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New York False Claims Act
The New York False Claims Act allows whistleblowers to bring suit in the name of the State of New York where a wrongdoer engages in conduct that defrauds the state or local governments of taxpayer dollars. The law is a broad reaching statute designed to address an array of wrongdoing from health care fraud to fraud involving any type of government contract or business relationship involving state or local money.
New York State Finance Law
Chapter 56. Of the Consolidated Laws
Article XIII. New York False Claims Act
§ 187. Short title
This article shall be known and may be cited as the "New York false claims act".
§ 188. Definitions
As used in this article, the following terms shall mean:
1. "Claim" means any request or demand, whether under a contract or otherwise, for money or property which is made to any employee, officer, or agent of the state or a local government, or to any contractor, grantee or other recipient, if the state or a local government provides any portion of the money or property which is requested or demanded or will reimburse such contractor, grantee, or other recipient for any portion of the money or property which is requested or demanded.
2. "False claim" means any claim which is, either in whole or part, false or fraudulent.
3. "Knowing and knowingly" means that with respect to a claim, or information relating to a claim, a person:
(a) has actual knowledge of such claim or information;
(b) acts in deliberate ignorance of the truth or falsity of such claim or information; or
(c) acts in reckless disregard of the truth or falsity of such claim or information.
Proof of specific intent to defraud is not required, provided, however that acts occurring by mistake or as a result of mere negligence are not covered by this article.
4. "Local government" means any county, city, town, village, school district, board of cooperative educational services, local public benefit corporation or other municipal corporation or political subdivision of the state.
5. "Original source" means a person who has direct and independent knowledge of the information on which allegations are based, and has voluntarily provided the information to the state or a local government before filing an action under this article which is based on the information.
6. "Person" means any natural person, partnership, corporation, association or any other legal entity or individual, other than the state or a local government.
7. "State" means the state of New York and any state department, board, bureau, division, commission, committee, public benefit corporation, public authority, council, office or other governmental entity performing a governmental or proprietary function for the state.
§ 189. Liability for certain acts
1. Subject to the provisions of subdivision two of this section, any person who:
(a) knowingly presents, or causes to be presented, to any employee, officer or agent of the state or a local government, a false or fraudulent claim for payment or approval;
(b) knowingly makes, uses, or causes to be made or used, a false record or statement to get a false or fraudulent claim paid or approved by the state or a local government;
(c) conspires to defraud the state or a local government by getting a false or fraudulent claim allowed or paid;
(d) has possession, custody, or control of property or money used, or to be used, by the state or a local government and, intending to defraud the state or a local government or willfully to conceal the property or money, delivers, or causes to be delivered, less property or money than the amount for which the person receives a certificate or receipt;
(e) is authorized to make or deliver a document certifying receipt of property used, or to be used, by the state or a local government and, intending to defraud the state or a local government, makes or delivers the receipt without completely knowing that the information on the receipt is true;
(f) knowingly buys, or receives as a pledge of an obligation or debt, public property from an officer or employee of the state or a local government knowing that the officer or employee lawfully may not sell or pledge the property; or
(g) knowingly makes, uses, or causes to be made or used, a false record or statement to conceal, avoid, or decrease an obligation to pay or transmit money or property to the state or a local government; shall be liable: (i) to the state for a civil penalty of not less than six thousand dollars and not more than twelve thousand dollars, plus three times the amount of damages which the state sustains because of the act of that person; and (ii) to any local government for three times the amount of damages sustained by such local government because of the act of that person.
2. The court may assess not more than two times the amount of damages sustained because of the act of the person described in subdivision one of this section, if the court finds that:
(a) the person committing the violation of this section had furnished all information known to such person about the violation, to those officials responsible for investigating false claims violations on behalf of the state and any local government that sustained damages, within thirty days after the date on which such person first obtained the information;
(b) such person fully cooperated with any government investigation of such violation; and
(c) at the time such person furnished information about the violation, no criminal prosecution, civil action, or administrative action had commenced with respect to such violation, and the person did not have actual knowledge of the existence of an investigation into such violation.
3. A person who violates this section shall also be liable for the costs, including attorneys' fees, of a civil action brought to recover any such penalty or damages.
4. This section shall not apply to claims, records, or statements made under the tax law.
§ 190. Civil actions for false claims
1. Civil enforcement actions. The attorney general shall have the authority to investigate violations under section one hundred eighty-nine of this article. If the attorney general believes that a person has violated or is violating such section, then the attorney general may bring a civil action on behalf of the people of the state of New York or on behalf of a local government against such person. A local government also shall have the authority to investigate violations that may have resulted in damages to such local government under section one hundred eighty-nine of this article, and may bring a civil action on its own behalf to recover damages sustained by such local government as a result of such violations. No action may be filed pursuant to this subdivision against the federal government, the state or a local government, or any officer or employee thereof acting in his or her official capacity. The attorney general shall consult with the office of medicaid inspector general prior to filing any action related to the medicaid program.
2. Qui tam civil actions. (a) Any person may bring a qui tam civil action for a violation of section one hundred eighty-nine of this article on behalf of the people of the state of New York or a local government. No action may be filed pursuant to this subdivision against the federal government, the state or a local government, or any officer or employee thereof acting in his or her official capacity.
(b) A copy of the complaint and written disclosure of substantially all material evidence and information the person possesses shall be served on the state pursuant to subdivision one of section three hundred seven of the civil practice law and rules. The complaint shall be filed in supreme court in camera, shall remain under seal for at least sixty days, and shall not be served on the defendant until the court so orders. If the allegations in the complaint allege a violation of section one hundred eighty-nine of this article involving damages to a local government, then the attorney general may at any time provide a copy of such complaint and written disclosure to the attorney for such local government; provided, however, that if the allegations in the complaint involve damages only to a city with a population of one million or more, or only to the state and such a city, then the attorney general shall provide such complaint and written disclosure to the corporation counsel of such city within thirty days. The state may elect to supersede or intervene and proceed with the action, or to authorize a local government that may have sustained damages to supersede or intervene, within sixty days after it receives both the complaint and the material evidence and information; provided, however, that if the allegations in the complaint involve damages only to a city with a population of one million or more, then the attorney general may not supersede or intervene in such action without the consent of the corporation counsel of such city. The attorney general shall consult with the office of the medicaid inspector general prior to superseding or intervening in any action related to the medicaid program. The attorney general may, for good cause shown, move the court for extensions of the time during which the complaint remains under seal under this subdivision. Any such motions may be supported by affidavits or other submissions in camera.
(c) Prior to the expiration of the sixty day period or any extensions obtained under paragraph (b) of this subdivision, the attorney general shall notify the court that he or she:
(i) intends to file a complaint against the defendant on behalf of the people of the state of New York or a local government, and thereby be substituted as the plaintiff in the action and convert the action in all respects from a qui tam civil action brought by a private person into a civil enforcement action by the attorney general under subdivision one of this section;
(ii) intends to intervene in such action, as of right, so as to aid and assist the plaintiff in the action; or
(iii) if the action involves damages sustained by a local government, intends to grant the local government permission to: (A) file and serve a complaint against the defendant, and thereby be substituted as the plaintiff in the action and convert the action in all respects from a qui tam civil action brought by a private person into a civil enforcement action by the local government under subdivision one of this section; or (B) intervene in such action, as of right, so as to aid and assist the plaintiff in the action.
The attorney general shall provide the local government with a copy of any such notification at the same time the court is notified.
(d) If the state notifies the court that it intends to file a complaint against the defendant and thereby be substituted as the plaintiff in the action, or to permit a local government to do so, such complaint must be filed within thirty days after the notification to the court.
(e) If the state notifies the court that it intends to intervene in the action, or to permit a local government to do so, then such motion for intervention shall be filed within thirty days after the notification to the court.
(f) If the state declines to participate in the action or to authorize participation by a local government, the qui tam action may proceed subject to judicial review under this section, the civil practice law and rules, and other applicable law.
3. Time to answer. If the state decides to participate in a qui tam action or to authorize the participation of a local government, the court shall order that the qui tam complaint be unsealed and served at the time of the filing of the complaint or intervention motion by the state or local government. After the complaint is unsealed, or if a complaint is filed by the state or a local government pursuant to subdivision one of this section, the defendant shall be served with the complaint and summons pursuant to article three of the civil practice law and rules. A copy of any complaint which alleges that damages were sustained by a local government shall also be served on such local government. The defendant shall be required to respond to the summons and complaint within the time allotted under rule three hundred twenty of the civil practice law and rules.
4. Related actions. When a person brings a qui tam action under this section, no person other than the attorney general, or a local government attorney acting pursuant to subdivision one of this section or paragraph (b) of subdivision two of this section, may intervene or bring a related civil action based upon the facts underlying the pending action, unless such other person has first obtained the permission of the attorney general to intervene or to bring such related action; provided, however, that nothing in this subdivision shall be deemed to deny persons the right, upon leave of court, to file briefs amicus curiae.
5. Rights of the parties of qui tam actions. (a) If the attorney general elects to convert the qui tam civil action into an attorney general enforcement action, then the state shall have the primary responsibility for prosecuting the action. If the attorney general elects to intervene in the qui tam civil action then the state and the person who commenced the action, and any local government which sustained damages and intervenes in the action, shall share primary responsibility for prosecuting the action. If the attorney general elects to permit a local government to convert the action into a civil enforcement action, then the local government shall have primary responsibility for investigating and prosecuting the action. If the action involves damages to a local government but not the state, and the local government intervenes in the qui tam civil action, then the local government and the person who commenced the action shall share primary responsibility for prosecuting the action. Under no circumstances shall the state or a local government be bound by an act of the person bringing the original action. Such person shall have the right to continue as a party to the action, subject to the limitations set forth in paragraph (b) of this subdivision. Under no circumstances shall the state be bound by the act of a local government that intervenes in an action involving damages to the state. If neither the attorney general nor a local government intervenes in the qui tam action then the qui tam plaintiff shall have the responsibility for prosecuting the action, subject to the attorney general's right to intervene at a later date upon a showing of good cause.
(b)(i) The state may move to dismiss the action notwithstanding the objections of the person initiating the action if the person has been served with the motion to dismiss and the court has provided the person with an opportunity to be heard on the motion. If the action involves damages to both the state and a local government, then the state shall consult with such local government before moving to dismiss the action. If the action involves damages sustained by a local government but not the state, then the local government may move to dismiss the action notwithstanding the objections of the person initiating the action if the person has been served with the motion to dismiss and the court has provided the person with an opportunity to be heard on the motion.
(ii) The state or a local government may settle the action with the defendant notwithstanding the objections of the person initiating the action if the court determines, after an opportunity to be heard, that the proposed settlement is fair, adequate, and reasonable with respect to all parties under all the circumstances. Upon a showing of good cause, such opportunity to be heard may be held in camera.
(iii) Upon a showing by the attorney general or a local government that the original plaintiff's unrestricted participation during the course of the litigation would interfere with or unduly delay the prosecution of the case, or would be repetitious or irrelevant, or upon a showing by the defendant that the original qui tam plaintiff's unrestricted participation during the course of the litigation would be for purposes of harassment or would cause the defendant undue burden, the court may, in its discretion, impose limitations on the original plaintiff's participation in the case, such as:
(A) limiting the number of witnesses the person may call;
(B) limiting the length of the testimony of such witnesses;
(C) limiting the person's cross-examination of witnesses; or
(D) otherwise limiting the participation by the person in the litigation.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whether or not the attorney general or a local government elects to supersede or intervene in a qui tam civil action, the attorney general and such local government may elect to pursue any remedy available with respect to the criminal or civil prosecution of the presentation of false claims, including any administrative proceeding to determine a civil money penalty or to refer the matter to the office of the medicaid inspector general for medicaid related matters. If any such alternate civil remedy is pursued in another proceeding, the person initiating the action shall have the same rights in such proceeding as such person would have had if the action had continued under this section.
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whether or not the attorney general elects to supersede or intervene in a qui tam civil action, or to permit a local government to supersede or intervene in the qui tam civil action, upon a showing by the state or local government that certain actions of discovery by the person initiating the action would interfere with the state's or a local government's investigation or prosecution of a criminal or civil matter arising out of the same facts, the court may stay such discovery for a period of not more than sixty days. Such a showing shall be conducted in camera. The court may extend the period of such stay upon a further showing in camera that the state or a local government has pursued the criminal or civil investigation or proceedings with reasonable diligence and any proposed discovery in the civil action will interfere with the ongoing criminal or civil investigation or proceedings.
6. Awards to qui tam plaintiff. (a) If the attorney general elects to convert the qui tam civil action into an attorney general enforcement action, or to permit a local government to convert the action into a civil enforcement action by such local government, or if the attorney general or a local government elects to intervene in the qui tam civil action, then the person or persons who initiated the qui tam civil action collectively shall be entitled to receive between fifteen and twenty-five percent of the proceeds recovered in the action or in settlement of the action. The court shall determine the percentage of the proceeds to which a person commencing a qui tam civil action is entitled, by considering the extent to which the plaintiff substantially contributed to the prosecution of the action. Where the court finds that the action was based primarily on disclosures of specific information (other than information provided by the person bringing the action) relating to allegations or transactions in a criminal, civil or administrative hearing, in a legislative or administrative report, hearing, audit or investigation, or from the news media, the court may award such sums as it considers appropriate, but in no case more than ten percent of the proceeds, taking into account the significance of the information and the role of the person or persons bringing the action in advancing the case to litigation.
(b) If the attorney general or a local government does not elect to intervene or convert the action, and the action is successful, then the person or persons who initiated the qui tam action which obtains proceeds shall be entitled to receive between twenty-five and thirty percent of the proceeds recovered in the action or settlement of the action. The court shall determine the percentage of the proceeds to which a person commencing a qui tam civil action is entitled, by considering the extent to which the plaintiff substantially contributed to the prosecution of the action.
(c) With the exception of a court award of costs, expenses or attorneys' fees, any payment to a person pursuant to this paragraph shall be made from the proceeds.
7. Costs, expenses, disbursements and attorneys' fees. In any action brought pursuant to this article, the court may award the attorney general, on behalf of the people of the state of New York, and any local government that participates as a party in the action, and any person who is a qui tam plaintiff, an amount for reasonable expenses which the court finds to have been necessarily incurred, plus reasonable attorneys' fees, plus costs pursuant to article eighty-one of the civil practice law and rules. All such expenses, fees and costs shall be awarded directly against the defendant and shall not be charged from the proceeds, but shall only be awarded if the state or a local government or the qui tam civil action plaintiff prevails in the action.
8. Exclusion from recovery. If the court finds that the qui tam civil action was brought by a person who planned or initiated the violation of section one hundred eighty-nine of this article upon which the action was brought, then the court may, to the extent the court considers appropriate, reduce the share of the proceeds of the action which the person would otherwise be entitled to receive under subdivision six of this section, taking into account the role of such person in advancing the case to litigation and any relevant circumstances pertaining to the violation. If the person bringing the qui tam civil action is convicted of criminal conduct arising from his or her role in the violation of section one hundred eighty-nine of this article, that person shall be dismissed from the qui tam civil action and shall not receive any share of the proceeds of the action. Such dismissal shall not prejudice the right of the attorney general to supersede or intervene in such action and to civilly prosecute the same on behalf of the state or a local government.
9. Certain actions barred. No court shall have jurisdiction over a qui tam civil action brought pursuant to subdivision two of this section:
(a) based on allegations or transactions which are the subject of a pending civil action or an administrative action in which the state or a local government is already a party;
(b) derived from public disclosure of allegations or transactions in a criminal, civil, or administrative hearing, in a legislative or administrative report, hearing, audit or investigation, or from the news media, unless the person who initiated the action is an original source of the information;
(c) if the agency has reached a binding settlement or other agreement with the person who submitted such false claims resolving the matter and such agreement has been approved in writing by the attorney general, or by the local government attorney if the matter involves allegations of false claims submitted to a local government; or
(d) against a member of the legislature, a member of the judiciary, or a senior executive branch official if the action is based on evidence or information known to the state when the action was brought.
10. Liability. Neither the state nor any local government shall be liable for any expenses which any person incurs in bringing a qui tam civil action under this article.
§ 191. Remedies of employees
1. Any employee of any private or public employer who is discharged, demoted, suspended, threatened, harassed or in any other manner discriminated against in the terms and conditions of employment by his or her employer because of lawful acts done by the employee on behalf of the employer or others in furtherance of an action brought under this article, including the investigation for, initiation of, testimony for, or assistance in an action filed or to be filed under this section, shall be entitled to all relief necessary to make the employee whole. Such relief shall include but not be limited to:
(a) an injunction to restrain continued discrimination;
(b) reinstatement to the position such employee would have had but for the discrimination or to an equivalent position;
(c) reinstatement of full fringe benefits and seniority rights;
(d) payment of two times back pay, plus interest; and
(e) compensation for any special damages sustained as a result of the discrimination, including litigation costs and reasonable attorneys' fees.
2. An employee described in subdivision one of this section may bring an action in the appropriate supreme court for the relief provided in this section.
§ 192. Limitation of actions, burden of proof
1. A civil action under this article shall be commenced no later than:
(a) six years after the date on which the violation of section one hundred eighty-nine of this article is committed; or
(b) three years after the date when facts material to the right of action are known or reasonably should have been known by the official of the state or local government charged with responsibility to act in the circumstances, but in no event more than ten years after the date on which the violation is committed, whichever occurs last. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for the purposes of this article, an action under this article is commenced by the filing of the complaint in the supreme court.
2. In any action brought under this article, the state, a local government that participates as a party in the action, or the person bringing the qui tam civil action, shall be required to prove all essential elements of the cause of action, including damages, by a preponderance of the evidence.
§ 193. Other law enforcement authority and duties
This article shall not:
1. preempt the authority, or relieve the duty, of other law enforcement agencies to investigate and prosecute suspected violations of law;
2. prevent or prohibit a person from voluntarily disclosing any information concerning a violation of this article to any law enforcement agency; or
3. limit any of the powers granted elsewhere in this chapter and other laws to the attorney general or state agencies or local governments to investigate possible violations of this article and take appropriate action against wrongdoers.
§ 194. Regulations
The attorney general is authorized to adopt such rules and regulations as is necessary to effectuate the purposes of this article.
HISTORY: Add, L 2007, ch 58, § 39 (Part C), eff April 9, 2007, deemed eff on and after April 1, 2007.
From 2007 NY Laws 58: "Section 93. This act shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to have been in full force and effect on and after April 1, 2007; provided, however, that:
"5. section thirty-nine of this act shall apply to claims filed or presented prior to, on or after April 1, 2007;
"9. any rules or regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this act may be promulgated and any procedures, forms, or instructions necessary for such implementation may be adopted and issued on or after the date this act shall have become a law;
"10. this act shall not be construed to alter, change, affect, impair or defeat any rights, obligations, duties or interests accrued, incurred or conferred prior to the enactment of this act;
"11. the commissioner of health and the superintendent of insurance and any appropriate council may take any steps necessary to implement this act prior to its effective date;
"12. notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of the state administrative procedure act or any other provision of law, rule or regulation, the commissioner of health and the superintendent of insurance and any appropriate council is authorized to adopt or amend or promulgate on an emergency basis any regulation he or she or such council determines necessary to implement any provision of this act on its effective date; and
"13. the provisions of this act shall become effective notwithstanding the failure of the commissioner of health or the superintendent of insurance or any council to adopt or amend or promulgate regulations implementing this act."


