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Political Risks Are Mounting in Washington. Here's What to Watch.
Sept. 23, 2021 4:00 am ET
Congressional Republicans and Democrats are clashing ahead of a series of deadlines that Senate Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) arrives to speak at a press conference on the debt limit on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on September 22, 2021.
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The scramble over the debt ceiling, government funding, and President Biden's spending plans has been overlooked as investors have been focused on tapering and tightening clues from the Federal Reserve. The situation in Washington, meanwhile, has gotten messier and warrants attention.
Political risks to the market have been increasing in recent weeks and may ratchet up further in the coming days, says Brian Gardner, chief Washington policy strategist at Stifel, in a note to clients Wednesday. "The prospects of a default or the collapse of the infrastructure bills remain low probabilities, but these outcomes can no longer be easily dismissed or discounted," he says.
The scramble over the debt ceiling, government funding, and President Biden's spending plans has been overlooked as investors have been focused on tapering and tightening clues from the Federal Reserve.


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A Couch Potato's Happy New Year: 4 TV Series To Catch in January
Lee Zhe Wei January 3, 2016
The new year is here and there we go again: making lofty resolutions that mostly include going on a healthier diet and incorporating more exercise into our routines, a feat we consistently seem to be unable to deliver upon because we'd rather stay snuggled up with a cup of hot cocoa, enjoying the latest episode of "Game of Thrones".
Well aware of our weak wills, I have a better suggestion this year. As opposed to pledging to do more exercise, we could, conversely, pledge to watch more television instead, a feat that I'm certain we would be able live up to triumphantly. To kick things off, here are 4 upcoming TV events for the month of January!
Pretty Little Liars: Season 6B (12 January)
Yes, it's Pretty Little Liars. And before you start judging this show for the seemingly vapid and shallow name (I've seen the scorn on too many faces), I implore you to give it a chance, at the very least.
In my opinion, Pretty Little Liars is an absolute guilty pleasure, with the show being the right mix of everything. An utterly complex and perplexing mystery (WHO ON EARTH IS A + that unsatisfactory resolution), mixed with a thriller (locking the Liars up in a life-sized dollhouse), infused into a romance (Haleb, Spoby, Emison, and Ezria).
Pretty Little Liars boasts lovable protagonists, and even more entrancing antagonists – a feat which is exceptionally difficult for TV series to accomplish (apart from "Once Upon A Time"). Mona Vanderwaal, played by the impeccable Janel Parrish, is one of my absolute favourite characters on television. She's an unapologetic badass supervillain, an absolute criminal mastermind, and a character you simply love.
Yes, complaints about the show being immensely draggy have been rampant, and I have definitely felt cheated many times over the faux reveals that the writers have promised on the identity of A. However, the ability of the writers to spark such intense debate over the possible identity of the antagonist (check the A theories online – they are luxuriously extensive) is a testament to just how fixated the fans are with the show.
Granted, the grand reveal of A at the end of season 6A was met with much disappointment, mainly because the fans simply could not accept that such minor character(s) played such a significant role in terrorising the Liars, along with our hearts. The remaining part of season 6B deals with the plot five years later, with a new villain (please tell me they're not naming it B…) and the repercussions of A's reveal, and how the Liars deal with it. It definitely makes for an interesting watch, provided the writers deliver on actually making the rationale and motivation behind this new masked villain to be much better than they did for A. Fingers crossed.
The 100: Season 3 (21 January)
"Hunger Games" and "Divergent" fans, look no further. This is the show for you. As a post-apocalyptic drama television series, the setting of "The 100" is mostly reminiscent of the two ubiquitous science-fiction book-to-movies of our generation.
At first glance, "The 100" may seem like a boring and recycled concept, being one of those shows which merely deal with survival in a post-apocalyptic earth (in this case by a generation of humans who relocated to Outer Space, otherwise termed as the Sky People). While the first few episodes of the 100 (Season 1) reinforced my notion of it being a typecast series, the following episodes revealed a depth which I did not expect.
Still based upon the concept of survival, "The 100" introduced new groups of characters (The Mountain Men and The Grounders) that were antagonistic to the Sky People. The interaction between these different groups and their common desperation to survive made for an exceptionally interesting narrative. Moreover, the consistent curveballs thrown around and unlikely alliances forged made the series to be an utterly unpredictable one.
Special credit has to go to Eliza Taylor for nailing her role as Clarke Griffin, the main protagonist of the 100, with apt nuance. Being a leader, she is forced to make several morally-difficult decisions to ensure their survival, albeit at the cost of what she is at heart, an innocent and petite child. As opposed to being a one-dimensional leader who merely barks out orders, her complex character consistently struggles with the morality of her decisions, all for the sake of her people. Through the series, she has had one of the strongest character developments I have ever witnessed.
"The 100" represents what is lacking in television these days. Good scriptwriting, coupled with terrific acting; delivering tenacious characters that are timeless and well-loved by audiences throughout. Moreover, the plot writers for "The 100" have spunk. They dare to take the plots and characters to great depths through grim scenes, and they are not afraid to shape out complex protagonists at the expense of killing off fan favourites. The fortitude of the writers, coupled with the niche material which "The 100" occupies for television, makes it an exceptionally compelling watch.
DC's Legends Of Tomorrow: Season 1 (21 January)
"DC's Legends Of Tomorrow" boasts an ensemble cast of characters, all of which hail from "Arrow" and "The Flash". These two shows have long been fan favourites, mainly because they both boast a devilishly good-looking cast, action-packed fight scenes, and a realistic human touch to the "infallible" superheroes. The crossover scenes have also proven to be resolutely brilliant on every single frame that they have delivered, especially when the satirical nature of Stephen Amell's character is so acutely juxtaposed with Grant Gustin's cheery and charismatic demeanour.
One of the characters which I'm exceptionally excited for would be (without any doubt) the White Canary. Prior to her appearance in LOT, she was a protagonist in Arrow who got murdered through a treacherous plot by Malcolm Merlin. She was brought back by her sister through the Lazarus Pit which ignited a sense of bloodlust within her. This imperfection within her character will definitely be an interesting addition to the show when juxtaposed with her heroic attempts to save the world.
A possible problem LOT might face would be a lack of proper characterisation. Considering the huge ensemble of superheroes brought back to fight the main antagonist (Vandal Savage), and considering that we are only granted a measly hour each week, it is definitely a challenge to fully give each character the depth and growth which we have come to love from its sister series' (Flash and the Arrow). However, with the penchant for the series to deliver flawless and exhilarating fight scenes, "Legends of Tomorrow" is definitely the show for you to mark on your radar.
Lucifer: Season 1 (25 January)
Lucifer, as the moniker so aptly suggests, deals with the devil himself. However, as opposed to being merely the devil which he is so aptly known for (though he still remains a devil in the series), Lucifer doubles as a vigilante, through employing rather unconventional torture methods and all to seek "justice".
Granted, I had pretty low expectations for this series when I first heard about it. With the palpable success of "Arrow" and "The Flash" on The CW, as well as that of "Jessica Jones" and "Daredevil" on Netflix, and considering how Fox had botched "Gotham", I was pretty sure that this would be one of the many television misses.
Yet, when I watched the pilot, I was immensely mesmerised by this series. Tom Ellis, who plays the role of Lucifer Morningstar, delivered his role with conviction and aplomb; in addition to a cheeky demeanour and slightly cocky arrogance, characterising his role flawlessly. Moreover, the show's uncanny attempts to blend Lucifer's vigilantism with humour (notably through Lucifer's indifference and scorning of humans, to him working with an LAPD detective as a fellow vigilante to solve the murder of his friend), serves for a refreshing reprieve from the usual superhero flicks, where the protagonist magically gains an euphoric awakening, or somehow or rather, just gains a superpower and is expected to save the world.
Due to the oversaturation of superhero shows which have been plastered over TV networks around, it might be outright mendacious to conclude that Lucifer will definitely go on to be a success from just the pilot. However, if done right, and if Tom Ellis manages to deliver like he did in the pilot, Lucifer might be here to stay for the long run.
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Haryana Polls: EC Issues Notice to BJP Candidate Over Controversial Video
The viral video shows sitting MLA Bakshish Singh Virk purportedly saying that no matter which button is pressed on the EVM, the vote will go to BJP.
Representative Image. Photo: PTI
New Delhi/Chandigarh: A video of the ruling BJP candidate from Assandh purportedly making controversial remarks about EVMs emerged on social media on the eve of Haryana Assembly polls, following which the Election Commission issued him a show-cause notice and appointed a special observer to the constituency to take "corrective action".
In the clip, BJP candidate and sitting MLA Bakshish Singh Virk purportedly says that no matter which button is pressed on the electronic voting machine, the vote would go to the BJP, but he dubbed it as a fake video and alleged that it was a conspiracy by his opponents to defame him and his party.
An EC statement on Sunday said former deputy election commissioner Vinod Zutshi is being sent to Assandh Constituency in Karnal "in light of the video circulating in social media".
"Zutshi has been requested to proceed immediately to the constituency to take necessary corrective action and ensure free, fair and peaceful election," the Commission said.
After the video circulated on social media, the Election Commission took cognisance and issued a showcase notice to Virk, Haryana's Joint Chief Electoral Officer Dr Inder Jeet said over phone.
In the video, Virk also purportedly tells a small gathering of his supporters,"We will come to know who has voted for whom, there should be no misconception about this."
Virk, however, claimed that he never said anything about EVMs .
"A fake video has been made viral. Some media-person has done this act and twisted the entire thing. I respect the Election Commission and have faith in EVMs. I never said anything about the voting machines.
"There is no truth in the allegations which are being levelled. It is a conspiracy to defame me and my party," he said.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi also took a jibe at Virk on Twitter by sharing the video and dubbing Virk as "The most honest man in the BJP".
The most honest man in the BJP. pic.twitter.com/6Q4D43uo0d
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) 21 October 2019
Hitting out at the BJP, Haryana Congress chief Kumari Selja said the the saffron party knows that it will be rejected by the people and that is why its MLA was making such remarks.
Congress leader Shamsher Gogi and JJP demanded that the EC should cancel Virk's candidature.
Haryana and Maharashtra will vote to elect their assemblies on Monday.


