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California Southern University to Celebrate 39th Annual Commencement August 5, 2017
Jun 21, 2017 by Vance Chung
California Southern University has announced that its 39th annual commencement ceremony will be held at Cheng Hall at the Irvine Barclay Theatre in Irvine, California. The ceremony will take place on Saturday, August 5, 2017, at 2:00PM.
Hundreds of graduates, friends and family members from across the country and around the world are expected to attend this year's ceremony. This years keynote address will be delivered by Sara Gilman, a licensed marriage and family therapist, specializing in the areas of traumatic stress, addictions and peak performance training with athletes and other performers. She is the owner and president of Coherence Associates, Inc. a professional counseling corporation. Sara Gilman is a soon to be graduate of CalSouthern and will be earning her Doctor of Psychology from the university's School of Behavioral Sciences.
Other highlights of the commencement ceremony include the presentation of the CalSouthern Difference Award, the Faculty Mentor of the Year Award and the President's Award for Doctoral Project Excellence.
California Southern University has named Heather Williams the recipient of the 2017 CalSouthern Difference Award, presented annually to a CalSouthern alumnus who has made a difference in his or her profession, field of study or local community through distinguished work, scholarship, innovation or service. She will be presented with the award at the university's 2017 commencement ceremony for her work overseeing all special victim programs which include: Homicide, Sexual Assault, Gangs, and Domestic Violence. In 2003, after responding to an active shooter event in Irvine, CA she created the CSP Crisis Response Team.
"The annual commencement ceremony is always the highlight of CalSouthern's academic calendar," says University Founder Donald Hecht. "Commencement continues to be the highlight of CalSouthern each year. As we approach our 40th anniversary, we look forward to once again celebrating with our dedicated graduates from all over the globe." Says University Founder, Dr. Don Hecht. "I personally look forward to shaking hands with each graduate and wish them tremendous future success in their respective fields."
The ceremony will be open to members of the media and the public at large. Admission is complimentary. Details and registration information are available online.
California Southern University is a regionally accredited university, offering undergraduate and graduate online degree programs in law, business, criminal justice and law enforcement, psychology, and nursing to a nationwide and international student body. CalSouthern is accredited by the WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC), 985 Atlantic Avenue, #100, Alameda, CA 94501, (510) 748-9001. To learn more about online education at CalSouthern, please visit https://www.calsouthern.edu/.
The Irvine Barclay Theatre is located at 4242 Campus Drive, Irvine California. (949) 854-4646. www.thebarclay.org.
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1. Another Nintendo Direct is Coming!
Nintendo recently announced that there will be a Nintendo Direct coming tomorrow, March 8th. The company has stated the Direct will be giving more information on the upcoming title, Mario Tennis Aces, but there is absolutely going to something else involved in the presentation. The question is: what will they announce? Fans are expecting to hear something along the lines of Fire Emblem for the Switch, or maybe the release date for the upcoming Yoshi title. While some fans are hoping for a massive surprise such as details on the new Pokémon for Switch or even Super Smash Bros. What do you think will be announced?
What to expect (and hope for) from this week's Nintendo Direct Or, at least, we hope www.polygon.com
2. Fortnite Battle Royale is Getting a 20-Player Squad Mode Fortnite Battle Royale will be getting a limited time game mode where players team up in groups of 20 to take on four other 20 member teams, called Victory Royale. This is the first large team game mode since the 50v50 game mode that premiered at the end of last year. There is no specific release date for the new game mode as of now, but expect some news in the next couple of days or so. New and exciting game modes is just one of the ways Fortnite Battle Royale is the separating itself (in a good way) from PUBG.
Fortnite Battle Royale: 20-Player Squad Mode On the Way - IGN We might be getting a new limited-time mode and jetpacks next week. www.ign.com
3. Black Ops 4 Should be Coming Soon Rumors and leaks have been popping up everywhere hinting that Black Ops 4 will be the next major Call of Duty title. A new rumor popped up yesterday as James Harden was wearing a hat featuring the Black Ops 4 logo when he arrived in Oklahoma City to take on the Thunder. Expect the game to be announced sometime in the near future and expect it to be developed by Treyarch, the company who developed the last three Black Ops games. Stay tuned for more information in the following weeks!
The Next Call of Duty Is Almost Certainly Black Ops IIII [UPDATE: Yes, That's The Logo] It's not quite official yet, but it's a near-certainty that the next Call of Duty is Black Ops IV. Rumors have been swirling about this for a few weeks now (as first reported by Eurogamer), and Kotaku can confirm via our own sources that those rumors are true. Plus, there's tonight's assist from a future NBA MVP. kotaku.com
4. Rainbow Six: Siege Hits All Time High Players The 2015 title, Rainbow Six: Siege, is making an unprecedented comeback in gaming as they just broke their all time high player count. Yesterday, it was reported there was a high of 176,000 players, which is up from last years high of just over 47,000 players. The all time high comes just one day after the newest update, Outbreak, where players fight off a parasitic infection in a remote town in New Mexico. It looks like Rainbow Six: Siege will be here to stay for a long time from now.
Rainbow Six Siege just hit an all-time high player count Community supports anti-harassment efforts on PC as well www.polygon.com
5. Final Fantasy XV is out on Steam After over a full year, Final Fantasy XV is now available on Steam for $50. The game will feature free Half Life costumes if you purchase it anytime before May 1st. The game is a super fun RPG which takes you on an adventure through mystical fantasy worlds, so you should buy it now!
Final Fantasy 15 is out on Steam now Let the modding commence. www.pcgamer.com

