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corrosion of titanium
Corrosion Behavior of Coatings of Titanium Nitride and ,
It is well known that titanium nitride (TiN) coatings produced by physical vapor deposition (PVD) have a limited corrosion resistance, as a result of their intrinsic porosity Some attempts have been made to improve corrosion resistance, by such measures as increasing film thickness...
Corrosion tables — Materials Technology
The corrosion data in this section is mainly based on the results of general corrosion laboratory tests, which are not strictly comparable with actual service conditionsThe corrosion tables provide an initial guide to the selection of materials and are intended to facilitate understanding of the different types of corrosion damage that can arise due to poor material selection...
Dissimilar Metals in Contact | American Galvanizers ,
Titanium and titanium alloys (0 to 1) (1) (1 to 2) (0 to 2) (1 to 3) Key: 0 = Zinc and galvanized steel will suffer either no additional corrosion, or at the most only very slightly additional corrosion, usually tolerable in service...
Titanium Grades Information - Properties and Applications ,
Grade 2 titanium is called the "workhorse" of the commercially pure titanium industry, thanks to its varied usability and wide availability It shares many of the same qualities as Grade 1 titanium, but it is slightly stronger Both are equally corrosion resistant This grade possesses good weldability, strength, ductility and formability...
Corrosion Resistance of Titanium to Water & Seawater
Moreover, the excellent corrosion resistance of titanium to seawater is relatively unaffected by velocity It has been proved by many engineering practices that unalloyed titanium can be used in seawater for the chemical, oil refining, desalination, and power industries with uncompromising corrosion resistance for more than two decad...
Titanium - Types of Corrosion
Feb 11, 2002· Titanium, like any other metal, is subject to corrosion in some environments The types of corrosion that have been observed on titanium may be classified under the general headings: general corrosion, crevice corrosion, stress corrosion cracking, anodic breakdown pitting, hydriding and galvanic corrosion...
Corrosionpedia - Galvanic Corrosion of Metals Connected to ,
Apr 18, 2017· How to Mitigate the Corrosion of Metals Connected to Carbon Composit Here are some remedies to control the galvanic corrosion of metals connected to carbon composites: Substitute the metallic party with a high-corrosion resistance alloy In this case, the best option is titanium and its alloys...
Corrosion of titanium: Part 2: Effects of surface treatments
Titanium is well known as one of the most corrosion-resistant metals However, it can suffer corrosion attacks in some specific aggressive conditions...
Corrosive Effects of Chlorides on Metals
Corrosive Effects of Chlorides on Metals 143 232 Pitting growth In presence of chloride ions pits are growin g by autocatalytic mechanism Pitting corrosion of a stainless steel is illustrated in the Figure 1 The actual pitting corrosion phenomenon is shown on propeller shaft of high speed craft, and the pit depth was measured with dial...
Corrosion Rates for Titanium Gr2 and Gr7
This page introduces the comparison of corrosion rates for unalloyed titanium grade 2 and titanium-palladium alloy grade 7 in various chemical solutions such as aluminum chloride, wet chlorine, citric acid, HCl, sodium chloride, sulfuric acid, formic acid, oxalic acid, and phosphoric ac...
What Is Metal Corrosion and Why Does It Occur?
Corrosion is the deterioration of a metal as a result of chemical reactions between it and the surrounding environment Both the type of metal and the environmental conditions, particularly gasses that are in contact with the metal, determine the form and rate of deterioration...
Pitting Corrosion of Titanium — [email protected]
TY - JOUR T1 - Pitting Corrosion of Titanium AU - Casillas, Norberto AU - Charlebois, Steven AU - Smyrl, William H PY - 1994/3 Y1 - 1994/3 N2 - The breakdown of native and anodically grown oxide films on Ti electrodes is investigated by scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM), video microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and voltammetry SECM is used to demonstrate that the ....
Corrosion Characteristics of Titanium - Flight Mechanic
The corrosion resistance of titanium deserves special mention The resistance of the metal to corrosion is caused by the formation of a protective surface film of stable oxide or chemi-absorbed oxygen Film is often produced by the presence of oxygen and oxidizing agents Corrosion of...
Corrosion - Wikipedia
Corrosion is a natural process that converts a refined metal into a more chemically-stable form such as oxide, hydroxide, or sulfide It is the gradual destruction of materials (usually metals) by chemical and/or electrochemical reaction with their environment Corrosion engineering is the field dedicated to controlling and preventing corrosion...
STRESS-CORROSION CRACKING - ASTM International
STRESS-CORROSION CRACKING OF TITANIUM Introduction Ten years ago, a symposium on stress-corrosion cracking of titanium would have been about as thinkable as one on corrosion of gold in ice water There were no problems, and there would have been little or nothing to talk about For at that time, everyone knew—and knew on...
Corrosion of Titanium DATA SHEET & Titanium Alloys Alloys
Titanium alloys are highly resistant to oxidising acids, with corrosion rates typically less than 003 mm/year Reducing Acids Corrosion of titanium alloys may be encountered when the temperature & concentration of reducing acid solutions exceed critical values, ,...
Corrosion of Titanium Alloys: Part Two :: Total Materia ,
In general titanium has excellent resistance against corrosion but this does not mean it is infallible and susceptibility still remains to a range of corrosive forc The main corrosion areas to be considered when dealing with titanium alloys are erosion corrosion, stress corrosion cracking, corrosion fatigue, and crevice corrosion...
Standard Test Method for Stress-Corrosion of Titanium ,
31 Because of the tendency of prestressed titanium alloy parts to crack if heated while in contact with certain chemical reagents, it is necessary to ensure that cleaning and maintenance materials will not initiate stress corrosion of titanium alloys under controlled conditions For test specimens, two common titanium alloys are selected, one that is very susceptible (AMS 4916) and one that ....
The Corrosion Properties of Titanium and Titanium Alloys ,
Abstract As far as corrosion is concerned, titanium and its alloys belong to the large group of oxide-passivated metals that includes - in particular - the stainless steels, as well as nickel, cobalt and aluminium-based alloys...
Corrosion Resistant Metals | Materials Selection Guide ,
Alloy 825 (Incoloy ® 825) is a nickel-iron-chromium-molybdenum alloy designed to resist general corrosion, pitting, and crevice corrosion, as well as stress corrosion cracking (SCC), in a wide range of media Resistance to intergranular corrosion due to being stabilized with titanium ; Suitability for sour gas applications (NACE MR0175/ISO 15156)...
Corrosion characterization of titanium alloys by ,
Jan 20, 2006· Titanium alloys are among the most used metallic biomaterials, particularly for orthopaedic applications , They possess a set of suitable properties for these applications such as low specific weight, high corrosion resistance and biocompatibility...
Corrosion of titanium: Part 2: Effects of surface ,
Among the variety of titanium alloys, 3 of them were developed to enhance titanium corrosion resistance: titanium grade 7, grade 12 and grade 16 The best alloying elements to enhance corrosion resistance are palladium, molybdenum and nickel (12, 74) Palladium and nickel have the effect of accelerating cathodic hydrogen evolution reactions ....
Titanium Alloys - Corrosion and Erosion Resistance
Mar 27, 2002· Generally, titanium alloys that have been developed for high strength and good creep resistant properties have inferior corrosion resistance to the commercially pure material, but there are some alloying additions that can improve corrosion properti By ,...
Corrosion Resistance of Titanium Alloys | Corrosion ,
This article provides a background of the complex relationship between titanium and its alloys with aqueous environments, which is dictated by the presence of a passivating oxide film It describes the corrosion vulnerability of titanium and titanium oxides by the classification of oxide failure mechanisms...
Galvanic and Corrosion Compatibility Dissimilar Metal ,
Quality engineering and design requires an understanding of material compatibility Galvanic corrosion (some times called dissimilar metal corrosion) is the process by which the materials in contact with each other oxidizes or corrod There are three conditions that must exist for galvanic corrosion to occur...
titanium | Properties, Uses, & Facts | Britannica
Titanium, chemical element, a silvery gray metal of Group 4 (IVb) of the periodic table It is a lightweight, high-strength, low-corrosion structural metal and is used in alloy form for parts in high-speed aircraft Titanium is widely distributed and constitutes 044 percent of the Earth's crust...
Corrosion Resistance of Titanium - China Stainless Steel ,
Titanium is an established metal when dealing with corrosion applications Titanium is available in a range of different alloys with the most corrosion resistant grades being titanium 7, 11 (containing 015% palladium) and 12 (containing 03% Mo and 08% Ni)...
Advantages of Titanium Passivation & Corrosion Resistance ,
Titanium provides high specific strength, good high temperature properties and exceptional corrosion resistance Titanium's corrosion resistance is provided by a tightly adherent TiO2 film Its excellent corrosion resistance makes titanium an option for chemical processing equipment, marine equipment, biomedical implants and much more...
Corrosion-Resistant Titanium - atimetals
Corrosion-Resistant Titanium The various grades of ATI unalloyed titanium exhibit differences in formability Grades 1, 11 and 17 titanium, which are the softest and most ductile grades, exhibit the greatest formability The slightly greater strengths of Grades 2, 7 and 16 titanium are still quite formable, but less so than Grades 1, 11 or 17...
Titanium - Corrosion Materials
titanium grades, Grade 2 is typically used in applications that require superior corrosion resistance in various aggressive media Corrosion resistance is similar between these four CP grades but mechanical properties vary along with 1 varying oxygen and ,...
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The House is stalling, but don't be fooled. Don't let your guard down. Don't relax. They still intend, possibly next week, to dump the hard earned pay of your as yet unborn descendants into funding another full year or more of occupying Iraq, paying for the occupation well into the next Congress and presidency, plus enough in interest payments to China that we could have, with the same amount of money, provided clean water and basic nutrition to everyone on the planet.
And they may try to provide a thin cover for this by attaching a relatively teeny bit of funding for veterans' education. Our response should be that we want a GI Bill, not a GI Amendment. This GI Amendment will be attached to a bill so huge that we could provide free college to everyone for many years, veterans and non-veterans alike. We could give some struggling students the option to choose not to become veterans (or corpses). We should demand No votes on the war money, no matter what they attach to it.
Why? We can't afford the financial cost. We can't afford the cost in boosting hatred and terrorism. We can't approve of the death and injuries and destruction that would result. We can, if we choose, withdraw our troops and bring them home alive and healthy.
But there's another set of reasons to stop funding this war. The war has been fully exposed as a fraud and a crime. Given that fact, funding it amounts to aiding and abetting, at the very least, as well as encouraging and licensing future wars of aggression. And the next one may come very soon. In fact, if President Bush intends to attack Iran, there is every reason to assume he will illegally take money from this Iraq funding to pay for attacking Iran. He misspent Afghanistan funding, by the billions, on beginning to attack Iraq, and Congress has never made a peep about it prior to this week.


