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TULUP (TUnisian LUPus): a multicentric study of systemic lupus erythematosus in Tunisia.
Khanfir MS1, Houman MH, Cherif E, Hamzaoui A, Souissi S, Ben Ghorbel I, Ksontini I, Braham A.
Department of Internal Medicine, La Rabta University Hospital, Tunis, Tunisia; Tunisian Society of Internal Medicine, Tunis, Tunisia.
Clinical features of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have been described from different geographical regions around the world. However, data from North African countries, including Tunisia, are scarce.
The aim of this retrospective multicenter study was to analyze demographic, clinical, laboratory features and outcome of SLE in Tunisia throughout 14 Departments of Internal Medicine and to compare them with those of other ethnic and geographic groups.
Seven hundred and forty-nine cases of SLE were recorded (American College of Rheumatology criteria) during a 17-year period (1989-2006). They were 676 women and 73 men with an average age at SLE onset of approximately 30.66 years. Our Tunisian patients were characterized by a high frequency of photosensitivity (67.6%), malar rash (68.7%), renal involvement (49.5%) and anti-Sm antibodies (44.8%). Infections were the main complications. Fifty-six (7.5%) patients died during the study period.
Potential limitations and biases in our study need discussion. Specific recruitment of patients in tertiary referral centers may be the source of selection bias and adding to the frequency of moderate or even severe diseases. The therapeutic management and outcome monitoring were heterogeneous due to the fact that patients were evaluated by different doctors. However, this study remains the most representative of Tunisian SLE patients recruited from all parts of Tunisia.
© 2013 Asia Pacific League of Associations for Rheumatology and Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd.
epidemiology; ethnicity; geographic distribution; systemic lupus erythematosus
Age of Onset
Autoantibodies/blood
Lupus Erythematosus, Cutaneous/epidemiology
Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic/blood
Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic/diagnosis
Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic/drug therapy
Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic/epidemiology*
Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic/mortality
Lupus Nephritis/epidemiology
Photosensitivity Disorders/epidemiology
snRNP Core Proteins/immunology
snRNP Core Proteins
Systemic lupus erythematosus - Genetic Alliance
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Companies are at the crossroads of "flourish" and "flounder" when it comes to filling open jobs—because much to the dismay of many managers, hiring isn't cut and dry. In fact, it may be the defining difference between business success and failure.
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I am so blessed to have had this opportunity to photograph a gorgeous wedding for fellow school mates Tim & Kelly. I had known Kelly from classes and Tim in passing. What I did know was that they were the most kind people, and totally in love!
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Ignacy Jan Skorupka (31. července 1893 Varšava – 14. srpna 1920 u Ossowa) byl polský katolický kněz, polní kaplan polské armády. Vysvěcen byl v roce 1916 a působil jako pomocný kněz či kaplan na vícero místech, hodně se přitom zaměřoval na práci s mládeží, u níž byl velmi populární.

Za sovětsko-polské války se stal na vlastní žádost polním kaplanem polské armády a počátkem srpna 1920 byl přiřazen k 36. pěšímu pluku Akademické legie. 14. srpna padl v bitvě u Varšavy poblíž vsi Ossów a stal se jedním z hrdinů a symbolů této bitvy. Posmrtně obdržel stříbrný kříž Virtuti Militari, Hvězdu za vytrvalost a Řád bílé orlice. Zvěčněn byl v řadě knih i filmů.

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In 1931 the family moved to Berlin where Gaschütz's father became the owner of an industrial estate. He studied at the gymnasium there and, after the abitur in 1938, chose to become an artillery officer. His military career ended in April 1945, fortunately near Kiel where his own family lived at that time. In 1943 he had married Gudrun Strasser, the daughter of an Oderbruch farmer; they have a son and two daughters. Further details of his life are described in his speech  which can be read in an English translation at: THIS LINK.
In 1946, all of us students lived in the berths of the Orla, a ship ready to be handed over to the English. We lived on barter in all areas of life. Among my meek belongings was a rather special mathematics book. It had been published in 1942, and after the disastrous winter in the East the wartime economy must have deemed it beneficial to winning the war and therefore worthy of publication, despite the shortage in demand, due to its title: 'The Geometry of Fabrics'. In any case, to me it seemed dispensable as a basis for studying mathematics. - One of my roommates offered me a book for it, whose title admittedly meant less to me, but which would hardly hold less interest for me than mine. The exchange was made. The book that I had acquired then became a revelation to me: Andreas Speiser's 'Group Theory'. ... The effects that this simple exchange of books had on the development of the mathematical seminar in Kiel can arguably still be perceived today. This is an example that shows how minor variations of the initial conditions can influence the solutions of an equation considerably.
I could reject the chair at Karlsruhe on the grounds that, following ancient family tradition, Karl was one of my given names and that Karlshof - often written with 'ff' by its owners - was my place of birth. Being in my early forties, to me Karlsruhe clearly had to forebode all too early scientific twilight years. - In short, I stayed in Kiel, with the same offer and keeping the abundant range of research projects. The decision was much more difficult when I was appointed to Mainz, where my colleague Bertram Huppert was one of the main figures. I had been communicating with him on scientific matters for a long time, through the medium of Helmut Wielandt, our great mentor in group theory; and we were united by a fate: Huppert's book - no, not book, but thesaurus on finite groups. - The genesis of this plan of creating the book had committed me to participate in the editing process and to contribute my humble advice. ... Thus Huppert visited us in Kiel for four weeks per year, allegedly to use the assistance of me and other colleagues from Kiel. In reality this endeavour proved to be a marvellous and gratefully used opportunity for our seminar to thoroughly keep up with the latest developments. ... I had become so accustomed to this close and convenient collaboration with Huppert, that, with my propensity to be sedentary, I stayed in the seminar in Kiel, which I had grown fond of.
In the years after the war, in fact, since the death of Ernst Steinitz in 1928, there was no algebraist lecturing at Kiel University. Gaschütz's interest in group theory, as explained in the quote above, was initiated by Andras Speiser's book Die Theorie der Gruppen endlicher Ordnung and stimulated by Helmut Wielandt's work. So algebraic life started again in Kiel, and Gaschütz succeeded - also by attracting other algebraists interested in group theory - to transform Kiel into a noted centre of this field.
Let us formulate a problem on complements. Let N be a normal subgroup of a group G. When does G contain at least one complement C to N, and when are two given complements C, C1 to N conjugate in G? The important contribution to studying this problem is due to Gaschütz.
Very early Gaschütz realized the importance of the Frattini subgroup for the structure theory of finite groups. In his paper Über die φ-Untergruppe endlicher Gruppen (1953) he obtained basic properties of the Frattini and Fitting subgroups of finite groups. In 1954 he proved a universal Frattini p-elementary extension existence theorem: if a prime number p divides the order of a finite group G, then there exists a finite group H with a normal p-subgroup K ≠ 1 such that K ≤ φ(H) and H/K is isomorphic to G. And in 1978 he proved the following beautiful result: if M/N is a chief factor of maximal order in a finite soluble group G, then M is contained in the Fitting subgroup of G.
In 1955 Noboru Ito considered the subgroup ψ(G) generated by all minimal subgroups of a finite group G. It is obviously the dual to the Frattini subgroup φ(G) and so it was expected that G/ψ(G) might have similar properties as φ(G). But in his paper Über das Frattinidual (1965) Gaschütz proved that for every finite group G there exists a finite group H such that G is isomorphic to H/ψ(H) and ψ(H) is abelian with elementary Sylow subgroups.
A database search in 1990 brought to light some 38 articles having "prefrattini subgroup" either in their title or cited as a key phrase, which is convincing evidence that Gaschütz's original idea has been widely investigated and variously generalized.
2) a saturated formation if F is a formation and G/φ(G) belongs to F always implies G belongs to F.
After completion of the classification of simple groups the main problem in the theory of finite groups remains the problem of mastering mechanisms of their interaction in arbitrary groups. The most important handicap here is p-groups.
The theory of formations, as well as the theory of Fitting classes, is an attempt to be engaged in the theory of groups, that is to say, modulo p-groups. For all that, separate groups are considered through these classes as if in a diminishing glass, and structural operations on groups can be treated, in a definite respect, as construction of normalizers, extensions, joins, etc.
Further results of Gaschütz attracted much attention. We mention the following most prominent examples.
In two early papers he characterized those modules which are direct summands when they occur in a representation and he proved that a finite group has a faithful irreducible representation if and only if its socle is generated by a single class of conjugate elements.
He characterized the finite soluble groups in which normality is a transitive relation.
He gave a formula for the Eulerian function introduced by Philip Hall and determined the number of generators of a finite soluble group in terms of the structure and embedding of its chief factors.
As an application of cohomological methods, he proved that the outer automorphism group of a finite p-group of order larger than p has order divisible by p.
Wolfgang Gaschütz was invited as a visiting professor to Michigan State University (1963), Queen Mary College of the University of London (1965, 1970), Universities of Padua, Florence, Naples (1966, 1971, 1974), University of Warwick (1967, 1973, 1977), University of Illinois at Chicago (1968), and the University of Canberra (1969). In 2000 he received an honorary doctorate from Francisk Scorina Gomel State University, Republic of Belarus.
He died in November 2016 and by his own request he was buried in his birthplace, Karlshof.


