The MASTECH MS6818 Underground Wire Cable Metal Pipe Locator Detector Tester consists of a signal transmitter and a receiver, widely used in the construction and maintenance of communication cables, power cables, metal pipes, and much more. Current and voltage conducting cables, electrical circuits, conduits, water and heating pipelines, fuses, switches can all be located. Short circuits and interruptions of assorted lines and cables can be detected. Even better, the detection is possible not only underground but also in walls and concrete.
● Product Size : 190mm x 89mm x 42.5mm / 7.48" x 3.5" x 1.67"
● Product Size : 241.5mm x 78mm x 38.5mm / 9.5" x 3" x 1.5"


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Contratación sostenible, adquisición sostenible o compra verde es un proceso de inversión y gasto típicamente asociado con el sector público, aunque es igualmente aplicable al sector privado.

Las organizaciones que practican la contratación sostenible logran satisfacer sus necesidades de bienes, servicios y obras, no mediante un análisis de coste-beneficio limitado a ellas mismas, sino con una visión de maximizar los beneficios netos para ellas mismas y el resto del mundo.

Al hacerlo, deben incorporar consideraciones de costes externos en sus decisiones de compra, junto a los criterios convencionales de contratación (precio y calidad). Estas consideraciones suelen dividirse así: ambiental, económica y social (terna también conocida como la "triple línea de base").

No existe una definición única de las compras sostenibles —entre otras cosas porque la sostenibilidad es un concepto controvertido— y las aplicaciones varían a lo largo de la jerarquía de la organización y del sector.

Aplicaciones

Sector Público

En el sector público se conoce también por su denominación en inglés Green Public Procurement (GPP).

Gobierno central y organizaciones internacionales

En el Gobierno central, las compras sostenibles se ven típicamente como la aplicación de criterios de desarrollo sostenible a las decisiones de gasto e inversión. Teniendo en cuenta las cuestiones de alto impacto social, económico y ambiental, como la globalización, el cambio climático y la energía nuclear, los gobiernos se preocupan cada vez más de que sus acciones satisfagan las necesidades del presente sin comprometer las necesidades del futuro.

El Reino Unido en 2005 se comprometió a ser un líder en prácticas sostenibles de adquisición en 2009 y encargó a la empresa de dirección comercial Fuerza de Tareas sobre Adquisiciones Sostenibles que formulara la estrategia apropiada. Las estrategias de adquisición de base amplia ocupan un lugar destacado en toda la Unión Europea, mientras que es una preocupación cada vez más influyente en otros lugares, sobre todo en Canadá.

Gobiernos autónomos y locales

A nivel de mercado, la adquisición sostenible es típicamente instrumental: las autoridades tratan de abordar la política a través de adquisiciones.

Los departamentos gubernamentales y las entidades locales pueden recurrir a la contratación verde para la compra de soluciones que contribuyan a los objetivos de la comunidad o al medio ambiente, o para objetivos de diversidad o igualdad.

La contratación verde puede ayudar a los gobiernos locales a ahorrar dinero, crear empleos verdes locales y mejorar su sostenibilidad ambiental. Bajo los criterios de compra sostenible, cualquier organización contratante debe tener por tanto un enfoque amplio de la sostenibilidad, reflejando necesidades localizadas de tipo económico, ambiental y social, así como los objetivos transversales de desarrollo sostenible , como el coste de la vida útil.

Para ayudar a los gobiernos locales a mejorar la sostenibilidad y reducir los impactos ambientales, la Alianza de la Sostenibilidad de California, ha desarrollado un paquete de herramientas de adquisiciones ambientales.

Sector Privado

La contratación sostenible es aplicable tanto al sector privado como del sector público, y por supuesto sus promotores aspiran a ver su aplicación en todos los ámbitos de la economía. Influir en la práctica de contratación dentro de una empresa del sector privado no es sencillo para los gobiernos, lo que significa que las propias empresas a menudo tienen que  automotivarse para abrazar la sostenibilidad.

El PLan de Acción Nacional de Adquisiciones Sostenibles del Reino Unido (UK's Sustainable Procurement National Action Plan) mantiene que es "lo mejor del sector privado ya lo está haciendo - bien a través de un preclaro liderazgo o bien mediante presión de los accionistas". También mantiene que el poder adquisitivo del Gobierno (alrededor de 150 mil millones de libras en el Reino Unido) puede aplicar principios de adquisición sostenible para presentar un caso convincente a todas aquellas personas del sector privado resistente a las prácticas de adquisición sostenible.

Véase también

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Contratación Pública Sostenible Grupo de Trabajo
 El alcalde de Londres, la Asamblea de Londres y la Autoridad del Gran Londres
 ICLEI - Gobiernos Locales por la Sustentabilidad, Equipo de Adquisiciones Sostenibles
 Centro de Recursos del Instituto Serco: publicaciones sobre Adquisiciones Sostenibles
 Ofertas de empleo verde
 La Unión Europea y la contratación pública verde: Green Public Procurement (GPP)
 Comprar Inteligentemente - Información sobre compras verdes
 Suiza
 Estándar Británico 8903. Principios y marco para la adquisición de forma sostenible. Guía.

