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November 18, 2019 — Oncology News & Updates
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Teva Will Resume Production of Vincristine in Response to Shortage
FDA Fast-Tracks Opdivo plus Yervoy Regimen for Treatment of Advanced Liver Cancer
FDA Grants Accelerated Approval to Brukinsa for Patients with Mantle-Cell Lymphoma
On November 13, 2019, Teva announced that it will resume the production of vincristine, a drug that has served as the backbone of many anti-cancer treatment regimens for several decades. Earlier this year, Teva informed the FDA that it had made a business decision to stop manufacturing the drug. Only 1 other US pharmaceutical manufacturer (Pfizer) produces vincristine, and when this company met unexpected manufacturing delays in the fall, the life-saving drug was in short supply.
Vincristine is critically important for the treatment of a variety of malignancies and is included on the World Health Organization's lists of essential medicines and essential medicines for children.
The shortage of vincristine affected patients across the country whose cancer treatment relies on the drug and led to a widespread backlash by physicians and patient representative groups who quickly responded with petitions and calls to the government to intervene with measures to ameliorate the current shortage and to prevent such events in the future.
Teva maintains that it could not have anticipated the shortage, as it only produced 3% of the market supply, and that it was not aware of the challenges faced by the other manufacturer when it decided to stop producing the drug. In a company media communication, Teva announced that their product will be available in the United States as early in 2020 as possible.
Generic drugs are widely used in cancer treatment, but some generic drugs, such as vincristine, which has been off patent for decades, are difficult to produce and have a narrow profit margin, making them unattractive to manufacturers.
As stated in an e-mail from the FDA's Division of Drug Information, drug shortages are a "significant public health issue" with potentially serious consequences for patients who may experience delays in treatment, forgo treatment altogether, or receive alternative and less effective therapies. In response to a request by the US Congress to help address the shortage crisis, the FDA formed the Drug Shortages Task Force to explore shortages in generic drugs and to seek remedies for the problem. The task force issued a report on October 29, 2019, that identified 3 main reasons for chronic drug shortages: (1) a lack of financial incentive for manufacturers; (2) limited ability for the marketplace to recover from shortages caused by outside challenges; and (3) a manufacturing and supply chain that tends toward innovation and improvement, but which leaves mature drugs sidelined. In this report, the task force also addressed solutions to combat the drug shortage, including FDA initiatives.
On November 19, 2019, the FDA's Division of Drug Information will host a continuing education webinar titled "FDA Drug Topics: Drug Shortages: FDA Efforts, Current Challenges and Future Goals." This webinar will introduce the agency's Drug Shortage Program, explain how it is addressing drug shortages, and explore the various challenges that lead to drug shortages.
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On November 11, 2019, the FDA granted breakthrough therapy designation to Bristol-Myers Squibb's supplemental biologics license application for the combination of nivolumab (Opdivo) plus ipilimumab (Yervoy) for the treatment of patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma who have been previously treated with sorafenib (Nexavar; Bayer). The PDUFA goal date for this application is March 10, 2020.
The approval was based on data from the nivolumab plus ipilimumab cohort of the phase 1/2 CheckMate-040 clinical trial, an ongoing, open-label, multicohort study investigating nivolumab and nivolumab-based combinations in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma previously treated with sorafenib.
Primary end points include safety and tolerability, and objective response rate based on investigator assessment using Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors version 1.1. Secondary end points included disease control rate, duration of response, overall survival, time to response, time to progression, and progression-free survival. In the nivolumab plus ipilimumab cohort of patients, the objective response rate was 31% with a median duration of response of 17.5 months.
Ian M. Waxman, MD, Development Lead, Gastrointestinal Cancers, Bristol-Myers Squibb, said in a company press release, "The FDA's acceptance of our application for Opdivo plus Yervoy represents important progress for patients with liver cancer in the United States, where hepatocellular carcinoma is the fastest rising cause of cancer-related death."
Hepatocellular carcinoma is often diagnosed at an advanced stage and is associated with poor prognosis. Most cases of hepatocellular carcinoma are caused by hepatitis B virus or hepatitis C virus infections; however, metabolic syndrome and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis rates are rising and expected to contribute to increased incidence of the disease.
On November 14, 2019, the FDA granted accelerated approval to zanubrutinib (Brukinsa; BeiGene) for the treatment of patients with mantle-cell lymphoma who have received at least 1 prior therapy.
"Mantle cell lymphoma usually responds well to initial treatment, but eventually returns or stops responding, and the cancer cells continue to grow. This is a life-threatening condition," said Richard Pazdur, MD, Director of the FDA's Oncology Center of Excellence and Acting Director of the Office of Oncologic Diseases in the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. "Clinical trials showed that 84% of patients saw tumor shrinkage with this therapy. For patients whose disease relapses or becomes refractory, secondary therapies may be successful in providing another remission, and today's approval will provide patients with another treatment option," he said.
The efficacy of zanubrutinib was assessed in 2 clinical trials. In the phase 2, multicenter, single-arm BGB-3111-206 trial, 86 previously treated patients with relapsed or refractory mantle-cell lymphoma who had ≥1 previous therapies received 160 mg of zanubrutinib orally twice daily until disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. In the phase 1/2, dose-escalation, multicenter, single-arm BGB-3111-AU-003 trial of B-cell malignancies, 32 previously treated patients with mantle-cell lymphoma received 160 mg of zanubrutinib orally twice daily or 320 mg once daily.
The primary efficacy end point in both trials was overall response rate as assessed by an Independent Review Committee. In the BGB-3111-206 trial, the overall response rate was 84% (95% confidence interval [CI], 74-91), with a complete response rate of 59% (95% CI, 48-70) and a median response duration of 19.5 months (95% CI, 16.6-not estimable). In the BGB-3111-AU-003 trial, the overall response rate was 84% (95% CI, 67-95), with a complete response rate of 22% (95% CI, 9-40) and a median response duration of 18.5 months (95% CI, 12.6-not estimable).
The most common (≥20%) adverse reactions included decreased neutrophil count, decreased platelet count, upper respiratory tract infection, decreased white blood cell count, decreased hemoglobin, rash, bruising, diarrhea, and cough. Serious adverse reactions were reported in 31% of patients. The most frequent serious adverse reactions were pneumonia in 11% and hemorrhage in 5% of patients. Of the 118 patients with mantle-cell lymphoma who received zanubrutinib in the 2 trials, 7% discontinued treatment because of adverse reactions. The most frequent adverse reaction leading to treatment discontinuation was pneumonia, occurring in 3.4% of patients.
Fatal events within 30 days of the last dose of zanubrutinib occurred in 7% of the 118 patients with mantle-cell lymphoma in the 2 trials. Fatal cases included 2 patients with pneumonia and 1 patient with cerebral hemorrhage.
Because zanubrutinib was granted accelerated approval, which allows faster approval of drugs for serious conditions to fill an unmet medical need, further clinical trials may be required to verify and describe the drug's clinical benefit.
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ATP World Tennis Finals
Last Tuesday I was lucky to be invited by Ricoh to attend the ATP world tour tennis finals being held at the 02 Arena in Greenwich, where Nadal was playing Wawrinka in the first stages of the competition.
I was greeted at the main gates and went through to Ricoh's VIP section, which was beautifully set out offering champagne and canopies, after walking around the room and introducing myself to some of the directors, I took a seat at one of Ricoh amazing creations the Interactive Whiteboard of which one of the staff members created a caricature for me which really made me laugh and made me look 10 years older (haha)
The game was about to start so myself and some of the Ricoh team took to our seat with a nice glass of champagne. I must say I have never watched tennis live before and It was really exciting and defiantly got me out my seat on quite a few occasion to share some cheers.
My nan is obsessed with tennis so from a young age I was made to sit quietly in the room while she would watch every single tennis match (she is that obsessed she would tell people she is not answering the phone while a tennis match is on haha)
After about a hour of tennis being played the game became very one sided with Nadal striving forward and Wawrinka looking like he had given up. After the match had finished I managed to grab Nadal to get a signed tennis ball for my nan, she better love me at christmas for this.
If you haven't been to see a tennis match live before I would defiantly recommend you try and get yourself down to a match as its a great experience.
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Evelyn felt Simon's weight leaning against her, and she welcomed it. They walked in the garden together. Home, at Guillemot. The December air was cool, but not cold. The climate of southern France was a welcome change from the more northern weather of Paris, which had grown chilly with the onset of Autumn. It served well for the heart, the mind, and especially the body. Since their return, they had made a ritual of daily walks, and looking at Simon, Evelyn felt her heart swell with love and gratitude. His sickness had, at first, made him too weak for anything more than brief exertion. But with each passing day, he pushed himself to do more and more. Almost from the moment he began to improve, taking in solid foods again and standing for short periods of time, he declared that he wanted to go home and finish his recovery there. And Evelyn could not have been happier with his choice. He was thinner now, but he was nearly as strong as ever. She openly admired him as they walked along, and he smiled at her examination.
She pressed herself against his arm where it was linked with hers. A little smile came to her lips. "After last night, I am no longer in doubt of it." He chuckled, obviously pleased with himself. It had been a long time since they had made love, but last night, they had at last shared the pleasure of returning to one another's arms.
"Simon," she said, hardly able to contain her joy. "There is something you should know." She paused for a moment, looking for the right words.
There was a hint of excitement in his voice, as if he already suspected her news. At last, she spoke.
Before she could say more, he stopped and threw his arms around her. She did not have to say more. Judging from the way he repeatedly kissed her lips, he knew.
"When will the babe be born?" he asked. She shook her head.
He smiled, relieved. And then he gathered her in his arms, and kissed her, joyfully...again and again.
Countess Sophia Cassia Jean-Carré was born, healthy and strong, just in time for the celebration of May Day. Her birth was long and arduous, but in the end, there were only tears of joy and sounds of laughter. When the midwife and priest had gone, and Evelyn and Simon were at last alone with their child, they could not keep their eyes from her. They gazed in admiration of her perfection. They gently touched her tiny pink feet and hands, marveling at their delicate smallness. And both of their hearts swelled with love.
"Our daughter," Evelyn whispered, teary-eyed. She kissed Sophia's head. "She is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen."
The baby was small but stout, a lovely little weight in her arms, with a full head of soft brown hair. Her little eyes were closed for a moment, and then she seemed to feel her mother's gaze upon her, and slowly she opened them. Evelyn took in a small breath of joy and surprise, and she smiled as she turned to Simon.  Though he was overcome with happiness, he seemed nervous about the prospect of holding the babe himself.  But Evelyn reached over and gently placed the babe in her father's arms.  Looking down at his daughter, Simon's mouth opened slightly as he witnessed what Evelyn had seen.


