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Christian Kirksey, Browns reach four-year, $38 million extension
CLEVELAND (AP) — When the Browns were sliding toward a winless 2016 season, Christian Kirksey stepped forward.
The linebacker boldly predicted a victory, which came a few weeks later.
On Tuesday, Cleveland locked up Kirksey for what the club hopes will be better seasons ahead.
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Kirksey signed a four-year, $38 million extension with the Browns, who will have their leading tackler under contract through the 2021 season. The deal includes $20 million guaranteed.
"Christian Kirksey brings a lot to this football team," said Sashi Brown, the club's executive vice president of football operations. "He's another example of a young talented football player that we want to be part of our organization for the long term. Chris reflects the hard work and commitment we want in our locker room. He has done everything asked of him since he was drafted and has developed into an impact starter. We look forward to watching him continue to emerge as a leader of our team and establish a culture of winning here in Cleveland."
The 6-foot-2, 235-pounder was one of the few positives last season when the Browns went 1-15. He led the team in tackles and finished third in the league with 148.
Kirksey, who made at least nine tackles in 10 games and played all but two defensive snaps last season, would have been eligible to be an unrestricted free agent in March.
But now he'll anchor a defense that should be more aggressive after coach Hue Jackson hired Gregg Williams as his coordinator.
"Hue Jackson has been telling me from Day 1 that I have a chance to be a great player in this league and for them to offer me this contract speaks volumes," Kirksey said. "I am glad to be here and to be a Brown for a long time. This is my home. This is where I want to be. I love my teammates and we are ready to get this thing rolling. I am excited for the future."
The Browns selected the former Iowa standout in the third round in 2014. He has appeared in 48 games for Cleveland and made 29 starts.
Kirksey's extension is the latest by the Browns, who signed linebacker Jamie Collins (4 years, $50 million) and left guard Joel Bitonio (5 years, $51 million) to new contracts earlier this offseason.
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Stepwise radical endoscopic resection for Barrett's esophagus with early neoplasia: report on a Brussels' cohort
R E Pouw, F P Peters, C Sempoux, H Piessevaux, P H Deprez
Amsterdam Gastroenterology Endocrinology Metabolism
BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS: The aim of this retrospective study was to assess safety and efficacy of stepwise radical endoscopic resection (SRER) in patients with Barrett's esophagus with high-grade intraepithelial neoplasia (HGIN) or early cancer.
PATIENTS AND METHODS: Patients undergoing SRER between 2000 and 2006 were retrospectively evaluated. Patients with Barrett's esophagus who also had HGIN or early cancer were included if they had no signs of submucosal infiltration or metastases. SRER was performed using the cap-technique, at 8-week intervals until all Barrett's esophagus was removed. Follow-up endoscopy was scheduled every 6 months.
RESULTS: A total of 34 patients were included (31 male, mean 67 years, median Barrett's dimensions C1M4). HGIN / early cancer was eradicated in all patients in a median of two endoscopic resection sessions (IQR 1-2 sessions). Twelve patients underwent additional argon plasma coagulation for small islets or an irregular Z-line. Barrett's esophagus was eradicated in 28 patients (82 %). Complications occurred in 3/34 patients (9 %): two perforations, one delayed bleeding. In all, 19 patients (56 %) developed dysphagia, which was resolved with dilatation or stent placement. During a median follow-up period of 23 months (IQR 15 - 41 months), HGIN / early cancer recurred in three patients (9 %): two were retreated with endoscopic resection and one patient was referred for curative surgery. Five patients (15 %) had recurrence of nondysplastic Barrett's esophagus. At the end of the follow-up period all patients were free of HGIN / early cancer (one patient after surgery), and 23 patients (68 %) had complete endoscopic and histological eradication of Barrett's esophagus.
CONCLUSIONS: SRER resulted in complete eradication of HGIN/early cancer in all patients, and eradication of Barrett's esophagus in a majority of cases. A significant number of patients develop dysphagia, which can be successfully treated endoscopically.
Pouw, R. E., Peters, F. P., Sempoux, C., Piessevaux, H., & Deprez, P. H. (2008). Stepwise radical endoscopic resection for Barrett's esophagus with early neoplasia: report on a Brussels' cohort. Endoscopy, 40(11), 892-8. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-2008-1077675
Pouw, R E ; Peters, F P ; Sempoux, C ; Piessevaux, H ; Deprez, P H. / Stepwise radical endoscopic resection for Barrett's esophagus with early neoplasia : report on a Brussels' cohort. In: Endoscopy. 2008 ; Vol. 40, No. 11. pp. 892-8.
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The Swan Woody School District was established formally in June 1947 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at SW10-39-25W in the Rural Municipality of Mountain. The district was dissolved in 1967 and its catchment area became part of the Swan Valley School Division. No vestige of the former schoolhouse remains at the site but the building now stands at NE10-39-25W.