Most of us agree that social media is valuable — but keeping up with the latest trends can be difficult given the speed at which social media is growing and changing.
The big sites like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn are easy to folllow, but there are many others that often get ignored such as Docstoc, Scribd, Slideshare. With all the different platforms, it's hard to be able to keep up with everything that is new.
In this post we've listed 25 of the best social media blogs out there. Read through some of these blogs and you'll quickly find yourself getting an edge in the social media world.
Here are 25 social media blogs that you should read. Some keep you current on new trends and others give you advice on how to leverage social media to your advantage.
I've included an excerpt from each blog's about page to give you an idea as to what to expect from them. This list isn't a ranking of social media blogs, so these are listed in no particular order.
Mashable — Founded in July 2005, Mashable is the world's largest blog focused exclusively on Web 2.0 and Social Media news. With more than 12.5 million monthly pageviews, Mashable is the most prolific blog reviewing new Web sites and services, publishing breaking news on what's new on the web and offering social media resources and guides.
Social Media Explorer — Social Media Explorer is the online home and blog of Social Media Explorer LLC, of which Jason Falls serves as principal. Falls has established himself as one of the leading thinkers in the social media, public relations and communications industries.
Social Media Today — Social Media Today LLC helps global organizations create purpose-built B2B social communities designed to achieve specific, measurable corporate goals by engaging exactly the customers and prospects you most want to reach.
Chris Brogan — Chris Brogan is a ten year veteran of using social media and both web and mobile technologies to build digital relationships for businesses, organizations, and individuals. Chris speaks, blogs, writes articles, and makes media of all kinds on his blog. His blog is in the top 10 of the Advertising Age Power150, and in the top 100 on Technorati. He is co-author of the book Trust Agents.
Dosh Dosh — Dosh Dosh is a blog offering internet marketing and blogging tips, alongside social media strategies. Best consumed by bloggers, entrepreneurs, web publishers, marketers, freelancers and small business owners.
10e20 — 10e20 is a New York-based Internet marketing company specializing in Social Media Marketing and Search Engine Optimization. Founded in 2002 in Brooklyn, NY by Chris Winfield and Danielle Lanzillo.
PR 2.0 — Brian Solis is Principal of FutureWorks, an award-winning PR and New Media agency in Silicon Valley. Solis is globally recognized for his views and insights on the convergence of PR, Traditional Media and Social Media. Considered one of the original thought leaders who paved the way for Social Media and PR 2.0, Solis is co-founder of the Social Media Club.
Conversation Agent — Valeria Maltoni is a professional marketer with 20 years of real-world corporate experience, 10 of which online, across a broad array of mid-to-large sized companies. Hands-on work at a Fortune 500 technology company, a technology start-up, in health care, chemical manufacturing, risk management consulting, and the non-profit sector have provided her with a wealth of experience and insights.
Scott Monty — Scott is a marketing and communications professional focused on the digital industry — specifically on social media. His career spans a number of industries such as healthcare, pharma, biotech, travel, automotive, tech, and communications, and includes a wide range of clients, from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies.
Chris G — Chrisg.com is where Chris posts daily (or thereabouts) thoughts and advice on the business of new media, blogging and online marketing. The aim is to teach you ways you can create compelling resources, provide your audience more value, build trust and loyalty, and generate more rewards for yourself.
Altitude Branding — Amber Naslund is a social media and marketing crackerjack and the Director of Community for Radian6, where she's responsible for client engagement, community building, and helping companies tap the potential of online reputation management, customer engagement, and social media monitoring.
Successful-Blog — Liz is a social web strategist and community builder. Coming from a background of publishing, business, and instructional design, Liz understands how people perceive a blog, a product, and an experience — how the head and heart engage to make a fiercely loyal customer.
Techipedia — Tamar Weinberg is a freelance writer and author of The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web (O'Reilly, July 2009) who specializes in social media consulting and strategy, blogger outreach, reputation management, and search engine marketing (SEO, link building, and Pay Per Click Marketing).
Very Official Blog — Shannon Paul works as the communications manager for PEAK6 Online, parent company of OptionsHouse.com, OptionsNewsNetwork (ONN.tv), and WeSeed.com. Here she oversees the integration of social media communication into PR and marketing strategies for the company's three brands, including an online retail stock and options broker, a web-based options news and education site, and an online community that allows people to learn about the stock market through investing in virtual stock portfolios.
Instigator Blog — Benjamin Yoskovitzis the CEO & co-Founder of Standout Jobs, a venture-backed startup founded in 2007. He is also a blog and social media consultant. This blog is where he expresses his thoughts on startups, entrepreneurship and business, as well as diving into social media, blogging and online communities.
All Facebook — AllFacebook.com is a blog that was started by Nick O'Neill. The purpose of the blog is to cover all issues pertaining to Facebook including new applications, general news, and analysis about the future of Facebook.
SmartBrief On SocialMedia — SmartBrief is a media company on a mission to save you time and keep you smart. The premise behind SmartBrief is simple: there's too much information out there and too little time in the day to read it all. Their editors hand-pick the most relevant and important news from all over, summarize it, link to the original sources and deliver it — for FREE — in one-stop-shop e-newsletters.
Web-Strategist — As a Web Strategist Jerimiah Owyang strives to define and deliver user and community needs, business goals, and web technology to craft and deliver long term successful web programs for companies.
Collective Thoughts — Each member of Collective Thoughts are a known or rising star in their own field, but they also have a passion and unique understanding on social media. Together, they make up Collective Thoughts.
Dan Zarrella — Dan Zarrella is an award-winning social, search, and viral marketing scientist and author of the upcoming O'Reilly media book "The Social Media Marketing Book". He has a background in web development and combines his programming capabilities with a passion for social marketing to create applications.
Social Times — Social Times is founded by Nick O' Neill. He is an industry expert on the social networking industry, providing no holds bar commentary and insightful analysis on social networking and social media. He speaks at conferences nationwide and has been written about in multiple national publications.
Brent Csutoras — Brent Csutoras is an Internet Marketing Consultant who specializes in Social Media, Viral linkbait and Search Engine Marketing.
Twitip — TwiTip is a blog all about Twitter. It covers Twitter Tips of all varieties including Writing for Twitter, Branding, Growing a Following, Corporate Tweeting and a lot more.
Danny Brown — Danny Brown has been providing business branding and emerging media consultancy services to the consumer and commercial markets for more than 15 years, from small start-ups to Fortune 500 businesses. Danny is the founder of the 12for12k Challenge.
The blogs mentioned above are some that I visit on a regular basis. If there are any that you would like to add to the list, feel free to do so in the comments section. And finally, what do you think of this list of some of the top social media blogs out there?


