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Severe coral bleaching worsens in most pristine parts of Great Barrier Reef...
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Coral bleaching at Lizard Island off the coast of Queensland. Damage to parts of the Great Barrier Reef has worsened. Photograph: Wwf Australia/AFP/Getty Images
Expert blames global warming, as coral bleaches when water temperatures go above a certain threshold for an extended period of time...
Damage to parts of the Great Barrier Reef has worsened, leading authorities to raise the alert to the second-highest level, indicating severe local coral bleaching.
Severe coral bleaching in Votua Village's marine protected area, pictured in February 2016. Photograph: Courtesy of Reef Explorer Fiji Ltd
Australia's world heritage-listed reef is threatened by warmer waters that have killed off coral in Fiji but the full impact depends on the weather
The bleaching is worst in the most pristine and remote parts of the reef north of Cairns, according to Terry Hughes, convenor of the National Coral Taskforce. "It's the jewel in the crown of the Great Barrier Reef and it's now getting a quite a serious impact from this bleaching event," he said. "The northern reefs are bleaching quite badly now."
Hughes said it appeared there was some coral death occurring in northern reefs.
Russell Reichelt, the chairman of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority said the area around Lizard Island, 250km north of Cairns, and sites further north, had fared the worst.
The US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration predicts bleaching conditions to worsen over the coming weeks.
The world is currently in the grips of the third global coral bleaching event. Coral bleaches when water temperatures are raised above a certain threshold for an extended period of time.
Heron Island reef, Queensland, part of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, affected by a major bleaching event. Photograph: Courtesy of Oregon State University
Bleaching events triggered by CO2 emissions will make oceans acidic and hostile for coral growth, new studies say
Hughes, director of the ARC centre of excellence for coral reef studies at James Cook University, said although the strong El Niño occurring now is partly to blame for the bleaching event, the real culprit is global warming caused by carbon emissions.
"These massive thousand-kilometer bleaching events didn't happen thirty years ago," he said. "No-one ever recorded a mass bleaching event in the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, until the middle of the 1980s … and the Great Barrier Reef didn't bleach until 1998 for the first time."
"The baseline temperature on the barrier reef has gone up between a half a degree and a full degree depending where you are on the great barrier reef. Bleaching happens once coral sits in water a degree or two above the normal summer maximum for a month or so."
Moreover, Reichelt said climate change is expected to increase the severity El Niño weather patterns.
We're heading to a point where the Great Barrier Reef might bleach during every El Niño, risking its very existence.
Hughes says we are heading towards a future where the Great Barrier Reef might bleach during every El Niño , which will put its existence at risk.
Based on the severity of bleaching reports, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has lifted its bleaching warning from Response Level 1, which means mild and widespread bleaching, to Response Level 2 (severe and local).
The silver lining in the announcement is cloud cover and cooler temperatures have created safer conditions for two thirds of the reef – most areas south of Cairns.
"In the last couple of weeks we've had a lot of cloud cover in the middle and the south, so the danger period has basically passed for the reef south of Cairns."
But the announcement has led to calls for immediate action from conservation groups around Australia.
Greenpeace called for Queensland to limit its coal exporting. "In the two weeks since the level 1 response plan began, the Queensland government has allowed some 8m tonnes of coal to be exported straight through this delicate ecosystem. This coal will be burnt overseas, driving climate change, warming our oceans and contributing to coral bleaching," said Shani Tager, Greenpeace Reef Campaigner.
The Queensland minister for the environment and the reef, Steven Miles, says there have been signs of only minor damage but an expert says any confidence is misplaced. Photograph: Doug Perrine/Nature Picture Library/Corbis
Severe bleaching can be lethal to reef systems, triggering long-term degradation through the erosion of underlying structures
Imogen Zethoven, the Great Barrier Reef campaign director at the Australian Marine Conservation Society said: "As the bleaching on the Reef continues to intensify we need an urgent response from the Turnbull government to avoid widespread bleaching happening repeatedly in the future."
"This bleaching event has revealed the true cost of approving more coal mines, more coal export port terminals and refusing to listen to the warnings ... The solutions are clear, we must make a rapid transition from mining and burning coal to 100% renewable energy."
WWF-Australia called for an injection of $1m in federal funding for coral monitoring.
"GBRMPA is clearly concerned and is being proactive in lifting its response level and we support them in taking this action," said WWF spokesperson Richard Leck.
"Surveying the impact of this bleaching event requires significant additional funds because of the challenges of getting scientists into the field over enormous distances."
Michael Slezak
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Monday 14 March 2016 01.36 EDT
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Q: Fixing rounded R values in xtable in knitr Has anyone come up with a solution to adjust rounded R values shown in a knitr document, either as stand along \Sexpr{} or through xtable? Typing?round returns Note that for rounding off a 5, the IEC 60559 standard is expected to be used, 'go to the even digit'.
My problem is the following scenario when showing calculated numbers from a dataframe using xtable. If the values were each shown in a separate column in a table, the reader would assume there is a calculation error:
2.5 + 3.1 = 5.6
would show up as
2 + 3 = 6
when R rounds the numbers (I have set the significant digits to 0 since the audience doesn't need more detail). This situation could potentially happen no matter how many decimal places are shown (and I would like to avoid showing any!).
I use the following for inline expressions, however I rarely insert a number into the paragraph and it usually isn't shown as a calculation. This will show 1 decimal place for numbers less than 10 and greater than -10 and should round up on even numbers ending with 0.5.
number_hook <- function(x) {
  if (is.numeric(x)) {
    if (x < 10 & x > 0 | x < 0 & x > -10) {
      y = prettyNum(x,
                    small.mark = ".",
                    digits = 2)
      return(y)

    } else if (sign(x) == 1) {
      y = x + 0.5
      y = trunc(y)
      y = prettyNum(y, big.mark = ",", small.mark = ".", digits = 0)
      return(y)

    } else if (sign(x) == -1) {
      y = x - 0.5
      y = trunc(y)
      y = prettyNum(y, big.mark = ",", small.mark = ".", digits = 0)
      return(y)
    }

  } else {
    x
  }
}

Any help, work-arounds, or suggestions are appreciated! Thank you!
I have also visited this similar question.

A: My original recommendation did not work correctly. First you should modify your original function.
number_hook <- function(x) {
  ifelse(abs(x) < 10 & abs(x) > 0, prettyNum(x, small.mark = ",", digits = 2), trunc(x))
}

This should simplify the number of if statements. Then you can use:
xtable::xtable(dplyr::mutate_if(iris, is.numeric, number_hook))

To apply the function to every numeric column in your data frame.
Try it on:
foo <- data.frame(a = rnorm(10), b = rnorm(10, 10), c = rnorm(10, -10))
xtable::xtable(dplyr::mutate_if(foo, is.numeric, number_hook))

And you should get values that you need.

