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History and Biography Book Group: Three Part Series, Russia in the 20th Century
Steve Houser, former history teacher, will lead a three part series focused on Russia in the 20th century. We will have copies of these books at the library for you to borrow. This group meets in person in the library and there is no registration. Everyone is welcome.
January 11th – Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator by Oleg Khlevniuk
February 8th – The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Empire by Serhii Plokhy
March 15th – The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen

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Ready for a snooze! Make-up free Katy Perry cuddles her pillow as she boards flight in unflattering tracksuit
She just spent a romantic week going 'public' with her boyfriend John Mayer.
But by Saturday, a solo Katy Perry looked like she'd just rolled out of bed as she arrived at JFK airport in New York.
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Ready to sleep on the plane: Katy Perry literally looked like she'd just rolled out of bed as she arrived at JFK airport in New York Saturday
Holding her own striped blanket and a large pillow, the 28-year-old pop star attempted to hide her make-up free face behind a pair of sunglasses as she made her way through the terminal.
As the usually glamorous starlet shed her puffy black overcoat and flats for the TSA, she was dressed in an ordinary grey hoodie and matching sweatpants that hugged her derriere in all the wrong ways.
Only two days earlier in New Jersey, a polished-looking Katy looked blissfully in love with her 35-year-old boyfriend as they swayed to the music of the Rolling Stones together.
Tight fit: After shedding her puffy overcoat and flats for the TSA, a barefoot Katy wore sweats that hugged her derriere in all the wrong ways
Bundled up: Holding her own striped blanket, the 28-year-old pop star attempted to hide her make-up free face behind a pillow as she made her way through the terminal
The womanising bluesman joined the legendary band onstage at the Prudential Center to play guitar on their song, Respectable, before joining his ladylove in the pit.
According to Us Weekly, Katy and John held hands backstage and were visibly excited when the Stones played Miss You and Start Me Up.
The televised concert, airing Saturday on Pay-Per View, will also feature cameos from Lady Gaga, Bruce Springsteen, the Black Keys, and Mick Taylor.
Two days earlier: Katy looked blissfully in love with her 35-year-old boyfriend as they swayed to the music of the Rolling Stones together
Meeting the father: The loved-up pair treated Mayer's father Richard for dinner at Sardi's before the show
Perry chose the previous night to officially 'come out' as a couple when the loved-up pair treated Mayer's father Richard for dinner at Sardi's and the Broadway production of A Christmas Story.
It happened as the Firework hitmaker, who earned a Grammy nod for Wide Awake, was posing for pictures with the show's child-filled cast.
'This is my boyfriend John,' Katy told the smiling kids.
According to Us Weekly, a witness then overheard the singer say: 'Come on, baby, let's take a picture.'
The on-off couple seem thrilled to spend their first Christmas together after a brief split in August.
Katy split from ex-husband Russell Brand last December after just 14 months of marriage, and she admitted the experience had made her realise she is the only person who can make herself happy.
She told the Daily Mirror newspaper: 'I've learned I'm in a very modern fairy tale. But I also know I don't need the Prince Charming to have a happy ending. I can make the happy ending myself.
Being in love is the dream. But the reality of making it work is not like the movies.'
Since the split, the raven-haired stunner has been linked to male model Baptiste Giabiconi and Florence And The Machine guitarist Rob Ackroyd.
Meanwhile, Mayer has a notorious reputation for loving and leaving some of Hollywood's most eligible ladies, including Taylor Swift, Jessica Simpson, Jennifer Aniston, and Jennifer Love-Hewitt.
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“Are you serious?! You don’t remember your Mom ever being harsh to you?” My older son Grant said to me a while ago with a puzzled face filled with incredulity after I was reminiscing with him about my late Mom’s gentle ways. My heart sank when I heard him say that. The fact that my son was so reluctant to believe that his Grandma, my Mother, had actually been a kind person who was never harsh, said a lot about…me.
Grant never met my Mom, which is a REAL shame. That’s why I try to talk to him about her as much as possible. As he now realizes, his Mom is NOTHING like his Grandma…unfortunately. The Holy Spirit is certainly taking His time growing the fruit of gentleness in my soul. As I think about what the reason might be, I realize it has to do with my lack of patience. Of course all the Fruits are interrelated and they are interdependent. However, as we saw with kindness and goodness, some of them relate to each other in a rather special way.
Gentleness, in my personal case, is hindered by my underdeveloped patience. In my desire to get things my way and in my own time, my actions towards others suffer as I don’t get what I want when I want it. It is selfishness, again.
My rebellious spirit demands control. God’s loving nature offers opportunities to repent, learn and change. That’s why He often puts people or circumstances in our lives to develop the lacking traits in us and polish our character. Our children, for instance, become God’s handy tools for this purpose very regularly. Regardless of their age, they tend to do exactly the opposite that we tell them to do when they sense we are nagging them (the same goes for husbands, boyfriends, students and the like : ) In turn, impatient-harsh-short-fused Mom becomes infuriated at the smallest sign of perceived disobedience. It is a crazy cycle that can only be broken by matured fruits of the Spirit.
Acceptance is a key word here. It is important to accept the fact that we are all individuals with individual brains which function individually and usually not in complete and perfect sync with ours. Accepting that being firm doesn't mean being harsh and that God is working in all of us at the same time is a sign of Christian maturity. The same way He is working in me, He is working in those around me in a very specific way, and as we interact with each other, the fruits growing in me, will promote the growing of the fruits of those next to me. As my boys see gentleness developing in my actions, they will witness the power of the Holy Spirit in a restless and willful soul, which will bring hope to all.
“That’s right, Grandma was a gentle soul, and I’m not like her much at all; but God is working in me and there is nothing impossible for Him!” I tell Grant as he pauses to consider the implications of my words. I pray he gets to witness the work of His hands in me, and that someday he could talk to his own kids about how God mended my ways.
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After the high voltage Playboy/Madame Bovary bash on Wednesday, I made a return to the House that Waris (temporarily) built under the Highline on Sunday evening for his closing event with Wes Anderson. The occasion was twofold: to celebrate the Criterion Collection's Special Edition DVD release of Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited (Waris himself plays a role both in the feature and in "Hotel Chevalier," the Natalie Portman short which precedes the film); and to enjoy the first-ever public showing of original artwork and select reproductions by Eric Chase Anderson (brother of Wes), who signed worked specifically for the special guests in attendance.
The vibe was considerably more mellow than Wednesday's all night affair, but the crowd was no less impressive. Harvey Keitel, Cynthia Rowley, and Terence Koh were among the intimate group of boldfacers and industry types who enjoyed the Belvedere cocktails and perused the tea room. I confess that I did not get a good look at the tea room on Wednesday night, so I was glad to have the opportunity to check it out before it existed no more (sigh). The selection of items for sale was eclectic in the best sense of the term: a great selection of Assouline publications, among them Kelly Bensimon's "American Style;" a wide collection of Criterion DVD releases; some very creative hardware courtesy of Cynthia Rowley; olive oil from Bar Pitti sold to the public for the first time; Cafe Cluny granola; and, last but not least, a selection of 7 types of tea, sold by the pot. One of them was memorably called the "Darjeeling First Flush Tea." For those less adventurous types, there was the requisite Green Tea.
Adorning the walls of the tea room this Sunday evening was the work of Eric Chase Anderson. Some of the art was original work from his book Chuck Dugan is AWOL, while the rest were reproductions from films like The Royal Tenenbaums and The Life Aquatic. The bow-tied Anderson, delightfully charming and self-effacing, had until this evening showed his work only to his close friends. So what made him change his mind? "Waris told me to [show my work to the public] and I do what I'm told," he explained to me with a twinkle in his eye. Anderson, who has been friends with the jewelry designer/actor/man-about-town since "at least 2002," praised Waris's "soothing and masterful" methods of persuasion. I wish there were a class one could take for that.
I will miss the laid-back charm of the Waris pop-up shop, and none of this would have been possible without Building Fashion, an initiative by Boffo and Spilios Gianakopoulos that celebrates cutting edge design by providing venues for designers -- who do not have stand alone shops -- to showcase their own work. Waris marked Building Fashion's third installation; the first two were Heather Huey and menswear designer Simon Spurr. Up next: the one and only Richard Chai, who will kick off his opening with a private bash later this week. His installation will subsequently be open to the public, as all the previous ones have been. So it is not to late to make that trip down to Chelsea -- just be sure to dress warm, as it's almost November!

