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On Dec. 16, 2021, the Joint Parliamentary Committee submitted its long-awaited report to the Indian Parliament after two years of deliberations on the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019. This is, hopefully, the culmination of a series of extensions provided to the JPC and will pave the way for a strong data protection law in the world’s largest democracy.
The journey so far: In 2017, the Supreme Court of India (the apex judicial body in India) declared the right to privacy as a fundamental right protected under the Indian Constitution. It also recommended the Indian Central Government put in place a data protection regime that considers the interests of individuals as well as the legitimate concerns of the state while promoting an environment for entrepreneurship and innovation. In the same year, the government appointed an expert committee headed by former Supreme Court judge Justice B.N. Srikrishna to draft a Personal Data Protection Bill that will "ensure growth of the digital economy while keeping personal data of citizens secure and protected.” The expert committee submitted its report along with a draft legislation on data protection in July 2018. The government then set up a JPC to review the PDPB.
The committee consulted various stakeholders, such as industry and regulatory bodies and services providers. This includes the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Reserve Bank of India, Securities and Exchange Board of India, National Payments Corporation of India, Income Tax department, Unique Identification Authority of India, National Association of Software and Service Companies, large social media players, law firms and others. The objective was to understand how personal and sensitive data are processed in real time with implementation of actual data protection safeguards preventing data leakages. The committee also visited data centers and processing centers in India.
Key committee recommendations
The following revisions are observed in the report submitted by the committee:
- Timelines for implementation (Clause 1): The 2019 bill did not specify any time limit for the implementation of its provisions. The revised bill provides that an “approximate period of 24 months may be provided for implementation of any and all the provisions of the Act so that the data fiduciaries and data processors have enough time to make the necessary changes to their policies, infrastructure, processes, etc.” It is recommended the data protection authority commences its work within six months, registration of data fiduciaries is done within nine months and the appellate tribunal commences its work within 12 months from the date of notification.
- Scope (Clause 2): The scope of the Personal Data Protection Bill has undergone an expansion and will now cover both personal and non-personal data. The bill has been renamed from “Personal Data Protection Bill” to “Data Protection Bill (Bill).” The same regulator is expected to regulate non-personal data and personal data, because “it is impossible to distinguish between personal data and non-personal data, when mass data is collected or transported.”
The inclusion of non-personal data including anonymized data in the scope will become a debatable and controversial issue, mainly because some of the non-personal data will be considered as proprietary by businesses that would have made major investments to collect this non-personal data.
- Definitions (Clause 3): Several key terms have been defined, consolidated or revised, including “consent manager,” “data auditor,” “data breach,” “data fiduciary,” “data processor,” “data protection officer,” “harm” and “non-personal data.”
- Processing of personal data without consent (Clauses 13 and 14): The processing of non-sensitive personal data for the purposes of employment now includes scenarios where "such processing is necessary or can reasonably be expected by the data principal." Legitimate interest is now explicitly called out as a basis of processing personal data if “the processing is necessary for reasonable purposes as may be specified by regulations,” balancing the interests of both the data principal and data fiduciary.
- Processing of personal data of children (Clause 16): Data fiduciaries exclusively dealing with children's data must register with the DPA. The data fiduciary must inform the child three months before the child attains the age of majority so they may choose to provide consent again, and the data fiduciary must continue providing the services to the child unless the child withdraws consent.
The fact that personal data of children would now be processed to protect the rights of the child (instead of the earlier “best interests of the child”) is a welcome change.
- User rights (Clauses 17, 19 and 23): The data principal will now be able to exercise his or her right to decide how their data will be handled in case of casualty or death by nominating a legal heir or representative. For data portability, trade secrets can no longer be grounds to deny data portability, and porting of data can only be denied on the ground of technical feasibility, which must be strictly determined by the regulations. The data fiduciary is also required to ensure transparency and fairness of algorithms and methods for processing personal data.
- Breach reporting (Clause 25): A data breach now includes breach of both personal and non-personal data. The breach reporting requirements are stricter and more specific. The form of notice will now be specified by regulations rather than restricting the scope of the form within the bill itself. Most importantly, the timeline for reporting has been clearly defined as within 72 hours of becoming aware of a breach. A provision has been added where the DPA can direct the data fiduciary to adopt any urgent measures to remedy such a breach or mitigate any harm caused to the data principal.
- Social media platforms (Clause 26): All social media platforms — which do not act as intermediaries — should be treated as publishers and be held accountable for the content they host. The rationale is such platforms can select the receiver of the content and control access to any content posted on their platform. These platforms will be held responsible for the content from unverified accounts on their platforms and will have to set up an office in India if they do not already have one. A media regulatory authority is proposed to be set up to regulate content on these platforms.
This moves away from the Information Technology Act 2000, its amendment in 2008 and subsequent regulations around intermediaries, which protected intermediaries from content posted by third parties.
- Data protection officer (Clause 30): Further clarity has been added regarding who can be a DPO. In the government, the DPO should be a senior level officer of the state and, in a private company, key managerial personnel, such as chief executive officer, managing director, chief financial officer, company secretary or whole-time director.
- Data transfer (Clause 34): The requirements for transfers of sensitive and critical personal data have been further refined. The DPA, when approving a contract or intragroup scheme that allows the cross-border transfer of data, should now consult the government as well. The contract or intragroup scheme allowing cross-border transfer of data should not be approved if the contract or scheme is against public or state policy. Also, such data should not be shared with any foreign government or agency unless it is approved by the government.
- Exemptions from the regulation (Clause 35): This allows any agency under the government to be exempt from any or all provisions of the law. This led to the maximum number of dissent notes from the members of the committee. To address these concerns, the revised draft provides that the procedure to allow for such exemption should be a "just, fair, reasonable and proportionate procedure."
However, the inclusion of a non-obstante clause provides an overriding effect over any other law. How this overarching provision is balanced against the right to individual privacy remains to be seen.
- Sandbox environment (Clause 40): To encourage startup and innovation culture with the inclusion of privacy by design, the government may set up sandbox environments for live testing of new products, technologies, and services (this was earlier a mandatory obligation). This would help small businesses and startups comply with data protection norms.
- Composition of the DPA (Clause 42): The composition of the DPA must be inclusive, robust and independent, constituting members from legal, technical and academic fields in addition to secretary level officials while capping the total members at six. The government will identify an independent expert from data protection, information technology, data management, data sciences and data security services. The attorney general of India must be a member of the DPA. In addition, one director from the Indian Institute of Management and one from the Indian Institute of Technology must be nominated to the DPA.
- Testing and certification of hardware devices (Clause 49): Since there is no coverage for hardware devices involved in personal data collection and processing in the PDPB, the committee recommended the government set up dedicated testing labs or facilities and establish mechanisms to provide formal certification of integrity, trustworthiness and security of hardware and software for all digital and IoT devices. An individual should be able to have their device certified, and, in case the device does not meet the specified standards of data security, approach the DPA to take action against the manufacturer.
