Last semester, being one of the rare people who find true joy in the depth of spreadsheets, I took a course called 'Advanced Statistics'. It was taught by Dr. Maurits de Klepper, who is Amsterdam University College's Teacher of the Year – and deservedly so. Maurits is not just an amazingly committed educator; he's also a fervent defender of scientific integrity. So while the class covered some of the more advanced statistical methods, we teamed up to put our skills to use in replicating the analysis of a previously published paper of our choice.
There was a curious atmosphere about the class – who, after all, would take a non-compulsory applied statistics class, if not the greatest geeks? – such that none of the groups stopped at just replicating the analysis of their chosen target, but all improved on it. And improvement was necessary! Because it appeared that none of the six papers – from psychology, economics, and public health – lived up to the standards Maurits had taught us (see my paper with my friend Zuzanna Fimińska here). If a bunch of undergrads with a liking for statistics can so easily criticise (in part) highly regarded researchers, doesn't that show a severe problem?
"These doubts emerged and grew as a series of unhappy events unfolded in 2011: the Diederik Stapel fraud case, the publication in a major social psychology journal of an article purporting to show evidence of extrasensory perception followed by widespread public mockery, reports by Wicherts and colleagues that psychologists are often unwilling or unable to share their published data for reanalysis, and the publication of an important article in Psychological Science showing how easily researchers can, in the absence of any real effects, nonetheless obtain statistically significant differences through various questionable research practices (QRPs) such as exploring multiple dependent variables or covariates and only reporting these when they yield significant results."3 The list continues.
In what makes a cure even more evasive, psychology has its very own problem with replication: it's becoming ever more rare.4 Even for graduate students, merely replicating existing findings is an ungainly endeavour, scarcely rewarded and discouraged by what Christopher J. Ferguson and Moritz Heene call an "aversion to the null" in psychology.5 If it ain't significant, it ain't gonna be published. The problem goes so far that it appears appealing to let undergraduates do the work.6 But when discussing my capstone project, even I was discouraged from merely replicating known findings.
It could be disheartening to see how far psychological research is from the ideal that I am taught. In particular, as it appears that many don't exactly want to change anything about it. One paper by Heather M. Fuchs, Mirjam Jenny, and Susann Fiedler investigated how researchers feel about stricter requirements for studies.7 The paper is entitled "Psychologists Are Open to Change, yet Wary of Rules", and it shows that many researchers endorse stricter good practices – but not rules for publication. But what change is that supposed to be? It gets even worse if you look at the statements themselves. For instance, not even half of the respondents (n = 1292, so this is not just a quick asking-around-in-the-department) thought it should be good practice that "Authors must collect at least 20 observations per cell or else provide a compelling cost-of-data-collection justification." This is one of these famous 'you learn that in your first statistics class' statements that you would hope to be deeply ingrained in the mind of anybody who made it as far as grad school, not to speak tenure.8 Yes, it might not be feasible in some disciplines, especially neuropsychology9, but denying it being good practice?
Then again, there are also signs of positive change; not least the current issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science, and the ongoing debate that has motivated it. Elsewhere, the medical researcher John Ioannidis has made an iconoclastic career out of his claim that "most published research findings are false"10 And the Internet, too, opens up new opportunities. The Reproducibility Project is one: an attempt at large-scale, open collaboration to reproduce prominent findings, pooling together small efforts at what might become hundreds of institutes.
Today I went to a workshop held by National Geographic at McGill about their Young Explorers grant program. Rolled out in 2006, the program has so far sponsored more than 200 researchers, journalists, and adventurers with nearly a million dollars.
National Geographic had brought three of their previous grantees to present their work. Andrea Reid talked about her research on Nile perch in Lake Victoria, an invasive predator that has been described as "Darwin's Nightmare" for its consequences for other species. Becca Skinner should photos from a project in which she tried to trace the locations of pictures taken in the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami in Aceh five years after the catastrophe.
