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In 1885 Louisville Bishop William McCloskey appointed Rev. Bernard Westermann to establish a new parish in the fast growing Highlands area just outside the city along the Bardstown Pike. There is no record of why a parish serving German farmers and staffed by diocesan priests was named for Francis of Assisi.
Nevertheless by March of 1886 construction was started on a new frame church at the corner of Bardstown Pike and Bishop's Lane (which has since been re-named Rutherford Avenue.) Only four months later, on July 4th, the new church was dedicated. There were about forty-five families in the parish at the time. Next to the church were a wooden rectory and a frame, two-room schoolhouse staffed by the Sisters of Mercy.
In 1921 Rev. Theodore Reverman was appointed pastor, and soon began planning a new church and school to serve the fast-growing population. The new school building, housing a temporary church, was dedicated on July 4, 1925, the fortieth anniversary of the dedication of the original church.
By 1936, when St. Francis celebrated it's fiftieth anniversary, it had grown into a community of 650 families, with 533 students in the school. Plans were made in 1941 for a new church building that would face Rutherford Avenue, but when the United States entered World War II later that year, those plans were put on hold.
It would not be until July 4th, 1950, the sixty-fourth anniversary of the dedication of the first church, that the cornerstone would be laid for the current church under Monsignor Edward Link. Meanwhile, the original plans were abandoned for the English Gothic style church that stands today.
Throughout the 1960's and 70's St. Francis changed most through the implementation of the reforms of the Second Vatican Council. A long tradition of excellence in liturgy led eventually to a new altar, blessed sacrament chapel and organ for the celebration of the centennial of the parish in 1986. More fundamental changes though, came in the expansion in the ministry of the people. New structures like the parish council and finance council were implemented early on. St. Francis became involved in ecumenical outreach through organizations like the Highland Community Ministries.
Now in the 21st century, the parish of German farmers has become a thriving, diverse urban community that actively seeks to minister to the needs of its people, its neighborhood and the world.
Our Church and Grounds
Dedicated in 1952, our current church building was designed in a modified English Gothic style by Louisville architects Walter Wagner and Joseph Potts. It is the only church in Louisville built of sandstone from the quarry of St. Meinrad Archabbey in southern Indiana. Its interior is finished with Italian mosaics and marble. The large mosaic in the sanctuary depicts St. Francis comforted by angels. The stained-glass window over the main entrance depicts scenes from the life of St. Francis, while the other windows in the nave depict the church's liturgical year. The sanctuary of the church was renovated in 1986 in celebration of the parish centennial. And in celebration of the new millennium, the original 1886 bell from our first church was refurbished and hung in the north tower.
The St. Francis of Assisi Statue on the grounds outside the church building is a bronze statue of St. Francis preaching to the animals by Louisville sculptor Charlotte Price. It was completed in 1986 as part of the centennial celebration.
The Parish Offices and Rectory were built in 1928, the Rectory served as a residence for our parish priests into the 1990's. As the staff of our parish expanded the rectory has become the main office and a meeting space for our parish.
The current school building is the largest building on our grounds. Completed in 1926, it was built to house the school, the residence of the sisters who taught at St. Francis and a temporary church. With the intervention of the Great Depression and World War II, it would continue to house the church for 26 years. It was home to the sisters until the parish acquired a house next to the school building on Alfresco Place for their convent. It continues to house our school. Meanwhile the space that was once used as a church has been converted into a gym, and the room under the gym serves as our parish hall.
The statue of the Sacred Heart in front of the school is a bronze statue of the Sacred Heart. It stood in front of our original frame church, and was moved to its current location when the school building was built.
The Adult Spirituality Center located next to the school building on Alfresco Place is a house that currently serves as our spirituality center. It is used for prayer groups, bible studies and meetings of all types.

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What the Radium Girls Taught Us About Radiation Safety
By Versant Physics
The plight of the Radium Girls in the 1920s would teach us a great deal about the radioactive element radium and its effect on the human body. It brought to light the dangers of working with radium and created a universal understanding of the need for occupational and radiation safety measures.
What is radium?
Radium is a naturally occurring radioactive metal formed when uranium and thorium decay. In the environment, radium is present at low levels in groundwater, soil, rocks, and plants.
There are four radium isotopes, all of which are radioactive and have drastically different half-lives.
As radium decays it releases ionizing radiation in the form of alpha, beta, and gamma radiation. This radiation excites certain fluorescent chemicals in the metal and results in radioluminescence. It can also form other elements, such as radon.
Radium was discovered by Marie Sklodowska Curie and her husband Pierre Curie in 1898, although it would be more than a decade before the pair had isolated a sample large enough to work with.
Early Misinformation About Radium
Soon after the Curies discovered radium, medical professionals began using the radioactive substance as a cancer treatment. Before it could be properly studied, this initial use led to an explosion of interest from the American public and a host of false medical claims that radium was "healthful rather than medicinal."
Radium was initially considered a cure-all for a variety of health conditions, including arthritis, tuberculosis, rheumatism, gout, and high blood pressure. It was also thought to improve vitality in the elderly, treat skin conditions like eczema, and cure insomnia.
Because of its seemingly magical healing properties, major corporations began putting radium into their products and heavily promoting its use. Radium-infused toothpaste, pillows, facial creams, and tonic water were popular amongst the public, as were radium spas and clinics.
Radium-based cosmetics were trendy among women. They used these products to combat signs of aging in the form of wrinkles, crows-feet, and even unwanted body or facial hair.
The radium cosmetics gave the women's skin a warm and cheerful glow and came to be known as "liquid sunshine." This further cemented the idea that the products contained restorative properties that would revitalize the body and improve its overall health.
Who Were the Radium Girls?
In 1917, the United States entered World War I. There was a sudden demand for instruments and watches that could be read in the dark by U.S. soldiers. Thanks to a high-tech, glow-in-the-dark paint called UnDark, which was made with radium, this became possible.
With most of the country's men on foreign battlefields, the United States Radium Corporation (USRC) in New Jersey began hiring young women to paint a variety of radium-lit instruments for use in the trenches. These women were called dial painters.
The dial painters would mix the radium-based paint in a crucible at their workstations and used fine, camel hair paint brushes to paint on the tiny, delicate numbers. The brushes quickly lost their shape after a couple of strokes. Management encouraged the women to use their lips to bring the brushes to a fine point for better precision. They were told repeatedly that radium was safe to ingest, and so continued with the "lip, dip, paint" process while they worked.
However, the dial painters didn't just ingest the radium at their workstations. Due to its many reported health claims, workers would often paint their teeth or nails with radium-based paint before going out for the evening to impress their dates or amaze party guests. The dust from the hand-mixed paint coated the women's hair and dresses, giving them a ghost-like glow that earned the women the nickname "ghost girls."
For many dial painters, who were mostly between the ages of 14 and 20, this work was as desirable as it was glamorous. Radium's luminous, sparkling appearance gave them a unique status. Furthermore, America's obsession with its magical healing properties combined with the available compensation for the work had entire families flocking to the factory for a position.
Radiation Sickness
By the early 1920s, medical professionals throughout the area were noticing a frightening increase in the young worker's health complaints. Many of their female patients complained of stiff and cracking joints, painful toothaches, oozing mouth sores, and listlessness, while others had broken out or developed severe anemia.
Dentists began pulling multiple teeth from young dial painters at a time. There were several instances where, during the tooth extraction, pieces of the woman's decaying jawbone would come out with the tooth. In many cases, the tooth extractions wouldn't heal.
Other symptoms of radium poisoning in the dial painters, which would later become understood as radiation sickness, were sterility, cataracts, leukopenia, eosinophilia, leukemia, anemia, and menstruation issues.
Mollie Maggia was the first dial painter to fall ill and die. She first developed increasingly painful toothaches that traveled from tooth to tooth. Severe pain in her limbs also prohibited her from walking.
Although dentists didn't know it at the time, Mollie had developed "radium jaw." This occupational disease involved necrosis of the upper and lower jawbones, bleeding gums, ulcers, and bone tumors. At the end of her life, Mollie's dentists merely lifted her jaw from her mouth to remove it. Mollie died in 1922 just days before her 25th birthday.
Another 12 women who worked for the U.S. Radium Corporation as dial painters died the following year, with an additional 50 women falling severely ill.
Radium's Effect on the Human Body
Radium has similar effects on the human body as calcium and strontium when inhaled or ingested. Once it enters the bloodstream, radium concentrates in the bones in high quantities. It emits alpha particles as it decays, which irradiates the cells on the bone's surface. Over time radium will settle into the bone where it wreaks havoc on bone marrow and blood cell production.
If radium is ingested with food or water, over 80% of the element is excreted through urine or feces. The other 20% will travel throughout the body, settling in the bones and remaining there throughout the person's life.
Historical Impact & Worker's Rights
The surviving dial painters sued the U.S. Radium Corporation, although the road to doing so was not easy. The case was eventually settled out of court in 1928. The women were awarded $15,000 plus $600 per year for future medical expenses because of radium poisoning.
This landmark case was one of the first instances of workers receiving compensation for a disease developed because of their occupation. However, most of the women who received the money died within two years of the settlement.
At the time of the dial painters, there were no radiation safety measures put into place to prevent direct contact with the radioactive substance from occurring. The case of the Radium Girls opened people's eyes to the dangers of radium and other radioactive substances. They were seen as an example of what could go wrong in an occupational setting and completely changed the course of occupational disease labor laws and regulations.
Their case had a direct impact on scientists' approach to radiation safety during The Manhattan Project. It was also a leading cause for the creation of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in 1970.
Radium would continue to be used as a luminescent paint until the early 1960s when its toxicity and danger to human life could no longer be ignored.
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Q: Write JSON Response to Var JavaScript When I try to get the request-response with Postman I receive
{score_stacker":25}