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Head of Operations at the Mary Rose Awarded Honorary Degree
Monday, July 16th, 2018 6:16pm
Paul Griffiths, Head of Operations at the Mary Rose Trust, has been awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Business
Paul has worked in the heritage and tourism industry for over 20 years. He joined the Mary Rose in June 2012 as the Head of Operations for the £35 million Mary Rose Museum, which reopened to the public on 31 May 2013. He leads the strategic management of this award-winning attraction, where you can experience Henry VIII's favourite ship and thousands of original Tudor artefacts: the largest collection in the world.
After completing a BSc (Hons) degree in Leisure and Heritage Management, Paul worked for English Heritage in various visitor, commercial and conservation roles. He then became the Area Manager for London Historic Properties in 2005. In this role Paul was responsible for 12 of London's historic visitor attractions including Kenwood House and Estate, Eltham Palace, Down House and Chiswick House.
Paul chairs the Hampshire Solent Museum Development Panel and is a Trustee of both the Rowlands Castle Heritage Centre and Portsmouth FC Pompey History Society. At the Mary Rose, he offers regular internships to students wanting to gain experience in attractions management.
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by Aaron R. Conklin
One poet, a lesbian living in Victorian England, writes to another, her married lover: "No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed." It's a lovely sentiment, yet one not taken to heart by the participants in Possession, a dual love story spanning two centuries. Christabel LaMotte (Jennifer Ehle) and Randolph Ash (Jeremy Northam) are the poets in question, already committed and contented in long-term relationships, until they meet one another by chance and begin a clandestine courtship in letters. Roland Mitchell (Aaron Eckhart), a corduroy-clad American grad student conducting research at the British Museum, and Maud Bailey (Gwyneth Paltrow), a frosty Brit and gender studies professor, are their 20th-century counterparts, clashing academics keen to uncover the heretofore unknown affair between LaMotte's feminist icon and the poet laureate Ash.
Based on A.S. Byatt's novel, the film moves seamlessly between the time periods. The camera glides from the 19th-century blossoming love between LaMotte and Ash to the modern-day flirtation of Maud and Roland as they unearth new evidence of the poets' affair. It's a paper chase condensed for the film to an absurdly breakneck pace ' and who knew academic research could be so darn sexy? Previously, director Neil LaBute has been noted almost exclusively for his writing (In the Company of Men, Your Friends & Neighbors), but here he distinguishes himself as an able visual stylist, with a fluid camera and an admirable sense of framing.
Much has been made of Possession's swerve in style for LaBute. His earlier works are caustic meditations on the failures of love, cohabitation, even humanity. On paper, a move into swooning melodrama might not seem logical. But despite their pessimism, LaBute's previous films have been passionately charged works, making the director more than equipped to handle Possession's fieriness. Or so you'd think ' one has to wonder if Byatt's romanticism and LaBute's pessimism have simply canceled each other out. Roland and Maud are meant to make some awful clanging noise when they meet, but the matchup between the boisterous Yank and the stodgy Brit is uninspired. Christabel and Randolph's relationship spins on a more compelling conflict, yet they seem swathed in "Masterpiece Theatre" piety, and their love ' born of letters ' translates poorly to the screen.
Possession is by no means a disaster. It's prettily performed, prettily put together. Yet for a story set in the center of a fire, LaBute and his players have suited themselves in some mighty flame-retardant threads.