I know this Christian couple. This is a wife's first-hand account of living with her husband's recently diagnosed and developing dementia. The names have been changed, along with a few details, to protect their identity. Barbara is the wife and Doug is her husband.
I hope you don't skip over the lead-in to this story because it shows how a person can move from normal living to experience dementia. For Doug, there was a small beginning of memory loss, then dementia began and it is accelerating.
The first person (I, me and my) is Barbara speaking.
Doug's first wife, Kay, suffered for 7 years with ovarian cancer. This meant that little housework was done inside or outside the house as Doug supported Kay in his own way. Towards the end of her life, Doug did not cope well with the situation. He continued his regular job for 5 days a week, starting at 6am and until late. It was one of those jobs with unpredictable hours of finishing.
Doug was a Christian and the women from the church and neighbours brought meals for them, did ironing, house cleaning, and other jobs around the house. Kay passed away in 2008.
Doug has 3 children, a girl & 2 boys. Barbara has 2 girls to her first husband. They were together for 31years and Barbara was living alone for 20 years before marrying Doug.
Now let's hear the story from Barbara's point of view.
Doug made contact with me in January 2009. Although he was 72 years of age, he visited me on Monday weekly for morning tea. This eventually extended to lunch. If his work took him near my area, he would drop in for a cuppa. We went to the movies occasionally and he went to church with me on Sundays.
Barbara said: I contracted poliomyelitis (polio) when I was 12 years old. This left me paralysed from the waist down. I was unable to walk for the next 2 years and then returned to school.
This has led to these consequences in recent years – rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, and osteoporosis. In 2010, I had an operation on my left foot to have pins put in 3 of my toes and a plate inserted in the ball of my foot under the big toe. The consequence of this surgery was that I was unable to walk or put my foot on the ground for 8 weeks.
During this time, Doug was a great help to me. He mowed the lawns and the gardens were kept in order. He brought me fruit and took me shopping with a wheelie walker. I was now able to move about inside the house, doing the basics on an office chair.
In January 2012, after we had been friends for 3 years, keeping company, attending church, going to family function, movies, plays and other things in working together in the houses and gardens, Doug popped the question to me on 3 occasions: Will you marry me? But I was not ready for that kind of commitment.
In March of that year, my arthritis had flared again and I found it difficult to cope with my driveway, terraced gardens, lawns and other things around the house. Doug and I discussed again the prospect of getting together on a permanent basis.
Up to this time Doug was very much of a sound mind.
We thought at first that we could sell Doug's house and live in mine. We considered Doug's age, upkeep of my house, and decided to sell both houses and look into moving into a retirement village. This would give us opportunity of making a completely new start for friendship, security, companionship, and confidence for the future.
In May 2012, the decision was made to go ahead. It took us 3 months to clean up one of the houses for sale. This involved a lot of work; we had to scrub walls and clean until our hands bled. To give some idea of what we had to do to clean the house, Doug took 11 heaped trailer loads of goods to the dump. He had been a hoarder, worked on church properties and a large Christian camp facility. He kept everything he thought might come in handy in the future. This clean-up was a mammoth job for a not-so-young couple.
In August and September 2012, we had 2 monster open house garage sales. We did all of the preparation, pricing and presentation ourselves. This was a particularly difficult time for Doug as he had lived and worked in his house for over 50 years. He had built beds, cabinets, made house extensions, and did other things to improve the house.
Doug put his house on the market and it sold in 6 weeks. We had already spent time looking at retirement villages and decided to move to one in an outer, north side Brisbane suburb. Doug moved into this village in October 2012.
There was one situation when we were taking an old oval glass cabinet to his grand-daughter's place that should have alerted me that something untoward was happening. She lived not far from Doug's house. It was about 6pm and we had been working all day on sorting and other household things. He became confused about where he was going. I had lived in the area myself for 5 years, so I was aware he was going around in circles. We got back on track and I knew he was tired and worn out, so I put the incident down to stress.
We were engaged to be married on Christmas Day 2012. Meanwhile, I had further surgery on my right foot with pins placed in my 3 toes. I was able to walk with a special boot on that foot.
It was time for me to sell my house. We prepared for 2 mammoth garage sales in June and July 2013. Doug and I worked hand in hand, preparing so all would be ready for the sales.
This was a huge task as trailer loads of furniture were transferred to our unit at the retirement village.
We put my house on the market in August 2013 and it was sold in 2 days.
We planned our wedding for 2013, inviting 160 guests. After a lot of work, we were married in September 2013, with my house sale being finalised 2 weeks before the wedding.
In the course of 16 months, we had sold 2 houses, bought a unit, and were married by November 2013.
I was aware that Doug was having some memory problems so I visited his doctor and then we took him to Prince Charles Hospital, Chermside, Brisbane where Doug had a head scan.
He had a minor stroke in 2000 when Kay became ill, but with no obvious side effects. His speech was slightly affected but it repaired quickly.
The result of this latest head scan showed a shaded area of the brain (the memory area) and it was spreading. After he was tested, he was discharged as having minimal dementia.
Six months later in May 2014, the damaged area was spreading and the deterioration of memory was accelerating.
In August 2014, Doug and I took a 6-week overseas trip. This did not help Doug's condition as he had periods of disorientation and confusion when he felt lost. This was a difficult time for me.
It was in November 2014 that Doug was diagnosed with dementia because of a cerebral episode (stroke) and no drugs are available for this type of dementia and its effects. The consequences are not only short term memory loss but also memory as a whole.
In February 2015, after a thorough medical examination, it was recorded that Doug was experiencing a marked deterioration since his last testing. He had not only lost 2kg in weight, but he had a very slow response to all cues and physical movement.
During 2015, from February to August, the dementia progressed. In August 2015, they took a river cruise which they had booked over 12 months prior. This trip of 13 days was a disaster for both Doug and me. He was so disoriented that did not know where he was or where he was going.
Any kind of change does not help a person with dementia. Change seems to accelerate the disease. Doug has had many changes since 2008. He lost his wife in 2008, sold his house in 2012, bought into a retirement village in 2012, finalised his employment in 2013 and married a second time in 2013.
Some days there seems to be a light at the end of a tunnel or a window will open. But there is no cure for dementia. Everyday the situation progresses to something worse.
Doug does not always know what day it is. He has no comprehension of what he is reading or watching. He is unable to communicate – finds it hard to choose adequate words to express himself. He has difficulty in speaking; he's unable to name objects and is unable to do simple tasks. He cannot follow instructions or understand what is said.
He forgets some personal hygiene. All clothing items have to be laid out for him. He is unable to shop or handle finances. He does things in reverse, leaves doors open or unlocked; he switches off power points (e.g. for the deep freezer), leaves lights and TV on. He does not know where he and I are going or why or when to get out of the car. Everything has to be written down if I want him to do something.