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Q: How to resolve AAPT2 error? I am working on authentication through firebase since when I added implementation 'com.firebaseui:firebase-ui-auth:3.3.0' I am getting AAPT2 error: check logs for details error after syncing the gradle.
Here are my build.gradle files.
build.gradle(app)
apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
repositories {
mavenLocal()
flatDir {
    dirs 'libs'
}
}

android {
compileSdkVersion 24
buildToolsVersion '27.0.3'

defaultConfig {
    applicationId "com.google.firebase.udacity.friendlychat"
    minSdkVersion 16
    targetSdkVersion 24
    versionCode 1
    versionName "1.0"
}
buildTypes {
    release {
        minifyEnabled false
        proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
    }
}
packagingOptions {
    exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE'
    exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE-FIREBASE.txt'
    exclude 'META-INF/NOTICE'
}
}
dependencies {
implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
testImplementation 'junit:junit:4.12'

implementation 'com.android.support:design:24.2.1'
implementation 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:24.2.1'

//  Firebase
implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-database:12.0.1'

implementation 'com.firebaseui:firebase-ui-auth:3.3.0'
implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-auth:12.0.1'

// Displaying images
implementation 'com.github.bumptech.glide:glide:3.6.1'
}

apply plugin: 'com.google.gms.google-services'

And build.gradle(Project)
// Top-level build file where you can add configuration options common to
all sub-projects/modules.

buildscript {
repositories {
    jcenter()
    mavenLocal()
    google()
}
dependencies {
    classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.1.0'
    classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:3.2.1' // google-services
plugin

    // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
    // in the individual module build.gradle files
}
}

allprojects {
repositories {
    jcenter()
    mavenLocal()
    maven {
        url "https://maven.google.com" // Google's Maven repository
    }
}
}

task clean(type: Delete) {
delete rootProject.buildDir
}

The moment I delete this implementation 'com.firebaseui:firebase-ui-auth:3.3.0' the error is gone. I think adding this is creating AAPT2 error.
Google SDK Tools, Google Repository and Google Play Services are also installed. Please also explain what is this AAPT2 error and how this occur if possible.

A: Use this
implementation 'com.android.support:design:27.0.3'
implementation 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:27.0.3'

Instead of this
implementation 'com.android.support:design:24.2.1'
implementation 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:24.2.1'

Update compileSdkVersion 27 and targetSdkVersion 27

A: In Android Studio Aapt2 is enabled by default when you use android plugin for gradle 3.0.
This is primarily done to improve the incremental resource processing, check this page for more info.
If you don't want to see this error you can disable it by adding the the following lines in your gradle.properties.
android.enableAapt2=false

A: Solved!! The problem is with versioning.

your app's build.gradle must also be updated to specify a compileSdkVersion of at least 26 (Android O)

Took me couple of hours to figure out.
Read more here, https://firebase.googleblog.com/2017/08/some-updates-to-apps-using-google-play.html

