, the probabilities and expectation since Z is binary and now we're using iterated expectations again, I mean it's the same argument, the expected value of Z given X is just e of X. So, its expected value of e of X given e of X, that's just e of X, and that's the probability that Z is one given X and then now in the last one well that's the probability that Z is one given X and e of X. No. So, that's how that follows. Now, because the distribution of the covariates is the same in the treatment and control groups given the propensity score, we call the propensity score balancing score. The propensity score is to divide the covariate space into components with equal probability of receiving treatment. Any division that is finer will also balance the covariates, while any division that is coarser will not. Now, caveat, as is evident from these arguments, but sometimes forgotten, the propensity score is a balancing score, whether or not treatment assignment is unconfounded. But, using the propensity score to create groups that are balanced on X does not imply that potentially important confounders that the investigator has failed to include in X are balanced across the treatment and control groups. So, the propensity score is no magic, you've got to have all the confounders. Now, I want to move on towards propensity score sub-classification. In a randomized block experiment, the function that maps covariates into strata is a balancing score. Previously, we saw that a natural way to estimate the average treatment effect from a randomized block experiment is to first estimate the average treatment effects using the stratum proportions as weights. The result does immediately suggests using the propensity score to form strata and proceeding as in the randomized block experiment. Rosenbaum and Ruben refer to this approach as sub-classification. Now, more generally, the result that the propensity score is a balancing score suggests comparing subjects in the treatment group and subjects in the control group with the same propensity score. Matching observations from the two groups on the propensity score balances the distribution of covariates across groups. Prior to Rosenbaum and Ruben, statisticians would attempt to match on the covariates themselves to achieve such balance. But when the covariate space is large and the sample not so large, one quickly runs out of matches, requiring the investigator to either throw away cases that cannot be matched or accept matches that may not be that close on the covariate values. Now, in theory, matching on the propensity score achieves the same balance without requiring matching on the covariates. As the propensity score is a many to one function of the covariates, in theory an investigator should be able to match subjects more precisely. However, matters may not be as rosy in practice. Further, over the last 25 years improved methods for matching directly on the covariates had been developed. In the next few lessons, we shall study methods used in the statistical literature to estimate effects such as the average treatment effect and the effect of treatment on the treated in observational studies. We begin by discussing methods that use propensity score for regression, sub-classification, and matching. Throughout, we will assume the unconfoundness assumption holds.

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Ansted, West Virginia: Mystery Hole
RoadsideAmerica.com Team Field Report
16724 Midland Trail, Ansted, WV
West of town. On US 60 at mile marker 44, just west of Hawks Nest State Park.
Summer only W-M 10:30-6 (Call to verify) Local health policies may affect hours and access.
12 and up $10, 3-11 $8
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Indoor attraction of gravity gone wild. Goofy outdoor photo-ops include its vintage, "See the Unbelievable" sign.
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Price to go in is now $10 for each adult. Not completely sure it is worth the increased price, but you be the judge.
[Diane S, 09/06/2022]
They still ban cameras, phones, and "recording devices of any kind" from being taken inside the Mystery Hole.
$7.50 for about a 10 minute mystery adventure. You must have a sense of humor to enjoy this attraction.
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The Mystery Hole
The Mystery Hole is the greatest place in West Virginia. As a native to the state, I have full qualifications to say this. For one whole year I dreamed of the day that I would see The Mystery Hole.
On September 5, 2016, my dream came true. As we turned the corner to see the life-size gorilla perched on top of the tin can building of mystery, my friends and I screamed in excitement. The Mystery Hole is where Comic Sans meets the trip of a lifetime. Filled with pure ridiculousness, the Mystery Hole is a must-see before you die. Buy a t-shirt.
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Glad that we stopped at the Mystery Hole. The place was full of visitors! If you get motion sickness, though, you may have a hard time in the hole!
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The process of commercializing hybrid trucks has slowed a bit, but the long term prospects are good.
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Jacinto Farms | Local Citrus | Oranges & Avocados Available all year!
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Donald Trump's Detroit speech comes at pivotal point in campaign
Updated Aug 7, 2016 ; Posted Aug 7, 2016
3-4-16 Donald Trump campaigns in Macomb County
Gallery: 3-4-16 Donald Trump campaigns in Macomb County
By Julie Mack | jmack1@mlive.com
As Donald Trump's poll numbers plummet, political observers are wondering if the Republican presidential candidate can get his campaign back on track Monday with what's billed as a major address before the Detroit Economic Club.
Trump is expected to "unveil his policy agenda for revitalizing the American economy," his campaign said in a press release.
The address comes at a critical point in the presidential campaign.
"It's a chance for him to get back on message, after a couple of weeks where it's been bad news after bad news after bad news for him," said Susan Demas, editor of the Inside Michigan Politics newsletter.
Since the Democratic and Republican conventions, Trump has created a series of controversies that have generated negative headlines -- from his battle with a Gold Star family; to his long delay in endorsing House Speaker Paul Ryan and U.S. Sens. John McCain and Kelly Ayotte in their primaries; to his comments on foreign policy that have some questioning his fitness to be president.
Meanwhile, while polls showed Trump and Hillary Clinton essentially tied after the GOP convention, Clinton has since jumped to a significant lead in a number of swing states. A Detroit News/WDIV-TV poll released Thursday had Clinton ahead by 9 points in Michigan and an EPIC-MRA poll released Friday had Clinton up by 11 points.
"Trump is cratering," Republican strategist Frank Luntz tweeted on Thursday. "He needs to overhaul his general-election strategy if he wants to have any hope of winning in 95 days."
The Fivethirtyeight.com website is now giving Clinton a 75 percent chance of winning in November, based on current polls, the economy and historical data.
"If Trump's actually going to have a chance to win," then he needs to use his Detroit speech to turn things around, said Dennis Lennox, a Detroit-area GOP strategist.
The event "presents a pivot opportunity for Trump to help him overcome two really bad weeks," Lennox said.
Lennox said there's a good chance that Trump can it pull it off, noting that Trump has done well in other circumstances he's given a formal speech, such as a March address on foreign policy before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
"Trump's biggest problem is that he has these rallies where he goes off message," Lennox said. "He's not a career politician, so message discipline for him is a little different than it is for someone like Clinton."
Donald Trump speech in Detroit sells out
Nearly 1,500 tickets were sold to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's private address in Detroit Monday.
Monday's event also a chance for Trump to make inroads with Michigan voters, said Lennox and Demas.
"Trump has made a big deal about changing the map (of past presidential elections) and Michigan is a big deal for him," Demas said. "It's not a coincidence he's making a major address here.
"It's also a chance for him to press reset button and he could get a lot of positive press," she said.
Positive press may be the goal of the Trump campaign, but Steve Hood, a Democratic strategist who also has a radio show on AM 910 in Detroit, said Trump's speech could be upstaged by protesters.
"People are planning a serious, massive protest where they actually build a human wall and refuse to let people in," Hood said. The speech, originally planned to be at the Renaissance Center has been moved to Cobo Hall, citing security issues.
It also possible the protesters "will go too far and make Donald Trump sympathetic," Demas said.
Despite Trump's struggles in recent days, all three analysts interviewed said the presidential race remains in flux.
It's a "fluid period," Hood said. "There's still a chance Trump can win, and the Democrats are taking nothing for granted."
Poll: Do you think a Trump presidency would be good for Michigan?
Do you think Trump would be good for Michigan?
Demas agreed.
"Trump is trailing, but it's August," she said. "There's still time for him to make up ground."
But like Luntz, Demas said Trump needs to change his strategy.
"His not-politically-correct shtick that made him a winner in the primaries has caused him a lot of problems in the general election campaign," she said.
She said one of his biggest problems right now are questions being raised by prominent conservatives such as Charles Krauthammer and Joe Scarborough on whether Trump has the temperament to be the world's most powerful leader.
"We've been seeing a lot of prominent Republicans, prominent people from the foreign policy community, who are raising questions," she said. "People are very nervous about someone who seems so erratic."
Conservatives also have raised questions about Trump's economic stances, which have diverged from traditional Republican policies.
"The audience at the Detroit Economic Club is not likely to agree with Trump on immigration, on trade, on the fact that he's gone after the U.S. Chamber of Commerce," Demas said.
The GOP business community does like his plan to slash taxes, she said, but are much less enthusiastic about his call for massive spending on infrastructure projects.
Lennox agreed that Trump is not a traditional Republican, but said that helps explain his appeal.
Trump is moving the GOP beyond the "party of free trade and international intervention," Lennox said. "That's not your average Republican anymore."
Lennox thinks Trump has a real shot at winning in November, not just because of his populist message but also because of his opponent.
"I believe nothing brings Republicans together," he said, "than someone with the last name of Clinton."