As a carer, I find my life is not on. I have to organise and prepare for 2 people. I have to follow up and check out every situation. I have to attend to all necessities in the house. This includes cooking, cleaning and finances. I am on duty all hours of the day and night.
I have no personal, social life or time to enjoy a social outing with a friend. There is no communication or understanding of another's need from Doug.
With this kind of burden, how does this affect me? I get tired, frustrated and stressed. I need a friend, a hug, someone to talk to, a shoulder to cry on.
The person with dementia is unaware of most situations. They are not affected by their condition.
I spoke with John, another person with a spouse who has dementia, and John said that no-one really understands or realises what spouse carers have to cope with – unless they are in the same situation.
Barbara's story is tragic in that here we find a lonely, tired and frustrated Christian woman who desperately needs a Christian friend – a female friend – to talk with and cry on her shoulder.
To enable this to happen, we need Christian women to be available and Christian men who will care for the man with dementia while his wife is taking a breather and being engaged socially with others.
'But someone will say, "You have faith; I have deeds." Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds' (James 2:18 NIV).
40 "The King will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me' (Matthew 25: 31-40 NIV).
Copyright © 2016 Spencer D. Gear. This document last updated at Date: 31 October 2017.
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Inflation, wages and emergency measures
Julian De Diego
Lawyer. Employment advisor of companies and chambers of business. Academic Counselor for Libertad y Progreso.
EL CRONISTA: The effects on wages of this galloping inflation that we are suffering will force the Executive to adopt emergency measures at a time when we are on the verge of social chaos. No doubt pay rises under collective bargaining agreements and minimum wages cannot keep up with inflation because they are not effective tools for overcoming the crisis.
In fact, collective bargaining agreements have become museum pieces, left behind by a rampant inflation, where they set wages by the hour, by the day or on a monthly basis but nowadays salaries in all industries are variable pay tied to performance or results.
There is nothing that can be done under activity-wide collective bargaining agreements to effectively avert this real catastrophe for the income that working people collect, whether as employees or freelancers. By the way, according to Article 14 bis of the National Constitution, "work in its various forms shall enjoy the protection of laws…", and the fulfillment of this fundamental duty must be ensured by the three powers of the State.
Today this protection is undoubtedly inadequate, with fatal errors, such as the policy of welfare programs that perpetuate poverty, marginalization and exclusion, without any hopes for the future, and promote the loss of the fundamental culture of paid work. Like a plague, mistakes in the present economic policy destroy income through inflation, and sadly we need to accept that making the same mistakes will not change results.
The 2022 inflation forecast is currently estimated at 80% minimum, and there are many experts who believe it will exceed 100%. The payment chain is gradually disrupted, with rapidly increasing costs and prices, thus breaking the financial process that ensures a minimum balance between income and expenses.
Income is already lagging behind, primarily wages, which are not enough for subsistence. More than 60% of the 6.2 million employees who are duly registered at ANSES (Social Security National Administration) cannot purchase the market basket calculated by INDEC (National Bureau of Statistics and Census). It is worth mentioning that the number of workers has not changed in the last twelve years, so if there are more employed persons, they are working off the books.
Measures should be taken at different levels. First, the payment of social security employees' and employers' contributions could be suspended or deferred so as to give priority to the payment of workers' wages.
In addition, employers may be exempt from paying social security contributions on first-time hires and/or on those who increase their payroll by a real percentage as compared to a reference date to be determined, as long as workers continue to work at the company for a minimum period of time as established in the law once this benefit expires.
Second, and undoubtedly this is one of the most effective plans that the Government could implement: the so-called payroll tax structural reform, combining regularization and actual payment. This measure should identify tax evaders who work off the books or use fraudulent maneuvers to avoid compliance with labor laws, and offer a moratorium for verified cases. This process of regularization helps increase tax collection and has a positive impact to mitigate the fiscal deficit.
Third, the National State, the provinces and the municipalities should set an example in the process of employee regularization. The habit of hiring self-employed workers and renewing fixed-term contracts over and over again should definitely come to an end. Civil servants should pay social security contributions like any other employee at the private sector.
There are provinces where civil servants account for less than 30% of the public administration staff, and municipalities where only 10% of their staff duly meet legal requirements. Strictly speaking, the Number One Tax Evader is the State at all three levels of jurisdiction: national, provincial and municipal.
Fourth, measures should focus on analyzing and giving reasonable protection to the whole gig economy, with legal mechanisms to replace employment with other solutions that protect these new fields in the world of work triggered by apps and technological advancement.
This includes Uber, Cabify, PedidosYa, Glovo, and others, as well as a whole new group of startups that are not only associated with IT and robotics, but also AI, automation, metaverse and the like.
Strictly speaking, these businesses have gone paperless and are now fully digital, decentralized, distributed, and universal. Please note that when customers of a service buy something online or manage their savings or bank account through online banking, the help or assistance that an employee used to provide under an employment relationship with the company is now replaced by algorithms and automated systems that guide users through the app, and this self-service is done by users free of charge.
Fifth, a campaign should be conducted at all levels to promote digital and computer literacy, in addition to traditional literacy, which is what actually provides job opportunities. In fact, a variety of academic institutions are now offering comprehensive computer training courses in four quarters with attractive job opportunities for young people who have not finished school.
Sixth, it is imperative to transform all welfare programs into training systems with job opportunities with a view to building bridges between unemployment and reentry into a competitive labor market that requires skilled personnel with knowledge of new technologies.
Right now emergency measures are as important as decisive actions that need to be taken, and the countdown leaves no room for additional error or failure.
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1984 – The Friendly Final in a Time of Revolution
Between 1979 and 1983 no social housing was built in Liverpool under the Conservative-Liberal council coalition, while existing social housing had the highest rents outside of London. When Liverpool's favourite son penned the lyrics for his most famous solo single, John Lennon probably couldn't have imagined a city where one in five would be facing life on the dole.
This was Liverpool in the early 1980s. Once the so-called 'second city of the empire,' now its people were slaves of the employment exchange. One of those statistics was Geoffrey Coyne of Allerton who, during the summer of 1983, had written to his local MP. His words were stark.
'Since leaving my last job at Dunlop, Speke, (factory closed down) at the beginning of 1979, I have been unable, despite a tremendous amount of effort, to secure a position anywhere. As a 27-year-old individual who has not worked for over four years, I would like to know at what point I'm supposed to crack?'.
Against the backdrop of a city that was on its knees in the face of a government whose response to high unemployment was 'get on your bike and look for work,' football at least brought some solace. Eight months after Mr. Coyne's letter, the two footballing halves of Liverpool met in the 1984 League Cup final – a competition then under the sponsorship of the Milk Marketing Board.
