Fixed some issues where the application could crash when performing the PDF Sign feature.
Fixed an issue where the application could crash when opening certain XFA forms.
Create custom dynamic stamp with custom values to invoke a prompt window for users to input information while adding a stamp in PDF file.
Justify text while adding Callout and Text Box comments in a PDF.
Use Foxit Customization Tool to embed a registration code in the MST file to enable company-wide registration during installation.
Use GPO templates and XML Editor to control Microsoft IRM protection version (including Microsoft IRM V1, Microsoft IRM V2, and Microsoft IRM PFile Protection) for document encryption.
Configure the trusted application list using GPO templates or XML Editor to deploy it across the organization.
Create keyboard shortcuts for the submenus in Foxit Reader ribbon.
Scale the page content equally based on the specified page size to deliver the best output results during printing.
Save the search results to PDF or CSV files for further reference.
Fixed an issue where Foxit Reader failed to convert files to PDFs from within the program or via the Windows context menu.
Improved the workflow when saving changes made in PDF documents in Foxit Archive and enabled users to open non-PDF files in Foxit Archive.
Fixed an issue where a date error could occur when filling in certain PDF forms.
Fixed an issue where Foxit Reader could be unresponsive when playing a large embedded video in an RMS-protected PDF.
Fixed an issue where Foxit Reader failed to save a PDF document after repeatedly adding large attachments to the PDF.
Use ADAL (Active Directory Authentication Library) authentication to log into RMS in Foxit Reader (Enterprise Packaging) to open/decrypt PDFs without requiring the installation of the Microsoft Online Services Sign-in Assistant.
Provides improvements to the ConnectedPDF feature as well as several user experience enhancements.
Fixed a security issue where the application could be exposed to the XFA FormCalc Replace Integer Overflow Vulnerability.
Fixed some issues to improve the user experience.
Fixed an issue where "Foxit Reader" folder was reserved after clean uninstallation in 32-bit OS.
Fixed a security issue where memory corruption may occur when verifying the digital signatures. Attackers could exploit this vulnerability to execute a controlled crash.
Fixed an issue where large videos embedded in PDF files cannot be played after files are encrypted.
Fixed a security issue where Foxit Reader tried to load imgseg.dll, which could be exploited.
Fixed an issue where the Comment tools do not work when using the mouse with inverted buttons (for left-handed people).
Fixed an issue where text cannot be typed immediately after a new Typewriter comment is created when the Ribbon is minimized.
Fixed an issue where the Foxit plugin was not adopted by default in Firefox and Chrome browsers.
Fixed an issue where users using the Windows Explorer Preview Pane in the Open File dialog could not use arrow keys to navigate PDF files.
Fixed an issue where users using the Windows Explorer Preview Pane in the Open File dialog could not select the name of a file/folder by typing the first few letters.
Added the option of switching back to classic mode in Ribbon mode.
Fixed a bug where Microsoft Office Apps will crash after the Reader installation.
Fixed a bug of Foxit Reader & Windows encrypted file system.
Supports viewing RMS-protected PDF files with the dynamic watermark.
Added the option "Tile Large Pages" to the print dialog box. With this new feature, users can tile pages that are larger than the selected paper size at a specified scale. The whole page content will be divided and printed on pieces of paper.
Provides users with three update options, allowing users selecting the most appropriate upgrade method according to their requirements.
Supports controlling preference dialogue with the keyboard shortcuts.
Added the option "Read from Current Page" to the Read Out Loud feature, which makes the system read out the PDF content from current page to the end of the file.
Added the toolbar mode switch icon to the toolbar, simplifying user's manipulation.
Shows the progress bar before displaying the content when opening the PDFs in the web browser.
Fixed an issue when opened inside of a web browser and the interface language is switched.
Fixed an issue where paper size in the Preview Area of the Print Dialogue Box cannot be updated accordingly when using Xerox Printers.
Fixed an issue when switching the interface language.
Fixed an issue where the Paper Drawer cannot be changed to Cassette when printing.
Fixed an issue when opening certain PDF files.
Provided integration to the social networking sites to satisfy Facebook and Twitter users.
Foxit Reader enhanced the text rendering quality to display the text more clearly and neat.
Shows the page thumbnails when dragging the scrollbar in a single page display mode.
Fixed a security issue of arbitrary code execution when opening certain PDF files.
Fixed an issue of Foxit Reader when opening certain PDF files in a web browser.
Fixed an issue where the page content cannot be displayed when opening certain PDF files in a web browser.
Fixed an issue where the file name would be a messy code or its extension would be missed when emailing certain PDF files from a web browser.
Recovered the Print Scale function which was available in pre 5.0 versions.
Fixed an issue of the Foxit Reader software that is caused by illegal accessing memory when opening some special PDF documents.
Fixed an issue where Foxit Reader crashes when scrolling back after the user scrolls down to view the last page (actual image) of a PDF file.
Fixed a crash issue when opening certain PDFs.
Fixed the issue where Foxit Reader crashes if the headline of the PDF content exceeds 512 bytes.
Fixed the issue where the "delete" option in the right-click popup menu is unavailable when right-clicking the link created by the link tool.
Fixed the issue where Foxit Reader will pop up two tabs when opening a same PDF file which is targeted by two links, one is created with relative path and the other one is with absolute path.
Foxit Reader 4.1.1.0805 addresses vulnerability associated with the rendering of the PDF's embedded in the new iPhone/iPad jailbreak program.
Fixed the crash issue when opening certain PDFs.
Optimized the reading engine and fixed the issue where the scrolling becomes very slowly when reading large PDFs.
Users will not be prompted to set default PDF reader when either or both Phantom and Foxit Reader is installed.
PDF icons are reverted to other Reader's PDF icons when Phantom/Foxit Reader is uninstalled, if those exist.
Fixed the issue where the system sets Foxit Reader as the default PDF viewer without user permission when Foxit Reader launches.
Fixed the crash issue when opening certain PDF documents.
Fixes some issues from previous versions including an issue where Ask Toolbar may be installed by default.
Fixed a security issue that Foxit Reader runs an executable embedded program inside a PDF automatically without asking for user's permission.
Fixed the crash issue when double clicking to open certain PDFs.
Fixed the issue where cannot correctly display the content copied from Text Viewer mode on popup dialog box.
Better support saving PDF as text.
Fixed the issue where pop multiple message boxes when clicking the bookmarks several times continuously.
Fixed the issues where some PDF documents cannot be associated with Foxit Reader.
Fixed the issue where space may disappear when copying text.
Fixed the crash issue when occasional use of arrow keys on keyboard to turn pages.
Fixed the issue where the text may not be highlighted.
Fixed the issue where the text string starting with a space cannot be searched.
Fixed the issue with vertical text selection and text highlight.
Now supports opening files containing special Unicode characters in filenames.
Right-clicking the annotation with zoom tool will not popup annotation menu.
When using the Commenting Tools, the color indicator will reflect your color selection.
Now supports simultaneous viewing of multiple documents.
Fixed the issue where some files display slowly in the print preview window.
Fixed the issue where some PDF files cannot be opened in the correct positions.
Fixed the issue in Foxit Reader 3.1.2.1013, where the text in PDF documents cannot be printed with specific printers.
Fixed the memory leak issue where the memory usage will continuously grow while viewing PDF files with Foxit Reader.
The reported issue of Foxit Reader 3.1.0.0824 crashing when users are viewing certain PDF files has been updated and is no longer a problem.
Fixed an issue where Foxit Reader may not be launched in the system without installing Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable.
Fixed the issue where Cyrillic symbols in the Tab header displaying inaccurately in Japanese operating system.
Fixed the issue about too large printer buffer, automatic paging and duplex printing when printing a document with multiple copies.
Fixed the issue where cannot import FDF file when opening the PDF file contained interactive form fields in the browser window.
Fixed the issue where PDF Reader only works on the primary screen while going to full screen with dual monitor setup.
Fixed a problem related to negative stream offset (in malicious JPEG2000 stream) which caused reading data from an out-of-bound address. We have added guard codes to solve this issue.
Fixed a problem related to error handling when decoding JPEG2000 header, an uncaught fatal error resulted a subsequent invalid address access. We added error handling code to terminate the decoding process.
Cannot edit some form fields.
Cannot support XFA forms. After typing text into a field and then moving the cursor to another field, the typed text will disappear.
Unable to fill in some interactive check boxes within the PDF document.
Symptoms: If you print pages or a range of pages by entering 1, 3, 7-10, etc. in the Pages text box within the Print dialog box with Foxit Reader 3.0 Build 1222, the printing doesn't stop.
Popup "Mozilla Firefox is not installed." when users failed to install Firefox plug-in.
Cannot open PDF files embedded in MSWord.
Cannot open the links to PDF files in a PDF with IE.
The print command is inconsistent with the one specified in registry.
New popup notes will not be active, unless users click on it when they use the note tool to make annotations.
Users are still able to drag a callout when they click and drag a place which is nowhere in the area of the callout's visible element, but in the rectangular region bound by those elements.
The mouse cursor while in highlight mode has just one shape, which stays the same whenever it is used to select row by row.
When the cursor is on the blank margin you cannot scroll page (while annotations is activated) by scrolling the mouse wheel.
Cannot open PDF files with extension .FDF.
Setting a new default author and subject for the Note Tool will not be recalled.
There are no property toolbars available to set colors and opacity.
Open a number of PDF documents with Foxit Reader 2.3 and select "Save as" under the "File" menu, all of the pages may appear blank if you open the saved documents with Adobe.
Compatibility issues with Foxit Reader and Adobe Reader after saving.
Disappearing Toolbar after minimizing Foxit Reader to the system tray.
Converts all the characters to lower-case in the web browsers when clicking on the links in PDF files, causing the links to break.
Foxit Reader crashes when users are viewing some certain PDF files with images.
Foxit Reader crashes sometimes when users are clicking on the "Print" option.
Toolbars go out of place and rearrange themselves vertically.
Slow printing of PDF files that have complex images.
Font and Image rendering improved.
Combo Box tool not working correctly.
The menu item "FDF Document" needs to be removed from desktop context menu.
Foxit Reader (free version) may not be responding after you save a PDF document.
Bookmark view cannot be disabled permanently in Internet Explorer.
Print command needs to be updated.
Many other issues fixes and feature enhancement.


