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This action-packed drama takes place over the course of four tension-filled hours on a Wednesday afternoon in Mumbai, India, beginning with a threatening phone call to police commissioner Prakash Rathod (Anupam Kher). Rathod is skeptical when the anonymous caller warns of a bomb planted near police headquarters, but when he actually finds the bomb, Rathod is forced into negotiations with the terrorist, who demands the release of four militants.
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After young police inspector Rakesh Kadam kills himself when powerful gangster Jaikant Shirke frames him for corruption, his widow is unable to get justice. But soon honest cop Bajirao Singham takes on Jaikant.
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With Asia under his complete control, criminal mastermind Don turns to Europe, battling the mob bosses of each nation along the way. One step ahead of the authorities at every turn, Don's stranglehold on the underground world seems unstoppable.
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On a lark, spoiled teenager Karan decides to join the Indian army, but the life proves too tough for him. Shamed by his family and girlfriend after dropping out, Karan reenlists and proves his mettle by becoming an officer just as war breaks out.
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Paan Singh Tomar goes from celebrated runner -- as the Indian National Games steeplechase champion -- to star brigand and rebel when life after sports fails to unfold as planned. After a stint in the military, Tomar joins a group of bandits.
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With few clues to go on, no-nonsense detective Jai is tracking a gang of suave, motorbike-riding robbers who are sweeping through Mumbai. Jai's investigation leads him to a slacker mechanic whose riding skills may help bring the crooks to justice.
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Hot on the tail of notorious globe-trotting thief who's eyeing a target in Mumbai, two cops team with a lovely expert on the crook's methods. Now, each side tries to outwit the other in a race against time.
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What could have been a sad journey turns into a joyful one for Rahul when he falls in love with a woman en route to submerging his grandfather's ashes. Exotic landscapes and rousing musical numbers follow as the pair traverses South India.
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When elite Indian secret agent Tiger investigates a Dublin scientist who may be selling secret missile technology to Pakistan, he falls for the scientist's caretaker, and the two find themselves on an explosive journey of espionage and passion.
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After a vicious attack claims the life of his girlfriend and leaves him with a debilitating case of short-term memory loss, mobile phone mogul Sanjay Singhania sets out on a quest to bring down the perpetrators that have ruined his life.
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Chulbul has a charmed life: He's happily married and has a child, and he's just received a promotion. But he risks it all when he witnesses criminal deeds by a politician and sabotages his image by revealing his immoral activities to the public.
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Irritated by her bodyguard, wealthy Divya invents a phony secret admirer to distract him with phone calls. But when her father becomes angry, believing Divya and the bodyguard are lovers, he sets off a chain of unexpected events.
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Although Mexican bombshell Natasha and Indian hunk Jay don't speak the same language, they quickly develop an intense, mutual attraction. But after they brazenly run off together, the sexy couple encounters severe danger and trouble with the law.
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Ranvir and Rajeev are competitors when it comes to horse racing and everything else, including love. The plot thickens when three women enter their lives and a murder is committed. Now, it's up to a sharp inspector to determine the killer's identity.
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Rising from the ashes of hooliganism and small-town clan wars comes the love story of a passion ignited by hatred. Two people who were born to hate learn they instead have been destined to fall in love.
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Don, a ruthless crime boss and drug lord, is nabbed and held captive by the authorities, who send his naïve look-alike, Vijay, to infiltrate the man's gang. But Vijay soon realizes he's caught in a double cross.
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Watching his back for the thugs trying to kill him, a con man stumbles onto a deadly secret that leads him to a small town terrorized by the mafia. Now, he must save the woman he loves, the little girl who insists she's his daughter and the locals.
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To undermine the efforts of a determined narcotics force, a cunning gangster takes aim at the chief's most vulnerable spot: his heart. Now, the game is as much about defense as it is about offense while the cops and their loved ones are attacked.
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Set on a bullet train racing from Glasgow to London, this high-octane thriller from India tells the story of a man on a mission to reclaim what was taken from him and the agent who's determined to stop him and see justice done.
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Student Ravi vows bloody vengeance when his father and brother are martyred, then wages a take-no-prisoners campaign to clean up local politics. With an election nearing, Ravi runs for office, but his rivals use crooked tactics to rig the process.
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When a once-corrupt inspector cuffs a student for smuggling drugs, he's really after the mysterious kingpin driving Goa's thriving drug trade. But his actions also affect the lives of several other people at the airport that day.
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Inspired by real events, this drama follows three improbable heroes -- a disgraced naval officer, an ex-con and a compassionate engineer -- who join forces to save hundreds of trapped men when disaster strikes at the coal mine where they work.
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When a prince takes a mistress, his neglected wife takes up with her handsome young driver -- who just so happens to be a plant sent by a rival gang. But their mutual passion soon turns to bloodshed.
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In this action-packed Bollywood adventure, three travelers -- Jimmy, a call center exec, Bachchan, Jimmy's nemesis, and Pooja, a beauty who is prone to lying -- journey across India as they flee a dangerous gangster whose money Pooja has stolen.
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When Ravi's father, a school teacher, is murdered in cold blood, the young man returns to his native village on a mission of vengeance. This Bollywood action comedy updates the classic story, filmed before in 1981 (as Ooriki Monagadu) and 1983.
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What Makes Grief After Divorce So Hard?
The surprising reason is happiness.
A divorce can feel like a tornado has come through and wiped from the face of the earth everything you thought your life was. You're walking around in a state of shock trying to make sense of what has happened. And you're just not finding much of anything to rebuild your life upon. The grief can simply be overwhelming.
Why is it like this? Why do divorces hurt so much?
As odd as it may sound, we experience such profound grief after divorce because of our search for happiness. The search for happiness is in our DNA. It's one of our primal drives. We'll find temporary highs of happiness through movies, TV shows, thrills, adventure vacations, and even songs. But none of these totally satisfy our drive. The real path to happiness is both much simpler and more complex than that.
Relationships — profoundly meaningful relationships — according to a 2012 AARP Survey, are a key enabler for happiness. Seligman, the author of Flourish, further states that positive relationships are not only key to happiness, but well-being in general. And yet different types of relationships provide us with different types of happiness. Obviously, this begs the questions: What are the most meaningful and powerful relationships of all? Which ones have the potential for providing us the greatest happiness?
Although our family and friends can provide us with a sense of belonging and happiness, they do not provide us with our greatest happiness. There is a more meaningful and profound relationship. The holy grail of happiness is our intimate relationship — our relationship with our significant other. At a gut level, we all know this is true. This innate knowledge leads us to hope that once we've found "the one," we're set. We've got exactly the relationship we need for happiness to flourish for the rest of our lives. We believe that somehow now all of our troubles are over too.
Unfortunately, not all intimate relationships last a lifetime. And when they end, we're grief-stricken and often inconsolable. We find ourselves falling from bliss into hell on Earth. We feel lost, alone, and unlovable. We can also feel angry, betrayed and a myriad of other emotions as we deal with the grief and stress of losing what we thought was our key to sustained happiness and well-being.
We're struggling not only with the loss of our partner, but our grief causes us to ask deeper questions: Who am I — really? Can I ever be happy again? Could anyone truly love me in a deeply meaningful and profound way? This is why the grief of a breakup is so difficult. It's not just the loss of love and the other, but the loss of who we thought we were and our dream of ultimate happiness.
I'm Dr. Karen Finn, a divorce coach and advisor helping people just like you who are dealing with the stress and pain of divorce. You can join my newsletter list for free weekly advice. And if you're interested in taking the first step toward working with me, you can schedule an introductory private coaching session.