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The study of the Late Roman/Early Byzantine world has been of great interest to scholars throughout the centuries. However, this fascinating historical epoch has proved obscure to many modern students as well as interested readers among the general public. To study this period in detail in English, the reader is often forced to consult a few well-known works, such as Gibbon's The Fall of the Roman Empire. Unfortunately, the works of many of Gibbon's predecessors, contemporaries and successors, as well as the primary sources used by them, are not as easy to lay hands on absent a first-class library. This can be a cause of some frustration for a student or researcher wanting to trace references back to their original sources, or seeking a confirmation or counterpoint for claims made in modern works.
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More than simply the biography of a great saint, The Life of Saint Augustine provides a tantalizing glimpse into life in late Roman Africa—a prosperous society on the verge of destruction.
The Life of Saint Simeon Stylites is an intriguing primary account of the prototypical pillar saint—the first of those indefatigable holy athletes who took their stand atop a high column. Of unknown authorship, this vita was originally written in Syriac and was most likely penned shortly after Simeon's death in AD 459.
Typical of hagiographic literature of the time, Simeon's biography is littered with tales of mystical events, miraculous cures, piety rewarded, depravity punished, divine and satanic interventions in the lives of men. But the vita also contains a wealth of information about monastic and penitential practices and provides dozens of vignettes chronicling daily Christian life and the many hardships faced by ordinary citizens of the late Roman Empire in the East.
Originally published in the Journal of the American Oriental Society in 1915, this edition of Rev. Lent's English translation of Bedjan's Syriac vita has been augmented with a preface, updated bibliography, additional editorial notes, and an index.
This volume also includes another article originally published in JAOS entitled, "The Letters of Simeon the Stylite." Written by Charles C. Torrey in 1899, this article offers English translations of several letters purportedly written by Simeon, along with a useful discussion of the controversy over the saint's opinion of the Council of Chalcedon.
Constantine the Great is one of those rare historical figures who is nearly as controversial today as he was in his own time. Lauded, both then and now, as a military hero who ended the brutal persecutions of Christians and as the first Roman emperor to himself embrace Christianity, Constantine is just as often vilified as a destructive innovator, a coddler of heretics, and a tyrannical hypocrite with the blood of his own family on his hands.
This anonymous translation of this important work was originally published in 1845 by Bagster and Sons.
Having witnessed the endless string of disasters that shattered his beloved Italy in the late 6th century AD, Pope Saint Gregory the Great set down in the Dialogues a sequence of tales to help his contemporaries escape from their worldly troubles and contemplate eternal life.
Peter, Gregory's interlocutor, laments that he has never heard of anyone famous in Italy for virtue. To set him straight, Gregory offers an entire litany of stories of Italian saints—from Honoratus of Funda who pinned a great rock to a mountainside to prevent it from crushing an abbey, to the holy virgin Tarsilla who received a vision of Pope Felix immediately before her death. Several of these stories are well known even to this day, while others, like the story of Florentius and his ill-fated bear, are merely strange and picturesque.
Perhaps most importantly, Gregory's Dialogues contain an entire book dedicated to the life of Saint Benedict of Nursia. This portion of the Dialogues represents the most detailed and lengthy biography of Benedict from a near contemporary and is the source of many of the stories told about this important saint.
Often viewed as mere folk-history, the Dialogues served a higher function than simple history—they were a spiritual exhortation to Gregory's worn and weary countrymen. To modern readers, these tales of visions, miracles and extraordinary Christian virtue paint a vivid portrait of daily life amid the wreckage of once-prosperous Roman Italy. In addition, the Dialogues offer a glimpse into the theology of one of the great minds of the Church during the time when Roman authority ebbed forever in the West and ecclesiastical authority emerged to fill the void.
Born about the year AD 200, Thascus Caecillius Cyprianus was the scion of an ancient and noble Roman family living in North Africa. A convert to Christianity in mid-life, Cyprian was acclaimed bishop of Carthage during a time of intense Empire-wide persecution by the Roman imperial authorities under the emperor Decius. In the twelve year span between his conversion and his martyrdom in AD 258 during the reign of Valerian, Cyprian wrote some of the most important foundational documents of the ante-Nicene Church.
This volume contains the entirety of Saint Cyprian's writing--13 treatises and all of his correspondence, 82 letters in all. It also includes "The Life and Passion of Saint Cyprian" by his companion, Pontius the Deacon, as well as the minutes of the Seventh Council of Carthage over which Cyprian presided. His writings encompass the major issues of his day including the Roman persecutions, the unity of the Church, dealing with those who renounced the faith under threat from the state (the lapsi), the Novatian heresy and the rebaptism controversy. His correspondents included the most illustrious men of the early Latin Church, including three Popes--Cornelius, Stephen I, and Sixtus II.
Read and cited frequently by theologians down through the ages, Saint Cyprian's writings are of surpassing authority and were considered works of genius "brighter than the sun" by Saint Jerome. Aside from their obvious ecclesiastical import, the works of Cyprian also offer a detailed and unique glimpse into Roman society at the height of the anti-Christian persecutions and demonstrate the growth and struggles of the early Church during a time of intense external political pressure.
Based on the translation originally published as part of The Ante-Nicene Fathers , this new edition includes a new introduction, updated commentary, an updated bibliography, and several new appendices including "The Quotable Cyprian".
Attila, king of the Huns, is a name universally known even 1,500 years after his death. His meteoric rise and legendary career of conquest left a trail of destroyed cities across the Roman Empire. At its height, his vast domain commanded more territory than the Romans themselves, and those he threatened with attack sent desperate embassies loaded with rich tributes to purchase a tenuous peace. Yet as quickly he appeared, Attila and his empire vanished with startling rapidity. His two decades of terror, however, had left an indelible mark upon the pages of European history.
Priscus was a late Roman historian who had the ill luck to be born during a time when Roman political and military fortunes had reached a nadir. An eye-witness to many of the events he records, Priscus's history is a sequence of intrigues, assassinations, betrayals, military disasters, barbarian incursions, enslaved Romans and sacked cities. Perhaps because of its gloomy subject matter, the History of Priscus was not preserved in its entirety. What remains of the work consists of scattered fragments culled from a variety of later sources. Yet, from these fragments emerge the most detailed and insightful first-hand account of the decline of the Roman Empire, and nearly all of the information about Attila's life and exploits that has come down to us from antiquity.
Translated by classics scholar Professor John Given of East Carolina University, this new translation of the Fragmentary History of Priscus arranges the fragments in chronological order, complete with intervening historical commentary to preserve the narrative flow. It represents the first translation of this important historical source that is easily approachable for both students and general readers.
A religious historian sympathetic to orthodoxy, Sozomen's focus is on the various quarrels, councils, schisms and reconciliations which roiled the Church at the time when Christians exited the catacombs and entered directly into the imperial administration. He provides exceptionally detailed descriptions of the heresy of Arius and the resulting religious controversies which followed the Council of Nicaea, including the recurring depositions and reinstatements of Saint Athanasius as bishop of Alexandria. With an obvious personal interest in monasticism, Sozomen provides some of the best contemporary accounts of the lives and deeds of famous monks from across the Roman world.
Chronicling occurrences over the course of a century, Sozomen's History is an invaluable source on the fateful reigns of emperors such as Constantine the Great, Constantius II, Julian the Apostate, Valens, Theodosius the Great, and the empress Pulcheria. He provides anecdotes about Popes like Julius I, Liberius, and Innocent I, and great saints such as Anthony of Egypt, Ambrose of Milan, and John Chrysostom. He also includes verbatim reproductions of various ancient letters and edicts which circulated among saints, heretics and emperors as they debated the momentous religious and political questions of the age.
Drawn from the elegant Bohn Ecclesiastical Library translation of 1855, this edition of Sozomen's History has been completely re-typeset for the modern reader. Obvious typographical errors in the original text have been corrected, and punctuation has been modernized to aid with text flow. To help make the text more accessible for students and general readers, this edition also includes numerous updated explanatory notes, a current bibliography, and an index of people, places and key terms.
a collection of notable excerpts from the history.
Saint Ambrose of Milan is one of the towering figures of the late 4th century AD. A high official in the western Roman government, Ambrose was conscripted against his will by the people of Milan to serve as their bishop. He would go on to become one of the most important fathers of the Western Church: a fierce opponent of heretics, admonisher of emperors, voluminous writer, worker of miracles, and the spiritual father of other great saints.
This biography of Ambrose was written by one of the deacons who served under him: Paulinus of Milan. Paulinus was encouraged in this biographical effort by none other than Saint Augustine of Hippo, Ambrose's most famous disciple. Written in a style similar to other works of hagiography from the same time, such as the Life of Saint Anthony by Saint Athanasius, Paulinus places Ambrose in his historical and spiritual context, drawing an enduring picture of the man and his times that has helped to cement Ambrose as one of the great holy men of the ancient Church.
As a primary source, The Life of Saint Ambrose includes numerous first-hand accounts which were witnessed by Paulinus himself or related to him by those close to Ambrose. The important figures whose lives intersected with that of Ambrose included the Roman emperors Gratian, Theodosius the Great, and Valentinian II; the Arian empress Justina; usurpers Eugenius and Arbogast; the magister militum Stilicho, and saints like Marcellina, Simplicianus, Bassianus, Venerius, and many others.
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From The Report: Mongolia 2013
With a population of 2.8m inhabiting its wind-swept, grassy steppes and vast expanses of desert, Mongolia is the world's most sparsely populated country. Its primary religion is Buddhism, though it is estimated that 40% of the population does not practise religion. Ninety per cent of the population speaks Mongolian, most using the Khalkha Mongol dialect, which shares lineage with Turkic, Japanese and Korean languages. Nomadic tradition, particularly the herding of livestock, remains one of the biggest influences on the national culture. In 1990, Mongolia abandoned a single-party communist dictatorship and adopted a mixed presidential-parliamentary system. The nation continues to emerge as a key centre for mining investment, with a wide variety of important mineral reserves, and also offers potential in a variety of other sectors, including telecoms and IT, agriculture, transportation and logistics. This chapter includes interviews with President Ts. Elbegdorj, Prime Minister N. Altankhuyag, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Bob Carr and Russian Federation Ambassador Victor V. Samoilenko.
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At a crossroads: The twin task of advancing political and market reforms
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Raymond ist ein Ort im Hinds County im US-Bundesstaat Mississippi, etwa 20 Kilometer südwestlich der Hauptstadt Jackson. Raymond gehört zur Jackson Metropolitan Statistical Area und ist neben Jackson einer von zwei County Seats des Hinds County.

