The baccatum species, familiarly termed "ají" throughout South America, originated either in Bolivia or in Peru and, according to archaeological evidence, was probably domesticated in Peru about 2,500 B.C. Extensive baccatum material found at the Huaca Prieta archaeological site in Peru shows that the species was gradually improved by the pre-Incan civilizations. Fruit size increased and the fruits gradually became non-deciduous and stayed on the plants through ripening. There are at least two wild forms (varieties baccatum and microcarpum) and many domesticated forms. The domesticated ajís have a great diversity of pod shape and size, ranging from short, pointed pods borne erect to long, pendant pods resembling the New Mexican varieties. One variety of aj, puca-uchu, grows on a vine-like plant in home gardens. The baccatum species is generally distinguished from the other species by the yellow or tan spots on the corollas, and by the yellow anthers.
Baccatums are cultivated in Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, and Bolivia, and the species has been introduced into Costa Rica, India, and the United States. In the United States, they are grown to a very limited extent in California under the brand name Mild Italian and in Nevada under the brand name Chileno.
The species name "baccatum" means berry-like, an allusion to the smaller-podded varieties. The baccatums are tall, sometimes reaching 5 feet, have multiple stems and an erect habit, occasionally tending toward sprawling. The large leaves are dark green, measuring up to 7 inches long and 4 inches wide.
The flower corollas are white with distinctive dark green or brown spots; anthers are yellow or tan. The pods usually begin erect and become pendant as they mature,are elongate in shape, measure between 3 and 6 inches long and ¾ to 1½ inches wide. They usually mature to an orange-red, but yellow and brown colors also appear in some varieties. The pods usually measure between 30,000 and 50,000 Scoville Heat Units.
The baccatum plants tend to stand out in the garden like small trees. Their growing period is up to 120 days or more, and the plants can produce 40 or more pods.
The pods have a distinctive, fruity flavor and are used fresh in ceviche (lime-marinated fish) in South America. They are also used in fresh salsas and the small yellow varieties are prized for their lemony aroma. The pods of all ajís are also dried in the sun and then crushed into colorful powders.


Kleptocracies come apart for all sorts of reasons, but it's a rare delight that the Zimbabwean military's to-date rather slick putsch was triggered, partly, by Grace Mugabe's freely decadent historical past of luxurious buying.
Ever the snappy dresser, the now-embattled first lady, 52 - at this writing beneath home arrest along with her husband, Robert, within the couple's $10-million, 25-bedroom Blue Roof mansion in Harare - was until a number of weeks ago a daily in the world's style capitals and properly-known in Harare and beyond for her jewellery, her assortment of designer discount ferragamo belt shoes, and not least, for her habit of dropping rock-star levels of money in the best shops of Paris, Rome, and London.
She famously hit one Paris store for a whopping $seventy five 000, a spree that she denies but that however has caught in the favored imagination.
At dwelling, the 2014 wedding of the Mugabes' daughter, Bona, staged by her mother for a 4000-strong guest list within the 60-acre gardens of the Mugabes' Borrowdale estate, cost a reported $5 million.
The caterers were flown in from Singapore.
European Union sanctions in opposition to the Mugabes restricted their Continental purchasing only somewhat since the early Aughts.
As they held office, she and her husband were welcome in the Vatican, and will traverse Italy to get to this or that celebration at the Holy See, which offered Mrs. Mugabe with alternative to go to a few of Rome's higher merchants. For the second, she remains welcome in the United States.
Derisively known in Harare as "The First Shopper," "Gucci Grace," and perhaps more poetically as "DisGrace," Mrs. Mugabe has put collectively an extensive wardrobe that includes, among other baubles, a reported mountain of Salvatore Ferragamo shoes.
Quizzed by a reporter concerning the footwear, she blithely replied: "I have very slim ft, so I can solely put on Ferragamos."
That celebrity endorsement will come as a surprise and now arguably as a terrific relief to the entrepreneurs of Jimmy Choo, Louboutin, Prada, Proenza Schouler, Bally and Tod footwear, whose exquisite work does, also, run in small sizes.
Shoe manufacturers aside, the actual fact is that Grace Mugabe has lower a radical - if additionally wholly ridiculous - Cruella De Vil figure on the international trend circuit. Her most current look at a world fashion occasion occurred in New York just this previous September nineteenth, a scant six weeks earlier than the military decided to name an end to her spree, on the Fashion4Development's First Ladies luncheon, pictured above.
The Fashion4Development luncheon is an annual fixture honoring philanthropic efforts amongst vogue-industry leaders through the United Nations' annual Common Meeting session. That the lunch can also be attended by failed-state kleptocrats is just not, essentially, the style organization's fault, however this year's lunch at the Pierre Lodge honored, among others, former model and new British Vogue contributing editor Naomi Campbell, who once infamously accepted a sachet of blood diamonds after a dinner in Johannesburg from former Liberian strongman Charles Taylor, then reportedly on an arms-shopping for excursion in the South African capital.
It's axiomatic that the leaders of kleptocracies routinely excuse themselves from the practice of altruism - quite, the idea is to keep raking within the loot, even if, as within the case of Zimbabwe, seven out of ten citizens are dwelling in poverty.
In different phrases, Mrs. Mugabe's look at a Rome or Paris boutique with fistfuls money would be the norm. Whether anyone at or connected to the Fashion4Development awards function registered the contradiction, if not the staggering hypocrisy, inherent in Mrs. Mugabe's attendance at a philanthropic awards lunch has gone unreported.
There are a lot bigger discussions below approach in Harare proper now than Mrs. Mugabe's forays in fashion, specifically, the negotiations, mediated by the South Africans, on the Mugabes' exit.
While it's estimated that the Mugabe family fortunes exceed $1 billion, a sizable portion of which is exterior the nation and thus powerful to trace, it's well-known that their property portfolio has elevated dramatically over time, with properties in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, and a daisy chain of farms confiscated, or otherwise obtained, from earlier house owners in Zimbabwe.
The centerpiece of the farms is Mrs. Mugabe's famend Omega Dairy operation, held to be one in all the most important in southern Africa.
Forming the cherries atop this ill-gotten confection of luxuries are the Mugabe children's own shopping hijinks within the excessive life. Following in his mother's footsteps, Robert Mugabe, Jr., appears inordinately happy with his black alligator-leather-based gold-plate-trimmed Giuseppe Zanotti high-top sneakers, which are not ordinarily accessible, with a reported value of some $14 000.
Mrs. Mugabe's son by her previous marriage was just lately seen offloading two Rolls Royces that he had air-freighted into the country. Proving that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, the youngest of Grace and Robert Mugabe's three youngsters, Berlamine Chatunga, earlier this 12 months posted an Instagram video of himself having fun with his personal luxury purchasing by inexplicably pouring a $500 bottle of Armand de Brignac Champagne over his diamond-encrusted watch, accompanied by the free-dwelling caption: "$60,000 on the wrist when your daddy run the country ya know!!!" Grammar and punctuation his.
Whereas it's not identified whether the generals who orchestrated the takeover, with Chinese language and South African approval, have been aware of Belarmine Chatunga's jewelry buying or his errant disco-boy habits with bottles of advantageous wines, diamonds, in the type of japanese Zimbabwe's large Marange diamond fields, will definitely be on the generals' minds in the current discussions with the arrested couple.
The Marange diamond fields are massive, skimming by the powers that management them is rife, and the abuses of the miners have been many. The mines have taken a curious path toward legitimization as non-blood mines on the world market, but, after intense lobbying, they have been authorized by the Kimberley Course of.
Just "nationalized" by Robert Mugabe in 2016, the process by which the Mugabes have traditionally arranged larger cuts for themselves, Marange final released 300 000 carats on the market in 2014. Like all else the Mugabes have touched of their long and ugly run, together with the mansion by which they are now being sluggish-roasted, the Marange fields, touted as one of many richest African diamond finds of the final century, will remain a coveted piece on Zimbabwe's new political chessboard.
Across the officially-sanctioned protests against Mugabe in central Harare - unthinkable a month in the past - rumors are rife that Mrs. Mugabe's in-country buying days are numbered, whether or not for farms, houses, or, in actual fact, for style.
Her political associates, mostly youthful cabinet ministers of her faction throughout the ruling social gathering, remain at this writing beneath arrest.
Mugabe's sacking by his own celebration and his flailing valedictory speech on November 19th, before, dealing with sure impeachment, he formally resigned through letter forty-eight hours later, were merely the denouement of a dictatorship blowing apart at the seams.
It was symbiotic self-destruction on a Shakespearean degree: Grace Mugabe was an excessive political liability that Robert Mugabe, in his dotage, didn't understand that he could not carry. Her fiery political ambition to succeed him, the ultimate luxurious she could not attain, did them both in.
Now, one of the best that the Mugabes can hope for in the approaching days is a cobbled-collectively form of immunity. In any case, as Mrs. Mugabe stews on her nicely-earned fate in the Blue Roof, she is going to do nicely to pack a couple of of her treasured Ferragamos and her jewellery instances for the long haul. If she's allowed that.
It's thought that the generals and/or their proxies will shortly invite her out of the nation, perhaps to her personal homes in Malaysia, Hong Kong, or Singapore. The place, if all Salvatore Ferragamo Belts goes nicely for her in the next weeks and she's allowed to retain access to the cash that the couple has reportedly secreted in Switzerland and elsewhere, she'll still just be capable to feather her nest with loads of luxurious buying.
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Free back-to-school haircuts offered to K-12 students Thursday night in Ridgeland
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WEBVTT NEXT WEEK, LOWCOUNTRY STUDENTS WILL BE BACK IN THE CLASSROOM... AND STUDENTS AT THE ACADEMY FOR CAREER EXCELLENCE IN RIDGELAND ARE HELPING áOTHER STUDENTS FEEL CONFIDENT FOR THEIR FIRST DAY. TONIGHT FROM 4 TO 7:30, ACE STUDENTS WILL VOLUNTEER THEIR TIME TO GIVE KIDS GRADES K THROUGH 12 FREE BACK-TO-SCHOOL HAIRCUTS. THIS IS THE EVENT'S 4TH YEAR. IT'S HAPPENING AT THE SCHOOL, LOCATED AT 80 LOWCOUNTRY DRIVE. THOSE WHO SHOW UP WILL BE SERVED ON A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED BASIS. ACE'S DIRECTOR SAYS IT'S A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR STUDENTS TO GET SOME HANDS-ON, CAREER PRACTICEAND IT'S ALSO A WAY TO HELP PARENTS OUT DURING THIS EXPENSIVE TIME OF YEAR. DR.LOVECCHIO: "WE HAVE SOME LARGE FAMILIES HERE.LAST YEAR WE HAD SOME FAMILIES WITH 6 OR 7 KIDS COMING WHICH IS GREAT AND WE ENCOURAGE THEM BECAUSE IT DOES GET EXPENSIVE.$10 A HAIRCUT, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE LOOKING AT $100 WHEN YOU INCLUDE TIP, SO IT'S A GREAT WAY FOR PARENTS TO SAVE AND OUR STUDENTS TO GET THAT EXPERIENCE THAT THEY REALLY NEED." IF YOU PLAN TO COME OUT TONIGHT, YOU'RE ASKED TO PARK BEHIND THE SCHOOL.
(WJCL) Next week, Lowcountry students will be back in the classroom, and students at the Academy for Career Excellence in Ridgeland are helping other students feel confident for their first day. Thursday from 4 to 7:30 p.m., ACE students will volunteer their time to give kids grades K-12 free back-to-school haircuts. This is the event's fourth year.It's happening at the school, located at 80 Lowcountry Drive. Families will be served on a first come, first served basis. ACE Director Dr. Michael Lovecchio says it's a great opportunity for students to get some hands-on, career practice, and it's also a way to help parents out during this expensive time of year. "We have some large families here. Last year we had some families with six or seven kids coming, which is great, and we encourage them because it does get expensive. $10 a haircut, you know, you're looking at $100 when you include tip, so it's a great way for parents to save and our students to get that experience that they really need," Lovecchio says.Those who come out are asked to park behind the school.
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Next week, Lowcountry students will be back in the classroom, and students at the Academy for Career Excellence in Ridgeland are helping other students feel confident for their first day.
Thursday from 4 to 7:30 p.m., ACE students will volunteer their time to give kids grades K-12 free back-to-school haircuts.
This is the event's fourth year.
It's happening at the school, located at 80 Lowcountry Drive.
Families will be served on a first come, first served basis.
ACE Director Dr. Michael Lovecchio says it's a great opportunity for students to get some hands-on, career practice, and it's also a way to help parents out during this expensive time of year.
"We have some large families here. Last year we had some families with six or seven kids coming, which is great, and we encourage them because it does get expensive. $10 a haircut, you know, you're looking at $100 when you include tip, so it's a great way for parents to save and our students to get that experience that they really need," Lovecchio says.
Those who come out are asked to park behind the school.