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Ofgem has announced the winners of its annual Network Innovation Competition. A total of £57.5 million was awarded to seven projects to fund the development and demonstration of new technologies. One of the winners, Northern Gas Networks (NGN), will examine whether gas networks in Great Britain can safely transport 100% hydrogen gas. The project, known as H21, will receive £9 million to carry out controlled tests prior to the transition of the Leeds network to be able to transport hydrogen gas. Together with additional funding from the UK Gas Distribution Networks, this will enable NGN to build upon last year's project that found that the conversion is both technically possible and economically viable. The advantage of burning hydrogen for heating and hot water is that it emits zero carbon at the point of use. At present, 20% of our carbon emissions are from heating and hot water, which means that the decarbonisation of heat plays an important part in meeting the UK's 2050 energy target of an 80% reduction in greenhouse gases. Various approaches are being taken to reduce emissions from heat, with the use of hydrogen being just one of them. Another example is the injection of green gas into the grid, where it mixes with the existing natural gas to reduce the overall environmental impact. The Non-Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive provides support for this process in the form of a subsidy for the production of biomethane for injection.
Ofgem has said that converting the gas networks to be 100% hydrogen has the potential to provide the biggest single contribution to decarbonisation. However, a credible government policy decision on the decarbonisation of heat will not be possible without the critical safety information that this stage of the H21 research project will provide. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has also announced a programme called "Downstream of the Meter," which will consider the logistical requirements of using hydrogen in buildings. The two projects will collectively provide all the safety-based evidence required to progress to a live trial and subsequent policy decisions.


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How do I sort columns with their corresponding rows of information and then add data? I would like to use the data in a Web page.
If you are using client-side JavaScript, you can store the data in arrays, then sort the arrays and regenerate an HTML table to display the newly sorted data. You will store each column's worth of data in a separate array. Also, associate an "onclick" event with each column of the table and with a procedure that will execute and sort the array that is associated with that column (the one that was clicked).
Further, you must sort all other arrays in exactly the same order as the first so that all rows stay together. Use a simple sort routine, such as a bubble sort, to sort the first array, and include code that will move elements of all other arrays when an element of the first array is moved. The sort will look something like the following code. This code assumes that you have three arrays of data that will be displayed in columns of the table.
function bubbleSort(x, lim){ var i var k var temp for(i=0; ix[k+1]) { // Normally, we would use code like this, but since // we are working with 3 arrays that must be // sorted together, use the next blocks of code /* temp=x[k] x[k]=x[k+1] x[k+1]=temp */ temp=Ages[k] Ages[k]=Ages[k+1] Ages[k+1]=temp temp=Colors[k] Colors[k]=Colors[k+1] Colors[k+1]=temp temp=Weights[k] Weights[k]=Weights[k+1] Weights[k+1]=temp } } }}
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How to Fix "Outlook OST File Unable to Open" in Windows OS?
If you are an old-school Outlook user, you might encounter "Outlook 2016 unable to open OST file" or "OST is not an Outlook data file."In today's write-up, you will get easy solutions to fix Outlook bugs and the reasons for these error file's occurrence.
Both OST and PST are Outlook data files that store entire Outlook profile data, including contacts, calendars, and tasks. The functionality of both files is different from each other. The OST is offline data files that allow access to all content without internet connectivity.
The OST file is delicate and can easily lead to corruption. Once the OST files become inaccessible or orphan, no manual is available to import OST files into Outlook. Thus, to solve these error codes without failure, read the entire post carefully!
Why is Outlook 2016 Unable to Open OST File in Windows?
Here, users will learn why the Outlook OST files cannot open the error message.
- Abrupt Closer of Outlook During Synchronization.
- Improper Configuration of Email Accounts.
- Network Failure or Sudden Power Outage.
- OST Exceeds Storage Limit.
- Virus Infection
- Incompatible Outlook Plug-in.
These are the primary concern for the error message "Outlook OST File Unable to Open ." Users can manually fix such errors if their Outlook profile is active with Microsoft exchange. If you have an orphan OST file, no manual solution will work for you. In that case, only a third-party solution will help you get out of the error message.
Fix OST is Not an Outlook Data File – Expert Solution
Our recommendation for users is to go with BitRecover OST to PST Converter Software. This solution can export orphan, damaged, inaccessible OST files with all data attributes to PST format.
Additionally, the wizard offers multiple advanced data filters, including split PST files, creating an individual file for each user, and many more. The GUI of the wizard is use-to-use, and any novice can efficiently operate it without any difficulty.
Users can download these wizards for free on Windows and Mac OS and enjoy multiple benefits. Let's check out how effectively this wizard will fix Outlook 2016 unable to open OST file.
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- Download and Open the software on Windows and Mac OS, and read the instructions.
- Afterward, the software will fetch the default location for Outlook, continue with that, or upload the OST file manually.
- Next, the wizard will analyze the data file and list all the folders in the software dashboard.
- Select the folders for conversion, and click "Next" to move forward.
- In the next window, users must opt for the "Saving Option" and apply the data filters accordingly.
- Select the "Designation Location" and click on the convert button to fix the Outlook OST file unable to open.
That's about the automated solution to resolve Outlook 2016 unable to open the OST file. Users can easily import the resultant data file to Outlook 2019, 2016, 2013, 2010, 2007, etc. by using the string mentioned below:
Common Frequently Asked Questions
Q) How do I fix the Outlook OST file is not accessible in Outlook?
Solution: If you are unable to access OST file content in Outlook, then you can follow these steps:
- Shut down all ongoing processes within Outlook.
- Restart your device
- Disable Cache Mode
- Make use of SCANPST.exe
If none works, then go with the solution to fix Outlook OST file unable to open error message.
Q) Is there any way to open an OST file without Outlook?
Solution: No, there is no way to view OST file content without Outlook because OST is an Outlook data file and not compatible with other mail applications. Perhaps, users can use BitRecover OST File Viewer Software to view OST file emails and attachments.
Q) Can I access OST file data if Exchange Server is Offline?
Solution: Yes, OST files provide the functionality to access OST file content in offline mode. Additionally, users made all the required changes in the OST file, and changes will be updated to the server when you re-connect to the server.
Q) I have an orphan OST file. Can I import it back to Outlook 2019?
Solution: No manual solution is available to import it back to your Outlook profile once your OST file becomes an orphan. Even users will get no explanation from Microsoft Software.
The only left is to convert OST to PST format using the BitRecover OST File Converter can import OST files into Outlook in any edition using Import/Export functionality.
Q) What's the difference between a Demo and Paid Solution of Software?
Solution: The pro and trial edition of the software is the same, the only difference is in the conversion limit. The free solution allows users to export only twenty-five items from the file and paid solution lets users to export unlimited data files.
So There You Have It
OST files become inaccessible for various reasons, including software and hardware issues. In the above guide, we have explained the solution to fix Outlook 2016 unable to open OST file. Users will get detailed guidance to complete the process with complete security and accuracy. Users can download this software for free on Mac and Windows OS to evaluate its performance.