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Pope Francis thanks the army brigade for the protection of pilgrims in the Vatican
Pope Francis meets with the Grenadier Brigade of Sardinia, part of the Italian army, and their families, June 11, 2022. / Vatican Media
Vatican City, June 11, 2022 / 8:30 a.m. (CNA).
Pope Francis on Saturday thanked an Italian army brigade for a year of service protecting pilgrims to Rome and the Vatican from attack.
"Every time you leave and return to the Vatican, on apostolic trips, visits to a parish or a community, I see you and give thanks to God for your dedication and your presence, a security garrison," the pope told staff. military on June 11. in the Vatican.
He met the Sardinian Grenadier Brigade, part of the Italian army, and their families as they completed a year-long station in the Italian capital as part of Operation Safe Streets.
Pope Francis meets with the Grenadier Brigade of Sardinia, part of the Italian army, and their families, June 11, 2022. Vatican Media.
Operation Safe Streets began in Italy in 2008, when the armed forces were tasked with providing additional security against terrorism or attacks on important political and religious sites and at major public events.
Military men and women are also present at all hours of the night and day in several places near the Vatican.
"As part of Operation Safe Streets, you monitor sensitive areas and targets: institutional and diplomatic sites, airports, train and metro stations, places of art, worship and religious interest," said the Pope.
He noted that their presence promotes a sense of serenity among the people of Rome.
"I like to think that your stay in Rome could have been a positive experience for human and professional growth, as well as a fruitful moment from a spiritual point of view", he said, encouraging them to turn to the Virgin Mary "in times of weariness and difficulty.
Pope Francis meets with the Grenadier Brigade of Sardinia, part of the Italian army, and their families, June 11, 2022. Vatican Media
"For my part, Francis added, I would like to express my sincere gratitude for the discreet and important service that you render to the Holy See, in collaboration and jointly with the police forces, for the safeguarding of public order".
"Your work in the vicinity of Vatican City helps to ensure the smooth unfolding of events which, throughout the year, attract pilgrims and tourists from all parts of the world," he said. "It's an activity that requires availability, patience, a spirit of sacrifice and a sense of duty.


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N.J.'s Warren County District Landfill Recycles More Than Just Garbage
By: Lori Lovely
Landfills and recycling don't usually go hand in hand, but the Warren County District Landfill is working on several fronts to reduce waste. At the Gas to Energy Plant, two internal combustion engines burn landfill gas to generate electricity. Some of that electricity powers buildings on site, reducing energy costs and the rest is sold to general public utilities; enough electricity to power 2,300 homes, said Operations Manager Jim Williams. Ash produced by the incineration is disposed of in the landfill.
The Pollution Control Financing Authority encourages recycling of plastics, metals, glass and paper products through the opening of an onsite recycling center and management is leading by example. According to Williams, when the facility's Cat 826G landfill compactor developed transmission trouble, options were evaluated. Rather than retiring and replacing the six-year-old machine, Foley Inc.'s customer support representative, Dan Scaramella, suggested rebuilding it.
Rebuild, Recycle, Return on Investment
In addition to all critical engineering updates, Caterpillar's Certified Powertrain (CPT) rebuilds include the reconditioning of the radiator, engine, transmission, torque converter, transfer gear box, drive shafts, differentials, final drives and brakes. Replaced are the powertrain electrical switches, sensors and wire harnesses and electric control modules (ECM).
The rebuild restores the powertrain to like-new performance. Paul Kirchberger in Foley's service department oversaw the CPT-Plus rebuild.
In addition to the standard rebuild, the compactor's steel wheels were reconditioned, and new tips were added, its hydraulic and steering hoses, lights and glass were replaced and its steering cylinder was resealed, along with machine work on its blade push arms and new paint.
"Garbage never stops," Kirchberger said. "They put a lot of hours on that compactor."
The landfill took in 1,500 to 2,000 tons (1,361 to 1,814 t) of refuse daily during its initial five to six years, Williams estimated.
Williams was faced with the decision of rebuilding the transmission only, the CPT-Plus or buying a new machine. Since removing the cab and dismantling almost two-thirds of the machine is necessary to access the transmission, Williams felt only two choices were realistic. The rebuild cost around $170,000, while prices for new compactors started at $450,000. Restricted by a tight budget, Williams said it didn't take long to decide.
The 45-acre Warren County District Landfill in Oxford, N.J., opened in September 1990. Owned by the Pollution Control Financing Authority, it relies on tipping fees rather than tax money. Municipal solid waste from Warren and surrounding counties accounts for approximately 20 percent of its revenue, with 25 percent from garbage incineration and the remainder from construction and demolition. Tonnage in 2008 surpassed 2007 levels and residential customers increased.
"We believe that was due to more people doing renovations themselves instead of hiring contractors," Williams said.
The cost of rebuild versus purchase wasn't the only financial factor considered. Turn-around time also was critical. During the rebuild downtime, the landfill relied on its two dozers to do the work.
"If it had been longer," Williams pointed out, "we would have had to rent a compactor."
Had he purchased a new compactor, Williams estimates the wait at six months, compared to six weeks for the rebuild.
The warranty also heavily influenced Williams' decision.
"Basically, we get like-new equipment with a three-year warranty for one-third the cost [of new]. The warranty was the most impressive aspect," he said.
Cat CPT rebuilds offer customers a choice of warranties, which, according to Kirchberger, is typically application-driven: three-year/5,000-hour or three year/ 6,000-hour, with either parts only, or parts and labor.
Pleased with the result of the rebuild, Williams said he will consider rebuilding again. In addition to the compactor, the landfill's fleet includes two track-type tractors; a D6 and D7R, along with a 938 wheel loader and a 730 articulated truck, purchased from Foley around 2001 when the landfill took over operation of the facility, eliminating use of subcontractors.
Williams now believes in CPT strongly, and he is talking to affiliate landfills about the benefits of rebuilding.
"We put out a large capital expense with the purchase of the compactor. With the certified rebuild, we can continue to get good service from it as long as the frame is good."
Anticipating keeping the landfill open until 2020 or beyond, he envisions two more rebuilds on his 826 compactor.
This article was reprinted from Foley PayDirt magazine, Spring 2009.
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Very well presented ground floor apartment. The accommodation comprises: entrance hall with walk in storage cupboard, hallway leads to the lounge with kitchen off, 1 double bedroom and refitted bathroom suite.
Under the terms of the freeholder, Retirement Properties Ltd is responsible for the sale of all apartments on behalf of the owner. Retirement Properties Ltd is entitled to receive a fee calculated at 5% of the sale agreed price, out of which they will settle the fees of the estate agent, solicitor and any other relevant costs. The vendor will therefore receive 95% of the sale.
With useful walk in storage cupboard.
Dual aspect overlooking the communal gardens.
With built-in oven and hob.