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Виктор Иванович Жердев  (1920 — 13 января 1945) — советский лётчик, участник ВОВ.

Биография
Виктор Иванович Жердев родился в городе Орск Чкаловской области (в настоящее время — Оренбургская область). Участник Великой Отечественной войны с 25 июня 41-го. С 11 марта 43-го по 27 апреля 43-го воевал в 84А иап на Северо-Кавказском фронте самолёте И-16. За этот период произвел 45 боевых вылетов на штурмовку войск противника. В июне 1943 года как один из лучших был переведён на обучение и усиление в 16 гиап (6 июля 1943‑12 января 1945). Ученик Покрышкина А. И. Быстро освоил «Аэрокобру» и вошёл в состав младших командиров уже на этапе Кубанского воздушного сражения в июне-июле 1943 года. К осени стал командиром авиаэскадрильи в этом же полку. Осмотрительный, исполнительный, отважный лётчик. Вдумчивый культурный командир. Скромный человек. Совершил 258 боевых вылетов. Участник 46 воздушных боёв. В начале Висло-Одерской операции 13 января 1945 года командир аэ гв. капитан Жердев в качестве командира звена был направлен на разведку в исключительно сложных метеоусловиях.

Выполняя «просьбу» начштаба, спустился на минимальную высоту и был сбит зенитной артиллерией противника. Произвёл вынужденную посадку, зверски убит немецкими зенитчиками.

Похоронен в городе Тарнобжег, Польша.

Награждён двумя орденами Красного Знамени, двумя орденами Отечественной войны I степени, орденом Красной Звезды. До звания Героя Советского Союза «не дотянул» трёх самолётов.

Воспоминания о Викторе Жердеве можно прочитать в военных мемуарах Александра Покрышкина, Ивана Бабака, Константина Сухова, Георгия Голубева.

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Кавалеры ордена Красного Знамени
Кавалеры ордена Отечественной войны I степени
Погибшие в боях Великой Отечественной войны

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In the process of using Unix or Linux on the command line, you may have encountered the "You have mail" message. It can be encountered on Linux servers or on local desktop environments, such as Mac OS X. While somewhat alarming and confusing, especially the first time, this is generally a fairly trivial message and easy to remove. This post will look at what the *nix mail application does, and how you can remove the "new mail" message from OS X.
The above command will send an email with the content of "How about 1pm?" and a subject of "Let's get lunch today" to nick@sunlightmedia.org.
If there is no new mail, the command line will simply read: No mail for [user], where [user] is the name of your computer system or server.
Why is mail being sent to the operating system email client?
If you have not specifically and intentionally set up mail as your primary email client, the "You have mail" message is most often encountered when installing applications or other packages from the command line. Sometimes software developer's releases will include a function to update the system of a completed installation or relevant notes on the release. When there is new mail, this message will appear every time you open a new terminal window or login to the system, which can get quite annoying.
Hit "Go", and the Finder application should display a mail file in the mail directory, with your username as the filename.
Simply delete this file, empty your trash and open a new terminal window. You should no longer see "You have mail" display. You can also verify this by entering mail and it should display No mail for [user].
As an alternative to the method above, you can also remove the mail file from the command line.
If you type ls it should list the same mail file we removed from the Finder. To remove it simply type rm [filename] . Make sure you are removing the right file, as there is no way to retrieve it from the Trash bin via this method.


The Kumbh Mela, which opened formally in the early hours of Tuesday with the first of the six 'shahi Snan' (royal bath), and is expected to draw over 15 crore pilgrims this year, is a sea of saffron and slogans such as "Modi tum sangharsh karo, hum tumhare saath hain" (Modi you lead the fight, we are with you) and "Mandir wahin banayenge" (temple will be built at the disputed site in Ayodhya) rent the air at the site.
They say that Yogi has laid special emphasis on "blending the grand traditions of Kumbh with the deployment of modern techniques and solutions" so that the kalpavasis, spiritual gurus, dignitaries, foreign visitors and the pilgrims have a "life emancipating experience" during their visit to Prayagraj.
At a press conference on Monday, Prayagraj Commissioner Ashish Kumar Goyal told reporters that the state government is fully dedicated to providing a unique and fulfilling experience to visitors, highlighting that "there is no shortage of budget, we have sufficient funds".
He maintained that the Chief Minister is personally monitoring the Kumbh Mela, and has advised officials to do everything that is needed.
The Kumbh is also the world's largest religious congregation of its kind, making it a potential political playfield for the BJP that has a strong voter-base among the Hindus.
The 2019 Kumbh Mela is organised on a much wider scale than its previous editions and multiple tent cities, along with lakhs of new toilets have cropped up along the banks of the holy river Ganga. The historic city was also recently renamed from Allahabad by the BJP government.
Displayed here are multiple life-size hoardings welcoming pilgrims to Kumbh and they carry images of Modi and Yogi on either side with their messages.
Such hoardings and posters are among the first sights that visitors arriving in the city encounter, and on the way leading up to the Sangam — the confluence of Ganga and Yamuna rivers and the mystical Saraswati — visitors are introduced to the various programmes and campaigns introduced and promoted by the BJP government.
Another similar hoarding reads: "Ek dubki aastha ki, ek bhaav sadbhav ka" and displays a saint offering water to the Sun god. The smiling pictures of Modi and Yogi on either sides of the hoarding keep the visitors company here as well.
The Kumbh administration has built pontoon bridges that lead the visitors to the five-kilometre bathing ghat at Sangam. These bridges can only be reached after passing through the by-lanes of the city, which are dotted with hundreds of such hoardings and posters at regular intervals.


Our activities are posted on "IoT use case map" by Robot Revolution Initiative.
Baden-Wurttemberg Minister of Economy visited our exhibition booth at CeBIT2017.
Our CEO discussed with Prof. Dr. Henning Kagermann in CeBIT.
Thailand prime minister, Prayuth, visited our exhibition booth at "THAILAND INDUSTRY EXPO 2016."
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In cooperation with Central Japan Industries Association, we will launch a manufacturing site diagnostic program.
LEXER RESEARCH will give a seminar at "Next Innovation Technology Fair 2019".
Lexar Research will exhibit at "Next Innovation Technology Fair 2019".
The version of GD.findi simulator has been updated on January 31, 2019.
An interview article of our company was posted in the magazine 'Progress' of Central Japan Industries Association.
The article about our technology was posted in the comprehensive technical magazine "Press technology" for plastic processing.
The version of GD.findi simulator has been updated on October 31, 2018.
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A commemorative ceremony of LASI(The business to nurture SIer)between LEXER RESEACH and DENSO was held.
Our technology was adopted as the workshop of OR-NET.
The working scenario using our technology was announced at the IVI Public Symposium 2018 - Spring -.
LEXER RESEARCH has entered into an agreement to work with EVO Informationssysteme GmbH.
LEXER RESEARCH has entered into an agreement to work with Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA.
Our CEO went on a panel discussion at the symposium hosted by Baden-Württemberg International in Germany.
The CEO's interview has been published on Mitsubishi UFJ Business Square "SQUET".


