A few weeks ago I shared my Pink dishes that I display in our kitchen hutch. At that time I was getting ready to take down the pink and put up the blue. Ya'll said you wanted to see it, so here it is.
I love changing the china for the different seasons.
Fall will be next :-) Do you display china through the year?? What season is your favorite?
We have seen this cookbook in many different places. Some are in very good condition, others are falling apart. We've also seen a vast array of pricing, but my daughter found this one for $1.50. I don't know if many of you have used this grand old BH & G red and white cookbook, but when I got married I lived in this cookbook. I didn't know how to make cream sauce, or cole slaw dressing, or even how long to cook a roast. This cookbook was my bible in the kitchen.
I do enjoy making my own Greek Salad, so I thought I would share this recipe with you.
My original thought was to find some pretty white wicker furniture. But when I found this set recently at Home Depot, I knew it would be perfect for our little nook.
Thanks so much for stopping by. You can find me out here with my book and cup of green tea.
I've had this sweet statue for 20 years. My dear Aunt gave it to me when we had our last child. It was so appropriate as it depicted my family perfectly. When Marty announced her cloche party, I wondered how this pretty little piece would look under glass.
The Mama and three children sit on my dresser in our bedroom.
Along with our family pictures, both old and new.
Thanks Marty for hosting your very inspiring Cloche Party.
This teacup was gift from my daughter one year for Isn't it beautiful? I love the dainty blue picture. And what really sends me is the words surrounding the saucer.
The cup and saucer are Kensington Blue.
My daughter knows how much I really like blue and white china. So she also gave me the teapot to go along with it.
And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray.
I also found these blogs where vintage sheets reign.
So take a look. You may fall in love. As for me, I found these two pillowcases over the weekend.
Vintage sheets are getting harder and harder to find in our area. Maybe everyone else is falling in love with these soft lovely oldies.
For years I have seen and heard about these tea trays.
Whenever I find them at Antique shops, they are very pricey. Like $35 and up!!
So imagine my surprise and delight when I came across this tray at the Goodwill last week!!!
I don't know if you can see the price, but I paid $2.06 for it. It is not pristine, as it has some scratches and some worn areas. But hey, it works for a great decoration.
And the price was definitely right!
Beautiful bouquet from my sweet husband of 39 years.
So I probably will be on a "not" planned cyber vacation.
Take care. I hope to be back soon.


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Final Rating: 4.93. Finished 35 out of 138 entries.
pretty good acting. I love the stretch of the face at f100. Really emphasizes what he is about to say.
too many closed mouth states too many poses on the mouth poses, we don't talk like that in real life it looks too much like a robot, go to YouTube and search for , Animating a Dialogue Scene in Maya. there is a lecture who uses this character and he shows a complete guide from start to end.
I like the crisp feeling of your animation. You could improve the lipsync though, it seems to be out of sync sometimes (if it's not the player) or the mouth shape doesn't really match the sound he is making.


DungeonMorph Dice consist of 5 dice with six different designs per die. The "Adventurer" set contains the Barracks, Dining, Halls, Worship, and Unusual Designs dice. The designs are engraved into these nearly 1" cubes. Grab some dice to roll a dungeon-on-the-fly. Or use them as inspiration when designing a dungeon.


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Eupithecia venosata, the netted pug, is a moth of the family Geometridae. It was first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1787. It is found across the Palearctic realm from Portugal and Morocco in the west to the Lake Baikal in Siberia and Afghanistan and Pakistan in the east.

Description
The length of the forewings is 10–14 mm. The ground colour of the forewings and hindwings is brown to creamy white The forewings are large and round. Several light, black-edged, lines and the partly black coloured veins form a characteristic lattice. The hindwings have a similar, but greatly weakened pattern. Very strongly resembles Eupithecia schiefereri and is distinguishable from this clearly only by means of a genital examination.

Forma
fumosae Gregson (= nubilata Bohatsch, grisea Dietze) is a dark smoke-coloured race from the Shetland Islands. — In ab. bandanae  Gregson the white bands remain conspicuous on the smoky ground. Among fumosae. — ochracae Gregson (= orcadensis Prout) also has the ground-colour darkened, but ochreous or clay-yellowish, not smoky; markings normal or sometimes weakened as in fumosae  Orkney Islands..
See subspecies.
The larva is pale pinkish grey, darker on the back, with scattered, upstanding brushes. The pupa is shiny brown-yellow with a dark brown cremaster, which has at the base five beaded elevations and a stretched tip with several bristles.

Biology
The moth flies from April to June depending on the location.