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Whether its over or just under what LV says is pretty spot on, you'll have players on probably average wages 4 or 5 times ours so will expect to beat us and should be walking the league.
Its not a dig specifically at Sheffield Wednesday, there is some bonkers spending in the third tier (Ipswich spending £1 million on a left back for instance) but that's a football problem than one of any club.
Clubs who spend big money always seem to get defensive over it for some reason but the reason clubs will get promoted this season will almost certainly be down to spending more money. That's the food chain in football and the same in most leagues (bar Sal£ord of course!)
We can afford to spend more because we generate more income, it is that simple, I am not being overly defensive I just find it tiresome the constant jibes from fans who seem to know more about my clubs finances than our fans!
SVH
If you can afford it why is it bonkers? Every club should spend with their means and Ipswich and others can.
Whether they spend it wisely is another conversation but they obviously generate the income to allow it.
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I agree with that.
For us, its probably more beneficial staying in L2 and challenging every season than struggling in L1 with no chance of success, especially being stuck at the Mem for the foreseeable.
Its shocking clubs like Sheff Weds and Ipswich find themselves mingling with the riff-raff, but the likes of Southampton, Leicester, Leeds, Norwich and Man City have done the same..
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He didn't suggest they weren't within their means he just said its bonkers money for this level which it is.
The disparity between Morecambe say and Sheffield Wednesday in wages for the same level is bonkers but that's football. You can say the same for Brentford and Man City for instance, Real Madrid and Eibar etc.
In the past League One was less affected by that kind of gulf but in recent seasons with the rise of the smaller clubs who are heavily financed its pushed some of the bigger giants down the pyramid. Hence you now get 5 or 6 so called giants down here.
It's weird because i've always said you don't need money to get out of this level and thats been true, yet now its becoming vital because more is being spent on wages and transfer fees
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It is, we've spent more money than we've spent since our Championship days and are not even close to being competitive at the top end... years ago you could but now its going to require a lot of developing and time in most cases bar the odd exception such as Wycombe for instance.
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You would think they didnt need to spend as much as many of them have a good level academy, decent sized stadiums and can attract a higher calibre of player.
Like you said 1 million for a LB in league one is insane.
thewwfc
even in our case we've got something of a sugar daddy in place, which we didn't always have. We used to be bottom end in terms of our wage budget, but I'd imagine we're mid-table now. We've got a few players (the likes of Vokes and McCleary) who are used to Championship wages so it's not like we can pretend we've got no money any more.
Except our lone season in the Championship, whereby I imagine us and Rotherham were bottom of the wages table by a mile.
Our academy is shite
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It's probably better than a lot of teams in league one. We only got our own training ground a few years ago after years of renting one
Due to our proximity to several PL clubs we don't get the pick of the players for the academy and when clubs like Brentford are snapping up any talent we do have it can be annoying.
Bailey Cadamateri is our new hope though
we have that problem with Brentford too, and it's even worse as they're only just down the road from us.
Oh no. Another player to make me feel my age. I remember when his dad burst onto the scene as an exciting nipper at Everton. I'm so old. I need to go and lie down.
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I remember his dad scoring at Hillsborough for Everton
Our academy has produced one member of our first team squad this season, a lad named Harvey Bunker and he looks half-decent...I have a horrible feeling that he will be snapped up by a much larger team and disappear into their U-23s never to be seen again.
Grumpy Grecian
We're so difficult to predict We're not even in the form table
I suspect dear old Stroudy might still be in denial after last Saturday.
That's the issue isn't it. We had a lad who came through our acedemy make his Championship debut for Reading recently. They'd snapped him up before we even knew about him as fans.
That said Tommy McDermott looks like he could do well for us, now Gibbons has gone we've only got Smith left from the academy.
Daft amounts? Are you privy to our wages or just assuming as you do quite often?
You're a touchy bugger you are. Whichever way you spin it, your wages will be daft for this level. That's not a slight on Wednesday in particular..it's the reality of football these days that it doesn't come down to ability and a good manager anymore but simply who has got the biggest budget. Teams like Derby or Nottingham Forest back in the late 70s will never happen again unless things change.
Some of the big clubs nowadays might not always have had the fan base they do now, but due to relative success over a sustained period of time, they have attracted more fans. It's like that lot down the road from us...they have historically had a more successful history than us over a sustained period of time, so most people growing up in Stoke over the 60s, 70s and 80s would have gone on to support stoke as they were in the top division and then it continues in their family. So hence now they draw in bigger crowds. I believe if vale spent the next 50 years in the premier league/championship, and stoke were in league 2, then vale would become the bigger and better supported club. Unfortunately, I don't think we'll ever get that opportunity unless we get taken over by a Saudi sultan.
To me, football should be made a level playing field. Do a player draft with a wage cap. The bigger teams would still probably attract the best players as they would want to play in front of more fans in bigger stadiums but at the very least it would make football more about the skills of the coaches and less about how much money the owner has. It would be so much more exciting than seeing Man City, Liverpool at the top of the premier league year after year. I could get man city to win the league.
If you want drafts and salary caps I suggest you fuck off and watch other sports, mainly Yank ones.
I would expect two of the biggest earning stars in this league are at Bolton.....I can certainly say we are not paying those salaries in full.
This is where teams are at a disadvantage in this league. Fortunately we have the infrastructure and play the right way to attract two of the best loan deals in the EFL
I dont see more than 2/3 teams being able to attract such players
I don't think there is any way that system would work. Who would be developing these players that enter the draft and what would be the incentive for it given we don't really have a college system like they have in America?
As for Saturday we'll more than likely lose but who knows if they come into the game ill-prepared or just assuming they'll only have to turn up then anything's possible. On a personal note for the sole reason that club are responsible for that fucking England band I hope their trip is thoroughly miserable (and not just because it's in Burslem before any comedian thinks about saying it).
See what I mean about being touchy? For the record I fucking despise American sport. Horrendous.
Maybe a draft wouldn't work, but there has to be some achievable pathway for even those clubs in the national league to get to the very top. Otherwise we're stuck with this closed shop at the top of the premier league for evermore. Let's face it, if you and say Bolton got 2 promotions on the bounce, you'd be constantly playing the battle for the top of the bottom 4 in the premier league. And eventually you'd come back down. Being a Norwich fan must be purgatory. The Premier league bores me to tears. But can you imagine if an Accrington got there, or a Barrow, just to mix it up a bit?
It just feels like a very uncompetitive sport that should be played on a level playing field but it isn't.
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It's an unfair game but that's not restricted to just football. If you've not seen it then I recommend watching Moneyball. It's about Baseball but covers finances and "beating the house" in sport.
I don't like the idea of a draft at all but certainly league one and two should have a realistic salary cap.
The issue now is these big clubs spending big is fine as they can afford it but you'll get smaller clubs getting into trouble paying big wages to try and compete that they can't afford and of course players demanding more money in league one because X club pays X player 15k a week.
When we came up before and obviously down to this level from above in 2000 you always felt we could have a go but the money in it now is completely different to say 4-5 years ago.
Anyone getting five figure a week salaries in league one is ridiculous regardless of who is paying it.
Let's see how far Wrexham get with their money.
Pretty sure we have at least four who have played this year in the league who have come from the academy, of which two will move higher and make us money:Cooper and Randell. we have two more out on loan in league two in Law and Jephcott. I also think at least three of the current under 18s have been on the bench in the league this season. several others have been in the pizza cup teams, in fact I am pretty sure we recently had 7 players currently in or have been in the under 18s finish a pizza cup game. two of the three goals against Swindon last week were scored by 17 year olds. Freddie Issaca turned out for us at 15 years and 135 days, and could not travel to Ipswich last year with the first team because he his school insisted he sit a mock. The club has deliberately targeted the academy, and slowly it is paying off. probably not as good as Exeter's yet, but we are getting there.
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Out of interest and i am sure there are other high profile players on loan, but how much do you think James Trafford will be on at Manchester City after signing a new six year contract in the summer and who iis currently the England u21 Goalkeeper. I would be amazed ifhe is not the highest paid player to ever play in league one.
We simply could not pay his wages
It's insane in your view but he's young and we've clearly bought him with a view that he's going to be better value in a couple of years time where he'd be worth a lot more.
In recent years we've sold Mings and Cresswell at left back for a combined 14m.
I'm not touchy I just don't enjoy reading your posts they appear full of jealousy of other clubs and a sense of self importance, perhaps a side effect of living in Leeds.


