Coverage of poverty related stories in the media.
Recent Republican attempts to weaken the social safety net have one big thing in common: The pain they would inflict on poor children could last a lifetime. This is not only miserly but also shortsighted. Research shows that safety net programs keep children in school and out of trouble, and increase their chances of being healthier and living longer. All of this has a positive effect on our economy.
Does Growing up Poor Harm Brain Development?
California is an expensive place to live, and the state's lofty poverty levels as revealed by several measurements certainly reinforces the pain of heavy cost burdens.
But one should also note the state's noteworthy and broad economic revival from the Great Recession has significantly trimmed the ranks of the impoverished by those same metrics.
WASHINGTON — Kentucky will be the first state to require many of its Medicaid recipients to work or face losing their benefits after the Trump administration approved its plan on Friday.
For the past two decades, U.S. anti-poverty policy has coalesced around the idea that work should be at the center of anti-poverty programs. Bi-partisan welfare reform in the 1990s focused on work requirements and time limits. The growth and popularity of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), which increases the after tax income for those working near the bottom of the wage distribution, has also emphasized the importance of work. Recently, proposals to require work for those receiving a variety of benefits, including Medicaid, SNAP, and public housing, continue this employment focus.
Medicaid is the nation's public health insurance program for people with low incomes. Overall, the Medicaid program covers one in five Americans, including many with complex and costly needs for care. Historically, nonelderly adults without disabilities accounted for a small share of Medicaid enrollees; however, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) expanded coverage to nonelderly adults with income up to 138% FPL, or $16,642 per year for an individual in 2017.
The report asserts that the basic needs for people with disabilities go beyond what is covered in the official U.S. definition of poverty and that a new definition of poverty could help highlight the financial challenges facing people with disabilities and influence changes in policy.
Vox reports on the American Family Act of 2017, which would dramatically expand the child tax credit.
A new proposal by Democratic Sens. Michael Bennet (CO) and Sherrod Brown (OH) would provide a child allowance. The American Family Act of 2017 would dramatically expand the child tax credit, which currently offers up to $1,000 a year for families with significant earnings but little or nothing for many poor people.
On All Things Considered, rich and poor are interviewed about different experiences of Hurricane Irma.
In southwest Florida, the rich and poor live not far from each other. But how they experienced Hurricane Irma and its aftermath are worlds apart.
New figures from the American Community Survey reveal a stark contrast in rates of poverty across America in this Michigan news article.
California has 11 of the 20 most-affluent cities in the nation, while Florida and Ohio each have four cities on the list of the 20 poorest cities, based on an analysis of 2016 median household income.
The data comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's 2016 American Community Survey, the results of which were released this month. The release included numbers for the 599 U.S. municipalities and 806 counties with at least 65,000 residents.
Phil Galewitz, Senior Correspondent for the Kaiser Family Foundation describes how Medicaid provides support for a diverse group of Americans, not only the poor.
An op-ed describes the disproportionate impact of natural disasters on the poor.
The poor or near-poor are the first knocked down by storms and the last to get back up. Natural disasters push 26 million people around the world into poverty annually, according to the World Bank.
New research suggests programs aimed at helping low-income U.S. children, such as Head Start early childhood education and Medicaid health coverage, may have benefits not only for participating children but for their children as well.
New research on a program in Mexico gives us a real-world test case for the idea that providing universal basic income would cause inflation. And it strongly suggests that giving out cash doesn't cause inflation — or if it does, the effects are very, very mild.
Both proposed versions of the Republican health care bill—the American Health Care Act (AHCA) and the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA)–create an option for states to receive Medicaid funds in the form of a block grant (in the BCRA, the Medicaid Flexibility Program). The lessons from welfare reform can provide valuable insights into the potential impact of Medicaid block grants: namely, states may have a considerable incentive to pursue block grants, because they pose an attractive opportunity to cut state spending and allocate Medicaid dollars for other uses should the state desire that outcome.
Post-election, everyone is talking about rural America. But what are we doing about rural America?
Congratulations to Pulitzer winner Professor Matthew Desmond, who presented this important new work on the process and toll of evictions in America to Center for Poverty Research faculty and students in November 2015.
Meals on Wheels has been delivering food to older people in the United States since the 1950s. Last year it served 2.4 million people. This week, after President Trump released his budget proposal, a furor erupted over the program's future and effectiveness. Let's look at the evidence.
Meals on Wheels has been the subject of many peer-reviewed studies in the medical literature. So many have been done that there are several systematic reviews gathering these studies into various domains.
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—In making their case for California's policies on climate and immigration, Democrats proudly note the state's status as one of the world's most powerful economies, driven by thriving tech and creative industries.
Republicans here are pointing to a different metric: the poverty rate.
On a frigid morning here, Nancy Godinez was piling bread and other staples into her car outside a food pantry. She had lost her job as a custodian, her unemployment checks had run out, and her job search had proved fruitless.
One thing she still had was health insurance, acquired three years ago after Arkansas' Republican-controlled legislature agreed to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. The coverage, she said, has allowed her to get regular checkups and treatment for tendinitis in her foot.
"…Economist Chris Benner of the University of California at Davis does not agree that a higher minimum wage would lead to job losses.