I particularly loved the story of Amy Higgins. After graduating witha B.Sc. in Biology, she was working as a school teacher in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmere when she heard a 'myth' about artificial glaciers. Being an avid hiker, she organised a school trip to the remote area and indeed found artificially created frozen lakes.
With the help of two consecutive National Geographic Young Explorer grants, Amy started researching the impacts of the artificial glaciers on local agriculture. They are used to store water for irrigation, which is otherwise scarce in the region. In the Master's thesis she just completed at Yale's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Amy reports that Mr. Norphel's constructions add 20 to 40 additional days of irrigation and allow farmers to switch from growing barley to more profitable crops such as peas.
I loved Amy's story because it's a tale of immense serendipity, although guided by her obvious curiosity and enthusiasm. Very, very cool.
The other speakers National Geographic had brought in included Environmental Anthropologist Kenny Broad, who was immensely funny in one moment ("… if all else fails, go to Burning Man. […] If Burning Man fails, go surfing."), only to talk of the dangers of field research and the friends he has lost to explorations a minute later.
The day was concluded by breakout sessions. In small groups, we could pitch our own project ideas to the old hands (I ended up with National Geographic's Chris Thornton, who did an amazing job giving feedback, and Amy Higgins). There were a ton of really cool projects in my group – on the role of music in the identity of Sahrawi refugees in Western Algeria or lessons for conservation to be learned from the Canada's indigenous people, to name just two.
The Committee for Research and Exploration funds scientific field research. Applicants may come from disciplines such as Geography and Biology, but also Anthropology.
The Expeditions Council supports "explorations with story potential". While these projects may have a scientific component, they should yield material for Natural Geographic's many publications.
The Conservation Trust funds on-the-ground conservation action. The emphasis of this program – the smallest of the three – lies heavily on innovative methods.
I was sad to read that Elinor Ostrom, political economist and 2009 Nobel Prize winner in economics, died this Tuesday. Since I came across her work years ago, she has been one of my favourite economists, and a great inspiration for my thinking about society. My decision to study behavioural sciences, including economics, I owe in part to her work.
With her studies on self-governing communities, Ostrom freed the commons of the attribute 'tragic', as the German taz writes. She showed that between state control and privatization, a third avenue exists for collective action. Bringing together rigorous economic theory and field observations collected by anthropologists, Ostrom mounted a powerful challenge to mainstream economic theory.
In recent years, Ostrom's work gained reach beyond her initial case studies, which dealt with water basins, irrigation systems, and mountain meadows. Lawrence Lessig, in particular, expanded the idea of the commons to the digital realms. The licensing scheme he initiated, Creative Commons, is used on this blog – as on many others – to make virtual products available to us 21st century kids and our read/write culture.
Despite my glowing reverence, and that of many who unite under the banner of the commons in search for a better society, Ostrom's work has always struck my as thorough and tentative. 'Governing the Commons', her major work and the one which established her reputation, is formulated not like the triumphal product of years of hard work, but like a research report. It combines the two attributes of a great researcher; a revolutionary vision and detailed empiricism.
For me as a social liberal and anti-surveillance activist, the role Ostrom attributes to monitoring and punishment in self-governing communities was an intellectual challenge when I first discovered her work. In the past months, in particular, I have spent much thought to the relationship of liberty and punishment. My academic work has focused intensively on altruistic punishment and its role in human cooperation recently, and I am looking forward to dedicating my senior thesis to this topic.
As much as Elinor Ostrom has influenced me academically, I also admire her life story. Until today, she is the only woman to ever win the Nobel Prize in economics, and her biography betrays a sense of the hurdles she had to overcome on the way. Most notably, she received the prize although she did never study economics – when she applied for graduate school, she was turned down as women were deemed unfit for such a mathematical subject, and ended up in political science.
Elinor Ostrom's work has given me a vision of collective action and a society without hierarchies, but it has also warned me of the sacrifices such a community demands of its citizens. She has been an inspiration in many ways, and she will remain a model researcher to me in the future.


