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Please donate to our crowd justice campaign. We need to raise $10,000 to pay for an expert witness to help us win at trial. This case is important for all Americans and it addresses an important issue.
We are an education law firm in San Francisco California. My clients are of modest means but want to take this case to trial due to the principle involved.
This case is about a lawsuit brought by a Christian family under the establishment clause of the First Amendment to the United States constitution challenging the practices of a teacher in a California school district which included meditation with religious music and mantras and breathing techniques, and an experiment about praying to water.
The First Amendment enshrines the separation of church and state and forbids religious practices from being established in a public setting. This protects all religious faiths, and also those who believe in no religion. This lawsuit is brought by a middle-class Christian family in Thousand Oaks California over Eastern-based religious practices in their daughter's fourth grade classroom that grew concerning and ultimately alarming to them.
Because this lawsuit involves a minor, we must protect her identity, and therefore will not be referring to her by name.
Upon questioning his daughter, the father learned that the Gayatri mantra was played frequently in the classroom during a daily 11-minute meditation period that included breathing techniques. Although the mantra itself is in another language, the basis of the mantra is that its power supposedly arises from it tonal or sound vibrations. The mantra is clearly religious in nature.
On top of this meditation to music using a religious mantra, the teacher introduced the students to the teachings of a Dr. Emoto, who claims that positive and negative thoughts can influence the structure of water. Positive thoughts, which Dr. Emoto calls "prayer," allegedly have a certain effect on water, causing it to crystallize. Negative thoughts allegedly have a detrimental impact.
My clients are bringing this lawsuit for the purpose of underscoring the importance of the First Amendment's establishment clause which forbids religious practices from the classroom.
Any money contributed will be used to pay for an expert witness in religion to discuss the significance of the Gayatri mantra, and the other practices in dispute, along with trial expenses and attorneys' fees to bring the matter to trial for a full hearing of these issues.
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Earlier in the month depositions had began for witnesses in the U.S. District Court, Central District of California, Western Division case Abbott vs. CVUSD et al. Then on Friday, November 9, 2018 depositions were suspended as both the Plaintiffs and Defendants in the case were evacuated during the Woolsey and Malibu Fires that threatened parts of Thousand Oaks and Newbury Park.
All remaining depositions were re-scheduled for later in the month. The Mandatory Settlement Mediation Hearing was also pushed to December 12.
The woolsey fire's affect on the case's schedule, along with the upcoming holiday season, present some challenges for all parties to the case, as the trial date quickly approaches in just a couple months. The Jury Trial is currently calendared to begin on Tuesday, February 19th, 2019.
Tuesday, July 11, 2017 the Defendants' Attorneys in Abbott vs CVUSD et al. filed a Notice of Removal of Action for Trial of the case under the jurisdiction of the Federal Government. The case was initially filed just before the Notice of Removal on the same day. Below is the Notice of Removal of Action.
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Is Religion finding it's way into Public Schools?
On Tuesday, July 11, 2017 Attorney's representing the Parents of a 4th Grade Student enrolled at EARTHS Magnet Elementry School, located in Newbury Park, California filed a Complaint for Damages and Injunctive Relief on behalf of the minor. The Complaint, that was filed in California Superior Court in and for Ventura County, summarizes allegations pertaining to all causes of action including: Violation of the Unruh Civil Rights Act; Negligent Training and Supervision; and Violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The full complaint as a public record is available for review below.
The lawsuit names Conejo Valley Unified School District; and Jeff Rickert, as an individual; and Lisa LaMontagne, as an individual. Mr. Rickert is the School Principal at EARTHS Magnet and Ms. LaMontagne is a veteran 4th Grade teacher at the School. Both individuals have been employed with CVUSD for several years.
E.A.R.T.H.S is an acronym that stands for Environmental Academy of Research Technology & eartH Sciences. EARTHS is a Magnet School for K-5 students.
The parents bringing the lawsuit are Mark Abbott and Christina Abbott, Their family has lived in the Thousand Oaks community for over 10 years and they have established the area as their home. As an incoming 4th grader, they transferred their child from Medronã Elementry School, in order to take advantage of the appealing Science based curriculum that EARTHS offers and also to facilitate better convenient morning drop offs.
Below is a copy of the Complaint that is public record.
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Thousand Oaks, Monday June, 27, 2016, CVUSD Administrators release findings of their investigation into allegations of religious indoctrination against EARTHS Magnet Elementry School's 4th Grade teacher, Ms. LaMontagne.
Even though Mr. Iezza presents admissions that arguably sustain several of the parent's claims, his conclusions deny any wrongdoing by neither the District and School's Principle, Mr. Rickert, nor Ms. LaMontagne.
In addition to the Uniform Complaint Investigative Findings, there are exhibit correspondence documents in the form of emails and letters contained within the Redacted Uniform Complaint Findings document that is available to read below. The UCP Complaint, UCP Findings and identified exhibits are public record.
Imagine your 9 year old daughter coming home from school, and to your surprise, she has memorized a verse of one of the primary texts of a religion other than your own. The verse she memorized, and was able to sing to her father who recorded it, was from the "Gayatri Mantra," one of the most important mantras in the Vedic and then Hindu religions.
Upon questioning his daughter, the father learned that the "Gayatri mantra" was played frequently in the classroom during a daily 11-minute meditation period that included breathing techniques. Although the mantra itself is in another language, the basis of the mantra is that its power supposedly arises from its tonal or sound vibrations. The mantra is clearly religious in nature.
We are an education law firm in San Francisco California.
On May 23 and May 24, 2016 Ms. LaMontagne, a California Public School Teacher, used her personal subscription account with Gaia, (formerly known as Gaiam TV), to stream a metaphysical documentary called "Secret of Water." The film she presented to her 4th grade students served as supplemental instructional materials used to reinforce her previous lessons about Dr. Masaru Emoto and what is known as the 'Emoto Rice Experiment'. Ms. LaMontagne has developed her curriculum using a variety of Dr. Emoto's published works as part of her science energy unit.
According to the company's website, Gaia "offer[s] the largest resource of consciousness-expanding videos"; with over 8,000 videos including original Gaia content.
The film "Secret of Water" was produced by Gaia and released for streaming exclusively on the Gaia streaming website on May 7, 2015. Film Critic, Ken Jaworowski, gave the film a scathing review in a New York Times article dated March 19, 2015.
"Secret of Water" was based on Dr. Masaru Emoto's controversial research and publications about his theories on creating clean living water by channeling positive prayer, positive thoughts, and positive metaphysical energy to the water. Wikipedia describes: "Emoto's conjecture evolved over the years, and his early work revolved around pseudoscientific hypotheses that water could react to positive thoughts and words and that polluted water could be cleaned through prayer and positive visualization".
The class presentation of the film, alarmed at least one student's parents who felt like the film, and the teachings about Dr. Emoto, were inappropriate for Elementry school-aged children because of the spiritual and religious nature of the materials. The parents went on to file a formal complaint under the Conejo Valley Unified School District's UCP (Uniform Complaint Procedure). You can read the parent's UCP Complaint as well as the CVUSD UCP Investigative Findings among the posts on this website.
[During the 2015-2016 school year] The teacher introduced the students to the teachings of a Dr. Emoto, who claims that positive and negative thoughts can influence the structure of water. Positive thoughts, which Dr. Emoto calls "prayer," allegedly have a certain effect on water, causing it to crystallize. Negative thoughts allegedly have a detrimental impact.


