S-di was the guest of honor this weekend and we decided to show her around this part of the world. Devarayanadurga was one of the chosen destinations. They say you don't discuss politics and religion with someone you just met, but that's exactly what we ended up doing on the drive. I had resisted talking about it till she unintentionally used Atheism and Anarchy in the same sentence almost implying that they were cause-and-effect. I'll come back to that in a while.
The weather was great at the top. We picked a random hill and decided to reach the top. We hadn't trekked more than a kilometer before we realized that it was a bad idea. The shrub jungle which we were drudging through was half burnt presumably in a recent wild fire. In no time, all of us looked like commandoes with black streaks all over our clothing. We chose to turn around.


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Included in this product are several interactive notebook pages that go along with the skills, vocabulary, and grammar AND a digital file is also included for use with google classroom/google slides! You can choose to have students use the interactive OR digital pages to complete the weekly activities.
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Has Amber Heard Just Been Cast as Aquaman's Queen Mera?
According to Hollywood Reporter, actress Amber Heard is in final negotiations to play Aquaman's wife and Queen of Atlantis in Justice League Part 1.
Mera's powers compliment Aquaman's in some pretty interesting ways, as she's able to control and manipulate water with her mind. She's been part of the King of Atlantis' supporting cast for quite some time - over 50 years. So it's only appropriate now that Arthur Curry has entered the cinematic world, his wife Mera should too.
Amber Heard has appeared in a number of films and TV shows including Pineapple Express, The Rum Diary, and Magic Mike XXL among many others. She certainly looks the part, but she would certainly fit the character more by dying her hair red, which in all probability will happen.
What type of role Mera will have in Justice League is another question entirely, however. Though Mera will most likey play a large role in Aquaman, she may only have a cameo or play a very brief role in Justice League. That said, if she did play a larger role, it'd probably end up benefiting the film in terms of diversity. So far, Wonder Woman is the only female member of the team that's been confirmed. Adding Mera to the ensemble or at least have her assisting Aquaman in the League's missions would go a long way with female representation.
With Justice League set to start filming soon, casting decisions such as these will probably become commonplace. The question is: will Warner Bros. let us in on them? Maybe — but then again, maybe not. Though a list of names from Wonder Woman's cast was released in a press release not long ago, no one really knows who most of these actors and actresses are playing.
Of course, Mera has been fancast hundreds of times since Jason Momoa was announced as the DCEU's Aquaman, but Amber's name hasn't come up once. That's probably a good thing, though, because history has shown that most fans know absolutely nothing when it comes to good superhero casting (remember Michael Keaton and Heath Ledger?). So far, she seems to be a good choice, but we'll probably have to wait and see to know for sure when Justice League Part 1 hits theaters in 2017.


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In total, we found that 115 reviewers (or 76%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
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After our quick stop in Paris, our European vacation really got underway in the Frankfurt/Mainz area, where we had some great visits with generous and gracious friends. They did a wonderful job of acclimating us to German foods, customs, roads, and geography.
They also were great tourguides, and we enjoyed seeing many interesting and lovely sights in this part of Germany.
Our major tourist activity was a cruise on the Rhine River, and the pictures from that memorable day have their own page.
Dreieichenhain is a charming village not far from the Frankfurt airport. We were given a walking tour of its medieval Altstadt (old town) by one of our Frankfurt friends.
Sally didn't pass up the opportunity to feed some of the birds by this picturesque Dreieichenhain lake.
The Rheingau is one of Germany's official wine-producing regions. As indicated by the name, the famous river runs through the region. We took a Rhine cruise a bit later in our vacation and pictures from that wonderful trip have their own page.
We spent a lovely day touring (and sampling) the Rheingau with our friends from the Mainz area. Highlights included a walk around the lovely village of Eltville (see pictures below), a picnic at the Eberbach abbey, and afternoon "tea" overlooking the Rhine at Schloss Johannisberg. The gorgeous views on the left were taken from our tea spot.
Eltville is famous for its rose gardens, and we were fortunate to be able to see them in their full-bloom glory.
Kloster Eberbach (Eberbach Abbey) is a medieval complex that offers many opportunities to tempt vacation photographers. And not just tourists: some of its interiors were used in filming The Name of the Rose in the mid-1980's!
The Abbey is also a vineyard (of course, being in the Rheingau). The vine view below is near where we had our picnic on the Abbey grounds.
It also has a museum and an impressive Romanesque chapel.
But, especially on the gorgeous day of our visit, it's hard to argue that the Abbey's best features aren't simply its lovely buildings.
Our last day with our friends was spent seeing some of Mainz's main attractions, including the Gutenberg Museum and their wonderful cathedral (where we happened to drop in on a choral rehearsal—what great acoustics!).
We also bought some provisions for our road trip at the Mainz outdoor market.
Fully provisioned, acclimated to German traffic rules, and ready to see some more of this beautiful country, we bid our friends Auf Wiedersehen and took off on the Romantic Road.


Maybe it was just our shared background of a stint in the finance industry - another suggested, selfish, sellout mark against one's character in respect for & building toward the greater good of a society - that made me believe even more in her encompassing knowledge base for succeeding in this endeavor, but I am a huge Sally Jewell fan. "Oil & gas are just natural resources like everything else," she said in an interview by Eric Lucas in the Alaska Airlines' Beyond Magazine. Oversimplified, outdated & simple-minded as it may sound, she speaks the truth.


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Location: Arizona, Tempe, Sun Magic (Sun Devil) stadium Time: January 28, 1996 Number of the scene the audience: 76,347 Most Valuable Player (MVP): Dallas Cowboys cornerback Larry Brown (Larry Brown) Cornerback Larry Brown (Larry Brown), two interceptions to help the Cowboys scored 14 points in the second half, making the team to a 27-17 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers won their third, which in the past four seasons Super Bowl, their fifth win the Super Bowl. Brown's interception thwarted the hope that the Steelers recovered the score, so that he can win the Most Valuable Player, and walked away with the Pete Rozelle Pete Rozelle, the trophy. Pittsburgh team limit the Cowboys' powerful running, so that the opponents to only 56 yards rushing distance, and Section II in total yardage 201-61 absolute advantage over the Steelers, but they do not overcome by the Aotangnaier (O'Donnell,) three passes were intercepted losses caused by (another from the game last attack). Ironically, Aotangnaier the NFL in pass cut-off rate of the lowest player. Finally, Aotangnaier 49 passes completed 28 times, a total distance of 239 yards. Morris, 19 rushing once had up to 73 yards away from success. In Dallas, Aikman (Aikman on) 23 times passes completed 15 times, a total distance of 209 yards. The Cowboys' victory was the NFC team in the first Super Bowl 12 victory over AFC teams. The intermission show invited Diana Ross (Diana Ross) to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Super Bowl, especially the performance of pyrotechnics and stadium puzzle (Stadium card stunt, a stadium entertainment, spectator wearing the same clothing in accordance with command lift the hands of the brand to form the different letters and patterns).