Now I want the response saved to a javascript var, trying
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"unexpected end of data at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data", when I use stringify I just have an empty var

What shall I do?

A: Your response is not a valid JSON response.
It should be (missing a quote):
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This module is dedicated to the differential diagnosis of benign and malignant focal liver lesions in the otherwise healthy liver. This module will include CT and MR imaging scans of focal liver lesions.
This module is dedicated to the differential diagnosis of benign and malignant focal liver lesions in the otherwise healthy liver. This module will include CT and MR imaging scans of focal liver lesions. CT and MR images will be used for teaching purposes to describe the most typical imaging findings in focal liver lesions in the healthy liver. The focal liver lesion training will help participants to describe the main imaging features of the most common benign focal liver lesions in the healthy liver.
Emilio currently holds a Full Profesor of Radiology position at the University of Padova in Italy. He completed his Medical Training at University of Udine (Italy) with an MD thesis on pharmacology in 1995. Afterwards he completed his radiological training at University of Trieste (Italy) in 1999. Dr. Quaia has worked in Hammersmith Hospital in London for one year. In 2000 he became assistant professor in radiology at University of Trieste. In 2005 he invested one year in MSKCC in New York with the role of Research Associate in Molecular Imaging. After this year in the US he decided to came back to Trieste, where in 2014 he was appointed as associate professor in radiology, position which he covered until October 2016. Then he moved to the University of Edinburgh where Emilio remained for 2 years as Honorary Consultant in Radiology until august 2018 when he finally became Full Professor of Radiology at University of Padova (Italy) position which he is presently holding. His principal field of clinical activity and research is Abdominal Imaging with particular dedication to US, contrast-enhanced US, CT and MR imaging.


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Made in a soft non woven polypropylene fabric which is shower proof and acid free, it even has a lower eyelet for ease of carrying or storing. The cover is 40"long by 26" wide with a full length zip.
We currently stock these in black but other colours and sizes are available. Just 'contact us' for further information.
The price includes the embroidery of a name, initials or short slogan in the colour of your choice, however, should you require a picture or a logo to be added please do not hesitate to 'contact us'.
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Janice Zinck, a director at Natural Resources Canada, has confirmed that she will be presenting at Mines and Technology Vancouver in June. We caught up with Janice to hear in advance her views on recent technology innovations and how this might affect the mining sector.
Janice, as a director of CanmetMINING (a research, development and innovation arm of Natural Resources Canada) can you tell us a little bit about your upcoming presentation? What can delegates expect to learn?
My presentation will focus on how the application of green mining technologies can provide a wide range of benefits. These benefits include not only improved environmental performance, but also significant economic advantages. Through the adoption of green and clean technologies, challenges associated with production, energy, waste and waste efficiency can be addressed. The result is often enhanced community and investor confidence, as well as reputational improvements.
The pace of technological innovation in the mining sector has been growing rapidly in the past year. We have seen significant adoption of data-driven technologies and approaches. The use of blockchain to support responsible and ethical sourcing is an exciting development that could affect supply chains. The growing development and application of smart sensors is providing improved efficiencies well beyond previous levels. It is estimated that the use of smart sensors could offer in excess of US$30 billion to the mining sector.
One of the most exciting innovations of the past year has been the deployment of the world's first autonomous trains at Rio Tinto's iron ore operations, AutoHaul™. The network includes approximately 200 locomotives and more than 1,700 km of rail lines, which transport ore from 16 mines to four port terminals.
Mining companies should look to other industries not just to learn about technology implementation but also to see if technologies from other industries can be applied to mining. A systems integration approach will be needed to maximise technological benefits and adoption potential. As well, collective effort and a commitment to collaborate on key challenges are required.
Due to the nature of the industry, technology scale up and performance confidence remain challenges when implementing innovation changes. The lack of sufficient piloting and demonstration of new technologies will often result in implementation failure, where the change does not result in process improvements or results in expensive operational downtime. Bridging the 'valley of death' between technology development and full-scale commercialisation remains an issue.
In addition, there are regulatory obstacles when it comes to the implementation of new technologies. A rigorous and prescriptive regulatory framework requires that novel technologies provide strong performance data prior to implementation. To minimise the risk of adoption of novel technologies, they require proper scale-up and large-scale demonstration. It not as simple as beta-testing a new IT platform or software. Acquiring accurate performance data is extremely costly but without this information regulators lack predicable assurance. To further complicate the situation, regulations frequently vary across jurisdictions; implementation of technologies allowed in one province may not be supported in another.
Canada has always had a strong mining innovation track record, however in recent years the innovation ecosystem has become fragmented. We need to work together in true partnership with common objectives in order to maximise results and value.
What have been the most important innovations for the Canadian mining industry?
In recent years, there have been several technological advances in the industry. The transition to data-driven technologies, 'Big Data' and machine learning is accelerating the pace of development for a suite of advanced sensors for everything from ore sorting, rock mass stability, water quality and ventilation to health and safety; and the list goes on. Remote rock breaking, automated hoisting, autonomous vehicles, drones, underground LTE (the 4G-based Long-Term Evolution technology) and 5G networks, and electrification have all been important innovations for the Canadian mining industry.
What future innovations would be of particular interest to Canada?
Mitigating the impacts of mining and milling will continue to be a driver for innovation as it is a key component in maintaining a license to operate. With automation and machine learning will come improved worker safety and environmental performance, as well as help to address predicted worker shortages. The digitisation will provide improved transparency and greater opportunity for performance optimisation.
Ultimately, the application of advanced technologies will increase resource extraction efficiency and eventually shrink the mining footprint. In addition, the use of technologies for remote operations (such as small modular reactors) and more selective mining innovations will become more and more important as access to deposits becomes more challenging.
What role does the Canadian Government play in facilitating, or implementing, innovation in the mining sector?
The Canadian government plays several important roles in the mining innovation ecosystem. The federal government works with provincial and territorial governments, industry and other interested parties to foster a more effective mining innovation ecosystem to support activities across all phases of the mineral development cycle. The recently released Canadian Minerals and Metals Plan (CMMP) presents a strategy for mining innovation in Canada. As well, under Natural Resources Canada, CanmetMINING works with mining stakeholders to develop and assess green and transformative mining technologies.
Programmes led by CanmetMINING include Green Mining Innovation (now in its 10th year), the Rare Earth Elements and Chromite R&D programme aimed at providing the technological innovation to bring Canada deposits to production, and the newly launched Mining Value from Waste programme (a pan-Canadian initiative to address tailings and other waste through reprocessing, repurposing and liability reductions).
Janice Zinck will be presenting at Mines and Technology Vancouver in June.