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Why U.S. Businesses Cling to Paper, Despite Unprecedented Global Use of Mobile Devices
DALLAS / Ft. Worth, TX/ Nov. 4, 2014 /Associated Press/ —
This year will likely be remembered as the historical tipping point in terms of global adoption of mobile technology, statistics-wise, but may not live up to its hype in the real world.
In 2014, for the first time, more people accessed the Internet from mobile devices (smart phones, tablets and laptops) than from desktops globally. This indicates that "digitization" (turning paper into data) is now the norm, and mobility with full, secure data access, is the expectation. In fact, an initiative started by the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM), a self described "independent professional association that looks at how information and content is managed in the workplace" has issued a challenge: World Paper Free Day, Thursday, November 6, 2014.2 This Thursday AIIM is challenging people to go paper-free for 24 hours and participate in a donation campaign to the Arbor Day Foundation.
What does it mean to the average person that there are now more mobile devices than people on the planet? (7.1 billion people; 7.2+ mobile devices)
If technology is being readily adopted, why are so many people reluctant to give up their "hard copy" files and paper-based organizational processes? How are small business owners, municipalities, highly regulated industries, and those which typically keep off-site storage archives (such as in the legal and medical fields) supposed to know what to do with all that paper?
"Most people like the idea of paperless business, but don't know where to start," says document management and digitization veteran, Blake Crenshaw. "Paper can seem overwhelming. It's interesting. We've noticed that our clients under the age of about fifty, wholeheartedly understand that making the move to Paper Free or Less Paper is actually much more secure for their business. They understand that a building fire destroys their file room, while the off-site data remains undamaged. Even if a business has all electronic systems in place currently, there is usually a paper jungle backlog somewhere that needs to be tamed. It is usually a filing room, or in off-site storage facilities."
While Crenshaw applauds the World Paper Free Day initiative, he is dubious of its having a measurable impact on how companies do business this year. "If We can educate people on how to process the paper documents, with Document Scanning, OR produce less paper through Forms Processing and digital filing, Then we have made a Difference"
"I respect the spirit of World Paper Free Day, and the pledge not to use any paper on November 6," Crenshaw said. "What concerns me is November 7, 8, 9, and so on. What businesses need is someone to walk them through the process, addressing concerns, and recognizing each organization will have unique requirements. For example, some industries, such as health care, demand secure data that measures up to industry-specific regulatory and confidentiality requirements, yet still needs to be easily and remotely accessible, for things such as electronic medical records."
The ubiquitous nature of mobile devices in business and personal lives will soon render file rooms, paper archives, and off-site storage, obsolete. The global adoption of mobile-driven content and access requires even the smallest of businesses to provide this service to its customers, because it is now a marketplace expectation.
"If it's a market expectation that we can order pizza for Monday Night Football, and check its progress via our smart phones, you can imagine how municipalities are under the gun," Crenshaw continued. "Businesses tend to 'see the light' once they realize they gain significant time, money, and space through digitization. Clients have File Room Makeovers and use the reclaimed space for an employee lounge, an extra conference room, or whatever they need. Employees are thrilled to never have to look for a 'misfiled' (missing) paper file again!"
This year, in an effort to educate the public at large in simple terms, Crenshaw's North Texas-based company, WeScanFiles.com is releasing a three-part informational campaign this week that he hopes will bring people some familiarity and comfort with the process. Each animated episode is between 30 and 90 seconds, and demonstrates how past adoption of "revolutionary technologies" led to today, and further encourages organizations to take the Paper-Free Plunge.
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Rio Tinto hopes electric trains will help company halve emissions
Mining giant Rio Tinto is optimistic the introduction of battery-electric powered trains in the Pilbara will help the company halve its emissions by 2030.
Rio Tinto will trial battery-electric trains run off solar generated power
The trial will involve four locomotives and take place in the Pilbara in 2024
If successful the trial could lead to the company's entire diesel fleet being replaced
Rio Tinto hopes a trial of these battery-electric trains run off solar power could pave the way for its entire fleet of 220 diesel locomotives to go electric.
Four locomotives from Wabtec will be made in America in 2023 and become operational in the Pilbara the following year.
Rio Tinto Managing Director or Port, Rail, and Core Services, Richard Cohen, said the plan would contribute to the company's emission reduction targets.
"We want to make sure by 2030 we're not procuring any more diesel locomotives, and progressively as we stretch towards the goal of zero, will absolutely plan to replace all of our locomotives," he said.
Rio Tinto hopes by replacing its fleet of trains to run off solar-generated electricity, the company could cut its diesel-related carbon emissions from its Pilbara iron ore operations by 30 per cent.
As we strive to get our 50 per cent reduction in emissions, one of the other projects we're doing in the Pilbara is building a gigawatt of renewable power before 2030," Mr Cohen said.
He said during the trial, Rio would assess how the trains perform and integrate with the rest of the system.
"These locomotives won't have quite the same power as our existing diesel locomotives, but we want to buy these four and then continue to work with Wabtec to build that capability," Mr Cohen said.
"Eventually, we can do a one-for-one replacement between a diesel locomotive and a battery-electric locomotive."
A battle between solar and hydrogen
Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University, Peter Newman, said this investment signalled a trend for the industry.
"For many years now, I've been part of this discussion within the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]," he said.
"It's really been a battle between solar electric based transport, and hydrogen fuel cell-based transport, which tends to be pushed very heavily by the gas industry.
"This is now saying that electric trains, that are basically fuelled by solar, are likely to be winning."
Other resource companies in the north west were also ramping up efforts in solar energy.
On Monday, Woodside made an environmental submission for a proposed solar farm near its Pluto LNG Plant in the Pilbara.
Professor Newman said solar energy had become more economically viable for companies in the state.
"We have all of the technology; we have the best sunshine," he said.
"I think you'll find that every mining company in the Pilbara right through the Goldfields everywhere in Western Australia have that as their agenda, how to phase out the diesel systems that are being used for electricity, they're the dinosaurs of the future."
According to Professor Newman, consumers and investors have also pushed for the transition to renewables through insistence on carbon reduction strategies.
"All of your investment decisions from here on have got to be about net zero, or you don't get your funding. It's being driven as much by the public and the community," he said.
"The politics, globally, is saying we've got to get on and do something about climate change."
Extracted in full from: Rio Tinto hopes electric trains will help company halve emissions – ABC News