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New York State Passes Bills to Strengthen Anti-Harassment and Anti-Discrimination Laws
Laws address harassment, race discrimination based on natural hair or hairstyles, salary history and wage differentials
The following bills have been passed and are waiting signing by Governor Cuomo.
S. 6577/A. 8421 (Harassment)
The law changes the old standard that harassment must be "severe and pervasive" to the individual being subject to "inferior terms, conditions, or privileges of employment" as a result of his or her membership in a protected class. The law also:
• Eliminates the affirmative defense for employers and doesn't require an employee to make a complaint of alleged illegal behavior.
• Expands the class of individuals who are protected to cover non-employees. In the current law, non-employees can file for discrimination but not harassment.
• Allows for punitive damages and attorney's fees in addition to monetary damages for back pay, front pay, and emotional distress.
• Prohibits non-disclosure agreements that prevent the complainant from disclosing the underlying facts of any discrimination claim unless confidentiality is "the complainant's preference." Complainants must be allowed a minimum of 21 days to review a non-disclosure agreement and seven days after the execution to revoke it.
• Extends the ban on arbitration clauses to cover all forms of unlawful discrimination and not just sexual harassment claims. The exception is for mandatory arbitration provisions set forth within a collective bargaining agreement.
• Requires New York employers to distribute their anti-harassment policies and training materials in employees' primary languages at the time of hire and at each annual anti-harassment training program. The New York State Department of Labor will publish its model anti-harassment policy in multiple languages.
• Lengthens the statute of limitations from one year to three years for filing a harassment claim.
Governor Cuomo is expected to sign the bill which will then go into effect.
A. 5308-B/S. 6549 (Salary History)
The new law, taking effect 180 days after enactment, will prevent employers from orally or in writing request or rely on wage or salary history from an applicant when making a job offer or determining the salary to be offered. An employer cannot refuse to consider or retaliate against a job candidate for refusing to reveal his or her salary history. The law covers both outside and in-house job applicants. Similar laws exist in Suffolk and Westchester counties in New York.
S. 5248-B/A. 8093-A (Wage Differentials)
The new law will expand the current law covering gender-based pay inequity and will require equal pay for "substantially similar work" and will prohibit pay differences based on a person's membership in various protected classes, including sexual orientation, age, race, disability, and domestic violence victim status. Similar to the Equal Pay Act, pay differentials will be allowed if they are based on a seniority system, a bona fide reason other than the individual's membership in a protected class or a method of measuring earnings by quantity or quality. Ninety days after signed by the Governor the law will take effect.
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3ds Max 4: Part Five
Over the last decade 3ds max has grown into one of the most powerful all-singing, alldancing 3D all-rounders in the business. Having long had a firm hold in the games development sector, Discreet has widened the focus of its development efforts and has now built up its application to the point where it is at least as good or better at nearly everything it does than rival 3D applications. The last release was good, but the efforts behind version 4 have resulted in an incredibly stunning and mature character animation toolset. And not surprisingly, its take-up has already been phenomenal.
Over the past few weeks, you've had the chance to see what all the fuss is about as we demonstrate a few of the tricks this release has up its sleeve
This tutorial has taken you through the whole gamut of 3D character work - from modelling, bones and IK set-up, skinning, animation and rendering - even throwing in a complex effect on the way. After working through this final part of the tutorial, you'll be thoroughly versed in the key things that 3ds max 4 has to offer.
Part 5: Getting ready to render
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Daniel Craig And Katherine Heigl In Talks For Steven Soderbergh Heist Film "Logan Lucky"
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The Complete List Of The 2016 Razzie Awards Nominees
The nominees for the 2016 Golden Raspberry Awards–also known as the Razzies–were announced on Wednesday, calling out the worst in movies from the past year.
Katherine Heigl To Star In Thriller "Unforgettable"
Katherine Heigl is set to star in thriller Unforgettable. While details are being kept under wraps, the story follows a man whose new spouse is menaced by his ex-wife. The project will mark veteran producer Denise Di Novi's directorial debut.
JENNY'S WEDDING — TRAILER (Katherine Heigl, Alexis Bledel, Tom Wilkinson)
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Logline: Story of a woman struggling to start a life with her new husband who finds herself tormented at every turn by his psychotic ex-wife.
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THE BIG WEDDING — TRAILER (Diane Keaton, Susan Sarandon, Robert De Niro)
JENNY'S WEDDING (SALES)
Logline: A gay woman comes out of the closet to her old-fashioned parents and they must come to terms with her upcoming marriage to a woman.
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Logline: A man's bipolar control freak of a wife rules his life with an iron fist and goes to sinister lengths to achieve her selfish goals.
THE FOLLOWER (SALES)
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Katherine Heigl grants wishes for "I Dream of Jeannie"
Heigl to headline magical movie remake.
Katherine Heigl and Amanda Seyfried Sign On For GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM
Two join Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange and Robert De Niro in Justin Zackham's dramedy!
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A MOMENT TO REMEMBER (REMAKE) (SALES)
Logline: When his wife becomes ill and has her memory wiped, a man tries desperately to give her one last memory of the love they had.
THE BIG WEDDING (SALES)
Logline: Story follows a divorced couple must reunite for their son's wedding, leading to an emotional journey for the mother, who must face not only her ex-husband but also his girlfriend, who was once her best friend.
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Shot down 10 October 1943 in B-17 #42-30047 'Sweater Girl'. Prisoner of War (POW).
8th Air Force
Eighth Air Force Bomber Command became the Eighth Air Force on February 1944, it oversaw bombardment of strategic targets in Europe until 1945. ...
42-30047 Sweater Girl
Delivered Cheyenne 3/4/43; Kearney 15/4/43; Hill 5/5/43; Wendover 10/5/43; Kearney 21/5/43; Dow Fd 28/5/43; Assigned 350BS/100BG [LN-Q] Thorpe Abbotts 2/6/43; Missing in Action Munster 10/10/43 with Rich Atchison, Co-pilot: Willard Secor, Navigator:...
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This mission was intended to be a massive attack of 307 B-17s on the railroad facilities and waterway (canals) at Munster, Germany. This attack was to be supported by a diversion 39 B-24s. The formation was attacked by hundreds of German fighters which...
Born Rochester, New York, USA
Prisoner of War (POW) Germany 10 October 1943
Stalag 4 D/Z Annaburg (Formerly Oflag 54.E) Sachsen, Prussia 51-13