Contratación pública

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NDM Coronavirus research
Additional information on the Universities Coronavirus research efforts can be found on the Coronavirus Research pages.
Pandemic preparedness - ISARIC
Despite the social and economic impact of epidemic infections, historically very little clinical research has been done to find better ways to prevent, diagnose and treat these infections. This is because outbreaks are unpredictable in their timing, location and magnitude, they start and finish quickly, they often occur in resource-poor settings, and the outbreaks themselves disrupt the delivery of healthcare. The International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infection Consortium (ISARIC) aims to address these difficulties and led by NDM's Professor Peter Horby, ISARIC is a world-wide, grass-roots consortium of clinical research networks, responsible for a series of initiatives in capacity-building and pandemic preparedness. ISARIC has previously been deployed against a variety of epidemic infections, including pandemic influenza, Ebola, Lassa fever, and plague.
ISARIC's pre-positioned 'epidemic' research protocols were used to publish the first clinical report of COVID19 in Wuhan in January 2020. ISARIC has most recently provided a platform for leading UK responses to COVID-19, including the UKRI and DHSC funded ISARIC-4C (Coronavirus Clinical Characterisation Consortium), the world's largest prospective observational COVID-19 study. ISARIC has also supported the UKRI and DHSC funded RECOVERY (Randomised Evaluation of COVid-19 thERapY) Trial which Peter is leading. The NDM hosts the ISARIC database.
Access to the ISARIC protocols and ethical frameworks in the UK has been a major reason for the rapidity of our scientific research response and ability to prosecute the pre-clinical development of vaccines and other therapies.
National serology testing and decision-making
The NDM has created a high throughput robotic serology testing platform reporting anti-SARS-2 Spike antibody levels in people exposed to the virus (>99% sensitivity and specificity). The diverse project team of clinical and non-clinical staff from the NHS, NDM, Rosalind Franklin Institute and Diamond Light Source has been led by Professors David Stuart and Derrick Crook. It has brought together our expertise anti-viral humoral immunity, our ability to produce high quality antigens, and our strength in clinical microbiology and infectious diseases. The NDM has formed a strategic alliance with Thermo Fisher to support the platforms and transition to a capacity of up to 50,000 assays/24hr.
Since 26th April, we have been reporting data to the UK government on SARS-Cov2 immunity in the UK population. This forms part of an Office of National Statistics COVID19 Survey led by Professor Sarah Walker. The platform has been used to survey UK BioBank and 10,000 NHS staff in Oxford. Our reagents and protocols have been shared and used to establish serology screens in our overseas units, notably in Kenya. Going forward, our experience in establishing the assay and ability to generate high quality antigens, provides us with the capacity to respond rapidly to future pandemic threats.
Our team has used our platform to compare routine laboratory and home commercial serology kits and provide validate antigens for the development of lateral flow tests, both at the request of the UK government.
Read about how Oxford ramps up COVID-19 testing capability.
Oxford vaccine: individual and herd immunity
Professor Sarah Gilbert in the NDM's Jenner Institute had pioneered chimpanzee adenovirus-vectored vaccines against disease including influenza, tuberculosis and prostate cancer. Recently she showed that the ChAdOx1 vector can be used to make vaccines that are protective against Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), a coronavirus related to SARS-CoV-2 affecting camels and their human contacts. Professor Gilbert and Professor Adrian Hill (Director of the Jenner Institute) are co-founders of an Oxford University spin-out, Vaccitech, based on her viral-vectored vaccines.
In January 2020, Professor Gilbert adapted the ChAdOx1 vector to express the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, and the NDM agreed to underwrite a £1M contact with an Italian contractor manufacturer, Advent and to accelerate GMP manufacturing of trial doses in its on Clinical Biomanufacturing Facility (led by Professor Cath Green). Animal studies in March 2020 in Rocky Mountain Laboratories in the USA and at the PHE in Porton Down funded by CEPI, UKRI and DHSC, showed the vaccine was safe and protective against virus in the lungs.
On 27th March, the Jenner team started recruitment of 510 human participants for a phase I/II trial; and on the 30th April, AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford signed a deal for the global development and distribution of the vaccine. Research Trials have continued in the UK, South Africa and Brazil under the leadership of Professor Andy Pollard, with immunological testing in the Jenner laboratories led by Professor Tess Lambe and Professor Gilbert. The NDM transferred the manufacturing processes, which had been led by Dr Sandy Douglas, to AstraZeneca.
More information on the Covid-19 Vaccine breakthrough.
Holding back the tide - Mobile Phone Apps
Although it can provide a definitive solution to pandemic threat, even the most accelerated vaccination programme takes too long; therefore, our efforts have turned to other solutions to control the spread of infection or the severity of disease.
On 5th March 2020, Christophe Fraser, Professor of Pathogen Dynamics in the NDM, and Dr David Bonsall submitted a paper to Science describing their idea that digital contact tracing with mobile phones could play a role in helping to contain the epidemic spread of the SARS-COV-2 virus. Described by many people as brilliant and inspirational, the concept is theoretically generalisable to the control of any contagious disease. Professor Fraser's proposal led to the development of Phone Tracking Apps by the NHS, Google, Apple and government agencies internationally. The UK government played an important role in making this important UK technological and conceptual advance available to its partners overseas.
Contact tracing apps have been introduced across Europe and other countries. In the UK, on the 5th May 2020 an App developed by NHS-X was trialled on the Isle of Wight. One month later, there was evidence this had reduced transmission on the island but issues with the proximity detection system on iPhones led to it being abandoned. On the 13th August, a second trial using a Google/Apple platform was launched on the lsle of Wight and in the London Borough of Newnham.
Drug Trials - RECOVERY
The UKRI and DHSC funded RECOVERY (Randomised Evaluation of COVid-19 thERapY) Trial is led by NDM's Professor Peter Horby, with deputy director Professor Martin Landray from the Nuffield Department of Population Health.
RECOVERY has been widely recognised as a triumph of delivery and speed: its innovative and adaptive multi-arm trial protocol was drafted on 10th March 2020, before WHO declared the pandemic; and its first patient was recruited on 19th March 2020, four days before lockdown in the UK. RECOVERY was rapidly embedded across the NHS, and it has become the largest randomised control trial looking at potential treatments for treatment in COVID-19 in hospitalised patients worldwide. The 10,000th patient was recruited on 14th May 2020.
On 9th June 2020, RECOVERY provided the first robust evidence that Hydroxychloroquine was not an effective COVID-19 treatment for active disease. Then on 16th June 2020, it reported that dexamethasone was effective in reducing mortality by up to 35% in patients on supplemental oxygen or ventilated. This was the first treatment shown to reduce mortality in COVID-19 disease. It has been calculated that the implementation of dexamethasone, which is cheap, will directly save 10,000's of lives worldwide.
In August 2020, it was decided that RECOVERY will be extended as RECOVERY-International, starting with NDM's OUCRU in Vietnam, and it will remain embedded in the NHS as a vehicle for testing new treatments for respiratory infections over coming years.
Anti-viral drug discovery
Since January 2020, staff from NDM's Structural Biology Division (STRUBI), Diamond and the Rosalind Franklin Institute have worked to create, characterise and distribute a wide variety of SARS-Cov-2 viral proteins for the purposes of drug screens. This has evolved into a UK wide COVID-19 Protein Production Consortium (CPPC).
Amongst 29 SAR-Cov2 specific proteins, there are several potentially druggable enzymes and proteins inhibiting anti-viral immunity; and several of these could be targeted in all coronaviruses to provide defence against future pandemics. STRUBI scientists working at Diamond solved the structure of the SARS-CoV-2 main protease and completed a large XChem crystallographic fragment screen against it, which was led by Professor Frank von Delft (XChem) The follow up on this initiative was managed externally through an open crowdsourcing and crowd-funding initiative, the COVID Moonshot. On 11th May, the first biochemical and structural data from Moonshot compounds was released and by the 12th June over 500 compounds had been tested, demonstrating that the design-make-test process was fully in place.
In seeking to target other coronaviral specific enzymes NDM scientists have solved structures for the SARS-Cov-2 viral RNA polymerase (Professor Jonathan Grimes), and papain-like protease, which also inhibits the interferon responses by deubiquitinylating host proteins. In collaboration with partners in ExScientia and the Weizmann Institute, Professor Stuart's team have screened the 15K Gates' ReFRAME library of licensed drugs, identifying two potential inhibitors amongst licenced drugs.
Antibody and nanobody therapeutics
Some months prior to the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, Professor David Stuart in collaboration with Arthur Huang (Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan) piloted a pipeline for comprehensive, atomic level, analysis of neutralising antibody responses in four Hand Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD) child patients infected during the 2012 EV71 B5 epidemic (unpublished). In brief, some 50% of the antibodies in 4 children were found to be against this virus, and of these ~50% were neutralising. The number of unique antibodies was rather small so a comprehensive structural analysis of the antibodies and their interaction with EV71 was performed for 13 antibodies providing a comprehensive in-depth map of antibody responses, which revealed unexpected insight into focussing of responses in individuals.
This work was a prelude to the activity triggered by the COVID-19 outbreak, which has brought together groups from across the NDM (notably Professors Gavin Screaton, Alain Townsend, David Stuart) to rapidly map out immune responses to SARS-CoV-2. This has linked to work with NDM Professor Jim Naismith, the Director of the RFI, to develop potent nanobodies, and with Professor Peijun Zhang for tomography on whole virus. The Screaton Lab (WHG) has generated >200 virus specific antibodies with varying isotypes some with sub-nanomolar binding affinities.
Pathology of COVID19 disease - clues to future treatment
The key to future treatment of COVID19 and other coronaviral threats remains in understanding the underlying pathology. The same is true for many other diseases for which we lack adequate forms of treatment, and the NDM is prioritising new paradigms of molecular pathology that explore disease at the levels of cells and their relationships. The COVID19 outbreak has been an opportunity to develop this capacity further.
The Oxford COVID19 Pathology Project comprises 119 scientists spanning Medical Sciences and Mathematics, Physical and Life Sciences Divisions, and is chaired by NDM's Professor Paul Klenerman. The consortium has collected over 100 clinical samples from age matched COVID19 patients presenting with mild, severe or critical disease in hospital or mild disease outside hospital, and hospitalised patients with influenza or sepsis, and unaffected controls. This was led by work led by Dr Alex Mentzer, linking to ISARIC, Bio-AID, UK-Gains and our own Oxford Healthcare worker study.
The following work-packages (with lead investigators) will be reported on our database:
WP1: Humoral Immunity (Gavin Screaton)
WP2: COMBAT: Deep Phenotyping (Julian Knight)
WP3: Inflammatory Response and Haematology (Fiona Powrie)
WP4: T cell Immunity (Graham Ogg)
WP5: Data Integration (Julian Knight, Brian Marsden and John Todd)
WP6: Prospective 10,000 Oxford Healthcare Workers Study (Chris Conlon)
International Research Consortium
Coronovirus outbreak knowledge hub
Clinical research federation responses
Advice and Updates
NDM Business Continuity and Operations
COVID-19 INFECTION SURVEY
ONS FAQ
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COvid-19 Vaccine Immune Genetics

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Dave remains responsible for setting and driving Activata's strategy through extensive network distribution, robust technologies and a comprehensive product set comprising major brands.
In his early years working for leading telco companies, Dave drove enormous expansion of phone cards in New Zealand by marketing phone cards to the public beyond the traditional student, tourist and migrant market.
His early recognition of the gift card opportunity within New Zealand led Ezi-Pay to deliver the country's first gift card malls into high foot traffic retail locations in time for Christmas trading in 2007, less than 8 months after the idea's conception.
Dave's wide ranging strategic skills have seen him successfully develop a number of companies within the competitive industries of electricity (Director Empower Ltd, now owned by Contact Energy), telecommunications (National Sales Manager, Telstra NZ) and Eftpos (MD, Netco, purchased by Provenco) solutions.
Phil has worked for over 11 years' in the payments industry and has many years of sales and sales management in various industries from office equipment, information security and Vodka, Phil helped to establish 42 BELOW in the Australia/ New Zealand market.
Phil's role encompasses the management of our key supplier and content partner relationships. During his 4 year stint at Ezi-Pay, Phil was integral to the successful delivery of the Gift Station and to its ongoing success, by establishing relationships with and delivering value to significant brands as both content providers and vending outlets.
Phil's sales and management skills, combined with his experience in prepay at both Ezi-Pay and more recently as New Zealand Business Manager with InComm, the American market leader in prepay, leave him ideally placed to assist New Zealand businesses to use prepay to their best advantage.
Mal is responsible for the sales, account management and merchandising team who have taken care of the thousands of convenience stores in our network since the inception of Ezi-Pay (now Activata).
Relationship management and a strong "can do" attitude are central to the high degree of retailer and team loyalty and retention Activata has enjoyed through Mal's strong and professional approach and leadership.
Shyam has worked in the telecommunications industry for over 10 years. His experience ranges from Product Development, to VOIP System and Solution Designs for Business customers. He enjoys being out in the field working with customers onsite and has a real hands on approach to his work. He is passionate about providing great service and ensuring customer satisfaction for his clients.
Shyam's current role as Operations Manager has him overseeing the operational side of the Activata Business, managing the support, provisioning and warehousing teams. In his spare time you could find him either on the football field, or at his local driving range.