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Burna Boy Set New UK Apple Music Record
Nigerian popular artist and Grammy Awards Nominee, Burna Boy set new UK Apple Music Record to become the first ever Nigerian artist to be ranked Number 1 on UK Apple Music Top Albums chart.
He achieved this feat in barely 24 hours after releasing his new album titled, "Twice as Tall".
Twice as Tall album, which is executive produced by Diddy is already outperforming Burna Boy's last year's album, the African Giant.
African Giant Burna Boy Set UK Apple music Record
A quick check on the UK Apple Music Top Albums chart showed that the new album is now ranked #1, already beating Taylor Swift's Folklore.
Burna Boy Twice as Tall Album recorded about five million streams within the first hour of its release, making it become an instant hit.
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On social media, fans and followers have been praising him for the album, while it has begun generating massive reviews online.
Twice As Tall is available on eight streaming Services: Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud, Amazon Music, Tidal, Pandora, iTune Store and Deezer.
Burna Boy and his mom were also part of the production with Diddy, especially as the album was recorded in Lagos, because of coronavirus restrictions.
The album contains 15 tracks, featuring Chris Martin ('Monsters You Made'), Stormzy ('Real Life'), Youssou N'Dour ('Level Up/Twice As Tall') and Naughty by Nature among many others.
The album also includes contributions from Nigeria's Spaceship Collective, Mike Dean, Timbaland and others.
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The Citizen Science Manual
A Guide for Starting or Participating in Data Collection and Environmental Monitoring Projects
1. Identifying your Project's Focus and Designing its Approach
Identify Focus
Find Existing Projects
Design Project Approach
2. Identifying Project Goal
3. Public Information
4. Potential Liability
5. Information Generation - Design of Sample Collection, Sample Analysis, and Data Interpretation Methodologies
6. Information Use
Supplement 1: Public Rights to Information About Chemical Storage and Releases
Supplement 2: Using Citizen Science Data in Litigation
50 State Map
Identifying your Project's Focus and Designing its Approach
Why You Should Read this Chapter: Starting your project in the right way will help assure your overall satisfaction with your project. This chapter provides guidance for those taking these beginning steps. By the end of it, you will know how to identify your project's focus and how to use that focus to design your project's approach, which includes (i) the identification of a site (i.e., location) of interest to you (e.g., a river, forest, industrial activity) and (ii) the determination of which pollutant or combination of pollutants will be examined during your project. In addition, this chapter provides resources for those seeking to join an ongoing citizen science project.
Your project's approach need not be static; it is possible that it will require modification as your project progresses. For example, suppose that the focus of your project is diagnosing the sudden and unexplainable health problems recently afflicting members of your community. Your original project's approach may have involved determining the levels of pollutant X in the community's water supply, but the results of your examination could indicate that the pollutant is absent or within safe levels. In response, you should revisit and modify the design of your project's approach (e.g., modify it so that you will determine the levels of pollutant Y in the water supply, the levels of pollutant X in the air, or otherwise).
Before beginning a new citizen science project, you should identify the project's focus, which is the environmental question, theme, and/or problem at issue. Some who are reading this manual may already have a project's focus in mind; others may not. Recognizing the vast breadth of environmental problems that may be of interest to citizen scientists, we do not attempt to list them all here. Instead, we mention a few types of projects and examples of each.
Monitoring the condition of an environmental interest
Your project's focus might relate to protecting an environmental resource or habitat that is currently unthreatened or thought to be unthreatened. By monitoring this resource, your efforts may facilitate the rapid detection of changes in pollution levels. Examples include:
Monitoring water pollution levels in a river or in a national forest.
Monitoring air quality in your community following the construction of a new local pollutant source (g., an industrial facility, agricultural facility, land fill, sewage treatment plant, coal mine, etc.) or an announcement that an existing pollutant source in your community will be expanding or increasing its activity levels.
Monitoring water quality in your community because you suspect an increase in pollution resulting from accumulated wear and tear of a known pollutant source near your home.
Verifying reported emissions of pollution from a known pollutant source
Your project's focus might relate to verifying that a known pollutant source is accurately reporting its environmental footprint. For example:
Verifying that a known pollutant source is accurately reporting how much or what it pollutes.
Verifying that a known pollutant source is complying with its current permit obligations.
Redressing a known environmental pollution problem
Your project's focus might relate to correcting a known pollution problem. Examples include:
Identifying the source of an environmental pollutant.
Redressing poor air or water quality.
Decreasing the environmental impact of an oil spill in a national or state forest or in a body of water.
Diagnosing a problem that you suspect is caused by pollution
Your project's focus might relate to solving a problem that has arisen in your community when the cause of the problem is uncertain. You might desire to determine whether the problem's cause relates to a pollutant present in your community. For example:
Diagnosing unexplainable health problems that individuals, animals, or plants in your community are suffering.
The project focus that you are interested in may already be the focus of an ongoing citizen science project. If so, you might consider supporting that project instead of initiating one of your own. Indeed, supporting an existing project can alleviate the burden that some individual citizen scientists may feel in planning and mobilizing their own projects. If your interests align with those of an ongoing project, supporting that project can be ideal for you. There are a variety of resources to help citizens identify ongoing citizen science efforts:
Media Outlets: Local news agencies often cover major ongoing citizen science projects. Moreover, many community-driven citizen science projects increase public awareness through social media. For example, details concerning the citizen science project in Tonawanda, New York were reported in local news. In addition, the project's task force, the Clean Air Coalition of Western New York, used a Facebook page to advertise public meetings and other ways of getting involved in the project.
Organizational Websites: Various citizen science organizations host websites that consolidate ongoing citizen science projects. Examples include the Citizen Science Alliance (https://www.citizensciencealliance.org/), the government-sponsored https://www.citizenscience.gov, iNaturalist (https://www.inaturalist.org/), SciStarter (https://scistarter.com/finder), and Zooniverse (https://www.zooniverse.org/).
Agency Websites: State and federal environmental agencies also maintain citizen science databases on their websites. The EPA, for example, hosts a robust page dedicated to promoting citizen science involvement at https://www.epa.gov/citizen-science. In addition, many state and local park and wildlife departments host links to ongoing citizen science projects. Appendices: The resources page of this site provides references to various projects that are open to public involvement.
Many important environmental problems are not addressed by existing citizen science projects. Projects sponsored by government agencies may be limited and constrained by budget cuts, changes in priorities, and changes in political administrations. Ultimately, you may seek to initiate your own project.
The first step in initiating your own citizen science project is designing your project's approach. A "project approach" has two components: i) the identification of a site of interest to you and ii) the determination of which pollutant or combination of pollutants you will examine. Importantly, the design of your project's approach should be driven by the project focus that you identified previously (see the first section of this chapter). For example, suppose that your project focus is:
Verifying that a known pollutant source is accurately reporting how much or what it emits to the environment. This project's site of interest might be the known pollutant source.
Improving the quality of air or water in your community. Here, the project's site of focus might be your community itself or a known pollutant source located near your community.
Monitoring a natural habitat that you consider valuable (e.g., a river, forest, ocean). In this instance, the site of interest might be the natural habitat or a known pollutant source located near that habitat.
After you have identified your project's site of interest, you should determine which pollutant or combination of pollutants will be examined during your project. This aspect of your project's approach is critical because if you spend all of your time examining the wrong pollutant, your project's goal will not be met. For some projects, determining which pollutant or combination of pollutants to examine will be a straightforward process. In others, this process may be the most difficult aspect of your project's design. Use what you know about your project's site of interest to guide you in determining which pollutant or combination of pollutants you will examine during your project (see Chapter 3). For example:
Source Indicators: pollutant sources are often associated with strong source indicators – meaning that some pollutants are commonly produced by a certain kind of pollutant source. Suppose for instance that your project's goal is to measure the impact of a newly constructed facility that produces plastics. These facilities are known to emit volatile organic compounds ("VOCs"). Therefore, your project may seek to examine VOC emissions. If you are interested in monitoring water quality in a stream, you could research sources of water pollution flanking the stream to determine which pollutants they discharge and, therefore, which you should examine.
