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Russia to start development of nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in 2023 — source
Tue, 05/07/2019 - 11:41 — hh01
The ship will have a nuclear energy unit and displacement of about 70,000 tonnes
Research and development (R&D) work to create the first Russian nuclear-powered aircraft carrier will start in 2023; it was included in the state arms program. A source in the shipbuilding industry told TASS about it on Tuesday.
"R&D work on the new aircraft carrier was included in the operating state arms program by 2027 and will start in 2023," the source said.
He specified that "the ship will have a nuclear energy unit and displacement of about 70,000 tonnes." The source did not specify the estimate cost of the work and the period of the ship's construction.
The United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) told TASS that they "haven't received any design specifications for the given ship from the Russian Defense Ministry yet." The corporation noted that it did not stop the development of proposals on advanced ships, including the aircraft carrier. "In case of receiving an order from the Defense Ministry, the corporation's enterprises will be ready to implement it," the USC added.
The Russian Navy earlier stated that the Russian fleet expects to receive an advanced aircraft carrier with a nuclear energy unit by late 2030. The Defense Ministry noted that the contract to build the aircraft carrier may be signed by late 2025.
The Russian fleet currently has one aircraft carrier - the heavy oil-fueled aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov. It is being repaired and upgraded to rejoin the fleet in 2021. The Soviet Union started the construction of the Ulyanovsk nuclear aircraft carrier in Nikolayev, but the dissolution of the country led to the suspension of this work, and the partially built hull was disassembled.


Millennials are crucial to the growth and long-term success of the insurance industry – so how can recruiters attract the new generation to the market? To answer this query, the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF) brought together the young minds of today's insurance industry to foster a discourse on millennial recruitment – and retention.
The goal of the summit was to release a white paper on how to bolster the industry with an energized employment base.
The event was hosted at Mayer Brown LLP's New York office.


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British Muslims will live with an intolerable burden of uncertainty under new counter-terrorism bill
By Tarek Younis
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 11:55 AM UTC
Imagine a small, rat-infested town. Everyone is complaining about the rats and it dawns on the mayor she might gain some political advantage from dealing with the issue. So, she poisons the town's water. Lo, all the rats die. But there are side effects: the poisoned water is making people sick. Not everyone, mind you – not those who can afford bottled water. Just those who rely on the town's water supply.
Some strategies can have devastating consequences despite their best intentions. This what is happening with the UK government's counter-terrorism strategy, and in particular the Prevent duty, which puts an onus on those who work in public institutions such as schools, universities or hospitals to report individuals they suspect may be vulnerable to radicalisation. As the parable of poisoned water suggests, though the UK may package its counter-terrorism strategy for all people, its consequences for British Muslims have been exceedingly disproportionate.
The Prevent policy's negative impact on the lives of British Muslims has been well documented. Now, with new counter-terrorism legislation currently making its way through parliament, the poison will soon be more potent than ever.
Researchers have pinpointed how an inability to tolerate uncertainty is a central part of anxiety. When a student feels anxious while studying for an exam, for example, it's because of their inability to tolerate the uncertainty of failure. And it's that uncertainty with the way British Muslims will be treated under the UK's counter-terrorism apparatus which is making them increasingly anxious.
Ever since I've become known in some communities as a cultural-political-Muslim psychologist (take your pick) – and therefore "safe" to talk to – I've heard dozens of stories about how scared Muslims are about sharing their vulnerabilities in mental health institutions. They fear their suffering will be politicised and their bodies viewed with suspicion. And this was before the new Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill.
Pre-criminal acts
The goverment's new bill will make it a terrorist offence to recklessly – or unknowingly – express support for banned organisations. This conflates the already very elusive process of radicalisation with that of an actual criminal offence.
Imagine a young person who expresses their wish to see sharia law imposed in the Middle East, but who doesn't make any explicit mention of a particular terrorist group. The legal scholar Clive Walker argued in written evidence submitted to MPs that under the proposed changes to the law, such a sentiment might become a criminal offence. Yet support for "sharia law in the Middle East" – and its presumed denial of democracy – is precisely the sort of behaviour Prevent might associate with radicalisation or extremism. In this way, the new bill would make the line between pre-criminal and criminal actions ever more uncertain.
As the purview of Prevent increasingly overlaps with that of actual terrorism offences, it's likely that government rhetoric around radicalisation and non-violent extremism will shift accordingly. This could mean, for example, an increasing focus on the sort of everyday thoughts and behaviours which might lead a teenager to click – just once – on a terrorist website. Aptly named the "Medusa Offence" by the solicitor Nazir Hafesi, this one-click offence would be punishable with up to 15 years in prison. This pathologises and criminalises the very curiosity that is the hallmark of youth. But not everyone's curiosities will be affected – British Muslims will be disproportionately burdened by the uncertain boundaries of such pre-criminality.
Rising uncertainty
At a recent community event I attended in London, where British Muslims were asked to voice their thoughts on the Prevent duty, a 17-year-old Muslim girl admitted she had been afraid of speaking her mind – afraid and uncertain about the repercussions – for years. It's impossible to measure the impact of the silence of an adolescent girl, uncertain of her own voice as a result of such policies. No set of numbers can account for a perpetual state of insecurity, the realisation that your voice does not equal those of others, the profound experience of injustice.
Muslims are regularly associated with the threat of terrorism in public consciousness. The racism inherent in this association is particularly salient in the wake of the Brexit referendum campaign, when images of non-white immigrants invading Britain were invoked as potential security threats. Such images are deeply rooted within a colonial history which has long demonised the "other", and a national angst which views the cultural integration of Muslims as an issue of national security.
Colourblindness is when we assume race is irrelevant, when it isn't. A white body will never conjure the same threat as a brown body in the British public's imagination. The public association between Muslims and terror will persist despite the Prevent policy's best efforts to render radicalisation colourblind and remind everyone that "white people can be the bad guys, too." The solution to racism is not colourblindness, it's recognising the racial hierarchies which persist to this day – and that the post-racial society is a myth.
If the new bill is introduced, British Muslims will live with increasing uncertainty, needing to not only monitor their own intentions but manage the gaze of others too. Of course, nobody can ever fully determine how others see them, and so uncertainty will haunt their every move. If anxiety is the intolerance of uncertainty, then we can expect a great deal of anxiety to come.

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The Hotel du Plat d'Etain is a three star hotel that is situated in the 3rd Arrondissement of Paris located in the heart of the Marais area, and they will be able to welcome you with a warm and friendly place for your stay.
You will be pleased to know that located within only a short walking distance of this Paris hotel you can be visiting places such as the Canal Saint Martin, the Pompidou Centre, which is also known as the Beaubourg, as well as the Musee Picasso, which is the museum of the artist Pablo Picasso and the Place des Vosges to name but a few.
Other Paris museums in this area include the Musee Carnavalet, Musee de la Poupee, which is a doll museum that also has a repair shop for rare dolls and bears and the Musee des Arts et Metiers, which is great place to see many different gadgets and technical instruments from times gone by.
But if you want to experience something different for an evening out, but is within walking distance of the Hotel du Plat d'Etain, then you could go to 404 restaurant with its Moroccan theme and then venture next door to the Andy Wahloo Moroccan bar and nightclub for an unusual experience in complete contrast to the traditional French cuisine and way of life.
The reception is open 24 hours a day and serviced by multilingual staff who not only speak French, but also English, German, Italian and Spanish.
They are more than happy to help your organise your stay by booking shows making reservations at the many Paris restaurants, arranging airport transfers and much more.
This Paris hotel provides a fax service and there is a paying Internet terminal, plus they have a luggage room, a safe box available and an iron and ironing board available.
There is a buffet breakfast served in the old fashioned style dining room from 7.30am to 10am but it can also be served in your room upon request.
Every room at the Hotel du Plat d'Etain has a private bathroom with either a bath or shower and includes a hair dryer and bathrobes. The room is equipped with a direct dial telephone, a desk and WiFi Internet access, Satelite TV, mini bar and a personal safe.


