When it comes to the most popular hairstyles for men, the fade cuts are probably the first ones that come to mind. Not so long ago, we focused on the fade cuts are probably the first ones that come to mind. Not so long ago, we focused on the many types of men's fade haircuts insisting on the fact that they represent the very foundation and starting point for a myriad of hairdos and hairstyles. Among them, the taper fade haircut is the most appraised one: it is versatile and allows the creation of contemporary and stylish looking hairstyles, like Mohawks, side-parted dos, comb over dos, fohawks and more. And since our readers requested we take a closer look at taper haircut variations, today we will do just that. Let's see some important information regarding taper haircut styles, the hottest trends in the hairdressing business and gorgeous looking men sporting a taper haircut in their everyday life.
The Taper Haircut vs. The Fade Haircut: What Are the Differences and How Do They Blend In?
Traditionally, a taper haircut shows a distinctive hairline, it is done with a set of clippers, scissors and a taper level. Moreover, such hairstyle favors longer hair.
A fade haircut, just as we have discussed before, is a much shorter hairstyle, originating in the neat, clean and formal military style of hairdressing, needing little to no maintenance. The main feature of a fade haircut is that it doesn't showcase a distinctive hairline, but instead, it makes the hair fade to the skin.
The taper fade, or the combination of these two seemingly different hairstyles, is probably the best one to get if you want to look modern, stylish and perfectly attuned to our contemporary times. Being flexible to almost any type of styling, this "old school meets new school" type of haircut is getting more and more popular and experienced barbers are playing with many types of designs and many different creative ideas.
Styling should be done with a bit of pomade to keep everything in place and add a bit of shine to the longer top side.
This haircut looks great on people with dark hair, but also on guys with slightly curly hair.
Styling is easily achieved with a high-quality shampoo and styling gel for firmness and shine.
However, it matches all skin tones and types of hair (straight or curly, black or blonde) provided your barber is skilled enough to achieve such an intricate hairdo.
If you have curly hair, a good shampoo is probably the only styling product you will need; straight hair men are recommended to use pomade or gel.
You should regularly trim the bottom of your hair so it can always remain below the level of the top hair.
You can side part this hairdo and even achieve a Lumberjack taper fade haircut – you just have to ask your barber to give you exactly what you want.
This taper fade is usually worn with a beard – but the head and the beard each features a different type of fade and they don't sport the same matching or complementary fades.
It goes great with straight hair or even better, with curly hair. You can style the top in a quiff, a Mohawk, a fohawk and some wild lumberjack manners. This cut also allows some art to be achieved.
These are some of the basic taper haircut variations representing the building blocks of a lot more taper fade hairstyles. Always remember to read and watch at least one tutorial and go to your hairdresser armed with photos and specific requirements. Keep in mind that the taper haircut allows you to keep short, medium and even long hair. Learn how to achieve a perfect style to match your facial features, temper, lifestyle and personality. It will enhance your male charm and your chic contemporary look. You can even go so far to combine a mid fade with a nappy taper, to play with layered designs or classic cuts. Show your barber the best pics you can get your hands on and try some of the hottest 2016 taper haircut variations available!


that their population is growing.
and they have to travel around the city.
and has to accommodate these additional people.
because roads are already saturated.
through pollution and noise, and more accidents.
in the suburban rail, in trams, and in higher capacity bus lines.
in order to improve the city life and the quality of life for the citizens.
on top of a public transport system.
but they can't be the only solution. They can't be alone.
which is really the main solution to the challenge of the city in mobility.
coming into the field of mobility.
that are important to be integrated.
and work together with them as partners.
make a good job or not.
have to be made public.
and be able to realize them well.
we need, of course, everybody to work together towards that goal.
meaning at the end, also for the quality of life in the city.
to be developed and to be financed and to be successful in the future.
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January 23, 2019 The National Highlands
THE Nipa-Kutubu district development authority (DDA) launched a reconstruction phase and people have given building materials to rebuild after the Feb 26 earthquake.
MP Jeffrey Komal said the DDA purchased building materials such as roofing iron, nails and cement using a K2 million funding. It also purchased two containers of food.
"DDA bought two Lucas saw mills which will be used to saw timber and will also provide roofing iron and nails," he said.
"The district was badly hit by the earthquake and proper assessments were completed and the food and building materials will be given to those badly affected."
Komal said the people in the Kutubu and Bosave local-level government areas were badly affected and priority would be given to them as they were still living in makeshift accommodation.
Komal said people were traumatised and living in fear.
"Some people lost their lives, our prayers are with their families and DDA will do its best to make sure their homes are rebuilt and food supplies are distributed to them," Komal said.
He said the district authority would also improve the health facilities to improve health services delivery as the district would give priority to people's health.
Southern Highlands Governor William Powi said disaster-related funding from the National Emergency and Disaster Centre was paid directly to the five district development authorities and he had no knowledge of it.
He said the MPs and their DDA board members would know how much funding they received and the provincial government acted as an overseer involved in coordination work and made visitation to the affected areas.
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By day 15, George had a body fat measurement of 14 per cent, far more than the 9 per cent he started out with - that's an increase of 50 per cent.
EVER wondered the effects drinking Coke has on your body? George Prior, from LA, wondered the same thing so he decided to drink 10 cans a day for one month to see what would happen to his body - and the results aren't pretty.
Before the experiment, the 50-year-old was fit and followed a strict Paleo diet focusing on lean meats and vegetables.
For 30 days he documented his journey on his website 10 Cokes a Day and you won't believe the results.
Starting his journey, George said: "I am going to do a little experiment over the next 30 days where I make one small change to my diet and see how it affects my health.
"I have just got back from the doctors where I had a complete physical, I am 50 years old, I am in good health.
"I will also as I go along keep records of how my weight changes, I have a blood pressure monitor so I can check my blood pressure as we go and I have a blood glucose monitor so I will be able to see how my blood sugar levels are affected by the change in my diet.
"What is the one little change? I am going to start drinking 10 cokes a day.
"That is only 1400 more calories, but we are going to see how the increased sugar and increased insulin load affects my health."
By day nine he was eight pounds heavier than when he started - gaining an average of one pound a day.
He said: "I don't feel good, I am tired of drinking coke.
"It's the feeling full all the time and not being hungry for other foods."
By day 15, George had a body fat measurement of 14 per cent, far more than the 9 per cent he started out with.
That's a 50 per cent increase in just over two week.
He was unable to button the top of his jeans by day 21 and had a headache all day.
He said: "I am definitely feeling heavier, I don't feel good."
Twenty-eight days in he had gained 21 pounds.
Overall, George gained 23 pounds and increased his body fat by 65 per cent.
He said at the end of his video: "I'm urging people to examine the amount of sugar in their diets. People need to be aware of the real and powerful damaging effects of sugar on their health.
"Kids shouldn't drink Cokes. But then kids shouldn't drink juices, either, and that's going to be a very hard sell to parents who believe that juice is 'natural' or even 'organic'.
"It's sugar, and not only do kids not need it, it's bad for them."