In 2010, an estimated 2.7 million children and one in nine African-American children had an incarcerated parent. Now, consider new research from the UC Davis Poverty Center that finds children whose parents are in prison have worse health, poorer school performance and are at a greater risk for depression, anxiety, asthma and HIV/AIDS. The UC Davis report finds that a parent's incarceration has long-lasting effects on his or her children.
Rich and poor students don't merely enroll in college at different rates; they also complete it at different rates. The graduation gap is even wider than the enrollment gap.
In 2002, researchers with the National Center for Education Statistics started tracking a cohort of 15,000 high school sophomores. The project, called the Education Longitudinal Study, recorded information about the students' academic achievement, college entry, work history and college graduation. A recent publication examines the completed education of these young people, who are now in their late 20s.
Researchers, grant-makers and policymakers have long relied on enrollment numbers for the federally subsidized Free and Reduced-Price Lunch program. They use those numbers as a handy proxy for measuring how many students are struggling economically. The paperwork that families submit to show their income becomes the basis of billions in federal funds.
To be eligible for these programs, a family must earn no more than 85 percent above the poverty line. Just over half of public school students fit that description.
He was on his bicycle that snowy morning last December, about an hour northwest of Washington, because the bus service in Frederick was so erratic. Routes were far apart and the buses often late, making a 30-minute bike ride, whatever the weather, a better option.
In fact, Mr. Seay said, when it comes to gainful employment, it is not his criminal record that is holding him back — he did time for dealing drugs — but the $4,509.22 in fines, court costs and reinstatement fees he must pay to recover his license.
It is an understatement to say that the welfare reforms of the 1990s were intended to give a little spring to the social safety net.
The intention was much more radical. The reforms involved a major make-over of income support, and turning what was imagined as a net ensnarling many Americans behind a welfare wall, into a springboard that would incentivize work and allow them to ride a wave of prosperity to higher incomes that would lift their children out of poverty.
But this kind of reform is hardly what is needed when times turn bad.
Roughly one in seven people in the United States rely on food banks or other charitable organizations for basic nutrition, according to a new study by the nonprofit Feeding America. That number includes 25 percent of active military families, and an increased number of adult college students. Deborah Flateman, executive director of the Maryland Food Bank, joins Jeffrey Brown to discuss the crisis.
SAN DIEGO — In a typical last-minute scramble, Jannette Navarro, a 22-year-old Starbucks barista and single mother, scraped together a plan for surviving the month of July without setting off family or financial disaster.
YAMHILL, Ore. — ONE delusion common among America's successful people is that they triumphed just because of hard work and intelligence.
From 'Good Times' To 'Honey Boo Boo': Who Is Poor On TV?
Like it or not, television has the power to shape our perceptions of the world. So what do sitcoms, dramas and reality TV say about poor people?
In life and on TV, "poor" is relative. Take breakfast: For Honey Boo Boo's family, it's microwaved sausage and pancake sandwiches; for children in The Wire's Baltimore ghetto, it's a juice box and a bag of chips before school; and on Good Times, set in the Chicago projects back in the 1970s, it was a healthier choice: oatmeal.
This summer, government agencies and are making a massive push to get millions of meals to kids who might otherwise go hungry as part of the nationwide . And they're doing some creative things to reach them.
As more workers find their lives upended and their paychecks reduced by ever-changing, on-call schedules, government officials are trying to put limits on the harshest of those scheduling practices.
The actions reflect a growing national movement — fueled by women's and labor groups — to curb practices that affect millions of families, like assigning just one or two days of work a week or requiring employees to work unpredictable hours that wreak havoc with everyday routines like college and child care.
GARDENDALE, Tex. — From the window of her tin-roofed trailer, Judy Vargas can glimpse a miraculous world. It is as close as the dust kicked up by the trucks barreling by but seems as distant as Mars.
THE immediate impact of the recession — widespread buyouts and layoffs — may be fading, but the fear of losing a job hangs over workplaces like a cloud of worry.
"Perceived job insecurity," as it is called, may be here to stay, and the latest studies show it has even more wide-ranging and serious effects on workers and companies than was once thought.
On a hazy, hot evening here, Janice Marks ate a dinner of turkey and stuffing at a homeless shelter filled with plastic cots before crossing a few blocks to the Arkansas side of town to start her night shift restocking the dairy cases at Walmart.
The next day, David Tramel and Janice McFall had a free meal of hot dogs and doughnut holes at a Salvation Army center in Arkansas before heading back to their tent, hidden in a field by the highway in Texas.
Is a family with a car in the driveway, a flat-screen television and a computer with an Internet connection poor?
Americans — even many of the poorest — enjoy a level of material abundance unthinkable just a generation or two ago. That indisputable economic fact has become a subject of bitter political debate this year, half a century after President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a war on poverty.
When people visit with friends and neighbors in southern West Virginia, where paved roads give way to dirt before winding steeply up wooded hollows, the talk is often of lives that never got off the ground.
President Obama is hoping to fight poverty, in five so-called "promise zones." The government is targeting those areas for economic revitalization. Host Michel Martin and U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack take a look at the rural communities involved, and the special challenges to fight poverty there.
Fifty years ago today, President Lyndon Johnson stood before Congress and declared an "unconditional war on poverty in America." His arsenal included new programs: Medicaid, Medicare, Head Start, food stamps, more spending on education, and tax cuts to help create jobs.
WASHINGTON — To many Americans, the war on poverty declared 50 years ago by President Lyndon B. Johnson has largely failed. The poverty rate has fallen only to 15 percent from 19 percent in two generations, and 46 million Americans live in households where the government considers their income scarcely adequate.


