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Interview with Heather Bradford, Socialist Action candidate for U.S. vice president
Socialist Action / August 7, 2019
Heather Bradford (2nd from left) joins rally for equal pay for women outside Duluth city hall in April 2017. (Bob King / Duluth News Tribune)
Following are major excerpts from an interview with Socialist Action's vice presidential candidate Heather Bradford that appeared on the Third Party Second Bananas website. See: https://thirdpartysecondbananas.blogspot.com/2019/06/heatherbradford-2020-vp-social-action.html
Heather Bradford is the running mate with presidential candidate Jeff Mackler on the Socialist Action ticket for 2020. She is the organizer of the Socialist Action branch in Duluth, Minn., and works as a women's advocate at a domestic violence shelter, at an abortion clinic, and as a public school teacher. Bradford has been a longtime activist in the LGBT, environmental, feminist, and antiwar movements.
Q. How did you arrive at becoming a member of Socialist Action?
Heather Bradford: When I was in my early 20s and attending college, my major was International Studies. Through my coursework, I quickly learned that much of the world was impoverished and lacked access to such basic things as food, medicine, and clean water.
I also learned that global suffering was connected to the policies of organizations such as the IMF, World Trade Organization, and World Bank, which played a role in perpetuating colonial relationships based upon economic exploitation. I also recognized that the Untied States has played a sinister role in destabilizing countries through war, support of dictatorships, economic coercion, and overthrowing democratically elected governments that leaned toward socialism.
The more I learned about the state of the world, the more I saw patterns that indicated a systemic problem and the more I began to identify with socialism.
At the same time, I believed that socialism had gone extinct as a movement. I believed it was something that must have died off decades ago. But to my surprise, I found that Duluth had its own socialist group! I sought out the only socialist group in my city, which was Socialist Action, and I have been a member ever since.
Q. Socialist Action has been described as Trotskyist. Could you explain to us how that makes SA different from other political parties on the left?
H.B.: That's a great question with a lengthy answer! One difference between Socialist Action and some other socialist parties is that we do not provide any support to candidates of the Democratic Party. We call on workers to break with the Democratic Party, as we believe it is fundamentally and inevitably a party of the ruling class. As such, it will always promote U.S. imperialism and the immiseration of workers around the world.
Heather Bradford (right) at women's rights rally at Duluth city hall.
Our staunch refusal to support the Democratic Party (or any capitalist party, such as the Green Party) differentiates us from some other socialist groups. Though, it is important to note that from time to time, we support the candidates of like-minded socialist parties and would support the formation of a Labor Party within the U.S.
At the same time, we believe in the right of oppressed groups such as women, LGBT, oppressed racial minorities and nationalities to form autonomous movements to fight for their interests. We believe that the liberation of these oppressed groups is an essential component of working towards socialist revolution, which is itself an important component of our core ideology.
We are revolutionary socialists whose aim is the ovethrow of capitalism. While working toward the goal of revolution, we support reforms that challenge the structures of oppression inherent to capitalism.
Revolution must be international, worker led, and socialist in nature (rather than in stages or [limited to] one country). Some socialists agree on some of these principles and not on others, or interpret them differently. This is a short answer to what is otherwise a long and complex question.
Q: Throughout American history, I observe progressive groups are presented with an infinity of directions since they are pioneers (abolitionists, suffragists, socialists, etc.), and as such they have intense disagreements over which direction to go and method to use. I mention this because, as I was looking at the background of Socialist Action, it seems your party is not immune from this historical pattern, receiving more criticism from the left than from the right. What do you think it would take to unite the leftist political parties?
H.B.: Left political parties can and often do work together in mass movements. Socialist Action believes in forming united fronts, which allow us to converge with other leftists on issues we can agree upon.
Because the two-parties capitalist electoral system is rigged against us, we don't think that elections are really where socialists are going to be the most effective. We can make the most impact by building independent movements that put pressure on the political system or economy. Movements for immigrant rights, antiwar, women's rights, LGBT rights, better wages and working conditions, housing, prison reform or abolition, and so on are arenas where leftists can work together.
Of course, leftists come together with their unique histories, rivalries, and perspectives, which can hinder cooperation and movement building. Sometimes, fighting also stems from the fatigue and demoralization of the long-haul fight against capitalism. But movement work can bring us together.
The formation of a Labor Party would also be a vehicle for smaller socialist parties to collaborate. The militant labor struggle required for the creation of such a party would hopefully draw socialists together.
Q: What do you make of a segment of the working class being dazzled by Trump with what some would call an almost cult-like fervor?
H.B.: Around 43% of Americans did not vote in 2016, so there is a large swath of the U.S. population that was not enamored enough by Trump or Clinton to bother voting. According to Gallup, Trump's approval rating is 40%, which is lower than the average approval rating of 53% for presidents since 1935. Trump certainly appeals to a segment of the population, which represents the failure of the left to effectively organize workers and offer them a meaninglful alternative to voting for racism, sexism, and xenophobia.
Trump seemed like an outsider and anti-establishment to some voters. I think it is also important to note that racial minorities overwhelmingly did not vote for Trump. The American working class is often imagined as white and male, but racial minorities, women (when including racial minority women), and people with incomes under $50,000 a year did not vote for Trump.
The task of socialists is to continue to support the interests and liberation of the most oppressed segments of the working class (women, racial minorities, sexual/gender minorities, etc.), offer real solutions to workers who have been duped by Trump, and fight real and terrifying elements of racism and reaction that have been emboldened by Trump.
Q: The Republican playbook for 2020 appears to be painting the Democrats as "socialist." I gather from the SA website that even Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are considered as servants of the ruling class rather than the working class?
H.B.: I think we are entering an age wherein socialism has lost its teeth as an insult. Republicans may have to change the language of their putdowns as socialism becomes increasingly popular. Unfortunately, the Democratic Party has done nothing to earn the honor of being called socialist. Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez muddy the water a bit by invoking the language of socialism, without really clarifying what precisely this means.
As you recall, I became a socialist through internationalism. Socialism means standing against imperialism, which is characterized by the international dominance of monopoly and financial capitalism of a few powerful countries. It is the duty of socialists to stand against U.S. power as an expression of imperialism.
At the same time, socialism should be international. How could any socialist, which is a movement based upon the power and liberation of workers, tolerate wars or foreign policies that harm other workers? Yet, Bernie Sanders has supported U.S. foreign policy, stated that he wants a strong military, has approved U.S. military spending, and supports U.S. wars such as in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan. Both Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez sent mixed messages about U.S. intervention in Venezuela.
Even if they clarified what they meant by socialism into a cohesive ideology that seeks to end capitalism, the Democratic Party is not the vehicle to accomplish socialism. It is a party that supports U.S. power around the world and ultimately harms workers here and abroad by supporting militarism, financial institutions, corporate interests, and the maintenance of private capital. These things should be anathema to socialists.
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Our Arizona Preps website has been around since 1999, and our staff has worked hard over the years to bring you the best in coverage of the state of Arizona's high school and junior college boy's and girl's basketball.
Our staff is pleased to announce the addition of Gregg Rosenberg to our basketball staff, as Rosenberg will be providing coverage of Arizona boy's high school basketball in the state.
Rosenberg was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois and became a PE Teacher in 1997. He started coaching basketball in 1995. During his last 4 years in Chicago, his public school teams went to the regional semi-finals or better in each season. He later moved to the state of Arizona in 2001 and began scouting players on his own.
After 10 years of scouting for himself, Rosenberg began scouting for the Phoenix Suns in a non-paid position - sending monthly high school reports of top players throughout the country.
Rosenberg currently contributes to several different recruiting sites across the country, and will now begin providing coverage for our Arizona Preps website as well.
"My goal is to get more Arizona players on the map," said Rosenberg. "I want more Arizona kids to get offers - then just the top 15.
Rosenberg still works full-time as a PE Teacher in the Paradise Valley Unified School District, and is also a basketball coach himself.
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Tadarida australis är en fladdermusart som först beskrevs av Gray 1839.  Tadarida australis ingår i släktet Tadarida och familjen veckläppade fladdermöss. IUCN kategoriserar arten globalt som livskraftig. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

Enligt en studie från 2015 bör arten tillsammans med Tadarida kuboriensis flyttas till det nybildade släktet Austronomus.