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Texas-based Volcon launches 80 MPH 'Stag' electric UTV with 100+ miles of range
Micah Toll | Jul 1 2022 - 10:00 am PT
The Round Rock, Texas-based electric powersports company Volcon may be a relative newcomer to the industry, but the American manufacturer has already made a splash with its popular Grunt off-road electric motorcycle. Now the company is following up with twice the wheels and well over twice the power in the new all-electric Volcon Stag UTV.
The Stag was first teased nearly two years during the company's launch, but development of the Grunt electric motorcycle took most of Volcon's manpower. After the Grunt began shipping last year, Volcon confirmed that the Stag would enter production in 2022. Now it looks like the company is close to upholding its promise, with deliveries of the new Stag expected in summer of 2023.
Volcon describes the Stag as offering a UTV experience unlike anything drivers could get in a gas-powered vehicle.
The four-seater Stag offers a combination of extreme power and low noise, leveraging the biggest advantages of electric vehicles and powertrains.
Peak power is measured at 107 kW (143 hp) with a peak torque of 265 lb-ft (360 Nm). It's not just about the raw numbers though, but also the power delivery. As the company explained, "the electric motor provides a flat torque curve delivering instant power the moment you touch the pedal, resulting in unparalleled off-road acceleration."
A top speed of 80 mph (130 km/h) is achievable – when you can find a trail straight enough.
That performance can be dialed in with various modes, including ECO mode to squeeze out over 100 miles (160 km) of range from the 42 kWh battery pack, or Sport mode for "more aggressive throttle response for better acceleration."
Towing mode limits the UTV's top speed and boost torque progressively. Overboost mode, offered as an accessory, unleashes the peak 140+ hp for the most extreme off-road performance.
The Stag features an on-demand 4WD mode that engages the front axle whenever the rear wheels lose traction. It also intelligently balances power distribution between wheels to assure more stable cornering.
Off-road driving at slower speeds can be improved using the Crawl mode, which allows the Stag to move slowing without any throttle, letting the drive control the speed with just the brakes.
The Volcon Stag isn't just a powerful UTV, but also a smart vehicle. As the company explained, "Volcon is here to redefine the off-road experience, inside and out. The Stag's driver-centric cockpit is developed with two innovative displays that deliver unparalleled HMI – Human Machine Integration – with full control and visibility. Additionally, seat ergonomics and tilt-adjustable steering wheel allow for an ideal driving position."
That central display features a route planner, off-road gauges, connectivity, camera views and info about the vehicle status visible to both the driver and passenger.
Speaking of the camera views, the Stag also comes with two built-in cameras for content capture, with additional options available. On-board computing hardware processes the video captured by the on-board cameras. Using the Volcon app and a sim card, drivers can share their ride feed in real time with friends or family.
While the Stag is designed to accomodate up to four people and cargo at the same time, the rear seats can also be folded down for extra storage space of up to 26.7 cubic feet (756 liters). The Stag features a payload of 1,550 lb (703 kg) and a max towing capacity of 2,000 lb (907 kg) in Tow Mode.
The Volcon Stag features an on-board 7.2 kW AC charger that should allow a Level 2 recharge in around six hours.
Volcon says that the cost of ownership of the Stag is much lower than a gas-powered UTV. As the company explained, "The closed motor system means no oil changes, no filter changes, no belt changes, and no transmission fluid to worry about. Brakes will also last longer as a result of the regenerative braking system taking some of the pressure off of the braking system and turning that into power for the vehicle."
So how much is something like this going to cost? Future owners can get their foot in the door for relatively cheap by putting down a $100 reservation – that will hold their place in line ahead of the expected summer 2023 deliveries, but the final price of $39,999 will still significantly lighten a wallet if reservation holders want to actually put a Stag in their own shed.
For those that are ready to fork over the cash, Volcon is quickly expanding its dealership network and the Stag will be available for pickup next year at the closest dealership to reservation holders.
Micah Toll @MicahToll
Micah Toll is a personal electric vehicle enthusiast, battery nerd, and author of the Amazon #1 bestselling books DIY Lithium Batteries, DIY Solar Power, The Ultimate DIY Ebike Guide and The Electric Bike Manifesto.
The e-bikes that make up Micah's current daily drivers are the $999 Lectric XP 2.0, the $1,095 Ride1Up Roadster V2, the $1,199 Rad Power Bikes RadMission, and the $3,299 Priority Current. But it's a pretty evolving list these days.
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Music journalist Zoe Thomson attended Cat Empire's gig at Barcelona's premier music venue Razzmatazz last Thursday November 22nd the first of two performances, the second happens on Sunday 25th November. The Australian band founded in 1999 have made fans around the world with their fusion of jazz, funk, ska and rock. This is Zoe's review.
I first heard The Cat Empire on my year abroad in southern Germany. I was sitting in a little neighbourhood pub in early spring. I just about had had enough cold, when The Cat Empire came on the speakers – suddenly, I was spirited back to Barcelona, to her warm and lively summer nights.
The band's upbeat, light-hearted sound makes them a big favourite everywhere they go, and it's easy to see why: not only are all the members immensely talented, artfully combining various musical styles, but the music itself seems to be made with the sole purpose of putting a smile on your face. Many bands are capable of moving their loving and faithful audiences, but this goes beyond that: it is a contagiously joyful attitude that cannot escape even a first-time listener. Bras being thrown on stage, mosh pits and crowd-surfing are by no means exclusive to The Cat Empire, but the rapport between band and audience uncovers an element of reverence, as if the band were mythic heroes, and Felix, the God of Happiness.
It appears that Barcelona is blessed with the band's special favour: not only do we get two encores at the end of the show and more songs than anywhere else, but we also get a second gig on Sunday. Frontman Felix Riebl addresses meaningful words to the crowd, suggesting that this is one of the band's favourite places to play: "We come all the way from Australia, and when we come here we feel like we're at home, because of you." Well, The Cat Empire, the feeling is mutual. We're much obliged.