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Sverige

Närke
Södra Orrtjärnen, sjö i Lekebergs kommun,

Västmanland
Stora Orrtjärnen, sjö i Ljusnarsbergs kommun,  (21,7 ha)

Värmland
Orrtjärnen, Värmland, sjö i Filipstads kommun,

Dalarna
Orrtjärnen (Envikens socken, Dalarna), sjö i Falu kommun,
Orrtjärnen (Leksands socken, Dalarna), sjö i Leksands kommun,
Orrtjärnen (Malingsbo socken, Dalarna), sjö i Lindesbergs kommun och Smedjebackens kommun,  (7,15 ha)
Orrtjärnen (Mora socken, Dalarna), sjö i Mora kommun,
Orrtjärnen (Nås socken, Dalarna), sjö i Vansbro kommun,
Orrtjärnarna (Idre socken, Dalarna, 687645-132682), sjö i Älvdalens kommun,  (12,4 ha)
Orrtjärnarna (Idre socken, Dalarna, 687657-132726), sjö i Älvdalens kommun,  (6,7 ha)
Orrtjärnen (Älvdalens socken, Dalarna), sjö i Älvdalens kommun,

Hälsingland
Orrtjärnen (Ytterhogdals socken, Hälsingland), sjö i Härjedalens kommun,  (5,61 ha)
Orrtjärnen (Färila socken, Hälsingland), sjö i Ljusdals kommun,
Stora Orrtjärnen, Hälsingland, sjö i Ljusdals kommun,  (3,5 ha)
Orrtjärnen (Los socken, Hälsingland, 682305-147112), sjö i Ljusdals kommun,
Orrtjärnen (Los socken, Hälsingland, 685945-146432), sjö i Ljusdals kommun,  (4,4 ha)

Härjedalen
Orrtjärnen (Storsjö socken, Härjedalen), sjö i Bergs kommun,  (6,34 ha)
Orrtjärnen (Lillhärdals socken, Härjedalen), sjö i Härjedalens kommun,  (5,94 ha)
Orrtjärnen (Älvros socken, Härjedalen), sjö i Härjedalens kommun,

Jämtland
Orrtjärnen, Jämtland, sjö i Bräcke kommun,  (6,4 ha)

Medelpad
Orrtjärnen, Medelpad, sjö i Timrå kommun,

Ångermanland
Orrtjärnen (Nordmalings socken, Ångermanland), sjö i Nordmalings kommun,
Orrtjärnarna (Junsele socken, Ångermanland), sjö i Sollefteå kommun,  (4,15 ha)
Orrtjärnen (Sollefteå socken, Ångermanland), sjö i Sollefteå kommun,
Orrtjärnarna (Ådals-Lidens socken, Ångermanland), sjö i Sollefteå kommun,  (4,93 ha)

Västerbotten
Södra Orrtjärnen (Byske socken, Västerbotten), sjö i Skellefteå kommun,  (3,1 ha)
Norra Orrtjärnen (Byske socken, Västerbotten), sjö i Skellefteå kommun,  (11,8 ha)
Orrtjärnen (Byske socken, Västerbotten), sjö i Skellefteå kommun,  (9,43 ha)
Inre-Orrtjärnen, sjö i Skellefteå kommun,
Mellan Orrtjärnen, sjö i Skellefteå kommun,  (7,68 ha)
Yttre Orrtjärnen, sjö i Skellefteå kommun,  (19,9 ha)
Orrtjärnen (Lövångers socken, Västerbotten), sjö i Skellefteå kommun,  (8,95 ha)

Norrbotten
Orrtjärnen (Råneå socken, Norrbotten, 733378-177363), sjö i Bodens kommun,  (3,99 ha)
Orrtjärnen (Råneå socken, Norrbotten, 736615-177306), sjö i Bodens kommun,  (26,9 ha)
Orrtjärnen (Nederluleå socken, Norrbotten, 727648-177798), sjö i Luleå kommun,  (11,4 ha)
Orrtjärnen (Nederluleå socken, Norrbotten, 728995-177877), sjö i Luleå kommun,
Orrtjärnen (Nederluleå socken, Norrbotten, 731611-178704), sjö i Luleå kommun,
Orrtjärnen (Norrfjärdens socken, Norrbotten), sjö i Piteå kommun,  (8,75 ha)

Lappland
Orrtjärnen (Arvidsjaurs socken, Lappland), sjö i Arvidsjaurs kommun,  (12,6 ha)
Orrtjärnen (Lycksele socken, Lappland, 718130-164554), sjö i Lycksele kommun,  (6,54 ha)
Orrtjärnen (Lycksele socken, Lappland, 719148-162374), sjö i Lycksele kommun,  (31,7 ha)
Orrtjärnen (Sorsele socken, Lappland), sjö i Sorsele kommun,  (12,8 ha)
Orrtjärnen (Vilhelmina socken, Lappland), sjö i Vilhelmina kommun,
Orrtjärnen (Fredrika socken, Lappland), sjö i Åsele kommun,  (5,72 ha)