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Identifying Emerging Risks: A Long-Term Perspective
The business environment continues to change – and with it, the landscape of opportunities and risks that companies face. Part of the challenge when assessing this landscape is looking out far enough. Is your organization thinking sufficiently long term?
Time horizon means many things. For our purposes, it is the estimated length of time needed to accomplish the goals outlined in a strategic plan, business plan, project plan or program. Often, time horizon is referred to as the “planning horizon” because it offers the discipline of a point of time in the future by which a plan should be executed and, therefore, facilitates accountability for achieving expected goals.
Because time horizon is so interrelated with goal realization, it is an important variable to clarify in a risk assessment exercise when engaging people with multiple perspectives, reflecting different views on what the time horizon might be due to their respective responsibilities. Our question is whether the risk assessment process uses a time or planning horizon that looks out far enough.
In a risk assessment, there are several attributes of time horizon worth considering:
- The longer the horizon, the more likely a stated event can occur. The shorter the horizon, the less likely the stated event is to occur. Exposure to severe weather is an illustration: the longer the time horizon, the higher the possibility of exposure.
- The longer the time horizon, the more flexibility an organization has in responding to the unexpected. For example, if a competitor adopts predatory pricing tactics over the short term, there is little time to react. However, over the long term, this is an issue the organization can realistically expect to manage.
- By their nature, strategic risks have a longer time horizon than other risks. These risks represent exposure to one or more future events invalidating fundamental assumptions underlying the business strategy. They also present the potential for the strategy and business model to fall out of alignment with management’s long-term outlook. By contrast, operational and financial risks typically have a shorter time horizon given the focus on quarterly performance and the achievement of annual business plans and budgets. And compliance risks, since they reflect ongoing day-to-day activities, likely have the shortest time horizon.
When you really look out longer term, what do you see? Earlier this year, the World Economic Forum (WEF) attempted to answer this question when it published its annual update on global risks.1 For the tenth straight year, this study views risk across five categories: economic, environmental, geopolitical, technological and societal. It defines global risk as “an uncertain event or condition that, if it occurs, can cause significant negative impact for several countries or industries within the next 10 years.” Among its findings:
- The risks of highest concern over the next decade suggest that our lives will be intensely shaped by transformative forces that are already under way. Covering all five categories, the risks include water crises; interstate conflict with regional consequences; failure of climate change adaptation; high structural unemployment or underemployment; large-scale cyberattacks; asset bubble in a major economy; large-scale terrorist attacks; fiscal crises in key economies; profound social instability; food crises; failure of national governance; extreme weather events; and state collapse or crisis.
- Megatrends are driving global risks over the next 10 years. WEF defines a trend as “a long-term pattern that is currently taking place and that could contribute to amplifying global risks and/or altering the relationship between them.” The report highlighted 13 trends: aging population; climate change; environmental degradation (quality of air, soil and water); growing middle class in emerging economies; increasing national sentiment; increasing polarization of societies; rise of chronic diseases; rise of hyper-connectivity (connecting people and things); rising geographic mobility (of people and things); rising income disparity; shifts in power (from state to non-state actors, from global to regional levels, and from developed to emerging market and developing economies); urbanization; and weakening of international governance. The report illustrates the inter-connectivity of these trends with the top global risks.
- There are regional distinctions over the long term with respect to the top three risks for which regions are least prepared. For example, in North America, failure of critical infrastructure, cyberattacks and failure of climate change adaptation are the top three risks. In Europe, unemployment or underemployment, large-scale involuntary migration and profound social instability are the most significant risks. In the Middle East and North Africa, the top risks are water crises, profound social instability and interstate conflict. In East Asia and the Pacific, they are interstate conflict, failure of urban planning and man-made environmental catastrophes. In Latin America and the Caribbean, the top risks are profound social instability, failure of urban planning and failure of national governance. Sub-Saharan Africa faces unemployment or underemployment, food crises and spread of infectious diseases. The point is that risk profiles vary by region.
- The report provides a number of interesting headlines. To illustrate:
- Fragile economies are under pressure due to rising socioeconomic inequality, structural unemployment and climate change.
- There are growing worries about conflict due to a rise in national sentiment, increased geopolitical risks and failure of national governance.
- The global economy is returning to growth, although sluggishly, while facing falling inflation, the risk of deflation, increased exposure to asset bubbles due to low interest rates, and the risks of a failure of a major financial institution and fiscal crises.
- There is high concern, but little progress, with respect to environmental issues, particularly regarding water crises and failure of climate change adaptation, leading to the potential for large-scale involuntary migration.
- There is risk of large-scale cyberattacks on the technological front, with the rise in hyper-connectivity of people and things.
While the WEF’s global risks may not have an immediate impact, they are nonetheless important considerations over the longer term. Companies and their boards should be thinking about the implications of longer-term trends that reach beyond the time or planning horizons considered by management during the strategy-setting and risk assessment processes.
The board should expect management to consider emerging risks periodically. Management should be thinking about the “known unknowns” and the “unknown unknowns” of the future. We often do not see enough of these risks, or their correlated risks, in company risk assessments because the time horizon addressed by most risk assessments does not extend out nearly as far as the WEF update. This is largely due to factors such as the rapid pace of change, short-term incentives, declining tenures for chief executive officers and fixation of investors on quarterly earnings. In fact, one study notes that 65 percent of companies have a strategy-planning horizon of four years or less while only 7 percent have a horizon of greater than six years.2
More important, the same study noted that the longer the strategic horizon, the higher the long-term total shareholder returns. Thus, a dilemma arises: While the uncertainty in viewing a longer planning horizon presents a challenge and the short-term is more predictable, failure to think sufficiently long term can erode competitive position over time. Needless to say, that’s not a good answer.3
One clear sign of short-term thinking occurs when a company’s risk assessments shuffle “known knowns” around on a risk or heat map, year after year, leaving executives and directors wondering about the value of the process. Effective risk management requires understanding more about what we don’t know, including understanding emerging risks, than what we do know. Does it make sense for a risk assessment to look out even longer than the planning horizon, effectively decoupling the risk assessment horizon from the planning horizon?
The WEF study illustrates important considerations relevant to the longer term. Companies and their boards should be thinking about the implications to the company’s strategy and business model of longer-term trends that reach beyond the longest time horizon considered by their strategy-setting and risk assessment processes. For example:
- Focus on the “game-changing” risks – Risks such as a pandemic (an epidemic of infectious disease), large-scale cyberattacks and issues in specific regions where significant investments have been made may be relevant to the company’s business model over the long term, requiring attention sooner rather than later. Make sure your worst-case scenarios are extreme enough by including these risk considerations.
- Pay attention to strategic uncertainties – These uncertainties arise when the critical assumptions underlying the strategy are becoming, or have become, invalid, and management and the board don’t know it. The WEF study points to a number of potentially lethal risks that could affect a company’s assumptions over its planning horizon. Management should consider these risks when formulating strategic assumptions for global and regional markets. They should focus broadly on actions competitors may take, how customer preferences could change, the threat of substitute products, or the implications of losing a major supplier, channel partner, customer or other vital component of the value chain, including transportation and logistics.
- Watch for emerging opportunities, as well as threats – While our focus is on timely identification of emerging risks, disruptive change also presents potential opportunities.
- Use scenario analysis to evaluate the effect of alternative views of the future – Factor the WEF global risks into scenario-planning and stress-testing routines to enable management to challenge assumptions and expectations, address “what if” questions, and identify sensitive external environment factors that should be monitored for change over time so management can focus its intelligence-gathering. By deepening their understanding of the pain of the unexpected, management can identify when contingency plans are required and reinforce the need for flexibility, and even exit plans, in executing the strategy.
Questions for Boards
Following are some suggested questions that boards of directors may consider, based on the risks inherent in the entity’s operations:
- Is the board satisfied that management is looking out far enough when formulating long-term strategies? If not, is the board satisfied that the strategy-setting process is not rooted in short-term thinking?
- During the risk assessment process, is management considering longer-term global risks that are germane to the organization’s strategy, business model and geographic footprint, even though the risks may not manifest themselves over an annual period or even a planning horizon of three to five years?
- Does the organization consider the interrelationships among risks to identify risk themes germane to the company when formulating business plans?
- Is the board apprised in a timely manner of significant changes in the enterprise’s risk profile? Is there a process for identifying emerging risks, including potential “black swan” events? Does the exercise result in appropriate response plans on a timely basis?
How Protiviti Can Help
Protiviti assists boards and executive management with assessing the enterprise’s risks and the capabilities for managing those risks. We help organizations identify and prioritize their risks, including emerging risks that can impair their reputation, brand image and enterprise value.
Board Perspectives: Risk Oversight (Issue 70)