Use Your Senses: Your eyes, ears, and nose can help you figure out which pollutants you should examine (e.g., a distinct smell in the air, the sight of an oil slick on the surface of water, a distinct taste in your drinking water). Likewise, the health symptoms associated with exposure to a pollutant may prove insightful. For example, the pollutant benzene, which is associated with petroleum products, has a sweet smell and exposure to abnormal levels of benzene in ambient air is associated with a heightened risk of asthma. If you notice a correlation between these two things in your community – a gasoline-like smell and an increase in asthma diagnoses – you might then consider initiating a citizen science project focused on local sources of benzene pollution.
Media Outlets: Local news reports may also provide valuable information. For example, if a local news agency reports that residents of your community have been suffering from exposure to lead, the approach of your project may be determining the lead content of your drinking water.
Smartphone Apps: Some regions may have smartphone applications set up to report pollutants or evidence thereof. For instance, Pittsburghers can use Smell PGH to report air quality on their smartphone; the app can then alert the Allegheny County Health Department to the data.[1] Apps such as this may provide useful information as you begin to decide which pollutants require attention in your area.
Government Records and Databases: Government records and databases, especially those created and maintained by the federal and state agencies responsible for regulating the pollutant source in question, may provide valuable information for determining which pollutants are present in your community and a cause for concern. For example, EPA provides access to a number of environmental databases through its Envirofacts website. The agency also makes available online information about specific pollutant sources through its Enforcement and Compliance History Online ("ECHO") and Toxic Release Inventory ("TRI") Program website.
[1] Ashley Murray, Carnegie Mellon Scientists Use App to Track Foul Odors in Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 3, 2017
Please note that this discussion is not moderated by the Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic.
The manual is not intended to operate as a substitute for legal representation and does not create an attorney-client relationship. This manual generally describes the legal framework within which citizen collection of data and environmental monitoring may occur. It identifies legal issues citizens should be aware of and offers general suggestions. However, if you have specific questions or you encounter legal threats in the course of conducting a citizen science project, you should consult a lawyer with expertise in the geographic locale in which you are working. Please understand that laws vary from state to state and from locale to locale. Laws also frequently change so it is important to educate yourself about the current laws in the area in which you plan to work. This manual will help get you started. Neither the Clinic nor any of the authors assume any liability for actions taken (or not taken) by any party in reliance on this manual.
This manual is a project of the Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic at Harvard Law School under the direction of Clinical Professor Wendy B. Jacobs. This manual was researched and prepared by Clinic students, including Curtis Powell ('18) and Phillip Godfrey ('17), together with the Clinic's lawyers Wendy Jacobs, Shaun Goho, and Aladdine Joroff. Additional Clinic students, in particular Laura Bloomer ('19), Nolan Brickwood ('20), Elizabeth Carr ('20), Joseph Cherney ('20), Amy Chyao ('19), Gabriel Doble ('20), Erik Federman ('18), Samuel Feigenbaum ('20), Sara Fitzpatrick ('20), Alexander Kontopoulos ('20), Esther Labrado ('17), Ellen Park ('17), Hannah Perls ('20), Dylan Redor ('20), Gloria Scott ('17), Michael Shafer ('19) Michael Soressi ('20), Francis Sturges ('20), Harish Vemuri ('20), and Basil Williams ('19), performed research and helped prepare the appendices to this manual. Lynne Dzubow, the Clinic's Legal Fellow, assisted in research, compiling updates, and editing the manual for this latest edition. Questions or comments on this manual can be directed to [email protected].
Copyright ©2019 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. All rights reserved to the Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic at Harvard Law School.
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Despite being held in solitary confinement for years, men known as Kinetik, Dhati and Brother M, primary leaders of the Free Alabama Movement, have been instrumental in organizing a statewide prison work stoppage in Alabama that began on Sunday, May 1. Alabama prisoners who have been on strike over unpaid labor and prison conditions are accusing officials of retaliating against their protest by starving them.
Stop the McFarland GEO women's prison!
On Thursday, July 31, communities impacted by incarceration, immigrant detention and escalating violence against women and children will march to the site of a new women's prison in McFarland to demand its immediate closure. Advocates will convene at McFarland Park, 100 Frontage Rd, McFarland, Calif., at 5 p.m. CDCR has contracted with the GEO Group to run the McFarland prison. The GEO group, like the state of California, has been challenged by prisoner hunger strikes, protests and lawsuits due to the deplorable and inhumane conditions of their facilities.
Being normal is not OK
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Women in solitary: 'Last night another girl hung herself'
The recent conversion of Valley State Prison for Women into a male facility has led to a dramatic increase in the use of solitary confinement: Ad Seg at CCWF and the SHU at CIW. Concurrently, there have been several suicides in Ad Seg and the SHU in recent months, at least one from an alleged "overdose." The excerpt from the letter quoted above is one of many that indicates how desperate the situation is.
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Mediators working on behalf of California prisoners on hunger strike are calling for an independent investigation into the July 22 death of Billy "Guero" Sell, a prisoner held in solitary confinement at Corcoran State Prison and a participant in the three-week-long hunger strike that has shaken the California prison system. Sell's death is being ruled a suicide by the CDCR. Medical professionals, religious leaders and prisoners' families call upon Gov. Jerry Brown to enter into good faith negotiations with the hunger strikers.
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In our current climate, it is increasingly hard to see how some of the alternating proposals flowing from these debates, namely, a "good guy with a gun" in every school or a generic "gun control" that bans all bad guns and gun accessories will be anything but a distraction from truly understanding and addressing the root of what is causing people to die.
Amnesty International report condemns shocking conditions in California SHUs
The state of California must make substantial changes to their prison isolation units and halt the inhuman suffering of thousands of prisoners, Amnesty International said in a new report out today. "The Edge of Endurance: Conditions in California's Security Housing Units" explores the conditions of confinement endured by more than 3,000 prisoners – including 78 who have spent in excess of two decades in isolation.
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I sit down in front of the terminal. Reverently I pull forward the keyboard, my hands twitching with excitement. The login prompt beckons me to start the journey downward into the depths of the computer. Fingers flying I beat out the magic words. I need in. Now.
The quote seems interesting, but there's no time to ponder on it at the moment. The prompt is waiting for me to do something. I almost feel I am letting it down when I type the incantation to start X.
The screen blinks, as if surprised for a moment. Quickly recovering the windows begin to fly open, as my workspace recreates itself. Sighing contently, I switch virtual desk-tops and bring to foreground one of many xterms. The prompt is the soul of my box and I rush to get back into it. Even the magnificently rendered background of an alien moon rising over a cratered landscape, stars twinkling in the background can't distract me from my purpose.
Almost without conscious thought, I check to see that I am live on the 'net and my carefully constructed firewalls and defenses are in place. I open the encrypted session to my favorite Linux machine on campus, rogue. How can one explain this to the uninitiated? Who would understand the rush that is coursing through my body right now? This is a damn thrill. I am throwing secure encrypted packets through a global network and controlling a computer sitting several miles from my house. And I'm just checking my e-mail.
While I scan e-mail, Netscape continues to its tortuous loading. Finally giving my weary hard drive a rest, the widgets are drawn on the screen. I glide the mouse over and immediately start hitting my favorite Linux news sites. Linux.com, Slashdot.org, and Linux Today.
Within moments, the information I crave is flowing through the wires through the screen and into my head. Word is a new kernel has been blessed as official. I scan through the changelog on kernelnotes.org. I see that I don't need to upgrade, but I am in the mood for a new kernel. Immediately I dive into a new xterm and FTP over to ftp.us.kernel.org. Soon, the compressed patch flows down my connection.
It is time. I take several deep breaths and clear my mind. The outside world disappears and all that remains is an xterm staring back at me. I run the substitute user command, or as I like to think of it, the super user command. The prompt blinks and changes to a bright red #. I have become the computer, all its resources are mine to use and abuse. With a flick of a finger I can destroy it all. I can rip out the guts of the operating system and replace it at will. I snicker to myself picturing a dancing paper-clip trying to stop me, after all no mortal user should have this kind of power over a computer. How dare he?
I unzip the kernel patch and begin the process of open heart surgery. Source code flashes in front of me. I let the compiler work its black magic, feeling smug. I haven't yet become an uptime junkie like some of my fellow linux abusers, but things have been running great for 5 days. Even on a 5 day uptime I feel a bit of hesitation about rebooting into a new kernel. Without the reboot, all is for naught. I must push on.
The kernel compile finishes, and the modules are whipped into shape immediately after.
I bring my system to a halt and reboot. I immediately see that I have done my job successfully as Linux goes through the start-up process. I wait a bit, and there is the familiar login: prompt. Daring me to come back inside.
What kind of things in Linux makes your heart beat a little faster? E-mail the author at mmichie@linux.com. Please visit his web site at web.nmsu.edu/~mmichie. Musical background for this piece was provided by GYP (electronica on a budget).


