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Q: How to edit the row data using jQuery My goal is to create a program where I would add data on a table, including a DELETE and EDIT button. I have already created a code for adding a new data/row and deleting a row. My problem is I can't figure out the code on how to edit the data/row in the table. Here's my code:

$(document).ready(function(){
        $(".add-row").click(function(){
            var id = $("#id").val();
            var name = $("#name").val();
            var gender = $("#gender").val();
            var markup = "
<input type='checkbox' name='record'>	" + id + "	" + name + "	" + gender + "
";
        $("table tbody").append(markup);
    });

    // Find and remove selected table rows
    $(".delete-row").click(function(){
        $("table tbody").find('input[name="record"]').each(function(){
            if($(this).is(":checked")){
                $(this).parents("tr").remove();
            }
        });

    $(".edit-row").click(function(){
            if($(this).is(":checked")){
                $(this).html('<input type="text" value="' + $(this).html() + '"/>');
        };
        });
    });
});

<!DOCTYPE html>

<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>jQuery Form</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/jstyle.css">

<form>
    <input type="text" id="id" placeholder="ID Number">
    <input type="text" id="name" placeholder="Name">
    Gender:
        <select id="gender">
            <option value="Male">Male</option>
            <option value="Female">Female</option>
        </select>

    <input type="button" class="add-row" value="Add Row">
</form>

            Select
            ID Number
            Name
            Gender

            <input type="checkbox" name="record">

<button type="button" class="delete-row">Delete Row</button>
<button type="button" class="edit-row">Edit Row</button>

Thank you in advance!

A: The answer depends on your desired UI. As was pointed out in the comments, it might be nicer to have an edit button on each row.
Assuming you want to stick with your current UI, your edit handler would replace each selected row with the same markup that you have in your form. You would pre-populate the fields of the form with the data from that row.
The selector you need to use for that is a little different that what you've got above:
$(".edit-row").click(function() {
    $("tr").not('[hidden]').each(function(index, element) {
        //element is the TR
        //Check to see if it's selected
        //Proceed with the inline replacement
    });
});

Obviously, you also need to add a "Save" or "Ok" button somewhere so that, when the user is finished with all the edits, they can save it.

A: You could change the TD to input so the user can edit the value directly. and attach a function to capture and manipulate the value.
The template could look like this:
$(document).ready(function(){
    $(".add-row").click(function(){
        var id = $("#id").val();
        var name = $("#name").val();
        var gender = $("#gender").val();
        var markup = "
<input class='id' type='checkbox' name='record'>	" + id + "	<input class='name' type='text' value='" + name + "'>	<input type='text' value='" + gender + "'>
";
    $("table tbody").append(markup);
});

And the function like this:
editFunc = function(e){
    console.log($(e).find('.id').val());
    console.log($(e).find('.name').val());
    //Do something else with the values
}

A: the easy way is create a input text behind each td value and  all value are display none when user click on the edit button that time all td values are display none and all text box values display block and also set attribute to edit button to onclick='updaterow()', set appropriate parameter to this function and its body have the code about update revert back all input text to display none and all td value set according to new value.
My english is not well but I hope it make sense

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//Data added on table when click on submit.

var edit_row = null;

$("#submit").on("click", function () {
    var fname = $("#fname").val();
    var lname = $("#lname").val();
    var number = $("#number").val();
    var row = "
" +
        fname +
        "	" +
        lname +
        "	" +
        number +
        '
';

    if (edit_row) {
        $("#myTable tbody").find($(edit_row)).replaceWith(row);
        edit_row = null;
    }
    else if ((fname != "" && lname != "" && number != "")) {
        $("#myTable tbody").append(row);
    }

// After submit all values are null using below codes.

    $("#fname").val('');
    $("#lname").val('');
    $("#number").val('');
});

// Data delete in table when click on delete button.

$(document).on('click', '.dlt', function () {
    $(this).parents('tr').remove();
    return false;
});

// Data again fill in form when click on edit.

$(document).on('click', '.edit', function () {
    edit_row = $(this).closest('tr');
    $("#fname").val($(this).closest('tr').find('.first').text());
    $("#lname").val($(this).closest('tr').find('.last').text());
    $("#number").val($(this).closest('tr').find('.mobile').text());
});

// Thank you.
<!doctype html>

    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
    <link rel="icon" type="image"
        href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQoqksPBDeWpznZfj0_XtgkNO5npIUwP7n7n0GCXos3PGoEGHLwapvcf_qlnbXWf-bd-Us&usqp=CAU">

    <link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.1.3/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"
        integrity="sha384-1BmE4kWBq78iYhFldvKuhfTAU6auU8tT94WrHftjDbrCEXSU1oBoqyl2QvZ6jIW3" crossorigin="anonymous">

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/6.0.0-beta2/css/all.min.css">

    <title>Edit and Delete</title>

        <form class="row" id="myForm">

                First Name
                <input type="text" class="form-control" id="fname" placeholder="First Name">

                Last Name
                <input type="text" class="form-control" id="lname" placeholder="Last Name">

                Mobile Number
                <input type="tel" class="form-control" maxlength="10" minlength="10" id="number"
                    placeholder="Mobile Number">

                <button type="button" id="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Submit</button>

        </form>

                First Name
                Last Name
                Mobile Number
                Action