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Jay Z's Tidal in Hot Water for Streaming Prince's Music
Written by Steve Karnowski, Associated Press — Roc Nation, the entertainment company founded by rap mogul Jay Z, tried but failed to get chosen to manage Prince's musical assets in the weeks after the rock superstar's death, according to court documents released Tuesday.
The documents stem from a dispute between Prince's record company and Jay Z's music streaming service Tidal, which is playing out in both state and federal court in Minnesota.
The trust company overseeing Prince's estate says the dispute belongs only in federal court, where PRN Records is suing Roc Nation for copyright infringement for making a large part of Prince's catalog available to its subscribers. A closed hearing is set for Thursday in Carver County probate court.
After Prince Rogers Nelson died of an accidental painkiller overdose in April, the court appointed Bremer Trust to run his estate. The company then solicited requests for proposals for managing his music to generate cash.
The documents show Roc Nation, founded in 2008 by Shawn "Jay Z" Carter, submitted a proposal in May. That proposal, marked "Proprietary and Confidential," pitched Roc Nation as an "artists first" endeavor that would protect his artistic vision. It noted that Prince had already given Tidal rights to stream some of his recent work.
"Mr. Nelson spoke openly with Mr. Carter about the future of his music, and the future of the music industry overall," said the letter, signed by Roc Nation CEO Jay Brown. "Mr. Nelson's point of view on art, protecting rights and advocating for social good were directly aligned with those of Mr. Carter. He confided in and entrusted Mr. Carter and Roc Nation with his most prized possession, his creative expression."
However, Bremer Trust in June instead chose L. Londell McMillan, Prince's longtime attorney, manager and friend, and business executive Charles Koppelman to manage Prince's music.
Since then, a dispute has been brewing between the two sides over how Tidal is streaming Prince's music. Bremer Trust acknowledged that an Aug. 1, 2015, agreement, which remains sealed, gave Tidal the right to stream a new Prince studio album, "Hit n Run Phase One." However, the trust company alleges in court filings, Tidal in June began streaming many Prince albums without permission.
According to an October letter to the judge by Roc Nation attorney Rodney Mason, Prince and NPG "granted Roc Nation the exclusive rights to stream the Artist's vast and historic catalogue of master recordings and musical compositions exclusively on the TIDAL service. It was no secret that the Artist did not like competing streaming services and was publicly vocal in support of granting exclusive rights to TIDAL ... and there are many documents which support the parties' agreement to the same."
Bremer Trust disputes that. In a brief dated Monday, attorney Katherine Moerke wrote that the only agreement it knows of between Prince or his companies with Roc Nation or any of its affiliates covered only "Hit n Run Phase One." Roc Nation has failed to produce any other agreements despite several requests and a subpoena, she wrote. Roc Nation also has not responded to a request for an accounting of any payments, she wrote, suggesting that it still owes the estate royalties.
Moerke and Mason did not immediately respond to phone calls seeking comment Tuesday. Roc Nation has not formally responded to the copyright lawsuit, which NPG filed last month.
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Ride-hailing platforms will lead the global EV transition
Author: Jasmeet Khurana
Type: Insight
This article was originally published by Intelligent Transport.
App-based ride-hailing comes in all forms and sizes; you can ask for a luxury vehicle to pick you up as you leave your London office, call a two- or three‑wheeler to your housing complex in New Delhi or Jakarta, or use a dedicated app to order safe rides for your children in California. On‑demand rides are just a screen touch away in cities across the world.
In recent months, the ride-hailing market has suffered a significant decline, mainly due to the consequences of COVID-19. The global ride-hailing market is expected to decline from $60.5 billion in 2019 to $52.07 billion in 2020 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of -14 per cent. Despite, the COVID-19 induced setback, the market is expected to recover swiftly and reach $85.5 billion in 2023 at a CAGR of 18 per cent.
The continued growth of the ride-hailing industry can make mobility convenient, affordable and accessible – but it can also result in increased carbon emissions and pollution.
Showcasing the negative environmental impacts of current ride-hailing services, a recent report by the Union of Concerned Scientists called on ride-hailing companies to electrify their fleets, increase the share of pooled rides and improve connections to public transit hubs. According to their report, an electric, non-pooled ride-hailing trip can cut emissions by about 53 per cent. Another recent study showcases how replacing ride-hailing cars with electric vehicles (EVs) would deliver three times the environmental benefits and emission reductions compared to replacing regular private vehicles. The good news is, on a total cost of ownership (TCO) basis, electric ride-hailing is possible and economically viable today in most large global cities and across different vehicle formats (micromobility scooters and two-, three- and four-wheelers). Even though EVs are still more expensive to buy than their combustion engine counterparts, they are usually cheaper to run; the more an electric vehicle is utilised, the lower its TCO. With a higher vehicle utilisation than most other use-cases, ride-hailing fleets are ideal for an early EV transition. Over the next five to seven years, as EVs become cheaper to buy, combustion vehicles may no longer be able to compete with EVs for ride-hailing.
Current commitments
Recognising this transition, Uber recently committed to become a fully zero-emission platform by 2040 and has set an earlier goal to have 100 per cent of rides take place in EVs in U.S., Canadian and European cities by 2030. Similarly, Lyft has committed to a 100 per cent electric fleet by 2030. China's Didi Chuxing, in 2018, announced that it is aiming to bring 10 million EVs on its platform by 2028. India's Ola has also announced its 'Mission Electric' – an initiative to add millions of vehicles (with a focus on two- and three-wheeler EV) across its platform.
Companies are also stepping up their efforts through collaborative action. For example, China's Didi Chuxing has partnered with BYD to co-design custom EVs for ride-hailing and has set up a joint venture with BP to set up charging infrastructure. Uber has committed $800 million in resources to support drivers to switch to electric and has also initiated several partnerships with vehicle manufacturers and charging infrastructure companies in different geographies.
Local and national governments are keen to support this transition as well. Globally, 13 countries and 31 cities have declared plans for phasing out sales of internal combustion vehicles. Many other cities are planning for zero-emission zones; in 2019, the Chinese city of Shenzhen issued specific guidelines requiring all new vehicles registered for app-based ride-hailing services to be fully electric.
This transition needs to be accelerated across ride-hailing platforms and geographies. In India, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development supported and documented learnings from a demonstration project for an all-electric ride-hailing platform called BluSmart. Launched in 2019 in New Delhi as India's first all-electric car ride-hailing company, BluSmart has since completed five million clean kilometres with a fleet of 300 cars. The start-up claims to achieve 35‑40 per cent lower TCO as compared to combustion vehicles on competing ride-hailing platforms.
Ride-hailing cars represent 1.2 per cent of the total car stock in India (as of 2019) but contribute to six per cent of the total emissions caused by cars. A 100 per cent adoption of electric ride-hailing cars in India by 2030 equates to a reduction of 12 million tons of CO2 emissions per year, avoiding consumption of 11 billion litres of fuel in a year.
The BluSmart case has proved that despite all the constraints on vehicle availability and range – and limited to no public changing infrastructure – improved vehicle utilisation by optimising driver‑car ratio and reduced dry-run through charging placement interventions can help make EV deployment viable for ride-hailing today.
While the BluSmart demonstration project showcases the viability of all-electric ride-hailing in a nascent market; large global and regional ride-hailing platforms have the scale and capability to work with local governments, driver-partners, vehicle manufacturers and charge point operators to solve some of the bigger challenges for faster electrification of vehicles in our cities.
Even as large platforms strategically move their pieces on the EV ride-hailing chess board, all-electric ride-hailing services are cropping up in various geographies: BluSmart in India, ZEV in Taiwan, Current Taxi and Go360 in the US, and Volkswagen's MOIA in Germany are just a handful of examples.
The scale up
Established ride-hailing companies have the scale, data and technological know-how to accelerate electrification for all other use cases. Their early adoption can bring the required scale to support mass manufacturing for fit-for-purpose vehicles.
Ride-hailing platforms can use their mobility data to support the creation of a tailored charging infrastructure and can become a constructive partner to cities and utilities to help re-design elements of the built environment. Ride-hailing platforms can also provide other societal services. At their scale, large ride‑hailing fleets can provide grid management services to cities – potentially opening additional revenue sources for driver partners. In nascent markets, electrified ride-hailing fleets can provide guaranteed demand to charge point operators, supporting early public infrastructure development.
Given the business case for electrification of ride-hailing, billions of annual ride-hailing trips will need to be electrified in a relatively short duration of time. To put things in perspective, the share of all‑electric rides on most major platforms is currently estimated to be less than one per cent of their total rides. This is a challenging task and the future of our cities and planet is at stake.
Electrification of ride-hailing and transport in general is one of many important actions that the world needs to take in order to reach the goals of the Paris Agreement. To support businesses in this transition, WBCSD has developed an online corporate EV adoption guide with clear steps for planning and adopting an electric fleet.
For this transition to be fully realised, collaboration across sectors with policy makers, driver-partners, vehicle manufacturers, utilities, charge point operators and customers is crucial.
WBCSD's Transforming Urban Mobility project brings businesses and cities together to implement system‑level and integrated initiatives to steer urban mobility systems transformation towards a safer, cleaner, more accessible, and more efficient future. We believe that ride-hailing platforms can, and will, lead the global EV transition and are happy to support them on the journey to make urban mobility sustainable.
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Q: jira api bad request I'm trying to connect jira with an api. I already got issues, but now I'm trying to create an issue, but it doesn't work. I got the error: Badrequest. So I tried a lot of things, even post nothing, but it doesn't work. It still give the same error.
So is there something in the settings, that is blocking my posts?
Code:
    var webAddr = "https://<username>.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/issue/";
    var httpWebRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(webAddr);
    httpWebRequest.ContentType = "application/json; charset=utf-8";
    httpWebRequest.Method = "POST";

