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CAR CHASE: 5 Gympie people arrested, charged over spree
A car involved in yesterday's dramatic pursuit crashed into this Nissan Pulsar. Tyler Skiller
by francescamcmackin, Shelley Strachan and scott kovacevic
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4th Jan 2017 6:21 PM | Updated: 6th Jan 2017 10:51 AM
LATEST Friday 11am: FIVE Gympie residents have been arrested and will face a total of more than 45 charges after Wednesday's police pursuit prompted a series of raids.
Four men and one woman have been arrested as part of Operation Papa Glimpse, which was launched after a police officer's leg was crushed between two cars as offenders fled the scene of an attempted robbery at Cooroy.
The operation focused on offences across the Wide Bay and Sunshine Coast areas including stealing, unlawful use of motor vehicles, arson and multiple robberies including the one at Cooroy that left a Sergeant in hospital.
Police raids in the Gympie area over the last 24 hours have uncovered two rifles, cash, drugs and drug paraphernalia, and a large amount of alleged stolen property including a motorcycle.
Arrests and charges:
A 23-year-old Gympie man has been charged with over 30 offences including serious assault of a police officer, possession of firearms, possession of dangerous drugs and a number of stealing and driving related charges and is due in Gympie Magistrates Court today.
A 25-year-old Gympie man has been charged with 10 offences including drug possession, possession of tainted property and driving related charges and is due in Gympie Magistrates Court today.
A 28-year-old Gympie woman has been charged with one count of unlawful use of a motor vehicle and is due in the Gympie Magistrates Court on January 23.
A 21-year-old Gympie man has been charged with one count each of robbery in company, unlawful use of a motor vehicle driving without a licence and is due to appear in the Hervey Bay Magistrates Court today.
A 22-year-old Gympie man has been charged with three drug offences.
UPDATE Friday 9am: POLICE have laid more than 45 charges against five people allegedly involved in a string of robberies after Wednesday's police pursuit through Gympie.
A Queensland Police Service spokesman said the man who led officers on a dramatic chase through Gympie streets was one of the "main culprits", and the remainder were arrested on the Sunshine Coast.
The suspects were wanted for questioning over a series of crimes that could span the Sunshine Coast to Fraser Coast.
That included this week's robbery at Cooroy in which offenders drove into a police officer, crushing his leg between two cars.
After that incident, an operation was launched across police divisions to apprehend the suspects.
Police are expected to release more information today.
Links to spate of robberies up coast
POLICE believe Wednesday's car pursuit across Gympie could be linked to crimes spanning from the Sunshine Coast to the Fraser Coast.
Officers arrested a man at about 5.30pm on Wednesday after the police chase.
The man remained in custody yesterday, and police are expected to oppose the man's bail.
Police vehicles sustained damage during the pursuit, and a 52-year-old woman driving through the Gympie Central car park became an innocent victim when the suspect's car smashed into hers.
Witnesses pushed the woman's car into a disabled parking space, after a car involved in yesterday's police chase crashed into it in the Gympie Central car park.
Residents reported seeing the pursuit on River Rd, Noosa Rd, Mellor St, Hughes Tce, Brisbane Rd, the Mount Pleasant Rd intersection, Pengelly's bridge and finally Watt St, where the man was apprehended.
Woman an innocent victim of dramatic pursuit
A Gympie shopper has described the moment a car involved in Wenesday's dramatic chase careened through a car park, colliding with a woman's car before fleeing the scene.
Kilkivan resident Julz Lewis was sitting in her parked car at the Gympie Central Shopping Centre when she saw a maroon car smash into a middle-aged woman driving a red Nissan Pulsar.
"The maroon car then went to flee, when out of nowhere a black 4x4 came flying around behind the woman in her red car and crashed into the maroon car and pushed it backwards," Ms Lewis said.
"The maroon car was still trying to drive away and a black/dark grey car parked behind and a heap of police officers jumped out with their hands ready to draw.
"The maroon car manoeuvered his way out of the two vehicles and took off and the police officers jumped back into their vehicles and chased after the maroon car."
Witnesses leapt to the aid of the 52-year-old woman driving the Pulsar.
"The poor lady who had been crashed into was in shock and had no idea what had just happened," Ms Lewis said.
"I spoke to 000 as did security and other witnesses and a few of us pushed the lady's car into the disabled car park and waited with her until the ambulance arrived, which was over half an hour.
"Security came and took photos of the car and broken glass and a cleaner came and cleaned it all.
"I picked up a broken car mirror that had come from the maroon car."
Meanwhile, police were still chasing the suspect through the Gympie area.
"While we were waiting for the ambulance to arrive we heard sirens, we saw the maroon car drive back past the shopping centre with several police cars behind it," Ms Lewis said.
"After the ambulance had arrived and I had left my contact details, we saw further up the road the maroon car had been caught.
Ms Lewis said the entire situation seemed unreal.
"It was quite shocking to see. I was in my parked car only a metre away from it all as it happened," she said.
"Not something you expect to see while grabbing some bread and milk."
WEDNESDAY NIGHT: A MAN has been arrested by police after a dramatic chase involving four police cars through the streets of Gympie believed to be linked to an incident in the car park at Central Shopping Centre earlier this evening.
Police have now set up a crime scene in Watt St, which is not far from the shopping centre.
The road has been closed to traffic and a police dog has been brought on to the scene.
Police are also interviewing potential witnesses.
One of the witnesses reports that police chased one of the vehicles up River Rd before it turned around and into Watt St where the pursuit came to an end with the crash, leaving the vehicle with significant damage, including the loss of its front left wheel.
Local residents reported hearing a "loud" pursuit near St Patrick's Primary School and College.
It is unclear if anybody has been injured, but emergency service workers have reported that the driver of one of the two vehicles involved has been taken into custody.
A red Nissan Pulsar believed to have been involved has received moderate damage and has come to rest in a handicapped parking bay out front of Michel's patisserie near Woolworths Supermarket in Central Shopping Centre.
There are some reports the chase started at East Deep Creek.
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Heavy Vehicle National Law (NSW): Major Reforms to Road Transport Legislation
Thomson Reuters | May 7, 2014
With the recent commencement of the Heavy Vehicle National Law (NSW), a further step has been taken in the major reform to the road transport legislation that started nine months ago with the commencement of the Road Transport Act 2013 (RTA) on 1 July 2013. The RTA consolidated much of the previous road transport legislation into one act.
One of the previous acts, The Road Transport (General) Act 2005 (RTG), continued, albeit re-named the Road Transport (Vehicle and Driver Management) Act 2005 (RTVDMA), reflecting the fact that although under its previous iteration it dealt with "general" road transport provisions and heavy vehicles, the "general" provisions were now in the RTA and the RTVDMA focused on heavy vehicles. The RTVDMA continued, pending the adoption of the Heavy Vehicle National Law.
The reforms were recently completed with the commencement of the Heavy Vehicle National Law (NSW) on 10 February 2014 and the repeal of the RTVDMA.
Thus the four key road transport acts of the 1990s have been reduced to two and a more logical division has been achieved between that legislation that is of general driver application and that legislation that is specific to regulating the use of heavy vehicles on roads. The relevant NSW heavy vehicle legislation is:
Heavy Vehicle (Adoption of National Law) Act 2013 No 42
Heavy Vehicle National Law (NSW) No 42a
Heavy Vehicle (Adoption of National Law) Regulation 2013
Heavy Vehicle (Fatigue Management) National Regulation (NSW)
Heavy Vehicle (General) National Regulation (NSW)
Heavy Vehicle (Mass, Dimension and Loading) National Regulation (NSW)
Heavy Vehicle (Vehicle Standards) National Regulation (NSW)
Repealed were the RTVDMA and the Road Transport (Vehicle and Driver Management) Regulation 2005. The Road Transport (Mass, Loading and Access) Regulation 2005 continues to be in force.
The Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL) alone contains 755 sections. A selection of the main features of the new legislation include:
A national scheme for the registration of heavy vehicles (in NSW the local law still operates pending adoption of the national scheme for registration).
Provisions dealing with vehicle operations – standards and safety.
Provisions dealing with mass, dimension and loading, speeding and driver fatigue.
The "Intelligent Access Program" (a program to allow heavy vehicles to have access, or improved access, to the road network in return for monitoring, by an intelligent transport system, of their compliance with stated access conditions).
Accreditation (allowing operators of heavy vehicles who implement management systems that achieve the objectives of particular aspects of the HVNL to be subject to alternative requirements).
Establishment of the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator which can, inter alia, investigate breaches of the law and bring and conduct proceedings for offences.
Enforcement, Review and Appeal provisions (including internal reviews by the regulator of reviewable decisions).
More information: National Heavy Vehicle Regulator, www.nhvr.gov.au
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Q: Is there a non-free group $G$ whose subgroups are all freely decomposable? Suppose that $G$ is a group such that every subgroup $H \subseteq G$ (including $G$ itself) is either free or a non-trivial free product, i.e. $H = H_1 * H_2$ with $H_1, H_2$ both non-trivial. Is there an example of such a $G$ which is not free?
If $G$ is finitely generated then Grushko's theorem implies $G$ must be free, but the infinitely-generated case seems likely to have a non-free example.