16 January 2020 20:03:25 jmoore43 Changes to unit associations and mission associations
Added connections to the 8th AF and to the 8th AF mission for 10 Oct 1943.
16 January 2020 20:02:01 jmoore43 Changes to service number, biography and events
Added a "-" to the A/C serial # in the "Summary biography" for readability. Added S/N and POW camp info from WW2 POW records at the National Archives.
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A Catch-Up With Kenning
Former Winger Recalls His Molineux Stay
Mike Kenning remained one of the higher-profile Molineux men of the last 50 years who we at Wolves Heroes had failed to locate. We had heard he was living somewhere in Africa, so there was only one thing for it……we put the matter in the trusty hands of Charles Bamforth, who searched for him, found him and finally interviewed him. Here is his article.
It is, as we have been regularly reminded this summer, 50 years since the World Cup win with the 'wingless wonders'. Let it be said, though, that Ian Callaghan, John Connelly and Terry Paine played in the early rounds of the tournament.
The unthinking put a place marker on July, 1966, as the sudden transition point after which the traditional flanker was consigned to history.
The Sporting Star cutting from the late 1960s showing that Wolves still believed wingers could rule….
Molineux aficionados know that this is bunkum and, the very next season, Terry Wharton and David Wagstaffe continued to lead opposing full-backs the merriest of dances – merry for the joyous Wanderers faithful, that is.
Waggy, of course, stayed for many a long year but Terry headed home to Bolton early in 1967-68.
There was sorrow at seeing Wharton go but we realised pretty soon that life goes on and the number seven shirt passed first to the racehorse that was John Farrington.
Promising though the youngster was, manager Ronnie Allen recognised the importance of experience to a side at the wrong end of Division One in their first season back up.
One assumes he took his skipper's advice in forking out £35,000 to Norwich to bring Mike Kenning closer to his roots as the latest fleet-footed, power-shooting winger to do justice to the no 7 (and sometimes no 11) shirt at Molineux.
These days, Mike is domiciled near Johannesburg, a sprightly 76-year-old who looks back fondly on a career that topped 400 senior games and a goal rate of better than one in every five games played.
Just three of those games were for his boyhood heroes, Aston Villa, for whom he signed as a professional at the age of 19 after playing for Brookhill.
"Being born in Erdington, it wasn't hard to become a Villa fan and it was wonderful to play a few first-team games with the likes of Nigel Sims, Stan Lynn, Jimmy Dugdale, Gerry Hitchens, Peter McParland and Pat Saward," he said.
"It was a dream come true. Joe Mercer was the manager and Dick Taylor followed him. I found both very helpful and they showed a lot of patience. Among the younger players I befriended were John Sleeuwenhoek, George Graham, Alan Deakin, Mickey Tindall, Harry Burrows and Terry Morrall, who was my best man when I married Gill in 1963. Like me, Terry joined Shrewsbury."
In Mike's case, that was in May, 1961 and he rewarded the Shrews with 17 goals in 62 League games in Division Four. The player-manager was the redoubtable goalscorer, Arthur Rowley.
"He encouraged me to play on both flanks, which was to be a big help when I transferred to Charlton, as the manager there, Frank Hill, asked me to do the same. He was later replaced by Bob Stokoe, who I found to be very down-to-earth, and I played some of my best soccer at that time."
Kenning had signed for the Addicks in November, 1962 for £10,500 and, in four seasons, struck 43 goals in 154 Division Two games.
"Mike Bailey was the captain and we became good friends, later joining up at Wolves, of course. Apart from Mike, there were plenty of fine players at The Valley, including Paul Went, Billy Bonds, Marvin Hinton, Peter Reeves, Eddie Firmani and Len Glover, who was a particularly close friend."
Just before Christmas in 1966, though, a £27,000 offer from Norwich was too much for Athletic to turn down and Mike was on his way to Carrow Road.
"Our first son, Gary, was born at that time. I was very impressed with Lol Morgan's management style and was surprised he never made it at one of the bigger clubs.
"While at Norwich, I played in the game that was probably the highlight of my career, the FA Cup fixture at Old Trafford in 1966, when we beat Manchester United 2-1. Their team included Nobby Stiles, Paddy Crerand, Bobby Charlton, Denis Law and George Best.
Mike Kenning and Mike Bailey…..team-mates at Charlton, then at Molineux.
"Needless to say, we were rocking for a few weeks until we went down 3-2 to Sheffield Wednesday, who lost to Everton in the final. Some of the characters in that Canaries side were keeper Kevin Keelan, who had been with me at Villa Park, Laurie Brown, Laurie Sheffield, Dave Stringer, Don Heath, Tommy Bryceland, Ken Foggo and, of course, Hughie Curran, who joined me at Molineux."
Nine goals in 44 Division Two appearances attracted Ronnie Allen's eye and the speedy winger arrived in a gold shirt in January, 1968.
"I started with a goal past Peter Shilton at Leicester," he added. "I got on well with Ronnie and was sorry to see him go the following season.
"It was good to join up again with Mike Bailey but I was also good friends with Dave Wagstaffe (who was everybody's friend), Derek Parkin, Phil Parkes, Frank Munro, Frank Wignall, Hughie Curran and Les Wilson."
Wilson recalls Mike Kenning well. Speaking from his home in Vancouver, he told me: "I remember a game in December, 1968 when Mike very confidently and calmly scored a penalty against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.
"He played right wing and I played left wing for the injured David Wagstaffe. This game was played before 27,000 Chelsea fans. I was impressed with Mike' pace, his very quiet demeanour and, wow, was he calm and confident with his penalties! He was very quick….he had speed to burn."
Allen's departure heralded the Bill McGarry era, which has been amply documented in these pages as a mixed bag for players, depending on their point of view.
Kenning in action in a Wolves win at Highbury in March, 1968.
Kenning says: "I found Bill McGarry's style of management a bit otherwise, which made me decide that if I ever went into coaching or management, I would treat all the players the same. I do, however, remember the coach Gerry Summers being very keen and popular with the players."
Five goals in 41 top-flight fixtures caught the attention of an old club and Eddie Firmani invited Kenning back to The Valley, this time for a fee of £20,000 in March, 1969.
"I was sorry to leave Wolverhampton but it was probably the best decision at the time," he admitted. "I was involved in a car crash on the M1 near Luton which slowed me down a bit but, with Theo Foley taking over from Eddie and being very easy to talk to, I was enjoying my soccer, having been made captain and moved into midfield.
"Our second son, Paul, was born in 1970. Gary has given us two granddaughters, Taylor and Gemma, while Paul has produced three grandsons, Aiden, Devon and Kyle, so the Kenning clan is very much up and running!"
Mike himself was the eldest of four boys, the others being Brian, David and Peter. Brian Kenning is no stranger in Midlands football circles, having managed Burton, Sutton Coldfield and Gresley after a lengthy non-League playing career.
Mike's last League stationing was at Watford, who he joined for £9,000 in December, 1971.