The larvae feed spun up on Silene species, preferably Silene vulgaris, Silene dioica and Silene maritima.The pupa hibernates sometimes for two winters

Subspecies
 Eupithecia venosata venosata
 Eupithecia venosata fumosae Gregson, 1887
 Eupithecia venosata hebridensis Curtis, 1944
 Eupithecia venosata ochracae Gregson, 1886
 Eupithecia venosata plumbea Huggins, 1962

References

External links

 Netted Pug on UKMoths
 Lepiforum e.V.
 De Vlinderstichting

venosata
Moths described in 1787
Moths of Africa
Moths of Asia
Moths of Europe
Taxa named by Johan Christian Fabricius

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The grid display of 'Sequence in Parallel shows one complete film at a time, split into twenty, consecutive, equal-length segments. The segments loop simultaneously across the screens, allowing viewers to glimpse the entire film object as a whole.
Zigelbaum presented works reconsidering the false dichotomy of the natural and the digital in his exhibition 'No There There' at TRANSFER.
'Doorway to the Soul' is a digital sculpture that displays the faces of mechanical turk workers as they are recorded. These workers are paid $0.25 to stare into their webcam for one minute. The videos are scaled to life-size and played directly on a display mounted at average human height.
Debuting for the first time in Switzerland as Design Miami/ Basel's 2014 commission, the large, tetrahedral forms of 'Triangular Series' respond with a unique sensitivity to the people sharing their space, creating an immersive environment as visitors arrive and depart the installation. The result is an emergent, undesigned dance of light from the ceiling swarm and triangular projections below. Walk beneath them and you become part of a new, syncopated dialog – an autonomic communication with the other.
Jamie Zigelbaum employs light, computation, and industrial design to create sensate, interactive sculptures in order to understand the relationship between information structures and the human organism. Informed by current work in physics, media theory, computer science, and philosophy, his digitally-imbued, physical objects explore how the contemporary experience of communication refigures the body and repositions the boundaries of identity.
In 2013, Andrew Blum wrote in the New York Times Magazine that Jamie is part of "A new generation of visionaries [who] are using next-level technologies to create products, projects and experiences that test the limits of design—and our imaginations." Later that year, his work Pixel debuted and sold at Paddles ON!, the first digital art auction at Phillips, curated by Lindsay Howard. Additional exhibitions include Riflemaker Gallery, Design Miami/, The Corcoran Gallery, Johnson Trading Gallery, Ars Electronica, Saint-Etienne International Design Biennial, and The Creators Project. His work can be found in private collections, including the Frankel Foundation for Art, the Rothschild Collection, the MIT Media Lab, The Tech Museum of Innovation, and at Tumblr.
Jamie Zigelbaum was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1978. He received a BS in Human-Computer Interaction from Tufts University in 2006, a Masters in Media Arts and Sciences from the Tangible Media Group at the MIT Media Lab in 2008, and was the recipient of the 2010 Designer of the Future Award from Design Miami/. Jamie lives and works in New York.


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Home Latest News/What's New Ducati to Auction 'CHIPS' Bike for Charity
Ducati to Auction 'CHIPS' Bike for Charity
Rider Magazine Staff
A Ducati Hypermotard used in the filming of CHIPS will be auctioned off for charity.
Ducati North America is offering film fans and motorcycle enthusiasts the opportunity to own a piece of the upcoming movie "CHIPS." The Hypermotard motorcycle, ridden in the film by Dax Shepard–who not only stars in but also wrote and directed the film–and co-star Michael Peña, will be up for auction on eBay For Charity.
Bidding for the Ducati Hypermotard will begin on March 16 at 12 p.m. PDT through March 26 at 12 p.m. PDT. Starting bids begin at $5,000. All proceeds from the auction will go to PATH, to support their mission to end homelessness for individuals, families, and communities. According to Joel John Roberts, CEO of PATH, "PATH is committed to ending homelessness, and with more than 118,000 people homeless in California, we depend on the support of dedicated community members to help us achieve our mission."
The motorcycle has been autographed by Shepard and Peña, and is one of only two Hypermotards remaining from production that were used in the film. The auction is open to residents of the United States, Canada and Mexico over the age of 18, and delivery must be taken through a Ducati North America authorized dealer. For more information and to bid visit http://www.ebay.com/chipsthemovie.
Rider Magazine Staff - January 23, 2023

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These webinars are also helpful for families and parents with students who have different kinds of disabilities.