Utseende
Denna fladdermus är med en kroppslängd (huvud och bål) av upp till 10 cm, en svanslängd av cirka 5,5 cm, en underarmlängd av 5,7 till 6,3 cm och en vikt av upp till 40 g störst i släktet Tadarida. Den har brun till mörkbrun päls på ryggen och främst ljusare päls på framsidan. Påfallande är två bredare vita strimmor mellan undersidans päls och flygmembranen. Huvudet kännetecknas av 2,5 cm långa spetsiga öron och en skrynklig övre läpp. Hanar och honor har vid strupen ett organ som liknar en påse. Liksom hos andra arter av samma familj är bara en liten del av svansen omsluten av flygmembranen mellan bakbenen (uropatagium).

Utbredning och habitat
Arten förekommer i nästan hela Australien. Den saknas bara i norra delen och på Tasmanien. Tadarida australis lever i låglandet och i bergstrakter upp till 1400 meter över havet. Den kan anpassa sig till många olika habitat och den hittas även i människans samhällen.

Ekologi
Individerna vilar bland annat i trädens håligheter eller i mursprickor i byggnader. Honor bildar före ungarnas födelse egna kolonier som är skilda från hanarna och som kan ha några hundra medlemmar. Per kull föds en unge. Populationerna vandrar före vintern till den varma norra regionen. De håller ingen vinterdvala men kan tidvis falla i ett stelt tillstånd (torpor).

Utanför parningstiden lever individerna ensam eller i små flockar med upp till 10 medlemmar. De är liksom de flesta andra fladdermöss aktiva under natten. Tadarida australis flyger ofta högt över marken och jagar flygande insekter med hjälp av ekolokalisering. Den använder ofta den bakre delen av flygmembranen som håv. Några byten plockas från marken.

Arten jagas själv av större fladdermus som Macroderma gigas samt av ugglor som större spökuggla.

Efter parningen i augusti är honorna fram till december eller januari dräktiga. Ungen diar sin mor 4 till 5 månader. Könsmognaden infaller för honor efter 8 till 9 månader och för hanar efter 16 till 22 månader. Livslängden är antagligen lika som hos andra arter av samma släkte.

Källor

Externa länkar

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RACE, RIGHTS, AND RESEARCH IN CARIBBEAN ETHNOBOTANY
by Rachel Thomas
It was almost twenty years ago when I first arrived in Costa Rica. Already a student of herbalism in a classroom setting, I was attracted to the possibility of learning about plants directly from those who used them ancestrally. Lucky for me, and many others like me, Costa Ricans tend to be open in sharing stories about their botanical allies. I was in herbalist heaven.
Over time, I have come to see the other side of that heaven. I started to realize that while my knowledge was increasing, the general population was losing its traditional wisdom. The easy part has been finding ways to conserve the medicinal plants. The real challenge is to help community elders to conserve the traditional ways of life that are interdependent with the natural world, the living context in which their herbalism thrives.
I share this story to raise consciousness and encourage advocacy of the survival of traditional wisdom amongst any peoples who are practicing their culture in the face of modern life and assimilation, and especially those peoples who have been forcibly separated from their traditions or their homelands.
When I settled in the remote fishing village of Puerto Viejo, I was hoping to find a local healer to study with. I learned that there were a few Caribbean women in town and a few Indigenous men in the nearby mountains, but that none of them were taking on students or apprentices. In the decade that it took me to find a Caribbean Herbalism teacher, my research came from the local population's knowledge about basic self-care using plants. Although many Caribbean people now go to the doctor in the case of extreme pathology, a majority continue to use herbal and other wellness traditions for prevention and basic health maintenance (Picking et al, 2011).
Unlike in a structured environment, learning folk medicine out in the field meant that not all of my teachers were shamans, granny healers, or ethnomedicinal experts. My research has relied on a healthy combination of quality (a well-known healer giving advice) and quantity (10 non-experts all giving similar advice). For example, we can validate the use of lemon grass (Cymbopogon citratus) for fever reduction in the Caribbean without an expert, simply by learning its local name, fever grass. This methodology allows ethnobotanists to do research in communities where there are no longer traditional healers practicing or teaching, and to harvest important remnants of ancestral knowledge in situations where significant loss of cultural practice has occurred.
Despite the ubiquity of home remedies in modern Caribbean homes, academia has traditionally neglected the ethnomedicine of the African Diaspora of the Americas (Voeks & Rashford, 2013). The largely untold story is that Africans brought their wellness traditions with them to the Americas, including their herbal medicine, food preparation, permaculture, spirituality, music, dance, and their sacred relationship with nature. These were the healing tools that facilitated the survival of Africans and their descendants in the Americas (Carney & Rosomoff, 2009).
To what extent are these survival tools still available in the African Diaspora of the Americas? There are only a few areas where remote communities have conserved large amounts of their original African culture. There are, for example, villages in Surinam and Brazil where African descendants have lived almost independently for centuries (Van Andel, 2015). A classic ethnobotanical goldmine, these villages maintain language, agricultural, cultural, and medicinal practices that can be traced directly back to Africa. However, as in many parts of the Americas, these African-descendants are still in a struggle for land rights and political representation.
The complicated history of Costa Rica's Caribbean coastal areas has also resulted in a land rights struggle and a lack of cultural protection for African descendants. The majority of Afro-Costa Ricans and their ancestors came from the Caribbean islands, where centuries of slavery had institutionalized a lack of respect for native African cultures. Interestingly, although customs such as dress and language were targeted for assimilation, Africans were not uniformly discouraged from using their wellness traditions, including their knowledge of plants, to stay healthy (Carney, 2003). These practices reduced the amount of "medical" attention required by slaves, and therefore would have been seen as advantageous. There are many examples, in fact, of Africans using their plant wisdom to help their captors. The most legendary is the 18th century African man known as Quasi, for whom the powerful bitterwood, Quassia amara, was named. Although he was abducted into slavery as a child, Quasi was an herbalist and healer, whose plant medicine brought him his freedom and helped him live for almost a full century (Carney & Rosomoff, 2009, p.90).
In addition to the wellness traditions that Africans brought with them from Africa are those which they learned from the Indigenous people of the Americas. These cultural exchanges have been poorly documented for centuries. Up until recently throughout the Caribbean, Indigenous people have been incorrectly portrayed by academia as having been annihilated. Anthropological and ethnobotanical studies, as well as DNA testing, now tell a different story. In Jamaica, many scholars believe that Taino people living inland had integrated with escaped slaves, intermarrying as well as sharing tools of medicine that still exist in Maroon communities today.
Read the rest of this article, on page 39, published in the Journal of Medicinal Plant Conservation by United Plant Savers.
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Long Beach State Notebook: Softball Season Ends In NCAA Tournament
May 24, 2021 JJ FiddlerComments Off on Long Beach State Notebook: Softball Season Ends In NCAA Tournament
After its improbable Big West Championship the Long Beach State softball team had its season ended in the NCAA Tournament last weekend at UCLA. The Beach lost to No. 2 UCLA 8-0 in the first game on Friday night, and then lost to Minnesota 11-0 on Saturday. It was the 25th NCAA Tournament appearance for LBSU.
The Beach also made history and racked up awards last week. LBSU (30-11) finished the shortened season by setting a school record by hitting .320 collectively. That beats the .306 mark set in 2014 and 2018.
LBSU Coach Kim Sowder was also named Big West Coach of the Year for the fourth time in her career. Additionally, senior Kellie White was named the Big West Pitcher of the Year and fellow pitcher Shannon Haddad became the fifth player in school history to be named the Big West Freshman Pitcher of the Year.
LBSU also had four players named to the NFCA All-West Region, the most ever in a single season for the Beach.
Alyssa Gonzalez was named to the second team as a first baseman after after being ranked in the Top 50 nationally in batting average all season. She hit .409 to break the school record of .407 held by Melanie Muniz. Gonzalez didn't strike out during the 24 games of conference play.
White earned third-team honors after finishing the regular season with a 1.94 ERA and a 16-6 record with 116 strikeouts.
Junior Naomi Hernandez is a second-time All-West honoree for the Beach. She was second in the Big West in both walks and on-base percentage, batting .400 and reaching base at a 50 percent rate.
Transfer Suzy Brookshire was the final honoree for the Beach after she started every game at third base. Batting .417 on the year, Brookshire led LBSU with 10 home runs and 49 RBI, and ranked in the Top 10 nationally in RBI per game.
The Dirtbags (24-15, 22-14) won their third consecutive Big West series last weekend at Cal State Fullerton thanks to a three-run ninth inning in the final game on Sunday.
LBSU is third in the conference standings with one weekend left in the regular season. The Dirtbags will host UC Davis at Bohl Diamond at Blair Field. Both Friday and Sunday's games will be broadcast on ESPN3.
Sophomore Chase Luttrell led the Dirtbags with a slash line of .438/.550/.938 including two home runs, seven runs scored, and four RBI against the Titans.
Friday night pitcher Johnathan Lavallee improved to 7-1 on the season as the right-hander totaled eight strikeouts in six-plus innings, allowing one run on five hits and a walk. He has allowed just two runs in 21 innings across his last three starts.
"He just gets better and better every week," Dirtbags coach Eric Valenzuela said. "When you go though those wars with good teams… when you're battle tested that helps. I'm proud of him."
Lavallee recorded five strikeouts through the first 2.2 innings on Friday, giving him 30 K's since his last walk. That streak is the longest by a Dirtbag since Darren McCaughan also recorded 30-straight back in 2017.
Valenzuela said two weeks ago that he thinks his team has a chance to be in the running for an NCAA at-large bid.
"We don't know what the NCAA Committee is going to do," Valenzuela said. "Is it just going to go off RPI? Are they going to look at teams like us and the Big 10 different? If we finish second, if we go on a run these last couple weeks… and they look at the at-large teams and they look at ours, how could they not (take us) because to me we're an NCAA Regional caliber team, 100 percent."
LBSU's season came to an end on the final day of the NCAA Cle Elum Regional last week as the Beach placed 12th with a 30-over par showing. LBSU was led by senior and Big West Golfer of the Year Hunter Epson who finished in the top 10 with a 2-under par.
The Beach managed to shave two stroke off of its game in the final round by shooting a 296 for 12-over on the third day of the tournament to finish with an 882 (+30).
Epson, a Wilson High alum, shot a 67 for 4-under par in the final round as he birdied seven holes. With his strong showing in the final round, Epson finished in a tie for ninth place with a 2-under par performance.
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Shemaroo wins 'social media' gold for #FilmigaaneAntakshri
MUMBAI: Shemaroo Entertainment Ltd, one of the leading content houses in the country wins a "Gold Award" for #FilmigaaneAntakshri at the 7TH India Digital Awards organized by IAMAI in the category of Social Media Marketing. IAMAI had around 300 entries from leading brands and five among them were nominated for the award namely Coca Cola India, IDFC Bank, Woodland Worldwide, Nutralite and Shemaroo Entertainment Ltd.
Prior to this #FilmigaaneAntakshri also entered the Limca Book of Records for hosting the longest running Antakshari on Twitter. #FilmiGaaneAntakshari, an initiative by Shemaroo's Filmigaane, is the first of its kind digital campaign that ran on Twitter for 7 continuous days, 24 hours from 26th September'16 to 3rd October'16, a total of 168 hours. The campaign was designed to make people re-live the beautiful retro era. During the course of this campaign, on an average one winner was selected in every 5 minute and total of 2016 winners selected in 168 hours. A Grand prize worth Rs. 10,000 was announced for the person who showed the maximum participation during the campaign. The campaign created a stir amongst the twitter users and went viral for days. Shortly radio and news portals also started speaking about it.
Shemaroo Entertainment director Jai Maroo said, "It is an exciting moment for us. We are thankful to the IAMAI for the prestigious award. In last few months we have redefined our social media strategy and gone a step further to bring twist and turn in the rules of entertainment on social media. People believed that twitter is more youth oriented platform and a retro Antakhri on the platform is not a great idea. However, we decided to challenge the thoughts and we created history. This award speaks out loud that we are on the right track and I believe this is just the beginning and many more stories will be told."
Shemaroo director Hiren Gada shared his thoughts on the occasion, "We are excited and overwhelmed at receiving this award. We are also thankful to IAMAI and the jury members for the recognition they have given to our initiative. Our social media team consists of a group of enthusiastic, young and vibrant people who have strive to gather a deep understanding of consumer preferences. They keep coming up with fresh and innovative initiatives to entertain and engage the populace on the platform. With this award, it feels that our efforts are being recognized by the industry."
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Freedom's Challenge
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Kris Bjornsen has come a long way since alien slave ships scooped her up in Denver with thousands of others. Dropped off on an apparently uninhabited world with the rest, she has fallen in love with Zainal, a renegade Catteni, and made a comfortable life for herself and her new family. But she feels a soldier's duty to escape Botany and rejoin the struggle for freedom.
As the Eosi overlords continue to drop captives on Botany, the colonists learn that there are freedom fighters on every captured world, and Earth is full of pockets of resistance. There are even rebels among the warlike Catteni. Now the colonists have the technology they need to go back to war with the deadly Eosi—with a surprise strike at the enslaved planet Earth itself!
Anne McCaffrey, one of the world's most popular authors, is best known for her Dragonriders of Pern® series. She was the first woman to win the two top prizes for science fiction writing, the Hugo and Nebula awards. She was also given the American Library Association's Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement in Young Adult Fiction, was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, and was named a Science Fiction Writers of America Nebula Grand Master. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1926, McCaffrey relocated to Ireland in the 1970s, where she lived in a house of her own design, named Dragonhold-Underhill. She died in 2011.
As a Golden Voice (so honored by Audiofile Magazine), winner of 3 Audies and dozens of Earphone Awards, Dick Hill brings his own personal touch of vocal creativity to every project.
He brings stories to life with a wide variety of characterizations, dialects, and accents...reviewers have compared his work to a full cast recording. His rich baritone and insightful interpretations have also earned him praise for his many non-fiction titles.