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Future golf stars: 10 young players flying under the radar you should get to know as 2021 approaches
Everyone (or almost everyone) knows the Matthew Wolffs, Scottie Schefflers and Collin Morikawas of the world. Those 20-somethings would be difficult to miss after they burned through the PGA Tour world in 2019 and 2020, setting themselves up for what should be a really intriguing 2021 in which they will no longer be the plucky upstarts but rather the heavyweight favorites at the biggest events in the world.
However, as 2021 creeps up on us, we should look beyond the obvious young studs at some lesser-known names that could make noise next year and beyond. Some of these golfers have already found success at the PGA Tour level, while others are barely pros. Not all of them will become stars, but they are names that only the most hardcore golf fans will know that you should become familiar with before they hit the mainstream.
We'll start with the most obvious one — somebody who earned temporary PGA Tour membership in the fall while we were all paying attention to the NBA playoffs and the heart of the NFL season.
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1. Will Zalatoris
From Sept. 1 to the end of 2020, Zalatoris was better than Scheffler, Wolff and Morikawa, not to mention also Daniel Berger, Sungjae Im, Tommy Fleetwood, Adam Scott and Lee Westwood. Data Golf has him ranked as the 30th-best player in the world, and you've probably barely ever heard his name — if you've heard it at all. He's almost certainly next in line to jump from leading the Korn Ferry Tour (where he started 2020) to becoming PGA Tour Rookie of the Year in 2021.
2. Brandon Wu
The former Stanford stud finished the year with four top 10s in his last seven events, including a win on the Korn Ferry Tour. He went from No. 862 in the world to No. 164 (and Data Golf has him even higher). He famously skipped graduation because he made the cut at the 2019 U.S. Open. Things seemed to click into place for him at the end of his first year as a pro, and I wouldn't be surprised if he made a Zalatoris-like leap in 2021.
3. Taylor Pendrith
Averaged 322 yards off the tee on the Korn Ferry Tour in 2020, which is pretty crazy and also the most important skill in professional golf right now. At age 29, he's the oldest player on this list, but his career has been an intriguing series of ups and downs that has included myriad injuries. He finished runner-up four times on the KFT after golf restarted in June.
4. Austin Eckroat
Let's talk about how Oklahoma State had Wolff, Hovland and Eckroat (as well as world No. 176 on the same team). They went 183-6-1 and won the national championship on their home course. Now, Eckroat is looking to join his former teammates on the PGA Tour. He recently finished T12 at the Mayakoba Golf Classic and is ranked No. 3 on the PGA Tour University Rankings. He's a little older than I would normally prefer for somebody coming out of college, but some of that was unavoidable because of the pandemic. He should thrive immediately in the professional ranks.
5. Kevin Yu
Only Jon Rahm had a better scoring average as a freshman at Arizona State than Yu back when he was a freshman in 2017. Now a senior, Yu is the No. 1-ranked amateur in the world, according to Data Golf. The pandemic has also worked a bit in his favor as he now has a pretty strong path forward to getting his card on the Korn Ferry Tour.
6. Rasmus Hojgaard
The 19-year-old has already won twice on the European Tour and is into the top 100 in the OWGR. Again, he's 19. He also has a twin brother who plays professionally, and their dream is to some day play in the Ryder Cup together.
7. Justin Suh
Remember him? The fourth member of the Hovland-Wolff-Morikawa press conference at the Travelers Championship in 2019 has taken a bit longer to develop as a pro, but he came on strong at the end of the year with a pair of top-15 finishes on the PGA Tour that bumped him to inside the top 500 in the OWGR. His pedigree is undeniable, and when in doubt in golf, you should always bet on pedigrees. He performed like a top-100 player in the world for most of his college career, and while turning pro can often break you down a bit, he's poised for a big 2021.
8. Davis Thompson
Former Georgia Bulldog Keith Mitchell recently mentioned Thompson on the "No Laying Up" podcast as somebody who is a professional golfer currently playing amateur golf. He became the No. 1-ranked amateur in the world in November shortly after contending (and briefly leading) in Round 1 of the U.S. Open at Winged Foot. Still looks impossibly young (he was not alive for Tiger Woods' first Masters win), but his game will fit nicely on the Korn Ferry Tour (or PGA Tour?) next year.
9. Takumi Kanaya
The former No. 1 amateur in the world finally turned pro in 2020, and his game continues to improve. He absolutely destroys on the Japan circuits — he recently won the Dunlop Phoenix for his second worldwide win — and though he's a bit older than you might think (he'll turn 23 in May), he has yet to play a truly robust schedule worldwide. I'm intrigued to see what happens when he does.
10. Akshay Bhatia
Another name you probably got to know this fall as Bhatia turned pro in late 2019 at the tender age of 17 and rose 1,000 spots in the Official World Golf Rankings in 2020 after a top 10 at the Safeway Open. He obviously has a long way to go to fulfill some of the hype around him, but making cuts and grabbing top 10s at the age of 18 on the PGA Tour is a massive (and underrated) deal. We often lump all the young guys together, but there is a chasm between being 18 and on the PGA Tour and being 23 or 24 out there. I'm excited for his future.
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Saint-Martin-l'Heureux est une commune française, située dans le département de la Marne en région Grand Est.

Géographie

Urbanisme

Typologie
Saint-Martin-l'Heureux est une commune rurale, car elle fait partie des communes peu ou très peu denses, au sens de la grille communale de densité de l'Insee.

Par ailleurs la commune fait partie de l'aire d'attraction de Reims, dont elle est une commune de la couronne. Cette aire, qui regroupe , est catégorisée dans les aires de  à moins de .

Occupation des sols

L'occupation des sols de la commune, telle qu'elle ressort de la base de données européenne d'occupation biophysique des sols Corine Land Cover (CLC), est marquée par l'importance des territoires agricoles (63,1 % en 2018), une proportion identique à celle de 1990 (63,2 %). La répartition détaillée en 2018 est la suivante :
terres arables (60,8 %), milieux à végétation arbustive et/ou herbacée (21,5 %), forêts (11,2 %), zones industrielles ou commerciales et réseaux de communication (2,3 %), zones agricoles hétérogènes (2,3 %), zones urbanisées (1,9 %).

L'IGN met par ailleurs à disposition un outil en ligne permettant de comparer l'évolution dans le temps de l'occupation des sols de la commune (ou de territoires à des échelles différentes). Plusieurs époques sont accessibles sous forme de cartes ou photos aériennes : la carte de Cassini (), la carte d'état-major (1820-1866) et la période actuelle (1950 à aujourd'hui).

Histoire
Situé à environ  de Reims, et  de Châlons-en-Champagne, le nom de ce petit village repose sur une légende qui raconte le passage d'un homme riche sur les routes bordant Saint-Martin. À la rencontre d'un vieil homme pauvre et sédentaire, le bourgeois homme lui offrit un bout de son précieux manteau afin que celui-ci n'ait plus froid. C'est ainsi que ce village fut surnommé « L'Heureux » en raison du bonheur du vieil homme.

Au cours de la Révolution française, la commune porta provisoirement le nom de Montheureux.

Saint-Martin-l'Heureux est dominée par une légère butte où se trouve son église entourée du cimetière. Hure en vieux français signifierait bosse, d'où le nom de Saint Martin le Hureux déformé par la suite en Saint Martin l'Heureux.(réf .panneaux posés à l'initiative de l'association "Mémoire des Monts de Champagne"à l'entrée du cimetière et devant la mairie).

En 1950, la commune a absorbé une partie du territoire communal de la commune voisine de Moronvilliers, partagée avec Pontfaverger-Moronvilliers et Saint-Hilaire-le-Petit.

Politique et administration

Démographie

Lieux et monuments
Église.

Personnalités liées à la commune

Voir aussi

 Liste des communes de la Marne

Notes et références

Notes

Références

Liens externes
 Saint-Martin-l'Heureux sur le site de l'Institut géographique national

Commune dans la Marne
Aire urbaine de Reims
Commune ayant porté un nom révolutionnaire dans la Marne
Ville décorée de la croix de guerre 1914-1918

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TARGET: 25% decrease in emissions intensity (measured in grams of CO2 per kilowatt-hour of energy produced) by 2020 compared with 2015, and to be carbon neutral by 2035.
In terms of CO2 emissions intensity, AVANGRID's generating portfolio is among the cleanest in the country. In 2018, CO2 emissions intensity was 54 grams per kWh of energy produced, just 12% of the U.S. average. This represents approximately a 15% reduction compared to the 2015 baseline, which puts the company on track to meet its objective of reducing CO2 emissions intensity by 25% by 2020, compared with 2015, and to be carbon neutral by 2035. Because our renewable energy facilities generate electricity with little or no emissions of CO2 and other byproduct pollutants, our customers can receive credit for the carbon emissions they have offset through the purchase of renewable energy. The 16,986 GWh of electricity produced by Avangrid Renewables' wind and solar facilities in 2018 allowed customers to avoid 12 million metric tons of CO2 emissions. That's roughly equivalent to the emissions avoided by removing 2.55 million cars from the road for a year.*