"Sickness would not have kept me away from this one. If I'd been dead, I would have had them bring the casket to the ground, prop it up in the stands and cut a hole in the lid." Bill Shankly on the Merseyside Derby
Everton had been founded in 1878 and initially called St. Domingo's football club after the Methodist church on Breckfield Road North. As the team's popularity rose and different faiths in the area took an interest in the side, it was agreed at a meeting in the Queen's Head Hotel in November 1879 that 'Domingo's' should become Everton.
The club were founding members of the football league in 1888-89. That was the season of Preston North End's 'invincibles' team but Everton didn't have to wait long to get their own hands on silverware for the first time. The championship arrived on Merseyside at the end of the 1890/91 season thanks in chief to a forward line of Fred Geary, Edgar Chadwick and Alf Milward which terrorised defences up and down the country, amassing a haul of 63 goals in just 22 games.
Everton had been playing their football on Anfield Road land owned by local brewer John Houlding and paying £100 a year for the privilege. After the title win Houlding decided to increase the rent from £100 to £250, with the added stipulation that the only ales to be sold at the Anfield ground were ones brewed by his company. In defiance, Everton moved their home to Mere Green Field in 1892. With an empty ground now at his disposal, that same year Houlding founded Liverpool FC with the new club starting life in the Lancashire leagues before progressing to the Football League's Second Division.
Over the years brilliant players such as Deans, Scott, Catterick, Shankly, Ball, Callaghan, Keegan and Latchford brought tears of joy to many in the city. By 1984 the Labour party had taken over control of Liverpool city council under the influence of its Militant wing and using a slogan from the Poplar rates rebellion: 'Better to break the law than break the poor'. Meanwhile for the city's football clubs, all roads led to Wembley.
On the 25th of March 1984, the bells rang out from Liverpool Cathedral to empty streets. The exodus to Wembley Stadium had been ongoing all weekend and, by 2.30pm on that Sunday afternoon, the creaking old stadium was heaving with scousers – family, friends, and neighbours stood cheek to jowl in the capacity crowd.
Liverpool were the dominant force in English football during the 1970s and 80s under the guidance of Bob Paisley, a former gunner in the Royal Artillery who served his country during the Second World War. In 1940 Paisley was stationed at Tarporley in Cheshire and had been permitted to play in the Liverpool Senior Cup Final between the city's two big clubs. He cycled most of the way to Anfield for the game. He departed the Liverpool hot seat in 1983 having won yet another championship and was replaced by fellow 'boot room boy' Joe Fagan. It seemed the conveyor belt of success would continue for the club as Liverpool sought a fourth successive League Cup success.
Across Stanley Park the struggles of the blue side of the city were reflected in an attendance of just 13,659 turning up to see Howard Kendall's men take on Coventry City in a Division One League game. The Goodison Park faithful were getting restless and had spelled out their feelings via leaflets stating: 'Kendall and Carter (the Everton chairman) must go. 26,000 stay-away fans can't be wrong.'
Liverpool's Milk Cup defence had been stuttering and Fagan's team was taken to replays in successive rounds by Fulham, Birmingham City and Sheffield Wednesday before eventually prevailing. In the semi-final lower division Walsall dared to dream of a Wembley final and a possible place in Europe after an incredible 2-2 draw in the first leg at Anfield. Normal service was resumed in the second leg as Liverpool killed off any giant killing notions with a comprehensive 2-0 victory – four in a row was still on.
Everton's route was no more straightforward. West Ham and Oxford United took the Blues to second games in the early rounds before Aston Villa were overcome in the semis on a 2-1 aggregate. Goals by the two Kevins – Sheedy, and Richardson – took the Toffees into the final.
At 2:15 pm, Joe Fagan and Howard Kendall led their teams out on to the Wembley turf as ITV commentator Brian Moore proclaimed 'the red and blue flags flying in unison all over Wembley today'. One man who had made the pilgrimage to London was Peter Hooton who founded the successful band The Farm. As a youngster his first football memory was standing outside his grandparents house trying to spot his Dad in the sea of faces returning from Anfield.
By 1984 he was a fully-fledged Kopite and had witnessed Shankly's second coming with Clemence, Keegan and Toshack in starring roles; shed a tear at the messiah's retirement and revelled in the glories of the Paisley years. Hooton describes Wembley '84 in one word: 'solidarity', a sense the final represented the city of Liverpool versus the establishment. Jeers rang around the stadium as 'God Save The Queen' was struck up by the marching band.
As Margaret Thatcher stood on the steps of Number 10 quoting St. Francis of Assisi, Peter – a graduate of economics and political studies – was training as a teacher and remonstrating with those in the staff room about the threat he saw from the 'Iron Lady' to his city and its way of life. The authoritarian regime of the time in the teaching profession and the beating of children, which he personally witnessed from a colleague whose weapon of choice was a plimsole, didn't resonate well with Peter and he eventually found his calling as a youth worker.
In the Liverpool estates of Cantril Farm where he worked, 80 percent of youths were unemployed and the demon drug heroin had arrived in the city to dull the pain of boredom. To stop the youth of the day 'chasing the dragon', Hooton arranged football competitions and even a holiday to New York for the teenagers where they learned about the misery of addiction and homelessness. Incredibly Peter was a youth worker without a youth club due to the deliberate government policy of detached youth work.
Detached work meant Peter had to build relationships with the youth on their territory of the streets, while he also helped set up an unemployed club and a welfare rights centre in the local parish hall – 'it was busy as you can imagine' he quips.
The End fanzine
His dedication to those suffering around him was stark in comparison to the 'short sharp shock' philosophy advocated towards the youth of working-class England by the Conservative Home Secretary William Whitelaw. Peter's abiding memory of Wembley '84 is not what happened on the pitch, rather the Liverpool Labour city council stickers that were worn with pride by both red and blue. The renowned 'End' fanzine he founded had interviewed some months earlier one of the most influential figures of the time in Derek Hatton: an ex-firefighter who had become deputy leader of Liverpool City Council.
For all the hype, ultimately the final was a turgid affair and fear of losing led to both teams cancelling each other out. It lacked the tenacity of that typical derby feel despite Everton's Peter Reid snarling at anything in a red shirt that ventured into his midfield fiefdom. Liverpool were lucky not to go behind as Alan Hansen cleared off the line, some might say with a touch of handball, following Adrian Heath's putting pressure on Liverpool keeper Bruce Grobbelaar.
It was the nearest either side came to breaking the deadlock and a further thirty minutes of extra time couldn't separate the sides either. As the shadows shortened, both sets of players trudged together around the old greyhound track under the Wembley lights to thank those who had made the journey. Three days later at Maine Road in Manchester, a Graeme Souness strike would break Evertonian hearts and give Joe Fagan his first trophy as manager.
Peter Hooton and Ian Callaghan
The rivalry would continue throughout the eighties. Fagan would conquer Rome but become a broken man after Heysel; Kendall would lead Everton to FA Cup glory in 1984 with League and European success following. Today in Liverpool, Peter Hooton is sitting in his front room recording a video for striking Irish Debenham workers who are 300 days on the picket lines; still a man of the people and red to the core.
FERGUS DOWD
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Le Manul (Otocolobus manul), syn. : Felis manul) ou Chat de Pallas est un félin de la sous-famille des félinés. C'est la seule espèce du genre Otocolobus.