- Data localization: Mandatorily brought to India in a time bound manner, it is recommended the government, in consultation with concerned sectoral regulators, prepare and pronounce an extensive policy on data localization.
- Privacy-centric alternative financial payment system: An alternative indigenous financial system to the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication system should be to boost digital economy and usage in domestic space and ensure privacy in financial transactions. The goal is to reduce financial fraud fear among consumers, encouraging and accelerating the adoption rate of digital payments by consumers.
View on implementation
As suggested in the report, some key activities that need to be carried out in a phased manner include setting up the DPA and other associated infrastructure. Companies need to embrace and build an effective compliance strategy by focusing on investments and alignment to people, process and technology in a stipulated time. Both the government and private companies need to establish dedicated training and awareness programs to train the workforce and ensure timely compliance.
The Data Protection Bill is a much-delayed and much-needed legislation that will replace the current archaic, legacy and ineffective data protection regime in India. As compared to the current standards, it will help protect the privacy rights of individuals and promote fair and transparent use of data for innovation and growth, unlocking the digital economy. It has the potential to create employment, increase user awareness about their privacy, and enforce accountability with data fiduciaries and processors.
Though inspired in part by the EU General Data Protection Regulation, India has ultimately forged its own path toward data protection with several unique provisions: combining personal and non-personal data under the same umbrella, data localization, coverage of hardware devices, managing social media platforms, and more. Though it still has several lacunae, when implemented it will bring India on par with other countries’ strong data protection laws. Companies will do well to start preparing for compliance with the various provisions.
The views and opinions expressed in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the company they work for.
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It's another boy for "Parks and Recreation" star Amy Poehler and actor husband Will Arnett. On Friday, August 6, a rep for the second-time parents, who have been married since 2003, told Access Hollywood via statement, "Amy Poehler and Will Arnett have welcomed their second child, a boy."
"Abel James Arnett was born on Friday morning and weighed in at 7 lbs., 13 oz.," the rep's statement further revealed. "Amy, Will, Abel and Archie are all healthy and resting comfortably." Archibald "Archie" William Emerson Arnett, is 1-year-old son of Amy and Will.
Professionally, Amy Poehler is credited for becoming a featured player on "Saturday Night Live" and for her role in 2008 film "Baby Mama". She is also up for an Emmy for her leading role on the NBC comedy "Parks and Recreation". Will Arnett, in the meantime, previously played on TV series "Arrested Development" and is gearing up for his new comedy on FOX, "Running Wilde", which is set to premiere this fall.
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Big-hearted, moving and richly rewarding, That Deadman Dance is set in the first decades of the 19th century in the area around what is now Albany, Western Australia. In playful, musical prose, the book explores the early contact between the Aboriginal Noongar people and the first European settlers.
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Dr. Weir offers practical help and spiritual guidance toward peace, strength, and healing for any patient faced with disturbing medical news. Rather than quick, easy answers, he equips patients to weather the storm and emerge stronger, richer, and more whole than ever before. Includes real stories of patients and personal experiences of Dr. Weir, with a foreword by Joni Eareckson Tada.Publishers Description
When the diagnosis is serious, what makes the difference between hope and despair? As a practicing oncologist, Dr. Al Weir works daily with patients who receive bad news. A medical doctor with a pastor s heart, Dr. Weir knows from experience that it s the patient s focus, not the diagnosis, that indicates whether one will slip into despair and hopelessness or have the courage to live each day fully. Resilience of spirit can powerfully influence recovery and healing, and within our crisis, the choices we make are important. When Your Doctor Has Bad News offers no easy answers, no quick outs. But it does equip you to weather the storm you are facing and emerge whole again. Practical tips provide questions for you to ask your doctor and choices you can make to achieve your best chances for healing. Real-life stories show how others have coped with life-threatening illness, walked with God, and won. You can deepen communion with God in the midst of medical crisis. When Your Doctor Has Bad News gives you proven principles that will enable you to choose a life worth living, no matter what news the doctor has given you. Dr. Weir . . . guides the reader---especially the one who has received bad news---past the soul-numbing shock of a dismal medical report. He reminds us of the soothing comfort available in the Word of God, of the heartwarming precepts upon which we can build a new life, and of the simple steps a family can take to promote hope and healing. ---Joni Eareckson Tada (from the introduction)"
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In a comprehensive study in this week's issue of the journal Science, conducted by researchers at the Russian Academy of Sciences, the University of Alaska, USA, and Örjan Gustafsson of Stockholm University, it is shown that the area is currently leaking annually 8 million tonnes of methane into the atmosphere. The current flow is equivalent to what was previously understood to apply for the entire world ocean, although it is not at present contributing to an acute change in the atmospheric methane balance.
The Russo-Swedish research expedition, the International Siberian Shelf Study (ISSS), which was completed just over a year ago, is the most comprehensive so far in the inaccessible and poorly explored waters off north-eastern Siberia, despite the fact that they constitute the world's largest coastal sea. Climate models suggest that an increase in atmospheric methane equivalent to just one percent of what is estimated to be contained in the frozen seabed would be sufficient to cause a significant climate warming. Earlier periods of rapid climate warming in the Earth's geological history have been associated with sudden releases of methane from the seabed.
During the ISSS expedition measurements of methane were made in the seabed, at different depths in the water and in the overlying air at over one hundred locations. Combined with measurements from previous expeditions led by the Russian leaders of the study, Shakhova Natalya and Igor Semiletov, it can be seen that methane concentrations in seawater are elevated in 80% of sea bottom samples and in more than half of the surface water samples and air samples. In areas with concentrations up to 100 times above the natural background levels, the ISSS expedition documented, with the help of seismic instruments and echo sounding, the presence of methane chimneys on the ocean floor and fields of methane bubbles that rose to the surface of the sea so fast that the methane did not have time to dissolve in the seawater.
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"The possibility cannot be excluded that the human contribution to warming of the Arctic, with an extended summer period with no ice and warmer water, as well as increased runoff of warmer river water, could be the straw that broke the camel's back, or rather that which pushes the temperature of the seabed permafrost above melting point," says Professor Gustafsson.
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Last Friday, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe issued an executive order restoring the voting rights of over 200,000 convicted felons who had finished serving their jail time.
"I see it as a form of reparations, I really do," said Reverend Irene Monroe, a syndicated religious columnist.
"We know how our judicial system disproportionately put men of colors behind bars a lot of times before DNA was able to be discerned as a way of stating if a person was guilty or not," she continued.
The state of Virginia banned felons from voting during the Civil War, and then—during the Jim Crow era—instituted further restrictions on suffrage like a poll tax and literary test as a means of preventing African Americans from participating in the political process.