A: Yes, there's an example.
Kurosh proved that the group $G$ with presentation
$$\langle (a_n)_{n\ge 0},(b_n)_{n\ge 1}\mid a_nb_na_n^{-1}b_n^{-1}=a_{n-1},\;\forall n\ge 1\rangle$$
has the following properties: $G$ is torsion-free, isomorphic to $G\ast\mathbf{Z}$, all freely indecomposable subgroups of $G$ are cyclic, but $G$ is not free (it's easily checked not to be residually nilpotent: the intersection of the lower central series contains all $a_n$).
Reference: A. Kurosch. Zum Zerlegungsproblem der Theorie der freien Produkte. Mat. Sbornik 2 (44): 5, 995–1001, 1937.

[Added] Context:
Kurosh asked in 1934 (Math Ann.) the (free) Zerlegungsproblem: does every group have a free product decomposition into freely indecomposable factor?
In the same 1934 paper he proved that if the answer is positive for a given group, then all such decompositions are isomorphic. This was improved by Baer and Levi (Comp. Math. 1936): on an arbitrary group, any two free product decompositions (with possibly decomposable factors) have a common refinement (in a suitable sense). Then in 1937 (Mat. Sbornik) Kurosh found the above example providing in general a negative solution to the Zerlegungsproblem. Later, Grushko (Mat. Sbornik 1940) and then independently B.H. Neumann (J. LMS 1943) proved that the Zerlegungsproblem has a positive answer for finitely generated groups, showing that the generating rank is additive (and not only sub-additive) under free products.

Added remark: there's an embedding of the countable group $G$ into the 3-generator group with 1-relator presentation
$$\Gamma=\langle a,x,y\mid a={^x}\!a\;^y\!a\rangle\qquad (\text{where } {^x}\!a\;^y\!a=xax^{-1}yay^{-1}),$$
given by $a_n\mapsto x^{-n}ax^{n}$, $b_n\mapsto x^{-n}yx^{n}$. I don't know if this 1-relator group has ever been studied specifically.
More precisely, $\Gamma$ is the ascending HNN-extension of $G$ associated with the injective endomorphism $i$ given by $a_n\mapsto a_{n+1}$, $b_n\mapsto b_{n+1}$ (note that $G=i(G)\ast\langle b_0\rangle$).

