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Q: Proving irreducibility of polynomials over the rational numbers. Can you provide me with some (easy to use)  lemmas and criteria (besides Eisenstein's)  to prove that a given polynomial is irreducible (if it is) over the rational numbers?

A: Cohn's irreducibility criterion: if the coefficients "spell out" a prime number in any base, then the polynomial is irreducible. More formally, let ${\displaystyle p(x)=a_{n}x^{n}+a_{n-1}x^{n-1}+\cdots +a_{1}x+a_{0}}$ with ${\displaystyle 0\leq a_{k}\leq b-1}$ for some ${\displaystyle b\geq 2}$. If ${\displaystyle p(b)}$ is a prime number then ${\displaystyle p(x)}$ is irreducible in ${\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} [X]}$. Example: $\,x^3+6x^2+9x+3\,$ is irreducible because $\,1693_{10}\,$ is a prime.

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A veteran Robbins TBM has completed one of the world's longest single-drive TBM tunnels to date. At 25.4km (15.8 miles) long, the 4.8m (15.7ft) diameter machine bored the long drive to a successful breakthrough in November.
The Pinglu Tunnel in northern China is the most recent leg of the country's Yellow River Water Diversion Project and was completed by the Sino-Austrian Hydraulic Engineering Co Ltd (SAHEC) JV, led by Alpine Bau GmbH.
More than 500 people gathered at the breakthrough ceremony in a remote area of Shanxi Province to mark the occasion. "The key to this project's success was the crew.
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A few years back, a close friend of mine encouraged me to find a Christian mentor, a lady who could be my Titus 2 teacher in both spiritual and domestic matters. I put off doing it for a while, partly because both my mom and mother-in-law are amazing, Godly ladies who already come alongside me. But I also hesitated because I was shy, and the thought of asking someone to take time out of her busy schedule to mentor me seemed intimidating.
After more gentle nudging, though, I finally took the plunge and asked a lady at church if she would be willing to meet with me every other week or so. It turned out that not only was she willing to do it, she was elated about being asked!
For nearly 6 years now, we've gotten together once or twice a month, and I have grown in my faith because of it. She's willing to ask me hard, challenging questions and to confront me where I'm lacking. I can ask her questions about concepts that I'm struggling with, and I know she'll give me honest feedback.
Had I never built up the nerve to seek out a Christian mentor, I would have missed out on this incredible opportunity to deepen my walk with the Lord. Not only that, but she would have also lost the opportunity to minister!
The Apostle Paul was very much a spiritual leader, guide, and mentor to thousands of believers in the early church. He exhorted, confronted, encouraged, and challenged. Because of his influence, many churches grew and improved under his ministry.
So today, I'd like to challenge you to find your Paul.
Seek out a mature lady in the Lord who has time and willingness to take you under wing. Look for someone who will be both honest and uplifting, someone who exemplifies the Biblical qualifications of a mature believer. Find someone who's in a season of life where she has time to devote to something like this.
You don't need to keep a stringent meeting schedule or have an elaborate Bible study planned. If both of you feel led to do these things, go for it, but know that this can be a more relaxed thing if that would better suit both your needs.
When I meet with my "Paul" (or, more accurately, my "Paulina"), we don't have a prescribed schedule or to-do list. We share with one another about our weeks, our schedules, and our families. She can share what she's learned in her Christian walk, and I can ask for her input on various situations. She's faithful to give me Biblical answers, and I try to be faithful to implement her suggestions.
I have been so blessed and encouraged since I decided to take the risk and find my Paul. It is worth the effort of stepping out of your comfort zone to follow the Lord's command of finding a more mature lady in Christ to mentor you.
Today's action steps: Ask the Lord to give you wisdom for finding a mature Christian lady who would be willing to mentor you. Jot down the names two or three ladies you know whom you think might be a good fit. (Be sure to check with your congregation's pastor to see if the church has any guidelines you need to be aware of; at a church I attended years ago, the pastoral staff arranged all mentoring relationships). Be bold, and ask the first lady on your list if she'd be interested in taking you under her wing. If she's not available, ask the next lady. It might take some time to find your Paul, but finding a Christian mentor is so worth the time involved!
Note: for some of you, finding a local lady to mentor you might be difficult, especially if you live in a rural area or if you're new to your location. Another friend of mine who found herself in this situation started listening to a weekly podcast by her favorite Christian author as a means of mentoring. Alternately, if you have someone in mind who isn't nearby, phone calls, Skype, and email also work well!
Welcome back to the 31 Days to Hallway Praise challenge! At Day 10, we're a third of the way through.
Prayer, memorizing Scripture, and staying involved in your church are all excellent ways to help fix your eyes on Christ. But when was the last time you dug deep into God's Word with a Bible study?
Bible studies are an excellent way to grow your faith and deepen your understanding of the Bible. If we want to be ten-thousand-hour Christians, we need to apply ourselves to the study of God's Word!
Between babysitting and transportation issues, I've not attended an in-person Bible study in years. But that doesn't mean I can't study the Bible. There are so many options available to us today! I can dig out a concordance and start looking up words and meanings (tip: BibleGateway offers free, online concordances right here). With limitless resources on the web, I can do a personal study on any book of the Bible I choose. Or, I can join an online Bible study.
One of my favorite Bible study authors is Elizabeth George. I recently completed both A Woman's Walk With God (on the Fruit of the Spirit) and Beautiful in God's Eyes (about the Proverbs 31 woman). Both were well-done. That said, with her early-to-rise, multitasking ways, Mrs. George's recommendations sometimes make my head spin. It would be easy to start trying to do things in your own strength or to think that business is the same as Godliness. Be careful with any study you take on, and always compare everything you read with what Scripture teaches.
Participating in a Bible study is another great method for focusing on the Savior and not on the situation. Keeping your thoughts focused on Scripture will help you to keep them off of your frustrations. It can help you find ways to praise the Lord!
Today's action steps: If you're not actively involved in a Bible study of some kind, decide which course of Bible study best fits your current needs - an online study, an in-person study, or simply studying on your own with the help of a concordance. Next, choose a time of day to spend studying. Then, dive in to your new study!
If you're already involved in a Bible study, keep up the great work! See what else you can do to get even more out of your current study. And why not see if you can get a friend involved along with you?
Welcome back to 31 Days to Hallway Praise!
When we're in the middle of a spiritual battle, it's important to take care of our physical health. When we're hurting, it's easy to forget simple things like drinking enough water or taking our multivitamins. And physical strain on top of spiritual pain is a recipe for disaster.
So, part of our 31 Days to Hallway Praise challenge will cover taking physical care of our bodies. Today, I want to remind you to drink water. Drinking plenty of water is one of the easiest and least expensive health boosts you can do.
There are a wide variety of opinions on how much water each person needs to drink. Some say that a flat 8 glasses is good for everyone. Others recommend drinking half an ounce to an ounce of water per pound of body weight.
I personally believe that you need to make a judgment call for yourself. If you can comfortably take in more water than you regularly drink, do so. If you are finding yourself running for the bathroom every few minutes, you might want to cut back a little. However much water you decide to drink, make sure you're constantly sipping and not just chugging once in a while.
Will drinking water cure every ailment? No, of course not. Will you see a noticeable increase in health? Maybe, maybe not. But drinking water will help keep you hydrated; it can help prevent ailments like bladder infections; and and it's easy enough that implementing it is actually doable.
Drinking physical H2-O also won't improve your spiritual life, but Jesus has much to say about spiritual water (see John chapters 4 and 7). You can use your water bottle to remind yourself to spend time in prayer if you need an extra reminder. As you care for your physical body, remember to care for your spiritual life, too.
Today's action steps: Find a fun vessel for your water intake. I've used Contigo water bottles in the past, but my recent container crush is a colored mason jar with a straw and lid (note that these don't fit into a car cup holder very well). Someday, I'll get even more creative and add some raffia and a silk sunflower. :) Once you have your favorite container in hand, drink water!
I'm so thankful to be your mommy. When we found out that you were going to be born, Daddy had just lost his job and our only car died. We'd also just bought our house with a higher mortgage than the rent on our previous apartment. It was not a fun time, but the excitement about you helped encourage us and gave us something to look forward to. As a mommy of two wonderful little boys, I was eager to become a mommy to my little girl, too!
Oftentimes you'll hear people complain about the high cost of raising children, the trouble kids cause, and the frustrations of parenthood. While those things may be true at times, I want you to know that children are cause for celebration, are a source of great joy, and are gifts from the Lord. You were our gift during a very hard time.
Your big brothers were so excited to have a baby "stister," as Wing Man called you. They helped me set up the crib, sort through a mountain of clothes that people gave us, and eagerly awaited your arrival. It was so fun to see them so excited about your coming!
You were a very sweet baby and hardly ever cried. You loved being held, you loved sitting in your bouncer, and you loved being entertained by your big brothers. You were so content! This was a huge blessing since Daddy was working nights and needed to sleep during the daytime.
When you were about two months old, I tried to get you to smile. I encouraged you all week, but you only gave me half a smile here and there. When Daddy noticed that I was trying to get you to grin, he walked over and tickled your feet. Immediately, you broke out into a big, beaming smile! He's never let me forget that you smiled at him first. I think he's pretty proud of that! "Mommy tried to get you to smile at her first, but Daddy got your first smile!" he'd say over and over. This is just one example of the joy that you have brought to our family.
So, even if the Lord blesses you with a husband and children some day, know that there will be hard times. Your brand new baby might vomit blood at four days old. Your toddler might lose part of his finger in a door. Your grade schooler might end up in intensive care with diabetes, or your husband might suffer from a chronic condition.
But the Lord also promises to be with you and to give you the strength to endure. For me, He gave me you to help remind me that He is still good even when hard circumstances hit. I am so thankful that He lent you to us, and I'm beyond thankful for the privilege of being your mommy.