    using (var streamWriter = new StreamWriter(httpWebRequest.GetRequestStream()))
    {
        string json = "{}";

        streamWriter.Write(json);
        streamWriter.Flush();
    }

    var httpResponse = (HttpWebResponse)httpWebRequest.GetResponse();
    using (var streamReader = new StreamReader(httpResponse.GetResponseStream()))
    {
        var result = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
        return result;
    }

A: I found the solution: I used single-quotes instead of dubble quotes in the json string.

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Q: Pivot Table Created From CSV File I'm dealing with an issue where the formatting on a CSV file that we're importing needs to be"pivoted" to match the formatting required for the program we are using to process the import.
Currently we are importing the file which comes with the following format:

Account
Department
Jan2022
Feb2022
Mar2022

12345
Sales
$456
$876
$345

98765
HR
$765
$345
$344

We need the format to hold the time periods in one column which would make each account be repeated per time period. For example:

Account
Department
Period
Amount

12345
Sales
Jan2022
$456

12345
Sales
Feb2022
$876

12345
Sales
Mar2022
$345

We are importing this CSV using JavaScript however its basic JS as the program does not support JQuery or any other JS library. Once we import the table into our staging area using JS, we can use SQL to modify the data as well, so this could be solved with either JS or SQL.
We are using a CSV to Array function to read the CSV file for importing into staging:
function CSVToArray(strData, strDelimiter) {
  // Check to see if the delimiter is defined. If not, then default to comma.
  strDelimiter = strDelimiter || ",";

  // Create a regular expression to parse the CSV values.
  var objPattern = new RegExp(
    // Delimiters.
    "(\\" +
      strDelimiter +
      "|\\r?\\n|\\r|^)" +
      // Quoted fields.
      '(?:"([^"]*(?:""[^"]*)*)"|' +
      // Standard fields.
      '([^"\\' +
      strDelimiter +
      "\\r\\n]*))",
    "gi"
  );

  // Create an array to hold our data. Give the array a default empty first row.
  var arrData = [[]];

  // Create an array to hold our individual pattern matching groups.
  var arrMatches = null;

  // Keep looping over the regular expression matches until we can no longer find a match.
  while ((arrMatches = objPattern.exec(strData))) {
    // Get the delimiter that was found.
    var strMatchedDelimiter = arrMatches[1];

    // Check to see if the given delimiter has a length (is not the start of string) and if it matches
    // field delimiter. If id does not, then we know that this delimiter is a row delimiter.
    if (strMatchedDelimiter.length && strMatchedDelimiter !== strDelimiter) {
      // Since we have reached a new row of data, add an empty row to our data array.
      arrData.push([]);
    }

    //Now that we have our delimiter out of the way, let's check to see which kind of value we captured (quoted or unquoted).
    var strMatchedValue;

    if (arrMatches[2]) {
      // We found a quoted value. When we capture this value, unescape any double quotes.
      strMatchedValue = arrMatches[2]
        .replace(new RegExp('""', "g"), '"')
        .replace('"', "");
    } else {
      // We found a non-quoted value.
      strMatchedValue = arrMatches[3];
    }
    // Now that we have our value string, let's add it to the data array.
    arrData[arrData.length - 1].push(strMatchedValue);
  }
  // Return the parsed data.
  return arrData;
}

A: UNPIVOT should work for you:
/* sample data */
with t as
 (select '12345' account,
         'Sales' department,
         '$456' jan2022,
         '$876' feb2022,
         '$345' mar2022
    from dual
  union all
  select '98765' account,
         'HR' department,
         '$765' jan2022,
         '$345' feb2022,
         '$344' mar2022
    from dual)

select *
  from t
 unpivot include nulls(amount for period in(jan2022 as 'jan2022',
                                            feb2022 as 'feb2022',
                                            mar2022 as 'mar2022'));

If you have dynamic columns you gonna have bad time with this aproach - you have to generate "unpivot in clause" (that part with jan2022 as 'jan2022') on your own.