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L'impianto copre una distanza di 1,3 km, superando un dislivello di 298 m, in circa 6 minuti ad una velocità di 5 m/s. Le cabine (l'unità 1 è di colore rosso e l'unità 2 di colore bianco) sono state realizzate nel 2004 da Nippon Cable co Ltd, in sostituzione di quelle degli anni 1960. Il servizio è operativo con intervalli di 20 minuti.

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Hollywood Legends on getTV in November
by getTV Staff October 31, 2016
There's plenty to be thankful for this month, as getTV celebrates the brightest stars in film history every Sunday night at 10 pm ET/ 7 pm PT. From the fierce independence of Loretta Young to the liberated sensuality of Brigitte Bardot and quiet masculinity of Steve McQueen, these actors left lasting legacies. And getTV shares their stories with fascinating retrospectives packed with home movies, contemporary interviews, and rarely seen film clips.
November 6 - Loretta Young: Hollywood's Heavenly Beauty
What was Loretta Young's greatest role? Silent movie buffs will point to her breakout performance in 1928 – at age 14 – opposite Lon Chaney in Laugh Clown Laugh. Lovers of holiday movies may prefer her title role in The Bishop's Wife, a charming romantic comedy with Cary Grant and David Niven. And fans of heartwarming family films will always shed a tear for The Farmer's Daughter, which brought Young her first and only Oscar.
While these are enduring classics, none crackle with the relevance of Young's work during Hollywood's Pre-Code Era. From the transition to sound filmmaking in 1929 until enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code censorship guidelines began in 1934, Young reigned supreme in bold, female-centric films. Her output during this period was prolific, with leading roles in many films that shocked audiences with frank depictions of gender inequity.
The best of these is Employees' Entrance, a 1933 shocker in which Young's character is seduced by a predatory boss (Warren William). Off-screen, the devoutly religious actress also had her share of complicated romantic entanglements with co-workers, including superstars Spencer Tracy, Tyrone Power, and Clark Gable. Her relationship with the married Gable produced a daughter, a fact Young kept secret by putting the baby up for adoption – and then adopting her. She remained a single mother (a rarity in Hollywood at the time) for three years, until her marriage to producer Tom Lewis in 1940.
Despite rocky romances and a "greylisting" by Fox chief Darryl F. Zanuck when she quit the studio to go freelance, Young's career thrived. But after an Oscar nomination in 1950 for Come to the Stable, she made the unheard-of decision to take her talents to the new medium of television. The Loretta Young Show, an anthology series hosted by and occasionally starring the actress, became an NBC hit for eight seasons. Young co-produced the Emmy-winning show with Lewis, eventually taking over all production responsibilities when the couple separated. It was a fitting coda to a career that began with memorable portrayals of self-sufficient career women.
November 13 - Brigitte Bardot: Animal Magnetism
"I'll be a serious actress when I'm older," Brigitte Bardot told an interviewer in 1956. She'd soon make good on that promise, but first the 22-year-old Parisian had a world to conquer. Already popular with French audiences thanks to a string of frothy comedies, Bardot became an international sensation with Roger Vadim's racy …And God Created Woman in 1957. As Juliete, a temptress who turns brother against brother, Bardot earned condemnation by the National Legion of Decency and a new nickname: "sex kitten."
Behind it all was Vadim, who discovered Bardot as a teen model, married her at 17, and helped to craft her uninhibited persona with appearances (in various stages of undress) at the Cannes Film Festival. But the liberation he encouraged in front of the camera led to indiscretions behind it, and their marriage collapsed.
"I used to lead a libertine life and change husbands and lovers quite often" the still-provocative star (now 82) confesses in Brigitte Bardot: Animal Magnetism. In addition to Vadim and her Woman co-star Jean-Louis Trintignant, Bardot also had a liaison with actor Jacques Charrier, who she met while filming Babette Goes to War in 1959. The two married and had a child, but their life together nearly came to a tragic end in 1960 when Bardot attempted suicide during production of Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Truth. Ironically, her character also tries to kill herself in that harrowing drama, which scored an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
Furthering Bardot's rep as a "serious actress" was her work in Jon-Luc Godard's Contempt in 1963 and a BAFTA-nominated performance in Louis Malle's Viva Maria! in 1965. Critical acclaim, however, was increasingly accompanied by public condemnation of her behavior. American audiences still flocked to Bardot's films, despite her refusal to accept starring roles in English-language productions. She finally agreed to a cameo in 1965 in Fox's Dear Brigitte with James Stewart, but by the time she co-starred with Sean Connery in the Western Shalako in 1968, her career was on the decline. Bardot announced her retirement from film five years later at age 39, a promise many film fans wish she had not kept.
November 20 - Steve McQueen: Life in the Fast Lane
Audiences may not have realized they were witnessing the birth of a screen icon in 1958 when 28-year-old Steven McQueen battled The Blob. But the evidence was clear soon after, when the ruggedly handsome young actor was cast as Josh Randall on the Western TV series Wanted: Dead or Alive. Portraying a bounty hunter in the post-Civil War West, McQueen brought surprising nuance to a genre often populated with stock characters.
"It's just an intuitive sort of thing," the actor said of his low-key performance style in a 1962 interview featured in Steve McQueen: Life in the Fast Lane. In fact, he honed his trademark naturalism in the early 1950s whole studying with Sanford Meisner, the famed New York acting teacher whose mantra was to "live truthfully." It's McQueen's truthfulness and contempt for hypocrisy that gave counter-culture relevance to films like The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, and Bullitt in the 1960s and keep them resonant for viewers today. But it's The Thomas Crown Affair, which McQueen made with director Norman Jewison in 1968, that proves the Indiana farm boy was more than a one-trick pony.
"Steve worked on that harder than he worked on any other film," biographer Marshall Terrill says in the documentary. "It was everything that he was not as an actor."
McQueen may have personified truth on cinema screens, but he struggled to find it in his personal life. Drinking, drugs, and infidelity contributed to the dissolution of two marriages – including one to actress Ali McGraw that began with an affair during the making of The Getaway. After The Towering Inferno in 1974, McQueen stepped away from film, halting a meteoric rise that had taken him from low budget sci-fi to Hollywood's highest perch. He spent the next six years enjoying life, refusing roles in blockbusters, and making a few small films until his untimely death from cancer at age 50. But even though his career was brief – 22 years from his first leading role until his last – he remains the defining male star of his era.
Celebrity retrospectives air Sunday nights at 10 pm ET/7 pm PT on getTV. And join us on Sunday, November 27 as we kick off the Holiday season with Perry Como's Christmas In Paris.