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Your doctor may order a test for circulating tumor cells (CTCs) to help guide your cancer care.
One of the major challenges in treating cancer is getting "all" of the cancer, including the parts we cannot see. Even if surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation removes all traces of known cancer, there is still a risk of the cancer returning, often in a distant location in the body. This may occur as a result of CTCs.
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MCQ 4. A 60 year old man is diagnosed with a MALToma. This is attributed to a translocation involving MALT1 and a gene.
MCQ 3: What is the normal average life span of red blood cells in our body?
3. What is the normal average life span of red blood cells in our body?


A neonatal unit caring for the region's sickest babies has undergone a £45,000 transformation to protect vulnerable infants.
Work has just been completed to increase the floor space in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Hull Women and Children's Hospital caring for sick babies.
The unit is a regional specialist centre caring for premature infants and desperately ill newborn babies from Hull, Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire.
NICU manager Kate Lamming said the work, paid for by Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, had extended the "Red Room", where the most critically ill babies are nursed.
She said: "The way we were working meant the babies we were nursing were very close together which did raise safety and infection control concerns.
"We knocked through into an office area to increase the space between the babies as an infection prevention measure and to create a better working environment for staff.
"Some of our most seriously ill babies can require three machines around their incubators right up to the next baby's space, meaning our staff didn't have much space between them.
The new extension has been fitted with sliding doors so it can be partitioned off if a baby requires nursing in isolation.
Parent and family facilities such as the bedrooms and the Kitching and dining areas have also been fully refurbished thanks to the generosity of family and the general public raising funds for the unit.
Babies normally treated in the Red Room were nursed in other rooms on the unit while the area was fitted with new flooring, sinks, ceiling tiles and redecorated.
Staff are now planning to raise funds to refurbish the Blue Room, the area where seriously ill babies are nursed by the team. Visit www.hey.nhs.uk/babyunitfund for details on how you can help or support the staff.


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Browsing Roaming the Arts quickly leads to the understanding that music was the inspiration for creating this type of non-commercial web presence devoted to exposing artists to a wider audience, build their fan base, and drive traffic to their websites. Most of the musicians posted so far have been seen by us in live performance or are actively being followed, awaiting an opportunity for live entertainment to return to the fold. Each post has an embedded video chosen to entertain and give a sense of the artists style. Continuing on to "Visit Site" will take you to the artist website to check schedules, new releases, and a variety of information and links to videos.
Books/Authors indie music artists Music Recent Work from Favorites
Steve Forbert
Samuel Stephen "Steve" Forbert is an American pop music singer-songwriter. Bob Harris of BBC Radio 2 said Forbert has "One of the most distinctive voices anywhere." His 1979 song "Romeo's Tune" reached No. 11 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and No. 13 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Chart. Wikipedia
The featured video dates back to Steve's first recording "Alive on Arrival" and to me was the best break up song of 1978. I may have even sobbed to it once or twice. (ed.)
For more video variety vist Steve Forbert on social media.
And check out his book:
Big City Cat: My Life in Folk Rock
Irwin Finger
As Roaming the Arts followers may have already guessed, I support artists both known and overlooked. RTA especially supports artists seen or known from personal connections. Irwin Finger has delighted folk audiences for over fifty years. Most recently he has performed a "live song" every morning for all of us cranky shut-ins.
Along that line and the recent passing of John Prine check out his sweet rendition of "Hello in There."
All Time Favorites indie music artists Music
Read Obit from Rolling Stone Magazine
was an American country folk singer-songwriter. He has been active as a composer, recording artist, and live performer since the early 1970s, and is known for an often humorous style of country music that has elements of protest and social commentary. His legacy is being noted in every corner of the globe. Evidenced by the hundreds of recording on Facebook and Youtube by musicians covering his songs almost daily since his passing from Covid-19 in April 2020.
Check out long time lead guitarist Jason Wilber
also widely known by the acronym PMJ, is a rotating musical collective founded by arranger and pianist Scott Bradlee in 2011. PMJ is known for reworking popular modern music into different vintage genres, especially early 20th century forms such as swing and jazz. Wikipedia
Breaking that down…PMJ takes songs you know, great singers and players, then performs them in an arrangement of an entirely different form than the original.
Check out the PMJ YouTube channel for a wide range of illustrations.
All Time Favorites Music
Loudon Wainwright III & Family
Loudon Snowden Wainwright III
is an American songwriter, folk singer, humorist, and actor. His natural delivery and wry humor speaks to the fact that there will always be a "Dead Skunk" in the middle of the road.
His sister is Sloan Wainwright.
He is the father of musicians, Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright, and Lucy Wainwright Roche.
Amy Rigby
Amy Rigby has made a life out of writing and singing about life. With bands Last Roundup and the Shams in eighties NYC East Village to her solo debut Diary Of A Mod Housewife out of nineties Williamsburg; through a songwriting career in 2000s Nashville and during the past decade with duo partner Wreckless Eric, she's released records on visionary independent labels Rounder, Matador, Signature Sounds and reborn Stiff Records as well as her and Eric's own Southern Domestic Recordings. The Old Guys, her first solo album in a dozen years, measures the weight of heroes, home; family, friends and time. Philip Roth and Bob Dylan, CD/cassette players, touring, the wisdom of age and Walter White, groupies, Robert Altman, egg creams and mentors are paid tribute. Twelve songs written by Amy and recorded by Wreckless Eric in upstate New York, The Old Guys is the sound of a good girl grown up, never giving up.
Now a memoir joins her music. Girl to City, out now.
Victoria Vox
Victoria has taken the artful sound of the ukulele into eclectic new directions. Her music ranges from upbeat and clever to honest and moving, while incorporating her signature "mouth trumpet" and occasionally singing in French. Her delightful songwriting uses a unique palette of sounds and beats that delight audiences of all ages.
For a taste of Victoria combining Mouth Trumpet and Ukulele check out this Video
Check out Jack & the Vox. Another dimension when Victoria and her husband hit the road.
2020 diversions – see facebook posts for over 100 mini-sets which have keep us company during the pandemic.
Flow Tribe
is an American funk rock band based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The group contains six members who are all natives of New Orleans. The band was founded in 2004, and was featured on Episode 11 of MTV's The Real World: New Orleans, which aired September 8, 2010. Wikipedia