Monroe said that if Virginia was willing to come to terms with its past, so too might other Southern states with similar laws on the books.
"In Virginia in all states, that's almost like a coup," Monroe said. "If the state of Virginia can do it, we can just about to it everywhere."
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Neutrino Portal via Loops
One loop correction to the dark matter (DM) annihilation cross section is usually assumed to be sub-dominate in calculating the DM relic density. In this paper, we propose a scenario where DM freezes out mainly via loops in the neutrino portal. For a scalar DM annihilating into neutrino via a triangle diagram, or a Majorana DM annihilating into neutrino via a box diagram, the observed DM relic density can be generated if the mediator is Majorana fermion. We further work out the neutrino Debye mass and neutrino oscillation probabilities in the dark halo. Numerical results show that impactions of DM to these physical observables are negligible on the Earth, however the analytical results can be applied to evaluate neutrino properties in a dense DM environment.
Astrophysical observations have confirmed the existence of dark matter (DM) Aghanim:2018eyx , which cannot be addressed by the minimal Standard Model (SM) of particle physics. Of all the SM particles, neutrinos are most similar to DM in nature. In fact, neutrinos themselves are candidates for hot DM, which however cannot explain the formation of individual galaxies after the big bang. To explain the small-scale structure in the early Universe, we must rely on cold DM. What is the mass of the cold DM? how it couples to the SM particles? and what is the thermal history of the cold DM in the early Universe? are three unsolved mysteries. For the past decades, many DM models have been created with mass ranging from eV to , of which, weakly interacting massive particle Goldberg:1983nd ; Ellis:1983ew ; Jungman:1995df ; Servant:2002aq ; Cheng:2002ej ; Bertone:2004pz , sub-GeV DM Essig:2011nj , axion Marsh:2015xka ; Preskill:1982cy ; Abbott:1982af ; Dine:1981rt and primordial black hole Carr:2016drx are typical DM candidates with abundant physical signals.
In this paper, we focus on the thermal history of the cold DM in the early Universe. It is well-known that DM can be produced thermally via the freeze-out or freeze-in mechanism Hall:2009bx , or non-thermally via the misalignment mechanism Preskill:1982cy ; Abbott:1982af ; Dine:1981rt , depending on the dynamics of the hidden sector. Non-thermal production mechanism is usually related to the phase transition, during which epoch the energy stored in the scalar potential false vacuum can be transferred to the DM. In the freeze-in scenario, DM is produced by the annihilation or decay of heavier particle, but the DM interaction rate is too small to thermalize. The freeze-out scenario requires a large enough interaction rate. If DM freezes out relativistically, then its relic density is simply Hambye:2020lvy ; Frigerio:2011in , with the number of degrees of freedom contributing to entropy at DM decoupling. Alternatively, if DM freeze-out non-relativistically, the relic density depends only on the annihilation cross section, which takes the value Bertone:2004pz .
We propose an interesting possibility where DM is thermalized via tree-level interactions but non-relativistically freeze-out via high order processes. Usually these loop effects are negligibly small and cannot solely fit to a correct relic abundance when the tree-level annihilation process is kinematically forbidden. We find that the one-loop contribution can be enhanced in the neutrino portal whenever the mediator is a Majorana fermion. To illustrate this point, we propose two sub-GeV DM models: a scalar DM model, which freezes out via a triangle diagram, and a Majorana DM which freezes out via a box diagram. In both scenarios, the loop integrals are finite and large enough give rise to a correct relic abundance. Considering that thermal correction to the relic density is only proportional to Beneke:2014gla ; Beneke:2016ghp , the result of loop calculation at the zero-temperature is credible.
It has been shown that active neutrino may acquire a sizable nonzero mass from a long range potential sourced by DM distributions Davoudiasl:2018hjw ; DAmico:2018hgc . We evaluate the neutrino Majorana mass induced by the scalar DM. It shows that the induced neutrino mass in the loop-portal is proportional to the DM density, and is negligibly small on the Earth as the local DM density is too low. We further investigate the matter effect of neutrino oscillations induced by the DM. For the first time, we derive the formulae of DM effect in neutrino-antineutrino oscillation probability, which is applicable to the investigation of neutrino oscillations with large Debye mass. For loop-portal scenarios, it is unlikely to test the DM effect in neutrino oscillation experiments in the solar system. Our results, in addition to the conclusions of Refs. Choi:2019zxy ; Liao:2018byh ; Capozzi:2018bps (and these from references cited therein), clarify the physical picture of neutrino oscillations in the dark halo.
The remaining of the paper is organized as follows: In section II we introduce the loop-portal in detail and calculate the DM relic density. Section III is devoted to the study of neutrino mass induced by the DM. In section IV, we study the DM effect in neutrino oscillations. The last part is concluding remarks.
In this section we present two models of neutrino-portal via loops: the scenario A for Majorana DM and the scenario B for scalar DM . They are both two-component DM models, of which the heavier DM component will dominantly annihilate into the lighter one resulting in negligible relic density. We assume the heavier DM component is a complex scalar , which couples to the right-handed Majorana neutrino and the left-handed active neutrinos : , with the Yukawa coupling.111Such an interaction is natural if is the neutral component of a vector-like lepton doublet which gets non-zero Majorana mass via a seesaw-like mechanism. Alternatively, if mixes with the neutral component of an inert Higgs doublet via the interaction , and couples to and left-handed lepton doublet (), one may also get this Yukawa interaction. Then Lagrangians for scenarios A and B can be written as
where and are masses of and respectively, is the Yukawa coupling and is the quartic coupling. Interactions between the SM Higgs and new scalar singlets, as well as quartic coupling between and bilinears, are neglected for simplicity. Throughout this paper we focus on the thermal dynamics of sub-GeV DMs and neglect the active neutrino mass.
In scenario A, both and are DM candidates stabilized by a symmetry. Assuming the mass hierarchy , annihilates into in the early Universe, resulting in negligible relic abundance for a sizable Yukawa coupling , while can only annihilate into neutrinos via the Box diagram given in the left-panel of the Fig. 1. The thermal average of the reduced annihilation cross section can then be written as
where is the four point loop function proportional to the Passarino-Veltman scalar integral tHooft:1978jhc ; Passarino:1978jh ; Denner:1991kt . To the leading order(neglecting the momentum of DM and neutrino in the propagators of heavy neutrino), takes the form:
where , and . The loop integral is calculated and simplified with the help of the Package-X Patel:2015tea ; Patel:2016fam . There are neutrino-number-violating box diagrams, but their contribution to the annihilation are automatically cancelled.