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One of the most versatile and controversial actors of the Indian film industry, Sanjay Dutt, turns 60 today. With an acting career spanning more than three decades, Sanjay Dutt has been on a rollercoaster ride on his personal front but his on-screen presence has always been worth appreciation. While the actor made his debut with the movie Rocky, he is best known for 5 performances that made his career in acting.
1. Vicky Kapoor in Naam
Sanjay Dutt made his debut with Sunil Dutt directorial Rocky but the movie performed average at the box office. After a series of flops, the crime thriller Naam turned out to be the turning point in his career. The character, Vicky, played by them was loved by the masses and the movie turned out to be a commercial and critical success.
2. Balram "Ballu" Prasad in Khalnayak
While Sanjay Dutt is known as the Khalnayak of the tinsel town, he earned his name from the crime thriller of the same name. The movie helmed by Subhash Ghai became one of the highest-grossing movies of the year and earned him the title of Khalnayak because of his award-winning performance as gangster Ballu.
3. Raghunath Namdev Shivalkar in Vaastav: The Reality
Getting recognition for playing anti-hero characters on-screen, Sanjay Dutt produced his iconic performance in the crime drama Vaastav: The Reality alongside Namrata Shirodkar. The Mahesh Manjrekar directorial went on to become one of the greatest movies of the decade and earned Sanjay Dutt his first Filmfare Best Actor award.
4- Munna Bhai in Munna Bhai MBBS
When Sanjay Dutt was going down with numerous controversies surrounding him, the comedy-drama Munna Bhai MBBS served as a comeback for the actor and became an instant hit at the box office with the quirky dialogues and eye-opening plotline. Sanjay Dutt played the soft-hearted goofy gangster, Munna Bhai, in the movie trying to seize a doctor's degree.
5. Kancha Cheena in Agneepath
Sanjay Dutt played the antagonist, Kancha Cheena, in Agneepath, a reboot of the classic hit of the same name. Dutt portrayed a never-before-seen avatar in the movie and his power-packed performance grabbed many eyeballs.
The Khalnayak of Bollywood will soon mark his presence felt with another powerful performance as Adheera in the sequel of blockbuster actioner K.G.F: Chapter 1.
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NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman says the League has no intention to move any franchises or add any via expansion anytime soon.
Speaking on his weekly "NHL Hour" radio show, Bettman said Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly met recently with a group that's seeking a second franchise in Southern Ontario, but denied any plans to put a team there.
"Bill happened to be in Toronto on other business, and some people asked if he would sit down and talk to them and hear what they had to say," Bettman said. "We listen to a lot of people. But we couldn't have been more consistent on the notion that we're not planning on relocating. We're not planning on expanding. Anyone who wants a franchise really is out of luck for the foreseeable future.
"The notion that because Bill happened to sit down with some people -- I didn't know who he was sitting down with. I couldn't care less. He had the meeting, he reported back that there was another group interested in a team in Southern Ontario, which doesn't come as a shock or a news bulletin to me."
If expansion or relocation becomes a possibility, he said the field is wide-open.
"If at some point we're in the business of relocating or expanding, we're going to open it up because the number of people and the number of places that want franchises is a fairly lengthy list," Bettman said. "Nobody has the corner on the market."
The Commissioner also told a caller that New York Islanders "cannot stay in the Nassau Coliseum one minute longer than they're required to under their lease." Islanders owner Charles Wang is attempting to gain approval from the Town of Hempstead for the Lighthouse Project, a development that would include a much-needed remodeling of the Coliseum, the smallest arena in the NHL.
The Isles' current lease expires in 2015.
Bettman said Wang "is absolutely committed to trying to do everything possible to get the Lighthouse Project moving forward -- but warned that " If that doesn't work, he's going to have to look at his options -- that doesn't necessarily mean his options off of Long Island, but he's going to have to look at his options."
"That building is antiquated," he added of the Coliseum, the Islanders' home since they entered the NHL in 1972. "Everyone knows it. It impacts attendance. It impacts team performance. It impacts the experience fans have when they go to the game.
"It's time for Nassau County and the Town of Hempstead to give him the approvals so that he can move forward," Bettman said. "Let him get the approvals he needs so that he can get the job done. He will get it done, but it's time for the governmental authorities to stop being an impediment to what must happen inevitably -- because if anybody thinks that in the absence of the new arena, this team is going to stay in the Nassau Coliseum, they must be nuts.