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[Samuel Pepys, diarist.] Two albums containing a collection of more than 500 cuttings on Pepys from English newspapers, begun by W. H. Whitear, completed by Edwin Chappell, with a few by David Dale, with collection of 57 lantern slides for lecture.
Samuel Pepys, diarist; Edwin Chappell (1883-1938), Pepys scholar and maritime historian, lecturer at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich; Walter H. Whitear (c.1853-1932); David Dale; Royal Navy
Two volumes containing cuttings from Fleet Street and provincial newspapers, dating from between 1906 and 1939. Lantern slides undated, but collection includes advertisement for lecture in 1938.
Three items, including two substantial albums containing in excess of 500 newspaper cuttings. The first album was commenced in 1906 by Pepys scholar Walter Henry Whitear, and completed by Chappell after Whitear's death in 1932, the last cuttings in it dating from the following year.
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[ Susan Gilruth, crime writer. ] Personal album of material ("guard-book" relating to her seven crime novels, with numerous newspaper cuttings, dustwrappers, a press release, three items of fan mail.
Susan Gilruth [ born Susannah Margaret Hornsby-Wright ], crime writer
[ England. Between 1951 and 1963. ]
Gilruth was the author of seven crime novels: 'Sweet Revenge' (1951), 'Death in Ambush' (1952), 'Postscript to Penelope' (1954), 'A Corpse for Charybdis' (1956), 'To this Favour' (1957), 'Drown Her Remembrance' (1961) and 'The Snake is Living Yet' (1963). The material in this collection is in good overall condition, lightly aged and worn. Most of the material is laid down on 41pp. of a 25 x 38 cm. album (ownership signature on front pastedown), with press cuttings of reviews grouped around the cut-down dustwrappers of the first six of Gilruth's books.
GILRUTH
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[ Percy Nash, pioneering British film director. ] Nash's own volume of newspaper cuttings, including reports of his work in Italy for Tiber Films.
Percy Nash [ Percy Cromwell Nash ] (1869-1958), pioneering British film director and dramatist [ Tiber Films, Italy; Marie Corelli ]
Mainly English. Between 1916 and 1926.
In a 28 x 22 cm album, with 'PREMIER PRESS SERVICE' label on cover, also carrying 'PERCY NASH, Esq' in manuscript. Cuttings and album in fair condition, lightly aged and worn. Of the 55 cuttings, 28 are laid down in the album, with the other 27 loosely inserted, some of the latter backed with card, and others with labels of Durrant's and other cuttings agencies. Publications include: Star; South Wales Echo; Era; Stage; Glasgow Citizen; Nottinghamshire Guardian; Yarmouth Independent; Bioscope; Evening News; Sunday Express; Aberdeen Evening Gazette; Daily Telegraph; Kinematograph Weekly.
TIBER
Collection of 25 newspaper cuttings from Fleet Street newspapers relating to the final illness of King George V, collected and presented on letterheads for Lord Dawson of Penn, who attended on the king, by the advertising agency G. Street & Co.
Bertrand Edward Dawson, Lord Dawson of Penn (1864-1945), President, Royal College of Physicians; attended dying King George V [G. Street & Co., 6 Gracechurch Street, London, EC3, advertising agency]
Mounted on letterheads of G. Street & Co., Ltd., 6, Gracechurch Street, EC3. London: April and May 1931.
An interesting collection, casting light on media attitudes to the British Royal family and news management in the interwar years. Dawson was clearly mindful of publicity. As his entry in the Oxford DNB explains: 'It was Dawson who composed on a menu card the celebrated lines, 'the King's life is moving peacefully towards its close', having modified this from what he described as "a very commonplace" final bulletin used for Edward VII.' Penn's attendance during the King's final illness was controversial: it was later revealed that he hastened his end with morphine and cocaine.
Attractive and colourful 1930s scrapbook, compiled by G. H. Manchester of Ashton-under-Lyne, mainly devoted to motoring, but with pages of footballers, boxers, cricketers, tennis players, aircraft, film and radio stars, pretty girls, dandies.
[Geoffrey H. Manchester of Ashton-under-Lyne; 1930s scrapbook; motoring; transport; motor sports; football; Hollywood stars]
Mostly compiled between 1934 and 1937, with a few pages at the end from the 1950s and 1980s.
Several hundred images (most illustrations rather than photographs and most in colour), many carefully cut out, all laid down on 68pp. in an album made up from a ruled exercise book roughly 20 x 16 cm, including three fold-outs (the first, beneath a decorative flap that reads 'Birds Unfeathered | Worth A Bit Of Study', carrying eight 1930s illustrations women in underwear). The album has been attractively customised with printed illustrations of motor racing over board covers.
DANDIES
NINETEEN-THIRTIES
Manuscript notebook, titled 'Anecdotes &c.', containing several hundred humorous stories (transcribed and 'Related'), with a few newspaper and magazine cuttings.
Victorian notebook filled with humorous anecdotes [A. S. S. Sidney, Wobaston House, Wolverhampton; nineteenth-century English social history; jokes; humour]
English. Dated between 1866 and 1911.
Quarto (leaf dimensions roughly 19.5 x 15.5 cm). Ruled with twenty-eight lines to the page. Written in a close, neat hand, covering the first ninety-one pages of the notebook. Loosely inserted are twelve pages containing a further thirty stories, on three bifoliums each headed 'Anecdotes &c'. In black-leather half-binding, marbled boards. Good and tight, with text clear and complete on lightly aged paper. Calligraphic design printed on front free endpaper. A charming collection, casting amusing and entertaining light on nineteenth-century English social history.
NINETEENTH
Scrapbook with numerous contemporary cuttings from English newspapers, in the main relating to the Zulu War (1879) and the First Boer War (1880-1881); together with some poetical transcriptions in a contemporary hand.
[Ellis Fasser; South Africa; South African; Zulu War; First Boer War; Battle of Isandlwana; Rorke's Drift]
1879, 1880 and 1881.
The cuttings are laid down in a contemporary landscape 8vo scrapbook (dimensions of leaf roughly 15 cm x 25), with brown calf spine and marbled boards and endpapers. The scrapbook is worn and loose, but the cuttings, although on high acidity paper, are clear and entirely legible. A unique assemblage, casting valuable contemporary light on the two conflicts from the British point of view. The cuttings, many of them extensive, relating to the Zulu War begin at one end and those relating to the First Boer War at the other.
Printed Ephemera
FASSER
RORKE'S