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I hope you have been enjoying this series on Nehemiah. There are so many applications that can be made from this Old Testament leader. If you have not been reading previous posts, go to my website and look for the first title (When Hearing Produced Action) posted on February 27, 2017.
Through the long 900-mile trek from Susa to Jerusalem and surveying of the broken down walls of the city, Nehemiah has been stalwart in his mission to restore the walls of the city to protect the few residents left there. Only his consistent prayers exceed his skill in assessing the task ahead and the strategy for dividing the people in teams to do the work. They remind us of what he sees as foundational to complete his mission. They are even more important when the workers are taunted and discouraged by the story's two major antagonists, Tobiah and Sanballat, who seek to tear apart Nehemiah's character and reputation when they fail to deter the workers.
Nehemiah sees there is more to be done than rebuild the walls. In the absence of godly leadership and the taunts of their enemies, the Jews who were there were not unified or for one another. The difficult conditions for the largely poor people who were trying to have hope for the land of their fathers was worsened by the lack of good harvests to provide food for themselves or revenue from selling their excess. And in addition to the lack of good resources of any kind, they were still expected to pay taxes to the Persian government. That challenge provided opportunity for those who were richer to see the possibility for gain for themselves.
To comply with the relentless demands of the taxes by the Persians, the poorest among them had no choice but to give up or give over whatever lands and homes they had to their richer Jewish brothers to get the needed money for their taxes. They were even forced to sell their children as slaves to those who should have been helping them—members of their own culture and faith.
It can be easy for us to be critical of how these people were responding to one another, but perhaps we should be cautious and consider how we as believers treat one another in the body of Christ today. We may not need to turn over lands and houses or sell our children as slaves, but do we show support and care for those among us who are struggling in any and all ways? We are called to not only pray for such people, but also to act in kindness and show care for them.
Nehemiah had observed the wealthier citizens were abusing the poorest of those living in Jerusalem. As a result, the rich were getting richer and the poor were getting poorer.
Not only does Nehemiah notice this, once again he acts. He sees a wrong and sets about to call the people into account for their choices and behaviors. His challenge to them shows how effective accountability can be in pulling back those who are sinning from their decisions. He demonstrates godly leadership and how do those he challenges respond?
Having heard their pledge, Nehemiah does not stop there. He was probably aware they had been behaving this way for a long time so he adds an additional admonition. He shakes the folds of his own robe that would have had little pockets in it where personal things could be saved. He tells those who have pledged to stop their abusive behavior that God would shake them out of His pockets if they did not follow through on their pledge.
What we now add to the list of qualities evident in a godly leader is this: a godly leader cares.
And it is not merely a passive caring. He doesn't simply hug them, pat them, and pray for these people, he confronts those who are harming them. He was in charge and he could have expected and received privileges of any number of kinds from these people and taken advantage of his position, but Nehemiah did the exact opposite. He was a humble servant-leader who took no honor or privilege for himself.
What a powerful picture of Christlikeness we see here in the midst of the Old Testament in the person of Nehemiah!
How easy it can be for power to seduce the best of leaders in our churches or government who started as servant-leaders, but then accepted accolades and privileges that set them above and apart from the people they are to serve.
To remain godly and humble as a leader requires those around the leader to love that leader enough to have the courage to confront him or her when evidences of abuse of power begin to appear. Accountability with love is how we all grow and mature in our character. It is also how we demonstrate we are Christ's.
A godly leader cares and it shows!
Nehemiah is so inspiring! Thanks so much for linking up at Booknificent Thursday on Mommynificent.com this week!
Pam – This statement is so true "How easy it can be for power to seduce the best of leaders in our churches or government who started as servant-leaders, but then accepted accolades and privileges that set them above and apart from the people they are to serve." A true leader really does care, thank you for this great series on Nehemiah. He is quickly becoming a favorite of mine. Thanks so much for linking up to #TuneInThursday today!
You are so right, Debbie! None of us realizes how subtle and seductive power can sometimes be and hence, we can miss it and become ensnared. Sadly, it happens too often inside and outside the church walls.


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package Bio::EnsEMBL::Production::Pipeline::Xrefs::CleanupUniprot;

use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Path qw(make_path);
use Array::Utils qw(:all);

use parent qw/Bio::EnsEMBL::Production::Pipeline::Xrefs::Base/;

sub run {
  my ($self) = @_;

  my $base_path    = $self->param_required('base_path');
  my $db_url       = $self->param_required('db_url');
  my $name         = $self->param_required('name');
  my $version_file = $self->param('version_file');
  my $clean_files  = $self->param('clean_files');
  my $clean_dir    = $self->param_required('clean_dir');
  my $skip_download = $self->param('skip_download');

  # Exit if not cleaning files or not a uniprot source
  if (!$clean_files) {return;}
  if ($name !~ /^Uniprot/) {return;}

  my $file_size = 200000;

  # Remove last '/' character if it exists
  if ($base_path =~ /\/$/) {chop($base_path);}

  # Remove / char from source name to access directory
  my $clean_name = $name;
  $clean_name =~ s/\///g;

  # Create needed directories
  my $output_path = $clean_dir."/".$clean_name;
  make_path($output_path);

  # Save the clean files directory in source db
  my ($user, $pass, $host, $port, $source_db) = $self->parse_url($db_url);
  my $dbi = $self->get_dbi($host, $port, $user, $pass, $source_db);
  my $update_version_sth = $dbi->prepare("UPDATE IGNORE version set clean_uri=? where source_id=(SELECT source_id FROM source WHERE name=?)");
  $update_version_sth->execute($output_path, $name);
  $update_version_sth->finish();

  # If no new download, no need to clean up the files again
  if ($skip_download) { return; }

  # Get xref sources
  my %sources = get_source_names($dbi);

  # Set sources to skip
  my @source_names = (
    # Skipped in parsing step
    'GO', 'UniGene', 'RGD', 'CCDS', 'IPI', 'UCSC', 'SGD', 'HGNC', 'MGI', 'VGNC', 'Orphanet',
    'ArrayExpress', 'GenomeRNAi', 'EPD', 'Xenbase', 'Reactome', 'MIM_GENE', 'MIM_MORBID', 'MIM',
    'Interpro'
  );
  my $sources_to_remove = join("|", @source_names);

  # Get all files for source
  my $files_path = $base_path."/".$clean_name;
  my @files = `ls $files_path`;
  foreach my $file_name (@files) {
    $file_name =~ s/\n//;
    my $file = $files_path."/".$file_name;
    if (defined($version_file) && $file eq $version_file) {next;}

    my ($in_fh, $out_fh);
    my $output_file = $file_name;

    # Open file normally or with zcat for zipped filed
    if ($file_name =~ /\.(gz|Z)$/x) {
      open($in_fh, "zcat $file |")
        or die "Couldn't call 'zcat' to open input file '$file' $!";

      $output_file =~ s/\.[^.]+$//;
    } else {
      open($in_fh, '<', $file)
        or die "Couldn't open file input '$file' $!";
    }

    # Only start cleaning up if could get filehandle
    my $count = 0;
    my $file_count = 1;
    if (defined($in_fh)) {
      local $/ = "//\n";

      my $write_file = $output_path."/".$output_file . "-$file_count";
      open($out_fh, '>', $write_file)
        or die "Couldn't open output file '$write_file' $!";

      # Read full records
      while ($_ = $in_fh->getline()) {
        # Remove unused data
        $_ =~ s/\nR(N|P|X|A|T|R|L|C|G)\s{3}.*//g; # Remove references lines
        $_ =~ s/\nCC\s{3}.*//g; # Remove comments
	$_ =~ s/\nFT\s{3}.*//g; # Remove feature coordinates
        $_ =~ s/\nDR\s{3}($sources_to_remove);.*\n//g; # Remove sources skipped at processing

        # Added lines that we do need into output
        print $out_fh $_;

	# Check how many lines have been processed and write to new file if size exceeded
	$count++;
	if ($count > $file_size) {
          close($out_fh);
	  $file_count++;
	  $write_file = $output_path."/".$output_file . "-$file_count";
	  open($out_fh, '>', $write_file)
            or die "Couldn't open output file '$write_file' $!";
          $count = 0;
        }
      }

      close($in_fh);
      close($out_fh);
    }
  }
}

sub get_source_names {
  my $dbi = shift;
  my %source_names;

  my $sth = $dbi->prepare('SELECT name FROM source');
  $sth->execute();

  while (my @row = $sth->fetchrow_array()) {
    $source_names{$row[0]} = 1;
  }
  $sth->finish;

  return %source_names;
}

1;