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If you lived in Singapore instead of Argentina, you would:
In Argentina, the average life expectancy is 78 years (75 years for men, 82 years for women) as of 2022. In Singapore, that number is 86 years (84 years for men, 89 years for women) as of 2022.
be 78.4% less likely to be obese
In Argentina, 28.3% of adults are obese as of 2016. In Singapore, that number is 6.1% of people as of 2016.
Argentina has a GDP per capita of $19,700 as of 2020, while in Singapore, the GDP per capita is $93,400 as of 2020.
In Argentina, 9.8% of adults are unemployed as of 2019. In Singapore, that number is 2.2% as of 2019.
Argentina has a top tax rate of 35.0% as of 2016. In Singapore, the top tax rate is 22.0% as of 2016.
In Argentina, approximately 39.0 women per 100,000 births die during labor as of 2017. In Singapore, 8.0 women do as of 2017.
In Argentina, approximately 9.3 children (per 1,000 live births) die before they reach the age of one as of 2022. In Singapore, on the other hand, 1.6 children do as of 2022.
In Argentina, there are approximately 15.6 babies per 1,000 people as of 2022. In Singapore, there are 9.1 babies per 1,000 people as of 2022.
Argentina spends 4.8% of its total GDP on education as of 2019. Singapore spends 2.5% of total GDP on education as of 2020.
spend 56.8% less on healthcare
Argentina spends 9.5% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2019. In Singapore, that number is 4.1% of GDP as of 2019.
Argentina has a total of 4,989 km of coastline. In Singapore, that number is 193 km.
The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook, Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore, Federal Administration of Public Revenue.
Singapore: At a glance
Singapore is a sovereign country in East/Southeast Asia, with a total land area of approximately 709 sq km. Singapore was founded as a British trading colony in 1819. It joined the Malaysian Federation in 1963 but separated two years later and became independent. Singapore subsequently became one of the world's most prosperous countries with strong international trading links (its port is one of the world's busiest in terms of tonnage handled) and with per capita GDP equal to that of the leading nations of Western Europe.
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Kipleigh Brown is originally from Chicago. She studied at the Steppenwolf Theatre and the Second City as well as performing in numerous theatrical productions around the Windy City. Kipleigh performs in and writes for "Top Story! Weekly", a weekly sketch comedy show at the IO West in Hollywood (www.topstoryweekly.com)
She also work for Star Trek Enterprise , Star Trek Online and Star Trek Continues.
- Kipleigh , thank you for your time for this little Interview.
- You starts your career , when i look on IMDb,1994 in "The Magic Door" thats right?
I started out my acting career performing in professional stage plays in and around Chicago. But "The Magic Door" was especially exciting for me because it was my first role on a television show.
- 10 Years later you became a role in Star Trek Enterprise in the episode "The Forgotten". how did you get your role in Star Trek?
My acting agent got me the audition for Star Trek: Enterprise. By then I had relocated from Chicago to Los Angeles.
It's kind of a funny story, actually. I was thrilled about auditioning for Enterprise, because I was already a HUGE fan of Star Trek in general - and of Star Trek: The Next Generation in particular. But I'd heard that it was a bad idea to reveal to the casting directors that you were a big Star Trek fan. Apparently Paramount Studios has had issues in the past with some Trek fans who'd been cast on the show taking unauthorized "souvenirs" from the set. So when I auditioned I had to act very casual about it, kind of like, "Star Trek, what's that?" I made it past several rounds of auditions. At the final audition, I was told that the director of the episode would be in the audition room. However, they didn't tell me who the director was. So I walked into the room, still pretending to be all cool and casual about Star Trek and BAM, suddenly I'm face to face with LeVar Burton! He was the director! LeVar Burton played the role of chief engineer Geordi La Forge on Star Trek: The Next Generation - which happens to be my favorite show of all time. So unexpectedly meeting one of my heroes and managing NOT to freak out... let's just say that was the BEST acting I have ever done!
- After "Enterprise" you give your voice in Star Trek Online and then you work in 8 Episodes as Smith in Star Trek Continues.Can you share a moment you remember from the set?
I'm elated to have played the voice of Captain Kuumaarke in Star Trek Online (which is the official Star Trek massively multiplayer online role-playing game) Captain Kuumaarke, has appeared in several seasons of Star Trek Online. But in the latest season, "Emergence,"my character goes on a mission with... wait for it... Captain Geordi La Forge - voiced by LeVar Burton! Seems we've come full circle. Just when I thought things couldn't get more awesome...
As for Star Trek Continues, I'm so honored to have been able work on this web series - not only as an actress, but as a writer as well. I wrote Star Trek Continues' 9th episode "What Ships are For." After I joined the STC cast as Lt. Barbara Smith, I fell in love with Star Trek even more - which I didn't think was possible! I was astounded by the passion and devotion of STC's creator, Vic Mignogna (as well as the cast and crew) to carry the torch lit by Gene Roddenberry fifty years ago. What a powerful, beautiful thing... half a century later, Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future continues to inspire people all over the world. Including me. I'd never written a teleplay before, nor did I dream I ever would until Star Trek Continues. But the spirit Trek inspired me "to boldly go" where I'd never gone before. I am eternally grateful for that.
- Was you a Star Trek Fan before you work in it or did you watch Star Trek before?
Yes I was a fan! But... you probably already figured that out from my answer to question #2.
- Star Trek starts these days with an New Series , "Star Trek Discovery". Did you watch the show?
Yes, I watch Discovery! I'm so happy to see Star Trek back on television. I sincerely hope the show captures the imaginations of our younger generation as it has their predecessors.
- But you are not only an actress you also a Writer and wrote the screenplay for "R.U.R."(announced) and the Star Trek Continues Episode "What ships are for". How was it to wrote and not to work infront of the camera?
Once again, I seem to have prematurely answered part of this question in one of my earlier answers! (At least as far as "What ships are for" is concerned.) As for R.U.R., I co-wrote the screenplay. James Kerwin is the primary author of R.U.R and is also slated to be the film's director.
While I enjoy working in front of the camera, I find working behind it, as a writer, rewarding in new and different ways. As an actress, it's fascinating to approach a script from the writer's point of view. I have a much greater appreciation for the careful thought and contemplation a writer puts into each and every line. Not only is it about telling a good story, it's about how you tell the story. The words and the flow of the language are critical - they can make or break a script. Bad writing also makes the actor's job infinitely harder. Likewise, as a writer who is an actress, I have an even greater understanding of the importance of an actor's ability to transform two-dimensional words on a page into a fully realized three dimensional being. The actor is the translator, the gateway through which the life of the writer's story is told. There is a tremendous amount of trust a writer places in the actor.
- What will we see in "R.U.R."?
You can actually get a sneak peek if you visit www.rurfilm.com, and watch R.U.R:Genesis. It is a seven-minute short film that we made as a proof-of-concept "teaser" for the eventual feature-length film.
R.U.R. is set in a stylish retro-futuristic world where "artificial" people have been created to serve humankind. The feature script is based the original play R.U.R. written by Karel Čapek in 1919. Čapek's play went on to serve as the inspiration for Metropolis and Blade Runner.
But to answer your question specifically, R.U.R. will be both action-packed and provocative. It will explore the social and moral ramifications of an artificial race and delve into the nature of the soul, love, and life itself. We can't wait for you to see it!
- You work with so many people, which one has left an impression in your life and what?
I'd have to say James Kerwin. He and I are simpatico when it comes to what inspires us creatively. We first worked together when I played the lead in his film Yesterday was a Lie. Since then we've worked on R.U.R. and Star Trek Continues and have more projects in the works. We think in similar ways, the ideas just seem to flow. But more than that, James has believed in me since day one. He has believed in me even when I didn't believe in myself. He has always challenged me and inspired me to do things I didn't know I could do. Like writing. I kept thinking of myself as an actress, not a writer. And he said, "Why can't you be both?" I guess I felt like splitting my focus between acting and writing would turn me into the proverbial "jack of all trades, master of none." But James's question forced me really to ask myself, "why not?" And I realized that it was fear that had been talking me out of it, because you don't know until you try, right?
- At the last some words for the Fans outside there?
Try. Always, always try. Even failure is a success when you try. Nothing will come of nothing. If you don't try, you will never know what greatness lives inside of you.
- Thank you Kipleigh Brown for this Interview and i hope to see you some day in Germany.
I hope so too! And thanks so much for having me on this interview. May you and all of your readers live long, and prosper.
Interview with Kipleigh Brown
https://www.kipleigh.com/
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Cornelius Alverson Burley
Name Cornelius Alverson Burley
Born 1803 Knowlton, Warren, New Jersey, United States [1]
Died 19 Aug 1830 London, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada [1]
Cause: Executed by hanging
Buried London Jail Yard Cemetery, London, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada [1]
Father William Burley, b. Abt 1800, Of, New York State , d. Yes, date unknown
Mother Abigail Ribbel, b. Abt 1800, Of, New York State , d. Yes, date unknown
Family Margaret Beamer, b. Abt 1810, of, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada , d. Yes, date unknown
Born - 1803 - Knowlton, Warren, New Jersey, United States
Died - Cause: Executed by hanging - 19 Aug 1830 - London, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada
The first execution in London occurred with the hanging of Cornelius Alverson Burley for the shooting death, in Bayham Township, of Constable Timothy Conklin Pomeroy
Beyond the gallows, spectators pressed closer, jockeying to see what would be London's first hanging. By foot, on horseback and in wagons they came, a crowd of 3,000 dwarfing a city that in 1830 had 300 residents.
With all eyes on the doomed man, a trap door opened, Burley dropped down, the rope snapped taut -- and broke. Falling six metres, Burley struck the ground, stunned but alive.
The sheriff left to buy another rope that would soon end Burley's life. The condemned man waited. His final thoughts are a mystery, but this is certain Burley couldn't have known his future as a morbid attraction had just begun.
The first indignity was common to all those executed in the era. After his body stopped twitching, Burley was cut down, taken to an examining table and dissected by doctors and medical students who otherwise had little access to corpses. While the bones of his torso quietly disappeared, his skull served as a lurid draw for much of the next 170 years.
His skull first gained notoriety in the hands of a showman who made a fortune divining people's character by feeling bumps and depressions on their heads. American phrenologist Orson Squire Fowler, according to local folklore, visited Burley on the eve of the execution, felt the young man's head -- and, after the second hanging, took the skull.
A moving tale, no doubt, that Fowler put to good use in his shows. But it was false just the same -- Fowler learned of phrenology two years after Burley's execution and did not begin to tour until after 1834, according to the records of the school he attended at the time, Amherst College in Massachusetts.
Dramatics aside, Fowler did get his hands on Burley's skull after 1834, perhaps from John Harris, who as treasurer of the region would have worked in the courthouse, a likely depository for the skull.
By the 1880s, nearing the end of his life, Fowler apparently returned the skull to London, giving it to the Harris family, the occupants of Eldon House. There it was found in in a box in the attic in 1960, when the family donated the home to the city. Eldon House soon opened its doors as a museum and the skull had a second run as a morbid attraction.
