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Final Fantasy perfumes and fragrances
Final Fantasy perfumes and fragrances are pieces of Final Fantasy merchandise that have only been sold in Japan.
List of merchandise Edit
Final Fantasy VII ~Cloud Strife~ eau de toilette Edit
Released during the 2009 Tokyo Game Show, ~Cloud Strife~ eau de toilette is a uni-sex fragrance selling for ¥7,140 ($78) per bottle and is a mix of refreshing floral, fruity and oriental scents.[1] Inspired by the protagonist of Final Fantasy VII, it has an imprinted glass bottle, holding 50ml of liquid with a clear cap and strap with the Fenrir bust, weighing about 170g. The fragrance was re-released in February 2011.
Final Fantasy VII ~Sephiroth~ eau de toilette Edit
Released in Mid-August 2010, ~Sephiroth~ eau de toilette is a uni-sex fragrance selling for ¥7,140 ($78) per bottle. The fragrance has been described as light and refreshing. Top Scents: Apple, Plum, Bergamot, Aqua, Peach, Pineapple Middle Scents: Freezia, Lily of the Valley, Rose, Jasmin, Lily, Iris, Cyclamen. Last Scents: Cedarwood, Sandalwood, Sweet Amber, Musk.[2] The black bottle has an imprint of Sephiroth's signature single wing and a strap with a silver wing pendant.
Final Fantasy XIII ~Lightning~ eau de toilette Edit
Released a month after the game's release, the 50ml bottle of ~Lightning~ eau de toilette is inspired by the character of the same name. It is contained in an imprinted glass bottle with a sterling metal cap and strap with Lightning's pendant, weighing about 170g and selling for ¥7,140 ($78) per bottle. The scent is described as a "sweet peach smell followed by rose and then a feminine musk".
Final Fantasy ~Noctis~ eau de toilette Edit
On February 18th, 2013, Square Enix announced a Noctis-themed fragrance.[3] Only available in Japan [4] or online, the eau de toilette was release on June 18th, 2013. The bottle itself is a clear glass bottle filled with pale yellow eau de toilette imprinted with a silver silhouette of Noctis' face. The scent is described to be very citrus oriented with layers. Top: Grapefruit, lemon, orange. Middle: Lavender, pine, rose, lily of the valley. Last: woody, musk.
The difference between an "eau de toilette" and a "perfume" is the level of ingredient concentration. A perfume is more concentrated, containing a stronger smell than a eau de toilette. A cologne is generally considered a male variant of perfume although officially cologne is a less concentrated version of eau de toilette.
Cloud Strife had to once wear perfume, listed as cologne, as part of a female disguise to infiltrate Don Corneo's mansion to rescue Tifa Lockhart.
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Home Government & Politics What's in the COVID-19 relief bill, and what's not in it
What's in the COVID-19 relief bill, and what's not in it
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WASHINGTON — Congress is set to pass a massive bipartisan emergency relief bill that's intended to aid Americans affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Summaries from House Democratic appropriators say it includes:
—$166 billion in another round of economic impact payments that will go directly to Americans.
—$600 stimulus checks for individuals that begin phasing out at an income of $75,000 and $1,200 for married couples phasing out at an income of $150,000, as well as $600 for each child dependent.
—Language stating that taxpayers without a Social Security number are ineligible to receive stimulus payments unless married to a spouse that has a Social Security number or children with them. This provision fixes a problem in the first Covid-19 relief bill that excluded stimulus payments to families that included both citizens and undocumented people.
—$120 billion in unemployment insurance.
—An additional $300 a week in benefits for the jobless, through March 14.
—An extension of the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program, which expanded coverage to the self-employed, gig workers and others in non-traditional jobs.
—An extension of the Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation program, which provides additional weeks of federal unemployment benefits to those who exhaust their state benefits
—Extension of a tax credit to employers who offer paid sick leave.
—$284 billion in loans through the Paycheck Protection Program.
—$20 billion for grants through the Economic Injury Disaster Loans program.
—$15 billion for struggling live event venues. There is a set-aside of $2 billion for eligible entities that employ not more than 50 full-time employees.
—$15 billion in grants to employees of passenger air carriers, passing to workers through each carrier. Provides $1 billion in grants to employees of contractors.
—$10 billion to help keep child care providers open.
—$10 million for the National Child Traumatic Stress Network.
—A 15 percent increase in benefits for six months for recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or food stamps, at a cost of $13 billion. SNAP eligibility is also expanded for certain college students, including those eligible for federal or state work study.
—$5 million to expand a program in SNAP online purchasing.
—$400 million for the Emergency Food Assistance Program, to be used through Sept. 30, for food banks and pantries.
—Emergency costs covered for child nutrition programs, such as school meals and child and adult care food programs, during the pandemic.
—$175 million for additional emergency food assistance through the USDA for older Americans, including $7 million for tribal nutrition assistance.
—$614 million to Puerto Rico and American Samoa for nutrition assistance, including $14 million for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
—$11 billion to USDA to help agricultural producers, growers and processors.
—$100 million to support specialty crop producers and address supply chain issues.
—$100 million to support local farmers, farmers markets and others disrupted by the pandemic, through the Local Agriculture Market Program.
—An end to surprise billing in emergency and scheduled care.
—$1.25 billion to support research and clinical trials related to the long-term effects of COVID-19.
—$4.25 billion to provide increased mental health and substance abuse services and support.
—A one-time, one-year increase in the Medicare physician fee schedule of 3.75 percent.
—$20 billion to purchase more vaccines and therapeutics.
—$8.75 billion to aid in distributing vaccines.
—$22 billion to states to pay for testing and tracing efforts.
—$25 billion in rental assistance and an extension on the eviction moratorium until the end of January next year.
— Up to $2 billion through states for families with funeral expenses due to COVID-19 through Dec. 31. The bill requires the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide this assistance, and waives an otherwise required 25% state match.
—$54.3 billion in emergency relief funds for K-12 schools. That will include school facilities repairs and improvements in heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems projects to improve indoor air quality. Funds will also address learning loss among students.
—$4 billion for a schools relief fund to be administered by governors. Of that, $2.75 billion will go toward grants for non-public schools. States are barred from using the money for school vouchers or tax credit scholarship programs.
—$22.7 billion for emergency relief for colleges and universities, including $908 million for grants at for-profit colleges and $1.7 billion for Historically Black Colleges and Universities, tribal colleges and minority-serving institutions.
—$7 billion for increased access to broadband internet, including $3.2 billion in an emergency fund for low-income families' access through the FCC and $1 billion for a tribal broadband fund.
—$819 million for outlying areas and Bureau of Indian Education-operated and funded schools and Tribal Colleges and Universities.
—$2 billion to help with operation costs for airports, including economic relief for concessionaires.
—$10 billion for state departments of transportation that can be used to replace funds lost by other sources of revenue.
—$1 billion for Amtrak, and prevents any further employee furloughs.
—$14 billion in aid for transit systems.
—Phase out of the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which is a potent class of greenhouse gases that are used in refrigerators and air conditions, by 85% over the next 15 years.