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org.apache.commons.math3.fitting

Classes to perform curve fitting.

org.apache.commons.math3.fitting.leastsquares

This package provides algorithms that minimize the residuals
 between observations and model values.

Uses of LeastSquaresProblem in org.apache.commons.math3.fitting

Methods in org.apache.commons.math3.fitting that return LeastSquaresProblem

Modifier and Type
Method and Description

protected LeastSquaresProblem
GaussianCurveFitter.getProblem(Collection<WeightedObservedPoint> observations)

Creates a least squares problem corresponding to the appropriate curve.

protected abstract LeastSquaresProblem
AbstractCurveFitter.getProblem(Collection<WeightedObservedPoint> points)

Creates a least squares problem corresponding to the appropriate curve.

protected LeastSquaresProblem
SimpleCurveFitter.getProblem(Collection<WeightedObservedPoint> observations)

Creates a least squares problem corresponding to the appropriate curve.

protected LeastSquaresProblem
PolynomialCurveFitter.getProblem(Collection<WeightedObservedPoint> observations)

Creates a least squares problem corresponding to the appropriate curve.

protected LeastSquaresProblem
HarmonicCurveFitter.getProblem(Collection<WeightedObservedPoint> observations)

Creates a least squares problem corresponding to the appropriate curve.

Uses of LeastSquaresProblem in org.apache.commons.math3.fitting.leastsquares

Classes in org.apache.commons.math3.fitting.leastsquares that implement LeastSquaresProblem

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Class and Description

class
LeastSquaresAdapter

An adapter that delegates to another implementation of LeastSquaresProblem.

Methods in org.apache.commons.math3.fitting.leastsquares that return LeastSquaresProblem

Modifier and Type
Method and Description

LeastSquaresProblem
LeastSquaresBuilder.build()

Construct a LeastSquaresProblem from the data in this builder.

static LeastSquaresProblem
LeastSquaresFactory.countEvaluations(LeastSquaresProblem problem,
                Incrementor counter)

Count the evaluations of a particular problem.

static LeastSquaresProblem
LeastSquaresFactory.create(MultivariateJacobianFunction model,
      RealVector observed,
      RealVector start,
      ConvergenceChecker<LeastSquaresProblem.Evaluation> checker,
      int maxEvaluations,
      int maxIterations)

Create a LeastSquaresProblem
 from the given elements.

static LeastSquaresProblem
LeastSquaresFactory.create(MultivariateJacobianFunction model,
      RealVector observed,
      RealVector start,
      RealMatrix weight,
      ConvergenceChecker<LeastSquaresProblem.Evaluation> checker,
      int maxEvaluations,
      int maxIterations)

Create a LeastSquaresProblem
 from the given elements.

static LeastSquaresProblem
LeastSquaresFactory.create(MultivariateJacobianFunction model,
      RealVector observed,
      RealVector start,
      RealMatrix weight,
      ConvergenceChecker<LeastSquaresProblem.Evaluation> checker,
      int maxEvaluations,
      int maxIterations,
      boolean lazyEvaluation,
      ParameterValidator paramValidator)

Create a LeastSquaresProblem
 from the given elements.

static LeastSquaresProblem
LeastSquaresFactory.create(MultivariateVectorFunction model,
      MultivariateMatrixFunction jacobian,
      double[] observed,
      double[] start,
      RealMatrix weight,
      ConvergenceChecker<LeastSquaresProblem.Evaluation> checker,
      int maxEvaluations,
      int maxIterations)

Create a LeastSquaresProblem
 from the given elements.

static LeastSquaresProblem
LeastSquaresFactory.weightDiagonal(LeastSquaresProblem problem,
              RealVector weights)

Apply a diagonal weight matrix to the LeastSquaresProblem.

static LeastSquaresProblem
LeastSquaresFactory.weightMatrix(LeastSquaresProblem problem,
            RealMatrix weights)

Apply a dense weight matrix to the LeastSquaresProblem.

Methods in org.apache.commons.math3.fitting.leastsquares with parameters of type LeastSquaresProblem

Modifier and Type
Method and Description

static LeastSquaresProblem
LeastSquaresFactory.countEvaluations(LeastSquaresProblem problem,
                Incrementor counter)

Count the evaluations of a particular problem.

LeastSquaresOptimizer.Optimum
LeastSquaresOptimizer.optimize(LeastSquaresProblem leastSquaresProblem)

Solve the non-linear least squares problem.