Artificial Intelligence (AI) Drives Kolibree's Ara Toothbrush, users get accurate feedback without staring at your app.
Fingerprint, voice, iris, and facial recognition cited as the hottest items as biometrics use continues to escalate.
Einstein robot, with a friendly face and human gestures, teaches science to kids.
AUSTRALIAN company uses the Internet of Things to put the brakes on gas theft.
EoSens Quad 1.1 high-speed recording camera is designed to meet the demands of high shock and vibration environments in a compact design.


UPDATE: 1:15 pm EST: Which market has been hurt the most over the past couple of days by the Cyprus banking crisis? Hint, see data below, as well as yesterday's post.
UPDATE: 7:15 pm EST: This Daily ratio chart of the Russian Index vs. the Greek Index shows Russia's relative strength over Greece for the past two days. A break and hold above 30.00 could launch it higher above the trading range that it's been in since last November on further weakening of Greece, while a break and hold below 25.00 could signal much more trouble ahead for Russia.
In the meantime, Brent Crude Oil and WTIC have both popped during the past several days, as shown on the Daily chart below. We'll see if Brent now holds above its 200 sma (109.44), as all three indicators are pointing to a further rally...its next target would be the 50 sma at 112.70, while major support lies at 1.05. WTIC is approaching major resistance, but it may break above and follow suit if Brent continues to rally...100.00 would be the next upside target, while major support sits well below at 90.00.
The following Daily ratio chart of Brent:WTIC shows a very slight stabilization (at a major support level) in the spread between the two over the past couple of days...one to watch to see if that continues, or if it begins to widen in favour of Brent, once more.


May 8. Today's payroll jobs report is more of the same. The Bureau of Labor Statistics claims that 223,000 new jobs were created in April. Let's accept the claim and see where the jobs are.
Despite negative first quarter GDP growth, 62,000 people were hired in professional and business services, 67% of which are in administrative and waste services.
Health care and social assistance accounted for 55,600 jobs of which ambulatory health care services, hospitals, and social assistance accounted for 85% of the jobs.
Waitresses and bartenders account for 26,000 jobs, and government employed 10,000 new workers.
There are no jobs in manufacturing.
Mining, timber, oil and gas extraction lost jobs.
Temporary help services (16,100 jobs) offered 3.7 times more jobs than law, accounting architecture, and engineering combined (4,500 jobs).
As I have pointed out for a number of years, according to the payroll jobs reports, the complexion of the US labor force is that of a Third World country. Most of the jobs created are lowly paid domestic services.
The well paying high productivity, high value-added jobs have been offshored and given to foreigners who work for less. This fact, more than the reduction in marginal income tax rates, is the reason for the rising inequality in the distribution of income and wealth.
Offshoring middle class jobs raises corporate profits and, thereby, the incomes of corporate owners (shareholders) and executives. But it reduces the incomes of the majority of the population who are forced into either lowly paid and part time jobs or unemployment.
The extraordinary decline in the labor force participation rate indicates shrinking opportunities for the American labor force. No economist should ever have accepted the claim that the economy was in recovery while participation in the labor force was declining.
The officially documented decline in the labor force participation rate casts additional doubt on the claimed increases in payroll jobs. If jobs are growing, the labor force participation rate should not be declining.
Having looked at the actual details of the payroll jobs report, which are seldom if ever reported in the financial media, let's look at what else goes unreported in the media.
The government's economic statistical agencies are under pressure not to roil the financial markets. Consequently, initial reports, which are always the headline reports, are as close as possible to the "consensus forecast" prepared by economists in the financial sector, whose jobs are to maintain a good atmosphere for financial instruments.
This practice results in optimistic advanced estimates and first estimates. The real reporting comes later in revisions. For example, today the headline was 223,000 new jobs, recovery on track, stock market up. What was not reported by the media is that the prior month's (March) payroll jobs growth was cut to 85,000 jobs, substantially below population growth.
The same thing happens with the reporting of GDP growth. The first quarter GDP advanced estimate was kept in positive territory with a 0.2%–two-tenths of one percent–growth. When the revisions arrive, which we already know will be negative GDP growth due to the trade figure, they will not receive the same attention.
There are many additional problems with the economic reporting. I have written about a number of them in past reports. Here I will provide one more example. According to the payroll jobs report oil and gas extraction lost 3,300 jobs in April. This low number is inconsistent with what we know about layoffs from fracking operations. According to Challenger Gray, a private firm that tracks job cuts announced by corporations, in April 20,675 jobs were lost as a result of falling oil prices. That is more than six times the loss reported by the payroll jobs report.
Challenger Gray reports that during the first four months of this year, corporations have announced 201,796 job cuts. Obviously, corporations are not creating new jobs. That is why the BLS looks to waitresses, bartenders, remodeling contractors, government, and social services for employment growth.
Jobs offshoring has shriveled the employment opportunities for Americans. These shriveled opportunities are largely responsible for stagnation and decline in real median family incomes, for the falling labor force participation rate, for the rising inequality in the income and wealth distribution, and for student loans that cannot be repaid from the lowly paid jobs available. Corporations and Wall Street in pursuit of short-term profits have given the economy away. Much of the former US economy now belongs to China and India. Corporate executives and shareholders got rich off of this give-away.


Cave Paintings Now, Mar 29-May 5, opening 6-8 pm Mar 29.
New work by Scott Lyall that links technologies of the image to aesthetic experience. Building incrementally over several years, Lyall's work has taken shape as abstract painting, relief work, colourized glass and photographs. Here, these occur in a single exhibition, bound by common principles of format and picturing.