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Kolaveri Di Dhanush hit song composed a 21-year-old Anirudh Ravichander, and of-course the latest Tamil film 3 being directed by Aishwarya Rajinikanth Dhanush. Anirudh’s first delivery directly hits the bulls eye, as he worked on for the film has become phenomenon not only in Tamil Nadu but across India and abroad as well. Why This KolaveriDi? song turned viral on the web when it was digitally released by Sony music on November 16. According to the latest news in the Bollywood town, there was a fight for the Kolaveri D rights between Bollywood superstars, and they are Handsome Hunk Akshay Kumar and King Khan Shah Rukh. Tamil actor and part time singer Dhanush’s Kolaveri Dee is still on the lips of many celebs for its peppy music and crazy lyrics, and this song fonds include Akki and Shahrukh too. Shah Rukh Khan was eager to grab Hindi rights of the song and spin the coin on the song fever. But, Akshay Kumar wins the race and bagged the rights edging out King Khan. It is heard that Shahrukh Khan loved the song and approached Southern legend Rajinikanth to acquire the right of the song for a Hindi remake. But unaware of Akshay Kumar who had already thumbs up the deal with Dhanush.
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Ingraham: Media Turns a 'Blind Eye' to Antifa Because They Have a Shared Enemy
'Who's really fomenting division in America?'
In her "Angle" commentary, Laura Ingraham said the media coddles Antifa and leftist protesters because their anti-Trump message aligns with the one prevailing in many American newsrooms.
She pointed to the media's coverage of the scarcely-attended white supremacist "Unite the Right 2" rally in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, which managed to turn out just 20 or so "racially-obsessed malcontents" on the one-year anniversary of the deadly Charlottesville, Va., protests.
She pointed out that those white supremacists were swamped by more than 1,000 counter-protesters, some of whom were affiliated with Antifa and other leftist fringe groups.
Ingraham said the media, however, failed to report on the extreme rhetoric and violence coming from some of those protesters.
Some 200 anti-fascists, many of them wearing black masks, confronted police about a half-mile from the White House as officers shoved them back, The Associated Press reported.
Other reports suggested counterprotesters hurled fireworks as police tried to clear the way for "Unite the Right" activists to leave the park.
Ingraham accused the press of "looking the other way" when it comes to those groups because those groups serve their ends.
"No matter the tactic, no matter the violence or mayhem, these groups are largely given a pass because they are brazenly, vociferously, consistently, vitriolically resisting Trump," Ingraham said.
"I suppose the old saying is true: the enemy of my enemy is my friend, no matter how awful and violent that friend might be. But if they continue to turn a blind eye to the hateful actions of groups like Antifa -- while exaggerating the importance of a handful of goofy racists craving attention -- the question must be asked: Who's really fomenting division in America?"
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(4) A petition for a harassment protection order filed pursuant to subsection (1) of this section may not be withdrawn except upon order of the court. An order issued pursuant to subsection (1) of this section shall specify that it is effective for a period of one year unless otherwise dismissed or modified by the court. Any person, except the petitioner, who knowingly violates an order issued pursuant to subsection (1) of this section after service or notice as described in subdivision (9)(b) of this section shall be guilty of a Class II misdemeanor.
(5)(a) Fees to cover costs associated with the filing of a petition for a harassment protection order or the issuance or service of a harassment protection order seeking only the relief provided by this section shall not be charged, except that a court may assess such fees and costs if the court finds, by clear and convincing evidence, that the statements contained in the petition were false and that the harassment protection order was sought in bad faith.
(b) A court may also assess costs associated with the filing of a petition for a harassment protection order or the issuance or service of a harassment protection order seeking only the relief provided by this section against the respondent.
(6) The clerk of the district court shall make available standard application and affidavit forms for a harassment protection order with instructions for completion to be used by a petitioner. Affidavit forms shall request all relevant information, including, but not limited to: A description of the incidents that are the basis for the application for a harassment protection order, including the most severe incident, and the date or approximate date of such incidents. The clerk and his or her employees shall not provide assistance in completing the forms. The State Court Administrator shall adopt and promulgate the standard application and affidavit forms provided for in this section as well as the standard temporary ex parte and final harassment protection order forms and provide a copy of such forms to all clerks of the district courts in this state. These standard temporary ex parte and final harassment protection order forms shall be the only such forms used in this state.
(7) Any order issued under subsection (1) of this section may be issued ex parte without notice to the respondent if it reasonably appears from the specific facts shown by affidavit of the petitioner that irreparable harm, loss, or damage will result before the matter can be heard on notice. If the specific facts included in the affidavit (a) do not show that the petitioner will suffer irreparable harm, loss, or damage or (b) show that, for any other compelling reason, an ex parte order should not be issued, the court may forthwith cause notice of the application to be given to the respondent stating that he or she may show cause, not more than fourteen days after service, why such order should not be entered. Any notice provided to the respondent shall include notification that a court may treat a petition for a harassment protection order as a petition for a sexual assault protection order or a domestic abuse protection order if it appears from the facts that such other protection order is more appropriate and that the respondent shall have an opportunity to show cause as to why such protection order should not be entered. If such ex parte order is issued without notice to the respondent, the court shall forthwith cause notice of the petition and order and a form with which to request a show-cause hearing to be given the respondent stating that, upon service on the respondent, the order shall remain in effect for a period of one year unless the respondent shows cause why the order should not remain in effect for a period of one year. If the respondent wishes to appear and show cause why the order should not remain in effect for a period of one year, he or she shall affix his or her current address, telephone number, and signature to the form and return it to the clerk of the district court within ten business days after service upon him or her. Upon receipt of a timely request for a show-cause hearing, the court shall immediately schedule a show-cause hearing to be held within thirty days after the receipt of the request for a show-cause hearing and shall notify the petitioner and respondent of the hearing date. If a petition is dismissed without a hearing, it shall be dismissed without prejudice. The petition and affidavit shall be deemed to have been offered into evidence at any show-cause hearing. The petition and affidavit shall be admitted into evidence unless specifically excluded by the court.
