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South Joins COVID-19 Technology Access Agreement
Thomas Becnel
The University of South Alabama is the first college in the state to join a national group of universities working to maximize access to technology in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic.
The "COVID-19 Technology Access Framework," established April 7 by Stanford, Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, offers guidelines for royalty-free licensing of intellectual property rights during the pandemic. The idea is to reduce costs and encourage innovation.
Lynne Chronister, vice president for research and economic development at South, said a public health crisis is not the time for universities to worry about money or credit for their contributions. Collaboration is more important than competition.
"This means that universities are doing the right thing," Chronister said. "Rather than getting hung up or wasting a lot of time, the important thing is finding treatments, diagnostics and tests, and pushing them out to people as soon as possible."
Dr. Andrew Byrd, director for the USA Office of Commercialization and Industry Collaboration, said there are about a dozen projects or clinical trials related to COVID-19 in the pipeline at South. This includes work with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to analyze COVID-19 testing and evaluate drugs for antiviral activity.
The COVID-19 Technology Access Framework argues that intellectual property rights should not become a barrier to addressing widespread, urgent and essential health-related research. It requires universities to agree to the following guidelines:
1. We are committed to implementing COVID-19 patenting and licensing strategies that are consistent with our goal of facilitating rapid global access. For most types of technologies, this includes the use of rapidly executable non-exclusive royalty-free licenses to intellectual property rights that we have the right to license, for the purpose of making and distributing products to prevent, diagnose and treat COVID-19 infection during the pandemic and for a short period thereafter. In return for these royalty-free licenses, we are asking the licensees for a commitment to distribute the resulting products as widely as possible and at a low cost that allows broad accessibility during the term of the license.
2. We are committed to making vigorous efforts to achieve alignment among all stakeholders in our intellectual property, including research sponsors, to facilitate broad and rapid access to technologies that have been requested to address the COVID-19 pandemic.
3. We are committed to making any technology transfer transactions related to addressing the COVID-19 pandemic our first priority, and to minimizing any associated administrative burdens.
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Mikhail Maksimov
S. A. R. Online Sessions, 2021
Sanatorium Anthropocene Retreat (S.A.R.) Online Sessions is a video game developed for Open by Moscow-based artist, filmmaker and game designer Mikhail Maksimov, with music score by Russian composer Vladimir Rannev.
Sanatorium Anthropocene Retreat. Mikhail Maksimov, 2021
Play (S.A.R.) Online Sessions:
The game is set in a post-apocalyptic scenario: awaking to a deserted Russian Pavilion in Giardini, the game stages a fantasy-like performance in which the main character (the player) mutates between human and non-human entities – a robot, a virus, and a humanoide – navigating a derelict digital environment and trying to recollect what has happened.
By playing with the fluidity of the protagonist's identity, and drawing on writings by Bruno Latour, Nick Land and Donna J. Haraway, the game tackles the concept of transhumanism. In this way, S.A.R. projects itself beyond "human exceptionalism" in search for more meaningful ways to engage with human and other-than-human agents.
S.A.R. Online Sessions is the second installment of a special project with the same name, commissioned by the Russian Pavilion and originally launched on pavilionrus.com in 2020. At a time when the Covid-19 pandemic made access to Giardini impossible, Maximov's video game was effectively the only way to experience the Pavilion and its surroundings. This year, the new version of the game introduces a new and integral multiplayer feature, expanding the game's potential to connect individuals beyond physical proximity and advances a new way to experience togetherness.
"There are two things I would like to emphasise:
A video game is made of a series of decisions – a rigid algorithm similar to a music box. Only random online accidents reveal the cracks of the surface. The multiplayer function that forms relations between characters and objects within the network algorithms unfolds in a specific mode that differs from a singleplayer journey – as the gameplay is based on the accidental volitions of the players. The client-server architecture of the game opposes the players' individualities and therefore can barely accept them. Collective events within an online game are easier to set up than individual personalities. The very notion of relations in a multiplayer game is based on an individual-collective duality whereby the preservation of individuality (or a semblance thereof) among uniform active copies of the game is sometimes more challenging than earning collective achievements.