Whale Branch bookended the regular season with wins over crosstown rival Battery Creek with a 23-0 shutout of the Dolphins on Friday.
Henry Tome booted a field goal to open the scoring after the defenses dominated the first quarter. Irvin Mulligan added a rushing touchdown to make it 10-0, and Ky'Shon Hipp returned an interception for a score before the Warriors added a late touchdown for the final margin.
Whale Branch (6-4) will travel to Oceanside Collegiate in the first round of the Class 2A playoffs Nov. 9. Battery Creek (2-8) will travel to Aynor for a first-round game in the Class 3A playoffs Nov. 9.
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These weird and wonderful postcards show babies as never seen before. Babies hatch from eggs, bubble from cauldrons, are fished from rivers, emerge in the cabbage patch, sit atop clouds, and ride in zeppelins. They play instruments, drive automobiles, fly in balloons, harvest the fields; an anarchistic world of baby heaven.
James Birch first came across the postcards when he was a student in Aix-en-Provence. "A froth of smiling babies boiling away in a cauldron" caught his eye and he bought a small number of cards. He didn't really pay much attention to the cards again until years later in the 1980s when he visited the Pompidou Centre for an exhibition on Surrealism. There in one of the display cases was a collection of fantasy baby postcards shown for their inspirational importance to both the Dadaists and the Surrealists. He became hooked and started collecting.
Despite the immensely varied subject matter of the postcards little is known of their history. They were produced from around 1900-1920 and were found from Russia, to Spain to Great Britain and most countries in between, however the majority appear to be from Germany.
The postcards were a source of inspiration to many artists in the 1920s and 30s, in particular to both the Dadaists and the Surrealists. They were collected by Paul Éluard, André Breton, Salvador Dali, Hannah Höch, Herbert Bayer, and Man Ray. The popular images excited inspiration in these artists because of their boundless inventiveness.
A foreword is written by George Melly whon was an acknowledged expert in the field of surrealism. Best known as a jazz and blues singer, writer and broadcaster, he was also an art critic and a devotee of the Surrealists. This is one of the last pieces he wrote before his death in 2007 at the age of 80.


More than just another great JBL sound system, the new JBL EON615 is a true step forward in technology developed specifically to deliver the best sound possible regardless of its application. Completely rethinking how truly good an affordable self-contained, portable PA system can be, JBL engineers purposely designed and built the EON615 from the ground up featuring JBL's advanced waveguide technology, JBL designed and manufactured transducers, and convenient, wireless remote control of its onboard DSP EQ parameters via Bluetooth.
More than just another great JBL sound system, the new JBL EON612 is a true step forward in technology developed specifically to deliver the best sound possible regardless of its application. Completely rethinking how truly good an affordable self-contained, portable PA system can be, JBL engineers purposely designed and built the EON612 from the ground up featuring JBL's advanced waveguide technology, JBL designed and manufactured transducers, and convenient, wireless remote control of its onboard DSP EQ parameters via Bluetooth.
More than just another great JBL sound system, the new JBL EON610 is a true step forward in technology developed specifically to deliver the best sound possible regardless of its application. Completely rethinking how truly good an affordable self-contained, portable PA system can be, JBL engineers purposely designed and built the EON610 from the ground up featuring JBL's advanced waveguide technology, JBL designed and manufactured transducers, and convenient, wireless remote control of its onboard DSP EQ parameters via Bluetooth.


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Rebate for airlines in IT failure
The National Air Traffic Control Centre at Swanwick in Hampshire.
Airlines are to be financially compensated following the flight disruption caused by last week's air traffic control computer glitch.
Around 120 flights had to be cancelled and 500 were delayed by an average of 45 minutes following the computer failure at the headquarters of air traffic control company Nats at Swanwick in Hampshire.
Heathrow was the worst-hit airport, with 10,000 passengers affected. Luton and Gatwick also suffered flight disruption.
In a statement yesterday Nats said: "Nats confirms that there will be a financial consequence for the company from the delay caused by the technical problem at Swanwick on December 12 2014.
"Under the company's regulatory performance regime, customers (airlines) will receive a rebate on charges in the future. The amount is being calculated and will be notified to customers in due course."
Passengers caught up in the disruption will have to seek compensation through their airline.
British Airways said it had provided hotel accommodation to those who were disrupted last Friday. It added that passengers who were due to travel last Friday evening from Heathrow, Gatwick or London City had been offered the option to either rebook their flight for a later date or claim a full refund.
Yesterday the bosses of Nats appeared before the House of Commons Transport Committee to explain last week's problems.
Apologising to "customers, airports and the travelling public" for the computer problem, Nats chief executive Richard Deakin said his company's contingency and back-up plans worked well.
He told the committee: "Any complex system will have failures," adding that it would be "unrealistic" to expect there would be no failures.
Mr Deakin was appearing with Nats operations managing director Martin Rolfe as well as Andrew Haines, chief executive of the Civil Aviation Authority, which has already announced that an independent inquiry will be held into the failure.
The committee had already taken evidence this week from Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin, who described the flight delays as "unacceptable".
Questioned about the independence of the inquiry, Mr Haines said it would be "highly independent".
Mr Rolfe told MPs that the piece of equipment that failed last week dated from the mid-1990s and had dealt with 20 million flights and had been upgraded continually.
Asked if he agreed with Mr McLoughlin that the failure last week was "unacceptable", Mr Deakin said: "For the passengers who got caught up in all this, yes, it was unacceptable, and by implication it was unacceptable for us as well.
"We are not proud of what happened. We are proud of how we responded."
It was put to Mr Deakin that he sounded "very, very complacent".
He replied: "Not at all."
Mr Deakin confirmed that, including a £272,000 bonus, he received a £1.05 million pay package for the 12 months ending last March.
He also confirmed that the bonus was cut by 12% due to the flight disruption caused by another Swanwick problem last December.
Asked if he expected to have this year's bonus cut, Mr Deakin said that would be up to the Nats remuneration committee but he added that any bonus would be linked to performance.
Asked about future performance, Mr Deakin said: "I can guarantee that this particular problem will not happen again but I cannot honestly sit here and say we will never have a computer glitch again."
Mr Haines said he hoped that the full report by the inquiry team would be published by the end of March.
Mr Rolfe disagreed with a suggestion that Nats' systems were "fundamentally flawed". Incidents such as last Friday's and the one last December were "very rare and very regrettable", he added.
Mr Deakin said that latest figures showed 99.7% of flights using UK air space face no delays. Of the 0.3% that do, the average delay is 26 minutes.
Following last week's disruption Business Secretary Vince Cable had questioned Nats' investment levels. Mr Deakin said there was no question of putting profit before investment and that investment levels were between 1.4 and 1.9 times higher than before the company was privatised.
He denied any suggestion that Nats' systems were "ancient or antiquated". He said: "Just because technology is 'old', it does not necessarily mean that it is not fit for purpose."
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Q: How do i get sub properties With VMWare PowerCLi, I am trying to access the properties from a variable but not sure how to get it, My code looks like this so far :
    $datastore = Get-Datastore | where {$_.name -like "*geko*"} | select
    name,remotehost, remotepath | Sort-Object name | ft -AutoSize
    $datastore

so the result i get is:
Name            RemoteHost        RemotePath
----            ----------        ----------
Serv_Geko       {192.168.134.137} /Serv_Geko

Question is how do I get the RemotePath in a variable or access it from the above $datastore variable.
I thought I would be able to get it from $datastore.RemoteHost but that doesnt seem to work.
I essentially just need to get the IP into a variable so that I can use it lower down in the script.
Any help most appreciated.