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7:37 am May 10, 2021
With the septuagenarian separatist dying of Covid-19 in a Jammu jail, hundreds of families are worried across Kashmir. Now the political class has requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to send them home on parole, reports Saima Bhat
The main entrance to the Central Jail Srinagar,, Kashmir's major jailing facility.
Famous among separatists for his "flawless" oration, Muhammad Ashraf Khan, Sehrai, 77, languishing under Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act (PSA) in Udhampur jail, is dead.
On May 4, when Mujahid Ashraf Khan, his son, received a call from jail authorities about the deteriorating health of his father and asking him to come over to Jammu, he would have never imagined that he would return with his father's coffin.
That day, Sehrai had been admitted to a government hospital in Udhampur with multiple ailments. A day later, however, his oxygen levels dropped, deteriorating his condition further. He was also tested for Covid19 positive and it initially was negative. Post-death, authorities declared him Covid19 "positive".
"He told us several times in the last few months during his two phone calls a week that he was not getting proper medical treatment," his son told reporters. "We moved to a court on April 16 with a petition seeking proper medical assistance for him but the court was yet to review it."
Sehraie's death has triggered allegations in Kashmir that he was left unattended in prison till his condition deteriorated. His burial was restricted to a few relatives at Tekipora village and police did insist they had to follow the Covid19 protocol.
Ashraf Sehrai, who died of Covid-19 in GMC, Jammu on May 5, 2021, while being in preventive custody under the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act.
After Sehrai's death, the families of all prisoners held in different jails within and outside Jammu and Kashmir, say they are having sleepless nights. Contagion is everywhere, they say.
Moments after Sehrai's death, Ahmed Bin Qasim, son of hardcore separatist Syeda Asiya Andrabi, who is in Tihar jail for more than three years now, tweeted: "Now the news is coming from Tihar Jail. A woman inmate has died due to the COVID-19. 57 out of a total of 444 women inmates lodged in Jail No 6 of Tihar have tested Covid-19 positive. This is the same section of the jail where 4 Kashmiri women are kept, including Amma."
Ever since the Covid19 marked its presence in India in March 2020, many families have petitioned courts with bail applications for parole. Not many orders have come.
A Frontline Worker
"If you visit my home, you won't find any mirror. All of them are broken." Dr Bilquies Shah talks about her youngest daughter who "once in a day sees her father in the mirrors or in the open air and then sees him calling with open arms to hug him. When I tell her he is not around, she breaks down. She shouts. She cries. It happens at least once every day!"
Dr Bilques gets the first shot at JLNM hospital Rainawari on Saturday, January 16, 2020. She is the wife of detained separatist, Shabir Shah.
Dr Bilquies, is Shabir Shah's wife, who at 65 has been in jail for 35 years in jail. The doctor is having a difficult time managing her daughter and the fight against the Covid-19 as a key executive at the Jawahar Lal Nehru Memorial Hospital at Rainawari – normally a 9 am – 9 pm job that usually extends at 12 night. There is only one thing that she can not afford to miss – a phone call from Delhi. "It is hardly a 3 or 4 minutes call which I cannot afford to miss. It comes either once a week or a fortnight."
Family visits to prisoners stopped in the March 2020 lockdown. Resumed briefly, the ban is back. "Last time I remember we met on February 15, 2020," she said. "Since then there are phone calls only."
At her hospital, she is aware of the protocol, she preaches. "We keep on telling people that you should maintain distance, frequent hand washing is necessary and then the people with co-morbidities are at higher risk." Dr Bilquies said, "But then I think of my husband in an overcrowded Tihar where there are no such possibilities, no hygiene, no adequate food to supplement the immune system. My husband has diabetes, hypertension, cardiac disease, and arthritis." He had managed part of the
Last year when the Tihar Jail superintendent and many prisoners this desperate doctor moved the court seeking Shah's transfer to home jails in Jammu and Kashmir. "The case was portrayed as if I demanded a separate cell for my husband and then the application was disposed off," she said. "Don't we know they are already in 6/6 separate cells?" Covid-19 patients require15 litre per minute Oxygen but Delhi state cannot provide concentrators beyond 5 LPM.
"We are not demanding his release but at least he should be shifted to a place, which is not overcrowded," the doctor demanded. His daughter, Sehar tweeted: "Tihar is a very congested jail. There are more than five reported deaths and more than 2,000 inmates have tested positive. Social distancing and isolation are a major problem." Sehar Shabir, daughter of Shabir Shah tweeted.
Earlier, in a letter addressed to Home Minister, Amit Shah, the daughters of Mirwaiz Umar Farooq's spokesman, Shahid-ul-Islam, sought the transfer of her father's detention.
"Our father has tested positive for the deadly COVID-19 and his condition has deteriorated due to co-morbidities, including acute diabetes," the joint letter by sisters, Shahid-Suzain Shah, 18, and Sundas Shah, 14 said. "We have no contact with him. We don't even know if he is alive. Mr Sehrai's death has left us even more worried about the well-being of our beloved father. Our father has always worked for a peaceful resolution of the Kashmir issue. We request his release.",
Too Many Prisoners
Kashmir always had a fair presence in jails, especially since 1989. However, post-August 5, 2019, the numbers have improved. MHA details indicate the number at around 7357. Subsequently, most of them were bailed out or set free. However, in February, G Kishan Reddy, the Junior Home Minister said 183 persons are still detained under the PSA. But there are people in jail on charges not covered under PSA. Under PSA, reports said around 100 or more are still in custody.
Family members of prisoners protesting at Press Colony. A photograph used for mere representation.
Initially, in 2020, the government lifted PSA charges against more than 150 detainees after the outbreak of the pandemic based on recommendations from security agencies and district police chiefs. But there was no relief for the prisoners who were jailed under PSA, even though the Supreme Court has issued guidelines for decongesting jails. That day, the doctor was happy but it proved short-lived. "The lawyer told me that under this order any criminal can be released but not the prisoners who are arrested under UAPA, PSA or are under the custody of NIA." This was even authenticated by a panel constituted by the judiciary that PSA-detainees do not fall under the decongestion order of the Supreme Court.
Ruwa Shah, presently studying TV and Cinema in Turkey, has her father, Altaf Shah, 63, suffering from hypertension and diabetes, in jail since July 2017. The family moved an application for bail but it did not happen. Then they filed an application to get him treated, which was accepted. "The court issued an order on June 1, 2020, but still the jail authorities did not take him to the doctor," Ms Shah alleged. "He needs specialist treatment like neurological and endocrinology. But the jail authorities are saying he is fine and doesn't require treatment. They are denying treatment not only to my father but to others as well. Peer Saifullah was operated for brain tumour four years back but he too is denied treatment when he on life-saving drugs."
A view of the District Jail Anantnag
She has met her father on February 21, 2020. After the pandemic halted physical visits, a 3-4 minute phone weekly phone call is the only contact. When her mother, a cardiac patient gets a call, she gets a call to Turkey.
The outbreak of the coronavirus has spread anxiety among hundreds of families of Kashmiri political prisoners. "We fear we may not see our loved ones again," Ruwa said in a tone of hopelessness. "Trust me it feels as if we are waiting that they will call us from the jail and say something has happened to my father."
Jails Within
Jammu and Kashmir has 14 jails, where according to former Director General Prisons, VK Singh, 4650 prisoners are held. These include 884 in Kot Balwal in Jammu and 612 in Central jail Srinagar. Officials said they do not have any Covid-19 positive case in any jail where 4550 people are jailed.
Tihar Jail, Delhi
Since many of the prisoners were released on parole in 2020 but they returned back early this year. The occupancy rate of inmates in Jammu and Kashmir is 112 per cent, which is much lesser than the national occupancy rate.
Authorities have avoided releasing prisoners on parole even when their immediate family members died. After fighting cancer for years, separatist Ayaz Akbar's wife died on April 14. He was not given a chance to see her dead.
A Lawmaker
Among the jailed includes the most vocal, two-time lawmaker Engineer Rasheed who is believed to be in Tihar. Back home in Langate, his eldest son Sheikh Abrar, a college student, believes that his father always lived and raised voice for the common masses which ultimately landed him in jail in August 2019.
PDP president Ms Mehbooba Mufti with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
"My father is suffering from asthma. He was already on Rotocaps. After the spike of Coronavirus in Delhi we are very much worried for his health," Abrar said. His last visitor was his brother in February 2020. "We are not even sure if he has his medicines. We sent him money twice so that he could purchase his medicines but he said he did not receive any," Abrar said. They do have a 4-minute weekly call contact.
Three Covid Spots
Presently the three largest prison facilities, Tihar Central Jail, and Mandoli and Rohini prisons in Delhi have become hotspots for COVID-19 with over 500 inmates and staff members testing positive since last year.
"Over the past week, the number of cases at these prisons have increased almost five times, as they struggle with overcrowding since most of the 5,000 prisoners, who were released on interim bail or special parole last year due to the pandemic, have since returned," reported The Wire on April 14. "At the three jails, 190 inmates have tested positive so far, while two have died due to the novel coronavirus. The pandemic has also impacted the jail staff, and so far 304 of them have tested positive while 11 of them are in the active category."
Post-Sehraie
After the death of Ashraf Sehraie, the political class has started seeking the release of these prisoners on the mere grounds of the pandemic.
File photo of Dr Farooq Abdullah, Omar Abdullah and Justice Hasnian Masoodi with PM Narendra Modi in New Delhi.
"Death of Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai brings home the point that the government must ensure the wellbeing of Kashmiri prisoners lodged across jails in the country," Dr Farooq Abdullah was quoted saying in media. "Their families are worried. In times of pandemic and at other times, they deserve to know that their loved ones are safe and healthy."
Farooq's successor, Mehbooba Mufti, however, wrote a letter to the Prime Minister seeking the transfer and release of Kashmir prisoners.
"As far as Kashmir is concerned, it is no secret that hundreds, or may be thousands of detainees and political prisoners arrested since August 2019 continue to languish in jails both in and outside J&K. Most of them are detained under preventive laws and don't face any prosecution. Many continue to be held even after courts granted them bail. The most recent reminder of the lurking threat to their lives is Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai's death who lost his life because he contracted COVID in jail and was deprived of medical care," the letter said. "Throughout the world, most countries have released prisoners on parole in view of the alarming COVID crisis. A democratic and civilized country like India shouldn't drag its feet and must release these detainees immediately so that they can return home at a time when life feels so threatened. I hope you will give due consideration to this matter and order their release."
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And by none other than J Jonah Jameson!
Spider-Man's first DLC (The Heist) is now out for PS4 and the biggest news is that we will see Black Cat once again! She is voiced by J Jonah Jameson.
This DLC is the first out of three-part expansion known as "The City That Never Sleeps" and you can get it for only $9.99. Alternatively, you can also pick it up as a part of the Season Pass.


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Man who defaced Mother Mary statue to 'beautify' her given stern warning
A Statue of the Virgin Mary in the church courtyard. (Facebook: Church Of The Nativity Of The Blessed Virgin Mary)
SINGAPORE — A man who defaced a statue of Mother Mary in the courtyard of the Church of the Nativity in Hougang last year has been acquitted of his charges of criminal trespass and defiling a place of worship to insult a religion.
The police told Yahoo News Singapore that Race Koh Jun Xian, 37, was given a stern warning in consultation with the Attorney-General's Chambers, after which the charges were withdrawn in court on Monday (11 January).
"In addition, the man was also warned for committing criminal trespass into the same church on two earlier occasions on 2 November 2020 and 5 November 2020," police said.
Man wanted to pray to statue
Investigations revealed that on the third occasion of trespass on 12 November, Koh used Blu Tack to stick marbles to the eyes of a statue of Mother Mary at the church in Upper Serangoon Road at around 12.30am. At the time, the church was closed to the public as it was under renovation.
In court last year, Koh told District Judge Brenda Tan, "I didn't want to do this intentionally. I was sincere and wanting to pray to Mother Mary. I wanted to beautify her, I did not know that this is an offence."
He was remanded at the Institute of Mental Health and found not to be of unsound mind.
The police said on Tuesday, "The man claimed that he had wanted to pray to the statue and intended to beautify it out of gratitude. Police investigations revealed the man did not think that he would be defiling the statue.
"No permanent damage was done to the statue by the man's act. A stern warning was thus given, taking into consideration the overall context of the offences, and taking into account the period of remand served," police added.
The church earlier said that the statue was found defaced at about 8.30am on 12 November and it made a police report shortly after.
The police established Koh's identity through investigations and CCTV footage, and arrested the culprit on 18 November.
The statue has since been restored, according to a Facebook post by the church last year.
Man charged for defacing Mother Mary statue wanted to 'beautify' her