Description

Corps
Le Manul a un corps compact et trapu avec des pattes courtes et une queue courte et épaisse. La fourrure, très longue et épaisse, le fait paraître plus gros qu'il n'est. Le poil présent dans les parties inférieures (ventre, intérieur des pattes et de la queue) est presque deux fois plus long que celui qui est situé sur les flancs ou le dos, ce qui lui permet de marcher ventre à terre quand il chasse tout en étant protégé des températures hivernales. Le Manul s'enroule dans sa queue pour se coucher, celle-ci lui permettant de garder sa chaleur corporelle. La fourrure est de couleur grise au nord de son aire de répartition à fauve à roux pour le sud. La couleur peut varier saisonnièrement. Certains individus ont des rayures sombres verticales sur les flancs. L'extrémité des poils est blanche, ce qui lui donne une apparence argentée. Le menton, la poitrine et le ventre sont blancs. Les pattes sont marquées de bandes noires indistinctes. La queue est annelée de sept à neuf marques noires étroiteset son extrémité est noire. La couleur de la robe permet un excellent camouflage dans son environnement naturel.

Le Manul mesure entre  de long et la queue mesure de . La hauteur au garrot est de . Le poids varie de  en moyenne. Les mâles sont généralement plus lourds que les femelles.

La tête est aplatie et large. Les oreilles sont courtes, arrondies et placées bas sur la tête : elles dépassent à peine de la fourrure. Le profil très bas de la tête est adapté à la chasse dans les milieux ouverts avec peu de couverture végétale. La petite taille des oreilles évite une trop grande déperdition de chaleur. Le front est tacheté de petits points noirs. Les joues sont marquées de rayures foncées et blanches. Les vibrisses sont blanches et les yeux sont bordés de lignes blanches et noires. Le Manul est également doté d'une troisième paupière qui sert de protection contre les vents froids et les tempêtes de poussières. Les pupilles sont rondeset la mâchoire est plus petite que celle des autres félins puisqu'il n'a pas de pré-molaires supérieures.

Comportement

Comportement
Cet animal est très territorial, agressif et solitaire, ce qui fait que c'est l'un des chats les moins étudiés. Le Manul escalade facilement les rochers et falaises. Il n'est pas adapté à la marche dans la neige et se déplace dans les vallées lorsqu'il neige sur les hauteurs.

Le Manul possède le plus petit territoire parmi les félins. Le domaine de ce félin peut se limiter aux environs immédiats de sa tanière (déplacements entre ), pour une superficie d'un kilomètre carré. En Russie, la taille moyenne du territoire est estimée à .

Par sa petite taille, le Manul est une proie pour de nombreux prédateurs (rapaces, renards...). Cette menace l'oblige à se cacher régulièrement et à éviter les milieux ouverts (prairies).

Le Manul possède une longévité de 11 ans et demi.