Goals from Jason Puncheon, Steve Davis and a Gareth Barry own goal sealed City's fate, leaving them nine points behind leaders Manchester United with 12 games remaining.
Manchester City's hopes of retaining their Premier League title received a potentially fatal blow after they were beaten 3-1 at Southampton Saturday.
Manchester United can increase their lead over City at the top to 12 points with 12 games left if they win at home to Everton today.
Southampton were 2-0 up within 22 minutes through Puncheon and Davis and though Edin Dezko pulled one back, an own goal from Barry just after half-time finished off City's hopes.
Queens Park Rangers' hopes of survival suffered another blow as they were beaten 4-1 at Swansea City.
Two goals from Michu and one each from Angel Rangel and Pablo Hernandez gave Swansea victory, moving them to seventh and leaving QPR bottom and six points away from safety with 12 games to go.
Chelsea stayed ahead of Tottenham and Arsenal in the race for third place as they beat Wigan 4-1 through goals by Ramires, Eden Hazard, Frank Lampard and Marko Marin.
"We deserved to win," manager Rafeal Benitez said. "To win is something you have to do. Top sides, if you want to win something, you have to be consistent winning. It's normal.
"But it's not the end of the world if you draw a game you deserve to win. The problem for me would be if we don't create chances; we create chances every game.
Gareth Bale scored both goals as Tottenham stayed one point behind Chelsea in fourth thanks to a 2-1 win over Newcastle.
The Wales midfielder put Spurs in front with a brilliant free kick after just five minutes but Newcastle equalized 20 minutes later through Yoan Gouffran.


In the first decade of the 21st century, as the newest wave of prog was slowly but surely gathering momentum, one album appeared from the most unlikely of sources, capable of carrying the moniker, 'Game Changer'.
Coming from a creative genius (and that feels like the correct use of the word) and former pop hits writer, Jem Godfrey, Milliontown was the outstanding debut from Frost*, Godfrey's progressive creative outlet. Aggressive and intense, this is one of the most exciting progressive albums of modern times and one that has not yet been matched in its brilliance by its creator.
At the centre of this vibrant work is the epic, 25-minute title track, the peak of which is the jaw dropping last eight minutes, which assaults the senses like a steroid-pumped version of Dukes Travels from Genesis's Duke. Revisiting this album is something of a common experience, and in almost ten years, it sounds as fresh as the day it was released.
From the 2006 archives, read Mark Hughes' original review of Milliontown.
Listen to the title track in its full glory.
Watch the band perform the second part of the title track at the Manchester Academy in 2019.


Dhaka, Jan 13 (UNB) – With the last day of Bangla month Poush being over officially on Sunday, the residents of Old Dhaka are all set to engage in flying kites and lanterns, and firework display to celebrate Poush Shankranti, also known as Shakrain, on Monday.
Poush Shankranti which marks the end of Bengali month Poush is celebrated through the Shakrain festival. Dates of the event vary according to different localities. This year, the occasion will be celebrated in Dhaka on January 14 and 15.
The much anticipated kite-flying competition is scheduled to take place on Monday afternoon as the congested rooftops of Old Dhaka will be decorated tastefully.
Apart from the kites, the residents will fly lanterns after sunset while some even planned to display fireworks.


A small subgroup of stone rows comprising two stones, typically about 2m in height, generally set with their long axes in line. They are considered to have been aligned on various solar and lunar events and date from the Bronze and Iron Ages (c. 2400 BC - AD 500). See also Stone row.