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Wind, solar and hydro generation are becoming cost competitive worldwide
By - Jim Vess
Energize Weekly, January 24, 2018
Renewable energy projects are becoming cost-competitive with fossil fuel generation around the world, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).
"Bioenergy-for-power, hydropower, geothermal and onshore wind projects commissioned in 2017 largely fell within the range of generation costs for fossil-based electricity . . . Some projects undercut fossil fuels," the agency said in its study, Renewable Power Generation Costs 2017.
The IRENA analysis is based on data from 15,000 utility-scale projects and 7,000 energy auctions.
"In many parts of the world, renewable power technologies now offer the lowest cost source of new power generation," according to the report.
By 2020 the trend will be worldwide. "This new dynamic signals a significant shift in the energy paradigm," said Adnan Amin, IRENA's director-general, in a statement.
The global weighted average cost of electricity from new hydropower projects in 2017 was 5 cents a kilowatt-hour, in U.S. dollars. It was 6 cents a kilowatt-hour for onshore wind and 7 cents a kilowatt-hour for bioenergy and geothermal projects.
While electricity from utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) projects had the highest cost at 10 cents a kilowatt-hour, IRENA noted that reflects a 73 percent decline from 2010. The drop was driven by an 83 percent decrease in PV module prices since 2009, along with reductions in permitting and installation expenses or so-called balance of system costs.
Among the factors lowering costs across all generation are technology improvements, competitive procurement and a large base of experienced, international developers, IRENA said.
Based on the latest auction and project-level cost data, global average costs could decline to about 5 cents a kilowatt-hour for onshore wind and 6 cents a kilowatt-hour solar PV by 2020, the agency said.
There were record low auction prices for solar PV in Dubai, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia in 2016 and 2017, showing that give the right conditions, the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) can be reduced to 3 cents a kilowatt-hour from 2018 onward.
Recent auctions in Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Mexico and Morocco have resulted in onshore wind power LCOEs as low as 3 cents a kilowatt-hour.
Reasons for these low prices include a regulatory framework and taxation regimes favorable to renewables; a strong, local civil engineering base; low offtake and country risk; and excellent wind or solar resources.
"By 2020, all the renewable power generation technologies that are now in commercial use are expected to fall within the fossil fuel-fired cost range, with most at the lower end or undercutting fossil fuel," the agency's study said.
Offshore wind power and concentrated solar power (CSP), "though still in their infancy in terms of deployment," both saw their costs fall between 2010 and 2017, according to the study.
Auction results for offshore wind from 2016 and 2017 in Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom suggest that for projects that will be commissioned in 2020 and beyond, costs could fall in the 6 to 10 cents a kilowatt-hour range. CSP costs are expected to be in the same range.
Technological improvements are one of the keys to these cost declines. "Bigger wind turbines with larger swept areas harvest more electricity from the same resource. New solar PV cell architectures offer greater efficiency. Real-time data and 'big data' have enhanced predictive maintenance and reduced operation and maintenance costs," IRENA said.
The agency, however, also sounded a note of caution, saying that the innovations and improvements in renewable generation have to be "balanced against the increased costs of integrating variable renewables and the increased flexibility required to manage systems with very high levels of variable renewable energy (VRE).
"To date, these integration costs have remained modest, but they could rise as very high VRE shares are reached especially without complementary policies across the power sector. For instance, if transmission expansions fail to keep pace with deployment, renewable power sources could face curtailment," IRENA said.
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Nolan Patrick is on pace to make history – twice.
TSN Director of Scouting Craig Button projects the Brandon Wheat Kings' centre going first overall to the last place Colorado Avalanche – provided it wins the draft lottery scheduled to take place April 29 – in the TSN post-season mock draft.
If Patrick goes No. 1 over rival centre Nico Hischier of the Halifax Mooseheads, he would be the first Manitoban chosen No. 1 and the first major junior player to go first overall despite missing more games (39) than playing (33) in his draft year.
Patrick was sidelined by sports hernia surgery and an upper body injury this season.
But it's what Patrick did in the games he played – scoring 20 goals and 46 points – that solidified his position as the No. 1 pick. This on the heels of a phenomenal 102-point season with Brandon in 2015-16 as a 17-year-old.
Performance and pedigree lay to rest any concerns Button has about Patrick's ability to stay healthy.
The standard for fewest games played by a No. 1 pick from major junior hockey was set by Billings Bighorns defenceman Gord Kluzak, who played just 38 games in 1981-82 before Boston picked him first overall.
The TSN mock draft was conducted in reverse order of the final standings with selections made for all 14 non-playoff teams, plus the expansion Vegas Golden Knights.
The Vancouver Canucks, who lost their last eight games to place 29th in the final standings and secure the No. 2 seed in the lottery, have never picked first overall in the 48-year history of the modern draft. If their bad luck in the draft lottery continues, they will get a terrific consolation prize: Swiss sensation Hischier, who collected 38 goals and 86 points in 57 games this season.
Hischier excelled at the World Junior Hockey Championship, scoring four goals and recording three assists in five games. He had an overtime winner against the Czech Republic in the preliminary round and scored both of his team's goals in a 3-2 loss to the Americans in the quarterfinals.
The Golden Knights and Arizona Coyotes are co-No. 3 lottery seeds.
Button has Vegas taking Portland centre Cody Glass third overall. Button says the Winnipeg native has caught the eye of Vegas assistant general manager Kelly McCrimmmon, who previously served as coach and GM of the Brandon Wheat Kings and has had a front row seat to Glass' development.
At No. 4, Button has Arizona selecting Swedish defenceman Timothy Liljegren and at No. 5, New Jersey choosing Windsor centre Gabriel Vilardi.
The only other Canadian team in the draft lottery is the No. 12-seed Winnipeg Jets. Button projects the Jets taking Finnish defenceman Miro Heiskanen of HIFK Helsinki.
"Heiskanen is a good fit because he's a smart player, incredibly efficient and rarely makes mistakes," Button says.
The Avalanche has a 17.9 per-cent chance of winning the lottery, the Canucks, 12.1, and the Coyotes and Golden Knights, 10.3. Winnipeg has a 2.0 per-cent shot at winning.


Construction on the Al Sufouh tramline has picked up a pace, with a viaduct now carved out and clearly visible between Sheikh Zayed Road and Dubai Marina. Developers say the $1.08 billion light rail system is well on course for a November 2014 finish. The 14km network will weave its way through 19 stations, from Mall of the Emirates, past Media City and Knowledge Village, along to Dubai Marina and Jumeirah Beach Walk, making travel in and around the 'New Dubai' area even easier.
In February this year the Dubai government secured a $675 million deal to guarantee the completion of phase one of the project. Up to 12 of the 19 stations will be in operation under this phase, serviced by a total of 8 trains, each carrying up to 400 passengers. The tramline will greatly add to the ease of commuting, making hotspots like the beachfront's 'The Walk' and the highly popular Dubai Marina area very easy to access. The latter is home to The First Group's prestigious hotel apartment project, TFG Dubai Marina Hotel. Not only will residents of the four star hotel be able to hop on the tram, they are also just minutes away from the Dubai Metro network, Dubai Water Taxi stops and the Sheikh Zayed Road.