On 27 September 2016, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) announced a new set of core banking security standards and an associated assurance framework as part of its Customer Security Programme.
Compliance with 16 security controls (listed below) will be mandatory for all SWIFT customers – including those connected through service bureaus – from 1 January 2018.
Customers will also be able to choose to implement a further 11 advisory controls.
All SWIFT customers will have to demonstrate their compliance by annual self-attestation. Some randomly selected customers will have to provide additional assurance of their compliance via internal or external audit.
To ensure transparency, SWIFT customers' compliance status will be available to their counterparts.
Organisations in the financial sector will have only nine months between the final standards being published and their being enforced.
Achieving accredited certification to the international standard for information security management, ISO 27001, is the best way of complying with the international best practice that underpins the new SWIFT controls.
Until the final standards are issued in March 2017, ISO 27001 provides the most obvious starting point for SWIFT customers.
Following a series of high-profile wire fraud incidents, including the theft of some $81 million from Bangladesh's central bank in early 2016, the interbank messaging service SWIFT came under increasing pressure to improve cyber security in the financial sector and reduce the risk of wire fraud.
In October 2016, SWIFT released a set of core security standards to "raise the security bar for customers on the SWIFT network".
More than 11,000 banking and securities organisations, market infrastructures and corporate customers in more than 200 countries use SWIFT's messaging platform, products and services. All of them must comply with SWIFT's new baseline cyber security controls by 1 January 2018.
SWIFT released preliminary details about the controls. These are detailed in the table below.
Following a two-month validation period in which SWIFT will engage with nominated security contacts at SWIFT National Member Groups, the final requirements will be published in March 2017. Banking partners will then have just nine months to comply.
From 1 January 2018, SWIFT will enforce the use of the controls by reporting any non-compliant customer to their regulators.
SWIFT's assurance framework has three objectives and eight principles, which are underpinned by 27 controls.
16 controls are mandatory (M1 to M16 below) and 11 are advisory (A1 to A11 below).
The 27 controls are mapped against recognised international standards – NIST, the PCI DSS and ISO 27002 (the code of practice for information security controls that supports ISO 27001).
Please note that these controls are subject to change. The final versions will be released in March 2017.
Organisations in the financial sector will then have only nine months before the standards are enforced, from January 2018. This is not long for a compliance project.
Until the final controls are issued in March 2017, the international standard for information security management, ISO 27001, is the most obvious starting point for SWIFT customers.
ISO 27001 is the only information security standard against which organisations can achieve independently accredited certification, demonstrating that they have implemented the information security best practice that underpins the new SWIFT controls.
Moreover, as well as relying on attestations of compliance, SWIFT customers will be able to request additional assurance from their counterparts that they have implemented security best practice. ISO 27001 provides such assurance.
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Effects and Reason of Deforestation
Categories: Deforestation
Human have consistently rely upon woods to lesser or more noteworthy degree. Woods spread 30% around of the land territory on the Earth (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation) . They help individuals to endure and flourish by giving purging water, air, and furthermore demonstrating employments in the woodlands part. Trees are one of the significant parts of the planet. They are fundamentally imperative to the earth, creatures and individual's life. They are vital and significant for the atmosphere of the Earth, they goes about as channels of carbon dioxide, habitants and safe houses to a huge number of animal types on the planet.
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80% of the land based species, for example, elephants, rhino's, and living creatures live in the timberlands. In any case, the woods assets are being drained at a quick rate. The backwoods all around the globe are under risk as Deforestation or Forest Degradation.
Deforestation is the lasting procedure of cutting or expulsion of timberlands and trees from the land and afterward changed over it to non-woods use.
It very well may be utilized for ranches lands, fuel, mining, farming, development, domesticated animals and etcetera. Accordingly, it influences environments, climate example, natural life, and the atmosphere. Deforestation is probably the greatest test the world face today. Woodlands are the major contributing components to raising the degrees of carbon dioxide and a worldwide temperature alteration. "As indicated by the information introduced by WRI and Global Forest Watch at the gathering, 2018 was the fourth most exceedingly awful year as far as deforestation in the rainforest, behind 2014, 2016 and 2017.
Prof. Clara
The most influenced nations are Brazil, Indonesia, and the Democratic Republic from the Congo, Colombia and Bolivia."
Reasons for Deforestation
The decimation of the timberlands is happening because of different reasons; one of the principle reasons is agribusiness and unlawful logging. "As per United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), it is assessed that the yearly pace of deforestation is about 1.3 million square km for each decade."
Given underneath are some basic reasons for timberland debasement :
Farming/Agriculture: The most normal piece of woods is being changed over Into horticultural land and estate to support an enormous populace for utilization of yields and bio-fuel. Nonetheless, the rising requests have made motivations to change over backwoods to farmland. What's more, cultivating land is turning into a significant reason for carbon emanations. It is cleared that when backwoods land utilized for developing yields, it debases the dirt's ripeness following a couple of long stretches of its utilization. Farmland covers around 49 million square km deforested land.
Commercial logging: Logging is in conclusion independent answerable for freeing sections of land from forestland. It is evaluated that 8-10% of worldwide creation and exchange backwoods items because of infringement of common laws. Most created nations have not just cleared out their own backwoods for timber, yet have aimlessly cleared woods from their provinces and nations (like U.S. also, other mechanical nations). Presently a days, logging is the most significant direct danger to backwoods areas over world. "As per the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), around 24.7 million sections of land of quick wood manors—or financially planted backwoods—exist around the world. Every year around 2.5 million sections of land of land is changed over to quick wood woodlands."
Cattle Ranches or Grazing of Livestock's: Forests are chopped down so as to land for munching dairy cattle. Steers farming are likewise guilty party of deforestation in numerous nations and it accounts 80% of complete deforestation. It discharges 340 million tons of carbon in the condition every year and this is equivalent to 3.4% of worldwide outflows. It additionally builds the danger of fire, soil disintegration, environment and tainting of natural issues. Woods have been secured 2 million square km lands for touching.
Mining: Forests not just contain delightful life, it is additionally loaded up with valuable minerals that people want. The natural effects because of mining incorporate soil disintegration, loss of biodiversity, and arrangement of sinkholes and pollution of water. It is a dangerous movement that harms the rainforest biological system and hugy affects the individuals who are presented to poisonous waste in mining. Thusly, backwoods are cleared to build up mines and develop streets to ship materials.
Urban Sprawl: Population requests and needs are expanding step by step due to overpopulation. The most significant need is settlement; along these lines for development there is the need of building materials, furniture, and paper items and requests are eating the woodlands in thick to satisfy it. New urban communities are stand where numerous an incredible backwoods once stood.
Effects of Deforestation:
Increased Green House Effect: Deforestation builds the carbon dioxide sum in the earth. The proceed with debasement of the woods builds the degree of a worldwide temperature alteration. The consuming of petroleum derivative adds to create more carbon that consolidates with oxygen in the environment; thus it causes green house impact. It is dependable around 15% of green house gas outflow. Tropical backwoods contain 228 to 247 gig huge amounts of carbon that is multiple times more the carbon radiated by people every year.
Loss of Biodiversity: Forests are home of 80% land-based species (like creatures, organisms and other living creatures). Around 1.2 billions individuals depend on woods for nourishment, cover, water, fuel, and nourishment security. Deforestation upsets lives of these species with destroying outcomes. It has likewise added to social clashes and relocation. Biodiversity misfortune likewise compromises the structure and the correct working of biological systems.
Increased Soil Erosion: Soil disintegration can be happens because of agrarian plants and brushing that clear to waterways. Accordingly, soils lose its normal richness then farming makers proceed onward and would utilize more backwoods and it could be proceed with procedure of soil disintegration. It is assessed that 33% of world's territory lost by disintegration.
Disruption of Water cycle: Trees contribute in a huge route in keeping up water cycle. They draw up in the water through roots and afterward discharges in the environment. For the most part enormous piece of water that flows in the environments of rainforest stays in the plants and woodlands are chopped down that prompts dryness around there.
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Kyle Rittenhouse Found Not Guilty Of All Charges In Kenosha Murder – Biden Says He Stands By Jurors
Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty of all charges in the shootings of three individuals in August 2020, two of whom were killed. Attorneys for the teen claimed that the teen fired in self-defense.
As the not guilty verdict was read Friday, Rittenhouse, 18, sobbed and hugged his attorney. The adolescent had been charged with five counts, including first-degree intentional homicide, which carries a life sentence.
Over the course of two weeks, the jury, which was made up of seven women and five men, debated for three and a half days and heard from more than 30 witnesses.
The trial's senior prosecutor, Thomas Binger, stated, "While we are upset by the decision, we must accept it. The jury members deserve praise for their thorough and serious discussions."
Rittenhouse, then 17 years old, went to Kenosha during the protests that erupted after police shot and wounded Jacob Blake. He stated that he intended to assist in the protection of local businesses and the provision of first aid. Rittenhouse entered the gathering with an AR-15 style weapon and shot three individuals, killing Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber and wounding Gaige Grosskreutz.
Huber's family released a statement expressing their "heartbreak and anger" over the conviction.
"As a result of today's decision, the individual who murdered our son is no longer held accountable. It sends the unacceptably dangerous message that armed citizens can appear in any town, provoke chaos, and then use the threat they've generated to justify shooting people in the street "they stated
Rittenhouse and his lawyers contended at trial that he only fired in self-defense, while the prosecution presented him as the aggressor. The prosecutors have the burden of proof, in this case, to show that the shooting was not justified.
When Rittenhouse took the stand in his own defense, the trial heated up. When his attorneys questioned him about why he fatally shot Rosenbaum, he burst into tears. Rittenhouse stated, "I didn't do anything illegal; I was defending myself."
Prosecutors contested the defense's claim of self-defense during closing arguments, telling the jury that Rittenhouse was an aggressor, a liar, and an "active shooter" who did not face a threat of serious bodily injury or death that night. Instead, the state claimed that Rittenhouse was the one who started the fight and put others in danger.
"The jury system works, and we have to follow it," Biden says.
President Biden said he stands behind the jurors in Kenosha who found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty on all counts as he returned to the White House from Walter Reed Hospital this afternoon.