As an illustration, we show in the left-panel of the Fig. 2 contours of the relic abundance of in the plane by setting , and . Contours from the top to the bottom correspond to and , respectively. The lore from Tremaine and Gunn Tremaine:1979we , which is based on the Pauli exclusion principle, sets a lower bound on the mass of fermionic dark matter. Besides, a lower bound for a cold DM mass is about Steigman:1984ac . We take in the numerical simulation. Yukawa interactions in this scenario may contribute to active neutrino mass as well as neutrino-DM mixing through the so-called scotogenic mechanism Farzan:2012sa whenever there is a mass splitting between the CP-even and the CP-odd components of . Alternatively, this constraint can be avoided for a degenerate .
In scenario B, both and are DM candidates, while the relic density of can be small for a sizable quartic coupling . freezes out non-relativistically via a triangle diagram, as shown in the right-panel of the Fig. 1, in which both neutrinos go out and the neutrino number is thus violated. The thermal average of the reduced annihilation cross section takes the form
The relic abundance of is illustrated in the right-panel of Fig. 2, where we have set . Contours from the top to the bottom correspond to and , respectively. The relic density is insensitive to the dark matter mass as can be seen from the Eq. (5). The relic density of is about in this case. An issue one may worry about is the thermal corrections in evaluating the loop diagram. It has been shown in Refs. Beneke:2014gla ; Beneke:2016ghp that the leading finite temperature contribution is actually of the order , the soft and collinear temperature dependent divergences are cancelled, thus the zero-temperature calculation is applicable to this case.
In the following let us comment on possible signatures of loop-portal DM. Since DMs only interact with the heavier state , which is almost depleted at later times, direct detection is kinematically forbidden even if the heavy Majorana neutrino possesses other interactions. Alternatively, if possesses the Higgs portal interaction, the DM-nucleon scattering may arise at the one-loop level, which has been shown to be small as compared with current constraints put by DM direct detection experiments Chao:2019lhb ; Li:2020pfy . High luminosity fixed target neutrino experiments have been identified as good facilities of detecting sub-GeV DM deNiverville:2012ij ; Morrissey:2014yma , which require the mediator to provide a production channel for DM at targets and are thus unlikely to be able to detect the loop portal scenario without introducing extra ingredients. For indirect detection constraints, light DMs in loop portal may annihilate into neutrinos resulting in a relatively large number of effective relativistic degrees of freedom , compared with Escudero:2020dfa , which sets a lower bound on the DM mass, at Sabti:2019mhn . This constraint is consistent with our parameter settings. For further discussions of impact of light DM on the Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and CMB, we refer the reader to Refs. Sabti:2019mhn ; Batell:2017rol ; Iocco:2008va ; Pospelov:2010hj and references cited therein.
Iii Neutrino mass
Integrating out the heavy Majorana neutrino and the complex scalar , one may get the effective Hamiltonian describing DM-neutrino interactions,
where Fierz transformation fierztrans is applied to the first equation. The Hamiltonian in Eq. (7) contributes to neutrino oscillation in the dark halo which will be discussed in the next section. The Hamiltonian in Eq. (8) contributes to neutrino Majorana mass as well as neutrino-antineutrino oscillations. In this section, we discuss the neutrino Majorana masses induced by DM in scenario B.
Assuming the function is the statistical distribution of the DM with energy and temperature , one has , where is the DM density of the medium, is the total number of the DM. The average of the effective Hamiltonian over the DM background in the rest frame of the medium is
where with the DM number density and being the pressure associated with the DM. Since , can be safely neglected. There are two main approaches to measure the local DM number density Liddle:1993fq ; Catena:2009mf : local measures that use the vertical kinematics of stars near the sun; global measures which extrapolate DM density from the rotation curve. The DM density near the sun is about Read:2014qva . It has been shown in Refs. Davoudiasl:2018hjw ; DAmico:2018hgc that tiny but non-zero neutrino masses may come from a long range potential sourced by DM distributions. In our scenario B, Majorana neutrino mass can be generated in the presence of the constant DM background ,
To quantify , we consider the DM distribution throughout the MilkyWay Galaxy. Two popular DM density profiles are used in numerical simulations, the Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW) Navarro:1995iw and Einasto Springel:2008cc . The distribution of the neutrino mass as a function of the Galactic radius is depicted in Fig. 3. We take kpc, and kpc for NFW profile, and take and kpc for Einasto profile. The red solid line represent the NFW profile and the blue dashed line represent the Einasto profile. Note that is too small to give rise to any significant signals on the Earth.
Iv Neutrino oscillation
For scenario A, the effective neutrino potential Hamiltonian in the dark halo with low temperature is with the potential,
where is the number density of . is similar to the potential induced by the neutral current interaction of neutron. If DM interactions are neutrino flavor blinded, can be factorized out the effective Hamiltonian describing neutrino oscillations, just like the case of neutral current interaction. Alternatively, if DM only couple to a specific neutrino flavor, there will be matter effect induced by DM in neutrino oscillations.
We assume DM only couples to the muon neutrino, and study the two-flavor neutrino oscillation . A straight forward calculation gives
where with the number density of electron in the medium and , and are the mixing angle and the squared mass difference in the vacuum, respectively.
For scenario B, the DM in the medium may affect the neutrino-antineutrino oscillation probability. We follow the quantum field theory strategy Delepine:2009am to calculate the DM effect in neutrino-antineutrino oscillations. The coefficient in Eq.(9) plays a rule of classical field and can modify the propagator of neutrinos,
where we have defined the coefficient in Eq.(9) as for simplicity. We are unable to find a compact expression for , but we can treat as a perturbation. In this case can be written as
Taking as a constant, the propagator in the momentum space can be written as , after the summation.
Now we can calculate the neutrino-antineutrino oscillation in the DM medium using quantum field theory approach. The matrix for the process is
where is the weak coupling, is the so-called PMNS matrix. As a result, neutrino-antineutrino oscillation probability is
where is kinematic factor and is flavor blinded. This probability is same as the result of the SM deGouvea:2002gf ; Schechter:1980gk ; Li:1981um ; Langacker:1998pv ; Xing:2013ty up to the replacement .
Note that the DM density is much smaller than that of the electron on the Earth, so the DM effect is negligible in neutrino oscillation experiments. Here we only estimate the oscillation probability of high energy electron neutrino in a dense DM environment, where the electron number density is negligible. and as the function of are illustrated in the left-panel and right-panel of the Fig. 4, respectively. We have assumed that when making the plot. For neutrino-antineutrino oscillation, the DM effect is negligible as the Debye mass is too tiny ( see Fig. 3 for detail). However our formulae can applied to study neutrino-antineutrino oscillation in a model where there is long range force between DM and neutrino, that results in a huge Debye mass Davoudiasl:2018hjw in the dense DM environment.