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Why This Topic is Important
Schools are for learning information, skills, and much more. They help children develop values and responsibilities. They help children learn important lessons about life. If students miss out on these opportunities as children, they will surely miss out on more as adults. A quality education can pave the way for a life of opportunity and contribution. An education that does not prepare children for the future guarantees they won't have a future. All of these things are as true for young people with developmental disabilities as they are for all other children.
In 1954, the U.S. Federal Court ruled in Brown v. The Board of Education that separate is not equal. In 1970, twenty-five years later, exclusion was still the rule. According to the National Council on Disability: 1
In 1970, before enactment of the federal protections in IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act), schools in America educated only one in five students with disabilities. More than 1 million students were excluded from public schools, and another 3.5 million did not receive appropriate services. Many states had laws excluding certain students, including those who were blind, deaf, or labeled persons with "emotionally disturbance" or "mentally retardation." Almost 200,000 school-age children with developmental or emotional disabilities were institutionalized. The likelihood of exclusion was greater for children with disabilities living in low-income, ethnic and racial minority, or rural communities.
In 1993, almost forty years after Brown, segregation and an unequal education were still the rule for children with developmental disabilities. Despite IDEA, in 1993, fewer than 7% of school-aged children with developmental disabilities were educated in general education classrooms. Forty-four states (including the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico) educated less than 9% of their students with developmental disabilities in general education classrooms.
In 1997, the IDEA was reauthorized by the 105th Congress with a number of changes. P. L. 105-17 ensures that the education of children with disabilities moves from merely access to education to ensuring quality outcomes.
The National Council on Disabilities documents the positive consequences that can result –
In the more than two decades since its enactment, IDEA implementation has produced important improvements in the quality and effectiveness of the public education received by millions of American children with disabilities. Today almost 6 million children and young people with disabilities ages 3 through 21 qualify for educational interventions under Part B of IDEA. Some of these students with disabilities are being educated in their neighborhood schools in regular classrooms. These children have a right to have support services and devices such as assistive listening systems, braille text books, paraprofessional supports, curricular modifications, talking computers, and speech synthesizers made available to them as needed to facilitate their learning side-by-side with their nondisabled peers. Post-secondary and employment opportunities are opening up for increasing numbers of young adults with disabilities as they leave high school. Post-school employment rates for youth served under Part B are twice that of older adults with disabilities who did not benefit from IDEA in school, and self-reports indicate that the percentage of college freshmen with a disability has almost tripled since 1978. 2
But, the gap between law and practice continues – In the past 25 years, states have not met their general supervisory obligations to ensure compliance with the core civil rights requirements of IDEA at the local level. Children with disabilities and their families are required far too often to file complaints to ensure that the law is followed. The Federal Government has frequently failed to take effective action to enforce the civil rights protections of IDEA when federal officials determine that states have failed to ensure compliance with the law. Although Department of Education Secretary Richard W. Riley has been more aggressive in his efforts to monitor compliance and take formal enforcement action involving sanctions than all his predecessors combined, formal enforcement of IDEA has been very limited. 3
The OSERS (Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services) reported the following in 1999:
In 1996-97, over 95 percent of students with disabilities received special education and related services in regular school buildings, and 46 percent were removed from regular classes for less than 21 percent of the day. 4
The 1990s was the decade of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The ADA outlaws segregation and discrimination based on disability. And still, inclusion and a quality education remain a vision, not a reality, for many. Success continues to be measured in terms of getting in the building.
Just as with institutions, we can understand how segregated educational settings began. People with developmental disabilities were virtually denied free public education from the beginning of this century until the 1970s. The first step was to develop special schools, then special classrooms. Integration was first seen as being included in the public education system (special schools), then into public education schools (special classrooms). Now in the era of community and family living, inclusion, participation, and full citizenship, integration means inclusion in general education classrooms and activities.
1 Back to School on Civil Rights: Advancing the Federal Commitment to Leave No Child Behind. National Council on Disability, January 25, 2000.
2 Graduation rates have increased significantly for students with disabilities.
4 Twenty-first Annual Report to congress on the Implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. U.S. Dept. of Education, 1999.
Creating the Learning Community in 2000
An inclusive school should be a community where there is excellence in learning – children and adults are in a reciprocal learning process that is fun, engaging, relevant and affirmative, and meets the lifelong learning needs of everyone.
The learning environment should support a sense of community and respect for individual differences and abilities.
Community building and respect for individual differences best occurs when students of different backgrounds and abilities learn and socialize together in classrooms designed to develop and enhance the abilities of all children.
Inclusion means that students: 5
Are included in general education classrooms and activities for both academic and social opportunities;
Receive an individualized education program which supports learning in the general education classroom and community settings;
Have the opportunity to participate in school social and extracurricular activities with peers without disabilities; and,
Attend schools in their own neighborhoods.
Questions to ask about a school's policies, practices, and educational opportunities:
Is there a school policy in support of inclusion?
Does the school administration emphasize the preparation of all students to live and work in the community?
Does the school leadership promote the inclusion of all students through written materials, presentations, conferences, flexible scheduling, building accessibility?
Do all school personnel receive annual in-service training on the values and implementation techniques of inclusive education?
Does the student attend the same school that would be attended if the student did not have a disability?
Does the student use the same transportation as students without disabilities?
Is the student's school day (length of day, time of arrival and departure) the same as the school day for students without disabilities?
Does the student participate in extracurricular activities with students without disabilities?
Do all special education school personnel support students in the general education classroom and/or community settings?
Are curriculum materials age appropriate?
Are curriculum materials used by students without disabilities of the same chronological age?
Do supports match the student's strengths, needs, preferences, interests?
Do curricular and extracurricular activities involve mutual interaction with students without disabilities?
Are educational objectives based on a comprehensive assessment of the student's strengths?
5 Separateness (separate-hood). The Arc U.S., Oct. 1992, p7. The Arc Report Card on including children with mental retardation in regular education. The Arc. U.S., 1992, p4.3.
Topics for Further Review
The benefits of inclusion for students with disabilities – more role models, a feeling of connectedness to the community and to their peers without disabilities, and an opportunity to develop relationships with more people from their neighborhood who attend the local school.
The benefits of inclusion for students already attending the neighborhood school – the opportunity to develop a relationship with a person who may be different in some ways, the chance to better understand the range of human differences, an opportunity perhaps to help someone in a truly interdependent world.
The difference between learning from your teacher and learning from your peers – positive role model carry-over, incidental learning, deductive learning, peer support, consensual validation of behaviors and positive skills, having something in common with a person without a disability which can lead to friendship and bonding. A teacher may be wonderful, but there are many more opportunities for learning than are represented merely by the student-teacher relationship.
Read the OSERS Report to Congress, particularly as it relates to your state.
Strategies for opening the doors for brothers, sisters and neighbors to all go to the same school and classrooms .
Using natural supports (such as peers and cross-age tutors) to facilitate inclusion.
The role technology can play in supporting a person in the general education classroom.
The relationship of Brown v. The Board of Education to the ADA.
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CIBC ordered to pay $848 million damages to Cerberus, will appeal
NEW YORK, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CM.TO) plans to appeal a New York judge's order that it pay about $848 million in damages to private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management, in a contract dispute tied to the 2008 global financial crisis.
In a statement on Wednesday, the Toronto-based bank said it expects to take a C$1.16 billion pretax charge, or about C$850 million ($631 million) after taxes, in its first-quarter results, reducing its ratio of capital to assets.
It also said it "strongly disagrees" with the legal and factual bases underlying Tuesday's award to Cerberus by Justice Joel Cohen of a New York state court in Manhattan of $491 million in damages plus an estimated $357 million in interest.
Banks struggled during and after the financial crisis to contain their exposure to mounting defaults and falling securities prices as the U.S. housing market collapsed and credit conditions tightened.
The dispute between Cerberus and CIBC stemmed from a complex 2008 structured note transaction in which CIBC received a $571 million loan intended to reduce its U.S. residential real estate exposure, in exchange for payments to a Cerberus entity.
Cerberus sued CIBC in November 2015, claiming that the bank underpaid some amounts it owed, and stopped making some payments altogether after a group of credit default swaps went into default and the underlying bonds were liquidated.
CIBC countered that New York-based Cerberus misread the underlying agreements, and had been accepting the alleged underpayments for several years.
On Dec. 1, after a non-jury trial, Cohen had found CIBC liable for breach of contract and rejected the bank's counterclaims, which included that Cerberus acted with fraudulent intent.
"The evidence did not ... show that CIBC was a hapless rube led astray," Cohen wrote.
In a statement on Wednesday, Cerberus said "ample evidence" supported Cohen's findings, and that it expected his decisions would be "fully upheld" in an appeal.
The judge asked Cerberus and CIBC to submit a proposed judgment by Jan. 13.
The case is Securitized Asset Funding 2011-2 Ltd v Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce et al, New York State Supreme Court, New York County, No. 653911/2015.
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Montek may rethink healthcare proposal
A public uproar against the Planning Commission's intention to "corporatize healthcare" seems to have forced the Plan panel to reconsider its intentions.
Deputy chairman of the Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia met Dr K Srinath Reddy and Dr Gita Sen – members of the high–level expert group (HLEG) on universal health coverage (UHC) – on Thursday evening, and indicated that the "panel's draft proposal will be revised next week after it received comments from both the health ministry and the HLEG."
The Commission's dramatic draft policy had earlier asked for a reversal of the long–standing public health policy, ending governments' dominant role in providing health services and transiting to greater privatization of the health sector – along the lines of 'the managed care' system that is followed in the US and Mexico.
Dr Reddy after meeting Ahluwalia told TOI "The proposal is still a draft and has not been finalized. The Commission has sought the comments of both the HLEG and the health ministry and intends to revise the draft next week. We will send our concerns and point out the recommendations we made in our report earlier, some of which may not have been correctly interpreted."
On Tuesday, the Union health ministry sent its comments to the Commission openly accusing the Plan panel of overlooking "suggestions/directions as emerged from the working group reports and introducing ideas and approaches which have never been subjected to any level of consultation or discussion."
The ministry has expressed worry on the panel's draft chapter that indicates a total public investment on health in the 12th Plan to be only 1.5% of GDP as against earlier plans to raise total health expenditure to 2.5% of GDP by the end of 2017.
The health ministry says it has strong reservations against the panel's proposal for a National Health Mission (NHM) saying, "the way it has been articulated is fraught with the danger of neglect of rural areas which requires more attention."
The ministry says that it was decided in a recent meeting that there will be a NHM with two sub–missions – National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and National Urban Health Mission (NUHM). While the implementation structure will be common for both, the resource allocation and strategy both for rural and urban areas will be in keeping with their respective needs.
The letter says, "The health set–ups in rural areas conform to a uniform pattern, while in urban areas it varies widely not only from state to state but also for different category of local bodies within a state such as mega cities, metropolitan cities or municipal towns. Hence, there cannot be a uniform approach for both rural and urban areas. It must also be taken into account that the Cabinet has already approved the continuation of NRHM during the 12th Plan. A separate proposal for NUHM is under formulation."
The ministry also points to how the Plan panel document has used the recommendations on UHC by the HLEG "rather selectively" with focus on a managed care approach with an enhanced role for the private sector.
"The suggested pilot models heavily promote corporatization of health. The ministry has been advocating developing a strong public health system to be supplemented by private sector participation. This has also been highlighted by HLEG which advocates strengthening of primary care as well as district hospitals," the letter added.
The ministry says that the suggested re–structuring of the central sector schemes needs a fresh look.
It has been suggested that all the central sector programmes would be consolidated to six schemes that include AYUSH (ayurveda, unani, siddha and homeopathy) and health research and 24 centrally sponsored schemes under the NHM.
The ministry's letter says this would create "substantial confusion and will be unwieldy." Hence, it has been suggested that the programmes under the department of health can be brought under six different schemes, including the NHM. The NHM will have four different components of NRHM, NUHM, communicable diseases and non–communicable diseases.
"The programmes of department of AYUSH, AIDS control and health research should be completely separate," the health ministry says.
The Plan panel's prescription of a privatized healthcare will diminish the role of government in delivering primary healthcare to essentials like antenatal care leaving the more lucrative medical treatments to the 'managed–care' system where private players will compete with the cash–strapped government run–hospitals to run the 'networks'.
Sources say at stake in this controversial move is the huge allocation for the health sector that is set to rise substantially as the government raises its investment in the 12th Plan to Rs 10,85,369 crore. Now, almost all health funds provided to states are part of the flexible arrangement to help them set public health priorities.
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Q: How to get a brief description for every executable in a folder? My Unix system has lots of executables under the usr/bin folder. I want to get a brief description of each executable, similar to the brief description shown by the man command under the "NAME" section. The final output would be a list like this (in alphabetical order):
ls - list directory contents
sort - sort or merge records (lines) of text and binary files
wc - word, line, character, and byte count

How can I do it on bash?