"Look, I stand by the jury's decision. The jury system works, and we must follow it "Mr. Biden stated the following.
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Ross Peterson is Talkin' Bout the 'Clones
Local media personality, Ross Peterson of KXNO's The Sports Fanatics, took to the local airwaves yesterday to prove what we all already knew. Iowa fans can't enjoy success without being condescending to Iowa State fans.
By RevDizz@tom_danielson Jan 29, 2016, 2:43pm CST
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Those of you that listen to Des Moines, drive time sports radio likely heard a rant by Ross Peterson on yesterday's KXNO Sports Fanatics show. If you haven't, you can listen to the podcast here. It's toward the end of hour one.
Our friend, @TedFlintKansas was kind enough to transcribe this rant so we could take a closer look. In fairness to Ross, this all came about because a caller (Greg) called in and was trolling about attendance at Carver Hawkeye this year, and how that would translate to Wells Fargo for this year's NCAA Tournament, should the Hawkeyes be slated there.
Any rational fan knows that tickets would be hard to come by if ANY Iowa team were to be sent there. Let alone a likely 1 or 2-seeded Hawks team with a large alumni base and fan support in the Des Moines area. It was a hack troll job, and they let Greg go on too long. But, you know what? I think that was intentional.
Once Greg started trolling, Ross started formulating this rant in his head, you know the one. The rant full of Hawk fan douchebaggery attempting to put every Iowa State fan back in their place. Instead of cutting off the troll that doesn't at all represent the viewpoint of the Iowa State fan base, he was allowed to continue until Ross was ready to go on his condescending rant that typifies why so many Cyclone fans have such disdain for Hawkeye fans.
Let's take a closer look. This first exchange is the calm before the storm.
Caller (Greg): How many people are camping in Tents to get into Carver?
Ross Peterson (RP): That is because the U of I doesn't screw the students like Iowa State. The guy is asking a question that is the reason why. You want to know why people aren't camping out. There is a very real reason. They have to at Iowa State because the University screws the students.
Chris Williams (CW): Well there is demand.
Greg: Or, or they aren't supporting the team because they don't think it is a big deal.
RP: Tell yourself that Greg.
Well look at you, pretending to know what you're talking about. I could throw some ClonesJer attendance numbers at you, like the fact that Iowa State has had 1,500 total unfilled seats on the season while Iowa is averaging 2,150 vacant seats PER GAME. But that's not the point. I want to focus on the "Iowa State screws the students" bit.
Camping out is commonplace for quality basketball programs. Students famously camp out to get better seats in various forms at Kansas, Duke, Michigan State and many others. Perhaps you don't understand that because being a quality basketball program is a concept unfamiliar to you.
You seem to think that students are forced to stay out there for a week. Wrong. Perhaps this article, written by some actual fans that were in line, could help you understand. I'm going to focus on some comments from @_AlexGookin to help you understand a bit more.
I stood in line at noon on game day of the No. 1 Oklahoma game and was 8th row. Waiting for 5 hours outside in sub-zero temps and another 3 inside to watch Iowa State upset a No. 1 team for the first time in Hilton history was more worth it than I can put into words.
Boy, it really sounds like he got the shaft there!
...There were beer pong tables, foosball tables, card games, music, €"everything you see at a tailgate, but with tents instead of cars. Random strangers brought food, Coach Campbell brought hot chocolate, Hy-Vee catered free beef stew, multiple times the basketball team itself has come and served pizza and even the local police department has brought food and drink. After practice one night, some basketball players (namely, Georges) went around Tent City knocking on peoples tents and asking if they wanted to do photo-ops. The local news channels and even ESPN absolutely love doing stories on Tent City. Outside of cold conditions, there is seriously nothing that a college kid wouldn't enjoy about Tent City and it blows my mind there are people who doubt that.
OH NO! Students voluntarily camping had a great time, got some free food, met some coaches and players and got some camera time on ESPN? THE HORROR! How dare, Iowa State go about letting college kids have a quintessential college experience.
But you're still going to focus on the overselling of student tickets aren't you? Because you're ignorant. Allow me to drop some factual information on you, another concept you're unfamiliar with, from our own CyHusker.
Iowa State oversells tickets because when they sold 2,500 (exactly the number of available student seats) only about 60% were consistently used because college kids have commitments and can't make every home game. So they decided to oversell by 1,000. Of course they can only oversell because there was a clear demand for the tickets (I know, I know, another foreign concept to you), they just couldn't be used every game by the same 2,500 students. You know how many times students have been turned away in four years of overselling?
TWICE. What a screw job.
The conversation continued.
Greg: Has ISU won 5 out of the last 6 or 6 out of the last 7? I can't remember.
CW: Iowa State has beaten Iowa 6 of the last 7 but that doesn't have anything to do with...
RP: What the hell are we talking about?
CW: Alright Sean cut him off. This type of caller gets us jaded.
RP: This is asinine, this is asinine.
I only put this in here to demonstrate that the caller was clearly trolling, and this should have ended well before this. It also serves as a bridge to the meat of the rant.
RP: You know what number you should be concerned with? Nine. Nine is the number you should be concerned with Greg. That is nine straight wins for the Iowa Hawkeyes.
CW: I don't think he is concerned about that.
Great. You got us there. Iowa State fans have openly admitted that Iowa has a good basketball team. Those that said otherwise before the season have since admitted their fault. In fact, some are openly rooting for them at this point because it helps ISU's resume.
In case you need another reminder, scoreboard.
But you couldn't let it go.
RP: Another number Greg you should be concerned with is three. Three is a good number to be concerned with. You know what three is? It is the national rank of the Iowa Hawkeyes right now. Another good number Greg? Two. You know what the number two is? The number of teams that experts in this country think are better than the Iowa Hawkeyes. Two teams! I will give you some more numbers Greg. Here is a number. Twelve. You know what twelve is Greg? Twelve is the total number of points the Hawkeyes have lost to, to three teams that are either ranked or receiving votes in both polls. Oh, oh, Greg here is another one 1,2,3,4,5,6,7. You know what seven is Greg? Seven is the number of games the Hawkeyes have won by ten digits in a row.
I'm going to let the "ten digits in a row" thing go. Clearly you were standing and screaming with rage at your microphone at this point. That "damn little brother troll" got you all riled up, didn't he? All of these stats are great. Even if you had left it here, we probably wouldn't have an issue. I mean, sure you were a jerk to Greg, but he probably deserved some of this.
Here's where we start to have problems.
CW: Two, two wins vs RPI Top 25.
RP: Three their total number of loses on the season. You Iowa State fans can keep bitching about schedule all you want. The fact is, suck it up buttercup. The Hawkeyes are a really good team. In both basketball and football, they are a hell of a lot better than you in football, than you will be in a long time in football, and they are creeping up on you in basketball. The one thing you Cyclone fans had to hold on to. THE ONE THING YOU HAD TO HOLD ON TOO! GUESS WHAT IT'S ALMOST GONE! It's days away from being gone, okay? DAYS!! DAYS!! When the Cyclones continue to fall apart and the fan base, I mean the fan base continues to fall apart and get riled up over every loss and worked up. And try to figure out if Prohm should be FIRED in his first season.
Here's a number for you, Ross. 10. As in Iowa State is 10-8 in the last 18 match ups against your vaunted Iowa Hawkeyes in football. Sure you can throw all the bowl games, and rankings at me, but if you were truly a "hell of a lot better than us in football" this would not be the case. Maybe you prefer the number 6. As in Iowa State has won 6 of the last 7 match ups in basketball. Let's take a look at the last five years.
Iowa State Iowa
NCAA Tournament Appearances 4 1*
NCAA Tournament Wins 4 1
Conference Tournament Titles 2 0
Record in CyHawk Games 4-1 1-4
Average Conference Finish 3.2 4.6**
Consecutive Weeks Currently Ranked 48 4
* - Nobody counts a play in game because 1) It's not the tournament and 2) you didn't play your way in anyway
** - Would be 5.5 if not for this current miracle run
So please, tell me more about how Iowa's going to take the state's basketball flag in A FEW DAYS you insufferable, pretentious prick.
Hawkeye fans seemingly can't enjoy success without belittling Iowa State. You have a top ten football and basketball team, yet you're not satisfied unless you're trying to take a dump on Iowa State. Why can't you just go enjoy your run through a top-heavy B1G without trying to put down a team and fan base that has clearly surpassed you in every way in the sport in recent memory?
NOBODY DENIED THAT IOWA IS A GOOD BASKETBALL TEAM. Even that troll, Greg, was arguing about attendance, but you chose to hijack the conversation and do what Hawkeye fans are known for - belittle Iowa State fans and attempt to make sure that they are put in their place. You just can't handle the fact that Iowa State has had the sustained success that they have.
Suck it up Buttercup.
To your last point. You know, the one outlier among the fan base that's "falling apart" and wanted Steve Prohm fired? Not only is that an outlandish stance to stereotype of an entire fanbase, but you chose to double down.
CW: That was one guy.
RP: That is another good number ONE!
CW: That is one guy.
RP: Number of callers who wanted to fire Steve Prohm. Here is a great number, ZERO, the number of callers who wanted to fire Fran McCaffery. Good job Greg.
The most ironic comment of it all. Allow me to direct you to the following Grantland (RIP) article from just six months ago. Perhaps you want to look a little bit more at the recent fan reaction to your vastly superior football program.
"It's been five years now of unremarkable football, is probably the best way to put it," says Marc Morehouse, who took over the Hawkeyes beat at the Cedar Rapids Gazette in 1999, the same year Ferentz arrived in Iowa City, and who has seen more than his fair share of unremarkable football. "I've covered Ferentz since he's been here, and the 'hot seat' concept has come up in the past, but I've never taken it seriously. ... I've never bought into it, but this year, even in November, even in January after [the bowl game], I'm buying into it. OK, this is a real hot seat now. This is a hot seat year, no question about it."
But again, that doesn't fit your douchey Hawk-fan narrative.
Why don't you spend your time finding more bobble head and pizza type giveaways to bribe your students to games? Why don't you find a few more community colleges to offer season tickets to? Why don't you try fundraising some more money just in case you decide to fire your football coach that might be bad again real soon?
While you're at it, can you just go enjoy your success without being a massive tool about it? Or are we going to be here the rest of your impressive season #TalkinBoutTheClones?
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Quality: I had no idea there was such a thing as Brecciated Mookaite beads – that it was a real & consistent stone – but in fact it is. As the name indicates, brecciated Mookaite is mookaite that was broken up into bits and then solidified into rock again. This created the beautiful, mosaic like pattern set permanently in stone. These beads have the colors you expect to find in mookaite (maroon, mustard, cream) only jumbled and broken up and re-set into lovely patterns (I personally think it looks a lot like those floor tiles they used in office building lobbies in the 60s). Apparently they are quite a rare thing to find, and I've only found them one time, many years ago – here is what we have left!
These beads are not as perfect as I would like to see. They are not consistent in cut (some are a bit skinnier than others) and sometimes the shape is not consistent. They are lovely little beads, but I did find one or two on a strand that weren't drilled perfectly. You shouldn't find more than one or two with a drilling problem on each strand though, but you will find that they have a more organic feel due to the inconsistent shape with some of these guys.