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Thanks to an abundance of cell phones and videocameras, there's no shortage of images of the capture and death of Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi. But now a particularly gruesome one has surfaced that indicates the dictator may have been sodomized before being killed.
The Global Post has an extremely graphic video on its site that appears to show someone ramming a stick between Gadhafi's buttocks through his pants.
[Transitional Council Chairman] Mustafa Abdul-Jalil said at a news conference in the eastern city of Benghazi that the National Transitional Council has formed a committee to investigate Thursday's killing amid conflicting reports of how the dictator who ruled Libya for 42 years died. Government officials have said initial findings suggest Gadhafi was killed in the crossfire as his supporters clashed with revolutionary forces seizing control of his hometown of Sirte.


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Susie and I wish all our fellow West Australians the very best for a peaceful, restful and happy Christmas. We hope this leads into a fruitful, joyous, fulfilling and safe New Year.
There are many people in all our thoughts. The families and loved ones of those lost to the volcano eruption on White Island in New Zealand. The many who are suffering with the dangerous bushfires in the East, and in our own backyard here as Australia battles an unprecedented heatwave.
We are grateful for our first responders and emergency services personnel who stand guard year round. Particularly as the bushfire season intensifies, the work of our local career firefighting crews, volunteer services and the comprehensive warnings and advice issued by the Department of Fire and Emergency Services keep us reassured.
Then we think of our service personnel at home and abroad. We are thankful for the service of all those, paid and volunteer, who defend our community. Our special thoughts are with them and their families.
For most of us, this is a time when we strengthen the love and bonds between us and count our good fortune in our membership of this lovely community.
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MSSP Cerberus Sentinel Acquires Chilean Cybersecurity Company Arkavia Networks
Top 250 MSSP Cerberus Sentinel acquires Chilean cybersecurity company Arkavia Networks; extends managed security services reach across Latin America.
by Dan Kobialka • Dec 7, 2021
Cerberus Sentinel, a Top 250 MSSP, has acquired Chilean cybersecurity services provider Arkavia Networks SPA. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
This is technology M&A deal number 762 that ChannelE2E and MSSP Alert have covered so far in 2021.
See all technology M&A deals for 2021 and 2020 listed here.
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Arkavia will help Cerberus execute its growth strategy throughout Latin America, CEO David Jemmett said. It will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Cerberus and serve as the MSSP's South American headquarters.
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Arkavia was founded in 2010 and specializes in data network and computer security. It offers the following security solutions:
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Information security consulting
Arkavia delivers its security solutions to organizations in financial services, telecommunications and other sectors. It also has established partnerships with Check Point Software Technologies, Fortinet and other cybersecurity companies.
The Arkavia acquisition comes after Cerberus in October 2021 purchased Red74, a risk management and IT security service provider. Cerberus is using Red74 to bolster its managed security services offerings, the company said.
Red74 remains focused on providing integrated risk managed services, the company indicated. It operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Cerberus.
What Is Cerberus?
Cerberus is a publicly traded managed cybersecurity and compliance provider (MCCP). It is committed to acquiring cybersecurity, managed services and compliance companies and creating solutions to protect global organizations against cyber threats.
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Cerberus is growing internationally and within North America. It also looks poised to continue to expand its managed security services portfolio in the foreseeable future.