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In order to address malware, IT organizations must take two steps: Prevent malware from entering the network in the first place, and stop its spread once it has, inevitably, made its way inside the network. Perimeter devices such as firewalls, proxies, and gateways can be used to prevent initial intrusion, while intrusion detection systems (IDS) are used to identify malware that has entered the network so that steps can be taken to stop its spread.
The purpose of testing your network against malware is to verify that the systems described above are working properly to detect and prevent the spread of malware. Two types of testing are needed in order to test these systems: Perimeter testing and malware detection testing. With both types of testing, the general approach is to use test equipment that realistically replicates the corresponding malware behaviors.
The most basic of these tests takes place at the perimeter of your network. In this phase of testing, security devices, firewalls, proxies and gateways should all be tested for their ability to identify and keep out malware. To test these devices, network test equipment is used to send realistic malware traffic and determine whether the malware is stopped.
Don't let malware catch you off guard. Make sure you have the proper security systems in place, and then make sure you are performing both perimeter testing and malware detection testing.


When I was younger, we had meatloaf at least every other week. My dad was a real meat and potatoes kinda guy, and meatloaf was a meal that my sisters and I could put together after school before my parents were home from work.
Come to think of it, meatloaf was probably the first thing I ever learned to cook. And the first thing I successfully cooked until college.
I vaguely remember the recipe my dad would give step by step over the phone. A pound or so of ground beef, one egg, salt and pepper….and roughly a whole sleeve of saltines. Some ketchup, maybe another egg…I just know the end result wasn't quite as healthy as the recipe I'm about to give you today.
I've learned that meatloaf wasn't only a favorite in my family. Kyle is a big fan of meatloaf. Which is great, because it's easy to make! This is the best meatloaf recipe I've ever eaten. Full of flavor and delicious!
Place panko breadcrumbs and savory seasoning mix into magic bullet (or food processor) and blend together until panko is more finely ground. Mix in with ground turkey in a medium sized bowl.
Chop red onion, and place in magic bullet to puree. Add and mix into ground turkey.
Add thyme, 2 tablespoons pureed tomato, mustard, salt, and egg to turkey. Season with generous shakes of pepper. Mix together.
Place meatloaf into a 9 x 5 non-stick bread pan or desired dish.
Mix the egg white and one tablespoon of pureed tomato together, and spoon over the top of the loaf. Place in oven. Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes, until internal temperature of meatloaf is 180 degrees. I suggest checking after 1 hour, then checking every 5 to 10 minutes until it reaches 180.
1 serving is 6 Weight Watchers points.
You can make a lower sodium version of this meatloaf by skipping the 1/4 teaspoon of salt. That would give you 187.8 mg sodium.
You can also spice up the regular meatloaf recipe with this Mexican version!
Meatloaf – yes or no? Was it a common dinner dish for you growing up?
I used to cook so much with ground turkey but haven't in a while, this makes me want to go buy some to play around with.
We always have turkey meatloaf. I love it! But I have never added a seasoning packet to it – will give it a try!
Let me know if you like it! It's one of my favorite seasoning blends, found right in the seasonings aisle!
I kind of love meatloaf. My mom used to make it all of the time but just with the meat and breadcrumps and spices…and I loved cold meatloaf/ketchup sandwiches!
I've never had a meatloaf sandwich… now I'm curious!
I don't know why meatloaf used to get a bad reputation, it's so flipping delicious – I cannot control myself around it. And this dish would be gone in about 5 milliseconds!
Haha, it did, didn't it?! It's not like fruitcake or anything (which I've never had, just another one of those 'ew' foods?) It's pretty easy to eat the whole thing!
I can't even remember the last time I made meatloaf with ground beef – it's been a while!
Yum! A big yes to meatloaf! I had it a lot growing up, and it's still a comfort food for me.
Meatloaf and mashed potatoes, that'd be a great comfort dish for me!
I do love meatloaf, however it wasn't a huge staple in my home growning up. My dad actually despises meatloaf. Crazy man!
You have sparked a meatloaf craving- Every time I've tried it, it's been a miss…too dry, too moist, too crumbly. This looks awesome thought- lets' #wholearman this thing. Mum used to make one version growing up with hard boiled eggs in it!
This recipe looks so good! I love meatloaf because it reminds me of my childhood.. 🙂 I know my husband would love this dish too!


This time last year I was finding my feet during my first week living in Beijing. I can hardly believe it's been a year since that fateful adventure and at the same time I'm pining to get back out there. There is something very alluring about the adventure of living somewhere which is so foreign (for want of a better word) and developing at such a fast rate.
That said, I don't particular envy my friends in China right now suffering severe snow blizzards and ice storms. What makes it all the more worse is that the bad weather has come just as the time people are heading off for the annual spring festival. For many migrant workers this the only time of year that they have the chance to head home and see their families which for some is now an impossibility. Many have been stuck at rail stations for days.
If anyone is looking for a highly-motivated English-speaking business analyst/technologist/project manager in China please get in touch!
Although we do not have as Google's influence, but we still intentions in helping others.
Although our heartfelt best wishes to every one of the friends outside of work can come home safe and sound New Year!


This dazzling view looks beyond gigantic storms near Saturn's south pole to the small but clear disc of Tethys (1,060 kilometers, or 659 miles, across). Clouds and ribbons of gas swirl about in the planet's atmosphere in the foreground, while a tremendous chasm is visible on the icy moon.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera on Oct. 18, 2004, at a distance of 3.9 million kilometers (2.4 million miles) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 61 degrees. The view is in wavelengths of visible red light centered at 619 nanometers. The image scale is 23 kilometers (14 miles) per pixel.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team is based at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.


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CoD: SuperEvan & Newbz Set New Warzone Duo-Quads World Record
They've just set a new World Record, but it isn't without controversy.
Warzone World Records have always been something players have aspired to hold. Since the integration of Black Ops Cold War weapons, these have been broken multiple times. This is mainly due to the new DMR-14 meta, which allows players to absolutely melt anyone from any distance. If you're not using the DMR yourself, you stand no chance.
Last night, SuperEvan and Newbz set an unbelievable World Record, boasting 107 kills as a Duo in a Quads match. This absolutely smashes the previous record by 22 kills.
Evan put up a monstrous 60 kills himself, while Newbz wasn't far behind with 47. As two of the best Warzione players in the world, this isn't surprising. However, some of the community have taken to Twitter to spread accusations of cheating.
Cheating accusations
New Warzone apps have come to the surface recently, allowing players to see the difficulty of their lobby. The most recent, sbmmwarzone.com allows you to see any players matches, and the difficulty of the lobby in terms of K/D.
People were quick to point out that this World Record was achieved in a lobby with an average K/D of 0.70.
While there is no way of proving whether the players cheated by using other accounts with lower stats or a VPN. This World Record will forever have an asterisk next to it. Whether they purposely made it into the lobby, or if they got lucky, its still an incredible feat to archive 107 kills as a Duo in a Squads match.
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Evans plots Top Gear change for BBCWW
The new presenter of BBC Worldwide's motoring franchise Top Gear, Chris Evans, plans to bring more studio elements to the format when his first season in charge launches next year, as he says he must make the show sufficiently different to the previous Jeremy Clarkson-led incarnation. Speaking to journalists in Cannes, Evans (pictured) said former […]
BBC taking Top Gear's Chris Evans to Cannes
BBC Worldwide is taking Chris Evans to MIPCOM next month to promote the new season of Top Gear, which he will host. Top Gear is one of Worldwide's biggest shows, selling around the world as a finished programme and a format. Evans, a well-known TV and radio presenter in the UK, will head a new […]
Apple, Amazon, and the exclusivity paradox
Rob Gallagher, director of research and analysis, media and entertainment at research house Ovum, muses on the reasoning behind and potential impact of Amazon Prime Instant Video's reported £150 million deal to acquire the service of the former Top Gear presenting trio. If content is king, then exclusive TV is the king of content. That's […]
'Apple set to challenge Netflix for originals'
Technology giant Apple is set to shake up the content world, with a report from the US claiming it is to formally enter the original programming business. Variety cites sources close to the Cupertino-based media conglomerate suggesting "preliminary conversations" with Hollywood executives have taken place around original programming efforts. The scale of Apple's ambition is […]
Bezos: 'Clarkson series very, very, very expensive'
Jeff Bezos has said Amazon's upcoming motoring series with the former Top Gear team will be 'very, very, very expensive". The Amazon founder and CEO told UK newspaper The Telegraph that recruiting the Top Gear team, who left the BBC show in the wake of a scandal that involved star presenter Jeremy Clarkson hitting a […]
New-look Top Gear names Wilman replacement
Former Big Breakfast and Don't Forget Your Toothbrush producer Lisa Clark will reunite with presenter Chris Evans on the new-look BBC petrol-head series Top Gear. Clark and Evans (pictured) have worked together on various shows through her 25 year career, and she will now be executive producer of Top Gear, which said goodbye to former […]
Amazon signs Top Gear team for motoring show
Amazon Prime Instant Video has won the battle to sign former Top Gear presenters Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond. Amazon fought off competition from the likes of SVOD rival Netflix and UK commercial broadcaster ITV for the sought-after trio (pictured above). Former Top Gear executive producer Andy Wilman also comes as part of […]
Chris Evans takes Clarkson's Top Gear post
Chris Evans will succeed Jeremy Clarkson as presenter of the BBC's money-spinning petrol-head fact-ent series Top Gear. Evans (pictured), currently co-presenter of daily series The One Show and a BBC Radio 2 breakfast DJ, has signed a three-year deal to present the show, which BBC Productions will produce for UK channel BBC Two. Former presenting […]
Clarkson 'planning car show comeback'
Former Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson (above middle) is plotting a replacement petrolhead series after being axed from the BBC show for hitting a producer. Writing in his Sunday Times column, Clarkson said: "I have lost my baby but I shall create another. I don't know who the other parent will be or what the […]
Official: BBC drops Top Gear's Clarkson
The BBC will not renew the contract of controversial Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson, throwing the future of the show into doubt. BBC director general Tony Hall was faced with mounting pressure over Clarkson's future after stories surfaced the presenter (above, middle) had punched a senior Top Gear producer in a row over food provision. […]