For 40 years, the skull sat in a glass-covered box in a hallway lined with the horns and heads of wild beasts. Its image was reproduced on postcards.
But last spring, the skull was quietly placed back in the attic, away from visitors. The move was made, museum officials acknowledge, to appease the great-great niece of Burley, a Michigan woman who has launched a campaign to end the spectacle that began 170 years ago at the forks of the Thames.
The London Press, by Jonathan Sher. undated
Alverson Burley b. 1803 Sussex Co. NJ and hung Aug. 19, 1830, was s/o William Burley & Abigail Ribble. He was accused of shooting Pomeroy, along with his uncle, Henry Ribble, and cousins Anthony & David Ribble. The Ribbles had a lawyer and were established farmers, Burley was from out of the county (Elgin) living in Wentworth County with his family and had no lawyer. After several hours of brainwashing by "Rev."Jackson, Burley confessed to save his relatives. His crime was taking an oxen from a neighbour who had refused to pay him for his previous winter's work. The evidence on which he was hung was finding his cap at the scene of the crime.
Historians since then conclude it was his cousin Anthony Ribble who shot Pomeroy as he had been heard threatening to "spill his blood", if he didn't stop snooping around his house. Anthony was a crack shot and his rifle was missing after the shooting.
This summer, the descendants of William & Abigail finally persuaded Eldon House to return the skull to the family for decent burial. It had been displayed with wild animals in their museum.
Although executions in Upper Canada were infrequent, those that did occur provided an extraordinary entertainment for pioneer society. From the standpoint of the law, moreover, the spectacle of the gallows produced a salutary impression on the public and, especially important, on the potential criminal. Yet the lesson could be reinforced. Upper Canada being an essentially religious society, it was felt to be necessary that the offender atone for his misdeeds, explain his immoral behaviour, and acknowledge his faith in Jesus Christ. Thus the gallows address usually took the form of a confession whereby all concerned could be assured that justice had been done. One of the best examples is the trial and execution of Cornelius Albertson Burley.
Burley's family settled in Beverley Township in 1827; Burley himself claimed to have been a blacksmith. His story begins in the late summer of 1829, when he killed a yoke of steers belonging to a Mr Lamb, presumably Henry Lamb*, and a warrant was issued for his arrest. Burley claimed that Lamb had defrauded him and, unable to get legal redress, he had exacted his own form of vengeance. He was arrested by a Gore District constable, Timothy Conklin Pomeroy, but escaped and fled to the farm of his uncle Henry Ribble ( Ribbel) in Bayham Township. Accompanied by his wife, he arrived there late in August. He worked on the farm until Pomeroy arrived on the scene on 13 September. About 3 o'clock on the morning of 16 September Pomeroy was shot, and he died shortly thereafter.
Murder was not uncommon but the killing of a constable in execution of his duty was sensational and unsettling news. The Gore Emporium claimed that "a more foul, coldblooded murder scarcely ever disgraced the annals of civilization." Residents of both the Gore and the London districts petitioned Lieutenant Governor Sir John Colborne*, complaining of the magistrates' "gross neglect of duty" in failing to apprehend the constable's murderer( s) . After consulting with judge James Buchanan Macaulay*, who stressed the necessity of "the most prompt and diligent exertions" in order to satisfy the concern for "Public Justice," Colborne on 23 September mildly chided Mahlon Burwell*, a local magistrate, and the sheriff for not making an immediate report. In fact, Burwell was not to blame; the problem was dated information, the natural result of slow communication.
On 19 September a man fitting Burley's description but claiming to be William Ribble had been captured by settlers in Dunwich Township; he was taken to St Thomas. The same day Burwell and two other magistrates examined the prisoner, who then identified himself as Burley. He recounted his flight from justice in Gore, claiming his innocence. He also gave his version of events leading up to Pomeroy's death, saying that when the constable and another man had appeared at Henry Ribble's farm on 14 September he had hidden in a field and then in the barn. Believing Pomeroy had spotted him, he fled the following night, taking with him his wife and a rifle that he obtained from the home of his cousin, Anthony Ribble. Burley stated that he knew nothing of the murder and did not hear a gunshot on the night in question. He had travelled about 50 miles before being arrested.
On 20 September the jps arrived from Bayham with three witnesses in tow: Isaac D. White, Henry Ribble, and his son David. The information of the Ribbles cohered neatly. When Pomeroy's party appeared, Henry Ribble urged Burley to give himself up but he refused, saying that "if they got him they should take him dead." On the morning of Pomeroy's killing, Henry had been wakened by a shot. He claimed that about a half-hour after sunrise, Burley appeared with a rifle and claimed to have shot Pomeroy in the leg. White, a member of Pomeroy's group, followed the same sequence of events sketched by the Ribbles, but put them in a different context. The Ribbles had been uncooperative. Anthony Ribble told Pomeroy to leave his house quickly, "or he would have his blood spilt and that Damned quick." While searching Henry Ribble's house about 45 minutes before his death, Pomeroy had unsheathed his sword to guard himself. He was shot returning from Henry Ribble's and in close proximity to Anthony Ribble's, where White saw a light burning. White did not know who shot Pomeroy. On 21 September the jps committed Burley to jail charged on the oaths of the three witnesses. He was "put in Irons" and sent to London to await trial. The following month an indictment was issued against Anthony Ribble as well and he, too, was held over for trial. In the spring of 1830 a number of prisoners - Ribble among them - escaped. Burley remained behind; he may have been chained to the floor. Ribble was soon recaptured.
The assizes opened on 12 Aug. 1830 with Chief Justice John Beverley Robinson* presiding. His associates from the local magistracy were Burwell and James Mitchell. The grand jury found a true bill against Burley on 16 August and his trial, separate from that of Ribble's, commenced the following day. Only three witnesses were called for the crown by Solicitor General Christopher Alexander Hagerman*. Burley was found guilty and Robinson sentenced him to be executed on the morning of the 19th. In his subsequent report Robinson noted that the "evidence was such as to place the guilt of the convict beyond doubt. . . . He fully confessed his guilt." The confession, however, had come after sentencing and not during the trial. The Reverend James Jackson* noted that it was made "about forty-one hours before his execution." Presumably, then, it had some impact upon Anthony Ribble's trial on the 18th; he was acquitted. Burley's was the only capital conviction on the Western Circuit in which Robinson did not order a respite of execution, probably because of the confession.
Burley had been the object of the attention of local clergy during the assizes. Jackson saw him "every day but one" and claimed, "Never have I witnessed so great an instance of obduracy and insensibility." Eventually, however, the clergy's discussions with the prisoner "wrought a victory over his unfeeling heart; he burst into a flood of tears" and confessed. Prior to going to the scaffold he received the sacrament of baptism and the Eucharist from the local Anglican clergymen. Jackson copied down the confession and read it from the scaffold before a crowd of some 3,000. Another minister addressed the throng and concluded with a prayer, whereupon the trapdoor dropped. But, as often happened, the execution was botched. The rope broke and Burley fell to the ground. It was some time before another attempt could be made because the sheriff had to buy a new rope. Throughout Jackson claimed that Burley was composed and "seemed as if the world was lost from his view, and his whole mind was devotion, prayer, praise, singing, and thanksgiving." When all was again ready he walked to the scaffold "without any appearance of hesitation; but with the utmost composure, submitted to his fate."
Some historians have questioned how much Jackson's efforts influenced the act of confession and several have concluded that Burley was probably innocent and Anthony Ribble guilty of Pomeroy's murder. On the first matter, there was nothing unusual about clergy and magistrates urging a convict to confess for the good of his soul and for the benefit of society. With regard to the confession itself, Jackson says, simply, that he copied down Burley's statement; however, he no doubt added a literate quality that otherwise would have been absent. Whether Burley was guilty must remain, in the absence of further evidence, a moot point. It seems that the evidence was stacked against him. The source of the accusation was Henry Ribble who, Burwell noted, "candidly believes that Cornelius Burley was the man who shot Pomeroy." But as White declared, it was the Ribbles who had threatened Pomeroy. Moreover, the Gore Emporium's report of the magistrates' investigation stated that the Ribbles' evidence "betrayed strong symptoms of guilt." In the end Burley's confession probably saved Anthony Ribble. "I am constrained to say," the confession read, "that he had no hand in the crime whatever, Neither had any other person."
Burley's confession was published in Bartemas Ferguson's Gore Balance; Ferguson also printed 1,000 copies as handbills. As an example of its type, the confession is a model. Burley hoped it would "have a tendency to check the progress of evil, and prevent others from doing as I have done." He had been "wicked and thoughtless from my youth." He was raised without the benefits of education or religion and was unable to read or write. He wandered through the world "under the influence of depravity. . . . I was often found in the merry dance, & lost no opportunity of inducing thoughtless & unguarded females to leave the paths of innocence and virtue." He took upon himself all guilt for the act, noting, "I only suffer the penalty that is justly due to my crimes." He thanked the ministers who saved him and claimed, "In my great extremity I have gained a confidence that through the merits of Christ alone I will be saved, although the chief of sinners. . . . I now leave this world with the fullest confidence that my sins are washed away in the Blood of the Lamb."
But it was not quite the end. As the sentence stipulated, Burley's body was given to surgeons for dissection. According to one account, Orson Squire Fowler, later a noted American phrenologist, had visited Burley in his cell and reported on his phrenological character. After the dissection on 19 August, Fowler received the head and the following day used it for a public lecture. Before leaving London he sawed it in two and took the top part with him. He subsequently used it on his extensive American and European tours. The bottom portion was discovered in London in 1960 and is now on display in Eldon House, a local museum3a
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SILVER SPRINGS, MD – NOAA's annual Fisheries of the United States 2016 report released last month shows stable national fisheries in both volume and value, with several ports in the region ranked highly.
Overall, the US landed 9.6 billion pounds of fish at a total value of $5.3 billion.
"Our nation's fisheries, landings, and aquaculture remain a strong contributor to our economy," said Ned Cyr, director of NOAA Fisheries Office of Science & Technology at a recent press conference to announce the report's findings.
"Our goal is to build healthy, sustainable fish stocks that allow our commercial and recreational fishing industries to remain strong contributors to our economy," Cyr said.
To view the report in its entirety, visit <www.fisheries.noaa.gov/resource/document/fisheries-united-states-2016-report>.
Also, look for Fisheries Economics of the US which details the economic impact of fisheries and related sectors, including employment, sales and value-added impacts.
The port of Dutch Harbor, AK ranked highest in volume of fish landed for the 20th consecutive year – with 770 million pounds – and ranked second in landings value, at $198 million.
Alaskan ports took five out of the Top 10 rankings in landings and account for 3.4 billion pounds of the total national landings.
However, in this region, the port of New Bedford continues to rank highest in value of catch landed for the 17th year – at $327 million in landings, up $5 million over 2015, due in large part to the high-value sea scallop fishery.
Total New Bedford landings in 2016 were 107 million pounds.


