So Snyder went home and worked out these calculations and formulae. He was able to do what a team of scientists could not: create a projection for a moving vantage point over an ellipsoid. As a result Snyder won the John Wesley Powell award from the USGS.

Stabbed.Then she was brutalized by the justice system meant to protect her.The story first reported by the CBC this week of what happened to a 28 year old Cree woman sounds like a horror movie.On the most flimsy of pretexts, the provincial court judge at a preliminary hearing for her attacker ordered the mother of four to be held at the Edmonton Remand Centre for almost a week to ensure she’d testify.She was forced to travel in the prison van between the remand centre and court house with her attacker. She had to sit handcuffed and shackled for hours on end, waiting to testify.The judge who ordered this treatment wasRay Bodnarek, Alberta’s former deputy minister of justice. Before his appointment to the bench by the Redford government in 2013, he was the department’s highest ranking bureaucrat.Justice Minister Kathleen Ganley called the series of events “almost incomprehensible.”Story continues belowThis advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.Article content “We can’t even imagine what she went through in the van, trapped with the man who attacked her,” Ganley told a hastily called news conference Monday.Ganley apologized on behalf of Alberta Justice, and announced she had appointed criminal lawyer Roberta Campbell, president of the Law Society of Manitoba, to conduct an independent investigation.

And in fact, not only do we not know how to give such an account, but the most satisfying account of moral status that we know (which we call ‘the standard account’) entails that our view is false. It entails that those with PIDs have a lower status than ordinary human beings and an equal status to non human animals. Now, in this paper, we do absolutely nothing to try to show where the standard account goes wrong, and we do absolutely nothing to resolve the difficulties we see in developing an alternative account that supports our view.

The European Union will hold a video call on Monday with allies of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, joined by envoys from Britain, the United States, Canada and Ukraine, after Russia expelled diplomats from EU states last week, diplomats said. The meeting at 1200 GMT is likely to be the first forum for the West to consider any possible joint response to Navalny jailing last week and Friday expulsions, which took place while the EU top diplomat was visiting Moscow. The five, including Ouch Leng, a 2016 Goldman Environmental Prize winner, were detained by rangers on Friday for being inside the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary without permission, Environment Ministry spokesman Neth Pheaktra said.