—$35.2 billion in research and development for a clean energy bill for the next decade on technologies that combat climate change such as energy storage, carbon capture, among others.
—A delay in a scheduled phase out for renewable and investment tax credits.
What's not in the stimulus bill
—Student loan relief: The package does not extend the suspension of student loan interest and payments, which is set to expire at the end of January.
—Direct aid to state and local governments: Democrats unsuccessfully sought billions in new funding for cash-strapped state and local governments. But it does allow any states with unused dollars from the CARES Act to spend those dollars in 2021 instead of returning any remaining funds at the end of this month.
—Liability protections: Republicans unsuccessfully sought legal protections for business owners from COVID-related lawsuits when employees become sick.
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Ariana covers the nation's capital for States Newsroom, including politics and policy, lobbying, elections and campaign finance. Before joining States Newsroom, Ariana covered public health and chemical policy on Capitol Hill for E&E News. She's worked for the Miami Herald and her hometown paper, the Tampa Bay Times. Her work has also appeared in the Chicago Tribune and NPR. She is a graduate of the University of Florida.
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Another W.Va. Mine Disaster: Two Miners Found Dead
Two miners were found dead in Melville, W.Va. Saturday, after an underground conveyor belt caught fire, filling the mine with poisonous fumes–19 workers were able to escape, but the two others were separated.
Rescue crews attempted for 48 hours after the fire broke out to search for the missing miners. The two men, who were equipped with oxygen canisters that typically produce about an hour's worth of air. Their odds of survival "are a little bit long," West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin said.
The fire broke out Thursday night. Rescuers were hampered by heavy smoke that cut visibility to 2 to 3 feet. After the blaze was brought somewhat under control Friday, rescuers spread out to search four tunnels, each about four miles long. The mine extends as much as 900 feet below ground.
About 20 rescue teams from four states were at the scene Friday night. Those rescuers in the mine were finding some pockets of fresh air, but Conaway said there was no way to tell if conditions had changed since Thursday night.
David Roberts, co-manager of Refab Co., a mining machinery repair company, said a friend on a mine rescue team told him it was very hot — up to 400 degrees — and smoky inside the shafts.
Twenty-one miners were in the southwestern West Virginia mine Thursday when a carbon monoxide monitor about 10,000 feet from the entrance set off an alarm.
The two victims died in the Aracoma Coal's Alma No. 1 mine in Melville, about 60 miles southwest of Charleston. A conveyor belt caught fire Thursday and the two victims—both husbands and fathers with more than a decade of mining experience—became separated from their 12-member crew.
The rest of the crew and nine other miners working in another section of the mine escaped unharmed.
The bodies were found Saturday in an area of the mine where rescue teams had been battling the intense blaze for more than 40 hours. Rescuers could not enter that portion of the mine until the flames had been mostly extinguished and the tunnels cooled down.
It appeared the two victims, identified as Don I. Bragg, 33, and Ellery Hatfield, 47, made a "valiant effort" to escape, said Doug Conaway, director of the state Office of Miners' Health Training and Safety.
The bodies were to be sent to a medical examiner's office in Charleston.
Rescue efforts were also hampered by intense heat and smoke that cut visibility to 2 to 3 feet in some parts of the mine. Teams were able to get into four tunnels, each about four miles long, but they could not get beyond the burning conveyor belt. Heat from the fire had also caused the roof of the mine to deteriorate.
The two men had been equipped with oxygen canisters that typically produce about an hour's worth of air.
Jimmy Marcum, a 54-year-old retired miner from Delbarton, said better equipment is needed to protect miners.
"I mean, they can send a man to the moon but they can't make a (oxygen canister) that will last at least 16 hours," Marcum said. "That's what they need to do."
Manchin planned to travel Tuesday to Washington to discuss his proposals with the state's congressional delegation, hoping they will seek reforms on the federal level.
Rep. Nick Rahall, D-W.Va., said Congress must give the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration the tools to operate effectively, and may have to increase its budget.
"It's unfortunate that every coal mine health and safety law on the books is written with the blood of coal miners," Rahall said.
The federal Mine Health and Safety Act was written a year after a 1968 explosion in Farmington that killed 78 miners, including Manchin's uncle.
Massey Energy opened the mine in 1999, and these are its first fatalities. The company said in a statement it was saddened by the miners' deaths and would focus on comforting the families.
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The Texas Police Chiefs Association Foundation provides funds to individuals through the Officer Death Benefit Program. If a Texas law enforcement officer is killed in the line of duty the Foundation, as soon as possible, delivers a check to the surviving spouse, children or parents, whichever is applicable.
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Simple Yet Effective Tips To Enhance Cyber Security Data breach is a serious matter is this incident means that your protected, confidential or sensitive data has potentially been stolen, used or viewed by someone unauthorized to do so. A hacker getting into the network and trying to steal some sensitive data is a common concept of data breach. There are numerous industry guidelines as well as government compliance regulations that mandate a stricter governance of personal or even sensitive data in order to avoid breaches. What this mean is, data breach is where your organization or company's data is stolen. When you check into the company folder and figured out that client files, information, logs, billing info and so forth are gone, everything is compromised. For this, it is quite clear for a business to further improve its cyber security to be able to avoid such incident. Fortunately, there are some ways on how to make this possible like what's listed below: Tip number 1. Encrypt your data – believe it or not, it is very effective preventive control mechanism to encrypt your data. By encrypting a file or database, it can't be decrypted unless you have or guessed the keys for it. As a matter of fact, managing encryption keys are going to require the same amount of effort in managing other preventive controls in digital world such as access control lists. There should be someone reviewing who have access to the data and revoke those who don't need it anymore.
Tip number 2. Pick a security that fits your business – compared to before, cracking even most secure companies with elaborate schemes are better. So, you better try to adopt a managed security service provider that can provide you with cost effective flexible solution and provide seamless upgrade path.
Tip number 3. Educate your employees – it is crucial that you educate employees towards proper protection and handling of sensitive data. Through periodic meetings that are led by IT experts or through making emails, you can use it to keep your employees well informed of such thing. Tip number 4. Deploy security management strategy – given the fact that cyber attacks are more organized these days, it is crucial for any organizations to establish a strategic approach in order for them to work as integrated defense, preventing, detecting and responding to attacks instantly and seamlessly. Tip number 5. Install antivirus software – to help your system avoid attacks, then you should consider installing antivirus software. Antivirus will scan your system and all incoming email for any viruses and deletes before it infects your computer. You should however keep your antivirus software up-to-date in order to cope with latest bugs that are circulating the web.