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Understanding Why Abortion Is Legal In the United States
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by Tom Head
Tom Head has written more than 25 books including "Civil Liberties: A Beginner's Guide." He has served on the board of the Mississippi ACLU and is an award-winning columnist.
During the 1960s and early 1970s, U.S. states began to repeal their bans on abortion. In Roe v. Wade (1973), the U.S. Supreme Court stated that abortion bans were unconstitutional in every state, legalizing abortion throughout the United States.
For those who believe that human personhood begins during the early stages of pregnancy, the Supreme Court's decision and the state law repeals that preceded it may seem horrific, cold, and barbaric. And it is very easy to find quotes from some pro-choicers who are completely unconcerned about the bioethical dimensions of even third-trimester abortions, or who have a callous disregard for the plight of women who do not want to have abortions but are forced to do so for economic reasons.
As we consider the issue of abortion—and all American voters, regardless of gender or sexual orientation, have an obligation to do so—one question dominates: Why is abortion legal in the first place?
Personal Rights vs. Government Interests
In the case of Roe v. Wade, the answer boils down to one of the personal rights versus legitimate government interests. The government has a legitimate interest in protecting the life of an embryo or fetus, but embryos and fetuses do not have rights themselves unless and until it can be determined that they are human persons.
Women are, obviously, known human persons. They make up the majority of known human persons. Human persons have rights that an embryo or fetus does not have until its personhood can be established. For various reasons, the personhood of a fetus is generally understood to commence between 22 and 24 weeks. This is the point at which the neocortex develops, and it is also the earliest known point of viability—the point at which a fetus can be taken from the womb and, given the proper medical care, still have a meaningful chance of long-term survival. The government has a legitimate interest in protecting the potential rights of the fetus, but the fetus itself does not have rights prior to the viability threshold.
So the central thrust of Roe v. Wade is this: Women have the right to make decisions about their own bodies. Fetuses, prior to viability, do not have rights. Therefore, until the fetus is old enough to have rights of its own, the woman's decision to have an abortion takes precedence over the interests of the fetus. The specific right of a woman to make the decision to terminate her own pregnancy is generally classified as a privacy right implicit in the Ninth and Fourteenth Amendments, but there are other constitutional reasons why a woman has the right to terminate her pregnancy. The Fourth Amendment, for example, specifies that citizens have "the right to be secure in their persons"; the Thirteenth specifies that "{n}either slavery nor involuntary servitude ... shall exist in the United States." Even if the privacy right cited in Roe v. Wade were dismissed, there are numerous other constitutional arguments that imply a woman's right to make decisions about her own reproductive process.
If abortion were in fact homicide, then preventing homicide would constitute what the Supreme Court has historically called a "compelling state interest"—an objective so important that it overrides constitutional rights. The government may pass laws prohibiting death threats, for example, despite the First Amendment's free speech protections. But abortion can only be homicide if a fetus is known to be a person, and fetuses are not known to be persons until the point of viability.
In the unlikely event that the Supreme Court were to overturn Roe v. Wade (see "What if Roe v. Wade Were Overturned?"), it would most likely do so not by stating that fetuses are persons prior to the point of viability, but instead by stating that the Constitution does not imply a woman's right to make decisions about her own reproductive system. This reasoning would allow states to not only ban abortions but also to mandate abortions if they so chose. The state would be given absolute authority to determine whether or not a woman will carry her pregnancy to term.
Would a Ban Prevent Abortions?
There is also some question as to whether or not a ban on abortions would actually prevent abortions. Laws criminalizing the procedure generally apply to doctors, not to women, which means that even under state laws banning abortion as a medical procedure, women would be free to terminate their pregnancies through other means—usually by taking drugs that terminate pregnancies but are intended for other purposes. In Nicaragua, where abortion is illegal, the ulcer drug misoprostol is often used for this purpose. It's inexpensive, easy to transport and conceal, and terminates the pregnancy in a manner that resembles a miscarriage—and it is one of literally hundreds of options available to women who would terminate pregnancies illegally.
These options are so effective that, according to a 2007 study by the World Health Organization, abortions are just as likely to occur in countries where abortion is illegal as they are to occur in countries where abortion is not. Unfortunately, these options are also substantially more dangerous than medically-supervised abortions—resulting in an estimated 80,000 accidental deaths each year.
In short, abortion is legal for two reasons: Because women have the right to make decisions about their own reproductive systems, and because they have the power to exercise that right regardless of government policy.
What Is Abortion? An Overview and History
The Historic Roe v. Wade Supreme Court Decision
Does a Fetus Have Rights?
A Brief History of the Abortion Controversy in the United States
Abortion Rights and the Woman's Right to Choose
Why Abortion Issues Surface in Every American Election
Is Abortion Legal in Every State?
What Is the Difference Between Medication and Surgical Abortion?
Why Is Roe v. Wade So Important?
A Look at What Pro-Life and Pro-Choice Supporters Believe
Learn More About Women's Reproductive Rights and the Constitution
Feminism in America From 1792 Through the Millennium
Is Abortion Murder? A Perspective on Why It's Not
Biography of Norma McCorvey, 'Roe' in the Roe v. Wade Case
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Posted on January 30, 2021 January 30, 2021 By Uche Miti No Comments on Upgrading Is Different From Establishment Of A University, And A University Is A University
– Emmanuel U. Tibi, Ph.D.
It is with grief in my heart that I have to write about what should ordinarily gladden our hearts, that what we have long been praying for, vide: the upgrading of the College of Education, Agbor to a University of Education, Agbor is about to come through.
Instead of celebrating the enablers of the glorious legacy that is about to be bestowed on our community, we are contending with misguided comments, vituperations and outlandish outbursts from people within and without our communities. It is however necessary that we should try to put the records straight, in order that all of us do not fall prey to the trap of gullibility which ill-informed people are setting all over the place, for us to collectively fall into.
For starters, it is important that people understand that the Delta State Government led by H.E. Senator (Dr.) A.I. Okowa has just submitted three (3) bills to the Delta State House of Assembly for the upgrading of three existing institutions to three full-fledged universities. None of these three bills is meant for establishment of a new university. Emphasis is on their prior existence and as canvassed, they are all deserving of upgrading. It is clearly not possible to upgrade what does not already exist and in upgrading an existing facility, you only take the facility to a higher level than it was before the upgrading. It is as simple as that.
College of Education, Agbor had been existing since 1980 as an NCE- awarding institution, until 2006, when efforts were made to upgrade it to a position of preparing students for the award of Delta State University, Abraka's degrees in education, (Bachelors only) in an affiliation arrangement. Having gone through the various crucibles of academic maturity and integrity, the College started hankering after being uplifted to University of Education, Agbor. This is because that is the only way to grow and develop. If the electric transformer serving a community becomes inadequate because of increase in households or facilities depending on it, what is done is that a bigger transformer is installed to replace the smaller one. You do not go and install a nuclear reactor in place of the small transformer. Transforming College of Education Agbor to University of Education, Agbor is a monumental leap for our community. It might look like a small step taken in the eyes of people who are bereft of ideas about the system, but it is a giant leap for mankind.