Jan Gehl, Professor of Urban Design at the School of Architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, and founding partner of Gehl Architects – Urban Quality Consultants, gave insightful talk at the Opening Plenary of the EFC AGA and Conference in Copenhagen on 31 May. After screening his short film, "The Human Scale", which showed a global panorama of cities, the challenges they face, and some solutions, Mr Gehl shared his view of the importance of the good city for the cities today and for the future.
His main point was that the best thing foundations can do is to change mindsets of people who can then go and make change in their local environments. He gave the example of New York City, where he helped to change city planners' ways of thinking when it came to making cities people friendly. Various stakeholders in New York City then went on to transform key locations, such as Times Square, into places meant for people, rather than cars.
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The international track at the Shell E4 Start-up Hub is for foreign energy related startups looking to enter the Indian market. The program aims to support these start-ups in establishing a presence in-country and scaling their business here. We prefer start-ups that have a finished product (or service) and have raised a round of investments other than family and friends. This is a comprehensive and tailor-made program to support new-market (geography – India) entry and scaling the business. The duration of the programme is 6 to 8 months with the option to extend up to 2 years, depending on the needs of the start-up.
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Our experience has shown that start-ups looking to enter the Indian market will need solutions as per the following timelines. These are flexible and can be modified based on need.
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Who ya gonna see? Ernie Hudson at 'Ghostbusters'
John Monaghan
Special to the Free Press
Ernie Hudson has made more than 30 films, but most people know him as a ghoul-hunting team member in the "Ghostbusters" movies. The Michigan-born actor will come home this week to introduce the 1984 original, take photos and sign autographs at Emagine theaters in Rochester, Royal Oak and Canton.
Hudson was born in Benton Harbor, but got his acting chops in Detroit, both as a student at Wayne State University and as a resident playwright at Concept East, a black theater company in the 1960s and '70s. He did graduate work at the Yale School of Drama before embarking for Hollywood. His first role in the Gordon Parks-directed "Leadbelly" in 1976 led to plenty of small parts on TV and in the movies before landing "Ghostbusters."
His role of Winston Zeddemore, hired on to the Ghostbusters crew when business got too big, teamed him with Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. He also appeared in the 1989 sequel and recently finished shooting parts of a "Ghostbusters" reboot, set for release in 2016.
"Ghostbusters" has been screening a lot lately in celebration of its 30th anniversary last year. The weekend screenings, employing a recent 4K digital restoration, have several showtimes Friday at Emagine Rochester (200 Barclay Circle), Saturday at Emagine Royal Oak (200 N. Main St.), and Sunday at Emagine Canton (39535 Ford Rd.) with some showtimes already sold out. 888-319-3456 or www.emagine-entertainment.com. $5-$12 depending on theaters and seating. Autographs are $25.
DFT offers variety this weekend: There is a suspense component at the Detroit Film Theatre this weekend, but the scariest thing will be choosing which programs to attend.
At 7 p.m. Thursday, author A. Brad Schwartz presents "Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles's War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News," a lecture that examines Welles's 1939 stunt that made the radio public believe that aliens were invading the earth. (Free)
"Duel," the 1971 thriller made for television by young director Steven Spielberg, gets a rare big-screen showing at 4 p.m. Saturday. In it, Dennis Weaver plays a driver that cuts off the wrong truck driver and is hunted for nearly 90 minutes.
"Rebels of the Neon God," at 7 p.m Saturday and 4:30 p.m. Sunday, focuses on twentysomething misfits who bond on the nighttime streets of Taipei. Made in 1992, the debut feature from director Tsai Ming-liang is available for the first time in the U.S.
"Jellyfish Eyes," at 9:30 p.m. Saturday, is the debut feature from artist Takashi Murakami. In it, young boy adopts a strange jellyfish-like creature only to discover that his schoolmates have similar friends.
Detroit Film Theatre at the Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit. 313-833-4005 or www.dia.org/dft. $9.50; $7.50 students/seniors.
Redford celebrates Halloween with kid, adult fare: The Redford Theatre makes the most of a Saturday Halloween by showing 35mm prints of two 1980s classics:
"E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial," Steven Spielberg's 1982 tale of a boy who protects a friendly alien, screens Saturday night at 8 p.m., with kids 12 and under free.
At 11 p.m., the theater shows the original "Nightmare on Elm Street" (1984) in honor of director Wes Craven, who died earlier this year. Also on the bill are rare original movie trailers for horror and exploitation titles ("Blackenstein," "Bruce Lee Fights Back from the Grave") that once showed at the Fox Theatre in the 1970s and 1980s.
Redford Theatre, 17360 Lahser Rd. (at Grand River), Detroit. 313-537-2560. www.redfordtheatre.com. $5.
'Rocky Horror' returns for Halloween screenings: 'Tis the season to do "The Time Warp" as metro Detroit theaters screen the 1975 cult classic "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" over Halloween weekend. The story of Brad and Janet and their adventures in the crazed castle of Dr. Frank N. Furter has been inspiring audiences for decades to dress up like favorite characters and talk back to the screen. The Main Art Theatre runs it at midnight Friday and Saturday. 118 N. Main St., Royal Oak. 248-542-5198. www.landmarktheatre.com. $7.
The State Wayne Theatre, which has been showing the movie every weekend this month, shows it on Friday night, but that event is sold out. See it again Nov. 14 at 35310 Michigan Ave., Wayne. 734-384-1200. www.phoenixmovies.net. $10.
Comedy, horror mix at Plymouth's Penn: Plymouth's Penn Theatre caps its month-long tribute to Frankenstein movies with 1947's "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein," the comedy duo's best entry. Here the boys get mixed up with actual monsters when they deliver statues to a wax museum. 7 p.m. Thursday, 760 Penniman Ave., Plymouth. 734-453-0870 or www.penntheatre.com. $3.