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She's just graduated college and we all know how that goes, both in real life and at the movies. It's not merely that it's not easy, but that you feel lazy, not particularly ready to engage with life, as the wise elders call it, because why would you when you have so, so, so much of it still to live? "You're still young, you've got your whole life ahead of you," the walking fortune cookies will say before doubling back twenty-two seconds later and wondering "So what are you going to do with the rest of your life?" That's Nicole; caught between that ancient tug of war and content to let the ropes fall away while housesitting for her parents in Quebec over the summer with her best friend, Véronique (Catherine St-Laurent). Not long after, however, her brother Rémi (Marc-André Grondin) turns up with his band, transforming the house into a makeshift recording studio as the omnipresent hum of guitar, bass and drums replaces the whisper of wind in the trees and the relaxing chirping of birds as her summer soundtrack. Her brother's perfectionism stands in contrast to her aimlessness.
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While coming-of-age films are often reliant on voiceovers to explain its main character's headspace or a quest the main character must complete in order to achieve the key to the front door of adulthood, "Tu Dors Nicole" is refreshingly absent either of these. Yes, Nicole and Véronique book a trip to Iceland, on a credit card that magically appears to the lilting sounds of harp, but that is talked about theoretically – even with the tickets – more than tangentially. And with no inner monologues whatsoever, we are left to wonder about Nicole, much like Nicole is left wonder about herself, stricken with insomnia wandering the eerily empty town in the middle of the night, eerie passages that impeccably capture the sensation of being you, when every night feels like forever, like the sun will never rise again.
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An exclusive club is ready to admit a new member: the Turkish Grand Prix will be the 500th Formula One race entered by the Sauber team, an important milestone for us as we write another important page of our history. From the South African Grand Prix in 1993, Sauber's debut race after the dizzying heights of sportscars domination, to this weekend's race in Istanbul, in which we will compete under the current denomination of Alfa Romeo Racing ORLEN, the Hinwil team has always represented commitment, passion and technological excellence.
We take great pride in joining the "500 Club", a very exclusive group of teams comprising some of the most historical names in the sport – only Ferrari, McLaren and Williams have passed the 500 Formula One events' mark. Cars produced in our Hinwil headquarters have graced the Formula One grid for nearly half the 1,032 races that will have taken place with Turkey; we flew the Swiss flag in 28 of the sport's 70 seasons; and we famously stood on the highest step of the podium in one occasion, in Canada in 2008. When we take to the grid as Alfa Romeo Racing ORLEN, this weekend, we will do so embodying this history, this passion, this tradition.
Our team's is a history of pushing the boundaries. From our first season in the sport to the current generation of hybrid cars, Sauber has been at the forefront of development, producing new technical solutions, discovering talent and refining the cars in the pursuit of excellence. It's this constant push for progress that has allowed the company to refine the know-how and experience that allowed to branch out to non-motorsport businesses, through its Sauber Engineering and Sauber Aerodynamics companies. It's this search for perfection that lives in the team's partnership with Alfa Romeo, producing developments for track and road alike. Technologies evolve; people come and go; but the spirit is the same, the commitment to succeed in one of the most competitive contests on the planet unchanged.
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Regarded as one of the best left-backs in Britain by Brendan Rodgers -- along with Danny Rose and Ryan Bertrand, whom the Celtic manager worked with earlier in his career -- sources told ESPN FC that Tierney has emerged as a target for Manchester United this summer as Jose Mourinho looks to solve his problem position by buying a replacement for Luke Shaw.
A speedy full-back who likes to support the attack, Tierney's driving runs down the wing help to open up the pitch in the final third. He is always an option on the overlap, possessing quick feet to beat his opponent and deliver dangerous low crosses into the box.
The 20-year-old is a tenacious defender, harrying attackers into losing the ball and pouncing on loose passes. His positioning sense is sound, judging the right opportunities to break forward after winning back possession.
Tierney's leadership qualities have also been noted, with the youngster captaining Celtic on several occasions. "He's got an incredible determination, an old-school determination," said Rodgers last year. "He lives his life right, he doesn't drink or do stupid things. He's in every day training like a dog."
With a host of young player awards already on the mantelpiece, Tierney is set to claim a third successive Scottish Premiership title with Celtic.
The left-back has clocked up 55 appearances for club and country this season, including six starts in the Champions League as Celtic competed in a tough group alongside Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich.
That experience will stand Tierney in good stead for his next move, while he has also chipped in with the occasional goal, scoring a 40-yard screamer against Kilmarnock back in August.
Given the similarities to Shaw in his style of play, at first it may appear a curious move for Man United to pursue Tierney. But Mourinho's main bone of contention with Shaw appears to be his attitude rather than his ability, leading to Tierney emerging as a possible successor.
Manchester City have also expressed an interest in the Scotland international, and Celtic are likely to command a significant fee for the left-back after he signed a new six-year contract only six months ago. Reports of a £10m fee seem underpriced.
With a wealth of experience in the Bundesliga and Champions League, Brandt's maturity belies his 21 years. He has enjoyed another impressive season at Bayer Leverkusen, with a place in the Germany squad for the World Cup still a possibility.
Like many talented German prospects, Brandt is capable of fulfilling a number of roles in midfield and attack. His versatility is an advantage for Leverkusen, but the youngster's technical ability and burst of acceleration usually sees him deployed on either flank.
At first Brandt doesn't look like a typical winger, standing at over 6 foot tall, but he possesses all the attributes to develop into a world star.
The 21-year-old's biggest strength is his superb first touch, instantly manipulating the ball to deceive defenders, before using his speed to drive past them. While pace and power play a key role in Brandt's game, there is also subtlety in his control and ability to play precision passes.
Unlike many players his age, he demonstrates great awareness, utilising space and spotting his teammates' runs to spearhead attacking moves.
With 11 strikes in all competitions, Brandt is enjoying his best season in front of goal for Leverkusen to help Heiko Herrlich's side close in on a return to the Champions League.
Leverkusen were battered 6-2 by Bayern Munich in Tuesday's DFB-Pokal semifinal, but their league campaign remained on track at the weekend with a 4-1 win over Eintracht Frankfurt.
Brandt placed a fine header into the corner to open the scoring, and played a key role in his team's third goal on a bruising afternoon for Eintracht boss Niko Kovac, who last week was confirmed as Bayern manager for next season.
With only three assists in the Bundesliga, Brandt will be aiming to improve his tally, but his quality was evident once again when he scored a delicate winner away to former club Wolfsburg last month.
Brandt signed a new contract with Leverkusen at the start of April, but that is unlikely to deter the likes of Liverpool, Manchester United and Barcelona from pursuing him. Jurgen Klopp is known to be a huge fan of the attacking midfielder as the Liverpool boss looks to reinvest the £142m received for Philippe Coutinho.
With a fine record for Germany's youth teams, including nine goals in 15 matches for the under-21s, Selke is now looking to kick on in the Bundesliga after joining Hertha Berlin from RB Leipzig last summer.
Despite his 6-foot-4 frame, Selke is more of a penalty-box poacher than target man. He uses his long limbs to hold off defenders and retain possession, but prefers the ball at his feet to providing knock-downs for teammates.
A composed finisher, the 23-year-old is adept at finding space in the box. Three of his 11 goals this season have been headers, but only one has been via an aerial duel at a set-piece, with Selke often drifting away from his marker to get on the end of crosses in open play.
He demonstrates good link-up play with his back to goal, knocking one-touch passes into midfield before darting towards the penalty area.
After helping to fire Leipzig to the Bundesliga in 2015-16, the striker struggled in the top flight last term and was sold to Hertha in the summer.
His chances of an immediate impact were dashed by an ankle injury, but Selke returned with nine goals in his first 16 games -- including a brace against his former club as Hertha defeated Leipzig 3-2 despite being reduced to 10 men in the seventh minute.
A recent 10-game goal drought underlined why Selke is yet to establish himself as a centre-forward option for Germany, but he showcased his finishing ability once more with an impressive brace in a 2-1 win over Cologne at the weekend.
Stoke were linked with a move in January and Selke would prove a convincing successor to Peter Crouch in the Potters' attack if they stay in the Premier League.
As Leicester, Swansea and Everton continue to track his progress, it seems a move to England could certainly be on the cards for the forward in the future.


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The heat and humidity are devastating and I felt like I could have thrown myself in the sea at any moment to cool down. At home I gave a look at the temperaure and Accuweather proclaims that the "real feel" is like 51C (124F). Yes, I agree !!!
Wow thats hot, I felt hot doing my long run in 18C, my tongue got that dry I could not feel it any more..
Your Right to say cycle training is harder than running, 8-10 hours running and you can get really fit, on the bike you need many hours more to reach your best, but I think with you past endurance you could race well in shorter cycle races on limited training.