Nearly 50 housekeepers at Los Alamitos Medical Center staged a one-day picket demanding that their employer Sodexo, an international subcontracting firm, dramatically increase wages, improve benefits and put an end to short staffing.
The May 29 picket came just weeks after NUHW-represented Sodexo workers at nearby Fountain Valley Regional Hospital won a contract that provided up to 42 percent raises over the next 18 months.
Sodexo workers at Los Alamitos, several of whom make as little as $11 per hour, are seeking minimum hourly wages of just under $15 as well as free health insurance. They were joined on the picket line by representatives of Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva and members of Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice.


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Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these Ind AS Standalone Financial Statements based on our audit. In conducting our audit, we have taken into account the provisions of the Act, the accounting and auditing standards and matters which are required to be included in the audit report under the provisions of the Act and the Rules made thereunder.
We conducted our audit of the Ind AS financials in accordance with the Standards on Auditing specified under Section 143 (10) of the Act. Those Standards require that we comply with ethical requirements and plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the Ind AS Standalone Financial Statements are free from material misstatement.
An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and the disclosures in the Ind AS Standalone Financial Statements. The procedures selected depend on the auditor's judgment, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the Ind AS Standalone Financial Statements, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, the auditor considers internal financial control relevant to the Company's preparation of the Ind AS Standalone Financial Statements that give a true and fair view in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of the accounting policies used and the reasonableness of the accounting estimates made by the Company's Directors, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the Ind AS Standalone Financial Statements.
We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion on the Ind AS Standalone Financial Statements.
Basis for Qualified Opinion
1. Interest on Borrowings:
Attention is drawn to Note no. 47 of the Ind AS Standalone Financial Statements regarding reversal of interest on term loan from two banks provided for the period from April 2017 to September 2017 amounting to Rs 469.92 Lakhs and non- provision of interest on term loan from said two banks for the period from October 2017 to March 2018 amounting to Rs 471.64 Lakhs, aggregating to Rs 941.56 Lakhs.
Further the company has reversed Interest expenses for earlier years for the period from February 2016 to March 2017 amounting to Rs 344.35 Lakhs.
Further there is non-provision of penal interest on term loan from two banks and working capital limit from one bank amounting to Rs 80.04 Lakhs.
These non-provisions/reversals of provision for interest is not in compliance with Ind AS 109 Financial Instruments.
Accordingly loss for the year is understated by Rs. 1365.95 Lakhs.
2. Inventories:
Inventories include slow/non-moving raw material and packing materials procured during the earlier years amounting to Rs. 174.06 Lakhs as on 31st March 2018, which are valued at cost (Refer Note no. 44 of Ind AS Standalone Financial Statements). This is not in accordance with Ind AS 2 Inventories, which requires such inventories to be valued at lower of cost or net realizable value. Accordingly, we are unable to quantify the impact of increase in the loss for the year ended 31st March, 2018.
Qualified Opinion
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, and based on the consideration of report of the branch auditor provided to us, except for the effects of the matter described in the Basis for Qualified Opinion paragraph, the aforesaid I nd AS Standalone Financial Statements give the information required by the Act in the manner so required and give a true and fair view in conformity with the accounting principles generally accepted in India of the state of affairs of the Company as at 31st March, 2018, its loss, its changes in equity and its cash flows for the year then ended.
Emphasis of Matters
1. Pledged shares of a Director encashed by a Lender
We draw attention to Note No 41 regarding claims from a Director aggregating to Rs. 128.25 Lakhs being the value of equity shares of the Company pledged as security.
2. Scheme of Arrangements
We draw attention to Note No.42 (a) & (b) regarding the status of the schemes of arrangement with Lyka Exports Limited and Lyka Healthcare Limited.
3. Capital Expenditure:
We draw attention to Note No.43 (ii) regarding the review of the portfolio of products under development and applied research.
Our opinion is not qualified in respect of all these matters.
We did not audit the Ind AS Standalone Financial Statements of a Branch included in the Ind AS Standalone Financial Statements of the Company, whose financial statements reflect total assets of Rs. 8575.88 Lakhs as at 31st March, 2018 as well as total revenues of Rs. 3669.48 Lakhs for the year ended on that date, as considered in the Ind AS Standalone Financial Statements. These financial statements and other financial information have been audited by another auditor whose report has been furnished to us by the Management, and our opinion on these Ind AS Standalone Financial Statements, in so far as it relates to the amounts and disclosures included in respect of this branch, is based solely on the report of such auditor.
The audit of Financial Statements for the year ended 31st March, 2017, was carried out and reported by predecessor auditor, vide their modified audit report dated 29th May, 2017, whose report has been furnished to us by the management and which has been relied upon by us for the purpose of our audit of the standalone IndAS Financial Statements.
Our audit report is not qualified in respect of this matters.
Report on Other Legal and Regulatory Requirements
1. As required by the Companies (Auditor's Report) Order, 2016 ("the Order"), issued by the Central Government of India in terms of sub-section (11) of section 143 of the Act, we give in the Annexure "A" a statement on the matters specified in paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Order, to the extent applicable.
2. As required by section 143(3) of the Act, we report that:
(a) We have sought and obtained all the information and explanations which to the best of our knowledge and belief were necessary for the purposes of our audit;
(b) In our opinion, proper books of account as required by law have been kept by the Company so far as it appears from our examination of those books;
(c) The reports on the accounts of the branch office of the Company audited under Section 143(8) of the Act by branch auditor has been sent to us and has been properly dealt with by us in preparing this report (Refer Other Matters);
(d) The Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit and Loss including Other Comprehensive Income, the Statement of Changes in Equity and the Cash Flow Statement dealt with by this Report are in agreement with the books of account;
(e) Subject to our observations in "Basis of Qualified Opinion" para above, in our opinion, the aforesaid Ind AS Standalone Financial Statements comply with the Ind AS specified under Section 133 of the Act ;
(f) On the basis of the written representations received from the Directors as on 31st March, 2018 and taken on record by the Board of Directors, none of the directors is disqualified as on 31st March, 2018 from being appointed as a director in terms of Section 164(2) of the Act;
(g) With respect to the adequacy of the internal financial controls over financial reporting of the Company and the operating effectiveness of such controls, refer to our separate report in Annexure "B"; Our report expresses an unmodified opinion on the adequacy and operating effectiveness of the Company's internal financial controls over financial reporting; and
(h) With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditor's Report in accordance with Rule 11 of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Amendment Rules, 2017, in our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us:
(i) The company has disclosed the impact of pending litigations on its financial position in its financial statements - Refer to Note No. 36(i) to (vii) of other notes to the Standalone Ind AS Financial Statements.
(ii) The Company does not have any long-term contracts including derivative contracts and hence there are no material foreseeable losses.
(iii) There were no amounts which were required to be transferred to the Investor Education and Protection Fund by the Company.
(iv) The disclosures regarding details of specified bank notes held and transacted during 8th November 2016 to 30th December 2016 has not been made since the requirement does not pertain to financial year ended 31st March 2018.
Annexure - A to the Auditors' Report
Annexure referred to in paragraph 1 of our report on Other Legal and Regulatory Requirements of even date
(i) In respect of its fixed assets:
(a) The Company has maintained proper records showing full particulars, including quantitative details and situation of fixed assets.
(b) The fixed assets were physically verified during the year by the Management in accordance with a regular program of verification which, in our opinion, provides for physical verification, of all the fixed assets at reasonable intervals. According to the information and explanations given to us, no material discrepancies were noticed on such verification.
(c) The title deeds of immovable properties including leasehold land, as disclosed in Note 3 on property, plant and equipment to the financial statements, are held in the name of the company.
(ii) As explained to us, inventories, excluding inventories with third parties, were physically verified during the year by the management at reasonable intervals and no material discrepancies were noticed on physical verification. In respect of inventories lying with third parties, these have substantially been confirmed by them.
(iii) During the year, the Company has not granted loan to any party covered in the register maintained under section 189 of the Act and hence clause 3(iii) of the Order is not applicable.