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Undocumented Workers in the US
For the first time in 70 years, May Day in 2006 was marked in the US by two million people demanding legalisation for some 12 million undocumented immigrants. Sweeping the nation like a storm, the Latino protest mobilisation caught both the right and left off guard. The political struggle underlines the persistent economic gap between the US and its neighbours to the south, underlying racial stereotypes, fragmented ethnic consciousness, a divide between employers and right wing chauvinists, and the discontinuity between immigrant workers and the trade union establishment. Nevertheless, the May Day demonstrations could signal a new political awakening and rekindle the
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ay Day 2006 was marked by hundreds of demonstrations for immigrants' rights in cities throughout the US on Monday, May 1, 2006. For the first time in nearly 70 years, working people poured into the streets on May Day to protest against moves in the US Congress aimed at cracking down on undocumented immigrants, mostly from México and central America. An estimated two million people marched on May Day in the US, including over 6,50,000 in two marches in Los Angeles, 4,00,000 in Chicago, 2,50,000 in San José, 75,000 in Denver, and 30,000 each in San Francisco, Sacramento, Fresno, Houston, and New York City. Tens of thousands marched in other cities, such as Oakland, Seattle, Santa Barbara, Orlando, Miami, Tampa and Atlanta.1
Taken together, the May Day demonstrations were the largest simultaneous outpouring of street protest since the Vietnam war and the US civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s. A working Monday was chosen to highlight a national call for a boycott on working, selling, buying, and business as usual. Labelling it 'un día sin inmigrantes' (a day without immigrants), organisers wanted to point out the potential impact on the economy if all undocumented immigrants were sent home. Organisers selected May 1, owing to its symbolism as International Workers' Day.
Nevertheless, coordination of immigration rights protests has been very decentralised, with the mobilisation of large marches being coordinated by regional coalitions like the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights in Los Angeles or the National Capitol Immigration Coalition in Washington DC. But behind the scenes were a wide variety of national ethnicbased organisations that played a key role in planning and mobilising nationwide protests, such as the Mexican-American Political Association, La Raza, Latino Movement USA, Hermandad Mexicana Latinoamericana and the League of United Latin American Citizens, which claims to be the largest and oldest Hispanic organisation in the US. With heavy reliance on the Internet, the web has proven to be an unprecedented tool in mobilising millions for coordinated actions across the country.
Among labour organisations, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which has many relatively low-skilled service workers of Hispanic origin, has played a leading role. However, fearing the loss of permanent union jobs and downward pressure on wages, the main US trade union federation, the American Federation of Labour/Congress of Industrial Organisations (AFL-CIO), continued to oppose a "guest worker" programme and amnesty for undocumented immigrants. In the latter part of the 20th century, the labour bureaucrats of the AFL-CIO and many of its constituent trade unions, now settled into the complacent role of power brokers between workers and management, have long since given up militant trade unionism and struggles beyond narrow economist demands for their memberships.
Passage of Bills
The upsurge in Hispanic activism was triggered by the passage on December 16, 2005 by the US House of Representatives of the Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005 (HR 4437). Some of the more draconian provisions of HR 4437 include:
The marchers sought to communicate their unequivocal opposition to HR 4437 with posters saying "No a la HR 4437", and that undocumented immigrants are not what HR 4437 makes them out to be, i e, "No somos criminales" (we are not criminals). One poster pointed out an apparent contradiction in policy: "The Pilgrims were the first illegal immigrants", referring to the first European settlers to arrive in the
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Demonstrations for immigrants' rights were tempered only by the US Senate's passage of a more moderate bill, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006 (S 2611), on May 17, 2006. While S 2611 also steps up enforcement of immigration laws, unlike HR 4437, it does not turn undocumented immigrants into felony criminals. More importantly, it partially addresses one cause of undocumented immigration, the inadequacy of channels for obtaining visas and permits for entering the US legally. By providing for a three-year temporary guest worker visa and new visas for non-immigrant immediate family members, S 2611 will both help meet the US economy's demand for low wage labour and enable more foreign workers to enter legally. Nevertheless, because S 2611 would also build more walls and take a harder line on undocumented immigrants until they achieve legal status after a tortuous application process, the Senate bill has also been rejected by many in the immigrant rights movement. Neither HR 4437 nor S 2611 can become law until a Senate-House conference committee can reconcile the differences between the two pieces of legislation.
Overcoming Fear
Undocumented immigrants have long lived in fear of being caught and facing summary deportation. They have always kept a low profile, focusing on hard work and family life. A new federal government immigration law that would have automatically turned them into criminal felons touched a raw nerve, although it alone was probably not sufficient to bring them out onto the streets in open protest. However, the Spanish language media in the US took on the immigration issue, and the discussion on the airwaves, print media, and Internet escalated. Latino organisations decided it was time to mobilise their once quiet constituencies. The slumbering giant that tenaciously harvests America's vegetables, sweeps America's floors, constructs America's homes, repairs America's vehicles, and cleans America's hotel rooms was politically awakening.
Immigrants' rights activism had been snowballing across the country during the months after the passage of HR 4437. The march of a million people in Los Angeles on March 25, 2006 was a watershed because it sent a loud message to Latinos all over the US that it was time to come out of the shadows and join the political process. For undocumented persons, it sent a message that there are so many of "us" (11.5-12 million people plus another 30 million legal compatriots) that there is now security in numbers, that it is time to come out and openly protest against the attempts in Congress to criminalise "illegal aliens" and extend the wall along the Mexican border. The weeks that followed witnessed mass political mobilisations in city after city. Cities, many that were never before centres of political activism, suddenly jumped onto the national scene with protest demonstrations of hundreds of thousands of people: Dallas (April 9 – 4,00,000), Washington DC (April 10 – 5,00,000) and Phoenix (April 10 – 3,00,000). In San José, the immigrants' rights march of April 10 was five times larger than the largest antiwar demonstration in the city on March 20, 2004, which was further eclipsed by another tenfold larger only three weeks later by the May Day march. For the first time, undocumented persons joined their legal brethren in open protest, proudly bearing placards calling for legalisation of their status.
May Day is traditionally celebrated in industrialised and developing countries alike around the world as International Workers' Day. The US is an exception, where successive governments and the trade union bureaucracy have consistently resisted recognising May Day, fearing the connection with labour movements around the world. Instead, Labour Day was initiated to recognise the contribution of American workers on September 5, 1882 in New York City. In 1884, the first Monday in September was selected as a holiday from labour. Beginning in 1887, individual states came to recognise Labour Day as an official state holiday. However, it was not until 1894 that Congress made Labour Day a national holiday.
Origins of May Day
May Day, itself, also traces its origins to the US labour movement. In 1884 the Federation of Organised Trades and Labour Unions, predecessor of the American Federation of Labour (AFL), called for an eight-hour workday. When implementation appeared unlikely, a general strike was called in Chicago on May 1, 1886. On that day, some 80,000 workers marched down Chicago's Michigan Avenue in what is generally recognised as the first May Day parade. In the succeeding days, supporting strikes broke out in other cities, such as Milwaukee, Cincinnati and New York. On May 3, four striking workers were killed by police at the McCormick Reaper Works in Chicago. At an evening rally on May 4 in Haymarket Square, called to protest against the killings, police moved in to disperse the crowd when a bomb went off, killing seven policemen. Police retaliated by firing into the crowd of workers, killing and wounding an unknown number of civilians. Determined to stop the labour agitations, police interrogations and arrests went on into the night. Eight people were eventually charged and convicted for the deaths of the policemen, even though no evidence was ever presented directly linking them to the bombing in Haymarket Square. Four of the defendants were publicly hanged in 1887. In Paris in 1889, the International Workingmen's Association (Second International) called for international demonstrations on May 1, 1890, commemorating the struggle of Chicago workers. Thus, the worldwide tradition of May Day was born.