LeastSquaresOptimizer.Optimum
LevenbergMarquardtOptimizer.optimize(LeastSquaresProblem problem)

Solve the non-linear least squares problem.

LeastSquaresOptimizer.Optimum
GaussNewtonOptimizer.optimize(LeastSquaresProblem lsp)

Solve the non-linear least squares problem.

static LeastSquaresProblem
LeastSquaresFactory.weightDiagonal(LeastSquaresProblem problem,
              RealVector weights)

Apply a diagonal weight matrix to the LeastSquaresProblem.

static LeastSquaresProblem
LeastSquaresFactory.weightMatrix(LeastSquaresProblem problem,
            RealMatrix weights)

Apply a dense weight matrix to the LeastSquaresProblem.

Constructors in org.apache.commons.math3.fitting.leastsquares with parameters of type LeastSquaresProblem

Constructor and Description

LeastSquaresAdapter(LeastSquaresProblem problem)

Delegate the LeastSquaresProblem interface to the given implementation.

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Sean Comer is Government Relations Director for Xavier University and manages projects for Beyond Civility.
On April 12th, Beyond Civility held an event at Hebrew Union College addressing implicit bias, those biases that occur at a subconscious level. Dr. Gabe Gottlieb, a Professor of Philosophy at Xavier University provided a helpful primer on the topic followed by a moderated panel discussion by four community leaders, each with a unique life story and perspective.
To recognize that we all have them.
Acknowledging them is a first step to mitigate their impact.
Intentional, meaningful interaction with those who are different can keep us from acting in accord with our subconscious biases that may be contrary to our expressed beliefs.
The panelists, each of whom took multiple Harvard Implicit Bias tests, were Shakila Ahmad, President of the Board of the Islamic Center of Greater Cincinnati, Ozie Davis, Executive Director of the Avondale Comprehensive Development Corporation, John Pepper, retired CEO of Procter and Gamble, and Jonathan Cohen, Dean of the Hebrew Union College.
Each told stories about their lives, which revealed their implicit biases, and they discussed both their reactions to the tests and strategies to mitigate these biases (You can take an implicit bias test and learn about how they affect your life by visiting www.projectimplicit.com).
Audience members shared, with a crowd of over 200 in attendance, their experience taking the tests and what they found.
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China's private space industry is rapidly gaining ground on SpaceX
China now has around 100 private space companies. They're creating reusable rockets, sending payloads into orbit and quickly catching up with SpaceX
The Long March 2F rocket launches from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on September 29, 2011
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In early August, a rocket took off on its third-ever test, reaching a height of around 300 metres and hovering there for a minute before returning to Earth, completely intact. But this reusable rocket wasn't owned by SpaceX or Blue Origin. It was developed by a Chinese startup called LinkSpace.
Since 2014, when the Chinese government gave the green light to private companies to operate in the space sector, more and more startups have been popping up. Now, there are around 100 of them, up from just 30 in 2018. Welcome to the booming world of China's private space industry.
LinkSpace was the first on the bandwagon. Hu Zhenyu, LinkSpace's CEO, was testing rockets at the age of 20 and was only 21 when he set up the company, the first of its kind, in 2014. He thinks part of the reason the industry has taken off so quickly is because of the number of young people involved. "Not only that, but Chinese investment institutions are also optimistic about the development of private space companies," he says. This is partly due to the success of American counterparts, like SpaceX, which have proven private space ventures can work.
LinkSpace's successful reusable rocket test may sound like a small achievement in comparison to what Elon Musk can do these days, but China is catching up fast. These reusable rockets have been developed in an industry which has had to evolve separately from the rest of the world, with no involvement from the USA and almost none from Russia since its beginnings.
New guidelines issued in July this year by the communist government have given these companies a sense of direction. They set out the standards that are required from companies building smaller rockets, or reusable ones, to altitudes at a limit of 200 kilometres, for research, manufacturing, testing, safety, and technology. The restrictions and guidelines outline the types of companies that come under their rule, and only mentions those building small or medium sized rockets.
It is unclear whether the rules are directly trying to prohibit anyone from developing larger rockets, which might compete directly with the state's own activities. At the moment, at least, all of the Chinese space startups are developing ideas that complement what the state is doing, instead of competing with it.
One of the key players in the Chinese space startup scene is LandSpace, which is based in Beijing and came out of the Tsinghua University. It had its first launch of its a solid-fuelled orbital rocket, called Zhuque-1, on 27 October 2018, but the payload did not reach orbit. Another is i-Space, which is also developing medium-sized rockets. Zhuhai Orbita Aerospace Science and Technology and Beijing Galaxy Space Internet Technology are involved in the lighter side of things. They send small payloads into orbit, sometimes weighing only 1.5kg, to take images of Earth and collect data.
"The private sector's getting into the more cost effective [projects], like micro and nano satellites," says Lincoln Hines, who researches China's space capabilities and its foreign policy, at Cornell University in the US. "The government tends to focus more on these larger, more expensive and perhaps less efficient types."
Many of the startups employ people who used to work for the state, and many are still heavily involved with the Chinese government. But they're not all working that way. "I think there's a tendency to kind of generalise about all Chinese startups as if they're all at the hand of the state," says Hines.
"One person, he told me how it's really terrible for the startup companies, because the Western media portrays them as like a pawn of the state" says Hines. "But then the Chinese media also wants to do that because, that way, they get credit for, like, everything they're doing."
Just like in the US, Hines says, some startups are more involved or dependent on the state than others. Some are also involved with the provincial governments, rather than the state government. "For several of them, the provincial governments are happy to bring investment to their areas, and they pretty much give them like a free hand to do what they want" says Hines.
But the industry is opaque, says Hines, and the individual companies' links with the state are equally mysterious. But one example of one of the more independent startups is Spacety, he says, which is working on developing microsatellites designed for low Earth orbit. It has secured a significant amount of its investment from private funders.
Spacety's CEO is Justin Yang, who founded the company in 2016 when he was 34. Since then, the company has launched four missions with the latest putting four satellites into orbit. Yang's aim is to build a network of microsatellites that will offer services that larger satellites can't, while doing so in a more efficient way than the state could. His target is to orbit at a low altitude that the larger rockets built by the government can't really reach.
The link between the state and private companies is always going to be fuzzy, and there is no clear distinction between which are state-owned, and which are private, Hines says. Some may have contracts with the state or out-source the building of their components to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) which has been part of the government since it was established in 1999. CASC builds most of i-Space's rocket components, but it remains a private company.
One thing is clear, Chinese space startups won't be supplying the ISS any time soon. Since the Wolf Amendment, a provision added to US law eight years ago restricting Nasa from cooperating with Chinese companies, there is little these companies can do in China. Other countries are not as restrictive. There are restrictions from the Chinese government, however, on exporting rocket technology.
For now at least, LinkSpace is keeping its target on its home country. "The first step in LinkSpace is to use a recyclable rocket to serve the sub-orbital launch service," says Zhenyu. "Most of this service is used for scientific research rather than satellite launch, so market demand will mainly come from China."
It is difficult to predict how much the Chinese space sector will continue to open up in the future, says Hines. "It does seem like they're giving a strong signal and they're wanting to be more internationally competitive," he says. "So, in some ways I would expect that this trend is going to continue. But I also think the Chinese Communist Party is often wary of seeding too much control to private companies."
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The Top Books to Read in 2022
by Rhona MacLeod
The explosion of BookTok in 2021 saw reading hit mainstream media in a new way, opening the doors for hundreds of new readers and majorly influencing trends and sales in book shops across the country. The success of BookTok is not likely to disappear anytime soon, leaving us to ask what will be the BookTok 'Must Reads' of 2022?
Many authors whose books received BookTok hype in recent months have exciting new releases scheduled for 2022, which are bound to receive lots of media discussions.
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House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas
The second instalment of the Cresent City series is highly anticipated by many fans, following the widespread success of the first book. The author has a strong fan base following her too previous series "A Court of Thornes and Roses" and "Throne of Glass". The Cresent City series follows Bryce, half-fae half-human, in an action-packed fantasy romance.
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Following the success of Henry's "Beach Read" and "You and Me on Vacation", the anticipated "Book Lovers" promises to be the hottest read of the summer. Set in a peaceful small town in North Carolina, literary agent Nora can't seem to escape her rival, literary editor, Charlie, leading to a classic enemies-to-lovers love story.
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Arguably the biggest author on BookTok, Hoover's extensive backlog has built up a strong group of readers enticed by her emotional and heartbreaking writing. Reminders of Him is expected to tug on the heartstrings of readers, following Kenna, a young mother returning to prison after a five-year stint in prison and reuniting with her four-year-old daughter.
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The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
The author of "The Hunting Party" and "The Guest List" is back to keep us guessing in classic whodunnit mysteries that will keep you up at night. Set in an old apartment block in the outskirts of Paris, this psychological thriller is set to be the mystery of the year.
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The legendary author leads us through one hundred years of history, a woman's journey through the Spanish Flu and the Great Depression written in a letter to her loved one. One to get the tissues out for, Violeta promises to be an unforgettable and highly emotional novel.
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To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
Yanagihara's "A Little Life" took BookTok by Storm in 2021, quickly becoming one of the most read and discussed books of the year. "To Paradise" follows three centuries and three versions of the 'American Experiment', set in 1893 New York, 1993 Manhatten and 2093. This speculative and historical volume is set to tug on the heartstrings of readers, discussing relationships and desires in the way Yanagihara does best.
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In brief: Ford has announced plans to nearly double the production capacity of its all-electric F-150 Lightning to meet soaring demand. Manufacturing isn't set to get under way until this spring, but Ford will go ahead with converting reservations to orders later this week.
Ford unveiled the new Lightning in May 2021, carrying on the legacy of the performance-minded pickup for a third generation. The original SVT Lightning was produced from 1993 to 1995, with the second-gen debuting in 1999 and lasting until 2004.
Like its namesakes, the all-electric Lightning is big on performance. Ford is shooting for 563 horsepower and 775 lb.-ft. of torque, which should be good enough to propel the Lightning from 0-60 mph in around 4.5 seconds.
Ford starting accepting reservations shortly after the unveiling but reportedly had to pause the process in December due to surging demand. Beginning January 6, the automaker will start converting reservations into orders. Production is set to begin this spring with pricing starting at $39,974 before any federal tax incentives.
Ford said it aims to push production capacity to 150,000 vehicles per year at its manufacturing plant in Dearborn, Michigan, but didn't say how long it would take for production to reach the target rate.
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Jimmy Bruneau was born on December 12, 1881, and raised on the land. After Chief Monfwi's death in 1936, Jimmy Bruneau became the Chief. He understood that times were changing and that people needed the knowledge and skills that they could learn in school. He wanted children to be educated, but not at the cost of losing their language and culture. Through his vision, members of the community formed the Rae-Edzo School Society and negotiated an historic agreement with the Commissioner of the NWT, returning control of the local school to the people of the community.
"I have asked for a school to be built... on my land... and that school will be run by my people, and my people will work at that school and our children will learn both ways, our way and the white man's way."
When he was over 80 years of age, Chief Jimmy Bruneau led the people of Rae in a protest against the government by refusing to accept the Treaty money. He denied that the Treaty money had bought the land or the rights of the first people who lived on it. It was through strong actions by the Chief that the federal government continued to recognize the claims of our people to the land.
Chief Jimmy Bruneau died on January 16, 1975, at the age of 89. Hundreds of people attended his funeral to pay respect to this Chief, who was so important to the lives of so many people. He was a man of vision and great strength, who set the finest example of leadership for our people. In the words of one elder, "He looked far ahead for us and we gain by it." Biography Chief Jimmy Bruneau
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Article "Chief Jimmy Bruneau" - January 20, 1975
Here is a small excerpt from the article: One of the greatest leader of the Indian people has passed away. Former Chief Jimmy Bruneau died at the hospital in Rae at 3:20 a.m. He was also most 90 year old. Chief Bruneau lead the Dogrib (Tłı̨chǫ) people of Rae for almost 50 years, until 1969. His wisdom will be missed by the Dogrib (Tłı̨chǫ) people who loved and respected "the old Chief".
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Q: Cscope egrep speedup I use cscope in vim to search for stuff in a large codebase. I find the "cs f e" option too slow. Anyway tips speed it up. I build my cscope database using cscope -bq