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PARIC News & Updates
A New Era of Downtown High-rise apartments dawning in St. Louis
Written By: Casey Thurman
212 S. Meramec is the spearhead of change in the St. Louis market, ushering in an era of high-end apartments and multi-family spaces making downtown high-rise apartments a reality in the St. Louis area.
Construction is underway now at Two Twelve, a 26-story mixed-use building in the heart of downtown Clayton in the St. Louis market. The building, owned by CA Ventures of Chicago and White Oak Realty Partners of Rosemont, Illinois, will include a mix of retail and 250 high-end apartment units.
For Kyle Wilson, managing director of building designer HDA Architects of Chesterfield, Missouri, the new luxury apartment tower is just the start of what he predicts will be a growing number of such properties in the urban areas of the St. Louis market.
"I think the trend is already here," Wilson said. "We are the first of these high-rise apartments going up here in a long time. But we are already seeing more transit-oriented developments being built throughout the area, around our existing metro stops. There is demand for transit-based residential here, and developers are filling that need."
Two Twelve – the project's official address is 212 S. Meramec Ave. in downtown Clayton – will open for residents this summer. When it does, it will mark the end of what was a long process of finally bringing a new high-rise apartment tower to the St. Louis urban market.
Wilson said that the idea for Two Twelve first surfaced in the early part of 2007 when the project was spearheaded by developer GTE Properties, which originally named the development The Crossings.
In 2008 and 2009, development came to a halt. That's when the country fell into its deep recession. The time for developing anything new, and especially a building type that had not been built in the St. Louis market for years, had passed.
But now that the national economy is fully in growth mode, and the demand for urban living located near public transportation is soaring? The times had suddenly become perfect ones for a project like Two Twelve, Wilson said.
GTE is no longer involved in the project. But White Oak Realty and CA Ventures have proven to be dedicated partners in the project, making sure that construction finally began on the high-rise. Construction crews began working on the project in the fall of 2015.
"The markets opened again. The apartment market came on strong in St. Louis again," Wilson said. "The vision that was always there became doable again. The project survived the down economy. Now was the time to get it done. The goal was to become that first new high-rise apartment tower in the St. Louis market in quite a long time. The goal was to lead off what we think will be a lot of new apartment development here."
Wilson said that the project did pose some challenges. The main hurdle? Bringing something new to the market.
Wilson said that most of the new apartment projects that have been built or are in development in St. Louis' urban areas are of the four- or five-story variety, often with central courtyards. No other project besides Two Twelve brought sheer luxury verticality, with expansive city views, back to the St. Louis market, Wilson said.
"The demand is there for this type of development," Wilson said. "This will give renters a new choice in this market."
Transit-oriented
Two Twelve is an example of a transit-oriented development, a dense high-rise located within a short walk of public transportation. These developments – referred to as TODs – are in high demand in urban areas across the Midwest.
A growing number of renters want to live that urban lifestyle, walking to trains, buses, shops, theaters and bars, all without having to jump into a car.
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Two Governments Call for Opinions on the Shipment of Live Animal Exports
Abhorrence of Cruel Trade Continues as Shocking Images Revealed
UK – AUSTRALIA – WORLDWIDE – The subject of live animal exports will always be a contentious issue as long as the trade continues. As the British government reveals plans this week to explore an end to the trade by launching an online survey calling for evidence and opinions, so another horror story reaches out from the other side of the world telling of the needless and abject cruelty inflicted on helpless animals making reminiscences of pagan rituals seem almost humane by comparison.
In the UK there is a strong body of opinion that live animal exports is an unnecessary method of dealing with creatures which are simply headed for slaughter elsewhere. With many of the country's smaller abattoirs closed in the past few years there have already been strenuous objections to animals being transported ever further for slaughter for the domestic market. Now respondents have 6 weeks to put their views on the matter and one can be sure there will be those on both sides of the debate keen to comment.
Whilst the Rural Affairs Secretary Lesley Griffiths said the Welsh Government backed the ban, citing animal welfare as a predominant factor, the Farmers' Union of Wales (FUW) said any ban was 'short sighted', conjuring up the spectre of 'EU tariffs of 50%'. No ban can currently be introduced due to European Union rules, a factor which will become irrelevant post Brexit. Environment Secretary Michael Gove pointed out that Britain liked to think of itself as a country with more consideration for animals, saying:
"We have some of the highest animal welfare standards in the world which we are strengthening further by raising maximum sentences for animal cruelty to five years and introducing mandatory CCTV in abattoirs. All animals deserve to get the respect and care they deserve at every stage of their lives.
"This call for evidence begins to deliver on our manifesto commitment which aims to control the export of live animals for slaughter once we leave the European Union. With all options being considered, I am keen to hear from industry, the devolved authorities and charities on all possible options and evidence on this vital issue."
In 2015 the government updated the protocols for caring for farm animals and the latest figures available show that in any one year over four thousand sheep alone are transported from the UK to continental Europe for slaughter. British Veterinary Association President John Fishwick commented:
"The BVA welcomes the launch of the government's call for evidence on live animal exports. We believe that production animals should not be transported long distances to the abattoir but should be slaughtered as near to the point of production as possible. Animals should be transported on the hook, as meat, not on the hoof, as live animals.
"It is vital that we maintain the UK's current high standards of animal welfare post-Brexit and seek opportunities to improve them. We look forward to contributing to this call and seeing the results once the evidence has been collected."
Sadly such an attitude does not always exist and a story regarding such voyages between Australia and the Middle East, with vessels capable of carrying up to 125,000 animals, have ended in unspeakable horror, some details of which are just becoming public after film of one of the incidents last August was revealed on the 60 Minutes television programme shown last week.
During the voyage of the Awassi Express around 2,400 sheep died in the most appalling conditions below decks apparently en route to an annual Muslim sacrificial festival. The trade from Australia is principally aimed at Islamic countries which demand halal meat. The shipment, consigned by a company called Emanuel Exports, a firm with 10 employees but a turnover exceeding A$100 million and no website, has prompted the Australian Federal Agriculture Minister David Littleproud to launch an investigation into the trade.
This is no isolated incident. Last year the same company was investigated after over 2% of a consignment of 69,000 sheep died aboard the vessel. In all cases the deaths are normally due to heat exhaustion and the recent film revealed decomposing bodies in pens with still living animals, pregnant ewes birthing, only to witness their offspring dying in enclosures caked with faeces and urine. There are also shots of still living animals simply being cast over the side to drown.
The 60 Minutes show heard 10 years ago from a vet who worked for Emanuel Exports admit he had 'revised' paperwork lowering a death toll aboard one of the ships from 2,000 to 105 and in the subsequent years there have been even heavier casualties than those just revealed. Since that original programme there are reports of 6,000 fatalities on the Al Shuwaikh due to heat and disease, 6,000 more on the Corriedale Express when the ventilation system shut down and subsequently a similar total on a voyage of the Cormo Express.
The problems do not stop at sea however. There have been previous suspensions of exports after overseas slaughterhouses have been found to use inhumane methods of despatching livestock, even employing sledgehammers to kill cattle in Vietnam and acts of extreme cruelty in Indonesia.
Despite the Federal action of launching a five week investigation, the pressure from Western Australian farmers is likely to ensure a limited amount of change to current affairs. There is talk of air conditioning ships, perhaps even a moratorium on summer shipments, but the groundswell of world opinion seems to be that support for the practices of an alien culture is not an aim to be pursued, no matter the profits to some.
In 1995 came the tragic death in the UK of animal rights campaigner Jill Phipps, who stepped into the path of a lorry carrying veal calves for live export. In the appropriately named Port of Ramsgate live exports were suspended in 2012 after the deaths of dozens of sheep and two French truck drivers and a livestock shipping boss all found guilty of wilful cruelty. The export ban was lifted after the local council was forced to pay £2.3 million in compensation to companies involved as it had transgressed EU regulations but demonstrations against the trade continue to this day.