The Steering Committee is the collegiate body of the Doctorate School of the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC) and is also responsible for the internal quality assurance system of the Doctorate School.
The Vice-Rector of Research, Innovation and Transference, who serves as the chairman.
The Steering Committee may also include a representative from an organisation or institution with which collaboration agreements have been signed.
Acting as a direct liaison between the Doctorate School and the University's Governing Board.
Overseeing the University's research strategy and policies, defining the University's range of doctorate courses and their fields, and developing a strategic overview of the sociocultural context, trends, the importance of the transfer of knowledge, etc.
Defining collaboration policies with other entities and drawing up the necessary agreements to be approved by the relevant bodies.
Reviewing proposals for new doctoral programmes or modifications of existing ones, reporting to the Governing Board and the Board of Trustees and submitting them to these bodies for approval.
Organising, coordinating, defining and updating the doctoral programmes.
Establishing the requirements for becoming a member of the Doctorate Academic Committees.
Approving the composition of the Academic Committees of the respective doctoral programmes and the inclusion and/or termination of members.
Approving the range of activities offered as part of the training and development of doctoral candidates.
Ensuring the smooth running of teaching and research activities. To fulfil this function, they may create monitoring committees with the composition and duties they determine.
Defining the requirements and admission criteria for doctoral candidates applicable to all doctoral programmes, as well as any specific additional training that all doctoral candidates are required to follow, in accordance with Doctorate Academic Committees.
Establishing the mechanisms for assessing and monitoring doctoral candidates, applicable to all the doctoral programmes.
Defining the requirements to be a thesis supervisor and the monitoring procedures necessary to guarantee the quality of doctoral theses and, where applicable, any additional requirements for thesis supervisors and the number of theses that a researcher may supervise or jointly supervise simultaneously.
Establishing the criteria for appointing specific Doctoral Candidate Committees which are required to assess the Research Plan of each doctoral candidate.
Establishing the institutional procedures for defending doctoral theses and appointing the members of the thesis board.
Establishing the criteria for appointing External Reviewers to assess the thesis before its defence.
Overseeing the quality and smooth running of doctoral programmes.
Ensuring the information on the doctoral programmes and their results is made public.
Publishing the list of doctorates each academic year.
Proposing any extraordinary doctorate prizes to the Executive Committee of the University's Governing Board.
Appointing the board to award the extraordinary doctorate prizes.
Establishing the mechanisms and procedures for designing, implementing, developing, monitoring and ensuring the continuous improvement of the Internal Quality Assurance System (IQAS).
Appointing the members of the Doctorate School Quality Committee.
Approving the improvement actions proposed by the Doctorate School Quality Committee and the monitoring and accreditation reports to be submitted to the autonomous Quality Agency.
Drawing up a global report of the results of the Doctorate School Quality Committee's assessment and monitoring activities and reporting these results to the Governing Board.
Dealing with suggestions and resolving any complaints or appeals that may be made against the decisions of the bodies responsible for the doctorates, especially those concerning admission to doctoral programmes and the assessment of students' performance.
Overseeing compliance with these regulations and proposing amendments which, if necessary, will be approved by the Governing Board.
Carrying out any other duties assigned by the corresponding regulations.


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package de.m7w3.signal.store

import de.m7w3.signal.store.model.{Contacts, GroupWithMembers, Groups}
import org.whispersystems.signalservice.api.messages.multidevice.{DeviceContact, DeviceGroup}

case class SignalDesktopApplicationStore(dBActionRunner: DBActionRunner) {
  def getContacts: Seq[DeviceContact] = {
    dBActionRunner.run(Contacts.contactsByName)
  }

  def saveContact(deviceContact: DeviceContact): Unit = {
    dBActionRunner.run(Contacts.insert(deviceContact))
    ()
  }

  def saveGroup(deviceGroup: DeviceGroup): Unit = {
    dBActionRunner.run(Groups.insert(deviceGroup))
    ()
  }

  def getGroups: Seq[GroupWithMembers] = {
    Groups.activeGroupsByName(dBActionRunner)
  }
}


In this Oct. 16, 2016, photo, a man at a South Korean railway station watches a TV news program showing a file image of a missile launch conducted by North Korea.
Despite the efforts of the last three American presidents, North Korea has continued advancing as a nuclear state. Can Donald Trump rein in the rogue state any better?
In a televised New Year's Day address to his nation, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un announced his resolve to develop a missile capable of reaching the U.S. mainland.
"We will continue to build up our self-defense capability, the pivot of which is the nuclear forces, and the capability for preemptive strike," he said.
His confidence drew skepticism from many North Korea security analysts, who noted that the issue has long confounded the international community — and that Trump hasn't detailed a strategy for dealing with the North.
The value of all the unpaid labor that North Koreans are forced to perform by their government amounts to around $975 million annually, according to a new report by Open North Korea, a Seoul-based NGO.
The United States and its allies have tried a variety of tools to prevent North Korea, one of the world's most isolated countries, from developing and deploying nuclear weapons.
But diplomatic negotiations stalled in 2008, and a series of economic sanctions and aid have at times slowed, but not stopped, North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
In the 1990s, then-President Clinton helped win agreement to close a North Korean nuclear facility in exchange for aid — a deal that ultimately fell apart. His successor, George W. Bush, sought a change in government in Pyongyang.
The Obama administration has demanded that Pyongyang denuclearize while also trying to get other countries in the region to oppose the country's efforts.
The strategies haven't worked. Most security experts now believe North Korea is, in fact, an established nuclear state — perhaps possessing more than a dozen devices. A key question now, analysts such as Delury say, is whether the nation has the tools to deploy the weapons globally.
North Korea has numerous missiles, some of them mobile and outfitted with reengineered Russian technology. America's allies in the region, such as Japan and South Korea, whose capital is 120 miles from Pyongyang, are already on edge about short- and intermediate-range capabilities.
Long-range missiles remain a major goal, and in his New Year's speech, Kim said the North Korean military was close to testing an intercontinental ballistic missile.
Since he took power in late 2011, Kim has supervised tests for dozens of missiles, including some that, in theory, could be launched from submarines. His country has also tested at least three nuclear devices, drawing ire from much of the international community, including Pyongyang's longtime ally China.
Given the North's advances in missile development, Trump's administration now faces fewer options than previous presidents. Some include convincing North Korea that its nuclear program threatens the Pyongyang government's survival. There's also the possibility of a negotiated agreement involving regional countries — and perhaps more economic and political pressure from China and Russia.
Chun Yung-woo, a former South Korean national security advisor who has participated in talks with North Korea, sees in Trump's confident tweets a leader who finally might make headway with Kim.
Duyeon Kim, a Seoul-based researcher at Georgetown University's Institute of the Study of Diplomacy, questioned, for example, Trump's decision to weigh in on Twitter.
Trump punctuated his recent tweet with "It won't happen!" Does that mean Trump does not believe North Korea can achieve the missile capacity, she asked, or that he will find a way to stop it? She said the president-elect's public resolve could be an opportunity for diplomacy — or a disaster.
Melissa Hanham, a senior research associate at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in California, said North Korea's desire for long-range missiles would be difficult for any president today to stop.
Delury, the Yonsei professor, took to Twitter to discuss the diplomatic opening in Kim's remarks. He also noted that Trump had been relatively restrained in his tweets — not personally insulting Kim, for example. The North Koreans, in turn, haven't attacked Trump.
"They have left themselves room to at least explore what a preliminary deal might look like," he said.