A: cscope will not speedup grep and egrep with database (almost). This is because cscope will not build any inverted index for any possible substring nor will use some regex-speedup technique with some type of precomputed index. The only speedup is that cscope will run grep/egrep function only on source files and this is speedup only when comparing with grep regex -r . (which will check binaries .obj, .exe too).
Egrep function can't use cscope database.
So, move your code to local fs (from network fs), install more memory, disable collating via env LC_ALL=C or LC_ALL=POSIX, disable atime on your fs.
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You start off in the dark, you were asleep. And then you're in a lucid dream, a holodeck-like environment. The environment can be exactly the same as the place you live in, or it might be a little different.
With that thought I started looking around and found a pencil to write with. After that I couldn't find something to write on — this is a second weird part. I found a scrap of paper, and for some reason that wouldn't work, maybe there was too much writing on it already. Then I found another piece of paper, but again it wouldn't work for some reason. This went on for a while until I finally found a piece of paper that would work, and then I tore it while trying to write on it.
At this point a second song started playing. This second was completely different, a heavy metal song that I had never heard before. I had no interest in writing down the lyrics, but when I walked around the apartment I came to a place where an old radio I used to have was connected to some speakers, and that's where the song was coming from.
This scared me quite a bit — the third thing I want to note here. While previously I knew that I was asleep and dreaming, at this point I had lost any perspective and was lost in the environment. Seeing the radio and speakers injected me with a tremendous amount of fear, irrational fear. This fear quickly kicked me out of this environment, and I woke up.
At first I knew that I was asleep, but when I heard the song lyrics I wanted to write them down so I'd remember them. So it's like you "95% know" that you're dreaming, but that remaining 5% has a big impact on your behavior.
Second, it's always hard to find something to something to write on (or write with) in this state.
Third, the fact that original music can be playing in this state is crazy. It's not like your mind is re-playing a song you've heard before. Instead, it's playing a song that has never existed on plane tEarth.
Fourth, it's often possible to have irrational fear in this state, as though there is no control over whatever normally controls fear in your brain or mind.
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10 Terrifying True-Life Shark Attack Survival Stories
By CM Burns
Maybe it was Steven Spielberg's 1975 opus, Jaws, that started our fascination with sharks, but they've long held a spot in our collective nightmares as the ubiquitous leviathan beneath the murky surface of the world's oceans.
The idea of a monolithic fin trolling through the water conjoined with music that crescendos as the fin swoops towards us has become a universal symbol for danger, even danger that has nothing to do with sharks.
Mostly this sort of fear is the stuff of fantasy, but for one group it's a stark (shark) reality.
Surfers spend all their time in the ocean, and that means a lot of time with popular culture's favorite oceanic villain.
Even though shark attacks aren't very common, when they do attack, without provocation, it's often surfers who feel their bites.
Surfers paddle their boards on the surface of the water, largely oblivious to the swift creature plotting dinner plans just a few meters beneath them. A surfers board can resemble the seals that many predatory sharks hunt.
Look at this annotated list of shark attacks along the Pacific Coast from 2000-present.
Surfing is the most popular activity listed–by a landslide. With shark attack incidents rising 25% globally between 2009-2010, surfing isn't just a battle with the waves.
All is not lost as most shark attack victims survive.
Unfortunately, some are not so lucky, but the surfers that have lived through such an ordeal should be commended for their toughness.
Below are 10 surfers who survived shark attacks that bear no resemblance to the special effect-laden blitz of cinematic shark lore because they're real, and so the stories of survival are that much more acute.
Location: Kauai, Hawaii – North Shore
On Halloween morning in 2003, Bethany Hamilton was resting atop her surfboard in Kauai, Hawaii surf heaven, the North Shore.
Suddenly a gray blur swam up to her and took her left arm clean off from below her elbow.
She would tell CNN later:
My left arm was laying in the water and my other arm was just holding on to my board and the shark, just, like came up and attacked me and it, kind of pulled me back and forth. It was about a two- to three-second period and when it…was attacking me all I saw was like a gray blur.
At the time, she was only 13, but she used her right arm to paddle to the shore where her friend's father made a tourniquet with the surfboard leash.
The tourniquet probably saved her life because she ended up losing around 70% of her blood that day.
She survived the ordeal after taking her father's spot (he had been scheduled for knee surgery that day) on the operating table at the Wilcox Memorial Hospital.
That isn't the end of Bethany's story though.
Within months of the attack, she was back on her board, and the next year she placed 5th in the National Surfing Championships.
Her placing was enough to secure a spot on the U.S. National Surfing Team. She wrote a book about the ordeal, Soul Surfer, and won Teen Choice and ESPY awards as a result of her incredible perseverance in the face of such horror.
Soul Surfer was turned into a docudrama feature film. She performed all the one-armed surfing stunts seen in the movie and continues to surf competitively even today.
They eventually caught the shark that took her arm.
Todd Endris
Location: Monterey Bay, California — Marina State Beach
It was August of 2007 when the strange narrative of Todd Endris' brush with death took place. Endris went surfing only a couple of miles from his apartment near the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.
The ocean area is quite large, but it includes the portentously named Red Triangle known for attracting great white sharks especially during the feeding months between August and November.
As Endris waded into the water that day, he saw a group of dolphins frolicking playfully not far from where he and friend, Brian Simpson, were headed.
After catching a wave, Endris pulled up on his board 75 yards from shore to catch his breath.
That's when he was catapulted 15 feet in the air from a massive force below his board. He landed head-first and knew there was only one thing with the power to do that.
He struggled to find his board and climbed back on to get to shore, but the great white came again and clamped its massive jaw along his back.
Endris hit the shark repeatedly in the snout, but as he told Reader's Digest later:
It was like punching a Chevy Suburban covered with sandpaper.
The shark moved his hold from Endris' back to his leg.
Eventually, with dolphins jumping over and around the scene, the shark, still thrashing, rose again out of the water and let him go.
Endris swears he saw the dolphins form a protective wall around him after the great white let go the second, and final, time.
A fellow surfer helped him ashore.
Quick-thinking surfers at the beach called 911 after tying a board leash around his leg as an improvised tourniquet to help stop the bleeding and emergency personnel helicoptered him to a trauma unit in Santa Clara.
"He looked like an emery board," says Maria Allo, MD, who oversaw Endris' care.
We used a couple of gallons of saline to get the sand off his muscles and skin. The shark's teeth had nearly punctured one of Endris's lungs and had missed his aorta by two millimeters. He had lost half of his blood and required more than 500 stitches and 200 staples to close the deep gashes.
Maria Allo – Trauma Dr. who treated Todd Endris
After spending 6 days in a pain-killer haze, he went home but awoke during repeated nightmares about the hard-charging great white.
Eventually, he settled on the bright spots from that horrible day.
"A lot of things came together to pull me through," he says. "The guys who rushed to help, the dolphins – they all saved my life."
Bill O'Leary
Location: Off the Gold Coast of Australia
20 year-old Bill O'Leary was surfing off Australia's Gold Coast on March 20, 2012. He had the awful misfortune to fall off his board and land directly on a shark.
O'Leary was attempting a surfing maneuver known as a "floater" when he fell.
It is believed to be a bull shark, and the shark didn't take kindly to O'Leary's inadvertent interruption.
The bull shark retaliated and bit O'Leary's left leg with such force, it penetrated his Achilles tendon right down to the bone.
There was a second bite that extended down to his ankle, also bone-deep. The lacerations were pouring blood when O'Leary managed to escape and pull himself to safety on Nooby Beach.
Onlookers at the beach included his friend's father, Noel Kolkka. Kolkka, along with lifeguards that had already sounded the alarm that a shark was in the area, did their best to stop the bleeding before he was airlifted to the hospital.
He received surgery for the bites the next morning. A close call and the worst fall of O'Leary's surfing life, we'd imagine.
All three surfers survived, and all three should be applauded for their fortitude for overcoming something most of us just have nightmares about.
Rodney Fox
Location: Aldinga Beach, 50km South of Adelaide
If the name Rodney Fox seems familiar, it's no wonder, since this man is famous for being a shark attack survivor.
In 1963, the champion spearfisher was swimming in the ocean off Aldinga Beach when all of a sudden, he was attacked by none other than a great white shark!
The shark got a hold of him and violently pulled him into the middle of the ocean. While some people would immediately start to panic, Fox decided he wouldn't go down without a fight.
He reached around the great white's head and attempted to gouge out its eyes. The attempt worked, and the shark seemingly let him go, but the fight was far from over.
In an effort to push the shark away, Fox's arm was caught in the shark's mouth! Thinking the shark wouldn't be able to bite him if he grabbed it's back, Fox held on for dear life.
He soon realized he was running out of breath! It was now or never! He quickly let go of the shark and swam to the surface.
He only had time to take a few breaths before the shark bit into Fox's fish float, dragging him underwater for the second time.
Miraculously, the line snapped. A nearby boat happened to see all the blood and managed to grab Fox out of the water and drive him to safety.
It's safe to say that after that, Fox's life had forever changed. But, even after needing more than 360 stitches all over his body, he didn't let that event ruin his love for the ocean.
Fox became dedicated to helping people gain a better understanding of sharks and their importance for our planet. He even went on to become a consultant on the set of Jaws!
Location: Colac Bay, South Island, New Zealand
James Grant truly gives new meaning to the phrase as cool as a cucumber.
This junior doctor was out spearfishing near Colac Bay in New Zealand with a few friends when all of a sudden, he felt something tug on his leg.
At first, he thought one of his friends was playing a dumb joke on him. He turned to tell off the culprit. But there was no one there!
He instantly knew he was dealing with a shark. Instead of being terrified, he was slightly agitated.
The first thing that came to his mind was to stab it. He already had his knife handy, so he went for it. Sure enough, the shark let go of his leg.
Grant bolted to shore and took off his wetsuit to examine the damage. His leg had bites that were up to 5 cm long and required stitches.
According to Grant, he had two options. He could either go to the hospital and seek medical treatment, or he could stitch up his leg on his own, and pop to the pub for a beer.
Like a real-life Aquaman, Grant decided to go for the latter.
Obviously, Grant visited the hospital afterward in order to get proper stitches, but this story is pretty fascinating nonetheless!
Location: Cancún, Mexico
Nicole Moore was on vacation in Mexico with some friends when her life took an unexpected turn. She had just finished playing volleyball and was relaxing in the warm water. Since it was around lunchtime, the beach was pretty much empty.
After a while, Moore saw two people riding a jet ski, and (seemingly) waving at her. They were also yelling at her.
Unfortunately, the people were speaking Spanish, and Moore couldn't understand them. The jet skiers had spotted two bull sharks near shore and were trying to warn her.
They had tried to scare them away, but they only managed to drive one-off. Unfortunately, the other one was far more persistent.
Before she knew what was happening, Moore felt sharp teeth digging into her left thigh. The shark's teeth were so sharp that they tore her flesh down to the bone. Moore lost over a foot of skin and muscle, and a lot of blood.
As Moore recalls, her adrenaline kicked in, and she felt no pain. However, she knew she had to get out of the water immediately. Since her left leg was now useless, she could only use her hands.
As Moore was struggling to get to shore, the shark grabbed her left arm and started to drag her underwater. Instead of losing hope, she decided to fight back with all the power she had left.
Using her right fist, Moore smashed the shark's nose and the creature mercifully let go.
The jet skiers rushed to her aid and pulled her to shore. But the fight was far from over.
It took eight hours to pump her body with enough blood to keep her alive, and several surgeries to get her stable, but Nicole Moore had survived the shark attack.
After the attack, it took a while for her to mentally cope with what happened. But, in the end, she got through it like a champion.
Nicole now works with organizations that support survivors of shark attacks, as well as organizations that work towards conserving the world's shark population.
Henri Bource
Location: Lady Julia Percy Island, Australia
Getting attacked by a shark is scary enough, but imagine capturing the attack on tape?
Henri Bource was a 25-year-old amateur photographer and filmmaker at the time of the attack. Bource, along with two divers, was in the ocean diving, playing with some seals, and shooting an amateur film.
After a while, the seals started disappearing into the ocean, and the water became eerily silent.
Bource and the other divers dove into the ocean in search of the seals, but couldn't find them. As they were coming up to the surface, Bource was grabbed and pulled through the water by an incredible force.
He screamed for help before the shark dragged him underwater.
At first, he couldn't make out what was dragging him, but he soon realized that he was the victim of none other than the great white shark.
Bource clawed towards the creature's eyes, but to no avail. Finally, as quickly as it had happened, the attack was over. He resurfaced, gasping for air, and knew something was wrong.
He felt for his legs and immediately found out that the shark had severed his left leg below the knee.
The shark tried to attack Bource five more times, but the other divers managed to fend it off.
Before Bource entered the water, he was petting a dog on the beach. The scent of the dog may have attracted the shark to Bource.
There's no denying that the attack was terrifying. However, Bource didn't let it affect his life. He even used the raw footage of the attack in his documentary Savage Shadows.
Achmat Hassiem
Location: False Bay, off the shores of Cape Town's Muizenberg Beach
Achmat Hassiem is a Paralympian swimmer who came face to face with a great white shark.
At the time of the attack, Achmat and his brother Tariq were training to become lifeguards. As part of the training, Tariq had to pretend to be drowning, which involved him splashing around on his back.
Achmat saw a shark approaching his brother and heroically tried to distract it. Knowing that sharks are attracted to sound, he began splashing the water. Luckily, the plan worked, and the shark left Tariq alone.
Unfortunately, it decided to go for Achmat instead.
The four-and-a-half-meter long great white shark managed to grab Achmat's right leg and drag him underwater.
Achmat refused to go down without a fight, and he used his other leg to kick the creature in the nose. The plan worked, but the shark severed Achmat's right leg below the knee.
A nearby boat saw all the commotion and helped Achmat get to shore. Once he was on dry land, he was taken to a nearby hospital.
Due to the severity of the bite, his leg had to be amputated.
But, this story doesn't have a sad ending.
Instead of avoiding the water for the rest of his life, after the accident, Achmat started swimming at the Sports Science Institute of South Africa. He has since competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics and the London Summer Paralympics.
Michael Coots
Location: Coast of Kauai, Hawaii
Michael Coots is proof that when you love doing something, nothing can keep you from doing it. Not even a shark attack.
Coots was in Hawaii, doing what he enjoyed most — surfing. All of a sudden, something pulled him underwater.
As Coots explained, the shark didn't just grab him. It swung him around like a chew-toy! Fortunately, Coots didn't freeze in terror, but instead, punched the shark right in the nose. That's when the shark let him go. However, the surfer's leg was completely torn to shreds.
Coot's then got back on his board and headed towards the shore. There was a crowd of people on the beach, and as soon as he felt the sand, Coots lost consciousness.
Coots woke up for a second as one of the men from the crowd was driving him to the hospital, and passed out again. Coots recalls waking up a few more times during the drive to the hospital, but only for a few seconds at a time.
After almost an hour, he regained consciousness, seeing that he was in the local hospital. After several surgeries, he started to regain his strength.
Most people would vow to never approach a body of water for the rest of their lives, but Coots was back in the ocean three weeks after the incident.
Instead of fearing them, Coots respects sharks. He still swims and surfs regularly, as if the attack had never happened.
Brook Watson
Location: Havana harbor, Cuba
The majority of famous shark attacks happened in the not-so-distant past. However, this one happened in the 1700s. Nonetheless, it's still one for the books!
Brook Watson was only fourteen when he was attacked by a ferocious shark. The fateful attack happened in Havana, in 1749, and was later depicted in a painting by John Singleton Copley.
Watson was carelessly swimming in the harbor when the attack took place. Amazingly, the shark attacked him two times.
During the first attack, the shark ripped off the flesh from Watson's right leg just below his calf. During the second one, it completely severed Watson's foot all the way up to his ankle.
Watson's trading ship crew pulled him from the water and saved from another attack. Unfortunately, the damage to his leg was severe. The doctors had to amputate it below the knee.
On a positive note, Watson didn't let the attack ruin his life. He even went on to work in the House of Parliament for nine years and became Lord Mayor of London.
Watson was the first known survivor of a shark attack, and the incident is forever documented as a work of art under the name Watson and the Shark.
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CM Burns has been a music video director, a cameraman for Nat Geo, has recorded ancient Tibetan chants in India and swum with whales in Baja, California. Currently living in the Philippines you will find him anywhere Adventure happens.
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Dara Torres is arguably the fastest female swimmer in America. She entered her first interantional swimming competition at age 14 and competed in her first Olympic Games a few years later int 1984. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Dara became the oldest swimmer to compete in the Olympic Games. She took three silver medals home, including the heartbreaking 50-meter freestyle race where she missed the Gold by 1/100th of a second. America loved her for her astonishing achievements and composure in the face of defeat.
Dara has competed in five Olympic Games and has won 12 Olympic medals. Her impressive performance in Beijing and her attempt at the 2012 London Olympic Games has inspired many older athletes to consider re-entering competition.
Aside from her amazing accomplishments in the pool, Dara has talents on dry land as well. She has appeared on such shows as Fox News, ESPN, CNN, Today Show, Kelly and Regis, and Good Morning America. Dara was the first female athlete ever to be featured in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, won the 2009 ESPY award for "Best Comeback", and named one of the "Top Female Athletes of the Decade" by Sports Illustrated.
Her memoir, "Age is Just a Number: Achieve Your Dreams at Any Stage in Your Life," published in April 2009 was listed as one of the top 25 best-selling business books by June. Her second book, "Gold Medal Fitness: A Revolutionary 5-Week Program" is now a New York Times Best-Seller.