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Canal 10 is Discovery Network's new ad sales representative in Uruguay
Discovery Networks Brazil (Brazil) Pay TV networks net advertising revenues
Uruguayan FTA TV channel Canal 10 (Grupo Fontaina – De Feo) and Discovery Latin America & US Hispanic have announced a new agreement, through which the Uruguayan channel will be Discovery Network's ad sales representative in Uruguay.
'This agreement gives us the possibility to expand Canal 10's business portfolio', reported Daniel Brun, Marketing Manager at Canal 10. 'For us, as the leading Uruguayan TV channel, it is very important to work with a global and innovative company as it is Discovery, exchange experiences and know-how, in addition to providing new opportunities to the local advertising market', added the executive.
Martin Hernandez, Advertising Sales Director at Discovery, reported that the ad sales representation agreement with Canal 10 'allows us to promote growth and increase Discovery's brand portfolio presence in Uruguay. We will bring relevant content and innovative initiatives to a new portfolio of clients in a very important market for the region'.
According to the information reported on the specialized website Todo TV News, the partnership is in force since April and includes the representation of Discovery's pay TV channels, in addition to its digital platforms, for the sale of advertising in Uruguay. The agreement was announced days after AT&T and Discovery announced a merger between Discovery and WarnerMedia to create a new combined company, which is called 'Warner Bros Discovery'.
Tags: ad sales, Canal 10, Daniel Brun, Discovery Networks, Martin Hernandez, Pay-TV, uruguay


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Seriously on story.
"A Crown of Wishes" Is Almost Unfathomably Lovely
In the kingdom of Bharata, a tyrant reigns. His sister, the Princess Gauri, is prisoner in the neighboring land of Ujijain, her fate in the hands of Prince Vikram, who faces a captivity of his own, in the question of his right to rule. If A Crown of Wishes were a cunning novel of political intrigue, the setup would end there, but Roshani Chokshi opts instead to put these circling not-quite enemies at the heart of a fairy tale.
In answer, the fairy tale is every bit as fierce as our leading pair: by magical invitation, they travel to compete in a deadly Tournament of Wishes, a contest that, if they win, will grant them each a wish. Gauri plans to use hers to wrest her kingdom from her brother and free a close friend from his grasp, and Vikram seeks the chance at agency as Ujijain's rightful king.
But wishes are tricky things, and so, too, is the magic of the realm where our leads seek their fortunes. To succeed, they will have to suffer their worst fears, unite with an unlikely ally, and confront a a terrible truth: that of their feelings for each other.
The particular prose style of a work like this isn't usually the element of most note––that honor usually goes to the dynamics of the hesitant lovers or the worldbuilding around them––but while Chokshi's work in both these areas is superb (more on that later), it's her narration that makes A Crown of Wishes such a treasure. Gauri and Vikram don't just live through a treacherous and beautiful fairy tale; the writing truly reads like it's sampled from a storybook in turn, from the dialogue spoken by the mystical inhabitants of Chokshi's beautifully-rendered otherworld to the lush descriptions of food, finery, and feeling we find there.
Chokshi's word-smithery never fades elegantly into the scene at hand, but where this quality might make a work dense or cumbersome, it instead makes A Crown of Wishes something to be savored, a painting where the intricacy of the brushstrokes is as vital as the image itself.
What's brilliant about this artistic choice, though, is its resonance in terms of what A Crown of Wishes means for the world it's set in at scale. As a spinoff sharing a universe with Chokshi's debut, The Star-Touched Queen, it takes a slightly different path in showing its mortal protagonists in concert with the supernatural: where Maya, the first book's lead, feels like she truly belongs in this unearthly magical realm in The Star-Touched Queen, A Crown of Wishes is careful to show Gauri and Vikram as merely visitors, and as such, delineates them from their surroundings using the subtle tool of speech. Their dialogue is "higher" in phrasing than truly grounded, real-to-life speech (they are fantasy characters, after all), but even still, there are notable differences between their voices and the voices of the otherworld around them, in a delicate effort by Chokshi to use even the faintest of fiction's tools to the utmost.
As we explore the magical world through the eyes of these outsiders, getting brief glimpses at its dangers and wonders, we slowly discover the fading state of magic in their ordinary one, and the novel becomes as much an elegy for the vanishing supernatural as it is an exploration of its riches. This premise is not an unfamiliar one in fantasy, nor is the idea that the mystical, once it is closed to humanity by the dawning of a new age, will be remembered in story a surprising answer, but Chokshi has this unwavering earnestness as a storyteller that makes the well-expected a revelation, here and in our love story alike.
There's no question that Gauri and Vikram, with their uneasy alliance, lingering gazes, and witty banter, are meant to be, but that takes nothing from the joy of watching them hide their hearts from one another as various trials push them closer to revealing their desires. Chokshi, skilled in romance, knows precisely how to make the most of pining: forcing them to fake a marriage to enter the trials, dwelling on every instance of falsified intimacy, and using every instant of danger to draw their vulnerabilities into the light.
As a contrast to The Star-Touched Queen, they don't feel like fated lovers so much as fellow contenders, bound together by their wants and a shared willingness to fight for them. To be fair, Maya and Amar (from The Star-Touched Queen) are a wonderful pair in their own right, but it's the warring hesitancy and conviction that make A Crown of Wishes such a finely-wrought love story, and an even more impressive feat compared with Chokshi's first.
I would be remiss, though, if I neglected to mention the supporting characters (both major and minor) who are a defining factor in the lingering spell Chokshi's fairy tale casts. Aasha, one of the vishakanya, a group of women from the mortal world who feed on desire and are poisonous to the touch, is certainly a standout, wrestling as she does with the alienation of losing the mortal world and longing for its delight, but elsewhere, Chokshi gives us smaller but just as tantalizing glimpses of stories unfolding just out of view.
The ancient Serpent King and the river goddess Kapila for instance, appear for hardly a chapter, but Chokshi uses that time to give us the sense that there's a rich drama hiding behind them, just like there's one in Aasha, just like there's one behind Nalini and Arjun, the friends Gauri had to leave behind in Bharata, and just like there was one behind Gauri in her brief appearances in The Star-Touched Queen.
Anyway, in terms of storytelling advice, it's hard to go wrong in creating side characters with the maxim that they should all feel like they're getting their own spinoff novel, and it certainly reads like that here, to impressive effect: A Crown of Wishes is a wealth of stories all its own, like a treasury of fairy tales hiding in plain sight.
The only downside to this, of course, is that I now yearn for Roshani Chokshi to write them all.
Author: Pippin Hart
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Author Pippin HartPosted on May 18, 2021 May 18, 2021 Categories BooksTags A Crown of Wishes, fantasy, new favorite, Roshani Chokshi, this couple is everything to me <3, ugh THEM, YA book review, young adult
5 thoughts on ""A Crown of Wishes" Is Almost Unfathomably Lovely"
chelsea @ your bookish friend says:
great review, i loved this book
pippinhart says:
it is wonderful, isn't it? thanks for stopping by! ✨
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Q: Bash: troubles with find--not finding existing files Not sure what mistake I am making, but find is not returning anything. What is wrong with my syntax? I have consulted several online resources and my syntax seems identical to the suggested commands.
Example:
~$ find /home/foo/ -name bar
~$ sudo find /home/foo/ -name bar

Both return nothing, when there are files meeting the search criteria within the directory.
This is on Ubuntu 12.