70154 — Education Management System. EMS., for the Education Authority.
Framework for Higher Education Institution Training, Education and Accreditation Programmes and Modules.
Framework for Higher Education Institution Training, Education & Accreditation Programmes and Modules.
Education and training services. Primary education services. Pre-school education services. Secondary education services. Higher education services. Special education services. Adult and other education services. Various school services. The Council is seeking expressions of interest from providers who are experienced in the provision of a wide range of Education Services: — Admissions; — Adult Education; — Behaviour Support; — Early Years Childcare; — Education Welfare; — School Improvement. School Standards: — Special Educational Needs (SEN); — Specialist Support and Disability Services; — Special Educational Needs Inclusion Support; — Strategic Leadership and Management (across all services); — Strategic Place Planning and Capital Management; — Workforce Development and Governor Services. The Council is seeking proposals to deliver the majority of Education Services outlined above as a single 'bundle' or lot of services. The exception is Adult Education which will be tendered as a separate lot. The tendering process for the main 'bundle' of Education Services will not be sub-divided into lots and therefore we are not inviting proposals for the delivery of individual services, or a combination of some services, from those included in the scope of the bundle of services. We do however welcome proposals from partnerships or consortiums (or similar arrangements) to deliver Education Services as part of a single proposal submission. The Council reserves the right to remove individual services, either in full or in part, from the scope of the 'bundle' of services at any time during the tendering process.The tender opportunity will be run through the London Tenders Procurement Portal and you will need to register your company with the portal as soon as possible (if you have not already done so) at www.londontenders.org to ensure that you are able to express your interest in this tender and receive the relevant documents once they are available online.Following evaluation of the PQQs a restricted number of providers will be invited to participate in a procedure based around a competitive dialogue procurement tender process providing an opportunity to work with the Council to champion new models for delivering these services in order to produce more cost effective outcome focused services for its residents. For providers invited to participate, this will initially entail an Invitation to Submit Outline Solutions (ISOS), after the assessment of which a reduced number of providers will be invited to submit Detailed Proposals (ISDP). Following the subsequent dialogue, final tenders will be invited to establish preferred bidder(s). A more detailed anticipated timetable for the procedure can be found within the PQQ. The contract is likely to commence in 2016 or at such date to be determined by the Council.
ESPO is working on behalf of Leicestershire County Council to undertake a procurement process to identify and appoint experienced professionals to deliver a range of high calibre and quality assured education consultancy services to assist the Council in improving education in the County's school and colleges. In consideration of the above ESPO and Leicestershire County Council are seeking to establish an 'open' framework which will enable the periodic performance review of appointed service providers and where appropriate, to allow new providers to join the framework at regular annual intervals in order to ensure that it continues to meet the Council's service delivery requirements and offers an appropriate range of services and service providers. The framework will include lots for Education Quality Advisors (EQA's), Newly Qualified Teacher assessment (NQT assessors), Key Stage 1 and 2 moderation and monitoring services, Associate Head Teachers and School to School Support. The framework will consist of 8 lots: Lots & CPV Codes: Education Quality Advisers for Early Years and Primary phase Quality Assurance; 80000000: Education and training services, 80100000: Primary education services, 80110000: Pre-school education services. Education Quality Advisers for Secondary phase Quality Assurance; 80000000 Education and training services, 80200000: Secondary education services. Education Quality Adviser for Quality Assurance SEND; 80000000: Education and training services, 80100000: Primary education services, 80110000: Pre-school education services, 80200000: Secondary education services. Education Quality Adviser - Induction and quality assurance of NQTs; 80000000: Education and training services, 80100000: Primary education services, 80110000: Pre-school education services, 80200000: Secondary education services. Education Quality Adviser – Specialist: advisers with experience in specific areas such as alternative provision, the virtual school, and vulnerable groups; 80000000: Education and training services, 80100000: Primary education services, 80110000: Pre-school education services, 80200000: Secondary education services. Education Quality Adviser for KS1 and KS2 monitoring of national assessments; 80000000: Education and training services, 80100000: Primary education services. Associate head teachers and interim head teachers (all phases). 80000000: Education and training services, 80100000: Primary education services, 80110000: Pre-school education services, 80200000: Secondary education services. School to school support (to include senior leadership, middle management and teacher level); 80000000: Education and training services, 80100000: Primary education services, 80110000: Pre-school education services, 80200000: Secondary education services. In order to express an interest in this forthcoming opportunity and obtaining documents when they become available and/or requesting any further information, please see details below and please ensure you refer to instructions and guidance available: (a) Go to www.eastmidstenders.org, (b) If you are not already registered, Register your company by selecting the 'Register' box on the top of the home page, (c) Once registered visit the home page and search for the tender '3158_15 Education Quality Consultancy Services ' by selecting 'View Opportunities', (d) Express an interest by selecting the 'Register Interest' box at the bottom of the screen. You should receive a notification email confirming your expression of interest, (e) Once fully registered, you will be notified by e mail when the documents become available to download from the website, (f) If you have any query regarding the content or require further information, please use the discussion tools provided within the website. If you experience any problems with registration or expression of interest, please refer any queries on Portal operation to support@due-north.com or telephone +44 1670597136.
Design and implementation of an Environmental Education Programme for Brighton and Hove schools.
Design and implementation of an Environmental Education Programme for Brighton & Hove schools.
Durham Music Service is the lead partner within the Durham and Darlington 'music education hub' which provides music education to all pupils in the North East.
North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College has a need to appoint suitably qualified organisations capable of delivering training and education across England in partnership with the college. The framework will be created under 2 lots — Adult Education Budget and — European Social Fund (ESF) — specifically ESF Business Enterprise Skills Leicester and Leicestershire.
Delivery of training and education that is legible for funding under the Adult Education Budget.
Delivery of training and education that is legible for funding under European Social Fund (ESF) — specifically ESF Business Enterprise Skills Leicester and Leicestershire.