Régime alimentaire
Comme tous les félins, le Manul est un carnivore. Il se nourrit de petits mammifères  et d'oiseaux comme les perdrix et les alouettes. Au Népal, des fèces contenaient 76 % de poils de pika, 18 % de poils de Lièvre laineux (Lepus oiostolus), 4 % de végétaux et divers débris. En Iran, un spécimen femelle percuté par un véhicule avait dans son estomac les restes d'un Pika afghan (Ochotona rufescens) et une Perdrix choukar (Alectoris chukar).

Crépusculaire, il passe ses journées caché dans des cavités. Il sort généralement au crépuscule et à l'aube pour chasser ; toutefois, lorsque ses proies sont diurnes, il sort également en journée comme lorsqu'il chasse la Grande gerboise en Iran. Le Manul pratique la chasse à l'approche : lorsqu'il voit une proie, il s'en approche en rampant et, lorsqu'il est assez près, bondit pour porter le coup fatal. Il peut également attendre au bord des terriers de rongeurs et les dénicher en plongeant une patte dedans.

Reproduction
Les vocalises sont décrites comme ressemblant à celles d'un chiot ou au hululement d'une chouette : c'est un cri bref, de moyen à grave en tonalité. Le bruit très distinctif des Manuls lors de l'accouplement permettrait d'anticiper les naissances en captivité. Le Manul est également capable de cracher, de siffler et de grogner.

L'œstrus dure de un à cinq jours. Les femelles ont une gestation comprise entre . La tanière est installée dans une grotte, une cavité rocheuse ou dans un terrier abandonné de renard, de blaireau ou de marmotte. La femelle donne naissance à une portée de un à six chatons durant les mois d'avril et de mai. En moyenne, les portées sont de trois à quatre chatons. Le poids à la naissance est de . Les jeunes naissent avec un pelage laineux et foncé, distinctement marqué de rayures sur les flancs. Les petits sont revêtus de ce duvet jusqu'à l'âge de deux mois. Ils atteignent l'indépendance à huit mois. La maturité sexuelle de l'espèce est atteinte entre douze et quatorze mois.

Répartition
Le Manul se rencontre dans les steppes froides et arides d'Asie centrale et jusqu'à  d'altitude. Son habitat optimal est constitué de terrains découverts constitué de steppes d'herbes et de broussailles, avec des étendues de rochers, des ravins et des versants de collines. Le Manul habite les déserts de rocailles et rochers, les prairies ou encore les versants de montagne avec éboulis : il ne s'accommode pas des déserts de sable, des forêts ou de la neige profonde. Au nord, son aire de répartition est ainsi limitée par la taïga. Le Manul peut vivre dans des zones où la température descend jusqu'à .

L'espèce a une vaste aire de répartition, qui s'étend à l'ouest jusqu'à la mer Caspienne et à l'origine à l'Est jusqu'à la Chine occidentale. L'aire de répartition monte au Nord jusqu'en Mongolie, au Kazakhstan et à la Russie, et au Sud en Iran, Pakistan et Népal. Il se retrouve surtout en Mongolie, moins souvent au Tibet, en Afghanistan et au Pakistan. Il n'est plus présent dans l'Est de la Chine. Sa présence au Népal est confirmée pour la première fois en 2014, la limite ouest de son aire de répartition népalaise est située dans le district de Dolpa.

Le Manul a été signalé dans le parc national de Khoshyeylag, les réserves du Qomolangma et de Taxkorgan en Chine et la forêt de Ziarat Juniper. Au Népal, il est présent dans l'aire de conservation de l'Annapurna. En Iran, où il est largement distribué tout en étant considéré comme rare, sa présence est confirmée dans l'aire protégée de Parvar. Il a également été vu début 2020 en Arménie.

En 2019, deux individus ont été localisés par leurs excréments à  d'altitude sur l'Everest dans le parc national de Sagarmatha au Népal. Ils s'y nourrissent de pikas et de belette de montagne.

Menaces
Ce félin est une espèce encore peu décrite et mal connue. Le nombre d'individus présents dans la nature n'est pas clairement défini mais la tendance de la population est à la baisse. Le nombre d'individus à l'état sauvage est estimé à /, soit seulement  dans toute l'Asie.

Cette espèce a été très chassée pour sa fourrure afin de confectionner des chapeaux et des manteaux. Au début du ,  par an étaient vendues par la Mongolie. De même, en Chine, les trappeurs capturent dix mille Manuls par an. Dans les années 1980, le Manul était moins prélevé dans la nature, et, en 1987,  sont exportées par la Mongolie. Le Manul est à présent protégé par la loi en Chine, en Mongolie, en Inde, en Iran, au Kazakhstan, au Kirghizstan, au Pakistan, en Russie et au Turkménistan.

En Asie, la fragmentation des habitats et l'empoisonnement en masse des rongeurs, considérés comme des nuisibles, constitue une importante menace. C'est cette importante perte d'habitats et de proies qui a valu à ce félin d'être classé quasi menacé par l'UICN, depuis 2002, avant d'être finalement classée en « préoccupation mineure » en 2019.

Présence en captivité
Début 2019, environ 160 individus étaient présents dans une soixantaine d'institutions zoologiques en Asie, en Europe et en Amérique du Nord.