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Around the world, Publications and resources
SRI calls for political and legal framing that recognizes full range of sexual rights
The Sexual Rights Initiative (SRI) is a coalition of organizations from Canada, Poland, India, Egypt, Argentina and South Africa that have been advocating together for the advancement of human rights related to gender, sexuality and reproduction at the UN Human Rights Council since 2006. We are committed to and strongly in support of rights related to sexual orientation, gender identity and expression. Many of us are directly affected as people who are non-conforming in terms of our gender identity and expression and our sexual orientation.
We work together to encourage the UN and Member States to protect and promote the human rights of all people to bodily integrity and autonomy, and the rights to have full control over and to decide freely upon all matters related to our sexual lives, reproductive lives, sexual and reproductive health, gender expression and identity and our bodies, free from coercion, violence or discrimination. These rights affect everyone, everywhere. Failure to protect these rights has grave consequences for those of us who are criminalised or subject to other forms of punitive regulation based on our sexuality and gender.
Presently, a number of UN Member States and NGOs are advocating for the Human Rights Council to create a new Special Rapporteur on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI). From the perspective of the SRI, the proposed mechanism would be limited in its ability to protect the fundamental rights of people most in need and risks neglecting a range of sexuality and gender related abuses that demand the UN's attention. Further, it could create false dichotomies and siloes within the interpretation and application of human rights related to sexuality and gender that could set back decades of hard work and progress made on these issues by diverse social movements.
The SRI believes the violations, abuses, discrimination and oppression faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) persons would be most effectively addressed through a political and legal framing that recognizes the full range of sexual rights as inherent to the constellation of human rights to which every person is entitled. Furthermore, the SRI believes that the articulation of this position at the UN and within various movements is important so that States and civil society actors have an opportunity to consider alternate analyses and viewpoints. This articulation is not intended to and should not be seen to diminish the areas of agreement between progressive movements working on gender and sexuality issues, rather it is healthy part of movement building that seeks to include the experiences of different people, many of whom will be directly impacted by the establishment of any new UN special mechanism.
The Sexual Rights Initiative therefore makes the following recommendations to continue the political and social momentum to effectively integrate human rights related to sexuality orientation and gender identity into the work of the Council:
The Human Rights Council should build on and strengthen the existing thematic resolution on sexual orientation and gender identity by expanding its scope and to guide existing mechanisms in their continuing work on bodily integrity and autonomy for all people, including LGBTI persons and those who are non- conforming in terms of their sexual orientation and gender identity and expression.
The resolution should mandate the OHCHR to investigate the root causes of discrimination, violence and other violations based on sexual orientation and gender identity and expression, and expand the analysis to include legal and social practices that empower as well as laws and policies restricting bodily integrity and autonomy for a range of people, including sex workers, members of LGBTI communities, women seeking abortion, adolescents, HIV-positive persons and transgender persons, and others stigmatised because of their sexual and gender expressions or behaviours.
Progressive states from across all regions of the world should envision and plan for a Working Group or similar mechanism on "Human Rights related to Sexuality and Gender", or a variation thereof, that approaches sexuality and gender from a holistic and intersectional perspective. This would be best advanced through a cross-regional core group led by states already working on some of the most complex sexual rights issues.
Read the full paper
Source: http://sexualrightsinitiative.com/2016/hrc/sri-calls-for-political-and-legal-framing-that-recognizes-full-range-of-sexual-rights/
Categoria: Around the world, Publications and resources Tags: gender, human rights, LGBTQ rights, reproductive rights, sexual rights, SOGI, UN


Llevo en mi mochilón... café y panela.
Source: The lyrics posted on this blog are transcribed directly from performances. Although it is my intention to faithfully transcribe I do not get all the words and I have a knack for hearing the wrong thing. Please feel free to correct me or to fill in the words that I miss by dropping me a message via e-mail. I'd be forever grateful. Thanks in advance!
Thank you, whoever composed this. Although it is sung here, it is not Trinbagonian and I will add the composer's name as soon as I discover it.


The Milwaukee Bucks are a professional basketball franchise based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Bucks compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member team of the Eastern Conference Central Division. The team was founded in 1968 as an expansion team, and played at the BMO Harris Bradley Center. Former U.S. Senator Herb Kohl was the long-time owner of the team, with John Hammond as current general manager; as of April 16, 2014 a group led by billionaire hedge fund managers Wesley Edens and Marc Lasry agreed to purchase a majority interest in the team from Kohl, a sale which was approved by the owners of the NBA and its Board of Governors a month later on May 16.
The Bucks have won one league title (1971), two conference titles (1971 and 1974), and 13 division titles (1971–74, 1976, 1980–86, 2001).