The multiplayer format enables the following structural sequence: the valuable experience of a non-human agent first transforming into a microorganism, then transiting through a human, achieving singularity, and going back to non-human agency. The valuable experience of reverting to the non-human agent – albeit enriched with the events and limitations leading to potential new levels of worldmaking is the main focus of the gameplay.
All the insights above are translated into S.A.R. Online Sessions."
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home // News // Fury over new bid to have fluoride on tap //
Fury over new bid to have fluoride on tap
Source: Glasgow Evening Times | August 17th, 2004
Location: United Kingdom, Scotland
HEALTH bosses in Glasgow have been warned they face fierce opposition as they launch a new push to get fluoride put into the city's water.
NHS Greater Glasgow wants the Scottish Executive to introduce fluoridation as quickly as possible – against the advice of one of the city's top dentists.
Robert Broadfoot, dental director of the city's Primary Care Division, advised against the controversial proposal.
He said it would provoke a fierce public backlash and hinder other initiatives that would be accepted.
His warning was followed by campaigners saying they would fight the plan.
Members of Greater Glasgow NHS Board today agreed to go ahead with plans to consult the public on the move as part of an initiative to tackle high levels of decay, especially among poorer kids.
Glasgow has some of the worst tooth decay rates in Scotland, largely as a result of children taking too many sugary drinks and sweets and also due to many people in all age groups not brushing their teeth sufficiently.
In poorer areas, children starting school average 4.5 missing or decayed teeth. Children in affluent areas have a quarter of that decay.
The new push to introduce fluoride into Glasgow's drinking water is the latest in a number of attempts over the years.
In 1978 councillors on Strathclyde Region approved by one vote a move to introduce fluoridation. But Gorbals granny Catherine McColl fought a high-profile campaign that went to the Court of Session in Edinburgh and in 1982 a judge ruled the region had exceeded its authority.
There was a second attempt in 1992, but a major Evening Times campaign alerted the public and the health board's bid again failed.
The latest move was unveiled by community care director Catriona Renfrew.
Ms Renfrew, who is also leading the health board's attempt to close the city's Queen Mother's Maternity Hospital, told the board a strategy group had found "water fluoridation is the single most effective measure to counter dental decay."
She added: "It is a highly contentious issue, which is likely to take at least five years to implement". She said other measures were also needed.
The report says: "We encourage the Scottish Executive to facilitate the introduction of water fluoridation at the earliest possible time."
The board said it would hear a final report in December.
But at today's meeting, lay board member Agnes Stewart said she was concerned about the problems said to be aggravated by fluoride.
She said: "I notice one English board held up as an example has withdrawn fluoride."
Dr Frank Angell, chairman of the area dental committee, said he was in favour of fluoride, but added: "We have avoided debating this in the past and the sooner we get a debate on it, the better."
That debate is likely to be vociferous and opponents say they will fight the plans.
Dr Sheila Gibson, formerly of Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital and who opposed previous campaigns, said: "I am surprised they are bringing this up again. If only they would read the scientific literature, they would know fluoride is detrimental to the health."
Liz Vaughan, chairwoman of the National Pure Water Association, said: "Everyone has the right to refuse medication and that is enshrined in European human rights legislation. This is medication without consent with a known and registered poison."
When the Scottish Executive drew up plans in 2002 to curb tooth decay, Dr Broadfoot argued in favour of the Swedish system, which advises parents about brushing, sealing children's teeth early and applying a fluoride varnish to toughen older children's teeth.
He was against plans for mass fluoridation in mains water.
The Green Party also opposes them. Health spokeswoman Eleanor Scott, a former child health doctor, said there were better ways to tackle decay.
She said: "I wonder how the costs of this would stack up against giving poorer children a toothbrush and a tube of fluoride toothpaste.
"I am not convinced about the general safety of this measure and also the specific difficulties of getting the dose right.
"There is also the basic human rights issue. We should all be able to drink the water from the tap without worrying that something we do not agree with has been added."
An Executive spokeswoman said no decision had been made, but confirmed ministers were considering whether fluoride should be added to water supplies across the country as part of the oral health strategy, likely to be unveiled in the autumn.
She said: "We have had a large number of responses and will need to take time to consider them and come to a conclusion."