Neutrino and DM are two of neutral and long-lived elementary particles that constitute the Universe. Neutrino portal has attracted more and more attention in the past decades. In this paper, we have proposed a new scheme of DM freeze-out from the thermal bath: DM annihilates into neutrinos and freezes-out through a loop. We showed that the annihilation cross section can be large enough to give rise to a correct relic abundance for the case where the heavy mediator is a Majorana fermion. We further studied the neutrino Debye mass and the matter effect in neutrino oscillations induced by the DM. Numerical results show that the impaction of DM to neutrino properties are negligible in our solar system. But our analytical results are applicable to investigate neutrino masses and neutrino oscillations in a dense DM environment.
Acknowledgements.The author thanks Yanyan Hu, Siyu Jiang, Mingjie Jin and Yandong Liu for helpful discussions.This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant No. 11775025.
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by Andrew Trunsky
At least six people were killed and nine were injured in a liquid nitrogen leak at a Georgia poultry plant, officials said.
Firefighters arrived at the Foundation Food Group plant in Gainesville, Georgia just after 10 a.m. on Thursday after receiving reports of burns, said Zach Brackett, a local fire chief, at a news conference.
Firefighters found a “large contingent of employees that had evacuated, along with multiple victims that were in that crowd that were also experiencing medical emergencies around the facility,” Brackett said.
Though most workers had evacuated once firefighters arrived, officials found five people dead inside the plant, and a sixth died after being transported to a local emergency room, said Beth Downs, a spokesman for the Northeast Georgia Medical Center. She added that three of the nine people hospitalized were in critical condition, according to the Associated Press.
An additional 130 people at the scene were bussed to a nearby church for further medical evaluation, Brackett said.
Nick Ancrum, the vice president of human resources for Foundation Food Group, called the situation a “tragic accident,” adding that “preliminary indications were that a nitrogen line ruptured inside the facility,” according to a local Georgia outlet.
“Those lost today include maintenance, supervisory and management team members. Every team member is equally important to us and our hearts go out to the families and constituents who have suffered such a devastating loss,” he said. “Until this investigation is completed, we cannot say precisely how this accident occurred.”
In a statement, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said that his family’s “hearts are broken hearing about the tragedy that took place,” and asked “all Georgians to join us in praying for the families facing a terrible loss and the other employees who are receiving medical care.”
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Not only have rich countries failed to deliver the annual US$100 billion in climate finance they promised back in 2009, but they’ve also vastly overstated the funds they did pony up, finds a new report by Oxfam International, resulting in a brewing distrust that could undermine ongoing climate negotiations.
Official accounting and reporting practices show that the total climate finance delivered in 2020 was $83.3 billion, Oxfam says. But “the real value of financial support specifically aimed at climate action” was only around $21 to $24.5 billion, far less than official figures suggest.
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“Urgent action is needed to restore trust and provide much-needed finance, starting with immediately fulfilling the $100-billion-a-year goal and making up for the shortfalls in years where it has not been met,” Oxfam writes.
But how finance is delivered is just as important as the amount, the organization adds, noting that the paltry funds delivered are coming mostly as debt, “harming rather than helping local communities, as they add to the debt burdens of already heavily indebted countries.”
“This report lays bare how an excessive number of loans, insufficient grants, inadequate funding for adaptation, and misleading accounting practices mean that climate finance is far from fulfilling its purpose,” Oxfam writes.
The report’s main messages are about accounting and transparency, but also the fact that climate financing is not reaching the most vulnerable, Dana Stefov, women’s rights policy and advocacy specialist at Oxfam Canada, told The Energy Mix.
“It’s about accounting, but it’s also about taking responsibility and trying to fight inequality.”
Climate finance is expected to be a priority issue this week and next during mid-year climate negotiations in Bonn, Germany. It is also a contentious topic, after wealthy countries fell short of their $100-billion pledge in 2021 and put delivery off until 2023. Christian Aid’s head of global policy and advocacy Fionna Smyth called the delay a “breathtaking” lack of ambition, pointing out that the sum was already just “a drop in the ocean.”
When in 2022 a new report warned that developing countries will need something like US$2 trillion per year by 2030 to address climate impacts, United States climate envoy John Kerry shifted the responsibility of fulfilling the sum on to private finance. “No single government—no group of governments—can meet the $2.5 trillion to $4.6 trillion deficit that we face in order to effect this transition,” Kerry said, calling the private sector “critical to success.”
Then in March 2022, on the heels of new funding commitments from the Biden administration, Kerry said rich countries were nearing their target. But developing countries on the front lines of climate change had already turned their attention to post-2025 climate finance requirements, with some negotiators saying since 2021 that the original $100-billion commitment was never based on an accurate assessment of needs. It was a number rich countries came up with on their own, with little or no input from other nations, they pointed out.
Still, the $100-billion target is pertinent and is expected to be discussed in Bonn, and rich countries’ continuing failure to keep their promise threatens to corrode trust, Oxfam says.
“The $83.3-billion claim is an overestimate because it includes projects where the climate objective has been overstated or as loans cited at their face value,” the organization says. Making matters worse, “donor countries are repurposing up to one-third of official aid contributions as climate finance rather than putting forward new and additional money.”
As well, only small shares of international climate finance are used for locally-led climate action, or with gender equality as a principal objective. And there is a worryingly high percentage of funds contributed through private financing compared to public financing, with financing for mitigation far outpacing adaptation because “adaptation projects generally do not offer sufficient financial returns to attract private investors.”
“We’re not advocating for adaptation financing to replace mitigation financing,” explained Stefov. “It really has to be a dual track.”
With rising inflation and economic pressures, wealthy countries might also curtail funding, either for new climate financing or for other international aid. Canada, for example, has scaled back its international aid commitment by 15% in its 2023 budget, though International Development Minister Harjit Sajjan said the Liberal government could reverse course if the national economy improves.
“We’re worried about overall the displacement of other priorities like health care or humanitarian response, and they’re all interrelated to some degree with climate, but the scale of funding needs to be increased,” Stefov said.
A major problem lies with current accounting methods for monitoring climate finance, which lack clarity about how funding is being used and how effective that is. A recent analysis by Reuters showed that financing has been misused in some cases. Advocates have called for systematic accounting methods and standards to build trust between contributing and receiving countries, but nothing has been done. Oxfam says better transparency measures must be put in place to hold contributing countries to account.
“This report is about taking responsibility for inequality, and making sure the people that we’re trying to support are actually being supported,” Stefov said. “There’s a big transparency gap, and that is really fundamentally about justice.”


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How the Beatles Created Their Biggest Hit, ‘Hey Jude’
In all likelihood, the Beatles didn't set out to challenge radio programmers' time constraints when they released the seven-minute-plus "Hey Jude" on Aug. 26, 1968. They were, as was always the case, simply following their muse.
In this instance, it was Paul McCartney writing a song for John Lennon's five-year-old son, Julian, to comfort the only child of Lennon and first wife Cynthia after John left them for a new life with Yoko Ono. But it soon snowballed into something much, much more.