A: The tripping point is, that find /home/foo/ -name bar will search for a file exactly named bar, and will not find foobar or barfly. If you want to search for a part of the filename, you have to use wildcards (most oftne *). Be aware, that shell expansion is likely to fiddle with your wildcard patterns, so use quoting: find /home/foo/ -name '*bar*'

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One corner of my garden shed. We worked on it over the long weekend, hung shelving and cabinets on the walls, put up the curtains, laid the rugs, hung the front door, and many other small details. Already I am drying flower petals to be used for incense soon.
This is the best workbench, countertop is a deal from the restore last year, Henry made the swivel stool out of 2 different broken stools, using the good parts of both.
Found this small chest a couple of years ago at a yard sale, it fits perfectly beside the front door.
and so we built a deck, then walls, then Henry proved he is Super Man and stood the walls up. OK, well, it wasn't quite that simple. Those walls are heavy. and large. But walls are going up, one at a time. This whole shed is made out of windows, doors, lumber that we found here and there, freecycle, yard sales, by the side of the road. The only thing we purchased was lumber for the floor, and several boxes of screws.
This will be the front door, wait til you see it, of course it is old, has a window and is completely great!!! And last weekend we found the neatest door handle!!
Here you can see my green house windows, Henry, the glass artist, will fix the broken windows, hang shutters, roof, fill cracks, build counter tops, and cabinets, hang doors, hang shelving, and herb drying racks, and a attend to a few more minor details this weekend. More pics later.