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from __future__ import print_function

import os.path, sys
parent = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))))
sys.path.append(os.path.dirname(parent))

from matchmaker import db
from matchmaker.matches import MatchCreatorJob

if __name__ == "__main__":
    print(" Checking to see if we need new matches...")
    job = MatchCreatorJob(db)
    match = job.run()
    if match:
        print(" added match w/ GUID of {}".format(match))
    print(" done.")

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The Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME), is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2002. Located in Half Moon Bay, California, its mission is to make learning and knowledge sharing participatory, equitable, and open.

Areas of study
ISKME's work is divided into divided into five main areas, which include open education research, field-building and leadership development, platform and tools, library and information sciences, and an innovation and design lab.

History

ISKME was established in 2002 by Lisa Petrides, formerly a professor in Teachers College at Columbia University. ISKME's initial research focused on the capacity of college faculty and administrators to use educational data to inform decision-making as well as knowledge management in the philanthropic sector. In 2002, ISKME conducted a study for grantmakers in education on the sharing of data and information among foundations. In 2003, ISKME published a monograph on knowledge management in education. In 2004, with support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, ISKME expanded to include research and training in the development of open educational resources, conducted in partnership with organizations including the Monterey Institute of Technology, Connexions, Teachers Domain, Free High School Science Texts, Siyavula in South Africa and Training Commons in India.
In 2005, ISKME engaged in research partnerships with schools of education and training programs for school principals, including work with the San Francisco School Alliance and the University of California's Principal Leadership Institute. In 2007, ISKME launched OER Commons, a digital repository of open teaching and learning resources. That same year, Petrides was one of 27 open education leaders invited to an international gathering in Cape Town, South Africa, which produced the 2007 Cape Town Open Education Declaration. This declaration laid the groundwork for other international open educational resources policy agreements, including the Recommendation on Open Educational Resources adopted, with the support of ISKME, by UNESCO's General Conference at its 40th session in 2019. In 2009, ISKME hosted its inaugural Big Ideas Fest, held in Half Moon Bay, California. In 2014, OER Commons was rebranded as a curated, public digital library, and ISKME developed one of its first microsites when it began managing the National Science Digital Library.  ISKME also developed hubs, customizable, branded resource centers on OER Commons.  ISKME currently supports states, nations, and other entities through a range of open education services.

ISKME's partnerships include supporting Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Undersecretary of Education Martha Kanter in launching the 2013 Open Book Project in the Middle East. ISKME also established OER partnerships in K-12 and higher education with OpenStax, NAACP, the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO), UNESCO on their ICT Competency Framework for Teachers, and the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U).  In 2018, ISKME was selected to partner with the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology (OET) on its #GoOpen initiative. OET has since sunsetted its federal leadership of the #GoOpen initiative and passed the baton to ISKME to foster ongoing national engagement in K-12 open education.

San Francisco public television station KQED and Roadtrip Nation have been co-sponsors of the Big Ideas Fest.

Awards
ISKME was named an Education Laureate by the San Jose Tech Museum of Innovation in 2007 for OER Commons. In December 2010, ISKME was named a finalist in the Qatar Foundation World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) Awards for its OER Commons teacher professional development programs.

In 2011, ISKME won the Award for Bodies which Influence Policy from the Open Educational Quality Initiative (OPAL), a consortium that includes UNESCO, the International Council for Open and Distance Education, the European Foundation for Quality in e-Learning, and several European universities.
In 2011 ISKME announced a matching grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to support the Big Ideas in Beta program, focused on incubating innovation in education.

In 2017, the American Association of School Librarians recognized ISKME's OER Commons as one of the nation's best websites for teaching and learning.

See also
 Open educational practices

References

External links
 ISKME, in California, United States
 Helping Educators Determine the Quality of Open Education Resources

Educational organizations based in the United States
Education in San Mateo County, California
Half Moon Bay, California
Organizations based in California