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By Jason Cassidy
I've always seen the Deftones plopped onto the Nü-Metal pile, so I wasn't prepared for this CD to be good. I was a little misled—this is an enormous record. It's not enormous just because the CD has extended videos and home movies of the band and an impressive 20-page color booklet (with a beautiful cover): The sound is enormous. Noisy and pretty would be the short description. But, within the generalization is a breadth of approaches that the Sacramento band explores and tweaks from track to track (even within tracks). Unyielding scream-fests slide into lush shoe-gazer lopers that would make The Smashing Pumpkins proud. The guitar sound often slips into over-processed metal, but occasionally there's promise as the band spreads out into more creative directions to find the noise.
Kim Fowley compilation.
Robert Randolph gets down but not too low.
Bruce Cockburn hits his fifth decade.
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Joe Ely's latest a departure from "honky-tonk rowdiness."


Giuseppe Campani was one of Europe's foremost telescope makers and opticians in the seventeenth century. Born in a village near Spoleto, he came from a peasant family and had no university education. He soon went to Rome with his two brothers, one of whom was a cleric, the other a clockmaker. Campani learned clockmaking, probably studied optics at the Collegio Romano, and became skilful in grinding lenses.


Did the context shift all of a sudden? I'm saying one of the main complaints I've noticed is similarities in aesthetics between the designs of 40k range models and AoS range models.
If you think a new faction/Sorta!Space Marine release is an general all Imperial Armies one, then yes, yes it is.
ooh i see now. my bad. i tought you meant "systems" as "rules systems".
Anyway yes, i generally despise AoS aestethics so i cannot be happy about the porting of that sculpts into Wh40k. It's not the concept of porting per se...it's just that i don't like (some of) AoS sculpts.
It's funny, because the first complaints I heard used terms like "Sigmarines" to refer to the AoS models looking like something out of 40k. And now the complaints are reversed. Not sure if it's all the same people but from a general view it really does look like parts of the wargaming community just need a reason to complain and won't be happy unless they do.
I honestly can't remember the last time I fought an army that wasn't marines...therefore all space marines=all imperial armies.
Anecdotal evidence it totally legit right?
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thats the same problem: its a complaint about the sharing of layouts between diffrent games/universes.
Sigmarines were fantasy knights so similar to space marines it was ridiculous. And now we have wh40k warriors that looks like fantasy knights. This is a blending of styles that i didn't want to see. Blending styles means that dozens of models will just look the same accross differnt games and gaming universes. Its a "vanillification" of models aestethics. So, i don't see it as a strange complaint...it's the same, but mirrored. It's the globalization of modeling: where all models looks the same, be it sigmarines or GuilliStormCast/NurgleCast.
These marines are quite different aesthetically... but 2 basically only change is the wounds; theyre still same S/T etc pretty much, and the way wounds get allocated i dont think these guys will be that much more survivable.
a unit of 10 poxwalkers charged my 3 new flyboys, 2 died, but they pretty much wiped out the poxwalkers.
Of course, if you hate it, you hate it, and that's OK.
But you complain about them looking too much like fantasy knights. Have you seen the Horus Heresy? You surely understand what I am saying, right?
It's actually looking likely that the starting point of 8th is a few/couple hundred years after M42 kicks off, with the Crusade coming from Terra and reaching (at least) Ultramar and Baal, presumably capturing and fortifying at least some things in between so as not to monumentally screw up the logistics of the whole thing.
So plenty of time for Primaris Marines - who were UNTESTED ROOKIES - to get themselves horribly maimed.
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Review: ESO delights Hawrelak Park crowds at Symphony Under the Sky
In the old Norse tales there is squirrel called Ratatoskr, who scurries up and down the trunk of the great world-tree of life, delivering messages between the eagle who lives at the top of the tree and the dragon who lives in its roots.
Ratatoskr's first cousin had its own moment in the spotlight on Friday, at the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra's traditional Friday classical music concert in the Symphony Under the Sky festival at Hawrelak Park. There it was, darting vertically down the trunk of a tree beside the open-air stage, clearly delivering a message to the gods below.