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Laverne Cox on World Pride and Her Partnership With Smirnoff
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This year for World Pride, Orange Is The New Black star and LGBTQ+ activist Laverne Cox teamed up with Smirnoff on a World Pride campaign.
From the press release announcing the partnership: "The Smirnoff "Welcome Home" campaign includes a digital video series; an immersive experiential pop-up; two styles of limited-edition Smirnoff No. 21 Pride bottles; a float at the NYC Pride March and a continued donation commitment to Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the United States' largest LGBTQIA+ civil rights organization."
I had the opportunity to ask Laverne a few questions about the campaign, working with Smirnoff, and the importance of World Pride. Here's what she had to say:
Q: Tell me about the importance of World Pride
We live in a world economy now. We live in a world where we are completely dependent on each other no matter what country we live in so having a global celebration of the LGBTQ+ community, I think, reminds us how we're connected. Of course this year we're also celebrating the 50th anniversary of Stonewall, and so, this is really super special. World Pride is happening in New York City, the place where the Stonewall Rebellion happened 50 years ago, and so, for me it's just about, thinking about how we are all connected and interconnected, and really dependent on each other. And the exciting thing about working with Smirnoff for me is that this welcome home campaign is really about welcoming everyone all over the world to New York City, to celebrate World Pride, to come together, and celebrate and be one.
Q: Why did you decide to team up with a brand like Smirnoff for World Pride and how did that partnership come about?
Well, what's exciting to me about Smirnoff is that they're not just supporting the LGBTQ community now, they've been supporting us for decades, and knowing that history it just felt really right to team up with a brand like Smirnoff, the number one vodka brand in the world. I mean, come on. Who wouldn't want to be with the number one company?
I love, I love that. And they have this incredible commitment to the community. They've already donated half a million dollars to the Human Rights Campaign and have pledged to donate another million dollars by 2021. Their gorgeous Love Wins bottles are back and available for purchase. And every single bottle made a dollar is donated to the Human Rights Campaign.
Q: I know you've mentioned this already with the Welcome Home bottles, but what does the campaign look like and how much input did you have in its creation?
The campaign is so much fun, it is so much fun because it's World Pride we're sort of going around the world a little bit. I get to speak Russian and a teeny bit of Italian and the theme is really about celebrating the world and welcoming everyone home and so there's these really fun scenarios that I hope that people will sort of see a different side of me and how I got to be so playful and sort of campy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHk8jBUQvLk
I love, love, love my costume. I'm in this wonderful red latex and it's just this sort of heightened 1950s hostess, but with like a twist and a little bit of the future thrown in. And it's just been a tremendous amount of fun. My ankle is swollen right now and I'm exhausted, but we had such an incredible time shooting today and sending a message of love and acceptance and self-acceptance and celebration and celebrating responsibly with the number one vodka brand in the world. I mean, come on!
Q: What impact do you think your character Sophia in the Orange is the New Black had on transgender representation in mainstream media?
Laverne: Again, I always think my impact and impact of my work is something for other people to talk about, but what I do know for sure is that when Orange is the New Black premiered in 2013 Sophia was the only recurring transgender character played by a transgender actor on television at the time. And last I checked, according to GLAAD, they are about seventeen recurring transgender characters on television now. And, that's still not a lot, but it's progress not perfection. And so it just gives me such an incredible sense of joy to see other trans folks working and doing incredible work as actors.
Indya Moore is on the cover of Elle magazine as the first trans person to be on the cover of American Elle magazine, and that is incredible. And, you know, Calvin Klein campaign, and, and everyone is just doing so well, and it's really beautiful. Everyone is not doing well, but a lot of trans folks are doing well and have amazing opportunities that did not exist before Orange is the New Black, they just didn't, and I think that it was about time, and I think it was eventually gonna happen, but it's lovely that something shifted with that character the visibility that we were able to get because of Sophia and so it's really beautiful, what's going on now. There's more work to do and more progress that needs to be made, but it's great, great joy, I have great joy looking around and seeing all the working trans actors now.
Q: If I go to a party at your house, what are you serving?
Laverne: I'm serving Smirnoff and I love a cosmopolitan still. I feel so old fashioned, but I love making a cosmo, so I'll probably make cosmopolitans, and then I'll ask other folks what they like. I mean, I love vodka specifically because it's tasteless and odorless and it just goes down, and truly, Smirnoff just goes down really beautifully and smoothly when I drink it and so I always feel good the next day. I have to be careful what I put in my body so yeah.
Q: What is next for you?
Laverne: Celebrating world pride celebrating this incredible welcome home campaign. Oh my gosh, there's a lot. I have a lot of parties. I don't want to start going listing all the parties that I have coming up. There's quite a number of things. One thing that I'll mention it's a project called Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen. That looks at the history of trans representation on screen over the past hundred years. And I'm so excited about that because nothing like it has ever been done before and I love the idea of looking at our history as a way to learn from it, and, and move forward from it and as we celebrate World Pride this is a really great time to think about our history: how far we've come, and learning from that so we can move forward with new challenges.
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If you have any questions on the reconstruction project, please call the field office phone at 608-504-8406.
Allow for this project to maintain its aggressive design schedule.
The next meeting is scheduled for Thursday, April 21.
The results of the public opinion survey, which was open from August 17 through September 18, have been compiled and are available in the documents and links listed below.
5 page summary of the Lacy Road public opinion survey results – This document provides the overall trends of 4 sub-categories including; Lacy Road Residents, Live Adjacent to the Project, Fitchburg Residents, and All Respondents.
The City of Fitchburg has received a Federal STP-Urban grant to reconstruct a 1.3 mile segment of Lacy Road from the Fitchburg Community Center to South Syene Road.
The reconstruction of Lacy Road has been listed in the Capital Improvement Program for several years, primarily serving as a placeholder until grant funding could be secured and the need for the improvements became necessary. With the federal grant being secured to fund 50% of the construction costs, the poor pavement condition, and the increase in traffic volumes on Lacy Road, this project is moving forward with construction planned for 2017.
Lacy Road serves as a major collector through the City, providing a continuous east-west roadway that travels the length of the entire City. The pavement condition has a PASER rating of 6 (out of 10) and continues to degrade with the increased traffic that is traveling on Lacy Road due to the development activity occurring on the east side of the City. The McGaw Park Neighborhood Plan included an evaluation of existing roadways based on the development that is planned in the McGaw Park Neighborhood, Tech Campus, and Uptown. The traffic forecasts for Lacy Road range between 9,000-10,000 vehicles per day (vpd) for the projection year of 2035, at full build-out. The existing average daily traffic (ADT) on Lacy Road is ~5,000 vpd. Also, the 2008 City of Fitchburg Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan includes a recommendation to add sidewalk and to continue the shared-use path along the length of this corridor to provide pedestrian and bicycle accommodations.
This meeting provided an open house format to inform residents of the project limits, schedule, public input opportunities, and collect input on some of the typical section components to consider on the roadway. The goal for this meeting was to share information about the upcoming project and collect input and concerns before beginning the design process.
This meeting included a formal presentation of the project including background discussion on the purpose and need and a presentation of 5 typical sections for public comment and input.