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Did you know that between seventy and eighty percent of the population are estimated to have experienced lower back pain? Chronic back pain afflicts people from all walks of life, many of whom struggle for years to cope with debilitating symptoms. Sitting, standing, laying, walking, lifting – every move we make during the day requires a strong and healthy back.
The revolutionary GYROTONIC® system can actually relieve back pain. Although GYROTONIC® is just catching on, early medical studies and the anecdotal evidence have all indicated that the GYROTONIC® exercises can therapeutically relieve back pain. No other exercise system facilitates spinal motion and strengthens your spinal musculature like GYROTONIC®.
Why do people have chronic back pain?
People have chronic lower back pain for many different reasons. A recent article in the Journal of Physical Therapy Science says that 85% of all cases occur for nonspecific causes. In these cases, the back pain likely resulted from degenerative changes in the lower back structure and surrounding tissues. Unfortunately, people experiencing chronic back pain cope by moving the spine and trunk less, which only makes the problem worse.
Immobility is unhealthy for the back, so the pain itself becomes a pathological mechanism. Lack of movement weakens the muscles surrounding the spine, damages soft tissues in the trunk, lowers muscle endurance, and results in further degenerative changes in the intervertebral disc. This creates spinal instability and more lower back pain.
Physical therapy, rest, and medication can reduce the symptoms of transient back pain. Still, these won't always eradicate chronic pain, which must be treated with therapeutic exercise. Strengthening the supporting spinal and abdominal musculature can actually reverse some of the tissue damage that causes back pain in the first place. It's important to target the spinal musculature in particular, something not every exercise system does well.
Back pain is a tricky thing. Often the pain is localized in one area, but the source of the problem is somewhere else. If your back isn't aligned properly or your muscles are tense it can affect your entire body. Because gyrotonic /">GYROTONIC® exercises encourage a full range of spinal movement you will strengthen and stretch fully, addressing any possible source of back pain. For people who aren't sure why they've struggled so long with back pain, this may be the best and most comprehensive system.
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Back pain keeps us from being able to move freely. The right exercises can gradually help sufferers regain range of motion, and GYROTONIC® is designed specifically to do just that. The pulley tower—the primary piece of equipment used for GYROTONIC® exercises—allows for greater range of motion than Pilates or Yoga, while simultaneously strengthening underused muscles with adjustable weights. As you arch, curl and rotate, your body will flow through the exercise, easing pain and stiffness.
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Chronic back pain makes it physically and psychologically difficult to be active, even if you realize exercise is the best and most permanent solution. Signing up for private instruction in GYROTONIC® is a good first step. Focused attention from an empathetic and expert instructor can help you make real progress towards your goals and to push your body without injuring yourself.
If your doctor has diagnosed you with nonspecific back pain, and you haven't recently had surgery for your pain and are not scheduled for surgery in the future, it should be safe to try GYROTONIC® exercises with a competent practitioner. It is possible to benefit a great deal from GYROTONIC® after multiple surgeries as well, but consult with your physician first.
When you're ready to get started, call us at Chicago Northshore Studio Kinetics. We're proud to be the premier GYROTONIC® studio in our area. Over the years, we've worked with many people with a wide range of physical limitations and have helped them lead their best, most active life. Check out the special pricing on our introductory package for new students and start living pain-free today.


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Logan Hospital Maternity Refurbishment, Access Rd & Life Safety Upgrade
Metro South Health
Hames Sharley
Mott MacDonald
Kane Constructions has been engaged by Metro South Health & Hospital Service to undertake the large-scale refurbishment of the maternity facility within the existing and operational Logan Hospital, on Brisbane's southside.
The works will be completed over 12 individual stages, which incorporate a series of sprints to construct new facilities followed by hospital decant and mobilisation to occupy the newly completed spaces. Clinical interface and ongoing liaison for the project is critical to ensuring the hospital is able to provide continuity of care to patients.
The newly constructed facilities are set to include birthing suites, special care nursery, general wards, a new ambulance entry, reception, outpatients lounge and general office spaces. Adaptions to existing services, including medical gas form part of the works. At all stages of the project, careful planning is called for to ensure continuity and provision of temporary supplies as necessary.
Throughout the contract period, a rolling process of EWIS and fire hydrant replacement works will continue throughout the main hospital. These works will require micromanagement and extreme care owing to the nature of working within a live hospital environment with added pressure from the ever-present COVID-19 pandemic. Temporary pods and zip walls will ensure infection control is well managed throughout the works.
As works are situated within live clinical spaces and directly adjacent to operating theatres, Kane have engaged and are working closely with an acoustician to develop a temporary treatment scheme. Noise attenuation and temporary acoustic curtains are being installed with environmental monitoring stations being placed in key locations to minimise the impact of noise and vibration to clinical services.
The project also entails significant civil works, including the construction of groundwater management and retaining walls to enable widening and construction of a new access road and boundary relocation. Access will be maintained for service vehicles throughout the duration of the project.
All works being undertaken within this project form part of the wider Logan Hospital Expansion Project, and the project requires close collaboration with other contractors' working on the campus and high priority placed on stakeholder management.
Project works are due to be completed in the third-quarter of 2023.
NoosaCare Carramar Cartwright Community Extension & Aged Care Building, Stage 2
Health Heritage/Refurbishment
Redcliffe Hospital Level 3 Maternity, Special Care & Paediatrics Refurbishment


Standing over 3 feet tall and storing over 140 cars, this is the biggest Hot Wheels playset ever! Many different, exciting zones, like the drive-up diner and car wash with the dynamic, moving parts, including a motorized elevator, and a gorilla determined to swipe your cars out of the elevator. Also a massive jet plane with a penthouse landing pad Two cars can even ride inside the jet plane and look over the city. When they get back, they can race down the side by side racetrack all the way to the bottom and see who wins. Includes 4 cars and 1 Jet plane.