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Maternal mortality: helping mothers live
Carla AbouZahr, Senior Advisor, UNAIDS
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The reduction of maternal mortality ratios by three-quarters between 1990 and 2015 as an international development goal.
More than 500,000 women died during pregnancy and childbirth in 1995 – and many more millions suffered without treatment. Large as the problem is, resolving it might not be as difficult as many believe.
Every minute of every day, somewhere in the world, a woman dies following pregnancy - related complications – 514,000 deaths each year. For every woman who dies, many more suffer disabilities that can affect them for the rest of their lives. The neglect that contributes to the deaths of women also compromises the health and survival of the infants they are carrying and the older children they leave behind.
Deaths during pregnancy or childbirth are unlike other deaths in developing countries. They happen only to young women, not because of disease, but during what should be a normal process. Childbirth is of course part of human survival and should be an event for the mother to celebrate. Society has a duty, therefore, to ensure that women are able to go safely through pregnancy and childbirth. But as women continue to die, it is a failure of their societies, their health systems and their families and communities.
The overwhelming majority of the more than half a million maternal deaths each year occur in developing countries. In the developed world, the maternal mortality ratio averages around 21 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. By contrast, in developing countries the ratio is 20 times higher, at 440 per 100,000. While these numbers are subject to margins of uncertainty, there is no question that the risk of maternal death is most acute in sub-Saharan Africa and in parts of south-east Asia. In some regions, such as eastern and western Africa, the ratio may be as high as 1,000 deaths per 100,000 live births. In fact, a woman in Africa faces a one in 16 chance of dying from pregnancy-related causes; by contrast, for her sister in the developed countries, the risk is one in 2,500. The discrepancy between these two figures is one of the widest differentials between rich and poor countries, wider even than the gaps in child mortality.
Maternal deaths are all the more tragic because they can be prevented in simple and cost-effective ways. Infections, blood loss and unsafe abortion account for the majority of deaths; all these causes are well within the abilities of health workers with midwifery skills to tackle. The management of infection, shock, blood loss and convulsions, and surgical procedures, such as caesarean delivery, do not require high technology equipment or expensive drugs.
Alone in labour
There is a strong association between levels of maternal mortality and the proportion of births that are assisted by a skilled health care worker. Indeed, the proportion of births attended by skilled personnel is a key indicator for tracking progress in reducing maternal mortality. Globally, just over half of all deliveries are attended by a skilled birth assistant; for many of the rest, mothers will have the help of relatives or traditional birth attendants; millions deliver entirely alone. Poor mothers are much less likely to have access to a skilled birth attendant than richer ones; they are therefore more likely to die too.
The development goal is to change all that, by having skilled attendants at 90% of births by 2015 in regions where they are not routinely available. It is a tough challenge, since progress has been relatively modest over the past decade (see graphs), with an average annual increase in care coverage at delivery of under 1% in 1988-1998. Significant improvements in coverage have occurred in some countries, notably Bolivia, Egypt, Indonesia and Morocco, but in sub-Saharan Africa as a whole, there has been a decline. It is a disturbing trend and is probably caused by barriers to access like high cost of services and drugs, transport difficulties (including costs) and distrust of the services that are provided.
When $3 goes a long way
Reducing maternal mortality is not necessarily dependent on economic development. It would cost only about $3 a person a year in low-income countries to provide the essential services needed to tackle the problem: that would cover a skilled health worker to assist every delivery, access to essential obstetric care for mothers and their infants when complications arise, and family planning information and services so that unwanted pregnancies and unsafe abortions can be avoided.
No country is so poor that it cannot afford the key interventions needed. Indeed, no country can afford not to put resources and energy into safe motherhood, for as other articles in this Spotlight show, neglect of women drives poverty and robs the next generation of hope for a better future. What is lacking is not the level of national wealth, but the level of commitment to do something. Conscious decisions are required; China, Cuba, Iran, Malaysia and Sri Lanka have all been able to achieve and maintain significant reductions in levels of maternal mortality by deliberately allocating the resources where they were needed.
Decision-makers at political, economic, social, religious and household levels (which tend to be dominated by men) have to realise that pregnancy and childbirth can and should be made safer. After all, the very fabric of their societies depends on it.
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John J. Clayton has published both short stories and novels. His Many Seconds into the Future was published in Spring, 2014. It includes many of the stories written since his collection, Wrestling with Angels, came out in 2007.
Mitzvah Man was published in Fall 2011 and was called the best Jewish novel of the year by Commentary Magazine.
Clayton's previous novel, Kuperman's Fire, is about corporate criminal evil, Jewish heritage, and the miracle of survival.
In 2011 through 2015 his stories have appeared in Commentary and Superstition Review. A story in Missouri Review was included in a recent Pushcart Prize Anthology. His stories have also appeared in AGNI, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Journal, Notre Dame Review, TriQuarterly, and Sewanee Review.
Clayton's stories have won prizes in O. Henry Prize Stories, Best American Short Stories, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology. His collection Radiance won the Ohio State University award in short fiction and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. An essay about his work appeared in the Fall 1998 Yale Review. His story "The Man Who Could See Radiance" was read at Symphony Space in New York and has been aired often on NPR since Fall 2001, as part of the Selected Shorts series. It is included in the audio anthology, Getting There From Here: Best of Selected Shorts.
Clayton has edited six editions of the college and university literature anthology, the Heath Introduction to Fiction. He has also written critical books and essays about modern fiction, including Gestures of Healing, a psychological study of modern British and American fiction. His Saul Bellow: In Defense of Man won awards (Choice, MLA) in literary criticism. He has published essays on various twentieth century writers including D. H. Lawrence, E. L. Doctorow and Grace Paley. His feature articles have appeared in both Jewish and mainstream newspapers.
Clayton was born in New York City. He received his B.A. at Columbia College, his M.A., at N.Y. U. and his Doctorate at Indiana University. He taught modern literature and creative writing at Boston University and then, for most of his career, at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. He retired in order to write full-time, but continued teaching classes for several years at Mt. Holyoke College and Hampshire College. He lives with his wife, the poet Sharon Dunn, outside Amherst.