Every person who has a clear vision of what progress means to a community should thank God and pray for Dr. A.I. Okowa-led government for being this visionary, this bold, this resourceful and this credible in discerning people's yearning and taking steps to meet their expectations, within the limits of public resources.
I do appreciate the limitations people have because in tertiary education, you follow your discipline, and do not know much about other disciplines. It is expected that before people make public statements about issues outside their purview, they ought to consult persons who are more informed about such issues. I am particularly worried about statements that are emanating from persons who are members of the College community, who are giving out information to the public that tend to portray the action of government on this upgrading programme, in bad light.
These people have neither seen, read nor heard the content of the bill. Basically, a university is a university; it is established or installed through upgrading, with the authority to award degrees in disciplines that its Senate (and with input from the Governing Council) approves, based on the availability of human and material resources for such programmes, as confirmed by National Universities Commission (NUC) through accreditation of such programmes. It is bewildering that people can just cook up outlandish theories about a system they are neither part of, nor have access to its inner workings, and peddle such inanities to an attentive public, and causing such grievous damage to our collective psyche. My guess about this bill on College of Education Agbor, transmuting into University of Education, Agbor must contain elements that identify at least five or six faculties of which only one would be faculty of education.
The name of a university does not in any way limit that university to the number or types of programmes that it can operate for as long as it is able to satisfy NUC and other stakeholders that it has the wherewithal to efficiently and effectively operate and deliver graduates that will represent the best interest of such a discipline.
The Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijebu Ode was formerly Tai Solarin College of Education, Rivers State University of Education, used to be College of Education; both are awarding straight honours and/or education degrees to the students in the liberal arts and sciences, technology and vocational studies disciplines.
All the Universities of Technology and Universities of Agriculture established in Nigeria have Schools of Education where they award education degrees in technology, vocational and entrepreneurial studies.
College of Education, Agbor, since inception was designed as an NCE-awarding institution, but over the years it had been running diplomas programmes in computer science and other disciplines that are clearly not part of the mandate of its establishment.
My appeal is that we should pray ceaselessly for this upgrading effort to succeed and also pray for the enablers and influencers of this project to have the resilience, zeal and capacity to deliver on this project which has been variously dubbed a legacy project for our community.
End the fallacy and embrace objectivity, please.
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2 must reads: NUS voyeurism balls-up
In Public Administration on 25/04/2019 at 11:13 am
Or is it cock-up?
Sorry. Can't help the flippancy. What happened is really black comedy at it's blackest. After the police, AGC and NUS washed their hands (OK sort of) over a voyeur (Maybe taking the attitude "From poor family; must pang chance."?), the unhappy victim got the voyeur crucified on the day the Christ was crucified or thereabouts.
If the system fails her, she cannot be expected to behave like a meek and mild lamb, can she? Power to her for having the balls to demand publicly that she gets her retribution. Note I said "retribution", not "justice".
Here's a link to a very good commentary on the perspective that the police, AGC and NUS missed: a damning indictment of their failure to understand how gals feel.
Commentary: Here's what zero tolerance towards sexual misconduct looks like
The NUS voyeurism incident offers lessons for all education institutions, says AWARE Executive Director Corinna Lim.
Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/commentary/nus-sexual-misconduct-zero-tolerance-toilet-filming-monica-baey-11472002
Even better is this comment from someone who seems to know how prosecutorial discretion works in practice. What he says bring back memories of the days when the then head of Crime section in the AGC and I chatted about the role of his team. Where he is wrong, is the person making the decision is supervised and the head of the crime division has to sign-off.
Heng Choy Yuen
I agree with the contents of your article. But the OVER-dependence on protocols and routine thinking may become too dogmatic. Here's why I say so …. the RESULT of any interview by counsellors, investigations led by the SPF depends on whose desk the case file lands inside the AGC. He/she at AGC is the one who decides whether the legal process stops at his/her desk or be sent for arraignment. Due to the peculiar nature of sex-related and sexual crimes (stealing underwear, peeping tom, filming videos, physical outrgae of modesty, rape), sometimes a less-experienced AGC legal officer may make an error of judgement, not due to lack of factual evidence but simply because the analysis of cases involving sexual crimes require a deeper and thorough understanding beyond what is written in the Penal Code and statutes. Yes, there are more than sufficient precedents to guide towards a judgement (from 2015-2018 there were reportedly 20 cases of sexual misconduct handled by NUS alone) but I think in MIss Baey's case, the person at AGC charged with deciding the punishment of MIss Baey's offender perhaps made an error of judgement – by showing leniency (protecting the offender's future) by itself is not 'wrong' when weighed against the evidence and facts gathered – but the 'high probability of being remorseful" is an ASSESSMENT, not a fact. THe AGC officer in this case should have also considered a more potent FACT backed up by global research on the mental health of sex crimes victims – the FACT that Miss Baey, along with countless victims of similar sex crimes, will live with her mental trauma, fears and anguish. In all probability for the rest of her life. No amount of remorse, a single letter of apology can erase the mental scarring that has already occurred. Therefore while it is commendable to show leniency for 'remorseful first-time offenders', the LIFE-LONG irreversible mental damage on the victims of sexual misconduct MUST be prioritised – the victim had no say but … the perpetrator (unless mentally ill) made a wilful, perhaps even premeditated, decision. He was also reportedly under the influence of alcohol but how drunk he was we do not know …. so how does a drunk man summon enough soberness to go from cubicle to cubicle (captured on CCTV) ostensibly to film a naked woman bathing? Obviously his vision was not impaired by alcohol in making his directorial debut …. Isn't it ironical that the efforts by the law enforcement authorities and NUS to show leniency just so the offender's future is not destroyed, is producing the very opposite aftermath? Did they anticipate that their 'merciful' punishments would generate such public uproar and media attention? A few days ago, Great Eastern put the perp (who was working there) on suspension, but he chose to resign. But while he may recover some semblance of normalcy say after 4-5 years, the mental trauma he caused to MIss Baey is etched in her memory perhaps forever. THAT is a LESSON no victim would ever want.
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Q: Cleaning Up Custom Write-Progress Information I am using Write-Progress cmdlet to display a progress bar whilst executing diskpart in powershell (v5.0) command window on WinPE.
$HDDDisk=0
$commands=@()
$commands+="select disk " + 0
$commands+="clean"$commands | out-string | diskpart  | Where-Object { $_.Length -gt 0 } | `
Foreach-Object { Write-Progress -Activity "Disk $HDDDisk" -Status $_ -Id 1}
Write-Progress -Activity "Disk $HDDDisk" -Status "Complete" -Completed