Previously, we had books and tests which went through a selection process before being placed in our school media center. Now a wider variety of tests will be available, but that does not mean we necessarily recommend the title. If parents are concerned, they should plan to develop an awareness of what their child has selected to read.
Through the full implementation of flexible scheduling, our Media Center is accessible to students and faculty throughout each instructional day.
Our automated media services, which include automated circulation and on-line catalog, create user-friendly support of the curriculum for students and faculty.
Our students and faculty are able to access our catalog in the Media Center, in every classroom, and in our computer lab.
Our Book collection is color-coded to support the Accelerated Reader program, which includes every available AR quiz. We have found that color-coding the Accelerated Reader collection helps students quickly locate books, which are of interest to them and on their independent reading level.


I chose to do (b) and (c) at the same time (Who said women could not multi-task?) and tuned in just in time to listen to Radio 4's Woman's Hour where one of my hot topics was being discussed - Food and Eating Issues - in this case, in the young. Huge thanks to Charlotte Bevan for giving me the heads up on this just as it was about to start.
Both Dr Nicholls and Dr Adrienne Key were amazing - they said all the right things. This time two years ago I was rallying round trying to get all sorts of help and very nearly found myself an appointment with Dr Key. I chose to go down another route for complicated reasons but I think she is incredible.


CPAs are experts at making wise financial decisions, and can help you out with a wide range of financial matters, including personal finances, stock investments, tax preparation, estate planning, and professional advice regarding the development of accounting systems. CPAs are a lot more than people with calculators; these professionals have an intimate grasp on all manner of financing strategies, and will help you make the financial decisions that will benefit you and your family the most. A CPA is someone who has been repeatedly tested and regulated by the federal government. A CPA is also someone who is required to constantly advance their profession through continued education, so that they remain knowledgeable on the latest rules and regulations.
Many businesses turn to CPAs for professional help regarding finance and tax management, as well as help determining product lines that will be more profitable for their company. A CPA will also help you diversify your investments.
Help you with the establishment of a financial system: CPAs are experts at accounting software, including setup, training, and internal controls.
Professional financial recommendations: A CPA will help you with asset purchase decisions, buy or lease, and return on investment, among other things.
Better budgeting strategies: You will be given strategies for budgeting, including making reasonable estimates, determining what is driving your revenue as well as expenditures, and they will help you determine breakeven points.
Expert cash flow analysis: CPAs will help you prepare projections and estimates, and properly correlate them with your budget.
Greater ability to comply with tax requirements: This includes determining which forms need to be filed, and meeting their due dates. A CPA will also help you determine tax deductibles.
Help with payroll taxes: These are complicated and mistakes can too easily happen. A CPA will help with all client payroll systems, as well as options for outsourcing.
Greater ability to prepare a financial statement: CPAs will help you compile or review your financial statements, which may be a requirement for purposes of management, finances, and bonds.
Better accounting and internal control design and enforcement: Whether it's cash receipts, petty cash, payments, payroll, or the separation of duties, a professional CPA can help.
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What Separates a CPA from a non-CPA?
CPAs are different from tax preparers and bookkeepers. CPAs are much more credible and professional, and are far more trusted in the realm of finance. Becoming a CPA requires strict licensing requirements and rigorous qualifications. Becoming a CPA takes work, and the the field requires commitment in order to provide the value that comes with being a certified CPA.
A good CPA will take the time to learn your business inside and out in order to make financial decisions that are most appropriate and effective for your particular financial situation. Good CPA's excel at both financial decisions, planning, and transactions, as well as interpersonal communication with their clients. CPAs are people who will develop long-term relationships with their clients and assist them throughout their career, helping them to advance monetarily all along the way.
Before you contact a CPA, make sure that you have established some financial goals and objectives, through which your CPA will provide assistance through professional financial strategies. When you have a good idea of where you want to be, and what you want to accomplish, your CPA will help you take things to the next level.
People who utilize the assistance of CPAs excel in business and finance, all of which lead to greater peace of mind and personal well-being. CPAs are dedicated to the financial flourishing of their clients. An investment in a personal CPA is one of the smartest moves you can make for financial gain.


This is an app that targets middle school and high school students. The app is marketed as a private message board for individual schools where students can engage in conversation anonymously.
I want to emphasis that this app is in no way affiliated or endorsed by the East Holmes School District, or any other school district for that matter.
In many cases nation-wide this app is used by students to anonymously engage in behavior that is disrespectful, hurtful, and profane. This app is also used nation-wide to display graphic and sexually explicit content.
Considering that this app allows postings that occur completely outside the school district's control, and because this app allows anonymous postings, there is little the school district can do to eliminate this unhealthy threat to student well-being; or help in identifying users.
According to this app Hiland HS & MS students currently have over 200 open accounts!
Blue Whale Game/Challenge is an activity played on social networks. The game/challenge encourages participants to engage in increasingly dangerous and unhealthy behaviors; culminating in a challenge to commit suicide. Users are encouraged to tag friends on social media and challenge them to participate in the game.
The game can reach students through social media channels such as Instagram, SnapChat, YouTube, and through texting.
In almost all situations, when issues of bullying and disrespect using social media are brought to the attention of school officials, the situation involves students using apps and social networks that allow for anonymous communication.
Please follow this link to learn more about student use of apps that allow for anonymous communication.
Please note that the East Holmes School District filters access to inappropriate internet content.
The challenges confronting parents and schools today are greater than they have ever been. Social media platforms have created opportunities for students to engage in unhealthy and disrespectful behavior, without the knowledge of their parents, and with the ability to engage in the behavior anonymously.
Parents, schools, and community must be vigilant in our efforts to communicate expectations for student behavior using social media; and ever watchful that students are complying with those expectations.
We ask that all parents have ongoing and continued conversations with their children regarding use of social media.