Looking very nice I'm a big fan of Black Max too!
I do love a Clio, what a great looking car! Both Cup packs I assume?
Cheers, and yes indeed apart from the front splitter, which had already....split before I got it. Its so low I dont think I'll replace it either!


While the new year is a traditional time to reflect on our year's adventures, Thanksgiving is a perfect time to reflect on gratitude. In the busyness of our everyday life and with the stress of the problems we encounter, we can forget the things we have and take them for granted.
I have so many things in my life to be grateful. My husband who is so loving and supportive. My son who makes me laugh even as he drives me crazy. I have a wonderful family, generous and open-hearted. I have many friends, near and far, who I can be me with no excuses. I live in a beautiful city, in a community that my son is safe playing outside on his own. I can head to the beach in minutes – whether it's for the day or an hour at the end of the day. I have delicious food, much of yesterday's feast was fresh from the farm. I am able to enjoy, share and grow my passion for photography. My son has a wonderful teacher at a great school. I could go on and all for pages.
We can spend our time complaining about what we don't have or we can live the life we have to the fullest. Today I'm going to choose to be grateful.


An email was sent to me recently regarding my song "What Did You Learn on the News". The writer opened his letter by stating his appreciation of my music and that he was glad someone was writing modern political songs.
The bulk of the email was concerning my use of a tune (and concept) I learned from Tom Paxton's "What Did You Learn In School Today". The writer was quite uncomfortable with my song, calling is "plagiarism" and wondering if I had gone through the appropriate channels before using the tune, only backing from that term if I had properly cited Tom in my albums or performances.
So I thought this was a topic that a radical folk singer needs to explore in writing.
For starters, I respect Tom Paxton a lot, that's why I paid homage to him in song. And I do give credit to him in the liner notes of that album and often at shows, but not always. Anyways, Tom Paxton is one of the finer political folk singers in U.S. history, and he's still got it. A listen on his website (www.tompaxton.com), especially his "George W. Told That Nation", a re-write of his own song "Lyndon Johnson Told That Nation", will show you this. He also helped really define the "topical songwriter", which produced many of the recent voices from the radical folk-scene, myself included.
There's a certain level of respect deserved to those who've stayed in it for decades without selling out big or wilting too hard. Jim Page is another who goes in this category. Of course, I can't say that same for Bob Dylan, though it may (and has before) pissed off the older folks out there.
In fact, during the 2004 Election-parody controversy (when the web-based animation site JibJab was sued by Ludlow Music, the owners of the rights to Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land", NPR suggested that Woody lifted the tune for This Land from a 1930 Carter Family gospel tune called "When The World's On Fire". Woody also used tunes like the Carter Family's big hit "Wildwood Flower" for his "The Sinking of the Reuben James", which apparently is a re-write of an 1800's pop song. Woody once said of Carter "He was a great song stealer, but I was greater than he, because I stole some of his." Woody didn't just steal from the Carter Family. He also took the tune of "Red Wing" by Kerry Mills and wrote "Union Maid".
An online blogger pointed out a Pete Seeger quote on Woody: "He tended to write words first, and later on picked out a tune. Woody once said, 'When I'm writing a song and I get the words, I look around for some tune that has proved its popularity with the people.'" And many have lifted Woody's tunes. Bob Dylan used Woody's "1913 Massacre" for his "Song For Woody Guthrie" (which I also lifted for "Appalachian Mountain Massacre". And countless folk singers (Paxton included) have used "Talkin Blues" styles derived from Guthrie and other earlier songwriters.
Woody took the tune of "John Hardy" and wrote "Tom Joad" to it, then Phil Ochs took this same tune and wrote "Joe Hill". Joe Hill, the famous Wobbly folk singer at the turn of the century, and maybe one of the most respected activist-folk singers in history, stole almost all his tunes. The tune of his most well-known song, "The Preacher and the Slave", was jacked from a Salvation Army hymn called "In the Sweet Bye and Bye". "The White Slave" was jacked from Leo Frieman's "Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland". "Should I Ever be a Soldier" was jacked from Fred Helf's "Colleen Bawn".
Other IWW folk-singers jacked tunes as well. Goddard Graves used the black spiritual "Children, Go Where I Send Thee" to write "Go I Will Send Thee", a union song. John Brill used "Take it to the Lord in Prayer" to write "Dump the Bosses Off Your Back". John Kendrick used "Onward Christian Soldiers" to write "Christians at War".
"We Shall Overcome" became the theme-song of the Civil Rights movement. However, it was likely derived from a combination of places; The words from a 1903 song by Rev. Charles Tindley and an anonymous gospel tune sung in black churches in the late 1800s, and the tune from the 1794 hymn "O Sanctissima". Pete Seeger was on of the first artists to record "We Shall Overcome", and it generally credited with changing the original "I" to "We". Some trace the final concoction back to Atron Twigg, a composer from the early/mid 1900s.
folk songs of all time, "Which Side Are You On". Where she got the tune is a debate between the Batist hymn "Lay the Lily Low" and an old British ballad called "Jack Munro". Either way, she jacked the tune. This tune and concept was recently used by the revolutionary hip-hop trio Rebel Diaz in their modern re-write "Which Side Are You On", expressing solidarity with various social movements around the world.
In 1855-56, it is believed, William Steffe wrote the song "Brothers Will You Meet Us" to the tune of a camping song, which then became "John Brown's Body", a Union Army abolishionist song. In 1861, Julia Ward Howe took the tune and concept and wrote what would later be named "The Battle Hymn of the Republic". This same tune and concept was then used by Ralph Chaplin to write the union-anthem "Solidarity Forever", which was covered by Pete Seeger and many others.
Along with John Brown's Body, soldiers in the Civil War may have also heard "When Johnny Comes Marching Home", which some believe was originally an Irish tune. The Irish-American author of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" probably didn't envision that song being written as "The Ants Go Marching 2 By 2" or Malvina Reynold's "The Judge Said". Nor did we envision Billy Bragg's "The Marching Songs of the Covert Battalions" about the U.S. and CIA war against Nicaragua in the 1980s or Jim Page's version of the original as an anti-war tune shortly after 9/11. What about fellow Irishman (and Wobbly) James Connolly's "Moderation"? Or Mark Gunnery's "Government is War?