A: With GNU find, xargs and whatis:
find /usr/bin/ -executable -printf '%f\0' | xargs -0 whatis 2>/dev/null

Output (e.g.):

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sort (1)             - sort lines of text files
wc (1)               - print newline, word, and byte counts for each file
find (1)             - search for files in a directory hierarchy
xargs (1)            - build and execute command lines from standard input
whatis (1)           - display one-line manual page descriptions


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Each month, we ask our Social Media Co-Editors of CHEST, to weigh in on the hot topics in CHEST. It's February, so let's hear from one of our co-editors, Dr. Viren Kaul, as he outlines his highlights. After reviewing the issue, be sure to share your hot list on our Facebook wall, tweet with the hashtag #journalCHEST, or discuss in the CHEST LinkedIn group.
I have learned more about life, making judicious choices, and why (also how) important funding is to understand diseases. Maybe, we just need to make a Super Bowl commercial of our own! "For your future, for the future of our children, join us in making tomorrow healthier for everyone!" Why do I say this? Please read on about my number one pick this month: the analysis from the NHLBI LAM Registry.
Funding for medical research is hard to secure, and federal or government funding is susceptible to vagrancies of economy, political climate, and ongoing interest in a particular field. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) Registry prospectively recruited 246 women with LAM from 1998 to 2001. However, due to lack of funding 5 years into the follow-up, further research was halted. The study data and biomaterials were stored at the National Disease Research Interchange (NDRI).
The authors retrieved this benched data to study the natural progression of LAM. This is the last set of LAM patients to be studied from prior to sirolimus becoming the standard of care in treatment of LAM (the MILES trial in 2011 followed by the FDA approval for this indication in 2015). This study describes spirometric, clinical, disease state, and biomarker factors that influenced the natural progression of LAM to death or transplantation.
My summary of this trial follows in the old school "notes" format. There is so much to learn from this registry and the patients, due to the fact that the data were revived, retrieved, and analyzed decades later to help us understand this rare disease. The persistence of the authors to improve our understanding of LAM made this the study to highlight in the CHEST® February 2019 issue! Kudos to the authors, NHLBI, and NDRI! Here's hoping for stronger funding and grant cycles for my researcher colleagues in 2019.
Let's talk about the other study to look out for in this issue of CHEST®.
Traditionally, management of hepatic hydrothorax (HH) involves addressing the underlying portal hypertension and sodium restriction. Placement of indwelling pleural catheters (IPCs) is strongly advised against for the fear of complications, as well as nutritional loss. Kniese and team conducted this 10-year retrospective review to evaluate outcomes of IPC placement in 62 patients with HH. The IPCs were placed as a bridge to transplant or for palliation.
The study reports an overall 36% complication rate that is higher than the 17% rate reported with IPCs for other indications. The authors postulate that this could be a representation of their patients having end-stage liver disease with mean MELD-Na scores of 24. This leads to the debate around the value of placing IPCs, given the high 3-month mortality in such patients. Ten patients developed empyema. Three of these ten patients developed septic shock leading to death. Two of these three patients were actively listed for liver transplant and were not able to receive one due to the complications secondary to IPCs. A modest reduction in BMI and albumin levels was noted. The authors highlight the risk of complications secondary to an IPC leading to patients becoming ineligible for a liver transplant, thus offsetting the benefit profile of the procedure.
How will this study change my practice? Given the retrospective, observational, and EMR search query-based limitations of this study, and lack of a control arm, it is difficult to make drastic practice-changing decisions; however, I will consider IPCs for patients with HH for palliation if they aren't responding to conservative treatment and are ineligible for TIPS or liver transplant. For patients eligible or listed for liver transplant, I'll be more cautious and will use a multidisciplinary decision-making approach to arrive at the decision.
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Thomas Vanek Evolved
By Chad Hackl February 6th, 2013
Thomas Vanek currently leads the NHL in scoring with 19 points (Jerome Davis/Icon SMI)
Step aside Schwarzenegger. Thomas Vanek of the Buffalo Sabres is taking the reigns of conversation topics in Austrian households.
His second career five-point night last Wednesday in the Sabres 7-4 win over the Bruins is living proof that Vanek has to be considered a top player in the NHL. And despite the Sabres 6-1 loss to the Montreal Canadiens, Vanek put up the only goal (shorthanded to boot). Vanek put up a goal and two assists in the Sabres 4-3 loss Friday night against the Florida Panthers. For his efforts, the NHL awarded him as the First Star of the week on Sunday for an explosive five goal, five assist week. Not only that but Vanek was also named the Third Star of the month for January on Friday. Playing alongside Cody Hodgson and Jason Pominville is something Vanek credits for his quick start to the season.
"I think I've found two guys that I'm really comfortable with," Vanek told reporters after practice at the First Niagara Centre on Sunday. "But again you do well, you lose games, it doesn't feel good."
The Sabres dropped a 4-3 decision last night and are mired in a three-game slump which has them sitting at the bottom of the Northeast Division. Despite this, Vanek is tops in league scoring with 19 points, three clear of second place Steven Stamkos.
Sabres head coach Lindy Ruff was on Hockey Night in Canada Radio on Friday with David Amber and Greg Millen and pointed out that Vanek is playing perhaps the best hockey of his career.
"He's taken advantage of every offensive situation," Ruff said. "The way he's playing, the chemistry with that line I think its something that you know you want to ride. You get a little bit of momentum going and those guys definitely have it going."
The off-season addition of Cody Hodgson has looked like the perfect fit for Vanek and Ruff continued to praise the early work of his first line.
"Well it's funny, I think when you look at Thomas playing with a right-handed centreman, being the left-winger he's getting the puck a little bit more," he said. "I know he's enjoying that part of it."
Vanek was born in Baden bei Wien, just south of Vienna after his parents moved from Czechoslovakia two years prior to Thomas' birth in 1984. Vanek started playing hockey at the age of three growing up in Graz following his father's footsteps who spent to time in the Austrian pro league. (During the lockout this year, Vanek stayed close to home playing with the Graz 99ers. He tallied five goals and 10 assists in just 10 games.) At age 14, Vanek moved in with a host family his parents knew in Lacombe, Alberta to play Midget AA. From there, Vanek moved down to South Dakota where he attended high school and played junior hockey for the Sioux Falls Stampede of the United States Hockey League. During his third year at Sioux Falls, Vanek really made a name for himself by putting up 91 points in 53 games, 46 of those goals.
Ultimately, the highly sought after left-winger decided to play for the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers where it didn't take long to show the defending National Champions what he was capable of. In his freshman season, Vanek broke out for 31 goals and 31 assists in 45 games leading the team in scoring. Advancing to the Frozen Four, the Gophers fell behind 2-0 to the Michigan Wolverines in the national semi-final. Vanek scored to make it 2-1 before eventually potting the overtime winner to send Minnesota to the National Championship. The heroics continued as Vanek scored the game winner in a 5-1 victory over New Hampshire to capture back-to-back titles for the school. Vanek was named the MVP of the Frozen Four.
Following a National Championship, the fun was just beginning for Vanek as he was drafted 5th overall in the 2003 draft by the Buffalo Sabres. This made him the highest drafted Austrian born player in the history of the NHL. Vanek spent one more season as a Golden Gopher before he was brought into the Sabres organization to start with the Rochester Americans. In his AHL rookie campaign, Vanek posted 42 goals and 26 assists in 72 games. It was clear from this point on that the Sabres had something special.
In Vanek's 2005/2006 rookie season, he didn't disappoint. Vanek put up a solid 25 goals and 23 assists in 81 games. His play tapered off in the playoffs posting two goals in ten games. The Sabres lost in the Eastern Conference Finals to the Carolina Hurricanes in seven games. The following season Vanek proved he had what it took to become a star in the league. He posted career highs with 43 goals and 41 assists before scoring six goals and four assists during the Sabres 16 game playoff run losing to Ottawa in the East Final.
The 2007/2008 season was a season General Manager Darcy Regier can't be too fond of. He lost free-agents Daniel Briere and Chris Drury and it looked as if Vanek was on the move after signing a 7-year 50-million dollar offer sheet with the Edmonton Oilers. Regier was forced to match it at the expense of losing him. Since then, Vanek has been nothing but consistent for the Sabres throughout the years. Naysayers could suggest he is slightly overpaid, but my response is that you can't buy consistency like he has shown.
Always seemingly somewhat under the radar but quietly putting up solid numbers year after year. Before this season began, Vanek's average goal total per year was 34. His average assists total per year was 32. Not too mention, he has 39 game winning goals in his career. It's safe to say the 29-year-old left-winger has evolved into one of the most revered players in the NHL. For young Austrian hockey players, he is a shining example of the endless possibilities with a hockey stick and a pair of skates.