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Detroit turns island park into COVID-19 memorial garden
DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit island park was transformed Monday into a drive-thru COVID-19 victims memorial as policy makers across the U.S. moved forward with plans to reopen schools and public spaces.
Hearses led processions around Belle Isle Park in the Detroit River, where more than 900 large photos of local coronavirus victims provided by relatives were turned into posters and staked into the ground.
As the death toll continued to rise around the world, officials announced plans to bring children back to school in Rhode Island, allow diners back inside New Jersey restaurants and let fans watch football inside an Iowa college stadium.
New COVID-19 cases were linked to travelers on vacation in Europe and the head of the World Health Organization cautioned against opening societies too quickly.
More than 847,000 people worldwide have perished from the virus and more than 25.3 million have contracted it, according to Johns Hopkins University — figures experts say understate the true toll due to limited testing, missed mild cases and other factors.
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The pictures in the Detroit park showed those who died of COVID-19 during better times: Darrin Adams at his college graduation; Daniel Aldape catching a fish; Shirley Frank with an Elvis impersonator; and Veronica Davis crossing the finish line at a race.
They had "dreams and plans and a story," Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said at the park. "They weren't finished yet."
The region's classical music station added gospel music to its playlist and read the names of the deceased.
Detroit's director of arts and culture, Rochelle Riley, said officials hope the memorial will "wake people up to the devastating effect of the pandemic" and also "bring some peace to families whose loved ones didn't have the funerals they deserved."
The national COVID-19 death toll increased by 305 Monday, boosting the U.S. number of deaths to 183,258, according to Johns Hopkins.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government's top infectious disease expert, said Labor Day weekend will be key in determining whether the U.S. gets a "running start" at containing the coronavirus this fall.
Fauci said Monday he has a "great deal of faith in the American people" to wash their hands, practice social distancing, wear masks, avoid crowds, and congregate outside during the weekend celebrations. He said it's important to avoid a surge in coronavirus cases like those seen after the Memorial Day and July 4th holidays.
Faucci made the comments on a White House conference call with governors, the audio of which was obtained by The Associated Press.
Vice President Mike Pence said he shared Fauci's confidence in the American people to celebrate the holiday responsibly.
President Donald Trump's new pandemic adviser, Dr. Scott Atlas said he believes college football should be played this year even though many universities have canceled all fall sports.
Atlas, appearing with Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Monday in Tallahassee, said stadiums have plenty of room for distancing.
"The communities of college towns depend on these activities," Atlas said.
Iowa State said it will allow about 25,000 season-ticket holders to attend that team's opener in Ames against Louisiana-Lafayette on Sept. 12 , despite rising COVID-19 numbers in Iowa.
Iowa State Athletic director Jamie Pollard told fans in a letter that they will be required to wear face coverings and that tailgating will be banned. Pollard asked that fans respect others' wishes for distancing.
The decision came as Iowa continues to struggle with the virus spreading in several counties, including those with university campuses.
In Rhode Island, all but two public school districts have been given the go-ahead to resume in-person classes when schools reopen in two weeks.
Only Providence and the Providence suburb of Central Falls did not meet metrics required for reopening. The two cities have had the state's highest coronavirus infection rates.
Gov. Gina Raimondo said reopening schools is not risk-free but that she expects children will return to the classroom.
COLLEGE CLOSING
In Northern California, California State University, Chico has moved the limited number of in-person classes it offered online after at least 30 people tested positive for the coronavirus three days after the fall semester started.
University President Gayle Hutchinson said students who returned to campus housing must leave by the weekend.
RESTAURANTS OPENING
In New Jersey, indoor dining with limited capacity will resume at restaurants Friday, Gov. Phil Murphy announced.
Restaurants will be allowed 25% capacity under the new rules, which includes maintaining social distancing between tables.
The United Nations chief said the pandemic has deepened inequality between men and women and reversed "decades of limited and fragile progress on gender equality and women's rights."
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said during a virtual town hall meeting on Monday that 70 to 90 per cent of healthcare workers are women but only 30 percent have decision-making roles,
He also said the pandemic has also impacted physical and mental health, education, and employment.
"Today, millions of teenage girls around the world are out of school, and there are alarming reports of an increase in teenage pregnancies in some countries," he said. "We know from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa that when teenage girls leave school, they may never return."
The secretary-general also pointed to "disturbing reports from around the world of skyrocketing levels of gender-based violence, as many women are effectively confined with their abusers, while resources and support services are redirected."
The head of the World Health Organization warned that reopening societies too quickly is a "recipe for disaster."
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that "the more control countries have over the virus, the more they can open up."
Tedros cited four key points that countries, communities and individuals should focus on: preventing "amplifying events" as the virus thrives on clusters; protecting vulnerable groups; people taking steps individually to protect themselves; and finding, isolating, testing and caring for infection cases, while tracing and quarantining their contacts.
EUROPEAN VACATION
British authorities said 16 coronavirus cases have been linked to a flight that brought U.K. tourists back from Greece. All people who were aboard have been told to isolate themselves for two weeks.
Public Health Wales said it was contacting nearly 200 people who were on the Tui flight from the Greek island of Zante to Cardiff, Wales, last Tuesday.
Gwen Lowe of Public Health Wales said 30 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed over the last week among people who returned from Zante on several flights and that the number is expected to rise.
In Italy, the popular holiday destination of Sardinia had experienced a handful or fewer cases for weeks. But with clusters of infections linked to crowded discos or holiday-goers' parties on the Mediterranean island, Sardinia registered 79 new infections on Monday.
Associated Press journalists from around the globe contributed to this report.
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Siemens goes ahead with Australia coal project despite Greta Thunberg objection
Protests against the project in Queensland have intensified following recent bushfires that have claimed a number of lives.
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Image: Fridays for Future activists have protested in front of the Siemens headquarters in Munich
To some people, it will be a principled decision by a company not to let down its customer and stick to a contractual agreement.
To others, it will be a wilful decision to ignore an unfolding climate catastrophe.
Siemens, the German engineering conglomerate, announced today that it would be continuing with its involvement in the development of a controversial coal mining project in Queensland, Australia.
The decision was taken in the face of calls from climate campaigners, including Greta Thunberg, for it to walk away.
The protests have intensified following the recent bushfires in Australia that are thought to have killed nearly 30 people along with hundreds of thousands of animals.
It looks likely to make Siemens the focus for demonstrations across Germany, including at its headquarters in Munich.
A dozen protests are planned in total.
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Image: Luisa Neubauer turned down an invitation to join a Siemens committee
Some 60,000 Germans signed a petition calling for Siemens to walk away.
Siemens signed an €18m (£15.4m) contract last month to supply signalling for a railway line between what is expected to be one of the world's biggest coal mines and a port.
The Carmichael coal mine, which is being built by the Indian company Adani in Galilee Basin in central Queensland, is expected to extract up to 60 million tons of coal each year.
The open-cast mine, which is due to open next year, has also attracted criticism because the coal would be shipped overseas through the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area.
Opponents of the project say that, without Siemens providing rail signalling, Adani would not be able to build a railway line to the Galilee Basin.
The region is one of the world's great untapped coal resources and there are currently no mines there.
Critics have also warned that the project could result in the displacement of indigenous peoples.
Image: Supporters of the Fridays for Future movement are demanding that Siemens pull out
Despite the campaign, Joe Kaeser, chief executive of Siemens, said today that the company would not be pulling out.
Mr Kaeser said that he had received messages from Australian people, urging Siemens not to go ahead with its involvement, which had moved him personally.
But he added: "There is practically no legally and economically responsible way to unwind the contract without neglecting fiduciary duties.
"However, given the importance of legitimate environmental concerns, we have secured the right to pull out of the contract if our customer violates the very stringent environmental obligations."
Mr Kaeser said that, even if Siemens were to pull out of the project, it would still go ahead as other companies had tendered to supply signalling.
Image: 'Had it been my own company, I may have acted differently,' said Joe Kaeser
He pointed out that, as well as being approved by Australia's government and courts, the Adani project had also been approved by the indigenous Wangan and Jagaingou people.
He went on: "The local and federal governments approved the project based on the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 as well as hundreds of pages of environmental impact statements.
"These included public consultations.
"The decision came after carrying out a strict regulatory and decision-making process including from the highest courts."
He also highlighted a letter from Matt Canavan, Australia's resources minister, which had pointed out the strong support for the mine in Queensland itself and urged Siemens not to "insult…the working people of Australia and the growing needs of India".
Mr Kaeser said he realised most people who had been in touch with the company "would have hoped for more".
But he added: "While I do have a lot of empathy for environmental matters, I do need to balance different interests of different stakeholders, as long as they have lawful legitimation for what they do.
"This is my responsibility as a CEO and that of the management team.
"Keeping our promises is Siemens' highest priority.
"Only being a credible partner whose word counts also ensures that we can remain an effective partner for a greener future.
"In this case, there is a legally binding and enforceable fiduciary responsibility to carry out this train signalling contract.
"Had it been my own company, I may have acted differently, although there is factual clarity that the installation of our signalling system - and thereby making the already existing rail track safer - does not impact whether the coal mine will happen or not."
Image: The region is one of the world's great untapped coal resources
He said Siemens would, for the first time, set up a sustainability committee with external members.
He said that, in particular, he hoped young people would participate in the committee which, he promised, would have the power to stop or escalate projects of a "critical nature to sustainability".
Mr Kaeser said Siemens had invited Germany's most prominent climate activist, Luisa Neubauer, who leads the German arm of Ms Thunberg's Fridays for Future movement, to join the committee.
Ms Neubauer, who met with Mr Kaeser on Friday last week, later said she declined the invitation because she needed time to concentrate on her climate activism.
She said in a tweet: "With the position, I would be bound to the interests of the company and couldn't concentrate any longer independently on Siemens. That cannot be reconciled with my role as [a] climate activist."
The episode highlights the difficulty many big businesses face as they seek to reconcile often sincerely held environmental credentials with doing business legitimately and legally.
In the case of Siemens, it was one of the first global industrial businesses to commit to being carbon neutral by 2030 and, since making the announcement five years ago, has cut its CO2 emissions by two-fifths, which it expects to rise to 50% by next year.
Image: Greta Thunberg has called for Siemens to walk away from the project
Siemens, which last year announced plans to spin off its gas and power unit into a separate company, can also argue that its very business is geared, in large part, towards helping customers reduce their energy consumption and hit their own sustainability targets.
The company's UK division, which employs more than 15,000 people, has a significant business building wind turbines in Hull for offshore wind projects run by the likes of ScottishPower and RWE Npower.
It has invested tens of millions of pounds in Hull to enable such work.
The company also argues it is one of "only a very few global companies of material size" to have built long-term sustainability targets into its management incentive schemes.
The danger for Siemens is that, in agreeing to go ahead with this project, a lot of that work will be overlooked.
Other companies will be watching closely to see how much damage is done to Siemens as a result.
Investors are increasingly urging companies to improve their environmental credentials - and, at the same time, rigorously testing those credentials and looking for evidence that companies are not just coming up with greenwash.
The German giant is unlikely to be the last to find itself conflicted in this way.