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Global Disability Summit: Disabled president's rousing defence of social model
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The disabled president of Ecuador has given a stirring speech in praise of the social model of disability, at a summit co-hosted in east London by the UK government.
President Lenin Moreno was one of the key-note speakers at the conference on the Olympic Park, which was hosted by the UK government, the International Disability Alliance and the Kenyan government.
Although he was described as the world's only head of state with a disability – which is highly unlikely – Moreno is thought to be the only one who uses a wheelchair.
The former UN special envoy told the Global Disability Summit in east London that he saw disability as "obstacles created by the environment" and coming from "structures and social conditioning", and said it was "essential to place disability within the discourse of rights".
Moreno became disabled after being shot in a robbery in 1998 and was elected president of Ecuador last year.
He told the summit how, after he became vice-president of Ecuador in 2007, he led on a sweeping series of policies – Ecuador Without Barriers – that aimed to transform life for disabled people in Ecuador.
This included the Solidarity Mission Manuela Espejo, an 18-month project to identify every disabled person in Ecuador – they found nearly 300,000 people with significant impairments and high support needs – and assess their needs.
They went, he said, "to the fullest reaches of the forest, the highest points of the mountains and the furthest points of the islands of Ecuador" to carry out the survey.
The government reportedly increased the country's spending on disability from about $100,000 a year to $65 million (another report described the increase as $2 million to $150 million) and reserved four per cent of jobs with significant employers for disabled people.
There were programmes to provide healthcare, assistive technology such as wheelchairs, canes, prosthetic limbs and hearings aids, and funding for local authorities to improve access to public buildings.
He spoke when he was vice-president of how on his visits around the country he had seen disabled people being hidden from view by their families in chicken coops and sheds.
He told the summit this week that disabled people had "been waiting for too long and they should not keep waiting, suffering abandonment, mistreatment and being hidden" and that Ecuador had needed a "cultural change" in the way it treated disabled people.
Moreno left government in 2013 at the end of his term as vice-president and was appointed as the special envoy on disability and accessibility by the UN's secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, with the UN describing him then as "a globally acclaimed advocate for persons with disabilities and inclusive society".
He told the summit that he had tried as the special envoy "to be a voice for millions of persons with disabilities" and to persuade every country to ratify – and then implement – the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
When he returned to government last year, he said, he found that much of his previous work on disability as vice-president "had been forgotten" and "all the things we had been fighting for and had built had been dismantled, forgotten or changed".
This meant he had had to start again "nearly from scratch" after he was elected president.
Some opponents in Ecuador have accused him of turning his back on his socialist roots since his election.
In April, the Financial Times reported how Moreno had "announced a package of economic measures that aims to pare back the country's bloated state apparatus and promote private enterprise, in a further departure from his socialist roots" and that he had "promised significant cuts to central government".
A small group of protesters were outside the summit in east London to protest at his appearance at the summit.
One of the protesters, Mayra Crean, said Moreno had changed his policies since his election and was now applying a "neoliberal agenda", cutting taxes for the rich and cutting spending.
She said: "He is cutting the budget for everybody – health, education, social care."
And she said it was "an embarrassment" and "ironic" that he was appearing at the summit as a representative of disabled people.
The right to employment for disabled people is still central, Moreno told the summit, as most disabled people in his country live in poverty, do not have their own homes and do not work.
He said: "Our objective now is all persons with disabilities who can and want to work should be able to do it. They have the right to work."
He added: "Our objective is to become a society promoting full inclusion of persons with disabilities, where they can train, study, work, enjoy life, have fun."
But he also pledged his commitment to working with disabled people on policies affecting them, telling the summit: "The historic model of those who drafted the [UN] convention, 'nothing about us without us', is at the heart of the principles of my government."
And he reaffirmed his commitment to the social model of disability, telling the summit that his government's objective was a "human rights-based policy and not medical based".
26 July 2018 by John Pring, Disability News Service
News provided by John Pring at www.disabilitynewsservice.com
Posted by Annie at 20:40
Global Disability Summit: McDonnell says government hosting summit is 'height of hypocrisy' Global Disability Summit: Mordaunt defends co-host Kenya despite its gay rights record


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package net.jadler.matchers;

import java.util.List;

import net.jadler.Request;
import org.apache.commons.lang.Validate;
import org.hamcrest.Factory;
import org.hamcrest.Matcher;

/**
 * A {@link RequestMatcher} used for matching a request header.
 */
public class HeaderRequestMatcher extends RequestMatcher<List<String>> {

    private final String headerName;
    private final String desc;

    /**
     * Protected constructor useful only when subtyping. For creating instances of this class use
     * {@link #requestHeader(java.lang.String, org.hamcrest.Matcher)} instead.
     * @param pred a predicate to be applied on the given request header
     * @param headerName name of a request header (case insensitive)
     */
    protected HeaderRequestMatcher(final Matcher<? super List<String>> pred, final String headerName) {
        super(pred);

        Validate.notEmpty(headerName, "headerName cannot be empty");
        this.headerName = headerName;

        this.desc = "header \"" + headerName + "\" is";
    }

    /**
     * Retrieves a header (defined in {@link #HeaderRequestMatcher(org.hamcrest.Matcher, java.lang.String)})
     * of the given request.
     * @param req request to retrieve the header from
     * @return the request header as a list of values or {@code null} if there is no such a header in the request
     */
    @Override
    protected List<String> retrieveValue(final Request req) {
        return req.getHeaders().getValues(this.headerName);
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     */
    @Override
    protected String provideDescription() {
        return this.desc;
    }

    /**
     * Factory method to create new instance of this matcher.
     * @param headerName name of a request header
     * @param pred a predicate to be applied on the request header
     * @return new instance of this matcher
     */
    @Factory
    public static HeaderRequestMatcher requestHeader(final String headerName,
            final Matcher<? super List<String>> pred) {
        return new HeaderRequestMatcher(pred, headerName);
    }
}


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Ethan Swann: My Favorite Albums of 2009
Ethan Swann, Staff Writer
We had our writers take a stab at picking their favorite albums from 2009. Here, in no particular order, are staff writer Ethan Swann's picks.
Mastodon – Crack The Skye: Mastodon dominated the metal scene this year with Crack The Skye, a concept record telling stories of astral travel, Rasputin, wormholes, and reincarnation. The story may be hard to follow, but who cares when you're getting your face melted by double bass and screaming guitar solos?
Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears – Tell 'Em What Your Name Is!: Black Joe Lewis manages to sound vintage and cutting-edge at the same time. Mixing old-school Motown Soul new-school snark, jams like "Sugarfoot" and "Get Yo Shit" are groovy gems.
Them Crooked Vultures – Them Crooked Vultures: Not every supergroup is an exercise in vanity. Dave Grohl, Josh Homme, and John Paul Jones crafted a superb, straightforward rock album, which is exactly what this year needed.
Blakroc – Blakroc: Take two skinny white bluesmen and mix 'em up with the finest MC's on the market and you get Blakroc. This unlikely formula combining the Black Keys with guests like Mos Def, NOE, Raekwon and Ol' Dirty Bastard and illustrates the link between modern hip-hop and the blues.
Wilco – Wilco (The Album): Maturity and stability may not be Jeff Tweedy's calling card, but this year's release.
Mason Jennings – Blood Of Man: For some reason this album slipped under the radar, given the buzz around more poppy, electronic acts like Passion Pit and Phoenix, but Blood of Man is an excellent roots rock album with some folky tendencies.
Baroness – Blue Record: I like to call this "Renaissance Metal". There's something light and shimmering about this record that sets it apart from other metal acts. Like Mastodon, there's a narrative to the songs, but it hardly matters compared to the music.
BLK JKS – After Robots: South African Prog Rock. Who knew?
Lucero – 1372 Overton Park: Post-punk meets soulful blues meets country twang. This album doesn't sound like anything else released this year. "Sound of the City" is a horn-heavy rock anthem, while crooners like "Hey Darlin' Do You Gamble" and "I Can't Feel A Thing" could make a cowboy cry.
Japandroids – Post Nothing: Two-man garage rock about parties, girls, and alienation. Who said grunge was dead?
Passion Pit – Manners
Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
Pearl Jam – Backspacer


Development projects have abounded in the Boulder Valley and Northern Colorado in the past year, and it doesn't seem that 2019 will be any different.
This edition of BizWest includes our latest Breaking Ground section, highlighting major development projects in the region. The number of projects featured totals more than 75 — a record number — with many other projects coming out of the ground or on the drawing board.
Barring a major economic setback, commercial projects appear to be on a steady course, as developers seek to provide needed office, industrial, retail, apartment or mixed-use space.
Major redevelopment projects continue on Boulder's 30th Street corridor, with Google's Phase II proceeding rapidly, along with The Réve project across the street. Developments at Boulder Junction and S'park nearby will add office, retail and housing.
Several communities continue to enjoy revitalization in their downtown cores, with Brinkman spearheading redevelopment of the former Butterball turkey plant in Longmont — the South Main project — and Greeley's Eighth Avenue, which is seeing South Maddie, one of the Richardson family's projects, emerge. Work also is progressing on The Foundry, a two-block redevelopment in downtown Loveland.
Fort Collins will enjoy its first Lucky's market, on South College Avenue downtown, along with new projects on East Harmony Road and at College and Drake Road.
Health care continues to drive new construction, with the UCHealth Greeley Hospital progressing, and with Boulder Community Health nearing completion of a new building on its Foothills campus and planning a new rehabilitation hospital in Lafayette.
Broomfield and Louisville are seeing a wave of development, including new facilities for The Allen Co., JPMorgan Chase, Partners Group, Vaisala Corp. and Viega LLC. Louisville is seeing its office/industrial gem, the Colorado Tech Center, approach buildout, and many new projects within and adjacent to downtown.
Throughout the region, banks are building branches, medical providers are constructing facilities, office and industrial buildings are sprouting, and apartment projects are springing up virtually on every corner. Retail developments are emerging in every community.
Industrial developments such as the J.M. Smucker plant in Longmont/Weld County and the BNSF Logistics Center in Hudson represent significant investments.
Major corridors, such as Interstate 25, U.S. Highway 36, Colorado Highway 119 and U.S. Highway 34, are seeing many, many projects of all types. Some developments, such as The Brands at the Ranch in Loveland and Windsor, will take many years to come to fruition, while others will wrap up in the next year.
What projects will be announced in 2019? Much will depend on the economy overall, but even the current pipeline should keep the region's architects, engineers, general contractors, subcontractors and city planners busy for some time to come.
Christopher Wood can be reached at 303-630-1942, 970-232-3133 or via email at cwood@bizwest.com.