Am 12. Mai 1863 kam es nahe dem Ort zum Gefecht bei Raymond zwischen Soldaten der Konföderierten Staaten und der Army of the Tennessee (Union). Die Schlacht war Teil des Zweiten Vicksburg-Feldzugs im Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg und endete mit einem Sieg der Unionstruppen.

Im Jahre 1903 begann der Bau eines Wasserturms auf dem zentralen Platz in der Stadtmitte. Zwischen 1857 und 1859 war an diesem Platz bereits ein Gerichtsgebäude, das Hinds County Courthouse, errichtet worden, welches noch bis heute für Countyangelegenheiten zuständig ist. 1917 wurde eine kleine landwirtschaftliche High School mit 117 Studenten eröffnet, die sich über die Jahre hinweg immer weiter vergrößerte und seit 1987 als Hinds Community College bekannt ist. Mit über 12.000 Studenten und sechs Campussen gilt es als das heute größte Community College in Mississippi.

Bei der Volkszählung 2010 hatte die Stadt 1933 Einwohner, davon waren 849 Weiße und 1031 Schwarze. Im Jahr 2014 waren es bereits 2177 Einwohner; das entspricht einem Bevölkerungswachstum von 30,8 % im Zeitraum von 2000 bis 2014.

Das Raymond Post Office wird vom United States Postal Service betrieben. In der Nähe der Stadt befindet sich außerdem eine Justizvollzugsanstalt für Jugendliche, das Oakley Youth Development Center.

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Persönlichkeiten
 Muna Lee (1895–1965), US-amerikanische Dichterin und Aktivistin, erste Ehefrau von Luis Muñoz Marín
 John Bell Williams (1918–1983), US-amerikanischer Politiker, Gouverneur von Mississippi
 Jeremy Williams (* 1991), US-amerikanischer Footballspieler

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America welcome Deputy Attorney Rod Rosenstein confirming that Attorney General Bill Barr is conducting due diligence in redacting classified information and grand jury information before releasing the Mueller report and that Barr's letter to Congress accurately captured the conclusions in the report. They also scold Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for letting his personal animosity against former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli obstruct President Trump from possibly making a great choice to lead the Department of Homeland Security. And they react to former FBI Director Jim Comey's pathetic claim that conducting electronic surveillance isn't really spying.
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Jim is the senior political correspondent for National Review, and author of the Morning Jolt newsletter.


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Is Your Boyfriend Threatened By Your Success?
Why does it take a woman's earned success to bring out the sad puppy for a dude?
Who run the world? Women … and apparently men don't like it. A new study revealed that a woman's success makes her man feel self-conscious; while she feels better about her relationship when her man succeeds.
For all those times that your man took you out to celebrate your promotion or work award; turns out he was probably enjoying your success at the cost of his own ego. The research, performed at the University of South Florida, showed that a straight man's self-esteem dropped following their romantic partner's success.
In the study, researchers found that when they gave men a test to determine how they felt about their partners achievements subconsciously, it was clear that every man whose partner performed well experienced a drop in self-worth. While the researchers attributed that this could all be due to the fact that men are more competitive than women, for a woman, the cold hard facts still sting.
In the workplace — and in life — I've never met a woman who hasn't gone over-the-top to get a report in ahead of time or pick up the check when out to drink with friends. Sure, it doesn't happen every time, but I think it's safe to say that the days of taking a backseat to a man (and the male ego) are long gone — which is why the latest study feels like a huge step in the wrong direction for so many committed women.
Study author Kate Ratliff offers her own explanation, saying, "Self-esteem might be impacted when one fails to fulfill the roles ascribed to one's gender," in the study's published report. However, if that held true, wouldn't a man just be disappointed in himself? Why does it take a woman's earned success to bring out the sad puppy for a dude? We already make less than a man (women on average make only 77 cents to every dollar earned by men), have to work harder to prove ourselves, deal with sexism daily in the workplace (in some locales, women deal with it every hour on the hour) and now should we also feel guilty that our success derails our man's self-esteem?
Do high-profile women like Beyonce and Angelina Jolie think twice before accepting an award, scheduling a world tour or directing an Oscar-winning movie? Do women say no to promotions and career advancements so that their men feel like the true breadwinners? Are we sacrificing our own paychecks and benefits and positions so that our males can climb the ladder at the office higher than we can? Have we time-traveled back to the 1950s? No, no, no and no. We haven't, we won't and we shouldn't.
But what's the most disappointing is that for women in relationships with successful men, their ego, self-worth and self-esteem remain unchanged. When researchers measured how women felt and found that "Women reported feeling happier about the relationship when men succeeded." And as a woman, I'm not sure what to feel: relieved that a man's workplace achievements don't make me feel crappy about myself, or ashamed that somewhere along the line I've taken a backseat to my boyfriend's good news, keeping my own success a secret.
After reading the research, my first thought was to feel guilty about the times my successes have overshadowed my partner's. I'm asking myself: Have I made him feel small? Have I shattered his ego? But I know better than to worry over that. If he does feel belittled, small or lacking in self-worth (which, he shouldn't, because I know that was not my intention — nor was it any other woman's who was proud of her promotion), then he should work harder. His success is as welcomed as my own.
And if he can work harder, he damned better believe that so can I.