modlandUSA: Boomers, Brains, and You.
Yesterday, I had an engaging conversation with someone I recently met (let's call him Shawn). The lively discussion eventually moved on to "sides of the brain". I mentioned how enjoyable art classes were back in high school and explained my big idea at that time of higher education for furthering my creative learning and pursuing design as a career.
Alas, that was not to be. My parents were not supportive. My oldest brother's girlfriend even took some of my designs to a local artist who wrote a shining letter to my parents about the talent I had and encouraged them to let me develop it.
So I wound up being analytical instead.
Back to the conversation. We greed that we were both right brainers. I pointed out that a book I read a couple years ago, "A Whole New Mind: Right Brainers Will Rule the Future" by Daniel H. Pink, was a huge awakening for me.
I discovered that I was not alone in my "brain side confusion". According to the book many boomers were guided by their parents into left-brained professions. Doctors, lawyers, accountants, research analysts. And so it was with me as well.
Now, I'm not saying that I never like numbers. I did enjoy my corporate life. Funny thing though, I truly enjoyed the graphic part of my work and would often spend too much time making Harvard Graphics or PowerPoint look "pretty". And more than once I was criticized for it! I found other small ways to unleash creativity as well and sure enough, much of that was smashed down too.
During one of the many seminars I took over the years (because the corporation liked you to get "out of the box" once in a while) I made a list of things I wanted to accomplish. Number one was "write a book" and I gave myself a time frame of five years to do it. Didn't make it.
But here's the rub. Shawn said it was a good thing I learned how to use the left side of my brain. I gained the knowledge for running my two businesses. If I was gliding along right braining it all those years, would I have the savvy required to grow those businesses into major successes?
He had a great point there!
Now I'm seeing so many boomers starting their own businesses. Makes me wonder: Did they go through what I'm going through?
I do know this. I'm in a very good position right now for growing my businesses. In fact, over the next few weeks, I'm working on revising one of my websites. Creative fun! Whee!
I'll continue to enjoy my photography hobby, writing blogs to share with you, tie-dying t-shirts, attractively rearranging the furniture in my house (mostly mid-century modern pieces), whipping out the acrylics once in a while to get those ideas and colors out, and of course, planning my book.
I DO have an interesting concept for a work of fiction that I just started to document, so stay tuned! Right Brainers rule!
I'm grateful for my time spent in the corporate world. It was a good foundation for my right-brained business.
EVERY job we have plants us in a better position for the next -- even when we think they have nothing to offer. Hindsight might even suggest this is ESPECIALLY true when we think our job has nothing to offer ;-) It's great to be past the "climbing the corporate ladder" age!
I did accounting and admin. work for a very creative visual communications company. Talk about being left brained in a right brained environment! I too was trained in a corporate environment and it serves me well as I pursue right brained activities. Good post.
Hope you didn't spend too much time there Shannon.
Agree. You learn something from ALL experiences, whether it's in a positive or negative light. I'm fortunate to have had a mostly positive past corporate life.
That must have been interesting, especially if you are more right brained!
I purged my left brain after Algebra II and have not missed it once. Never needed to use the quadratic equation or figure the hypotenuse of a right triangle. Was so relieved to find that there were other weird people who found creativity much more enjoyable that determining the mean, the mode, and the average. Right Brained and proud of it! So enjoyed the article!


In October 2018, the IUCN Global Protected Areas programme together with IUCN South American Regional Office and the ICCA Consortium convened in Pachacamac (Peru) a workshop entitled "Strengthening the governance of conserved territories in the Peruvian Amazon". The workshop forms part of the ongoing national governance assessment of the Peruvian system of protected and conserved areas led by the IUCN.
The workshop had three separate but interrelated objectives: to listen to and learn from indigenous peoples about their practice of conserving nature; to discuss with indigenous peoples' representatives and representatives of the Peruvian National Protected Areas Agency - SERNANP (Servicio Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas por el Estado) their vision of the governance of protected and conserved areas; and to examine the governance aspects of communal reserve Amarakaeri and its experience applying the IUCN Green list with the insights and inputs of the Peruvian EAGL (Expert Assessment Groups for the Green List). The former two objectives mostly concern governance diversity and the latter mostly governance quality.
Why do we talk about governance in conservation? And what exactly is governance diversity? It is generally understood that conservation depends on well governed systems of protected and conserved areas. Governance is about who makes decisions, how the decisions are made, and whether the decisions are implemented. Since the World Parks Congress of Durban 2003, the IUCN distinguishes among four main types of governance, depending on the main governing actor involved: A. government-governance; B. shared governance; C. private governance; and D. governance by indigenous peoples and local communities. It also points at several criteria for good governance, which in the context of the IUCN Green List include guaranteeing legitimacy and voice, achieving transparency and accountability and enabling governance vitality and the capacity to respond adaptively.
In order to understand governance, we need to examine the capabilities and responsibilities to make decisions about conservation, but also what happens in practice. Thus, placing an emphasis on governance moves us beyond examining the conservation "benefits" for rightsholders and stakeholders, and demands us to consider issues of justice and "appropriateness". It compels us to ask the questions "is the type of governance currently in place for this specific protected or conserved area able to implement / enhance equitable decisions? And, is it the most 'appropriate' type of governance in consideration of the specific socio-ecological situation?". These questions allow us to follow a rights-based approach to conservation and pursue the mission of the IUCN ("a just world that values and conserves nature").
The topic of concern in the Pachacamac workshop was the Peruvian Amazon, a vast and highly biodiverse landscape of rainforest and jungle, criss-crossed by a large network of powerful rivers—a space extremely rich in birds, mammals, fish and flora. The Peruvian Amazon is also the ancestral home of large number of indigenous peoples of various ethnic origin. Twenty-six representatives of thirteen diverse indigenous peoples travelled from various regions, many via lengthy boat journeys to towns like Pucallpa, Puerto Maldonado and Iquitos, then flew onto Lima and, eventually, by local ground transportation to Pachacamac, just south of Lima, on the Pacific coast. The IUCN Member FENAMAD (Federación Nativa del Río Madre de Dios y Afluentes) and the ICCA Consortium Members Coshicox, FENAMAD and Wampis Nation were represented.
Among much else, the workshop participants learned about the key differences between protected areas and conserved areas. A protected area, such as the Amarakaeri communal reserve, is "a clearly defined geographical space, recognised, dedicated and managed through legal or other effective means, to achieve the long-term conservation of nature with ecosystem services and cultural values". The long-term dedication is via the government—that governs the reserve as a type A and delegates its management to a structure called ECA (Ejecutor de Contrato de Administración) which represents ten Harakmbut communities that need to work jointly with the government agency SERNANP. A shared management plan brings together the indigenous life plans (planes de vida) and the long-term conservation objectives of SERNANP. Amarakaeri Communal Reserve is currently undergoing assessment for candidacy to the IUCN Green List, thus these governance structures are being examined in more detail. An update was provided by Jeff Pradel, Chair of the Peruvian EAGL and several other members of the EAGL.
Several conserved territories or areas were also presented and discussed during the workshop, an in particular the Wampis Autonomous Territory (more than 1.3 million hectares) and the Matses indigenous territory. A conserved area is "a geographically defined area, other than a Protected Area, which is governed and managed in ways that achieve positive and sustained outcomes for the in-situ conservation of biodiversity, with associated ecosystem services and cultural and spiritual values". (CBD, 2018). In conserved areas, the emphasis is thus on achieving conservation in practice rather than dedicating an area to it. In the case of the Wampis nation and the Matses people, conservation practices are closely intertwined with livelihoods, cultural identity and cosmovision. The Matses, for instance, have an elaborate knowledge of nature, species and their sustainable uses, which they refer to as "pure conservation", a way of "living in and with the environment". Conservation is not explicitly expressed as an outcome.... but it takes place. The Matses people—and to a certain extent also the Wampis nation, are actually successful in the most difficult and needed form of conservation in the Peruvian Amazon—keeping at bay extractive industries (legal and illegal) and the traffic of narcotics.
The underlining of traditional knowledge and cultural links to nature was underscored many times by all of the indigenous representatives, with Shampiom Noningo Sesen of the Wampis nation noting that "Our elders and scholars may not have academic degrees that recognize them as conservation experts, but they know well how to conserve forests". In fact, conserved areas have been able to withstand threats, and especially so when properly recognised and titled. Wilder Flores Gonzales, representative of the Matses native community, shared this view. He described the threats that they faced over the past fifteen years from oil extraction prospects and initiatives, and the fact that the Matses have been able to actively defend their territory. He also stressed that the Matses territory has received some form of land recognition "assigned" to a group of native Matses communities.
ICCAs–territories of life are territories or areas governed by indigenous peoples and local communities (type D in the IUCN classification) and they are a governance type for both protected and conserved areas. They are characterised by three key features a) there is an indigenous people, nation or community with a profound relationship with a territory or place; b) there is an active capacity de facto (sometimes also legally recognised) to make and implement decisions over that territory or area via a governance institution and; c) the implemented decisions are positive for the long term conservation of nature and related ecosystem services, cultural values and livelihoods in general. When discussing the ICCA model, it was clear that this fits well as a means to recognise the ancestral territories discussed during the workshop. The key issue is thus whether ICCAs can be fully recognised under the Peruvian legislation as a protected area, as a conserved area, or as neither of the two.
The Peruvian EAGL discussed in detail the concept of conserved areas in Peru. SERNANP outlined their long-term vision of governance of protected and conserved areas in Peru and the goal of working together with all conservation actors toward a single and thus strengthened vision for conservation. Further, they also identified five legal options not only under the protected areas system but also under other sectors such as cultural heritage and agricultural titling as options for indigenous territories to be legally recognised. These are: the law of native communities (Comunidades Nativas); the indigenous and territorial reserves (Reservas Territoriales e Indígenes); the communal reserves (Reservas Comunales); private conservation areas (Áreas de Conservación Privadas); and conservation concessions (Concesiones de Conservación). It is not clear to what extent these options have been availed of by the relevant indigenous peoples and nations, and how they would indeed strengthen their legal status and governance of the territories they are willing to conserve. What is clear is that without some form of legal recognition and legal personality for the relevant people, the ability to fully protect their territories against external threats remains uncertain.
A key outcome of the Pachacamac workshop was a concise and eloquent report by the indigenous participants, who are committed to maintaining, documenting and strengthening their system of governing and conserving their territories. In exchange, they ask for formal and visible recognition and support for their territorial governance "as this is the best strategy for the conservation of nature and biological diversity". Access the document in Spanish and English here.
The Amazon's biodiversity is globally significant for both biodiversity conservation and mitigation of climate change, making the health of the Amazon inextricably linked to the health of the planet. As we look ahead to the Latin American Congress in Peru in March 2019, we hope that the discussion on appropriate governance types for the long-term conservation of the Amazon basin with the crucial engagement of its indigenous peoples will continue and evolve.