After completing the diskpart I use the Expand-WindowsImage cmdlet to restore the windows image.  Expand-WindowsImage also uses write-progress to report progress as far as I can tell.
The problem I have is the information from the diskpart progress is not cleaned up correctly and the display information when Expand-WindowsImage is running appears as (Retyped) which is very confusing.
Disk 0
     DISKPART>
Operation
   Running
   [oooo

How to I cleanup / remove the diskpart write-progress information before starting the Expand-WindowsImage cmdlet?
Thanks
Stuart

A: you can use -currentOperation OuterLoop/InnerLoop to separate two progress bars.
like:
Foreach-Object { Write-Progress -Activity "Disk $HDDDisk" -Status $_ -Id 1 -currentOperation InnerLoop}
Write-Progress -Activity "Disk $HDDDisk" -Status "Complete" -Completed -currentOperation OuterLoop


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Senate-passed bill looks to modernize federal contracting, expand small business opportunities – FCW.com
Senate-passed bill looks to modernize federal contracting, expand small business opportunities
By Chris Riotta
The Senate passed bipartisan legislation on Thursday designed to modernize the federal acquisition process while expanding governmentwide contracting opportunities for small businesses by encouraging the implementation of innovative new systems and procedures. The legislation passed under a unanimous consent agreement.
The bipartisan group of senators who sponsored the Promoting Rigorous and Innovative Cost Efficiencies for Federal Procurement and Acquisitions (PRICE) Act, celebrated the bill as "commonsense legislation" that "will give small business owners a fair shot to win federal contracts and grow their businesses" in statements on Friday after the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted unanimously to approve the bill.
The PRICE Act seeks to address long-standing challenges that small businesses — particularly those owned by women, minorities and veterans — face while attempting to secure contract opportunities with the federal government, in part by mandating the Office of Management and Budget to share innovative best practices with federal acquisition administrators.
The bill also looks to spur acquisition process modernization across federal agencies by requiring new reports on how to improve mission outcomes and increase small business participation in government contracting.
"These businesses, which are the backbone of our economy, should never be left behind in this process," Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) said in a statement. "I will work with my colleagues in the House to pass it into law as soon as possible."
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), a member of the Senate Small Business Committee and a co-sponsor of the legislation, said the bill will help business owners "have the opportunity to compete and succeed."
The bill's sponsors say the legislation could lead to eventual cost savings for taxpayers, as government entities become more efficient in providing contracting opportunities for small businesses nationwide.
The Senate's passage of the PRICE Act follows a White House plan to steer $100 billion toward small disadvantaged businesses in part through new federal contracting opportunities. Experts previously told FCW the government will likely encounter major challenges while expanding contracting opportunities for SDBs and other small businesses as large firms and major corporations attempt to take advantage of new set-asides.
Chris Riotta is a staff writer at FCW covering government procurement and technology policy. Chris joined FCW after covering U.S. politics for three years at The Independent. He earned his master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he served as 2021 class president.
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Movies Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2 Release Date, Cast, Plot, and Everything
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2 Release Date, Cast, Plot, and Everything
Published By Avinash Singh
Nobody expected Spiderman into the spider verse being an animated movie two win an Oscar. The animated film, if not better, performed really well with respect to its live-action counterpart featuring Tom Holland. Spiderman fans are having a good time these days With a full-fledged PS4 game that came last year and two upcoming movies. Our friendly neighborhood Spiderman will be seen 1st in the live-action Spiderman 3 and later In the sequel to the animated film Spiderman: Into the spider-verse 2. It sounds like a lot.
Here is everything you need to know about the upcoming movie and other recent updates
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2 Release Date
The movie has been in development even before the first one was released. Originally this sequel is scheduling for a release on April 8, 2022. The pandemic situation put barriers in the production of the movie like other movies. The film is now scheduling for release on October 7, 2022.
The good news is, the production of the movie continues, after all, work widely affected due to the coronavirus pandemic. Nick Kondo, the lead animator of the film, announced it with a 10-second video with the movie logo in it with "2020" stamped on it.
What Dimensions will Open this Time?
The first spider-verse movie saw spider ham and Spiderman Noir Coming in from alternate dimensions. That there are many possibilities to explore with the new film, including spider Gwen's reappearance. Interestingly the post-credits scene in the first movie teased the appearance of Spiderman from 2099, played by Oscar Isaac.
The three MCU Spiderman's is also going to play cameo parts in the first movie featuring Andrew Garfield, Tobey Maguire, and Tom Holland. Unfortunately, they weren't in the first movie, so chances are they might appear in the sequel. Producers Phil Lord and Chis Miller have also expressed their desire to see silk and Spider-Punk in the future installments. The future of the animated feature films looks exciting and promising.
There are also speculations that Mayday Parke, The daughter of Mary Jane and Peter Parker, is also introducing. But that might be a little too stretched. A red and yellow logo has sparked rumors about the Japanese Spiderman, also known as Takuya Yamashiro. But only time will tell who makes it to the final cut.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2 Cast
There is no official announcement about the cast, but some obvious ones would be Shameik Moore and Haley Steinfield, who will be reprising their roles as miles and Gwen, respectively. Brian Tyree and Luna Lauren Valez will be the voice behind Miles' parents as Jefferson Davis and Rio Morales.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2 Trailer
As mention earlier, the movie's production process is interrupting due to this Covid-19 pandemic. Hence it would be hard to say when a trailer might appear. Also, considering the time at hand with the 2022 release, we might not see a trailer before mid-2021.
There is a teaser that Sony releases a while ago which flashed Spider-Man logos from different multiverses.
As we all know that Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse has a huge fanbase, and people are eagerly waiting for its release. So, fans need to wait a little longer.
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Avinash Singh is a student of English literature. Reading and writing make up the diet for his ever-hungry soul for knowledge. An avid cinema lover who looks beyond what is shown on the screen, also he's particularly passionate about writing about upcoming movies, TV shows and Video Games. He also aspires to write a mind-boggling thriller book and a screenplay someday.


10 Traits of a Successful Small Business Owner: Do You Have What It Takes?
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According to the Small Business Administration half the number of small businesses won't survive more than five years. In order to explain why some businesses fail and some flourish, the Guardian Life Small Business Research Institute conducted a study to figure out what traits make a successful business owner. Their research came up with six key traits that every business owner must possess, but I'm going to add a couple more. Do you think you have what it takes to run a profitable small business? Read on to find out.
The No. 1 trait of a successful business owner according to the study is a leader who is collaborative. This means a business owner who understands how to delegate tasks effectively to employees as well as foster strong interpersonal relationships with their management team, employees, vendors and customers. Those with the collaborative trait are committed to creating opportunities for others, not just making a profit through their business.
Successful small business owners value the personal fulfillment and gratification their companies provide them and enjoy the respect that comes with being their own boss and being in control of their own long-term net worth. A good business owner doesn't just have a business to have one; they desire creating something of value and love what they do.
One reason some businesses will succeed over others is they have a great team in place. Your team will be more productive knowing their boss believes in them, the company, and the product. It will be difficult for your business to succeed without you loving it.
As a business owner, you must plan for both the short- and long-term future. You should be focused on cash flow and have a well thought out plan for how to run your business day-to-day and for years down the road.
Good entrepreneurs are always asking questions and are keen to learn more about how others run their businesses. They should also seek out best practices regarding management, business innovation, motivating employees, and more.
Read books, attend seminars, join an entrepreneur's league—you should constantly be learning more about how to be a better business owner and how to grow your company.
The final trait the study deems important to a successful business is being proactive to build your business. You should always be striving to take your business to the next level.
In addition to the above traits, there are a couple more that I think are important to have in order to be a successful boss and business owner. First of all, you must remain positive. It's been a tough couple of years for small businesses, and even if you're sweating it financially, you must put on a brave face for your employees. Now, I'm not advocating lying to your workers, but instead of focusing on just the hardships, you should come up with a proactive plan (see above) to continue growing your business. Not only will this help keep your employees happy and productive but it will also help keep you focused on improving.
There is a difference between being intelligent and being competent. Plenty of smart people aren't adept at the simplest of tasks, and that makes it difficult to run a business—or rally your employees around you. I once had a boss who got her ATM card stuck inside of a machine and made her assistant go get it out after she left in frustration. This action made all of her employees think twice about following her leadership. Think about Michael Scott on The Office. You want your employees to respect you.
If you lack knowledge or experience in certain areas, make sure you hire brilliant people who can take over in those departments, such as an incredible accountant or a brilliant SEO analyst.
ChooseWhat's Operations Officer, Leo Welder, also put his two cents in regarding traits successful business owners should possess. Welder says that all business owners should be visionary. He says business owners must take charge and lead their companies in order for employees to follow them and thrive. You must be able to communicate your vision to your employees.
"A company is much more likely to succeed if the founders can make their employees believe that they will be successful," Welder says.
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Proces wielkopiecowy – zespół reakcji chemicznych i procesów fizycznych zachodzących w wielkim piecu, gdzie w wysokich temperaturach uzyskiwanych podczas spalania koksu następuje redukcja związków żelaza zawartych w jego rudach. Reduktorami w tym procesie jest węgiel (główny składnik koksu) i tlenek węgla (CO) oraz wodór (H2) powstający w wyniku obecności wody we wsadzie. Produktami ubocznymi procesu są żużel i gaz wielkopiecowy.

 Reakcje zachodzące podczas procesu wielkopiecowego
 C + O2 → CO2
 C + CO2 → 2 CO
 H2O + C → H2 + CO
 H2O + CO → H2 + CO2

 3 Fe2O3 + C → 2 Fe3O4 + CO
 Fe2O3 + 3 C → 2 Fe + 3 CO
 Fe3O4 + C → 3 FeO + CO
 Fe3O4 + 4 C → 3 Fe + 4 CO
 FeO + C → Fe + CO

 3 Fe2O3 + CO → 2 Fe3O4 + CO2
 Fe2O3 + 3 CO → 2 Fe + 3 CO2
 Fe3O4 + CO → 3 FeO + CO2
 Fe3O4 + 4 CO → 3 Fe + 4 CO2
 FeO + CO → Fe + CO2

 3 Fe2O3 + H2 → 2 Fe3O4 + H2O
 Fe3O4 + H2 → 3 FeO + H2O
 FeO + H2 → Fe + H2O

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Q: Name of measurement expressed as the sum of different units In a paper I'm writing, I want to make a comment about errors in an old paper made when doing arithmetic with measurements expressed as as the sum of quantities with two or more different units, for example 5 pounds 11 ounces, or 3 minutes 20 seconds 17 seconds.  Is there a standard name for such values?  I'm sure there must be but I can't think of it, and have no idea what to search for to find the answer.

A: These are called mixed units.