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Report: Religious Minorities Experience "Heightened Vulnerability" to Trafficking
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jul 5, 2016 | News
Religious minorities experience a "heightened vulnerability" to human trafficking – modern-day slavery – according to the 2016 U.S. State Department's Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report.
"Modern-day slavery doesn't happen only in war zones," said Secretary of State John Kerry upon the report's release. "It exists in areas of both darkness and plain sight of people all over the world."
Traffickers often target female religious minorities, the report explained, "and force them into religious conversions and subsequent marriages, in which they may be subjected to domestic or sexual servitude."
Christians were cited as one of example of a religious minority that was "particularly vulnerable to trafficking" in Pakistan, while 30 Assyrian Christian women in Syria were reported to have been forced into sexual slavery by ISIS (Daesh).
Rohingya Muslims living in Myanmar (Burma) were another example cited in the report.
They are being exploited and trafficked not only within Rakhine State where they live, but also by smugglers who promise safe passage but then sell them into slavery.
Faith-based organizations working to combat trafficking were also highlighted, including the Santa Marta Group – a collaborative initiative between the Catholic bishops and international police chiefs supported by Pope Francis.
The analysis of the West African nation of The Gambia noted, "NGOs that assisted trafficking victims relied primarily on donations from churches and private companies to finance their services."
The annual TIP report categorizes nations into tiers based on efforts to curb trafficking within their borders.
Tier 1 signals compliance with the minimum standards of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) – U.S. legislation enacted in 2000 (and reauthorized most recently in 2013) – to combat human trafficking within their borders.
Thirty-six countries made this list, including the U.S. and the U.K., up from 31 nations in 2015. New additions were Colombia, Cyprus, Georgia, Lithuania, Philippines, Slovenia and St. Maarten. Moving down to tier 2 were Luxembourg and Macedonia.
Tier 2 has two divisions: one list for nations not fully complying with TVPA but making significant efforts to improve, and a watch list for nations with high levels of trafficking and a lack of evidence showing substantial improvement.
Seventy-nine nations were in tier 2 (compared to 89 last year) with 44 on the tier 2 watch list (the same number as 2015).
Tier 3, the lowest rating, is for countries not in compliance with TVPA and not making significant efforts to do so. The U.S. often withholds non-humanitarian aid to nations in this tier.
Iran, Russia and South Sudan were among the 27 countries in tier 3 (up from 23 in 2015).
"The tier rankings that I have designated reflect our department's best assessment of a government's efforts to eliminate human trafficking," Kerry said upon the report's release. "They don't take into account political and other factors."
Questions had been raised about the 2015 TIP report regarding whether the state department was "politicizing its annual rankings."
The full 2016 TIP report is available here, while summary information is available here.
Editor's note: EthicsDaily.com articles related to human trafficking are available here, including a July 2014 series highlighting how global Baptists are working to end modern-day slavery.
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Hiring yourself a personal injury solicitor is extremely beneficial if you are trying to claim for compensation after an accident. A specialist solicitor will know exactly how to handle your case as they have a wealth of experience in dealing with situations such as yours.
They know whether a case can be won or whether it cannot be won right from the start. Based on this they will give you advice of how to go about seeking compensation. There are many people who do not approach solicitors as they have a common misconception that fees are too high. People are also afraid that if they do not win the case, they may lose a lot of money on solicitor fees. This is untrue, however, as solicitors work on a no win no fee policy.
You might have lost your job as a result of your accident, which has consequently prevented you from making payments on your mortgage, you may be relying on savings to get by on a day to day basis and you may have even had to pay for additional medical care. All of these things will be looked into as part of your case for compensation.
Stressing out about your compensation claim will not do you any good at all. Not only will it prevent you from dealing with life on a day-to-day basis, it won't help you to recover from the injuries you sustained as a result of your accident.
When it comes to claiming compensation, a fully trained solicitor who is an expert at dealing with personal injuries gives you a great advantage. You can seek the compensation that you are entitled to with your solicitor doing all the legwork for you. Whether it is liaising with the other side, negotiating settlement figures or gathering evidence, your solicitor will do everything for you. This means that you can concentrate on the most important thing, which is getting back on your feet again.
In order to make your case for compensation as watertight as possible, your personal injury solicitor will recommend that you record everything that has occurred as a result of your accident. It may be traumatic having to go through everything that you have been through but in the long run it will be worthwhile. They will need to have all the facts about your case so that they can argue successfully to get the compensation you deserve for your injuries and for the trauma you have been through. This should include witness statements, medical records as well as things such as photographs of the scene where your accident took place.
You should feel reassured that your compensation case is in the safe hands of your solicitor. You may need to attend medicals in help support your case but this will just be to assess and reaffirm what your doctor or the hospital have already diagnosed you with. Compensation covers both physical and emotional injuries. You may have broken your leg but as a result you have started suffering with depression. This will be taken into consideration when your settlement is decided.
Although a lot of compensation claims are very easy, some can turn nasty and it can be difficult trying to cope with it all on your own. A good personal injury lawyer will help you prove in a court of law that you are the victim, and that you deserve compensation for the wrongs done against you.


Joe Moreno leads the team by guitar and vocals every week. Worship can vary from just a guitar and a singer to a full band. But the beauty of it all is that each of these musicians use their gifts solely for the Lord. Instruments range from drums, cajon, bass, lead guitar, flute and piano. No instrument is too much for the Lord.
Leading with a contemporary style while still incorporating the beautiful classics, Valley Bible's worship team desires to raise up musicians to grow in the Lord's plans. God has tremendously blessed this worship team and it only keeps growing for His glory. The worship team intends to keep adding new musicians and spreading the word of God through the power of music.
Valley Bible's Worship Team believes it is important to surrender all of yourself and worship God alone.
We are not afraid of the gifts God has given us. We plan to use these gifts to worship our God. Worship at Valley is not about us, it's about bringing praise to the One who deserves all the praise we can give. It's not about what we look like when we worship or how we worship, as long as we are worshipping our Lord, nothing else matters.