This has been one of the best gites that I have stayed in and certainly the most comprehensive in terms of support for pilgrims. Sheets on the beds, towels, washing and drying of clothes, an excellent meal last evening. For the foodies among you, here is the menu: Carrot soup, a cold pie of veal, ham, foie gras and caviar, salad, country sausages roasted with whole figs, bread and red wine as needed, caramel custard. And that is included in the 32 Euros for an overnight stay.
It's a little bittersweet leaving the gite this morning. Most of the people here are going on to Moissac and from there a number of them are leaving the chemin to go back to work. I am going only as far as La Baysse, about 18 kilometres and about 8 kilometres short of Moissac, so I will likely not see them again. Even those who are continuing on will be a full day ahead of me, so I may or may not see them again. Many kisses and hugs and lots of "bon courage". Out I go at 8 AM into the partly cloudy weather. It's cool, there is a light breeze, threats of thunderstorms, perfect for walking. Out of Lauzerte, with great smiles and "bon chemin" from Michel and Bernadette, the genial and warm hosts at the gite Les Figuiers.
The chemin is on road for about a kilometre, then off onto a path which, surprise, turns sharply upwards into a woods. It is a long hard climb again and I stop several times to catch my breath. As I approach the top I can see that there is a tiny clearing and on the right hand side a low backless bench. I can really use a short rest, so I decide to sit down on the bench. It looks too good to be true … and like the witch's cottage in Hansel and Gretel, it IS too good to be true.
It is very low and as I sit, I do not lean forward enough to compensate for the size and weight of the pack. I know just before I touch the bench that I won't be here long. It is one of those life's experiences best experienced without an audience.
In extreme slow motion I tip backwards flailing my arms and poles in a desperate and unsuccessful effort to avoid the inevitable. Down I go on my back on my backpack … in the mud. Then, like a turtle, I discover that I cannot turn over or get up. Suddenly I have a lot more respect for overturned turtles. I have to unclip the two clips that hold my backpack on, wriggle out of the harness and turn over, now with both knees on the mud, to get up. Happily, no-one comes up the trail to see any of this, so I am able to get my gear back on and get out of there, leaving the trap fully set for the next unsuspecting pilgrim.
Yesterday I spoke for a while with Mike, the Aussie whom I met in Conques. At that time, he had told me that his first walk to Santiago was quite spiritual for him, but the last two have had no religious or spiritual overtones at all. I asked him yesterday whether anything had changed since then. He told me no, that this walk was for him a holiday but that the spiritual part was not there at all. He was looking for it, it just was not there for him.
Today as I walked I thought about this. Was there a religious or spiritual element in this journey for me? Or was I just having a holiday (although it doesn't feel like one)? And as I walked on a quiet country road, alone with the morning and the birds and the wind, the answer came to me in a flash. How could I have been so blind, since the spirituality is all around me? It is in my fellow pilgrims, as well as in the people working in the gites, by conviction and often as volunteers and, by extension, also in me. Their spirit of caring, warmth, concern, yes even love, has been all around me since I started the walk.
Imagine, if you will, a world of people who are friendly with each other, even strangers, ask about your well-being … and are genuinely interested in the answer, share without being asked when a need is evident, a world where help is offered freely whenever help is needed.
This is the world of the chemin and the world of the camino. The spirit of the people on it makes the chemin. Are they touched by the spirit of God? Some think so. I don't know, so I can't say that they are or that they are not. I think that this is what we can be when we reach for our enormous personal potential for good.
It doesn't seem to me that we need to call on another power to be able to treat one another with respect and value each other as individuals on the same journey, this journey of life that we are all making together. The chemin that I am on at this moment is just a microcosm of what the world could be like, if people would give up their lust for power, for advantage over one another. I like this world of caring and respect and love a lot more than that other one of fighting and clawing each other.
The rest of the morning is anti-climax. It's a mix of road and path, the path always muddy. One section is an uphill piece, between two farmer's fields and the mud is so slippery that it is one step forward, half a step slide backward, and so on. It is not very high but it is very exhausting, especially since there is nothing to hang on to and the probability of falling is very high. I should worry – I am already pretty muddy from what will be forever known as the "Lauzerte bench incident". In the event I do not fall and I do reach the top, where I stop for five minutes to recover.
At the 14 kilometre mark there is a town with a restaurant which is nicely placed to catch the pilgrim traffic – and there they are, 5 or 6 people from this morning's breakfast. I stop, have a beer and a couple of bananas, share a bit of dried sausage from one of my friends and finally head out for the last four kilometres for me today. For whatever reason the body does not want to cooperate, so I walk very slowly and it takes me an hour to walk the distance, all on road. I spot the sign and turn in to this gite. La Baysse, once again, turns out to be a single home, not a village.
I am the only pilgrim here at the moment here, although two Italian guys come in later. I sleep for 90 minutes and feel much better. I wash out my clothes, hang them out to dry – it promptly rains, and discover to my delight that the gite has WiFi so I can talk to Carroll using Skype. The magic of technology.
I acknowledge that there is an argument that we should eschew technology while we are on the chemin, to allow us to be alone with our thoughts. But last evening I was able to talk to and see my two grandchildren in Canada. I have no problem being alone with my thoughts … and I don't think that I have to be here to do this.
The chemin is just a place and time where it is easier to slow down, feel your own heartbeat, sense the heartbeat of others and recognise that in so many fundamental ways we are the same. I think that we can do this no matter where we are. We just have to make the effort.
I use technology today to communicate with one of the Italians, with whom I have no common language. But on my iPad I have an app called iTranslate that allows me to communicate in English, he in Italian. It's not perfect but allows us to communicate … and that is the first step in understanding. I can't figure out he can be here without any French, but he is with another Italian whom he met on the camino in Spain four years ago.
And at dinner, with our hosts, there is my friend from Vichy. Eating with our hosts is another first. All six of us sit down and eat together. We eat all food produced locally, pea soup, pork from within five kilometres, strawberries produced in a nearby town. The hosts, M. and Mme. Heinrich are foster parents to troubled children. It takes a very special kind of person to take on the catastrophes that can happen when parents are not able for whatever reason to bring up a child.
At 9:30 we finish an animated conversation and head off to bed. It's cold, so there will be an extra cover on the bed tonight.