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Light, Liberty and the Promotion of Black Art, History and Culture
Joseph Jordan Director, Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History (Jon Gardiner/UNC-Chapel Hill)
Joseph Jordan often reminds people that the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History is much more than a building, that the programming inside is what makes it a vital part of Carolina's identity.
"This, to me, is what's much more gratifying than simply having a building – to know that you are helping to create new knowledge and that's how you measure your worth," Jordan said. "If all we said is that we're a home for Black students, I think the Black students would be upset with us. What those Black students demanded now exists."
What Jordan would never remind others of is that he worked with his staff to broaden the center's mission and programming when he became its director in 2001, inaugurating a series of groundbreaking annual symposia that culminated in last year's 1619 Collective Memory(ies) symposium. Although his scholarship encompasses the international, he has also focused on the hyperlocal in a Carolina career bookended by service on two commissions dealing with the University's racist and Confederate past. This year, he took on the added responsibility of interim vice provost for academic and community engagement, leading 14 of the University's wide range of centers and institutes.
For all these contributions and more, Jordan is one of six Carolina employees to receive the 2020 C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Award.
"It is not often that a publicly engaged scholar so artfully manages the act of balancing between deepening the cultural awareness of campus through scholarship and administrative leadership while forging effective and enduring connections to local, national and global communities beyond its walls," wrote Jennifer Gerz-Escandon, associate dean for interdisciplinary education and fellowship programs, in her nomination letter. "In so doing, he's made the border separating campus and community increasingly permeable and unselfishly delivered unusual, meritorious and superior contributions to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill."
Unlimited learning
Jordan traces his interest in Black culture to growing up in the 1960s and '70s. "I came into adulthood during a moment when there was a lot of activism and renewed interest in the relationship between history, culture and public service. To be a young person at that time in history was very exciting. Learning was not limited to people who were in school."
At the same time, the side of his family with roots in the Caribbean made him aware of the African diaspora's reach. "I have always been led to the international," he said.
Jordan grew up in New York and attended junior high through college (Norfolk State University) in Virginia. He went on to earn two master's degrees at Ohio State University and a doctorate in African studies from Howard University in Washington, D.C. He was a senior research analyst at the Library of Congress and taught at Antioch and Xavier universities before becoming the director of the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History in Atlanta, Georgia, from 1998 to 2001.
When Jordan came to Carolina, he wanted to make the Stone Center a place "that reflected the demands of the educational enterprise in the 21st century — to use this vehicle to not only serve that mission of being supportive of Black students, faculty and staff but also to support and educate all who are interested in this area of endeavor," he said. "There's nothing that limits the Stone Center from serving the entire campus and the community beyond."
At the Stone Center, Jordan launched a series of annual groundbreaking symposia on often overlooked Black cultural icons like singer Nina Simone, actor Paul Robeson, philosopher Frantz Fanon and writer Amiri Baraka. Photo exhibits, films and theatrical performances that debuted at Carolina have gone on to national prominence. One symposium on Black and Puerto Rican radicals even inspired a reunion of the Young Lords, a former Puerto Rican street gang that became a force for social justice, and an annual forum on the group's impact.
"We focus on events or people that have a connection to current issues or that may have been underrepresented in the literature," Jordan said. "Once we've presented a symposium, someone has picked up the topic. We're kind of proud of that."
In 2019, the Stone Center hosted the day-long 1619 Collective Memory(ies) symposium, which drew special praise in his Massey nomination. "Four hundred years after enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown, Jordan was inspired to honor the lives and ancestral history of those affected by slavery," wrote a nominator. "As he has done so many times before, Jordan leveraged his national scholarly network and the gravitational pull of the Stone Center to create collective reflection and inclusive possibility for the Carolina community."
Beyond the Stone Center
In addition to leading the Stone Center, Jordan is an adjunct associate professor of African, African American and Diaspora studies here and in study abroad. In his Massey citation, one student calls him "a gem of a professor," while his nominator quotes another student who studied with him in Venezuela as saying, "I had three courses with him, and that experience changed my life and career path." His nominator also praised him as a mentor who "makes himself available for sage advice and counsel."
Off campus, Jordan works with the Historic Preservation Commission of Durham, as an advisory board member of Our Children's Place and with the Stagville State Historic Site.
This leadership on campus and in the community recently led to Jordan's selection as an interim vice provost and as one of the 15 members of the chancellor's Commission on History, Race and a Way Forward.
"It's interesting to see how the conversation has progressed since 2002, how it's changed, how it's evolved, and to see an entirely different set of people engaged in that conversation," said Jordan, who served a similar role in 2002. "I remember there were people back at that time who had some very rock-solid attitudes and they've changed. Some of them have said to me that listening to the debates has helped them to understand why they needed to change their approach."
Light and liberty
Jordan's Massey Award citation calls him "a publicly engaged scholar of national stature who steps over the campus's stone walls to join academic thought with community-based knowledge." Jordan, it reads, has epitomized the University's motto of "Lux, Libertas," which "shines light into shadows of ignorance and loosens the bonds of provincial thought to open minds and lead change."
Jordan also cited the University motto in talking about his work with the history commission. "This allows the University to take a step back and look at itself with a new set of voices included in that conversation, voices that had formerly been excluded," he said. "That will guide how the University defines itself for the public going forward and how it understands itself. It will make the University hew much closer to those ideals of 'Lux, Libertas' that it holds up as the ultimate objective."
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Epiphany Dance Theater serves a wide range of students, engaging youth of all socio-economic backgrounds, as well as collegiate and professional dancers. We provide enrichment and educational programs that employ interdisciplinary performance arts as tools for learning, inquiry, skill building, community engagement and cultural collaborations.
Our youth programming serves 1,500 K-12 public school students each year—primarily in at-risk communities—through its residency program, Mudd Butt Mystery Theatre and Kids On Track.
We are committed to expanding participation in the arts at a professional level. Epiphany offers adult educational classes and workshops for dance and theater professionals and college students in a variety of dance and movement techniques
Years of Programming
Students served per year across all ages and backgrounds
Cities across the globe, spanning 6 continents
Partnerships with public schools, colleges, universities, professional dance companies and festivals to provide dance education
Learn how art, dance, and storytelling move our students!
What Students Are Saying:
"I love Kim! This is the best course and teacher combination here! She has brought the dance level up at this university. I feel she would be a good permanent addition to any university faculty.
"Kim has awakened a lot of people to new perspectives of movement.
Past School & Program Partnerships
Over the past two decades, Epiphany Dance Theater has taught at over 50 schools, universities, performance programs, and festivals around the Bay Area, nationally and internationally. Here is a list of a few of those wonderful partners.
University of California, Berkeley, CA
University of California, Davis, CA
University of San Francisco, CA
Impulse Dance Festival, St. Louis, Missouri
Velocity Dance Center, Seattle, WA
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
University of Montana, MO
University of California at Los Angeles Department of World Arts and Cultures, CA
Colorado Dance Festival University of California, San Diego, CA
San Diego Dance Theater Festival, CA
San Diego State University, CA
Sonoma State University, CA
City College of San Diego, CA
SUNY Purchase, NY
Stanford University, CA
Movement Research, New York, NY
Moving On Center – School for Participatory Arts, CA
Telluride Theater Festival, CO
Fresno Dance Festival, CA
TanzOlten Festival, Switzerland
San Diego Dance Theater Festival, San Diego, CA
Seattle Festival of Improvisation, WA
KulturMix Festival in San Diego, CA
San Francisco Dance Center, CA
Dancers' Group Studio Theater, CA
Margaret Wingrove Dance Company, CA
ODC Performance Gallery, CA
Goucher College, Baltimore, MD
Mills College, CA
Marsh Youth Theater, CA
Dance Mission Theater, CA