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So basically what I'm shooting for is something like an object that can be extended that is more or less just a wrapper for something like mysqli: the column definitions in the database need to have input filtration, such that filtering input is fully generalized (thats at least the idea). I figure there doesn't really need to be any output filtering, but the more the merrier.
I'm almost certain I'm not the first person to (attempt to) do this. :)
Thanks in advance for sharing your insights.

A: Ok so long story short, going all the way with this idea everything is accounted for in php, or can be handled (by custom coding).
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It's an orm, thanks @evert!

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Tragic mothers Kate McCann and Coral Jones have been given an award for putting aside their own agony to help other families with missing children.
The Complete Mystery of Madeleine McCann™ :: Team McCann :: Missing People / PACT / Amber Alert / Child Rescue Alert
Re: Tragic mothers Kate McCann and Coral Jones have been given an award for putting aside their own agony to help other families with missing children.
So what exactly has Kate McCann done to deserve such a prestigious (?) award? I don't think she's done anything apart from tag her name to the charity as an ambassador. She didn't even launch the Child Rescue Alert campaign - The Sun did it using her name to promote the initiative.
Still the murky Murdoch empire is right up there keeping the fantasy alive so not all hope is lost.
by maebee on 27.02.16 0:26
"Kate McCann putting aside her own agony".? She has spoken of nothing else except "her" agony since the day/week she failed her daughter.
maebee
Madeleine Foundation
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by Google.Gaspar.Statements on 27.02.16 7:06
@maebee wrote: "Kate McCann putting aside her own agony".? She has spoken of nothing else except "her" agony since the day/week she failed her daughter.
And how she couldn't make love to Gerry like anyone cared when this was supposed to be about finding the daughter whose death scent was left all over her mums trousers.
http://thegaspersstatement.blogspot.co.uk/
Google.Gaspar.Statements
A member of the CMOMM facebook group sent this email to Missing People:
Andy Hopkins My email to missingpeople.org.uk:
I write to you with a query regarding one of your so called "Ambassadors" of a supposed charity supporting all kinds of work relating to missing children, namely Kate McCann/Healy.
By the dictionary definition an ambassador is "a representative or promoter of a specified activity". Now with this in mind and considering the name and purpose of your charity don't you find it at all odd and possibly disturbing (as I do) that you have an ambassador of your charity who has the following coincidences hanging over their reputation and supposed innocence:
1) Willingly and knowingly left 3 children all under the age of 4 in an apartment for days on end whilst they and a group of parents wined and dined (If you believe that an actual abduction took place that is).
2) One of these children (Madeleine) was reported missing during one of these nights – Admitted neglect!
3) The apartment of Kate McCann and husband contained the smell of a human corpse / human cadaver odour in over 10 locations.
4) Items of your ambassador Kate McCann/Healy's clothing had the same human cadaver odour on them.
5) It is documented and confirmed fact that no-one had died in the apartment prior to the McCann's taking residence of apartment 5a.
6) The same human cadaver odour was detected in the McCann's hired Renault Scenic over 3 weeks after their missing child was reported missing.
7) Blood and DNA traces were recovered from several matching locations of the human cadaver odour within apartment 5a and the McCann's hire car which were confirmed as matching the same DNA profile of their missing child!
8) Kate McCann/Healy did not search for her daughter.
9) Kate McCann/Healy refused to participate in a reconstruction.
10) Kate McCann/Healy refused to answer 48 Police questions and was not bothered if this behaviour made the Police suspicious of her.
11) Kate McCann is still seen on video stating clearly "the shutters were jemmied open, I'm not lying about that". It is physically and forensically proved that the shutters were not tampered with at all. Another lie!
12) The only full fingerprint found anywhere on the windows were of Kate McCann/Healy, and on the inside of the window. Yet more evidence of a blatantly obvious staged abduction.
13) The same Kate McCann/Healy who complained that a Police car was "going to fast" while taking her to a possible sighting of her missing child.
14) The same Kate McCann/Healy who has in tandem with other members of the "tapas" party had several Police statement contradictions and anomalies.
15) The same Kate McCann/Healy who wrote a book which offers an altogether different set of circumstances and scenarios.
16) The Same Kate McCann/Healy who decided to wash her daughters favourite soft toy after she was reported missing. This toy later went on to have confirmed human cadaver odour on. Who or what was the source – Madeleine's corpse or direct from Kate McCann/Healy – Your ambassador!
17) There is much more available for the worldwide population to see, read and view such as the Official Portuguese Police files which were released in August 2008. Coincidentally of which your ambassador spent circa £100,000 of the British public's money translating them into English but not releasing them. Instead they have gagged the media with money and influence from the British Establishment from printing awareness of these files. What is it your supposedly innocent ambassador wants to hide from everyone?
So with everything above and the vast quantities of other information available online which correlates with the conclusion that Madeleine McCann died very early on during their holiday, the parents are directly implicated and involved in the subsequent disposal and cover up of her corpse and have made an absolute fortune with the aid of British public donations into a private LTD company which has never made any attempt to look for Madeleine but instead employed known fraudsters and money launderers, is this the kind of person that should be a "figurehead" of a missing children's charity?
If so you have a very strange set of criteria for such positions.
1) Who "gave" her this position?
2) Why did you install her into this position?
3) How can you justify publicising Kate McCann receiving another award for God knows what next to an actual heroic mother in Coral Jones, whose daughter tragically really was abducted and murdered is beyond belief.
4) Given your very strange criteria for an ambassadors role will you be posthumously be granting an ambassadors role for the likes of Jimmy Saville etc??
5) As per the dictionary definition above, what exactly is Kate McCann here to promote for your charity? How to get away with child neglect?, How to get away with being involved in your child's disappearance? How to make millions from your missing child? (These previous questions are thoughts and opinions of my own).
The British public deserve to know why this "parent" is constantly being shoved down our throats in the media when ALL of the available evidence more than implicates your precious ambassador Kate McCann/Healy.
Thank you, I await your answers.
Concerned Citizen awaiting for justice to be served.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/JillHavernCompleteMysteryofMadeleineMcCann/permalink/1719176434993509/
Andy Hopkins Dedication for missing kids for Kate McCann??!! This is the mother who had scent of a human corpse (Cadaver odour) on her personal clothing?! The same scent that was only in the McCann's apartment, only in the McCann's hire car, the same apartment and hire car from where blood/dna was extracted and was confirmed to have matched Madeleine's DNA profile. The same apartment which was confirmed to have had NO prior deaths in before Kate and Gerry took residence in April 2007. This is the same mother who REFUSED to answer 48 questions during the Police's search for their daughter, of which incidentally Kate McCann DID NOT search for Madeleine! In the same interview she confirmed that by not answering the questions she would only raise suspicion about her - She wasn't bothered! This is the mother who lied and is still on video saying "the shutters were jemmied open, I'm not lying about that" - It is a forensically and physically proven fact that the shutters were not tampered with in any way! In fact the ONLY full fingerprint found on the window was from?? Yep you guessed it Kate McCann and only from INSIDE the apartment - More proof of a staged abduction!
Before they get whooshed as well, the other Missing People CRA awards showing are:
Michael Page Award for Business of the Year: Royal Mail
Annemiek Hoogenboom and Joe Ray of People's Postcode Lottery collecting the Facebook award for OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT
Justin Hornby of Vodafone and Hamish MacLeod of Mobile Broadband Group collecting the Stagecoach award for INNOVATION for Free Text SMS Alerts
Karen Bradley MP collecting Groupcall Ltd award for POLITICAL HERO
Lady Catherine Meyer collecting the LexisNexis award for CHILDREN'S HERO
Detective Chief Inspectors Joanne McHugh and Peter Simm of Lancashire Constabulary collecting the Royal Mail Award for LOCAL COMMUNITY HERO
Lady Meyer is of course PACT lady, whose husband ran off abroad with her kids after she had been granted custody, the business tie-ups are obvious, but I've no idea who the two DCI's are and can't find them on google.
It's not exactly heroic anyway is it maebee. It's what some people do to help them through a tragedy - like the loss of a loved one through illness, people donate, raise money or do voluntary work for a cause relative to the illness. It's all part of the human coping mechanism - only it's normally for altruistic reasons not for self glory.
by joyce1938 on 27.02.16 13:17
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by lj on 27.02.16 15:46
The only thing tragic about Kate is that she still is reinforced in her neglectful behavior.
"And if Madeleine had hurt herself inside the apartment, why would that be our fault?" Gerry
http://pjga.blogspot.co.uk/?m=0
http://whatreallyhappenedtomadeleinemccann.blogspot.co.uk/
I would use the word tragic to describe the fate of poor Madeleine, not her mother.
Get'emGonçalo wrote: A member of the CMOMM facebook group sent this email to Missing People:
Ouch - straight for the jugular! I look forward to the response, or not as the case might be.
by whatsupdoc on 28.02.16 10:57
What do I think?
I don't think Postcode Lottery should be sponsoring Missing People.
I don't think Coral should have got tangled up with the McCann case.
I think it was a big mistake for Missing People to give the job of Ambassador to KM.
Firstly Gerry got a police award and now Kate gets an award....This denigrates the whole awards system to heroes in the UK.
Fortunately with Forums such as CMOM and documentaries from Richard D. Hall and HiDeHo more readers are seeing what a huge cover-up the McCann case has been.
I, and many others, saw that the McCanns were lying on DAY 1.
Here are some of the latest comments from the Sun...
Hayley Reading 2 hours ago
Are they going to give her a prison sentence to for either killing her child or at least tampering with evidence by washing her daughters teddy just after she went missing? The only award the McCanns deserve is one for being the worst parents ever. Not only for either killing/neglecting their child, but then removing evidence and finally cashing in on their 'ordeal' by selling books, exclusive magazine deals and gaining almost celebrity status. Whatever happened to poor maddy, it can't be worse than staying with those savages as parents.
Emma Yates 9 hours ago
It is absolutely infact gut wrenchingly sick to have given Kate McCann an award. I mean really it is unfathomable that millions have been spent to try to find Maddie, yet not one proper clue. I do believe she will never be found. And that no matter which way it is spun, even if they (Kate and Gerry) did not kill or injure Maddie. It is and always will be there fault she is gone. They are both to blame and that is a fact, that I am sure not many can deny.
Let's just hope they don't go out for something to eat or drink to celebrate this sham of an award. Surely they use a babysitter now they are in England so the social services do not remove there other children. Or perhaps they are now to high profile for such things to happen to them.
An absolute traversty I am disgusted in fact and will never ever think they are innocent
eta Most of the comments have been cut. Probably post too long...
whatsupdoc
It was quoted that the first Child Rescue Alert was issued by UK Police in the case of April Jones.
This is somewhat misleading as it wasn't the 'enhanced' Child Rescue Alert that people are being asked to sign up to right now.
What assisted the case of April Jones was the UK police making the decision to take the disappearance of April to the UK mainstream media who assisted in spreading the word via social media.
There wasn't a postman in the land that could've helped April Jones, there wasn't a person who didn't know who April Jones was, what she looked like, where she went missing from, where she lived etc and to that end I don't understand why Coral Jones is so captivated and dedicated to a new fangled, all singing, all dancing internet dream of saving an abducted child's life given that not only are the majority of abducted children taken by people who know them but more importantly that the police and media did a fantastic job.
