Located 24 kilometers outside Kuching and set amidst lush tropical rainforest, the Semenggoh Rehabilitation Centre was set up to be a sanctuary to some of Sarawak's protected wildlife, mainly the Orang Utans.
The entire facility occupies an area of 740 acres — the only remaining green belt near the city which acts as a sanctuary for orangutans. This rehabilitation center serves as a temporary home for young orphaned primates and displaced orangutans that are rescued from captivity.
Your tour will begin with a scenic drive to the Semenggoh Orangutan Centre from Kuching. Upon arrival, you will have a half-kilometer trek to the feeding platform. Feeding times are scheduled every day and during these times, you will get a chance to witness orangutans and their cute antics!
The highlight of the tour is to observe the young orangutans come down from the trees to be fed. Although physical contact is not allowed, you can take as many photos as you like from a short distance. After the feeding time, you can proceed to have a short visit to the Information Centre where photos and exhibits are on display. Here, you can learn more about these endangered animals.
It is possible to combine the visit to Semenggoh with a visit to a traditional longhouse. Please contact us for more information.


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Biografia
Nato nel 1878 in una nobile famiglia di Hinrichshagen, nel Meclemburgo-Strelitz, von Hammerstein-Equord entrò a far parte dell'esercito tedesco il 15 marzo 1898. Nel 1907 sposò Maria von Lüttwitz, figlia del generale Walther von Lüttwitz. Introdotto nello staff generale durante la prima guerra mondiale, prese parte alla Battaglia di Turtucaia. Hammerstein-Equord fu un leale servitore della Repubblica di Weimar dopo il crollo dell'impero tedesco, opponendosi anche al Putsch di Kapp del 1920. Egli prestò servizio come capo dello staff della 3ª divisione dal 1924 e come capo dello staff del I gruppo ebbe il comando nel 1929, nonché come capo d'esercito incaricato del ministero della guerra nel 1929. Intimo amico di Kurt von Schleicher, venne nominato comandante in capo del Reichswehr nel 1930, rimpiazzando il generale Wilhelm Heye.

Hammerstein-Equord aveva la reputazione di un classico gentiluomo vecchio stampo con la passione per la caccia piuttosto che per gli incarichi amministrativi. Hammerstein-Equord si riteneva un fedele servitore dello stato tedesco e non dei suoi partiti politici e come tale si dimostrò estremamente ostile al partito nazista salito al potere nel 1933, definendolo "una banda di criminali e pervertiti" (Verbrecherbande und Schweinigels), anche con un'allusione alle tendenze omosessuali di molti leader delle SA. In questo periodo egli si guadagnò il soprannome di "Generale rosso" per aver fraternizzato con i sindacati. Hammerstein-Equord personalmente ammonì Adolf Hitler nel dicembre 1932 dal tentare un colpo di Stato in maniera illegale, promettendogli che non avrebbe esitato a dare l'ordine ai suoi uomini di aprire il fuoco contro i membri del partito nazista. Egli fece le medesime rassicurazioni all'ambasciatore americano, Frederic M. Sackett. Due delle sue figlie, Marie-Luise e Helga, furono membri del servizio segreto del Partito Comunista Tedesco dalla fine degli anni venti passando informazioni segrete ai sovietici.

Hammerstein-Equord avvertì ripetutamente il presidente Paul von Hindenburg circa i pericoli del nominare Hitler quale cancelliere di Germania. In risposta Hindenburg lo rassicurò dicendogli che "non aveva minimamente considerato di nominare un caporale austriaco al ruolo di ministro della difesa o cancelliere". Malgrado questo, il 30 gennaio 1933, a seguito delle persistenti richieste di Hindenburg, Hitler formò un gabinetto di governo divenendo cancelliere della coalizione col partito popolare tedesco. Mantenendo la sua opposizione a Hitler, Hammerstein-Equord venne forzato a dimettersi dai propri incarichi il 31 gennaio 1934. Egli venne richiamato al servizio militare come comandante del gruppo d'armate A il 10 settembre 1939, ma si ritirò nuovamente il 21 settembre di quello stesso anno.

Durante la seconda guerra mondiale, Hammerstein-Equord venne coinvolto in molti complotti per spodestare Hitler. Egli tentò ripetutamente di invitare Hitler a tradimento a visitare una base fortificata sotto il suo comando lungo la Linea Siegfried sul fronte occidentale, coinvolgendo nella cospirazione anche il generale Ludwig Beck, che già aveva fallito in un simile intento. Hitler, ad ogni modo, non accettò mai l'invito di Hammerstein-Equord e quest'ultimo venne trasferito al comando dell'VIII distretto di difesa in Slesia, ottenendo tale commando per ordine personale di Hitler per la sua "attitudine negativa verso il nazionalsocialismo". Egli divenne dunque un membro attivo della resistenza tedesca lavorando con Carl Friedrich Goerdeler.

Hammerstein-Equord morì di cancro a Berlino il 25 aprile 1943. La sua famiglia rifiutò i funerali di stato a Berlino e la sepoltura nel Cimitero Invalidenfriedhof dal momento che la sua bara sarebbe certamente stata ricoperta con la bandiera con la svastica. Il generale venne pertanto sepolto nella tomba di famiglia a Steinhorst in Bassa Sassonia.

Omaggi e citazioni
Heinrich Brüning, capo del partito di centro cattolico tedesco, che prestò servizio come cancelliere di Germania dal 1930 al 1932, definì Hammerstein-Equord come "l'unico uomo che avrebbe potuto togliere di mezzo Hitler – un uomo senza nervi".