Over the next three decades, workers incrementally won eight-hour working days through struggles with individual companies. In 1916, the Adamson Act was passed by Congress, establishing a statutory eighthour working day for railway workers with additional pay for overtime work. Continuing labour struggles eventually brought the eight-hour working day to other industries, and additional laws were passed to make it universal in the organised sector. Thus, contrary to popular myth in the US, May Day did not originate from socialism or communism, but rather from the very same US trade union movement that brought about the basic eight-hour
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working day that is taken so much for granted today.
Divided Ethnic Consciousness
Every observer of the many immigrant rights demonstrations has noted that their mass base has been overwhelmingly Hispanic. While a small percentage of non-Latinos always joined in support, there was no mass participation by other ethnic communities, with a few exceptions such as in San Francisco and Philadelphia. Yet it was only a few years ago that Muslims, Arabs, and everyone who "looked like" them were being subjected to racial profiling in searches at ports of entry in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Now, where are the Muslims, Arabs, and other Asians who mobilised for civil liberties and against the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq? Many American blacks felt sidelined by the immigrant rights marches that have eclipsed the size of the civil rights marches of previous decades.2 So why are not blacks joining in large numbers? The problem is twofold.
First, Americans who identify as members of a minority ethnic or religious group tend to see that as their primary identity within American society. Even in the left, at anti-war rallies speaker after speaker talks of the "unity of African American, Latino, native American, Asian, and Middle Eastern sisters and brothers". Rarely do they mention the unity of workers, farmers, teachers, students, undocumented workers, the self-employed, the unemployed, etc. Thus, grassroot mobilisation is frequently done on an ethnic or religious community basis and manifested in banners bearing names like Muslim Students Association, Black Voices for Peace, South Asians for Collective Action, Filipino Workers Action Centre, and Catholic Mothers for Peace. So when political mobilisation is done in the Latino community, even if nationwide, it may have little initial impact on non-Latino communities.
Second, even when ethnic communities do come into contact, they often take defensive positions and fail to develop a common cause against a common oppression. For example, when an Asian American in San José accused a black city official of racist discrimination some years ago, the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) came to the defence of the black official. When scientist Wen Ho Lee was falsely accused in 1999 of espionage at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, it was primarily Chinese American associations all over the country that came to his support. When Muslims and Arabs were subjected to racial profiling after September 11, the east Asian, Hispanic and African American associations largely remained on the sidelines.
Ethnocentric fragmentation is endemic in the American polity. Ethnicity based organisations may still have a role to play as fronts for grassroot mobilisation, but they need to be integrated under panethnic or, better yet, class-based umbrella political organisations. Alternatively, the ethnicity-based organisations should become mass organisations for a working class political party.
Parallel Mass Media
According to US Census estimates for July 1, 2005, 14.4 per cent of the US population was considered to be of Hispanic origin, numbering 42.7 million people.3 Today nearly all of that population is served by Spanish language radio and television stations, and cable service everywhere includes Spanish language channels. Spanish language newspapers are freely available in metropolitan areas. Large national and international networks dominate the airwaves: Univision, Telemundo, Hispanic Television Network (HTN), Hispanic Broadcasting Corporation (HBC), Spanish Broadcasting System (SBS) and TeleFutura and Galavisión (both owned by Univision). Collectively, the Spanish language media in the US has long carried a full range of news, talk shows, movies, singers, and comedies that are little known outside of the Spanishspeaking community. This media universe plays a crucial role in informing and shaping the consciousness of the Spanish-speaking community in the US for whom it defines the mainstream.
In California in the weeks leading up to May Day, the front page headlines read:"Marcha histórica en Los Ángeles" (El Mundo, Oakland, March 30, 2006), "Primero de Mayo" (Alianza, San José, April 20, 2006), "Primero de Mayo, un día sin latinos. ¿ Cómo la ve?" ("First of May, a day without Latinos. How does one view it?'') (El Observador, San José, April 28, 2006) and "Americans back immigrant-friendly reform" (La Oferta, San José, April 21, 2006).
After May Day, and after the abundant news coverage of the May Day demonstrations, the Spanish language press continued to react strongly to immigration related events. On May 15, 2006, US president George W Bush announced his plan to dispatch 6,000 National Guard troops to the US-México border in an attempt to placate the right wing of his Republican Party, while simultaneously appealing to immigrants and their employers by supporting a guest worker programme and a pathway to legalisation for many undocumented workers. Two days later, the Senate's passage of S 2611 authorised building 593 kilometres of new fencing on the US-México border. The headline drama continued: "6 mil soldados a la frontera" (6 thousand troops to the border) (La Opinión, Los Angeles, May 16, 2006), "Más tropas y legalización" (More troops and legalisation) (Hoy, Los Angeles, May 16, 2006), "México: ¿Zona de guerra?" (México: war zone?) (El Observador, May 19, 2006), "Senado aprueba muro en frontera con México" (Senate approves wall on border with México) (La Oferta, May 19, 2006).
Media organisations that publish separate newspapers in English and Spanish frequently carried decisively different content in each language. Knight Ridder reported in the San Jose Mercury News (May 7, 2006, p 3A) on 'militias and Minutemen' patrolling the US-México border, but the report was sensationalised in Fronteras with the headline "Nazis en la frontera" (June 24, 2006, p 12). Hence, the Latino community became far more aware of, and emotionally mobilised in, the issues behind the immigration debate than other ethnic communities or the general population.
As discussion and outrage over HR 4437 escalated in the Spanish language media, the rest of the country was focused elsewhere. When anti-war forces were mobilising for nationwide demonstrations on March 18-19, 2006, the third anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, there was relatively little awareness of the gathering storm in the Latino community. As 25,000 people marched against war in San Francisco on March 18, few had any idea that they would be dwarfed by 1 million marching in Los Angeles at the following weekend. If anyone had cared to look in the rear view mirror, nothing could have been seen coming up from behind because it was an English language mirror. In effect, the US today contains parallel universes
Economic and Political Weekly November 25, 2006 of culture and political consciousness, each fully internally integrated and national in scope, but almost mutually exclusive in the communities they serve – one thinking in English and another thinking in Spanish.
Racially Motivated Myths
Opponents of amnesty for undocumented immigrants launched small scattered demonstrations in the days following May 1. They carried signs saying, "No illegals" or "No amnesty for illegal immigrants". Most insisted that they are not against immigration, but against illegal immigration because they felt that it burdens the nation's law enforcement, welfare, healthcare, and education systems. Yet many among them carried signs with distinctly xenophobic overtones: "Close borders now" or "Fix your own country before you trash ours". Still others implied that immigrants from south of the border would drag down the US standard of living, Slogans such as "Amnesty equals joining the Third World" or "Illegal employers import poverty" were tinged with racism.
The assumption is that undocumented immigrants, coming mostly from impoverished rural areas and having little education, bring poverty, crime, third world diseases, and "dilute the culture" of the US. There are several flaws in these arguments. First, if undocumented immigrants utilise free public services, so also do legal residents and citizens. For example, all low income groups tend to lack health insurance, and place an uncompensated burden on hospital emergency rooms and public healthcare facilities. Second, because nonpermanent residents are not entitled to welfare, even this category of legal immigrants does not burden the welfare system, let alone undocumented immigrants.