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The 4th Coordination Meeting of the OIC subsidiary organs, specialized and affiliated institutions on the implementation of the OIC Ten-Year Programme of Action (TYPOA) was held in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, on April 7, 2009. The Meeting was attended by the OIC General Secretariat, specialized and affiliated institutions. The OIC Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation (COMCEC), OIC Committee for Information and Cultural Affairs (COMIAC), OIC Standing Committee for Science and Technology (COMSTECH), Uganda and Syria also attended the Meeting. The Meeting considered as its agenda item the documents related to the implementation of the OIC-Ten Year Programme of Action, and preparations for the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the OIC.
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Q: Проверка строки на наличие только указанных символов Требуется осуществить проверку, что в строке присутствуют только символы a-z, 0-9 и -.
Я понимаю, как осуществить проверку на наличие этих символов:
if((/[a-z0-9\-]/.test(teststring))

Но как исключить в проверке все прочие?
Также вопрос - корректно ли данное регулярное выражение?

A: У Вас /[a-z0-9\-]/ принимает только один символ 0-9, a-z либо -. Нам же надо, чтобы проверялась вся строка. Как уже уточнили, надо добавить символы ^ (начало строки) и $ (конец строки). Также надо указать +, [a-z0-9\-]+, что означает "один или больше" символ.
Чтобы протестировать на все другие символы можно указать так: ^(?![a-z0-9-]+$).*$, где (?!) означает "вперед смотрящее нет".

const tests = ['1-2', '2a*3', '4b-0', '4!+2', '!+$'];

console.log(tests.map(e => /^[a-z0-9-]+$/.test(e))); // принимает a-z, 0-9, -
console.log(tests.map(e => /^(?![a-z0-9-]+$).*$/.test(e))); // принимает все то, что не было принято выше

A: Метод RegExp#test проверяет строку на наличие совпадения в любом её месте, т.е. /[a-z0-9-]/ найдёт совпадение и в a-1, и в a-1~!@#$%^&*всё-тут-может-быть—()_+|.
В данном случае необходимо просто инвертировать символьный класс:
if (/[^a-z0-9-]/.test(teststring)) {
//    ^ - тут
  console.log("Формат строки неверен.");
} else {
  console.log("Формат строки правилен.");
}

/[^a-z0-9-]/.test(teststring) вернёт true, если в строке есть символы, отличные от указанных в исключающем символьном классе (букв, цифр и дефиса), и false, если таких символов нет.
Обратите внимание
Если нет возможности "инвертировать" результат проверки на совпадение, используйте проверку на совпадение целой строки с помощью "якорей" ^ и $:
if (/^[a-z0-9-]*$/.test(teststring))
if (/^[a-z0-9-]+$/.test(teststring))

Квантификатор * требует наличия 0 и более повторов шаблона, и поэтому /^[a-z0-9-]*$/ разрешает пустую строку. Квантификатор + требует наличия 1 и более повторов шаблона, и поэтому /^[a-z0-9-]+$/ НЕ разрешает пустую строку.
Пример кода:

const strings = ['a-1', '1a', 'a-%^&', '2+2'];
const regex = /[^a-z0-9-]/;
strings.forEach( teststring => {
    if (regex.test(teststring)) {
      console.log(`Формат строки '${teststring}' неверен.`);
    } else {
      console.log(`Формат строки '${teststring}' правилен.`);
    }
  }
)

A: Вы можете добавить квантификатор и условия начала и конца строки:
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Witness: People hid under bleachers, in bathrooms when gunshots fired at Savannah sports complex
"All of a sudden behind us we heard 'Bam, bam, bam, bam!' At first, it took me a second to understand what it was, and then I heard screaming."
Updated: 8:44 AM EDT Oct 14, 2021
Brooke Butler
ATTEND ANOTHER TRIAL AND ARE SHOCKED AT THIS OUTCOME." 2:06 ALL OF A SUDDEN BEHIND US WE HEARD BAM BAM BAM BAM AND AT FIRST IT TOOK ME A SECOND TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IT WAS AND THEN I HEARD SCREAMING. 2:15 TONIGHT - WE'RE HEARING FROM WITNESSES OF LAST NIGHT'S DEADLY SHOOTING IN SAVANN. AH OUR OOBRKE BUTLER SPOKE WITH PARENTS WHO WERE THERE WHEN GUNFIRE ERUPTED ATHT E JENNIFER RS OSSPORTING COMPLEX. <> WITNESSES OF LAST NIGHT'S SHOOTING TELL ME AT FIRST THEY THOUGHT IT WAS AN ACTIVE SHOOTER SITUATION. THATS BECAUSE SEVERAL GUNSHOTS WERE FIRE D. IN FACT I SPOKE WITH O NE PARENT WHO GAVE ME A COPY OF A VIDEO SHE TOOK - CAPTURING THE MOMENTS GUNFIRE ERUPTED. <> THIS SHORT CLIP - CAPTURING THMOE MENTS NSGUHOTS WERE FIRED OUTSIDE THE JENNIFER ROSS SPORTING COMPLEX. 3:50 ALL I COULD THINK OF WAS THE SCHOOL SHOOTINGS THE MOVIE THEATER SHOOTING SNAD THE CLUB SHOOTINGS D AN ALL I WAS JUST HOPING PLEASE DON'T LET THAT BE THE SITUATION HERE BECAUSE SO MANY CHILDREN SO MANY INNOCENT PEOPLE HERE CAN QUICKLY JUST IN AN OPEN FIELD ARE AN OPEN TARGET FOR THIS PERSON4:07 WITNESS CATHERINE TANT SAYS MANY PEOPLE HID BEHIND BLEACHERS - AND IN BATHROOMS. .. WAITING FOR POLICE TO ARRIVE - BEFORE THEY MADE ANY MOVES. 3:17 WE REWE JUST AFRAID TO GO BECAUSE WE DIDN'T KNOW BECAUSE THEY SAID HE GOT AWAY AND WE DIDN'T KNOW IF HE GOT AWAY ON FOOT OR GOT IN A CAR 3: 25 POLICE SAY NOT LONG AFTER THE SHOOTING - THIS MAN - 26 YEAR OLD MARIO WALLACE - WAS ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH MURDER. THEY TELL US - WALLACE KNEW THE VICTIM - 27 YEAR OLD RAJAH YOUNG - AND THE SHOOTING WAS NOT RANDOM. WE'RE TOLD BOTH WERE SPECTATORS AT A GAME THAT NIGHT. TANT SAYS - SHE NEVER EXPECTED SOMETHING LIKE THIS TO UNFOLD AT AN ENT VE WITH SO MANY KIDS. 4:10 WE KNEW A FIGHT HAD BROKEN OUT THERE PREVIOUSLY BUT WE DIDN'T THINK WITH CHILDREN AROUND LIKE THAT SOMEONE WOULD BE SO BOLD TO PULLA GUN OUT A ND DO THAT IN A PARKING LOT WITH A CHIDLRENS FOOTBALL GAME GOING ON 4:25 <> THE SPORTIN GCOMPLEX ACTUALLY HAD TO BE CLOSED TODAY BECAUSE CHATHAM COUNTY SAYS LAST NIGHTS SHOOTING WAS THE SECOND OF TWO INCIDENTS THIS W
Parents who were there when gunfire erupted at the Jennifer Ross Sporting Complex on Tuesday night recalled their experiences to WJCL on Wednesday. Catherine Tant, a mother who heard the gunshots said, "All of a sudden behind us we heard 'Bam, bam, bam, bam!' At first, it took me a second to understand what it was, and then I heard screaming."Many parents told us they initially thought there might be an active shooter."All I could think of was the school shootings, the movie theater shootings and the club shootings and I was just hoping, 'Please don't let that be the situation here,' because so many children, so many innocent people here can quickly just in an open field are an open target for this person," Tant said.Tant told WJCL many people who were there that night hid behind bleachers and in bathrooms. Most waited for police to arrive before they headed to their cars."We were just afraid to go because we didn't know. They said he got away and we didn't know if he got away on foot or got in a car," Tant said.According to the Savannah Police Department, not long after the shooting, which happened in the parking lot of the sporting complex, 26-year-old Mario Wallace was arrested and charged with murder.Police said Wallace knew the victim, 27-year-old Rajah Young, and the shooting was not random. We're told both men were spectators at a game that night.Tant said she never expected something like this to unfold at a children's sporting event."We knew a fight had broken out there previously, but we didn't think with children around that someone would be so bold to pull a gun out and do that in a parking lot with a children's football game going on," she said.The Jennifer Ross Complex had to be closed on Wednesday as a result of Tuesday's shooting as well as an additional incident there. Police said no children were injured in the shooting.
Parents who were there when gunfire erupted at the Jennifer Ross Sporting Complex on Tuesday night recalled their experiences to WJCL on Wednesday.
Catherine Tant, a mother who heard the gunshots said, "All of a sudden behind us we heard 'Bam, bam, bam, bam!' At first, it took me a second to understand what it was, and then I heard screaming."
Many parents told us they initially thought there might be an active shooter.
"All I could think of was the school shootings, the movie theater shootings and the club shootings and I was just hoping, 'Please don't let that be the situation here,' because so many children, so many innocent people here can quickly just in an open field are an open target for this person," Tant said.
Tant told WJCL many people who were there that night hid behind bleachers and in bathrooms. Most waited for police to arrive before they headed to their cars.
"We were just afraid to go because we didn't know. They said he got away and we didn't know if he got away on foot or got in a car," Tant said.
According to the Savannah Police Department, not long after the shooting, which happened in the parking lot of the sporting complex, 26-year-old Mario Wallace was arrested and charged with murder.
Police said Wallace knew the victim, 27-year-old Rajah Young, and the shooting was not random. We're told both men were spectators at a game that night.
Tant said she never expected something like this to unfold at a children's sporting event.
"We knew a fight had broken out there previously, but we didn't think with children around that someone would be so bold to pull a gun out and do that in a parking lot with a children's football game going on," she said.
The Jennifer Ross Complex had to be closed on Wednesday as a result of Tuesday's shooting as well as an additional incident there.
Police said no children were injured in the shooting.