Matrimonio e figli
Nel 1907 Hammerstein sposò la baronessa Maria von Lüttwitz (1886–1970), figlia del generale Walther von Lüttwitz. da questa unione nacquero i seguenti figli:
 Marie Luise (1908–1999), sposò in prime nozze Mogens von Harbou; successivamente sposò il barone Ernst-Friedemann von Münchhausen
 Maria Therese (1909–2000), sposò Joachim Paasche
 Helga (1913–2001), sposò Walter Rossow
 Kunrat (1918–2007), sposò la baronessa Ingrid von Lüttwitz
 Ludwig (1919–1996), sposò Dorothée Claessen
 Franz (1921–2011), sposò Verena Rordorf
 Hildur (1923–2012), sposò Ralph Zorn

Onorificenze

Onorificenze tedesche

Onorificenze straniere

Note

Bibliografia

 Bernard V. Burke, Ambassador Frederic Sackett and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic, 1930-1933, Cambridge University Press, 2003.
 Bruce Condell e David T. Zabecki (a cura di), On the German Art of War: Truppenführung, Lynne Rienner, 2001.
 Joachim Fest, Plotting Hitler's Death: The Story of German Resistance, Owl, 1997.
 Edizione italiana:

 Peter Hoffmann, The History of the German Resistance, 1933-1945, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996.
 Klaus-Jürgen Müller, Das Heer und Hitler: Armee und nationalsozialistisches Regime, 1933–1940, Stuttgart, 1969.
 Louis L. Snyder, Encyclopaedia of the Third Reich, Contemporary Publishing Company, 1998.
 Roderick Stackelberg, The Nazi Germany Sourcebook: An Anthology of Texts, Routledge, 2002.
 J. P. Stern, Hitler: The Führer and the People, University of California Press, 1975.

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

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The Bible says that "God in you" is your hope of glory. Say what?! Glory means "everything that's good". It's His Goodness to you displayed. That means God living in you is the hope of everything good happening in your life. That includes all you desire and dream of and even things greater than you've ever imagined.
So regularly put all else aside and go back to focus on that. On the fact that He's actually in you. That He's all that matters and has all that you need. That He holds the exact keys you need in this season you're in for you coming out on top.
If you live today and each day with this first and foremost on your mind, if you'll fall in love over and over, deeper and deeper with the fact that He's actually in you, then at the end of a long life, you'll look back and be satisfied.


TM 266-01-060-1 exhibits a set of a set of derived features, including a long low cranium with thick and pronounced supraorbital torus, a small ape-sized braincase, and relatively weak subnasal prognathism1. This specimen preserves some teeth that show that this individual had large central upper incisors and and non-incisiform canines. The face of TM 266-01-060-1 is notably less prognathic than that of Australopithecus, and has a larger and more continuous supraorbital torus and longer braincase than that of Australopithecus. These features help to distinguish the fossil from other known genera Homo1.
Brunet M, Guy F, Pilbeam D, Mackaye HT, Likius A, Ahounta D, Beauvilain A, Blondel C, Bocherens H, Boisserie J, De Bonis L, Coppens Y, Dejax J, Denys C, Duringer P, Eisenmann V, Fanone G, Fronty P, Geraads D, Lehmann T, Lihoreau F, Louchart A, Mahamat A, Merceron G, Mouchelin G, Otero O, Campomanes PP, Ponce De Leon M, Rage J, Sapanet M, Schuster M, Sudre J, Tassy P, Valentin X, Vignaud P, Viriot L, Zazzo A, and Zollikofer C. 2002. A new hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad, Central Africa. Nature 418:145-151.


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Q: Where is the "Vary for traits" button in Xcode 13? The new canvas bottom bar is more compact and the device selector now shows as a pop-over, but the "Vary for traits" button isn't there anymore.
I tried every menu of the canvas, with and without the option key, to no avail.
Also the Xcode Help is really old and does not give any clue about it.
Where can I find it?

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Automatic Chart View options are now available for all views -- pre-defined views, as well as Custom Views -- in our free CRM and app-creator for Google App Engine.
iFreeTools will automatically detect attributes which can be used to group data together and enable auto-charting options for those attributes, as shown below..
This feature is added to our core engine layer and hence available to both iFreeTools CRM and iFreeTools Creator applications. The following screen shot shows charting options in the Property Management application, we had built in our walk-through for iFreeTools Creator..
Current aggregation operation used is count - count of records, grouped by another attribute. We will soon be supporting other options like sum, which will be more useful when we introduce currency data-types.
Go ahead and check out our auto-charting feature available in..
Customizable Application Builder for Google App Engine.
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Music Updates
5 Songs With Freakier Lyrics Than "Blurred Lines"
Jonathan Hailey, Assistant Editor
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Since Robin Thicke debuted the racy video for the funky summer jam "Blurred Lines, " everyone has had an opinion about the song. While mostly everyone loves it, there are some critics who call the lyrics "rapey" and misogynistic. Robin has largely ignored the low rumblings of backlash until he was interviewed by BBC Radio 1. When he was asked about the criticism, blue-eyed-soul crooner said, "I'm not going to dignify that with a response." However, he proceeded to respond.
Thicke explained that the concept of the video came from its director Diane Martel. Yes, a woman! "I had mentioned to her that I wanted to do a very funny and silly video. And she said, 'well, what if we have the girls take their clothes off?' And I said, 'let's make sure we shoot two versions, because I don't want it to be sleazy.' I've always been a gentleman; I've been in love with the same woman since I was a teenager. I don't want to do anything that's inappropriate," he said.
Well, The Urban Daily happens to love "Blurred Lines" and we think the criticism is a little overblown because men have been singing about their bedroom freakiness since bedrooms were invented. Check out five songs with freakier lyrics than "Blurred Lines."
Clarence Carter – "I Be Strokin'"
Freaky Lyric: "Let me tell you what she told me, she said/Stroke it , Clarence Carter, but don't stroke it too fast/If the stuff ain't tight enough, you can stick it up my ass"
This song came out in the '70s when sex, drugs, and R&B were reaching their peaks. But to have a song talking about backdoor penetration played on the radio back then was still a tad too far. If you're over 40 and you've sung at least one lyric from this, how can you have an issue with today's raunchy sex and synthesiser type R&B?
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Q: Conversion of class instance to raw byte array in C# I'm making a Human-machine-interface application in C# where serial port communication needs to be set between an application and STM32 based robot controller.
But since that controller is C++ based I need to convert communication objects to byte arrays and then send it out.
I tried class serialization but doesn't work because it generates much bigger data (445 Bytes) array and positions of variables don't match so c++ code on is unable to parse it correctly.
Here is my class that needs to be sent to robot:
    [Serializable]
    public class RobotData
    {
        public RobotData(Byte _axisCount)
        {
            axisCount = _axisCount;
            axData = new AxisData[axisCount];

            for (int i = 0; i < axisCount; i++)
            {
                axData[i] = new AxisData((Byte)i);
            }

        }

        public Int16 messageType;
        public Byte axisCount;
        public Int32 statusDWord;
        public AxisData[] axData;

    }

And here is definition of the inner class:
    public class AxisData
    {
        public AxisData(Byte _axisId)
        {
            axisId = _axisId;
        }

        public Byte axisId;
        public Int32 position;
        public float velocity ;
        public float acceleration;
        public float torque;

    }

So I'm trying to create a byte array where it'll go like this:
- position / variable

*

*0        / messageType

*2        / axisCount

*3        / statusDWord

*7        / axData[0].axisId

*8        / axData[0].position

*...