First of all, McCray's Tavern would like to wish everyone a safe and happy holiday's! Please check our operating hours & visit us soon. Because we are OPEN Thanksgiving and ready for Falcon's Football! Christmas Eve, we open for lunch & our full bar. Plus details are coming about our New Years Eve celebration! Stay tuned.


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United StatesFeb 6th 2010 edition
New York City's finances
Bloomberg's budget(s) blues
New York's mayor presents two grim economic pictures for the city
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THE jobless rate in New York City increased from 7% in December 2008 to 10.6% a year later. Some 425,000 New Yorkers are looking for work, more than at any time since the 1970s, and the number is expected to grow. The city budget is a tough one to balance even at the best of times. In the worst of times, it is near impossible without support from New York state and the co-operation of the unions.
So when Michael Bloomberg, who has just begun his third term as mayor, presented his preliminary budget for 2011 on January 28th it wasn't pretty. The city faces a staggering $4.9 billion deficit for 2011. This year's $2.9 billion surplus has gone; it was spent on reducing next year's deficit and paying bills and bond repayments. To close the gap, Mr Bloomberg is ordering every city agency to make cuts—the seventh round he has ordered since early 2007. That should save the city $1.6 billion over the next two years.
The mayor has proposed closing four city swimming pools and a Manhattan centre for the homeless. He has also suggested removing fire-alarm boxes from city streets, to stop hoax calls. Mr Bloomberg wants to reduce the city payroll by 4,286. Every department, from police to libraries, faces cuts. The mayor is postponing the next police academy class. Some 2,500 teachers could be forced out of their classrooms unless their union agrees to a 2% wage increase instead of a promised 4%. Teachers have enjoyed a 43% salary increase during Mr Bloomberg's tenure.
Earlier, the mayor had painted an even bleaker picture when he testified before a state finance committee on January 25th on the impact of Governor David Paterson's state budget on New York City. That budget eliminates large chunks of assistance from the state to the city, even though the city provides half the state's revenues. This, Mr Bloomberg said, would force the city to shed 19,000 city workers, including 8,500 teachers by September. More than 3,100 policemen would lose their jobs, thinning the blue line to 1985 levels. Fire stations could be closed. City funding for soup kitchens, which have never been busier, could go. Rubbish collection would be reduced. (This is all worryingly close to the New York of the 1970s, when rubbish went uncollected, fire stations closed and police officers were laid off.) The mayor also fumed about the "intolerable burden" of state pension obligations, which have risen by 350% since 2002. He wants Mr Paterson to start reforming pensions.
And the politics of this? Doug Turetsky of the non-partisan Independent Budget Office said Mr Bloomberg hoped to send two messages in his two budgets. "Number one, cuts are the state's fault. And two, labour has got to give." Blaming the state is an old game; but the unions won't give in without a struggle.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline "Bloomberg's budget(s) blues"
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Joe Biden's voting rights push is futile
Refunding the police
As violent crime leaps, liberal cities rethink cutting police budgets
America's missing diplomats
Can Joe Biden's relentless diplomacy work without diplomats?
Biden's judges
More diverse appointments are set to reshape America's judiciary
America resorts to remote learning, against pupils' interests
He doesn't have the votes—and his proposals are misguided
The tricky politics of criminal-justice reform at a time of rising fears
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Democrats race to fill the courts
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Decidedly romantic yet classic, the Adele Bridesmaid dress in silk is simply stunning. Style with strappy heels and loose, tousled waves for the perfect bridal party look.
Combining an utterly romantic and chic silhouette with delicate silk, the Adele Bridesmaid Dress in silk is for the contemporary bridesmaid with a unique sense of style. Featuring a halter neckline with a ruched bodice and low back, the Adele is perfect for your bridal party.
This style is available to order in Polyester, the silk is now discontinued.


Hello and welcome to week 17 of Just Another Linky but my first week of co-hosting along with Beth who blogs over at Life As Mum.
I'm really excited to be joining this great linky and reading all of your fantastic posts!
Today is my birthday, yay!! That means we can all eat as much cake as we like and its calorie free, because I said so. And as it turns out, it is also Beth's birthday too, spooky! Happy Birthday Beth my birthday buddy. I will be celebrating with a family meal and then a takeaway & drinks with our best friends.
Beth and Kirsty will choose their favourite post each week.
My favourite post last week was by Emily at Twin Mummy and Daddy with #thechokeables Choking Baby First Aid - Win a First Aid Kit. It has a very important message along with the St Johns Ambulance advert. As parents we all need to know what to do when our children choke.
Thanks for hosting and happy birthday!!
I want to suggest you reading this post to know how to get motivated to do homework.


On Saturday, May 3, 2014, from 1:00 PM until done (probably about half an hour or so) we will be planting milkweed at the northwest corner of the Naperville Garden Plots. Please have your scout wear his uniform so we can get pictures. Please arrive promptly at 1:00 PM. Please see attached diagram for where we will be (we will be right by the red star). Your scout should wear sturdy shoes or boot,s and gardening gloves are suggested. Parents should plan to stay with their scouts. Please inform Bruce if you cannot stay.