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Data protection to scale new heights in 2019 thanks to GDPR-like regulations globally
2019 will see businesses of all sizes streamlining their operations to accommodate the new legislation to avoid, detect and recover from a data breach.
Barry CookFeb 04, 2019 11:53:16 IST
The year 2018 witnessed one of the most revolutionary regulations in the last 20 years of data protection — the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union. In fact, within the last year, including GDPR, there have been around 100 new data protection laws enacted in countries around the world, and for many, this is a first-time law.
The new regulations, in essence, give data the same supremacy as oil, defining it as an important asset to be held and dealt with far more cautiously. The new legislation is not only anticipated to be instrumental in reshaping the way in which data is handled across every sector — from healthcare to travel to banking and beyond — but also provides a baseline for drafting data protection guidelines the world over.
The new breed of privacy professional
With the introduction of stringent data protection laws in many countries, companies across the world are focusing on taking steps to embed privacy as part of the organisation's strategy. With this comes the realisation that a sound data privacy management framework is critical for the reputation of the company / brand and can also directly impact the bottom-line in a positive way.
From an operational point of view, the reality is that many companies are still grappling with how to ensure compliance with the new regulations within existing frameworks. Clearly, it is an uphill task for most.
It is not surprising that a new trend we are seeing is the moving of privacy out of the purview of the legal and the Information Security teams, and creating a new role of the privacy professional. Indeed, privacy and data protection management is already becoming a new profession in its own right.
Usually, individuals best suited for this role have a background in IT security, good knowledge of the business lines, and who have become legally trained in the data protection legislation that applies to the organisation's theatre of operations.
This has also created an educational space for companies and for people to start up-skilling themselves in this area. This is just the start as we will see sub-specialities of privacy professional developing especially in the realm of AI and machine learning.
Increased infrastructure and investment
Organisations are allocating more resources in creating a robust data protection framework that ensures radical changes in the way data is managed.
Servers inside a data centre. Image: Google
A lawful basis is everything
One of the major impacts of the implementation of GDPR is that it compels businesses to demonstrate a 'lawful basis' for processing a set of personal data. Unlike earlier, when regulations were less robust, companies held all kinds of data for indeterminate periods of time. Now organisations will have to take into account, firstly, the purpose for which they are collecting personal data, and secondly, the extent of the data collected.
This means that data can no longer be stored after the purpose is served, or use for another purpose such as marketing.
Also, social media posts, location, biometrics, IP addresses, etc. are handled in the same manner and with equal importance, as dictated by GDPR. If organisations aren't able to identify a lawful basis to hold data, they will have to let go of the data in order to remain compliant.
Multi-layered approach replaces fallible methods
Naturally, no organisation wants to experience a data breach as it brings with it the loss of trust and even revenue for a company. However, it is, unfortunately, an inevitable risk that an organisation has to account for. Hopefully, when it occurs it is only minor in nature. In order to limit reputational and financial loss that a data breach can cause, the coming year will see industries and organisations replacing scattered methods of data protection with methods that will reduce the impact of a data breach.
At the moment, industries are standing at the threshold of a data revolution. While past regulations have changed the course of the journey and conversations around the importance of data protection, future regulations will only add to the various methods of implementation.
In India particularly, data protection legislation will provide a springboard to the Indian outsourcing and data processing industry as it will make it easier for other countries with similar regulations to exchange data with India. As similar regulation gets increasingly implemented globally, it will hold most organisations to the same high standards of data management, and put the control of data back in the hands of the individual – where it belongs.
The author is the Privacy and Group Data Protection Officer at VFS Global
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On West Coast, bosses threaten lockout of longshore workers
By Terri Kay posted on February 9, 2015
Photo: Delores Lemon Thomas
Oakland, Calif. — The Pacific Maritime Association announced on Feb. 4 their intent to lock out the International Longshore and Warehouse Union's longshore workers at 29 West Coast ports if they don't accept the PMA's "last and final offer." Then, on Feb. 6, they announced what amounts to a partial lockout until 8 a.m. on Feb. 9.
Despite an original agreement to hold negotiations between the PMA and the ILWU negotiating committee in secrecy, which has been upheld on the union's side since the contract expired on June 30, the PMA has chosen to go public with their offer in an attempt to negotiate the contract through the media. In taking these steps, the PMA is putting out an all or nothing proposition and challenging the union's right to negotiate the contract under normal fair bargaining practices.
The PMA is an employers association, coordinating the labor to support the estimated $1 trillion in annual international trade which moves through these ports. They represent the interests of giant multinationals, like Stevedoring Service of America, Hanjin, Maersk Lines and Evergreen Marine.
The union's official response, by ILWU President Robert McEllrath, has been guarded, stating essentially, in a Feb. 4 press release, that "we've dropped almost all of our remaining issues to help get this settled — and the few issues that remain can be easily resolved".
Workers World reached out to Clarence Thomas, past secretary/treasurer of ILWU Local 10 in the Bay Area, to get some perspective from a rank-and-file viewpoint on what the threat of the lockout is all about and some understanding on the issues as they concern the ILWU rank and file. Thomas is a third generation longshore worker who has been on the waterfront for 30 years. He was on the local's executive board in a term which just expired in January 2015. Please note that he is not a member of the ILWU's negotiating team.
WW: What do you think of the PMA's lockout and statements on the contract?
Clarence Thomas: The threat of a lockout will not intimidate or weaken our resolve to achieve a fair and nonconcessionary contract. Neither will the actions of the employer in calling what some rank and filers have termed a "mini lockout" undermine our rank-and-file solidarity.
It's very interesting that the employer has only been making the threat of a lockout since they announced what was said to be their last and final offer to the ILWU a few days ago. The Port of Long Beach's cargo saw a 2.1 percent growth in November compared to the same month last year. It's kind of difficult to make the argument on locking out the workers when the ports are productive. However, there are certain infrastructure challenges because the ships are bigger, they carry more containers, and the shipping companies have gotten out of the chassis [trailer to transport shipping containers] business, so consequently there is an insufficient number of chassis available to handle the explosive growth in containers on larger vessels coming to the West Coast.
WW: On its face, the PMA offer sounds okay, but it comes with assertions claiming over-inflated wages, "Cadillac" health benefits and accusations of slowdowns by the ILWU. What rank-and-file concerns aren't being addressed by this publicly stated offer?
CT: Mr. James McKenna, who is the president and CEO of the PMA, which represents a consortium of 72 shipping/stevedoring companies and terminal operators, has made assertions and false claims about the ILWU: facts about how much money we make, blaming the ILWU for congestion at the ports, blaming the ILWU for problems attributable to lack of capacity to accommodate the increased volume of containers.
ILWU members have fought, shed blood and died for the health care benefits we have today and for the future. We have won these benefits through struggle. In 2002, the ILWU Pension and Welfare Committee reported that our health care and wages cost the employers only 1.5 to 3 percent of their gross earnings.
In today's "crises of the capitalism economy," where the bosses disdain paying living wages and steer workers to a global race to the bottom, James McKenna inflates basic longshore wages to build public resentment towards the ILWU and erode solidarity support from other unions and the community.
In my opinion, the PMA will fail because labor and the community know the ILWU has not only fought for good wages and benefits for its own members, but it has also fought for and advanced the interests of the working class. That is why we organized the Million Worker March in 2004 demanding national health care, living wages and pensions for all workers locally, nationally and around the world; the Justice for Oscar Grant movement to end police violence and repression in communities of color; support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movements for both South Africa during the anti-apartheid struggle and more recently for Palestine; support for the Wisconsin workers' occupation of the state Capitol in 2011; and the Occupy Wall Street movement. Our record on matters of economic and social justice for the working class and the oppressed speaks for itself.
The ILWU dockers deserve a living wage for the work that they do and the dangers we face on the job.
WW: Knowing that the PMA has surely shared details of the negotiations with its board of member corporations, how has the one-sided secrecy between the ILWU leadership and its rank-and-file members affected the strength of this negotiating process?
CT: In my 30 years on the waterfront, these contract negotiations are unprecedented in terms of their duration. When my father was active on the waterfront in 1971, there was a strike that lasted a little over 100 days, but the negotiations weren't nearly as long as these. The contract negotiations have gone on for nine months. Very early on in the negotiations, a decision was made by the leadership not to provide much information to the rank and file about the negotiations, which is a departure from previous years. The reasons that were given had to do with information being placed on the Internet that would somehow compromise them at the bargaining table. I disagree with that. Suffice it to say the rank and file are the backbone of the union. That's where the strength comes for the leadership. No matter how well versed and articulate the leadership may be, it's the rank and file that provides the muscle.
The employer and the union have been pretty closemouthed as to the issues that they have been grappling with. As a result the rank and file has been in many ways alienated from the discussion. That's different from previous negotiations, where there have been talking points on the issues of the contract, rank-and-file committees to deal with issues concerning publicity, research, organizing and mobilizing. My contention is that anything that the employer knows, and that the contract negotiating committee knows, the rank and file should know as well.