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The river flows through the mountain, to the plains to fertilize the fields on its banks, reaches the ocean to merge with it and helps the aquatic beings to keep alive, rises up in the sky to form clouds and again reaches the mountain to start the cycle once more.
A star goes expanding and expanding till it can expand no more. Then it starts contracting progressively till it becomes a pin-point size speck and expanding again till it becomes a star.
The same is the case with infinite numbers of souls who move like stars in the universe. All of them enjoy their freedom and shine as if they are smiling. But as they come in touch with Maya (the illusory material plane), the picture changes. Affected and infected by Maya, they lose their freedom and become subjected to the laws of Karma. Then they have to assume bodies and perform their respective Karmas. So, the cycle of births and deaths starts and in every species the soul is encased and it has to go on suffering right from birth till death. Phases of happiness make the suffering more agonizing by contrast.
When a person meets a Guru, the Guru guides him to the right path and frees him from the clutches of Maya and the soul again starts moving towards the 'Destination' of freedom and inherent light in Akshardham, the abode of God, the abode of Shree Swaminarayan Bhagawan. Here, Maya can no more open her mouth to gulp the soul and can no more show her heart curdling clutches. Here she cannot tempt any soul.
The literature of Swaminarayan way of life is as vast as the biggest iceberg. What we see in print is only a microscopic part of what has been written by saints who were contemporary to Bhagwan Shree Swaminarayan.
Infinite are the branches of knowledge.
Life span is too short.
And many are the obstacles, so, follow only the essence.
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Sabalenka advances to 6th quarterfinal of season in Linz
Associated PressNov 13, 2020, 12:04 AM EST
LINZ, Austria — Aryna Sabalenka eased past Swiss qualifier Stefanie Voegele 6-0, 6-3 Thursday to advance to her sixth quarterfinal of the season at the Upper Austria Ladies Linz.
The 11th-ranked Sabalenka condeded just three points on serve in the 26-minute opening set and saved all nine break points she faced.
"I came here for the title and I will do everything to get it," Sabalenka said in an on-court interview.
The top-seeded Sabalenka, who won four of her five previous quarterfinals, next plays French qualifier Oceane Dodin, who defeated Sorana Cirstea 6-4, 6-4.
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Also, French Open semifinalist Nadia Podoroska rallied to defeat 2018 Linz champion Camila Giorgi 6-7 (4), 6-1, 6-4 and set up a quarterfinal against the fourth-seeded Ekaterina Alexandrova.
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Megapsyrassa is a genus of beetles in the family Cerambycidae, containing the following species:

 Megapsyrassa atkinsoni Chemsak & Giesbert, 1986
 Megapsyrassa auricomis (Chemsak & Linsley, 1963)
 Megapsyrassa chiapaneca Giesbert, 1993
 Megapsyrassa linsleyi Chemsak & Giesbert, 1986
 Megapsyrassa puncticollis (Chemsak & Linsley, 1963)
 Megapsyrassa testacea Giesbert, 1993
 Megapsyrassa xestioides (Bates, 1872)