 Le parc des félins dans la commune de Lumigny-Nesles-Ormeaux en Seine-et-Marne détient plusieurs Manuls. Leur premier spécimen est envoyé par le  en . Un second Manul, une femelle, est transféré depuis le zoo de Mulhouse. Des reproductions ont eu lieu en 2015.
 La ménagerie du Jardin des plantes détient au moins deux spécimens de Otocolobus manul. Ils sont maintenus dans un grand enclos extérieur avec abris en cas de pluie. (02/2015).
 Le zoo de Lille possède actuellement une femelle, arrivée en 2017 lors de la rénovation du zoo, elle est située au fond de l'Allée des volières dans l'ancien enclos des binturong qui ont déménagé dans un enclos plus grand avec des loutre cendrées. Un mâle doit la rejoindre .
 Le , en Suède détient au moins un couple reproducteur et leurs chatons.
 Le zoo de Moscou, en Russie détient un certain nombre de spécimens.
Le zoo de Novossibirsk, en Sibérie détient un certain nombre de spécimens.
 Le zoo d'Édimbourg, en Écosse détient un certain nombre de spécimens.
 Le zoo de Zurich, en Suisse détient un certain nombre de spécimens.
 Le Lincoln Park Zoo, à Chicago (Illinois, États-Unis) détient un certain nombre de spécimens.
 Le zoo de Sarrebruck, en Allemagne détient un certain nombre de spécimens.
 Le zoo Ueno de Tokyo possède au moins deux spécimens.
 Le parc zoologique et botanique de Mulhouse possède un mâle et une femelle.

En juillet 2020, au zoo Shilo de Novossibirsk, 3 femelles de manul ont donné une progéniture, 16 petits.

Taxonomie
Deux sous-espèces ont été proposées :
 Otocolobus manul manul, que l'on trouve en Afghanistan, en Chine dans la province de Gansu, au Kazakhstan, en Iran, en Mongolie, dans le sud de la Sibérie et au Pakistan.
 Otocolobus manul nigripectus, que l'on trouve au Bhoutan, dans le Cachemire, au Népal et au Tibet.

Dans la culture

Étymologie
« Manul » est un mot mongol qui désigne directement le félin.

L'un des noms vernaculaires de cette espèce, « Chat de Pallas », commémore le zoologue allemand Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811) qui a décrit l'espèce en 1776. La longue fourrure de ce félin lui fait alors penser que le Manul est l'ancêtre sauvage du chat persan.

Le nom latin du genre Otocolobus signifie « oreilles coupées ».

Notes et références

Annexes

Articles connexes
 Felidae

Bibliographie

Liens externes

Genre Otocolobus

Espèce Otocolobus manul

 Fiche de la IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group sur Otocolobus manul