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François Quesnay was the leading figure of the Physiocrats, generally considered to be the first school of economic thinking. The name "Physiocrat" derives from the Greek words phýsis, meaning "nature," and kràtos, meaning "power." The Physiocrats believed that an economy's power derived from its agricultural sector. They wanted the government of Louis XV, who ruled France from 1715 to 1774, to deregulate and reduce taxes on French agriculture so that poor France could emulate wealthier Britain, which had a relatively laissez-faire policy. Indeed, it was Quesnay who coined the term "laissez-faire, laissez-passer."
Quesnay himself did not publish until the age of sixty. His first work appeared only as encyclopedia articles in 1756 and 1757.
In his Tableau économique, he detailed his famous zigzag diagram, a circular flow diagram of the economy that showed who produced what and who spent what, in an attempt to understand and explain the causes of growth. Tableau defined three classes: landowners, farmers, and others—called "sterile" classes—who consumed everything they produced and left no surplus for the next period. Quesnay believed that only the agricultural sector could produce a surplus that could then be used to produce more the next year—and therefore help growth. Industry and manufacturing, thought Quesnay, were sterile. Interestingly, though, he did not reach this conclusion by consulting his table. Instead, Quesnay constructed the table to fit his belief. Indeed, he had to make his table inconsistent in order to fit his assumption that industry provided no surplus.
Although Quesnay was wrong about the sterility of the manufacturing sector, he was right in ascribing France's poverty to mercantilism, which he called Colbertisme (after Louis XV's finance minister, Jean-Baptiste Colbert). The French government had protected French manufacturers from foreign competition, thus raising the cost of machinery for farmers, and had also sold to wealthy citizens the power to tax farmers. These citizens had then used this power to the limit.
Quesnay advocated reforming these laws by consolidating and reducing taxes, getting rid of tolls and other regulations that prevented trade within France, and generally freeing the economy from the government's stifling controls. These reforms were much more sensible than his theorizing about the sterility of industry. As Mark Blaug writes, "It was only the effort to provide these reforms with a watertight theoretical argument that produced some of the forced reasoning and slightly absurd conclusions that invited ridicule even from contemporaries."1
Moreover, Quesnay's work paved the way for classical economics—in particular for Adam Smith, who latched on to Physiocratic notions of free trade and the preeminence of the agricultural sector.
That Quesnay had such a seminal influence on economics is all the more surprising in light of the fact that he served under Louis XV in Versailles not as an economist, but as a medical doctor.
1759. Tableau économique. 3d ed. Reprint. Edited by M. Kuczynski and R. Meek. London: Macmillan, 1972.
Mark Blaug, Great Economists before Keynes (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press International, 1986), p. 196.


Several years ago, I read an opinion piece in English Journal by Rebecca Hayden entitled "Teaching Works We Love: Hazards of the English Classroom." (You will need to be an NCTE member and possibly an EJ subscriber to access that article, I think.) This piece really resonated with me because I think all teachers, at some point, teach a book they absolutely love only to be crushed by the lukewarm or even hostile reactions of our students. Hayden discusses such an experience with Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Back when I taught American literature, sometimes I would read Hayden's article to students and explain that the way she felt about Tess was how I felt about The Great Gatsby, and if they could find it in their hearts, I pleaded, I would appreciate it if they could be gentle with me if they didn't like it.
Now as I prepare to teach Wuthering Heights later this year, I admit I'm worried. I am well aware this book has a certain polarizing effect. My own mother hates it; she tried to read it based on my recommendation, and she could not get into it. I read a post somewhere recently, and I regret I can't recall where, in which the poster argued that he/she could understand the appeal of the other classics, but not Wuthering Heights. The poster wondered why on earth this book was considered classic and didn't just die a natural death over time, like so many other forgotten books that are never read and go out of print. And I felt a little bit sick.
*Well expressed portions of this plea were lovingly cribbed from Rebecca Hayden's article. I just don't know how to say it better than she did.
In twenty years I have never taught my favorite book – The Great Gatsby, for some of the very reasons that you talk about. I don't think I could deal with them not liking it.
Interestingly enough, once I told students how I felt, they were really kind to me. If they didn't like Gatsby, they hid it well!
Oh, how I relate. For years I kept Lahiri's The Namesake to myself because I couldn't imagine the possibility of someone not loving it as much as I do. I finally caved (thanks to the kindest words possible from a very special former student) and had a wonderful experience teaching the book to AP seniors last fall. I'm SO glad I shared that book with them. Maybe they loved it because I did. Maybe it was a fluke. Maybe next year's group will hate it. But I got to talk about the prose, the characters, the themes for three weeks straight. I was in English teacher heaven each and every day.
It is glorious to teach a book you love when students love it, too. I have had that experience as well.
I loved "Wuthering Heights" when we read it. I also loved "The Great Gatsby."
I often read books that I enjoyed, but I have never read my favorite books. My students generally react positively, but they are also a bit younger (middle school).
In teaching Social Studies, we read "The Jungle," "The Communist Manifesto," "Anthem," "A Brave New World," "Soul on Ice" (that one got me into a bit of trouble), "The Great Gatsby" and "Farenheit 451" as well as excerpts from "The World Is Flat" and "Aristotle's Ethics."
This was over a two year period, by the way. The biggest barrier I found was not one of interest in the material, but one of time. I would plan to read a section and we'd discuss it and lose sight of our original plan.
I wonder if the issue is that you teach high school. Many of my students have never read a "real chapter book" so I end up having to model reading by reading parts of it aloud. I find my students have high motivation but a low sense of self-efficacy. They want to read, but believe that they can't.
I mention all of that to say that you're fortunate to have students who would complain about a work. They could be apathetic or they could be so low that they don't even trust their own ability to read.
I think middle schoolers are more like elementary school students in having more enthusiasm for reading. That assumption is purely based on anecdotal experience. When I taught middle school, the kids seemed more into books still. Something happens in high school, though, and it's very bad.
I have a time issue, too. I am a slow reader, so I empathize with students who just can't keep up with the pace of required reading even if their heart is in it, but at the same time, you have to keep moving.
You're right about my students. Of course, I teach in a private school, and along with that you have students who simply have more opportunities, and they are pretty good readers. They don't have any issues with self-efficacy. Now some of them don't like reading out loud, but they can all read fairly well. However, I have taught students like you describe, and we wound up doing most or all of the reading in class.
My daughter is also a slow reader, especially for texts with written dialect (think Treasure Island or Tom Sawyer).
So, back before my daughter could drive, we listened to a lot of her assigned reading in the car.
My post from the day we finished Does Wuthering Heights Deserve Its Reputation? (Dana, don't click the link, you won't be happy…</i).
That said…. Dana (or others) have you ever taught a book you sincerely dislike? How does the experience compare?
And, some reflections to listening vs. reading. I'm a fast reader and I thought I would find the process of listening to books a bit boring. Not at all! I found I enjoyed Tom Sawyer (for example) twice as much as an audio version.
I've rented both the The Iliad and Odyssey and enjoyed them both tremendously.
When we aren't listening in the car, my daughter reads and listens simoultaneously, which seems to deepen her comprehension.
John Spencer, I wonder if you are familiar with Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic's "Learning Through Listening" program. I wonder if some of the resources might help your students to access age-appropriate materials that might be a bit too frustrating for their reading-alone level.
I can't stand A Separate Peace and had to teach it once (I can't remember why). I think I put on a happy face and tried to do what I usually do. That said, I never teach books I don't like now.
buggered up the italic, sorry. That should fix it.
"Buck is just a dog, Mrs. Gordon. Dogs pull sleds. What's the big deal?"
I have to get to chapter 5 before they admit some liking of the book.
And, and this is really sick, I want to read every word of every page aloud with the class because I think some of the most beautiful words ever written are in the book. I know most of the book by heart.
As a matter of fact, if I was in Fahrenheit 451 I would join the book society and be that book. I would also be Fahrenheit 451….sorry to ramble, but you brought up a heartfelt issue with this article…So, like Buck, I think I will go sit before the fire and think of all the good things I have eaten….ha!
Hope you are doing great, Dana!
Stella! How wonderful to "hear" from you. I have a note from Sarah on my whiteboard I can't bear to erase. She visited recently, and I missed her. I totally understand how you feel about this book.
I, too, can relate. Being a 7th grade teacher, it is almost even more perilous for me. We do not have standard novels to teach (in my district, anyway). Rather, the door is open. Our South Carolina state standards are such that we can teach them to the students using the novel (or story or poem or article, etc.) that we think fits. So I read YA literature voraciously. I always tiptoe around my favorites. I don't know if I'm that brave. I do love the letter that you, channelling some of Hayden's words, used with for teaching Wuthering Heights.