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Home Focus On Kuwait Is 2014 Kuwait's Year?
Kuwait is the 'nearly man' of the Gulf. Neighbouring emirates Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Qatar have given their capitals glitzy and soaring skyscraper facelifts. Saudi Arabia has spent tens of billions on oil and gas schemes, ports, museums and real estate projects over the past decade. Amid all this urban transformation in the region, Kuwait City and its environs have retained largely unchanged since the country's heyday in the 1970s and 1980s.
Plans in recent years to boost oil and gas output, revamp Kuwait's refineries, invest in petrochemicals and build a giant new port, all the while encouraging more private-sector involvement have floundered at least in part because of the country's volatile political scene. In 2008 and 2009, Kuwaiti banks almost collapsed under the weight of massive leverage in international markets. Seemingly unaffected by the Arab uprisings of 2011, the country witnessed mass protests in 2012 that ultimately led to the ouster of then-prime minister Sheikh Nasser al-Mohammed al-Sabah.
We have seen a more balanced parliament and that seems to have translated to seeing some more projects going ahead.
Kuwait has lagged behind its regional peers, producing far lower non-oil economic growth than the GCC average and spending less than its peers on infrastructure, health and education. While each of its neighbours rose in the World Economic Forum's global competitiveness rankings between 2007 and 2012, Kuwait slid from 30th to 37th.
But now, five years on from the worst moments of the financial crisis and two from Kuwait's biggest political crisis in two decades, confidence is slowly being restored. Big projects are moving ahead, the political deadlock has eased and the banking sector's fortunes have been turned around. Could 2014 — finally — be Kuwait's year?
Between 2006 and 2013, Kuwait's emir Sheikh Sabah al-Jaber al-Sabah dissolved parliament 11 times. This was mainly to prevent parliamentary 'grillings', or interrogations, of key cabinet members, many of them like Sheikh Nasser members of the royal family, by an opposition made up of Islamists and populist blocs who have demanded that more of the country's oil wealth be shared among its citizens. While Kuwaitis are proud of the openness of political debate in their country, they have grown weary of the stagnation caused by a combination of weak governments and an overbearing opposition.
Following the 2012 protests and political crisis, there was a split in the opposition, says Kristian Coates-Ulrichsen, a Gulf political analyst who follows events in Kuwait closely. Some groups are worried that they did not have a positive platform to stand on, and that theirs was a "coalition of convenience", causing political and economic stasis rather than presenting a positive set of solutions, says Coates-Ulrichsen. In the elections in December 2012 and July 2013, hardline opposition groups boycotted elections in protest at changes made in 2012 to electoral rules. More centrist groups took part in the polls, and have been more amenable to government plans than previous, opposition-dominated legislatures.
Since Sheikh Sabah was made emir in 2006, a number of high-profile projects have gathered dust thanks to political wrangling and government indecision. Most prominent among them have been a clean fuels project to revamp Kuwait's refineries, another scheme to build a new refining facility, a much-needed new power plant, a port project at an island off the coast of Kuwait, and a massive real estate development — 'City of Silk' — which will cost more than $100bn.
In 2008 and 2009, contracts were awarded for the construction of the new refinery at Al-Zour. It was subsequently cancelled after a parliamentary investigation into the tendering process. A huge $14.7bn petrochemicals joint venture with the US' Dow Chemical was also cancelled at the last minute in early 2009 for similar reasons. In 2012, the government paid Dow $2.2bn for breaching the deal. The same year, the latest iteration of the Al-Zour power scheme was also cancelled.


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Too Far: This one LIRR station in Queens didn't get MTA's $5 CityTicket promotion
By Kevin Duggan Posted on March 17, 2022
A Long Island Rail Road train.
For three weeks, straphangers have been able to benefit from a $5 flat fare ticket to ride the MTA's two commuter railroads within the city limits during off-peak hours under the so-called CityTicket program — except for one station in a working-class neighborhood at the southeastern edge of Queens where riders will still have to pay almost twice that.
The Far Rockaway stop on the Long Island Rail Road does not offer the discount, because trains must go out of the city and make stops along through the Five Towns just over the Nassau County border before returning to Queens along the route, Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials said.
"It's literally the only railroad station in the entire network, while it's in the city, travel to and from it requires going through Nassau County," said MTA deputy chief of management and budget Mark Young during a City Council Transportation Committee hearing Wednesday.
The trains on the Far Rockaway branch of the LIRR go through seven stations outside of the New York City border before veering back into Rosedale, Queens, and Young said with CityTicket Far Rock residents would have to pay only $5 despite traveling a longer distance than someone getting on at the next stop in the suburbs shelling out the regular $9.25 fare.
But the area's Council Member Selvana Brooks-Powers — who also chairs the Transportation Committee — pushed the agency should still include the station.
"Far Rockaway is a part of New York City, it is a part of the great borough of Queens, and the people in Far Rockaway deserve to have that option as well," Brooks-Powers said during the March 16 hearing. "They have to take an A train ride into the city that takes so long, it takes away time that they can be really spending with family, getting a few extra moments of sleep, to have a real balance of quality of life — and because they live in Far Rockaway, they should not be penalized by not having that option."
According to the latest U.S. Census data for the area's ZIP code, Far Rockaway is nearly 44% Black, 24% Hispanic, and 24% white, and the median household income is $52,605, below $67,046 for the whole city.
The neighborhood is also at the last stop on the A train subway line, which is a less than 10 minute walk away from the LIRR terminus.
An LIRR trip to Penn Station takes a little under an hour, while an A train makes the journey in about 66 minutes.
However, trips to other nabes in southeastern Queens are a good bit faster with the LIRR, such as 23 minutes to Rosedale as opposed to 51 minutes via two bus lines, or 35 minutes to Jamaica Center compared to 1 hour 16 minutes on the subway or 48 minutes on the bus.
MTA Chairperson and CEO Janno Lieber told amNewYork Metro later Wednesday that the agency is looking at giving the Queens commuters some sort of benefit, even though offering the same CityTicket deal is "not possible."
"It is an anomaly. We very much respect and want to provide benefits to Far Rock, and what we're doing is we're looking at different ways of giving them incentives that would have real value, even if this one because of that quirk… is not possible," Lieber said during an unrelated press conference at Grand Central Terminal.
"We think that there might be other ways we can give Far Rockaway Long Island Rail Road commuters on the Far Rock branch a similar incentive of close to or similar value," the transit honcho added.
The stop has long been a hot topic among transit advocates, according to Lisa Daglian, the executive director of the MTA's in-house rider advocacy group the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee.
"The concern that's been raised is people coming over the border parking in Far Rockaway and taking unfair advantage of both parking and a discount that's supposed to be for area residents," said Daglian.
The transit booster agreed with Brooks-Powers that Far Rockaway should be added to CityTicket and Atlantic Ticket, an previous fare deal for $5 tickets around the clock at 10 LIRR stations in Brooklyn and southeast Queens.
"It's just one of those vagaries of the station, but it doesn't mean it can't be fixed," she said. "We fix hard problems, so we just have to come up with a solution."
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Megorachim  ou Megorashim (; "reenviados" ou "expulsos") é um termo usado para designar os judeus originários da Península Ibérica que foram para o Norte de África fugindo às perseguições antijudeus de 1391 e à expulsão dos judeus de Espanha em 1492. Estes migrantes, que frequentemente eram de um nível sociocultural elevado, diferenciavam-se dos judeus autóctones, os tochavim, presentes no Norte de África desde a Antiguidade, os quais falavam línguas locais ( ou ) e tinham algumas tradições influenciadas pelo Islão magrebino.