I can't say that the negotiations between the ILWU and the PMA wouldn't have gone on for nine months had the ILWU rank and file been more involved, but one thing that I do know is that the employer is very well acquainted with the power of the rank and file. That's one of the major reasons why they have been trying to lay the blame for the congestion on us slowing down, because they understand that our leverage is at the point of production.
WW: What about the PMA's accusations about ILWU slowdowns?
CT: One of the continuing assertions of the employer is that the ILWU has been engaged in slowdowns. The employer is interested in speed/production. The union is interested in safety, first and foremost, because we don't want people to be injured or killed in an effort to meet employer's speed and production quotas. Production is certainly important, and the ports on the West Coast have been very productive over the years. But the issue concerning safety over speed is an ongoing struggle. The Port of Oakland in 2014 broke all of its cargo handling records, with a 5.3 percent increase in imports with a 20 percent surge in December. This proves we can work safe and be productive.
WW: Talk about the nature of the jobs which longshore workers do.
CT: The first thing we need to understand is that longshore workers are responsible for the loading and unloading of cargo at the 29 West Coast ports. It's the longshore ILWU members that are responsible for making the ports safe, efficient and productive. Longshore workers are some of the most important workers in the global economy because it is the longshore workers who actually move international commerce.
We are highly skilled, very dedicated and quite diligent at our work sites out of necessity, because the waterfront is a very perilous work environment. We handle various sizes of containers that carry massive tonnage. If you should be nudged by any piece of equipment or cargo it could kill or maim you. During the years of 2002-2008, longshore workers suffered a mortality rate of 17.3 deaths per 100,000 employees. Compared to the death rates of police officers or firefighters, the ILWU has higher mortality rates.
On the waterfront there are a number of environmental challenges that the workers face. For example, at many of the terminals there are warning signs alerting workers that the premises they are about to enter contain known carcinogens. Ships, cargo handling equipment, trucks and locomotives emit soot from diesel fuel which causes respiratory illnesses, lung disease, asthma, cancer and even premature births. Mr. McKenna greatly exaggerates the wages longshore workers make, but longshore workers pay the real cost with their health for handling the maritime cargo.
Workers World will continue to monitor the developments of the contract negotiations, together with Clarence Thomas, in future issues of the paper.
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Symphony Preview: Myth management
My wife and I have become dedicated travelers over the last couple of decades, but we can't hold a candle to the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns. Over the course of his long (1835-1921) and prosperous life, his peregrinations took him all over Europe as well as to England, the United States, and even (in 1896) to Algeria and Egypt.
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Saint-Saën in 1900
By Petit, Pierre (1831-1909)
Photographer Restored
by Adam Cuerden
A musical souvenir of the latter trip closes the first half of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra (SLSO) concerts this weekend (March 11-13) as pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins Stéphane Denève for the Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, op. 103 ("Egyptian"). As Michael Steinberg writes in his program notes for the San Francisco Symphony, the concerto picked up its nickname from the composer's own comments about the piece, which was written during a winter trip to Luxor:
Of the second movement, Saint-Saëns himself wrote that "it takes us, in effect, on a journey to the East and even, in the passage in F-sharp, to the Far East." First comes an extended introductory section, much of it like recitative, and then the music settles into a pleasant and serene song for piano and strings. Saint-Saëns said that it was "a Nubian love song which I heard sung by boatmen on the Nile as I myself went down the river in a dahabieh."
The sound of that second movement is so exotic that pianist Steven Hough once wrote a tongue-in-cheek explanation of how to achieve it for the April Fool's Day, 2012, edition of his blog at the Daily Telegraph. It's worth reading.
The "Egyptian" concerto hasn't been heard on the Powell Hall stage since 2016, by the way, so this is a rare opportunity for local classical music lovers to catch it live.
Preceding the Saint-Saëns concerto, though, we'll have a work making its world debut: the "Goddess Triptych" by contemporary (b. 1969) American composer Stacy Garrop. Written for the SLSO and commissioned by the League of American Orchestras, the work was written in 2020 but will be performed for the first time ever this weekend, so I can't tell you what to expect from it. Your best bet is just to read what the composer herself has to say about it on her web site.
That said, you can get an idea of Garrop's eclectic style from her "Mythology Symphony," the first movement of which is part of my Spotify playlist. At just under 13 minutes it's almost exactly the same length as the "Goddess Triptych," so it will give you at least some notion of what you'll hear.
Stacy Garrop
Photo: Darrell Hoemann Photography
After intermission, we get a double helping of ballet: Paul Dukas's one act "La Péri" (including its famous brass fanfare) and a suite from Stravinsky's "L'Oiseau de feu" ("The Firebird"). The two ballets were composed within a year of each other—"La Péri" in 1911 and "The Firebird" in 1910—and were both originally scheduled to be premiered by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Paris.
Unfortunately Diaghilev thought Ukrainian dancer Natalia Trouhanova, who was to play the title role in Dukas's ballet, wasn't up to the part and the Ballet Russes production was cancelled. The result, as James M. Keller writes in notes for the San Francisco Symphony, was a bit of a scandal. "The press went berserk, Trouhanova went into a sulk, and Dukas withdrew his score." Trouhanova eventually emerged from her sulk and produced a "danced concert" version of the ballet in 1912 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris with Dukas at the podium. This was, happily, a hit. "To what can we attribute the deep impression caused by this work, which is undoubtedly a masterpiece?" asked Robert Brussel in "Le Figaro." "I believe that it is an element that cannot be measured, the only one that mediates about perfect beauty: poetry."
Based on Persian folklore, "La Péri" is the story of prince Iskender's theft of the Flower of Immortality from a sleeping peri (a winged female fairy) and why this turns out to be an unwise decision on his part. The music is lush and suffused with the fashionable perfume of Orientalism. The same scent is discernable in other works from around the same time, including Richard Strauss's "Salome" (1905) Rimsky-Korsakov's "Le coq d'or" (1909), Florent Schmitt's "La tragédie du Salomé" (the 1912 expansion of which shared the bill with the "La Péri" premiere) and, of course, "The Firebird."
The first in what turned out to be a series of successful collaborations between the composer and impresario Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, "Firebird" contains hints of the upheaval Stravinsky would generate with "Rite of Spring" and "Les Noces" but also pays homage to the work of more conservative Russian composers like the aforementioned Rimski-Korsakov and even, in the final moments of the "Infernal dance" number, Ravel.
Stravinsky owed the opportunity to write "Firebird" to the laziness of his former teacher at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, Anatoly Lyadov. Diaghilev originally commissioned Lyadov to write the score but (according to Verna Arvey in "Choreographic Music") when, after months of waiting, Diaghilev went to see Lyadov to view his progress, the composer said, "it won't be long now. It's well on its way. I have just bought the ruled paper."
Soon Lyadov was out, and Stravinsky was in.
Costume sketch for The Firebird
by Leon Bakst
The massively successful premiere of "Firebird" put Stravinsky on the map, musically speaking, and it remains one of his most popular works. It also made the composer an instant celebrity, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Marcel Proust, André Gide, and Sarah Bernhardt. Stravinsky prepared three concert suites from the ballet: one in 1910, a second in 1919, and the third in 1945. The final suite increased the number of selections from five to ten and the running time from 20 minutes to 30 but reduced the size of the orchestra. This weekend we'll be hearing the shorter 1919 suite but with the 1945 orchestration.
Interested in seeing a complete performance of the ballet? Fortunately, there are two (that I know of) on YouTube. I put them together in a playlist for your convenience. And, of course, there's a wonderfully excessive recording of the 1919 suite by Leopold Stokowski in my Spotify playlist.
The Essentials: Stéphane Denève conducts the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and soloist Jean-Yves Thibaudet in Stacey Garrop's "Goddess Triptych," Saint-Saëns's Piano Concerto No. 5 ("Egyptian"), Dukas's "La Péri" ballet, and a suite from Stravinsky's "The Firebird." Performances are Saturday at 8 pm and Sunday at 3 pm, March 12 and 13. Saturday's concert will also be broadcast live on St. Louis Public Radio and Classic 107.3 both over the air and on the Internet. There's also a special one-hour "Crafted" concert of the Dukas and Stravinsky works on Friday, March 11, at 6:30 pm that includes drink specials and complimentary snacks starting at 5:30 pm. All performances take place at Powell Symphony Hall in Grand Center.
Camille Saint Saëns
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Discussion in 'Apple TV and Home Theater' started by stump54, Jan 17, 2012.
However, since wiring I can no longer "see" my iMac from the ATV2. When it was still wireless (first month or so) I had no problems and could view my Mac from the comfort of the couch; no longer... Funny thing is that the screen saver (picture from iPhoto) still works.
Does it still work wirelessly when you disconnect the ethernet cable? If the answer is yes i would say it's an issue with your router. When connecting them to the same network vis ethernet there should be no issues at all.
The hardwiring may have put you on a different LAN that may be using a different router through TC, and thus you are no longer on the same LAN as your iMac.
One simple solution is to go back to wireless, or plug your iMac into the same hard wired network.
The only thing missing (as far as I know) is the ability to "see" my iMac on the TV screen (doesn't show up on ATV screen).
It looks like you should be on the same Local Area Network and everything should work.
Try recycling everything and see if it'll work again, and that includes the router to which everything is connected.
FYI, you could be connected to different routers and all have access to internet, but without opening up ports between routers, you won't have direct access between them, and thus Apple won't be able to recognize each other automatically.