A: Remove ft -AutoSize from your code and then you can access $datastore.RemoteHost.
PS> $datastore = Get-Datastore | where {$_.name -like "*geko*"} | select
    name, remotehost, remotepath | Sort-Object name
PS> $datastore.RemoteHost

OR
Use -ExpandProperty parameter of Select-Object.
$IPAddress = Get-Datastore | where {$_.name -like "*geko*"} | select-object -ExpandProperty remotehost

Now your $IPAddress
 contains the IP address.

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package backup

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"time"

	"github.com/flynn/flynn/controller/client"
	ct "github.com/flynn/flynn/controller/types"
)

func Run(client *controller.Client, out io.Writer, progress ProgressBar) error {
	tw := NewTarWriter("flynn-backup-"+time.Now().UTC().Format("2006-01-02_150405"), out, progress)
	defer tw.Close()

	// get app and release details for key apps
	data, err := getApps(client)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	if err := tw.WriteJSON("flynn.json", data); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	pgRelease := data["postgres"].Release
	pgJob := &ct.NewJob{
		ReleaseID:  pgRelease.ID,
		Entrypoint: []string{"bash"},
		Cmd:        []string{"-c", "set -o pipefail; pg_dumpall --clean --if-exists | gzip -9"},
		Env: map[string]string{
			"PGHOST":     pgRelease.Env["PGHOST"],
			"PGUSER":     pgRelease.Env["PGUSER"],
			"PGPASSWORD": pgRelease.Env["PGPASSWORD"],
		},
		DisableLog: true,
	}
	if err := tw.WriteCommandOutput(client, "postgres.sql.gz", "postgres", pgJob); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("error dumping postgres database: %s", err)
	}

	// If mariadb is not present skip attempting to store the backup in the archive
	if mariadb, ok := data["mariadb"]; ok && mariadb.Processes["mariadb"] > 0 {
		mysqlRelease := mariadb.Release
		mysqlJob := &ct.NewJob{
			ReleaseID:  mysqlRelease.ID,
			Entrypoint: []string{"bash"},
			Cmd:        []string{"-c", fmt.Sprintf("set -o pipefail; /usr/bin/mysqldump -h %s -u %s --all-databases | gzip -9", mysqlRelease.Env["MYSQL_HOST"], mysqlRelease.Env["MYSQL_USER"])},
			Env: map[string]string{
				"MYSQL_PWD": mysqlRelease.Env["MYSQL_PWD"],
			},
			DisableLog: true,
		}
		if err := tw.WriteCommandOutput(client, "mysql.sql.gz", "mariadb", mysqlJob); err != nil {
			return fmt.Errorf("error dumping mariadb database: %s", err)
		}
	}
	return nil
}

func getApps(client *controller.Client) (map[string]*ct.ExpandedFormation, error) {
	// app -> required for backup
	apps := map[string]bool{
		"postgres":   true,
		"mariadb":    false,
		"discoverd":  true,
		"flannel":    true,
		"controller": true,
	}
	data := make(map[string]*ct.ExpandedFormation, len(apps))
	for name, required := range apps {
		app, err := client.GetApp(name)
		if err != nil {
			if required {
				return nil, fmt.Errorf("error getting %s app details: %s", name, err)
			} else {
				// If it's not an essential app just exclude it from the backup and continue.
				continue
			}
		}
		release, err := client.GetAppRelease(app.ID)
		if err != nil {
			return nil, fmt.Errorf("error getting %s app release: %s", name, err)
		}
		formation, err := client.GetFormation(app.ID, release.ID)
		if err != nil {
			return nil, fmt.Errorf("error getting %s app formation: %s", name, err)
		}
		artifact, err := client.GetArtifact(release.ArtifactID)
		if err != nil {
			return nil, fmt.Errorf("error getting %s app artifact: %s", name, err)
		}
		data[name] = &ct.ExpandedFormation{
			App:       app,
			Release:   release,
			Artifact:  artifact,
			Processes: formation.Processes,
		}
	}
	return data, nil
}


Pretty Little Thing has been named one of the top three fastest growing fashion companies ever. But how did the young company manage to reach millions of people in such a short period of time?
Pretty Little Thing was founded in 2012, and in the grand scheme of things, to go from small beginnings to one of the biggest online stores in 7 years, is an incredible achievement by anyone's standards. Was it down to the social media strategy? With the brand having over 10 million followers on Instagram alone, a lot of people seem to think so.
Let's take it back to basics for a second. How does social media marketing work on Instagram? Instagram, for anyone who doesn't know, is a photo sharing app used by 1 billion people. Generally, Instagram is used by people to reflect their lives. Your Instagram tells people who you are, what your interests are, what you spend your time doing, and who you do it with (not actually who you do 'it' with, unless you want to share that lol). With Instagram reflecting your life, why would you not want it to be showcasing the best parts of it? Or at least, what appears to be the best parts of it.
That is where social media marketing comes into it. Instagram themes are VITAL in the game of LIFE (or, social media marketing), as they create an image of a brand. Brands are on top of this, and all of the biggest brands use social media marketing to create a brand voice. As an example, technology brands tend to choose Instagram themes that portray 'real life and real people' to market its products as accessible (yet with gorgeously crisp and beautiful photography). Pretty Little Thing chose to go for 'real life and real people' to market its products as accessible (but only using models in sunny locations shot by photographers). Are you seeing the pattern? It's all part of social media marketing that says to people - 'Hey, look at our stunning Instagram that tells a story, and looks amazing. Yours could look like this too if you buy our products' (usually forgetting to mention that they use professional photographers, models and editors to create these images, not just the product advertised).
But this is why it works so well. Pretty Little Thing as a brand has an amazing relationship with social media, understanding how social media marketing works, and the importance of having an online presence. Pretty Little Thing's Instagram has a theme, uses stories and it has matching cover photos for its highlights. They use influencer marketing to engage consumers and post on average 6 times a day, which increases each post's chance of getting seen by more people. Pretty Little Thing are experts in social media marketing, as they know who they're targeting and how to target them.
Building a brand takes time, especially in the current social media market, however, Pretty Little Thing have been able to grow quickly thanks to the professional nature of its photography. They create content that people want to engage with, rather than to just showcase a product. Pretty Little Thing's followers want to see the content on their feed because it looks appealing, which is accomplished by making every element of the content professional.
Once the content is perfected, to reach people, the idea is to use hashtags! Pretty Little Thing still use hashtags to reach as many people as they can, however, much less than they used to. The use of hashtags now, are generally to promote its content on trending events. On #NationalPuppyDay, Pretty Little Thing posted a photo with the hashtag and got over 75,000 likes, which did well, getting around 15,000 more likes than the previous photo! Surely, this proves that hashtagging your photos really does #wurk.
So really, there's no secret. Pretty Little Thing really have just grafted from the start like the rest of us, they just use the assets available to them to create the best content possible and post LOADS of it! So, what's your excuse? I've broken it down for you, time to get going!