(8) A court may treat a petition for a harassment protection order as a petition for a sexual assault protection order or a domestic abuse protection order if it appears from the facts in the petition, affidavit, and evidence presented at a show-cause hearing that such other protection order is more appropriate and if:
(a) The court makes specific findings that such other order is more appropriate; or
(b) The petitioner has requested the court to so treat the petition.
(9)(a) Upon the issuance of any temporary ex parte or final harassment protection order, the clerk of the court shall forthwith provide the petitioner, without charge, with two certified copies of such order. The clerk of the court shall also forthwith provide the local police department or local law enforcement agency and the local sheriff's office, without charge, with one copy each of such order and one copy each of the sheriff's return thereon. The clerk of the court shall also forthwith provide a copy of the harassment protection order to the sheriff's office in the county where the respondent may be personally served together with instructions for service. Upon receipt of the order and instructions for service, such sheriff's office shall forthwith serve the harassment protection order upon the respondent and file its return thereon with the clerk of the court which issued the harassment protection order within fourteen days of the issuance of the harassment protection order. If any harassment protection order is dismissed or modified by the court, the clerk of the court shall forthwith provide the local police department or local law enforcement agency and the local sheriff's office, without charge, with one copy each of the order of dismissal or modification.
(b) If the respondent is present at a hearing convened pursuant to this section and the harassment protection order is not dismissed, such respondent shall be deemed to have notice by the court at such hearing that the harassment protection order will be granted and remain in effect and further service of such notice described in this subsection shall not be required for purposes of prosecution under this section.
(c) A temporary ex parte harassment protection order shall be affirmed and deemed the final protection order and service of the temporary ex parte order shall be notice of the final protection order if the respondent has been properly served with the ex parte order and:
(i) The respondent fails to request a show-cause hearing within ten business days after service upon him or her and no hearing was requested by the petitioner or upon the court's own motion;
(ii) The respondent has been properly served with notice of any hearing requested by the respondent or petitioner or upon the court's own motion and the respondent fails to appear at such hearing; or
(iii) The respondent has been properly served with notice of any hearing requested by the respondent, the petitioner, or upon the court's own motion and the protection order was not dismissed at the hearing.
(10) A peace officer may, with or without a warrant, arrest a person if (a) the officer has probable cause to believe that the person has committed a violation of a harassment protection order issued pursuant to this section or a violation of a valid foreign harassment protection order recognized pursuant to section 28-311.10 and (b) a petitioner under this section provides the peace officer with a copy of a harassment protection order or the peace officer determines that such an order exists after communicating with the local law enforcement agency or a person protected under a valid foreign harassment protection order recognized pursuant to section 28-311.10 provides the peace officer with a copy of such order.
(11) A peace officer making an arrest pursuant to subsection (10) of this section shall take such person into custody and take such person before the county court or the court which issued the harassment protection order within a reasonable time. At such time the court shall establish the conditions of such person's release from custody, including the determination of bond or recognizance, as the case may be. The court shall issue an order directing that such person shall have no contact with the alleged victim of the harassment.
(12) When provided by the petitioner, the court shall make confidential numeric victim identification information, including social security numbers and dates of birth, available to appropriate criminal justice agencies engaged in protection order enforcement efforts. Such agencies shall maintain the confidentiality of this information except for entry into state and federal databases for protection order enforcement.
"[A]ppear," as it is found in subdivision (8)(b) of this section, is not narrowly confined to require the presence of a respondent in person. Rather, it is the same as any other "appearance" in court. Weatherly v. Cochran, 301 Neb. 426, 918 N.W.2d 868 (2018).
Under this section, a respondent is entitled to appear by and through his or her counsel. Weatherly v. Cochran, 301 Neb. 426, 918 N.W.2d 868 (2018).
Pursuant to subsection (8) of this section, personal service is an element of the misdemeanor crime of violating a harassment protection order. State v. Graff, 282 Neb. 746, 810 N.W.2d 140 (2011).
A proper form under this section is not a prerequisite for subject matter jurisdiction, and this section does not change the rules of notice pleading generally applicable to civil actions. Mahmood v. Mahmud, 279 Neb. 390, 778 N.W.2d 426 (2010).
This section was amended operative January 1, 2020, and now provides that the petition and affidavit shall be deemed to have been offered into evidence at any show cause hearing, and the petition and affidavit shall be admitted into evidence unless specifically excluded by the court; this was a substantive amendment and therefore was not applicable to the pending case. Prentice v. Steede, 28 Neb. App. 423, 944 N.W.2d 323 (2020).
When a trial court determines an ex parte temporary harassment protection order is not warranted, an evidentiary hearing is not mandated under the harassment protection order statute as it is under the domestic abuse protection order statute. In harassment protection order proceedings, a trial court has the discretion to direct a respondent to show cause why an order should not be entered or, alternatively, the court can dismiss the petition if insufficient grounds have been stated in the petition and affidavit. Rosberg v. Rosberg, 25 Neb. App. 856, 916 N.W.2d 62 (2018).
The court erred in finding sufficient evidence to support issuance of harassment protection orders because the alleged harasser had not engaged in the type of stalking offense for which this section provides relief, where the incident between the alleged harasser and the alleged victims occurred within a span of 10 to 20 minutes on one particular day, and there was no evidence of harassment prior to or after the incident. Knopik v. Hahn, 25 Neb. App. 157, 902 N.W.2d 716 (2017).
The 5-day time requirement specified in this section for requesting a hearing is not essential to accomplishing the main objective of Nebraska's stalking and harassment statutes. Glantz v. Daniel, 21 Neb. App. 89, 837 N.W.2d 563 (2013).
The requirement in this section to request a hearing within 5 days of service of the ex parte order is directory rather than mandatory. Glantz v. Daniel, 21 Neb. App. 89, 837 N.W.2d 563 (2013).