*54       / axData[2].torque

(total size is 58 bytes)
Is there some universal way (that work with any class) that creates this pure raw data array?
And how could be the incoming data bytes constructed into a similar class?
Thank you.

A: You could do other fancy stuff, though why not just control the serialization yourself with BinaryWriter.Write overloads.
public class RobotData
{
   ...

   public byte[] ToArray()
   {
      using (var ms = new MemoryStream())
         using (var sw = new BinaryWriter(ms))
         {
            sw.Write(messageType);
            sw.Write(axisCount);
            sw.Write(statusDWord);

            foreach (var data in axData)
            {
               sw.Write(data.axisId);
               sw.Write(data.position);
               ...
            }

            return ms.ToArray();
         }
   }
}


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Radical Environmentalism's Death Campaigns
Posted on Mon 03/23/2015 by PA Pundits - International
Its anti-DDT war is a lethal "death-rate solution" imposed on Third World countries!
By Paul Driessen ~
The terms racism, white supremacy, crimes against humanity are bandied about so often that they have become almost meaningless. But they are absolutely appropriate in an arena where they are too rarely applied: radical environmentalism's campaigns that perpetuate poverty, disease and death, by denying Earth's most impoverished and powerless people access to modern life-saving technologies.
Imagine activist groups preventing you from having your child vaccinated against polio or hepatitis, or from starting her on chemotherapy for leukemia – because they are "concerned" about "possible side-effects" and the "ethics" of permitting such "risky" procedures. Absurd! you say. Outrageous!
Of course it is. But that is what radical environmentalists are doing to Third World countries. By denying people access to abundant, reliable, affordable electricity, modern fertilizers and biotech seeds, and especially DDT to prevent malaria and other insect-borne diseases, they are killing millions every year.
Many of my articles have documented this. Now a new film written, self-financed and produced by Dr. D. Rutledge Taylor, MD graphically presents powerful new evidence of how the Audubon Society, Sierra Club, other predominantly white environmentalist pressure groups and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency conspired to hide and discredit scientific evidence, and wage a campaign of disinformation and outright lies, to ban the most effective weapon yet devised to prevent malaria and other vicious diseases.
3 Billion and Counting: The death toll is mounting shows how DDT was invented on the eve of World War II and became a secret weapon that kept Allied soldiers on the battlefield, instead of in hospitals or graves. After the war, it was sprayed on millions of Europeans to prevent typhus. It then eradicated malaria in Europe, the United States and other developed nations. No one ever got sick from DDT.
Available on demand and through Amazon.com, You Tube, Google Play, iTunes and elsewhere, the film chronicles how Rachel Carson's wildly inaccurate book Silent Spring helped persuade the Audubon Society to launch the Environmental Defense Fund for the sole purpose of demanding a DDT ban.
Why would Audubon do such a thing? Its own research and Department of the Interior studies showed that bird and animal populations were exploding during the two decades when DDT was used most widely. Countless other studies documented that the life-saving chemical was safe for humans and most wildlife, including bald eagles. People actually tried to kill themselves with DDT – and repeatedly failed.
An EPA scientific panel conducted six months of hearings, compiled 9,312 pages of studies and testimony, and concluded that DDT was safe and effective, was not carcinogenic, and should not be banned. Nevertheless, without attending a single hour of hearings or reading a single page of the panel's report, EPA Administrator William Ruckelshaus banned U.S. production and use of DDT in 1972 – at a time when over 80% of the chemical was being exported for disease control.
Then why the attacks? As EDF scientist Charles Wurster said 1969, "If the environmentalists win on DDT, they will achieve a level of authority they have never had before." When asked later how he justified human deaths from pesticides that replaced DDT, versus the "mere loss of some birds," he said "organophosphates act locally and only kill farm workers, and most of them are Mexicans and Negroes."
Ruckelshaus said he had a political problem, and fixed it. He never considered the plight of malaria victims, and anti-DDT activists still ignore their agony and deaths. Audubon, EDF, Sierra Club, Greenpeace, World Wildlife Fund, Pesticide Action Network, Natural Resource Defense Council and other radical groups that oppose DDT just don't give a damn – even as they have become filthy, callously rich by opposing the life-saving chemical and other technologies.
Sierra Club executive director David Brower, Population Bomb author Paul Ehrlich and other arch-environmentalists believed the biggest problem facing Planet Earth was "uncontrolled growth" in human populations. Ehrlich argued that the "instant death control" provided by DDT exports was "responsible for the drastic lowering of death rates" in underdeveloped countries. Those countries were not practicing a "birth rate solution" – and thus needed to have "death rate solutions" imposed on them, via campaigns against energy, Golden Rice and other biotech crops, and especially DDT.
Almost 3.5 billion people worldwide are at risk of getting this horrific disease, 207 million are actually infected every year, and over 800,000 die year after year from malaria. The vast majority are children and pregnant women, and some 90% of them are in Sub-Saharan Africa. In that region, a child still dies every minute from malaria, and most African children have been brain-damaged to some degree by malaria. Worldwide, nearly 80% of all infectious diseases are spread by insects.
Malaria is certainly a disease of poverty. But poverty is a disease of malaria. It leaves victims too sick to work or care for their families, for weeks on end. Medicines and hospital stays drain families' meager savings. The disease costs tens of millions of lost work hours, billions in lost wages, and tens of billions for medicines and care in antiquated hospitals. It leaves entire nations impoverished.
However, spraying small amounts of DDT on the walls and eaves of cinderblock and mud-and-thatch homes, once or twice a year puts a long-lasting mosquito net over entire households. It keeps 80-90% of mosquitoes from even entering the homes; irritates any that do enter, so they leave without biting; and kills any that land. No other chemical, at any price, can do all this.
In response to these facts, anti-DDT pressure groups rail about risks that are trivial, illusory or fabricated. DDT is associated with low birth-weights, slow reflexes and weakened immune systems in babies, and could cause premature birth and lactation failure in nursing mothers, they claim.
Not one peer-reviewed scientific study supports any of this fear-mongering. Every one of these alleged problems is definitely associated with malaria and other endemic Third World diseases. And compared to the death and devastation that DDT could prevent, the alleged DDT risks are irrelevant.
However, constant deception and harassment by these groups have caused many health agencies and aid organizations to not use or fund DDT, and often other pesticides. Instead, they focus on bed nets, education, "capacity building," and treatment with drugs that are too often unavailable, counterfeit, or ineffective because the malaria parasites have become resistant to them.
Still, the efforts have been somewhat successful. Millions of women and young children now sleep under insecticide-treated nets. Millions now get diagnosed more quickly and receive better care and medicines, often at clinics where two doctors examine up to 400 patients a day. In 2010, the World Health Organization and Roll Back Malaria boasted of an 18% reduction in child mortality, compared with 2000.
But that is not nearly good enough. We would never tolerate 18% as "good enough," if American or European children's lives (or Greenpeace and EDF kids' lives) were at stake and a 90% reduction were possible – as it would be, if health workers were also eradicating mosquitoes and spraying DDT.
Instead, they protect Africans and Asians from minimal or illusory risks, by condemning them to agonizing deaths from readily preventable diseases. "They are using us in anti-DDT experiments," says Ugandan human rights activist Fiona Kobusingye. "They are playing with our lives."
They are also playing with American lives. Spraying clothes with DDT once a year would keep infected ticks away and prevent Lyme disease that leaves tens of thousands battling chronic, debilitating pain and illness for years, Dr. Taylor explains. But the same anti-pesticide radicals are dead-set against that.
Dr. Taylor ends his film by drinking 3 grams of DDT … in 2008 – with no ill effects, then or today.
Watch 3 Billion and Counting. Then contact these Big Green pressure groups and their staffs and board members, and the foundations, politicians and bureaucrats who support them. Tell them it's time to end their eco-manslaughter.
Paul Driessen is senior policy adviser for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), which is sponsoring the All Pain No Gain petition against global-warming hype. He also is a senior policy adviser to the Congress of Racial Equality and author of Eco-Imperialism: Green Power – Black Death.
Driessen on the deceptions that are the DDT bans – shame on the enviros and the EPA, led by Ruckleshaus
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Tagged: Big Green, CFACT (Paul Driessen), DDT Insecticide, Environmental Alarmism, Green Activism, Green Hypocrisy, Green Madness, Green Propaganda, Malaria
Posted in: Blundering Bureaucrats, Environmental activists, Fanatics, Fear-mongering, Fraud/Waste, Leftists (In the USA aka as Liberals-Progressives), Power Hungry, Propaganda, Public Opinion
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Poland modernises Werchrata freight station near Ukrainian border
Tags: border crossingsinvestmentPKP PLKPolandrail infrastructureUkraine
Polish rail infrastructure manager PKP PLK intends to upgrade tracks at the Werchrata freight station. This will allow intensifying transport of goods via the Werchrata/Rava-Ruska railway crossing at the border with Ukraine. Shippers have already scheduled additional batches of freight to handle via the modernised station.
PKP PLK, Poland's rail infrastructure manager, is planning to modernise tracks at the Werchrata freight station, which is located close to the Ukrainian border and is an important facility for transhipment bulk. 9 million złoty (around 2 million euros) will be allocated to this purpose from the state budget. The project includes the upgrade of around 1.5 kilometres of tracks of both standards, 1,435 and 1,520 millimetres by laying slab tracks as well as drainage renovation with rebuilding the culvert. The modernisation works will be performed in 2022-2023.
It is expected that the planned works will result in increasing freight volumes transhipped at the Werchrata/Rava-Ruska railway border crossing. The shippers have been already declared the increase of freight traffic in the second half of the current year by 1,000 tonnes per month. In 2020 there were handled 300,000 tonnes of goods at the Werchrata station, mainly raw materials being used for the production of ceramics, road and industrial salt, aggregates. For instance, the clay is transported to Opoczno, where the largest producer of ceramic tiles in Poland of the same name is based.
Are you interested to know more about the railway border crossings on the border between Poland and Ukraine? IntermodalNews.pl, the Polish-speaking sister title of IntermodalNews.eu, in a partnership with the ProKolej Foundation will carry out a dedicated event to take place on 20-22 October in Małaszewicze, Janów Podlaski and Terespol.
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Currently, 3 strategically placed FMPs remain, where DTM teams monitor incoming and outgoing flows of IDPs, identify and register drought-affected IDP families, and provide newly arriving families with IDP cards to facilitate their registration for humanitarian assistance. 17,099 IDPs were enumerated across all FMPs (inflow and outflow), including 1,313 arriving IDPs displaced by drought and 1,313 arriving IDPs displaced by conflict. 77% of the observed IDPs uintend to live in tents or in the open air.