(iv) In our opinion and according to the information and explanations given to us, the Company has complied with the provisions of section 185 and 186 of the Companies Act, 2013 in respect of the loans and investments made and security provided by it.
(v) The Company had received an Order of Company Law Board (CLB) dated 22nd January, 2016, granting extension of time for repayment of Fixed Deposits. During the year, the Company has repaid deposits that were claimed aggregating to Rs. 17.85 Lakhs. As regards the balance of unclaimed Fixed Deposits Rs. 49.52 Lakhs, the same shall be paid as and when claimed. Refer Note No. 37
(vi) We have broadly reviewed the books of accounts and records maintained by the Company relating to the manufacture of Bulk Drugs and Formulations pursuant to the order made by the Central Government for the maintenance of cost records under Section 148(1) of the Companies Act, 2013 and are of the opinion that prima facie the prescribed accounts and records have been so made and maintained. We have, however, not made a detailed examination of the cost records with a view to determining whether they are accurate or complete.
(vii) According to the information and explanations given to us and as per relevant records produced before us in respect of statutory and other dues:
(a) During the year, the Company has not been regular in depositing undisputed statutory dues relating to Provident Fund, Professional Tax, E.S.I.C., Service Tax, Income-tax, Value Added Tax and Sales Tax. The arrears of the said dues as at the last day of the financial year and outstanding for more than six months from the date they become payable are as follows:
Nature of Dues
Amount (Rs. in Lakhs)
Professional Tax
Sales Tax deferral Scheme-SICOM
(b) Following disputed dues have not been deposited since the matters are pending with the respective forums:
Amount (Rs. in Lakhs)*
Period to which the amount relates
Name of Forum
Demand under Drugs Price Control Order
Demands raised in 1987,1990 and 1995
Purchase Tax
Maharashtra Sales Tax Appellate Tribunal
Commissioner of Central Excise and Service Tax
Customs, Excise & Service Tax Appellate Tribunal
Since September 1995 to February 2000
Bombay Sales Tax
Maharashtra Value Added Tax
Sales Tax Appellate Tribunal
Deputy Commissioner of Sales Tax Appeals
Deputy Commissioner of
Sales Tax Appeal
Joint Commissioner of Sales Tax Appeal
Commissioner of Service Tax Appeal
Gujarat Sales Tax
Commissioner of Sales Tax
A.Y. 2001-02
Commissioner of Income
Tax Appeals
(* net of amounts paid under protest)
(viii) Based on our audit procedures and according to the information and explanations given by the management, in respect of:
a. Loan from Banks: The Company, has defaulted in repayment of dues to Banks, the defaults whereof are stated hereunder:
[Rs. in Lakhs]
Period of Default
Bank of
Kapol
February,2016
May,2016
b. Debentures : The Company has received Order of National Company Law Tribunal (Ahmedabad Bench) dated 22nd May, 2017, granting extension of time for repayment of Debentures Refer Note No. 38.
(ix) Based on our audit procedures and according to the information and explanations given by the management, the Company has not raised money by way of initial public offer or further public offer during the year. The Company has availed the term loans from Banks in earlier years which were applied for the purpose for which those were raised.
(x) According to the information and explanations given to us, no fraud by the Company or on the Company by its officers or employees has been noticed or reported during the year.
(xi) The Company has paid/provided managerial remuneration which is in accordance with the provisions of section 197 read with Schedule V of the Act.
(xii) In our opinion and according to the information and explanations given to us, the Company is not a nidhi company and hence clause 3(xii) of the Order is not applicable.
(xiii) According to the information and explanations given to us and based on our examination of the records of the Company, transactions with related parties are in compliance with sections 177 and 188 of the Act, where applicable and details of such transactions have been disclosed in the financial statements as required by the applicable Accounting Standards (Refer Note No. 50)
(xiv) According to the information and explanations given to us and based on our examination of the records of the Company, the Company has made a preferential allotment of equity shares during the year which is in accordance with the provisions of section 42 and the amount raised is used for the purpose as stated in the objects of the issue.
(xv) According to the information and explanations given to us and based on our examination of the records of the Company, the Company has not entered into non-cash transactions with Directors or persons connected with them and hence clause 3(xv) of the Order is not applicable.
(xvi) According to the information and explanations given to us, the Company is not required to be registered under section 45-IA of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934.
Annexure - B to the Auditor's Report
Report on the Internal Financial Controls under Clause (i) of Sub-section 3 of Section 143 of the Companies Act, 2013 ("the Act")
We have audited the internal financial controls over financial reporting of LYKA LABS LIMITED ("the Company") as of 31st March 2018 in conjunction with our audit of the standalone Ind AS financial statements of the Company for the year ended on that date.
Management's Responsibility for Internal Financial Controls
The Company's management is responsible for establishing and maintaining internal financial controls based on the internal control over financial reporting criteria established by the Company considering the essential components of internal control stated in the Guidance Note on Audit of Internal Financial Controls over Financial Reporting issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India ('ICAI'). These responsibilities include the design, implementation and maintenance of adequate internal financial controls that were operating effectively for ensuring the orderly and efficient conduct of its business, including adherence to Company's policies, the safeguarding of its assets, the prevention and detection of frauds and errors, the accuracy and completeness of the accounting records, and the timely preparation of reliable financial information, as required under the Act.
Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company's internal financial controls over financial reporting based on our audit. We conducted our audit in accordance with the Guidance Note on Audit of Internal Financial Controls over Financial Reporting (the "Guidance Note") and the Standards on Auditing, issued by ICAI and deemed to be prescribed under section 143(10) of the Act to the extent applicable to an audit of internal financial controls, both applicable to an audit of Internal Financial Controls and, both issued by the ICAI. Those Standards and the Guidance Note require that we comply with ethical requirements and plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether adequate internal financial controls over financial reporting was established and maintained and if such controls operated effectively in all material respects.
Our audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the adequacy of the internal financial controls system over financial reporting and their operating effectiveness. Our audit of internal financial controls over financial reporting included obtaining an understanding of internal financial controls over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, and testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk. The procedures selected depend on the auditor's judgment, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error.
We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion on the Company's internal financial controls system over financial reporting.
Meaning of Internal Financial Controls Over Financial Reporting
A Company's internal financial control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A Company's internal financial control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the Company;
(2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditure of the Company are being made only in accordance with authorisations of management and directors of the Company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorised acquisition, use, or disposition of the Company's assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
Inherent Limitations of Internal Financial Controls Over Financial Reporting
Because of the inherent limitations of internal financial controls over financial reporting, including the possibility of collusion or improper management override of controls, material misstatements due to error or fraud may occur and not be detected. Also, projections of any evaluation of the internal financial controls over financial reporting to future periods are subject to the risk that the internal financial control over financial reporting may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
In our opinion, to the best of our information and according to the explanation given to us and based on consideration of report of another auditor, as referred to in the Other Matters paragraph, the Company has, in all material respects, an adequate internal financial controls system over financial reporting and such internal financial controls over financial reporting were operating effectively as at 31st March 2018, based on the internal control over financial reporting criteria established by the Company considering the essential components of internal control stated in the Guidance Note on Audit of Internal Financial Controls Over Financial Reporting issued by the ICAI.
Our aforesaid report under section 143(3)(i) of the Act on the adequacy and operating effectiveness of the internal financial controls over financial reporting is so far as it relates to financial statements of a branch of the Company is based on the corresponding reports of the auditor of such branch.
For MEHTA CHOKSHI & SHAH
Firm Registration No: 106201W
Abhay R. Mehta
MEMBERSHIP NO. 046088
Place: Mumbai
Date: 29th May, 2018
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    array(
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A: '%d' modifier is for integers, not decimals use the %f (floats or the %s strings) and it would save it correctly.