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Q While walking in the hills recently I got a tick bite. Should I be worried about catching an infection from this?
Sheep and deer ticks can harbour the bug that causes Lyme disease (Borrelia burgdorferi).
Although much more common in the United States and mainland Europe, we are seeing Lyme disease more often in Britain but are still a long way from needing to worry about every tick bite.
Look out for a rash at the bite site appearing anything up to a month later. Eighty per cent of people who get Lyme disease have this rash. A flu-like illness is a common feature also in this time scale.
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Blood tests can help make the diagnosis more certain if there is reasonable suspicion of Lyme disease.Over-diagnosis and over-treatment are problems that we need to work on as there is a fair bit of unnecessary worry going around about Lyme.
Prevention is better than cure, so one should wear long sleeves and trousers if walking in moorland or wooded areas where deer may roam. One should also check carefully for ticks at the end of the day.
If removed within 24 hours, the likelihood of an infected tick passing the organism to the host is much less. You can buy a small tick hook from outdoor shops and pharmacies that make complete tick removal much easier.
Q Should people with repetitive strain injury avoid using weights?
Repetitive strain injury (RPI) is a term similar to "sports injury", since it says more about how the injury was sustained than what it actually is. "Musculo-skeletal disorder" is probably more accurate and is used to describe conditions such as tendonitis, tenosynovitis (inflammation of the lining of the sheath that surrounds a tendon) and carpal tunnel (pressure on the nerve in the wrist).
Common symptoms are numbness, tingling, throbbing, tightness and/or hypersensitivity to touch. In these cases your body will tell you very quickly that having to struggle against weight is not what it wants.
Weight training for those without RPI is useful as a preventative measure but, once you have it, pain will alert you to potential worsening of the situation.
More likely to work for you is a combination of stopping the task that caused the problem, if possible (or you risk it turning it into a chronic condition), physiotherapy, painkillers, massage and improving the work environment.
Having said that, it is not clear why some people develop RSI and others, who do the same repetitive tasks, do not. It may be that stress increases muscle tension, and/or affects how the body feels pain. For more information see: www.rsi.org.uk.
Some time ago in this column I described how a Devon farmer owed his life to a nasty attack of belly ache. Retiring to bed, he was rubbing his stomach in the usual fashion when he noticed a curious pulsation just under the rib cage – like a balloon thumping away in time to his heart beat.
He dithered for a few months before consulting his family doctor, who organised for him to have an ultrasound scan. This revealed his pulsating balloon to be an aneurysm of the major artery, the aorta, running the length of the abdomen.
It was, by all accounts, a whopper, and while the operation to repair it with a Teflon graft was not pleasant, it was, he observed, "much preferable to the alternative".
That "alternative" could have struck at any time – when his ballooning aneurysm would have burst with predictably dire consequences. Indeed there is a memorable simplicity about the relevant statistics: 95 per cent of those with a leaking aortic aneurysm succumb, while 95 per cent of those in whom it is repaired in time will survive.
That case was almost 10 years ago. Since then, things have moved on in a couple of ways directly relevant to my Devon farmer's experience. First, and self evidently, it is sensible to catch an aneurysm – if at all possible – before it bursts, and here it now appears it is advisable for all men over the age of 65 (women are, for the most part, exempt) to have a single "screening" ultrasound test in anticipation of detecting an aneurysm early enough for effective treatment.
Next, the treatment itself has become vastly less traumatic thanks to a new technique that allows the aneurysm to be repaired from the inside, without the need for a major operation. This procedure has increased the chances of surviving this potentially lethal condition to a staggering 99 per cent.