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Q: Get sum of services from one cell I am importing some data to sheets and need to sum the value of all the services.
This is the data format:
Service #6 ($250.00),  ServiceB ($150.00)
ServiceB ($40.00),  ServiceE ($150.00), ServiceE ($60.00)
Service 1 ($850.00), ServiceE  ($250.00), ServiceB ($450.00)

I just need to get the sum of all the values of the services in a new column. I was trying to get it via regexExtract but I only get the first value. The I was doing this with Split + regexExtrac but it's kind of messy because there isn't a limit to the number of services.
Can you guys think of any way to get the sum of all the service without the dollar sign to a column? I could write with AppScript but wanted to see if there is a simpler way?

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    sum = sum + number;
  }

  return(sum)
}


The 2017 SAA Business Archives Section (BAS) Annual Business Meeting took place on Friday, July 28, 2017, at the Oregon Convention Center, with about 90 attendees.
On Tuesday July 25th, members of the SAA Business Archives Section (BAS) were treated to a behind the scenes tour of the Nike Archives in Portland, Oregon.
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Die Handball-DDR-Meisterschaft 1958 war nur auf dieses Kalenderjahr beschränkt, da wegen der Vorbereitung auf die Hallenhandball-Weltmeisterschaft, die im Februar/März 1958 in der DDR stattfand, die Punktspiele der Männer-Handball-Oberliga abgesagt wurden und die Punktspiele der Frauen-Oberliga erst zu Jahresbeginn 1958 ausgetragen wurden. Die Feldhandball-Meisterschaften der Männer und Frauen fanden wie geplant vom April bis zum Oktober 1958 statt.

Hallen-Meisterschaft (Frauen)
Die Hallenmeisterschaft der Frauen fand in den Monaten Januar und Februar mit zwölf Mannschaften statt in zwei Staffeln statt. Die einzelnen Punktspielrunden wurden in Turnierform in neutralen Sporthallen ausgetragen. Nach Abschluss der Punktspiele bestritten die Staffelsieger das Meisterschafts-Endspiel. Die Tabellenletzten mussten absteigen.

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Das Endspiel um DDR-Meisterschaft im Hallenhandball der Frauen fand am 1. Februar 1958 in der Ost-Berliner Dynamo-Sporthalle statt.

Der Außenseiter Lok Rangsdorf konnte bis zur Halbzeitpause dem Titelverteidiger Fortschritt Weißenfels mit einem Siebenmetertor ein 1:1-Unentschieden abtrotzen. Hatten bis dahin die Abwehrreihen beider Mannschaften das Spielgeschehen bestimmt, ließ nach der Pause bei den Rangsdorfer Frauen die Konzentration bei der Abwehrarbeit nach. Sie trafen auch das Tor nicht mehr, während auf der anderen Seite die Weißenfelserinnen noch zu einem klaren Sieg kamen.

Feld-Meisterschaft (Männer)
Zur Ermittlung des DDR-Meisters im Feldhandball traten in der DDR-Oberliga 16 Mannschaften in zwei Staffeln an. Mit der SC DHfK Leipzig und der BSG Chemie Piesteritz waren zwei Neulinge im Teilnehmerfeld, die beiden Tabellenletzten mussten absteigen. Titelverteidiger war der SC Dynamo Berlin. Den neuen Titelträger spielten die beiden Staffelsieger im Meisterschafts-Endspiel aus.

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Endspiel
Das Endspiel um die Meisterschaft im Feldhandball der Männer wurde am 12. Oktober 1958 im Hallenser Kurt-Wabbel-Stadion vor 9.000 Zuschauern ausgetragen.

Das Meisterschaftsfinale endete mit einer großen großen Überraschung, denn nicht der Favorit aus Rostock, sondern die Betriebssportgemeinschaft Motor Eisenach ging als Sieger vom Feld. Bei strömenden Regen kamen die Thüringer besser mit dem glatten Rasen zurecht, und es gelang ihnen mit konsequentem Flügelspiel die Rostocker Abwehr zu überwinden. Eine entscheidende Rolle spielte dabei der 34-jährige ehemalige Nationalspieler Werner Aßmann, der seine Mannschaft unermüdlich nach vorne trieb. Lange Zeit war das Spiel ausgeglichen, zur Halbzeit stand es unentschieden. Mehrfach lag der SC Empor in Front, doch in der Schlussphase schossen die Eisenacher Erhardt und Singwald die siegbringenden Tore.
 Rostock: Hans Beier (Tor) – Herrmann Dowe, Klaus Holm, Knoll, Gerd Langhoff (3), Günter Mundt (2), Heinz Wahl (2), Manfred Behnke (1), Günter Kikillus (1), Rudolf Herhaus (1), Heinz Flach (1), Walter Brand(EW) (Berliner Zeitung, 15. Oktober 1958, S. 4)
 Eisenach: Albert Rust (Tor) – Oswald Hook, Günther Jäger, Dieter Weidlich, Dieter Illert, Wolfgang Eisenhardt (4), Frieder Singwald (3), Werner Reinartz (2), Hans Rodegast (2), Werner Aßmann (1), Horst Erhardt (1)

Feldmeisterschaft (Frauen)
Die DDR-Meisterschaft im Feldhandball der Frauen wurde in der Oberliga mit 16 Mannschaften aufgeteilt in zwei Staffeln ausgetragen. Nach Abschluss der Punktspiele ermittelten die beiden Staffleersten im Endspiel den neuen Meister. Die beiden Tabellenletzten mussten absteigen.

Abschluss-Tabellen

Endspiel
Das Endspiel um die Frauen-Feldmeisterschaft fand vor der Männerentscheidung ebenfalls im Kurt-Wabbel-Stadion Halle statt.

Im Finale konnten die Handballerinnen des SC Fortschritt Weißenfels ihren Vorjahrestitel erfolgreich verteidigen. Ausschlaggebend waren ihre überlegene Wurfkraft und das bessere Zusammenspiel. Lok Rangsdorf konnte nur bis zum zwischenzeitlichen 2:2 mithalten, zur Pause lag Weißenfels bereits mit 5:2 deutlich in Front. Dieser Vorsprung wurde schließlich nicht mehr aus der Hand gegeben. Überragende Spielerin war die Weißenfelser Inge Schanding mit ihren fünf Treffern.
Tore: für Weißenfels Schanding (5), Quarg (3), Jahn (2) und Herden (1) –- für Rangsdorf Noack (2), Krüger (2) und Scholz (1)