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from mx.DateTime import *
import re, string, os, sys

def tag(text):

  # Initialization
  timex_found = []

  # Predefined strings.
  numbers = "(^a(?=\s)|one|two|three|four|five|six|seven|eight|nine|ten| \
            eleven|twelve|thirteen|fourteen|fifteen|sixteen|seventeen| \
            eighteen|nineteen|twenty|thirty|forty|fifty|sixty|seventy|eighty| \
            ninety|hundred|thousand)"
  day = "(monday|tuesday|wednesday|thursday|friday|saturday|sunday)"
  month = "(january|february|march|april|may|june|july|august|september| \
            october|november|december)"
  dmy = "(year|day|week|month)"
  rel_day = "(today|yesterday|tomorrow|tonight|tonite)"
  exp1 = "(before|after|earlier|later|ago)"
  exp2 = "(this|next|last)"
  iso = "\d+[/-]\d+[/-]\d+ \d+:\d+:\d+\.\d+"
  year = "((?<=\s)\d{4}|^\d{4})"
  regxp1 = "((\d+|(" + numbers + "[-\s]?)+) " + dmy + "s? " + exp1 + ")"
  regxp2 = "(" + exp2 + " (" + dmy + "|" + day + "|" + month + "))"

  reg1 = re.compile(regxp1, re.IGNORECASE)
  reg2 = re.compile(regxp2, re.IGNORECASE)
  reg3 = re.compile(rel_day, re.IGNORECASE)
  reg4 = re.compile(iso)
  reg5 = re.compile(year)

  # re.findall() finds all the substring matches, keep only the full
  # matching string. Captures expressions such as 'number of days' ago, etc.
  found = reg1.findall(text)
  found = [a.__getitem__(0) for a in found if len(a) > 1]
  for timex in found:
    timex_found.append(timex)

  # Variations of this thursday, next year, etc
  found = reg2.findall(text)
  found = [a.__getitem__(0) for a in found if len(a) > 1]
  for timex in found:
    timex_found.append(timex)

  # today, tomorrow, etc
  found = reg3.findall(text)
  for timex in found:
    timex_found.append(timex)

  # ISO
  found = reg4.findall(text)
  for timex in found:
    timex_found.append(timex)

  # Year
  found = reg5.findall(text)
  for timex in found:
    timex_found.append(timex)

  # Tag only temporal expressions which haven't been tagged.
  for timex in timex_found:
    text = re.sub(timex + '(?!</TIMEX2>)', '<TIMEX2>' + timex + '</TIMEX2>', \
                  text)

  return text

# Hash function for week days to simplify the grounding task.
 # [Mon..Sun] -> [0..6]
def hashweekdays(day):
  if day == 'Monday':
    return 0
  elif day == 'Tuesday':
    return 1
  elif day == 'Wednesday':
    return 2
  elif day == 'Thursday':
    return 3
  elif day == 'Friday':
    return 4
  elif day == 'Saturday':
    return 5
  elif day == 'Sunday':
    return 6

# Hash function for months to simplify the grounding task.
# [Jan..Dec] -> [1..12]
def hashmonths(month):
  if month == 'January':
    return 1
  elif month == 'February':
    return 2
  elif month == 'March':
    return 3
  elif month == 'April':
    return 4
  elif month == 'May':
    return 5
  elif month == 'June':
    return 6
  elif month == 'July':
    return 7
  elif month == 'August':
    return 8
  elif month == 'September':
    return 9
  elif month == 'October':
    return 10
  elif month == 'November':
    return 11
  elif month == 'December':
    return 12