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13 best career All-Star Game performances
We looked at the players who made a habit out of playing in the Midsummer Classic and picked out the ones who had the best All-Star Game careers.
Written By Ryan Fagan
Baseball's brightest stars shine on the All-Star stage, and the best of the best are there year after year. Hank Aaron owns a basically unbreakable record with 25 All-Star Games played in, and Willie Mays holds the record for All-Star Games started with 18.
We thought we'd take a look at those players who had the best overall All-Star Game careers.
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Note the first: We had to establish a couple of minimums for this list; otherwise we'd have a massive first-place tie between the 51 players who own a career 1.000 batting average in the All-Star Game (Tim McCarver, Vince DiMaggio and Willie Davis are the only three in that group with more than two at-bats). So we're only looking at hitters with at least 10 plate appearances, and pitchers with at least 10 innings or five games played.
Note the second: MLB played two All-Star Games every year from 1959-62, so some players have more All-Star Games than All-Star selections, as odd as that sounds. That's how Hank Aaron has 25 All-Star Games played, but he was only selected as an All-Star in 21 seasons.
Ken Griffey, Mariners/Reds
All-Star Games: Nine, from 1990-2007 (Selected 13 years)
By the numbers: .440 (11-for-25), one HR, seven RBIs, four runs, two doubles
Being the best: Griffey's All-Star home run was hit off Greg Maddux in the 1992 contest; Maddux only gave up seven home runs in 268 regular-season innings that year, which is insane. Griffey was just 22, and in the midst of a four-year All-Star Game stretch where he went 8-for-12 at the plate. In his final All-Star Game, at 37 years old, he had an RBI single in the first-inning and a sacrifice fly in his final plate appearance. He was selected as an All-Star 13 times, but only played in nine of the games.
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Juan Marichal, Giants
All-Star Games: Eight, from 1962-71 (Selected nine years)
By the numbers: 0.50 ERA (18 innings), 12 strikeouts, seven hits, two walks
Being the best: Just look at that ERA, and only nine combined hits and walks in 18 innings. Impressive. The only All-Star runs Marichal allowed came in the ninth inning of the 1962 game, an inning that started with an error by third baseman Eddie Mathews (who didn't exactly have an All-Star Game career that mirrored his overall Hall of Fame career). Aside from that, Marichal was stellar, as you can tell by that tidy 0.50 ERA.
Willie Mays, Giants/Mets
All-Star Games: 24, from 1954-73 (Selected 20 years)
By the numbers: .307 average (23-for-75), 20 runs, three homers, nine RBIs, six SBs
Being the best: Even among the best in baseball, Mays was the pinnacle. He holds career records for most runs (he had 20; Stan Musial is second with a distant 11), hits and stolen bases and he's tied for most triples (three, with Brooks Robinson). Mays' longevity didn't help those numbers, either; from the time he was 36 to 42, he went just 1-for-17, which pulled his overall All-Star average down from .379 to .307.
Mariano Rivera, Yankees
By the numbers: 0.00 ERA (nine innings), five hits, five strikeouts, zero walks, four saves
Being the best: Nobody's surprised to see Rivera on this list. He was amazing in the regular season, amazing in October and amazing in the All-Star Game. His four career saves are a record for the All-Star Game. Again, no big surprise there.
Stan Musial, Cardinals
By the numbers: .317 average (20-for-63), 11 runs, six homers, 10 RBIs, 1.029 OPS
Being the best: Musial, who started games at first base and at all three outfield positions for the NL, owns the career All-Star record for most home runs (six), including a walk-off solo blast in the 12th inning of the 1955 contest. His best showing was in the 1949 game, when he went 3-for-4 with a home run and two RBIs.
Bob Feller, Indians
All-Star Games: Five, from 1938-50 (Selected eight years)
By the numbers: 0.73 ERA (12 1/3 innings), 13 strikeouts, five hits, four walks
Being the best: Feller only pitched in five All-Star Games, but he was selected eight times and probably would have been chosen 11 times had he not missed three years of his prime (Age 23-25 seasons) while serving in World War II. He started the 1941 and 1946 games, throwing a combined six shutout innings while allowing just three hits and striking out seven in those two contests.
Steve Garvey, Dodgers/Padres
By the numbers: .393 average (11 for 28), two homers, seven RBIs, seven runs scored
Being the best: In addition to those numbers, Garvey also had two doubles and two triples, which makes him only the second player in All-Star history to have multiple doubles, triples and homers in his career. The other guy? Willie Mays. That's good company. Garvey reached base in nine of his 10 appearances, and had an RBI or run scored in eight of the 10.
Jim Bunning, Tigers/Phillies
All-Star Games: Eight, from 1957-66 (Selected seven years)
By the numbers: 1.00 ERA (18 innings), 13 strikeouts, seven hits, one walk
Being the best: Bunning started three All-Star Games, and he threw three shutout innings in all three of those starts (1957, 1961 and 1962), only allowing a total of one baserunner (a double by Roberto Clemente in 1962). He had two-inning stints without allowing an earned run in four other All-Star contests.
Charlie Gehringer, Tigers
All-Star Games: Six, from 1933-38 (Selected six years)
By the numbers: .500 average (10-for-20), two doubles, .655 on-base percentage
Being the best: Gehringer was already well on his way to a Hall of Fame career by the time baseball's first All-Star Game was played when Gehringer was 30 years old. That didn't stop him from excelling in the showcase contest. His .500 batting average-and that .655 on-base percentage, with six walks-are the highest ever for any player with at least 15 plate appearances in the game.
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Mel Harder, Indians
All-Star Games: Four, from 1934-37 (Selected four years)
By the numbers: 0.00 ERA (13 innings), five strikeouts, nine hits, one walk
Being the best: Lots of players have a career 0.00 ERA in the All-Star Game, but nobody can match Harder's 13 innings with a 0.00 ERA. Harder played 20 seasons with Cleveland, but the Indians didn't make the World Series once in that span, so the All-Star Game was the biggest stage he could find. In the 1934 game, he entered with two on and no outs in the fifth inning with his AL squad clinging to an 8-6 lead. One of those inherited runners scored-Pie Traynor stole home-but that was all the NL would get. Harder closed out the game with five scoreless innings and the AL took home a 9-7 victory.
Derek Jeter, Yankees
All-Star Games: 14, from 1998-2014 (Selected 14 years)
By the numbers: .481 average (13-for-27), six runs, one homer, three RBIs
Being the best: It might surprise you that Jeter didn't get his second starting nod until he was 30 years old and in his ninth full MLB season. It probably won't surprise you that he makes this list. Jeter had a pair of 3-for-3 games (2000 and 2004, his first two starts) and then went 2-for-2 in 2014, his final All-Star Game.
Don Drysdale, Dodgers
All-Star Games: Eight, from 1959-68 (Selected eight years)
By the numbers: 1.40 ERA (19 1/3 innings), 19 strikeouts, 10 hits, four walks
Being the best: Drysdale is tied for most All-Star game starts (five, with Lefty Gomez and Robin Roberts), and he owns the record for most innings pitched and most strikeouts. In his first start, as a 22-year-old, he pitched three innings, faced the minimum nine batters and struck out four. In 1963, he pitched two shutout innings of a 5-3 NL win to get the save.
Randy Johnson, Mariners/Diamondbacks
All-Star Games: Eight, from 1990-2004 (Selected 10 years)
Being the best: The Big Unit started four All-Star contests, two for the AL and two for the NL (he's the only pitcher to start multiple games for both leagues), and struck out at least one batter in seven of his eight appearances (he was selected to the team 10 times, total). The lone run Johnson allowed came on a solo homer by Marquis Grissom in the sixth inning of the 1994 game, one eventually won by Grissom's NL squad, 8-7, in 10 innings.