Literatur
 Neues Deutschland, Berliner Zeitung; Jahrgäng 1958

Weblinks
 Handball in der DDR

Erläuterungen

1958
Handballveranstaltung 1958
DDR 1958


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MANGA.TOKYO > Anime Reviews > Winter 2017 > Kuzu no Honkai Episode 1 Review: Scum`s Wish
Kuzu no Honkai Episode 1 Review: Scum`s Wish
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Kuzu no Honkai and Masamune kun's Revenge are my kind of romance anime: unique, different, and realistic enough to make typical campus romance anime look like silly fantasy. They are both nasty, cynical, and take the ideal love of the romance anime and toss it out the window, Masamune-kun with its comedic take on revenge, and Kuzu no Honkai with its truthful take on teenage feelings.
Japanese Title: 望み叶え給え
Kuzu no Honkai succeeded Fune wo Amu in Fuji's noitamina block. Also known as Scum's Wish, the anime is based on a manga written by Mengo Yokoyari. It has been serializing in Square Enix's seinen manga magazine Big Gangan from 2012, and has already published six tankoubon volumes. The manga is set to end this Spring 2017, but it is unknown if the anime will cover the whole story.
The series is being directed by Masaomi Ando and produced by Lerche, with series composition by Makoto Uezu, character designs by Keiko Kurosawa, and music by Masaru Yokoyama.
You can read more about the anime and browse all titles of the Winter 2017 season at our new Anime Info Page.
The story is not very complicated. Two teenagers, Hanabi Yasuraoka and Mugi Awaya, are in love with their teachers. Hana is head over heels for Narumi Kanai, whom she'd known since she was a little girl, since Kanai-sensei was a neighbor and a family friend. Mugi is in love with music teacher Akane Minagawa, whom he also know from his past, but we'll have to wait an episode or two before we learn more. The two teenagers have always been in love with the two adults, but in as fate would have it, the two teachers, who are in the same high school as the teenagers, start dating. Frustrated and heartbroken, Hana and Mugi find solace and comfort in each other's arms. What better replacement than someone who feels the same as you do.
The two protagonists are annoyingly adolescent. Mugi is finding escape in video games and is quite indifferent to the world around him, with his love for this teacher the only thing that seems to give him purpose. Hana is selfish and jealous. She thinks that the world owes her and that she deserves to be with onii-chan. They are deep involved in their respective fantasies, and it's no wonder that they started spending more time with each other.
Contrary to typical fan-servicy romance anime, the teenagers are not governed by the rules of the Anime Kingdom: we don't have accidental panty shots, shame-red faces, and virgin-like excuses. Both Mugi and Hana are your typical next-door horny teenager, longing for a physical connection that brings warmth and sexual release. The make-out scene is teen sexuality expressed realistically. In the most erotic scene of this season, the intimacy is enacted by Hana (you don't see the female starting things very often) and is halted by Mugi. They are about to go full course with another person in their minds, something that they both know before they start kissing and touching. It's dark, sad, and incredibly erotic. Disturbing as it may sound, our protagonists are probably making the best they can out of the cards they were dealt. They find a haven in each other's arms and make a promise to be there for each other and 'have everything but their feelings.'
Now, there are some possible outcomes that I can foresee with that promise in mind:
One of the two falls in love with the other. The other finds love with the teacher
They fall in love with each other (cliché)
Both succeed in their quest (unlikely)
UMAI: When Kanai-sensei tasted Hana-chan mom's food in the flash back sequence, he does what it's expected in every food scene in anime: he says it's delicious. I have always wondered how every bentou in anime and manga series is the best food the character has ever eaten, and I have always attributed it to subjectivism. I laughed out loud when Hana-chan said that it just tastes normal. A small testament to how grounded Kuzu no Honkai is.
Themes & Trivia
noitaminA: I don't know if I ever included noitaminA in the trivia section. NoitaminA (ノイタミナ) in case you didn't notice, is the word 'animation' spelled backwards. It is a late night Fuji Television programming block devoted to anime. It was launched with the intention of expanding the target audience beyond the typical young male demographic. This is the reason that most titles chosen by the block are mature, psychological stories that will appeal to older audiences.
Roses: Roses must be a major theme of the anime, because they are all over the opening sequence. I don't know how the theme is going to be translated in later episodes, but the beautiful flowers haven't made any meaningful appearance in Episode 1.
Friends with Benefits: The term is usually applied to two friends who have a sexual relationship without being emotionally involved. It's the 'sex' part that makes Mugi say to Hana that they are 'friends' but not with 'benefits'. They are dating so that they can rely to each other, but they will probably not have sex. That makes keeping their promise not to develop feelings for each other easier, since any time sex is involved, it usually complicates matters—even when both people, like Hana and Mugi here, try to maintain communication and mutual respect.
I'm a terrible reviewer and I don't want to sound modest. I usually take each title at face value, most of the times having no idea of the studio or the director, or of any connections between this and past anime. Yet, I have read online that the quality of the anime was a surprise because the studio in charge, Lerche, is not known for its high-quality productions. I went online to see their filmography and I was surprised to find a few anime I really like: Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School, and Assassination Classroom. It's also a relatively new studio, active from 2011.
For me, it wasn't the best premiere episode of Winter 2017 (that award goes to Rakugo) but it was certainly one of the most beautiful. The watercolor palette gave the episode that necessary gloominess that went hand in hand with the pessimistic premise, and the melancholic piano pieces enhanced the emotional value of each scene. I have to praise the unique directing that used captioning in a way that felt natural and effective. It's too early to say if the narrative is going to hold, but the first episode left me hopeful.
Our Wish
I really like the focus on the two protagonists, a focus that doesn't seem to stray away from them, even when the scene includes the subjects of their affection. Even Noriko, the blond ponytailed character, was introduced in a way that didn't impose on the plot. I'm wondering if the series is going to have a continuous flashbacks added to the mix or will go in a linear model from now on.
Did you like the first episode of Kuzu no Honkai? Let me know in the comments below! Don't forget to read the rest of our episodic anime reviews for Winter 2017.
NEXT TIME: There is a Use for that Warmth (そのぬくもりに用がある)
P.S. I mentioned Masamune-kun's Revenge a few times, so here is my review of episode 1:
Masamune-kun's Revenge Episode 1 Review: The Boy Who Was Called Pig's Foot
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Recent History of Copped Hall
ELIZABETHAN
After a nine-year campaign against aggressive development proposals, the heavily vandalised and overgrown site was saved by the specially formed Copped Hall Trust when it purchased the freehold of the mansion, stables, ancillary buildings and gardens in 1995. Apart from permanently protecting the site, the purpose of the Trust is, firstly, to carefully restore the buildings and gardens after detailed research and, secondly, to establish relevant educational, cultural and community uses.
The parkland surrounding Copped Hall had been saved by the Conservators of Epping Forest – The City of London when they purchased this in 1992. The Conservators are committed to the restoration of the parkland, the reintroduction of animals and to the preservation of this important wildlife habitat.
In 1999 the Trust acquired the completely derelict Walled Kitchen Garden, one of the largest in Essex. After 13 years, all the undergrowth has been cleared from the garden and the glasshouses. This work has been largely carried out by volunteers. The garden is now mainly planted with produce sold locally and to visitors. One glasshouse has been restored with two others under way.
The Copped Hall Trust has made substantial progress in the last 17 years. The Racquets Court and the stables have been largely restored, together with other service buildings. Much work has been carried out clearing the gardens of non-original vegetation. Replacement trees have been planted and lawns re-seeded. Internally, the mansion is to be restored to its 1750s' form, and since 2001 some of the roof and floor structures have been reinstated and essential structural repairs carried out. Since 1998 the Trust has been supported in its work by a Friends organisation which now has more than 1,000 members. From these members a very committed band of volunteers assists with all aspects of the project.
Copyright Copped Hall Trust
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Writing A Meaningful Story
By James Scott Bell
Most writers are not content merely to write a good story. They want to "say something." This is not a bad impulse. We are awash in a culture of the trivial and trite. It is the writer's job to stand against that, and to stand for something. As one famous novelist said, "A writer should have something on his mind."
That something is usually called the theme of a story. I think that term is too academic and confusing. I like meaning better. Meaning is the "big idea." It is the moral message that comes through at the end. And all great stories have one. But how do you incorporate a theme without sounding preachy?
There is one simple rule: characters come before meaning. Always. Develop your characters first, your hero and your villain, your supporting cast and crew, and then set them in the story world where their values will conflict with each other. Write your story and watch your characters struggle. Make the story vivid and real.
Yes, you can have a meaning (or theme) in mind, but make it as wispy as a butterfly wing at first. Build up your characters around that wing, and eventually the story itself will take flight. As you write you'll see the meaning of your story emerge, like the faint glow of a miner's lamp as he enters the darkness of a shaft. The reason you'll see it is that your characters will be living it. And in doing so your characters will be revealing who you are and what you believe. But they'll be doing it in a story, not in a sermon.
You may even find the meaning has changed from what you originally thought it was. Great. That is what art does -- it grows and changes.
So don't worry about meaning or theme up front. Worry about struggle. Give your characters humanity, and then passionate commitment to a set of values. Set them in conflict and as they fight, the meaning will become evident. Sometimes, what emerges may surprise you. That's when writing becomes a wondrous act of self-revelation. You'll be learning about who you are on a deeper level. Growth will become the meaning of your own life, and that's an exciting theme for anyone.
James Scott Bell studied philosophy, creative writing, and film in college, acted in off-Broadway theater in New York, and received his law degree, with honors, from the University of Southern California. A former trial lawyer, Bell is the Christy Award winning author of Deadlock, Breach of Promise and The Trials of Kit Shannon series which includes A Greater Glory, A Higher Justice and A Certain Truth. He lives in Southern California with his wife, Cindy, and their two children. You can learn more at his website: www.jamesscottbell.com.
© 2004 James Scott Bell. All Rights Reserved. Used with Permission.