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Q: How to suspend watchdog counter during debugging with Segger J-link pro and Stm32cubeIDE I'm trying to debug my application with the Segger J-link since the ST-Link debugger that comes with the Nucleo dev board allows only 5 breakpoints.
I cannot find a way to stop the watchdog during debugging sessions. Where can I find such setting?
If I use the ST-link for debugging this option is available in the following window:

but, when I select J-Link, that option is not there anymore:

I found something on SO about adding specific instructions (Disabling the STM32 IWDG during debugging), but I'm looking for something that does not require to add code.

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but I'm looking for something that does not require to add code

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*Easy way: change the IDE.

*The moderate way: amend the debug startup script (https://wiki.segger.com/J-Link_script_files)

*The hard way: rewrite the debug plugin

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In 2011, the expected increase in general rates of payments for pensions, compulsory health and social insurance in the Russian Federation from 26 to 34%. This significant increase in tax burden may negatively affect the companies in which labor costs account for up to 80% of the total cost. First of all, it concerns IT-companies.
In order to reduce the tax burden on these companies of the State Duma passed a bill on the introduction of a preferential 14 percent rate of insurance payments to non-budget funds for IT-companies. Action preferential rates apply to the period - from January 1, 2010. The privilege applies to the Russian organizations engaged in the development and implementation of computer programs, databases on physical media or electronic communication channels. The key conditions of receiving benefits will be the availability of state accreditation with the Ministry of Communications, the share of proceeds from the sale of programs of at least 90% of revenue and number of staff at least 50 people.
Rate of 14% for IT companies will continue until 2018, then increased to 21%, and in 2019 - up to 28%. The overall rate of 34% of these companies will come only in 2020.


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Heritage at Risk 2018
Today, Historic England published their 2018 Heritage at Risk Register highlighting the historic sites where they have 'concerns' over their condition and equally removing the structures and sites that they no longer have concerns about. A total of 242 entries were added to the list, including a Victorian museum, a former pumping station, a cutlery works and Grimsby's Kasbah Conservation Area. While 318 have been removed from the list after being 'saved', including Holy Island off the coast of Northumberland, a smock mill in Suffolk, and a village lock up in Hounslow. As a result, there are now 5,106 entries on the Heritage at Risk Register, which is 94 less than in 2017.
This is good news for the historic environment as the Register is continuing its trend since 2015 of removing more sites than they add; a product of Historic England's huge investment, totaling £9,888,723 in grants in 2018 alone. This comes as Historic England celebrate 20 years of the Heritage at Risk Register by announcing that over two-thirds of the entries on the 1998 Register have been saved – that's over 1,290 buildings and monuments.
Heritage at Risk has an important contribution to make to local economic, social and environmental objectives too. The 'Risky Business?' report which we produced for Historic England in January this year showcases a series of 10 case studies which illustrate how removals from the Heritage at Risk register have contributed to 'Good Growth' in London, now supported by a dedicated policy within the draft London Plan.
Lichfields is currently helping deliver regeneration at a number of 'at risk' and complex historic sites. Look out for our upcoming blog on Lichfields' work at Leeds General Infirmary which sets out an approach to simplifying the heritage issues with a complicated building.
Key statistics from the Heritage at Risk Register 2018 are:
242 entries added;
318 entries removed; and
A total of 5,106 entries made up of:
1,489 buildings or structures
911 places of worship
2,151 archaeology entries (non-structural scheduled monuments),
99 parks and gardens
4 battlefields
4 protected wrecks, and
502 conservation areas.
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Empire Service Train 259
Latest status for Amtrak Empire Service Train 259, updated 23:41 on 01/22 (unofficial).
Orig.: New York, NY - Penn StationOrigin: New York, NY - Penn Station, sch. departure 21:15 ET 01/22
Dest.: Albany-Rensselaer, NYDestination: Albany-Rensselaer, NY
NYP, departed 21:15 ET, on time (New York - Penn Station).
YNY, departed 21:39, on time, arrived 21:37 (Yonkers).
CRT, departed 21:58, on time, arrived 21:57 (Croton-Harmon).
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ALB, completed, 23:41 (Albany-Rensselaer).
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ASA Member News December 2017
Sign On: ASA Circulates Statement to Halt Legal Proceedings Against Georgiou, Colleagues
The ASA is circulating a sign-on statement in support of Andreas Georgiou—the former head of the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT)—and his colleagues, who continue to face charges of wrongdoing by the Greek government for revising inaccurate and misleading deficit and debt figures for the years up to and including 2009.
Sign on as an individual or for your organization by December 31!
ASA Urges Appointment of US Census Bureau Leadership That Maintains Integrity, Objectivity of Bureau, Decennial Census
Following alarming reports that the Trump administration is considering a deputy director of the US Census Bureau who appears to be unqualified and politically biased, ASA President Barry Nussbaum immediately wrote to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to share the concerns of the statistical community.
ASA Endorses Report by Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking
At its quarterly meeting earlier this month, the American Statistical Association's Board of Directors endorsed the United States Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking's new report: The Promise of Evidence-Based Policymaking. The report identifies specific, actionable measures that can be taken to improve government programs and policies.
Registration is almost sold out! Don't miss it.
Early registration deadline: January 10
Contributed paper and e-poster abstract submission deadline: January 18
Topic-contributed session proposal submission deadline: January 11
Poster and roundtable submission opens January 4
ASA sends letter to Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and signs Friends of BLS letter in support of nomination of William Beach to be commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics
ASA president writes to Attorney General Jeff Sessions regarding White House announcement of intent to nominate a director for the Bureau of Justice Statistics; Jeffrey Anderson sworn in December 18 as BJS director
Applications Sought for ASA Science Policy Fellowship
Application deadline: December 31
Student Applications Wanted for ASA/AAAS Mass Media Fellowship
Application deadline: January 15
Former NCES Commissioner Mark Schneider Tapped by President Trump to Lead Institute of Education Sciences; other federal statistical agency leadership developments here.
AERA Hosts Capitol Hill Commemoration of NCES's 150th Anniversary with co-sponsorship by ASA and COPAFS
Colorado Launches First-in-Nation Risk-Limiting Audits, endorsed by the ASA, with help of Philip Stark
ASA joins Census Project letter signed by 100+ organizations urging Congress to provide additional $187 million to support 2020 Census activities
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Stats-Savvy Students Help Improve Community Safety in ASA Contest Analyzing Police Emergency Call Data
ASA Executive Director Ron Wasserstein Asks How the Statistical Community Can Help (and Has Been Helping) Address Reproducible Research
ASA Commemorates Human Rights Day on December 10
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Know the facts before deciding. A world without cattle?
For Europeans and a majority of people around the world, a world without livestock is not something that is widely called for. Nevertheless, a minority fraction of the European population, are considering a world that is "free from livestock production". This clear and radical stance may seem seductive to some who consider it a coherent vision for the future. However, the singular removal of an entire food group from our future would bring with it a number of consequences that are often ignored.
Assessing all social, environmental, economic aspects related to an abandonment of the European livestock model is extremely complex even for livestock scientists and many side effects are almost impossible to predict. There are however, five clear consequences that could be considered as certain:
1.- Europe will lose a circular bio-economy champion
In a global circular bio-economy, livestock has many valuable roles that would disappear in a world without livestock. By valorising food-chain by-products livestock contributes to a more efficient agriculture and to a rich cultural and creative society. The recycling or some say 'upcycling' of biomass from resources such as grass, straw and bran that are inedible for people is an important process. If not consumed by livestock, these residues and by-products could quickly become an environmental burden in themselves, as human demand for processed foods increases.
2.- Rural Europe will be depleted
Today livestock is a key component of rural Europe. Livestock are present in almost all regions across Europe in a wide diversity of production systems according to local economic, geographical and sociological contexts. The livestock sector contributes substantially to the European economy (€168 billion annually, 45% of the total agricultural activity), to the trade balance and creates employment for almost 30 million people. Without livestock the rural exodus will increase, creating additional pressure in our cities, and a greater disconnection with nature and with our cultural heritage. Abandoned land would also result in increased forest fire risks in a context of global warming.
3.-The use and price of synthetic fertilisers will increase
The livestock sector is not only producing food but also a wide range of by-products, starting with manures and other effluents. Today, 40% of the world's cultivated area are using organic fertilisers coming from livestock production. A world without livestock will therefore lead to an important increase of synthetic fertilisers use. This would result in an increased dependency of European farmers on fertiliser imports, endangering our food security. Today fertilisers already represent one third of the farmer's costs, in a future which may see a higher price for fertilisers, producing crops may no longer be profitable without a global price increase.
4.- European food culture heritage will partly vanish
A complete shift away from livestock production would present major challenges to meeting all populations' nutritional needs. With no meat, cheese, eggs and fish in diets, the EU population would not receive enough of several different essential dietary nutrients from the foods they eat. A plant-only diet also would require individuals to eat more food and more daily calories to meet their nutritional needs because the available foods from plants are not as nutrient dense as foods from animals. nimal food products are the only available, non-supplemental sources of some fatty acids and vitamin B12.
5.- The carbon footprint of our meals will not see a substantial decrease
From a climate change perspective, a world without livestock would likely not be as some may expect. Without ruminants, the maintenance of our pastoral meadow and hedgerow landscapes would become extremely difficult. Forests would gain ground and become more susceptible to fire in the event of extreme temperatures. A study in the US on this issue by animal scientists Mary Beth Hall and Robin R. White, considered that the total removal of livestock in the US would represent only a drop of about 2.6 per cent of total US emissions when considering the main side consequence of livestock abandonment.
The information published comes from the #meatthefacts campaign, a campaign that has been launched to publicize the information of the livestock and meat sector and which has the support of the UECBV.eu.
More information in: https://meatthefacts.eu/
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Know the facts before deciding. Animal welfare
Animal welfare is an important concept. Many Europeans are concerned about the welfare of both farm and companion animals and it is an aspect in livestock farming that is often called into question. Views on animal welfare are very personal and the concept is much more complex than it seems at first sight. Ask 3 people what "animal welfare" means and you will most probably get 4 different answers – and this is perfectly understandable! This is why it is interesting to look at what science says about it.