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With the "Fresh Water EP", Life and Death once again bring together a combination of unique musical voices that stretch beyond traditional genres to stake out new territories in contemporary dance music.
Coming out of the gate like a horse on fire, the title track sees Italian duo, Tale Of Us, return to the Life and Death mothership with a new original piece featuring Berlin duo, The/Das. It's a haunting dancefloor monster that won't leave your mind (or body) quickly, even once the music stops. With its throbbing bassline, ethereal synths and that voice that beckons, cooly but urgently, Fresh Water hits its emotional nerve with razor-like precision.


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Training and education are ongoing and updated to reflect the changes in our industries and workplace environments. "Tailgate Safety Meetings" are held weekly at active jobsites to maintain safety awareness. Below are some of the programs, plans, and policies that our team has participated in as part of the safety training.


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Source: http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/ae_news_story.php?id=29896
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Word of an S2000-based coupe is beginning to surface once again (after more than a year of virtually no noise on this topic). The latest issue of Auto Express U.K. and Japan's Best Car magazines both have pieces about the rumoured S2200. Both are reporting that the coupe version will use a 2.2L rendering of the S2000's F20C motor. Pete Lyon of Auto Express UK has this to say about the rumoured S2000-based coupe:
It's fast, stylish and hi-tech - and also the car Honda said it would never design. Auto Express can exclusively reveal the firm is working flat-out on this stunning coupé, which has already hit the test track in Japan.
Sources have revealed the newcomer - known internally as the S2200 - is to be based on the S2000 roadster, but will be a fixed-head coupé. Previously, bosses had said there would never be a tin-top version of the convertible. Inspired by the innovative S800 coupé - which was built as a sister car to the classic S800 roadster - the S2200 is likely to cost around £27,000. A strict two-seater, it's set to debut as a concept at the Tokyo Motor Show late next year.
Read the rest of the article at the Auto Express web site: http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/ae_news_story.php?id=29896
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Q: Particular solution to a 3rd order ode (method of undetermined coefficients not working) I am trying to get the particular solution to the equation -
$y''' + 4y'' + 5y' + 2y = e^{-t} $
We are taught the method of undetermined coefficients to solve such equations. However, one of the solutions of the homogenous equation is of the form of the particular equation (so when I substitute it, I get LHS$ = 0$, while RHS is not $0$ ).
Please give me a hint on how should I proceed to get the particular solution.
[This question is a part of the tricky questions set given to us. The actual differential equation is a bit more complicated, but I have reduced it to the point I have got stuck in.]

A: Since $P(D)y=(D+1)^3(D+2)y=0$ so your particular solution is $$y_p=At^2e^{-t}$$ where $A$ is an unknown constant. Note that the differential operator $D^n$ annihilates each of the functions: $$1,t,t^2,...,t^{n-1}$$ and differential operator $(D-\alpha)^n$ annihilates each of the following functions: $$e^{\alpha t},te^{\alpha t},t^2e^{\alpha t},...,t^{n-1}e^{\alpha t}$$

A: Perhaps this will grant some insight.  In a way, the left hand side can be factored like a polynomial.  So just as
$s^3+4s^2+5s+2=(s+1)(s^2+3s+2)$
if you let $u=y''+3y'+2y$, this equation can be rewritten as
$y'''+4y''+5y'+2y=(y''+3y'+2y)'+y''+3y'+2y=u'+u=e^{-t}$
So let's solve this for $u$ using integrating factors.
$u'e^t+ue^t=(ue^t)'=1$
$ue^t=t+C,u=y''+3y'+2y=te^{-t}+Ce^{-t}$
If, as you put it, this solution of the homogenous equation had not been of the form of the particular equation, the right side before integration would have been of the form $e^{nt}$.  Instead, we've had a $te^{-t}$ term introduced.
Something similar will occur when we make the substitution $v=y'+2y$, where we will again have $e^t$ as an integrating factor.

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Ventura, pop. 101,000, is on the coast 53 miles west of Los Angeles.
New camera locations may be coming in 2019. See Set # 2, below.
Some of Ventura's tickets can possibly be ignored. If your "ticket" does not have the Superior Court's name and address on it, it is what I call a "Snitch Ticket." For more details, see the Snitch Ticket section on the Your Ticket page.
If you have a ticket from the City of Ventura, please be sure to contact me.
 These annual totals, or projections, are by highwayrobbery.net. The projections are based upon only the data shown in the table above.
 Except where noted otherwise, the figures given in the table are for the single calendar month indicated. Any figures in red type (or, if you are looking at this table in black and white, the upper figure when there are two or more figures in a cell) are what RedFlex calls Total Violations, or Total Processed Incidents, or all incidents recorded by the cameras. The figures in black type are what RedFlex calls Notices Printed, and represent the sum of genuine citations issued (those filed with the court) plus any Nominations mailed (not filed with the court, a.k.a. Snitch Tickets). Due to time limitations data may have been posted to the table only for selected months or locations. If there is sufficient public interest, the remaining months or locations will be posted. Full official data has been received and is available at one of the links given above.
 The official report for this month covered less than the full month, so we increased the official In Progress figure by the appropriate proportion of the first Sub Total Violations figure, then we increased the Approved Violations figure by the adjusted number of violations In Progress times the 55% issuance seen in 2016.
 The camera enforcement is believed to be on traffic on the first-named street, but the direction of enforcement (north, south, east, west, thru, left) is not yet available.
 See Set # 3, below.
 For an unknown reason, the reports received in Feb. 2014 did not include the VIOP camera. It may have been temporarily out of operation. Reports received later included VIOP.
 Two cameras are to be removed and up to three new camera locations may be coming, in 2018 or later. See Set # 2, below.
 See Docs Set # 7, below.
 From the annual reports required, beginning with 2013, by CVC 21455.5(i). They become available by the Fall of the following year. Also see Set # 5, below.
Ventura's former main contract of 2006 (staff report) with RedFlex was signed in May 2006 and included an illegal Cost Neutrality clause, whereby the city did not have to pay RedFlex the full monthly rent (the so-called "fixed fee") if the fine revenue wasn't sufficient to cover the cost. See Subsection B. of Defect # 10.
The 2006 contract did not require Ventura to ticket rolling rights, and the City chose - correctly - to give it very little emphasis. Because of the resulting low fine revenue (combined with the cost neutral terms), by late 2008 Ventura had paid RedFlex $1.7 million less than the cumulative "fixed fee." See the clause and the invoices here.
[If] The city fails to enforce right turn violations (from automated red light violations), in good faith and due diligence, if and when systems are configured for this purpose as mutually agreed between Redflex and the City."
In Jan. 2009 senior VPD personnel told me that the City's position was that it did not owe RedFlex the $1.7 million.
Invoices and other documents covering March 2013 showed that in that sample month the City received $36,865 in fines from the court, kept $20,472 to cover its "Customer Operating Costs" (per Exh. D of the contract) and paid the remaining $16,392 to RedFlex, which had billed the City $37,908 (18 cameras at $2106 each).
The one-third increase in ticketing which began in Aug. 2013 put more tickets "in the pipeline," thus gradually increased the City's monthly fine revenue to the point where the City was able to pay more to RedFlex. Invoices and other documents received in early 2014 showed that RedFlex was paid $37,111 for its services during the month of Jan. 2014, more than double what the company was paid the previous March, and much closer to the $39,424 the company began billing the City each month after a May 2013 price increase.
Despite the increase in ticketing, by Summer 2014 the City owed RedFlex an additional $1 million, for a grand total of $2.7 million.
2015: Up To Seven More Years - With a Quota?
The term of the 2008 (amended) contract ended/expired in Nov. 2013, after which it was allowed to continue on a month-to-month basis.
At a Sept. 2014 meeting the council was presented with a staff recommendation to extend the program for up to seven years, the last four of which would come from two automatic two-year extensions. The proposed new contract would have continued Cost Neutrality and kept the rent at $2190 per camera per month. It provided that RedFlex would write off $1.7 million of the $2.7 million debt.
The vote to accept the staff recommendation was a 3 - 3 tie (Ayes: Tracy, Monahan and Nasarenko, with Morehouse absent). After that, the council unanimously adopted a new motion which was to continue the month-to-month extensions of the old contract to allow staff some time to gather more information and prepare a new report.
Up To Seven Year Contract OK'd at March 30, 2015 Council Meeting, with More Cameras - and a Quota?
At the March 30 meeting the council voted 6 - 1 (Nay: Heitmann) to accept a revised contract. The monthly rent remained the same ($2190 per camera), but the two two-year renewals were changed from automatic to optional.
Based upon the rent other cities pay - see FAQ # 17 - Ventura should not have agreed to pay more than $1500 per camera, or $27,000 per month for all 18 cameras.
Because it agreed to continue to pay $2190 for another seven years, the City will overpay by $1 million and will need to issue an extra 10,000 tickets to cover the overpayment.
The president of RedFlex was present at the meeting, and spoke.
"Redflex... will relocate three existing red light camera approaches..." and " ... once we move the 3 locations we anticipate revenue to increase and therefore the [potential] extension to decrease."
Here is a survey RedFlex did, to look at potential ticketing at possible new locations.
From 5-12-15 email RedFlex sent to City, obtained 12-19-16. The cut-off bottom is as received from the City.
The March 30 staff report also included this deceptive table.
"The way the police department reports collisions now is vastly different than we did when we started this program. Now we only report - correct me if I'm wrong - now we only report injury or major property damage collisions. That's different. Our total collision numbers are down quite a bit because the reporting is different."
The new contract approved in 2015 did not include a Termination for Convenience ("escape") clause, so the City is locked in to the contract until it expires.
In Feb. 2017 the City agreed to extend the contract expiration date by 39 days (to May 2018) after a calculation showed that the City's payments to RedFlex had fallen $50,406.32 short of the amount billed.
In May 2018 the city council approved a two year extension, to 2020.
If, in 2020 the city council approves another two-year extension, the contract will continue until 2022.
To see how much money the City has received from the Court, see Set # 7, below. The figures are also posted in a column in Set # 1, above.
This list of contracts and amendments was up-to-date as of 5-7-18.
In June 2009 the Ventura County Grand Jury issued a report recommending the the yellow at the California/Thompson intersection be lengthened.
The Calif./Thompson ticket counts for July 2009 onward (see table above) show a reduced ticket volume, which will make it more difficult for the City to pay off the debt it owes RedFlex.
See article (including link to the 2009 report).
"Also, increased time for the yellow turn arrows and delayed green lights would help the confusion at the Corridor traffic signals. Further, the Grand Jury recommends that traffic planners initiate the process to complete the connection from westbound Hwy 126 to the southbound Hwy 101. If these recommendations are not implemented, red light cameras along the Corridor should be removed."
"The Grand Jury found that red light camera tickets issued along the Corridor may be questioned as to their validity due to driver confusion. While the red light camera tickets appear to be legal, they may not be ethically or morally justified."
"The intersection at Victoria and Telephone Road appears to be the major intersection on this route that highlights the traffic flow problems along the Corridor. The Grand Jury found that the left turn lanes at this intersection have created many red light camera tickets."
The City was required to respond, and that response was discussed at the July 15, 2013 council meeting.
If you would like to read some grand jury reports from other counties, about their red light cameras, see the Grand Jury entry in the Site Index.
Until 2014, the City provided bar graphs of Late Times, etcetera.
In 2014 Ventura stated that the bar graphs are no longer available.
An official report showed that in 2014, 53% of the City's tickets were for left turns.
When the program first started the City had a lot of information posted on its website. But by 2011 the information was no longer available online as the link had become dead.
In May 2016 we asked the Ventura County Superior Court how much red light camera fine money Oxnard and the City of Ventura were getting, during selected months. Here is the table they sent.
The figures from this table have also been posted in a column in Set # 1, above.
In March 2017 the City of Ventura sent us documents showing the revenue during selected months in 2014 and 2016.
Those figures have also been posted in a column in Set # 1, above.
In Aug. 2018 the City sent us more documents showing revenue and expense in 2018.
In Sept. 2018 the Court sent us documents showing the City's revenue in 2016 - 2018. We have asked them to double check the $165,544 figure they reported for July 2018, as it seems too high for the quantity of tickets issued.
Most of those figures have also been posted in a column in Set # 1, above.