Ducklett (Japanese: コアルヒー Koaruhie) is a dual-type Water/Flying Pokémon introduced in Generation V.
It evolves into Swanna starting at level 35.
Ducklett is light-blue, duckling-like Pokémon. It has two feathery tufts on its head that connect at the bottom, forming a V-shape. It has a darker blue, feathery underside which makes it appear as if it were in mid-moult. It has yellow, webbed feet and a small tail. Ducklett lives around ponds and rivers. It is a talented diver and can spray water from its feathers for self-defense. The foe is distracted by the spray, allowing Ducklett to escape.
Three Ducklett debuted in Dancing With the Ducklett Trio!, where they attacked Ash and his friends and stole some of their items, including Ash's hat, and Sandile's sunglasses.
A sunglasses-sporting Ducklett appeared in The Mighty Accelguard to the Rescue!, under the ownership of a nefarious Trainer. At its Trainer's command, it stole food from the Driftveil Market. It was then overtaken by the Mighty Accelguard and his Accelgor, and it and its Trainer were arrested by Officer Jenny.
Multiple Ducklett appeared in There's A New Gym Leader In Town! at a Pokémon School in Aspertia City. They were among the Pokémon scared by the loud intercom.
An Ducklett appeared in The Pirates of Decolore!, where it was the fourth member of Croconaw's gang and was responsible for keeping the raft they traveled on from drifting away. Ducklett later joined Officer Jenny's squad after participating in the Darumaka rescue.
Multiple Ducklett appeared in White—Victini and Zekrom and Black—Victini and Reshiram.
Multiple Ducklett appeared in The Lonely Deino!, under the care of a Day Care owner named Bobby.
Multiple Ducklett appeared in Stopping the Rage of Legends! Part 1.
A Trainer's Ducklett made a cameo appearance in Climbing the Tower of Success!.
Two Ducklett appeared in flashbacks in Drayden Versus Iris: Past, Present, and Future!.
Multiple Ducklett appeared in a flashback in The Island of Illusions!, including one under the ownership of a Trainer at the Grand Spectrala Islet Pokémon Center.
A Ducklett nicknamed Center appeared in a flashback in Go, Go Gogoat!. It was a resident of an unnamed island in the Decolore Islands.
Ducklett made cameo appearances in A Blustery Santalune Gym Battle!, A Jolting Switcheroo!, Awakening the Sleeping Giant!, A Pokévision of Things to Come!, Heroes - Friends and Faux Alike!, and A Fashionable Battle!.
Multiple Ducklett appeared in Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction.
A Trainer's Ducklett appeared in Performing with Fiery Charm!.
A Trainer's Ducklett appeared in Adventures in Running Errands!.
A Trainer's Ducklett appeared in A Giga Battle with Mega Results!.
A Performer's Ducklett appeared in A Dancing Debut!, where it was used during the Couriway Showcase. It appeared again in Master Class Choices!, where it was seen competing in the Fleurrh Showcase.
Four Ducklett appeared in An Electrifying Rage!
BW020 Ducklett Ash's Pokédex Ducklett, the Water Bird Pokémon. A skilled diver, Ducklett swims underwater in search of its favorite food: peat moss.
A Ducklett was first seen being released by its Trainer, the original leader of the Black Empoleon, after Ghetsis's speech in Accumula Town in An Odd Speech. This Ducklett had been with its Trainer for around ten years.
A Ducklett appeared in Letting Go.
A Ducklett appeared in A New Perspective.
A Ducklett owned by a male Clerk in Castelia City appeared in The Case of the Missing Pokémon, where they watch as Tep trying to find the person who kidnapped Bianca's Litwick.
A Trainer's Ducklett appeared in Drawing Bridges.
A Trainer's Ducklett appeared in Angry Boy.
Moves marked with a superscript game abbreviation can only be bred onto Ducklett in that game.
When they go to Windmill Way, Magikarp acts like a king and orders them around. So they pretend not to hear him.
For other sprites and images, please see Ducklett images on the Bulbagarden Archives.
Ducklett shares its category with Pelipper. They are both known as the Water Bird Pokémon.
Ducklett seems to be based on a duckling or cygnet. Its bottom plumage also resembles a swim ring, while its evolved form has similar plumage that resembles a bikini. Its name suggests that its evolutionary line may also be based on the fairy tale, The Ugly Duckling, in which the "ugly duckling" someday becomes a beautiful swan.
Ducklett may be a corruption of ducklet, possibly combined with wet or -ette (suffix meaning small).
Koaruhie may be a combination of 子 ko (child) or 小 ko (small) and a corruption of 家鴨 ahiru (duck).