Third, undocumented immigrants enter the US almost entirely for employment and because they can actually get work. Among those who have tax identification numbers most actually do pay income taxes. Those who pay income taxes contribute as much as low income legal residents to funding the public services that they may utilise. However, to the extent that undocumentedness pushes workers into the underground economy, a defined pathway towards legalisation would create millions of additional above ground income tax payers. The notion that illegal immigrants burden public services more than they contribute economically is partly based on a racially motivated presumption that they are lazy and do not work. In fact, their participation rate in employment (96 per cent for men) is higher than that of legal immigrants or citizens [Passel, Capps and Fix 2004]. However, owing to the frequently temporary nature of their work, many experience a significant degree of underemployment.
Fourth, critics of amnesty claim that undocumented immigrants, perhaps because they are defined as illegal, contribute more than their share to crime, hence disproportionately burdening the law enforcement, criminal justice, and correctional systems. Immigration opponents have claimed that in many cases 60 to 90 per cent of serious crimes in the US are attributable to illegal aliens [MacDonald 2004]. However, actual statistics tell a somewhat different story. For example, in California, according to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, out of a total of nearly 1,71,000 state prison inmates in April 2006, there were 22,478 undocumented immigrants and persons suspected of being undocumented.4 (These figures do not include persons held in local jails and federal government prisons.) According to the Pew Hispanic Centre, a Washington DC based think, tank, California had approximately 27,50,000 undocumented immigrants as of March 2006, out of the 11.5-12 million in the country.5 This gives undocumented immigrants an incarceration rate in California state prisons as high as 817 per 100,000 population. According to the California Department of Finance, the total population of California reached 37.2 million in January 2006.6 Thus, the incarceration rate of the general population in California state prisons was 460 per 1,00,000.
Outside Legal Margins
The incarceration rate for undocumented immigrants was less than twice the rate for the general population, but significantly lower than the incarceration rates for black and native American US citizens, who are the most severely affected by racial profiling and negative stereotyping. Even legally resident Hispanics were somewhat overrepresented in the prison population because of racial profiling and underprivilege. Furthermore, the incarceration rate for undocumented immigrants must be viewed in the context of a population that by definition lives outside the legal margins of society even when performing normal everyday tasks that the legal population takes for granted. Thus, for example, identity theft crimes may be committed more for the purpose of acquiring a tax identification number needed for employment rather than for the purpose of tapping another person's bank account. Undocumented workers may be caught driving without a licence because they may need to drive a vehicle to live and for a livelihood.
Fifth, amnesty opponents fear that undocumented immigrants are taking their jobs and pulling down wages. However, not only are undocumented immigrants hard working, but they perform jobs that others are unwilling to perform, or at least unwilling to perform at those low (frequently sub-minimum) wages. According to the March 2005 Current Population Survey by the US Census Bureau, 78 per cent of undocumented immigrants are employed in low wage and low education occupations, e g, farm labour, cleaning, household service, construction, extraction, repair, production labour, and transportation [Passel 2006, p 10]. Thus, there is relatively little direct competition for jobs between most US citizens and the undocumented immigrants. To the extent that undocumented immigrants are willing to work at below market wages, they do effectively reduce mean wages in those economic sectors where they predominate. However, this has little direct impact on the organised economic sectors in which citizens and permanent residents generally participate. In fact, there is emerging evidence in some areas that Latino workers, in taking over low wage jobs, are actually pushing black workers up into higher wage occupations.7
Finally, undocumented immigrants effectively increase the purchasing power of all Americans by reducing the cost of certain labour services, foodstuffs, freight transportation, etc. Nevertheless, a defence of undocumented immigrants is not to condone an economic system that institutionalises sub-minimum wages by perpetuating multiple unorganised sectors based largely on undocumented labour. Nor does it justify their social marginalisation through exclusion from public services. All human beings have minimum social needs that can only be met by ensuring them a decent standard of living, and rightful access to healthcare, education, and justice. This is yet another reason for
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providing a dignified pathway towards legalisation of undocumented immigrants who make essential contributions to the economy and have otherwise not engaged in criminal activity.
Common Struggle
The question of undocumented immigrants from Latin America has dominated the debate over immigration reform. An estimated 78 per cent of undocumented immigrants as of March 2005 originated from Latin America in general, and 57 per cent came from México in particular. But that leaves some 1.5 million undocumented immigrants from Asia (13 per cent), 6,00,000 from Europe and Canada (6 per cent), and 4,00,000 from Africa and elsewhere (3 per cent) [Passel 2006, p 5]. While the great majority of undocumented immigrants from Latin America have made illegal border crossings, those from Asia and Europe are associated more with nonimmigrant visa overstays. Nevertheless, the unauthorised immigration status of those from Asia and Europe presents the same socio-economic marginalisation and insecurity faced by undocumented immigrants from Latin America.
In 1986, undocumented immigrants from Asia represented 6 per cent of the total. By 2002, they constituted 10 per cent [Wasem 2004]. It took only three more years for that figure to reach 13 per cent. Thus, in percentage terms, persons of Asian origin actually represent the fastest growing major segment of undocumented immigrants in the US. According to the former US Immigration and Naturalisation Service estimates for 2000, 1.64 per cent of undocumented immigrants were from China, 1.21 per cent from the Philippines,
1.00 per cent from India, and 0.79 per cent from Korea.8 Assuming the same percentages in March 2006 out of a total of 12 million undocumented immigrants would yield significant underestimates: 1,97,000 undocumented immigrants from China, 1,45,000 from Philippines, 1,20,000 from India and 95,000 from Korea, followed by significant numbers from Pakistan and Iran.
With counter pressure mounting on the administration and Congress for tightening border security and rounding up at least a segment of undocumented immigrants, the possibility looms of large-scale immigration arrests without trials. An ominous precedent was set following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks when more than 5,000 foreign nationals disappeared under secret detentions in the two years after the attacks. Nearly all were Muslims or Arabs. The pretext was unspecified "immigration violations". Yet most were held without being charged, and none were ever convicted. On June 14, 2006, in the case Turkmen vs Ashcroft, US district judge John Gleeson upheld the US government's authority to arrest and detain non-citizens on the basis of race, religion or national origin, and to hold them indefinitely without explanation.9
Following presidential and congressional apologies, and the payment of reparations for their sufferings, the second world war detentions of Japanese Americans and, to a lesser extent, German Americans purely on the basis of race or national origin was long thought to have been relegated to the dustbin of history. However, now the spectre of such ethically reprehensible and openly racist events is once again becoming possible. On some pretext of terrorism, enforcing immigration law, or national security, the next target could be Hispanic Americans, south Asian Americans or east Asian Americans. The potential threat to fundamental civil liberties is common to all immigrant communities. So it is in the interest of all immigrant communities to unite in opposition to these draconian measures.
While Hispanic immigrants have finally broken through the fear barrier and come out onto the streets defiantly proclaiming their rights, undocumented Asians have largely chosen to remain in the shadows. Only small numbers of Asians, particularly those from the Philippines and Korea, have joined protests in solidarity with Latinos. Nevertheless, as more legal members of Asian communities become citizens, and as Asian communities in the US awaken politically, it can be expected that legal and undocumented Asians alike will increasingly assert their political rights. As the slumbering giant that is the Latino community awakens politically, the slogan "Hoy marchamos, mañana votamos" (Today we march, tomorrow we vote) may illuminate the way forward for all immigrant communities.
The other challenge is the unification of the immigrant rights movement with the trade union movement of permanent workers. The May Day demonstrations symbolise the potential for rebirth and unity of the US labour movement, but there is clearly a long road ahead. While undocumented immigrant workers may lead the way, permanent workers will need to reject their trade union bureaucracies to join them in reclaiming May Day as International Workers' Day in the US.