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Molly on the Range
Recipes and Stories from An Unlikely Life on a Farm: A Cookbook
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Star of Food Network's Girl Meets Farm, and winner of the Judges' Choice IACP Cookbook Award, Molly Yeh explores home and family and celebrates her Jewish and Chinese heritage and her current Midwestern farm life in this cookbook featuring more than 120 recipes.
In 2013, food blogger and classical musician Molly Yeh left Brooklyn to live on a farm on the North Dakota-Minnesota border, where her fiancé was a fifth-generation Norwegian-American sugar beet farmer. Like her award-winning blog My Name is Yeh, Molly on the Range chronicles her life through photos, new recipes, and hilarious stories from life in the city and on the farm.
Molly's story begins in the suburbs of Chicago in the 90s, when things like Lunchables and Dunkaroos were the objects of her affection; continues into her New York years, when Sunday mornings meant hangovers and bagels; and ends in her beloved new home, where she's currently trying to master the art of the hotdish. Celebrating Molly's Jewish/Chinese background with recipes for Asian Scotch Eggs and Scallion Pancake Challah Bread and her new hometown Scandinavian recipes for Cardamom Vanilla Cake and Marzipan Mandel Bread, Molly on the Range will delight everyone, from longtime readers to those discovering her glorious writing and recipes for the first time. Molly Yeh can now be seen starring in Girl Meets Farm on Food Network, where she explores her Jewish and Chinese heritage and shares recipes developed on her Midwest farm.
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THE SUBURBS
Everything about 4-year-old me was round: my belly, thanks to a hobby of hollowing out entire loaves of Wonder Bread in one sitting; my plump spherical tongue that stuck out perpetually (which somehow led to not one, but two diagnoses of mental retardation); and on top of my head the most fantastic and embarrassing bowl cut that took advantage of my Asianness to always hold its shape as perfectly as a Lego person, no matter how many trees I fell out of.
I grew up on a quiet old street in Glenview, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago, with my chocolatier-turned-homemaker-turned-school-social-worker mom, clarinetist dad, and older sister, whose name is Jenna, but for as long as I can remember we have called each other "Stoopie," which is possibly short for "stupid," but neither of us can remember. We had a rotating selection of goldfish, a couple of Westies named Polly and Phydo, and because I was a textbook kid of the '90s in suburban America, a Furby and a gaggle of Tamagotchis.
I went to public school and played AYSO soccer. My childhood smelled of normalcy and Fruit by the Foot.
During our summers, Stoopie and I regularly walked down the street to our neighbor Emily's house, where we would pee in her pool, sneeze about her pet bunny, and eat many many Town House crackers. Our evenings were spent with my mom on the lawn of Ravinia, where my dad played his concerts with the Chicago Symphony. On a good night, I would demolish a baloney Lunchable and chocolate ice cream from the carousel-shaped parlor long before the trumpet calls from Beethoven's Leonore Overtures played over the loudspeaker to signify that the concert was about to start. On a mediocre night, everything would be the same, except my Lunchable would be turkey. At intermission, I changed into footie pajamas, and the chances were slim that I would still be awake for the final movement.
When my dad got time off from the orchestra, he and my mom and Stoop and I would pile into our white station wagon to vacation at Lake Lawn Resort in Lake Delavan, Wisconsin. Our resort of choice was a rustic sprawling lodge that had a very large great room, perfect for somersaults, and the snappiest breakfast buffet sausages that were perfect for sopping up syrup. Our drive there always required a stop in Richmond, Illinois, at Anderson's Candy Shop, a creaky Victorian house that sold nuggets of nougat, marzipan, and caramel dipped in thick layers of chocolate. Each one came in its own wax paper bag, blue letters for dark chocolate, red letters for milk. Dark chocolate-covered marzipan was Stoop's bar of choice; milk chocolate- covered marzipan was mine. And we would savor the life out of those things, taking little bite after little bite, making them last until they became gross and soggy.
When we tired of the horses, mini golf, swimming pools, and lake activities at our resort, our parents drove us down some very dusty gravel roads to Dam Road Bears, which sat in the middle of cornfields. Dam Road Bears was a crowded, warm house filled with stuffed animals and real animals, and you could make your own teddy bear. This was at least five years before Build-A- Bear surfaced, and it was way more advanced. It required building joints for your bears, which were structured and pastel colored, and sewing each one by hand to seal in the stuffing that you'd just spent a while fluffing. Each step was demonstrated by a calm old woman who lived cozily in her house of teddy bears. As someone who regularly took Amy the Teddy Bear to preschool, it was a magical little place.
The space between Lake Lawn Lodge and Dam Road Bears was the first real farmland I'd ever met. It was so flat and peaceful. The handful of houses we'd pass on the drive were classic white farmhouses that were, in my imagination, furnished with antique skillets and rocking chairs for their plump owners who all probably wore overalls and woke up before the sun. They'd have chickens who crowed at sunrise and one or two cows to milk. Maybe they had electricity, or maybe they didn't and just read by candlelight at night and used a weathervane for whatever weathervanes actually do. This is what I formulated in my mind from the back seat of the car with my new teddy bear. That's where the image associated with "farm" in my head was created, on a weekend getaway from the suburbs.
It was helpful because at school we'd often discuss the three places where one could live: a city, a suburb, a farm. City kids, in my mind, had slightly frizzy hair and moms who wore fashionably aggressive eye glasses; farm kids were all homeschooled and wore knitted sweaters. The world, I thought, revolved around my strip mall-covered suburb of Glenview, where all of my friends lived in two-story houses and had names that ended with an "ee" sound, Gracie, Lindsey, Gigi, and who shopped at Limited Too and wore flared denim and body glitter.
I was equally close-minded about my eating preferences. For the first 11 or 12 years of my life, the only foods that made it into my belly were white, orange, or brown. (Cheese, bread, matzo balls, etc.)
Miraculously, my mom took to this with grace. She mastered the hole-in-the- middle, which I'd eat twice daily in the name of protein, tapped Martha Stewart for the best ever homemade mac and cheese, and drove two towns over to Fresh Fields, before it became a Whole Foods, for nitrite-free Applegate baloney. She even read D.W. the Picky Eater to me every single night because it was my favorite book. If my pickiness freaked her out, she hid it from me well. Eventually she discovered that I'd eat carrots (they were orange, just like cheese!) and started requiring that I eat some before my after-dinner sundae cup. But really, she never forced me to eat when I wasn't hungry, and when I was hungry, I would eat. Even if it meant three Fuddruckers grilled cheeses right in a row during the major growth spurt of 2001. I was down with that. While my diet might not have been the healthiest at times, my mom saw a bigger picture that resulted in me having an excited relationship with food. The fact that she never forced me to eat things like broccoli meant that when I finally really came around to it (during college, at the No. 7 Sub in Manhattan, where a broccoli sandwich changes lives), I could approach it with a clean, excitable slate, free of any haunting childhood memories. Or when Brussels sprouts had their big moment, I could order the Má Pêche ones with glee without flashing back to not being able to leave the dinner table without finishing them.
The point is, everything my mom did went against what some Fancy Experts say about how you should force a food on a kid so many times until they eventually develop a taste for it. And alright, maybe that might have resulted in me liking green vegetables a few years earlier, but her way was awesome and brought about the enjoyment of some of the greatest ever snacks in the history of snacks, like bread and butter "sushi," Wonder Bread bread balls, and the embarrassing yet delightful Hot Dog Cheese.
HOT DOG CHEESE
This is the first recipe I ever mastered. It was taught to me by my childhood neighbor Stephanie, probably during a Baby-Sitters Club-themed slumber party. It spurred a years-long obsession with hot dogs, which included an Oscar Mayer-themed birthday party and a failed audition at an open casting call for the Oscar Mayer commercial.
1 precooked hot dog, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
1 slice American cheese, ripped into
1/2-inch pieces
Ketchup, for serving
Put the hot dog slices on a plate. Top them with the cheese pieces. Microwave until warm and the cheese is melted. Eat with ketchup. Celebrate your 6th birthday.
THE IDEAL HOLE IN THE MIDDLE
You know those macho men who act all tough and they're like "I'm not gonna fight you, I'm not gonna fight you, I'm betta than that," blah blah, and then you say one thing about their mother and they sock you in the face? That's how I feel about the hole in the middle (or eggs in a basket, or toad in the hole, or if you're frisky, a one-eyed jack). Insult my omelet game or my bacon game, but don't go near my hole in the middle because just like Judy's hot chocolate in The Santa Clause, I've been perfecting it for 1,200 years.