Here's my confession: I love Starburst Jelly Beans! They are my favorite candy this time of year. So, I had to pick up a bag the other day. We decided to do some math activities with these jelly beans.
First, we counted them. I created this sheet of 6 circles for sorting, but it worked well as a tool for counting. Then I had Troy sort the jelly beans by colors.
I do have to brag on him–he's getting really good at sorting! This was also a good fine motor activity, since the jelly beans rolled around and he had to carefully place them in the circles without knocking the other jelly beans down. I had Troy tell me which color had the most. He thought green did. So to find out I had him count green and yellow. Then we made a graph to visually see which color had the most.
For another math activity, I found some plastic eggs and put numbers with corresponding dots on them.
Then I had Troy fill the eggs with the correct number of jelly beans.
For a listening activity, I had him listen to the sound 1 jelly bean makes in the egg. Then we tried higher numbers and compared how they sounded. It was a good listening activity for him and it was fun shaking the eggs!
Do you know any other activities that use jelly beans?
he is so cute. Did he eat his math after?
Thank you!! Actually, he doesn't like jelly beans! I offered them to him, but he gave him to his brother instead. He's kind of picky about eating sugary candy…which I won't complain about!
I'm dying for a jelly bean now. Such fun ideas – thanks for sharing.
Thank you for sharing. These are such fun for children to be engaged in Math activities.