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The author of such an essay can mention the steps that are following Indian Education system.
It may contain 2 or 3 studing years. This is the most form that is basic of education where a young kid begins learning how to read and write. This is actually the time as soon as the child learns to recognize things that are various colors, pets and birds, etc.
It encompasses eight several years of training. The child during this period masters subjects that are such science, math and social studies, too as language, such as for instance English, Hindi, Gujarati, etc.
The secondary training involves two years of studing. Really, it is a period once the son or daughter learns major subjects that might turn into helpful to him/her in using the greater education that is secondary.
This really is a term if the kid is currently grown up into a teen. This goes on for 2 years which covers those topics that are likely to help the individual to choose the world of his/her future higher training.
Graduation is done in a sphere that is particular of. The most used streams are Medicine, Engineering, Fine Arts, etc. All these areas also include different additional procedures. Really, an individual may opt for anybody of those.
Post-Graduation varies according to the field you plumped for in your Graduation. It is an additional detailed program concerning some of the plumped for areas.
After Post Graduation, the discipline of research and development is definitely open for a person. Other studies in an Indian Education system also encourages a son or daughter in extra-curricular pursuits like recreations, art, reading and writing. Interestingly, schools and colleges arrange tournaments for those activities being geared towards further enhancing of the child's curiosity about these areas. The writer must focus on the large in an Education Essay variety of options any son or daughter needs to pursue for the bright future.
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Bonfires Blaze Fueled by Hate
Tomás Ó Cárthaigh 12th July 2014 Battle of the Boyne, Racism in Ireland
Bonfires blaze, fueled by hate, but the bonfires are an Irish tradition (1)
Political maze, each site prate, the other view with suspicion
Ulster burns…
Bands march, beating drums sound, a culture they celebrate
Shirt starch, a beat they pound, Catholicism they berate –
Ulster churns…
Rebels before, of Cromwellian ranks, fought against Orangemen and King
Today no more, offering thanks, from Papism for delivering…
Ulster turns…
Silent today, they worship well, but seeking the freedom to do so…
In their own way, their story tell, of how long ago
Ulster spurns…
Kings diktat, division and regulation, for kings gain
To hell with all that, Ireland a nation, Catholic Protestant and Dissenter
In the face of the "festival" of the Twalfth, in the tradition of 1798 and the Alternative Ulster Covenant (2), a large number of Ulster Scots are open to the idea of a united Ireland, as long as their tradition as British in Ireland and their rights to profess their Protestant faith are respected. We are often our own worst enemies in that we dont ensure that this can be done, and play into the hands of the bigoted Orangist element, whose policies are more in common with Queen Anne and her bigots than King William.In a secular Ireland of the modern day, that should not be a problem. Suggestions such as making whatever department of the Gaeltacht finds itself in, also have Ulster Scots included, as there is a tradition on our side of the border without reunification, and will be ten times stronger with unification of Scots culture, language and identity. The rights of southern people who espouse a British identity by having the right to have a British or / and Irish passport by right of birth on the island should be granted too, one of the more reasonable requests from the Dublin and Wicklow Lodge 1313, and that should not be seen as disloyalty to the Republic in the modern context.A united Ireland is far away at the moment, we wont have it before 2022 never mind 2016, but if we dont play into the hands of bigots who wish to drive division between our peoples – and they are on our side as well – it well could happen before 2050.
So, this July, lets toast a future where truly Orange and Green can share our island. We can toast the king (while silently passing our drink (3) over a glass of water sneakily for the sake of tradition!!!) and the future united Ireland that embraces all traditions, all politics, all faiths, because of our past we are where we are, and all sides have been wrong, and all are a little bit right.
Its up to us where we will be in the next hundred years.
(1) Bonfires are an old Celtic pagan tradition to drive spirits and evil from a community, and to warn of danger. As practiced in Tara and Uisneach.
(2) Founded by Protestants who believed in Ireland being united, and freedom for Catholics AND Protestants in Ireland. More >>>
(3) Jacobite tradition, toasting the king in public, while the drink over the water glass was to the "king over the water", the Jacobite refugee king.
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Zealandia: The geological origins of the "Eighth Continent" are becoming clearer
In 1642, Dutch explorer Abel Tasman and his crew left Jakarta on two ships. Their goal: to map the poorly known regions of the Southern Hemisphere and, if possible, to discover the Terra Australis that I have imagined since ancient times. This continent is roughly represented on maps seventeenthe Century, appears in the imagination of time as a wilderness filled with gold, waiting to be discovered. In December of the same year, Tasman was the first European to see New Zealand – inhabited since then Thirteenthe A century by the Maoris – but set off again without having time to explore. Without knowing it, the Dutchman had already set his eyes on a vanished continent. It would take 375 years, in 2017, for an international team to confirm this: There is an "eighth continent," called Zélandia, or Te Riu-a-Māui in the Maori language. In a recent study, geologist Rose Turnbull of the GNS Science Institute in Dunedin, New Zealand, and colleagues show that this microcontinent is made up partly of billion-year-old rocks.
If Zelandia has remained hidden for so long, it's because 94% of its surface, estimated at 4.9 million square kilometers – or about eight times the area of Madagascar (also called the small continent) – is submerged under the ocean. Pacific Ocean, eastern Australia. Only the emerging peaks of New Caledonia, New Zealand and adjacent islands testify to the existence of this vast continental mass. Before sailing, Zélandia was an integral part of Gondwana, a giant subcontinent at the origin of Africa, India, Australia and Antarctica. Only during the break-up of Gondwana, 80 to 100 million years ago, did Zealandia, strictly speaking, form before submerging in the process. Its crust, thinner than that of other continents (20-25 kilometers thick), rises lower above the ocean floor, thereby submerging it.
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Topographic map of the continent of New Zealand.
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Since the discovery of Zélandia, researchers have estimated its oldest rocks to be 500 million years old. But the granite boulders of Fiordland and Stewart Island in New Zealand tell an entirely different story, much older. These granites were formed by the crystallization of magma from very deep regions of the Earth's crust, before rising to the surface in a continental elevation, itself the result of seismic activity over millions of years. Rose Turnbull's team studied the zircon grains found in this granite. This mineral is able to withstand many geological events for billions of years, and therefore can provide information about the first days and the conditions in which it crystallized. Thus the isotopic signature of zircon reveals the presence of billion-year-old rocks at depth, in the crust under Fiordland and Stewart Island. Geologists associate these rocks with the giant continent of Rodinia, which predates the Pangea rocks from which Gondwana arose, since it formed 1.1 billion years ago before disintegrating 750 million years ago. This makes Zealandia the missing link between southern China, Australia and North America in the geological puzzle that was this giant continent.
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40th Anniversary Celebration of Sheffield's World Snooker Championship
Tuesday 14 Mar 2017 10:02AM
This year marks the 40th anniversary of snooker's World Championship first being staged at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.
And to mark that occasion, World Snooker and Sheffield City Council are staging a special celebration event inside the famous Crucible arena on the eve of this year's tournament, on Friday April 14th. Tickets are now on sale and are expected to sell out rapidly.
The show will include live interviews with former champions and current players competing in this year's tournament, who will be present in the arena. There will also be archive footage of many of the great moments of the past four decades of snooker's biggest event.
Remember Alex Higgins celebrating the title with his baby in arms in 1982? Or Dennis Taylor's epic black ball final in 1985? Or Ronnie O'Sullivan's fastest ever 147 in 1997? The show will bring these moments – and many more – back to life.