It didn't wake any dragon (no Wagner in this concert), but it did stir up the weather gods. Fortunately, Thor didn't appear with his thunderbolts, but in a few minutes the wind gusted hard. The rain started, driven even under the canopy, and umbrellas and collars went up.
Little, though, daunts Edmonton audiences, and it was perhaps appropriate that the work being played was the most bucolic of Dvorak's symphonies, the Symphony No. 8. It's full of echoes of the Bohemian countryside, and has a second movement representing a summer's day interrupted by a thunderstorm.
Robert Bernhardt, now in his thirteenth season as Symphony Under the Sky's main conductor, clearly has an enormous affection for the work. This came across in the smooth overall sound, and in the opening of the slow movement, gentle pastoral rumination rather than any yearning Dvorakian wistfulness.
Robert Bernhardt conducted the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra during Symphony Under the Sky in Hawrelak Park. David Bloom / Postmedia
Perhaps at times it was a little too reverent — the third movement was a bit tame, and there could have been more power in the finale. But this was a performance for the end of summer, the close of a satisfying summer's day. And the sounds of real rain fittingly ended just before the close of the symphony and the concert itself.
It was quite a contrast, too, with the concerto in the first half. Saint-Saëns's Piano Concerto No.2 is the most popular of his five piano concertos, but it isn't often heard, so this was a welcome opportunity.
It is a showman's work, full of virtuoso runs and effects, grand Romantic gestures, and some rather oddly juxtaposed styles. There are initially echoes of Beethoven, and then Saint-Saëns's admiration for Liszt's piano writing takes over. Its substance is questionable, but no matter, it is always fun to hear, and somehow, in its grand exuberance, it suits being played outdoors against the grand backdrop of the park.
It is also decidedly a virtuoso pianist's concerto, and indeed Bernhardt was content for the most part to leave the orchestra as a laid-back musical support rather than a partner. The soloist was the award-winning Russian pianist Ilya Yakushev, best known for his interpretation of Prokofiev. He has the fingers of steel needed to play the Russian composer, and they were well suited to the demands and forcefulness of this concerto. At the same time there were touches of a gentler lyricism (and humour), and if sometimes the runs were not always perfect (perhaps because of the break-neck speeds Yakushev often preferred) this was just the kind of performance to rouse the audience.
The concert had opened with the ESO's Chief Conductor, Alexander Prior, conducting Beethoven's powerful and succinct Coriolan Overture. This was another dramatic performance, especially in the precision of the orchestral playing at the opening, and in the mighty peon of triumph near the end. Here Prior had doubled the number of horns specified in the score, so the sound cut over the orchestra and across the Park — unexpectedly effective.
Alexander Prior conducted the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Under the Sky in Hawrelak Park. David Bloom / Postmedia
There may not have been an eagle for that squirrel to visit, but by the end there were skeins of geese and ducks trimming the tops of trees that are starting to show their autumnal colours. They may herald the end of summer, but they were also a reminder that Symphony Under the Sky also happily starts the city's classical music season.
The ESO's own classical Winspear concerts start on September 28 with a blockbuster of a program: James Campbell playing the Mozart Piano Concerto, and Prior conducting the full Bruckner Symphony No.9, complete with the reconstructed final movement.
Meanwhile, Symphony Under the Sky continues on Saturday evening (Sept. 1) with a concert of Hollywood favourites, and wraps up on Sunday afternoon (Sept. 2, 2 p.m.) with a concert that includes a tribute to Bernstein, another to Louis Armstrong, a third to Puccini, a new work from this year's ESO Young Composer, and ends with the traditional Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture.
Symphony Under the Sky
Organization: Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
Conductors: Robert Bernhardt and Alexander Prior
Soloist: Ilya Yakushev
Where: Hawrelak Park
When: Friday Aug 31
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Wilczy Las (alemán: Wolfshayn) es una localidad del distrito de Bolesławiec, en el voivodato de Baja Silesia (Polonia). Se encuentra en el suroeste del país, dentro del término municipal de Warta Bolesławiecka, a unos 9 km al nordeste de la localidad homónima y sede del gobierno municipal, a unos 13 al este de Bolesławiec, la capital del distrito, y a unos 92 al oeste de Breslavia, la capital del voivodato. En 2011, según el censo realizado por la Oficina Central de Estadística polaca, su población era de 192 habitantes. Wilczy Las perteneció a Alemania hasta 1945.