30 July 2018 – DARAG, a leading legacy acquirer owned by Keyhaven Capital Partners, announces an equity funding of up to €260 million to support growth plans for the business. Funding is provided by Aleph Capital and Crestview Partners.
Aleph and Crestview's capital commitment follows a period of significant strategic development for DARAG, which has seen it grow substantially in the rapidly expanding European insurance run-off market and advance its plans to develop an effective platform for the build-out of its US operations. It has also enhanced its management team with the appointment of Stuart Davies as chairman in 2017 and Tom Booth as chief executive officer on the 23rd July 2018.
Completion is subject to regulatory approvals, anticipated to be towards the end of 2018.
DARAG Group was advised by Macquarie Capital (Europe) on the transaction.
Aleph Capital Partners LLP is an independent investment firm based in London focussing on capital investments in European-based companies. Aleph works closely with management teams, shareholders and other stakeholders to create adaptable capital solutions aimed at delivering value growth over a period of years. Its approach to capital commitment and governance is tailored to the specific situation of each company it invests in and its capital commitment can range between €100 million and €400 million. Aleph was founded in 2013 by Hugues Lepic, formerly Head of the Merchant Banking Division and Head of the Principal Investment Area (PIA) of Goldman Sachs in EMEA (www.aleph.com).
Founded in 2004, Crestview Partners is a value-oriented private equity firm focused on the middle market. The firm is based in New York and manages funds with over $8 billion of aggregate capital commitments. The firm is led by a group of partners who have complementary experience and distinguished backgrounds in private equity, finance, operations and management. Crestview's senior investment professionals primarily focus on sourcing and managing investments in each of the specialty areas of the firm: financial services, media, energy, and industrials (www.crestview.com).
Keyhaven Capital Partners is an independent London-based private equity investment firm focusing on European businesses with enterprise values typically less than €100 million. The firm has developed a unique investment strategy, accessing private small cap companies with best in class local partners from around Europe (www.keyhavencapital.com).


Currently, the biggest and the best Work In Progress in India is the development of an entrepreneurial ecosystem. Apart from the government and the entrepreneurs themselves, there are a few other contributors who are giving their best to make India a land of innovation and entrepreneurship. Being a direct recipient of the efforts made, I am taking this opportunity to thank the organizations which arrange frequent and huge startup expos.
In the span of 4 months (February 2016 to June 2016,), team Morphedo has participated in 4 expos, and in this article, I will be talking about the different kind of exposures that a startup gets from exhibiting at different kinds of expos.
What do you see in an Expo?
In any startup exhibition, you get to witness promoters of young business ventures increasing the reach of their idea, their brand, and the backbone technology behind their venture. The exhibiting startups have an allotted space called booth/stall. It's only their passion that gives the entrepreneurs all the energy to stand throughout the day, keep interacting with people to make them aware about their offerings.
When is the right time for any startup to start participating in expos?
Even if you are a venture, which has not yet launched their core product but are ready with the prototype, I would say that these expos would help you in crossing the first level of product validation. The stall allotted to you is a platform to pitch your product to everyone you can attract to your stall by your differentiating strategies. You get to answer a lot of queries related to your venture, at the same time you can record a lot of observations from the response of the crowd which can be later worked upon to build a better product.
Whom does a startup meet at an expo?
Expos leaves you with a lot of leads. It provides you an opportunity to meet potential customers, partners, as well as investors. Some of them also arrange for an investor zone.
What is the motive of the organizers behind arranging the expos?
If you observe these events closely, you will realize that apart from the intention of business, these expos are initiated and organized by people who are passionate about helping budding entrepreneurs find their way to success. These teams are among one of the enablers of the entrepreneurial ecosystems.
SURGE, 2016 (Expo specific to emerging technologies): Web Summit which is called as the best technology conference on the planet, named its first conference in India as SURGE. This is the same Web summit where Uber raised $37 million for Series B. SURGE 2016, was organized on 23rd and 24th February in Bengaluru, and the gathering had about 5,000 attendees including over 400 startups, 250 investors, 200 media, and other influencers from more than 70 countries. All the attendees stayed connected to each other by an amazing mobile application that was specifically designed for the event. Startups across the globe were evaluated and after a trivial selection process approximately 400 startups were selected, 200 startups exhibited on each day. Startups from all the emerging technologies could be seen there. SURGE gave us so many leads for business partners, B2B customers and gave us a lot of confidence for investor interaction.
This one-day expo was organized at Epicentre, Gurgaon on 23rd April 2016 and was another amazing experience for team Morphedo. Our business was exposed to a huge crowd. The response of people towards our business gave us so much strength that we didn't get tired even after standing and talking the whole day. When you are pitching your idea to so many people you are crossing the steps and moving ahead in the process of validating your business. The expo helped us generate relevant connections and partnership. The exhibition had a superb arrangement for investor interaction. An investor zone where 200 startups were exposed to 30 investors.
The two-day event held on 29th and 30th April' 2016, at Hyatt Regency, Gurgaon was a lifetime experience for any new born company exhibiting there. The specialty of this expo was its STARTUP KICKOFF platform where few of the selected startups got the opportunity to pitch their business plans to investors. It was really very well organized. The startups were also exposed to speakers, who were founders of the well-known brands from the Indian startup world and there was a lot to be taken away from their experience.
This expo was organized by Entraine Business Services and it brought together national as well as international industry experts. The three-day expo helped us closely study the 3D Printing ecosystem in India. This expo was much needed for Morphedo at the time when we are planning for the beta launch of a 3D Printing marketplace. We got a very good response from the makers (3D Printer owners) and they are all excited to come on board. We also met people who are planning to venture into this industry. Morphedo aims to democratize manufacturing and make it a local phenomenon. With the launch of our marketplace, we will become the enablers of 3D Printing ecosystem in India. Hence, everyone present at the expo was our client in some or the other way.
We can definitely say that the exhibitions have proved to be a catalyst in our journey and with each expo Morphedo becomes a little more prepared to handle the journey ahead.