"George Kirby and then Mike Keen were the managers," he recalled, "but, apart from meeting some characters such as Duncan Welbourne, Mike Walker, Jimmy Lindsay and Billy Jennings, it wasn't the way I wanted to finish off my League career."
Kenning struck two goals in 41 games to add to the dozen strikes in 67 games in his second tour of duty with Charlton.
"I played at Atherstone for a while under Gil Merrick, then decided to come to South Africa," he added. "Initially, I joined Port Elizabeth City, where the chairman was the great cricketer, Graeme Pollock.
"While I was there, I was offered the player-manager job at Germiston Callies near Johannesburg. That was in 1974 and, apart from a few trips back home to Brum, we have enjoyed it here ever since."
The man himself as he now looks….
Paul attests to his Dad's continuing fitness. "At 76, he still has the best two feet I have seen," he says. "I remember him taking us for free-kick training a few years ago and smashing them in with both left and right and then saying: 'Just like that, boys'. I think my middle son is going to be similar to him, lots of pace."
Wolves scouts, please take note.
Posted on: Thursday, August 25th, 2016.
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With a civilization that dates back thousands of years, Malta boasts some of the oldest megalithic sites in the world. Situated in the center of the Mediterranean, Malta's islands have long served as a strategic military asset, with the islands at various times having come under control of the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Greeks, Romans,Byzantines, Moors, Normans, Sicilians, Spanish, Knights of St. John, and the French. Most recently a British colony (since 1814), Malta gained its independence in 1964 and declared itself a republic ten years later. While under British rule, the island staunchly supported the UK through both world wars. Since about the mid-1980s, the island has transformed itself into a freight transshipment point, a financial center, and a tourist destination while its key industries moved toward more service-oriented activities. Malta became an EU member in May 2004 and began using the euro as currency in 2008.
The country comprises an archipelago, with only the three largest islands (Malta, Ghawdex or Gozo, and Kemmuna or Comino) inhabited; numerous bays provide good harbors; Malta and Tunisia are discussing oil exploration on the continental shelf between their countries, although no commercially viable reserves have been found as of 2017
Location: Southern Europe, islands in the Mediterranean Sea, south of Sicily (Italy)
Area: total: 316 sq km
land: 316 sq km
water: 0 sq km
Size comparison: slightly less than twice the size of Washington, DC
Coastline: 196.8 km (excludes 56 km for the island of Gozo)
continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation exclusive fishing zone: 25 nm
Climate: Mediterranean; mild, rainy winters; hot, dry summers
Terrain: mostly low, rocky, flat to dissected plains; many coastal cliffs
Natural resources: limestone, salt, arable land
permanent crops: 3.9% (2011 est.) permanent pasture: 0% (2011 est.) forest: 0.9% (2011 est.)
Irrigated land: 35 sq km (2012)
Natural hazards: occasional droughts
Current Environment Issues: limited natural freshwater resources; increasing reliance on desalination; deforestation; wildlife preservation
International Environment Agreements: party to: Air Pollution, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands
Nationality: noun: Maltese (singular and plural)
adjective: Maltese
Ethnic groups: Maltese (descendants of ancient Carthaginians and Phoenicians with strong elements of Italian and other Mediterranean stock)
Languages: Maltese (official) 90.1%, English (official) 6%, multilingual 3%, other 0.9% (2005 est.)
Religions: Roman Catholic (official) more than 90% (2006 est.)
Population: 449,043 (July 2018 est.)
Age structure: 0-14 years: 14.29% (male 33,156 /female 31,012)
15-24 years: 11.03% (male 25,713 /female 23,815)
65 years and over: 20.51% (male 41,900 /female 50,193) (2018 est.)
Birth rate: 10 births/1,000 population (2018 est.)
Major urban areas - population: 213,000 VALLETTA (capital) (2018)
Mother's mean age at first birth: 26.9 years (2010 est.) note: data refer to the average of the different childbearing ages of first-order births
rural: 100% of population (2015 est.)
total: 100% of population (2015 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: <500 (2016 est.)
Country name: conventional long form: Republic of Malta
conventional short form: Malta
local long form: Repubblika ta' Malta
local short form: Malta
etymology: the ancient Greeks called the island "Melite" meaning "honey-sweet" from the Greek word "meli" meaning "honey" and referring to the island's honey production
Government type: parliamentary republic
Capital: name: Valletta
etymology: named in honor of Jean de Valette, the Grand Master of the Order of Saint John (crusader knights), who successfully led a defense of the island from an Ottoman invasion in 1565
Administrative divisions: 68 localities (Il-lokalita); Attard, Balzan, Birgu, Birkirkara, Birzebbuga, Bormla, Dingli, Fgura, Floriana, Fontana, Ghajnsielem, Gharb, Gharghur, Ghasri, Ghaxaq, Gudja, Gzira, Hamrun, Iklin, Imdina, Imgarr, Imqabba, Imsida, Imtarfa, Isla, Kalkara, Kercem, Kirkop, Lija, Luqa, Marsa, Marsaskala, Marsaxlokk, Mellieha, Mosta, Munxar, Nadur, Naxxar, Paola, Pembroke, Pieta, Qala, Qormi, Qrendi, Rabat, Rabat (Ghawdex), Safi, San Giljan/Saint Julian, San Gwann/Saint John, San Lawrenz/Saint Lawrence, Sannat, San Pawl il-Bahar/Saint Paul's Bay, Santa Lucija/Saint Lucia, Santa Venera/Saint Venera, Siggiewi, Sliema, Swieqi, Tarxien, Ta' Xbiex, Valletta, Xaghra, Xewkija, Xghajra, Zabbar, Zebbug, Zebbug (Ghawdex), Zejtun, Zurrieq
Independence: 21 September 1964 (from the UK)
National holiday: Independence Day, 21 September (1964); Republic Day, 13 December (1974)
Constitution: history: many previous; latest adopted 21 September 1964 amendments: proposals (Acts of Parliament) require at least two-thirds majority vote by the House of Representatives; passage of "Acts" requires majority vote by referendum, followed by final majority vote by the House and assent by the president of the republic; amended many times, last in 2016 (2017)
Legal system: mixed legal system of English common law and civil law based on the Roman and Napoleonic civil codes; subject to European Union law
Suffrage: 18 years of age (16 in local council elections); universal
Executive branch: chief of state: President George VELLA (since 4 April 2019)
head of government: Prime Minister Joseph MUSCAT (since 11 March 2013)
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Judicial branch: highest courts: Court of Appeal (consists of either 1 or 3 judges); Constitutional Court (consists of 3 judges); Court of Criminal Appeal (consists of either 1 or 3 judges) judge selection and term of office: Court of Appeal and Constitutional Court judges appointed by the president, usually upon the advice of the prime minister; judges of both courts serve until age 65
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National anthem: name: "L-Innu Malti" (The Maltese Anthem)
lyrics/music: Dun Karm PSAILA/Robert SAMMUT
note: adopted 1945; written in the form of a prayer
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Industries: tourism, electronics, ship building and repair, construction, food and beverages, pharmaceuticals, footwear, clothing, tobacco, aviation services, financial services, information technology services
Industrial production growth rate: -3.3% (2016 est.)
Labor force: 206,300 (2017 est.)
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Why We Still Call Rebellious Women 'Witches'
Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words can keep violence alive and well
When you hear the word "witch," what do you think of? A fictitious character that pops up in Halloween décor and children's stories, typically female, wearing a black cape and a pointed hat, riding a broom toward the moon while cackling?
Or do you picture an evil woman, someone you vehemently dislike—maybe a former coworker, a snarky relative or an ex-friend?
For author Kirsten J. Sollée, she pictures herself. And she is neither vehemently disliked nor is the owner of any pointed hats. Instead, she is a feminist, a teacher and "someone who's deeply invested in unpacking the misogyny people are experiencing today."
In her book, Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive, released earlier this year, Sollée, a self-proclaimed witch who teaches gender studies at The New School and is the founding editrix of Slutist, a feminist website, talks about the idea of reclaiming the word "witch," in the same way some feminists have reclaimed "slut" or "bitch," taking it from a derogatory term meaning "evil" and transforming it into something more positive.
What Is a Witch Today?
Sollée says women who "dare to take up space and live their lives outside their … socially prescribed roles" are often referred to as "witches." In a culture where violence against women is an epidemic—one out of every four women will experience violence at some point by a partner they love and trust—Sollée says using words like "witch" and "slut" pejoratively is just another way to perpetuate misogyny.
"Witch is the most evil name for a woman who doesn't submit to patriarchal power," she says.
In reality, witches are "kind of like feminists," says Sollée. "They're nature-based practitioners. They can be of any gender identity, any religion. It's just someone who's … grounded in respecting the Earth, not working against it. Someone who is working in harmony with the rest of the world."
Today, groups of witches meet in a new type of coven, writes Sollée, sometimes still known as "consciousness-raising groups," a holdover term from the '60s and '70s. Simply put, they're gatherings of those who identify as witches who want to create community and enact change. One such example is Girl Cvlt, a secretive online gathering with more than 5,000 members worldwide. They gained recognition in 2016 for mobilizing massive letter-writing events to unseat the judge who gave Stanford student and convicted rapist Brock Turner just six months for his assault.
Where Witches Got Their Bad Rap
The root of witches as evil started back in the 1400s when these individuals, mostly women, were thought to be servants of Satan. They were made to blame for every misfortune that came about, from poor crops to infertility, says Sollée. "There was no occurrence too large or too small to attribute to sorcery."
They were from all places and of all ages, but, writes Sollée, "a disproportionate number of accused witches were over forty years of age, which coincides with waning fertility, the criterion by which a woman's worth was measured in early modern society."
Starting as far back as the 15th century, such witches were "hunted." Around the world, some 200,000 individuals accused of witchcraft were killed, usually by hanging, between 1500 and 1800. The Salem Witch Trials were perhaps the most well-known prosecutions in the U.S., taking place in the late 1600s, but they were hardly the most brutal. They resulted in the executions of 20 people yet they're regarded as one of Colonial America's most notorious cases of mass hysteria.
What Sollée points out in her book, however, is that while we may want to believe witch hunts were a part of a history long since passed, they're actually still alive and well today.
Modern-Day Witch Hunts
"When 'bitch' won't suffice to denigrate a woman, 'witch' adds an element of supernatural evil that has no male equivalent in common use," writes Sollée.
The connections between such a destructive label as "witch" and the power and control that comes with domestic abuse is clear. Using this term, says Sollée, is yet another way today's culture continues to perpetuate the acceptance of dominance over women.
"These words are used to dehumanize and police behavior, and give you the opportunity to treat someone like they're not human or less than," says Sollée.
Back in the day, witches were often thought to hold some sort of sexual power over men. If a man was seduced by a woman, it was not of his choice, but rather that of the devilish power of a supernatural witch. The woman—the "witch"—was punished accordingly.
"There was this benevolent sexism in the Witch Trials," Sollée says. "It was thought that women had to be saved from the evil devil that had gotten into them." Today, some abusers use religious scripture to justify their abuse, while others shift the blame for their choices onto their victims.
Can 'Witch' Be Reclaimed?
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Lindy West wrote in an article for The New York Times after Hillary Clinton lost the election in 2016, "We as a culture do not take women seriously on a profound level. We do not believe women. We do not trust women. We do not like women."
If that is true, there is a lot of work to be done. Sollée agrees.
"Women doing anything out of the ordinary … it's thought that it has to come from the devil. It can't just be of this Earth. It has to be negative. A lot of people who are called [witch] are just trying to live their lives," she says.
If SlutWalks are any evidence, "witch" too, can be reclaimed for good. The annual SlutWalk movement that was inspired by a police officer's comment that women could avoid harassment and assault if they just "stopped dressing like sluts," has since spurred walks around the world, supporting a discourse on preventing sexual assault.
"With the women's movement where it is now, there's the ability for many more of us to talk about the repercussions of [these words]," says Sollée. "But it's not a perfect process."
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An update on the last month's cyber-attack on the Democratic National Committee with Adam Segal of the Council on Foreign Relations; Raj De, former general counsel at the National Security Agency; Michael Riley of Bloomberg News; and David Sanger of The New York Times.
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My Brother DCP-145C printer will not obey commuter commands though it still does manual copying okay. Register of jobs waiting to be printed keeps jumping to several pages long despite being cancelled by me continuously. Support suggestions so far fruitless for me. Printer is just one year old.
Can you list the steps you already tried, so that I can eliminate those from my answer ?
Using the Brother user's guide I checked the interface cable on both the printer and the computer, wiggled and pushed them home firmly. Yjen I bought a new cable and installed it. I checked that the gear was all plugged in to power. I saw that the LCD on the printer was not showing empty. All the ink cartridges are new though the supplier's support report shows all cartridges as empty. I have taken each out and replaced them with the same cartridge. The correct printer has been chosen vua START/PRINTERS AND FAXES/DCP-145C. The ink cartridge cover is firmly closed.I have lifted the scanner cover and closed it again. The printer still copies okay. Print data appears in the waiting list in great volume, I cancel it all and the next minute it shows long lists again. I have pressed STOP/EXIT and tried again. There appears to be a difference in the black cartridge to what was there before but it fits perfectly. There are no document jams. The machines are not hot.There are no foreign bodies under the scanner cover. No error message appears, it just doesnt print when asked.