The launch of the very first (and to date the only) 'enhanced' Child Rescue Alert was for a teenage girl who turned up within hours. This leads me to believe it was a promotion exercise and as a PR exercise it worked well. This doesn't surprise me as there are chief police officers working hand in hand with the 'charity' that is called Missing People.
I wish someone in the media would take a long, hard look at this 'charity'.
by hogwash on 28.02.16 13:29
@aquila wrote: What assisted the case of April Jones was the UK police making the decision to take the disappearance of April to the UK mainstream media who assisted in spreading the word via social media.
The McC's took the disappearance of Madeleine to the media too.
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You said it Hogwash.
The whole point of a Child Rescue Alert is that it is the decision of the Police and ONLY their decision.
Within days of Madeleine's disappearance there was a media campaign and a big coloboma poster - against the wishes of the Portuguese Police.
Just pulled these two lovely little snippets off the AAA (formerly PACT) report:
Police-recorded child abduction and kidnapping 2014/15
http://www.childabduction.org.uk/images/Police_Report_2016.pdf
· Whilst increases in child abduction and kidnapping are clearly alarming, the explanation for their increase may – at least in part – lie in changes to police crime‐recording practices. Some incidents which may previously have gone unrecorded may now be recorded as a crime.
· Police force initiatives to tackle child sexual exploitation may also be having a sizeable effect on trends in recorded crime, as might efforts to intervene in forced marriage and domestic abuse. Without further research it is not possible to say whether the underlying incidence of child abduction and kidnapping is increasing.
'Some incidents which may previously have gone unrecorded may now be recorded as a crime'
And they want us to take them seriously?
Incidents of abduction and kidnapping that were not even recorded as a crime before (yea, right!), but there is clearly a need to manipulate the figures up somehow.
As we know from the CRA site:
'Child Rescue Alerts have been issued three times in the UK, most recently in March last year' (and she came home on her own when she wanted to).
And with tv, radio, facebook and twitter etc is the CRA system really going to do anything worthwhile? (rhetorical)
@Doug D wrote: Just pulled these two lovely little snippets off the AAA (formerly PACT) report:
There was also the launch of digital media boards launched by Kate McCann in Birmingham where the young girl who had left home previously was miraculously found on the same day by....the police. This 'launch' was heavily promoted in national and regional press.
ETA: Here we have what is to my mind the exploitation of two teenage girls.
Obviously Wynard is only interested in Kate McCann, poor Coral Jones has been dragged in so it doesn't look so obvious imo.
Wynard, like Branson, donated £100K to the McCanns, not towards the search for Madeleine but to clear their names. Surely, finding her alive would help to clear their names?
No mention of Missing Madeleine on their websites either - are they not interested in searching for her? Are they only interested in the parents? There must be a reason for this, what is it?
I can understand, in the early days, if the tycoons wanted to make a donation but now that the PJ files have been released and there are so many contradictions in the statements of the McCanns' and their friends, why would these business men put their own reputations on the line and put their businesses at risk just to satify the McCanns. There has to be a reason for this, but what?
I wonder if Gerald McCann and\or his associates were members of the Spa Club at Stobo castle, and if so, did they take advantage of the 10% discount?
ONE of Scotland's most wealthy businessmen can today be revealed as the mystery donor helping fund the fight to clear the names of Madeleine McCann's parents.
Stephen Winyard, who owns the luxury Stobo Castle spa in Peebleshire, has spoken publicly for the first time since pledging 100,000 to help meet the escalating legal costs of Gerry and Kate McCann.
Read more: http://www.scotsman.com/news/scots-tycoon-attacks-scurrilous-allegations-as-he-comes-out-as-mccanns-secret-funder-1-703067#ixzz41TZuzlL9
"Speaking publically for the first time"???? Nah.
Below, is from an article in the BBC, dated 11 May 2007:
A businessman is offering a £1m reward for information leading to the return of three-year-old Madeleine McCann.
Stephen Winyard, who owns Stobo Castle in the Borders, told a newspaper he wanted to help her distraught parents.
So, how can he be speaking publically for the first time, in December 2007, when EIGHT DAYS after Madeleine disappeared, Mr Wynyard spoke to the BBC, stating that he was offering a ONE MILLION POUND reward?
Link to 11 May 2007's full article:
http://www.scotsman.com/news/scots-tycoon-attacks-scurrilous-allegations-as-he-comes-out-as-mccanns-secret-funder-1-703067
Anyone get the feeling that we, the general public, are being treated like mushrooms?
I doubt both women "were stunned" cos I bet Kate knew all about it. Poor Coral used for an agenda, but why now, what's afoot? How many other awards has Stephen winyard given out and to whom? Kate didn't look very happy in some of the pictures and she said last week some of the Implicated will be implicated. I wonder did Gerry have a word with his mate Stephen to ask him to try and stop the loose cannon that is Kate? Give her an award to stop her from further implicating the implicated and invite Coral to make it look genuine.
Posted by Marian Greaves on CMOMM facebook:
Since Lady Kate has been given an award for the child alert programme for selflessly campaigning for missing children I decided to do some research. The total number of incidents reported of people missing each year is 330,000. However that is incidents not actual people as those figures include people who run away several times.
The real figure of actual people is 192,000. This includes all age ranges people under 18 make up 64% of those figures, so therefore 115,000 are under 18. More than a third of those are aged 15-17, 35% are 12-15, the remainder are under 12.
Although 192,000 people going missing each year, 91% are found within 48 hours, 98% before 12 months, or the case solved, so only 2% are missing for longer or never found.
Now many of the people in these figures have made themselves missing by wanting to run away or by wandering off through illness. They have not actually been abducted.
The numbers of children who have been abducted or attempted abduction are relatively low at 900. Bear in mind this does include attempted abductions by people trying to grab someone at school or in the park etc but not managing it. Also a large part of those figures are family abductions, usually a parental split or family dispute.
The actual numbers for stranger abductions are incredibly low, an average of 50 a year. Of those the majority are aged 11-14, the next are 9-12, under 5 are less than one a year and 5-9 are just 2 a year.
The majority of those are girls rather than boys, but all of the figures for the older one's are for sexual exploitation in some form or another. These are the 9-15 age range. They are either groomed on the internet or dragged away by someone at the school gate or playground. NO history of any being abducted by a stranger from inside the home.
So there you have it, very rare for a child under 4 to be abducted by a stranger and no incidence of such an age range to be taken for sexual purposes.
The figures in Portugal of missing children are incredibly high. In the five years before Madeleine went missing there were 10, apart from her, 2 have not been found. A boy of 11 whose Mum still thinks he is alive, he disappeared while playing on the grass at the side of the house, and a 13 yr old whose Mum insists she has seen pics of him being abused.
Since Madeleine went missing, the numbers of missing children in Portugal has soared to the dizzy heights of 30, so that's 4-5 a year. Now those figures are incredibly low.
If you look at the odds of a child of Madeleines age being abducted by a stranger from her home in England, are 100 million to one. That's out of figures of 192,000 children missing each year. If you try to faction in 2 children a year going missing in Portugal,what would the odds be for Madeleine to be abducted, it must be billions to one. Add to that there has never been a case of a child of that age being abducted by a paedophile in this country with the high figures we have. What are the chances of her being taken by a paedophile from inside a building when adults were doing half hourly checks on her. It isn't possible is it.
The McCann's didn't do their homework very well did they when they cried abduction.
JennyTurner
Dodgy Charity who have an Ambassador who publicly admits to neglect of her own children resulting in one being "missing" for the last 9 years and plenty of evidence pointing to the parents for the poor little girl's demise, yet NO evidence to show any abduction. This charity needs investigating before any genuine person backs it
mrjnh
Did Kate sell this to the disgusting excuse for a waste paper, The S*n first? That's her usual act.
What about urging the two police investigations to make progress, by answering the 48 questions she refused initially, and by establishing a legal reconstruction? That way, we'd know for certain how much she wants Madeleine found, wouldn't we?
cherryberry
What kind of 'charity' would have an ambassador who has never been cleared by Portuguese Police. The scent of cadaver by the police dogs backs up the views of Police Madeleine is likely to be dead yet they keep collecting money for the 'fund'.
Mozp
I have no idea what happened to Madeleine McCann but by her parents own admission they left her and her siblings alone every night in an apartment which was not part of the holiday complex while they dined in the Tapas Bar. Given this information, straight from "the horses.mouth" I have to question Kate McCann being the face of this campaign. As such, although I think the text alert system may be a useful tool, I won't be signing up. Makes me question the whole Missing Peopke charity to be honest
dannysdad
They never helped themselves by scurrying back here when the Portuguese were asking questions they didn't like. Who would leave a country their child went missing in, until every inch and more was meticulously scoured~?
PetsyLz
I won't be signing up to anything that that witch is advertising. That would be condoning her disgraceful, selfish behaviour that has resulted in the probable death of an innocent wee girl. I can't understand why she's still running around loose, let alone making money and acting like a z-list celebrity on the back of a child that went missing thanks to her neglect.
the original portugueese police man knew that the mccanns were involved he wrote a book and they had the cheek to take him to court so the book is now bannned and people cant read the truth
Some of the comments on this article make me mad it must be great to be so perfect,we stayed in a well known hotel where the sitter sat at the end of the corridor and only walked along every so often they did not see us go in the room we could have been anyone, so don't condemn the parents they are going through hell already,
2badparents
Are they going through hell? Did A group of Medics actually leave their Babies (one who was poorly) every night even although Madeleine asked them where they were when she and her Brother were crying. Did the same Medics play musical chairs, 4 different Families checking their own Babies every night every half an hour apart from the night Madeleine went missing even although the official Police statements say one Adult was missing from their night time antics most nights. Some relaxing evening meal they must have been. up to 3 people missing at a time. Down the corridor is a bit different to being over a football pitch distance away with an unlocked door, stairs, a balcony, bushes and swimming pool between them.
HuytonFreeman
The Mcann's constantly spout, that there "is no evidence Madeleine has been harmed"
So, they do not consider that a stranger 'abducting' their daughter, and taking her away from her family for almost 9 years is harmful then??
In any case, the truth is that there is NO EVIDENCE of an abduction.
The Mcann's say that the abductor escaped through the bedroom window, and yet there is no evidence to prove this (lichen undisturbed by window and no fingerprints at all on the window, except KATE'S)
The Mcann's initially stated the shutters had been 'jemmied', when this was completely untrue, and they then changed their story to say the patio doors were unlocked.
If that's not enough to convince you. What kind of parent washes her missing child's favourite toy??
Jennywren1980
The more and more and more I see if the McCanns the more I get angry and frustrated I am not going to go into the whole story we all know that if they would of been acting like responsible parents that poor child would still be in their care and as doctors they know better than anyone that it only takes seconds for a child to choke injur themselves in a fall etc etc and yet they were minutes away, since this happened they have thrived on the publicity they get and not once aknowledging they were in the wrong, you wonder if it this was a working class family that acted like they did whether they would have lost custody of their twins??
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/kate-mccann-urges-people-join-11029366
by JRP on 18.03.16 18:19
Liverpool Echo is part of Trinity Mirror Group which among others titles own the Daily Mirror. Nice to see the comments remain for so long.
Madeleine McCann: Madeleine's disappearance would not have triggered a missing child alert because it did not meet all of the criteria.
http://frommybigdesk.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/madeleine-mccann-madeleines.html?m=1