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Lough Ine
Nestling within a fold of hills 5km away from Baltimore, Lough Hyne (Ine) is a place of peaceful serenity, steeped in local folklore and home to a unique eco system which sustains a huge variety of marine plants & animals. Connected to the sea via a narrow tidal channel, known as the rapids. Anybody interested in marine biology must visit Lough Hyne, Ireland's only Marine Nature Reserve. It is situated 10 km from Baltimore in West Cork and is a fascinating place. There is an information board at the lakeside describing its origin, geology and unusual wildlife. A 5km loop walk starting at the lake takes you past a prehistoric ringfort, gives spectacular Atlantic Ocean views, descends to Barlogue pier at the sea-entrance to the lake and finally follows the lakeshore back to the starting point. Another, rather longer walk, takes you climbing through the woods to the summit of Knockomagh Hill, will reward with stunning panoramic views not only of Lough Hyne but also panoramas of the West Cork coastline from Galley Head to Fastnet Rock to Mizen Head and beyond. The walker can choose to return to the starting point by descending the hill or can continue walking north over the back of Knockomagh Hill and returning to the lake via a small green road past a couple of ancient holy wells.
Lough Ine Lake is a great place to go for a swim, bird & seal watching or a leisurely wander along the western shore towards Balrogue Creek. Lough Ine Nature Reserve encloses a saline marine lake about 1 km long, less than 0.75 km wide and up to 55 metres deep, divided into north and south basins by Castle Island.
The Lough
Moving into Lough me from The Rapids, the seabed drops sharply away to form the south basin (depth 25 metres). Once inside the lough proper, the high surrounding land provides shelter from winds; only during severe gales can waves higher than one foot be formed. Lough Ine is, therefore, an exceptionally sheltered sea-lough. In contrast with other marine sites, it has no significant rivers or other sources of fresh water to dilute its salt water. This factor, combined with the tidal exchange The Rapids, means that the lough contains clean, oxygenated and fully-saline water and can support a diverse marine fauna and flora.
Western Trough
Connecting the south and north basins of Lough Ine proper is the 0.5 km long Western Trough, the deepest part of the Reserve. This trough lies in a north-south direction along the western shore opposite Castle Island, and is over 40 metres deep for most of its length. Such extreme depth, combined with shelter front wave-action and currents, produces an unusual seasonal effect in the deep trough.
The lough itself, the Rapids and Barlogue Creek contain a wide range of wave-exposure, current, depth, light and siltation regimes as well as diverse substrate types ranging from vertical rock faces to fine mud. This range of habitats, together with the lough's situation on the south-west corner of Ireland in warm, clean Atlantic water, results in a rich and varied fauna and flora including many rare and beautiful species.
Lough Ine was a freshwater lake until approximately 4,000 years ago when the rising sea-level reached the level of the shallowest part of what is now The Rapids. Sea water then started to flow in and out through The Rapids and Lough Ine became a marine lake. The most recent phase in the history of Lough Ine concerns its 'discovery" by marine biologists (in 1886) and the subsequent construction of field research laboratories. Working from these simple laboratories, scientists from a variety of institutions have carried out important, pioneering research on factors governing the distribution of marine animals and plants, thereby gaining in sight into the "balance of nature" in the marine
environment. Lough Ine became the most thoroughly studied marine site of comparable size in Europe and it is fitting that on June, 1981 it became Ireland's first statutory marine nature reserve.
Barlogw Creek
Barloge Creek
The physical contours of Lough Ine Reserve, both above and below the surface, exert dramatic influences on water movements. Outside Barlogue Creek, which is the seaward entrance to the reserve, the coast is subject to wave crash by long Atlantic swells originating thousands of miles offshore.
The Rapids
The Rapids, at the head of Barlogue Creek, is a narrow rocky channel through which the tide pours in and out at speeds approaching ten miles per hour. Although dangerous to swimmers, these strong currents support an extraordinarily rich marine life of
multi-coloured sponges, sea squirts, sea anemones and even corals, all growing beneath a dense canopy of kelp up to 4.5 metes long. At low water in Barlogue Creek the water level inside the Lough may be up to three metres higher than outside, causing a cascade of water to tumble out over the sill into the Creek. This sill, the shallowest part of The Rapids, is only one or two metres deep at low water in the lough and is just above
mid-time level in Barloge Creek, causing the tide to flow in to the lough for only four hours and out for 8.5 hours. The rise and fall of the tide in Lough Hyne is about 1 metre compared with 3½ metres in Barloge Creek.
Diverse Marine Life
Lough Ine Nature Reserve therefore contains such varied environments as wave-battered headlands, sea-caves, shallow sheltered channels covered with sea-grass, tidal rapids with powerful currents, unusual tides, deep sheltered water and all intermediate environments. This almost complete range of temperate marine environments is now protected by law, providing a haven from exploitation and pollution for Lough Ine's diverse marine life.
The Reserve contains several thousand species of marine animals and plants. The fauna and flora of Lough Ine, The Rapids and Barloge Creek constitute a unique assemblage of marine organisms for an area only one square kilometer in extent. Situated on the south-west corner of Ireland, the Reserve's clean, warm Atlantic water permits survival of Southern (or Lusitanian) species of animals and plants, common in the Mediterranean and surrounding areas, together with species common to the rest of Ireland and Britain. Lough Ine also supports large populations of rare fish as well as both rare and common species of most groups of marine animals and plants.
The richness of Lough Ine's marine life can be appredated from the high proportion of species found within the square kilometer of the nature reserve, compared with the rest of the Irish coastline. Within the reserve boundary have been found 73 species of sea-slug, three-quarters of the total number of species for the whole of Ireland, over 100 species of sponges, 24 of crabs and 18 of sea-anemones.
As well as visiting Lough Ine, why not explore the many more things to do in West Cork.
Dolphin Sighting
The Irish Times - Wednesday, November 30, 2011
First sighting of dolphin in Irish lake by PAT FLYNN
THE IRISH Whale and Dolphin Group (IWDG) has confirmed the first sighting of a dolphin in an Irish lake, in Lough Hyne near Baltimore, Co Cork. This is the first time a cetacean has been found in such an environment. The group's sightings co-ordinator Pádraig Whooley said: "The IWDG frequently documents cetaceans in bays, occasionally in estuaries, rarely in rivers, but to the best of my knowledge, and I'm open to correction, this is the first validated record of a cetacean using an Irish lake."
The sighting was made by Skibbereen-based kayaking instructor Jim Kennedy in recent weeks. He observed and filmed the juvenile/ calf over two days. Images sent to the whale and dolphin group have confirmed that it is a young common dolphin.While the dolphin may have taken up residence in Lough Hyne, there have, however, been no sightings since of the mammal. Mr Whooley said: "There were no further sightings after the second day, so we would not be overly confident that it made its way out of the lough into Barlogue Creek and back to open sea. But without any stranding reports within the lough, there is always a chance."
"It also means we can add another habitat type that can potentially be utilised by Irish cetaceans and, of course, those tasked with conserving and studying this unique site can claim that its species diversity now extends to dolphins." The Irish Whale and Dolphin Group was founded in 1990 to establish an Irish stranding and sighting scheme and to campaign for the declaration of Irish territorial waters as a whale and dolphin sanctuary.
A year later, in June 1991, the late taoiseach Charles J Haughey declared all Irish waters to be a whale and dolphin sanctuary, the first of its kind in Europe. Two decades later, in April this year, the Haughey family donated the former taoiseach's yacht Celtic Mist to the whale and dolphin group.
The yacht is undergoing refitting as a maritime research vessel.
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How much is Stefan Persson Worth?
Stefan Persson net worth: Stefan Persson is a Swedish business magnate who has a net worth of $25 billion dollars. Stefan Persson has accumulated this net worth largely through the earnings of Hennes & Mauritz (H&M), the fashion company started by his father Erling Persson. In addition to the company, Persson is known as the richest person in Sweden, which ranks him as the 16th richest person on the entire planet. One particularly ostentatious symbol of his immense wealth is the English village Linkenholt, which is owned entirely by him. From 1982 to 2009, he served as the president and chief executive officer of Hennes & Mauritz, before being replaced by his son, Karl-Johan Persson. Since his departure, Hennes & Mauritz has been embroiled in several public relations controversies, including one involving poor working conditions in a supply factory in Cambodia. Workers there are said to be subject to "fumes from chemicals, poor ventilation, malnutrition and mass hysteria." Some other controversial practices of the company include the destruction of unsold merchandise and the alleged use of artists' work without proper credit being given. Persson's personal life is much less cluttered with difficult problems, as evidenced by his family life: He and his wife have three children and live in Stockholm, Sweden.
Net Worth details: Stefan Persson holds a 38.8 percent stake in Hennes & Mauritz, better known as H&M, which is the second largest private label apparel retailer in the world. Persson is a 4.8 percent stakeholder in Melker Schorling, a Swedish investment company. He owns real estate company Ramsbury Property and also owns 17,700 acres of land in Wiltshire, England. H&M had $22.6 billion in revenue in 2016.


MISSISSAUGA, ON, Feb. 21, 2012 /CNW/ - Nuvo Research Inc. (TSX: NRI), a specialty pharmaceutical company dedicated to building a portfolio of products for the topical treatment of pain and the development of its immune modulating drug candidate WF10, today announced an update to Pliaglis regulatory approval in the U.S. and the E.U.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted the supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for Pliaglis for review. The sNDA was submitted by Galderma Laboratories, LP, the U.S. subsidiary of Galderma Pharma S.A. (Galderma). Nuvo has licensed worldwide marketing rights for Pliaglis to Galderma, a global pharmaceutical company specialized in dermatology. The FDA has set a PDUFA (Prescription Drug User Fee Act) date of April 16, 2012 for action on the submission.
Pliaglis is an FDA-approved topical local anesthetic cream which uses the Company's proprietary phase-changing topical technology. It provides local analgesia for superficial dermatological procedures, such as dermal filler injection, pulsed dye laser therapy, facial laser resurfacing and laser-assisted tattoo removal. Pliaglis was initially approved by the FDA in June 2006, but was voluntarily removed from the U.S. market by Galderma in 2008, due to manufacturing issues at Galderma's third-party contract manufacturer. Galderma subsequently transferred Pliaglis manufacturing to Galderma and has resolved the manufacturing issues. Galderma and Nuvo believe that the sNDA addresses the manufacturing site change and the resolution of the manufacturing issues. Galderma plans to launch the marketing and sale of Pliaglis in the U.S. in the second half of 2012.
In July 2011, a Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) for Pliaglis was submitted to 17 E.U. countries using the decentralized submission procedure and is under active review. The MAA requests marketing approval for producing local dermal anaesthesia on intact skin in adults prior to superficial dermatological procedures. Nuvo expects to receive a response in the first half of 2012 and Galderma plans to launch in a number of E.U. countries in the second half of 2012. Pursuant to Nuvo's license agreement with Galderma, Nuvo is entitled to receive milestone payments totaling US$6.0 million from Galderma once Pliaglis is launched in the first three E.U. countries.
"We are extremely excited and optimistic about the anticipated approval and launch of Pliaglis in the U.S. and E.U.," said Dr. Bradley Galer, President, Pain Group. "The milestone and royalty revenues from Pliaglis, together with our growing Pennsaid® royalties and revenues from our recently launched Synera® product, will help support our efforts to build Nuvo into a successful specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the treatment of pain."
Pliaglis was recently approved for sale and marketing in Argentina. Galderma was advised by Health Canada on February 10 2012 that its New Drug Submission for Pliaglis has been accepted for review. In September 2011, Galderma filed marketing applications in Switzerland and Brazil and is expected to file for marketing approval in other countries around the world, including additional South American countries, select Asian countries, South Africa, and Australia.
Nuvo will receive revenue from worldwide Pliaglis sales via royalties that average in the mid-teens.
Nuvo Research is a publicly traded, Canadian specialty pharmaceutical company, headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario. The Company is building a portfolio of products for the treatment of pain through internal research and development and by in-licensing and acquisition. The Company's product portfolio includes Pennsaid, Pliaglis and Synera. Pennsaid, a topical nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID), is used to treat the signs and symptoms of osteoarthritis of the knee(s). Pennsaid is sold in the United States by Mallinckrodt Inc., a Covidien company, in Canada by Paladin Labs Inc. and in several European countries. Pliaglis is a topical local anesthetic cream which provides topical local analgesia for superficial dermatological procedures. The Company has licensed worldwide marketing rights to Pliaglis to Galderma Pharma S.A., a global specialty pharmaceutical company specialized in dermatology. Synera is a topical patch that combines lidocaine, tetracaine and heat, approved in the United States to provide local dermal analgesia for superficial venous access and superficial dermatological procedures and in Europe, for surface anaesthesia of normal intact skin. Nuvo currently markets Synera in the United States and its licensing partner, EuroCept International B.V., has initiated a pan-European launch of Synera (under the name Rapydan) in several European countries. The Company is also developing the compound WF10, for the treatment of immune related diseases.