Should children singing "The Ants Go Marching 2 By 2" reference Patrick Gilmore? Should those singing "We Shall Overcome" in the streets of Birmingham have paid some royalties to the estates of Atron Twigg or Charles Tindley?
The point of all the above info is that tunes are around, and they come from many places. A folk singer might hear a pop-song, write a similar riff on the guitar with different lyrics, sing it differently, and be credited with an original song. Likewise, someone could lift a tune off of a friend or fellow musicians and become famous for it, hence being credited with that creation of the tune. It seems typical that credit is only "deserved" in our society's eyes to those who have an official role. Tom Paxton is a folk-singer, by profession. Would it be equally sacreligious of me to use a tune taught to me by my cousin, if he is just a factory worker?
I know the folks who own the rights to lots of Phil Ochs songs don't like folks re-writing his tunes. And granted they have the right to feel that way, respecting Phil's art and ideas. But that doesn't mean folks can't do it.
I've re-written a least 10 Phil Ochs songs, and I do give credit as far as referencing Phil, because I respect him a lot. I like to a sing a line of Phil's and explain where I got the idea from, since often I'm updating the lyrics (or writing all new ones) based on the original concept, theme or emotion of the song. For instance, Phil's "I'm Going Down To Mississippi", about a young Civil Rights activist heading for the South becomes "I'm Going AWOL", the story of an Iraq-vet refusing to return. Both these songs hold close 2 main themes: A person taking a brave stance but desiring to not be considered a hero and what one person can do with their power. So I updated it so that folks today can hear that beautiful tune with a current and applicable subject-matter, just as Bob Dylan ripped "With God On Our Side" off from Dominic Brehen's "The Patriot's Game" (which Brehen had jacked from the "The Merry Month of May"), or Phil had taken "Love Me, I'm a Liberal" from the old Irish folk song, "Rosin the Bow". Evan Greer of Riot-Folk has also lifted the "Love Me, I'm a Liberal" tune and concept for his updated song of the same name.
What good is an anti-Vietnam war song but to tell history? And that's important, telling history, but there's also 150,000 U.S. soldiers in Iraq right now. So times like these call for artists and musicians to make cultural change, just as they did during the lives of Malvina Reynolds, Phil Ochs, Woody Guthrie, Joe Hill and Julia Ward Howe. So we look to those from the past for guidance, and if that means we listen to their songs and write an "original" tune then great. But it can also mean we listen to their songs, learn them, and re-write/recycle them so they become relevant tunes again, in the daily lives of the people around us.
The song in question, "What Did You Learn On The News", is a conceptual and a tune lift. The concept of "What Did You Learn…" made sense to re-use, as Tom's song discusses the school-system teaching crap to students about U.S. history and mine is about the Corporate Media teaching crap to everyone who watches it. Same crap getting spewed out, same reasons. And though "What Did You Learn In School Today" is still relevant, I made a new song out of it about a different subject. Now both are relevant. Just as Billy Bragg took "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night" and wrote "I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night". Now they both have a beautiful folk-tribute.
"Talking Blues" is also a concept. Someone came up with this at some point, and Woody Guthrie eventually got known for making it popular (which we often wrongly consider synonymous with inventing). Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs and Tom Paxton all had em'. Tom had "Talkin' Pop Art" and "Talkin' Watergate". Dylan had "Talkin' John Birch Society Blues". Ochs had "Talkin' Cuban Crisis", "Talkin' Vietnam", "Talkin' Airplance Disaster", and "Talkin' Birmingham Jam".
Now none of them came up with the idea to do a song styled like that and then call it "Talkin' _____". They lifted the concept, probably from Guthrie, who probably lifted it from someone before him. No one would question if this was ok. Of course it was ok, it's the folk process! Talking songs have been written as recently as last week, when I took Pete Seeger's "Talkin' Union" and wrote "Talkin' Union Buster".
Most talking songs (like most folk songs) use the same tunes. There's really about 3 that are mainly used, the main progressions being G-C-D and C-F-G. If someone is allowed to copyright these chords (which will probably happen someday soon) folk music will be over. So let's hope that don't happen. Point being, there's only so many tunes and there's only so much the average person can pull of on an acoustic guitar.
What we see from this writing is that folk music has always relied on the use of other song's tunes, and the constant re-writing of previous songs. It is an organic process that has produced many beautiful songs that are not always (or even usually) competing. There is no need, for instance, to replace "Ludlow Massacre" with my "Kent State Massacre". They are 2 songs now, covering 2 topics. One could call this "Folk Multiplication". I'll take credit with coining that praise, and if anyone else uses it I'll sue them!
The folk process is not a legal loophole to avoid copyright infringement, in fact, it is often illegal. It is an organic, grassroots process through which people reclaim what belongs in the commons. It is the musical version of planting food in an abandoned lot. So the question isn't "Was my use of Tom Paxton's tune a violation of copyright law?", it's "Is the copyright law just?". The history of folk music, the lineage of the songs and artists that produced people like Paxton, Dylan and Ochs, says NO. And I do too.
And I say give credit when it makes sense to give credit and always know inside yourself that you are part of the folk process, connecting by song to so many great people. But I don't think the folk process extends to those who are trying to jack the process itself, co-opt it and make it "big". I have no respect for tune-thieves making big profits in the Industry. That is a betrayal of everything "folk" stands for. But if you're keeping it grassroots, singing for the same reasons as those before you, treading lightly, then take what you want and leave the rest for the next theif!
While Copyright tends to be a "folk process proof" legal mechanism, Creative Commons is a new alternative which many recent folkies have used, which manages to recognize the folk process while at the same time allowing the artists to protest themselves against corporate co-optation. The music industry is the real thief.
In closing, If we want folk music to continue living, evolving and growing, then we need to not just accept, but fully embrace the "folk process" and admire the creativity of the tune-thief. It is this admiration and clever re-writing that has driven our history as folk singers, and will create the next wonderful batch of critical thinking, socially active, semi-out-of-tune song-writers.