Create a custom-designed, 3D printed coaster Using TinkerCad, a web-based software application for 3D-modeling, we'll take you through the project step-by-step as you build your piece. Projects will be printed by our staff on the library's 3D printer and made available for pick-up over the next couple of weeks. This is a hands-on class using our portable laptop lab and participants should be very comfortable working with a Windows computer and have excellent mouse skills. You must create a TinkerCad.com account in advance and come prepared with your username and password. Also offered at 6:30 pm.


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Can you please check if the GridViewComboBoxColumn isn't more suitable for your scenario.
Just let me know which way to go and I will assist you further with some sample code.
Thanks for the quick response. I don't think I was able to implement a GridViewComboBox within the edit template; however, if that's best practice then that's what we shall do. I look forward to your response.
Could you give some sample codes on regular column with a modified cell edit template. I tried the GridViewComboBox approach but I dont have acces to the HierarchyChildTemplates in my code behind. The HierarchyChildTemplates is pretty large so I dont want to recrate the template in my code behind.
The attached example demonstrates how to setup a combo in a cell to be bound to the value in the underlying business object. It shows friendly country names for their relevant lookup ID values.
2. It uses the CellTemplate rather than the CellEditTemplate. This is for a reason - when not in edit mode , we still need the name displayed , rather than the ID.
3. The selected value in the combo , directly affects the value of the underlying business object- you may test it by placing a breakpoint in the setter of the CountryID property and playing with the combo.
4. For simplicity I have applied this to a flat RadGridView, but the same can be used in a nested Gridview in a hierarchy scenario.
is working but when i rand the project the edit template <telerik:GridViewColumn.CellEditTemplate> is not firing....how can i get it.
I would need a bit more information about the scenario you want to accomplish and your particular settings of the column. Do you want to define a CellTemplate for a GridViewColumn or GridViewDataColumn ? What do you mean that the CellEditTemplate is not firing - that the cell does not enter in edit-mode ?
Any relevant information would help me to provide you with an appropriate solution and sample project if needed.
I need some help with the mentioned scenario. I would like to have a RadComboBox iniode a CellEditTemplate, sounds easy but here is the catch. In Celltemplate, I am binding a textblock's text property to a string value from the database. In Edit mode Instead of typing in, I would like for the user to pick from 3 predefined values so here is where I place my RadComboBox with 3 CmboBoxItems. In my case the radcombobox's Item source is not bound but it is rather a stand alone element that needs to pass the selected item's content back.
Is this the right way of doing this or should I do something else?
In order to suggest any further, I would need a bit more details. What will be the relation between the statically define combo box items and the value to be displayed in view mode ? What is the type of the property bound to this column ? Is using GridViewComboBoxColumn not appropriate ?
I guess I can use GridViewComboBoxColumn , however how can I add extra values to the bound values. Reason I am asking this is because in my scenario I have 3 selections - Missing, On File and Not Needed. The database is already been set up to have all cells default to "Missing" so when i bind I would like to present the user with a drop down and he/she can select any of the 3 options and update that row. So in my initial binding the GridViewComboBoxColumn will only show "Missing" than how do I manually add the additional options to the bound value?
You can define all three values in the source of the GridViewComboBoxColumn and set the property of each item connecting the two sources so that it points to the default value. I am sending you a sample project illustrating this idea. Will that work for you ?
In your project the GridViewComboBox column is bound instead of static values added to it's source. I am sorry but for some reason I can not understand and I am not very good with MVVM. All I am trying to do is have the column bound to the database but add the 3 choices manually in xaml. Does that make sense?
You can define a static items in the combo box, but you will need then to handle all the logic for Bindings and update of the corresponding properties on your own. That is why I would recommend you to work with a GridViewComboBoxColumn directly.
Could you help me with the same project but with the use of a RIA services instead of MVVM. I am having a really hard time trying to figure this out. I would like to use the GridViewComboBoxColumn and I even setup a separate table to hold the values that I want when in edit mode but can not figure out how to bound the GridViewComboBoxColumn to the new entity set and pass the SelectedValueID back to the original table that the GridView column is bound to.