Starting from when I was 8, I'd watch my mom make two of these suckers every single morning. Together at the breakfast table, we'd informally analyze them. "Is the yolk too firm?" "No." "Is it too runny?" "Maybe." "I'll put it back on the stove. What happened, did I flip it too soon?" "Nah." "Oy, the yolk didn't break, did it?" And so on and so forth. Ninety percent of the time they were perfect, with a firm white, a runny yolk, toasty bread, and coarse granules of salt sprinkled on at the end. And over time I've learned to be particular about a few things in order to increase the likelihood of perfection: I crack the egg into a bowl before pouring it into the pan to make sure the yolk doesn't break on the way out of the shell, and once the egg is in the hole, I don't flip it. I simply cover the pan and cook. A broken yolk is very bad news, y'all.
Unsalted butter or oil
1 slice of bread
Kosher salt and black pepper
Additional toppings, as desired (I like Tabasco sauce and a sprinkling of za'atar and sumac or a smashed avocado.)
In a large skillet, heat a thin layer of butter or oil over medium heat. Cut a round out of the bread using a biscuit cutter or a glass: A thinner 1/2-inch slice of bread will need about a 2- to 21/2-inch round; a thicker slice, like 11/2 inches, will need closer to a 11/2-inch round. Place both pieces in the skillet.
When the bread is lightly toasted on the bottom, turn it over, add a tiny bit more butter or oil to the middle of the hole if the pan is dry, and then add the egg. If you're dealing with a thick slice of bread, reduce the heat to low. If your slice is thinner than that, keep it on medium.
Cover the pan and cook until the white part of the egg is firm but the yolk is still runny. Check it often to avoid overcooking the yolk or use a glass lid so that you can keep an eye on the egg. Remove it from the heat, salt it ferociously, add a few turns of pepper and any desired toppings, and enjoy.
EVERYTHING BAGEL BOUREKAS WITH EGGS, SCALLIONS, AND CHEESE
Every year my birthday begins with a breakfast sandwich and ends with fries (page 170). They're my two guiltiest pleasures, and I allow myself that one day a year to indulge in them shamelessly, pig-in-mud style. The breakfast sandwich doesn't have to be fancy; in fact it's the birthdays when I've woken up early enough to get to McDonald's in time for their breakfast (pre- 2015 problems, amiright?) that have been up there on the list of tastiest birthday breakfasts. I like a fluffy egg, lots of cheese, maybe some sausage, and a croissant. Ooh I love it on a croissant. Or a bagel. And ketchup and hot sauce. And presents!
Anyway, we don't have bagels in Grand Forks, like, at all. There was a rumor floating around that in the early 2000s there was a bagel place in town that had bagels flown in every day from New York. Can you imagine?! It probably felt like that fake Prada store outside of Marfa. Only real. But I get by in the absence of bagels--knowing that I'll appreciate them so much more when I visit New York--by letting puff pastry sprinkled with everything bagel topping kind of fill this void.
So here's my puff-pastry ode to the breakfast sandwich, and we're going to call it a boureka because you feel a lot less guilty filling puff pastry with your favorite breakfast sandwich fillings if you call it a boureka and reminisce on your fun times in Israel as you eat it. Bourekas are a common snack throughout the Middle East and they're traditionally filled with cheese, potatoes, or meat. This one is a variation on the cheese type that takes a nod from the bagel in the form of scallion cream cheese and "everything bagel" topping, and plays the role of breakfast sandwich courtesy of a pile of fluffy cheesy scrambled eggs. These reheat well in the toaster, so go ahead and make a big batch so that you can have leftovers tomorrow for breakfast.
4 ounces shredded whole-milk mozzarella cheese
1 sheet puff pastry, thawed in the refrigerator overnight
6 ounces scallion cream cheese, at room temperature (or 6 ounces plain cream cheese mixed with 2 scallions, finely chopped)
Everything Bagel Topping (recipe follows) Ketchup, for serving
Preheat the oven to 375ºF. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
In a medium bowl, whisk together 4 eggs until homogenous, then stir in the chives and mozzarella.
In a large skillet, heat the butter over medium heat. Pour the egg mixture into the hot skillet and cook until the bottom is set. Use a spatula to gently pull the bottom cooked parts to the sides of the pan to make space for more of the mixture to cook. Repeat this gentle pulling process one or two more times until a majority of the mixture is set and then transfer them to a bowl. The eggs should still be quite wet, as they'll continue to cook in the oven. Season them with salt and pepper and a few shakes of Tabasco sauce.
On a work surface, roll out the puff pastry to a 10 x 15-inch rectangle. Cut it into six 5-inch squares. Top each of the squares with a schmear of scallion cream cheese and a spoonful of the scrambled eggs, distributing them evenly and leaving a 3/4-inch border around the edges.
In a small bowl, beat the remaining egg with 1 tablespoon water to make an egg wash. Brush the edges of the puff pastry squares with the egg wash, fold them in half, and pinch the edges to seal them well. Transfer them to the baking sheet, placing them 1 inch apart. Brush the tops with egg wash and top with the everything bagel topping. Bake until golden brown. Begin checking for doneness at 30 minutes. Let cool slightly and serve with ketchup.
Leftovers can be refrigerated and reheated in a toaster oven.
- About the author -
Molly Yeh is a baker, blogger, writer, and farmer living in East Grand Forks, North Dakota. She is the voice behind the wildly popular blog, My Name is Yeh, which has been the recipient of multiple awards, including two Saveur 2015 blog awards: Editor's Choice and Blog of the Year. Molly is also the star of Girl Meets Farm on Food Network, where she cooks recipes inspired by her Jewish and Chinese heritage and her life on a Midwestern sugar beet farm. Molly graduated from Juilliard and plays percussion in symphonies and orchestras around the world. She lives in North Dakota with her husband and their many chickens.
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Abercrombie brightening up stores, look with rebrand
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After years of promising a pivot from its dark, perfumed stores and highly sexualized marketing, teen apparel retailer Abercrombie & Fitch is unveiling a brighter, more streamlined approach.
The new campaign features more diverse and clothed models—also reflected in the brand's more denim-oriented, less logo-centric clothing.
The rebranding was spearheaded by creative director of marketing Ashley Sargent Price who recently arrived from J. Crew.
As with rival teen apparel retailer American Eagle in recent quarters, Abercrombie's merchandising changes have enabled the company to ease up on heavy discounting and mitigate sales losses. Some of these include distancing itself from the logo-centric clothing rejected by millennials and highly sexualized marketing, and focusing on quality of its apparel.
But the retailer has struggled to make good on its repeated promises to turn up the lights at its darkly-lit stores, an approach from the era of CEO Mike Jeffries, who leaned on marketing and an ethos that the retailer catered to some mythic cool kid.
Losses still continued in the first quarter, marking the company's thirteenth straight quarter of losses. Net sales were down 3% in the first quarter compared to last year, with same-store sales down 4% company-wide, below analysts' expectations for a 1.5% rise.
Columbia University business school retail studies professor Mark Cohen told Retail Dive earlier this year that Abercrombie and its Hollister brand are still trying to figure out who they after the Jeffries' exit nearly two years ago.
"There's a massive effort going on to figure out how to position Hollister and Abercrombie, but whether it can be done remains to be seen," Cohen told Retail Dive.
Abercrombie has also been at odds with diversity issues, suffering a bruising loss last summer at the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled in an 8-1 decision that a job applicant who wore a hijab for religious reasons and was denied a job could indeed sue for discrimination. And a lawsuit filed this month over a transgender employee's firing shows that the company's "look policy" may still be getting it in trouble.
Those ongoing legal issues may have helped place the retailer among the least liked brands in America, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index. With apparel purchases already slipping on teens' list of priorities, Abercrombie can't afford that kind of reputation anymore. That has led to efforts like an anti-bullying campaign from the company and a push to talk about environmental sustainability.
The retailer is also apparently working to appeal to older consumers, who presumably have a bit more money to spend.
"This is a journey," chairman Arthur Martinez told Business Insider in May. "There won't be an "a ha!" moment where we pull the covers off something and say, 'here's the silver bullet answer.' Research tells us that there is a longing for the Abercrombie brand to become 'my' brand again. We hear quotes, like 'I've grown up but the brand didn't grow up with me.'"
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Marden is a small village and civil parish  southeast of Devizes in the county of Wiltshire, south west England. The parish is in the Vale of Pewsey which carries the upper section of the Salisbury Avon; to the south the parish extends into Salisbury Plain.