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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernhard Peters
Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Johannes Khinast
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Welcome to the 26th International Symposium on Transport Phenomena
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27.09. - 01.10.2015:ISTP 26
Welcome to the 26th International Symposium on Transport Phenomena (ISTP-26). The international conference provides a forum for researchers, scientists and engineers from all over the world to exchange information, to present new information and to engage in discussion on the future directions and priorities in the areas of transport phenomena. The renewal and making of friendship for participants are the further objectives of the ISTP-26 for the future world.
Transport phenomena include the flow of fluid, heat and mass transfer, multiphase flow, micro and nano problems, thermal management of electric and electronic systems, energy conversion and saving technologies both on the ground and in space.
ISTP HISTORY
Honolulu 1985, Tokyo 1987, Taipei 1988, Sydney 1991, Beijing 1992, Seoul 1993, Acapulko 1994, San Francisco 1995, Singapore 1996, Kyoto 1997, Taipei 1998, Istanbul 2000, Victoria 2002, Bali 2003, Bankok 2004, Prague 2005, Toyama 2006, Daejeon 2007, Iceland 2008, Victoria 2009, Kaohsing 2010, Delft 2011, Auckland 2012, Tokyo 2013 and Krabi/Thailand 2014.
HISTORY MONTANUNIVERSITAET LEOBEN
The dramatic development of mechanical engineering and transportation at the beginning of the 19th century in Austria meant that alpine mining and metallurgy needed to step up a gear. This was only going to be possible with academically trained experts and so the "Steiermärkisch - Ständische Montanlehranstalt" (Styrian Corporate School of Mining) opend on 4 November 1840. An imperial decree on 31 July 1904 changed the name to "University of Mining" and made it entirely equivalent to a technical university by allowing it to award doctoral degrees.
Based on the 1975 Austrian University Organisation Act, the University of Mining has been known as Montanuniversitaet Leoben since 1 October 1975. Having crossed the 1000-student threshold in 1981, student numbers for 2014/15 reached approx. 3,800 – the highest since the university was founded.
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NGOs from Korea and Indonesia file OECD complaint against POSCO International
December 12, 2019 | Press Release
Seoul, December 12, 2019 – Today Korean Transnational Corporations Watch (KTNC Watch), Yayasan Pusaka (Indonesia), WALHI Papua (Indonesia), and SKP KAMe (Indonesia), filed a complaint at Korea's National Contact Point (NCP) for the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) against POSCO International and two Korean public financial institutions, the Korean National Pension Service (NPS) and the Export-Import Bank of Korea (KEXIM).
The complaint concerns POSCO International, the controlling owner, and the NPS and KEXIM, the financers of POSCO International. The complaint is related to the adverse impacts caused by the operation of the palm oil company PT. Bio Inti Agrindo (PT. BIA), a subsidiary of POSCO International in Papua, Indonesia. The adverse impacts include large-scale deforestation of tropical rainforest and loss of biodiversity; failure to implement Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) with the customary owners of the land in the process of developing the plantation; and violation of local residents' right to water by degrading the Bian River water quality.
The complaint is supported by evidence of misconduct by PT. BIA, which is owned by POSCO International. POSCO International has not addressed the deforestation carried out by PT. BIA or put in place policies to prevent further deforestation. Allegations were repeatedly made in regard to violation of the right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), but POSCO International failed to provide a proper remedy to stakeholders. Due to the degradation of the water quality of the Bian River, local residents can no longer use the water from the river for their daily activities or drinking. However, no measures were taken to ensure that the right to water of the local residents is protected.
Under the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises (the Guidelines hereinafter), corporations have a duty to respect human rights and address adverse impacts when they occur. Corporations should avoid causing the adverse impacts and should provide remedies when the adverse impacts occur. However, measures taken by POSCO International serve as neither remedies for the harms occurred nor due diligence policies to prevent or mitigate further adverse impacts.
Meanwhile, the Guidelines require the corporations to seek to prevent or mitigate adverse human rights impacts directly linked to financial services by a business relationship. NPS, as an institutional shareholder of POSCO International, should engage with the investee companies damaging shareholder value, but NPS has failed to meaningfully engage with POSCO International despite its awareness on the adverse impacts. KEXIM also failed to review the reasonably foreseeable risk in the palm oil industry when it decided to provide the loans to POSCO International's subsidiary in Papua.
The Norwegian Government Pension Fund and the Dutch pension fund ABP have divested from POSCO International on the grounds of deforestation, and the Korean media has covered the relevant issues in relation to PT. BIA's operation. Despite this the NPS continues to hold a more than five percent share in POSCO International, and KEXIM has provided loans for PT. BIA's operations.
Y.L. Franky, the Director of Yayasan Pusaka stated, "The palm oil industry creates many difficulties for the indigenous people of Papua. The forest they have depended on is disappearing and social conflicts due to land disputes are on the increase." Pastor Anselmus Amo, the Director of SKP KAMe reiterated that the local residents have suffered since PT. BIA began operating the plantation and further explained, "Daily life has been made particularly difficult for local residents by the now polluted river water. However, local residents do not know where to go to raise these issues." Shin Young Chung, KTNC Watch lawyer also pointed out, "Well-known pension funds have withdrawn their investments, and public financial institutions in Korea should also adopt policies to consider environmental and social impacts of the business." She hopes the NCP will make a decision that will bring actual change to the behaviour of POSCO International and the financers.
The complainants request that the Korean NCP facilitate dialogue to persuade POSCO International to acknowledge the deforestation they have caused and provide the remediation. They also call on POSCO International to adopt and publish a comprehensive group-wide cross-commodity No Deforestation, No Peat, and No Exploitation (NDPE) policy to prevent further damages. It is also requested that POSCO International implement FPIC in their operation and ensure the right to water of the local communities relying on the Bian River.
They also request that the NPS engage with POSCO International to use their leverage and consider deforestation and infringement of the rights of indigenous people in their policies for socially responsible investment. The complainants request KEXIM to adopt policies for reviewing environmental and social risks in developing natural resources overseas and refrain from providing further loans to support PT. BIA's operations that are causing adverse impacts.
Various other NGOs, such as WALHI Kalimantan Tengah (Friends of the Earth Indonesia), Milieudefensie (Friends of the Earth Netherlands), Friends of the Earth Melbourne, Friends of Earth U.S. support the filing of this complaint against POSCO International, NPS and KEXIM by KTNC Watch, Yayasan Pusaka, SKP KAMe and WALHI Papua.
For more information or interview requests you can contact:
KTNC Watch: Shin Young Chung (Attorney-at-Law), sychung@apil.or.kr, +82-2-3478-0529
Yayasan Pusaka: Franky Samperante (Director), angkytm@gmail.com, +62-21 -7892137
SKP KAMe: Father Anselmo Amo (Director), amo.anselmus@gmail.com
WALHI Papua: Aiesh Rumbekwan (Executive Director), walhipapua@yahoo.co.id, +62 813 4452 4394
Member Group: Korean Federation for Environmental Movement (KFEM), Wahana Lingkungan Hidup Indonesia (WALHI)