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Corn Nutrition 101
It is imperative to understand the principles of soil fertility to efficiently manage corn nutrients, and corn production, and environmental stewardship. There are 17 chemical elements that are known to be essential for plant growth, 14 of these elements come from the soil. Each essential plant nutrients needed in different amounts by the plant, each varies in mobility within the plant and varies in concentration in the harvested mature corn plant components. Knowing the relative amount of each nutrient by crop and the amounts removed with harvest is useful for calculating the amount of fertility that will need to be added to the soil to maintain optimum harvest levels).
Essential plant elements, source, roles and relative quantities in the plant
Table 1. Essential plant elements, source, roles and relative quantities in the plant. from Overview of Soil Fertility, Plant Nutrition, and nutrient Management, NRCS, Agustin Pagoni, John E. Sawyer, Antonia P. Mallarina Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University.
To be classified as "essential", the element needs to meet the following criteria:
The plant cannot complete its life cycle (seed to new seed) without it.
The elements' function cannot be replaced by another element.
The element is directly involved in the plant's growth and reproduction.
Non-mineral nutrients:
Three elements, carbon (C), hydrogen (H), and oxygen (O), are non-mineral nutrients because they are derived from the air and water. Although they represent approximately 95% of plant biomass, they are generally given little attention in plant nutrition because they are almost always in sufficient supply. However, other factors such as soil management and the environmental conditions can influence the availability and crop growth response.
Figure 1. Mineral Nutrients Required for Plant Growth
The 14 mineral nutrients are classified as either macronutrients or micronutrients based upon plant requirements and relative fertilization need. There are 6 macronutrients: nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), and sulfur (S). The macronutrients, N, P, K, are often classified as primary macronutrients, because deficiencies of N, P, K are more common than the secondary macronutrients, Ca, Mg, and S. The micronutrients include boron (B), chlorine (Cl), copper (Cu), iron (Fe), manganese (Mn), molybdenum (Mo), nickel (Ni), and zinc (Zn). Most of the macronutrients represent 0.1 -5% or 100-5000 parts per million (ppm), of dry plant tissue, whereas the micronutrients generally comprise less than .025% or 250ppm, of dry plant tissue (Table1).
How plant uptake nutrients:
Each of the nutrients cannot be taken up by plants in its elemental form, they must instead be taken up in an 'ionic' or charged form, with the exception of boron (B) as boric acid which is uncharged (Table 2). Most fertilizers are made up of combinations of these available nutrient forms, so when fertilizer dissolves, the nutrient(s) can be immediately available for uptake. Knowing what form of a nutrient the plant absorbs helps inform what controls the cycling and movement of the nutrient in the soil. Additionally, understanding how nutrients function within the plant is useful in diagnosing nutrient deficiencies.
Nutrient Forms Taken up by Plants
Table 2. Nutrient Forms Taken up by Plants. from Overview of soil fertility, plant nutrition, and nutrient management, NRCS, Agustin Pagoni, John E. Sawyer, and Antonia P. Mallarina, Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University.
Nutrient uptake by roots is dependent on the activity of the root (corn root number, root dry matter, and root length), ability to absorb nutrients, and the nutrient concentration at the surface of the root. Roots come directly in contact with some nutrients (interception) as they grow; however, this only accounts for a very low percentage of the total amount of nutrients taken up by plants. Therefore, other mechanisms must cause the movement of nutrients to the plant.
Water moves toward and into the root as the plant use water or transpires. This process is referred to as 'mass flow', accounts for a substantial amount of nutrient movement toward the plant root, especially for the mobile nutrients such as NO3-. Specifically, mass flow has been found to account for about 80% of N movement into the root system of a plant, yet only 5% of the more immobile P. It has been found that 'diffusion' accounts for the remainder of the nutrient movement.
Diffusion is the process where chemicals move from an area of high concentration to any area of low concentration. Fertilizing near the plant root, the plant is less dependent on exchange processes and diffusion to uptake nutrients, especially P. The nutrients that are most dependent diffusion to move them toward a plant root are relatively immobile, have relatively low solution concentrations, and yet are needed in large amounts by the plant, such as P and K. The secondary macronutrients (Ca, Mg, S) often do not depend of diffusion because their solution concentrations are fairly high in soil, relative to plant requirements.
How nutrients move within the plant
All nutrients move relatively easily from the root to the growing portions of the plant. Some nutrients can also move from older tissue to newer tissue if there is a deficiency of that nutrient. Knowing which nutrients are 'mobile' is very useful in diagnosing plant nutrient deficiencies because if only the lower leaves are affected, then a mobile nutrient is most likely the cause. Conversely, if only the upper leaves show the deficiency, then the plant is likely deficient with an immobile nutrient because that nutrient cannot move from older to newer leaves. Table 3 list the six mobile and eight immobile mineral nutrients. Sulfur is one element that lies between mobile and immobile elements depending on the degree of deficiency.
Mobile and Immobile Nutrients
Table 3. from Overview of soil fertility, plant nutrition, and nutrient management, NRCS, Agustin Pagoni, John E. Sawyer, and Antonia P. Mallarina, Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University.
Nutrient Deficiencies of Corn Symptoms
The following pictures represent some of the more common nutrient deficiency symptoms in corn. When visual symptoms of nutrient deficiency particularly N and K, yield loss has occurred.
Figure 2. Nitrogen (N) Deficiency in Corn. Photo is provided courtesy of the International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI) and its IPNI Crop Nutrient Deficiency Image Collection, C.Witt, J.M. Pasuquin
Figure 3. Phosphorous (P) Deficiency in Corn. Photo is provided courtesy of the International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI) and its IPNI Crop Nutrient Deficiency Image Collection, Jason Kelly, Mozaffari
Figure 4. Potassium (K) Deficiency in Corn. Photo is provided courtesy of the International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI) and its IPNI Crop Nutrient Deficiency Image Collection, M. Hasegawa
Figure 5. Magnesium (Mg) Deficiency in Corn. Photo is provided courtesy of the International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI) and its IPNI Crop Nutrient Deficiency Image Collection, P. Kumar
Figure 6. Calcium (Ca) Deficiency in Corn. Photo is provided courtesy of the International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI) and its IPNI Crop Nutrient Deficiency Image Collection.
Figure 7. Iron (Fe) Deficiency in Corn. Photo is provided courtesy of the International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI) and its IPNI Crop Nutrient Deficiency Image Collection, M, K. Sharma and P. Kumar
Figure 8. Zinc (Zn) Deficiency in Corn. Photo is provided courtesy of the International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI) and its IPNI Crop Nutrient Deficiency Image Collection, Dr. Gurupada Balol.
Figure 9. Manganese (Mn) Deficiency in Corn. Photo is provided courtesy of the International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI) and its IPNI Crop Nutrient Deficiency Image Collection, M, K. Sharma and P. Kumar
Figure 10. Boron (B) Deficiency in Corn. Photo is provided courtesy of the International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI) and its IPNI Crop Nutrient Deficiency Image Collection, J.E. Espinoza
Figure 11. Copper (Cu) Deficiency in Corn. Photo is provided courtesy of the International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI) and its IPNI Crop Nutrient Deficiency Image Collection, T. Yamada
Figure 12. Sulfur (S) deficiency in Corn. Photo is provided courtesy of the International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI) and its IPNI Crop Nutrient Deficiency Image Collection, Jashandeep Kaur
Developing Fertilizer Recommendations, understanding Nutrient Uptake and Partitioning
Biotechnology, breeding, and agronomic advancements have increased corn yields to new highs. Current fertilization practices developed decades ago, may not match the requirements of newer hybrids which are now grown at population densities higher than ever before. A re-evaluation of nutrient uptake and partitioning can provide the foundation for fine-tuning our practices as we strive to achieve corn's maximum yield potential.
When developing fertilizer recommendations, two major aspects of plant nutrition are important to understand and manage high yield corn production:
Total Nutrient Uptake: The amount of a given mineral nutrient acquired during the growing season.
Partitioning: The amount of that nutrient contained in the grain or removed withthegrain.
Further improving fertility practices require matching in-season nutrient uptake with the availability of nutrients. For some nutrients (e.g., N, P, K, Mg, Mn, and Fe), as much as two-thirds of total uptake occurs during vegetative growth. Of critical importance is supplying N to meet corn's peak needs of 7.8 lb N/day from V10-V14. Uptake of N does not cease at VT/R1 since as much of 50 lb N/acre is accumulated and petitioned directly into the developing seeds during grain fill.
Contrary to nutrients like N and K, nutrient accumulation of P, S, Zn, and Cu is equally distributed between vegetative growth and during reproductive growth (ear development and grain-fill). Season-long supply of P, S, Zn, and Cu is imperative to maximize corn yields. Relative to total uptake, P is removed to a greater extent than any other nutrient. Agronomic practices which do not adequately replace removed P may eventually lead to a depletion in soil fertility levels.
Even though nutrient management is a complex process, improving understanding of uptake timing and rates, partitioning, and remobilization of nutrient by corn provides opportunities to optimize fertilizer rates and application timing.
Corn Nutrient Removal - Grain Only (lb)
Corn Nutrient Removal - Stover Only (lb)
Tables 4 and 5: N, P, K, and S numbers courtesy of the International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI). These numbers are estimations. Actual nutrient removal may vary based on many factors.
Fertilization of Macro Nutrients in Corn Production:
Nitrogen (N) is the fertilizer element required in the largest amounts and the greatest cost. Each bushel of grain harvested will contain almost a pound of N. For silage nitrogen use is over 10 pounds for every 1,000 pounds of dry matter. Nitrogen must be provided by the soil or by fertilizer N since only one-third to two -thirds of the N added is recovered in the harvested corn. Most of the unrecovered N is irreversibly lost from the soil (leaching).
Nitrogen recovery is not only variable but also unpredictable. The unpredictability is primarily due to the effect of weather on the release of soil N on the fate of fertilizer N. This makes it impossible to predict precisely the quantity of N required for maximum yield and maximum economic return. It also makes it impossible to perform a meaningful soil test for N. Biological and chemical reactions are continuously changing soil N from one form to another, and each form behaves very differently.
Organic soil N is mostly insoluble and not directly available to plants. Virtually all soils contain a large quantity of organic N. A soil that has 3 percent organic matter contains over 3000 pounds of organic nitrogen per acre. However, only a small part of this, 1 to 5 percent each growing season, is broken down to in inorganic N forms and available to plants.
Inorganic ammonium (NH4+) is either released by organic matter decomposition or added as fertilizer N. Ammonium is a relatively immobile ion that behaves much like K+. Under some conditions, it can be lost from the soil as ammonia (NH3) gas but is not susceptible to leaching or denitrification as is nitrate (NO3-). Corn takes up NH4+ less readily than NO3-. In most soils that are suitable for corn production, NH4 is rapidly converted to NO3- in a process called 'nitrification'. This reaction is completed within a few days to a month after fertilization, depending on soil temperatures.
Nitrate is a highly mobile ion because its solubility in water is essentially unlimited and because it does not interact significantly with the clays or organic matter of most soils. Since NO3 moves with soil water, it is readily available to plants but also is susceptible to leaching below the root zone. Leaching losses of fertilizer N are most significant on well-drained soils during long-lasting or very intense rainfall. Denitrification is a microbiological reaction that can proceed very rapidly when soils become water-saturated. It is important in soils with slow drainage characteristics are prevalent in the rooting zone. Some nitrate is lost almost every year in all soils, but such losses become serious when heavy rains fall within a month after fertilization. Soil drainage is the most reliable predictor of total loss so more N fertilizer is required in poorly drained soils. The tillage system also influences this process. Denitrification, leaching, and immobilization can all be greater in no-till soils, so N rates should general be increased slightly when using no-till.
With few exceptions, plants respond equally to all inorganic forms of N fertilizer. Ammonia forms are generally equivalent to NO3- forms because they are converted to NO3-. Urea (NH2-CO-NH2) can be an important exception. Urea is rapidly converted to NH4+ in the soil which makes the soil near the granule more alkaline. This favors the formation of NH3 gas from NH4. The large fraction of N sometimes can be volatilized as NH3 if urea is broadcast on moist, warm soil. Losses can be minimized by avoiding these conditions or by incorporating the urea into the soil. In some locations, urea is available at a lower price than alternative N forms and so it may be more economical to use, despite the greater risk of loss. Urea should not be considered a slow-release fertilizer.
Organic sources of N should not be ignored when estimating N fertilizer needs. Sods, legumes cover crops and animal manure can replace a large portion or, in some cases almost all the inorganic N application.
Nitrogen applied as a liquid, either solution or suspension, is not necessarily more effective than solid N. The choice between liquids and solids should be the case on cost, handling, and convenience.
Nitrogen application timing and effective method of increasing N recovery by corn are to delay or split the N application. This practice works because young corn plants (up to 4 to 6 weeks) require very little N and most can be supplied by the soil. Soil are the wettest and so most prone to N loses early in the season. Delayed applications are most beneficial where denitrification and leaching losses are greatest, particularly on poorly or moderately well-drained soils. A general guideline for these types of soils, if two-thirds or more of the N is applied 4 to 6 weeks after planting, the total N application can be reduced by 25 to 50 pounds per acre. Fall application of N in most corn production areas is generally not recommended. In those areas where fall anhydrous ammonia is applied, attention to soil temperature that needs to be below 50°F.
Nitrogen placement has no consistent, significant effect on the efficiency of N fertilizers containing NH4 and NO3- salts. Researchers have sometimes observed benefits of banding or sub-surface application under certain conditions, but the evidence is not yet complete enough to justify the machinery alterations and extra time which will usually be required. Incorporating area immediately after application will reduce the risk of volatilization.
Nitrogen inhibitors are chemicals that act specifically to inhibit the conversion NH4 to NO3- and indirectly reduce the change of early-season leaching and denitrification. These chemicals are beneficial only when such losses are potentially significant. In many areas where corn is produced, plants have responded consistently to inhibitors on less than well-drained no-till soils.
Phosphorous (P) and Potassium (K):
Both phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) are required in large quantities for good corn growth and yields. A good corn crop will take up 30 to 40 pounds of phosphate (P2O5) and 100 to 150 pounds of potash (K2O) per acre. About three-fourth of the phosphate and about a third of the potash is in the grain, the remainder is being utilized in the leaves, stalk, roots, husks, and cob. In grain production systems where all crop residues are left on the field, 20 to 30 pounds of P2O5 and 35 to 40 pounds of K2O are removed from the soils in the grain. In silage production, all P2O5 and K2O taken up by the plant, except that in the roots and stubble, is removed from the soil.
It is important that adequate P2O5 and K2O be available for plant uptake during the first half of the growing season. By the time kernels start filling rapidly (70 to 75 days after seedling emergence and 10 to 15 days after silking) the plant will have taken up about 70 percent of its P2O5 requirement and nearly 90 percent of it K2O requirement.
Both P and K are considered immobile elements since they react with the soil in many ways that minimize their movement with soil water. This is particularly true of P since it forms compounds with soil calcium, iron, aluminum, manganese and zinc which are less soluble than the P compounds in fertilizer. If soil pH is in the range of 6.0 to 6.5, much of the fertilizer P will react to form monocalcium or dicalcium phosphates which are more soluble than the iron, aluminum and manganese phosphate that form at lower pH levels. Therefore, increased P availability is one benefit of good liming practices. Potassium, like NH4, is retained on clays and organic matter by cation exchange (CEC). Except on low cation exchange capacity soil such as very sandy soils, the soil cation exchange capacity is great enough to hold an adequate reservoir of readily available K+. Leaching of P and K is generally limited to these low CEC soils. Loss of P and K by the erosion of topsoil is a great concern in many areas of the corn belt.
P and K requirement for good corn growth are directly related to the amount of plant-available P and K already in the soil. Using a reliable soil testing lab which employs field-tested procedures is the best way to determine soil content of plant-available P and K. Recommendations made by university soil labs and many of the independent labs, based on the Mehelich III extraction (see example Table 6). The annual amount of P and K taken up by the plant form fertilizer is not likely to exceed 15 to 20 percent of P or 25 to 40 percent of K applied. Check with your local extension service or fertilizer dealer for a specific recommendation for your area.
Recommended Rates of Phosphate and Potash Application (in lb/A) for Corn, as Related to Soil Test Value.
1 Where soil test values indicate extremely low levels of P in the soil (less than 5) and where fertilizer P must be broadcast and disked into the soil, up to 200 lb/acre may be beneficial. Developed as an example from University of Kentucky AGR-15 Fertilization and Liming for Corn.
Commercial fertilizers are the most widely used source of P and K for corn production. Sources of P most commonly used are triple superphosphate (0-46-0), diammonium phosphate (18-46-0), monoammonium phosphate (11-48-0), and a wide array of other ammoniated phosphates, both liquid and dry. The most commonly used sources of fertilizer P are considered equally effective for agronomic purposes when used at recommended rates and properly applied. Solid and fluid forms of P are also considered equally effective.
Almost all K fertilizer used for corn is murate of potash (0-0-60). Other sources are sulfate of potash (0-0-50) and sulfate of potash magnesia (0-0-18, 11S, 18Mg). All are considered equally effective.
Organic sources of P and K, such as animal manures and sewage sludge, may also be used for supplying P and K. The nutrient content of manures and sewage sludge varies, so a nutrient analysis of the manure is necessary to determine how valuable it will be as a soil amendment. Also, it is important to know the content of heavy metals (nickel, cadmium, and chromium) to prevent toxic build-up in the soil.
Placement of P and K by broadcast is the most convenient method of application, although large amounts are required at very low soil test levels. Banded applications (2 inches to the side and 2 inches below the seed) can increase agronomic efficiency of P and K, making it possible to decrease the usual rate by 1/3 to 1/2. A "starter" effect, or improved initial growth, is likely to result from a banded placement. This may appear very significant during the early growing season, but rarely does it increase yields, provided that the P and K is used at recommended rates.
Overview of soil fertility, plant nutrition, and nutrient management. Agustin Pagani, John E. Sawyer, Antonio P. Mallarino/Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University. Developed in cooperation with Lara Moody, TFI; John David, NRCS; and Steve Phillips, IPNI.
http://www.agronext.iastate.edu/soilfertility/4r/ppt/Chapter-1%20Overview_Ver4.pdf
AGR-105 Fertilization and Liming for Corn, University of Kentucky, www2.ca.uky.edu/agcomm/pubs/agr/agr105/agr105.htm
Tri-State Fertilizer Recommendations for Corn, Soybeans, Wheat, and Alfalfa, Extension Bulletin E-2567
Sources Verified 9/14/2019
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Amir Ben-Efraim is co-founder and CEO of Menlo Security. Previously, Amir was VP of cloud security at Juniper Networks where he helped define the company's strategy to secure the virtualized data center, public and private clouds. He joined Juniper via its acquisition of Altor Networks, which he led as founder and CEO. Prior to Altor, Amir was an executive at Check Point Software, a pioneer in Internet security. He holds an MBA from UCLA, an MSEE from Stanford University and a BSEE from UC Berkeley.
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So Sad, but So True! Wild Wing Plantation in Myrtle Beach, SC which is the home of 4 golf courses: Avocet, Falcon, Woodstork and Hummingbird, is under new ownership and some drastic changes are coming on 6/5/06. The Hummingbird will close for good and the Woodstork and Falcon will have 9 holes open for each course and will be combined under the new name: Wild Wing Couse #2. Fortunately the Avocet will remain open - all 18 holes for play.
With so much supply and not as much demand, alot of golf courses have succumb to closure - being replaced by single family homes, condos and shopping malls. It is a sad day when they close a beautiful golf facility to put up a Walmart!!!