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Viña Real was founded in 1920 by Compañía Vinícola del Norte de España (CVNE), and was one of the first brands to produce age-worthy wines in the Rioja Alavesa region from Tempranillo. The wines are produced from grapes grown in the heart of the Rioja Alavesa province and boast balance and elegance while combining New World fruit intensity with Old World style.
Eva will join P38's owner and Advanced Sommelier, Justin Ross to introduce a selection of wines from Viña Real and CVNE. CVNE is one of the most important wine producers of Spain. Founded by the Real de Asua brothers in 1879, it remains family-owned and family-run, with the latest generation committed more than ever to making great wine in meaningful quantities.
P38 is offering two ways to participate in this special event. Reserve a seat for the intimate 6-course, all-inclusive wine dinner with Eva for $95 (11 seats available) starting at 7pm or come to the happy hour event from 5-7pm to meet Eva and taste her wines, available for a discounted rate, "by-the-glass".
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In sheet bulk metal forming, locally adapted friction properties of the contact tool/workpiece are an appropriate means for the targeted enhancement of the material flow, enabling an improved form filling and lowered forming forces. However, the implementation of desirable friction conditions is not trivial. And further, friction is inseparably linked to wear and damage of the contacting surfaces. This calls for a methodological approach in order to consider tribology as a whole already in the early phases of process layout, so that tribological measures which allow fulfilling the requirements concerning local friction and wear properties of the tool surfaces, can already be selected during the conceptual design of the forming tools. Thin tribological coatings are an effective way of improving the friction and wear properties of functional surfaces. Metalmodified amorphous carbon coatings, which are still rather new to the field of metal forming, allow tackling friction and wear simultaneously. Unlike many other types of amorphous carbon, they have the mechanical toughness to be used in sheet bulk metal forming, and at the same time their friction properties can be varied over wide ranges by proper choice of the deposition parameters. Based on concrete research results, the mechanical, structural and special tribological properties of tungstenmodified hydrogenated amorphous carbon coatings (a-C:H:W) are presented and discussed against the background of the tribological requirements of a typical sheet bulk metal forming process.© (2012) Trans Tech Publications.
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'The Reckonings' examines what it means to have justice
Lily Meyer, NPR
When writer and poet Lacy M. Johnson was in her 20s, a man who she had recently broken up with kidnapped and raped her.
She wrote about her escape and recovery in the 2014 memoir The Other Side. As she began speaking about the book in public, a pattern emerged: Readers she encountered suggested that Johnson must want her rapist killed, or imprisoned, or tortured. "You probably want him dead, strangers tell me," Johnson writes in the essay that opens her tour de force follow-up, The Reckonings.
No, Johnson says. She wants a reckoning.
What does that mean? In the first essay, Johnson describes what she wants: "I want him to admit all the things he did, to my face, in public, and then to spend the rest of his life in service to other people's joy." Her reckoning, then, is a transfer of happiness. In the collection's last pages, Johnson returns to this idea: "I like the idea that justice is anything that makes way for joy, that makes the condition of joy a possibility again."
This sounds utopian, and it might be, but The Reckonings is not a book about changing the world. It's philosophy in disguise, equal parts memoir, criticism, and ethics. It has bits of Eula Biss, Leslie Jamison, and Simone Weil, but its patron saint is Grace Paley, whose essays are much too infrequently read. Like Johnson, Paley was committed to bearing witness and, like Johnson, she believed, stubbornly and eternally, in joy. In the essay "Six Days," Paley wrote that all prisons should be in cities. Otherwise, "the population that considers itself innocent forgets, denies, chooses to never know [about that] whole huge country of the bad and the unlucky and the self-hurters." In The Reckonings, Johnson tries in every essay to show "the population that considers itself innocent" that innocence doesn't exist. Writing about topics as diverse as race, sexual assault, Hurricane Harvey, and art history, Johnson demonstrates repeatedly that any adult who considers herself innocent has failed to reckon fully with the world around her.
This idea is strongest and most personal in "Against Whiteness," an essay about American constructions of race, which is to say an essay about white supremacy. Johnson opens by describing a long-ago class in which a guest lecturer, a tenured white poet, embarked on a racist diatribe at her professor, a female poet of color who Johnson admired.
"I said nothing," Johnson writes, "because I had never known what to say when watching a man explode under the pressure of his own narcissism, not even when he is attacking the people I love." Later, she understood that not knowing what to say was no excuse. She might not have succeeded in stopping the tenured poet, but she could have tried. Her silence was "a failure to reckon with the fact that my struggle was not the only one that mattered."
There's another essay in The Reckonings about silence. "Speak Truth to Power," it's called. It's about the epidemic of sexual assault against women, which Johnson calls "the problem that has no language." She traces her own path to speaking publicly about her rape, and writes with empathy, anger, and respect about the many women who report rape and are never believed.
"Speak Truth to Power" is an act of homage to those women. It's also a call to arms, or to speech. "I understand the fear of breaking a long-held silence," Johnson concludes. "It is a fear that holds tremendous power. But if there is any hope for justice, we must speak truth to that power." We must give the problem of violence against women its language.
I re-read "Speak Truth to Power" the week Dr. Christine Blasey Ford stepped forward to accuse Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault. Since then, I have thought about the essay every day. I have thought particularly about Johnson's response to the Muriel Rukeyser line, "What if one woman told the truth about her life? /The world would split open." No, Johnson writes. "Many women have told the truth about their lives, however impossible that may seem at the time, and the world has gone on pretty much as before."
I wonder often whether the Me Too movement is a reckoning, or whether it will become one. The country seems not to contain much "service to other people's joy." But the utopianism of that idea has a practical counterpart. Service to other people's joy is unending. It can never be finished. A reckoning can't be done. It can only begin, over and over and over.
The 12 essays in The Reckonings are 12 beginnings. Each one deserves great consideration, while you read it and long after. Each one leaves the work up to you. Lily Meyer is a writer and translator living in Washington, D.C. Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.