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Asylum-seekers struggle with new wait environments, court procedures in South Texas
by: Sandra Sanchez
Posted: Oct 2, 2019 / 11:48 AM EDT / Updated: Oct 3, 2019 / 12:19 PM EDT
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (Border Report) — The U.S. Border Patrol's Rio Grande Valley Sector has for several years been the busiest for migrant apprehensions in the entire U.S. Southwest border.
Fifty percent of all illegal drugs cross the Southwest border in this region and 40% of all undocumented immigrants cross in just these 77 miles, RGV Border Patrol Sector Chief Rodolfo Karisch stated recently in federal court.
Since the migrant surge began in 2014, U.S. immigration agents in South Texas detained migrants at holding facilities spaced throughout Starr, Hidalgo, Willacy and Cameron counties, as they processed their asylum claims. This also included giving migrants a Credible Fear interview to determine whether they had cause to apply for asylum in the United States because of a fear of returning to their home country.
The majority were released after a few days, under an Obama-era policy of "catch and release." They were given court documents and Notice to Appear papers indicating when and where their federal immigration court proceedings would be held. Failure to appear at these hearings could result in an order for deportation to be issued by a federal immigration judge.
The Trump administration on July 17 began to implement a new policy for migrants apprehended in South Texas that has completely changed their process of applying for asylum here. The change comes as the average wait time for U.S. federal immigration court hearings is now at 700 days — or about two years, according to Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, which tracks federal immigration court cases. President Trump has also repeatedly promised to close the border to this influx of migrants, who are mostly coming from the Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.
The new judicial tent facility where Migrant Protocol Protection immigration cases are being heard is seen from across the Rio Grande in Matamoros, Mexico, on Sept. 14, 2019. (Border Report Photo/Sandra Sanchez).
The Gateway judicial facility is seen from across the street in Brownsville, Texas, in this Sept. 14, 2019, photo. (Border Report Photo/Sandra Sanchez).
Journalists and the public are forbidden from entering the Gateway judicial facility in Brownsville, Texas. (Border Report Photo/Sandra Sanchez).
The new judicial tent facility erected at the base of the Gateway International Bridge as seen on Sept. 14, 2019. (Border Report Photo/Sandra Sanchez).
The new policy is called Migrant Protection Protocols, commonly called "Remain in Mexico" or "Wait in Mexico." This policy forces migrants to wait in Mexico for their U.S. immigration court hearings. This policy had been used in San Diego and El Paso, but never before in South Texas where the vast numbers of migrants are apprehended.
Now, migrants that come into South Texas must wait in Mexico before they can make their U.S. asylum claims.
Immigration advocates say migrants also are not readily being given a Credible Fear interview at the time of their arrest or prior to their removal, which had been the previous policy. Now, those questions seem to come from U.S. federal immigration judges, who are asking migrants if they have a fear of returning to their country when they appear for their first asylum hearings.
The courtrooms where these asylum hearings are being held are also different from the past. Migrants now appear before a U.S. federal immigration judge via videoconference from a new judicial tent city that was recently built at the base of the Gateway International Bridge in Brownsville. The federal immigration judges are housed at courtrooms in Harlingen, Texas, about 30 miles away.
Read Border Report stories on the first asylum hearings held in this new facility and media being barred from entering the facility.
Neither media nor the public has been permitted into this new judicial tent facility. Only lawyers whose clients have cases may enter, and only on the days that their clients are in court.
Efren Olivares is a racial and economic justice program director for the Texas Civil Rights Project. (Border Report Photo/Sandra Sanchez).
"The lack of access is just one more way in which this entire process is a flagrant disregard of the rule of law and due process," said Efren Olivares, racial and economic justice program director for the Texas Civil Rights Project. "Now it's closed to the public and it's just counter to our justice system."
New policy 'reduces the incentive'
Based on Border Report interviews with immigration advocates and MPP migrants who were apprehended throughout the four-county South Texas region, it appears that following their apprehension and processing they are being driven by officials with U.S. Customs and Border Protection and/or U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to Brownsville, where they are dropped off at the Gateway International Bridge and told to wait in Matamoros, Mexico.
ICE Acting Director Matt Albence said his agency has released "close to 450,000 family units this year," and he said this new MPP policy "reduces the incentive" for these migrants to come and seek asylum when they do not meet the criteria.
"So there is an impact as far as restoring integrity to our system," Albence said at a news conference following a media tour of the South Texas Residential Family Detention Facility on Aug. 23 in Dilley, Texas.
Cramped, smelly and dirty tent encampment
Upwards of 600 migrants who have been released to Mexico to wait for their asylum claims are now sleeping at a makeshift tent facility on the streets of Matamoros on the other side of the Gateway bridge. It is cramped, dirty, smelly and migrants say it is dangerous.
Children sit on a curb eating their breakfast on Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019, in Matamoros, Mexico. They are part of 600 asylum-seeking migrants living on the streets in a tent encampment. (Border Report Photo/Sandra Sanchez).
These families from Honduras have been living in tents beside one another on the streets of Matamoros, Mexico, since early August. (Border Report Photo/Sandra Sanchez).
An asylum-seeker sits beside her tent in Matamoros, Mexico, on Sept. 14, 2019. (Border Report Photo/Sandra Sanchez).
Children play together near lines of clothes hanging on a fence near the tent encampment in Matamoros, Mexico, on Aug. 22, 2019, at the base of the Gateway International Bridge. There are only two portapotties for 600 people. (Border Report Photo/Sandra Sanchez).
Some migrants say they sleep in shifts to stand guard because they heard that children get snatched in the night from tents, never to be seen again. There are reports of women forced into prostitution, fights and families vanishing overnight.
They might be returning to their country, but it is unclear what is happening to them.
Although the agreement with Mexico for MPP states that Mexico will provide humanitarian care to safeguard the migrants, immigration advocates say it is not happening.
U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela, D-Texas.
"What Mexico can agree to do is a lot different from what Mexico can do. And it's pretty clear to me that Mexico may be very well intended in terms of trying to protect and take care of these people, but they're clearly not capable of doing it," U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela, D-Texas, whose district includes Brownsville, told Border Report last month. "Many of the volunteers are involved with taking food just to feed people on the other side. It's become clear to me that it's just an inhumane situation and that on the Mexican side they are in no way prepared to take care of those people."
Read a previous Border Report story on the migrant tent camp in Matamoros here.
ICE Acting Director Matt Albence spoke with reporters on Aug. 23, 2019, at the South Texas Residential Family Detention Center in Dilley, Texas. (Border Report Photo/Sandra Sanchez). Read a Border Report story on the Dilley tour.
Albence stands behind the new policy and said that "90% of all family units and people who come from the Northern Triangle do not meet the legal thresholds to apply for asylum."
"Everybody is entitled to their own opinion on how things should be done, what policies should be enacted. But, they're not entitled to their own facts," Albence said. "There is a lot of ugly rhetoric that is out there with regards to my agency, DHS as a whole and my agency and people who are upholding the law and vilifying us for doing the jobs that we were sworn to do."
Apprehensions drop in Rio Grande Valley
The latest statistics released by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol show a decrease by nearly 25% of apprehensions on the Southwest border. Through August, the total number of asylum-seekers who were apprehended and found to be inadmissible was 64,006. That's a 22% decline from 82,055 in July, and a 56% decline since the May peak of 144,255, according to the Sept. 10 news release.
"Recent domestic policy initiatives and international agreements to address legal and illegal immigration have contributed to the decline, including: agreements with Guatemala to address irregular migration (and) the Migrant Protection Protocols with Mexico, the final rule regarding non-Mexican asylum seekers at the southern border," the release said.
Karisch testified on Sept. 6 that apprehensions in the Rio Grande Valley were way down, and holding facilities were filled only to 30 percent of capacity. In testimony during a preliminary injunction hearing — in a federal class-action lawsuit, which 16 migrants brought against him and others in the Trump Administration — Karisch said apprehensions were averaging 500 per day, down from 1,700 per day in May and June.
Read about Karisch's testimony in this previous Border Report story.
'How long can we live like this?'
For two months, Carolina Caranza, 21, of Honduras, has been living in a tent with her 2-year-old daughter, Emmy, on the streets of Matamoros. During a Border Report visit to the encampment on Sept. 14, Caranza said she was desperate to leave this situation. But, she said her first U.S. federal immigration court date isn't scheduled until Oct. 21 at the Gateway facility.
Carolina Caranza, 21, of Honduras, shares her one bottle of water for the day on Sept. 14 with her 2-year-old daughter, Emmy. They have been living on the streets of Matamoros since early August and their first U.S. federal immigration court hearing is scheduled for Oct. 21. (Border Report Photo/Sandra Sanchez).
Every morning, volunteers bring bottled water to them, but each family gets only one bottle. Caranza is still nursing Emmy, and she must do so despite drinking very small amounts of fluids throughout the day, even as the temperatures soar into the high 90s and sometimes 100 degrees.
They bathe in the filthy Rio Grande and hang their clothes on the fence to dry. They use the banks of the river as their bathroom and say they won't enter the two porta potties that are set up for the 600 people because they fear it is full of disease.
They have befriended Fernando Montoya and his family. Together, they watch each others' backs and one man always stands guard.
"We are companions," Caranza told Border Report in Spanish on Sept. 14. "But how long can we live like this? We have nothing."