# Hash number in words into the corresponding integer value
def hashnum(number):
  if re.match(r'one|^a\b', number, re.IGNORECASE):
    return 1
  if re.match(r'two', number, re.IGNORECASE):
    return 2
  if re.match(r'three', number, re.IGNORECASE):
    return 3
  if re.match(r'four', number, re.IGNORECASE):
    return 4
  if re.match(r'five', number, re.IGNORECASE):
    return 5
  if re.match(r'six', number, re.IGNORECASE):
    return 6
  if re.match(r'seven', number, re.IGNORECASE):
    return 7
  if re.match(r'eight', number, re.IGNORECASE):
    return 8
  if re.match(r'nine', number, re.IGNORECASE):
    return 9
  if re.match(r'ten', number, re.IGNORECASE):
    return 10
  if re.match(r'eleven', number, re.IGNORECASE):
    return 11
  if re.match(r'twelve', number, re.IGNORECASE):
    return 12
  if re.match(r'thirteen', number, re.IGNORECASE):
    return 13
  if re.match(r'fourteen', number, re.IGNORECASE):
    return 14
  if re.match(r'fifteen', number, re.IGNORECASE):
    return 15
  if re.match(r'sixteen', number, re.IGNORECASE):
    return 16
  if re.match(r'seventeen', number, re.IGNORECASE):
    return 17
  if re.match(r'eighteen', number, re.IGNORECASE):
    return 18
  if re.match(r'nineteen', number, re.IGNORECASE):
    return 19
  if re.match(r'twenty', number, re.IGNORECASE):
    return 20
  if re.match(r'thirty', number, re.IGNORECASE):
    return 30
  if re.match(r'forty', number, re.IGNORECASE):
    return 40
  if re.match(r'fifty', number, re.IGNORECASE):
    return 50
  if re.match(r'sixty', number, re.IGNORECASE):
    return 60
  if re.match(r'seventy', number, re.IGNORECASE):
    return 70
  if re.match(r'eighty', number, re.IGNORECASE):
    return 80
  if re.match(r'ninety', number, re.IGNORECASE):
    return 90
  if re.match(r'hundred', number, re.IGNORECASE):
    return 100
  if re.match(r'thousand', number, re.IGNORECASE):
    return 1000

# Given a timex_tagged_text and a Date object set to base_date,
# returns timex_grounded_text
def ground(tagged_text, base_date):

  # Find all identified timex and put them into a list
  timex_regex = re.compile(r'<TIMEX2>.*?</TIMEX2>', re.DOTALL)
  timex_found = timex_regex.findall(tagged_text)
  timex_found = map(lambda timex:re.sub(r'</?TIMEX2.*?>', '', timex), \
              timex_found)

  # Predefined strings to simplify regular expressions in the next step.
  week_days = "(monday|tuesday|wednesday|thursday|friday|saturday|sunday)"
  months = "(january|february|march|april|may|june|july|august|september| \
            october|november|december)"
  numbers = "^a(?=\s)|one|two|three|four|five|six|seven|eight|nine|ten| \
            eleven|twelve|thirteen|fourteen|fifteen|sixteen|seventeen| \
            eighteen|nineteen|twenty|thirty|forty|fifty|sixty|seventy|eighty| \
            ninety|hundred|thousand"

  # Calculate the new date accordingly
  for timex in timex_found:
    timex_val = 'UNKNOWN' # Default value

    timex_ori = timex   # Backup original timex for later substitution

    # If numbers are given in words, hash them into corresponding numbers.
    # eg. twenty five days ago --> 25 days ago
    if re.search(numbers, timex, re.IGNORECASE):
      split_timex = re.split(r'\s(?=days?|months?|years?|weeks?)', \
                                                        timex, re.IGNORECASE)
      value = split_timex[0]
      unit = split_timex[1]
      num_list = map(lambda s:hashnum(s),re.findall(numbers + '+', \
                                    value, re.IGNORECASE))
      timex = `sum(num_list)` + ' ' + unit

    # If timex matches ISO format, remove 'time' and reorder 'date'
    if re.match(r'\d+[/-]\d+[/-]\d+ \d+:\d+:\d+\.\d+', timex):
      dmy = re.split(r'\s', timex)[0]
      dmy = re.split(r'/|-', dmy)
      timex_val = str(dmy[2]) + '-' + str(dmy[1]) + '-' + str(dmy[0])

    # Specific dates
    elif re.match(r'\d{4}', timex):
      timex_val = str(timex)

    # Relative dates
    elif re.match(r'tonight|tonite|today', timex, re.IGNORECASE):
      timex_val = str(base_date)
    elif re.match(r'yesterday', timex, \
                                                        re.IGNORECASE):
      timex_val = str(base_date + RelativeDateTime(days=-1))
    elif re.match(r'tomorrow', timex, re.IGNORECASE):
      timex_val = str(base_date + RelativeDateTime(days=+1))

    # Weekday in the previous week.
    elif re.match(r'last ' + week_days, timex, re.IGNORECASE):
      day = hashweekdays(timex.split()[1])
      timex_val = str(base_date + RelativeDateTime(weeks=-1, \
                    weekday=(day,0)))

    # Weekday in the current week.
    elif re.match(r'this ' + week_days, timex, re.IGNORECASE):
      day = hashweekdays(timex.split()[1])
      timex_val = str(base_date + RelativeDateTime(weeks=0, \
                    weekday=(day,0)))

    # Weekday in the following week.
    elif re.match(r'next ' + week_days, timex, re.IGNORECASE):
      day = hashweekdays(timex.split()[1])
      timex_val = str(base_date + RelativeDateTime(weeks=+1, \
                    weekday=(day,0)))

    # Last, this, next week.
    elif re.match(r'last week', timex, re.IGNORECASE):
      year = (base_date + RelativeDateTime(weeks=-1)).year

      # iso_week returns a triple (year, week, day) hence, retrieve
      # only week value.
      week = (base_date + RelativeDateTime(weeks=-1)).iso_week.__getitem__(1)
      timex_val = str(year) + 'W' + str(week)
    elif re.match(r'this week', timex, re.IGNORECASE):
      year = (base_date + RelativeDateTime(weeks=0)).year
      week = (base_date + RelativeDateTime(weeks=0)).iso_week.__getitem__(1)
      timex_val = str(year) + 'W' + str(week)
    elif re.match(r'next week', timex, re.IGNORECASE):
      year = (base_date + RelativeDateTime(weeks=+1)).year
      week = (base_date + RelativeDateTime(weeks=+1)).iso_week.__getitem__(1)
      timex_val = str(year) + 'W' + str(week)

    # Month in the previous year.
    elif re.match(r'last ' + months, timex, re.IGNORECASE):
      month = hashmonths(timex.split()[1])
      timex_val = str(base_date.year - 1) + '-' + str(month)

    # Month in the current year.
    elif re.match(r'this ' + months, timex, re.IGNORECASE):
      month = hashmonths(timex.split()[1])
      timex_val = str(base_date.year) + '-' + str(month)

    # Month in the following year.
    elif re.match(r'next ' + months, timex, re.IGNORECASE):
      month = hashmonths(timex.split()[1])
      timex_val = str(base_date.year + 1) + '-' + str(month)
    elif re.match(r'last month', timex, re.IGNORECASE):

      # Handles the year boundary.
      if base_date.month == 1:
        timex_val = str(base_date.year - 1) + '-' + '12'
      else:
        timex_val = str(base_date.year) + '-' + str(base_date.month - 1)
    elif re.match(r'this month', timex, re.IGNORECASE):
        timex_val = str(base_date.year) + '-' + str(base_date.month)
    elif re.match(r'next month', timex, re.IGNORECASE):

      # Handles the year boundary.
      if base_date.month == 12:
        timex_val = str(base_date.year + 1) + '-' + '1'
      else:
        timex_val = str(base_date.year) + '-' + str(base_date.month + 1)
    elif re.match(r'last year', timex, re.IGNORECASE):
      timex_val = str(base_date.year - 1)
    elif re.match(r'this year', timex, re.IGNORECASE):
      timex_val = str(base_date.year)
    elif re.match(r'next year', timex, re.IGNORECASE):
      timex_val = str(base_date.year + 1)
    elif re.match(r'\d+ days? (ago|earlier|before)', timex, re.IGNORECASE):