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Deprivation is associated with worse physical and mental health beyond income poverty: a population-based household survey among Chinese adults
Roger Yat Nork Chung*, Gary Ka Ki Chung, David Gordon, Samuel Yeung Shan Wong, Dicken Chan, Maggie Ka Wai Lau, Vera Mun Yu Tang, Hung Wong
Bristol Poverty Institute
Purpose: In studying health inequality, poverty as measured by income is frequently used; however, this omits the aspects of non-monetary resources and social barriers to achieving improved living standard. Therefore, our study aimed to examine the associations of individual-level deprivation of material and social necessities with general physical and mental health beyond that of income poverty. Methods: A territory-wide two-stage stratified random sample of 2282 community-dwelling Hong Kong adults was surveyed between 2014 and 2015. Income poverty and a Deprivation Index were used as the main independent variables. General health was assessed using the validated 12-item Short-Form Health Survey version 2, from which physical component summary and mental component summary were derived. Results: Our results in multivariable ordinal logistic regressions consistently showed that, after adjusting for income poverty, socio-demographic and lifestyle factors, being deprived was significantly associated with worse physical (OR 1.66; CI 1.25–2.20) and mental health (OR 1.83; CI 1.43–2.35). Being income poor was also significantly associated with worse mental health (OR 1.63; CI 1.28–2.09) but only marginally with physical health (OR 1.34; CI 1.00–1.80) after adjustments. Conclusions: Income does not capture all aspects of poverty that are associated with adverse health outcomes. Deprivation of non-monetary resources has an independent effect on general health above and beyond the effect of income poverty. Policies should move beyond endowment and take into account the multidimensionality of poverty, in order to address the problem of health inequality.
Quality of Life Research
Chinese adults
Dive into the research topics of 'Deprivation is associated with worse physical and mental health beyond income poverty: a population-based household survey among Chinese adults'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
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Chung, R. Y. N., Chung, G. K. K., Gordon, D., Wong, S. Y. S., Chan, D., Lau, M. K. W., Tang, V. M. Y., & Wong, H. (2018). Deprivation is associated with worse physical and mental health beyond income poverty: a population-based household survey among Chinese adults. Quality of Life Research, 27(8), 2127-2135. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-018-1863-y
Chung, Roger Yat Nork ; Chung, Gary Ka Ki ; Gordon, David ; Wong, Samuel Yeung Shan ; Chan, Dicken ; Lau, Maggie Ka Wai ; Tang, Vera Mun Yu ; Wong, Hung. / Deprivation is associated with worse physical and mental health beyond income poverty : a population-based household survey among Chinese adults. In: Quality of Life Research. 2018 ; Vol. 27, No. 8. pp. 2127-2135.
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Genealogy of the LeBlanc, Houston, Crnkovic, Drgac, Crow, Brothers, Greer, & Andrus families; plus more!
Father's Side
Mother's Side
Jesse Elbert McIntyre
1. Jesse Elbert McIntyre was born 8 Mar 1916, Sagerton, Haskell County, Texas, USA; died 7 Jul 1961, Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, USA; was buried 11 Jul 1961, Riverside Cemetery - Wichita Falls, Texas, USA.
Jesse — Bernice Jean Hayman. Bernice was born 8 Feb 1922, Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA; died 16 Jun 2006, Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA; was buried 20 Jun 2006, Houston National Cemetery - Houston, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet]
2. Lloyd Glenn McIntyre was born 4 Dec 1937, Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA; died 4 Mar 1938, Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA; was buried 6 Mar 1938, Riverside Cemetery - Wichita Falls, Texas, USA.
Jesse married Frances Elizabeth Miller 3 Feb 1940, Comanche County, Oklahoma, USA. Frances was born 3 Aug 1910, Cleburne, Johnson County, Texas, USA; died 18 Sep 1981, Paramount, Los Angeles County, California, USA; was buried , Riverside Cemetery - Wichita Falls, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet]
3. G.E. McIntyre
2. Lloyd Glenn McIntyre (1.Jesse1) was born 4 Dec 1937, Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA; died 4 Mar 1938, Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA; was buried 6 Mar 1938, Riverside Cemetery - Wichita Falls, Texas, USA.
3. G.E. McIntyre (1.Jesse1)
G.E. married J.L. Boudreau [Group Sheet]
4. C.E. McIntyre
5. Gilbert Earl McIntyre, Jr. was born 4 Sep 1963, Downey, Los Angeles County, California, USA; died 7 Apr 1994, Pomona, Los Angeles County, Texas, USA.
6. C.A. McIntyre
G.E. — B.C. Ahsler. [Group Sheet]
4. C.E. McIntyre (3.G.E.2, 1.Jesse1)
C.E. married M.C. Wilde [Group Sheet]
7. E.E. Wilde
8. M.J. Wilde
C.E. — . Watson. [Group Sheet]
9. B.M. Watson
5. Gilbert Earl McIntyre, Jr. (3.G.E.2, 1.Jesse1) was born 4 Sep 1963, Downey, Los Angeles County, California, USA; died 7 Apr 1994, Pomona, Los Angeles County, Texas, USA.
6. C.A. McIntyre (3.G.E.2, 1.Jesse1)
C.A. married A.L. Rodriguez [Group Sheet]
10. B.J. Rodriguez
11. M.F. Rodriguez
7. E.E. Wilde (4.C.E.3, 3.G.E.2, 1.Jesse1)
8. M.J. Wilde (4.C.E.3, 3.G.E.2, 1.Jesse1)
M.J. — . Calvillo. [Group Sheet]
M.J. — . Caine. [Group Sheet]
9. B.M. Watson (4.C.E.3, 3.G.E.2, 1.Jesse1)
B.M. married L. Guerrero [Group Sheet]
10. B.J. Rodriguez (6.C.A.3, 3.G.E.2, 1.Jesse1)
B.J. — J. Blakesley, II. [Group Sheet]
11. M.F. Rodriguez (6.C.A.3, 3.G.E.2, 1.Jesse1)
M.F. — R. Doss. [Group Sheet]


Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000176 EndHTML:0000002813 StartFragment:0000002357 EndFragment:0000002777 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/computer/Desktop/obits/MOSS,%20B.doc BOYD MOSS, age 87 of Lafayette, Tennessee, passed away, June 7, 2010 at his residence. Graveside services for Boyd Moss were conducted Tuesday, June 8, 2010 at 10 a.m. from the Lafayette City Cemetery with Jack Lackey officiating. Interment followed in the Lafayette City Cemetery. Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000176 EndHTML:0000003263 StartFragment:0000002358 EndFragment:0000003227 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/computer/Desktop/obits/MOSS,%20B.doc He was born in Clay County, Tennessee on July 9, 1922, to the late Herman Lee and Beard Bryan Odell Moss. Besides his parents: five brothers, Arkley, Edward, Bert, Herman, Jr., and Roy Moss, one sister, Irene Gulley, also preceded him in death.
Boyd worked as a farm hand for most of his life. He enjoyed breaking horses and mules. He also worked for Texas Boot Company for around ten years. Boyd was a member of Adams Avenue Church of Christ in Lebanon, TN.
Boyd is survived by; son, James Smotherman and Jessica Kemp of Lafayette, TN, sisters, Olene Smith of Smithville, TN, Lorene Strasser of Lebanon, TN, and Elise (Jewel) Winfrey of Lebanon, TN, sister-in-law, Helen Moss of Lebanon, TN and a host of nieces and nephews; also survive.


Turkey's state of emergency ended last year, but its victims continue to suffer, with many entertaining suicidal thoughts or aspiring to leave the country, according to a recent survey.
Turkish protesters demonstrate against the detention of hunger-strikers Semih Ozakca and Nuriye Gulmen, educators who were dismissed under a government decree following last year's failed coup, Ankara, Turkey, Sept. 11, 2017.
The state of emergency declared after the July 2016 coup attempt in Turkey ended in July 2018, but the victims of the massive purges that followed continue to suffer from the fallout. Some 135,000 people were expelled from public service during the two-year emergency rule and, according to Justice Ministry figures, half a million people have faced some sort of judicial action.
In a bid to shine light on the social toll of the state of emergency, a team of 50 researchers, headed by sociologist Bayram Erzurumluoglu, have conducted interviews with 3,776 people, including individuals who were expelled from their jobs via legislative decrees, their relatives and others who were affected indirectly by the crackdowns. A report detailing the survey was recently presented to the public by Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu, a lawmaker for the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party.
According to the survey, 95.3% of those expelled from public jobs said they experienced major economic hardships, 86% said they were ostracized by their social circles and 84.6% said they struggled with psychological problems as a result. Some 83% said they were still jobless.
Another interviewee described how the expellees were stigmatized as members of the Fethullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), the officialese for supporters of US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen, who stands accused of orchestrating and carrying out the coup attempt. "We woke up one day to see the words 'FETO-ers, f*** off from here' inscribed on our car," the interviewee said.
According to the report, many of those expelled from their jobs also suffered from serious health problems. Forty-five of the respondents said their existing or new illnesses had advanced, while 14% said their children developed health problems. Another 4% said they or their spouses suffered miscarriages due to stress.
According to the survey, 92% of the victims said they most struggled in their efforts to obtain justice. Eighty-three percent said they were hopeless about their future, while 95% and 90% said they had lost trust in the state and people in general, respectively. "I've lost all my faith, values and my trust in and compassion toward people. I don't know if there is anything worse than that," an interviewee was quoted as saying.
The feelings of mistrust are coupled with a widespread desire to leave Turkey. Asked whether they would go to another country if they could, because of the traumas they endured, 83.9% of respondents answered in the affirmative. According to the survey, 9.9% of the victims had attempted to leave Turkey, but many said they did not try because of judicial decisions banning them from traveling abroad.
Unemployment, economic hardships, apprehension over an uncertain future and social pressures have caused many families to fall apart. According to the survey, 41% of the respondents said their families had disintegrated, either because of divorce or the flight of a spouse abroad. One percent said they had children taken into state custody.
Those who faced judicial action during the state of emergency had to endure even harsher conditions. According to the report, 88% of those who spent time in custody said they were not allowed to see relatives, 66% said they were kept in overcrowded wards and 56% complained of psychological violence. Also, 22% said they were denied food and water, and 74% said they were kept in solitary confinement. On a grimmer note, 5.8% said they were subjected to physical violence and 3% said they suffered sexual violence.
The report concludes that the state of emergency had a devastating impact on the rule of law in Turkey. "The state of emergency and the measures enacted afterward via legislative decrees have completely turned Turkey away from being a state of law and made it a state where no one has legal security," the report says. According to the report, the two-year emergency rule created 250,000 direct victims, in addition to 1.5 million people affected indirectly. The far-reaching impacts, it warns, might lead to serious crises across the country.