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This is my favorite night of the year. Everything is done. There is no more hustle and bustle or running around or tackling crowds… the kids are humming with excitement and their teeth are practically chattering with anticipation, and there is nothing now except putting on new jammies, reading the Christmas story, and tucking them into bed. They'll squirm and flip and flop and sleep will elude them for a while, and I'll collapse on the couch with only the lights of the tree glinting in the darkened living room. Once it's quiet, like every other parent I know, I'll tiptoe into hiding places and closets, and invite a little childhood magic into our lives.
I don't know how much longer they'll believe in fat magical elves, or in mama's ability to makes things beautiful. I don't know how much longer they will tumble down the stairs Christmas morning, a jumble of tangled hair, new jammies, and hearts racing with joy and excitement. But while I've still got it, I'm going to stop a moment, notice, and treasure it. Merry Christmas to you— wherever you may be, and whatever magic and love you can mine. Blessed be you and yours this holy night.
Autism is a developmental disorder, and with current medical knowledge and the best resources we have, is viewed as a brain developing in an atypical manner, believed to be already present before birth. Alone, it is not considered a mental illness, just variation within the human species. It is specific, defined variation though, with clinical markers and actual physiological differences within the brain itself. That's part of why it's not considered a mental illness.
Frequently autism can be accompanied by problems that are labeled as mental illness, but they are not necessarily chronic and/or linked. Autistic people are more likely to suffer depression and other neuro-chemical imbalances. In children this is particularly difficult to diagnose and treat.
Autistic children on the less severe end of the spectrum must learn to function within their personal variation, and must learn to read social cues and to interact with other people. Diagnosed children are frequently in therapy as early as two years old. Statistics show that the earlier intervention, occupational and physical therapy are started, where indicated, the better the long-term results. Autistic children are not categorically more prone to violence or harm, and depending on where they fall on the spectrum, frequently their difficulty communicating with typical children and adults is their largest barrier.
The most benign example of typical spectrum reactions and interaction in pop-culture is Sheldon Cooper on The Big Bang Theory. For a beautiful true-life example, I would suggest anyone interested in learning about children and adults with autism watch the HBO film "Temple Grandin". Grandin is a remarkable woman with autism who has reformed the animal industry in the United States and worldwide. If you prefer reading, I highly recommend John Elder Robison's book "Look Me in the Eye". Robison is another adult with autism who writes exquisitely about his own experience; he helped me understand my own son, and I hold him in high regard.
I am not a doctor. I am not a metal health professional. I am a mother with more than nine years now raising a child with autism. My opinion- while well considered and founded on research, reading, education and experience- is still only an opinion.
Only paltry, inadequate words. My children came home from school, and tears overflowed the corners of my eyes as I took each of their faces in my hands and kissed their warm, flushed cheeks, enfolding them in the embrace of a parent too aware of the fragility of life.
What to say? What wretchedly pitiful words can a mother give her children in the face of unspeakable wrong? The news will remain off, and I will carefully filter and protect them from what I can- illusory protection, moths-wing fragile. As certain as those parents in Connecticut did with their children this morning. And I will avert my eyes and choke down the swollen mess of my heart, and hold them tighter.
Yeah yeah yeah, I know. It's been insanely busy. I got a job. It's not making baklava, as shown above— that was yesterday's activity, between writing and knitting the last two socks of the holiday. I've been knitting. Did I tell you that? Anyway…It's only very part time, but it's the first regular income I've had since… well, before Jeffrey was born. Oh, I've had income- from books, patterns, freelance work, commissions, etc… but nothing on a monthly basis I could count on. It's not many hours, but it's work, and it's writing, and it's paid. So yay!
But what that also means is that I'm running around like a chicken with my head off, juggling waaaaay too many things for my taste. I know some folks like to be really busy— I'm not one of them. I value my down time, and I value having swaths of the clock where I can exhale and remember who I am. For me to feel sane, that's vital. So while the job might be small, reorganizing my time along with all the holiday hustle and bustle is making me the tiniest bit crazy.
What are your best cookie recipes for Christmas? I have another slab of baklava to make, as this is all being mailed out, and ditto the fudge. I got a recipe for salted brown butter Nutella chocolate chip cookies. I wish I could taste them, but they LOOK divine. I'm thinking along with the above, I'm going to add Sugar Cookies (of course), Wedding Cakes, Toffee and Ginger Snaps. Oh, and Rosettes. Know what those are? My mom used to make them when I was a kid, and she sent me the iron set. They're my favorite cookie ever, and I'll find a way to make them gluten free, come hell or high water.
I'll do a tutorial on them if you want- but you do have to have the irons- there IS no other way. Fried cookies…Yummmmmmmm…. How long will I have to stay on the eliptical to work those babies off? SO WORTH IT.
So anyway. I had to be in DC at Children's National Hospital; my six-year old daughter was seeing a specialist. Our appointment was at 11:20, and while it takes me about half an hour to get across the Potomic, I knew traffic would be heavier earlier, and I also factored in that I was heading to a part of town unfamiliar. I left the house with my daughter 2 hours and 20 minutes before our appointment. Should be enough, right? I even imagined getting there early and having time to duck into a cafe and grab a cup of chocolate or something cozy and Hallmark-y with my kid, who doesn't get a lot of one-on-one time with mom.
First, it was raining. That always caused people to forget how to drive, for some inexplicable reason, but I plugged the address into my trusty GPS with confidence, smugly noting the two-plus hours I had to make this happen. You know what's going to happen, don't you?
Abby and I pop on some Christmas carols and hit the freeway. 66 East is a nightmare during commute, but it's usually late morning when I head in and it's smooth and open. This time, so close to 9 am, I expect traffic, but there are two of us, and we should be fine. FYI, during commute hours, 66 inside the Beltway is entirely HOV. The WHOLE FREEWAY- not just a few lanes. So you best have a buddy with you or you are screwed.
The freeway wasn't so bad- yeah, we hit brake-lights around the Beltway interchange, and it was slower, but it wasn't bad. I was patting myself on the back. We crossed the Potomac and headed into the District with more than an hour to spare. My trusty GPS was telling me in her soothing British voice where to turn, as we curved north around the Kennedy Center, hopefully avoiding the congestion of the National Mall. The interchange at 66/50/Constitution and E Street looks like a pile of snakes from the air, and it's as much fun on the ground. Despite the dulcet British voice, I missed my turn. Recalculating. Just go up to M Street and cut across Georgetown and George Washington. Still not panicking, I'm now several miles from where I want to be. Traffic is bad, the streets are wet but at least it has stopped raining.
Now I am in the University District, which are charming and full of delightful tiny little cafes and shops and interesting smart people- and hella crowded on tiny, delightful 200 year old cobblestone streets. The Hospital is on the other side of town, and there is NO simple way to get there. I tell the GPS to find me the quickest route, which would have been awesome, had those streets actually been not utterly torn up with construction. She sent me through Foggy Bottom, Dupont Circle, and up New Hampshire. It was a nightmare, but, two hours down (!), I still had about 20 minutes to get there, park, check in and get Abby upstairs to the appointment. Have I mentioned I hate being late?
Enter the Hipster. I am on a narrow street with orange construction barrels lining one side. It's a spoke intersection, and there are several chanels of traffic moving through a very small space. It can be disorienting knowing when to go, and if you don't know which spoke is your exit spoke, it's sort of stressful. Add in the wet, the daughter singing Rudolph for the fifth time in the backseat, the impending lateness, the two hours of traffic, and you can feel your own stomach knotting up.
I made it through the spokes and immediately found myself at a four-way stop. The Hipster is a man with an orange and white umbrella standing at the corner across the intersection from me. I am at a full stop, and wave him with my hand to go ahead and cross. I find this quite magnanimous of me, considering my time and stress levels. He is about 3/4 of the way across the street when I start to inch into the intersection. The only other car is a blue Mercedes behind me. The Hipster sees me inching forward, and stops in the crosswalk. I frown and tap my brakes. The Mercedes starts to honk.
The Hipster is gesturing to me to get back on the other side of the crosswalk (the crosswalk on the other side of the street from him). I frown again, and looking at the clock and glancing at my daughter in my mirror, figure I don't have time for this. I stay right where I am, waiting for him to finish crossing so I can keep going. That's all I want. To just continue on my way. I am regretting waving him across.
He now stands himself right smack in the middle of the street, holding his orange umbrella aloft, and begins to scream profanity at me, questioning my intelligence and insulting my female parts. My daughter is listening. I've had enough. I very slowly start to drive around him. There is a good four feet between where he is planted and where my car is passing. The Mercedes is now honking more and has rolled down his window to yell back at the Hipster.
The Hipster ATTACKS my car with his umbrella, poking and smashing it into my hood as I creep by. I am not revving my engine, I am not close to him, ALL I WANT TO DO IS GET MY KID TO THE DOCTOR and this entitled a-hole decided this particular sidestreet crosswalk is his Appomattox where he's gonna take his stand against all the lazy, consumptionist, breeders and SHOW THEM!
His mistake was not bashing my car with his umbrella and screaming words I wish my child had not heard- nope. His mistake was moving on to the Mercedes behind me when I passed, and bashing HIS car with his now-bent and mangled umbrella. The last thing I saw in my rearview mirror, the Mercedes pulled over, turned it's flashers on, and a very large man in a nice suit got out and CHASED THE HIPSTER DOWN THE STREET.
Abby and I were ten minutes late.