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Songs of Faith and Devotion (spesso abbreviato in SOFAD) è l'ottavo album dei Depeche Mode, pubblicato il 22 marzo 1993 nel Regno Unito dalla Mute Records e negli Stati Uniti e Canada dalla Sire e Reprise Records.

Descrizione
Il titolo potrebbe essere tradotto in italiano con Canzoni di fede e devozione, in cui devozione indica una sorta di attaccamento affettivo. Si tratta del loro primo, e per ora unico, disco che presenta un sound spiccatamente rock, pur mantenendo l'uso dell'elettronica e una pesante rielaborazione dei suoni. L'album è anche l'ultimo inciso con Alan Wilder che, tra gli altri strumenti, si occupa anche della batteria.

Promozione
Per promuovere l'album, il gruppo intraprese il Devotional Tour, partito il 19 maggio 1993 dall'Espace Foire di Lilla, e conclusosi il 20 dicembre dello stesso anno alla Wembley Arena di Londra, e l'Exotic Tour, partito il 9 febbraio 1994 dalla Standard Bank Arena di Johannesburg, e conclusosi l'8 luglio dello stesso anno al Deer Creek Music Center di Indianapolis.

Tracce

Riedizione del 2006 (Mute DM CD 7 (CD/SACD + DVD) / CDX STUMM 64 (CD/SACD)
 Il disco 1 è un SACD/CD ibrido con uno strato SACD multicanale.
 Il disco 2 è un DVD che contiene Songs of Faith and Devotion in DTS 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1 e PCM Stereo, oltre ad alcune bonus track (in quest'ultimo formato), che erano originariamente i b-side dei singoli:
 Tracce del DVD bonus

 Materiale aggiuntivo
 Depeche Mode 91-94 (We Were Going to Live Together, Record Together and it Was Going to be Wonderful)" [36 min. di video documentario]

Formazione
Gruppo
 Dave Gahan - voce, produzione, promozione
 Martin Gore - tastiere, sintetizzatori, chitarra, percussioni (Condemnation), cori, voce (Judas e One Caress), scrittura brani, produzione, promozione
 Andy Fletcher - tastiere, sintetizzatori, organo, basso, percussioni (Condemnation), cori, campionamenti, management, produzione, promozione
 Alan Wilder - sintetizzatori, campionatori, drum machine, batteria, pianoforte, percussioni, cori, produzione, promozione

Altri musicisti
 Matthew Vaughan - sintetizzatori, campionatori, drum machine
 Bazil Meade - cori (Get Right with Me)
 Hildia Campbell - cori (Get Right with Me)
 Samantha Smith - cori (Get Right with Me)
 Steáfán Hanningan - uillean pipes (Judas)
 Will Malone - arrangiamento e direzione archi (One Caress)
 coro non accreditato in Judas: sul sito ufficiale di Recoil, Alan Wilder ha rivelato che il coro finale di Judas è stato realizzato da quindici elementi, tra cui gli ingegneri del suono e il personale dello studio di registrazione.

Produzione
 Flood - produzione, campionamenti, missaggio
 Steve Lyon - ingegnere del suono
 Chris Dickie - ingegnere del suono
 Paul Kendall - ingegnere del suono
 Jeremy Wheatley - assistente ingegnere del suono
 Mark Einstmann - assistente ingegnere del suono
 Shaun de Feo - assistente ingegnere del suono
 Volke Schneider - assistente ingegnere del suono
 Kevin Metcalfe - mastering
 Daryl Bamonte - co-ordinamento
 Anton Corbijn - fotografia, direzione artistica e copertina
 Mark Stent - missaggio
 Area - copertina

Classifiche

Classifiche settimanali

Classifiche di fine anno

Riconoscimenti
 Rolling Stone (Germania) - "The 500 Best Albums of All Time" (337º posto)
 Q - "Best British Albums" (36º posto)