"Hey Jude" began life during the recording of the White Album, as the Beatles were being driven apart. The stress of being in the world's biggest band was weighing heavily on their personal and professional lives. Songs for The Beatles were often recorded separately or with each member serving as a backing musician to his bandmates. But they would still fall together spectacularly at times, as "Hey Jude" proved.
Following Lennon's affair with Ono, McCartney paid a visit to Cynthia and Julian in June 1968. On his drive to their home, he wrote "Hey Jules" to help comfort the boy. (Its message of hope was so universal, however, John Lennon believed the song was McCartney's way of blessing his controversial relationship with Ono.) A quick name change later, and McCartney had a new song, which would be credited to the old Lennon-McCartney partnership.
After a couple days of rehearsals at the familiar EMI Studios, the track was recorded at London's Trident Studios on July 31 and Aug. 1, right in the middle of the White Album sessions. The four Beatles took their usual places, mostly – McCartney on piano, Lennon on acoustic guitar, George Harrison on electric guitar and Ringo Starr on drums – and ran through four takes of "Hey Jude." The first was chosen as the master. McCartney would later overdub bass; a 36-piece orchestra was also added, along with backing vocals, to what became the Beatles' first eight-track recording.
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At about three minutes in, not even the halfway point of the group's longest song at that time, McCartney leads a sing-along coda that eases its way toward a slow fade, as various voices join McCartney's spirited improvs ("Cary Grant on heat," he called them, according to Bruce Spizer's The Beatles on Apple Records). Also listen closely for someone uttering "fucking hell" at 2:58, reportedly the result of either Lennon's bad headphone mix or a missed note on McCartney's part.
"Hey Jude" became the first release on the Beatles' new Apple Records, backed by the electric version of "Revolution," a song that appeared in two different forms – the slower "Revolution 1" and the sound collage "Revolution 9" – when the White Album was released in November.
The song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 on Sept. 14 then reached No. 1 just two weeks later, and stayed there for nine weeks, two more than "I Want to Hold Your Hand" had in 1964. It was also, at 7:11, the longest song to hit the top spot at the time. (The crown was handed over to Don McLean's 8:42 "American Pie" four years later.) It was the biggest hit of the Beatles' 20 U.S. number ones.
A promotional video was shot about a week after the single release for a Sept. 8 premiere on the British talk show Frost on Sunday. The group sang live to a backing track as selected audience members joined in for the closing sing-along. The Michael Lindsay-Hogg-directed clip also marked the return of Starr, who briefly left the band after McCartney criticized his playing during the tumultuous recording sessions. (That's McCartney on drums for The Beatles' opening song, "Back in the U.S.S.R.")
There was some initial concern about the song's unaverage length preventing airplay, but as Lennon astutely noted when producer George Martin questioned whether radio would play a track that clocked in at more than seven minutes: "They will if it's us." Of course he was right.
For a while there, it looked like all the things crashing down and caving in on the Beatles – the arguments, the fame and the increasing expectations from fans to top themselves once more – could easily be pushed aside with a hopeful song that promised to "make it better."
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According to Manpower Employment Outlook, India’s employment outlook is the weakest in more than 3 years and Indian employers are set to slow the pace of hiring in the Oct-Dec quarter, as majority of them plan to keep the workforce at current levels on account of sagging global economy and subdued reforms on the domestic front. The employment outlook report states employers are downshifting from the vigorous hiring pace seen over the past 2 years, with just 27 percent employers optimistic about strengthening their workforce.
The employment outlook report also states that region- wise, hiring plans in all four zones of India, and all seven industry sectors will weaken by varying degrees for the coming quarter. However, outlook still remains in the positive territory in all industry sectors and all regions. In fact, the report states that a brisk hiring pace is expected by employers in the finance, insurance and real estate sectors (32 percent), and job seekers can also expect to benefit from solid hiring plans in the wholesale and retail trade (27 percent), manufacturing (22 percent) and the services (21 percent) sectors.


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Katerina Gregos est historienne de l'art basée à Bruxelles depuis 2006. Elle a été commissaire de plusieurs expositions internationales, dont les plus récentes : No Country for Young Men: Contemporary Greek Art in Times of Crisis, BOZAR, Bruxelles, 2014 ; The Politics of Play, pour la Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art Sweden, et Liquid Assets:In the Aftermath of the Transformation of Capital, pour le Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria (en tant que co-commissaire), en 2013 ; Newtopia: The State of Human Rights, plusieurs lieux d'exposition, Malines & Bruxelles, et Manifesta 9 (en tant que co-commissaire), Genk, 2012. Elle est actuellement commissaire du Pavillon Belge dans le cadre de la 56e Biennale de Venise, ainsi que de l'exposition de la 5e édition de la Biennale de Thessalonique, intitulée Between the Pessimism of the Intellect and the Optimism of the Will. Katerina Gregos enseigne à l’HISK – The Higher Institute of Arts, à Gand.
Katerina Gregos is an art historian, curator, and writer based in Brussels since? 2006. She has curated numerous major international exhibitions and biennials, among which, most recently: No Country for Young Men: Contemporary Greek Art in Times of Crisis, BOZAR, Brussels, 2014; The Politics of Play, for the Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Sweden, and Liquid Assets: In the Aftermath of the Transformation of Capital for the Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria (as co-curator), both 2013; Newtopia: The State of Human Rights, several venues, Mechelen & Brussels, and Manifesta 9 (as co-curator), Genk, 2012. In 2011 she curated the critically acclaimed exhibition Speech Matters, for the Danish Pavilion at the 54th ?Venice ?Biennial, and co-curated the 4th Fotofestival Mannheim Ludwighsafen Heidelberg: The Eye is a ?Lonely Hunter (Germany). She is currently curator of the Belgian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale as well as curator of the main exhibition of the 5th edition of the Thessaloniki Biennial entitled Between the Pessimism of the Intellect and the Optimism of the Will. Gregos regularly publishes on art and artists in exhibition catalogues, journals and magazines, and is a visiting lecturer in several art academies, including HISK – The Higher Institute of Arts, Gent, where she also curated the 2013 laureates exhibition, Portrait of the Artist: Works and References. She is also a regular speaker in conferences and symposia on contemporary art, internationally. Recently, she was also featured on TEDx, Gent.


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Every two weeks Debra Boushley takes her seat on Valley Transit.
"There's no grocery stores here downtown. So I have to take (route) three or four," Boushley said.
In a place as hustling and bustling as downtown Appleton, there aren't any grocery stores around to get healthy, affordable food.
"Very frustrating," Boushley said.
Boushley has disabilities, so it's difficult and tiring to get to the store.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says downtown Appleton is a food desert.
"I get tired. And sometimes I don't want to go to grocery stores," Boushley said.
Debra has a seizure disorder, so she can't drive.
She's also battled cancer that has had lasting effects.
Jessica Vlach is a registered dietician at the Outagamie County Aging and Disability Resource Center.