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Students Travel to Help Rebuild the Middle East
Faith Rodriguez and Christine Cassolino|February 16, 2016
The six Mercy College students sat nervously on a train in Israel, staring at the three 17 year-old boys who sat across from them. The three boys, in military uniforms, didn't carry luggage. Instead, they nonchalantly toted M-16 machine guns, ready to fight and kill any terroristic threat to their country. Although the two groups sat in the same train car, they were worlds apart.
The students, some Behavioral Science students and some members of the Environmental Sustainability and Justice Club, run by Prof. Thomas H. Culhane, traveled to the Middle East during the winter break to try to heal two countries currently at war. For their trouble, they would receive college credit, but instead had an opportunity to learn much more.
Historically, the Jewish people never really had a home. Living as nomads, they settled and moved for centuries. One group, calling themselves the "Zionists" settled into Palestine in the 1800s.
The Zionists lived in piece with the Palestinians for a little over a century until Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party put into motion the "Final Solution," which called for a genocide of the Jews in Europe. The Jewish fleed to escape throughout Europe, many meeting with the Zionists. In 1947, the large amount of Jewish people living in the small establishment became larger and a dispute over land started. The UN decided to mediate the situation, giving 55 percent of the Palestinian land to the Jewish people, even though they did not even occupy more than 10 percent of the land before then.
Now, in present day, the tables have turned and Israel has control over a majority of the land while the Palestinians have small settlements in the West Bank. The two countries are still at war, as the hostility is not just over land, but also over religion and cultural issues.
This is the region where the six Mercy College students traveled to create what they call a bio digester. The six students started off their nine-day adventure in Israel as "test dummies" for a company called Home Bio Gas. There, they were given kits and photo instructions and were asked to put together bio-digesters.
With these bio-digesters, Mercy College has made humanitarian efforts to help those in need in Israel and Palestine in the hope of saving lives.
Bio-Digesters are a sustainable way to create clean cooking gas using organic waste, such as any kitchen scraps, as well as human and animal feces.
"It's like a big stomach," says Kelley Boyce, 21 year-old senior and psychology major and criminal justice minor. "The bacteria digests the scraps and produces clean natural cooking gas."
The Bio-Digesters are made using large International Bulk Containers (IBC Tanks). These tanks then hold all of the waste deposited. As the waste breaks down aerobically, it then creates two items: clean cooking gas and fertilizer. Both are collected and used. These byproducts make life not only easier and cleaner to those that use the bio-digesters they also make life possible.
"The women have to cook on wood fires and many of the kids and moms die from smoke inhalation because the whole building fills up with smoke. An hour on the woodstove is the equivalent of 400 cigarettes," explains Boyce.
This unfathomable number has also been documented and confirmed by the World Health Organization. The average pack of cigarettes in the U.S. contains 20 cigarettes. Making one meal would be the equivalent of smoking 20 packs in a day. If the mother of the household makes three meals a day using a wood fire while she watches her young child in the same room, they have breathed in the equivalent of 1,200 cigarettes. In a week, that's 8,400 cigarettes and in a month that consists of 30 days it would be the equivalent of 36,000 cigarettes. Not only is that an incredible amount of damage to a person's lungs, but it also has an even more profound effect on a developing child.
Edwin Diaz, 22-year-old senior and member of the International Relations and Diplomacy program, said "Four million people die from household air pollution attributed to the use of solid fuels to cook. Currently, three billion households worldwide rely on such fuels."
The bio-digesters also produce organic fertilizer. "What comes out [of the bio-digester] is this amazing fertilizer that you can allow one to grow crops in sand," adds Boyce.
This is a lifesaver for people living in arid locations such as those in Israel and Palestine. People are then able to use land that was once considered useless to provide food. However, building the digesters themselves was not an easy experience. "It's difficult manual labor. You're working with manure. You get a bunch of stuff on your hands. You get dirty…but it's all fun work," says Boyce.
The students built a total of six digesters, two from Home Bio Gas and four others from scratch, with each digester taking a total of one to two days to build. The students did have help from others making the bio-digesters but that in itself was a challenge. The help was from Palestinian college students who did not speak English- all they knew was that the Mercy College students were there to help the village.
"We actually did the full build[s] not understanding a word with each other, and it was just an incredible realization that you can go anywhere," Boyce explains. "You can be with people was literally don't understand a word you're saying and you can make something that amazing just from body language."
However, tension did arise when both Israelis and Palestinians were together at the same location. A small group from both countries had come together to help the students build two bio-digesters. The Palestinians refused to be part of anything the Israelis were a part of and threatened to leave. After the threat, a peaceful solution was formed in that the Israelis would work on one digester while the Palestinians would work on another. Unfortunately, this wasn't the only difficult build.
The night before they were going to a build, a rumor spread to all the students. Some claimed that Palestinian students from an unnamed university had been taken by the Israeli military and were used for target practice. Allegedly, students from the same university were expected to help them build the very next day.
"It was pretty heartbreaking – they were just the sweetest kids, and they were our age so we could relate to them. It was heartbreaking to think that if that had happened here, we wouldn't even go to the build," says Boyce. "They still came and were so dedicated in doing what was right for the community and making a difference."
Unfortunately, that is the reality of the Israeli/Palestinian war. A reality that Boyce and her classmates faced when stepping into that war zone, and all the while, stumbling onto an eye opening experience and into the arms of acceptance. They experienced the tension that's built when living in war; they learned about the dangers the Palestinians faced, not only in the streets, but also in their own homes. However, they also experienced a peace, a kindness and understanding that wasn't expected at first.
"We met many different people from many walks of life. We met people around our age who were doing their mandatory national service," said Diaz. "We met political conservatives and political liberals. But to sum it all up, we were welcomed as students and as volunteers. I encountered nothing but kind people during the trip."
And Diaz was not alone. While visiting several little cities and villages within the West Banks, Brenda Rodriguez, 29 years old, junior and Organizational Management major, expressed the same sentiment. She explained that the Palestinians were appreciative of the work with the bio-digesters and that the people were going out their way to accommodate the team.
The trip did not go without incident for the Mercy team, however. One of the students was detained briefly while leaving Israel, which resulted in the team almost missing the flight home. Some members of the team told The Impact that the student in question had a verbal spat with Israeli security, but the situation was resolved within 45 minutes. The student had no comment when asked about the incident.
All six students felt they had made a difference when they came back. Their efforts provided assistance to villages that would not have been helped had it not been for the students. Not only did they help those currently living in the villages; they also were able to help create a sustainable future. Although they faced the realities of war, they are all willing to go back and work some more. Their experience of living between war and peace mattered to them the most.
When asked if the team would like to return, they all echoed "Yes. Most definitely!"
Faith Rodriguez, Staff Writer
Faith Rodriguez is a fifth year senior studying behavioral science. She has an interest in all things media. She is a kindergarten after school teacher....
Christine Cassolino, Impact Staff
Christine is an English major who reads too much of things that would make others vomit for fun. By day she is a wannabe yogi while at night she tames...
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I saw pied Honeyeaters in the botanic gardens, but no lucky with Grey HE.
spent 3 day without these birds in the Mac Donald's Range.