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Infectious Disease > Vaccines
Routine Vaccinations Continue to Decline Among Kindergartners
— But toddler immunizations remain stable, CDC reports
by Amanda D'Ambrosio, Enterprise & Investigative Writer, MedPage Today January 12, 2023
Routine childhood vaccinations among kindergartners declined in the 2021-2022 school year, contributing to a 2-percentage point decrease in vaccine coverage in this age group since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, CDC researchers found.
Among all U.S. kindergartners last year, approximately 93% received their measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) shot, the vaccine for diphtheria, tetanus, and acellular pertussis (DTaP), and the poliovirus and varicella vaccines, reported Ranee Seither, MPH, of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases in Atlanta, and colleagues.
Overall coverage for these immunizations has dropped 1 percentage point per year since 2019, with vaccination against all four illnesses declining in most states, Seither and colleagues wrote in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
"While this might not sound significant, it means nearly 250,000 kindergartners are potentially not protected against measles alone," Georgina Peacock, MD, MPH, acting director of the CDC's immunization services division, said at a press conference. "We know that measles, mumps, and rubella vaccination coverage is the lowest it has been in over a decade."
Just last year, communities in Minnesota and Ohio experienced measles outbreaks that resulted in child hospitalizations.
"These outbreaks were preventable," Peacock said. "The best way to prevent these diseases and their devastating impact on children is vaccination."
New York also discovered, for the first time in close to a decade, a case of paralytic polio in an individual who was not vaccinated.
The decline in vaccine coverage is not driven by an increase in exemptions, said Sean O'Leary, MD, chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics' committee on infectious diseases. Overall, 2.6% of kindergarten students had vaccine exemptions, with the majority of those exemptions being nonmedical. However, 4% of U.S. kids who were not exempt still had not received their MMR vaccine, the study found.
"I think it's complicated, why we've seen this drop," O'Leary said in the press conference. "Certainly misinformation is a problem, has always been a problem."
O'Leary added that researchers are still trying to understand the extent to which disinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines has led to misinformation about other childhood vaccinations, noting that misinformation about routine vaccinations has circulated for many years.
Peacock noted that pandemic disruptions to the healthcare system, as well as on schools' ability to collect vaccine documentation, could also be contributing to a decrease in reported childhood immunization rates in recent years.
Seither's group recognized a few limitations of their study, noting that state comparisons were limited because of differing vaccine requirements. Additionally, they noted that vaccination coverage and exemption rates could be over- or underestimated because of inaccurate or missing documentation from schools during this time.
Although vaccine coverage among kindergarten students has declined in recent years, routine immunizations among toddlers has remained stable, according to a separate study by Holly Hill, MD, PhD, also of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, and colleagues.
Overall, 70% of children born between 2016 and 2019 were up-to-date with their seven-vaccine series by the time they were 2 years old, Hill's group wrote in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Compared with babies born from 2016-2017, those born from 2018-2019 had higher rates of a majority of routine vaccinations. Rates were over 90% each for having at least three doses of the polio shot, one dose of MMR, three doses of hepatitis B, and one dose of varicella vaccine. Coverage was lower for having at least two doses of the influenza (63.9%) and hepatitis A (47.3%) vaccines among kids born in 2018-2019.
As far as the percentage of toddlers who have not received any vaccines, "that number is actually going down," O'Leary said. "So parents are still getting their children vaccinated, the vast majority are."
The percentage of children who were completely unvaccinated was just under 1%, down about 0.4 percentage points from 2016-2o17.
Hill and colleagues did not detect any decreases in routine vaccine coverage among toddlers related to the COVID-19 pandemic, during which the youngest children included in this analysis reached 2 years old. However, while vaccination rates have remained steady in recent years, there were still persistent -- and in some cases, widening -- disparities among children who resided in rural areas, came from lower-income families, did not have insurance, or who were in Black or Hispanic populations.
For example, vaccine coverage for the seven-vaccine series dropped 4 to 5 percentage points more among children who lived below the federal poverty level or in rural areas, with immunizations declining among kids in these two groups during the pandemic.
"A particular concern are these unfortunate disparities described," O'Leary stated, noting that barriers such as lack of access to transportation, healthcare services, or paid time off work create significant challenges for some families to get their children immunized.
Hill's group noted that their findings could be limited by selection bias, because of a low household interview response rate. Additionally, vaccine coverage estimates might be over- or underestimated if vaccination providers did not respond to questionnaires or if administered vaccines were not documented correctly.
Amanda D'Ambrosio is a reporter on MedPage Today's enterprise & investigative team. She covers obstetrics-gynecology and other clinical news, and writes features about the U.S. healthcare system. Follow
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Source Reference: Seither R, et al "Vaccination coverage with selected vaccines and exemption rates among children in kindergarten -- United States, 2021-22 school year" MMWR 2023; DOI: 10.15585/mmwr.mm7202a2.
Source Reference: Hill H, et al "Vaccination coverage by age 24 months among children born during 2018-2019 -- National Immunization Survey–Child, United States, 2019–2021" MMWR 2023; DOI: 10.15585/mmwr.mm7202a3.