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Brit singer Alesha Dixon replaces Mel B, joining America's Got Talent judging panel
Alesha Dixon has joined the 'America's Got Talent: The Champions' judging panel.
The 40-year-old singer has replaced Mel B – who took part in the first Champions series last year – on the panel alongside Simon Cowell, Heidi Klum and Howie Mandel for the upcoming series of the talent show in the US.
The news was announced by magician – and reigning 'America's Got Talent: The Champions' winner – Shin Lim who revealed the 2020 judges in a card trick. Alesha later took to her Twitter account and wrote: "News Alert!!! SUPER EXCITED to be joining @AGT #AGTChampions!"
News Alert!!! SUPER EXCITED to be joining @AGT #AGTChampions 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/LjSnXzBEY1
— Alesha Dixon (@AleshaOfficial) September 26, 2019
'AGT' also confirmed the news on its official social networking accounts: "The cat is out of the bag! @heidiklum and @AleshaOfficial are joining @howiemandel, @terrycrews, and @simoncowell on #AGTChampions!"
Heidi was over the moon to be returning to the show and can't wait to work with Alesha. She said: "It's official – I'm coming back for #AGTChampions! I can't wait to be back at my favorite desk with @simoncowell @howiemandel @aleshaofficial @terrycrews to help crown the next @agt Champion! #AGT.
We are going to have so much fun @AleshaOfficial So excited to be working with you! 🎉💖🌟👯♀ https://t.co/pJNconhRSb
— Heidi Klum (@heidiklum) September 26, 2019
Although Mel – who now lives in the UK – won't be returning to the program this time around, she had nothing but kind words for Alesha once the news was out in the public.
She tweeted: "Congrats my lovely you will have an amazing time, it's a great show to work on with great people, look after my girl @heidiklum."
Alesha is no stranger to talent shows as she's been a judge on 'Britain's Got Talent' since 2012.
It's not yet known whether Alesha will be moving to the US but she's currently pregnant with her second child so her husband Azuka Ononye and their five-year-old daughter Azura will no doubt be going with her across the pond.
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» News and Features » Ten UK artists to watch in 2020: from Aitch to Celeste
Ten UK artists to watch in 2020: from Aitch to Celeste
All based in the UK and all set to make waves in 2020, here's ten acts and artists to stick on your playlists this year
Last updated: 2nd Jan 2020
With New Year's celebrations and personal periods of reflection now evaporated into the ether, it's no longer time to look back, but instead time to look to the future.
Spotify's annual 'Wrapped' campaign is now but a memory, one which no doubt had you seriously questioning your own taste in music and pointing fingers at unsuspecting family members for anomalies (who's been listening to that much Shaggy?).
A new decade means it's time to sort your playlist out (on that note, it's worth checking out our weekly New Music Monday playlist) and time to discover something new.
So below we've put together ten UK-based artists we'll be keeping an eye on this year.
You can click on the names of the artists to find upcoming events and tickets.
Working Men's Club
Forthright, blunt, bewildering and intriguing, all words that could be used to describe this Yorkshire four piece, who've been making waves on the live music scene.
From supporting the likes of Fat White Family on a run of UK dates, to recently heading out on their own headline tour and signing with independent record label, Heavenly Recordings, this new-wave, post-punk act have certainly hit the ground running.
The band's first 7", containing tracks 'Teeth' and 'Bad Blood', was also met with widespread critical acclaim, gaining the group comparisons to the likes of legendary Manchester band The Fall and fellow Yorkshire post-punk act, Gang of Four.
In a very short space of time, this young band have come a long, long way. We expect to see performances on bigger stages, in bigger fields and to bigger audiences in 2020.
Another northern powerhouse artist who is continuing to grow and impress at a young age is Manchester native and local hip hop hero Aitch. The recently turned 20-year-old rapper has been racking up HUGE numbers of plays on streaming platforms, with upwards of 40 million streams on popular tracks such as 'Strike a Pose' and 'Taste (Make It Shake)'.
He's amassed millions of fans across the world, including the likes of Wiley and grime don Stormzy, which led to an appearance alongside Ed Sheeran in the video for 'Take Me Back to London'. He's also collaborated with high street brand JD Sports, performed at festivals such as this year's Reading and Leeds Festival and is a regular guest on the BBC 1xtra show.
With only a couple of full length records under his belt, we predict much more to come in 2020 from this young rap sensation.
This hard to pinpoint, Brighton-based experimental jazz funk act broke onto the UK's music scene earlier this year, with their foot stomping single 'Houseplants', which was picked up and championed by Steve Lamacq on 6 Music.
Since then, they've released a well received four track EP, 'Town Centre', featuring favoured tracks 'The Cleaner' and 'Match Bet' on Speedy Wunderground records, extensively toured the UK and Europe, and performed to large audiences on three occasions at last year's Glastonbury Festival. Not a bad year at all.
The five piece are heading back out on another extensive run of dates in Europe and the UK in the new year to support a hopefully imminent, full length record. Do not sleep on these guys.
Sherelle
Where to begin... this London-based producer and DJ is a force of nature. Her live sets are something to behold. If you're into bass-heavy, low-end frequencies, mixed with elements of drum & bass, jungle and techno, played loud and fast, you need look no further.
Still rising through the underground, Sherelle has been doing bits for some time. A regular host and pioneer of renowned Brixton radio station, Reprezent FM, she's also done custom guest mixes for Radio 1.
She's appeared live at Manchester's Warehouse Project and London's Printworks, alongside some of the most respected names in the game, such as Calibre, Midland, Loefah and Chase and Status.
With a work ethic and talent like Sherelle's, it would seem the odds are stacked in her favour to break onto the mainstage in 2020.
The Lathums
Another fresh-faced, northern act on the list of ones to watch, Wigan four-piece The Lathums have an average age of just 18-years-old, but don't let that make you question this young act's credibility.
The band have already made a lasting impression on some notable names, including The Charlatans front man Tim Burgess, who put the spotlight on the group after hearing one of their tracks on social media, and asked them to perform at Kendal Calling festival - where Burgess runs a diner/stage.
Blending varied influences with frontman Alex Moore's distinctive vocal style, the group have successfully created a mature and unique sound, gaining the band's limited repertoire a lot of attention. Their latest single, 'I Know That Much', recently featured in Spotify's New Music Friday playlist and has been played numerous times on 6 Music.
The Lathums recently announced their biggest show to date at 2020's Neighbourhood Festival, which will see the band in the company of Ian Brown, Sam Fender, Miles Kane, Working Men's Club (see above) and many more.
Winner of the Brit Rising Star award and BBC Music Introducing's Artist of The Year, Celeste has been causing a stir for some time now, and it would seem that 2020 is set to be her year.
Picked up by the BBC and promoted by numerous hosts across their many stations, including Huw Stephens and Annie Mac, the captivating Brighton-based soul singer continues to seduce listeners across the globe with her sumptuous vocal style.
Well-known names, from the likes of James Corden and fellow UK singer Jorja Smith, have come out in support of Celeste, with many drawing comparisons to the late great Amy Winehouse.
2020 will see the singer-songwriter release her first full length record with an accompanying run of UK dates in April, including an already sold out headline show at London's O2 Shepherds Bush Empire.
If you haven't already heard of Celeste, we can almost guarantee that you will in the coming year.
Combining an off-kilter, LCD Soundsystem-esque rhythm section with slick, punk rock breaks and charismatically delivered, nonchalant vocal lines, Nottingham-based foursome Do Nothing are a band certainly worth taking note of.
The group, still in their infancy, have only released a handful of tracks since 2018 (four to be exact): 'Waitress', 'Handshakes', 'Gangs' and their most recent, 'LeBron James'. But don't be fooled, the collective's work thus far oozes sophistication and carries a sound which suggests experience and ability beyond their time as a band.
Still very much under the radar but building on an impressive selection of bona fide bangers, we hope to see much more from this fresh and exciting act in 2020.
Alfie Templeman
Gaining widespread recognition for his writing prowess and production skills, this teenage bedroom producer and musical boy wonder is a most deserved addition to our list.
The Bedfordshire-born singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, who plays almost all of the instruments on his many brilliant releases, has caught the attention of music pundits, record labels and listeners alike, including London-based indie label Chess Club Records (Jungle, Wolf Alice, Chet Faker).
Like an Animal, released in 2018, put the spotlight firmly on the up-and-coming musician with a nod to his heroes, slack rocker Mac Demarco and Tame Impala frontman Kevin Parker. Since then, he's gone on to release a handful of equally successful EPs and singles, with latest record 'Don't Go Wasting Time' packed full of of dreamy, 80s inspired synth pop melodies.
He had a busy 2019, appearing at venues throughout the UK (including Skiddle's WarChild gig at Earth Hackney) and a number of festivals including Reading/Leeds Festival. We expect 2020 to be even busier for this prosperous new talent.
Arlo Parks
Speaking to Skiddle last year, the rising 19-year-old singer, songwriter and poet said she'd describe her sound as a 'fusion of soul, pop, r&b and rock'. Starting out on classical piano, Parks picked up a guitar and started producing in her bedroom on Garageband.
She released her first track on London indie label Beatnik Creative in 2018, and since then has been busy turning out her debut EP, Sophie, which one critic described as 'oozing with the hang-ups of heartbreak and mortality'.
After supporting Loyle Carner on his sold out 'Not Waving, But Drowning' tour in 2019, Arlo will embark on her own headline 'Super Sad Generation' tour, taking in dates across Europe before concluding with a performance at next year's SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas.
This naturally gifted artist is one we should all be keeping an eye on this decade. Trust.
Beabadoobee
Beabadoobee (moniker of singer-songwriter Bea Kristi) is a fresh-faced artist producing beautifully delicate soundtracks for lazy, laid back days.
Inspired by the likes of American storyteller and guitar pop DIY hero Alex G, and the late great Elliot Smith, the 19-year-old effortlessly combines elements of her influences with components of her Filipino roots, creating her own blend of alluring modern day folk.
Now based in London, the BRIT Rising Star award nominee was also recently shortlisted for the BBC's Sound of 2020 award, and has been out on the road in the US and Canada, performing tracks from her latest release 'Loveworm' while supporting American lo-fi artist, Clairo. She's also preparing to tour with The 1975 later this year.
This young starlet is catching the attention of music heads across the globe, and it's easy to see why.
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Description Potter's Slip is a updated version of slip trailing, which is used to create pattern decoration or personalization on your pottery pieces. Slip trailing is a technique that reached its peak in western pottery during the 18th century. Slip trailing was frequently used for pattern decoration, personalizing, or as a way to show off the skills of the potter.
Potter's Slip is an updated version of this unique material using ingredients that allow it to perform over a number of clay bodies ranging from Cone 06 to Cone 8. The 4 oz. bottle of slip is conveniently packaged in it's own slip trail bottle. Slip trails are applied to wet clay.
Best Use Applied to wet greenware.