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UG workers' pay-hike in limbo as unions reject draft agreement
Posted by: Denis Chabrol in Business, News Tuesday, 10 October 2017, 15:44	0
Last Updated on Tuesday, 10 October 2017, 15:44 by Denis Chabrol
Professor Ivelaw Griffith
The two unions representing University of Guyana (UG) workers have refused to sign a deal to pave the way for a six to eight percent pay-hike after they said the administration's draft document contained offensive references and failed to give required details.
Workers Union (UGWU) President, Bruce Haynes and President of the Senior Staff Association (UGSSA), Jewel Thomas said they last Friday, October 6, 2017 did not sign the memorandum of agreement (MoA) despite threats by Vice Chancellor, Professor Ivelaw Griffith that "if we did not sign it, there would be no further amendments, and the administration would move to conciliation."
Among the areas of the draft the unions said they found objectionable were the inclusion of a "performance element" in violation of previous agreements the administration has with with the unions. Haynes and Thomas said they were advised that they should not sign an agreement that includes clauses that appear to make the UGWU and UGSSA responsible for a process in which they had no legal standing.
"We sought guidance and were told that we could not sign the MoA with those clauses included. The administration presented us with a document that we simply could not sign in that form, and they refused to discuss modifying it," the union leaders told workers in an e-mail seen by Demerara Waves Online News.
Further, the workers' representatives said, contrary to Vice Chancellor Griffith's stated belief in transparency, he has bluntly refused to provide a detailed breakdown of the GYD$182 million that would be used to pay the non-academic staff six percent and the academic staff eight percent retroactive to January, 2017.
The UGWU and the UGSSA said they have since asked the Guyana Trades Union Congress. They have also called on the Minister of Education, Nicolette Henry t appoint UG's Council, the highest decision-making body of that publicly funded institution. "The Council should have been the first and most appropriate body to intervene in the current situation," Haynes and Thomas said.
UG Registrar, Dr. Nigel Gravesande has said the executive staff members would not be paid salary increases until the Council, whose life expired in July, 2017, is replaced and deals with those increases.
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Big Brother on the road
DENNIS WYATT
Updated: Sept. 24, 2012, 12:13 p.m.
Tougher fuel efficiency standards have the potential to turn our freeways and highways into havens for potholes.
The Congressional Budget Office is projecting a $57 billion loss in federal gas tax funds through 2023 due to the new federal fuel efficiency standards that have just been adopted. The revenue reduction — roughly 13 percent less than what was originally projected just a year ago — will also impact separate gas tax collections for roadways in the various states including California.
That means people we are elected to the state and federal levels this November should be pressed as to what they favor doing to make up the revenue gap so as not to let our highways and freeways completely deteriorate.
Among the remedies being floated are taxing miles driven, creating more and more toll roads, indexing the current gas tax to inflation, taxing oil at the refinery instead with the tax being collapsed into the gallon price, and slapping an annual tax on cars.
There is one common theory behind all five options — those who use roads should pay for them.
Of course, the current state gas tax in California does that but it also makes those who use the roads subsidize them for bicyclists and those who use buses, and also subsidizes passenger rail service . The theory is that by doing so the state is taking pressure off the roads. Still, it isn't a pure users fee as it transfers "wealth" to subsidize other forms of transportation.
The option favored the most by transit experts is the taxing of miles driven. It is what the Bay Area Council of Governments wants to use for a regional tax to cover road projects in the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area.
Such a tax would require Global Positioning Systems (GPS units) complete with transmitters on your vehicle. Such a system is already being tested in Minnesota that sends drivers a monthly tax bill based on miles driven.
Such systems can be designed to keep track of where you drive — in state or out of state — as well as when you drive. That way you can be charged more if you are in certain congested roads at the heaviest traffic time. And you'd also be taxed by jurisdictions whose roads you use. It would be government's way of modifying your driving behavior to reduce congestion and making sure if you use it you help pay for it whether it is in your own state or six states away.
On the surface, it seems like a reasonable plan. You would pay taxes based on how much you drive, basically paying for what you use.
But there's one little problem: Do you really want the government to be able to track your every move?
Variations of the tax per mile system aren't much better but for other reasons.
One option would be for drivers' odometers to be read at the Department of Vehicles once a year when they renew their registration. The only problem with that is you'd be hit with a rather large tax bill all at once. There'd also probably be a bustling cottage industry emerging on ways to tamper with odometers without being detected.
The miles driven tax option means those with electric cars won't escape taxation. Therefore it would reduce the savings from not paying for gas and the combined state and federal gas taxes that come to 67.7 cents in California. The state's gas tax is the highest in the nation in a dead heat with New York.
It would also mean those who commute long distances, such as from Manteca to San Jose, would be hit the hardest unless, of course, they carpooled or took public transportation like Altamont Commuter Express and surface public transit in the Santa Clara Valley.
At any rate, the future of how we tax for roads obviously has to change.
You will notice, though, no politician is even bringing it up even though it is clear that something must be done and be done fairly quickly.
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Q: Error with apt-get update: Invalid 'Date' entry in Release file I am getting an error in sudo apt-get update. Can anyone please help me fix it? Ubuntu 16.04
W: Invalid 'Date' entry in Release file /var/lib/apt/lists/
  developer.download.nvidia.com_compute_cuda_repos_ubuntu1604_x86%5f64_Release

A: Seems like the software source list file mentioned in your error messages got corrupted somehow.
Delete the invalid list file and then let apt fetch it again from the repository server:
sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/developer.download.nvidia.com_compute_cuda_repos_ubuntu1604_x86%5f64_Release
sudo apt update

A: I also have similar issue on Ubuntu 16.04. Seems that release file use wrong date format. You can read about it here.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1649086

A: I had this issue with Linux Mint 18 (corresponds to Ubuntu Xenial 16.04). Previous answers did not solved the problem for me.
I don't recall how I installed CUDA, but to get around this issue, I removed the sources list entry:
sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cuda-8-0-local.list

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Statins Are Safe And Negative Side Effects Have Been Overstated, Medical Review Warns
73,000 people die from heart disease in the UK every year.
Sophie Gallagher
Reporter at HuffPost UK
The side effects of statins have been exaggerated by unreliable studies, when in fact they are safe and effective, claims a major new medical review.
Stains, which are prescribed to patients at risk of Coronary Heart Disease and work to lower the levels of cholesterol in the blood, have long been plagued by accusations that they are unsafe.
Official NHS advice states that "many people" who take statins experience no side effects, and for those who do they will be minor and include slight headaches or stomach upset.
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In 2013, there were eight million people in the UK on some form of prescribed anti-cholesterol drug.
However, estimates suggest that hundreds of thousands of patients, who would benefit from taking the drug, have stopped taking them after reading to negative reviews in medical studies.
This new report, published in the Lancet medical journal, has been made public in an effort to curb a scare on the same scale as that of the MMR vaccine – when a report, which has since been discredited, linked it to autism.
Dr Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet, said: "We saw in a very painful way the consequences of publishing a paper which had a huge impact on the confidence in a safe and effective vaccine."
The review found that the potential risks of a negative reaction are far outweighed by the benefits of taking statins.
The number of people who avoid heart attacks and strokes by undergoing statin therapy is much larger than those who experience detrimental side effects.
The review found that side-effects can include developing muscle pain, diabetes or a haemorrhagic stroke, but suggestions that statins cause other conditions, such as memory loss, cataracts, kidney injury, liver disease, sleep disturbance, aggression or erectile dysfunction, are not accurate.
Heart disease is responsible for more than 73,000 deaths in the UK each year.
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The Wiccan religion is exploding in popularity. As Christianity fades in the Western world, hundreds of thousands of people, especially women, are turning to alternative religions such as Wicca.
The new American Religious Identification Survey shows that most religions in the United States are losing members fast. However, that is not the case with the Wiccan religion which is growing rapidly. The survey revealed that Wiccans, witches and other "new religious movements" have grown by more than a million members since the last ARIS survey was published in 2001.
"Wicca is the fastest-growing religion in America, set to be the third largest religion by 2012," claims Marla Alupoaicei, the co-author of the controversial new book "Generation Hex".
Alupoaicei also says that "The numbers of adherents are doubling every 30 months".
The truth is that there are now over 700,000 websites for Wiccans, and there are communities of Wiccans in every major city in the United States.
This comes at a time when there is a mass exodus from many of the established churches in the western world.
Women, in particular, seem to be leaving many traditional churches at a blinding pace. An English church census recently found that more than 50,000 women a year are leaving the Anglican church.
Many of these women (and men) are deserting traditional Christianity for Wicca and other forms of pagan religion.
So just what is Wicca?
"Witchcraft" or "Wicca" refers to the specific set of Goddess-centered traditions that come from Europe and the Middle East. "Witch" is a subset of "Pagan," just as "Methodist" or "Baptist" is a subset of "Christian." And we capitalize "Witch" just as we capitalize "Mormon" or "Buddhist."
Young people in particular seem to be really taking to Wicca. The Pagan Federation in the United Kingdom reportedly receives hundreds of enquiries from teenagers every single day of the year.
Harry Potter and other media such as "Charmed", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" and "The Craft" have helped make Wicca and witchcraft increasingly popular in recent years.
Does a mass shift of our population into "tolerant" religions such as Wicca where there are no set "doctrines" and very few rules about what is right or wrong prepare us for the time when a one world faith will arise?
Will the adoption of witchcraft by a large percentage of our young people make it easier for the people of the Western democracies to be herded into a one world government and a one world Luciferian religion?
The truth is that as we move through the last days the darkness is only going to get darker. Young people are fascinated when they find out that there is actually REAL power in the Wiccan religion and in witchcraft. The vast majority of people have never seen any REAL power in a Christian church, so they are pretty much blown away by what a lot of these witches can do.
So for those of us who are Christians, we need to get much closer to the Lord so that we can shine that much brighter as the world gets darker. May we be a light in the darkness that can help those who seek to escape the grasp of evil.