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A rescue operation to save hundreds of dogs in South Korea from the slaughterhouse began Wednesday, as pressure mounts on the country to end its custom of killing canines for meat.
According to a survey in 2017, 70% of South Koreans do not eat dog, but far fewer - about 40% - believe the practice should be banned.
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The past few weeks, the weather has been crazy out here. We had storms, crazy amount of rain and wind. The nights are pretty cold and you should always have a backup plan for the day because of the rain. On the 4. of February, I went to the movies with Kat. Everyone at Surfing The Nations was talking about the new movie "the greatest showman". So we thought, we would give it a try, even if I am not a huge musical fan. I have to say, the movie was aaawesome; I can totally recommend it to you! From the actors to the story and to the songs. Loved it! One highlight of this day was, that I bought a pink, fluffy bathrobe. Honestly, it is the coziest thing ever and it reminds me of home, since I have a similar one back home.
Every Saturday, our LTP class has department days. On these days, we have the chance to get to know each department better. This gives us a taste of how our days will look like after our graduation. I already had an insight into the outreach departments Ulu Pono (kids program) and Feeding the Hungry as well as our businesses Surfers Coffee and the Vintage Store. One of my favorite days so far was in the businesses, especially the Surfers Coffee. We got to learn how to make acai bowls, use the checkout and make some drinks. I had a blast serving people coffee and telling them about Surfing The Nations. I love how people are so openminded here.
I have to tell you guys about two of my favorite encounters so far and how small Oahu is. One day we went shopping in Honolulu and I was looking through some clothes in Forever 21. Suddenly, I saw this woman. I instantly recognised her. Ty picked us up when me and two friends were hitchhiking last March. We chatted for a while and she invited me to ride horses with her, since she works on a horse farm. She lives really close to the beach on the north shore. This woman is awesome! Another encounter happened some days later. Something got rescheduled in our schedule on Friday. So I was sitting in our Coffee Bar one hour later than usually. I was focused writing my journal when I saw this woman that looked familiar to me. It was Carli, a woman that I met at a church on the North Shore last year as well. She is such a sweetheart and I can't wait to get to know her better. Carli is a photographer and got married on Oahu last year. This is what I love about Hawaii: These kind of encounters, the openness of people and the opportunity to build new friendships with strangers better than anywhere else.
SPOILER ALERT: Get excited guys! The next blog post will be about the first adventure trip that we had. I am working on it right now and I thought that this experience deserves a blog itself. There will be a lot of pictures and stories about these crazy four days in the wilderness with few food and a lot of challenges.
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At least 32 political murders since December
The killing of 7 people, at least three of them political activists belonging to the Chittagong Hill Tracts-based United Peoples Democratic Front (UPDF), brought to 32 the number of such political murders in the region since December last.
They started the same month as the 20th anniversary of the signing of the CHT Peace Accords on December 2, and within weeks of the sudden splintering of the UPDF, that marked the birth of the breakaway UPDF (Democratic), led by Tapan Jyoti Chakma (alias Borma), the previous November 15.
Tapan Chakma would eventually turn into one of the victims of the ensuing turf war, in the bloodiest single incident prior to Saturday, when he along with four others were killed as they were on their way to attend the last rites of the slain Advocate Shaktiman Chakma, chairman of Naniarchar upazila parishad and a leader of Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity (MN Larma), which itself is a breakaway faction of the Shantu Larma-led PCJSS, and is said to ally itself with the UPDF (Democratic).
Prior to those killings, the majority of the victims were members or supporters of UPDF. Two of the victims included in the count were members of the Awami League's local units. The first actual victim of the turf war was actually UPDF activist Anal Bikash Chakma, who was shot dead on December 16. This was the first death that UPDF attributed to its breakaway faction.
Within weeks, top UPDF leader Mithun Chakma was shot dead on January 3. UPDF again accused UPDF (Democratic) of the murder, alleging also that the new group was working in cahoots with the army.
Mithun's murder in broad daylight following a court appearance drew international attention. Amnesty International called upon the Bangladesh authorities to hold a rigorous investigation, without delay, into the murder of indigenous human rights defender. A feature of the aftermath to the killings seems to be that the police investigations go nowhere, eventually hit a dead end, and die down.
The pattern has persisted throughout. UPDF activist Dilip Kumar Chakma was shot dead on February 17; Subhash Chakma was shot dead in Dighinala, Khagrachhari four days later, while another activist, Natun Mani Chakma, was murdered on March 11. None of these murders have led to any arrests or even much headway by the authorities.
On April 12, UPDF's Jony Tonchongya was murdered in Naniarchar, within hours of which a PCJSS (MN Larma) activist in the area, Sadan Chakma, was also killed. It's unclear whether the two murders were linked, or specifically if Sadan's murder was an act of vengeance for the killing of Jony.
By this time it was alleged by the UPDF and its various affiliated organizations that include the Hill Women's Federation (HWF), the Democratic Youth Forum, and the Pahari Chhatra Parishad, that UPDF (Democratic) and PCJSS (MN Larma) had entered into an alliance. The killings on May 4, as a UPDF (Democratic) contingent was on its way to attend the funeral of the slain PCJSS (MN Larma) leader, seemed to confirm that.
On April 16, Surjo Bikash Chakma, said to be a UPDF supporter, lost his life in Khagrachari, and UPDF leader Sunil Bikash Tripura was killed in a shootout at Panchhari Upazila in Khagrachari on April 22. Both were blamed by UPDF on the PCJSS (MN Larma), also sometimes known as the JSS (Reformists).
Alongside all this bloodshed, two activists of the HWF, Manti Chakma, general secretary of HWF central committee, and Doya Sona Chakma, general secretary of the organisation's Rangamati unit, were abducted and remained missing for a month, before being released on April 20.
Upon their release, they accused the UPDF (Democratic) of being the abductors. Doyasona has accused UPDF (Democratic) of being behind the abduction, and that they were later joined by activists of the JSS (Reformist).
Then came the killings of May 3-4, which brought the number of such killings to 18 in the space of six months, and marked an escalation in the conflict.
Three members of UPDF were shot dead in their sleep at Korolyachari under Baghaichari upazila in Rangamati in the early hours of May 28. The deceased were Sushil Chakma alias Sanjit, 45, of village Balurhat, Atal Chakma, 40, of village Balukhali and Sugorchugo Chakma alias Smriti Chakma, 50, of village Baghaihat Gongarammukh under Baghaichari upazila. The trio were staying together with another UPDF member who was injured in the attack.
UPDF organizer Michael Chakma alleged that members of PCJSS (MN Larma) had launched the attack.
Within 3 weeks, in the space of 48 hours, two activists of the PCJSS (MN Larma) and one member of UPDF (Democratic) were killed on June 17-18.
PCJSS (MN Larma) activists Suren Bikash Chakma and Bijay Tripura were shot dead separately in their homes in Rangamati and Khagrachari respectively, while UPDF (Democratic) activist Boli Chakma was shot to death following a gunfight at Dosarpara Steel Bridge area under Langadu upazila in Rangamati.
On July 27, two people were killed in a gunfight that broke out at Betagichhara of Bagaichhari upazila in Rangamati, although only one of them - David Chakma of the JSS (Reformist) - was identified as a political activist. The other deceased person, Bon Kusum Chakma, identified just as a local, may have been caught up in the crossfire. Including her would bring the number of political killings at this point to 26. Otherwise it stood at 25.
That was till August 17, a Saturday, in the bloodiest incident till date, that saw six people gunned down at Swanirbhar in Sadar upazila around 8am in the morning.
The identities of just three of the dead have been confirmed so far, and they all belong to the UPDF and its affiliated organizations. They are Tapan Chakma, district unit president of UPDF-backed Pahari Chhatra Parishad, another leader Elton Chakma, and Ganatrantrik Jubo Forum leader Polash Chakma, also backed by the Prasit Khisha-led UPDF.
Later in the day in a separate incident, another UPDF activist was killed. This now has all the markings of an all-out turf war, even as the so-called peace process grows more and more to resemble a pipe dream. So that even in the midst of the most breathtaking vistas of this Earth's natural beauty, the sense of a heightened unease, a constant struggle deep within, a disturbance right at the core of being, is once again ever-present in the Hill Tracts.
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