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RIP, Val Heim, 99, 1920 - 2019
Sadly Val Heim, MLB's oldest-surviving MLB player (Chicago White Sox 1942) passed away on Thursday Nov. 21. He had just celebrated his 99th birthday. I feel so fortunate to have spoken to Val and his family weeks earlier to document the highlights of his Navy service in Saipan, and his ball-playing days in the 1940s, where he was among the first Americans to play in Cuba. Men like Val lived life on simple terms: they loved their families, they served their country, they worked hard, and they were humble to the end.
Eddie Robinson, who turns 99 on Dec. 15, is now America's most senior MLB player.
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Hannah Rumble and Douglas Davies discuss their R&S-funded research on BBC Radio 4's Sunday & Sky.
Autumn 2012, showcasing Religion and Society research.
What happened to the Methodist central halls?
BBC News article about Angela Connelly's R&S doctoral research.
Medieval historian, & former Religion and Society award holder, Professor Miri Rubin presented a programme about the most famous Hebrew poem on BBC Radio 4 yesterday.
This autumn around England & Wales to discuss preliminary findings from Professor Paul Weller's Religion and Society-funded project.
The Religion & Society-funded Multifaith Spaces Project is generating extensive media coverage.
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MAIN : 2005 : Guidelines for Veterinarians Working in Latin America
Alberto Parás, MVZ
Africam Safari, Puebla, México
In the last decade, many zoos have become interested in establishing international conservation programs, with the objective to assist or direct field studies that may have a major impact in the conservation of wild populations of species of interest, and their environment.2,4,6 Latin America, a biologically rich region, is the focus of many of these programs.
Latin America faces many wildlife, livestock, and human health challenges as well as unique religious, social and economic realities. There are many government and non-governmental agencies in each country involved in wildlife management, with the challenge of organizing reintroduction programs, rehabilitation centers, and in situ and ex situ management of threatened species. As well, local diagnostic capabilities for identification of diseases vary widely across the region.1,2 At the same time, an increasing number of conservation biologists in Latin America are seeking input from veterinarians regarding many aspects of wildlife populations health assessment, disease monitoring and management, and hands-on assistance in the capture, restraint, sample collection, laboratory analysis, biotelemetry and handling techniques of wild animals.2,4,5
It is here where wildlife veterinarians have a significant role to play within interdisciplinary teams working on conservation projects in Latin America. The challenge for veterinarians who wish to work in the region are to identify colleagues and programs with needs and establish truly collaborative relationships, to understand and correctly address cultural differences, and to comply with international permit requirements and policies. Integration of local expertise in the planning and implementation process is key to the success of the project and will reinforce the long-term conservation efforts in this region.
There are different ways of identifying and contacting scientists or agencies involved with the species, diseases or region of interest: one can contact the national and state universities, and view their publications; another is through wildlife agencies, many of which have documented the priority species in the region and (as is the case in Mexico) put together teams of local specialists in order to work as consultants in the policymaking for the recovery of that species or taxon (e.g., Programa de Recuperación de Especies Prioritarias www.gob.mx/semarnat) (VIN editor: the original link was modified on 1/29/21). Another way of approaching this is through the Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG), which has conducted several Conservation Assessment and Management Plans (CAMP) and Population and Habitat Viability Assessment (PHVA) workshops in Latin America, assembling nearly 40 regional experts (wildlife managers, IUCN Specialist Group members, representatives of the academic community or private sector, researches and captive managers) in each workshop to evaluate threat status of all taxa in a broad taxonomic group. The reports of the CAMPs and PHVAs which include contact information for the participants, are available via the web (www.cbsg.org) (VIN editor: the original link was modified on 1/29/21).
Projects must obtain permits for the capturing and sampling (Colecta Científica) of the species; a CITES permit for the movement of samples across international borders, and in some instances, an animal health permit, depending on disease issues in the region. You will need to contact the wildlife agency in the country (which is usually the CITES authority) to obtain permits. Pending any concerns regarding the project, the agencies usually issue permits within 15–30 days, and in many countries permits are good for 6 mo. In some instances, export permits can only be acquired in the host country when an exact count of the type and number of samples is known, so plan to spend some days in the capital city obtaining the official papers. Many countries have this information available via the web (e.g., www.gob.mx/semarnat) (VIN editor: the original link was modified on 1/29/21).
Some authorities will only accept paperwork in native language, will require a government biologist or ecologists to accompany you during the field trip, and will expect a complete report 15 days after the importation has occurred, with an official stamp from the last port of embarkation, so do no forget to pass the review point in the airports to get your permit stamped.
It is important to remember that many parts of Latin America are engaged in active campaigns to eradicate diseases of domestic animals, and therefore, within a country one can find many "borders" for limiting the spread of diseases. Having official letters from the institution you represent as well as the local institutions you will be working with, describing the nature of your work, the names of the participants and the equipment you are carrying will help you pass through the check points.
In developing countries, issues of poverty and rural development are intertwined with those of biodiversity conservation. Protected areas in Latin America are facing a whole host of problems such as emerging disease transmission, vulnerability of concentrated populations, natural and human disasters, etc. These facts are compelling reasons to increase the involvement of the veterinarian community in conservation efforts.4 Wildlife veterinarians can contribute in a significant manner to the planning and implementation of wildlife conservation projects.6 Remember that "what we know we have learned from others." More and more institutions are investing in training foreign professionals: this has steadily increased the numbers of highly competent professionals dedicated to the discipline in Latin America.1,2,5,6
Foreign veterinarians can play an important role in wildlife conservation projects in Latin America as long as they are culturally sensitive. From the drinking of mate in Argentina, to the official siesta in Central America, each country has its own cultural traditions and idiosyncrasies, differences that should not be undervalued. Your performance as a person and scientist will have an impact on opportunities for other and future researchers and can open or close doors for them. Striving to establish collaborative relationships, instead of having an imposing approach can make the difference. Remember that such things as ownership of intellectual material or authorship in publications are handled differently in other countries, and if these issues are not addressed properly, the outcome for the project may not be good. Consider publishing your collaborative research in a regional journal, you would be surprised by the quality of the peer review.
Survive and enjoy your trip. Consult political and important disease matters maintaining a serious and not alarming point of view.3 Remember that learning as much as you can about the country you will be visiting can give you a broader understanding of the challenges you will face. Always keep an open mind to learn different ways of doing things. Move your boundaries and aim to participate effectively in in situ wildlife conservation projects in Latin America while you share and learn at the same time.
1. Aguilar, R.F., and D. Hilliard. 2000. Veterinary outreach: Coordinating technology transfer and professional training programs in Latin America. Proc. Am. Assoc. Zoo Vet. Annu. Meet. 401.
2. Aguilar, R.F., and C. Walzer. 2002. International conservation extension: How the rubber chicken circuit, training visiting professionals, and performing workshops abroad can help rob Peter to pay Paul. Proc. Am. Assoc. Zoo Vet. Annu. Meet. 260.
3. DeMaar T.W., and E.W. deMaar. 2000. Tropical Travel Survival for the Zoo/Wildlife Veterinarian. Proc. Am. Assoc. Zoo Vet. Annu. Meet. 408.
4. Hernandez-Divers S.M., and E.P. Medic. 2002. Veterinarians involved in non-traditional roles for conservation the first international tapir symposium. Proc. Am. Assoc. Zoo Vet. Annu. Meet. 254.
5. Uhart, M.M., S.L. Deem, R.A. Cook and W.B. Karesh. 2000. Wildlife health in Latin America conservation goals. Proc. Am. Assoc. Zoo Vet. Annu. Meet. 7.
6. Warren K., and C. Monaghan. 2004. Moving the boundaries enabling veterinary involvement in conservation through education. Proc. Am. Assoc. Zoo Vet. Annu. Meet. 408.
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The squad for the U.S. national team's March friendlies against Ecuador and Chile is not as young as most fans would have expected, and features one veteran surprise.
Atlas defender and 2014 World Cup veteran Omar Gonzalez has been called in for the USMNT's upcoming friendlies, joining a group led by Christian Pulisic, Weston McKennie and Tyler Adams.
Gonzalez is making his national team return for the first time since his fateful role in the United States' World Cup qualifying loss to Trinidad & Tobago in October of 2017. Gonzalez scored an own goal that day in a loss that led to the USMNT missing the 2018 World Cup.
Gonzalez will be reunited with U.S. coach Gregg Berhalter, who was his teammate and mentor with the LA Galaxy back in 2009, Gonzalez's first season as a professional. The 30-year-old defender has established himself as a regular starter for Liga MX side Atlas, and will have a chance to compete in a wide-open race for starting USMNT center-back roles under Berhalter.
Several of the team's top young players are missing from the group called in for the March friendlies, including Tim Weah and Josh Sargent, with U.S. Soccer also convening a U.S. Under-23 national team camp and friendlies that will serve as a chance for players like Weah, Sargent, Cameron Carter-Vickers and Djordje Mihailovic, who are all age-eligible for the next Olympic cycle.
As a result, Berhalter has called in a senior team squad that is older than the squads called up for friendlies in 2018, when caretaker head coach Dave Sarachan focused on integrating young talent. Gonzalez is joined by Michael Bradley and Tim Ream as players in their 30s who are in the group.
The squad does have a good amount of youth, with Tyler Adams and Jonathan Lewis being the youngest players in the group along with Pulisic and McKennie.
"We had to make decisions for this camp and we looked at the players in a number of different buckets," Berhalter said. "For example, we have some younger guys that aren't getting the game time that they would have expected and they're still age-eligible for the Olympics, so we think it's a great opportunity for them to play two international games with the Olympic team.
"We have other players that we have evaluated thoroughly in the January Camp and we're going to bring back in the future, but not in this camp. That's another group. Then we have some guys that are returning from injury and we thought now is not the right time to subject them to the intensity of international soccer and the National Team."
One player making his return to the national team is Seattle Sounders star Jordan Morris, who missed most of 2018 with a torn ACL, and whose last memorable contribution to the USMNT was scoring the winning goal in the 2017 Concacaf Gold Cup final against Jamaica.
The United States will play Ecuador in Orlando on March 21 before traveling to Houston to take on Chile at BBVA Compass Stadium on March 26.