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Agriculture Development Center opened in Broome County, N.Y.
The center is providing educational and training opportunities to farmers in the Southern Tier Region.
In addition, the brand-new Taste NY Market located inside the Agriculture Development Center promotes the world-class food and beverage products found in the Southern Tier and around the State, driving local agri-tourism in the region.
The Agriculture Development Center is a 3,200 square-foot addition to the original farm house that was built to serve as one-stop location, offering help to farmers with business planning and market development, as well as training on critical initiatives such as farmers' market nutrition programs and food safety.
The Agriculture Development Center will also be used to provide workforce training to ensure a pipeline of skilled agricultural workers.
The Ag Development Center has already been the site of half a dozen events, such as the State's Farm-to-School Summit and Regional Master Gardener training.
In addition, the project includes a Taste NY Market, which offers area visitors a variety of locally sourced food and beverage products from the region, sandwiches and other grab-and-go snacks, as well as an array of fresh products such as eggs, cheese, and produce.
The Market also supports operations of the new Southern Tier Welcome Center, working together to bring local food and beverages to the greater region.
Products available include food and gift items from New York State producers such as, Engelbert Farms, Finger Lakes Harvest, BobbySue's Nuts and many more.
The Agriculture Development Center was provided $500,000 from the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets, through its Southern Tier Agricultural Industry Enhancement program, and $750,000 from the NYS Economic Development Program, secured by Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo.
The Agriculture Development Center is a critical component of a larger project being developed at the same site by CCE-BC that includes a regional farmers' market and a commercial production kitchen.
Together, these projects will serve as a Food Innovation Cluster and small scale Food Hub for the Southern Tier that will work with local farmers to increase crop production, provide education for small-scale food manufacturing, and identify organizations/institutions that can purchase local products or sell at local farmers' markets, regional markets, local grocery stores, and Taste NY markets and stores.
The Agriculture Development Center and Taste NY Market complement "Southern Tier Soaring," the region's comprehensive blueprint created under the Governor's Upstate Revitalization Initiative to generate economic growth and community development.
The Southern Tier's plan invests in agriculture as one of the four key pillars of the region's economy. The state has already invested more than $4.6 billion in the region, including $30 million in agriculture-related projects, since 2012 to lay the groundwork for the plan.
The Governor's $30 million Southern Tier Agricultural Industry Enhancement program has doubled the state's commitment to growing the agricultural industry in the Southern Tier. ■