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Q: Concat 2 column in one using codeigniter I want to concatenate the first and the last name as full name in my query.
$query = $this->db->select('CONCAT(w.firstName," ",w.lastName) as fullName,w.ID,w.firstName,w.lastName, w.firstname_ar, w.lastname_ar, w.cin , w.tel, w.tel2, w.poste_id, w.gender, w.date_birth, w.address, w.address_ar, w.familySituation, w.socialSecurity, w.typeContract, w.period,w.email,w.status,r.name,w.conge as cng,w.startDateContract, w.pictureProfile, w.endDateContract, w.dateTitulation, w.rib, w.languages, w.passport, w.passport_end_date, w.urgent_phone, w.urgent_phone_name,w.pointage_id as idpointeur, w.shift_start as heure_arr, w.shift_end as heure_dep, w.worker_role as workerRole, r.color as roleColor, r.name as departement, conge_annee, c.name as companyName, c.logo as logoCompany, p.title as poste',FALSE)->from('Workeforce w')->join('Role r', 'r.ID = w.RoleID')->join('Company c', 'c.ID = w.CompanyID')->join('poste p', 'p.id = w.poste_id', 'left')->where('w.worker_role <', 100);

And it give me this error.

Fatal error: Uncaught Exception: SQLSTATE[42S22]: Column not found:
  1054 Unknown column 'CONCAT(w.firstName' in 'field list' in
  /Users/mac/www/application/core/models/workeforce_model.php:100 Stack
  trace: #0

A: Try escaping the quotation marks in your CONCAT.
The fact that your error says that "'CONCAT(w.firstName'" is not a valid column indicates to me that your DB believes the SELECT ends there.
CONCAT(w.firstName,\" \",w.lastName) as fullName, ....

Adding \ in front of the quotation mark will escape it.
You can read more on escaping special characters here:
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/string-literals.html