Mammifère (nom vernaculaire)
Felinae
Faune endémique d'Asie

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Try as he might, Jon Stewart just can't stay off television. On Tuesday, the former "Daily Show" host once again joined his old friend Stephen Colbert on "The Late Show." This time, Stewart wanted to share his thoughts on the first 11 days of President Trump in the White House.
Of course, he did so while wearing a very long tie and an animal skin cap. "Is this your Donald Trump impression?" Colbert inquired.
Stewart said he stopped by to deliver some news: He had special exclusive access to even more of Trump's executive orders. Suddenly, part of Stewart's animal hat fell in his face, and he and Colbert could barely hold it together. The audience also couldn't stop laughing.
"How then do we get Mexico pay for it?" Colbert asked.
"I, Donald J. Trump, do declare by executive order that I, Donald J. Trump, am exhausting. It has been 11 days, Stephen. Eleven f—ing days. Eleven! The presidency is supposed to age the president, not the public.
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This spring as the weather warms and we begin to make summer plans, try to make memories outside, in the shade of a willow tree or splashing through a creek.
If you are new to your area, or if you have never discovered a great outdoor place near your home, check out this list of U.S. State Parks. Make a day trip or even just hang out for an afternoon at a nearby park.
What are some things to do at a State Park?
At every park I've ever been to I've seen countless people being active. From training for marathons to taking a simple stroll to walking their dog, people use these parks to get moving! Most parks have designated trails for bike riding, too!
Most State Parks have a designated area for picnics complete with picnic tables, restrooms nearby, and trashcans. Why not make some sandwiches, or even order take out and drive to a nearby park? Just make sure to clean up your mess. Parks pride themselves in preserving nature, so don't do any harm.
Bring a journal, your camera, your sketchpad and paints. Being in nature is a great way to inspire your next story, poem, or painting.
One conflict that often arises within my friend group is that we never know of a place to go that will fit all of us, and that we will all agree on. No problem. Everyone could bring his or her own lunch. Some could bring bikes, some could bring a football/Frisbee, and some could bring a camera to have a photoshoot. The more the merrier! There are so many options; everyone will have a great time. Check out your local state park to see if there are any campsites or fire pits to make your group trip even better.
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Billie Eilish's debut album "WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?" released on March 29, 2019 (Photo by Michael Hickey/Getty Images).
She's dark, moody, cynical, but somehow soft. Billie Eilish isn't your typical 17-year-old.
Looming on the horizon as one of the most anticipated albums of the past few months (or years), Eilish finally released her "anti-pop" debut album "WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?". As much as some of us don't want to conform to mainstream music taste, Eilish's music is far from the norm.
The first full-length track of the album shoots right out of the gate with a cheeky "I'm that bad type. Make your mama sad type. Make your girlfriend mad tiger," then some "Might seduce your dad type. I'm the bad guy," and ending with an iconic "duh." This club-style banger had followers and critics going wild, earning Eilish over 50 million Spotify hits in the past week since the album's release.
This taunting and upbeat anthem quickly transitions into something quite different. "xanny" represents not only the first slow ballad of Eilish's album but a verbal attack against pill-popping for just the sake of getting high. Not only is this track unique in the use of distorted voice effects combined with softly sung lyrics, but it states a clear message to her impressionable young audience: don't take drugs that you don't need.
With "you should see me in a crown" and "all the good girls go to hell" up next, Eilish continues with her sassy rhetoric. "you should see me in a crown" was released a few months ago, but still adds to the album's menacing tune with dramatic bass drops and aesthetically pleasing "ASMR" sound effects of metal sliding against metal.
Another track Eilish released early sparked controversy as it was criticized for misusing gay culture. In "wish you were gay," the artist sings about how she wishes her ex-lover was gay because it would be easier on her ego when he ends up rejecting her.
When I learned the meaning of this song, I was uneasy at first, especially since this song would be adorable if it were actually describing a situation involving a gay person. But after listening through a few times, this song has personally become a favorite of mine. It's undeniably one of the best tunes Eilish has produced.
Looking past the "bad guy" and "all the good girls go to hell" bops of the album, Eilish has more dark and real tracks than not. As one of the last songs of the album, "listen before you go" leaves a sinking pit of hopelessness in the chest.
Eilish is open about her depression and overall struggle with mental health, and this track deals with vivid imagery of a person's last moments standing on top of a roof before ending their life. She sings about her lover that left her deserted, friends that will miss her and lastly, that she just wants people to listen to her words before she leaves her life. Police sirens echo in the background as the singer's voice fades away at the very end.
None of us know for sure if Eilish has even experienced love at this young of an age, but the track right after is a tear-jerker as well. She sings "i love you" with equal amounts of pain as she struggles to understand her feelings for a beloved partner and relationship that has gone awry.
Content warning for people with arachnophobia. I'm not usually creeped out by spiders, but thinking about that many walking on my body is going to give me nightmares. I don't even want to talk about the one in her mouth. Besides that, the concept isn't mindblowing. It's a no from me, next!
This song is stunning, and to be honest I'm not exactly sure what the video means. I see it like the black liquid is somebody toxic and she knows she shouldn't get involved, but can't help herself. Her body ends up purging the liquid at the end. Overall, Eilish plays this character well and the concept is chilling.
This video is like a whole horror movie in three minutes. Disturbing visuals with the haunting elements of the song create a dynamic we haven't seen in pop music yet, especially from the upcoming Gen Z artists.
Everything about this video is weird and against any norm of pop culture, but that's why it's appealing. I couldn't imagine a more fitting video for this track.
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Special Collections /
Interrupted Lives
Regular Joes & Betty Coeds — Japanese Students at the UW
Americans All - Voices for Tolerance in the UW Daily
Exigencies of War — The UW Administration and Student Relocation
Phase I — Loyal Citizens of a Nation at War
Phase II — A Place for Some of Our Best Students
A Privilege and a Duty — One Student's Experience
List of Students
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In the official history of the University of Washington, World War II disrupts campus life but briefly as war bonds are sold and graduates join up.1 Nothing is mentioned of the tumultuous months after Pearl Harbor when the University of Washington came to the aid of its students of Japanese ancestry.
Under the leadership of UW President Lee Paul Sieg and other administrators and faculty, the university's response to the situation of Nisei students can be viewed as two distinct phases. Phase I, from December 1941 through February 1942 (prior to Executive Order 9066 and Public Proclamation No. 1), focused on appeasing the uncertainty of students and meeting their immediate needs. Phase II, from March 1942 through May 1942 (after forced evacuation became inevitable), focused on establishing means of relocating students and fostering their transfer to other universities and colleges. During both phases the University of Washington moved with astonishing alacrity for an educational institution in trying times.
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Biogeography: Why are species where they are?
contributed by Daniel Hughes
Animals, Aquatic, Asia, Biodiversity, Biogeography, Bisexual, Central America, Community ecology, Desert, Ecology, Europe, Evolution, Field, Forest, Fossils, Freshwater, Fundamental research, Fungi, Gay, Global patterns, Grassland, Historical figure, LGBTQIA+, Marine, North America, Observational, Plants, South America, Succession, Terrestrial, Tundra
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Wulf, A. 2015. The invention of nature: Alexander von Humboldt's new world. Vintage Books, Penguin Random House LLC, New York, USA.
Presentation Notes
Researcher's Background
Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was a German naturalist who, through his expeditions to South America and Russia, advanced the then-unknown fields of biogeography and ecology.
Biography in brief
von Humboldt was the very wealthy heir to a Prussian noble family. Though he had many varied areas of interest, his greatest contribution was through his fieldwork cataloging and identifying plants throughout the world. More geographic features and species are named after him than anyone else. Read more about Alexander in "the Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World" by Andrea Wulf.
Axes of identity & underrepresentation
von Humboldt never married and is considered by most historians to have been gay or bisexual. He was "charmed" by various women, but also had strong male friendships, and multiple romances with men. His sister-in-law Caroline von Humboldt stated that, "nothing will ever have a great influence on Alexander that doesn't come through men."
Alexander von Humboldt's work was among the first to consider how abiotic and ecological interactions affect the species makeup of an area. By collecting specimens directly, he was able to notice patterns in size, shape, and abundance of plant communities in different areas and elevations.
von Humboldt looked at all organisms he could get his hands on, but was especially interested in plants, as they are the easiest to tie to a specific habitat and geographical area.
Key Research Points
Main contributions/Key Figure
This mountain diagram a good example of the patterns Humboldt discovered through his observations. The individual biomes along the mountains aren't particularly relevant: what is new is how Humboldt notices radically different tree species at different elevations, and connects them to their location. This is thus one of the first attempts to think about organisms in a community context – that is, looking at interacting groups of organisms rather than a single organism in isolation.
Looking at ecosystems as interacting groups of organisms as well as abiotic factors such as temperature, humidity, and elevation, is foundational to ecology, and underpins many of ecology's varied social benefits.
Dr. Ruth Patrick
Alex Trillo
Dr. Jessie Price
Rafael Guerrero
This vignette on Humboldt could use some mention of colonialism (given the nature of this awesome project). See, for example, here: https://medium.com/@jorgecanizaresesguerra/screw-humboldt-def1320213f5