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This is going to be a long post because I want to share all the pictures that I can! This past January, I worked for about 3-4 weeks in the GapKids CAD department doing prints for underwear & sleepwear.
It really was one of the best work experiences that I have had in my professional career so far. I was able to draw everyday and make prints that would make their way to stores for HOLIDAY 2009.
So Ta-Da! I checked today and they are starting to roll out in stores.
penguin hockey--I did this print as a freelancer from home after I left Gap and started at 77Kids. I made a whole group of little icons of animals doing quirky winter sports. It was fun to make animals do these winter sport poses.
wintry animal group--This is also more of the prints that I did after I left Gap. It's too bad that they covered up my favorite print w/ the polarbear snowboarding. I think I might go buy these just to have a sample of my work.
penguin undie--This is the same winter sport idea as above pj set.
train undie--This one was a B* to make because it has so much detail. Took me a few days to get it done with all the windows and wheels. But I like the end result. Worth the work!
dino pj--I didn't create this print, I believe they bought it from a print house, but I helped clean up the print and prep it to be put into U4ia (software that puts prints into technical repeats). I loved the shapes and whimsy of these dinos!
dino slipper-- I just love the pjs, you gotta get the matching slippers!
Big Boys husky boxer--Did some more 'serious'/'less cute ' prints for big boys. This print was fun because I had to make the dogs look as realistic as possible using flat shapes and keeping it down to as little colors as possible. Also difficult at the same time not to make them look flat.
motorcycle boxer--I believe I made the motorcycle and then they just made it into a repeat w/ just the one icon.
big boy penguin pj-- They used the same penguin from the wintry animal group that's from above; a penguin that was more 'serious' for the big boys pjs. Still cute I think!
cupcake undie--This cupcake print was a lot of fun to make.
snowman undie---This print was bought by Gap from a design house, I just had to retrace the objects, flip them in a repeat and recolor. I like this one for girls because it's girly and NOT pink!
hot cocoa pj pant--I believe I did the shapes & Angela, the print stylist, did the type on the cups.
cupcake & donut undie-- I did the top and the bottom prints.
hot cocoa undie--I did this art the first day I was there and still one of my favorites of my time there!
donut boxers--I kinda forgot about this. I made the donuts on one of my last days there and then they made the repeat from those elements. Turned out cute!
Thanks to Scott & Angela and all the other talented people on the GapKids CAD department. The product looks really great!


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Known as a glamorous Island with lively waterfronts, beautiful beaches, stylish bars and restaurants, Mykonos is a perfect destination for family fun trips and honeymoon. At every point in the year, there are various activities taking place at the Island.
However, the best time to visit this amazing Island will largely depend on your preference. If you want to visit when the Island is packed with so many people, then August will be a perfect time. Some people prefer visiting in September to October because there are fewer people on the Island; the sea is warm and perfect for swimming at this time.
Other tourists prefer visiting the Island in May when the island is less crowded, and items prices are quite low. Usually, the tourist season starts in Greek Easter (April) and runs till the ending of October, while peak season commences in July until August.
Here is a breakdown of how Mykonos Island operates throughout the tourist season.
For a tourist who is on a budget, April to October remains the best time to visit Mykonos Island. You will have more personal space and won't be faced with a huge crowd of people; the price of accommodation at this time is also cheap. However, there are fewer activities taking place at the Island during this time, and there are no guarantees of having chilling weather. The nightlife is also very quiet because only a few bars are open with something going on.
This is also an excellent time to visit Mykonos for travelers who do not want to experience too much crowd; this season is also perfect for gay couples. At this time, the weather is great, most shops are open, and nightlife is thumping. Beach parties commence with DJs in mid-June while club events take place at the end of September. The prices of hotels at this time are higher than the low season.
At high season, actions in Mykonos are non-stop. The Island is always very busy in July. The weather is usually hot with lots of beach parties, and the bars are going crazy with so much fun. Until mid-July, you may still find accommodations that are at a very reasonable price. August is usually the busiest month of the year; you will find so many club parties, the wildest nightlife, the hottest weather, parties are full with speed, and almost all bars are congested. You will also enjoy swimming and sunbathing since the sea is at its warmest level.
November to March is known as the off-season period; there is little activity going on in Mykonos Town, you will also find discounted rates on all accommodations, the weather is cool, and the Island is so quiet at this time. However, there is plenty of rain and chilly wind.
Angelina is a regular contributor at The independent.


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The Primary Program
November 13, 2018 by bccpresseditor
The author of this post, Heidi Naylor, teaches English at Boise State University and is the closest thing that Mormon short fiction has to a rock star. Her stories and articles have appeared in The Washington Post, the Jewish Journal, the Idaho Review, Portland (magazine of the University of Portland), Dialogue: Journal of Mormon Thought, New Letters, and other venues. She grew up in Pennsylvania and raised her family of sons in Idaho with her husband. The best of her short fiction has been collected and published by BCC Press in Revolver: Stories by Heidi Naylor
Yesterday was our ward's Primary program, based on the 2018 theme for the year: "I Am a Child of God." The program opened in a tender way: A cognitively challenged sister, aged in her mid-50s and still attending Primary, came to the podium and asserted, "I Am a Child of God." "Yes, you are!" said our Primary president, as the sister headed back to her seat on the stand. You could feel her quiet pride as she smoothed her skirt and looked out shyly at us.
Many members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints like to say the Primary program is the best Sunday of the year. I always look forward to it, since kids have become a nostalgic feature of my past. But I remember the struggle it was, wrangling young boys through three-hour church, over many years. Great boys, lots of energy, and a ward that welcomed them. I'm ever grateful to you, Mountain View Ward, Boise North Stake.
Still, as a long-ago Primary teacher who loved her little class, I remember coming home in tears more than once. The most difficult child in the room was my own rascal "Sunbean." He's now an energetic, married, mid-20s Coast Guard officer whom I miss every day.
So it's worth remembering that for most kids, Primary and its attendant struggles end. To say "end" is not to dismiss the hours of teaching, the songs and talks and object lessons, the treats and sign language and sharing times, the pure love that resounds for so many fortunate Latter-day Saints. These freely bestowed gifts have powerfully blessed the minds and spirits of my kids, and my heart and thanks went out to the Primary workers on the stand yesterday. I think they have a hurdle each Sunday. Ours seem to clear the hurdle with a good dose of humor and love.
Favorite moment: the song with the lyrics Every day, I will say // I'll have faith like Brother Joseph, and the strength of the pioneers // I'll be brave as a stripling warrior, and like Nephi persevere . . . I will plead with my Father on my knees: I will be what I will be.
Primary programs can provide a good snapshot of the Church as a whole, I'm newly convinced. Let me explain. My parents are road and sky warriors who've served missions in Europe and Asia; currently they're enjoying a vibrant and travel-filled retirement. If we measure time and travel in Primary programs, they've logged well past 150 between the two of them. This can be tiring, I'm sure, especially for Mom, who most enjoys being home.
Anyway, they got to Boise last weekend in time to attend the BYU game; this after a three-week western states jaunt—our house the last stop before they made it back to Portland. During our visit my folks mentioned two Primary programs they'd recently attended. The first, in the Oakland, California meetinghouse near the temple, featured a little girl who taught the congregation about prayer:
When my mother prays, she says this: Heavenly Father and Mother, we thank thee both for our many blessings. We thank thee both for our parents, and especially for our LGBTQ parents…..
Later on Dad asked their hosts, conservative friends of many years who are serving a mission in the area, about the little girl's remarks. "Oh, yes," Elder C. said, "This is a very progressive area."
Next Sunday found Mom and Dad in Beaver, Utah. Over 75 children on the stand for that program. "It clicked right along," Dad said. "Very well rehearsed."
"Any …. progressive moments?" I asked.
"Oh no," Dad said. "Not that time."
"Mom," I asked. "What did you think about the little girl in Oakland?"
Mom glances at Dad, shaking her head. "I don't have an opinion," she said. "I slept through the whole thing!"
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Sharon Stewart says:
Well I love thank brave ward in Oakland! My son and wife lived there and Alameda and some of their best memories of kindness. Good writing!
Interesting. We held our Primary Program this past Sunday too. And as a childless widow, I stayed home. I figure the parents, grandparents and others who come to see the children in the program would appreciate the seat I usually occupy AND I'm not reminded of how I don't fit into some of the Church's tenets. Thanks for sharing your views and article.
Leftist thears r tasty h says:
Guess that's one little girl who won't ever get baptized…
I too am a child of God. I love them and they love me.
Sidebottom says:
You're a better person than I am. That "faith of Brother Joseph" song makes me want to tear out my eardrums.
Kent Gibb says:
The Primary program is my favourite Sacrament meeting of the year. The thing that impresses me most is to watch the progress of the children at public speaking through their sojourn in Primary. To watch the little child too shy to utter a word but stands there for a few agonizing moments until her teacher kindly leads her away. Then older children speak their little part until finally the 11 year olds stand and confidently speak their pieces. It is an amazing development to behold.
Of course it doesn't stop there. There are the short talks by the teens and then they stand and bear their testimonies as they set out on their missions and finally when they return, wonderfully polished as they complete their missions and report. It is an incredible preparation for the rest of their lives.
It is an amazing experience to watch these children develop.
Kristin Brown says:
I hardly watch the children anymore. My favorite part is watching the parents beam when it is their child's turn to shine. I remember my own and feel their joy.
Depressingly, our program recently was a display of "prayer as vending machine" child testimonies.
Cate says:
We had our primary program this Sunday as well. A number of the children sang in small groups, or even as soloists, at certain moments. One particularly memorable such moment was when a three-year-old child took the microphone with her older brother for the second verse of "Families Can Be Together Forever," and belted it out with an enthusiasm that far exceeded her powers of articulation.
Another was when a four-year-old said his one line, punched the air, and jumped off the box the younger kids stand on chanting, "I did it! I did it!"
Also, I was released from primary earlier this year so it was kind of nice for me to see "my" class members in action.
Rosalynde Welch says:
As Primary president in my ward, I'm grateful for the goodwill with which the congregation invariably receives our (hilarious, chaotic, adorable) Sac Mtg offering.
Small correction: the final lyric of the song you heard is "I will be what I believe." I'm not actually sure what that is supposed to mean, but the song is wildly popular on the FB group for Primary music leaders. :)
Heidi Naylor says:
The song was new to me and I have to say I prefer the lyrics as I heard the kids sing them ("I will be what I will be")–the affirmation that "my destiny is up to me and my choices," even in a church where choice has been compromised (as Leftist thears well notes). It felt like an assertion in the face of that compromise.
But what I love most in the song is the heritage the kids must feel–theirs is the unique legacy of Joseph Smith, pioneers, Book of Mormon heroes, and pleading with their Father to help them as they become.They are part of a worldwide tribe that expects God to walk beside them, one by one.
My husband felt that the Savior was missing from the song, that it bordered on Joseph-Smith-worship, and he has a point. Cue "I'm Trying to Be Like Jesus," my all-time fave Primary song.
Thank you all for reading and commenting on the post!
Mormom says:
I love the primary program! I am worried with the new changes it will go away, and that breaks my heart. It's the best sacrament program of the year. A church that doesn't value and focus on children will be weak in a single generation. They are our future leaders.
nobody, really says:
And the entire bishopric and Primary presidency in every ward in Oakland, California, will be released in three, two, one….
For our Primary program this year, every active child in Primary gave a two-minute talk about Jesus. He did a great job.
Love it. I'm a primary teacher and we sang the same song. Just a note… the lyrics are "I will be what I believe"…
SPP says:
Rosalynde Welch – just want to tell you we used your 'This Way Up' temple/priesthood prep in our stake and it was such a hit with children and grown-ups! Beats anything else I've seen by a country mile. Thank you for it.
'I will be what I believe' – doesn't that just mean I'll be honest, true, chaste, virtuous, benevolent, and do good to all men?
One of the highlights (for our side of the chapel) was after the kids went up to the stand, our two year old demanded "Where's Penny?" and then after having her pointed out proceeded to shout his greetings at her. People were turning around to admire his effusive love.