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  INTEGER :: grid_error
  INTEGER :: II
  INTEGER :: sum_total_values
  INTEGER :: idx

  !! Compute values per process
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  DO II = 1, helper%comm_size
     idx = (matrix%columns+1)*II
     helper%values_per_process(II) = gathered_matrix%outer_index(idx)
  END DO

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  helper%displacement(1) = 0
  DO II = 2, SIZE(helper%displacement)
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          & helper%values_per_process(II-1)
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  ALLOCATE(gathered_matrix%inner_index(sum_total_values))

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The first Catholic school in Toongabbie, known as St Enda's, was opened in January 1950 by the Sisters of Mercy.
Many students were from the predominantly Maltese farming community. Children from Kindergarten to Year 4 were taught in the present parish hall, which served as both church and school. The initial enrolment was 179 students.
In 1956, a new school was built on the present site in Targo Road, Girraween, and classes extended to Year 6 for girls. The school was renamed St Anthony's after St Anthony of Padua, patron of the parish of Toongabbie. Additional buildings were opened in 1968, 1975, 1979 and 1998. A new resource centre, and classroom extensions and refurbishments were completed in 2010.
In 1982, the first lay Principal was appointed. Through co-operation and commitment, staff and community met the challenge of maintaining the identity of the school and continued to cater for the different needs of the community. In 1984, a decision was made to cater for boys all the way through to the end of Year 6.
St Anthony's Primary continues the tradition of the Mercy Sisters by focusing on the education of the whole child. The achievements and values of the past are recognised and appreciated as being important and relevant.
Celebrations are part of our tradition and continue to be a vital part of St Anthony's. Close working relationships exist between the parish and the school with the pastor, parents, staff and students being valued.
As we look forward, we acknowledge our history and share a common goal for the education and faith development of our children.
If you have any interesting photos of St Anthony's Primary, please send them into the office, with your name and address clearly marked and include a caption with them. They will be scanned and then returned to you in good condition.


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Q: If I refresh my Sandbox now, will it be on the Preview Release version? Looking at the documentation What happens if I refresh my sandbox now?

*

*Will still be built on Winter Release 19 and stay as it is now (as we are close to the 13 October Deadline)

*It will go to Summer 18 until the final refresh on October 13th
(As it says to refresh after September 7th to go to Summer 18)
I am currently on Winter Preview in Instance CS80

A: If you upgrade now, your sandbox will be built on a non-preview instance, and roll back to Summer '18.
Here's how it works:
Sandboxes can be on "preview" or "non-preview" instances.  Preview instances automatically switch to the new version at the beginning of the preview window, which, for the Winter '19 release, runs September 7th through October 12th.
Regardless of whether your sandbox is on a preview or non-preview instance, if you refresh your sandbox before the beginning of the window, it will be moved to a preview instance, and be one version ahead of your production org.
Likewise -- regardless of whether you're on preview or non-preview -- if you refresh your sandbox inside the preview window, it will be moved to a non-preview instance, and be on the same version as your production org.
Being on a "preview instance" means your sandbox will be automatically switched over earlier than your production org ...but that's all. As far as refreshing your sandbox goes, all that matters is whether you're inside or outside the preview window.


(1394–1460). The founder of the Portuguese empire, Prince Henry of Portugal was a patron of explorers. He was also one of the earliest geographers. In honor of the discoveries he inspired, he came to be called Henry the Navigator.
Henry was born in Porto, Portugal, on March 4, 1394, the third surviving son of King John I of Portugal. His mother, Philippa, was the daughter of the English duke John of Gaunt. Henry and his older brothers were educated under the supervision of their parents. Henry developed ambitions to take part in military campaigns and to win a kingdom for himself.
In 1415 Henry distinguished himself in a campaign in Africa. The Portuguese captured the Moroccan citadel of Ceuta on the African coast across the straits from Gibraltar. While he was in Ceuta, he became interested in the continent of Africa. About the 1420s he began to sponsor expeditions to explore its coasts.
Henry set up a base near Cape St. Vincent, the southwestern tip of Portugal, not far from the port of Lagos. There, on a rocky promontory called Sagres, he created a small court of his own called Vila do Infante. The most-brilliant scholars did pioneering work there in navigation, ship design, astronomy, and mapmaking. From Sagres, Henry sent out most of his expeditions.
The Portuguese explored the islands of the Azores, Madeira, and the Cape Verde islands. Henry helped establish potentially profitable colonies in some of those areas. He also sent the explorers along the West African coast as far south as present-day Sierra Leone. In 1441 a ship returned from the West African coast with some gold dust and slaves. Henry thereafter turned his attention to exploiting those resources. He died in Vila do Infante on November 13, 1460.