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Caribbean pays tribute to Sir Alister McIntyre
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — The Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Sir Hilary Beckles, has paid tribute to Sir Alister McIntyre, who died Saturday at the age of 87.
"Shocking is the news that our Sir Alister has passed. Larger than life in his long sojourn, it is difficult to embrace the finality of this existential fragility. The people of the Caribbean, and their University of the West Indies — which he served as Vice-Chancellor— will not be impoverished by his transition because the phenomenal richness of his contributions to their growth and transformation will continue to yield development dividends deep into the future," Sir Hilary said in a condolence message.
"The love and respect we carry in our bosom for him will bloom a thousand blossoms. To him I say, "Farewell brother, mentor, friend, and leader. On behalf of your cherished UWI and the regional academy you guided and grew, go well into that bright light," he added.
The Grenadian born, Sir Alister served as Vice Chancellor emeritus of the UWI. An economist by training, he graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science with first class honours.
In his early career he was a lecturer in economics at the St Augustine campus of the UWI in Trinidad and Tobago, and at the Mona Campus in Jamaica, which has a building bearing his name.
He served as Vice Chancellor of UWI from 1988 to 1998 and in 1974 he was appointed Secretary-General of the 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
He also served as a Director at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and later in the office of the Secretary-General of the United Nations. After his retirement from the UWI in 1998, he was appointed Chief Technical Advisor at the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery, playing an important role during crucial negotiations at the World Trade Organization (WTO) and in other trade negotiating fora.
Sir Shridath Ramphal, the former secretary general of the Commonwealth and a former Chancellor of the UWI, said that "a precious light has gone out in our Caribbean world.
"He had devoted his life to Caribbean unity and was already, as he went, worrying over the darkening of the regional scene that threatens. The Region's debt to Alister is payable only in a new enlightenment that makes Caribbean oneness the reality for which he lived," said Sir Shridath, the former chairman of the West Indian Commission of which Sir Alister was a member.
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley said she was "deeply saddened" at the death of Sir Alister describing him as "a respected economist, educator, administrator and true champion of regional integration.
"This son of Grenada and son of the Caribbean will forever be remembered fondly as one of the Titans of the post Independence Caribbean to whom we owe much.
"The region and the wider hemisphere benefited immensely from the depth of thought and analysis that this former economics lecturer, Director of the Institute of Social and Economic Studies of the UWI (since renamed in honour of Sir Arthur Lewis), Secretary General of CARICOM, Deputy Secretary General of UNCTAD, and Assistant Secretary General in the Office of the Director General for International Economic Cooperation at the United Nations brought to the affairs of the people of the Caribbean and the world," she added.
Jamaica opposition Leader, Dr Peter Phillips said for over 50 years "Alister McIntyre's name has been synonymous with the quest for Caribbean development. He was a giant of Caribbean scholarship and a champion of the regional movement."
He said the Grenadian was "the quintessential Caribbean man who believed in the potential of the people of the region and was committed to their advancement through education, integration and economic independence.
"His outstanding contribution in the role of Secretary General of CARICOM and in the various positions he held in a number of United Nations agencies cannot be overstated. Sir Alister will truly be missed," he added.
Sir Alister, who received the Order of the Caribbean Community, the Order of Merit from Jamaica, Guyana's Cacique Crown of Honour and the Chancellor's 50th Anniversary Award, among many awards, is survived by his wife, Marjorie, children Arnold, Andrew, Helga and Nicholas.
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As we've already reported, despite a drop of 3 million viewers in the television ratings, American Idol fans generated more than 178 million text messages during the 8th season of the show. That total was a record for Idol and was more than double the 78 million messages that were sent last year. Messages included voting for contestants, answering trivia questions and contestant chats. AT&T said that the number of subscribers playing a weekly Idol trivia contest doubled over last year's total. This year, there is a question about the controversial actions of some AT&T employees working in the home state of newly crowned champion Kris Allen.
AT&T representatives attended Mr. Allen's home town viewing parties and reports say that the reps offered free texting services to Mr. Allen's fans and gave out instructions on how to send multiple text messages at the same time. The rules of the show prohibit "power voting" using "technical enhancements". The carrier has said that the instructions on how to send blocks of text messages at one time came not from the company as a corporate service, but was the work of a "few local AT&T employees" in Arkansas. The company continued to say that these employees were caught up in the enthusiasm of trying to get a home town contestant to be named champion and as a result, they brought a small number of demo phones to parties which were offered to people to send texts selecting Kris Allen over Adam Lambert in the finals. The company said that they will make sure that their employees understand that such behavior is not to be repeated on American Idol or any other voting-type show. AT&T said that it "celebrates the competition, not individual contestants."
For it's part, Fox says it has a third party monitoring process that ensures the integrity of the voting. As such, the network claims that the actions of the rogue AT&T employees had no bearing on the outcome of the show and that the final results stand.
verizon voters should be allowed to vote for ai! that's discrimination!
There's always exclusive rights. I've seen the same where only VZW cust's can vote. But really, who the hell cares?
where have you seen where only vzw customers can vote? especially with such a successful show as ai?
In my opinion those employees would terminated for the actions. Cheating is cheating, even if it does not affect the total outcome. That and they cheated At&t out of how ever many messages they actually send. If it was My VZW employees who did that they would be fired on the spot!!!