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Smartphones May Harvest Energy from Any Light Source
Rather than struggle to find a free electrical outlet at a bookshop or cafe, people hoping to recharge their smartphones and laptops may someday just look for a nice sunny spot. That's because a new technology employed in the screens of gadgets could harness energy from any source of light, ranging from the sun to the gadget itself.
Aug. 10, 2011, 4:49 PM UTC / Source: InnovationNewsDaily.com
By InnovationNewsDaily Staff
"I believe this is a game-changer invention to improve the efficiency of LCD displays," Yang Yang, a professor of materials science at the University of California in Los Angeles, said of the new "polarizing organic photovoltaic" liquid crystal display.
The LCD screens of smartphones, TVs, laptops and tablets are polarized sheets with millions of tiny liquid crystal molecules that act as light valves to let a device's backlight pass through in certain patterns. The escaping light creates the images people see on a screen, but any light absorbed by the polarizer is simply lost energy. The new, energy-harvesting polarizer can convert the backlight, ambient light or sunlight into electricity.
"In addition, these polarizers can also be used as regular solar cells to harvest indoor or outdoor light. So next time you are on the beach, you could charge your iPhone via sunlight," Yang said.
Backlights in existing gadgets can use 80 to 90 percent of their power, and as much as 75 percent of the light gets lost when absorbed by the polarizers. The polarizing organic photovoltaic LCD could recapture much of the lost energy, though not enough to completely recharge the device by itself.
Turning polarizers into the new energy-efficient version requires only a simple coating method that can easily be expanded for large-scale manufacturing, said Rui Zhu, a postdoctoral researcher at UCLA and lead author on a related paper in the online edition of the journal Advanced Materials.
The project has funding support from Intel, the world's largest computer chip maker, and the Office of Naval Research.
"The polarizing organic photovoltaic cell demonstrated by Professor Yang's research group can potentially harvest 75 percent of the wasted photons from LCD backlight and turn them back into electricity," said Youssry Boutros, program director for the Intel Labs Academic Research Office.
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Untergraben ist eine Hofschaft in Radevormwald im Oberbergischen Kreis im nordrhein-westfälischen Regierungsbezirk Köln in Deutschland.

Lage und Beschreibung

Untergraben liegt im Südosten des Radevormwalder Stadtgebietes in der Nähe der Stadtgrenze zu Halver und Wipperfürth im Tal der Bever. Die Nachbarorte sind Buschsiepen, Obergraben, Schwelmersiepen und Kottmannshausen.

Der Ort ist auf Radevormwalder Stadtgebiet über die Bundesstraße 229 zu erreichen. Ab der Ortschaft Eich führt eine Straße über Hahnenberg, Weyer und Buschsiepen nach Obergraben.

Östlich des Ortes mündet der Buschsiepen und der Schwelmersiepen in die Bever.

Geschichte
In einer Flurkarte aus dem Jahre 1828 ist ein Gebäudegrundriss eines einzelnen Gehöfts eingezeichnet. Der Örtlichkeit wird darin mit "Unterste Graben" bezeichnet.

Frühmittelalterlichen Ursprungs ist die von "Auf der Bever" nach Untergraben verlaufende Straße. Sie gehörte zu einem von Hohenplanken über Obergraben und Kottmannshausen bis nach Hückeswagen führenden Weg.

Wanderwege
Ein mit dem Wanderzeichen A2 gekennzeichneter Rundweg führt unmittelbar an Untergraben vorbei. Der etwa 5 km lange Weg wird vom Sauerländischen Gebirgsverein ausgeschildert und hat seinen Ausgangs- und Zielpunkt am Wanderparkplatz des in 2,5 km Entfernung liegenden Dorfes Wipperfürth-Egen.

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IMGT-ML is a set of XML schemas which describe, as XML elements, the IMGT-ONTOLOGY concepts and the data of IMGT®, the international ImMunoGeneTics information system®.
IMGT-ML has been developed by Kora Combres and Denys Chaume in the frame of the EU ORIEL project (IST-2001-32688).
Set of schemas used by other XML schemas.
XML schemas for taxonomy defined by the NCBI-Taxonomy .
XML schemas for literature references as defined in EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database.
The IMGT-ONTOLOGY 'IDENTIFICATION' concept is a set of concepts that allow scentists to identify IG or TR sequences according to fundamental biological and immunogenetic characteristics.
The IMGT-ONTOLOGY 'DESCRIPTION' concept corresponds to the classification of terms and rules which are necessary to describe the organization and the components of the IG and TR sequences, and to characterize their specific and conserved motifs.
The IMGT-ONTOLOGY 'CLASSIFICATION' concept organizes the immunogenetics knowledge useful to name and classify IG and TR genes in IMGT.
The IMGT-ONTOLOGY 'NUMEROTATION' concept is a set of rules which allow to position the knowledge in one or several dimensional space.
The IMGT-ONTOLOGY 'OBTENTION' concept is a set of standardized terms that precise the origins of the sequence (the 'origin' concept) and the conditions in which the sequences have been obtained (the 'methodology' concept).
The data managed by IMGT/LIGM-DB are described by these schemas. They include the metadata (cataloguing), and factual data as sequences.
English and French documentation files are generated from XML-Schema annotations to HTML files by a transformation defined by XSLT. This transformation is made on fly by Apache/Cocoon.
 Chaume, D., et al. "IMGT-ML a XML language for IMGT-ONTOLOGY and IMGT/LIGM-DB data"
 Chaume, D., Combres, K., Giudicelli, V. and Lefranc, M.-P. "Retrieving factual data and documents using IMGT-ML in the IMGT information system®"
Technologies and technological platforms of interest to the field, with emphasis on: Ontologies, Databases and Applications of Semantics in Bioinformatics. NETTAB 2005 Workflows management: new abilities for the biological information overflow. Naples, Italy. NETTAB., 47-51 (2005).
 Lefranc, M.-P. et al., "IMGT-Choreography for Immunogenetics and Immunoinformatics"