Since 2013 SXSW is in the books, and I've sorted my notes on many sessions, let me start with advice for the next newbie class of interactive attendees in 2014.
Lesson #1. No one in Austin calls it South by Southwest. It's South by. That's it.
Lesson #3. Electricity is your second new best friend. Your iPhone will drain, and the nearest electrical outlet in the conference center will become gold real estate. Prime real-estate is an outlet by a table. Good luck.
Lesson #4. iPhone and iPads everywhere. Everywhere. Not an exaggeration. Get a portable battery charger like Mophie and avoid lesson #3.
Lesson #5. The Austin Convention Center is not to be confused with the AT&T Conference Center. Twelve blocks apart. Don't make that mistake.
Lesson #6. 6th street. Don't forget. Call a cab to get home or take a bus.
Lesson #7. Get the SXSW app. What's next? The app has it all, and you'll walk around looking down at your phone like the other 95% of attendees.
Lesson #8. Book your hotel asap, preferably one right in the middle of the conference. The meetings extend easily over 20 blocks. So your options are lots of walking, the conference center bus or the rickshaw–bike–cab guy. If you drive, you'll park once for the day and be done.
Lesson #10. You can't see it all, do it all and watch it all. Take your best shot then read a press release about something that happened and realize you were in a different session altogether.