History
A settlement of 29 households and one mill was recorded at Meresdene in Domesday Book of 1086. The Victoria County History traces ownership of the mill – on the Avon in the north of the parish – from the 15th century until 1970, when it was still grinding corn, albeit by electrical power; the property was sold for residential use in 1975. The three-storey mill of 1842 and adjoining two-storey house, both in red brick, were recorded as Grade II listed in 1988.

Holders of Marden manor included Gilbert Basset and his brothers Fulk (bishop of London) and Philip, all in the 13th century; and Hugh le Despenser the elder from 1298 to 1326. After Despenser's execution, the manor was granted to Queen Isabella and then Queen Philippa. Later holders included the earls of Abingdon in the 17th and 18th centuries. The present manor house, in Flemish brickwork, is from the early 19th century.

John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870–1872) described Marden as follows:
MARDEN, or MERTON, a village and a parish in Devizes district, Wilts. The village stands on the river Avon, 2 miles SW of Woodborough r. station, and 6 ESE of Devizes; and has a post office, of the name of Marden, under Devizes. The parish comprises 1,278 acres. Real property, £2,291. Pop., 235. Houses, 49. The manor belongs to S. R. Neate, Esq. Two remarkable tumuli formerly were in the neighbourhood, 240 feet in circuit, and 40 feet high; and are supposed, by some writers, to mark the scene of Ethelred's defeat by the Danes in 871; but whether they were sepulchral barrows or the earthwork of an ancient British temple, is an open question. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £170. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Bristol. The church is ancient; has two Norman arches and an embattled tower; and is finely ornate, both without and within. There is a national School.

The population of the parish peaked in the second half of the 19th century, with 247 recorded at the 1871 census, then fell to 152 by 1901. A small National School was built c. 1844; the school was closed in 1925 and its premises were converted for residential use.

Marden has been suggested as a possible location for the Battle of Marton (871).

Parish church

The parish church of All Saints stands on a small rise in the northwest of the village. The body of the church dates from the 12th century, and the south doorway and chancel arch survive from that period.

In the 15th century the nave was largely rebuilt, and the chancel and tower added. Restoration in 1885 by C.E. Ponting saw the rebuilding of the chancel. Pevsner states "Nave and chancel externally all Ponting's". Other work in the 19th century included the replacement of the south porch, re-roofing of the chancel, and rebuilding of the top section of the tower. Today the tower is in limestone ashlar, with a stair-tower to the southeast; the nave is sarsen and greensand rubble with limestone quoins and dressings, on sarsen foundations; and the chancel is flint with limestone banding.

The plain octagonal font is from the 13th or 14th century, and the pulpit, also octagonal, is from the 17th. In the tower are six bells: one dated 1627 and three from the 18th century. The church was recorded as Grade I listed in 1962.

The first written mention of the church is in 1205. Later in that century the church belonged to Bradenstoke Priory. The benefice was united with Chirton in 1923, and the vicar was to reside at the parsonage house in Chirton. From 1951, the vicar also held the benefice of Patney, which was added to the united benefice in 1963. The three benefices were separated in 1976.

Today the church is served by the Cannings and Redhorn Team Ministry, which covers a group of eight churches in the Vale of Pewsey. Parish registers survive from 1684 and are kept in the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre.

Local government
The civil parish elects a parish council. Local government services are provided by Wiltshire Council, with its headquarters in Trowbridge, and the parish is represented there by Paul Oatway, who succeeded Brigadier Robert Hall as councillor for Pewsey Vale West in 2013.

Archaeological site

Marden Henge, close to the village on the other bank of the Avon, is a large Neolithic site.