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Schalke in transfer negotiations for USMNT, Hertha DF Brooks
U.S. national team defender John Brooks is playing some of the best soccer of his young career, which has the 22-year-old center back drawing interest from clubs much bigger and much more perennially dominant than his current employers, Hertha Berlin.
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Though Hertha are currently third in the Bundesliga, four points clear of fourth in their bid for automatic qualification into next season's UEFA Champions League, the money in Germany's top flight still resides in the accounts of Champions League regulars like Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund and Schalke.
It's the last of those three who have reportedly recently agreed a deal to send defender Joel Matip to Premier League side Liverpool and view the 6-foot-4 German-born giant as a possible replacement. In a recent interview, Schalke chairman Clemens Tonnies mentioned Brooks, as well as Tottenham Hotspur summer signing Kevin Wimmer, as someone for whom he is in "intensive discussions."
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Hertha have engaged in discussions with Brooks' representatives over a new contract to extend his stay in the German capital. His current contract expires at the end of the 2016-17 season. The January transfer window closes in Germany on Feb. 1, just as in the Premier League.
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In the recently published Stanford Review article "The Case for a Western Civilization Requirement at Stanford," the authors argue for the importance of studying Western Civilization to address an "education in crisis." After all, "our alumni [are] innovating in Silicon Valley, making policy in Washington and investing on Wall Street." Without the deep knowledge provided by a two-quarter Western Civilization requirement (which civilizations are even Western?) in their freshman year of college, how would such presumably accomplished alumni have "the historical knowledge necessary to grasp their actions' implications and responsibly shape the future"? Not only does their proposal do almost nothing to fix a deep-seated imbalance in modern collegiate education, but it also perpetuates a fundamentally Eurocentric approach in American education's treatment of the humanities.
It is important to recognize the educational background of the vast majority of Stanford undergraduates from the American educational system. For these students, as well as many internationals, their humanities education has been almost exclusively focused on Western societies. After elementary and middle school years filled with Western history and literature, American high schoolers typically take U.S. history, government/economics and either European history or world history. The establishment of African, Central or South American and Asian civilizations are thus functionally excluded from most high school curricula. Indeed, civilizations from these areas only appear when they interact with Western civilizations, and their histories are framed either through the scope of this interaction or through very ancient times. How many Central or South American civilizations were discussed other than the Incas, Mayans and Aztecs? How many world history curricula extensively discuss Africa apart from the Middle Passage? Unfortunately, "history written by the victors" characterizes contemporary primary historical education far too well.
Of course, the victors write history for a reason: It is undeniable that Western thought has substantially impacted society, particularly through the technological advances and political freedoms the authors identify. Simultaneously, though, it has contributed to rampant racism, sexism and global economic inequality. The authors acknowledge this obvious imperfection by stating that their proposed course "will not gloss over racial oppression and colonization." In particular, The Review's authors argue that understanding "the West's history of colonization and racial oppression is also essential to understanding why the events at Yale and Mizzou arose in the first place," and that on-campus discussions of these issues must occur "brimming with historical references, discussions of centuries-old trends and new context." This clearly begs the question: Which "historical references," "centuries-old trends" and "new context" must be developed to address such brutal excesses of Western society? For The Review, the only relevant sources come from Western society itself.
On the other hand, perhaps the best starting points lie in the traditions that are largely ignored for the first 15 years of most Stanford students' educations. Of course, Western civilization has much to contribute as well. However, deliberate omission of non-Western thought arbitrarily and detrimentally ignores many substantial contributions in confronting the root of many societal problems. The authors notably claim that "Western values of free speech, rationalism and individual liberty fueled the intellectual destruction of colonialism in Western and other societies." This grossly unsubstantiated claim blatantly insults, among others, the post-colonial, feminist, anti-racist and Marxist movements that challenge many of the worst elements of Western thought. Though discussing the "Western innovation" called "reason," these movements did not rely on Western stalwarts like Locke, Hume and Plato. For instance, feminist authors working in critical international relations have questioned the epistemological basis of claims to rationality and objectivity: The rational cannot be separated from the cultural filters that color decision-making. Moreover, strands of critical race theory disavow "Western institutions" altogether, arguing that the "tools of the Western tradition" inevitably reify systemic inequalities that found these superstructures. For The Review's authors, these critiques do not merit the attention of college students. They would rather that, like "Du Bois, Douglass and Beauvoir," critique "use logic and free speech to assail society's racist elements." But contrary to their beliefs, such basic tenets of argumentation are far from exclusive to Western thought.
We certainly agree that the humanities should play a larger role in a Stanford education. However, a two-quarter Western Civilization requirement will only promote an education that is fundamentally anti-emancipatory in nature. Restricting critique to conventional Western thinking will prevent alternative, potentially revolutionary modes of thought from emerging within university spaces. After all, what if the problem lies within "Western institutions" themselves? Rather than calls for reformism, perhaps we must re-conceptualize the value systems that underlie liberal education. These alternative approaches will only be ignored by implementing the unidimensional humanities education of the Western Civilization curriculum.
Contact Zach Rosenthal at zachary9 'at' stanford.edu and Debnil Sur at debnil 'at' stanford.edu.


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The Discovery of Evolution explains what the theory of evolution is all about by providing a historical narrative of discovery. Some of the major puzzles that confront anyone studying living things are discussed and it details how these were solved from an evolutionary perspective. Beginning with the emergence of the early naturalists in the seventeenth century, the scientific discoveries that led up to and then flowed from Darwin and Wallace's theory of evolution by natural selection are then discussed, and finally the modern evolutionary studies at the close of the twentieth century are detailed.
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9. The continuing journey
10. Evolution, truth, theory or myth?
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David Young is the Associate Professor in the Department of Zoology at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
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Q: Why are dangling commas still a thing? Once upon a time I was writing a C compiler in a computer science course on compilers.  Part of the work involved using a C grammar in Backus Naur Form (BNF) like this.  What struck me as odd was that the grammar for initializer lists allowed a list to end with a comma (so-called Dangling Comma).  I tried it on my compiler, and others, and confirmed that it was allowed.
Example:
<initializer> ::= <assignment-expression>
            | { <initializer-list> }
            | { <initializer-list> , }

In C:
int array[] = { 1, 2, 3, };

My question:  To this day, dangling commas are still a part of C, and other languages too, it seems.  Why weren't they removed?  (Assuming they don't have any "proper" function (I could be wrong), why did they propagate to other languages?)

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Why weren't they removed?

I don't know if such removal has been considered. I don't know of a reason why such removal would be considered.
To go even further, there would be good reason to add them in case they didn't already exist. They are useful. Indeed, trailing commas have been added in standard revisions into other lists of the languages where they hadn't been allowed before. For example enumerations (C99, C++11). Furthermore, there are proposals to add them to even more lists such as the member init list. I would prefer to see them allowed for example in function calls such as they are allowed in some other languages.
A reason for the allowance of trailing comma is easier modification (less work; less chance of mistake) and clean diffs when programs are modified.
Here are some examples...
Old version without trailing comma:
int array[] = {
    1,
    2,
    3
};

New version:
int array[] = {
    1,
    2,
    3,
    4
};

Diff:
<     3
---
>     3,
>     4

Old version with trailing comma:
int array[] = {
    1,
    2,
    3,
};

New version:
int array[] = {
    1,
    2,
    3,
    4,
};

Diff:
>     4,

A: Allowing terminal commas is useful. Given some list:
int Codes[] =
{
    37,
    74,
    88,
};

then:

*

*For human maintenance of lists, we can easily add or delete lines without fiddling with commas. If a terminal comma were not allowed, the appending a new line would also require editing the exiting the previous line to add a comma, and deleting the last line would also require editing the previous line to remove its comma.

*For machine-generated lists, we do not need to include code in the loop generating the list to treat the last list item differently.