Vlach says food deserts are all around us.
"We have a few of those areas in Outagamie County, specifically rural areas. So thinking the outskirts of Seymour, Hortonville, Dale," Vlach said.
But, as Boushley knows..
"Even in inner city Appleton, downtown Appleton, there can also be food deserts," Vlach said.
Vlach says the ADRC provides home meal delivery and meal sites in rural areas, as well as downtown Appleton to help ease the food deserts.
She also provides nutrition education and counseling.
"Navigating those waters of you're aging, how is your body changing? What nutrients do you need more of? As you age your appetite decreases, so how can we make sure you're getting enough calories?" Vlach said.
It's something Monica Clare, the executive director of St. Joe's Food Program, has seen too.
"I know that there are folks in the Fox Valley who have trouble getting to the pantry, either they're not on a bus line or for whatever reason," Clare said.
Even when people like Boushley can get to the store, it takes a physical toll.
There are no income requirements to utilize ADRC meal sites.


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Editor’s note: This story is the first of a two-part series exploring the latest challenges facing the Jinyin Temple of Sino Esoteric Buddhism at the former Fernwood Resort. Follow the continuing coverage in the Pocono Record or online at poconorecord.com.
BUSHKILL — The long-abandoned hotel portion of the former Fernwood Resort, now the Jinyin Temple of Sino Esoteric Buddhism, is up for sale. Jinyin Temple recently put the vacant parcel on the market in an effort to consolidate its resources for redeveloping other parts of the former resort property.
“It takes time for us to build,” said temple spokesman Jack Wang, who is also overseeing construction. “We’re working hard to get money from donations, but at the same time we have to cut costs.”
“It doesn’t mean we’re quitting. We just feel the tax and expenses are too hefty. It drains our funding and resources that we need to build the temple.”
Only the northern portion of the property that contains the older, long-abandoned hotel buildings is up for sale at this time, Wang clarified. Those buildings have sustained significant damage due to decades of disuse.
Unanticipated expenses and a 2018 fire put a damper on some of the temple’s ambitious construction plans; however, the followers of Buddhist Vajra Master Jinke Xuanlei aren’t giving up yet on the project that they’ve invested more than $10 million into already. The congregation is pushing forward with a revised vision for the property while simultaneously working to slim costs.
“Our disciples, they donated money so we could buy this property,” Wang said. “We feel guilty of not living up to their expectations. So, we are selling that property so we can continue to build.”
“If things continue like that, we will be forced to sell more.”
Among the costly bills challenging the temple’s plans, property taxes are at the top of the list. The temple’s current tax bill comes in at more than $200,000 for all eight parcels, Wang said.
“Our lineage is new to the United States,” he explained. “Many of our disciples come from overseas. They thought originally they would be okay as a nonprofit, but they did not realize they would have to pay that tax — in China, they don’t have that property tax.”
Jinyin Temple purchased the resort property in 2017 for a combined $2.55 million, according to Pike and Monroe county tax records. The acquisition cost the temple a total $3.5 million in fundraising and loans, a statement from the temple’s leaders said.
“Ours is a temple devoted (to) spreading the Buddha’s great love and wisdom,” it says in the statement. “Although the temple satisfies the basic requirements of a religious public charity, we are now facing the possibility of a hefty tax for unified schools as well as other taxes — this is completely beyond our imagination and comprehension of a society ruled by law.”
Even though the temple is registered in New York as a federally exempt 501(c)(3) religious nonprofit, the organization isn’t necessarily entitled to tax exemption at the local level. Property owners must appeal to the county’s Board of Commissioners to receive local exemption on all or part of an otherwise taxable property. In those cases, the appellee must demonstrate how the property would be utilized to relieve local governments of some of their burdens.
Given the size and multiple uses of the temple facilities, Monroe County commissioners have a lot to consider, chief Tax Assessor Cindy Treible explained.
“Just because they’re a nonprofit, that does not mean they’re exempt from real estate taxes,” Treible said. “That’s something that’s determined by the commissioners, which properties are exempt. Even hospitals have to go before the commission.”
“Currently, the temple is in front of the commissioners for exemption status. That doesn’t mean the entire property would qualify either — some of the buildings have people living in them. Even with the example of a church that has a parsonage, the church may be exempt, but the parsonage is not.”
The temple will go before the Board of Commissioners next on June 5, but exemption appeals are reviewed on a case-by-case basis, Treible also said. That means the review process can take months, even years in certain cases, before commissioners reach a decision. Township and school district officials will also have opportunities to challenge the proposed exemption status should they choose to do so.
“The township and school district are notified of each and every meeting, although it’s the commissioners who make the decision,” she said. “Whoever doesn’t agree be it the taxpayer, the school district or the township, they can take us to court to dispute it.”
Further compounding financials woes is the cost of the facilities’ pre-existing high-volume municipal sewer service, Wang also said. Due to its prior resort uses, the facilities were billed for 137 equivalent dwelling units prior to the temple’s takeover.
Billed quarterly at Middle Smithfield Township’s flat rate of $175 per year, that would amount to a cost of $95,900 annually.
“Regularly, we don’t have many people here right now — nothing like the hotel’s customers,” Wang said. “There was a building taken down after the fire, that reduces it too.”
Middle Smithfield Township did drop the temple’s capacity to 105 EDUs for the first quarter of 2019 and lowered it again to 60 EDUs as of April 1, said township Sewer Coordinator Joan Woisin. Both capacities were billed at the same rate.
“Our’s is a flat rate, whether the place is being used or not,” Woisin explained. “It’s just like taxes on a vacation home where people aren’t there all the time. If you own a property, you have to pay taxes whether you use it or not.”
“The change of use is what dropped their capacity. Old Fernwood had more restaurants, so more seating means more EDUs. Their grand ballroom was based on capacity, but that’s now a worship hall. It all depends on what the use of the space is going to be.”
The 105 EDUs billed in the first quarter of the year cost the temple $18,375 for sewer service. Billed quarterly at the new capacity of 60 EDUs, their annual cost will be $49,875 total if the capacity remains consistent.


Netflix have released their weekly line-up of films and TV shows hitting the platform.
From Lily James’ latest flick, to a fix of multiple Matt Damon films, along with a brand new series of a popular true crime show – the streaming giant is offering hours of entertainment for the week ahead.
We have rounded up our top picks for what to watch this week:
Lily James has hit headlines in the past week, just in time for her latest film being added to Netflix.
The actress stars as a newlywed in this modern adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier’s gothic novel, whos finds herself battling the shadow of her husband’s first wife Rebecca – whose legacy lives on in the house long after her death.
Rebecca hits the platform on Wednesday, October 21st.
Unsolved Mysteries (Volume 2)
Following the success of the first series, six new unsolved mysteries are being added to Netflix for volume two of the crime show.