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Jerzy Kaźmirkiewicz (ur. 24 kwietnia 1924, zm. 21 maja 1977) – polski inżynier, docent w Katedrze Technologii Drewna SGGW – Akademii Rolniczej w Warszawie. W czasie drugiej wojny światowej więziony w hitlerowskich obozach koncentracyjnych od października 1939 do maja 1945 (Auschwitz, Dachau i Mauthausen-Gusen). Po zakończeniu wojny ukończył SGGW i rozpoczął karierę akademicką na tamtejszym Wydziale Technologii Drewna.

Wieloletni organizator drużyn harcerskich, założyciel Spółdzielni Mieszkaniowej Oświata, członek ZBoWiD. Został pochowany na Cmentarzu Komunalnym na Powązkach (kwatera C23-6-7).

Przypisy

Bibliografia
 Dobosiewicz, Stanisław (1980). Mauthausen / Gusen; Samoobrona i konspiracja [ Mauthausen / Gusen: samoobrony i podziemny ] (w języku polskim). Warszawa: Wydawnictwa pon p. 486. .

Absolwenci Szkoły Głównej Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego
Członkowie ZBoWiD
Polscy inżynierowie
Pochowani na Powązkach-Cmentarzu Wojskowym w Warszawie
Urodzeni w 1924
Więźniowie KL Mauthausen-Gusen
Zmarli w 1977

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Summer Box Office Suffers Historic Decline in U.S.
The good news: International returns helped rescue a number of Hollywood tentpoles.
That's according to comScore, which is predicting that revenue will come in at roughly $3.78 billion (a 15.7 percent decline). Attendance also plummeted, and is almost assured of hitting a 25-year low in terms of the number of tickets sold, according to Box Office Mojo.
The sequelitis virus that first invaded Hollywood last year only grew worse this summer. A number of franchise installments underperformed domestically, including Transformers: The Last Knight ($132 million), The Mummy ($80.1 million) and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales ($172 million). While Pirates 5 certainly fared the best, it paled in comparison to the previous installments.
The good news for a worried Hollywood? The international box office — which is up more than 3 percent year-to-date — helped save a number of summer event films that underperformed in the U.S. Pirates 5 has grossed $618 million overseas for a global total of $790 million, while Transformers 5 stands at $604 million globally after earning $474 million offshore. And The Mummy scared up $328 million abroad for a worldwide cume of $407.8 million.
Summer titles that all-out bombed domestically include King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets and The Dark Tower, which kicked off an especially brutal August.
Another sore point was R-rated comedies. Baywatch, The House and Rough Night all bombed despite impressive star wattage. The only film to break the R-rated curse was Malcolm D. Lee's Girls Trip, from Universal and producer Will Packer, which has earned $108.1 million to date.
"The lesson for Hollywood this summer is that every movie counts when it comes to box office and there are no 'throwaway' titles," says Paul Dergarabedian of comScore. "At least three tentpoles missed the mark in North America as well as a handful of R-rated comedies that left audiences frowning, and the missing revenue from those failures could arguably have left a $500 million-plus void in the marketplace — enough to turn a potentially strong $4 billion-plus summer season heavyweight into a 98-pound weakling."
The tentpole winners of summer were Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, which earned $389.4 million domestically and $862.8 million globally; Wonder Woman ($406.2 million/$806.2 million); Despicable Me 3 ($254.5 million/$971.7 million); and Spider-Man: Homecoming ($318.8 million/$737 million). Smaller gems include Baby Driver and Annabelle: Creation.
Year-to-date, domestic revenue is down 5.7 percent, while international revenue is up nearly 4 percent.


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Persistent organic pollutants from a non-road diesel engine generator are studied.
WCO-based biodiesel can reduce PCDD/Fs, PCBs, PBDD/Fs and PBDEs emission.
WCO-biodiesel can be used as an alternative fuel.
This study elucidates the characteristics of persistent organic pollutants (POPs), including polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs), polychlorinated biphenyl (PCBs), polybrominated dibenzo-p-dioxins and polybrominated dibenzofurans (PBDD/Fs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), that are emitted from a generator (non-road diesel engine) that is fueled with a blend of waste cooking oil biodiesels (WCO-biodiesels). Experimental results reveal that the mass concentrations of PCDD/Fs, PCBs, PBDD/Fs and PBDEs from the diesel generator that is fueled with petroleum diesel (D100) under loads of 1.5 kW and 3.0 kW were 583–875 pg Nm–3, 580–810 pg Nm–3, 982–1408 pg Nm–3, and 134–216 ng Nm–3, respectively, while the toxicity concentrations of PCDD/Fs, PCBs, and PBDD/Fs were 33.2–58.6, 2.72–3.11, and 1.54–2.30 pg WHO2005-TEQ Nm–3, respectively. W20 and W40 emitted 15–65% and 23–85% less of these POPs by mass (and 25–47% and 46–91% by toxicity), respectively. Among the tested fuel blends, the W40 exhibited the greatest emission factor reductions of mass and toxicity of these four POPs, despite of the load. Therefore, WCO-biodiesels can feasibly be used as an alternative generator fuel, favoring the recycling/reuse of waste oils and mitigating hazards to human health and environment.


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* Flood Project © (2008-201x)
* Licensed under the simplified BSD license. All rights reserved.
*
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#pragma once

#include "Engine/API.h"

NAMESPACE_ENGINE_BEGIN

//-----------------------------------//

void API_INPUT InputInitialize();
void API_INPUT InputDeinitialize();

class InputDevice;
struct InputEvent;

class Keyboard;
class Mouse;
class Joystick;

class Window;

/**
 * Manages a set of input devices.
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class InputManager;
API_INPUT InputManager* GetInputManager();

class API_INPUT InputManager
{
	DECLARE_UNCOPYABLE(InputManager)

public:

	InputManager();
	virtual ~InputManager();

	/// Gets a keyboard device if it exists.
	virtual Keyboard* getKeyboard() = 0;

	/// Gets a mouse device if it exists.
	virtual Mouse* getMouse() = 0;
};

//-----------------------------------//

NAMESPACE_ENGINE_END


With the weather getting cooler it is time to get crafting. I always have the best intentions. I get at least one new craft made for each holiday but then Pinterest gets me SO excited I start gathering and seeing deals on items where I can make 5 more cute crafts for the holiday.
Then days pass and I see the craft supplies sitting taunting me to make one and I glance at my schedule and say- Not Today Dear. Maybe tomorrow.
Inspiration is here. If you want to get your house spruced up for the Fall season which is here in Western New York (frost advisory already) then check out these 10 Easy Crafts from other amazing bloggers!
Let me know which one you are aiming for and share with us in our Facebook group the finished product!
This beauty is explained in detail over on To Simply Inspire. You will get step by step with images on how to make this DIY wreath .
Next we have my favorite a DIY Chalkboard paint project. If you follow me on The Frugal Farm Girl FB page you know I love taking things out of our barn and using Chalkboard paint on them. The thing about this one that caught my eye the most is the Thankful stencil. What a great way to write new things you and your family are thankful for. In so many things it truly matters when we look at the positive the good in our lives. Leave out the negative and create this adorable Fall Craft. There are full details and step by step with images over on the lovely Where the Smiles Have Been.
For my paper crafters this adorable Thanksgiving Mason Jar Paper Flower Turkey is a perfect DIY craft to give away. This could make a great hostess gift.
Again over on FFG's Facebook page I shared how I painted my pumpkins from the dollar store and they look awesome. That is why I am excited to share this cute little pumpkin floral DIY project with you. This mini pumpkin floral vase is shared over on Sustain My Craft Habit in full details. You could always use silk flowers in this super easy craft!
I couldn't add just ONE mason jar craft. The white and gold is hot right now folks. Are you loving it as much as I am? This is a cute one that would look great displayed in your home or as a hostess gift. So go ahead and check out The Country Chic Cottage blog where you will get the whole scoop on how to make this craft.
My pillow lovers get creative and make your own this season. I love pillows but I hate the cost. April Go Lightly shares with us how to make this DIY pillow. These are such a cute size you could fit it in many places in your own home.
It's fall and that means time for wine. Ok it's always time for wine. Here is a cute and super affordable DIY project using those wine corks. The Frugal Navy Wife gives us step by step on how to create this nifty little craft.
This wreath is easy and frugal! Whoo hoo. I mean it fits with all us money savers right and look how awesome it is? When you scoot on over to Frugal Family Home you will see just how to gather up those leaves in your yard and create something beautiful.
I had to add a cute craft because my five year old is in love with these owls. Artsymomma is at it again with the cutest pinecone owl craft. If you make this one please share it in our Facebook group!
I love bringing a natural feel into our home. I can't resist spray painting pumpkins either. If you are looking for a cute table centerpiece DIY Inspired has you covered. This would work also work well next to a fireplace.
So let me know, do you enjoy these roundup posts?