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UN says Southern Cameroonians pour into Nigeria, stretching scant resources
As more and more Anglophone Cameroonians flee a violent crackdown in the region and seek asylum in Nigeria, the United Nations refugee agency warned on Tuesday without more funding and assistance, their situation and that of the Nigerian communities hosting them, will become even more desperate.
"Anglophone Cameroonians began fleeing violence in October 2017 and continue to pour into Nigeria's Cross River, Taraba, Benue and Akwa-Ibom states," Aikaterini Kitidi, spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), said at the regular briefing in Geneva.
"In total, over 20,000 refugees have been registered in the area. Women and children account for four-fifths of the population," she added.
A recent assessment by humanitarian groups shows how grim the situation has become – with 95 per cent of the asylum seekers having only three days of food. Most families are down to one meal per day and their coping strategies people are themselves risky, ranging from borrowing money to cutting food portions or saving food only for children.
Most say they have to drink water from streams, ponds and other unsafe sources, because of inadequate or dysfunctional drinking water facilities. "Essential relief items, such as clothing, blankets and plastic sheeting, are available to fewer than 25 per cent of them," explained Ms. Kitidi.
Moreover, only five in every 100 Cameroonians have proper or independent shelter. The rest have little or no privacy, squatting in rooms with some 10 to 15 people. A lack of protection from the cold is increasing health concerns as the start of the rainy season approaches.
Additionally, malaria is reportedly increasing. Many participants at the assessment were suffering from fear and anxiety, poor sleep and flashbacks. According to UNHCR, about 20 to 30 per cent of the asylum seekers have some kind of vulnerability, such as a physical disability.
Three-quarters of the children who recently fled currently cannot access school, because their families cannot afford to pay for books and uniforms. Adults are also struggling to make ends meet. "A political solution to the situation in Cameroon is urgently needed, so that the Cameroonians can safely and voluntarily return home," stressed Ms. Kitidi.
"Until then," she continued, "UNHCR and its partners will continue their efforts to provide assistance and support to this population as long as we are able." While UNHCR has worked on an $18 million contingency plan to help cover their needs, to date, no funds have been received.
Earlier this month, the Nigerian authorities allocated land to UNHCR for shelters, to ensure the refugees' safety, security and self-reliance. In line with humanitarian principles, UNHCR acknowledges the authorities' commitment to assist in moving the refugees at least 50 kilometres from the border.
The UN refugee agency also remains concerned over reports of further Cameroonian nationals' arrests in Nigeria.
"UNHCR urges the Nigerian authorities to refrain from the forcible return of individuals who may have fled persecution in their country of origin, and to respect the principle of non-refoulement or no forced returns," concluded the UNHCR spokesperson.
Source: The United Nations
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4/20 was a real trip. (Photos by Jeremiah Vandermeer – click to enlarge.)This 4/20 was a real trip: thousands of cannabis-loving citizens rallying together for a day of peaceful protest and celebration – and on the same day, Canadian Justice Minister Rob Nicholson appears from the shadows of Ottawa to re-announce the Conservatives' War on Marijuana Culture.
Activists and 4/20 organizers Jodie Emery and Jacob Hunter.Another thing that stood out as different from years before: the open sales of cannabis and cannabis edibles in dedicated booths and kiosks. In previous years, plenty of pot pedlars pushed through the crowd selling their wares but did not have tables or tents. This year, there were all kinds of goodies available on demand, and it didn't take long before I treated myself to a bottle of cannabis-infused lemonade that tasted delicious and had me floating through the crowd taking photos.
I saw 4/20 event organizer Jacob Hunter in the crowd and he looked dishevelled as he told me the people with the sound system hadn't shown up yet. I asked if there was anything I could do to help, and he pointed me in the direction of Randy Tait, a traditional dancer and storyteller from the Gitksan/Nisga'a Nation who was about to perform a smudging ceremony on the busy staircase of the Art Gallery. After clearing a spot in the crowd, Randy rolled out his traditional tools, including a bowl where he burned what looked like tobacco and other herbs and performed a ritual cleansing of the event. Other than a few wisecrackers, the crowd seemed to enjoy the mystical offering that successfully banished any lingering negative vibes.
By this time Rasta Mike and the sound guys had finally shown up and were setting-up on stage. Jacob grabbed me out of the crowd and told me the team from local radio station Classic Rock 101 were planning on going live on-location in five minutes, but needed a generator to send the signal. We quickly made our way to the other side of the Art Gallery where musicians were setting up for a day of live music and marijuana smoking. Adam, a rally organizer and friend, pointed us in the direction of a gas-powered generator that we hauled over to guys at the Rock 101 tent. As a reward for completing our task, Adam handed each of us a chocolate cup wrapped in silver foil.
Without thinking about it, I munched half of what I thought was a delectable pot-treat. Just then I felt a few raindrops, which turned into a steady downpour.
I soon found my friend Miranda Nelson, a local editor who was covering 4/20 for Vancouver's Georgia Straight, and my roommate Amanda. Neither had smoked and both wanted to get high.
A few minutes later I realized that I must have been unwittingly dosed with psilocybin – magic mushrooms. It was simply too strong to be a marijuana high and the familiar feeling quickly overtook my body.
From then on, 4/20 took on a deeper significance, to say the least. Though my thoughts were entirely peaceful, I was hit with the realization that I was on the front lines in a growing cultural war. I envisioned millions of cannabis-lovers across the planet battling a gargantuan governmental war machine. We were freedom fighters for cannabis – representatives of all possible walks of life brought together under the banner of a plant, and mobilized with a message of peace and liberty.
I found Marc Emery at the Rock 101 tent wearing a headset and broadcasting live to thousands of listeners in Vancouver and abroad. After his segment, I approached DJs Dean and Hatch and tried to ask them some questions. They both gave me an odd look like they had no idea what I was talking about, which told me the mushrooms were working their magic.
It was still a couple hours before 4:20 and already the crowd was packed so tight it was nearly impossible to gain any ground. I made my way to the stage after meeting up with my girlfriend Carina and a couple more friends to survey the crowd, which must have been close to 8,000.
The guys from Canwest.Right next to us on the stairs were two photojournalists from Canada's Canwest media empire. They were very nice guys who politely denied the joints that were passed in their direction. We had an interesting conversation, and some how I ended up photographed for The Province and Sun newspapers and Global Television smoking a little pipe passed to me by a friend in the crowd.
As the day went on, I listened to the rallying cries of some of the leaders of this cannabis cultural movement, like activist Jodie Emery, who warned the crowd about the dangers of the current political climate in Canada.
The photo of me puffing down published in Canwest newspapers. Photo by Gerry Kahrmann)Other speakers included Prince of Pot Marc Emery and B.C. Civil Liberties Association Director David Eby, who offered a little drug-war wisdom to take home from the pot party.
In the thick of the crowd, I managed to speak with Vancouver activist Neil Magnuson, who told me he was impressed with this year's event.
When the clock struck 4:20pm, the fog didn't lift for at least 10 minutes. A giant purple haze clouded the grounds of the Art Gallery as doobie after doobie was sparked and passed on; thousands peacefully celebrated cannabis with no police officers in site.
The torches are lit for 4:20.Later that night when the news reports began to flood in, I was amazed at the huge crowd present on the front lawn of Parliament Hill and other numerous locations across North America. I also learned that in the face of these thousands of Canadian citizens demanding justice and fair treatment as a legitimate cultural entity, Canadian Justice Minister Rob Nicholson defiantly re-announced the Conservative Party's draconian drug policy – an all out declaration of Cultural War on cannabis users – that includes mandatory minimum sentences for growing even one marijuana plant.
Viva 4/20 and the cannabis culture!