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I am glad I gave Dispatcher William Aiello a good laugh, too bad he missed the point ("Defending Howard" – January 3).
Not all residents of Howard Beach are violent bigots, just as not all residents of Long Island City visit brothels and make drug deals. Stereotyping and profiling are offensive no matter who is targeted.
Yes, we had and continue to have problems, especially in the Queens Plaza and Queensborough Plaza area. Places like Times Square and Port Authority were equally seedy until money was spent to clean them up.
Why haven't Queens Plaza and Queensboro Plaza, both situated in the no-man's land entrance to the Queensboro Bridge, gotten similar attention? Instead, the solutions for Long Island City involve tearing things down and forcing out the hardworking people who live here.
As for the Seth Bornstein's op-ed piece, to which Mr. Aiello refers, it is not surprising that the head of the Queens Economic Development Corporation supports the Amazon invasion. That's his job.
I am, however, surprised that he is not as incensed as we are that organizations such as his were excluded from the negotiations, as were the people directly affected.
Mr. Bornstein admits that the Citicorp move did not bring about the expected benefits. There are, similarly, no guarantees that Amazon will not also fall short.
The tax credits given to Amazon are based on an average salary of $150,000, which will likely include a large number of minimum wage jobs and a few high-paying jobs. The median salary would be a more useful number. Unfortunately, we haven't been told that number.
Finally, Goggle, Facebook, Twitter and other high-profile companies employ many people in New York City. They moved here without cloak-and-dagger negotiations, without major tax incentives, without a helipad, and without sacrificing the people who call New York City home.
Marie Gangemi


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Not that turnout in off-year primaries has been super great.
Sean Zack, of the North Side volunteers in the 22nd ward at the Allegheny New Hope United Methodist Church.
May. 17, 2017, 10:30 a.m.
The numbers aren't certified yet, but it appears Allegheny County had the lowest turnout in years on Tuesday.
Not that turnout in off-year primaries has been so great over the past decade.
Using election results provided by Allegheny County, The Incline made a chart that shows turnout — total, Democrats and Republicans — in odd-year primaries since 2007. A breakdown of turnout by party was not immediately available for the 2017 results, which are preliminary.


RSWLiving - 2016-01-01 - News & Views - BY CRAIG GARRETT —C.G.
Aunique opportunity benefiting a Southwest Florida musical jewel and to view the artwork of a prominent artist is obtainable on Jan. 31. Cello Bennett and Paul Nadler are hosting An Afternoon of Music & Art at Ms. Bennett's Fort Myers home from 4 to 7 p.m. The Sunday event for a limited guest list benefits Gulfshore Opera, a regional company supported by Gale Bennett, the artist who died in 2008. Cello Bennett is Gale Bennett's widow. Maestro Paul Nadler was Gulfshore Opera's musical director for 16 years, and today is a conductor with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. Gale Bennett was associated with music and art in Southwest Florida, serving on the board of the Southwest Florida Symphony and helping spearhead the effort to locate an opera company in the region, Cello Bennett says.
An Afternoon of Music & Art offers a rare glimpse of Gale Bennett's works, some of which have not been shown. Bennett was the founder of ArtStudy Giverny, a French art school in Claude Monet's home village. Bennett's artwork blends Abstract Expressionism, Impressionism and Cubism, earning him a lifetime achievement award from Angels of the Arts in Southwest Florida. He also taught music appreciation and wrote musical reviews, dividing his time between Fort Myers and France.
Maestro Paul Nadler was Gulfshore Opera's musical director for 16 years, and today is a conductor with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.


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Come and learn about maca with Dr Corin Storkey and Sally Huapaya – a young New Zealand and Peruvian couple who are founders and directors of Seleno Health. They live an work part- time in Peru with their maca farmer and community and run a volunteer program that brings kiwis to Peru to experience life in a remote Andean community. Their maca research program studies the bioactive chemicals in maca and recent findings have begun to unlock the secrets behind it's mode of action. To hear more about the medicinal properties, how to prepare and use maca and the realities for the farmers and communities who grow it book you spot today.
Maca is one of the world's most unique and powerful medicinal superfoods and has amazing potential as a therapeutic. It only grows above 3800m in a tiny area of the world on a high mountain plateau in the region of Junin, Peru. As a medicinal it has been the centre of Inca culture, history and spirituality for over 2000 years. For the people of Junin who continue to cultivate it, it has a great spiritual and cultural significance and is celebrated for the benefits it provides.
Dr Corin Storkey and Sally Huapaya are a young New Zealand and Peruvian couple who are founders and directors of a boutique health company called Seleno Health. Sally's family are from the Junin region of Peru and she grew up immersed in the farming culture of the Andes that defines the Incan descendants of the region. Her grandad was one of the many farmers who left his farm to seek opportunities in the city as he, like so many others from the region believed that there was no future in farming in Peru, despite sitting on top of an agricultural gold mine. Sally had spent her life seeing first-hand the destruction of her culture, history and heritage at the hands of global consumerism as the world began to demand their rich agricultural resources.