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RZA Reveals How He Applied Making "Only Built For Cuban Linx..." To Making "The Man With The Iron Fists"
Published on: Oct 23, 2012, 11:15 AM
by Justin Hunte
RZA is sitting behind a conference table in the Cornerstone Agency's Manhattan offices. To his right stands an easel with an oversized movie poster of his directorial debut, The Man With The Iron Fists. A couple members of his public relations team sit on the leather couches directly across the room. He's been doing interviews all day, but you can't tell from his demeanor. No exhaustion in eyes. No fatigue in his answers. He's animated. After years of studying under his movie making mentor – and Executive Producer – Quentin Tarantino, and recording over 1,000,000 feet of film, the heavy lifting is in The Abbot's rearview.
Two decades ago, the Abbot devised the plan that launched the Wu-Tang Clan into unparalleled global reverence – the type reverence best exemplified by the avid fans roaming with the group's ubiquitous "W"-logo tattooed on their faces – so feeding the media beast is undoubtedly routine. But what's wrecking the RZA's nerves these days, as he tells HipHopDX in this interview, is the anticipation of the public's reaction to his first official Hollywood endeavor.
RZA Explains The Challenges Of Directing The Man With The Iron Fist
RZA: On one level I can say I feel accomplished because I did it. But now I gotta be accepted by the world. It's got to be criticized by the world. It has to have a market value to it as well. People invested money into this thing.
HipHopDX: It seems like you've been in the Hollywood portion of the [entertainment industry] long enough to alleviate some of those fears.
RZA: Nah, man. This is different. Doing a score is for somebody, It's his movie. Shit. I got the music and of course I want to do a great job for the [movie]. Even if did the score and the movie is fucked up, the director will get more of the blame than anybody. I'm Captain Kirk of this Enterprise. If the ship goes down, kid, the Captain is to blame. That's nerve wrecking. At the same time, I finally understand what they mean. When we were editing the film, they were like, "You've gotta cut that. You've gotta cut that. You've gotta kill your babies." I was like, "Kill the babies? What the fuck y'all talking about. We don't kill babies." Actually, within the last two months I would say this film has become a living entity. Therefore, this film is like a baby. You know everybody's gonna look at your baby like, "Is that an ugly baby? Is that a beautiful baby? Is that a smart baby? Is that a dumb baby? Is that baby retarded?" That's how a film feels, yo. People watch it.
I watched it last Saturday with Quentin [Tarantino]. I was like, "Oh shit." And he made me sit right beside him. [Laughs] I was sitting there with so many things going through my head. Once he laughed at one thing like, "Oh!" I started easing up. I started easing up. Through the middle of the film, I got a few pats on the back like, "Good Bobby!" His name is on that motherfucker, you know. So, we've still the rest of the world to appreciate it – the Hip Hop community for those who wonder why RZA would leave music. I wasn't kicked out of music, you know what I mean. I walked on my own and did another dream, another passion. And this was it: To bring something from our aesthetic to the world and potentially make more of these. To me this is like [Wu-Tang Clan's] Enter The 36 Chambers and it feels like it. I was real confident on Enter The 36 Chambers. I knew I had the illest thing in the world. I feel this is just as ill, but the difference between that and this is that I've spent so many years as an emcee/producer before the world ever heard me. This is basically right out of college right now. After six years of studying and all that and doing it. This is not like my third or fourth album. Enter The 36 Chambers wasn't my first album. It's the first album the world heard by me. I made many tapes in my neighborhood. Niggas got 10 albums by me, you know what I mean.
RZA Talks About Older Wu-Tang Clan Movies, Self-Financed
DX: You've written screenplays. You've shot movies before that you never released.
RZA: Like Bobby Digital, but I did Bobby Digital with no screenplay. [Laughs] I just got the camera like, "Add money." I spent like $400,000 on that motherfucker. I didn't care. I just went for it. That's a way of learning.
DX: Is that the equivalent to those early demos that people never heard before Enter The 36 Chambers?
RZA: I would say so. I think that is like early demos. And maybe one day somebody will watch it and be like, "That shit was good, motherfucker!" But maybe they'll like it more after seeing this. But it ain't the same, yo, because the difference between Bobby Digital or Wu-Tang Versus The Golden Phoenix, is that I spent my own money. If it's garbage, I can throw it away. Nobody to fucking argue with. In this particular case, I'm spending somebody else's money. I'm representing not just myself here. I've got a lot of people – important people – involved with this. It's a different kind of pressure. This is why we say this is my first directorial debut because this is not just a guy that has money and is like, "C'mon! Get the cameras." A lot of things start that way. Look at Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It. But that's cool that it started him, but it's not really a good movie. No disrespect to him. It's cool. The girl was sexy. But by the time he got to a real movie that we all went to see…Do The Right Thing was the one that ushered us into his talent. But he had a few things that he did as a student and all those things – those amateur films that may have resonated with a few people. I don't have that same kind of career, but I'm just saying that this is not an amateur [film]. This is professional. This is like playing for the pros.
DX: You've referred to [Quentin] Tarantino as your mentor. If there were two points that he impressed upon you going into your first film, what were those two things that stand out to you now as you're approaching the release?
RZA: It's hard to point to two things. I can't narrow it down to two things, actually. I learned so much from the man from spending time with him, watching movies with him, and seeing how he saw things. Seeing how he dissected. I guess that's one thing: The ability to dissect a scene or a script or a character. Dissecting and then rebuilding – that's important. Even when you make a movie, you're filming it, but that doesn't make it a movie. I don't care how much you film. We filmed over a million feet worth of film, they said. When they measured the shit, they said, "This guy's got a million feet." That's more than most movies. Most movies are 500,000 or 600,000 feet. There's movies that are only 300,000 worth of feet. I got a million feet. That don't mean that I got a movie yet. It's not a movie until you're able to bring that into the editing room and be able to tell a story. The ability to dissect.
Another thing I learned from him was the proper sequencing of events. You notice about Tarantino – whether he switches it around like in Pulp Fiction; whether he makes it linear like Reservoir Dogs or Inglorious Bastards – he has a way of sequencing events to keep you captivated and even puzzled, sometimes. That became important to me. When I had the first cut, I had a long cut of the movie, it was three and a half hours. I turned in all this shit. I worked with him on Kill Bill, so I've seen him turn two movies out of it. I was in the editing room with him on Kill Bill. I've seen him edit the scenes. I was right there on the scene. I was on the set with him for Kill Bill. I've seen Uma Thurmond do that whirlwind kick 20 times. When I thought she did it good on the third time, he's like, "Good. Um, one more time." [Laughs] Then when you're back in the editing room, you can hear him torturing that woman. Every time, "That was good…Oh…one more." Or, "That was great, Uma. Let's try it again." Or, "Oh good…One more" I went down and watched him on Django [Unchained]. Same thing. [Samuel L. Jackson] is just walking. All Sam is doing is walking eight feet, and he did that motherfucker 20 times. I learned from being on hand with him.