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During COVID-19 Pandemic, Indiana Prisoners Say Other Health Needs Untended
Jake Harper
Article origination WFYI-FM
Early one April morning, inmates at Indiana's Plainfield Correctional Facility found a fellow inmate unconscious in his bed.
"He was barely breathing when we first tried to wake him up," says one of the inmates, who asked to be identified by his middle name, Andrew, because he feared retaliation from prison staff. "For about 20, 25 minutes, the [correctional officers] were trying to wake him up, so finally, they called the medical emergency."
The prisoner who was unconscious is diabetic, Andrew says. And many days, medications such as insulin arrive inconsistently—sometimes not at all, according to multiple inmate accounts. Andrew also says food is sometimes inadequate. Both can be serious problems for a prisoner with diabetes, a condition that requires patients to constantly monitor their blood sugar.
Andrew says one nurse helped only reluctantly—she was in a hurry to deliver meds before the end of the shift. It took two shots before the inmate regained consciousness. An officer—not the nurse, Andrew says—insisted the inmate be taken to the infirmary.
When the prisoner returned to their dormitory, Andrew recalls him saying, "I don't remember what happened. I was probably gonna die."
While the coronavirus spreads in Indiana prisons, other health needs are not always being met, according to prisoners and their relatives. Inconsistent delivery of diabetes medications was commonly reported, and prisoners say the pandemic has strained an already strapped health care system in the state prisons.
State officials disagree. "We take every measure to make sure that urgent, emergent care is provided, whether we're in a pandemic or not," says Dr. Kristen Dauss, chief medical officer for the Indiana Department of Correction. "There is no backlog in the provision of making sure folks have medications. Those services are critical."
Dauss says the department's health care contractor, Wexford Health Sources, has not reported significant staff shortages. Some prisons received additional personnel from the Indiana National Guard, she adds.
"We haven't seen any significant change to staffing patterns due to COVID-19," Dauss says.
A Wexford spokesperson did not respond to an emailed interview request. In 2017, the company was awarded a $309 million contract to treat Indiana's roughly 27,000 prisoners for three years. The contract was recently extended for another year.
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A prisoner housed in a different dorm at Plainfield reported a separate event about an inmate with diabetes, who was found unconscious in the morning and taken out on a stretcher. Even so, medications came late that day. "It's 10:30 PM, and still no meds," he wrote to his wife, adding that usually diabetic prisoners get insulin at 4 p.m. "They are still waiting 6 and a half hours later."
Chiquita Armstead's daughter complained that her blood sugar was high, which can cause life-threatening complications if left untreated.
"A nurse told me to wait until all of this blew over to see the doctor," wrote the daughter, an inmate at the Indiana Women's Prison in Indianapolis. That prison has been locked down for weeks during the pandemic. Inmates are stuck in cramped quarters, unable to exercise to help lower blood sugar levels.
"I could go into a diabetic coma," wrote Armstead's daughter.
Armstead says her daughter filed a medical request form to resolve the blood sugar issue. In response, she received a letter from health care staff on May 11: "This is an extremely busy time for medical staff … We ask that you try to manage your condition as best you can with commissary medications, and we will see you in medical as soon as possible."
Armstead says she has repeatedly tried to contact prison officials for more information on her daughter, but has heard nothing back. She doesn't know what medications, if any, could be purchased through the commissary to help manage diabetes.
"That's the $100 question," she says. "We're scared. They're not telling us anything and they don't care about us."
Armstead says it took several days, but her daughter finally saw a doctor.
Prisoners and their families have been worried about conditions inside prisons for weeks as COVID-19 cases have grown. As of May 20, more than 650 prisoners have tested positive for the coronavirus—more than 50 percent of those tested. In four facilities, the rate of positive cases is more than 80 percent. In four other facilities, no prisoners have been tested.
During the pandemic, medical problems in prisons have been reported across the country, says David Fathi, who heads the National Prison Project for the American Civil Liberties Union.
"Most prison health care systems are barely adequate at the best of times," he says.
For instance, prisoners filed a class action lawsuit in 2017 against the Indiana Department of Correction, which at the time only treated 1.2% of prisoners with chronic hepatitis C infections. In January 2020, a federal court approved a plan that requires the department to immediately treat prisoners with more severe hepatitis C infections.
Fathi says health care contractors such as Wexford are driven by profit, which incentivizes them to keep health care costs low for the captive group of patients they're paid to treat. "Almost without exception they are understaffed and under-resourced, and COVID-19 is going to stress those systems tremendously."
The ACLU of Indiana says it has received its own reports of medication problems and other health care issues during the pandemic.
Fathi adds, "Bottom line: If you take this already rickety structure, and give it a good push, it's probably going to crumble, and that's what we're seeing all across the country."
This story was produced by Side Effects Public Media, a news collaborative covering public health. Jake Harper can be reached at jharper@wfyi.org.
Tags:prisonsinsulindiabetescoronavirusCOVID-19Indiana Department of Corrections
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Health / December 28, 2022
What is the exception for the life of the pregnant person in Indiana's abortion ban?
Indiana's abortion ban contains language that allows an exception for the life of the pregnant person. One listener was curious about the specific provisions this carried.
Franciscan Health winding down operations at Hammond emergency room
The emergency room at Franciscan Health in Hammond will stop taking ambulances at 6 a.m. on Dec. 23, according to a hospital spokesperson. Then on Dec. 31 all emergency room services will come to an end.