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Plant: White Sapote
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White Sapote (Casimiroa edulus)
Food Producing
Canopy Tree
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Edible Fruit
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The White sapote tree can grow from 15 to 60 feet in height, but can be pruned to any size and can be grown in a planter. It has thick, light-gray bark that has wart-like growths on it. The branches are usually long, and they hang downward. The sapote's evergreen leaves grow in an alternate manner and are palmately compound. Each leaf has three to seven lanceolate leaflets. These leaflets can be smooth or hairy on the underside.
They do produce an odorless flower which is greenish-yellow. Each flower has four to five parts, and they are found on panicles, terminal and axillary. Due to aborted stigmas these flowers are sometimes unisexual. Otherwise they are hermaphroditic, meaning both male and female sexual organs are located on the flower.
The fruit, which is usually produced in the autumn, is usually oval in shape, either symmetrical or irregular. Each one is between two and one-half and four and one-half inches wide, about the size of an apple, and between four and five inches long. The skin is thin and can be green, yellow or golden. This skin is inedible. The flesh of the white sapote is creamy-white or yellow, and it has many small yellow oil glands. The texture is very smooth. The sapote fruit tastes sweet with a touch of bitterness. Inside the fruit there can be between one and six hard white seeds, about one to two inches long. These seeds have a bitter taste and are known to be narcotic. Some of the white sapote trees produce fruit year-round.
When planted from seed, these trees produce fruit after approximately eight years. This plant prefers to be planted in well-draining soil that is slightly acidic. It will also thrive if it is exposed to partial to full sun with some afternoon shade in warmer areas.
Origin and distribution
The white sapote is native to central Mexico; however, it has successfully been planted in areas in Guatemala, El Salvador and Costa Rica, as well as areas in northern South America, the Bahamas, West Indies, India and Mediterranean areas.
It has shown commercial success when planted in Gisborne in New Zealand and in areas of South Africa.
In 1810, Franciscan monks introduced the white sapote to California, where it is still grown in limited quantity. Its popularity in this area, as well as Florida, has fallen, mainly due the attraction that it has to fruit flies. Today it is mainly grown in these areas by collectors.
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What are belly buttons for? What happens to me next? Or even - do I have to kiss grandma if I don't want to?
This book is written by two experts who have delivered sex and relationships lessons in over 200 schools and have collected the best questions asked by the children that they've met. They've created a big book of answers to help support conversations about growing up, sex, birth, sexuality, pregnancy, gender, relationships, consent, emotions, friendship, being online, puberty and more!
This book takes a modern, inclusive and non-judgemental approach to all of those difficult, funny and (sometimes) embarrassing questions in a way that facilitates honest and comfortable conversations with children aged 7+.
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Alison Lloyd, Lucia Masciullo
Dom & Ink
Letters To Cathy
How You Came to Be
V&A Introduces: Beatrix Potter
The Life of Jesus
ERNEST RENAN