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Titans DC Pees gives his players financial incentive to read
Tennessee Titans defensive coordinator Dean Pees gives his players a financial incentive to read his tip sheets very carefully each week.
Well, at least for the first player to find the bonus Pees hides in plain sight.
"All it is is to double-check and see if they're reading," Pees says.
Pees includes a note to come collect either $50 or $100 to the first player who finds his offer inside notes that can run up to nine pages long. The offer usually is buried in some of the play calls Pees has used on defense from the beginning, and the coordinator says he uses red ink to note any new play calls. Players then typically scan for everything noted in red.
Titans coach Mike Vrabel got so good at beating teammates to the hidden bonus when playing linebacker that Pees says he had to rule out him out.
"He'd be standing at my door going, '$100,'" Pees says. "I'd say, 'Where'd you find it?' And he'd tell me."
Pees also has had weeks go by when nobody collected.
Writing out the sheets is a habit Pees picked up since his own college days. Each call usually has up to four sentences, and Pees says he better explains himself when writing out each call.
"I really think that stems back from starting out as a high school teacher," Pees says. "When you do lesson plans and you do all that stuff, you really prepare and that's how I got my start was as a teacher. And I felt that's what good teaching is, is try to be very thorough, don't be long, don't be long-winded, just try to be exact and tell on point. And it helped me to know what I was talking about."
REALLY BIG BEN
Bengals defensive end Carlos Dunlap was talking this week about how difficult it is to bring down quarterbacks such as Pittsburgh's Ben Roethlisberger under the new NFL rules that prevent defenders from using their full body weight in a tackle.
"Any time you try to tackle a 300-pound quarterback, it's going to be pretty difficult," Dunlap says.
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How much does Big Ben weigh?
The 6-foot-5 quarterback changed his diet in the offseason to drop some weight entering his 15th season. Although he won't give his official weight, he's listed at 240 pounds in the Steelers' media guide — 1 pound lighter than in recent years.
For comparison, Jared Lorenzen was listed at 275 pounds when he played for the Giants from 2006-07.
Does Dunlap really think Big Ben tips the scales at 300 pounds?
"With his equipment and his rib cage (protector) and all the other stuff he has on — sweat, whatever — I'm pretty sure he gets close," Dunlap says.
PRAISING BREES
Few star NFL quarterbacks know more about Drew Brees than his former teammate, Philip Rivers.
After all, Rivers beat out Brees when the Chargers were in San Diego, sending Brees into free agency in 2006, when he landed with New Orleans.
Now, Brees holds nearly every NFL passing record, having surpassed Peyton Manning on Monday night for the lead in yardage.
Rivers was watching.
"Yeah, it was awesome," he says. "I certainly was tuned in watching it, counting the yards down. A heck of an accomplishment. It's crazy when you think about it, how many yards (72,103) that is. That's a ton of yards.
"I think credit to him, obviously, and I heard Drew's comments of him thanking and giving credit to so many people that have had a hand in it, as you expected him to do. Obviously, he's a talented player and passer and all those things. I think it was just hard work and preparation – and really probably maybe more than anything, the belief in himself."
San Diego chose Eli Manning atop the first round of the 2004 draft and then dealt him to the Giants for Rivers. Brees was the starter for the Chargers, but he soon began battling shoulder problems.
"I wasn't here during the early times of his first couple years," Rivers says. "I know it was a bumpy start, and then I get drafted here in 2004, and shoot, he kept me sitting for those two years.
"I was able to watch and learn, and he really got it going then, and what he's done in New Orleans the last 13 years or whatever has been remarkable. So I was happy for him. He and I still keep in touch. It was fun to watch."
Minnesota wide receiver Adam Thielen turned in his fifth straight 100-yard game last Sunday, but there was no bigger contribution to the win at Philadelphia than his recovery of Jake Elliott's onside kick for the Eagles with a little more than a minute left in the game and the Vikings leading by two points.
Elliott managed to put a plenty of backspin on the ball that made it skip off Thielen's chest as he dropped to his knees like a catcher in baseball to keep it in front of him before diving forward to smother it just in time as several Eagles converged.
"It was nasty," Thielen said. "It was the best onside kick I've ever seen."
For a player who leads the NFL in receptions, the hands team on the kickoff return unit falls in the category of dirty work. But it's an honor to be picked for it nonetheless.
"It's definitely not my favorite play in the world because there's a lot of pressure, but at the same time once the ball's kicked, you're not thinking about pressure," Thielen said, adding: "The coaches, they want to put the best people out there for that situation, and you kind of hope your name is called for that. You want to be in those situations. You want to help this team win games, and if you're out there for a hands play, most of the time it's to help secure a win."
One bright spot in the Miami Dolphins' dismal loss last week at Cincinnati was the play of young linebackers Raekwon McMillan and Jerome Baker, both from Ohio State.
"I was giving them a hard time, saying we've got to play in Ohio every week," Miami coach Adam Gase says.
Baker, a rookie, had his first two career sacks for a unit that held the Bengals' potent offense to one touchdown. McMillan, who missed his entire rookie season last year with a knee injury, had six tackles and graded well at middle linebacker.
Credit their Buckeyes background, Baker says.
"It's definitely not to be overlooked," he explains.
AP Pro Football Writers Dave Campbell, Teresa M. Walker and Barry Wilner, and Sports Writers Steven Wine, Joe Kay and Joe Reedy contributed.
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The Accumulation/Distribution is a momentum indicator that associates changes in price and volume. The indicator is based on the premise that the more volume that accompanies a price move, the more significant the price move.
The Accumulation/Distribution is really a variation of the more popular On Balance Volume indicator. Both of these indicators attempt to confirm changes in prices by comparing the volume associated with prices.
When the Accumulation/Distribution moves up, it shows that the security is being accumulated, as most of the volume is associated with upward price movement. When the indicator moves down, it shows that the security is being distributed, as most of the volume is associated with downward price movement.
Divergences between the Accumulation/Distribution and the security's price imply a change is imminent. When a divergence does occur, prices usually change to confirm the Accumulation/Distribution. For example, if the indicator is moving up and the security's price is going down, prices will probably reverse.
Example: The following chart shows Battle Mountain Gold and its Accumulation/Distribution.
Battle Mountain's price diverged as it reached new highs in late July while the indicator was falling. Prices then corrected to confirm the indicator's trend.
A portion of each day's volume is added or subtracted from a cumulative total. The nearer the closing price is to the high for the day, the more volume added to the cumulative total. The nearer the closing price is to the low for the day, the more volume subtracted from the cumulative total. If the close is exactly between the high and low prices, nothing is added to the cumulative total.
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This week, CNN's Jake Tapper gives the full account of an incident Ben Carson has described as an example of "extreme political bias" on college campuses.
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson says he would use the Department of Education to monitor "extreme political bias" on college campuses, but the example he has cited isn't as clear-cut as Carson suggests.
Mike Huckabee made a number of twisted claims about President Obama's recent reference to the Crusades and the Inquisition at the National Prayer Breakfast.
Rep. Louie Gohmert went on Fox News and accused President Obama of a pattern of discrimination against Christians, particularly in the military, but many of his examples were false, distorted or incomplete.


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Q: Can you create struct tags in a separate file? This is not a duplicate of How can I override json tags in a Go struct? - that asks an entirely different question!
Given this XML struct:
type Foo struct {
    Bar         string `xml:"bar"`
}

I'd like to define xml:"bar" in a config' file, elsewhere. Something like:
import (
    "github.com/foo/app/config"
)

type Foo struct {
    Bar         string config.Bar
}

Where github.com/foo/app/config contains the following:
package config

const (
    Bar = `xml:"bar"`
)

That doesn't work, though - any help to achieve something similar would be greatly appreciated.

A:
Can you create struct tags in a separate config file?

No.
You even cannot change them during runtime.


Imagine that you are in a leadership position within a persecuted congregation. Then imagine that you have no access to the training and support you need to help your flock stand firm under pressure. This difficult situation is faced by many impoverished church leaders in India.
But when one Indian church was attacked in 2012, its leaders were able to stand strong in their faith despite the trauma they had experienced. They had just received Barnabas-funded Biblical training on "standing firm in the midst of persecution". Their new understanding meant that the congregation was blessed greatly by their steadfast leadership.
When church leaders are properly supported, persecuted congregations can go from strength to strength despite the pressure they face. For example, a group of pastors in Kyrgyzstan are now able to teach their congregations about what the Bible says on the place of suffering in the Christian life, thanks to the new understanding they gained at a Barnabas funded conference. Barnabas supports leadership training at various levels for church leaders and Christian workers to equip them to support the suffering Christians they serve.