In a brand new trailer for the series, a voiceover can be heard saying: “People die all the time. But I think their family deserves to know what happened to them.”
From the producers of Stranger Things, Unsolved Mysteries invites viewers to “follow the clues and solve the cases” in a collection of unsolved crimes and paranormal encounters.
Season 2 hits Netflix on Monday, October 19th.
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman
Season 3 of the popular chat show sees the return of David Letterman, as he meets with some of Hollywood’s biggest names for in-depth interviews.
David will chat to Kim Kardashian West, Robert Downey Jr., Dave Chappelle and Lizzo for the upcoming season, as he promises to combine humour and curiosity.
The newest season will join Netflix on Wednesday, October 21st.
The Bourne film series
The Bourne Identity (2002), The Bourne Supremacy (2004), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) and The Bourne Legacy (2012) are all joining the streaming service this week.
The series of American action thriller films follow Jason Bourne, played by Matt Damon, a CIA assassin suffering from dissociative amnesia who must figure out who he is.
All four of the films are coming to Netflix on Friday, October 23rd.
This documentary series follows brilliant dancers and choreographers from around the world.
The film gives an insight into the performers who are shaping the art of movement internationally.
Move joins Netflix on Friday, October 23rd.
Disappearance at Clifton Hill
This thriller follows a young woman who returns home to Niagara Falls, Ontario, when she inherits a family-owned motel in the city’s Clifton Hill tourist district following her mother’s death.
The troubled woman becomes obsessed with reconstructing childhood memories of witnessing a kidnapping of a boy, uncovering grim details along the way.
Disappearance at Clifton Hill will be added to Netflix on Tuesday, October 20th.
The Alienist (Season 2)
Season two of the popular show sees Dakota Fanning, Luke Evans and Daniel Brühl reunite to find the Spanish Consular’s kidnapped infant daughter.
Their quest leads them down a sinister path of murder and deceit, as they are enlisted to catch a killer who preys on homeless boys.
Season 2 drops Thursday, October 22nd.


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Developers who failed to complete 8495 low-cost houses in Limpopo have lost their contracts. Provincial local government and housing MEC Maite Nkoana-Mashabane said that her department had now turned to large firms to complete the houses. She said that the new contractors were four large consortiums.
"We will continue to help emerging contractors gain necessary skills through our Sikhasonke programme."
She said 6000 housing units would be completed this year. - BuaNews


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I love lineart. It's really aesthetic and I love the minimalistic aspect about it too. You often use only one or a few lines to create a whole beautiful drawing.
I am a young artist from Germany and my passion is to create art. I‘m doing it to relax when I‘m stressed out because it makes me forget the whole world around me. You could say that I dive into a different world when I‘m drawing or painting.
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Q. Discuss the significance of non-partisanship in public administration and its role in ensuring that citizens, irrespective of their political affiliations, are treated fairly and equitably. (150 Words)07 Sep, 2023 GS Paper 4 Theoretical Questions
- Start with a clear and concise introduction that defines the concept of non-partisanship in public administration.
- Highlight the significance of non-partisanship in public administration and its role in ensuring that citizens.
- You can conclude by reiterating the importance of non-partisanship in public administration for maintaining democratic values and ensuring equitable treatment of citizens.
Non-partisanship is a key principle for public administration that guarantees fair and equal treatment for all citizens, no matter what their political views are. This principle is vital for the working of democratic societies and the performance of government institutions.
Important points that show why non-partisanship matters:
- Fair Service Delivery: Non-partisanship makes sure that public servants and government agencies deliver services and benefits to all citizens without bias based on their political opinions. This helps in keeping trust in government institutions, as people expect to get fair treatment regardless of their political choices.
- Evidence-Based Decision-Making: Public administrators have to make important decisions that affect the lives of citizens. Non-partisanship requires them to make their decisions based on facts, expertise, and the public interest rather than on political factors. This helps avoid favoritism, corruption, and the waste of public resources.
- Consistency and Continuity: In democratic systems, governments change regularly through elections. Non-partisanship ensures the consistency of government operations and services regardless of which political party is in charge. This consistency is crucial for long-term planning and the effective functioning of public institutions.
- Skill-Based Hiring and Promotion: Non-partisanship promotes the hiring and promotion of public servants based on their skills, experience, and ability rather than their political ties or affiliations. This ensures that government positions are occupied by individuals who are most qualified for the job.
- Professionalism: Non-partisanship creates a culture of professionalism among public servants. They are expected to serve the public interest with diligence and professionalism, regardless of political pressures. This professionalism is vital for keeping public trust and confidence.
- Responsibility and Transparency: Non-partisanship supports responsibility mechanisms within government. When public administrators are not swayed by political bias, it becomes easier to hold them responsible for their actions, decisions, and use of public resources. Transparency in government operations also improves citizen oversight.
- Public Trust: Trust in government is essential for the smooth working of a democracy. Non-partisanship helps build and maintain this trust by showing that government actions are driven by the desire to serve the public rather than to promote a specific political agenda.
- Social Harmony: When public administration is non-partisan, it contributes to social harmony by treating all citizens equally. This reduces the possibility of political conflict and division within society, as people perceive that the government is working for the common good rather than favoring one group over another.
Non-partisanship is a foundation of effective and fair public administration in democratic societies. It ensures that government institutions put the public interest above political considerations, leading to more equal treatment of citizens and the ongoing functioning of government regardless of political changes. Maintaining non-partisanship is essential for the success of democratic governance and the well-being of all citizens.
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Dominique Robinson and Candace Hinton
The “Armed and Dangerous” Category of the 2013 Stepper All Star Game required participants to execute a full dance connected left hand to left hand (one of the more challenging hand connections in the dance). The partners hand can not separate at any time, and if they do the dance stops immediately and participants are judged on what they completed. The audience judged using a decibel meter, and Dominique Robinson and Candace Hinton were the winners. You will notice that all participants had to start the dance with their right hands in their pockets.


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ArcelorMittal had scrapped Rs 50,000-crore project in Odisha last year on account of problems in land acquisition and securing ore linkages.
ArcelorMittal South Africa said its first-half loss narrowed compared to last year but earnings are expected to remain under strain.
Mahindra Ugine Steel today said its Chairman Anand Mahindra today sold all his 13,617 shares in the company for over Rs 58 lakh.
The amount of bad bank loans in the province surged 25.8% between January and June this year, the official Financial News reported.
Hike in export duty will constraint bauxite exports and improve raw material availability for these companies.
ArcelorMittal said it now expected core profit to be above $7 bn, having previously given a figure of about $8 bn for the full year.
Rising share prices of many power firms and prospects of better fuel availability have prompted some developers to go slow or ask a higher price for projects that seemed hopeless a few months ago.
JSW’s plight indicates the problem being faced by steel producers as ore supplies get restricted in the domestic market.