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Bella Hadid Says War & Injustice In Muslim Countries Deserve The Same Level Of Outrage As Ukraine
Known for her vocal opinions about Palestine and against discrimination against Muslims, Palestinian-American model Bella Hadid has done it again. As celebrities speak out against the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, Hadid reminded people that all oppression deserves the same level of retaliation.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere," the model captioned a screenshot of a note she posted on her Instagram. "Question yourself, question how quietly you moved around other injustices, the footprint we leave here will be the clearest one we have left in a long time," the model said talking about the impact we have.
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"If this is your first time realizing a war in some years, you're not of the world." She said war, along with the position we take during it, is forever. The model said we should always speak up when we feel encouraged to, but she believes the most transformative speech comes from discomfort, "when air has to break to make room for your voice".
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Hadid said that if the American president is defending a liberation movement, there's no risk in joining that defense. "There's little glory in joining a warmonger to point at another warmonger."
She talked about Ukraine saying "nothing should undermine the magnitude of their suffering, of the violence against them" but it is not just about justice. It is also about who is at the receiving end of injustice. She highlighted that "the way we have failed to uphold it elsewhere dictates this. Our lack of tools here is a result of our neglect elsewhere."
On favoring one victim over another
Hadid said that the language we use to define oppression "cannot favor one victim over another". She picked on a point that has been circulating on social media ever since the conflict in Ukraine started — how many such conflicts have been ongoing for decades in Muslim nations but they get no attention.
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"How many Muslim nations aflame? Invasions by the west, merciless drone strikes, executions, internment camps in China? How much of Palestine, how little of Palestine left?" the model asked.
It may be recalled that Hadid said in 2017 that she identifies as a "proud Muslim". She made sure to stand up for her "Muslim sisters". She has been very vocal about Islamophobia and the rights of Palestinians as well. She and her sister Gigi posted about Palestinian oppression and condemned silence on attacks in Palestine.
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Copyright notice must be regularly updated while the project is active?
I started an open source project in 2013, with the LGPL license. I've been regularly working on it for the last four years. Each file includes the standard copyright notice that include the copyright year. Obviously not all files were modified every year so some of them reports "Copyright 2013" some "Copyright 2014" or "Copyright 2015" and only a few "Copyright 2016". The project is a library so it has no welcome or splash-up screen where to report the current copyright date.
What is the correct practice in this case? Should I update yearly every file updating the notice to the current year, even if this is the only midification to the file. Is it even better the whole range of years (Copyright 2013-2016)? Or should I leave the copyright year untouched, with the meaning of the year of the file creation?
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Since you're using the LGPL, I suggest you follow the GNU project's recommendations: your copyright notices should look like
Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 cannatag
and you should simply update them all at the start of every year, assuming you're publishing every year (if your source code is publicly available during development, that could be construed as counting as publication). The GPL howto clarifies this:
Whichever license you plan to use, the process involves adding two elements to each source file of your program: a copyright notice (such as "Copyright 1999 Terry Jones"), and a statement of copying permission, saying that the program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (or the Lesser GPL).
The copyright notice should include the year in which you finished preparing the release (so if you finished it in 1998 but didn't post it until 1999, use 1998). You should add the proper year for each release; for example, "Copyright 1998, 1999 Terry Jones" if some versions were finished in 1998 and some were finished in 1999. If several people helped write the code, use all their names.
If you want to play it safe and avoid any accusation of over-reaching in your copyright notices (I have no idea how much of a risk that is), you might instead want to update the years only when you make non-trivial changes to the relevant files; so you'd end up with a variety of copyright notices depending on when each file was edited:
Copyright © 2013, 2015 cannatag
Copyright © 2014, 2015, 2016 cannatag
Other projects have different recommendations; thus the Eclipse Foundation recommends mentioning the first and last year of publication in each file:
Even that is subject to interpretation, and for example in OpenDaylight we use the Eclipse form, per-file: each file has a copyright notice with the year it was created in and the last year it was updated in.
You should avoid ranges though, they don't have a definition in US copyright law at least.
Given the variety of practices out there I can't see the details actually having an impact beyond documentation; when it comes to courts, it seems to me that actual copyright is decided based on more than the notices themselves (see for example Conservancy's analysis of Christoph Hellwig's contributions to the kernel). (Of course I am not a lawyer and you should consult one if this is troubling you.)
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Despite what the linked page says about it, my understanding is that you can only claim copyright for years in which you have made non-trivial changes to the file. Just changing the Copyright notice and nothing else may actually invalidate the Copyright claim. But, AFAIK, there is no case law to say either way. – MAP Aug 10 '16 at 4:43
Copyright law (in the US and elsewhere) defines copyright notices in terms of publications of whole works; it doesn't care about individual source files. The recommendations above are based on the idea that making changes to a single file causes a publication of the work (publicly available source at all times during development). See opensource.stackexchange.com/a/2875/118 for more detail... – Stephen Kitt Aug 10 '16 at 7:18
Yes, it might turn out either way, but has never come up in a court. It could be ruled that the "whole work" is the repository, or that each source file is a "whole work" in and of itself. Until there are cases where this question is argued, either interpretation can be taken. It's even possible for the courts to decide that it applies one way or the other depending on how you distribute. If you can only get my source by FTP as a single tarball that's a whole work. But, if it's in, say, a git repository where you get the individual files, then maybe they are separate works. – MAP Aug 10 '16 at 8:47
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