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Q: invoking methods within a conditional expression In an oft-cited (if dated) reference for C# coding standards (pdf; from Lance Hunt), the statement is made,

33. Avoid invoking methods within a conditional expression.

I've not seen this recommendation elsewhere, including in the .NET guidelines (here or here). Unlike the other very reasonable guidelines in Hunt's document, this suggestion seems unintuitive to me. Can someone provide a justification for it?

A: You should also consider function calls that have side effects (e.g. change some global variables). This can be a more important issue than just readability.
if (funcA() && funcB()) ...

It might be intended that funcB only gets called when funcA succeeds, but you also might do a mistake here. If both functions have side effects and both are needed to be executed, then the code above is logically flawed. This may happen because the programmer was too ambitious with keeping his code tight, but it could also be that it was correct before, but due to some changes somewhere else the assumptions taken are no longer valid.
Therefore it's never a good idea to call functions with side effects inside a boolean expression.

A: First, it is clear from the context that by conditional expression Hunt means the boolean expression in a conditional statement. This is a section about flow control, and not about the use of boolean expressions for other purposes, or about (what I would call) conditional expressions based on the ternary '?:' operator.
I believe the underlying intent here is that the parts of a conditional expression used for flow control should avoid misunderstandings that might arise from shortcircuit evaluation or from side-effects. I can see no reason for avoiding calling method functions to obtain values used in a conditional expression (provided there are no side-effects), and I can see no problem in depending on shortcircuit evaluation provided the relationships between the parts of the expression are clearly visible. It's the risk of hidden connections and hidden consequences that should be avoided. So:
if (x.Contains(a) && x.Median() > b) {} // ok
if (x.Insert(a) && x.Median() > b) {} // NOT ok

There is a further consideration. The calling of a method may involve a performance penalty, so if Median() is slow to compute:
if (x.Median() >= a && x.Median() <= b) {} // slower
var median = x.Median();
if (median >= a && median <= b) {} // faster

Having said all that, I think Hunt does us a disservice by failing to explain what he means. Hopefully a future release will address that shortcoming.

A: It encourages loading multiple function-calls into the conditional, and then relying on short-circuit evaluation to handle branching.
When this happens your program becomes harder to debug.  If you have 5 functions within a single conditional and all you know is that the conditional failed... Then your forced to step-debug the conditional, or spam break-points to see what's actually being called.  In fact, it's probably faster to refactor at that point and place each function call on its own line.
It seems harmless at first, and yes you will be saving lines.  But when your working on a large project loaded with this style, or your project grows and you've been using this style, it's going to add time to your debugging efforts. You should program like it's going to break, because it's going to break.

A: Well, I did not read Hunt's document in full but it seems that his advice is mainly about readability. A statement like...
if(myObject1.functionA() && myObject1.functionB())
{
  // do something
}

...has a certain risk of being misunderstood, because of short-circuit evaluation, and also because of the if-line length. Instead...
bool resultOfA = myObject1.functionA();
bool resultOfB = myObject1.functionB();

if(resultOfA && resultOfB)
{
  // do something
}

...is easier to read, and will always call both functions(). Of course, if you explicitly want to make use of short-circuit evaluation (maybe because functionB shouldn't be called when functionA returns false), then you may be better off ignoring Hunt's rules (note: he says "avoid", not "don't do this under any circumstances").