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The new East Winds Ensemble CD that was released in Japan is now available here in the US with a new cover. This the second CD of Music from Anime by H. Miyazaki. You will be able to get it Cd or downloads at cdbaby.com and later on iTunes, napster ,etc Enjoy.


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The current farmers protest is much deeper than the repealing of the three farm laws and fixing MSP prices
Monday January 4, 2021 9:43 AM, Syed Ali Mujtaba
With fresh bouts of farmer protest gaining momentum, currently the Modi government is riding the high Horse of arrogance and the farmers are equally determined to conduct the 'Ashwameda' the Vedic Yag of horse sacrifice.
The current farmers protest is much deeper than the repealing of the three farm laws and fixing MSP prices. The bottom line is that the Modi government wants a new model of farming in India.
Having been under tremendous international pressure from the World Bank IMF, US and Europe, the BJP government wants to replicate American or Australian model of farming in India, where corporates will own vast swaths of land and they will do the farming.
Indian agrarian scene has moved drastically since independence. The government dispensed with large holdings and the landlord system. A large number of people became owners of very small land holdings. In this new system that the government created very low investment was made that created an agricultural crisis.
This has made the agriculture sector become the most underperforming sector in the country. There was a need for a huge investment to bring the farm sector in shape. This was never happening and so the BJP government decided that the farm sector is a ripe case for disinvestment and to sell off to those who have interests in its investment.
The government wants to bring agri-food corporates to step into the farm sector and they will go for complete commercialization of agriculture.
These corporates under the guise of 'market reforms,' will use large-scale mechanized (monocrop) enterprises replacing family-run farms.
This will uproot hundreds of millions of rural livelihoods and tear away the very foundation of the country's cultural traditions, communities and rural economy.
India's agrarian base will be totally disrupted under the guise of 'modernization.' It will displace independent cultivators, food processors and retailers. The corporates will capture the entire agricultural sector and run it on the basis of a profit – loss business.
A set of three laws passed in September 2020 aims to deregulate India's enormous agriculture sector. The government says these laws will "liberate" farmers from the tyranny of middlemen. But many farmers fear that they stand to lose more than they could gain from the new regulations and that the main beneficiaries will be agricultural corporations with huge financial resources.
India's new farm laws make it easier for farmers to bypass government-regulated markets (known locally as mandis) and sell produce directly to private buyers. They can now enter into contracts with private companies, a practice known in India as contract farming, and sell across state borders.
The new regulations also allow traders to stockpile food. This is a shift away from prohibitions against hoarding, which could make it easier for traders to take advantage of rising prices, such as during a pandemic. Such practices were criminal offences under the old rules.
There are serious concerns of the farmers: More than 86 percent of India's cultivated farmland is controlled by smallholder farmers who own less than two hectares (five acres) of land each.
The new rules remove many of their safeguards. Small farmers fear that they just do not have enough bargaining power to get the kinds of prices they need for a decent standard of living when they negotiate to sell their produce to larger companies.
The new laws also do not make written contracts mandatory. So in the case of any violation of their terms, it can be very hard for a farmer to prove that he or she has been aggrieved, giving them little recourse.
The new rules do not guarantee any minimum price for any product, and farmers worry that the existing MSP will be abolished at some point.
The apprehension about MSP and procurement going away comes from Acts being linked to some previous policy documents like the Shanta Kumar Committee report and the CACP reports suggesting reduced procurement and an end to open-ended procurement from states like Punjab to cut down costs of FCI.
It is feared that FCI itself may start procuring directly from the new trade area to cut down buying costs like market fees and 'arhtiya' commission.
It is more about the changes in the "social contract" between the state's farmers and the Union government that is the root cause of this apprehension.
The farmers and government should be involved in a serious discussion to address this issue. The autocratic and hegemonic may have worked against the CAA protest but as things are developing, the current rulers can be taken out on road and made to parade on the RajPath.
[Syed Ali Mujtaba is journalist based in Chennai. He can be contacted at syedalimujtaba2007@gmail.com.]
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Home > CUJO > Thai J Vet Med > Vol. 52 (2022) > Iss. 2
The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine
Distribution of Salmonella spp. and serovars isolated from captive reptiles in four zoos of the Zoological Park Organization, Thailand, between 2017 and 2018
Sompoth Weerakhun
Paweena Kongsanan
Wichit Kongkham
Salmonellosis is the main reason for food borne diseases in many countries globally and it has been found that reptiles are carriers of the disease. Therefore, this study was performed to determine the distribution of Salmonella spp. and their serovars from reptiles in zoos in Thailand between 2017 and 2018. A total of 257 reptile samples were collected from four zoos which are Dusit (128 samples), Chiangmai (32 samples), Songkhla (34 samples) and Nakhonratchasima (63 samples). Salmonella was isolated and identified, serotyping of those isolates was investigated using a panel of Salmonella antisera and serotypes were characterized according to the Kauffman-White classification scheme. Salmonella isolates were found in 93 (36.19%) of all samples, 51 (39.84%), 25 (39.68%), 9 (28.13%) and 8 (23.53%) isolates in Dusit, Nakhonratchasima, Chiangmai, and Songkhla, respectively. Salmonella was found mostly in snakes (70.13%) followed by lizards (57.57%) and turtles (13.70%). Sixty-two Salmonella isolates were selected for serotyping study and there were 4 subspecies and 32 serovars, S. diarizonae being the most common followed by S. enterica, S. houtenae, and S. arizonae, respectively. Dusit was the most common variety with 18 serovars followed by Nakhonratchasima (10 serovars), Songkhla (5 serovars) and Chiangmai (4 serovars). Salmonella from snakes showed the greatest diversity of serovars. The study showed that these reptiles were the sources of Salmonella spp. especially S. enterica which causes disease in humans with a high ratio (43.55%). This revealed a risk of Salmonella infection. It is necessary to carefully observe and emphasize the risk of contamination within the zoos in order to prevent the spread of Salmonella from reptiles to other animals and the community.
Faculty of Veterinary Science, Chulalongkorn University
Weerakhun, Sompoth; Kongsanan, Paweena; and Kongkham, Wichit (2022) "Distribution of Salmonella spp. and serovars isolated from captive reptiles in four zoos of the Zoological Park Organization, Thailand, between 2017 and 2018," The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine: Vol. 52: Iss. 2, Article 14.
Available at: https://digital.car.chula.ac.th/tjvm/vol52/iss2/14
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Pulp: O.U. (single)
Release date: 25 May 1992
Label: Gift Records
Formats: CD, 12"
Catalogue numbers: GIF1CD, GIF1
Recorded: January 1992 (FON Studios, Sheffield)
O.U. was the first single to be released on the Gift Records label in 1992. Gift was to be an indie offshoot of the dance orientated label Warp.
The record was released despite the fact that Pulp were still signed to Fire Records. Pulp's relationship with Fire had broken down irreparably by this time and there seemed almost no prospect of releasing new material through them. Fire were after all still to release the Separations LP, which had been recorded two and a half years before. The band's sound had moved on considerably since then and they were desperate to get some new recordings out: in part in the hope of attracting some interest from a major label. They calculated that Fire would not think it worthwhile to take legal action against a small independent label.
Copies of this single are now quite rare. However, all the songs, except for the radio edit of O.U., can be obtained on the Intro: The Gift Recordings compilation that was released in 1993.
O.U. re-uses the chord structure of Pulp's 1986 b-side 97 Lovers. The radio edit of O.U. features a shortened intro.
Sleeve credits
Sleeve design: Martin Broadhead
Photos: Colin Bell
O.U. (Gone, Gone) (radio edit) (2:56)
O.U. (Gone, Gone) (3:45)
Space (5:13)
12":
...so we finally made it into orbit (good, init?). But like the man said "Space is O.K. but I'd rather get my kicks down below." One re-entry later and now it's a choice between an extra hour in bed or stopping the love of your life from getting the next train out of town. Took too long deciding what shirt to wear and blew it. But hold on, who's this walking out of the sun? It can't be - but it is. Talk about leaving it till the last minute. O.U. jammy get...
it's frothy man, 2 minutes & 50 seconds of timeless, unconditionally guaranteed, perfectly formed, catchy, non-toxic, lovable, sexually enlightened, 150 B.P.M., radiophonic, stylophonic, stereophonic, man-made, organic, life-enhancing, fast'n'loud, brand new, frantic, overwrought, unusually melodic, slightly flared, well-groomed, irresistible, ripe, pert, tight as, arousing, seductive, moist, fully-lined, up to the minute, fashionable; durable, well-designed, figure-hugging, gripping music containing no shards of crystalline guitar whatsoever - available in three formats; super duper.
In France they ask "Where?"
But we say: O.U.
Record Collector interview, 1994:
We finally decided to leave Fire, and recorded "O.U." and "Space" early in 1992, with Simon Hinkler. It didn't turn out very well, so we used Ed Buller to remix it. I'd heard his production on the Spiritualised LP and he sounded able to work with keyboards, rather than concentrating on guitars. We were very impressed - he transformed the song. "O.U." became our first release on Gift Records. It was a Sheffield label, and we knew the people - they also run Warp.
To promote the single 1000 helium balloons were released from Devonshire Green in Sheffield. The balloons had tags attached for people to return with the promise of prizes for the ones found in the most distant or unusual locations.
- the launch
1000 balloons will be launched from Devonshire Green. Sheffield at precisely 3:30 p.m. on Monday the 11th of May. Each balloon has a tag attached to it, similar to the one enclosed with this communication. Keep your tag as it allows free access to the party being held after the Leadmill concert. (N.B. - it does not allow free access to the concert itself.)
Watch the skies.
- the competition
As well as prizes for the balloon tags returned from the most unusual or far-flung locations, there is also a tour competition. Each night a different password will be displayed behind the T-shirt stand. The person who writes in with the most number of correct passwords will win a special prize.
Melody Maker, 25th April 1992:
Single of the Week 2
This is colossal. And already I'm torn between these two inspirational records. Oh hell, be unfaithful to both of them simultaneously. Move to a love nest on the sea-front and see them on alternate evenings. And have Thursdays off to get your hair done.
"O.U." (Oh you? Open University?) is three minutes of staggering popgasm. Sharing a similar disdain for the age as Suede (which, of course, makes it feverishly modern) its prime difference is that it is out of control. Jarvis Cocker's love-life brims, it seems, with the elation that comes with phenomenal doubt, pain and failure. "Cherish and be damned" is Pulp's implicit motto, while Suede are more the, "Damn and be cherished" types.
Everything is post-austerity space-race melodrama with an orchestra of organs. Your whole wardrobe flashes before you - embarrassing corduroys, hats and satin tabards - as the night, we are told, is ending, "He wanted her undressed/He said he loved her/She tried to look impressed". Suddenly, we have lift-off into the outer universe of desire. Turn it up loud enough and the climbing chord sequence will induce the sort of nervous laughter you get on a big dipper. It's a giddy world here and Pulp have captured it in all its radiophonic (in)fidelity in jaw-dropping luv-o-rama.
Again, I say you can stuff kitth, you can bury glamour in a pit. Give me life. Real life in all its heart-stretching, sweat-drenched, love-sick splendour and swirl. These records have it even if they like to disguise the fact.
Pulp have been at this kind of thing for ages and their hard times show through and help make this record important and desperate to be heard. As all great pop records should be. Let's hope this is the one that finally gets the message across to the rest of the universe, eh Jarvis?
NME, 25th April 1992:
The strange, upside down universe of Jarvis Cocker Comes round on its orbit again, this time partly eclipsed by wrangles between them and their former label Fire. 'O.U.' their first release on new Sheffield label Gift, takes three plays to get hold of, but jogs along like a devil with Cocker doing his Travolta/Stardust bit in the middle. The glam-shackle Pulp make you think of spaceships and tower blocks and trains. Marvellous.
Siren, May 1992:
Another band who have been around longer than you can genuinely remember, Pulp have been reinventing themselves sensibly, naturally, and getting a fair amount of respectability lately. Vibrant in a cutely lowkery manner, the song paints a weepy picture of girl meets train, boy loses girl and tugs you into theirn whole sorry affair. Weird keyboards and tapping drums form a jolly ring inside which the singer flails hopelessly, like the uncaring brute that he is!
Select, July 1992:
The World Of Pulp is a mighty strange planet. Filled, as it is, with the kind of noises which would embarrass a Clanger and pet trouserwear that should have been put down years ago, it's perhaps unsurprising that its five-strong population should spend their time worshipping the Great God Velour and making records like this.
Odd is too small a word for 'O.U'. Irritating, hilarious, inspiring, camp are all larger and much more suitable. That godawful synth riff! That nerve-shattering violin noise! Those ace lyrics! A Pulp record is like going to the dentist: you squirm and protest but you know it's good for you in the long run. The B-side, 'Space', features Jarvis mumbling about touching stars and travelling at the speed of thought. Have a quick rinse with the pink stuff and go home smiling.
Orange, Issue 3, May 1992:
An overblown, slightly pompous offering with very strong shades of the Icicle Works and a little smidgeon of Meatloaf, saved by the strange seventies synth noises, brilliant lyrics ('He said he loved her/She tried to look impressed') and sheer momentum. Eclectic, adventurous and memorable.
Singles and EPs discography
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Accessibility News: February 7–13, 2021
Newsom pledges vaccine priority for people with developmental disabilities
For months advocates for individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD) have been pushing to make vaccines a priority, and Governor Newsom...
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Here's what happened in the accessibility world from February 7–13, 2021
People With Intellectual Disabilities Are Often Overlooked In Pandemic Response
February 12, 2021, NPR: Peter Prater's family wasn't thinking about COVID-19 when the call came that he had been taken to the hospital with a fever. It was April, and the Tallahassee Developmental Center, where Prater lives, hadn't yet had any COVID-19 diagnoses. Prater, 55, who has Down syndrome and diabetes, became the Florida center's first known case, his family said. Within two weeks, more than half of the roughly 60 residents and a third of the staff had tested positive for the virus, according to local news reports.
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Previously, there have been false accusations made by anti-vaxxers claiming that the mumps, measles and rubella (MMR) vaccine can lead to the development of autism. Yet another study recently released confirms the false and totally unfounded concerns.
Due to the concern among parents panicking about the unsubstantiated autism risks, many children were not immunised, resulting in the number of measles cases doubling globally.
The NHS digital data indicated that the number of children being given the MMR vaccine has fallen for the fourth year in a row, with only 91.2 per cent of children across England meeting the Government's target in 2018.
Figures also revealed that the number was down from 92.7 per cent in 2014, the highest level of MMR vaccinations in the past decade and from 91.6 per cent in 2017.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says that anti-vax movements are one of the top ten threats to global health at the moment.
Subsequently, Danish researchers conducted a study which revealed that between 1999 and 2010, from over 650,000 who received the jab 6,517 children were diagnosed with autism.
That is to say that one per cent of the children observed went on to develop autism, (which affects social interaction, communication, interests and behaviour).
Comparing MMR-vaccinated with MMR-unvaccinated children, the researchers found that there was no increased risk for autism, even in those kids who had a sibling with the condition, autism risk factors or other childhood vaccinations.