The Neville brothers are English football's most famous siblings since the Charltons, with the two former Manchester United players now pundits, business partners and part-owners of Salford City. Under Sir Alex Ferguson they played together for 10 years at Old Trafford, before Phil joined David Moyes's Everton in 2005.
He made his league debut for the Toffees in a 2-0 defeat by United at Goodison, and in 2006 the duo became the first brothers to captain their respective teams against each other in the Premier League.
"It was a difficult moment, particularly for my mum," Phil admitted later. "My dad was a Manchester United fan – he was United until he died – but my mum just wanted two happy sons and a happy house."
The Ivorian pair started their careers at ASEC Mimosas until younger brother Yaya left for Belgium side KSK Beveren in 2001. It took another nine years before they were club team-mates again, this time at Manchester City.
Sadly it never came to that, and Yaya had the last laugh as Manuel Pellegrini's team won the tournament on penalties.
Kevin-Prince grew up with his mother, and Jerome his father, but the two still enjoyed a close relationship as kids. Neither Boateng left lasting impressions in the Premier League but both have gone on to enjoy successful careers in Europe; Jerome as one of the best centre-backs on the continent at Bayern Munich, while Kevin-Prince is playing well for Las Palmas after a good spell at Milan.
The Boatengs were team-mates for Germany at youth level, but on the senior stage Kevin-Prince ultimately decided to represent the country of his parents' birth, Ghana. The brothers came face to face in both the 2010 and 2014 World Cups, with Jerome's Germany triumphant in South Africa but held to a draw in Brazil en route to their tournament win.


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The decisions presented at the 19th Party Congress will define China's future path. MERICS researchers have analysed the main developments characterizing China's ruling party today. In the China Monitor "Hardening the party line – The 19thCCP Congress will boost strongman politics and narrow China's developmental options", MERICS researcher Matthias Stepan argues that the events at this year's congress will provide clear hints about the real extent of Xi's power and his ability to shape China's political agenda for the next five years and potentially even beyond the end of his second term in 2022.
Although Xi appears to be unchallenged within the party at present, a full endorsement of his political agenda is not a foregone conclusion. In his second term, he might have to apply the brakes to his international ambitions and turn his attention towards more pressing issues at home, where China is faced with severe economic challenges. Restructuring of unprofitable state-owned enterprises is long overdue, and debt levels of state entities as well as private enterprises are in danger of spiralling out of control.
Looking at possible scenarios of Xi's political future shows a rather mixed picture: If he pushes through his agenda at the upcoming congress, his centralized and authoritarian approach to policy making will effectively narrow China's developmental trajectory, Stepan concludes. Should Xi's personal authority suffer due to policy failures or declining health, China may be left without options for a transition to a more elastic and open polity.
Conversely, however, if Xi Jinping's vision of a strictly disciplined, IT-backed Communist Party rule turns out to be politically effective and economically productive, China's political system may well become the new global model for authoritarian governments. Should his assertive approach to foreign policy get an additional boost at the party congress, tensions in international diplomacy, trade and security may increase. No matter what the outcome of the party congress will be: dialogue and cooperation between China and its Western partners will very likely become more challenging.


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Lista degli amenukal dei Kel Adagh (Adrar degli Ifoghas) (della tribù nobile dei Kel Afella "Quelli del Nord").

A differenza degli amenukal dell'Ahaggar e di altre tribù tuareg, in questa tribù la matrilinearità non è la norma, e un amenukal di solito è figlio del precedente amenukal.

Secondo varie tradizioni la lista di amenukal parte da Mohammed Aïtta, che sarebbe stato di origine "sceriffale", cioè un discendente del Profeta.

Mohammed Aïtta (epoca imprecisata)
Abdu Salam (epoca imprecisata)
Idda (epoca imprecisata)
Didda (epoca imprecisata)
Elkhassan (epoca imprecisata)
Malik (epoca imprecisata)
Sid Ormar ag Malik (epoca imprecisata)
Deffa (nipote di Sid Ormar - epoca imprecisata)
Khammadin (m. circa 1880)
Illi (circa 1880-1908)
Safikhun (fratello minore del precedente 1908-1912)
Mohammed wan Ferzu (1912-1913)
Attaher ag Illi (1913-1914)
Elfakri ag Illi (fratello maggiore del precedente 1914-1915)
Attaher ag Illi (1915-1962)
Intalla ag Attaher (1962-2014)
Mohamed Ag Intalla (figlio del precedente 2014- in carica)

Da tempo, soprattutto dopo l'indipendenza e l'integrazione nello stato del Mali, la carica è sostanzialmente solo onorifica, ma i tuareg mantengono in considerazione il loro amenukal, che al marzo 2006 risultava anziano e malato, in cura presso un ospedale parigino, ma che è stato ancora attivo durante la ribellione dell'Azawad del 2012, aderendo dapprima al MNLA e poi al HCUA, da lui presieduto e diretto dal figlio, Alghabass Ag Intalla.

Note

Bibliografia
Pierre Boilley, Les Touaregs Kel Adagh. Dépendances et révoltes: du Soudan français au Mali contemporain, Paris, Karthala, 1999 ISBN 2-86537-872-1