Os Megorachim iriam deixar a sua marca no judaísmo norte-africano, integrando-lhe tradições ibéricas. Acabariam por se fundir com os tochavim, de tal forma que no presente é usualmente difícil distinguir uns dos outros. Geralmente classificam-se os judeus do Norte de África em dois grandes grupos: os sefarditas, um termo que realça as raízes ibéricas; e os mizrahim, de tradição oriental.

Segundo a Enciclopédia Judaica, dos  judeus que abandonaram a Espanha em 1492, estima-se que  foram para as costas do Norte de África ( para Marrocos e  para a Argélia). Outras fontes referem que é impossível estimar quantos judeus ibéricos procuraram refúgio em Marrocos.

Sociedade e cultura
Os Megorachim têm os seus próprios dirigentes, rabinos e líderes espirituais, bem como minhagim (tradições) próprias. Falam diversas línguas da Península Ibérica, conforme a sua origem: castelhano, , , valenciano, , etc.), além de uma forma padronizada de judeu-espanhol, chamada "ladino", a qual é desde há muito usada pela diáspora sefardita.

As relações com os judeus autóctones, os Tochavim, e da influência sobre eles, são muito variáveis conforme as comunidades ou os locais. A influência europeia dos Megorachim sobre o modo de vida local tende a afetar muito pouco as populações que não vivem nos grandes centros urbanos, as quais podem chegar a ter reações hostis a essa influência.

Notas e referências

Ligações externas e bibliografia

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Judeus de Marrocos
História judaica
Grupos étnicos de Marrocos
Grupos étnicos da Argélia
História de Marrocos