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2015 has been a wonderful year for Bell House Nursery. It is the year we celebrated our 3rd year anniversary and we have enjoyed welcoming all our new families, strengthening our relationships with our existing ones and meeting some gorgeous new arrivals along the way too! We would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to all our wonderful parents for the opportunities you give us and the trust you place in us to nurture your little ones. It is the most rewarding job in the world and we thank you for your support and continued communication to ensure we are always performing at our best. Our passion here at Bell House is to provide a safe, caring and inclusive environment where all children are happy, stimulated and relaxed and are able to develop to their absolute full potential and would like to thank our wonderful team of staff here at Bell House who help make our vision a reality. We look forward to continuing our mission in 2016 and to all that this brand new year will bring.
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The pre-school production of Whoops-a-Daisy Angel was delightfully received by our parents last week! Held on Thursday and Friday at the Church of St Peter and St Paul in the town centre, the children were incredibly well behaved, followed direction and sang their hearts out with much festive glee (one little individual in particular!) From sensational shepherds and angelic angels to beautiful snowflakes and the 3 fabulous kings, and of course Mary, Joseph and Whoops-a-Daisy Angel himself – all performed their roles wonderfully. A huge well done to Katie for putting on such a lovely, organised and well received production.
Our superstar pre-schoolers have been practicing hard for their Christmas production of Whoops-a-Daisy Angel and we look forward to seeing our Dragonfly parents on Thursday and Friday for the performances!! Expect much enthusiastic singing, some classic costumes and a hint of chaos (and pretty much the same for the children too!) We now have the increased capacity of the church for both days so please feel free to bring as many family members and friends as you would like! All are welcome and tickets can be bought on the door for 50p each.
We have been spending some time redeveloping our website to better communicate what Bell House nursery has to offer but to also open up communication channels with our parents. Please take a good look around the site which is now updated with fresh, up to date content, pictures, videos and resources. We endeavour to keep the website completely up to date so you can use it as a valuable resource when looking for information regarding the nursery. We are also re-starting our blog which will be updated throughout each week with news, updates, insight and relevant information (and hopefully a bit of fun too!) to keep you all updated and to hopefully start some dialogue between our Bell House community. On that note, we are also creating a brand new shiny Facebook page, coming in January 2016! Our hope is that this too will become a resource and source of communication for the nursery and all our wonderful parents. Keep an eye on the page as we will be updating it each week with updates, snippets of news, pictures and more.


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Tummy trouble is never a fun thing. Aches and pains can keep you from enjoying your meal, going to work and in general are unpleasant interruptions in your daily life. But because your stomach can't speak (well, verbally), it's sometimes hard to interpret exactly what could be wrong – especially with all the different conditions, foods and myths floating around out there.
1. If I swallow gum, does it really take seven years to digest?
It's doesn't seem that hard to believe that gum could hang around for a long time in your stomach, since, unlike other foods, it doesn't dissolve in your mouth when you chew it. However, gum really doesn't stick to your insides and cause any digestive problems. Instead, your digestive system moves gum along, just like everything else that's passing through, and eliminates it within a few days.
2. Does spicy food cause stomach ulcers?
For a long time, it was thought that eating spicy foods increased ulcer risks. But science finally caught up to this myth; it's now understood that the majority of stomach ulcers are caused either by an infection with a bacterium called Helicobacterpyloiri (H.pylori) or by use of pain medications such as aspirin, ibuprofen or naproxen (NSAIDs). That said, spicy foods may certainly aggravate an existing ulcer in some people, but they do not cause them.


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US Attorney Indicts DBSI Inc. And Top Executive With Securities Fraud Related To The Sale Of Phony Private Placements
On April 10, 2013, the United States Attorney filed an indictment in the United States District Court for the District of Ohio against DBSI Inc. ("DBSI"), a Boise, Idaho real estate company and one of the largest syndicators of fake private placements, as well as four of DBSI's top executives, with 83 charges, including but not limited to, conspiracy to commit securities fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud and interstate transportation of stolen property. See United States of America vs. Douglas L. Swenson, Mark A. Ellison, David D. Swenson, Jeremy S. Swenson, CR. No. 13-0091-SBLW. The DBSI executives named in the indictment are Douglas Swenson, co-founder and former president, Mark Ellison, co-founder and general counsel, and David and Jeremy Swenson, Douglas Swenson's sons and assistant secretaries. According to the indictment, DBSI was operating like a Ponzi scheme by using new investor funds to pay returns to other investors. DBSI would raise new investor funds by two fraudulent schemes: one involved defrauding investors of $89 million through sales of high yield notes in 2008; the second involved the fraudulent sale of securities known as tenant-in-common 1031 exchanges. According to the indictment, DBSI lost most of investor funds through loans to technology startups from 1999 through 2008, as well as through the sale of the tenant-in-common 1031 exchanges, which lost DBSI approximately $3 million per month. From January 2007 through November 2008, DBSI and its executives misrepresented the firm's financial strength and profitability when they knew that DBSI was unprofitable. Notably, DBSI raised a significant amount of funds through independent small to midsized broker-dealers, two of which were Medical Capital Holdings Inc. and Provident Royalties LLC.
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The five level Atria Mall is the place to buy luxury products and international designer brands like Nine West, La Senza, Aldo, Anita Dongre, Benetton. There is also a Rolls Royce showroom. The Eco Corner store is worth checking out for its unique range of environmentally friendly home and bath accessories, made by villagers. In addition to shops and a food court, this mall also has a 4-D cinema and large entertainment zone.