The root causes of unidirectional migrations are both push and pull. Massive unauthorised immigration simply reflects such extreme pushes and pulls that even legal and physical barriers cannot stem the tide. On the one hand, the desperate economic conditions facing millions of marginalised farmers and underemployed workers in México and central America as a direct result of globalised development are pushing them to leave their homelands. On the other hand, the capitalist system's relentless competitive drive to improve profit margins is increasing demand for low wage manual labour in the US. Outsourcing to the growing unorganised sector, absolute cost minimisation business models like that of Wal-Mart, and the growing demand for domestic services all exert an inexorable pull.
Symptom of Contradiction
Undocumented immigrants themselves are not the underlying problem, but rather a symptom of the deeper social contradiction between rich countries and poor countries, or, more precisely, between the metropolitan centres and the periphery of the world capitalist system. In Europe a similar controversy is brewing over the rising tide of undocumented immigration from Africa. There the lack of a land bridge constrains the undocumented migration to tens of thousands per annum. The US-México border just happens to be one of those infrequent instances where the centre and periphery geographically touch, and where unequal development spawns a labour migration measured in the hundreds of thousands per annum. No man made barrier can stop the human tide.
While some US workers are worried that the tide of undocumented immigrants is pulling down wages, it is actually the capitalist labour market that determines wages and actively seeks to minimise labour costs (regardless of where the labour comes from) in order to increase profitability. In other words, undocumented immigration into the US is a direct result of the globalised commoditisation of labour power in an increasingly globalised capitalist system led by US corporations. It is also a consequence of the North American Free Trade
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The needed solution is political and economic restructuring on both sides of the border. First, migrant workers must begiven practical legal options for obtaining visas. Second, replacing capitalist production with social production for human needs will guarantee jobs and living wages on both sides of the border, greatly reducing the compulsion for unidirectional labour migration.
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1 San Jose Mercury News, May 2, 2006, p 3A;
Los Angeles Times, May 2, 2006, p A1. 2 Los Angeles Times, April 10, 2006, p A1. 3 "Table 3: Annual estimates of the population
by sex, race and Hispanic or Latino origin for the United States: April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2005 (NC-EST2005-03)", US Census Bureau (Washington, DC), May 10, 2006, http:// www.census.gov/popest/national/asrh/NCEST2005/NC-EST2005-03.xls
4 San Francisco Chronicle, May 4, 2006, pp A1-A15.
5 Fact sheet: Estimates of the Unauthorised Migrant Population For States Based on the March 2005 CPS, Pew Hispanic Centre (Washington DC), April 26, 2006, p 1.
6 Press release: Report: State Adds 444,000 in 2005; 2006 Population Nears 37.2 Million, California Department of Finance (Sacramento),
May 1, 2006, p 1, http://www.dof.ca.gov/HTML/
7 Los Angeles Times, April 10, 2006, pp A10-A11.
8 Estimates of Unauthorised Immigrant Population Residing in the United States: 1990 to 2000, US Immigration and Naturalisation Service (Washington DC), January 31, 2003, p 9.
9 New York Times, June 15, 2006, p A20; David Cole, 'Ill-Advised Court Decision Strips Rights from Many Foreigners', San Jose Mercury News, June 19, 2006, p 13A.
Passel, Jeffrey S, Randy Capps, Michael Fix (2004): Undocumented Immigrants: Facts and Figures, Urban Institute, Washington DC, January 12, p 1.
MacDonald, Heather (2004): Crime and the Illegal Alien: The Fallout from Crippled Immigration Enforcement, Centre for Immigration Studies, Washington, DC, June, pp 1-11.
Passel, Jeffrey S (2006): The Size and Characteristics of the Unauthorised Migrant Population in the US: Estimates Based on the March 2005 Current Population Survey, Pew Hispanic Centre, Washington DC, March 7.
Wasem, Ruth E (2004): Unauthorised Aliens in the United States: Estimates since 1986, Congressional Research Service, Washington DC, September 15, p 5.
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment
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Bangalore Kalimpong New Delhi
Ecology and the Environment
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bangalore India, invites nominations and applications for the following position.
Fellow in Environmental Governance
The applicants are expected to build and lead a programme in policy and environmental governance, and contribute to the development of ATREE's Center for Conservation, Governance and Policy, and an interdisciplinary doctoral program in conservation science. The candidate must have experience in policy analysis, and an interest in catalyzing meaningful exchange and action among government, non-government, and corporate sector institutions involved in environmental governance. Applicants are expected to have a doctorate in social sciences though candidates with a Masters degree and substantial research and professional experience will also be considered.
This position is endowed with a grant from the Arghyam Foundation and is based at Bangalore. Although this is a long term position, applications from those interested in short term visiting fellowships will also be entertained.
ATREE (www.atree.org) is fast emerging as one of South Asia's leading conservation organizations. One of the major initiatives of ATREE is the development of an interdisciplinary doctoral program in conservation science.
ATREE fosters diversity and gender equity at the work place. Thus women and persons from underprivileged groups are especially encouraged to apply. There is no deadline. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Applicants should write to the address below, enclosing their CVs, names of three referees, and a letter describing their professional goals over the next 4-5 years and how these goals fit with ATREE's mission.
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Doctor Strange Fame Zara Phythian Sentenced To 8-Years In Jail, Actress' Husband Gets 14-years Of Imprisonment-REPORTS
Zara Phythian has been sentenced to eight years in jail for grooming and sexually abusing a minor, while her husband has been sentenced to 14-years of imprisonment
Doctor Strange fame Zara Phythian and her husband, Victor Marke, were reportedly found guilty in Nottingham Crown Court for the accusations of grooming and sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl.
The actress has been sentenced to eight years in jail for the same, as reported by BBC News. Meanwhile, her husband who was also found guilty of sexually abusing a minor was sentenced to 14-years of imprisonment.
A latest BBC News quoted the judge Mark Watson telling Phythian during the judgement, "Whilst you denied in cross-examination that you were besotted with Victor Marke, on the evidence I have heard I am in no doubt that your deviance was shaped by the influence that he had upon you from an early age."
The judge also said that Marke was the "driving force behind the abuse".
The latest development comes after Zara Phythian and her husband Victor Marke had 14 allegations of sexual activity with the then minor, from 2005 to 2008. The victim also claimed that the couple used to play a game of 'dare' with her, reported Nottinghamshire Post.
For the unversed, Phythian played the role of Brunette Zealot in Doctor Strange, which had actor Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role. She also starred in Accident Man 2 (2022) and Tribal Get Out Alive (2020).
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A Valentine's Special
This week we are sharing a feel-good story from the days before isolation and self-quarantine, when we could still come together in person to do good works for those around us. This story is from LSEM teacher Amy Goodwin at Central Lutheran School in New Haven, IN:
The junior high Gifted & Talented (ENRICH) students from Central Lutheran School participated in a project-based learning service project this winter. This was a student-led project in which the students planned, implemented, and carried out a project to its completion. It began with each junior high group researching different local charities/organizations and choosing which one they would like to support. Then the students learned how to write a proposal for their projects. The ENRICH students chose the winning proposal by a majority vote. The group that won presented their proposal to our principal for final approval. Then, we got to work!