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Brazil documents by Year:	 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 1999
Getting Away with Murder
CPJ's 2020 Global Impunity Index spotlights countries where journalists are slain and their killers go free By Elana Beiser/CPJ Editorial Director Published October 28, 2020 Incremental progress toward reducing the murders of journalists worldwide is fragile and could be thwarted by legal appeals and lack of political leadership, CPJ found in its latest report on…
CPJ's 2019 Global Impunity Index spotlights countries where journalists are slain and their killers go free Published October 29, 2019 Somalia is the world's worst country for the fifth year in a row when it comes to prosecuting murderers of journalists, CPJ's 2019 Global Impunity Index found. War and political instability have fostered a deadly…
More journalists killed on the job as reprisal murders nearly double
Journalists from Saudi Arabia to Afghanistan to the U.S. were targeted for murder in 2018 in reprisal for their work, bringing the total of journalists killed on duty to its highest in three years. The number of journalists killed in conflict fell to its lowest level since 2011. A CPJ special report by Elana Beiser
Hundreds of journalists jailed globally becomes the new normal
For the third year in a row, 251 or more journalists are jailed around the world, suggesting the authoritarian approach to critical news coverage is more than a temporary spike. China, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia imprisoned more journalists than last year, and Turkey remained the world's worst jailer. A CPJ special report by Elana Beiser
CPJ's 2017 Global Impunity Index spotlights countries where journalists are slain and the killers go free
Journalist killings ease from record highs as murders down, combat deaths up
Deadly violence against the media eased in 2016 from recent record levels as the number of journalists singled out for murder declined. A CPJ special report by Elana Beiser and Elisabeth Witchel
CPJ's 2016 Global Impunity Index spotlights countries where journalists are slain and the killers go free By Elisabeth Witchel, CPJ Impunity Campaign Consultant Published October 27, 2016. Some of the highest rates of impunity in the murders of journalists can be attributed to killings by Islamist militant groups, CPJ found in its latest Global Impunity…
Syria, France most deadly countries for the press
Of 69 journalists killed for their work in 2015, 40 percent died at the hands of Islamic militant groups such as Al-Qaeda and Islamic State. More than two-thirds of the total killed were singled out for murder. A CPJ special report by Elana Beiser
October 8, 2015 12:01 PM EDT
CPJ's 2015 Global Impunity Index spotlights countries where journalists are slain and the killers go free Published October 8, 2015 Elisabeth Witchel/CPJ Impunity Campaign Consultant The ambush of a convoy in South Sudan and the hacking deaths of bloggers in Bangladesh this year propelled the two nations onto CPJ's Global Impunity Index, which spotlights countries…
Halftime for the Brazilian press
May 6, 2014 11:00 AM EDT
Will justice prevail over censorship and violence? Brazil is home to vibrant media, but journalists are regularly murdered with impunity and critical journalists are subject to legal actions that drain resources and censor important stories. During the 2014 World Cup, this contradiction will be on vivid display. Does Dilma Rousseff's administration have the will and…
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EVERTHRONE - The Dawning
No strangers to Divebomb Records, South Carolina's EVERTHRONE have returned to the label after the successful release of their Jamie King produced debut album, Evil Tongues, via the label's Bootcamp Series which not only reissues obscure lost treasures of the past, but also is a showcase for new artists through alternative promotion helping to support them while they get a foothold within the industry.
Looking to capitalize on the acclaim of Evil Tongues and sharing stages with FATES WARNING, FIREWIND and TURISAS the group teamed up with renowned producer Don Debiase at the Lava Room/Studio D (Cleveland, OH), sculpting 10 new tracks that beautifully showcase their innovative and bold new approach to dark wave-driven metal.
The result of this new creative partnership is, The Dawning, an album which easily advances some of the themes and styles found on Evil Tongues but also takes the band to new artistic heights. The Dawning more than delivers on the promise of EVERTHRONE's previous work. Quite simply, this is a band that even the most jaded heavy metal critic won't be able to deny.
NIGHTWISH, AMORPHIS, KAMELOT, PYRAMAZE
1. This Great Expanse
2. Consciousness
3. Children Of A Dying Sun
4. Under A Burning Sky
5. Crimson Gold
6. The Anarchist
7. Loss
8. Masquerade
9. Word Of The Oracle
10. All Things Manifest
The Dawning by EVERTHRONE


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HC La Chaux-de-Fonds is a Swiss professional ice hockey team who currently play in the Swiss League (SL). Founded in 1919, La Chaux-de-Fonds play at the Patinoire des Mélèzes in front of a capacity 7,200.