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An Australian bishop speaks about a national church 'fraught with division'
Q & A with Bishop Vincent Long of the Parramatta Diocese
Bishop Vincent Long Van Nguyen (CNS/Catholic Weekly)
by Joshua J. McElwee
jmcelwee@ncronline.org
Follow on Twitter at @joshjmac
Like many Catholics in Australia, Bishop Vincent Long speaks about the upcoming plenary council as something of a final chance for the national church to show it has both reformed on clergy sexual abuse and can still be culturally relevant in the 21st century.
In an emailed NCR interview focused on how the quashing of Cardinal George Pell's convictions might affect the gathering, which has been in preparation for two years, Long called the assembly "the last throw of the dice."
Related: Cardinal Pell's release stokes concerns about Australia's plenary council
"We cannot go on the way we have," said the bishop, who leads the diocese of Parramatta, a suburb about 15 miles west of Sydney on Australia's eastern coast. "We must humbly and boldly address the biggest challenge of our time and build a healthier church for future generations."
Following is NCR's full interview with Long, a conventual Franciscan who fled Vietnam with his family in 1979 and is Australia's first Asian-born bishop.
NCR: How have you been experiencing the atmosphere around the quashing of Cardinal Pell's convictions? How do you see it affecting Australian Catholics' views of the church?
Long: Like many Catholics in Australia, I was relieved that the legal process has run its course and Cardinal George Pell has had his conviction overturned by the High Court of Australia. It has been a long and painful saga for him.
For over a year, he was imprisoned and had his appeal rejected by a Court of Appeal in Victoria where he had been convicted of crimes he had steadfastly denied. Now, he is free at last and is entitled to live his life in peace and dignity.
I acknowledge, however, that it has been an intense and painful time for many others, especially those involved in this case. They feel hurt, distressed and even betrayed by the verdict of the court as well as the judgements of others. Having known many survivors, their families and supporters, I can only imagine how intensely they feel their pain as wounds are reopened and memories revisited.
Thus, the atmosphere around the quashing of Cardinal Pell's conviction is fraught with division both in the Catholic community and the society at large. While some rejoice at his acquittal, others are less enthused. It's certainly not a time to do victory laps for anybody. Instead, the Catholic Church in Australia faces the monumental task of rebuilding from the ground up after the devastation of the clerical sexual abuse crisis.
The Royal Commission, coupled with the dramatic incarceration of Cardinal George Pell created something like "ground zero" for us. Even now his acquittal has not acquitted the Catholic Church in this country from its moral responsibility of confronting its shameful history. It has made sure that we cannot go on the way we have. We must humbly and boldly address the biggest challenge of our time and build a healthier church for future generations.
How do you imagine this kind of atmosphere might affect people's opinions about the plenary council process?
Despite a degree of cynicism, Australian Catholics have responded favorably to the Plenary Council process. With near 18,000 individual and group submissions in a country of approximately five million nominal Catholics, it is a remarkable sign of hope and trust they have invested in this synodal exercise.
We cannot underestimate the desire for positive and fundamental reforms in the church in Australia post-Royal Commission period. In many ways, perhaps, it is the last throw of the dice and we cannot afford to betray the hopes and dreams for a better church that they aspire to.
Like it or not, the release and public rehabilitation of Cardinal Pell will affect the Plenary Council process. Many will be emboldened to promote his vision for the church in Australia, while others believe that his vision falls short of much needed deep and fundamental reforms for the way ahead.
Are there any particular steps you think church leaders should take now (post the quashing of the convictions) in order to foster a more productive atmosphere for the plenary council?
We are almost on the home stretch now as far as the Plenary Council process is concerned. There are those who advocate for radical reforms but equally there is a vocal movement which seeks to resist change and maintain the status quo.
I believe we cannot afford to let the momentum for cultural and structural change in the church to fizzle out. It is for the sake of a healthier church that all the baptized participate in its functioning and bring their gifts to bear on its transformation.
For my part, I am seeking to keep the fire burning by way of encouraging and facilitating the voices of the sensus fidelium via various channels such as listening circles, pastoral councils and other forums.
Knowing that everything is in suspense now (with the first assembly of the council postponed), what are your biggest hopes for what the council might achieve when the assembly is eventually able to meet?
My biggest hopes for the Plenary Council are that it will be a genuine exercise in synodality, even if it is circumscribed by the strictures of Canon Law and existing clerical culture and mindset.
Even Pope Francis has often warned against an elitist process, stacked in favor of the ordained and their like-minded faithful. Against the tendency towards clerical dominance, he states that "the flock has an instinctive ability to discern new ways that the Lord is revealing to the Church."
The convocation is itself an act of faith and hope in the God of history who accompanies his people and does new things.
I hope this will be an opportunity for the church here to rise from the ashes, to listen to the Spirit, especially through the lay faithful and women, and move into a new and promising future.
[Joshua J. McElwee (jmcelwee@ncronline.org) is NCR Vatican correspondent. Follow him on Twitter: @joshjmac.]