SHANGHAI (NYTIMES) - One man spent 15 days in a detention centre. Police threatened another's family. A third was chained to a chair for eight hours of interrogation.
Their offence: posting on Twitter.
Chinese police, in a sharp escalation of the country's online censorship efforts, are questioning and detaining a growing number of Twitter users even though the social media platform is blocked in China and the vast majority of people in the country cannot see it.
The crackdown is the latest front in President Xi Jinping's campaign to expand the government's suppression of Internet activity beyond China's borders. In effect, the authorities are extending their control over Chinese citizens' online lives no matter where they post.
"If we give up Twitter, we are losing one of our last places to speak," said Mr Wang Aizhong, a human-rights activist who said police had told him to delete messages criticising the Chinese government.
When Beijing is unable to get activists to delete tweets, others will sometimes do the job for them.
Mr Wang refused to take down his tweets. Then, one night last month while he was reading a book, his phone buzzed with text messages from Twitter that contained backup codes to his account.
An hour later, he said, 3,000 of his tweets had been deleted. He blamed government-affiliated hackers, although those who were responsible and the methods they used could not be independently confirmed.
A Twitter spokeswoman declined to comment on the government campaign.
China has long policed what its citizens can see and say, including online, but the latest push shows that Beijing's vision of Internet control encompasses social media around the world.
Messages on WhatsApp, which is blocked in China, have begun to appear as evidence in Chinese trials.
The Chinese government has increasingly demanded that Google and Facebook take down content that officials object to even though both companies' sites are inaccessible in China.
After exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui used the platforms to lob graft accusations at top Chinese leaders, Facebook and Twitter suspended his accounts temporarily, citing user complaints and the disclosure of personal information. He is now back on the platforms.
Twitter may be banned in China, but the platform plays an important role in the discussion of issues in the country.
A small but active community uses software to circumvent the government's blocks to reach a last refuge of political debate.
According to an estimate based on a survey of 1,627 Chinese Internet users last year by Dr Daniela Stockmann, a professor at the Hertie School of Governance in Germany, only 0.4 per cent of China's Internet users, roughly 3.2 million people, use Twitter.
In addition, official media outlets like the Communist Party-controlled People's Daily newspaper and the Xinhua news agency use Twitter to shape perceptions of China in the rest of the world.
"On the one hand, state media takes advantage of the full features of these platforms to reach millions of people," said Ms Sarah Cook, a senior analyst for East Asia at Freedom House, a pro-democracy research group based in the United States.
"On the other hand, ordinary Chinese are risking interrogation and jail for using these same platforms to communicate with each other and the outside world."
Twitter is not the only platform contending with China's censorship rules.
LinkedIn, the business networking service, has long bowed to the country's censors.
It briefly took down the Chinese accounts of Mr Peter Humphrey, a British private investigator who was once imprisoned in China, last month, and Mr Zhou Fengsuo, a human-rights activist, this month.
The company sent e-mails to both containing language similar to the messages it sends users when it removes posts that violate censorship rules.
"What we've seen in recent weeks is the authorities desperately escalating the censorship of social media," Mr Humphrey said. "I think it's quite astonishing that on this cloak-and-dagger basis, LinkedIn has been gagging people and preventing their comments from being seen in China."
Both accounts have been restored. In a statement, LinkedIn apologised for taking the accounts down and said it had done so by accident. "Our Trust and Safety team is updating our internal processes to help prevent an error like this from happening again," the statement said.
With Twitter, Chinese officials are targeting a vibrant platform for Chinese activists.
Interviews with nine Twitter users questioned by police and a review of a recording of a four-hour interrogation found a similar pattern: Police would produce printouts of tweets and advise users to delete either the specific messages or their entire accounts. Officers would often complain about posts that were critical of the Chinese government or that specifically mentioned Mr Xi.
Police have used threats and, sometimes, physical restraints, according to Twitter users who were questioned.
Mr Huang Chengcheng, an activist with more than 8,000 Twitter followers, said his hands and feet were manacled to a chair while he was interrogated for eight hours in Chongqing. When the inquiry was over, he signed a promise to stay off Twitter.
Those pulled in for questioning do not necessarily have the biggest presence on Twitter.
Mr Pan Xidian, a 47-year-old construction company employee in Xiamen with about 4,000 followers, posted a comic by a dissident cartoonist known as Rebel Pepper, along with criticism of human-rights crackdowns.
In November, police called him in for 20 hours of questioning. After being forced to delete several tweets, he was allowed to go, and he thought his ordeal was over.
But officers showed up at his workplace a short time later and threw him into a car. They asked him to sign a document that said he had disturbed the social order. He complied. Then they showed him a second document, which said he would be detained. He spent the next two weeks in a cell with 10 other people, watching propaganda videos.
"In this era, we certainly know fear, but I can't control myself," Mr Pan said while crying during a phone interview after he was released. "We've been living a very suppressed life... We're like lambs," he added. "They're taking us one after another. We have no ability to fight back."
The current push includes no-name Twitter lurkers with few followers. It appears to be better coordinated between local and national law enforcement authorities, said Dr Xiao Qiang, a professor at the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley.
"Actually taking nationwide action, physically calling in all of these people, we've never seen that before," he said.
The new approach involves broad action by China's powerful Ministry of Public Security, which oversees law enforcement and political security.
Several Twitter users said local authorities had specifically cited the Internet police, a branch of the security ministry that monitors online activity.
The agency, which refers to such local enforcement as "touching the ground", was taken over last summer by a hard-liner known for a crackdown on telecom fraud in Xiamen.
The security ministry and the Cyberspace Administration of China, which regulates the Internet, did not respond to faxed requests for comment.
Police have impressed upon activists that they can see posts outside China's wall of censorship. After a four-hour grilling of a Twitter user with a small following who had complained in a post about the environment, a police officer offered him some advice.
The user, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of further reprisal, recorded the interrogation and provided a copy of the audio.
"Delete all your tweets, and shut down your account," the officer said. "Everything on the Internet can be monitored, even the inappropriate comments in WeChat groups," a reference to a popular Chinese messaging app.
"This is truly wholehearted advice for you," the officer added. "If this happens a second time, it will be handled differently. It will affect your parents. You are still so young. If you get married and have kids, it will affect them."
The efforts have dampened debate on Chinese-language Twitter, said Mr Wang Yaqiu, a China researcher with Human Rights Watch, who chronicled the crackdown in November. Still, not all users have gone quietly.
"Many activists want free speech," Mr Wang said in an interview. "Even when they're harassed and intimidated, they're very brave and continue to tweet. This is an act of defiance to censorship and oppression."