The next part was a little tricky as we have 21 junior high ENRICH students in 6th-8th grade, and they are seen in five different small groups. I decided to organize the groups by different tasks. The 6th grade was responsible for the marketing of the project. They got information out to students and parents through posters, social media, school newsletters, morning announcements, and presentations to each classroom to promote our project. The 7th grade was involved with budgeting and shopping lists for the Valentine baskets. The 8th grade learned how to write a Thrivent Action Grant to help fund our project and assisted the 6th and 7th graders.
The organization that we chose to support was Redemption House, a local Christian-based transition home for women. The students decided to make Valentine baskets for the women that lived at Redemption House and their children. We held two fundraisers at school to help purchase items for the baskets and to raise money for the ENRICH program's special activities. The entire school was able to participate in both fundraisers, which were a Dress Down Day and class donations of Valentine candy, pencils, and stickers.
My students and I were blown away by the generosity of Central Lutheran School! We received over $600 from Dress Down Day and an abundance of Valentine candy and other goodies! With these funds and the Thrivent grant, we were able to make some amazing gift baskets for the women and children. We put together 24 Valentine baskets for the children, 20 Valentine baskets for the women, and gift bags for the workers of Redemption House.
The 8th grade students, along with myself and their parents, were able to deliver the baskets to the ladies of Redemption House. What a marvelous example of sharing God's love! It meant so much to the women and children of Redemption House to be remembered and blessed in this way.
We wrapped up the project by writing thank you's to people who helped in special ways. The students hosted a cookie party for the class at school that raised the most money for Dress Down Day and made cookie trays for all the teachers to show our appreciation for their support of our project. The project was a great success! It was a wonderful real-life learning experience for my students to utilize and enhance their problem-solving, leadership, and organization skills to see a project come to fruition, and to know their efforts were able to bless others in a positive way.
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BACKGROUND & AIMS: Acute hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection becomes chronic in the majority of patients. Although HCV-specific CD4 T-cell response is associated with HCV clearance, less is known about virus-specific CD8 T-cell or neutralizing antibody (nAb) responses and the role of CD4 help in their induction during acute infection. METHODS: HCV-specific CD4, CD8, and HCV pseudoparticle (HCVpp) nAb responses were monitored in acutely HCV-infected patients to define their relative contributions to viral clearance. RESULTS: Our results show that the outcome of acute hepatitis C is associated with a functional hierarchy in HCV-specific CD4 T-cell response and the scope of virus-specific, total T-cell interferon-gamma response. HCV-specific CD8 T-cell response was readily detectable in acutely HCV-infected patients regardless of virologic outcome or virus-specific CD4 T-cell response. In contrast, HCVpp-specific nAbs were readily detected in patients with chronic evolution and impaired virus-specific CD4 T-cell response but not in patients who cleared infection with robust virus-specific CD4 T-cell response. CONCLUSIONS: The outcome of acute hepatitis C is associated with efficient virus-specific CD4 T-cell response(s) without which HCV-specific CD8 T-cell and heterologous nAb responses may develop but fail to clear viremia. Furthermore, HCV-specific nAb responses may not be induced despite robust virus-specific CD4 T-cell response.
Original language | English |
Pages (from-to) | 654-666 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Gastroenterology |
Volume | 132 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Feb 2007 |
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- naginterfaces.library.tsa.cp_pelt_user(n, beta, k, costfn, minss=2, data=None)[source]¶
detects change points in a univariate time series, that is, the time points at which some feature of the data, for example the mean, changes. Change points are detected using the PELT (Pruned Exact Linear Time) algorithm and a user-supplied cost function.For full information please refer to the NAG Library document for g13nb
- Parameters
- nint
, the length of the time series.
- betafloat
, the penalty term.
There are a number of standard ways of setting , including:
SIC or BIC
where is the number of parameters being treated as estimated in each segment.
The value of will depend on the cost function being used.
If no penalty is required then set .
Generally, the smaller the value of the larger the number of suggested change points.
- kfloat
, the constant value that satisfies equation [equation]. If exists, it is unlikely to be unique in such cases, it is recommened that the largest value of , that satisfies equation [equation], is chosen. No check is made that is the correct value for the supplied cost function.
- costfncallable c = costfn(ts, r, data=None)
The cost function, . must calculate a vector of costs for a number of segments.
- Parameters
- tsint
A reference time point.
- rint, ndarray, shape
Time points which, along with , define the segments being considered, for .
- dataarbitrary, optional, modifiable in place
User-communication data for callback functions.
- Returns
- cfloat, array-like, shape
On exit, the cost function, .
- minssint, optional
The minimum distance between two change points, that is .
- dataarbitrary, optional
User-communication data for callback functions.
- Returns
- ntauint
, the number of change points detected.
- tauint, ndarray, shape
The first elements of hold the location of the change points. The th segment is defined by to , where and .
- Raises
- NagValueError
- (errno )
On entry, .
Constraint: .
- (errno )
On entry, .
Constraint: .
- Warns
- NagCallbackTerminateWarning
- (errno )
User requested termination.
- Notes
Let denote a series of data and denote a set of ordered (strictly monotonic increasing) indices known as change points with and . For ease of notation we also define . The change points, , split the data into segments, with the th segment being of length and containing .
Given a user-supplied cost function,
solveswhere is a penalty term used to control the number of change points. This minimization is performed using the PELT algorithm of Killick et al. (2012). The PELT algorithm is guaranteed to return the optimal solution to [equation] if there exists a constant such that
for all
- References
Chen, J and Gupta, A K, 2010, Parametric Statistical Change Point Analysis With Applications to Genetics, Medicine and Finance (Second Edition), Birkhäuser
Killick, R, Fearnhead, P and Eckely, I A, 2012, Optimal detection of changepoints with a linear computational cost, Journal of the American Statistical Association (107:500), 1590–1598


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Stanford Medicine has reported results of the Apple Heart Study, the largest study ever of its kind, which enrolled over 400,000 participants from all 50 states in a span of only eight months.
Apple and Stanford created the study to evaluate Apple Watch's irregular rhythm notification, which occasionally checks the heart's rhythm in the background and sends a notification if an irregular heart rhythm appears to be suggestive of atrial fibrillation (AFib). As part of the study, if an irregular heart rhythm was identified, participants received a notification on their Apple Watch and iPhone, a telehealth consultation with a doctor and an electrocardiogram (ECG) patch for additional monitoring.
"We are proud to work with Stanford Medicine as they conduct this important research and look forward to learning more about the impact of Apple Watch alongside the medical community," said Apple Chief Operating Office Jeff Williams in a press release. "We hope consumers will continue to gain useful and actionable information about their heart health through Apple Watch."
Stanford Medicine researchers presented their findings today at the American College of Cardiology's 68th Annual Scientific Session and Expo. Study results showed 0.5% of the over 400,000 participants received an irregular heart rhythm notification, illustrating the feature's ability to give a user important health information without creating unnecessary burden to their doctor's schedule. Many participants sought medical advice following their irregular rhythm notification, using the information to have more meaningful conversations with their doctors.