      # Calculate the offset by taking '\d+' part from the timex.
      offset = int(re.split(r'\s', timex)[0])
      timex_val = str(base_date + RelativeDateTime(days=-offset))
    elif re.match(r'\d+ days? (later|after)', timex, re.IGNORECASE):
      offset = int(re.split(r'\s', timex)[0])
      timex_val = str(base_date + RelativeDateTime(days=+offset))
    elif re.match(r'\d+ weeks? (ago|earlier|before)', timex, re.IGNORECASE):
      offset = int(re.split(r'\s', timex)[0])
      year = (base_date + RelativeDateTime(weeks=-offset)).year
      week = (base_date + \
              RelativeDateTime(weeks=-offset)).iso_week.__getitem__(1)
      timex_val = str(year) + 'W' + str(week)
    elif re.match(r'\d+ weeks? (later|after)', timex, re.IGNORECASE):
      offset = int(re.split(r'\s', timex)[0])
      year = (base_date + RelativeDateTime(weeks=+offset)).year
      week = (base_date + \
              RelativeDateTime(weeks=+offset)).iso_week.__getitem__(1)
      timex_val = str(year) + 'W' + str(week)
    elif re.match(r'\d+ months? (ago|earlier|before)', timex, re.IGNORECASE):
      extra = 0
      offset = int(re.split(r'\s', timex)[0])

      # Checks if subtracting the remainder of (offset / 12) to the base month
      # crosses the year boundary.
      if (base_date.month - offset % 12) < 1:
        extra = 1

      # Calculate new values for the year and the month.
      year = str(base_date.year - offset // 12 - extra)
      month = str((base_date.month - offset % 12) % 12)

      # Fix for the special case.
      if month == '0':
        month = '12'
      timex_val = year + '-' + month
    elif re.match(r'\d+ months? (later|after)', timex, re.IGNORECASE):
      extra = 0
      offset = int(re.split(r'\s', timex)[0])
      if (base_date.month + offset % 12) > 12:
        extra = 1
      year = str(base_date.year + offset // 12 + extra)
      month = str((base_date.month + offset % 12) % 12)
      if month == '0':
        month = '12'
      timex_val = year + '-' + month
    elif re.match(r'\d+ years? (ago|earlier|before)', timex, re.IGNORECASE):
      offset = int(re.split(r'\s', timex)[0])
      timex_val = str(base_date.year - offset)
    elif re.match(r'\d+ years? (later|after)', timex, re.IGNORECASE):
      offset = int(re.split(r'\s', timex)[0])
      timex_val = str(base_date.year + offset)

    # Remove 'time' from timex_val.
    # For example, If timex_val = 2000-02-20 12:23:34.45, then
    # timex_val = 2000-02-20
    timex_val = re.sub(r'\s.*', '', timex_val)

    # Substitute tag+timex in the text with grounded tag+timex.
    tagged_text = re.sub('<TIMEX2>' + timex_ori + '</TIMEX2>', '<TIMEX2 val=\"' \
      + timex_val + '\">' + timex_ori + '</TIMEX2>', tagged_text)

  return tagged_text

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February 03, 2016 News & Features » News
Photo by Monivette Cordeiro
Shuffleboard makes a comeback in Orlando
Every day I'm shufflin'
By Monivette Cordeiro @monivettec
A little rain doesn't stop Rick Kilby from a good game of shuffleboard at the Beardall Senior Center.
Slick with afternoon drizzle, the kelly-green courts give a slight drift to our black and yellow biscuits as they slide toward the white outline of a triangle on the opposite end. The cue used to move the discs across the cement surface is called a tang, and while a bit awkward at first, I manage to skid a yellow biscuit into the 10-point area of the triangle.
I can't be excited for too long. Pulling no punches, Kilby deftly maneuvers his tang and glides a black biscuit across the court, bumping my yellow biscuit outside the lines. Two sets later, Kilby is up by about 20 points and my game is somewhere in the negative region.
"It can get very competitive," Kilby says. "At a tournament, I once saw an 80-year-old man that just had a heart attack. He could barely walk and his stamina wasn't good, but man, he was able to put his biscuit any place on the court he wanted. He could curve it around, too. It was so amazing."
Kilby's anecdote is likely the prevailing image people have of shuffleboard. It sounds like something Sophia Petrillo might have played at the Shady Pines retirement home when she wasn't trying to plot her escape. If older people aren't using the dilapidated courts, they're often torn down and replaced with another activity.
But for the past two years, Kilby and his group, the Orlando Shuffle, have been working to change that image. Kilby grew interested in shuffleboard after a visit to the courts at the Kissimmee All-State Tourist Club before they were destroyed, and after visiting local clubs and attending a few tournaments, he became a shuffler. Every first and third Saturday of the month, a spectrum of people — toddlers and their mothers, bearded hipsters, young couples and baby boomers — come to the Beardall Center, some dressed in rockabilly fashion, and listen to the music of Miles Davis or Frank Sinatra as they shuffle under the court's twinkling bulbs.
The trend isn't unique to Orlando. In 2005, a group of young artists and preservationists restored the defunct St. Petersburg Shuffleboard Club, according to the club's website. In its heyday of the 1940s and 1950s, the club boasted 5,000 members and stands where people would crowd in to watch a game. The new shufflers brought their friends, music and food, and currently the club boasts 600 members. The St. Pete Shuffleboard Club inspired the opening of the Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club in Brooklyn, which has a distinct Florida flair, according to the New York Times. The owners painted the courts Tropicana Cabana blue, added palm trees and installed flamingo wallpaper in the bathrooms, the Times reports.
It's not surprising if you think about it. What other sport can you comfortably play with one hand while holding a craft beer in the other?
Landy Adkins, president for the Florida Shuffleboard Association, says her organization has 50,000 members throughout the state, and increasingly, she sees younger people joining the organization too.
"I think the appeal is that it's inexpensive compared to other sports, like golf, and it's a social sport," she says. "You get to meet so many friends at these tournaments, but on the court, it's a different story. I've seen a little old lady beat a 40-year-old woman. You can't give them a minute or they'll beat your behind."
The shuffleboard courts at the Beardall Senior Center had been abandoned for a long time before the Orlando Shuffle came along, says the center's manager, Cheryl Rainsberger. At the height of shuffleboard's popularity, Orlandoans dressed elegantly to attend shuffleboard games and didn't speak while they played. When the Orlando Shuffle became interested in using the abandoned courts, shuffleboard enthusiast Commissioner Patty Sheehan helped renovate them, which included resurfacing the courts and installing lights. People and organizations have rented the courts for private shuffleboard parties and events, Rainsberger says. Last year, Victor Oladipo, a basketball player with the Orlando Magic, played shuffleboard at the Beardall Center with Grant Hill of NBA Inside Stuff.
Rick Marciano comes from Maitland every two weeks to play with the Orlando Shuffle. Few older people attend, and Marciano believes younger people are attracted to the sport because it's a respite from the online world and a chance to interact with others in person.
"It's nice to do something disconnected from the digital world," he says. "And it's a cool atmosphere with the Orlando skyline in the background and just an urban feel. It's not your grandpa's court anymore."
Erin Hearn says she often brings her 3-year-old son to the shuffleboard courts on Saturday, and sometimes her teenage stepdaughter will tag along with them. Another group, the Orlando City Shuffleboard Club, whose members "all have beards," according to Hearn, have started and often play with the Orlando Shuffle club. Hearn wants to see shuffleboard be as popular in Orlando as it is in other parts of Florida.
"I think it can appeal to a variety of different people," she says. "You get to be outside with friends, and it's pretty low-key, but still fun. I don't know, there's just something about it."
Kilby hopes Orlando will become a shuffleboard Mecca like St. Pete. For now, though, he's concentrating on increasing awareness about he game and trying to get different leagues started.
"I really want to get to where you know you have to get here early to get a court or you won't play," he says. "We haven't gotten there yet, but we could."
The Orlando Shuffle's next meeting is this Saturday, Feb. 6, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Beardall Senior Center on Delaney Avenue.
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11th September - The Mall in Reading. Anybody?
If spots still available on monday I may well book. Running a muddy assault course on Sat and I have a feeling I may die!!
Might be but won't know until the Saturday. Will be there on the 18th for definite though.
Soooo.... Who booked this Sunday at the Mall???