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Florida Supreme Court on the death penalty: We got it wrong
By BRENDAN FARRINGTONJanuary 24, 2020 GMT
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Supreme Court said Thursday it erred in 2016 when it ruled a jury must be unanimous in deciding a convicted murderer should be sentenced to death, announcing a dramatic legal reversal that could affect dozens of death row cases.
The opinion pulled back from the court's 2016 state Supreme Court decision that subsequently led the Legislature to change Florida law to fit the ruling. It remained unclear how the court's turnabout would effect that existing law.
Since the 2016 ruling, dozens of death row inmates who were sentenced to die on non-unanimous jury decisions have been granted new sentencing hearings.
Thursday's ruling involved a 2005 conviction for a slaying in Polk County. A trial judge granted inmate Mark Poole a new sentencing hearing, but the state appealed.
The Supreme Court agreed with the state in that case and said Poole's death sentence should stand in the case of a man killed in 2001 while trying to defend a pregnant woman being attacked by Poole.
"It is no small matter for one Court to conclude that a predecessor Court has clearly erred," the court said in its ruling. "Our court ... got it wrong."
Julius Chen, the lawyer who represented Poole in arguments before the state Supreme Court, said in an emailed statement that the decision was "nothing short of astonishing."
"We are carefully exploring avenues for further review in Mr. Poole's case," Chen added without elaborating.
Meanwhile, the Legislature is wrapping up the second week of an annual 60-day session and it was too early to tell whether lawmakers had the political will to again change the death penalty law in light of Thursday's ruling. And the exact repercussions of the decision on an array of cases remained unclear.
But Thursday's opinion caused an immediate outcry among inmate advocates. They called the decision a retreat on a critical element for ensuring justice in cases in which the death penalty is being sought.
Shalini Goel Agarwal, managing attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center, said unanimity must rule in any death penalty decisions since "there is no do-over after an execution."
"Given the abundant evidence of wrongful convictions and racial disparities in death sentences, requiring a unanimous jury is fundamental to ensure fairness when exacting the ultimately penalty," Agarwal said in a statement.
There was one harsh dissenting opinion to Thursday's ruling. Justice Jorge Labarga noted Alabama is the only state in the nation that doesn't require a unanimous jury decision to impose the death penalty.
"The majority returns Florida to its status as an absolute outlier among the jurisdictions in this country that utilize the death penalty," Labarga wrote. "The majority gives the green light to return to a practice that is not only inconsistent with laws of all but one of the twenty-nine states that retain the death penalty, but inconsistent with the law governing the federal death penalty."
The composition of the Florida high court has gone from leaning liberal in 2016 to firmly conservative. Three liberal justices on the seven-member court were forced to retire because of age limits on the same day Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis took office. That gave DeSantis the opportunity to appoint three conservative judges. Two of those justices have since been appointed to a federal appeals court and were not part of Thursday's 4-1 decision.
Confusion over Florida's death penalty laws began after a 2016 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the case of Timothy Lee Hurst, who was convicted of using a box cutter to kill a coworker at a Pensacola fast-food restaurant in 1998. A judge imposed the a death sentence after a 7-5 jury recommendation.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the sentence was unconstitutional because the judge had too much weight in the decision.
Executions were halted for months while the state sorted out the issue. The Legislature first passed a bill requiring a 10-2 jury recommendation, but the state Supreme Court overturned it. In 2017, the law was changed to require a unanimous jury decision.
As dozens of death penalty cases were returned to trial court for new sentences, some prosecutors opted to simply agree to sentences of life without parole to avoid new sentencing hearings, often to spare families the pain of reliving their tragedies.