The geometric motif for this tunic is worked in phulkari embroidery.
This embroidery is part of ethnic Indian embroideries.it is done in Punjab part of India and Pakistan too. In those parts the whole fabric is covered with embroidery. But I have chosen to work this embroidery on a square motif for this yoke space.
Two strands of skeins are used for this embroidery.
This tunic fabric is block printed with florals in cotton. This type of light cottons are ideal for hot climates, and suitable for casual wear, with these prints. the base colour of this tunic is yellow/brown. The flowers were on shades of red.
The yoke fabric chosen for this tunic was green/yellow. Four repeating geometric motifs was the pattern to be embroidered. This is a small yoke. the colours used were, green, yellow, variegated red and white. The variegated red thread was silk and others were cotton skeins.
The embroidery stitches were, surface satin stitch, Rhodes stitch for the centre, and straight stitches.


York County was founded on November 20, 1652 from the southern part of the District of Maine (originally Yorkshire County, Massachusetts , renamed York County in 1668). This county was named in honor of James, Duke of York, later King James II of England..
Locations adjacent to York County happen to be Oxford County, Cumberland County, Rockingham County, New Hampshire , Strafford County, New Hampshire , Carroll County, New Hampshire .
Cities and towns found in York County include Acton, Alfred, Arundel, Berwick, Biddeford, Buxton, Cornish, Dayton, Eliot, Hollis, Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, Kittery, Lebanon, Limerick, Limington, Lyman, Newfield, North Berwick, Ogunquit, Old Orchard Beach, Parsonsfield, Saco, Sanford, Shapleigh, South Berwick, Waterboro, Wells, York	.
York County has Federal Census Schedules to aid in exploring your family tree. Government Population Schedules can be found for 1790-1890, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940.
York Co. York Co. Mortality Schedules can be obtained for 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880. York Co. Industry and Agriculture Schedules can be found for 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880. York Co. Union Veterans Schedules is available for 1890. You can find free online and printable census forms to aid with your research.
Genealogist typically overlook the significance of York County court, probate, and land files as a resource of genealogical information and facts. Buried away in Maine courthouses and archives everywhere tend to be the dreams and frustrations of many Maine inhabitants. The odds are great that your chosen forefathers have left a in-depth document of at least a number of facets of their lives in the York County court records. Even if your ancestors is not discussed in a Court case, take into account all of the other procedures that could have lead to him or her appearing in court records.
The following specifics shows whatever birth, death, marriage, property, probate, and court records are usually in York County. The years pointed out below are the first known records with this county.
York County Registry of Deeds is the place where all transactions of a Real Property nature are recorded so that the public is made aware of their existence. Deeds, mortgages, tax liens, water liens, declaration of homestead and many other kinds of documents regarding the title and ownership of real estate are noted permanently in official records.
York County Clerk of Probate Court has has had several relating definitions over the years: the Widows and Orphans Court; the Poor Court; and the Court of Protection. All of these terms fit the description of the Probate Court.The Probate Court carries out the following procedures: Adoptions, Guardianship of Minors, Guardianships, Conservatorships, Change of Names, Estates, Trusts and Beginning Sept. 18, 1999 - Support of Enforcement.
York County Town Clerks has copies of vital records (birth, marriage, divorce and death records). Clerks respond to inquiries regarding vital records, since most have indexes available. Some of the Clerks records have been transfered to the Maine State Archives.
The following are web links to Family history and genealogy, Records and Resources relating to York County. Most of these genealogy links fall into 3 categories: Business Sites, Personal Sites or Organization Sites. Some have free access some require a fee. This is just a list that has been collected or submitted. I do not endorse or promote one genealogy site above another. Feel free to present your own most popular York County genealogy or family history affiliated sites.
Maine Military Records gives you easy access to military records, stories, photos, and personal documents belonging to the Maine men and women which served. Perfect for York County genealogists, researchers, historians and more.


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Nîjni Otrojkî (în ) este un sat în comuna Prostorne din raionul Djankoi, Republica Autonomă Crimeea, Ucraina.

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Conform recensământului din 2001, majoritatea populației localității Nîjni Otrojkî era vorbitoare de rusă (%), existând în minoritate și vorbitori de tătară crimeeană (%) și ucraineană (%).

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Niîjni Otrojkiî, Prostorne
Niîjni Otrojkiî, Prostorne, Djankoi
Niîjni Otrojkiî, Prostorne, Djankoi, Crimeea


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Günter Wetzel und Peter Strelzyk
The escape balloon that landed near Naila in 1979 (pictured here at an airshow in Hof in 1985). ©Günter Wetzel
Balloon Ride to Freedom
"Are we in the West here???" Peter Strelzyk and Günter Wetzel ask just this one question when they come across Bavarian border police near Naila early in the morning of September 16, 1979. And they let out cheers at the answer: "Yes, of course, where else?" The most perilous night of their lives – their escape from the GDR and a balloon ride to freedom – lies behind them at that moment.
Peter Strelzyk (born in 1942) and Günter Wetzel (born in 1955) had been planning their escape in detail, clandestinely getting ahold of literature on aerodynamics, for years in Pössneck in Thuringia. Strelzyk benefitted from his training as an aircraft mechanic and his job as an electrician. He worked tirelessly on building a burner system based on propane cylinders. In the meantime, Tuchmacherstrasse 22 in Pössneck lived up to its name: Professional bricklayer Wetzel painstakingly sewed several hundred square meters of fabric strips together at night – on an old mechanical sewing machine. He needed three attempts. The first balloon envelope proved to be sewn too loosely when tested in April of 1978. The Strelzyks attempted the flight alone with their three children on the eve of July 4, 1979. It failed again. The balloon got caught in fog and the envelope became soaked with water. The balloon sank and landed in woods right before the restricted border zone. The Strelzyks managed to return to Pössneck undetected. They had to abandon their balloon, though. When it was discovered, the police launched an intensive search – without success.
The Strelzyks and Wetzels ventured their third attempt. An even larger balloon envelope was made at night again. They purchased the fabric strips in different places all over the GDR to keep from attracting attention. Then it was ready on the eve of September 16, 1979. The glider weather forecast on Bayerischer Rundfunk promised ideal conditions with a steady north wind. The two families drove their cars toward the border on side roads. The four sons aged two, five, eleven and fifteen were with them. They began filling the twenty-six-meter-long balloon envelope with air fifteen kilometers southeast of Probstzella, right above the Saalfeld-Lobenstein railroad line. They all got onto the thin steel plate of the improvised gondola and the balloon lifted off at 2:26 a.m. They reached an altitude of over 2000 meters – in icy minus-eight-degree-air.
The police had been notified a few minutes after their launch. The night watchman at the county cultural center in Lobenstein had reported an unidentified flying object heading for the national border. Searchlights scanned the skies but did not reach the balloon. The balloon had left the territory of the GDR even before the border police could take action. With a great deal of luck, the escapees landed seven kilometers behind the border at the edge of the small town of Naila in Upper Franconia – just 300 meters away from a high-voltage line.
The daring escape was a huge sensation celebrated in the Western press for weeks. A book was written and Hollywood even filmed the story in "Night Crossing". After retraining to become an auto mechanic, Günter Wetzel found a job at a car dealership in the Hof region. The Strelzyks opened an electronics store in Bad Kissingen. Even in the West, though, they were spied on and pressured by Stasi agents. They moved to Switzerland in 1985 and did not return to Germany until after the Peaceful Revolution of 1989-90.
The balloon envelope was spread out in Naila's Frankenhalle and readied for the permanent exhibition in Regensburg in early August 2017. You will find more information on and pictures of the press conference among the press releases.
Sources/Literature:
Eyewitness interviews by the Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte (Günter Wetzel, Doris and Peter Strelzyk)
Roman Grafe: Die Grenze durch Deutschland. Eine Chronik von 1945 bis 1990, Munich 2008, p. 262 ff.
Jürgen Petschull: Mit dem Wind nach Westen. Die abenteuerliche Flucht von Deutschland nach Deutschland, filmed by Walt Disney Productions, Munich 1980