Voci correlate
Amenukal dell'Ahaggar
Amenukal dell'Azawagh
Cronologia dei Tuareg

Adagh
Tuareg

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Reproductive Writes: Keep Talking: An Interview with Laura Eldridge
Published on April 2, 2010 at 1:54pm
Holly Grigg-Spall
Laura Eldridge is a women's health writer and activist. She began working with the founder of the women's health movement and author of The Doctor's Case Against The Pill, Barbara Seaman, when studying at Barnard College. Starting out as an an intern she progressed to become co-author on the publications Body Politic: Dispatches From The Women's Health Revolution and The No-Nonsense Guide To Menopause. This June Seven Stories Press will be releasing In Our Control: The Complete Guide To Contraceptive Choices For Women - a book Laura formed after Barbara Seaman's death in 2008 to provide a revaluation at the time of the Pill's 50th anniversary.
How did you come to write a book framed by an alternative viewpoint on the Pill?
When I started working with Barbara Seaman, at the end of 1999 and just in time for the 40th anniversary of the Pill, it was actually a shock to me to realize as a feminist she had been very critical of the Pill. I thought of myself as an up and coming young feminist and bought into the popular idea that acceptance of the Pill was an integral part of second wave feminism and as such allowed for many of the gains women have made. Working with Barbara I got to understand how criticism of the Pill was part of the feminist movement, and that this history has been lost over time. With the 50th anniversary of the Pill coming up, all the articles are very glowing and suggest the Pill made feminism possible, but I know it is much more complicated than that. I thought it was the right time to present a reassessment of our birth control choices, to encourage women to broaden the contraceptive conversation..
Seven years into working with Barbara and I was still taking the Pill. She wasn't judgmental and it wasn't like I was hiding it from her, but I had to learn the lessons she'd been discussing throughout her career for myself. I think it's hard to see that it's not just about what the Pill can do to your body, but also that this effect can change over the years. Contraception should be an inter-generational conversation, but unfortunately it is not. We could learn much by taking in the experiences of women older than us. We could be asking if hormones are increasingly unhealthy for you as you get older. I know as I got older the side effects I experienced got a lot worse. My symptoms – which started simply as painful breasts and worsened PMS when I started the Pill at 18 eventually extended to, among other things, constant mood swings,weight gain, erratic bleeding and severe cramping with amenorreah. Yet I still tried several more types of Pill until I finally decided enough is enough.
Barbara died in 2008, it was very sudden. We had been working on the menopause book together. I wanted to do something that honored her memory. I didn't want to just talk about the Pill. The Pill will probably always be with us, it's not going anywhere and I think we do women a great service by saying 'Let's not start and stop what we have to say about contraception with the Pill.' I do start with the Pill and its descendants – like the shot, the ring and menstrual suppressants - but then I also talk about non-hormonal methods like barriers, IUDs and fertility awareness, as well as discussing emergency contraception (ed.'s note: Eldridge does not mean to imply that emergency contraception is non-hormonal. See comments section). I think we need to talk about how gender and sexual difference inform how we feel about our bodies from menstruation to birth control, and of course eventually menopause. I also have a chapter on hormones and the environment, which I think is an up and coming issue.
Did you find it difficult to think critically about the Pill?
It's hard for anyone to be critical of the Pill, even if you've been studying this drug for years. Even now I feel I need to be cautious. I always want to be respectful of women's choices, even when they are different from mine. I want to say from the beginning that the Pill works really well for many many women. If a friend of mine is doing well on it, I would never tell her get off.
Many women, though, are living with a very problematic method of contraception that they don't like, even though there are other options out there. This has to do with their relationships with their doctors, their partners and how they see themselves fitting in to society in general. Analysis of women and the Pill can show both how far we have come and how far we still have to go.
An important part of In Our Control is your discussion of the lack of innovation that there is in the pharmaceutical industry when it comes to creating new contraceptive choices or improving the choices we have. Why do you think there's been so little progress in this area?
One reason there's little innovation is because the pharmaceutical companies have been burned before by law suits when new methods have gone wrong - look at the Dalkon Shield, Norplant and now, perhaps, Yaz. Women live with the unenviable reality of having to say 'this is good enough' and 'better the devil I know' - or they have to take the risk of trying something new, when they feel from experience the pharmaceutical company is probably concealing side effects and even dangers. We might want something different so much that we will take the risk regardless, but I think as long as the Pill is 'good enough' the industry won't look for alternatives.
There hasn't been much innovation and a lot of what we have now has been created by the relationship between pharmaceutical companies and international groups interested in population control. There's so much baggage in that relationship. The Pill was accepted in part because people were afraid of over population in third world countries, of the growth of communism, of unrest in minority groups in our own country. There was a lot of racism and classism bound up with that, which has never totally gone away - the language has just changed and the same anxieties keep cropping up. In a world where nothing is getting done in terms of contraception this does drive the innovation that has given us the choices we do have.
What do you say in the book in regards to hormones and the environment?
We are living in a chemical swamp. Our water ways are full of synthetic hormones - ethinyl estradiol from the Pill included. We can be confident that all these chemicals taken together can cause cancer - but it's difficult to say which chemicals are more likely to do this because the waters contain so many different chemicals – from pain killers to Alzheimer's drugs to agricultural estrogens and industrial contaminants.
Devra Davis, an amazing cancer researcher who studies environmental causes, always says 'Waiting for proof in the form of dead people is not good public health.' But until we can prove that ethinyl estradiol is an important problem pharmaceutical companies are going to deny it. And then they will probably just switch to an equally polluting estrogen alternative.
Women are used to hearing denials - we tell our doctor that we got depressed on the Pill and we are told there's no evidence for that. And it is very hard to show these things. You can get tons of money to do research into possibilities in a lab, but it's hard to get funding to look at real women in real life.
Of course with the barrier methods we have the issue of waste. I love the diaphragm, I really do. I switched to a diaphragm when I came off the Pill. A latex condom probably won't biodegrade - but a polyurethane one or a synthetic rubber one definitely won't - they are just with us forever. If you are committed to environmental issues the Fertility Awareness Method may be an option for you. It is the ultimate Green method, but of course you have to be committed to learning this system.
Look for the second part of this interview on the blog tomorrow!
Emergency contraception is not non-hormonal
Katha Pollitt replied on Mon, 04/05/2010 - 5:25am
and it's not a method of birth control either if by that is meant regular use. I posted this comment yesterday, and today find them gone. Why is that?
"I do start with the Pill and it's descendants – like the shot, the ring and menstrual suppressants - but then I also talk about non-hormonal methods like barriers and IUDs, fertility awareness and emergency contraception."
Emergency Contracetpion
Laura Eldridge replied on Mon, 04/05/2010 - 7:03am
Hi Katha,
Thanks for commenting. Just to be clear: my book has a chapter on barriers, IUDs and other non-hormonal methods. In addition, there is a chapter on Emergency Contraception (which is hormonal - usually a big dose of progestin).
As you say, EC is not an "every day" method. As the name suggests, it is for emergencies and situations where primary contraception may have failed. But it is an important contraceptive development that we should be talking about. And not discussing it as birth control allows it to be inaccurately associated with medication abortion.
Part of what I try to do in the book is discuss everything that is out there. Many of the methods - not just the pill - do work through hormonal mechanisms. I wish there were more forms of birth control that worked in other ways, and part of the reason I wrote In Our Control was to get women talking about why that is, why after all these years we have so few truly new choices.
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Francophone group seeking closer ties with Summerside
A group that represents francophones in the Summerside area is seeking closer ties with the City of Summerside.
Colin Maclean · Multimedia journalist/municipal reporter | Posted: June 19, 2017, midnight | Updated: Sept. 29, 2017, 10:12 p.m. | 1 Min Read
Giselle Babineau-Jordan, chairwoman of the board for Centre Belle-Alliance, speaks with reporters Monday evening after proposing closer ties between her organization and the City of Summerside.
Centre Belle-Alliance and the municipal government have drafted a memorandum of understanding that, if approved, would commit both groups to work together to promote things like attracting francophone tourism, hosting events and expanding French language services.
Giselle Babineau-Jordan, chairwoman of the board for Centre Belle-Alliance , made a presentation to city council Monday night, outlining her organization and some of the opportunities a closer partnership with the two groups could bring.
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Council will review the proposed memorandum of understand and vote whether it should be adopted at a later date.
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