(The White House) In a sign that he has lost his internal battle with Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon was summoned from his place in the shadows by President Trump so he could banish him to the shadows.
Before returning to the lair where he plotted how to use the Reality TV star as a vehicle for his nationalist agenda, Bannon asked whether this meant the President no longer wanted his counsel.
Bannon then glid back to the place from whence he came.
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Your Location / BCSP / Publications / All publications / Public Perception of Serbia's Foreign Policy /
Autor: Ivana Jeremic, Sasa Djordjevic
Violence and Sport: Then and Now
BCSP Research team analysed results of the implementation of the National Strategy for Combating Violence and Misconduct at Sports Events from 2013 to 2018.
Serbian Government is Implementing Unlawful Video Surveillance With Face Recognition in Belgrade
BCSP, SHARE Foundation and Partners for Democratic Change Serbia analysed the Impact assessment of video surveillance on human rights, conducted by the Ministry of Interior.
Autor: Predrag Petrovic
The BIA Fighting an Internal Enemy of the State
BCSP Executive Director Predrag Petrovic, through specific examples, analysed how BIA's powers were misused to pressure and combat critical voices.
Autor: Jelena Pejic Nikic
Military neutral European Serbia between the Republic of Srpska and the Greater Albania
What has changed in the interpretation of biggest threats to Serbia's security and answers to them in the new proposed National Security Strategy and Defence Strategy is analysed by BCSP researcher Jelena Pejic Nikic.
Autor: Katarina Djokic
Military Neutrality: No to NATO, We Can Make It on Our Own?
Military neutrality of Serbia is understood as a balancing act between NATO and Russia. Draft version of the new Defence Strategy implies what consequences military neutrality strengthening will have on the defence system, budget and citizens. BCSP Researcher Katarina Djokic wrote on this topic.
Violence and Sport: Then and NowSerbian Government is Implementing Unlawful Video Surveillance With Face Recognition in BelgradeThe BIA Fighting an Internal Enemy of the StateMilitary neutral European Serbia between the Republic of Srpska and the Greater AlbaniaMilitary Neutrality: No to NATO, We Can Make It on Our Own?
Najviše pregledano
A brief review of the Draft of the Law on the Draft of the Law on Military Intelligence Agency and Military Security Agency
Predrag Petrović, Research Coordinator in the Center for Civil- Military Relations ...
Najviše preuzeto
Meaning of Security and the Theory of Securitization
Key words: security, securitization, traditionalists, "wideners", realism, ...
BCSP Associate
Milos Popovic
Member of the Executive Board
Sonja Stojanovic Gajic
The majority of Serbian citizens in favour of EU membership, cooperation with Russia and want better defined Serbia's policy of neutrality
Serbia's Citizen Support for EU Membership is Declining
Citizens of Serbia consider national security to be at the low level
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Public Perception of Serbia's Foreign Policy
Authors: Milos Popovic, Sonja Stojanovic Gajic
Publication Series: Working Paper
Issues: EU, NATO, Peace Operations, Security Challenges, Serbia and NATO, Serbia and the EU
Download: PDF ( 2.05MB )
The latest Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) working study summarizes the key findings of a survey on relations towards major powers and their influence on Serbia and Serbia's foreign policy. The research was conducted from 26 December 2016 until 14 January 2017 on reprezentative sample of 1,403 adult citizens of Serbia (excluding Kosovo).
According to the most recent survey conducted by a questionnaire designed by BCSP the majority of citizens of Serbia is still in favor of EU membership, against NATO membership, and satisfied with the existing level of cooperation with Russia. Perception of EU has recently deteriorated; it remains authority only in the domain of democracy and rule of law, and membership is expected to further economic benefits and international standing. The majority demands a better definition of the Serbia's policy of neutrality.
Complete results can be read here.
The majority views Russia as a political and military power, while USA as an economic and technological giant. EU & Germany are successful in democracy, human rights, and rule of law, and have credible investors. Citizens believe that China is a successful economic and political power.
The majority of respondents regarded influence of Germany, China and Russia as positive, while the influence of EU and USA is seen as mostly negative. Citizens do not expect a change in American foreign policy toward Serbia. Membership in the EU would attract foreign investment and increase employment, while alliance with Russia would enhance security.
One-third desires Serbia's integration into a Russia-led Eurasian Union, one-fifth is against, and the majority has no opinion. The majority has no opinion on the Crimea issue and believes that Serbia should remain neutral regarding the Ukraine conflict.
There is more negative than positive sentiments regarding a potential NATO membership. Every eleventh respondent in favor of NATO membership, one-fifth expects membership to have positive influence on security and FDI influx. One-third is in favor of cooperation through the Partnership for Peace, among them are those who prefer more intensive cooperation.
If recognition of Kosovo were a requirement the majority would give up on EU accession. The length of accession affects the public perception so that the majority believes Serbia will never become EU member. Although the majority is indifferent regarding a EU disintegration, there are more positive than negative associations and especially regarding peace, democracy, human rights and economic benefits.
The majority supports the policy of neutrality, and among the supporters the most numerous are those who demand better specification of the policy of neutrality. Among those in favor of "choosing sides", the majority are the supporters of Dveri, DSS, SRS, DJB and LDP.
There is slightly more of those supporting involvement of Serbia beyond its borders in resolving security issues, and similar in relation to the conflict in Syria. The costs of engagement are key criteria for selecting destinations of engagement. Most support for the existing commitment under the UN flag, and in cooperation with Russia and the EU.
This study presents the second part of research findings. The main conclusions on security of Serbia and the dialogue with Pristina were published in February, while another presentation on trust in institutions will be delivered in forthcoming period.
The publication is a part of the project entitled "Renewed and revised co-operation between the BCSP, regional partners and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs", funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Tags: foreign policy, Serbia and EU, NATO and Serbia, russia, Serbia and Russia, public opinion, research, Sonja Stojanović Gajić, Miloš Popović
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Sweat All Study Guides Homework Help Lesson Plans
by Zora Neale Hurston
Consider "Sweat" a moral tale, one meant to teach a moral, a lesson, one that pits Good against Evil. In this moral tale, what can the reader take away from the reading?
"Sweat" is one of the most successful short stories of all time, according to Angela Hall and Patrick O'Connor in their textbook "Reading Literature Through Film". The story has been studied extensively, including by Angela Hall who wrote her doctoral dissertation at Florida State University on the story.
"Consider "Sweat" a moral tale, one meant to teach a moral, a lesson, one that pits Good against Evil. In this moral tale, what can the reader take away from the reading?" eNotes Editorial, 5 Feb. 2019, https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/consider-sweat-moral-tale-one-meant-teach-moral-1668949. Accessed 28 Jan. 2023.
At the end of "Sweat," Sykes is killed by the very snake that he let loose to terrify Delia. Both Sykes and the snake represent Evil, and Delia represents Good. In this respect, the moral of the story is very straightforward: Good triumphs over Evil. However, Zora Neale Hurston also shows that Delia is aware of her husband's plight while he is still alive and does not try to help him. Thus, she complicates the story by making the contrast a little less tidy.
Hurston strongly foreshadows the end with Delia's prediction:
Whatever goes over the Devil's back, is got to come under his belly. Sometime or ruther, Sykes, like everybody else, is gointer reap his sowing.
"As you sow, so shall you reap" is from the Bible. Hurston strengthens the serpentine analogy by using a metaphor that resembles a snake's motion in curving around a body. The Serpent is the original Biblical symbol of Evil and Satan, so her use of a rattlesnake fits perfectly with a Judeo-Christian themed morality tale.
Delia, although she has some individual characteristics, is not quite three dimensional. She is martyr-like with her hard work and suffering at Sykes' hands. When she does assert herself, becoming more human than saintly, the story's plot also becomes more obviously crafted fiction and less like a morality tale. Although the reader is satisfied that Sykes did indeed reap what he sowed, Delia played a hand in influencing the outcome. In her last actions, or lack thereof, she usurped divine prerogative in exacting vengeance.
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CBC: UBC to allow cannabis use on campus, unlike other schools with smoke-free policies
The University of British Columbia is crafting a policy that will allow cannabis use on campus — keeping in line with its policy on tobacco — once recreational marijuana becomes legal in Canada. But a majority of post-secondary schools seem prepared to stick with smoke-free policies.
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