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Cocoa industry pledges co-ordinated action on poverty, deforestation
Image: FILE PHOTO: Men work on sacks of cocoa beans in Kahin village at the edge of Scio forest reserve in Duekoue, Ivory Coast February 9, 2018. REUTERS/Luc Gnago/File Photo
By Ana Ionova
BERLIN (Reuters) – Companies and governments have pledged to tackle poverty, deforestation and human rights abuses in the cocoa supply chain, acknowledging that years of scattered sustainability efforts have failed to spur widespread change.
The four-day World Cocoa Conference in Berlin culminated on Wednesday in stakeholders issuing a declaration to coordinate efforts to stamp out exploitation and environmental degradation in cocoa.
"Whatever we've been doing all these years doesn't seem to work," Jean-Marc Anga, executive director at the International Cocoa Organization (ICCO) told the conference this week. "This is not sustainability as we envisaged it."
The pledge follows what the ICCO called a "proliferation of uncoordinated initiatives" by companies, governments and certifiers – many aimed at lifting farmer incomes by increasing productivity on plantations.
Partly driven by concerns about future cocoa supplies, chocolate companies and trading firms poured large investments into distributing high-yielding seeds and training farmers on better practices in a bid to help them improve their output.
Yet, as a sharp surge in production last season drove prices to their lowest in more than nine years, this approach to alleviating poverty came under fire from critics who say it is contributing to the glut.
The decline in world cocoa prices has only worsened the plight of farmers, slashing their earnings by about 30 percent on average, the ICCO's Anga said.
"It's been very harmful for the producers, who wonder what sustainability means for the cocoa sector," Ivory Coast's trade minister Souleymane Diarrassouba said.
Sustainable certification – designed to ensure more ethical practices and better earnings – has also fallen short as the premiums farmers receive under the biggest of these schemes have been falling.
To make cocoa sustainable, the industry must shift away from a "selfish" focus on ensuring supplies and towards promoting crop diversity, said Nicko Debenham, vice president of sustainability at Barry Callebaut.
"We've got to have professionalised farms, with diversity of income," he said. "As well as ensuring that we're not over-producing cocoa and finding ourselves in the mess that we're in at the moment."
Chocolate makers and processors must also ensure they are paying a fair price to farmers, who currently command only 6 percent of the $100 billion value chain, the ICCO said.
Anga noted the drop in global prices led to $3.5 billion in savings for chocolate companies in 2017, yet none of it made its way to cocoa growers.
Meanwhile, producing countries such as Ivory Coast and Ghana must coordinate their policies and take steps to cap production at sustainable levels.
"There needs to be stronger national management of production policies, in line with global stable demand projections," Rick Scobey, president of the World Cocoa Foundation, told Reuters in an interview this week.
This means producing countries must better gauge how much cocoa is being grown and halt the encroachment of plantations in protected forests. The surge in cocoa production has partly come from such illegal farms.
Boosting local chocolate consumption and cocoa processing has also been seen to help origin countries become more resilient to global market volatility.
(Reporting by Ana Ionova; editing by David Evans)
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Q: How to write this javascript regex? I am trying to run a regex check using javascript to be sure that the string follows the pattern:
NNNN-NN-NN
(where N = any number 0-9) I need to be sure the dashes are in place as well.
So, any 4 numbers followed by a dash followed by any 2 numbers followed by a dash followed by any two numbers.
How do I write that as a regex?

A: Here it is:
^[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}$

A: The simplest regexp is just:
/^\d{4}-\d\d-\d\d$/

[ \d\d is shorter than \d{2} ]
You mustn't forget to anchor the regexp otherwise it'll match all strings containing that pattern, not just those exactly matching it.
For extra goodness, if you plan to subsequently extract the three components, use this:
var re = /^(\d{4})-(\d\d)-(\d\d)$/;
var test = "1234-56-78";
var vals = test.match(re);

// vals = ['1234-56-78', '1234', '56', '78'];

A: \d{4}(-\d{2}){2}

I think the above regex would be suitable.

A: \d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}
I think this is fairly concise

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Hylomyscus grandis és una espècie de rosegador de la família dels múrids. Són rosegadors de petites dimensions, amb una llargada de cap a gropa de 118 a 160 mm, una cua de 130 a 150 mm, peus de 18 a 22 mm, orelles de 15 a 20 mm i un pes de fins a 41 g. Aquesta espècie és endèmica del Mont Oku, al Camerun occidental. Viu en boscos tropicals montans humits a uns 2.100 msnm.

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Викто́рия Илларио́новна Угрю́мова (р. 4 января 1967; Киев, УССР) — украинская писательница, сценарист, колумнист и публицист.

Биография
Образование высшее гуманитарное.

Дебютный роман «Имя богини» — первая книга тетралогии «Кахатанна» (авторское название «Дорогая Каэтана») был опубликован в издательстве «Азбука» (СПб) в 1998 году. В том же году литературная страница газеты «Киевские ведомости» (под редакцией известного украинского поэта В. Жовнорука) печатает первый рассказ Угрюмовой «Африка». В следующем году в этой же газете еженедельно публикуются её рассказы и эссе, многие из которых становятся культовыми в среде любителей и знатоков истории Киева. Рассказ «Путеводитель для гнома», ставший началом своеобразной тетралогии («Путеводитель…», «Баллада о зонтике в клеточку», «Дом там, где ты», «Така собі епітафія») получают широкое читательское признание. А рассказ «Записки пингвина» пользуется такой популярностью, что рекомендован для детского чтения специалистами журнала «Педагогика и психология». Начиная с 2000 года пишет в соавторстве со своим мужем Олегом Угрюмовым. Также является автором сценария художественного двухсерийного фильма «Джокер» (премия за лучшую мужскую роль на фестивале «Кинотавр»), автор сценария 50-серийного сериала «Дьявол из Орли. Ангел из Орли». С 2005 года вела колонку в газете «Грани+». В период с 2007 по 2010 год Виктория была шеф-редактором медицинского издательского дома «Профессор Преображенский», в состав которого входили следующие издания: журналы «Фармбизнес», «Лекарь», Муза Фармакопея", «Мир Косметологии», «Эскулап-Дентист», а также газета «СТОличная аптека», журнал «Рецепт» и пр. Один из самых популярных романов авторского дуэта «Некромерон» переведен на польский язык известным польским писателем и переводчиком Евгениушем Дамбски и вышел в издательстве «Фабрика Слов».

Библиография
 Серийные романы
 Тетралогия «Кахатанна»
 Имя богини (1998) — II место на фестивале «Звёздный мост» в номинации «Дебютные книги».
 Обратная сторона Вечности (1998)
 Огненная река (1998)
 Пылающий мост (2000)
 Дилогия «Белый дракон»:
 Дракон Третьего рейха (2001)
 Змеи, драконы и родственники (2001)
 На лошади бледной
 Серия «Некромерон»
 Некромерон (2004)
 Пандемониум (2007)
 Все волки Канорры (2016)
 Другие произведения
 Двойник для шута (2000)
 Голубая кровь (2002)
 Белый паяц (2007)
 Мужчины её мечты (2004)
 Стеклянный ключ (2005)
 Бадагон (2016)
 Ловцы богов (2017)
Другие произведения научно-популярного и развлекательного жанра
 Предисловие и комментарии к фотографиям в фотоальбоме "Киев 90-е" Владимира Фалина (2017)
 Участие в проекте "Чернобыльская зона глазами сталкера". Изд-во Скай Хорс (2017)
 Проект "Необычный Киев" - путеводитель по Киеву в жанре культурно-исторических этюдов (2017)

Примечания

Писатели-фантасты Украины
Лауреаты премии «Звёздный мост»