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West Africa's Tech Revolution for Women and Girls
A Women's Technology Delegation, sent to Sierra Leone and Liberia by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to analyze technology's role in empowering women and girls, finds that women are leading the way in West Africa.
U.S. Department Of State Women's Technology Delegation
Updated Jul. 13, 2017 1:38PM ET / Published Mar. 08, 2011 7:18PM ET
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A Women's Technology Delegation, sent to Sierra Leone and Liberia by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to analyze technology's role in empowering women and girls, finds that women are leading the way in West Africa. Plus, more on Women in the World.
Inside the Annie Walsh Memorial School for Girls in Freetown, Sierra Leone, we visited a small computer lab established with private donations. On the wall was written simply, "Technology is growing higher."
Such was the theme of our journey through Liberia and Sierra Leone last week. We were brought together on a Women's Technology Delegation, or "Tech Del," to explore how technology can empower women and girls as part of Secretary Clinton's 21st-Century Statecraft efforts, designed to reach out to a broad audience to help solve global problems. Technology Delegations are one of the first demonstrations of 21st-Century Statecraft and have taken place in nine countries to date, convening executives from technology corporations, foundations, and NGOs to travel to a specific country and meet with government officials, business leaders, entrepreneurs, civil society groups, and other social actors to work together on technological solutions to foreign-policy challenges.
We were the first technology delegation of all women, the first group specifically exploring how technology can empower women and girls. The Women's Tech Del was conceived to contribute to Secretary Clinton's strong commitment to women and girls issues and to further her support for mWomen, a public-private partnership to close the mobile phone gender gap. Providing women and girls with the choices and chances for education, economic opportunity, and access to health care, we know she will better her family, her community, and her society. Focusing on the well-being of women and girls promotes democracy, promotes stability, and creates more opportunity in societies. Technology and tech-based tools can provide access to some of these opportunities.
In both countries, we met with women from all walks of life—entrepreneurs, weavers, teachers, nurses, students, government officials—and we were genuinely moved by their perseverance, strength, and dedication after years of war tore apart the region. Our meetings with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and first lady of Sierra Leone, Sia Koroma, demonstrated the inspirational leadership at the top of both countries. Women from the diasporas returning to their home countries from the U.S. or the U.K. showed us endless courage and love for the betterment of their people.
The Women's Tech Del was conceived to contribute to Secretary Clinton's strong commitment to women and girls issues.
Josephine George-Francis is one such returnee. Josephine came back to Liberia in 1998 during its civil war, after spending nearly 20 years in the U.S. With her daughter, Josephine is managing a farm that produces rice seeds, a mineral-water bottling facility, and a brick-making operation. Josephine's businesses employ several dozen people and have helped farmers in the region gain access to high-quality rice seed from a domestic supplier.
Yet, throughout our journey it was also apparent that the challenges in Sierra Leone and Liberia are very real. In Sierra Leone, one in eight women dies during childbirth, giving it the one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. In Liberia, 85 percent of the population is unemployed. In both countries literacy rates are low and the national power grid infrastructure and transportation systems are woefully inadequate. When basic human needs like access to clean water, health care, and a reliable power source are not fully addressed, the challenges can feel overwhelming.
Ultimately what we learned is that, despite civil wars devastating both countries less than 10 years ago, there is much possibility in Liberia and Sierra Leone, and women are the driving force. Women played a lead role in achieving peace in Liberia, and they continue to lead rebuilding efforts in both countries, alongside men who are actively supporting women's leadership roles. Still, there is so much more to do. Women are managing their families, farming the land, running small businesses, holding political offices. They are determined to be the positive change they want to see in their world.
Inspired by them throughout our journey last week, we made a series of key commitments, particularly focusing on how technology can enable women and girls to better access information, education, employment, and entrepreneurship opportunities.
In Liberia, the Women's Tech Del has committed to explore piloting a center that will train and connect youth, specifically girls, to micro-work via the Internet. For female micro-entrepreneurs, we will work with the mobile phone industry to try to expand the number of female retailers of cellphone products, such as prepaid airtime.
In Sierra Leone, the delegation met with a dynamic group of female entrepreneurs who own small- to medium-size enterprises. We will work with this group to explore starting a business incubation center that will help them connect to each other for networking, support, and sharing best business practices to help drive economic opportunities for women. Training on using technology as a key business tool will be a part of the center design.
In both countries, we will explore text-message and voice-based information services for health and civic engagement, as well as share best practices on how mobile phones can be used to help incentivize increased literacy. As appropriate, we also will contribute to efforts already under way to develop an enabling regulatory and market environment to expand access to the Internet and mobile phones for the people of Liberia and Sierra Leone; as today, the Internet is out of reach for most small- and medium-size businesses with rates at U.S. $3,500-$7,000 per month, and though mobile phones are more readily available, a woman in Liberia is 43 percent less likely to own a mobile phone, 44 percent less likely in Sierra Leone.
Technology is not a silver bullet to solve the development challenges we witnessed in Liberia and Sierra Leone, but it can enable change. For the women and girls of both countries, "technology is growing higher"—beyond the physical constraints of day-to-day life and offering a small stepladder to increased opportunities, and we are all committed to help catalyze that change. Daily Beast readers can get involved by signing the mWomen Charter, " Women Deserve the Freedom to Connect."
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Q: OnClick event handler on mobile devices? I made sort of a mobile game with HTML5 and JavaScript. I only get a big problem when I open the game in my browser on my localhost (on my mobile)! To make one thing clear: I run it in my mobile browser, so it is not like an app.
This thing is when I touch the screen on my mobile, it has a little delay before it runs the action. Also the game got a sort of selected when I click on it. Just to be sure: I have used the ONCLICK event.
So my question is: What am I doing wrong? Am I picking wrong event handlers for mobile devices or something in that way, or do I put my FPS (Frames Per Second) rate too high for a mobile device?
PS. The game is tested with an iPhone 4s on Safari!