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Prolamina Acquires Packaging Dynamics Business Unit
Prolamina Corporation ("Prolamina" or the "Company") announced that it has signed a definitive acquisition agreement to acquire certain assets and a defined book of business from Packaging Dynamics Corporation located in Kaukauna, Wisc. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
The acquisition will encompass Packaging Dynamics' extrusion laminating, 10-color printing and converting business. The additional customers and equipment will support Prolamina's focus on the food and medical packaging markets and its growing business pipeline. In particular, it will allow Prolamina to quickly begin producing additional, unique products for its customers. Key members of the operating management staff of the Packaging Dynamics unit will join the Prolamina team. All of the acquired Packaging Dynamics equipment will be relocated into Prolamina's new plant in -- making the new plant one of the largest and lowest cost operations in the packaging industry.
Harold Bevis, founder, chairman and CEO of Prolamina says, "This acquisition is good for both Prolamina and Packaging Dynamics. We are a specialist at this type of manufacturing and we will become even better. Likewise, Packaging Dynamics, through its Thilmany Papers business unit, is an expert at paper-making and we are entering into a supply agreement for a great source of quality papers. Prolamina will now become one of Packaging Dynamics' largest customers. We are also upgrading the acquired machines to be state-of-the-art and then reinstalling them alongside our new machines. As a result of these changes, we will now have a great footprint in the for high-end flexible packaging production. In less than a year, Prolamina has created an innovative, low-cost competitive force in the industry for our targeted markets."
Tim French, COO of Prolamina says, "Prolamina will now have a manufacturing footprint that includes three plants, 12 laminators, 13 printing presses, two graphics design centers, in-house metallization, and converting equipment that includes laser scoring/perforating and pre-formed pouch making. We have redundant production amongst the three operations and provide state-of-the-art supply certainty to our customers."
Completion of the transaction is expected in the third quarter of 2011.
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On the 17th of May it was finally time. My next adventure would take me back to the 50's when the former eastern German automaker VEB designed the Trabant. What was supposed to be a symbol for the engineering skills of East Berlin resulted in disaster. The Trabant had the reputation of being old, slow, loud en very uncomfortable! Just the way The Road Trip Guy likes it! For my experiences with Trabi Safari World on video you can also check Vlog 3 – Amsterdam to Berlin.
Welcome to Trabi Safari World!
With a hard plastic body being mounted to a single piece of steel chassis, the 2- stroke Trabi was the perfect car to explore Berlin with.
Trabi Safari is located nearby Trabi World. Don't confuse the two as Trabi World is the museum about the car whilst Trabi Safari (only 200 meters from the museum) is the site where you can make the reservations, do the intake and is also the departure of your Trabi adventure through the city.
After a short briefing by Instructor Marco it was time to select your Trabi. There is a large variety of different Trabi's available and they would not call me The Road Trip Guy for a reason if I would not take the most obvious "I am a bloody tourist" model out there: The Trabi Zebra edition!
My date for the day!
If you are with family and friends it is possible to fit up to 4 people in each Trabi, but basically everybody gets his own car if wanted. That makes it extra cool and I was able to make a great Vlog about my Trabi tour. After a brief instruction on how to use the indicators and gearbox (located next to the steering wheel) it was time to start the engine.
After some shocking and mumbling the 500 cc two cylinder car was sort of ready to go…! It sounded like your best buddy being severely intoxicated on a party and being extremely loud and the next minute being passed out on the sofa. Oh boy, I was in for a wild ride!
Check in the back the Brandenburger Tor!
I had booked the Trabi Compact edition and the duration of the tour is 1 hour and 15 minutes. We started in a convoy of 6 cars and headed first to the must-see Berlin Wall and straight after to the Brandenburg Gate. It was here that one of the Trabi broke down and we had to get it replaced but not after pushing it aside of the very busy streets.
Now don't worry, the management of Trabi Safari are experts and in no time there was a replacement but these sort of unexpected turn of events is one of the things that makes a-safari-in-a-very-old-car- through-downtown-Berlin so exciting!
Even the ladies have options!
After about 45 minutes of driving we had to add some extra oil and do a refuel. It was great to see the instructor explain how the engines worked and why the car was so high in maintenance. During the whole tour each car had it's own connection by Walkie-Talkie so the instructor was also our guide and would explain the history behind each landmark.
Of course it was very difficult to focus on all that information as I think everybody in the tour had such a great time driving these old-timers. Random people on the streets starting the wave shout and take pictures of you and your car is of course also exciting!
For just € 50,- I can truly say that the Trabi Safari was a wonderful experience. As an old timer lover, there is nothing more exciting then driving an old piece of Easter Germany technology through a city where all kinds of people are happy to see you. If there was a small remark it might have been that the Trabi Museum was not included in the price. Maybe make it one ticket in the near future.
Keep on driving road trippers!