Water is not to be taken as a trivial element in the process that involves making a cup of tea, regardless of the quality of tea leaves, a cup of tea can turn out bad if the appropriate quality of water is not used, using the most expensive and best quality tea leaves can sometimes make a bad cup of tea if the water is not up to certain standards. Tea is about 98% water, therefore the quality of a cup is greatly influenced by water. For a great cup of tea, there are a few points you should consider when choosing water for your tea.
People, many a times talk about using hard or soft water. The ideal water for making tea has a pH level of 7 which is rather neutral and with a slight inclination of alkaline, water at this level has the least influence on tea while keeping the flavor intact. The water also should not contain large amounts of Total Dissolved Solids (TDS), excessive minerals or dissolved solids such as various metals, calcium, sulphates and bicarbonates, they may react with the substances in tea and form things that may ultimately contribute to a bad tasting cup of tea. Mineral Water therefore is an unsuitable choice.
If you have no choice but to use bottled water, make sure to use Spring Water and not Mineral Water. Spring water has a lower mineral content where as mineral water is too hard and would leave the tea tasting quite metallic. Make sure the Spring Water is at a neutral pH level and contains a TDS content of 30 parts per million (PPM) or less. This information can be found on the label of the bottle.
Aside from bottled spring water, filtered tap water is the best for making a cup of tea. If you choose to use tap water make sure it's at its best. If you are using filtered water, it is best you use it immediately, water absorbs odors over time, it cannot be detected but it ultimately impacts the taste of your tea. By using a filter your goal is to purify the water and by boiling it you are allowing the water to purify further, that way the water used to brew a cup of tea is at its best, it brings out the flavors and results in a perfectly brewed cup of tea.
Try avoiding distilled water at all times. It is always assumed that, since distilled water is the purest form of water you can purchase, it is also the best to use when brewing a cup of tea. Distilled water contains no mineral impurities, where as drinking water contains naturally beneficial impurities which vary with their origin. In some parts of the world water often includes electrolytes such as calcium, sodium and magnesium which contributes in enhancing the flavor of tea. It is agreed upon that using distilled water is not a suitable choice when it comes to making a cup of tea, the tea turns out to have a rather flat taste and lacks quality, which is the key element you enjoy in a cup of tea.
Use freshly drawn water. Re-using water that has already been boiled or that has been sitting around for a long period of time, may produce a cup of tea that is low in quality. Bringing water to a boil removes oxygen from the water and flattens it and boiling it more than once, releases more and more oxygen and ultimately becomes tough, and looses its essence and cannot contribute into bringing out the true quality of tea. So starting fresh each time is well advised.
These are some key factors to keep in mind the next time you want to make a cup of tea that is unscathed by the quality of or the elements in water.
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Fighting efforts to open the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository and lobbying to continue funding the Brand USA international tourism marketing program will be the top federal legislative priorities of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority for the rest of 2018.
Fighting efforts to open the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository and lobbying to continue funding the Brand USA international tourism marketing program will be top federal legislative priorities of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority for the rest of 2018.
Elizabeth Gore and Brian Wild of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck told board members earlier this month that they'll work to slow down efforts to fund and license the proposed nuclear waste facility proposed about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. The Las Vegas law firm, which signed a five-year, $1 million representation contract with the LVCVA in December, has a team of 40 bipartisan lobbyists that work on policy matters critical to the city's tourism industry.
Gore explained that Yucca Mountain lobbying efforts have been focused on defunding the licensing process within the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Department of Energy and to oppose a bill sponsored by U.S. Rep. John Shimkus, R-Illinois.
The bill would authorize an increased volume of nuclear waste to be stored in Nevada.
The tourism industry has fought efforts to commission the facility since it was formally proposed in 1987 and most of Nevada's political leaders on both sides of the aisle have fought against opening the facility. Earlier this year, the American Gaming Association had expressed opposition to the Trump administration's inclusion in its budget proposal of $120 million to restore the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nye County.
"AGA opposes any effort to revive Yucca Mountain as a repository and will work with the many concerned citizens, small-business operators and members of Congress to ensure that radioactive waste is never stored anywhere near the world's premier tourist, convention and entertainment destination," the association's vice president of government relations, Chris Cylke, said in a statement Feb. 13. "Over the past decade, the Greater Las Vegas area is one of the fastest growing in the U.S. with a population that now exceeds 2.1 million people, according to an estimate from the U.S. Census Bureau," Cylke said.
Included in a federal budget request, highlighted this winter, is $3.6 million for Nye County as the host community for the repository, Schinhofen said this past winter.
"These funds would be used for a number of crucial investments, including funding for programs for our county's seniors, housing assistance for veterans and to help provide medical services for Central Nevada," Schinhofen said.
— The Pahrump Valley Times contributed to this story.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority board of directors on Tuesday reviewed preliminary conceptual designs for the Convention Center expansion project, first seen by two committees on Monday.
The board also received a presentation from Bill Laimbeer, coach of the new Las Vegas Aces WNBA team which begins play at Mandalay Bay in May.
The LVCVA has placed a greater emphasis on marketing professional team sports in efforts to attract visitors to the city.