Infanticide: Between a Woman and Her Doctor?
During the 1996 partial-birth abortion debate, U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer said babies don't receive human rights until they come home from the hospital. Last night, 44 U.S. Senators affirmed that as their position on when life begins.
That list includes our two Michigan senators, Gary Peters and Debbie Stabenow.
The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (S. 311) would require that a baby born alive after a botched abortion must be afforded "the same degree" of care that would apply "to any other child born alive at the same gestational age," including transportation to a hospital.
The 2002 federal Born Alive Infant Protection Act lacks specific legal protections for children who survive botched abortions. That bill passed the U.S. Senate unanimously.
Before the vote, several senators criticized the bill by saying medical decisions should be between a woman and her doctor. They focused their arguments on sick or disabled children.
Prolife people see no difference between taking the life of a child an hour before birth or an hour after birth; both are wrong. Many abortion supporters will admit abortion kills a human being, but say it's justified because a woman has complete control over her body. Last night's vote about treating children outside the womb exposes that argument as an excuse. Those 44 senators agree that there is no difference between taking the life of a child an hour before birth or an hour after birth; they are for it. They are frankly admitting that abortion is not about women's rights; it's a right to a dead baby.
The logic of abortion demands we dehumanize our own children by suggesting that some lives are unworthy of life. It's foolish to believe that logic doesn't ultimately extend to infanticide, and eventually to an embrace of euthanasia for adults.
Three Democratic senators and one pro-abortion Republican opposed the filibuster. Every senator filibustering the bill is a Democrat. Not too long ago, many elected Democrats were prolife. Today, the abortion industry has captured the party's leadership, purging almost everyone who doesn't agree with abortion up to and even after the moment of birth.
A significant portion of Democratic voters believe late-term abortions should be banned. However, the party's national leadership goes way beyond 20 weeks; they are committed to seeing no evil about infanticides in abortion facilities.
Infants who survive botched abortions deserve equal treatment, not the death they were originally marked for.
Let your U.S. Senators know what you think about them looking the other way on infanticide. Senator Gary Peters can be reached at (202) 224-6221. Senator Debbie Stabenow can be reached at (202) 224-4822.
February is Black History Month. This celebration originally lasted one week in February, always around the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln (February 12th) and Frederick Douglass (February 14th). These men were both important influences in the Black community. Douglass dedicated his life and Lincoln sacrificed his fighting for the proposition that every member of the human race was created equal.
American history is sadly tainted with numerous injustices towards the Black community. These injustices involved Black people being treated as less than human and being denied even the basic dignity and rights they deserved as human beings. Many injustices still face the Black community today, but none are so distorted and ignored as the fact that 900 Black lives are lost daily to abortion.
Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry advertises abortion as a woman's right, and something that all women must have equal access to. However, it seems that Black women have extremely disproportionate "access" to ending their child's life though abortion. In 2015, 36% of lives ended in abortion facilities in the U.S. were Black ones, but only about 13.3% of the population is Black. In Michigan, abortions are even more disproportionately preformed on Black women. Though Black women make up only about 14% of Michigan's female population, they had 50.6% of all reported abortions in 2017.
How can someone claim to stand for justice and equality but in the same breath promote abortion? Abortion horrifically treats the unborn as less than human by taking their lives without question, and disproportionately ends the lives of Black members of our human family.
Here's a fact that should be heard everywhere, but gets entirely ignored: abortion has taken more Black lives in America than every other cause of death combined since 1973. Every cause. Combined.
For every Black person's life ended by crime, accidents, cancer heart disease, or any other reason since 1973, more lives have been lost to abortion. Can anyone really claim that this is justice?
More than 19 million Black lives have been aborted since 1973. Just think for a moment how much Black history has been wiped out by abortion, how many lives were denied the right to see the light of day and the opportunity to make a difference in this world.
As we celebrate Black History Month, let us stand in opposition to the injustice of abortion and firmly hope that one day this will be a distant memory of another fight against injustice in American history that we worked to overcome.
This new law has prolife people everywhere heartbroken and horrified. On the very same day of mourning for the 59 million lives lost over the tragic U.S. Supreme Court decisions 46 years ago, we received news that might make it seem like there is no end in sight. Days later, a similar bill failed to pass through Virginia's legislature. In defense of the bill's sponsor, embattled Virginia Governor Ralph Northam made a statement condoning infanticide, saying that disabled babies can be born alive and left to die.
Other states with pro-abortion majorities are following suit. Governor Gretchen Whitmer has promised to do the same in Michigan, but our prolife majorities in the Legislature prevent that—for now.
Taking a deeper look into these events, the tragic truth is clear: these opinions are nothing new. In fact, abortion through all nine months of pregnancy—until the day of birth—is what Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton originally legalized. Roe v. Wade stated that abortions in the third trimester could be banned as long as an exception existed if the woman's health was in danger, but Doe v. Bolton expanded this idea of "health" to mean whatever the woman or abortionist wanted. The Court Opinion defines health as any factor, "physical, emotional, psychological, familial, and the woman's age—relevant to the well-being of the patient."
Put simply, the Supreme Court legalized abortion at any time and for any reason.
States can ban late-term abortions as long as they allow them for any reason.
The purpose of the New York's new law was simply to ensure that abortions at any time and for any reason will continue be legal in New York when Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton are finally overturned by the Supreme Court. These laws are simply a defense of the barbaric status quo.
Condoning infanticide and devaluing the life of humans even after birth has also sadly been done before. One example was during the 1996 debate on legislation to end the partial-birth abortion procedure. In her support for the procedure, then U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer stated that the baby does not have rights until it leaves the hospital: "I think when you bring your baby home, when your baby is born--and there is no such thing as partial birth--the baby belongs to your family and has all the rights." President Barack Obama helped lead efforts to fight legislation in the Illinois Legislature to protect infants born alive after botched abortions.
Poor media coverage, an unwillingness to discuss this topic on all sides, and the refusal of most pro-abortion advocates to plainly state their radical beliefs have blinded a majority of people to the gravity of the abortion issue and the extent which it already has its grip on this culture.
How can we expect abortion's grip to loosen? Only when people will stop looking away from this issue of life and death. Perhaps the silver lining in the recent events in Virginia and New York is that people are taking notice. The extreme opinions that have always been around are finally getting the attention they demand.
We must work harder to expose abortion for what it is, and call people to act against it.
If you'd like to get involved in your local community to build a culture that defends our innocent unborn and newborn children, click here to get connected to your local Right to Life of Michigan affiliate.