A friend of mine, a member of a spiritualist circle which I occasionally attended, died suddenly of a cerebral embolism.
A few days afterwards an ostensible communication from him was delivered at a seance by another member who was a trance medium.
"At about half past two last sunday, I lay down and fell asleep, as I often did and started dreaming that I was floating away from the earth on a ki d of space trip.
Presently I found myself surrounded by my parents and my little daughter, and then by many other dear friends who had passed over.
O began to ask myself if and where I had landed, but could see no land, only the faces of my fellows........ It was all very much like one of the many vivid dreams I have had before; but it is still going on"


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New streaming and digital media rules by Indian government rattles industry
The seemingly innocuous 'rule' concerning digital media portends more troubling changes to come, say industry watchers, and will throttle creativity, and most importantly, muzzle the few, bold online news sites that dare to critique the government.
Written by Rajiv Rao, Contributor
Rajiv Rao Contributor
Rajiv is a journalist and filmmaker focused on India.
Posted in New Tech for Old India on November 17, 2020 | Topic: Digital Transformation
Just a few months ago, I wrote this piece that wondered whether India would bring Amazon and Netflix to heel by regulating them.
Last Wednesday, a major development indicated which way the wind would blow, according to many industry watchers, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist government introduced a notification that may just be the beginning of things to come.
The rule, that has shocked many, simply states that digital media -- from Netflix, to news sites like thewire.com, to social media sites like Facebook, to photos of your labrador that you have uploaded onto the internet -- will now be regulated by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
Until now, this division of the government only censored and regulated print newspapers, television, films and theatre while digital content effectively slipped under the radar, but this luck seems to have run out.
So, what exactly does rule this portend? It's not entirely clear. To some who earn their bread and butter monitoring these industries, the prognosis is dire.
Nikhil Pahwa, a digital rights activist and founder of prominent website MediaNama that writes about these industries said this to the Guardian: "The fear is that with the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting -- essentially India's Ministry of Truth -- now in a position to regulate online news and entertainment, we will see a greater exercise of government control and censorship."
If this becomes reality it would wreck the plans of companies such as Netflix and Amazon that have seen their fortunes rise dramatically in the last few years with the spectacular boom of smartphones and cheap data, both goldmines that keep on giving. The COVID era has only added more fuel to this trend.
Eager to capitalise on this nascent market, Netflix has already pumped $400 million into the country and amassed 2.5 million precious subscribers. Consulting outfit PwC predicts that India's media and entertainment industry will grow at a brisk 10.1% clip annually to reach $2.9 billion by 2024.
A company like Netflix must be aghast at this development since surely a good chunk of its library could be made out of reach for Indians if the heavily censored film industries -- including the big daddy of them all, Bollywood -- are used as a benchmark for a code by which streaming services will have to live by.
Although, how the I&B Ministry is going to wade through thousands of films, series, and documentaries and affix either their rating or -- and this is even more fantastical to imagine -- suggest cuts where appropriate is beyond me.
Curbing entertainment, however, is one kind of problem to grapple with. The most alarming development, however, is the possibility that digital news will also face the scythe.
The majority of India's television news channels and print publications are veritable lapdogs of the government, terrified of being critical of it. The only real journalism being done is in the digital realm on sites like thewire.com or scroll.com which have rubbed the government the wrong way.
So much so that its editor, Siddharth Vardarajan, formerly head of one of India's most distinguished national newspapers, ironically called The Hindu, has been perpetually in the sights of the Modi government and his appointed allies in various states.
Vardarajan, who has been at the receiving end of multiple criminal charges for criticising Modi, said this to the Guardian: "The government has been claiming for some time now that online news is some sort of wild west that follows no rules. This is nonsense since all the restrictions that come with the constitutional guarantee of free speech, and a free press, apply to news websites, just as they do to newspapers and TV channels. But what irks the government is the use we have made of our freedom -- to ask questions and pursue stories that the big media increasingly shies away from."
Then there is the prospect of social media sites like Twitter and Facebook also being put under the purview of the government which will be interesting to watch, considering both Facebook and its wildly popular messaging app WhatsApp have been responsible for inciting religious hatred, riots, and even a genocide in South Asia.
On the other hand, some observers think that it is too hasty to predict what exactly the intentions are. After all, the scope of the rule so far is only to move monitoring to another department.
Of course, what could then follow are new guidelines for how to tackle the rating of content, or in the most sanguine case, the adoption of existing guidelines.
In fact, the Ministry, as far back as last year began nudging over-the-top (OTT) outfits such as Netflix and Indian giant AltBalaji to come together, frame, and adopt guidelines in a move to self-regulate.
Not everyone -- Netflix being one of the voices -- agreed. Finally, around a year later and on the third try, 15 OTT platforms including Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ Hotstar, ALTBalaji, ZEE5, Arre, Discovery+, Eros Now, and others agreed to ink a code of self-regulation, by putting together a framework for age classification, appropriate content description, and access control.
This wasn't enough, however. The Ministry said that the response was essentially anaemic and didn't list specific content that should be and would be policed or axed entirely. It went on to suggest to the group to look at other self-regulatory models for benchmarks and restructure the complaint committee with more government representation.
Speculation about the real intentions of the government have since continued. Now, there have been several lawsuits that have been filed by individuals who have raised objections about the obscenity and violence in some of the shows being aired.
Even the Supreme Court has weighed in and urged the government to look at regulation.
Naturally, the government couldn't care less about the likes of Narcos or the Walking Dead. What it is eyeballing with greater scrutiny no doubt are the new Indian series on the likes of Netflix and Amazon such as Sacred Games, Paatal Lok, Rashbhari, Leila, Ghoul, and Family Man.
All of these have let loose an unbridled torrent of creativity, sans the trademark censorship, that India has never seen. And yes, some of these, such as Sacred Games, have an impressive collection of obscenities and tremendous violence. But these are mere trifles.
What the government is most concerned about, say some, is the fact that these shows take the veil off sexual violence, homophobia, misogyny, and India's rampant caste-related crimes.
Some have ventured into sensitive territory and despite treating material with painstaking even-handedness, they have attracted the ire of Hindu rightwing organisations such as the ruling party's immensely powerful cultural wing, the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) and have been branded "anti-India" or "anti-Hindu". Having relatable Muslim protagonists, such as in the series Ghoul, doesn't help.
In fact, the Economic Times reports that representatives of the RSS, the all-powerful cultural wing of the ruling party have held at least six meetings with officials of online streaming platforms such as Netflix and Amazon to curb "anti-national" and "anti-Hindu" content on shows and instead, have exhorted them to portray "real Indian culture or ethos", whatever that may be.
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The Beauties and Challenges of Africa
The nice thing about South Africa, with approximately 25 % of white population, is that the people in general regardless of their race or color are all just as interested in God's word as they are in the rest of Africa. It is quite amazing to see a country which in many ways looks like Europe where people's lives are still so deeply rooted in faith. The problematic side of this country however lies - just as in the other African nations - in the huge difference between rich and poor which is a great challenge that still needs to be solved.
One such example is Khayelitsha, the biggest slum area in Cape Town with about 800 000 black people living mostly in shacks, stretching about 10 km long and 5 km wide. About 80 % of these people are jobless and alcohol, drugs, prostitution, AIDS, criminality etc are rampant in these informal settlements.
Our team here is helping in the schools of two of the squatter camps with free eye tests for the children and is trying to get them as many free glasses as possible, which they cannot afford otherwise. They also bring food to a local soup kitchen which cares for the homeless people. We visit the University and help the students who have no goals and need new motivation. People here as everywhere else need spiritual help and support to gain new strength and to approach life with new vigor. We also want to - similar to Mexico - visit hospitals to give comfort to the needy and pray for the sick as well as distribute good educational and character building material to the children in the slums to give them a good foundation for their future lives.
The highlight in the humanitarian sector which we would like to achieve is to make a trip to the Congo as soon as possible as our assistance there is urgently required.
We would like to share with you two excerpts of emails which we received from Kinshasa just a few days ago; they speak for themselves.
Pastor Theophile wrote us: "… The situation of children in Kisenso isn't good, food situation is even worse. When you were here, we had 150 children (orphans), since you left, 52 died because of lack of food. Now, we have 98 children. Some of them (37 children) try to go to school but they don't have possibilities to continue studies because school in Congo is too expensive for them."
Another friend of ours there wrote us and explained how important it is to pray for the situation: "… We hope very much, that God will answer all these prayers and will show mercy to this country. He already did just that so many times, like on June 30th (2005, where elections were supposed to happen and got postponed). Unrest was planned and predicted. Many foreigners had already left the country. And NOTHING happened! God protects this city in an unexplainable way. Please pray with us for the coming year, which will be decisive with the coming elections. At the end of next June everything should be over."