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Tag Archives: Western Maryland
General Assembly, redistricting
Redistricting's Biggest Losers
August 20, 2019 David Lublin
The current crop of state legislators is just one year into their current term. But after next year's session they'll have to begin grappling with redistricting—one of the most potentially divisive issues that the General Assembly faces. The State Constitution gives Republican Governor Hogan the upper hand in theory. However, the Democratic supermajority can impose their own plan if they remain united.
Population shifts along with Maryland's requirement to adhere to county and municipal boundaries where possible without violating the federal Voting Rights Act create clear winners and losers in the process.
Which districts are most below the ideal population for a district? Once again, Baltimore City looks set to play an evil game of musical chairs, as its districts will be below the ideal district population. Here are the districts falling shortest in population according to the 2013-2017 American Community Survey estimates:
Baltimore City District 40, 86.5% of ideal.
Baltimore City District 45, 90.6%.
Baltimore County District 44B (2 delegates), 92.5%.
Baltimore County District 43, 93.0%.
Allegany/Washington Counties 1C (1 delegate), 93.3%.
Prince George's District 25, 93.4%.
Baltimore City District 44A, 93.8%.
Prince George's District 23A (1 delegate), 94.0%.
Garrett/Allegany Counties 1A (1 delegate), 94.8%.
Allegany County 1B (1 delegate), 95.7%.
As these estimates are based on surveys conducted between 2013 and 2017, they likely indicate only 50% of the decade's changes. Unless population dynamics change a lot towards the end of the 2010s, these areas will likely be farther below the state requirement by the 2020 Census.
When possible, Maryland reallocates prisoners back to their home last place of residence, which may aid some districts a bit but will further hurt districts where prisons are located. For example, prisoners housed at Frostburg located in District 1, already one of the biggest losers, will be allocated back to their previous residence where possible. As in past decades, District 1 will have to continue its steady march east into Washington County with Garrett's share of District 1A declining again.
Baltimore City faces a much greater challenge. It currently has five full legislative districts along with a one delegate subdistrict. However, based on the survey, it only now merits 4.85 districts. One delegate is already gone with Subdistrict 44A the obvious nominee to take the hit.
My guess is that, even after adding prisoners back, population figures could make the case for taking one more delegate away (i.e. straddling one district into Baltimore County as now). No doubt Baltimore legislators will fight fiercely to keep the whole district within the City in the name of respecting municipal boundaries. Republicans won't like this idea but will be ill-positioned to stop it if Democrats can remain united around a plan.
Assuming Baltimore City succeeds in staunching the hemorrhage, Districts 40 would slide west and District 41 would ooze south to eat up disappearing District 44A. Districts 43, 45 and 46 would then move west a bit into current Districts 40 and 41 to even out population across the City a bit. Other line changes could occur if, for example, a powerful legislator wants to draw the home of a possible challenger or successor out or into the district.
The fun and acrimony are just getting started.
Baltimore CityRedistrictingWestern Maryland
Looking Ahead to Redistricting the General Assembly, Part I
September 15, 2017 David Lublin
Today, I begin a series looking at the likely impact of redistricting the General Assembly based on the latest population estimates for 2020. Note that the estimates are based on the population–not the population after the prison population has been redistributed to their homes as required by Maryland law.
This region of the State was slightly underrepresented–at least before the prison population was redistributed–with two districts after 2010 but will merit exactly this number in 2020. District 1A, centered on Garrett, may need to take in a bit more of Allegany with Garrett comprising just over two-thirds of the district.
District 1B can remain wholly within Allegany but District 1C may need to move further into Washington County to make up the numbers depending upon how the lines are drawn. The remainder of Washington will remain District 2.
Except for Wicomico, all Eastern Shore counties will merit very slightly less representation in Annapolis in 2020. The changes, however, are so small that few alterations should be expected unless mapmakers want to realign boundaries for other reasons, such as efforts to shore up or to weaken Sen. Jim Mathias (D 38).
District 38's subdistricts could also be rearranged. Prior to 2010, there were two instead of three subdistricts with the smaller of the two centered on Somerset. Democrats will surely want to keep District 38A and to keep it attached to African-American sections of Worcester in the hopes that—if Democrats ever bother to invest in upping Somerset's abysmal Democratic turnout—they could win a second delegate seat on the Shore. For now, it remains heavily Republican with incumbent Del. Otto winning easily with 60% in 2014.
District 37A will need to remain in place to protect African-American representation and satisfy the requirements of the Voting Rights Act. Democrats will want to keep it as it is the only district on the Shore certain to elect a Democrat.
Eastern ShoreWestern Maryland
Adam Pagnucco, Western Maryland
Baltimore County Young Dems Respond
April 24, 2017 David Lublin
Henry Callegary, Secretary of the Baltimore County Young Democrats, sent us the following response on his organization's email soliciting straw poll attendees for Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz. The County Executive, who is running for Governor, offered to pay expenses for up to twelve county Young Dems who agreed to vote in the poll.
It's true that the email was sent out by the Baltimore County Young Democrats. The Kamenetz campaign asked us to pass along information about the Western Maryland Democratic Summit to our membership, and we agreed to do so. BCYD supports opportunities for young people to get exposure to as many events as possible. It's always been our policy to forward information from Democratic candidates to our general membership, and we invite any and all Democrats to provide us details about upcoming events.
No response yet from Kamenetz.
Adam PagnuccoKevin KamenetzWestern Maryland
Is Kamenetz Trying to Rig the Western Maryland Straw Poll?
As we have previously written, the Western Maryland Democratic PAC is holding a summit event in Flintstone at the end of this month. The event will include a straw poll held on Saturday the 29th. And one prospective candidate is REALLY interested in making sure that event is well attended: Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz, who is running for Governor.
The following email was sent out by the Baltimore County Young Democrats (BCYD) soliciting attendance for the summit.
The contact in the email is Henry Callegary, Secretary of BCYD. We asked for confirmation and comment from both the County Executive's office and the three BCYD officers. None of them responded before publication time, but if they do get back to us, we will print what they say.
We will be interested to see what the other campaigns make of this. But in the meantime, if you are one of these straw voters, go ahead and rent the best wet-bar and Jacuzzi mega-suites Western Maryland has to offer! It's not like you're paying for them, yeah?
Adam Pagnucco, Bill Frick, Roger Manno, Western Maryland
Possible CD6 Candidates Gather in Western Maryland
With District 6 Congressman John Delaney telling the Sun he is considering a race for Governor and Delegate Bill Frick (D-16) starting a Congressional campaign account, the chatter around CD6 is picking up. And that chatter is going to reach a fever pitch at the end of the month.
That's because the Western Maryland Democratic PAC is holding a "summit" event in Flintstone on April 28 and 29. The event (which requires registration) is described as "charting a progressive course in Western Maryland." And top billing in the email announcement goes to two familiar names: Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz and Total Wine co-owner David Trone.
Kamenetz, of course, is running for Governor. But what of Trone? His website says he is considering a run for Montgomery County Executive. But his attendance at the Western Maryland event (and the money he must have contributed to be listed as a "Presenting Sponsor") suggests that he is keeping a CD6 option open. Trone's self-funding capacity allows him significant timetable flexibility.
But that's not all. The solicitation states that Delegate Frick and Senator Roger Manno (D-19) will also be attending. Manno is a labor favorite and is known to be interested in the CD6 seat.
Congratulations to the Western Maryland Democratic PAC for setting up such a juicy event. Get your tickets here, folks!
Adam Pagnuccobill frickCD6David TroneRoger MannoWestern Maryland
polarization, Republicans, senate
Republican Senate Conservatism Varies–But Not Too Much
November 20, 2014 David Lublin
Today, 7S looks at Republicans using the data provided by Boris Shor and Nolan McCarty of state legislator ideology. Remember that a more positive score indicates a more conservative senator, so the bottom of the table are the most conservative. Put another way, the closer to zero, the more moderate the senator. These scores are for the legislator's entire career in the General Assembly and include House as well as Senate service.
Republican scores range from 0.330 for Sen. George Edwards (R-Garrett, Allegany and Washington) and 1.200 for Senator-Elect Gail Bates (R-Howard). (Three incoming Republican senators do not have scores because they have never served in the General Assembly.) In contrast, the most progressive Democrat, Sen. Rich Madaleno (D-Montgomery), has a score of -1.864 and the most moderate Democrat, Sen. Jim Brochin (D-Baltimore County) receives a rating of -0.285.
Two of the three most moderate Republicans represent Western Maryland–Edwards and Sen. Christopher Shank (R-Washington). However, the two Eastern Shore Republicans are not close ideologically with Senator-Elect Addie Eckardt (R-Mid Shore) more moderate than Sen. Steve Hershey (R-Upper Shore).
Similarly, the two Anne Arundel senators are not an ideological matched set. Sen. Ed Reilly (R-Anne Arundel) is the second most conservative senator while Sen. Bryan Simonaire (Anne Arundel) is more moderate, though the ideological distance is smaller than for the two Shore Republicans.
Perhaps most critical is that all Republicans are notably more conservative than all Democrats. The distance between the most moderate Democrat and Republican (0.615) is greater than that between the most conservative Republican, Senator-Elect Bates, and the second most "moderate" Republican, Senator-Elect Eckardt. And even the most moderate Republcian, Sen. Edwards, is closer to all but three Republicans than the most moderate Democrat.
Addie EckardtBoris ShorBryan SimonaireChristopher ShankEastern ShoreEd ReillyGail BatesGeorge EdwardsNolan McCartySteve HersheyWestern Maryland
Western Maryland, Young Guns
Top Six Young Guns of Western MD
April 30, 2014 John Gallagher
I've focused on the Democrats here but also included one exciting young Republican. The five Democrats:
1. Melissa Joseph – Melissa is whip smart and perhaps the most charming member of Maryland's political class. With an extensive experience in the offices of Ron Young, Rob Garagiola and Chris Van Hollen, Melissa is a triple threat: she's effective at the federal, state and campaign levels.
2. Ethan West – At 18, Ethan is a bit of prodigy. Whether with labor groups or on Rob Garagiola's congressional campaign, Ethan has always proved himself a tremendous asset. I wouldn't be surprised to see him as a union political director in Annapolis in a few years.
3. Matt Ferrante – Infectiously charming and smart to boot, Matt will go as far in politics as he wants. We may be talking about Delegate Ferrante in 2018. He was the undeniable breakout star of Rob Garagiola's unsuccessful congressional bid.
4. Ryan Trout – An Americorps Alum, Ryan ran a spirited campaign in District 4A as a Democrat–not an easy task. He then moved to Frederick City, served as Ron Young's Chief of Staff for a few sessions and then got a job at the Frederick Housing Authority. The next time there's an open seat in District 3A (and no one with the last name Young throws their hat in the ring), count on Ryan Trout being a major factor in the race.
5. Latia Hopkins – While Frostburg State Alum Latia "Tia" Hopins is Baltimore born and bred, she came into her political own as President of the Frostburg College Democrats. She built the club into a respected player inf Allegheny County Democratic Politics. She's currently in Grad School at George Washington University and serves on the board of the Young Democrats of Maryland.
And one Republican . . .
6. Chandler Thornton – While this Frederick County native is currently studying at American University, he also carries out the truly thankless task of serving as Chairman of the DC College Republicans. Democrats from Westminster to Oakland fear his return. Even before starting college, Chandler blazed an impressive path through the world of Free State Republicans logging time with the state party, Bob Ehrlich's 2010 Campaign, and in Roscoe Bartlett's congressional office. More recently, he worked on Romney's 2012 presidential effort in the early primary state of New Hampshire and later in battleground Virginia.
Chandler is Director of the prestigious Kennedy Political Union (KPU) at American University–an impressive post to have gained, especially for a Republican, at this very Democratic university. Interestingly, the KPU was founded by none other than District 17 Delegate Lou Simmons!
Brian TroutChandler ThorntonEthan WestLatia HopkinsMatt FerranteMelissa JosephWestern MarylandYoung Guns
District 1, Garrett County, Western Maryland
D1, Pt. 1: Garrett County
Western Maryland District 1
District 1 contains all of Garrett and Allegany Counties as well as the westernmost section of Washington County. It's the most Appalachian section of the State and in many ways resembles West Virginia more closely than our suburban dominated state.
The division of District 1 into three subdistricts helps assure that Garrett and Allegany can each elect at least one delegate. According to the 2010 Census, three-quarters of District 1A's population lives in Garrett to just one-quarter in Allegany.
Republican Sen. George Edwards, first elected in 2006, has an easy ride to reelection as he has no primary or general election opposition. Edwards has deep roots in Garrett County politics. He served six terms in the House representing Garrett County prior to his election to the Senate.
Even earlier, he was on the Garrett Board of Commissioners and the Grantsville Town Council. Edwards' electoral success means that no member of the Senate hails from Allegany even though it population is 2.5 times larger than that of Garrett. Though Garrett punches above its weight in General Assembly representation, the membership of its delegate and senator in the minority Republican Caucus limits their influence.
Garrett is the second smallest and most Republican county in Maryland. Its Republicanism dates back to the Civil War and reflects the pro-Union sympathies of Appalachia. Mitt Romney won 74% of the vote, more than any other county in Maryland by nine points.
District 1A in Garrett and Allegany Counties
Like Garrett, the Allegany sections of 1A are very Republican. Mitt Romney carried roughly 70% of the vote there. Former one-term Garrett County Commissioner Wendell Beitzel, a Republican, followed Edwards as District 1A's representative in the House of Delegates. Though Beitzel won the GOP primary with just 31% and the general election by 56% in 2006, he faced no significant opposition in 2010. Like Edwards, Beitzel faces no opposition in the primary or general election this year.
District 1 Rating: Edwards Unopposed.
District 1A Rating: Beitzel Unopposed.
Part II discusses the rest of District 1, located primarily in Allegany County.
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