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There Will Be No Intermission Tour
Amanda Palmer has announced a UK tour in celebration of her forthcoming solo album, There Will Be No Intermission, out Friday 8 March.
Palmer's third solo LP, There Will Be No Intermission is the multi-faceted artist's most powerful and personal collection to date, with songs that tackle the big questions: life, death, grief and how we make sense with it all.
While the themes may be dark, the album's overall sonic and lyrical mood is one of triumph in the face of life's most ineffably shi**y circumstances. An album comprised of a staggering 20 tracks, 10 of these are original songs complemented by 10 instrumental vignettes.
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The show will be over at 10:30pm - there is no support act.
Boston raised but New York City dwelling International performing artist Amanda Palmer is, in her own words, a "confused musician, best-selling writer, piano-slayer, ukulele-wielder, love-lover, ruler-hater". Originally beginning her musical career with the cult punk-cabaret duo Dresden Dolls, as a solo artist Palmer reached notoriety in 2012 by raising over a million dollars with her Kickstarter campaign to fund her album. In more recent times she has performed shows with her father Jack Palmer and formed a new collaboration with Edward Ka-Spel, frontman of the Legendary Pink Dots.
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Study: SLC 2nd in the nation for "porch pirates"
Nov 26, 2018, 8:29 AM | Updated: 8:59 am
Source: SafeWise
BY NICK WYATT
SALT LAKE CITY — A new study shows the Salt Lake City metropolitan area is the second most likely in the country for residents to have a package stolen by so-called "porch pirates" over the holidays.
Between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday, 164 million Americans are expected to shop, and the National Retail Federation estimates nearly half of those purchases now happen online. And while shopping in your PJs is efficient and convenient, it's also more convenient for thieves.
The study from SafeWise found Salt Lake City trails only Austin, Texas in likelihood for holiday package theft, as porch pirates look for easy targets among the packages delivered to your front door. The study also found:
–Half of the top package theft metros also land in the top 10 for larceny-theft overall—Salt Lake City (1), Seattle-Tacoma (3), Miami-Fort Lauderdale (4), Raleigh-Durham (6), and Atlanta (7).
–Texas has the most incidence of high holiday package theft, with three metro areas making our list: Austin, Houston, and Dallas-Fort Worth.
–Half the metros on our list are from Texas and Florida—Texas has three and Florida has two.
-Only three of the top 10 metro areas that are most likely to have stolen packages also make the top 10 for porch theft during the rest of the year—Austin, Salt Lake City, and Seattle-Tacoma.
-Miami-Fort Lauderdale scores zero for stolen package searches year-round, but jumps to 31 (out of 100) during the holidays, making it the third most likely place to get your holiday packages pilfered!
-Surprisingly, New York City is the least likely place to have a package swiped during the holidays.
-The national metro theft rate is almost 17 incidents per 1,000 people, and three of our most risky metros stayed under that—Dallas-Fort Worth, Tampa-St. Petersburg, and Boston.*
Experts recommend shipping orders to your place of work instead of your home, using new pickup locations offered by many online retailers, or even installing a surveillance system to deter thieves.
The least likely places to have a package swiped were Portland (Oregon, not Maine), St. Louis and New York City.
*Source: https://www.safewise.com/blog/metro-areas-porch-theft/
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Most economists think the economy will slow further in the current quarter and slide into at least a mild recession by midyear.
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US Transportation Dept. investigating Southwest holiday travel meltdown
The US Transportation Department said it is in the early stages of an investigation into the Southwest Airlines holiday travel meltdown in December.
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More layoffs are on the way, survey of business economists finds
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We measured the three-dimensional (3D) propagation dynamics of the Airy-Bessel wave packet, including its intensity and phase evolution. Its non-diffraction and non-dispersive feature were verified. Meanwhile, we built a spatial-light-modulator (SLM) based wave packet shaping system to generate other types of wave packets such as Airy-Airy-Airy and dual-Airy-Airy-rings. These wave packets were also measured in 3D. The abrupt 3D autofocusing effect was observed on dual-Airy-Airy-rings.
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Huawei to be launched a smart screen for cars running Hongxing OS soon
Paulami Das
Monday, 12 October 2020, 10:40 am EDT
Huawei is launching a smart screen for cars mechanized with Honmeng (Harmony) Operating System. Blogger Changan Digital King posted the news. The blogger believes the launch of car smart screens could take the world of digital products by storm. However, Huawei has not declared to launch the Honmeng Operating System in smartphones in the near future. The release date of smart screens has not been announced.
When did Huawei disclose the launch of the Hongxing Operating System?
Huawei unveiled the Hongxing Operating System for four scenarios, namely, home, office, car, and sports at the Huawei Developer Conference on 20th May 2019. On 10th September 2020, at the Huawei Developer Conference 2020, Huawei declared that the operating system will be launched with new networking powers of software bus, data management, and security. The operating system will also have a dynamic user experience system to let the operating system designers connect thousands of equipment all at the same time. The Hanging operating system will slowly be one of Huawei's ecosystems and many other devices will be added to the team in the near future.
A quick glance at the Hongmeng Operating System
Hongxing Operating system is an advanced network operating system set up on microkernel. The main aim of designing the operating system is to provide the latest developed user experience to all gadgets in all scenarios.
According to Huawei, Honmeng Operating System is totally different from the Android and iPhone Operating systems. The microkernel-based networking operating system provides a tight framework to connect different gadgets. Once an application is designed in the system the app can be shared and accessed across all gadgets connected in the system.
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Features of Hongxing Operating System
Seamless Experience – The networking framework and the virtual bus technology of the Hongxing Operating System provides the designers with a system to design applications and update them to the connected devices without creating any other technology to disperse. Moreover, the applications structured in the ecosystem can be used seamlessly by any gadgets of any scenario.
Smooth Performance – The Deterministic Latency Engine and high-performance Inter-Process Communication (IPC) will find out the underperformance issues of any gadgets of any scenario instantly. The Deterministic Latency Engine will set the timetable for correcting the faults or underperformance. The timetable will be set according to the depth of the defects. The deeper the flaw, the quicker it will be solved. This will lower the response latency of apps by 25.7%.
More Secure – The microkernel used in Honmeng Operating System increases the security of the gadgets structured on it. The main aim of building the microkernel was to clarify kernel performance, use more system services in user modules outside the kernel, and add common security. The operating system uses formal verification procedures in a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE). Trusted Execution Environment is a more productive process to verify all software running paths.
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I guess its lucky they didn't send the SWAT team in for her, as she might be dead now:
[Victoria] Aguayo has filed a lawsuit in Maricopa County Superior Court, after she was arrested, indicted, and nearly prosecuted for her "role" in the infamous "Desert Divas" prostitution ring.
One problem: Aguayo was not a "desert diva" and the evidence suggesting she was is laughable at best.
On one of the "Desert Divas'" many Web sites, the agency advertised an "escort" named "Tia." "Tia" is described on the site as being "thin, white, and blonde" and has a tattoo on her stomach that is clearly visible in the topless photo of the "diva" Aguayo's lawyer was kind enough to send New Times.
Phoenix Police Detective Christie Hein identified Aguayo as "Tia" based on the photo on the Web site when she arrested her on August 28, 2008, the lawsuit claims.
We've seen pictures of both "Tia" and Aguayo and we gotta say if Aguayo can be identified as "thin, white, and blonde," so can Aretha Franklin.
Aguayo is -- to put it politely -- more of a "plus-sized" woman, she's black, and is missing the tattoo that is so clearly visible in the photo of "Tia" on the "Desert Diva" Web site.
Simple, um, mistake, right?
After being arrested, Aguayo spent nearly two months in jail before she was granted a supervised release pending an upcoming trial.
While she was in the clink, Aguayo lost custody of her daughter, Jasmine, and has since been unable to get her back.
Tags: 2008, Aretha Franklin, Desert Divas, lawsuit, New Times, photo, pictures, Superior Court, SWAT, Victoria Aguayo
Category: Police and Prosecutorial Abuse
Dr. T:
It looks like someone in Maricopa County had a grudge and set-up this false arrest to destroy Ms. Aguayo's life.
NormD:
Never attribute to maliciousness that which can be explained by simple incompetence.
Ian Random:
I think it's great that they listed the detective, but I'd like it if they mentioned the prosecutor's name. I wish law stuff wasn't so gated, so it could be cross referenced easily. That way you could track a prosecutor's career and see if they are incompetent. I love the one where the prosecutor went forward with a rape case and the accused kept saying he was sterile. A few years later they eventually tested and released him, but it'd be great to track lawyers like that.
Bob Smith:
I guess its lucky they didn't send the SWAT team in for her, as she might be dead now
If not her, her dog(s) certainly would be.
When the witness says "white" and the defendant is black, why wasn't this sham of a trial shot down in the grand jury?
O Bloody Hell:
> Never attribute to maliciousness that which can be explained by simple incompetence.
I think this one qualifies as flat-out unmitigated stupidity. "Incompetence" is far too benign a term when it gets this far out of hand. I hope she gets a really, really good attorney.
Breaking down the woman's door, taking a look at the supposed picture, and saying "we got the wrong person" is "simple incompetence". For this sort of thing to go this far takes reams of colossal stupidity from multiple sources all around.
> I love the one where the prosecutor went forward with a rape case and the accused kept saying he was sterile.
Sometimes it's just a prick state attorney wanting to keep his stinking win-loss record up.
There was a local case around here where a comic-shop owner's employee sold a comic-book that was nominally "R-rated" as a part of a cheap $5 pack of old stock to a woman who it turned out was buying it for her 16yo son. She didn't just complain to the owner (who would have pulled all the packs to check for that thing, he was certainly conscientious), she complained to the state attorney instead, who sent in a 17yo to buy one. The owner got wind of it, and called to ask if there was a problem, and got the response that there was no problem -- and a day or so later the cops show up and haul him off in handcuffs.
Now, the owner's attorneys knew the DA didn't have standing to do what they did (if you think otherwise from this description, it's because I don't have all the facts, not because it wasn't so) -- the first sale was to an adult, so the cops had no reason to send in someone for the second, and, frankly, a 17yo can see more at an "R" movie -- and, as I say, this would have been resolved quickly, easily and at no expense to the taxpayer had the attorney's office just notified the owner that he was in error (and it WAS nominally "R" at worst -- there was less nudity in it than some PG films that have been released in the past, and little else which was objectionable). The DA refused to drop the case, and the owner was determined to stand for his rights. The DA kept trying to get him to plead out, but he refused, and it finally went to court. The judge took one look at the case, and openly admonished the DA in court for bringing such a worthless case all the way to trial. Didn't help the owner much, he was out about 35k in legal fees (this was about 20 years ago, mind you). But the dickhead DA kept his "W-L" record and got to claim it was the "liberal judge" who threw out the case instead of it being a blatantly bad decision on his part.
There are some people who really, really deserve to get shot by a pissed-off victim, and that PoS DA was one of them.
The notion of malicious prosecution/action by a government official should be a civilly actionable offense, and it should come out of the pocket of the official before it does from the State. If it is already, it's not easy enough to apply it.
One thing that prosecutors hate to do is admit they were wrong. Regardless of circumstances.
On the other hand, it is my understanding that sometimes providers of these services are not the people pictured in the ad, they count on the customer deciding to go ahead anyhow.
Plungerman:
The comic store owner should have prosecuted the woman for <> Providing R rated material to underage mouth breathers is against the law round these parts.
Isn't this the same county of Sheriff Joe? Well, obviously this beaurocratic nightmare is not limited to the infamous Sheriff and his thugs. I still can't believe that so many of the residents actually support such racist and unjustified bull-sh*t. But then it is news like this that let's me be thankful I don't live there.