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Object Checkpoint or Web Accessibility Checkpoint?
I am looking at a Test Complete project a company has setup here and there is a combination of Web Accessibility & Object checkpoints used for websites.
When simply checking if a website is operational? e.g. the page is rendered correctly post a login am I best to stick to using the Object or Web Accessibility. I have read the articles online but after something in layman's terms from people whi effectivley use this software.
Re: Object Checkpoint or Web Accessibility Checkpoint?
Object checkpoints have been deprecated in recent versions of TestComplete in favor of a more robust method of using Property checkpoints. So, I would steer away from Object checkpoints.
For your specific need, I would stick with the Web Accessibility checkpoints. This checks page rendering, links, etc., after a page has loaded.


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Eleven police cadets, 7 officers test positive for COVID-19 in Hyderabad
By Newsmeter NetworkPublished on 26 Jun 2020 7:00 PM GMT
Hyderabad: As many as 11 cadets of the Telangana State Special Police (TSSP) training at TSSP Battalion I at Yousufguda tested positive for COVID-19 on 26 June. All of them have mild symptoms of the virus and have been placed under isolation in the battalion premises. Meanwhile, at least seven more personnel working at different police stations in the Hyderabad city police commissionerate have tested positive for corona virus.
There were also reports of an assistant commissioner of police of the Hyderabad city police testing positive for COVID-19. The officer, according to sources, was promoted from the rank of inspector to DSP in 2018 and was posted in a commissionerate outside Hyderabad. He was transferred to the city a few months before the lockdown. A few constables working under his command had tested positive in April.
Earlier, several officers from the Banjara Hills and SR Nagar police stations had tested positive for COVID-19 and all of them had been placed under quarantine. So far, the number of positive cases among police officers has crossed 200, with most of the cases reported from police stations under Hyderabad commissionerate. This includes three senior IPS officers working at Hyderabad. Also, four officers from the police department have died of the virus in Telangana.
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Пьетро Инграо (; 30 марта 1915, Ленола — 27 сентября 2015, Рим) — итальянский политик и журналист, с 1976 до 1979 год — председатель Палаты депутатов парламента Италии.

Биография

Участвовал в антифашистских демонстрациях 1939 года. Вступил в Итальянскую коммунистическую партию в 1942 году, принимал участие в вооружённом антифашистском сопротивлении в Милане и Риме. Представлял леворадикальное крыло партии, сторонник союза с рядовыми рабочими-католиками, а не партийной структурой христианской демократии. В 1947—1957 годах возглавлял партийную газету L'Unità. С 1948 года по 1994 без перерывов был депутатом итальянского парламента, а в 1976 году первым из коммунистов занял пост спикера.

В 1956 году был избран с состав Секретариата ЦК КПИ, в 1968—1972 годах возглавлял фракцию коммунистов в Палате депутатов итальянского парламента.