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Jeff Frankas' De-World
By James J. O'Meara
Ex: http://www.counter-currents.com
Jeff Frankas
De-World
Amazon Kindle, $2.99
"The world today is nothing more than a world built on lies, illusions, and false narratives. The so-called masters of governance and economics feed the masses events based off their own narratives seeking to have them believe whatever it is they want them to believe."[1]
De-World is Jeff Frankas's first novel, and it's self-published. Ordinarily, these would be signals to run for the hills. Like most stereotypes, there's some solid truth behind that, but it's my job as your Trusted Reviewer to let you know when exceptions should be made, and this is one of those times.
De-World takes place some years after a mini-sub in the Potomac takes out Washington with a mini-nuke. The reconstruction of the government in Denver gives The Movement their chance to shit-can the moldy old Constitution and let the creepy old America of Hate just die, replaced by a new America of love and equality, whose rules are embodied in a new document, The Sanct. It's kinda like you woke up to find Amy Goodman is absolute ruler.
The new reality is constantly delivered and promoted by the latest communications technologies, networked or implanted. "People need to hear what they want to hear." The foolish oldsters who cling to their guns and God and still think elections matter are sneeringly known as "derelicans." Our boy Geroy is an ambitious Federal Teacher who thinks his new job at De-World, the company that manufactures the new reality and massages the messages into the masses is the next step in his advancing career. But things, as they say, are not what they seem. Truth really is Hate.
Frankas claims to be "a part of the group of emerging New Right authors" and that his book is "an expression of the emerging New Right pop literature style, displaying a unique glimpse into the next America," but don't let all that frighten you. There's no heavy-handed symbolism or didacticism — none at all, in fact — nor does the author have the Answer or a Plan. And the writing makes no attempt to emulate Trollope or some other model from the Good Old Days. These two points — New Right sensibility and New Right style — are connected with the two hurdles a "futuristic" novel must overcome, and Frankas clears both.
First, the language problem. The author has to suggest, with more or less subtlety, that this is, of course, the Future. Languages evolve, slang goes in and out of fashion, and new developments in technology and elsewhere in culture lead to plenty of new vocab. The lazy way is some variation of "space X."[2] Anthony Burgess is the gold standard here, A Clockwork Orange going almost but not quite too far in its Joycean game, using barbarous adaptations of Russian to suggest a post-Cold War world where the economic and cultural differences have been drowned rather than overcome.[3]
Frankas succeeds by crafting a believable mashup of entertainment jargon, Techno-hip babble, and the frankly infantile. HOM (home online monitor, government issued and controlled, of course) where you can watch "sodies" (although I might have preferred "sods") of your favorite shows, perhaps augmented by pulse screamers (legal amphetamine) and then polishing off the night with Luciax (prescription lucid dreams). Rivetheads are the new wave of state bureaucrats — "know the rivethead" as Frank Herbert might say, "by his glossy black Mohawk." The learning curve is a bit steep but not imposingly so, and Frankas has even provided a little YouTube tutorial [3] to get you up to speed.
Other coinages suggest the mentality of the new, post-Hate America. The homeless are now "vagwalkers," free to roam the walled-off "post-funct zones"; immigrants are "improve settlers"; both types might be qualified as "wayward," meaning what we might call "criminal."
[4]These words suggest the smarmy, warm and snuggly nature of post-Hate America, which gets us to the second hurdle, constructing a believable development of our current situation. The great problem here is imagining the Left's tyranny as some kind of "liberal fascism" — i.e., buying right into the Left's basic mind control device: fascism as the greatest imaginable evil. Neocons and talk radio "conservatives" always fall into this: "jackbooted" Feds, "barbed wire FEMA camps," "Mussolini would call bailing out GM just his kind of fascism," etc. Baby Neocon Joshua Goldberg even wrote a whole treatise on the subject — liberals are so evil, they're nothing but . . . fascists!
Frankas gets it right: the liberal future is endless bureaucracy, endless red tape, and of course endless control. Not Nietzsche's Superman, however distorted, but his Last Man, seeking nothing but comfort and pleasure, and actually welcoming anyone willing to take charge and make things better.
This is perhaps best illustrated by an early scene that at first might seem a bit unnecessary; getting to an event in Denver, Geroy needs to take a plane. Anyone familiar with post-9/11 hassles can imagine what air travel would be like after Washington is nuked, and that leads to us to a low-key but hilarious airport interrogation at the hands of a barely functionally literate Third World female FSA goon. It perfectly encapsulates the mind-bendingly irritating and banal nature of life in Good America.
This is how Frankas's New Right — I would prefer to say, alt-Right — sensibility helps him craft a dystopian future that's more believable than the usual Right-wing fantasies. Now, to get back to New Right style, it's future oriented pop rather than backward glancing establishment. Style and sensibility come together when this boring, over-controlled future seems to lead out protagonist to space out periodically, represented by interludes in which a kind of computer mini-program or script takes over the narration. I thought this was an interesting reiteration of the "Penny Arcade Peepshow" routines that are interspersed throughout Burrough's The Wild Boys, serving, I think, the same function — suggesting ways in which the script, as both authors would call it, can be subverted from within, challenging the illusion of Total Control.
If I have any real problem with the book, it is, at the risk of sounding rather PC myself, the lack of female characters. There are really only two, admittedly playing major roles, but definitely coming out of the Emma Peel/Trinity/Agent Scully realm of adolescent fantasy, right down to the preference for wardrobe of the leather, catsuit and high heeled boots variety. Even "in black camo. It makes her a little scruffier, more in command of the task at hand. The rugged pin-up, solution can-do woman on the offensive."
Not that I have any problem with that myself — like the jackbooted Feds, it's more evidence that, as Jonathan Bowen has observed, the Right retains its hold on the unconscious — but it seems out of place in the overly maternal world of the Left. If Amy Goodman were President, would the Veep travel around with his own squad of Solid Gold Dancers, as the grotesque Samoan Veep does here?
On the other hand, Geroy is an interesting, though ultimately repulsive, character, rather than the dull ciphers they usually are (hello, Neo?). For one thing, he has an odd sense of fashion and design, that crops up in his thoughts, habitually turning to the question of his re-worked backsplash, or whether visitors find his new prints banal. He knows precisely what kind of chair he's in at any time.
He's not so much metro-sexual — Frankas makes his interest in women clear ("I see determination. I see honesty. I see cleavage.") but rather an interesting mutation resulting from several generations of exposure to DIY design and home improvement cable shows. For Geroy and the other TV-mutated Leftists of our time, it's all about Me, as he frankly admits over and over.[4] It makes him the ideal candidate for Operation Mirror Image — like Manhunter's Tooth Fairy, what feeds his fantasy is what he sees reflected in the eyes around him, despite his frequent attacks of scopophobia– which is also his fitting punishment.
It also makes him far more effective as a first person narrator; as he says, "I notice things." But then, "Everyone notices something. The real art is getting them to notice forever, to stay with it, coming away awestruck with a lasting impression."
I'd say Frankas has succeeded at that, too, crafting a kind of fusion of Brave New World, Neuromancer, and The Man in the High Castle. He deserves your notice.
1. "The Great Forest of the Overman: Dismantling the Illusion from Within" by Conor Wrigley at Aristokratia, here [5].
2. Duly noted on MST3k, "Manhunt in Space" : Joel: "Movies like this are always trying to show how futuristic they are by putting the word 'space' in front of everything." For an exhaustive listing of the "Space X" trope, see TVTropes, here [6].
3. Close attention to Kubrick's film shows he gets it too — the Top Ten chart Alex views (or viddies) lacks the cliché "Space Disco" or "Gas Music from Jupiter" nonsense, instead featuring Mungo Jerry's recent hit "In the Summertime"; Alex's droogs turned cops wear "E[lizabeth] R[egina] II" badges. Kubrick clearly intends the film to take place a few years, not decades or centuries, after 1972; though even he likely didn't think Elizabeth would still be around in 2014.
4. Identifying an approaching thug's suit as "probably Versace" is so odd that it must link him, I think, to that other post-modern airhead, the protagonist of Showgirls whose name — Nomi, get it? — suggests that there is less to Geroy's "Me" than he thinks.
URL to article: http://www.counter-currents.com/2014/05/jeff-frankas-de-world/
[1] Image: http://www.counter-currents.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/big_1671.jpg
[2] De-World: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00K5HGM6E/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00K5HGM6E&linkCode=as2&tag=countecurrenp-20&linkId=DPBDJG5Z546YHHQA
[3] YouTube tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GklQZF562dM
[4] Image: http://www.counter-currents.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/de_world_cover3.jpg
[5] here: http://www.aristokratia.info/the-great-forest-of-the-overman.html
[6] here: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpaceX
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End Of The Road Festival 2020 cancelled over coronavirus outbreak
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The Dorset festival had been due to be held from September 3-6
By Sam Moore
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End Of The Road Festival 2020 will not go ahead over continuing fears about the coronavirus outbreak.
The Dorset festival, which hoped to celebrate its 15th anniversary this year, was set to run its 2020 event from September 3-6.
Read more: Coronavirus: every cancelled gig, festival and tour – and how to get your ticket refund
This morning (May 20), though, the organisers of End Of The Road confirmed that their 2020 festival will not be going ahead.
"There is a first time for everything and this year has been a series of firsts, big time," the organisers said in a statement. "We were hoping we wouldn't have to add to the list but sadly this will be the first time in 15 years that there will be no End of The Road: due to the current pandemic, we are postponing the 2020 festival until 2021."
"We'll desperately miss dancing, singing and partying with all of you. We know you'll all be missing it too, there is nothing quite like the buzz of live music, but we know this is the right decision for everyone; for our audience, performers, staff and crew, vendors, real ale purveyors, the gardeners who cut the grass and feed the peacocks, the local community, the hard-working NHS staff and key workers, and for all those affected beyond our hedges."
We were holding out hope we wouldn't have to do this but sadly, due to the current pandemic, we are postponing End of The Road 2020 until 2-5 September 2021. We'll miss you all terribly and we can't wait to see you there. You'll notice @pixiesofficial, King Krule, @bigthiefmusic, @brighteyesofficial, @littlesimz and @aldousharding have all already promised they'll be there too! We do need your help right now, more than ever, to keep the independent spirit of EOTR alive so we're asking you to roll your tickets forward to 2021 if you can. If you need it, and times are hard we know, you are of course entitled to a face-value refund. We'll be emailing all ticket buyers with full details shortly. Love to you all, Simon and the team at End of The Road More info via the link in our bio.
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End Of The Road have confirmed that their 2021 festival will run from September 2-5, and that Pixies, King Krule, Big Thief, Bright Eyes, Aldous Harding and Little Simz will carry their 2020 bookings over to 2021 to perform at next year's festival.
"We were so proud too of our sadly-not-to-be 2020 line-up, so we'll be working hard over the summer to stay as true to that as possible come 2021 – with a few exciting new names too," the festival added.
End Of The Road have confirmed that 2020 ticketholders will be able to roll their tickets forward to 2021 if they wish, but face-value refunds are also available. You can find out more information about End Of The Road here.
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DJ Sprinkles to play at Manchester's Hidden
Manchester's Hidden is gearing up for a very special guest in the new year, with the spectacular DJ Sprinkles joining on the 21st January. A unique DJ not just in her distinctly philosophical and political understanding of dance music, but also in her approach to mixing, Terre Thaemlitz is a strong proponent of the need for house music's roots to be acknowledged, her cerebral approach summed up by her 2014 suggestion that "Music is usually one of the least interesting things about clubs."
A veteran of the house music scene, Thaemlitz cut her teeth as a DJ in New York during the 80s, becoming immersed in the LGBT house scene. A resident at Sallly's II, a haven for the transgender community, she became interested in the social and political side of dance music, something which is often ignored in vacuous descriptions of dancefloors as apolitical or inherently inclusive places. Seeking to challenge conceptions which have all but airbrushed out the sexual and racial character of dance music, her music has aimed to re-politicise and redefine her art, also showing disregard for immediacy or impact in favour of subtlety, repetition and immersion. Mixing under her DJ Sprinkles alias, which, when gender is assigned, should be known as masculine, Thaemlitz prefers to play songs at length, often reverting to DIY edits which extend tracks far beyond their initial timespan. A specialist in deep, emotive and indefinable house, Thaemlitz is not understood by all, but for those that can connect with her loaded art and choose to do so, she is an extraordinary and captivating musician.
Head into a DJ Sprinkles set wanting to take home track IDs or remark on individual tracks and you're missing the point. This is one for open minds and nothing less.
Words by Andrew Kemp
Photo courtesy of Hyponik