But when this film was basically done we had that first cut, I was arguing with my producers about cutting shit out. So I went to him. We watched some of it, then we stopped it in the middle. He was like, "Okay. This is what's happening here. You've got a train. You've got this here. And I care about this, and I care about this. But I don't care about this. And if I don't care about this, I'm going to lose attention to it. So, you have to figure out how to pair the 'cans' with the 'cans' and the 'can-nots' with the 'can-nots.'"
DX: You have to figure out which babies to kill.
RZA: Exactly. And which ones to sequence. That advice helped me tremendously. So it's hard to point out what I learned from him because there's so many things.
RZA Reveals That Ghostface Killah & Raekwon Did Not Always Get Along, Learning From Experience
DX: I think one of the things that's most fascinating about your career is the organization you were able to set up with Wu-Tang – regardless of whether we all realized you had a five year plan and planned to expand that way you did. I think that's a fundamental key in being successful in anything: Galvanize people and manage people to see an idea through to fruition. How would you compare that as a director now? These crews have got to be massive. There has to be hundreds of people on set.
RZA: Yeah, it's hundreds of people. But it's the same principle. There's an Art Of War and a Book Of The Ninja that says, "When you are in the right mind frame, whether you're controlling one or a thousand, it's the same." I think being a part of Wu-Tang; and being able to understand the dynamics of my crew; and being able have all of us focus on one mind [is] the key to this whole world if we can just snap into one mind. Not One World Order or shit like that. An order is one thing. A community is another. If we can all snap into this perfect frame of mind where we can all understand and feel what's right and exact because we're living and it's resonating – that's when the most power and most achievements are gained.
I'll give you an example from Wu-Tang. You notice that the first five albums – especially the first three – but the first five albums are considered the classics because that's when [the mind] was galvanized. It's after that it starts separating and scattering…It was still a success or whatever. But the rest of the world didn't feel it. On Enter The 36 Chambers, everybody agrees. But by the time you got back to maybe after [Ghostface Killah's] Supreme Clientele, or even me doing Bobby Digital – I got some people to agree. It ain't galvanized. The same thing with a film. The people have to be galvanized. Everyone has to be come centralized into one mind. The difference in film is that people know that. They know that the director is the leader. My first [Assistant Director] would talk me dizzy repeating me for months. I wanted to fire him because he was getting me nauseous. After meeting with him for three hours, I'm nauseous and dizzy. I'm needing coconut water. I told the producer, "Thomas is getting me fucking dizzy." I'm ready to fucking fire Thomas, but I needed him. I needed him. And I knew I needed him. This guy was smart and he was stubborn; he was consistent and persistent on my ideas.
"Bobby, you said that the knife spins this way. How does a knife spin this way?" I said, "I told you, man. I told you yesterday." He'd say, "Okay, but tell me again." And every time he would do that, I'm like, "This fucking guy, is he retarded?" And would you believe that after 12 to 14 weeks of this shit, when it came time to shoot, everything was on point because he was meticulous like that. There was one day when I got nervous like, "Hold on, wait. I needed 30!" And he said, "No, no Bobby. We have 30. The other ten are still getting ready for you. They'll be out in five minutes." I'm like, "Oh. Okay." It was covered.
Working with Wu-Tang did prepare me for this. From going to [Rick Yune] – beautiful dude, love him. Tough dude, though. Tough man to please. This guy, actually. I'll share this with you. I didn't share this with everybody, but I'll share this with you. "Brass Body" [Rick Yune] and the "X Blade" [Dave Batista] didn't get along.
DX: Personality conflicts?
RZA: These are both two, muscle bound workout motherfuckers that know what they know and convinced on what they know. Now they're talking to each other about what they know and they're arguing. Now they're both trying to convince me on something. [WWE wrestler], Dave Batista is like, "Yo, if Rick wasn't your boy." Rick is like, "Man, fuck that. That muscle shit don't mean nothing." And then I had to get them both together and say, "Listen, man. Would you believe that Raekwon and [Ghost were enemies? Then came together and made [Only Built For Cuban Linx…]? This is all part of growing, yo." Wu-Tang became [a group] while Park Hill, [Staten Island] and Stapleton, [Staten Island] was at war. I got two neighborhoods together in one group. But after riding on that tour bus – or tour van. It wasn't a bus back then. Laying on each other's shoulders and falling asleep and slobbering on a nigga, a bond happens. The same thing with these guys. The same thing happens with these guys. After being out there in that freezing snow, freezing cold, 14-hour days – and then everybody has to go to lunch and the next thing you know, it was just us at the table. The niggas, start sharing because we was all in that mission together.
DX: I'm looking at the soundtrack and I'm seeing Raekwon and Pharoahe Monch. I'm seeing Idle Warship, Flatbush Zombies. I'm seeing the Black Keys. Did you have an overarching vision for the soundtrack?
RZA: I didn't have an overarching vision for the beginning of the soundtrack. The main thing I wanted to do was make sure I made an accompanied piece to the film. I made sure that, no matter what, some of the music must have [the film's theme]. Everything must tie together. There must be a common thread throughout. Some of the artists were my choice. Some the artists were brought to me. Like, "Word? Pusha T wants to get on? The budget is gone. Think we can find something a little more? I'll find a little more if you're with it." I'm like, "I'm with it. I love Pusha T." Pusha T, Raekwon, and Joell Ortiz – who had another song that we had to change. Did you know that Danny Brown is on that song as well?
DX: I didn't know that.
RZA: Exactly, because that's a secret. That's what happens when you get the soundtrack. He came on last minute because I loved his voice. I'll say one thing, a lot of people love to be in movies. But I had the privilege of the fact that what we were doing attracted a lot of talent. I think we came with a great soundtrack. But somebody like Kanye West, for instance, he's the first person to come in. He came in and watched the scene. I didn't show everybody the scenes. I showed him the scene. He saw it and went and wrote me a song. Corrine Bailey Rae, she was the second person I brought in. She came in and watched 70% of one of the first cuts and she got moved and she wrote her song. The Black Keys song, we wrote that right before we started filming because I was telling him a story about the movie and the ideas I had. So some people got stories that go directly with the film itself, and some people were just inspired by the film for their music.
DX: The first kung-fu move I fell in love with was The Last Dragon. I don't know what that says about me as a kung-fu buff, but…
RZA: [Laughs] It's a start, baby!
DX: There was a rumor that you are working on a remake. Is that true? Is that really happening?
RZA: It's true. It's a true rumor. We had meetings just last week about it. It's looking real positive. It's not easy to get movies made. You'll learn that if you ever get into this business. But, it looks very, very positive.
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