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Men at the door
Posted on February 9, 2015 by Jen Evans
The Perceptions of Pregnancy blog, like the Researchers' Network, aims to reach beyond boundaries and borders, and to facilitate an international and interdisciplinary conversation on pregnancy and its associated bodily and emotional experiences from the earliest times to the present day. Our latest post, which explores the role of men at the Hotel-Dieu in Paris, is contributed by Professor Susan Broomhall.
Men at the door: Education delivery and educational deliveries at the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris
The Hotel-Dieu in Paris is cited by many of the early modern authors of obstetrical work as the place where they had their training. This facility, not quite a hospital in the modern sense, had offered support for the poor, sick and needy, whether Parisian or passer-by, since its establishment in the seventh century. It contained both male and female religious personnel but its primary health care was provided by nuns. These women managed triage procedures, ran a pharmacy, offered bedside assistance, provided a childbirthing suite, raised orphan or abandoned children, and organised hygiene and laundering services on an industrial scale.[1]
They were assisted by paid physicians, midwives, surgical staff, and specialist service providers ranging from lithotomists to women paid to undertake pilgrimages. The Hôtel-Dieu records are sufficiently detailed to reveal many of the names of the midwives and chambermaids employed in the birthing room as well as their rates of pay.[2]
Gaining experience and authority at the Hôtel-Dieu
Traditionally, pregnant women could be cared for at the institution some time ahead of their expected delivery date and remain there until after the birth of their child. As a charitable service, demand was especially high among the poor.
The women and men who published obstetrical texts in the early modern period cited their time at the Hôtel-Dieu as a sign of their deep knowledge and wide range of experiences. After all, there was no place in France in which one could hope to see such a large number of deliveries, and that presented such an ideal opportunity to understand the varied courses that childbirth could take.
Ambroise Pare 1573 courtesy of wikimedia commons
Ambroise Paré, a man of humble origins who became surgeon to a series of Valois kings, claimed that he spent three years working at the Hôtel-Dieu in the 1530s which allowed him to observe all manner of illness and injuries presented there.[3] His French-language treatise on obstetrics, Deux livres de chirurgie, de la génération de l'homme, & manière d'extraire les enfans hors du ventre de la mère (1573) based on his experiences became a highly influential text for the following generation but he did not, as is often claimed, teach in the Hôtel-Dieu nor did he open a school there. Indeed, it was the Hôtel-Dieu that had taught him.
Louise Bourgeois, midwife to Marie de Medici and the first of her profession to be published, claimed that part of her understanding of the human body came from reading Paré and from her midwifery experiences at the Hôtel-Dieu.[4] She published a series of obstetrical texts from 1609 to 1634, including documenting her deliveries of Marie de Medici's children while the royal physicians and surgeons, and Henri IV himself, waited beyond the door.
François Mauriceau as depicted in Traité des maladies des femmes grosses courtesy of wikimedia commons
In the mid-seventeenth century, surgeon to the king François Mauriceau published Des malades des femmes grosses (1668), likewise citing the "great number of deliveries" he had seen at the Hôtel-Dieu.[5]
Not long after, Marguerite du Tertre de La Marche, who worked as a midwife in the Hôtel-Dieu during the 1670s, had her own observations disseminated as Instruction familière et très facile, faite par questions et réponses, touchant toutes les choses principales qu'une sage-femme doit sçavoir pour l'exercice de son art (1677).
A century on, another midwife in the Hôtel-Dieu, Angélique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray, published an influential summary of her experiences: Abrégé de l'art des accouchemens (1759).[6] At Louis XV's request, she then travelled about the country training other women, using "the machine" – a malleable anatomical model of the parturient mother and infant.
Marie-Louise Lachapelle took over from her mother Marie Jonet as the midwife in charge at the Hôtel-Dieu in 1797 and had her Pratique des accouchemens ou Mémoires et observations choisies, sur les points les plus importans de l'art printed in 1821.
Paré had begun a tradition in French obstetrical publishing, demonstrating that the Hôtel-Dieu offered excellent opportunities to gain knowledge and authority in this sphere. It was an authority that enabled both women and men to access print, audiences, royal favour and influence over the practice of French obstetrics.
Scared to death? Men attending deliveries at the Hôtel-Dieu
In the wake of these accounts that claimed authority to write in part based on experience at the Hôtel-Dieu, requests to attend the facility from both women and men began to increase. Louise Bourgeois indicates in her works that her own daughter was training there around 1615. The governors, however, began to grow uneasy.
The Hôtel-Dieu had always had a policy of being discreet about this room and what went on inside. In a fifteenth-century charter, the room itself was described as being enclosed, secret, and out of the way so that the women confined there would not be visible.[7] After a series of scandals reached parlement in 1535 (including rumours that there had been pregnant nuns), even the nursing sisters were limited in their access, only being allowed entry if they were accompanied by an 'honest matron'.[8]
A century later, the Hôtel-Dieu had formalised some training for midwives however. It allowed a small handful of apprentice midwives to attend birth and to develop their skills for a set period, very much as Bourgeois had recommended.
However, midwives were not the only professionals seeking the benefits of observing the Hôtel-Dieu's activities. Paul Portal spent six years at the Hôtel-Dieu from 1657 to 1663 during his surgical apprenticeship. At the end of a long career in Paris, he published La pratique des accouchemens soutenue d'un grand nombre d'observations (1685).[9] Amongst other cases, he recalled an autopsy he had witnessed of a woman who had died shortly after giving birth at the Hôtel-Dieu many years earlier. This had revealed that some pieces of the afterbirth had not been expelled after the delivery.[10] Such a conclusion typically had damaging ramifications for the midwives concerned. Indeed it was just such a finding from the royal surgeons and physicians that had caused Louise Bourgeois to be publicly called incompetent many years earlier.