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FDA , U. of Md., train Bangladeshis on aquaculture safety
Seafood safety experts from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the University of Maryland Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (JIFSAN) are training 10 scientists from Bangladesh on how to eliminate health hazards from aquaculture – the controlled production of...
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FDA, U. of Md. train Bangladeshis on aquaculture safety
Seafood safety experts from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the University of Maryland Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (JIFSAN) are training 10 scientists from Bangladesh on how to eliminate health hazards from aquaculture – the controlled production of seafood, much of which is exported to the United States.
The trainees are among a group that participated in a Good Aquacultural Practices (GAqPs) train-the-trainer program in Khulna, Bangladesh, in November 2009 and who are committed to furthering their country's ability to further improve aquaculture safety there over the next five years.
The training, by experts from the FDA and JIFSAN was occurring Sept. 15-18, 2010, at College Park, Md., and from Sept. 20-24, 2010, at university facilities in Princess Anne, Md., and Cambridge, Md. The emphasis is on hazards associated with shrimp production and on FDA regulations regarding safety of seafood imports.
"Collaborating with other countries in this way not only helps to improve the quality and safety of their domestic product, but also what they export to the United States and other countries around the world," said FDA Deputy Commissioner for International Programs, Murray M. Lumpkin, M.D.
The training will include lectures, demonstrations, site visits, and workgroup activities. Using a "train-the-trainer" model, those who successfully complete this and subsequent training programs will be qualified as trainers in Bangladesh.
Aquaculture is the production of aquatic life such as shrimp, fish and plants under controlled conditions for all or part of their life cycle. Over the past 20 years, the aquaculture industry has grown by more than 11 percent each year. It is now the fastest-growing segment of agriculture worldwide, accounting for 52 percent of all fish produced. In the United States, about 85 percent of the seafood consumed is imported from more than 50 different countries. Of that amount, 40 percent comes from aquaculture operations, the other 60 percent from wild harvest.
This training program was developed by a team of seafood specialists in 2006 and began in Vietnam that same year. Since then, the program has been conducted in Thailand, Indonesia, Bangladesh and, most recently, Malaysia. This training follows the March 22, 2010, Agreement of Cooperation between the University and the Bangladesh Shrimp and Fish Foundation (BSFF). The next Bangladesh train-the-trainer program is scheduled to take place Nov. 7-11, 2010.
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Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford are leaving This Morning - here's when and who is stepping in
Tuesday, 1st December 2020, 2:33 pm
Updated Tuesday, 1st December 2020, 2:34 pm
In mid-November, it was revealed that Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford were to be dropped from their usual weekly slot on This Morning after 14 years, with new presenters taking over the reins.
ITV confirmed that the two would be stepping down from their regular Friday slot.
This is what you need to know.
Who is replacing Eamonn and Ruth?
Eamonn and Ruth are set to be replaced by new presenting duo Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary.
Alison originally found fame after she first appeared in the third season of Big Brother, in 2002. Since then, she has appeared on a number of television programmes, including I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here; Celebrity Masterchef and Strictly Come Dancing.
She has also been a panelist on ITV's Loose Women, as well as presenting and reporting on This Morning.
Dermot has also had his fair share of presenting jobs, hosting shows such as Big Brother's Little Brother, The X Factor, the 37th BRIT Awards and a few episodes of The Nightly Show on ITV.
Dermot has also previously guest presented on This Morning.
Alison and Dermot have previously been paired up together as stand in presenters on the show, with the two most recently appearing together last month.
Emma Gormley, managing director of ITV Daytime, said: "We are delighted that Alison and Dermot will be joining the main presenting family on This Morning.
"Alison has provided some of the most memorable moments on the show in recent times, and teamed up with the brilliant Dermot, we think they are a great pairing in addition to our fabulous presenting line-up of Philip and Holly, and Eamonn and Ruth."
When will Eamonn and Ruth stop presenting?
The married presenting duo will continue to appear on their regular Friday slot until January 2021, however it's unclear when specifically their last show will be.
From 8 January 2021, Alison and Dermot will take over presenting This Morning on Fridays.
However, this doesn't mean that Eamonn and Ruth will disappear from TV screens forever - instead, the two will host the main show for six weeks during school holidays, taking over from Holly Willoughby and Philip Schofield.
Holly and Philip will continue to host the ITV show from Monday to Thursday.
Ruth is also expected to remain on Loose Women, which she has been a regular panelist on since 1999.
What have Alison and Dermot said?
Alison said: "I never dreamed that when I first joined This Morning - initially for a few months - that I would still be there 19 years later.
"I genuinely care about the show and the viewers who watch, so it's a huge privilege and honour to be hosting a show I adore so much. I'm just really excited to be doing even more of what I love alongside the lovely Dermot."
Dermot also added: "I'm deeply thrilled and honoured to be joining the This Morning team next year. We have huge shoes to fill and we are well aware what a privilege it is to be stepping into them.
"Above all, we want to have fun and for you to be able to kick the weekend off with a smile, especially given the year we've all had.
"So I'm delighted to be co-hosting with the living embodiment of sunshine on a rainy date. I can't wait to get started."
What have Eamonn and Ruth said?
The two have remained largely quiet about the announcement, however they did issue a joint statement on their Twitter accounts on 30 November.
Both Eamonn and Ruth posted the same statement, tweeting: "It's a changing of the guard on Fridays from January.
"We hope you make Alison and Dermot as welcome as you've made us over the years. Have a Ball you two! It's not goodbye from us, it's simply Au Revoir until the next half term."
A version of this article originally appeared on our sister title Yorkshire Evening Post


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