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...yep, you guessed right - this is a competition open to any aspiring electronic muzak hacks out there, and it's open
until january 2009.
Is Ary Barroso's
Aquarela do Brasil (otherwise known as just plain Brazil) the best song penned to paper?
here at IF? Records think so, and it's been crooned, remixed, reshuffled, and reinterpreted by people as far
afield as Frank Sinatra, S-Express, Little Nobody, Kate Bush, Xavier Cugat, Toots Thielemans & Elis Regina, Dionne Warwick,
Desi Arnaz, Joao Gilberto, the Three Tenors, etc., ad infinitum - not to mentioned used as the signature
theme for Terry Gilliam's excellent movie 1985 celluloid romp ironically also titled Brazil.


Headlining this high energy concert at Usher Hall are Skerryvore, Peatbog Faeries and Bombskare, an amazing line up of traditional music from Scotland coming together to celebrate World Fair Trade Day and Scotland as a Fair Trade Nation.
'A great bunch of guys and superb live - really infectious and hard not to get swept up in what they do' Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio 2 on Skerryvore
'Nothing prepares you for the high octane music of the Peatbog Faeries. Powerful melodies are dextrously pumped out with a smart degree of techno attitude, while cross-rhythms ricochet over a heavy bass hits you forcefully like a massive heart beat' The Scotsman
'...live shows are so energetic and entertaining, it’s no wonder every festival in the land wants to book them' AAA Edinburgh on Bombskare
Concert organised by social action events company Hand Up Events, who platform fair & ethical trade through concerts and consumer events. Thanks to Usher Hall, the City of Edinburgh Council and Scottish Fair Trade Forum for supporting this exciting line up celebration concert on World Fair Trade Day.
Skerryvore - Artist Bio
Take two brothers, Daniel (Accordion) and Martin Gillespie (pipes, whistles and accordion), steeped in the Scottish west coast ceilidh tradition on the Isle of Tiree, and add in friends Fraser West (drums) and Alec Dalglish (guitar and vocals), with a background in brass bands, wind bands, jazz bands, and with blues, folk and country influences, and you have the 2005, embryonic Skerryvore.
Fast forward 12 years, add Craig Espie (fiddle) and Jodie Bremaneson (bass), bring in your album producer Alan Scobie on Keyboards and mix in the Glasgow music scene – from University Applied Music courses and Traditional Music courses at the Royal Conservatoire to sell out gigs at O2 ABC – and you have a band that has already won Scottish Traditional music’s ‘Live Act of the Year’ in 2011 – they were to win it again in 2016 – and who, rightly, celebrated their decade by launching their own 6000 capacity festival.
Their latest album and world tour took their high energy, musically expansive set not just throughout UK and Europe, but also to USA, Canada and Australia.
Skerryvore represent the best in contemporary Scottish traditional music, with a growing fanbase worldwide and with the promise of much more to come.
Twice winners of Scotlands Traditional Music Live Act of the Year Award in 2011 & 2016
Peatbog Faeries - Artist Bio
Hailing from the Isle of Skye, this year celebrating 31 years, from the moment they take to the stage, the mood is set for a no-nonsense feel-good atmosphere – each number sounding like an encore in itself. They tease unlikely combinations from the familiarity of instruments such as fiddle and highland pipes – blending with techno rhythms and soaring sounds and take this to another plain. The traditional styles that influence the musicians are still to be heard – and when an unexpected drop-down to those glorious core melodies sneaks in – the result is spine-chilling! In short, it rocks – and the audience becomes part of the experience.
Bombskare - Artist Bio
Introducing the bishops of bounce, the sorcerers of skank, the undisputed masters of Scottish death reggae, the one and only Bombskare - the closest thing you'll see to an actual northern powerhouse.
This nine headed ska demon has been tearing up stages the length and breadth of the British Isles since before The Crusades. Reaching zero to sixty skanking miles from a standing start, they combine top quality dance-along songs with incredible punctuality - leaving every stage like Tokyo following a visit from Godzilla.
Renowned for their technical prowess as much as their infectious ska anthems, they combine lush, three-part harmonies with choppy guitar attacks and an explosive horn section to truly blow the audience away.
One thing these guys know about getting a crowd to dance is everything..
Over 14's only. Under 16's with an adult 18+
Please contact the box office on 0131 228 1155 or email firstname.lastname@example.org in order to book wheelchair spaces and disabled companion places.
Please note this is a Standing Event. A limited number of unreserved seats will be available. Please come early to avoid disappointment. It is not possible to reserve seats.


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- Policy makers keep all three interest rates unchanged
- Currency weakens 0.1 percent after central bank's decision
Turkey’s lira weakened after the central bank kept interest rates unchanged and made no reference to simplifying its monetary policy framework, a sign it will extend a year-long pause on rates that Turk Ekonomi Bankasi AS says poses risks to the currency.
The lira weakened 0.1 percent to 3.0400 against the dollar as of 4:16 p.m. in Istanbul after gaining as much as 0.5 percent earlier. While the central bank’s decision to hold interest rates was in line with the median estimate of economists surveyed by Bloomberg, the regulator dropped a reference to a pledged “simplification” of policy in the latest statement from the monetary policy committee.
The decision underscores the bank’s reluctance to begin narrowing its interest-rate corridor around its one-week repurchase rate, even after Central Bank Governor Erdem Basci last year pledged to do so. Policy makers are under political pressure to boost growth by keeping interest rates low even as inflation accelerates. They surprised markets last month by delaying an anticipated rate increase in order to gauge the reaction to the Federal Reserve rate increase in December.
“The central banks seem to have postponed the simplification of monetary policy for now,” Erkin Isik, an Istanbul-based strategist at Turk Ekonomi Bankasi, said by e-mail. “The central bank seems more likely to keep its current policy stance without tightening or easing, no matter what the global backdrop is, at least until Governor Basci’s term ends in April. This leaves Turkish markets heavily dependent on the global backdrop, and ongoing weakness in global risk sentiment risks further downside in the lira.”
The central bank kept its one-week repo rate at 7.5 percent, the overnight-lending rate at 10.75 percent and the overnight borrowing rate at 7.25 percent, maintaining levels that have been in place since February.
Inflation accelerated to 8.8 percent in December, the highest year-end level since 2011, missing the central bank’s target for a fifth year. The nation’s currency has weakened 23 percent in the past 12 months.
Future monetary policy decisions will be conditional on the inflation outlook, and “the tight liquidity stance will be maintained as long as deemed necessary,” the central bank said in a statement accompanying its decision Tuesday. The bank controls the weighted average cost of bank funding by adjusting the amount of liquidity it lends through daily one-week repo auctions, forcing banks to borrow at higher overnight rates to cover any remaining funding needs.
Basci said in October it would be “reasonable” to expect the process of simplifying policy from this current multi-rate framework toward a single benchmark rate to begin after the Fed lifted borrowing costs.
It’s “extremely important that the central bank sends a very clear message about its intentions to reduce market speculation,” Piotr Matys, an emerging-market strategist at Rabobank in London, said by e-mail. The risk that lira volatility may escalate again will “make it even more difficult for the central bank to finally normalize its monetary policy,” he said.