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2018 Mexico ePrix preview
Renault e.dams is getting ready to race in the fifth round of the 2017-2018 FIA Formula E Championship at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico.
The Mexican capital will host the third staging of this ePrix on Saturday 3rd March, a month after the last race in the streets of Santiago in Chile, in which Renault e.dams scored its second podium finish on the bounce thanks to Sébastien Buemi, while Nicolas Prost saw the flag in 10th place. What distinguishes the Mexican circuit from the others on the calendar is that it is a permanent track and part of the layout is used for the Formula 1 Grand Prix. Its other particularity is that it is more than 2500m above sea level making it the highest circuit in the world, which poses new challenges for the team. The two drivers are champing at the bit to mix it in this race and are hoping to fight at the front!
This year the income from the sale of tickets will be paid into a reconstruction programme for the town after the earthquake in September 2017.
The Renault Group has been present in Mexico for 17 years; it has 64 dealerships and last year it sold 30 2000 cars. 2017 was a historic year for the Group as its sales progressed by 14.7% throughout the world. This was also the case for Renault Mexico, which saw a sharp increase in the sales of the SUV range (+70%). The electric market is more subdued with the Twizy on sale since 2014 and the projected launch of the Zoe and the Kango Z.E. in 2018.
Sébastien Buémi
"I'm delighted to be back in Mexico after my performances in the last two races and I hope that we'll keep up the momentum. We've always been quick in free practice in Mexico, but it's not been the same story in qualifying. We're determined to put on a good show this year. The track's pretty atypical as the circuit is well above sea level; the cars behave differently because the air is thinner so it's a big challenge for the team. We're going to throw all our forces into the battle to be on the pace by taking advantage of the experience acquired in previous years."
Nicolas Prost
"The early part of the season hasn't lived up to my expectations. The car was quick in the last race in Santiago so I'm confident I'll be back fighting at the front. We're highly motivated, but there's absolutely nothing in it in the battle between the teams this year."
2,092 km: length of the circuit
47: number of laps, two more than in 2017
17: number of corners
44: number of points scored by Renault e.dams in the teams' championship.
What happened in 2017:
5: Nicolas Prost finished fifth
13: Sébastien Buemi finished 13th
1m 02.164sec: Fastest lap in the race set by Sébastien Buemi
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