A: Many people have encountered this problem before. You can remove this delay by adding a small library named "fastclick.js".
Here is a simple solution which works quiet fine for me. Stop 300ms onclick delay on Android web browser

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The Order: 1886—A Game Review in Unanswered Questions
March 6, 2015 By Jake Muncy Leave a Comment
In The Order: 1886, you play as Sir Galahad (not the Galahad, but one who has taken his title), a nigh-immortal Knight of the Round Table in a steampunk alternate universe version of Victorian London. It takes place in a sumptuously crafted world with some of the most technically advanced visuals to ever exist. Aside from its appearance, however, it doesn't impress. Now, let's get this out of the way: The Order is not a bad game because it's short. That's the general idea that's been floated around in the couple of weeks since its release, but that's reductive and, frankly, wrong. The length is fine for what it is. No, the problem with The Order is that it's stingy.
Let's start with the combat. This is supposedly the game's primary gameplay conceit—get behind some cover, shoot some werewolves with cool steampunk guns—but you spend precious little time actually doing that. First off, you only fight werewolves like twice. Second, the guns themselves are pretty lackluster, typical shooter fare, machines, shotguns, varieties of pistols. The only differentiating weapons, the ones that take advantage of the fantastical steampunk setting to be creative and weird, are doled out only in brief setpieces. And the combat encounters are constantly cut up with interruptions. The cutscenes are everywhere, doled out in bits and pieces throughout the levels, dividing the action into sections and intervening any time the action begins to gain steam. I'm not one to complain about a game having too many cutscenes, but when some of them merely show your player character walking down a hallway I damn well could have walked down myself, I strain to see the point.
The game's approach to story is stingy, too. The narrative follows Galahad (real name Gray) as he defends London from the threat of the "half-breeds", which are, well, werewolves, but the game is far too coy and self-serious to call them that. The plot quickly gets more complicated, however, introducing a London nearly torn apart by rebellion and hinting at an ancient conspiracy threatening the very fabric of the Round Table, pushing you from grimy Dickensian slums to stately, velvet-on-velvet manors in search of the truth. There's a lot about this plot that resonated with me. The moment-to-moment writing is usually pretty sharp, and the voice cast is terrific, imbuing even incidental characters with a strong sense of personality. None of it gets lingered on enough, though, Galahad's more interesting companions being sidelined halfway through the game and the most compelling plot twists left undercooked. The game ends abruptly, offering little closure for the events that took place in its eight hour's runtime, loose ends spiraling out like errant hairs in Galahad's luxurious mustache.
What we're left with, then, is a game made up of unanswered questions, ideas the game considers before discarding. To The Order's credit, many of them are worth thinking about. To its non credit, they're often more interesting than the game itself.
Questions like, how do you pace an action game? Every moment of The Order has a stiff upper lip. Even as it leaves the things you as a player are probably interested in, like satisfying fights or straightforward plot points, behind in a hurry, this is a game that takes its sweet time with the things it cares about. The first hour of the game moves forward at a pace that I'm tempted to call sluggish, spending substantial time just establishing mood. After an en media res opening, your first gameplay experience is to look out at the skyline and then walk slowly through a mostly empty house. You can watch a man carefully sweep the floor or pick a paper from the table and read the headlines. The Order is deliberate in its sense of place.
Most action games move quickly, instilling instant urgency, putting a weapon in your hands and telling you to go like you're nothing but a targeting reticle. The Order, obstinately itself, refuses to do that. I'm inclined to call its experiment in slower pacing a failure, but not because of the pace itself. The Order offers a lot of detail early on, but none of it is motivating information, little revealing anything important about who you're playing as or why you'd want to be him. By the time the game put a gun in my hand, I felt ready to fight, but only because the preceding hour hadn't given me anything of intrigue enough to latch onto. It's a pity, though. The Order wants to be a game that gives you a reason to be in its world long before it asks you to shape it. I don't think it does that, but I want to see a game that does.
Or, how do you tell a responsible story about empire? As a member of the Order of the Round Table in the time of the British Empire, Galahad initially emerges as a vanguard of imperial power. The leader of the Order, an ancient, embittered chap with a penchant for Jeremiads, implores the knights to fight two equal and equally dangerous infections—the touch of the half breed and the touch of the rebel, one a blight on the sanctity of the body and the other a blight on the sanctity of the body politick. In keeping with the biopolitical anxiety, your first enemies aren't even rebels, they're escaped mental patients who have poured onto the streets and taken up weapons to defend themselves. You're told to avoid killing them, but the game entirely ignores this directive as soon as it's given, not merely allowing but encouraging lethal force. You pursue the "bedlamites," as they're called for reasons mysterious to all but the writers, into a stately hotel. As you enter, you use an air gun to incapacitate one of them and then are ordered to shoot him dead anyway. It's easy, in these early sections of the game, to feel less like a member of a legendary tradition of heroes and more like a member of Her Majesty's secret police.
Am I supposed to sympathize with Galahad as he mows down political threats? At first, I thought the answer was yes, but as the plot progresses it begins to morph into something with a greater remove, positioning Galahad at odds with his Order, using him as a lens to observe some of the cruelties of the system he's been positioned to protect, the corruptions and conspiracies that make up its inner life. The game never stops being brutal, but it does wonder out loud about its brutality. Too many games are blindly fascinated by power, those in modern settings often gleefully jingoistic, and it's refreshing to see The Order at least try to interrogate that from the remove of an alternate history. If it can't put down the guns, at least it can ask who we should be aiming them at. The character it introduces to make these points—a bold and charismatic warrior from colonized India—is easily the most interesting part of the game, and her perspective sharpens the game's attempts at critique, letting her function as a guide to the violence at the heart of the imperial project.
A pity, then, that you're stuck as Galahad, whose generic brutalism hamstrings any possibility for attaining moral clarity. It's not clear why Galahad is the chosen player character, except that focus testing insisted they needed a generic white guy to star. There are a number of more interesting characters here, including the aforementioned warrior, and two other members of the Order, Lady Igraine, a strong woman tied to the Order by blood as well as patriotism, and a young French initiate, the Marquis de Lafayette (who I think is supposed to be the Marquis de Lafayette, a century old being young for these folk), both of whom would have offered a much more interesting take on the journey to disillusionment that Galahad embarks on. As it stands, Galahad's centrality drains all the moral questions posed of their immediacy, as, while I might care about the forces at work here, I never care much about his place in them. I mostly just want to get his dirty work over with, no matter who it's for. And I can't shake the feeling that, by focusing on a paranormal threat and an evil conspiracy surrounding it, using the threat of the half breeds as a window into discussing imperial politics, The Order simply trades fantastical paranoias for the real, and much more dangerous, paranoias of empire.
Pictured: More interesting characters than Galahad.
And, finally, the question that seems to have pricked the most ears, what does it mean for a game to be cinematic? And what parts of film are worth a game's time to borrow? It's an open question in the medium at large right now, as critics and developers both grapple with what influences games should or shouldn't take from other forms of media. For my part, I think movies certainly have ideas to offer games, but The Order seems only to latch onto the wrong ones. The filmic cues that The Order borrows are mostly smaller matters of presentation. On top of all the cutscenes, which are certainly filmic by virtue of being films, the game runs in a widescreen format borrowed from the silver screen, complete with letterboxing. Additionally, there's a noticeable and mandatory motion blur effect that makes the game's camera look particularly, well, analog. Neither idea really seems to fit, the motion blur making the gunfights more difficult for no clear reason, and the widescreen in particular feels entirely superfluous, a dead signifier for a form of prestige that the game offers no reason for wanting to court.
That's a good indicator for The Order: 1886 in general. It's a game with interests in the right places but executed in the wrong way, that understands the value of certain ideas but not where their kernel of meaning is. It gets lost in filler and ephemera, sidelining its better thoughts in favor of quick-time events and long periods of wandering through dark gardens and short corridors. But it's fascinated by these side obsessions, a game so singular in its own direction, and so confident in the story it wants to tell, that I sometimes felt unwelcome, as if indulging my interests or trying to entertain me was an inconvenience. There are hints of inspiration here, and there are places, in its dark fantasy intrigue, where I enjoyed myself, but The Order is too often lost in its own thick shadows.
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It's a long way from the historic streets of Charleston to the unpaved roads of rural Haiti in more ways than one. Not only is it a trip of more than a thousand miles; it is also a journey to a country trying to recover from years of government corruption, a devastating 2010 earthquake, a cholera epidemic, and poverty described by the U.S. government as the worst in the Western Hemisphere.
In June, a team of medical students, physicians and other health care providers from the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) made that journey on a volunteer mission to help people in central Haiti, about an hour and a half from the capital city of Port-au-Prince. They were based in Thomonde, an agricultural community of just a few thousand residents who have beautiful views of green hills and grazing farm animals but don't have easy access to health care.
International agencies, including the World Bank and World Health Organization, rank health care in Haiti as poor. Fewer than half of the people there have the recommended immunizations, there are sanitation problems and people die from preventable diseases.
"We saw a lot of people who had problems that you don't typically see in the US," said Terry Dixon, MD, PhD. Dixon, an MUSC pediatric infectious disease expert and assistant professor of pediatrics, served as a mentor for the students on the trip.
An example that stood out: "We treated some kids who had chikungunya," remarked Dixon.
Chikungunya has nothing to do with chickens. It is a mosquito-borne virus whose name comes from an African word meaning "to become contorted." The term describes how the virus's victims look as they deal with the severe joint pain it causes. Since there is no medicine that specifically treats chikungunya, the MUSC team treated the children's symptoms and made them as comfortable as possible while the virus ran its course.
Other ailments the MUSC team treated in Haiti were less exotic but surprising in their own way.
The MUSC team helped hundreds of patients during its week-long stay in Haiti. It was based in a clinic in Thomonde provided by the non-profit Project Medishare, and sent students and mentors out into even more rural areas each day to reach as many people in need as possible. Three-quarters of the patients were children, according to Dixon.
Many of the people treating those patients were relatively young as well. The MUSC group was organized not by a professor or a dean but by medical students with the group MUSC Service Learners International (SLI). They wanted to learn what it was like to practice medicine away from the technology-filled facilities at MUSC. In Haiti, expensive equipment was in short supply. The students had to rely on what they'd learned about hands-on medicine.
Before the trip, "I underestimated and underappreciated" the importance of physical exam skills, said second-year medical student Melissa Hite.
She was not the only one. Dixon smiled, remembering how other students evolved during their time in Haiti, learning to listen closely to their patients and trust their own observations.
The pace was fast. For example, Dixon estimates that he and another MUSC pediatrician on the trip treated more than 250 patients during their week in Haiti. Back home in Charleston, they'd treat about 28 in the same timeframe.
By the end of their visit, the MUSC mentors and students were tired but exhilarated.
The trip served another purpose as well. It allowed the students and their mentors to make use of MUSC's Center for Global Health. The Center helps the MUSC community find funding and other resources for volunteer work outside the US. Dixon received one of three newly established Faculty Mentorship grants the Center offers to travel on his most recent trip to Haiti.
The breadth of expertise and knowledge offered by SLI's mentors gave students an opportunity to treat a large number of difficult cases with real-time, immediate feedback in an environment devoid of advance diagnostic technologies.
MUSC had the foresight to, in implementing its 2010-2015 Strategic Plan, include globalization among its four areas of emphasis. The Haiti trip provided a good example of the reason for MUSC's growing interest in global health. The chikungunya virus that doctors and students encountered there recently appeared in South Carolina for the first time in a person who had recently returned from Haiti. Dixon predicts more cases here in the future as mosquitoes carrying the virus move into the US, showing that health issues are not bound by borders.