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Paul interviews Tony Wrighton, a broadcaster, author, and coach, about his journey to recovery from a debilitating illness and his approach to health and mindset. Tony shares his experience of being ill for three months and the post-viral symptoms he faced. He discusses how he discovered the power of NLP and energy psychology in his healing process and how he now incorporates these techniques into his coaching practice. Tony also introduces his Healthy AF method, which focuses on healing, optimising, and transforming one's health
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- The Healthy AF method focuses on healing, optimising, and transforming one's health using NLP and energy psychology.
- The method requires a commitment of 12 minutes a day, which includes 10 minutes of decompressing and accessing the unconscious mind, and 2 minutes of tracking and reflection.
- Resistance to change and self-sabotage can arise when trying to adopt healthier habits, but acknowledging the positive intentions behind these behaviours and devaluing the old habits can help in the process of upgrading.
- Finding the right coach or therapist is crucial, as not all coaches are made equal. It's important to have a good rapport and feel comfortable with the person you're working with.
"I just kept my body in fight or flight mode... I just needed to wait and recover."
"It’s very hard for people who come to see me to acknowledge the fact that part of what is causing these symptoms or prolonging these symptoms is what is going on in their head."
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Senior UNIX Analyst
bij Cargill (eender waar) (fulltime)
Cargill is an international producer and marketer of food, agricultural, financial and industrial products and services. Founded in 1865, the privately held company employs 131.000 people in 66 countries. Cargill helps customers succeed through collaboration and innovation, and is committed to applying its global knowledge and experience to help meet economic, environmental and social challenges wherever it does business. For more information, visit www.cargill.com.
The Information Technology Services for Business (ITSB) organization, as part of the overall Service Delivery organization, provides IT infrastructure services for Cargill on a global basis and is responsible for the Cargill data centers, network, telephony, desktops and employee productivity services
Your main goal is to lead significant change initiatives, transforming Cargill’s core IT and helping to enable Cargill’s overall success - To do so, you will lead and execute projects for Global infrastructure Hosting Services (GIHS) including business-driven projects, risks and controls projects, next to various other internal projects - You will use your leadership skills to deliver results on preset deadlines and budget through building strong teams and collaborating effectively across the enterprise.
60% Coordinating and executing complex and large projects that support deployment of hosting solutions.
10% Performing Level 3 Incident resolution by providing break/fix support for issues escalated from Operations Support. You perform root causes analyses of incidents and you make recommendations. You participate in the Major Incident process. You perform problem management activities as required
10% Leveraging knowledge across the Hosting teams by maintaining a documentation repository for hosted solutions and by training Operations in the running and maintenance of solution.
5% Remediate security compliance issues
5% Address performance issues for business users
5% Participate in proposing and validating Hosting solutions
5% Participate in architecture working groups.
You have a University degree, preferably in Computer Science, MIS or Engineering or you have equivalent experience.
Strong (4 years plus) technical experience in one of the following
Ability to work successfully in both a team environment and independently.
Effectively participate in a virtual, globally, diverse, distributed team.
Broad understanding of how technology impacts Cargill’s business
Strong knowledge of Cargill and Cargill related businesses on a regional and global basis
Strong verbal and written communication skills including fluency in English and cultural awareness
Strong problem-solving / customer service skills.
Able and willing to work non-traditional hours, including nights and weekends, and participate in an on-call rotation as required.
Ability to troubleshoot problems in most components of the technology structure.
Technical support experience in an enterprise networked (LAN/WAN) environment.
Ability to quickly cut through issues and choose best solutions and course of action.
Ability to apply multiple technologies to business problems.
Available for travel.
Certification in one of the technology areas listed above.
Interest in exploring new technology.
Knowledge of project management, planning, and organization.
Demonstrated project leadership ability.
Mentor new or less experienced employees
In return for your expertise and commitment, we will provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. Of course, we also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with unrivalled global career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.
Apply online: https://cargill.taleo.net/careersection/3/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=REG00403
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Genius reports 75.5% increase of 2021 revenue
Genius Sports announces a revenue of $262.7mln for the full 2021, which shows an increase of 75.5 percent, compared to 2020’s $149.7mln revenue.
The revenue from gaming technology and services accounted for 177.2mln, which demonstrates a rise of 60.2 percent.
Media technology and services has seen a doubled increase annually, amounting to $48.3mln, an increase of 109.6 percent. The same is for the sports technology and services, $37.2mln in revenue with a rise of 131.7 percent.
These increases have been gained due to the acquisition of new clients from European and American regions throughout the year. The company established collaboration with NFL in April, by which the league gained 22.5mln Genius shares at a cost of $428mln.
Besides, the business gained Sportzcast and Second Spectrum, a data tracking company.
Along with the revenue, net losses and other expenses have also seen an increase. The gross loss accounted for $213.4mln. Operating expenses amounted to $359.8mln, from which $293.1mln were due to administrative and general expenses.
Marketing costs have seen a rise of 107.1 percent, which is equal to $27.2mln. Development and research expenses grew by 135.8 percent, equaling $26.5mln.
These all resulted in loss from operations to $573.2mln, while a year before it was equal to $20mln.
The chief executive of the company, Mark Locke, noted:
“The past year was a really remarkable one as our company has established partnerships with sportsbooks and leagues, due to which we managed to generate notable results. I am beyond sure that the current year will be beneficial and fruitful, as our main focus is on growth strategies and expansion to new areas all over the world”.
The supplier issued its projections for the current year in January, which stated that they expected positive revenue and EBITDA.