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni


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Year-round Chinook Essential to Endangered Killer Whales
7 Minutes|March 6, 2021
A new study shows that while Southern Resident killer whales may eat a variety of species, Chinook salmon is the key to their survival.
Photo courtesy of Center for Whale Research.
This week, NOAA released a long-awaited study, throwing additional light on the diet of the Southern Resident killer whales, particularly in winter. However, stating that, "Scientists show that endangered whales prey on diverse species throughout the year," buries the lead, as the most significant finding is that these whales rely on a year-round supply of Chinook salmon, with non-salmon species contributing just a fraction of their needs to raise healthy calves.
Scientists analyzed over 200 samples—collected October through May from 2004 to 2017—from two sources: prey remains (skin, scales) from a freshly-eaten meal (66% of samples), and fecal matter, aka poop, from yesterday's meal (34%). Although the entire study period was over 2,430 days, only 156 days were spent following various pod members to opportunistically collect samples.
Photo courtesy of Jane Cogan.
The UW Conservation Canines Orca Scat Project contributed samples to the study.
Previous studies show these whales can eat a variety of species, including outside the salmon family. However, as these scientists admit, they always favor Chinook, "despite that species' rarity compared to some other salmonids in their range."
While species such as skates, halibut and lingcod were occasionally found in these new samples, the study reveals just how dependent on Chinook these whales are, inside and outside the Salish Sea. With these new samples—and those collected previously by other researchers—scientists show the reliance of Chinook in their diet is almost 100% in spring, 50% in fall, and 70-80% in mid-winter/early spring.
Here's another key finding: "[DNA showed] four river systems accounted for over 90% of the [outer coast Chinook] samples, predominantly the Columbia River." Tragically, dams reduce the potential of this river to a mere fraction of historic levels.
Most outer coast samples were collected off Washington, though the whales' range extends through Oregon to California, where little sampling occurred. Yet, the scientists noted that the whales are spending more time on the outer coast in recent years than historically. In fact, this pattern's only increased since this study concluded in 2017, with the number of days in the Salish Sea—by any pod in the community—falling year after year, with Fraser River Chinook less plentiful: thus making Chinook found off the West Coast even more critical to their survival.
NOAA is entrusted with the recovery of this population under the Endangered Species Act yet:
1. This study concluded in 2017, but it's taken over three years to publish. During which time, the government—under threat of lawsuit—was forced to look again at the impacts of Chinook fisheries on these whales' survival. Despite the findings of this study, they've not made any changes to their management plans.
2. In 2020, the Pacific Fishery Management Council concluded a two-year review, to determine whether their management of outer coast Chinook fisheries was limiting this killer whale population's recovery. None of these data included in this study were brought forward for consideration—despite NOAA staff being participants in this process—and so only minimal changes were adopted, most too little, too late.
3. 15 years after the Endangered Species listing, Critical habitat along the West Coast is still unprotected by NOAA, despite having these new study findings.
4. For over 20 years, NOAA has concluded that breaching the Snake River dams would be the best way to recover Chinook on the West Coast, yet has taken no action to influence this change, despite collecting these data showing the Columbia River is such a significant resource for these whales.
5. The study notes hatcheries play a significant role in the whales' diet outside the Salish Sea, due to the number of wild Chinook stocks listed as threatened or endangered. Yet reliance on hatcheries is problematic, even likely playing a role in greater seal/sea lion predation on juvenile salmon. Despite hatcheries producing 50 million Chinook each year, the catch hasn't increased for commercial fisheries, or whales. Hatcheries can't continue to be a Band-Aid for a broken ecosystem. Breaching dams and habitat restoration are key to recovering and maintaining genetic diversity of wild salmon.
6. This study continues to demonize seals and sea lions—and even Northern Residents—for eating salmon before they reach the mouths of Southern Residents, when in fact commercial and recreational fisheries—managed by the government—take the lion's share, with nothing allocated to these endangered whales.
There were 88 whales, when listed as an endangered population in 2005. At that time, numerous studies showed they ranged as far south as California, and primarily ate Chinook. Yet the government insisted on further studies to identify where they go, and what they eat. Today, there are only 75 whales—with three vulnerable calves under 1 year-old. Although NOAA acknowledges the importance of Chinook to these whales, they propose the cause of the unsustainable high pregnancy failure rate (69%) is not due to insufficient Chinook—as other studies suggest—but instead it's the small population size that makes them vulnerable to extinction. But on whose watch did this population get so small?
This study concludes more monitoring is needed. Wild Orca agrees that collecting evidence is important, but time simply cannot stand still while it happens. Increasing wild Chinook is the key to their survival. If we hope and wait for them to change their diet to other species, from the Chinook they've co-evolved with, we will be studying them into extinction. NOAA needs to act now on the best available science, including its own findings that, "Year-round Chinook salmon consumption emphasizes the central importance of this prey species, and suggests that conservation efforts to also increase availability of Chinook in the non-summer may be particularly important to this population's recovery."
Yet another study finds lack of prey impacts survival of endangered killer whales
Review Confirms Endangered Killer Whales Still in Danger of Extinction
How EARS Keep Track When Endangered Killer Whales Are Out of Sight


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Japan provides $1.25 million To UNICEF and WFP in response to Malawi floods
LILONGWE, Malawi
The Government of Japan has provided a contribution of USD 1.25 million to the World Health Organisation (WHO) to respond to emergency needs in Malawi following Cyclone Idai.
The contributionwill support immediate food and cash-based transfer to flood-affected population and early recovery efforts, while the contribution to UNICEF will support child protection and menstrual hygiene measures in camps and communities.
More than 860,000 people have been impacted in 15 affected districts since 9 March, according to the Department of Disaster Management Affairs (DoDMA). In support of the Government-led response, WFP is targeting 414,000 people with food and cash assistance. Japan's contribution is following its immediate response through providing non-food items (NFIs) such as tents and blankets that arrived on March 22.
Japan is also a disaster prone country hence we understand how people, especially vulnerable groups including women, girls and children, suffer from disasters
"I am confident that this contribution will be effectively managed by WFP and UNICEF to facilitate early recovery of the affected population. Japan is also a disaster prone country hence we understand how people, especially vulnerable groups including women, girls and children, suffer from disasters when they are not prepared," said the Japanese Ambassador to Malawi, Her Excellency Kae Yanagisawa.
Both UNICEF and WFP expressed their gratitude to the Government of Japan for the USD 1.25 million assistance. "We hope to further strengthen our partnership with Japan and make joint efforts towards achieving zero hunger," said WFP Malawi Country Director Benoit Thiry. "WFP is shifting to more sustainable solutions, coupling its emergency response for flood-affected population with early recovery programmes that encourage self-reliance," said Thiry.
The USD 1 million grant to WFP will contribute to implement the 2019 Floods Response Plan through the provision of cash-based transfers and early recovery efforts in the most affected district of Nsanje. 21,000 targeted population will receive life-saving support while helping the most vulnerable recover from the shock and rebuild their livelihoods. From 2014 to 2019, the Government of Japan has contributed US$ 16 million to WFP humanitarian and development programmes in Malawi.
The support from Japan also includes $250,000 towards UNICEF's programme. UNICEF anticipates that this programme will reach at least 14,000 children through child friendly spaces in evacuation camps. The funding will include support for training of service providers and supplies for the spaces. It will also provide menstrual hygiene management supplies for 6,000 adolescent girls and women. These measures are necessary to address heightened vulnerabilities for displaced children in the evacuation sites and as they return to their communities.
"During this emergency, UNICEF's priority is to help children and families who have lost their homes and are living in evacuation centres or with other families in their communities," UNICEF Malawi Representative Johannes Wedenig said. "In these situations, children and especially adolescent girls face increased risks, including risk of trafficking and gender-based violence. The new funding from Japan will allow us to scale up our response to protect children and adolescent girls."
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Q: Canonical metric of toric Kahler manifolds Let $X$ be non-compact toric Kahler manifold associated to a Delzant polygon $P$
and $g$ be the canonical Kahler metric constructed by Guillemin. Is it true that
the real part of $g$, as a Riemannian metric on $X$, is always a complete Riemannian metric
(Here $X$ is noncompact)? Is there an effective way to compute the Riemannian distance
function of toric manifolds?

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