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A Fun History of Promotional Products: The Frisbee
What does the term "branded promotional product" mean to you? It may bring to mind the basics: pens, t-shirts, and mugs. But it doesn't stop there. Items for fun and play, like Frisbees, can also be decorated with your logo and used to send a unique message.
The Frisbee has a long history, from ancient sport to college pastime to its use as an advertising tool and promotional product. Let's toss things back in time in our next installment of A Fun History of Promo.
The First Frisbees
The plastic Frisbee in your garage can trace its roots back to the first Olympic Games. In the 8th century BC, discus throwing was a popular sport among the Ancient Greeks. These discs were made of metal, and typically weighed about 5 pounds—a bit dangerous to be tossing around! While modern Frisbees are thrown back and forth among players, discus discs were made to be thrown at stationary targets.
Discus throwing was a popular sport going back to the first Olympic games in Ancient Greece, as depicted in this statue located in Copenhagen.
Over the centuries, similar games were developed, all using metal discs. Even the modern Frisbee started out as a metal object, although a much lighter one: a tin pie plate.
In 1871, William Frisbie opened the Frisbie Pie Company in Bridgeport, CT. His pies were a popular treat among local college students. After finishing the pies, students would toss the empty tins back and forth for fun. Stamped on the bottom of each tin were the words "Frisbie's Pies." With each toss, the thrower would yell "Frisbie!" as a heads up to the next player.
Tin-throwing made its way to the West Coast, too. Walter Frederick Morrison, an inventor, enjoyed sun-filled days on California beaches, tossing cake tins back and forth with his wife. The tins may have been fun to throw, but their accuracy wasn't the best. Morrison had the idea to make a disc of plastic rather than tin, which could be tossed with greater accuracy and would fly farther than the tin version.
In 1948, Morrison and his business partner Warren Franscioni began selling the "Flying Saucer," the first plastic version of the Frisbee. These were popular not only at colleges, but thanks to a new craze sweeping the nation: UFO's. The first UFO sighting had occurred in 1947. Morrison tapped into the space craze to successfully market the Flying Saucer. By the early 1950s, he had changed the name to "Pluto Platter."
Frisbees Go Mainstream
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Wham-O Toys, which had previously released top sellers like the Hula-Hoop, partnered with Morrison to market his discs nationwide. They took their lead from the college students, selling the first official product to be known as the "Frisbee" in 1957.
If you look at a Frisbee today, you'll likely see an area of raised ridges encircling the surface. These are called "the Rings" and were added by Wham-O designer Ed Headrick, to help stabilize the Frisbee during flight. The added stability helped bring Frisbee from a fun pastime into the realm of sports.
Throughout the 60s and 70s, Ultimate Frisbee became popular, eventually becoming an official sport at many high schools and colleges. Vermont was the first state to recognize Ultimate Frisbee as a Varsity high school sport, starting with the Spring 2019 season. It's played around the world and has come full circle with its eligibility as an Olympic sport for the 2024 Olympics.
Frisbees as Promotional Products
With Frisbees flying off shelves, advertisers saw a unique branding opportunity. In the 1970s, they began printing a variety of logos and advertising messages on the plastic discs. Cartoon characters like Mickey Mouse, food brands such as McDonalds and Coca Cola, and even popular musicians and bands began appearing on Frisbees.
Frisbees became popular as an advertising and promotional tool, including to promote political candidates.
Today, Frisbees can be purchased in a variety of sizes and materials, including folding polypropylene. They're popular with pet owners, children, and anyone spending a day at the beach. Relatively inexpensive, they offer a large area for branding, and are both fun and functional.
Here's a creative example of using Frisbees to promote a brand. In 2009, dog food company IAMS created Frisbees styled like barbells. They handed the Frisbees out to pet owners in Australia. The message? Eating IAMS makes dogs stronger. The campaign was effective, creating a memorable item that was fun for both people and their pets, and which could be used for years to come.
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