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 Классен, Егор Егорович (1842—1910) — российский купец, промышленник.
 Классен, Егор Иванович (1795—1862) — российский литератор и автор любительских исторических сочинений, преподаватель.

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Das Paavo-Nurmi-Stadion () ist ein Fußballstadion mit einer achtspurigen Leichtathletikanlage in der finnischen Stadt Turku. Es bietet für 13.000 Zuschauer Platz und wird vorwiegend für Fußballspiele und Leichtathletikwettkämpfe genutzt.

Geschichte
Das Stadion ist nach dem 1973 verstorbenen finnischen Ausnahmeläufer Paavo Nurmi benannt. Die Umbenennung wurde nach Renovierungsarbeiten am 13. Juni 1997 zu dessen 100. Geburtstag von seiner Geburtsstadt Turku vorgenommen. Das alte Stadion war in den 1890er Jahren beim Bau des Sports Park Turku () in der Stadt angelegt worden. Im Jahr 1957 fanden zu Ehren von Nurmis 60. Geburtstag das erste Mal die Paavo Nurmi Games statt. Seither wird die Leichtathletikveranstaltung jährlich im Nurmi-Stadion ausgetragen. Seit 2017 gehört die Sportveranstaltung zur IAAF World Challenge. Die nächsten Paavo Nurmi Games sollen am 13. Juni 2017 stattfinden.

In dem Stadion wurden 20 Weltrekorde aufgestellt: John Landy auf den 1500 m und beim Meilenlauf (1954), Paavo Nurmi über die 3000 m (1922), Emil Zátopek (1950) und Ron Clarke (1965) bei den 10.000 m, Viljo Heino beim Stundenlauf (1945) und den 20 km (1949), Matti Järvinen im Speerwurf (1932) und Charles Hoff im Stabhochsprung (1925).

Weblinks
 turku.fi: Stadion auf der Website der Stadt Turku (finnisch)
 europlan-online.de: Paavo Nurmi Stadion - Turku
 stadionwelt.de: Bildergalerie

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Fußballstadion in Finnland
Fußballstadion in Europa
Leichtathletikstadion in Finnland
Bauwerk in Turku
Sport (Turku)
Erbaut in den 1890er Jahren