References

External links
 Marden Village website
 Images of Marden Mill at millsarchive.org

Villages in Wiltshire
Civil parishes in Wiltshire

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VIDEO: JENNIFER LOPEZ F/ IGGY AZALEA – 'BOOTY'
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Move over Nicki Minaj....Ass, ass, ass. After giving us the sexy artwork and teaser video, Jennifer Lopez mesmerizes in the steamy video for her "Booty (Remix)" featuring Iggy Azalea. The voluptuous beauties flaunt their famous assets and gets hand-on with each other in the Hype Williams-directed clip.
"It's very editorial and classy and high energy and booty-ful," J.Lo told "E! News."
"Booty" is the latest single off J.Lo's album A.K.A., which was released in June.
Take in all the booty action below.
BEYONCE DAD...MATTHEW KNOWLES.....YOU ARE THE FATHER!
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Dirty dog diaries...Beyonce and Solange woke up with another sibling this morning as DNA tests prove 63 year old Mathew Knowles is the father of a baby girl conceived in 2010…
Back in July news leaked that Mathew Knowles had been ordered by the Texas courts to take a paternity test after Houston resident 30 year old Taqoya Branscomb accused Beyonce's former manager of being the father of her child.
According to TMZ the tests just came showing 99.998% probability that Mathew Knowles is the father.
Now Taqoya can move forward with her child support case against Mathew.
Good luck with that Taqoya, because Mathew's other child support order was recently slashed from 12k a month down to 2k a month retroactive for two years.
JAY Z & BEYONCE RENEW THERE VOWS ....AND WORKING ON A NEW JOINT ALBUM
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Elevator love in full effect...HI Haters! Beyonce and Jay Z have since ridden a wave of speculation that their six-year union was on the rocks, including claims they slept in separate rooms while on their joint On The Run tour.
However, the couple are said to have made a dramatic 'U-turn' after reaffirming their love for each other in an special commitment ceremony during a family holiday to Corsica for Beyonce's 33rd birthday earlier this month.
According to Grazia, Beyonce decided the milestone was the perfect point to put all the negativity behind them and move forward as a couple.
A source tells the magazine: 'They were joined on a private beach by Beyoncé's mum Tina, their daughter Blue Ivy and a small group of close friends and recited a new set of vows during a short but very romantic ceremony, which doubled up as a birthday celebration.
And if that isn't enough Yes, you heard right. According to Dash Radio's DJ Skee (via Just Jared), the superstar couple is in the studio recording all-new music.
While no official announcement has been made, sources close to the Carters tell Skee that the album is set for release in late 2014 or early 2015.
The power duo have collaborated numerous times in the past, but this would mark their first full-length project. Most recently, they scored a hit with "Drunk in Love" for Beyoncé's self-titled album, while Mrs. Carter appears on "Part II (On the Run)" off Jay's Magna Carta…Holy Grail.
ACTRESS MEGAN GOOD WORKS ON NEW CHRISTIAN PROJECT
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In a recent interview with the New York Amsterdam News, actress Meagan Good revealed plans to fuse her Christian faith with her love of music in an upcoming "dream project" that will be produced by her own Freedom Bridge Entertainment.
Though she declined to go into detail, Meagan did say the project has been "brewing for some time," and that an unexpected opening in her schedule finally permitted her the opportunity to commit to the venture fulltime.
Meagan, who dabbled in music via her group the H.E.L.L.O. Girls and their singles 'On and On' and 'Beep Beep,' has been very vocal about her desire to fuse her faith with her career, saying the two are not mutually exclusive and that they can co-exist as long as there are boundaries.
"I have my parameters," Meagan recently told the Los Angeles Times. "There have been times where I have lost roles because they clashed with my beliefs. The good part is that for every one role I lost, two or three better roles would come along."
Meagan recently wrapped production on 'Babylon Fields' and is set to start shooting on two new films: 'Loose' and 'You Have a Nice Flight' in the coming months.
HALLE BERRY NEW MAKEOVER...HOT OR NAH?
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Somebody has hit up the weave shop... oops were sorry it's extensions in Hollywood. Halle has been at the top of the Hollywood crops since shooting to fame in the '90s
But Halle Berry has changed up her style following a dramatic hair makeover.
The Oscar winner showed off her new longer look while taking a stroll around Los Angeles on Monday. It's not known if the new look is for an upcoming film project or if Halle just wanted a change in the style stakes.
Hair today, long tomorrow: The 48-year-old has become synonymous with her adorable pixie crop.
She has previously spoken about her she feels at her best when she's sporting her famous pixie crop, but admitted to sometimes wanting a adaptable style. We look Halle casual style and her post-baby body looks great.
LOVE & HIP HOP STEVIE J & JOSELINE HERNANDEZ EVICTED FROM THERE HOME
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Fake show...Fake people....Fake coins...Last week Love and Hip Hop Atlanta star Benzino exposed former friends Stevie J and Joseline for having the electricity shut off at their Georgia mansion [click here if you missed that].
Then rumors spread that Stevie J and Joseline had been evicted after falling behind on their rent.
One things for sure, the couple did move out of the luxurious home they lived in on TV…
Stevie J posted video on Instagram confirming the move and a possible Stevie J and Joseline spinoff.
Over the weekend Love and Hip Hop Atlanta star Stevie J fueled the rumors that he and Joseline had gotten evicted by filming himself driving away from their mansion in a U-Haul truck.
After taking heat for getting put out Stevie J tries to put everyone in check…
VIDEO: AUGUST ALSINA F/ NICKI MINAJ – 'NO LOVE (REMIX)'
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It girl Nicki Minaj takes over in the cinematic video for August Alsina's "No Love (Remix)" co-starring Nicki Minaj. In the Benny Boom-directed clip, August and Nicki play lovers, but their relationship is non-exclusive. He hits the club with another woman, while Nicki waits at home.
But soon he realizes that what he has with Nicki is the real deal. He sends her hundreds of roses to show his love and win her heart.
In a recent interview with Rap-Up TV, August opened up about shooting the video with the "Anaconda" rapper, who also wrote the treatment.
"Nicki was very, very deeply involved with this one in particular, as far as the video goes," he said. "She had a vision for it and she really, really is a big fan of the record, which was real important to me because it makes it that much more special."
"No Love" is the latest single off August's debut album Testimony.
Peep the romantic video, featuring a cameo from Tyga, below.
BEYONCE PREGNANT WITH HER SECOND CHILD?
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The internet is burning up with claims that Jay Z announced Beyonce's second pregnancy during the Paris stop of the On the Run Tour last night…
Concert goers are swearing up and down Jay Z broke the news last night by changing the lyrics to 'Beach is Better' to reflect Beyonce's new knocked up status.
Allegedly the rapper changed the lyrics from "Can't take this money with you/Burn this sh*t up like I'm richer/N***a's asking if the oven's on…to... "Can't take this money with you/Burn this sh*t up like I'm richer/Cause she's pregnant with another one…"
All that to say she's pregnant? Let's you know people hang on there every word.
BEYONCÉ AND NICKI MINAJ PERFORM 'FLAWLESS' REMIX AT 'ON THE RUN TOUR' IN PARIS
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Queen Bey was joined by the queen of rap during the "On the Run Tour" in Paris on Friday. Nicki Minaj hit the stage to perform the "Flawless (Remix)" with Beyoncé for the first time live. Matching Bey in Versus Versace, Nicki spit her explosive verse as the words "curvalicious" and "delicious" appeared on the giant screen behind her.
The concert was taped for an HBO special, which will air on Saturday, September 20.
"The QUEEN, could never thank you enough," tweeted Nicki, who posed for a selfie with Bey.
It's rumored that the ladies are shooting a video for the song while in Paris. Nicki posted a photo of her and director Francesco Carrozzini on set.
Watch some of the concert footage below.
NEW MUSIC: JAMIE FOXX FT. 2 CHAINZ – 'PARTY AIN'T A PARTY'
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Almost four years since releasing his last album, Jamie Foxx returns with his new single "Party Ain't a Party." The Oscar winner turns up with 2 Chainz on the club-ready cut, produced by DJ Mustard and penned by Rock City. Jamie eyes a shorty with a big booty, while the Hairweave Killer lives up to his name.
"So back that ass up like Juvie 'cause you already know that I need that," sings Foxx.
Stream their song below:.
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During Fashion Week the buzz and excitement fills the air, while the models are waiting, hoping, this is their time, their 5 minutes in the spotlight. These candid shots bring out their warmer, more natural side as the backstage of a runway show is a stark contrast to the organised front of house fun we're used to seeing in magazines.