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Q: Starting WinAppDriver.exe programmatically Before starting test execution, I have to manually start this WinAppDriver.exe.
I want to automate this task when I start executing my test cases it should start this exe and after finish it will close it.
I have tried in Java with below code but I'm not success:
Runtime runTime = Runtime.getRuntime();

String executablePath = "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Windows Application Driver\\WinAppDriver.exe";

Process process = runTime.exec(executablePath);

Note: I required to run it with 'Run As Administrator'

A: I would suggest using ProcessBuilder class from java as is it recommended to use it after Java 5 for starting/creating processes. Below code will start the WinAppDriver.exe :
String command = "C:\Users\Administrator\WinAppDriver\WinAppDriverTool\WinAppDriver.exe";
ProcessBuilder builder = new ProcessBuilder(command).inheritIO();
startWinAppDriver = builder.start();

Hope this helps.

A: Both worked for me without staring eclipse as Admin .
 Runtime.getRuntime().exec("C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Windows Application Driver\\WinAppDriver.exe");

Also the Sukhangad singh's answer.
 String command = "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Windows Application Driver\\WinAppDriver.exe";
    ProcessBuilder builder = new ProcessBuilder(command).inheritIO();
    builder.start();

A: The above answers are correct but if you want to run winapp driver on specific ports then in that case you will need to use this
   String command = "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Windows Application Driver\\WinAppDriver.exe";
                List<String> commands = new ArrayList<String>();
                commands.add(command);
                commands.add("8888");
                ProcessBuilder builder = new ProcessBuilder(commands).inheritIO();
                Process p=builder.start();
                p.destroy();

Here we can pass all parameters inside the list and pass this list object inside ProcessBuilder.
Default URL: http://127.0.0.1:4723
In our case URL:http://127.0.0.1:8888


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Dzioborożec żałobny (Buceros rhinoceros) – gatunek dużego ptaka z rodziny dzioborożców (Bucerotidae). Występuje na Półwyspie Malajskim, Sumatrze, Borneo i Jawie. Jest narażony na wyginięcie.

Systematyka
Gatunek ten po raz pierwszy zgodnie z zasadami nazewnictwa binominalnego opisał w 1758 roku Karol Linneusz w 10. edycji Systema Naturae. Autor nadał gatunkowi nazwę Buceros rhinoceros, która obowiązuje do tej pory. Jako miejsce typowe błędnie wskazał Indie, co później poprawiono na Malakkę.

Dzioborożec żałobny jest blisko spokrewniony z dzioborożcem wielkim (B. bicornis), z którym się niekiedy krzyżuje zarówno na wolności, jak i w niewoli. Wyróżnia się trzy podgatunki B. rhinoceros:
 B. r. borneoensis Schlegel & S. Müller, 1845 – Borneo
 B. r. rhinoceros Linnaeus, 1758 – Półwysep Malajski i Sumatra
 B. r. silvestris Vieillot, 1816 – Jawa

Morfologia

Wygląd
W upierzeniu przeważa czarny kolor. Ogon jest biały i długi i przebiega przez niego czarny pas. Lotki skrzydeł są na końcach białe. Ptak ten posiada także długie nogi i bardzo duży, zakrzywiony dziób z karbowanymi krawędziami. Na górnej części dzioba znajduje się efektowny hełm, wypełniony od środka powietrzem.

Wymiary
Długość ciała wynosi do 120 cm, a masa – od 2 do 3 kg. Samce są minimalnie większe od samic.

Ekologia i zachowanie

Środowisko
Zamieszkuje rozległe obszary lasów pierwotnych, ale też wysokie lasy wtórne i lasy bagienne. Występuje do wysokości 1400 m n.p.m.

Zachowanie
Poza sezonem rozrodczym dzioborożce żałobne zbierają się w niewielkie grupy, a w czasie sezonu ptaki te łączą się w pary. Porusza się niezgrabnym lotem, w czasie którego wydaje charakterystyczne dźwięki. Dzioborożec za pomocą swojego dzioba pielęgnuje upierzenie, zamurowuje dziuplę, chwyta pożywienie i karmi pisklęta. Karbowany dziób jest przystosowaniem do pewnego chwytu.

Pożywienie
Ptaki te jedzą głównie owoce (zwłaszcza figi) i orzechy, lecz nie gardzą również owadami, jaszczurkami, żabami drzewnymi czy ptasimi jajami.

Rozmnażanie
Lęgi trwają od stycznia do lutego. Po odbyciu godów samica wchodzi do środka wcześniej znalezionej dziupli (55 cm długości, 40 cm szerokości i 1,2 m głębokości) i zamurowuje ją od środka mieszanką mułu, kału i resztek pożywienia. Samica pozostawia jedynie pionową szczelinę. Przez nią samiec dostarcza pożywienie partnerce. Samica znosi zazwyczaj dwa jaja. Okres inkubacji trwa ok. miesiąca. Przez początkowy okres ich życia samica pozostaje w dziupli z młodymi. Później opuszcza dziuplę, którą znowu zamurowują pisklęta, jednak pozostaje w pobliżu gniazda. Za karmienie jej i potomstwa jest w tym czasie odpowiedzialny samiec. Jeżeli w tym okresie zginie, są skazani na śmierć głodową, gdyż wcześniej u samicy nastąpiła wymiana lotek skrzydeł i ogona. Po 3 miesiącach młode opuszczają dziuplę, pozostają jednak przy rodzicach do końca sezonu.

Status zagrożenia
Międzynarodowa Unia Ochrony Przyrody (IUCN) od 2018 roku klasyfikuje dzioborożca żałobnego jako gatunek narażony na wyginięcie (VU – Vulnerable), wcześniej miał on status gatunku bliskiego zagrożenia (NT – Near Threatened). Trend liczebności populacji jest spadkowy. Ptak ten nie jest przystosowany do życia w innym środowisku, więc wycinanie lasów, które zamieszkuje, stanowi dla niego bardzo duże zagrożenie. Ponadto negatywny wpływ na liczebność tego ptaka mają polowania – dla mięsa, na handel, części jego ciała są wykorzystywane w strojach ceremonialnych, zwłaszcza na Borneo.

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All Saints' School community is dedicated to helping its students achieve their full potential as life long learners, in a school environment that promotes and encourages parent and community partnerships.
The school community still strives to live out the Gospel Values that it was founded on when the Sisters of Mercy first commenced the school in 1957. All Saints' School has a quality, motivated and dedicated teaching and support staff whose commitment to the students flows on into the wider community. A connectedness that nurtures the growth of young minds, hearts, bodies and spirits.
We are proud of our school community, its student's achievements and All Saints' important place within Boonah and district. On behalf of the school I welcome you to browse through the website and find out more about this vibrant and innovative education and community.
Our motto is Faith, Wisdom and Family and we believe that these make up the unique character of the school and its students. We invite you to become part of the All Saints' School spirit for 'together we can achieve great things!'
Shane Seymour
Principal