Certainly the Hôtel-Dieu's own records during this period revealed that a series of deaths among new mothers had raised serious concerns. The governors assembled the six physicians servicing the institution to investigate. They discovered such gangrenous and infected tissue in the wombs of their bodies "that it was not possible to know for sure if this stemmed from the fault and ignorance of the midwife or from some bad constellation [of factors], this last being possible seeing as a large number of bad deliveries have occurred in the town".[11] Madame de Billy, the midwife in charge at the time, must have breathed a heavy sigh of relief.
Interestingly, during his time at the institution, when in 1660 Portal had approached the governors with a request to observe live deliveries, the governors hesitated and one member argued that "such permissions were most prejudicial to the health, even the lives, of women in labour, there being some who had died from the horror that they had of being seen in this state by men". [12]
He argued that they "should rather close the door entirely to these permissions than to suffer deadly accidents because of it". The governors decided therefore that henceforth permission would be strictly limited, and that those given it would not be permitted "to approach women in labour unless they have consented beforehand." The woman in charge of the Hôtel-Dieu was thus charged with the duty to "know the sentiments of the women before they are in labour".[13]
Just seven years later, the governors' deliberations recorded another, perhaps more awkward, request that appeared to come directly from Louis XIV himself. The king's surgeon, Charles-François Félix de Tassy, had asked to attend and practice deliveries in the Hôtel-Dieu. The governors debated what to do, "considering his merits and his employment with the King who wishes this", before deciding that they would allow Félix de Tassy permission as long as he did not deliver or see deliver any woman "if she exhibits any sign of repugnance, however slight".[14]
The story of the Hôtel-Dieu still contains many of the features we've come to associate with early modern birthing politics – the steady imposition of male expertise over previously female culture and space, and the influence of royal authority filtering down to change practices for better and worse more broadly.
But these records appear to show that the march of professional men into the delivery room at the Hôtel-Dieu, at least for regular deliveries as opposed to cases requiring emergency intervention or autopsies, was rather slower and more complicated perhaps than the claims of men's published works might suggest. Women's own perspectives and experiences as practitioners were recognised and valued in and outside the institution throughout the early modern period. And perhaps more surprisingly even the poorest woman who came to have her child at the Hôtel-Dieu had an opinion and feelings that were expected to be not only heard but respected.
Susan Broomhall is Professor of Early Modern History at The University of Western Australian and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. She researches women and gender in early modern France, the Low Countries, England and Scotland with a special interest in emotions, healthcare, poverty and marginalised groups. She is currently researching emotions in Catherine de Medici's epistolary practice and completing a history of the sixteenth-century French poor.
[1] See Ernest Coyecque, L'Hotel-Dieu de Paris au Moyen Age, 2 vols (Paris: Champion, 1891, 1889); Susan Broomhall, Women's Medical Work in Early Modern France (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004), chapter 3.
[2] On the differentiation in rates of pay over the course of the century, see Broomhall, "Charitable Medicine: The provision of health care in the sixteenth century Hôtel-Dieu de Paris," Le Cabinet du curieux: Culture, savoirs, religion de l'Antiquité à l'Ancien Régime, Ed. Witold Konstanty Pietrzak, Magdalena Kozluk (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2013), 145-160.
[3] On Paré, see W.B. Hamby, Ambroise Paré, Surgeon of the Renaissance (St. Louis: W.H. Green, 1967)
[4] On Bourgeois, see Alison Klairmont Lingo, "Print's Role in the Politics of Women's Health Care in early modern France,' in Culture and Identity in Early Modern Europe (1500-1800): Essays in Honor of Natalie Zemon Davis, (eds) Barbara Diefendorf and Carla Hesse (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993), pp. 203-21; Wendy Perkins, Midwifery and Medicine in Early Modern France: Louise Bourgeois (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1996); Broomhall, Women's Medical Work, chapters 5 and 7; Lianne McTavish, Childbirth and the Display of Authority in Early Modern France (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005), and editions of her work in French, François Rouget and Colette Winn (ed.) Récit véritable de la naissance de Messeigneurs et dames les enfans de France (Geneva: Droz, 2000), and forthcoming in English, Alison Klairmont Lingo (ed. and intro.) Stephanie O'Hara (trans.) Observations diverses sur la sterilite. perte de fruit & foecondité , accouchements et maladies des femmes et enfantz nouveaux naiz (Paris, 1609, 1617, 1626). (Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies Publications)
[5] Mauriceau is discussed by P.M. Dunn, "Francois Mauriceau (1637-1709) and maternal posture for parturition," Archives of Disease in Childhood, 66(1) 1991, pp. 78–79; McTavish, Childbirth and the Display of Authority. On other men writing in this domain at the period, see Valerie Worth-Stylianou (ed. and trans), Pregnancy and Birth in Early Modern France. Treatises by caring physicians and surgeons (1581-1625), translation and critical edition of treatises by François Rousset, Jean Liebault, Jacques Guillemeau, Jacques Duval and Louis de Serres (Toronto: Iter Press University of Toronto, 2013) and her website: http://www.birthingtales.org
[6] Nina Rattner Gelbart, The King's Midwife: A History and Mystery of Madame du Coudray (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999)
[7] Henriette Carrier, Origines de La Maternité de Paris: Les Maitresses Sages-Femmes et l'Office des Accouchées de l'ancien Hôtel-Dieu (1378-1796) (Paris: Georges Steinhal, 1888)
[8] On these scandals, see Coyecque; Broomhall, Women's Medical Work, chapter 3; Lisa Keane Elliott, "'Big mouth, big belly, fat pig!': Tumults and Troublemakers in the Sixteenth-Century Paris Hôtel-Dieu", in Violence and Emotions in Early Modern Europe (eds) Susan Broomhall and Sarah Finn (London: Routledge forthcoming)
[9] P.M. Dunn, "Paul Portal (1630-1703), man-midwife of Paris," Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and Neonatal Edition, 91(5) 2006, pp. 385–387.
[10] Case discussed in McTavish, "Concealing Spectacles: Childbirth and Visuality in Early Modern France," Editing (Out?) The Image, (eds) Mark Cheetham, Elizabeth Legge, and Catherine Soussloff (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008), p. 101.
[11] My translation. Léon Brièle, Notes pour servir à l'histoire de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Paris (Paris: Ernest Thorin, 1870) p. 30.
[12] Brièle, 35.
[13] Brièle, 35-6.
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