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Samsung's next Galaxy could be Galaxy S20, not S11
Cam Bunton · 27 December 2019
- The next Galaxy could be Galaxy S20, not Galaxy S11
- Likely being unveiled near the middle of February
It looks like Samsung might ditch its phone naming pattern for the next Galaxy S flagship.
In a similar move to what we saw with Huawei's P series and Mate series phones, Samsung is apparently jumping from S10 to S20, rather than call it the S11. This is according to Ice Universe on Twitter; a leaker with a solid track record.
— Ice universe (@UniverseIce) December 24, 2019
This suggestion is quickly followed by one that clarifies that because it's the year 2020, Samsung is opting to start a new wave of Galaxy phones with a new focus.
The only confusion here is that this very same leaker has since referred to the phone as Galaxy S11 again, so it seems even they aren't 100 per cent convinced Samsung would ditch its naming convention so readily.
In the same breathe, @UniverseIce has also re-stated his belief that the phone range will launch in February.
While originally fairly sure that the launch event would take place on 18 February, he now believes it's more likely to be on 11 February. Although it still seems that date isn't written in stone just yet.
Clearly, in regards to naming and launch date, there's a lot to be nailed down still and - until Samsung announces it officially - it's all up in the air.
As we mentioned already, Samsung wouldn't be the first company to adopt this new naming strategy. Huawei did the same with both the P series and the Mate series.
With the former, it jumped from P10 to P20 and has since released the P30 series. Likewise, the Mate series went from Mate 10 to Mate 20, then Mate 30.
As for Samsung, it's been rumoured the S11/S20 will feature a completely revamped camera experience.
The latest rumours suggest we'll see a five camera makeup on the back featuring a mega 108-megapixel sensor and a periscope zoom lens similar to Huawei and Oppo's effort with 5x optical zoom.
We're also expecting to see three different devices in the range, similar to what we saw with the S10 series. Except, for 2020, all three are claimed to feature curved edges down both sides of the display.
Whatever happens, we'll continue covering all the developments, so stay tuned for more as the launch date nears.
Source: @UniverseIce
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Samsung Galaxy A30 2021 model arrives on Bluetooth SIG
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It seems that Samsung is working on a new version of the Galaxy A30, which was launched back in 2019. The device has recently passed the Bluetooth SIG carrying the Model Number and Company's name.
Must See: May 2021 Security Patch update reaches the Samsung Galaxy A52.
Samsung Galaxy A30 2021 Bluetooth SIG
The launch studio listing confirms that the Korean giant – Samsung is working on the 2021 version of the Galaxy A30. The device has appeared on the certification website with the model number SM-A305F.
If we go with the other details, the smartphone comes with the Hardware Version Number REV1.0, and the software version is mentioned as A305F.001. Apart from these, the listing also confirms that the phone comes with Bluetooth v5.0 out of the box.
At the moment, the other specifications of the smartphone, including the Camera, Display, Battery, etc., remain unknown. So far, the Galaxy A30 2021 has not passed any other certification websites. As it is the first time, it must take at least a few months or weeks to release in the markets.
Samsung Galaxy A30 (2019) Specifications
The device features a 6.4-inch Super AMOLED display and runs Android 9.0 (Pie) out of the box. It equips a 16-MP + 5-MP dual rear camera and a 16-MP single selfie camera in terms of camera. The phone is powered by an Exynos 7904 (14 nm) Chipset paired with 3/4GB RAM and 32/64GB internal storage. There's a 4,000 mAh, which comes with support for Fast charging up to 15W.
Must See: Samsung Galaxy M11 starts receiving the Android 11 Update.
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Parent Preview Nights – Health, Abuse and Violence Awareness Curriculum
The RISD School Health Advisory Council (SHAC) is voting on a new human sexuality curriculum for secondary health students. Lessons will be taught during the Health 1 class. The SHAC committee is reviewing the "Choosing the Best" curriculum.
The RISD community is invited to preview the curriculum and provide input to the committee before it is presented to board of trustees for consideration. These are "opt-in" lessons for students in grades 7 through 12, meaning parents must opt their student in to receive the lesson or students will not receive the information.
The "Choosing the Best" curriculum aims to educate teens on the health advantages of delayed sexual activity and empower them to make the healthiest choices to reduce unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases, improving life outcomes for teens and their families. For more information, please visit this website: https://www.choosingthebest.com/.
Parents and the public will have the opportunity to review the curriculum at the RISD Professional Development Center located at 701 W. Belt Line Road in Richardson any time during these windows:
Monday, Oct. 24, in the Professional Development Center gym in Building C from 6 to 8 p.m.
Thursday, Oct. 27, in the Professional Development Center auditorium in Building B from 5 to 7 p.m.
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In addition, SHAC has been researching lessons to align with Texas SB 9, which seeks to address the prevention of child abuse, family violence, dating violence, and sex trafficking, and the adoption of public school policies to prevent dating violence. These are also "opt-in" lessons that will be taught once during sixth grade, once during junior high, and once during high school.
RISD stakeholders will have the opportunity to review these materials simultaneously at next week's scheduled curriculum preview night.
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08.21.19 / Category: Impact - Grant Awards
Back to School Around the Globe
August is here and (not surprisingly) we're already in the thick of back to school (BTS) season. Advertisements and commercials jam-packed with fun, new fashion trends and school supplies to boost productivity are a dime a dozen. For most, it's an exciting time – for parents, kids are going back to school and getting into a better routine and for kids, it's all about new beginnings, from teachers and peers to subject matter. Unfortunately, that excitement isn't shared around the globe. In fact, for most girls and women, it's not even a reality.
Education is the conduit for girls and women to create better lives not only for themselves, but their families, communities and countries – and quality schooling is the means by which to achieve this. That said, far too many lack the basic tools to help them learn effectively. And trying to teach without the proper classroom supplies is like sending soldiers to war with no weapons: impossible.
This is precisely why The Circle of Sisterhood (CofS) exists today – to tear down those barriers and provide access to education for girls and women across the globe. While part of CofS' work entails school builds, providing villages with the infrastructure, that's only half the battle. Supplies from books and pencils, to uniforms and computers are still paramount to creating an environment for successful learning.
But rather than talk about it, let us show you how we at CofS put our money where our mouth is. Here are a handful of grant projects CofS has funded over the years that are providing basic classroom necessities to further girls' and women's education:
Shining Hope for Communities
Shining Hope for Communities combats extreme poverty and gender inequity by linking girls' education to a comprehensive set of health and social services in Nairobi, Kenya. To achieve this, Shining Hope founded The Kibera School for Girls (KSG), the first entirely free primary school in the area. CofS awarded the organization a $5,000 grant for general program support at KSG, which includes two daily meals, uniforms, health care and school supplies – all free of charge to Kibera's brightest and most disadvantaged girls.
EKARI Foundation
The EKARI Foundation's mission is to provide the resources necessary for the poor and excluded to life themselves out of poverty. A $3,500 grant from CofS enabled the EKARI Foundation to provide six girls in Malawi with tuition, boarding fees, meals, uniforms, transportation home during holidays and basic necessities such as soap, feminine products, notebooks and an allowance for school needs.
Bead for Life
Bead for Life's mission is to eradicate extreme poverty by creating bridges of understanding between impoverished Africans and concerned citizens of the world. A grant from CofS funded the secondary education of six girls in Northern Uganda, including tuition, school supplies, mattresses, uniforms, staff support and empowerment activities.
Circle of Women
In the high Mixteca area of Oaxaca, Mexico, 70 percent of adult women are illiterate. Illiteracy and gender inequality are the primary causes of economic and educational disadvantage. Through a CofS grant, Circle of Women was able to coordinate a program aimed at helping women become self-sufficient by providing funding for a new teacher for one year, covering all necessary teacher travel, as well as program supplies.
SOLD Project
The SOLD Project offers scholarships and resources to at-risk children in rural Thailand to keep them off the path to prostitution and give them hope for a better future. Through a CofS grant, the organization was able to provide three laptop computers for older girls entering vocational school.
Quality schooling is the great emancipator from poverty and despair, providing a better life for women and their families. But this is not possible without the appropriate tools for students to succeed. CofS is proud to be one of the driving forces arming these amazing organizations with the supplies they need to empower women and girls around the globe through education.
Written by Gina Orlando Devine
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