Thank you for your prayers for the situation in Congo. Our thanks goes also to those of you who are actively helping through your donations to change the sad situation of the poor children there. We appreciate your help very much and wish you a very HAPPY CHRISTMAS and His blessings for the coming NEW YEAR,
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Democratic congressional leadership
stated on March 2, 2009 in statements to reporters.:
The omnibus bill has only $3.8 billion in earmarks.
By Bill Adair March 2, 2009
Democrats too low with $3.8 billion earmark estimate for Omnibus
Stung by charges that the economic stimulus bill that passed last month was packed with pork, Democrats are claiming the big 2009 spending bill they're now considering has a relatively small number of earmarks.
Many news outlets have cited Democratic estimates that there are only $3.8 billion in earmarks in the $410 billion bill, which is known as the Omnibus because it is the product of nine bills that failed to pass last fall. But Taxpayers for Common Sense, an independent group that tracks federal spending, says the number is $7.7 billion.
Why the big difference?
The Democrats count the number differently.
Before we explain, here's a little context. These numbers aren't just a matter of arcane bookkeeping. They are significant because earmarks have become a key political issue. As a candidate, President Obama promised to reduce earmarks to the levels from 1994, the year that Republicans took control of Congress. So it's important to measure them accurately.
The Democrats' $3.8 billion figure has been widely reported. We found it in Congressional Quarterly , the New York Times , the Associated Press and USA Today , among others. Most stories attribute the number to the Democratic leadership in Congress, while USA Today specifically cited Kirstin Brost, a spokeswoman for the Democratic staff of the House Appropriations Committee.
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"Pope Benedict XVI and the Vatican requested that President Biden not attend Benedict's funeral."
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Brost told us that she specified to reporters that the number was for "non-project-based" federal programs, such as water projects for dams, navigational improvements and beach renourishment. These programs have such a high percentage of earmarks that Democrats exclude them from their totals. Their reasoning is that if they promise to cut earmarks by a certain percentage, as they have in the past few years, these programs will be disproportionately cut.
But Steve Ellis, vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, said they should be included in the definition of earmarks because the projects being excluded meet Congress' own definitition — the funding is requested by lawmakers for specific projects that in most cases are in their districts or home states. (For more on the definition, see this earlier PolitiFact item on White House claims that there were no earmarks in the stimulus bill.)
"According to Congress, these are earmarks. So to say there are $3.8 billion in earmarks (in the Omnibus) is misleading at best," Ellis said.
Ellis invoked a weight-loss analogy to explain what the Democrats are doing.
"It's easier to make your weight loss goals if you don't count your rear end," he said.
Brost says she has been precise with reporters that she was referring to the "non-project-based" numbers. But judging from the number of times we found the number cited as the Democratic estimate for earmarks, her nuance was not caught by reporters or by Democrats who have cited the figure.
Either way, the number is not a fair account of the total earmarks. We find the Taxpayers for Common Sense estimate to be right and we find the statement False.
CQ Today, Democrats, GOP Trade Accusations Over Earmarks in Omnibus Legislation, Feb. 24, 2009
USA Today, Spending bill includes $3.2B in projects , Feb. 24, 2009
Associated Press, Obama will sign spending bill despite earmarks , March 2, 2009
Interviews: Steve Ellis, Taxpayers for Common Sense; Kirstin Brost, House Appropriations Committee; March 2, 2009
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The European Union is calling out vaccine makers AstraZeneca (AZN) and Pfizer (PFE) over delivery delays that could slow its recovery from the pandemic. Officials are even threatening to restrict exports and take legal action as anger mounts.
AstraZeneca will not be able to deliver as many doses of its vaccine as promised, according to EU officials, putting government rollout plans and the economic recovery at risk. The news comes after Pfizer said it had delivered fewer doses of its vaccine than expected last week.
EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides on Monday expressed dissatisfaction on talks with AstraZeneca and said conversations would continue. She said the drugmaker "intends to supply considerably fewer doses in the coming weeks than agreed and announced."
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen turned up the heat on the pharmaceutical companies on Tuesday, saying the bloc "means business."
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 24: A homeless person sits in the rain on April 24, 2020 in New York City. New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo, during his daily talk on Covid-19, stated that the number of deaths has dropped to its lowest total since April 1. COVID-19 has spread worldwide, causing more than 190,000 lives lost and more than 2.7 million reported infections. (Photo by Pablo Monsalve / VIEWpress via Getty Images)
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"Europe invested billions to help develop the world's first Covid-19 vaccines, to create a truly global common good. And now the companies must deliver. They must honor their obligations," she said during a virtual meeting of the World Economic Forum.
The European Union has devoted part of a €2.7 billion ($3.3 billion) emergency fund to assist with vaccine development. On top of that, it's spent billions to secure doses, though it declined to provide details on individual contracts.
EU countries counting on the vaccines to rein in the health crisis and jumpstart their economies are now being forced to modify their plans. Italian Deputy Health Minister Pierpaolo Sileri told TV channel Rai 1 on Sunday that people over 80 years old would be vaccinated four weeks later than planned as a result of the delays. The country is threatening legal action against the drugmakers.
"By the [fall] we could vaccinate up to 45 million Italians, but I don't believe in these companies," Sileri said. "I want to see the vaccines."
The European Union has ordered 300 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which could be approved for use as soon as this week, with an option to purchase an additional 100 million.
The company said that production has been hampered by a manufacturing issue.
"While there is no scheduled delay to the start of shipments of our vaccine should we receive approval in Europe, initial volumes will be lower than originally anticipated due to reduced yields at a manufacturing site within our European supply chain," AstraZeneca said in a statement. "We will be supplying tens of millions of doses in February and March to the European Union, as we continue to ramp up production volumes."
The news has sent the bloc reeling, just as it was racing to assess the impact of delays announced by Pfizer. The US company said on Jan. 15 that it would deliver fewer doses than planned last week while it upgraded its manufacturing facility in Puurs, Belgium.
The drugmaker said it would still be able to meet first quarter targets, and as a result of the changes to its Belgium plant would be able to churn out 2 billion doses by the end of 2021. That's up from the 1.3 billion it had originally estimated.
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Pfizer said Monday it would return to its original schedule of deliveries for the European Union this week.
European governments are demanding answers, pointing out that the success of their vaccination efforts is dependent on the private sector.
"On the one hand we can only welcome the result of science, and on the other hand they have a monopoly and we are totally dependent," Belgian Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke said on Saturday. "There may be production issues, but these uncertainties and announcements make it very difficult to organize the campaign."
Kyriakides said on Monday that the bloc would now demand "full transparency concerning the export of vaccines" from the European Union.
"In the future, all companies producing vaccines against Covid-19 in the EU will have to provide early notification whenever they want to export vaccines to third countries. Humanitarian deliveries are of course not affected by this," she said on Twitter.
German Health Minister Jens Spahn said that the controls were not about putting the "EU first" but about making sure Europe got its fair share.
"In my view it makes sense that we have an export limit, meaning that vaccines which leave the European Union have a license so that we know what is being produced, what is leaving Europe, where it is leaving so that there is a fair distribution," he told German broadcaster ZDF.
Supply chain experts are much more concerned by the news from AstraZeneca than Pfizer, given the latter company's commitment to increase output soon. AstraZeneca's vaccine, developed with Oxford University, is also much easier to distribute because it can be stored at higher temperatures than the Pfizer alternative.
A delay for a week or two "is not a big problem," said Burak Kazaz, a professor of supply chain management at Syracuse University. "[Though] I certainly understand that a delay means lives."
The scope of the problems facing AstraZeneca, which appear more serious, would become clear in the coming weeks, he said.
Delays from both firms are a sign that there are still kinks in the supply chain that need to be ironed out as distribution ramps up, according to Prashant Yadav, a medical supply chain expert and senior fellow at the Center for Global Development.
"We will have more of these ups and downs until we get to a stable process," Yadav said.
Given the rocky attempts to get up to speed — and concentration of production at just a few manufacturing sites — the public should expect monthly manufacturing capacity to fluctuate for the time being, he added.
Richard Wilding, a professor of supply chain strategy at Cranfield University in England, noted that there are at least 50 items necessary to run vaccination sites, from alcohol wipes and syringes to personal protective equipment. Supply chains for those items need to run smoothly, too.
Crucially, the delays aren't just a problem for Europe.
"The price will be paid by developing countries who don't have access yet, because their deliveries may be delayed further down the line," Yadav said.
— James Frater, Chris Liakos, Amanda Sealy and Stephanie Halasz contributed reporting.