До середины 1960-х годов придерживался убежденной просоветской позиции, о чем впоследствии сожалел. В 1966 году в своем выступлении XI съезде КПИ впервые озвучил требования возможности несогласия с принципом «демократического централизма». В последующие годы как представитель левого крыла партии выступал противником политики партийного большинства, выступавшего за проведение отдельных реформ вместо трансформации общества, также подверг резкой критике политику «реального социализма» Советского Союза. Призывал к открытости партии протестным движениям «новых левых», сотрудничал с создавшими в 1969 году газету Il Manifesto исключенными из рядов ИКП активистами.

В начале 1990-х годов являлся одним из лидеров партийного меньшинства, сопротивлявшихся реформисткой линии Генерального секретаря ИКП Акилле Оккетто. После распада прежней компартии короткое время примыкал к Левым демократам; затем выступал в поддержку Партии коммунистического возрождения, в последний раз избирался депутатом по её спискам.

Накануне своего 95-летия в интервью газете La Stampa сказал, что остаётся коммунистом, хотя и стыдится больше всего в своей жизни того номера L'Unità, который он выпустил после смерти Сталина в 1953 году, а также заявил о своём намерении голосовать на ближайших выборах за левого политика Ники Вендолу — «в том числе потому, что он гей».

Скончался 27 сентября 2015 года.

Награды
 Кавалер Большого креста ордена «За заслуги перед Итальянской Республикой» (24 июня 1996 года).

Примечания

Марксисты
Члены Итальянской коммунистической партии
Члены партии «Левые демократы»
Члены Партии коммунистического возрождения
Председатели Палаты депутатов Италии
Журналисты Италии
Политики Италии
Столетние долгожители Италии
Выпускники Римского университета
Главные редакторы L'Unità
Кандидаты в президенты Италии (1985)
Кандидаты в президенты Италии (1992)
Кандидаты в президенты Италии (1999)

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Daily Devotion: The Camphire
Bible Reading: Song of Solomon 1
Key Verse: Verse 14 – "My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi."
Key Words: the cluster of the camphire
It is also known as the henna plant. The henna plant is native to northern Africa, western and southern Asia, and northern Australia, in semi-arid zones and tropical areas, it produces the most dye when grown in temperatures between 35 and 45 °C (95 and 113 °F). During the onset of precipitation intervals, the plant grows rapidly, putting out new shoots. Growth subsequently slows, the leaves gradually yellow and fall during prolonged dry or cool intervals. It does not thrive where minimum temperatures are below 11 °C (52 °F). Temperatures below 5 °C (41 °F) will kill the henna plant.
Isn't it interesting that the camphire doesn't thrive during the dry and/or cool season? Nor do we thrive during times of dry and cool spiritual times.
Take David, for example. During the times David was close to God he lived victoriously and conquered bears, lions, and giants. But during the dry and cool spiritual times in David's life, he complained and felt overwhelmed by the trials of life.
It is important that the dry and cool times of our spiritual walk be severed or they will grow and become a famine and a freeze to us spiritually.
The man huddled on the cabin floor was slowly freezing to death. It was high in the Rockies in southwestern Alberta, and outside a blizzard raged. John Elliott had logged miles that day through the deep snows of the mountain passes. As he checked for avalanches and as dusk and exhaustion overcame him he had decided to "hole-up." He made it wearily to his cabin but somewhat dazed with fatigue, he did not light a fire or remove his wet clothing.
As the blizzard blasted through the cracks in the old cabin walls, the sleeping forest ranger sank into oblivion, paralyzed by the pleasure of the storm's icy caress. Suddenly, however, his dog sprang into action, and with unrelenting whines, finally managed to rouse his near-comatose friend. The dog was John's constant companion, a St. Bernard, one of a long line of dogs famous for their heroics in times of crisis. "If that dog hadn't been with me, I'd be dead today," John Elliott says. "When you're freezing to death you actually feel warm all over, and don't wake up because it feels too good.
This moving story illustrates the spiritual condition of many people today. They are cold spiritually, and sadly are oblivious of their true condition. Thank God for all the ways in which He arouses such sleepers. He sends His messengers to nudge them awake. Sometimes the methods used to awaken them are drastic, but always for their good. Let us not imagine that because He shakes us, He therefore hates us. He awakens us from lethargy because He loves us, and wants to save us from an eternal death. When we were "ready to perish" (Isaiah 27:13), He was "ready to save" (Isaiah 38:20). Trust your life in His hand.
✞ To have a close relationship with God is not just a need for us, but a necessity!
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