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Last week, the six Chesapeake Bay states and the District of Columbia posted their final plans to meet the 2025 pollution reduction targets under the Bay cleanup effort known as the Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load ("Bay TMDL" for short). These final Watershed Implementation Plans (WIPs) were, by and large, little different from the draft ones released this spring, at least for the big three Bay jurisdictions (Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia) that are responsible for roughly 90 percent of the nutrient pollution in the Bay.
When the draft Watershed Implementation Plan (WIP) for Pennsylvania was released in April, many were outraged that it contained a fatal flaw. The WIP failed to pass the most basic test, which is to propose actions that would actually provide the pollution reductions needed to meet the state's 2025 final Bay TMDL target. That fatal flaw still remains, although the final WIP would close the gap slightly. Without a plan in place to fully reduce pollution to the level needed to deliver clean water throughout the Susquehanna River watershed and the Chesapeake Bay, there really is not much else to say about Pennsylvania's final WIP other than that EPA, advocates, and concerned citizens must call on the Commonwealth to rip up this plan and start over.
Maryland unveiled a draft WIP in April that could be described as a plan in name only. The state produced a lengthy and vague document chock full of descriptions of problems affecting the Bay, its ecosystem, and related public health and economic issues, as well as the many good reasons to do something about them. But the draft WIP contained almost nothing that could be recognized as a concrete series of steps to actually fix any of these issues or capitalize on the many benefits that the WIP described. In short, Maryland's draft WIP was an exercise in saying a lot while committing to do almost nothing new or different to jump start its lagging efforts (it is far ahead of Pennsylvania but still well short of Virginia's level of progress or, more importantly, its 2025 target). A side-by-side comparison of the draft and final WIP reveals very few substantive changes were made. Moreover, the responses provided by the state to those who submitted comments during the public comment period for the draft WIP confirm that the state simply did not view the WIP as the place for describing a plan for decisive action. Instead, Maryland is choosing to reserve the right to consider taking action in the future under an "adaptive management" approach. Of course, reserving the right to take action at some point in the future is what has gotten the Chesapeake Bay to this point in the first place.
Finally, when Virginia released its draft WIP, it was described by many as the best of the bunch (admittedly, a low bar). The draft WIP was far more detailed, coherent, and serious than Maryland's WIP and actually described a plan to meet the 2025 pollution reduction targets, unlike Pennsylvania's WIP. Thus, while the draft WIP had a few significant inadequacies that needed fixing before the plan was finalized, Virginia's WIP was far ahead of the other two core Bay watershed states. It should not be surprising then that Virginia is also by far the closest to reaching its 2025 pollution reduction target, or that Virginia's final WIP, which was already in better shape than most, took public comments the most seriously and incorporated quite a few of them into the final version, including a few new policy and programmatic commitments.
With the final WIPs now released, we find ourselves back to where we were in the spring when the drafts were published. The most problematic state remains the most problematic. The most advanced state continued to prove itself the most serious about the process of reaching Bay restoration goals. And the restoration effort as a whole appears hopelessly lost, as the final plans due under the Bay TMDL fail to come close to providing the public with the reasonable assurance that EPA demanded of the states when the Bay TMDL was launched at the beginning of this decade. Most importantly, we find ourselves, once again, hoping that EPA will wake up, listen to the public's concerns, observe key state relationships breaking down, realize what is at stake, and apply real pressure on Pennsylvania first and foremost, but on all lagging states, to honor the commitments they made to do their part in cleaning up this most precious of natural resources.


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Mariners Shut Down Eagles in OT Thriller
Husson (4-7, 3-3) 2 4 3 0 0 9
Maine Maritime (3-7, 3-3) 1 2 4 2 1 10
G: Zeke Tocci - 3
A: Jayden Wilson - 3
Sv: Verne Rice - 13
GB: William Evon - 8
G: Zach Glazier - 3
Sv: Matt Martin - 14
GB: Chad Merrill - 8
CASTINE, Maine – Maine Maritime Academy men's lacrosse fought back from a four-goal deficit and held Husson University scoreless in the fourth quarter to capture a 10-9 victory in overtime on Tuesday night in North Atlantic Conference (NAC) action at Ritchie Field.
With the win the Mariners conclude their season at 3-7 overall and 3-5 in the NAC, while the Eagles wrap up their season with a 4-7 overall record and a 3-3 record in conference play.
How it Happened: The Eagles scored a pair of goals to open up the game, but Alex Snowman (Sarasota, Fla.) tallied a score for the Mariners at 2:08. Husson built a 3-1 lead early in the second quarter, but Zeke Tocci (Naples, Maine) and Jayden Wilson (Lewiston, Maine) scored back-to-back goals for the Mariners to tie the game at 3-3 with 9:37 to go in the first half. Husson went on a three-goal run to take a 6-3 lead into halftime.
Max Barton (Yarmouth, Maine) tallied a goal early in the third quarter, but the Eagles jumped out to their biggest lead, 8-4, with goals from Blake Campbell and Zach Glazier. The Mariners used three-straight goals to close the gap to 8-7 but a goal in the final seconds of the third from Husson's Gunner McAllister sent the visitors into the final quarter with a 9-7 advantage.
Wilson and Tocci net goals to tie the game at 9-9 and the Mariners held the Eagles scoreless in the final 15 minutes, forcing overtime.
Sawyer Watson (Topsham, Maine) scored his 12th goal of the season with 1:22 remaining in overtime to send the Mariners to victory.
Inside the Numbers: Tocci led the Mariners with three goals and an assist, Wilson ended the evening with two goals, three assists, and two ground balls, and Watson tallied two goals, two assists and three ground balls.
Snowman net two goals and scooped up two ground balls, while Oscar Kwok (York, Maine) led the Mariners with three caused turnovers and William Evon (Barrington, Ill.) scooped up a team-best eight ground balls.
Verne Rice (Stratham, N.H.) tallied his first collegiate win in net for the Mariners with 13 saves and four ground balls.
Glazier led the Eagles with three goals, Chad Merrill scooped up a team-high eight ground balls, and Husson's goalie Matt Martin collected 14 saves in the loss.
Both teams scooped up 38 ground balls, but the Eagles held a slight advantage on the faceoff, winning 11 while the Mariners won 10 faceoffs.