If your video game console or controller is broken, you can now take it to your local EB Games store and they can get it fixed for you.
Tickets for the EB Expo in Sydney are now on sale.
Netguide's Darren Price take a look at Unravel, the new platform game from EA Games and Coldwood Interactive.
One of the most iconic athletes of all time is coming to EA Sports UFC 2.
After a two-year break EA Sports PGA Tour is back, minus Tiger Woods and, curiously, minus the 2015 suffix.
NetGuide's Darren Price looks back at EA Games' titles as revealed at E3 2015 in Los Angeles last week.
FIFA 16 will include female players for the first time in franchise history.
Darren Price catches up with the developers from EA's Visceral Studios to talk about the newly released Battlefield Hardline.
Is EA Sports' top-selling football franchise still on form? Game Console's Darren Price takes a look at the PlayStation 4 version of the game.
EA Sports continues its 2015 line-up with NHL 15. This year's ice hockey extravaganza is a somewhat muted affair, even though it does mark the series debut on the new-gen consoles.
Game Console's Darren Price goes all-American with Madden NFL 15 on PlayStation 4.
EA Sports and the Premier League have extended their existing agreement until the end of the 2018/19 season.
Having picked up the Ultimate Fighting Championship licence following the collapse of THQ, EA Sports have not wasted any time in bringing us their mixed martial arts game, EA Sports UFC.
EB Games is set to release two special Nintendo 2DS bundles that comes with either Pokemon X or Pokemon Y.
EB Games has now listed all of the stores in New Zealand that will be holding midnight launches for Watch Dogs.
Game Console's Darren Price sits down with UFC's assistant producer, Jazz Brousseau, for a chat about EA Sports' upcoming mixed martial arts game.
EB Games has announced that all Australia's major gaming publishers will be in attendance at the EB Expo 2014 later this year. The event will be held over three days from October 3rd to the 5th at the Sydney Showground, Sydney Olympic Park.


I never really though about the Divine being grateful. Somehow the idea that God would appreciate me was bigger than the beliefs I was raised with. Nonetheless, the first time I shut my eyes, sat in silence, and asked to see myself through the eyes of God, I experienced a love and appreciation so profound it brought me to tears.
So as we approach Thanksgiving, by all means give thanks for all you are grateful for, but also take time to sit and receive the love and appreciation of the Divine, the Angels, even our Mother Earth.
I love you all and I wish each and every one of you a precious and beautiful Thanksgiving whether you celebrate or not, whether you are with family or alone, for in truth, we are all in this together.
Oh, it is good to be back in this energy before you. This night is going to be different than the last, for in this place there are going to be changed hearts, with permission. Some of you will see for the first time what the love of God truly is, and how it "shakes hands" with the spiritual part within you that is a piece of the whole. Tonight there will be revealed some profound principles that you are ready for, and the assemblage of humans that is here is perfect to hear it.
Oh family—oh dear ones—we gather this night together, just the few of us, to feel the love of HOME.
knows the innermost secrets—the one who has no judgment around you.
Oh, listen to this: Blessed are the human beings that will sacrifice themselves as entities of the Universe and willingly come to this planet accepting the frailty of biology—hiding the magnificence of themselves and their Merkabahs, and their colours, in order to stand with other humans and try to remember who they really are. There is no greater love than this, that you would sacrifice yourselves to such a degree as to come here and make a change in the very fabric of the Universe! You heard it right. For what you do here on this planet in the journey itself will change the way things work in a place that you have no conception of.
....... We are here to reveal for the first time, some of the way things work that we have never told any group before. And it is indeed appropriate that it be revealed in this place, for the consciousness here is one of love—one of desire for knowledge—one that is serious.
And I am speaking to lightworkers that are holding their light high! I am speaking to you, dear one [reading and hearing this]. I know your heart and the purity of it. I know why you're here. This message is for you personally, as well as for the scientists—as well as for the metaphysicians all over the world. So it is that this message will go far. Let it begin.
Video - " The Cosmic Lattice - Your Unlimited Universal Power"
It is very common in the teaching of Kryon that we start with the big and go down to the small so that you will understand the overview and how it affects the human heart. The Cosmic Lattice, dear ones, is the common denominator of the unified energy source of the Universe. The common denominator—meaning that all things emanate from The Cosmic Lattice.
It is difficult to define this all at once, so we will tell you its many attributes slowly this night. The Cosmic Lattice is everywhere. It is throughout the Universe. Everything that you can see and everything you cannot see contains the lattice. From the smallest particles of your physics, and from the electron haze forward, The Cosmic Lattice is present.
We envision a world where the needs of all people everywhere are fulfilled; where our children have all the food, friends, shelter, comforts, caring and loving guidance they need in order to thrive and reach their highest calling in life; where the adults have everything they need, as well, in each and every moment, so that we are able to do what we came here to this Earth to do; and where our society - humanity, as a whole - is being given everything it needs in order to achieve its highest and greatest destiny.


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Q: Edit external JavaScript file after breakpoint is hit In the VS2010 IDE when a breakpoint (or an error) is hit, it opens a read-only [dynamic] version of the external JavaScript file I referenced. My workflow would be vastly improved if I could immediately edit this file, and refresh the browser. That is as opposed to digging up the original JS file opening it, finding the correct line and editing there.
I only know that this is possible because I was able to do this on my old work computer configuration, but for the life of me I can't duplicate it at home.
Has anyone made this work? Perhaps an extension? or maybe it has to with the way the files are referenced, or my basehref tag, or url rewriting.

A: This happens when the base href specifies a domain other than localhost. My issue was that to enable a local environment for Facebook JS, I need my domain in the url. So I set up my host file to remap localhost.mydomain.com to localhost.
When the Visual Studio IDE encounters a file reference which is something other than localhost, it does not attempt to grab the local file since it assumes (correctly in most cases) that it is being served from another site. In these cases it loads a file as [dynamic] and readonly.
Here is the test case:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <head>
        <base href="http://localhost.mydomain.com/virtual-directory/" />
        <script type="text/javascript" src="test.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
</html>

Any breakpoint within test.js will result in opening a readonly dynamic file.

A: how are you referencing your files? whenever a script block is written inside the html or is dynamically inserted the debugger will open the instance of the page where the code stops. If you reference the script using  tags vs should open the original script file (at least that's what it does on my machine). could you upload an example of your current structure?


On Samsung Galaxy S3 - the external SD card is mounted as /mnt/extSDCard/ as opposed to /mnt/sdcard (for the builtin one).
Perhaps add "root" directory scan to determine all the mountable locations ?
I'll add my support for this request - at the moment adding files means uploading them using Airdroid and them using a file manager to move them to the ExtSD Card.


The VET Student Survey is a national study created by vocational students and based on the Open Data Principle. The VET Student Survey is a tool to help us make the Finnish vocational education the best in the world.
The VET Student Survey is not only a data acquisition project. It is an ensemble created by the entire field of education, which helps us provide a comprehensive overview of the everyday lives of all vocational students in Finland. The results of the study can be used by everyone. Students, institutions, businesses, researchers, journalist and you yourself can all use the results from the VET Student Survey in your work.
The VET Student Survey is a unique channel of information on vocational students that can benefit everyone. The VET Student Survey belongs to us all!


As I leave my building shortly after 6AM for a walk and a workout, I encounter few inspiring elements. Food-leftovers, shattered liquor bottles and trash-littered sidewalks, scent of urine and feces more frequent than I would otherwise prefer. Homeless laid out on the sidewalks on worn-out mattresses, towels, or on the bare asphalt. Others trotting, or swaying from side to side rather, destined for no place in particular. Vile energy swarms the neighborhood.
This is how I insist on starting my day on the occasionas that I wake up with back pain. A rather mild back pain in the majority of cases, but I prefer to feel fantastic and full of energy from the start, and a moderate length walk I always found most effective to ease the burden.
In the course of the walk I'm inclined to incorporate a workout, which I would otherwise perform later in the day. I use the fitness equipment in the park in Higeonopolis, 1.5km from my building. Quiet a contrast of neighborhood quality. The relatively small park is overgrown in lush and notably heterogeneous vegetation offering the much needed peace and inspiration in that early morning timeframe. However, the first half of the walk involves crossing a repulsive part of the neighborhood, which I choose to reside in for the lower costs and geographical convenience.