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In the long history of imperial China, emperors of China (and other powerful officials) would on occasion keep hostages taken from other countries or rival organizations to ensure peace or allegiance between states or groups or as leverage in negotiations. Sometimes even, an emperor would take hostages from the family of powerful officials or generals to make sure that they stayed loyal to the emperor. Books have even been written about this practice.
In modern China, the practice of taking hostages continues, but in a somewhat different form. China frequently arrests and detains foreign nationals, accusing them of crimes and holding them for “investigation,” at times for months, without contact with lawyers, family, friends, or officials from their home country. This practice of holding people incommunicado is part of the reason that the Hong Kong people want nothing to do with China’s “justice” system. Sometimes, prisoners disappear permanently – killed or dying while in detention in China.
Today, the Wall Street Journal reported that China seized a U.S. citizen, a pilot for FedEx named Todd Hohn, accusing him of “transporting ammunition” on a flight where security had already cleared him. The “ammunition” in question was plastic pellets for a low-powered replica gun. They are common in Hong Kong, where he lives.
Not long ago, President Trump ordered FedEx and other package delivery companies to increase their inspections of packages entering the U.S. from China as part of a crackdown on fentanyl smuggling into the U.S. Recently, enough fentanyl to kill 14 million people was seized in Virginia. It was shipped from a vendor in Shanghai. China has denied has denied that it is the source for fentanyl entering the U.S. Of course, that is just more CCP propaganda.
Along with the fentanyl smuggling problem, trade negotiations between the U.S. and China are starting soon, and the U.S. Congress is pushing the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act through the legislative process, on its way to becoming U.S. law.
So given this background, from China’s point of view, detaining a FedEx pilot – better yet, an American citizen living in Hong Kong – on this phony charge makes perfect sense. China gets some leverage over FedEx in enforcement of shipping regulations, and over the U.S in the trade negotiations, and China can also use it to pressure the U.S. Congress against passage of the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act and to express its anger at U.S. support for the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement. Given China’s long history of using hostages as pawns in diplomacy and negotiations, it isn’t really surprising that they would do this, but it is still despicable.
China at this moment is holding citizens of Australia, Canada, and the United States, and possibly other countries, on politically-based charges. It is unfortunately typical of China to engage in “hostage diplomacy,” and that fact is yet more evidence that the CCP is uncivilized, and not worthy to be a member of the community of nations. We will say it yet again: the Chinese people deserve a much better government than the one they unfortunately have.

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ART 101 is...
Each year Salem Art Works offers introductory level workshops in the fall and spring to high school students in the greater Capitol Region area. Art 101 is geared towards 11th and 12th grade students in high school.
This year we offer workshops in Glass Blowing, Blacksmithing, Welding, Silk Screen Printing, Polymer Clay Landscape Painting, Paper Embossing and Carving. Each workshop is instructed by a practicing artist at SAW. Learning at SAW is hands on and exploratory. Given basic guidelines, students are provided new skills and room to make their project their own, producing something they can take home.
Your class will visit SAW for a one-day intensive! Pick Workshops for your students to take, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Students can tour the sculpture park and learn about the facilities and mediums offered at SAW.
Before you bring your students to SAW schedule an classroom Artist visit to prepare, excite and talk to your students about Art 101.
-“The whole site was very cool, eccentric. It felt like everybody’s personalities were shining through.
-“They were hands on and the assistance was clear”
“Being able to try out a medium I have never worked with before”
-”Fun and entertaining!”
-Maximum # of students per workshop: 8
-Workshops cost $240 a day
-Teacher can schedule up to 4 Workshops
-Workshops run from 9:30am - 12:00pm and 1:00am - 3:30pm
-Students take 2 disciplines during the day
-Please bring 1 chaperone per workshop


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Hojatoleslam Sayyed Ahmad Khatami pointed to US government atrocities in Iran in the last 56 years and said the Shah regime was imposed on Iranian by the then US government’s efforts.
“After the Revolution (1979) their embassy was a center to hatch plots against the administration and because of that the students, the followers of Imam Khomeini’s line, took over the espionage den,” Khatami said.
Hojatoleslam Khatami spoke of the US President’s promise not to intervene in Iran’s domestic affairs as a big lie and accused the American media and Pentagon of meddling in an unrest which followed the June elections.
“Last week the US Department of Defense allocated millions of dollars for sabotage and soft war against the great nation of Iran,” Khatami deplored.
The Leader of Tehran Friday Prayers said the nation’s hatred of the US evil acts was deeply rooted and they would not sit devilish negotiations with the US.


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Bats are important hosts of many viruses and in several cases they may serve as natural reservoirs even for viruses with zoonotic potential worldwide, including Europe. However, they also serve as natural reservoir for other virus groups with important evolutionary relevance and yet unknown zoonotic potential. We performed viral metagenomic analyses on Miniopterus schreibersii bat fecal samples. As a result, a novel parvovirus was detected for the first time in European bats. Although, bufavirus was recently discovered as a novel human infecting parvovirus, here we report sequence data of the first bufavirus from European bats related to human bufaviruses. Based on our sequence data a possible intragenic recombination event was detected within bufaviruses which may serves as an important milestone in their evolution.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
- Molecular Biology
- Microbiology (medical)
- Infectious Diseases

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Our radiology specialists use medical imaging technology to diagnose illnesses in the body.
Our imaging techniques allow our doctors to make accurate assessments of medical conditions without the need for invasive surgery.
The imaging department at Family Medical Practice offers a variety of services including:
MRI scanning (External referral, transportation options available)
General ultrasound (3D/4D)
Obstetric & gynecological ultrasound


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40% of our total crop is apples. 60% of our total crop is berries. 20% of our total crop are apples harvested in winter. 20% of our total crop are apples harvested in summer. Can we find the percentage of total winter crops?
I have sketched out a probability tree, probability tables, and tried to work through Bayes Rule approaches but feel that there is not enough information to calculate the total percentage of winter crops without knowing the percentage of berries grown in winter or summer. Am I missing something here or do we need more information to know the percentage of winter crops?


Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks, as delivered, to the Security Council open meeting: “Equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines in contexts affected by conflict and insecurity”, today:
Addressing the equitable distribution of vaccines against the coronavirus in the Security Council today, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres proposed the creation of an emergency task force by the G20 countries to prepare and help implement a global immunization plan.
The Food and Agriculture Organization said it is working to bolster the global response to the Fall Armyworm, considered one of the top 10 devastating plant pests, which places at risk up to 80 million metric tons of maize worth $18 billion per year in Africa, Asia and the Near East.
Against the backdrop of the COVID‑19 pandemic, the General Assembly adopted two health‑related resolutions this morning — one, by recorded vote, underscoring the importance of affordable health care for all and of monitoring the unfolding impact of the novel coronavirus, and another, by consensus, declaring 2021 to 2030 as the United Nations Decade of Healthy Ageing.
Delegates struck a cautiously hopeful note as the General Assembly completed its special session dedicated to the COVID‑19 pandemic, while stressing the need for multilateral approaches to distributing vaccines and mitigating the pandemic’s wide-ranging fallout.