History
Hockey Club La Chaux-de-Fonds was founded in 1919 and in 1953 the team moved to their current home stadium, the Patinoire des Mélèzes. There, the team would first find success in 1951, 1955 and 1959 capturing the second and third division titles. After making their first appearance in the National League in 1955, Chaux-de-Fonds experienced from 1968 to 1973, six consecutive Swiss Championships, as the premier club of Switzerland. In 1980, however, the team was relegated to the National League B, returning to the Swiss 1. Liga in 1985.

Honors
National League Championships: (6) 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973
National League B Championships: (4) 1955, 1965, 1996, 2000

Players

Honored members

References

External links
HC La Chaux-de-Fonds official website

Ice hockey teams in Switzerland
La Chaux-de-Fonds


Book 13 of my Goodreads Reading Challenge.
What a wonderful fun read. I bought and read this to my sisters grandchildren and they adored it. So beautifully rhyming it was really easy for them to remember the names of the characters in each poem.
Of course the star was Debra the Zebra having two poems to herself. I even managed to find a Debra for the children that looked like the one on the book cover. We all liked Brian the Lion, Matt the Bat and a favourite was Russell the Mussel.
A book to share with the whole family, for kids of all ages and the young at heart like myself.
This is a truly enjoyable read I would say it would be loved by boys and girls who were competent readers or those in secondary education upwards. Definitely not for children of a sensitive nature as there are some rather frightening scenes in the story and some real evil characters.
Olly and Tilly make some unusual new friends Jess a dog, Liam & Ian some very technically minded mice, Aristotle the badger and several more. The children and animals all come together to stop evil namely Odric and Botwulf who are both rather sinister creatures. Botwulf will stop at nothing to retrieve the stone and raise his master. Hence some very scary parts of the book.
Set around the ancient British coastline of Whitby & north Yorkshire with it's stormy seas and sinister cliff faces this book makes for an eerie read. Worth checking out.


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Q: Combine multiple arrays using foreach loop I have following code:
foreach(array_combine($names, $hashids) as $name => $hashid) {
echo '

'.$counter.'
'.$name.'
'.$hashid.'

';
}

Now I want to combine one more array and iterate it's values in foreach. That's three arrays in a foreach statement. can anyone help me in adding it. Like how can we add multiple arrays in foreach statement.
For example I want something like:
foreach(array_combine($names, $hashids, $photoids) as $name => $hashid => $photoid) {
echo '

'.$counter.'
'.$name.'
'.$hashid.'
'.$photoid.'

';
}

But above code gives me error. The error I get is

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '=>' (T_DOUBLE_ARROW), expecting ')' in /homepages/4/d864452909/htdocs/public_html/app/index.php on line 58

A: If I were you I will do this way with simple foreach() loop,
<?php
$names = ['Sample','Big Buck Bunny 60fps 4K - Official Blender Foundation Short Film.mp4'];
$hashid = ['JdpmLLdx5me7K','lWJQjwrVRZdXn'];
$photoids = ['url_1_of_the_image','url_2_of_the_image'];
$result = [];
foreach ($names as $key => $value) {
    $result[$key] = array(
        'name'  => $names[$key],
        'hashid' => $hashid[$key],
        'photoid'    => $photoids[$key],
    );
}
foreach($result as $k => $v) {
    echo '

         '.$k.'
         '.$v['name'].'
         '.$v['hashid'].'
         '.$v['photoid'].'

';
}

WORKING DEMO: https://3v4l.org/61Tcr OR https://3v4l.org/133c3

A: You can merge the objects as below
$arr = array();

foreach ($names as $value) {
    array_push($arr, $value);
}

for($x = 0; $x < count($arr); $x++) {
  foreach($arr[$x] as $y => $val) {
    $arr[$x] = (object) array_merge((array) $arr[$x], (array) $hashids[$x]);
    $arr[$x] = (object) array_merge((array) $arr[$x], (array) $photoids[$x]);
  }
}

for($x = 0; $x < count($arr); $x++) {
echo '

'.$arr[$x]->counter.'
'.$arr[$x]->name.'
'.$arr[$x]->hashid.'
'.$arr[$x]->photoid.'

';
}

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