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Artificial General Intelligence will save humanity
Julia Kipperman and Nedim Azar
Improvement of Human Life
Prevention of Human Extinction
Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is an area of AI research aimed at creating machines that are capable of general cognitive abilities comparable to those of humans. Whereas AI research is focused on creating narrow or specialized abilities in machines (playing Go, recognizing objects in an image), AGI research is aimed at developing a single man-made mind that can perform a wide range of tasks that currently require human intelligence, such as understanding natural language, abstract reasoning, and common sense. The topic of consciousness is often brought up in relation to AGI, as it is not clear whether a machine with human-level cognitive abilities could also be conscious in the same way humans are, but for the sake of simplicity this article will define the most rudimentary kind of AGI (an artificial mind that has not yet recursively improved itself) as an agent who acts rationally, in contrast to agents that think rationally, think like a human, or act like a human (see Stuart Russel's introduction to AI). This definition lets us sidestep the thorny question of consciousness and focus on the possible implications of creating artificial minds that can act rationally and shape the world that we live in. We would like to argue that AGI has the potential to improve our lives in a number of ways, and that we should be working on developing it as soon as possible. The first way in which AGI could improve our lives is that it could do the work that us humans consider dull, dirty, or dangerous, this would allow us to use our precious time for more rewarding or enjoyable activities. For example, imagine a world where autonomous AGI robots could clear out a hazardous waste zone instead of human workers having to do it, or a world where all the cleaning and housework is done by machines.This would free up a lot of human time and energy that could be put to use doing more interesting or productive things. Furthermore, AGI could also benefit us by solving our biggest and most complex problems. For example, if we could create an AGI that is able to accurately model the complexities of the world and human behavior, it could be used to create better policies and plans that would help us solve global problems such as climate change, poverty, and disagreements. Additionally, AGI could help us solve problems in healthcare.. A final use case that excites us about AGI is the possibility of applying it to space exploration and the colonization of distant worlds. This use case is a very existential one, and although it is science-fiction at this point, we see it as a possibility.
AGI will help save human lives in dangerous situations and give humans more free time to enjoy their lives
First of all, AGI could do dangerous and dull work. AGI would be capable of taking over tasks from humans which requires certain human-like cognitive abilities, such as decision making and making contact with humans. For example, AGI could be helpful with saving people out of hazard zones after a natural disaster. Additionally, AGI would be way faster at tracking down humans who are for example stuck under debris, maximizing the chance of survival for many. AGI can even give us a signal when a natural disaster is about to happen far before we know, which will lessen the damage even more. Second, AGI would be able to take over the boring or repetitive tasks humans nowadays perform in their jobs. This would grant people more time to spend with their families, loved ones and communities. According to numerous schools of thought, as well as growing studies on happiness, one of the most significant drivers of our personal happiness is our connections with others (together with good health). If AGI can be utilized to give humans more free time, we may be able to focus less on material demands and more on assisting and spending valuable time with others around us, including not just our friends and family but also our communities. We may expect a healthier and more egalitarian society if we encourage this type of human engagement. Additionally, people will be able to invest more in improving their lives after AGI reduces economic stress and optimizes efficiency. Employers might provide each employee with the option for self-development, giving them the choice to select how they wish to grow. Stipends might be made available to all college students, allowing them to study without feeling pressured. Along with investments in people, more wealth would be available to spend in well-being-related research and development, as well as the social sciences, potentially leading to a society that is not just technologically sophisticated, but also culturally evolved and happy.
AGI will solve societal issues
Secondly, AGI could help us find new and innovative solutions to complex problems. AI might aid in the better analysis of the long-term repercussions of proposed public policies, allowing voters to make educated decisions and perhaps vote directly on the most critical topics. Fact-based discourses would be catalyzed by political parties, think tanks, and civil society groups, and media reporting may become considerably more fact-based. All of these parties would compete to see who could use AI most effectively to improve overall societal well-being and individual liberty. The key aim for future AI regulation in democratic liberal nations should be to ensure that individual freedom and autonomy are not harmed by particular AI deployments. However, we must be mindful of the potential for AI to be misused for different forms of deception, and we must put in place procedures to avoid such. François Chollet, an AI researcher, has provided an example. Chollet believes that an authority, such as a government, may use machine learning to influence people's beliefs by promoting or suppressing an individual's voice merely by exposing them to audiences with similar or opposing opinions, resulting in a sense of affirmation or rejection. Such tendencies would be troubling even if there were no apparent negative intents, and as Chollet points out, we must become the controllers of AI algorithms rather than the servants. This is where AGI might possibly assist, given the technology is not monopolized by a few stakeholders and is made available to the general public, offering them greater tools for information analysis and filtering, as well as the capacity to defend themselves from harmful practices. By the same token, AI and associated technologies are becoming more common in business and society, and they're starting to show up in healthcare. Many elements of patient care, as well as administrative operations within clinicians, payers, and pharmaceutical companies, might be transformed by these technologies. A number of studies have already shown that AI can perform as well as or better than humans in crucial healthcare activities like illness diagnosis. Algorithms are already surpassing radiologists in terms of detecting dangerous tumors and advising researchers on how to build cohorts for expensive clinical trials. Imagine what AGI could mean in terms of taking workload off healthcare personnel, especially with crises like COVID-19, which will probably not be the last time such a worldwide disaster occurs. Last but not least, AGI might help us solve climate change. AI researchers cannot make meaningful progress in real-world areas without expert collaboration. To solve complicated challenges at the heart of society's most pressing demands, cooperation across disciplines are required to identify the best ways ahead in these sectors. It's why imagining what a world with AGI would look like with a diverse group of scientific and social experts is so vital. Addressing global concerns like climate change while we create AGI would not only have favorable effects that are urgent and required for our planet, but will also advance the science of AGI. Many additional AGI challenges remain unsolved, ranging from causality to learning efficiency, and as algorithms get more broad, more real-world problems will be addressed, resulting in a system that is steadily becoming more intelligent and will one day help solve all other complex problems too.
AGI might prevent the extinction of humankind in the distant future
Our third argument might make you think: 'Oh, but that's not my problem', and you're probably right as it's an issue for the very distant future, but let's face it: our time on Earth is limited. We know that in about 7 billion years, the sun's expansion will swallow our world whole, and leave nothing behind. Our planet will become uninhabitable sooner than that, in the order of a billion years. Sooner or later, we will have to leave our pale blue dot behind, and find a new place to call home. This is necessary if humanity wants to survive and one day become a galactic civilization.
Difficulties arise when you take into consideration the astronomical distances between stars (our nearest neighbor, Proxima Centauri, is about 4.2 light-years away) and the speed of our current spacecraft. Researchers from MIT point out that with current technology, it would take us 6,300 years to reach Proxima b, a candidate exoplanet in the neighboring system. Space is so foreign to us, and resources are non-existent, so much so that in this review, the researchers discuss how much inbreeding can be allowed in order to make sure that a crew would reach Proxima b, while minimizing the size of the crew. Their advanced simulation algorithm Heritage predicts that 98 settlers are needed to guarantee that a healthy crew will reach Proxima b.
The trip is simply too long and too challenging, and even with 98 crew members, it is arguably an impossible feat to get there with today's technology. This is where von Neumann probes come in.
A von Neumann probe is the combination of a self-replicating machine (one that harnesses the necessary resources and uses them to make copies of itself) and a probe (an instrument to explore or examine something). The term was coined by the Hungarian mathematician John von Neumann. The construct consists of a probe (the various instruments that let it explore its surroundings), life-support systems that will maintain and repair the construct, a factory which harvests resources and replicates itself, memory banks that store information and knowledge, and a motor to propel it through space. One of the applications of an AGI operated von Neumann probe would be deep space exploration and travel. Instead of risking the lives and sanity of many generations in space travel that would take millenia, thousands of AGI von Neumann probes could be given traces of human DNA conserved cryogenically and then launched into space. The AGI could then start looking for an inhabitable exoplanet, create human embryos from the genetic material, and nurse them and educate them into adulthood just in time for their arrival to their new world.
There are other variations of von Neumann probes that do not intend to transport humans to distant planets but instead have the goal of terraforming them and seeding the prospective colonies with infrastructure and cities. The idea of von Neumann probes might seem distant and far-fetched, but there is real research going on about very concrete aspects of it such as their engineering and the types of materials they could harvest and use.
The reason we believe that AGI is necessary for the creation of von Neumann probes that are effective is that narrow AI would not be able to deal with the unknown and maybe even unimaginable conditions of deep space. An AGI would be able to use its common sense, planning, decision making, and recursive self-improvement skills to reach its goal of colonizing distant worlds. The possibilities are just endless.
Why AGI is not a threat to humankind
"I strongly believe that given the technologies we are now developing, within a century or two at most, our species will disappear. I don't think that in the end of the 22nd century, the Earth will still be dominated by Homo sapiens."
– Yuval Noah Harari
An often named counterargument for the research on and implementation of AGI is that it is unethical, because it could become a threat to humanity if it has bad intentions and it will, according to great thinkers like Yuval Noah Harari, be humankind's last invention. We refute this argument, as an AI is unable to wish to accomplish anything, let alone operate against humanity's interests and rebel against human authority, until it has feelings or consciousness. Any type of autonomous action needs the will to act. And the moment an AI desires anything, it will exist in a society with rewards and punishments, including punishments for bad behavior. To exist in a society controlled by humans, AGI will need to develop a human-like moral sense of what is good and what is wrong. It will realize that performing unethical behaviour is ethically incorrect by the time it is in a position to consider it.
To summarize, AGI will help save human lives in dangerous situations and give humans more free time to enjoy their lives. Furthermore, AGI can solve societal problems such as political issues and challenges in healthcare, such as staff shortage as well as diagnosing illnesses in an early stage. Finally, AGI might prevent the extinction of humankind in the distant future. Machine learning's progress on restricted tasks has diverted our attention away from the most important aim of artificial general intelligence. We've become accustomed to construing every problem in this way since machine learning is meant to address categorization problems and does so well. We seldom explore problems of a different kind: ones that need a broad range of thinking abilities; this may be because AGI seems a threat to humankind for most people. It may be a bummer to learn that we're still very early on the road to real AGI, and that attaining it is likely a long way off, about 70 years after the charter was established for AI. But there's good news as well: according to scientists, there's value in the trip to AGI, and there's a lot of untapped potential in the AI systems that are starting to show some early signs of intelligence. In conclusion, AGI will save humanity and must therefore get the highest priority when it comes to research and development.
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