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A monthly post about what I've been reading, with aspirations but no real hope of reading down a very tall stack of books. Previous posts from this year:
Since it's nearly September, I considered just posting a joint July-August list next week, but my August book stack is accreting so fast it might not even fit into a single photo frame, and I'm already starting to forget what all these July books were about, so let's just do this now! Starting from the bottom:
Fiction: I was again in a light reading mood in July (what terrible thing was going on in the world at that particular time? I've already forgotten.), so I dove into two books that were hand-me-downs from my mom, both homages (or pastiches? I can't keep those straight.). Jeeves and the King of Clubs, a Ben Schott book in the style of PG Wodehosue. Since Wodehouse wrote about a gazillion books, which no person could reasonably expect to read in their lifetime, one might ask why bother writing another? But as a huge fan of both the Jeeves and Wooster books and the BBC production, I'm all in, and I thoroughly enjoyed this one, and found that Schott captured the style and voice, while adding his own twist (espionage!). The second was The Stalwart Companions by H Paul Jeffers, a Sherlock Holmes story. I have to admit to having read very little Conan Doyle, but I was still entertained by this tale, which takes place in America has a pre-presidential Teddy Roosevelt rather than Dr. Watson as Holmes's sidekick.
Still in the fun vein, I picked up KJ Dell'Antonia's In Her Boots, which was totally fun--a farm, an estranged world traveler returned home, an uppity mother in an uppity New England college town, a couple of llamas and mini ponies, friendship, and a smidge of romance. It's a master class in how to make sure everything that can possibly go wrong for your protagonist does go wrong. It was a perfect summer read.
On the more serious side, I read The Miraculous Flight of Owen Leach by Jen Dupree, about a baby who sails out of the arms of one mother and lands in the arms of another, beginning a rivalry for who should be the infants true parent, with the husband of one of the mothers caught in the middle, and making bad choices of his own. It explores the difficulty of parenting and the lack of support for mothers in our society. I'm doing a joint reading with Jen at Lithgow Library in Augusta on September 10th at 10 a.m. We did a reading together last week in Auburn and it was so fun!
And, finally, I read The Country of the Pointed Firs, by Sarah Orne Jewett, a Maine classic that I've been meaning to read for a long, long time. I finally was motivated to get on it when my writing group scheduled a tour of the Sarah Orne Jewett House in South Berwick. It was a spectacular tour, and not just because one of our members was the tour guide. The house is filled with so many fascinating details, many of them original to the house (or at least Jewett's tenure their), including her glasses, the pen holder on her bed frame, and a pair of owl-shaped silver salt-and-pepper shakers on the dining table (Jewett's nickname among her writing group was Owl). The book was fascinating, too, and interesting because I'm in the middle of studying the rules of fiction, and it literally breaks all of them and is yet an utterly delightful read.
Sarah Orne Jewett's house is a mixture of colonial, colonial revival, and arts & crafts styles. |
Jewett's writing desk. |
Poetry: When I was at my alma mater, College of the Atlantic, for alumni weekend in June, I did a book trade with another alum, Lelania Avila, who graduated the year before I arrived. Her book, An Abecedarian Reflection: Parenting through Childhood Cancer, is a lovely, generous, and deeply human meditation on one of the most difficult experiences a parent can go through.
Don't forget you can order a copy of my book, Uphill Both Ways: Hiking toward Happiness on the Colorado Trail from any of the vendors listed here.


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Fundamentals of laser HUDs for vehicles
Head up displays (HUDs) were first created for defense aviation purposes many years ago. As with all technology these days, it is rapidly improving and being adapted to automobiles to present drivers with certain information like navigational and speed data. This is displayed on a see-through screen that is not intended to block the driver's sight or distract the driver in any way.
This is one of the most important aspects of HUDs — to not distract the driver but to also be a useful resource for them while driving. Market research from BCC Research found that the HUD market is pr
Laser Technologies Is Going to Transform the Automotive Industry: Fact or Fiction
Today's automobiles are not similar to the models and tech units of the previous century. There are many innovations that add comfort and safety onboard. One of the interesting solutions that are expected to hit the automotive market is head up displays. HUDs earlier were just an attribute of the aviation sector. But head up displays might become a new normal of modern drivers with the development of laser scanning mirror technologies.
HUDs equipped with innovative MEMS displays can improve the vision properties of steersmen and provide more accurate navigational and speed data. One more notable and beneficial feature of the new laser-scanned head up displays is their user-friendliness. Drivers will not be distracted with this tech solution onboard. Additionally, the sight of the car's owner will be clear, with no extra gadgets and installations on the wind-screen.
Market Research: Predictions for HUDs Based on MEMS Technology
BBC decided to research the automotive market in the context of HUDs and their renovations through laser-scanning technology implementation. The predictions are rather shocking. The HUD market is going to grow extremely fast if the MEMs display takes place in the latest models.
According to the BBC survey, today's showing of $2,7 billion market value can grow up to $8 billion in 2022. These are real numbers that depend on the cutting-edge technologies required by drivers of the 21st century.
What Are Laser-Scanning Mirror Displays?
The main conception of the new-era driver's HUDs is the microelectromechanical system-based projector that is responsible for high-definition resolution. The display is equipped with a MEMS laser projector that transmits the picture with all the pixels accurately and extremely fast. Among the main advantages of this tech approach are:
- A compact size of the unit (system);
- A budget-friendly analog to other optical solutions;
- Quick performance and improved driver's vision;
- A comprehensive analytical background for speed estimating.
It means that all the previous optic-based technologies can be replaced by MEMS displays easily. Consumers will get a compact-size HUD based on the innovative laser-scanning system free from complicated installations and data deformations.
Some experts see the reason to use the combination of MEMS LiDAR technologies at once. This way the accuracy of the navigational and speed information is increased. Additionally, the happy blend of the microelectromechanical system solutions and light detection and ranging technology will bring the option of self-driving to reality.
MEMS Displays in Cars Are Expected to Hit the Market by 2024
As of today, LiDARs based on Laser-scanning micromirrors detect the height of the moving vehicle or located trees, houses on the route. This way MEMS displays can be used as the way for driving experience improvement. It is possible to set up the eye-tracking option for better safety of the driver on the road. If some danger is detected by the system, the display will contain an alert or other notifications to prevent any incidents.
According to the automotive market analytics and experts in the optic market sector, the MEMS displays will become a new normal for HUDs transformation in 2023-2024. Some flagship manufacturers like Panasonic are interested in laser technologies right today. 3D imaging radars, eye-tracking, self-driving, improved navigation, speed control board, and other options are waiting for modern drivers right in 2-3 years.


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Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who never grew old by the fire.
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Fri Jul 2 14:28:52 PDT 2004 — Brief power event in Santa Rosa. During a UPS system test, our Leibert power system had a failure, causing a power outage of about one minute in our Santa Rosa datacenter. The planned test involved cutting utility input supply power to one UPS system, which should have switched to it's batteries – instead, it broke the master battery cabinet output circuit breaker, forcing the system to bypass.
This caused a brief network outage while routers and servers in Santa Rosa rebooted, and impacted availability of many services as they came back online. Email POP and SMTP are currently unavailable, and are expected to be back online in a few minutes. Some DSL customers (those homed out of Santa Rosa) lost connection briefly and are now coming back online. Customers in San Francisco may have had problems with domain name resolution. Hosted websites were offline briefly while the web cluster and it's storage arrays rebooted.
We are sorry for the interruption, and are working with Leibert to determine why there was a failure. We have an additional Leibert power system in the planning phases now, and we'll assure that we use it to provide redundant diverse-input power to systems and equipment which support this in the future, including key routers, servers and storage. -Dane
Update: After complete testing, the technician found that one battery in the Leibert UPS cabinet had failed completely, and one other was not holding its voltage at the full level. The system was reconfigured without these two batteries and was taken out of bypass and put back into online mode. New batteries are on their way, and we've implemented periodic testing procedures to check voltage levels for signs of failure to assure that this doesn't happen again.


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