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Built by AW Pettibone in 1872 for his dry goods business, later in the nineteenth century the block was split into two stores, a dry goods house and a drug store. During the turn of the century years, the dry good sstore was operated by the Mattice family and the drug store by Ottmar Schallernn. By 1909, the building was again combined to house the Mattice-Foster Company Department Store. The business was in operation until 1925 when Ben Marcus established the Campus Theatre, the first in his movie empire that stretched across the Midwest.
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André Maginot (ur. 17 lutego 1877 w Paryżu, zm. 7 stycznia 1932 tamże) – francuski polityk, minister, urzędnik służby cywilnej, żołnierz; najlepiej znany z zaangażowania w budowę francuskich fortyfikacji, znanych powszechnie jako Linia Maginota, które powstały w latach 1929-1940 na wschodniej granicy państwa.

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Maginot urodził się w Paryżu, ale spędził część swojej młodości w Alzacji-Lotaryngii, regionie w którym później został wzniesiony ciąg francuskich fortyfikacji, o których budowę zabiegał. Po zdaniu egzaminu na urzędnika służby cywilnej, w 1897 rozpoczął karierę w administracji francuskiej, w której pracował do końca życia. Początkowo pracował jako asystent gubernatora generalnego w Algierii. Funkcję tę sprawował do 1910 roku, w którym zrezygnował z urzędu i zajął się działalnością polityczną. W tym samym roku został wybrany do Izby Deputowanych, gdzie następnie pełnił funkcję Podsekretarza Stanu do Spraw Wojennych. Sprawował ją tuż przed wybuchem I wojny światowej (1914).

Kiedy wybuchła wojna wstąpił do Francuskich Wojsk Lądowych, po czym został skierowany na front w rejonie Lotaryngii. W listopadzie 1914 Maginot (do tego czasu awansowany na stopień sierżanta za "opanowanie i odwagę") został ranny w nogę w bitwie pod Verdun (od tego czasu do końca życia utykał na jedną nogę). Za niesamowitą dzielność i waleczność został odznaczony Médaille militaire.

Był zapalonym szermierzem. W latach 1921-1924 pełnił funkcję prezydenta Międzynarodowej Federacji Szermierczej.

Odznaczenia
 Médaille militaire

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 André Maginot – a history – biografia
 André Maginot – biografie, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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SCOTLAND, UK - NFU Scotland's Renewables Development Initiative (RDI) is driving a renewables revolution on Scottish farms and crofts.
The three-year project is designed to assist with the creation and provision of sound, independent advice to farmers and land managers across Scotland on renewable energy.
Smiths Gore was appointed as independent consultant and facilitator for events, for which funding was secured through the Scottish Rural Development Programme Skills Development Scheme.
Since November 2013, 14 events have been held on Scottish farms up and down the country, introducing several hundred farmers to renewable technologies through existing or planned projects.
Workshops built around the events have brought in experts to cover elements such as finance, construction, grid connection and community schemes.
The 2014 highlights have included a recent visit to the first 100 percent co-operatively funded wind turbine in Scotland, sited near Dingwall as well as the chance to view one of the first wood gasification systems in the UK on farm in Aberdeenshire.
The RDI now moves into its next phase where it aims, over its three year period, to continue to cover common and emerging technologies and stage up to 27 farm visits, allowing farmers to share knowledge and understand best practice through demonstrations and workshops.
Two events in the Borders in January 2015 will look at anaerobic digestion, biomass, ground source heat pumps, solar thermal, solar pv, wind and biodiesel.
NFU Scotland's Operations and Subscriptions Manager David Lewington said: "The continued support and involvement of Scottish farmers will be essential if Scotland is to continue to make progress towards its world-leading renewable energy targets. However, based on our first full year, the response of farmers to the RDI is hugely encouraging.
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The large town stands at the crossroads of trade routes from Memphis to Sinai and further to the east. The temple of Bastet, a major cult centre for the lion headed goddess, is the major architectural focal point. The architectural landscape of the temple and the religious ceremonies associated with the worship of Bastet were recorded by Herodotus and excavations have confirmed aspects of his description including that the temple stood on an island. Other buildings at the site include ka temple of Teti and Pepy I, sed-festival chapels of Amenemhat III and Amenhotep III, a possible palace from the Middle Kingdom, and a temple of Atum built by Osorkon II. Tombs date from the Old Kingdom.
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The Central Regional Health Directorate has constituted a Seven-Member Schools COVID-19 Taskforce to check the spread of the virus in Schools in the Region.
The team chaired by the Regional Health Promotion Officer, Matthew Ahwireng will see to the adherence of COVID 19 safety protocols, and monitor the pandemic situation and educate students as well as stakeholders on the need to take precautionary measures to ensure the safety of students.
There will be similar taskforces at the Metropolitan, Municipal and District levels. The Central Regional Director of Health Services, Dr. Mrs. Akosua Owusu Sarpong, who inaugurated the Taskforce, said there is the need to ensure that the school environment is kept safe for the students.
She cautioned the public against disregarding the COVID-19 safety protocols since it could have dire consequences on them.
Dr. Owusu Sarpong expressed concern about people not adhering to the safety protocols saying the surge in cases should be a wake-up call to all Ghanaians to strictly follow the safety protocols to stop the spread of the disease.
She appealed to Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Chief Executives to support the Taskforce to help keep the schools safe. Deputy Central Regional Director Dr. Kwabena Sarpong, urged the media to step up education to caution the public about the wrong notion that the disease was no longer deadly.
He said more COVID-19 deaths are being recorded and all must keep safe by adhering to the protocols.
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