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Q: Is it possible compare 'the shape' of audio(voice) signal? Here is an example:

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*Record very low-tone voice guy saying, "Nice to meet you"

*Record very high-tone voice girl saying, "Nice to meet you"
(they are saying almost same speed, it's like the second girl trying to mimic first one's voice)

What I'd like to do is to verify whether they are sounds similar sentences (not using voice recognition)
Is it possible just with FFT?
But man and woman have different tones, where woman usually has high frequency voice, so I think it would be hard just with FFT because FFT is based on frequency domain.
Thanks.

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Thank you for your interest in this research study. Please take your time to read the following information to help you understand why the research is being done and what it will involve. Take your time to decide whether or not you wish to take part.
This study will provide data from Ireland and the UK about the strengths and limitations of physiotherapy services for adults with cerebral palsy. This information may lead to further studies to understand the main issues in more detail, and to investigate key areas of concern. The data will provide an overview of physiotherapy-relevant issues faced by adults with cerebral palsy.
This study is an unfunded collaboration between researchers at Brunel University London (Dr Cherry Kilbride, Dr Jennifer Ryan and Dr Betty Cassidy), the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (Dr Jennifer Ryan) and Gemma Cook, specialist neuro-physiotherapist.
Adults with cerebral palsy of any type or severity who are 18 years of age or older.
It would really help us if you could answer all questions. You can click on the 'prefer not to say' option if you don't want to answer a question. If you decide to stop taking part at any point simply stop completing questions and shut down your browser.
Whether or not you decide to take part will have no bearing on the physiotherapy services you receive or your physiotherapy care.
How long will the questionnaire take?
The questionnaire should take approximately 20 minutes to complete.
There will be no direct benefit for you. However, by taking part you will help us learn more about physiotherapy and physiotherapy services from the perspective of adults with cerebral palsy. We hope that this study will inform future physiotherapy service provision but we cannot guarantee that this will be the case in the NHS or for any other physiotherapy service provider.
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Victim of Orissa, India Violence Rescued from Trafficking Ring
Posted on September 4, 2010 by particularkev
Christians displaced by Kandhamal violence in 2008 sold for coerced labor or sex.
NEW DELHI, August 25 (CDN) — Nearly two years after large-scale anti-Christian violence broke out in India's Kandhamal district, Orissa state, a team working against human trafficking on Aug. 9 rescued a 16-year-old Christian girl – one of at least 60 people sold into slavery after being displaced by the 2008 attacks.
The recovery in Delhi of the girl represented the cracking of a network that has trafficked Christian girls and women from Orissa to the national capital, sources said.
"Human trafficking agents operating in the tribal belt of Orissa have targeted the Christian girls who are displaced by the Kandhamal communal violence – we have been receiving complaints of missing girls from Kandhamal after the violence broke out in 2008," said attorney Lansinglu Rongmei, one of the rescue team members. "Roughly 60 girls are estimated missing and have been trafficked to different states."
The girl, whose name is withheld, is a tribal Christian who was sold into slavery along with her 19-year-old sister and two other girls, all victims of the 2008 violence; they were trafficked from the Daringbadi block of Kandhamal district to the capital in December 2009, according to the Human Rights Law Network (HRLN). Her sister and the other two girls remain missing.
The mother of the girl accompanied the rescue team the evening of Aug. 9 in the Rohini area of Delhi, said a source from the HRLN Anti-Human Trafficking department on condition of anonymity.
"It was only the joint efforts of the All India Christian Council [AICC], HRLN Anti-Human Trafficking and the area police that made this rescue possible," the source said.
The rescue team took action after the minor's mother approached the HRLN of Kandhamal for help, which in turn called the Delhi office. Team members said they were disappointed by the reaction of police, who were initially cooperative but later "just unwilling to help," in the words of one member.
The girl was used only for labor, although she was sexually harassed, sources said.
Rongmei told Compass that police refused to file a First Information Report, telling rescue team members, "No rape of the victim took place as per the medical examination, and there was no need for a case registration against anyone."
The rescue team was not given a copy of the report of a medical examination at Bhagwan Mahavir Hospital, Pitampura, in Delhi, but they were told it indicated no sign of rape.
"It is confirmed that she was not raped," said Madhu Chandra, spokesperson of the AICC and part of the rescue team. "She was physically abused, with teeth bite marks and bruises on her body – her neck, leg and right hand."
The girl stated that a well-known woman from their village in Kandhamal district gave her and her sister a false promise of safe and secure work in Delhi as gardeners.
Instead, operatives brought the sisters and the two other girls to a placement agency in Ratala village in Delhi, Sakhi Maid Bureau, which was run by a man identified only as Montu.
The HRLN source told Compass that the girl was with the placement agency for six days as the owner, Montu, attempted to rape her on several occasions. She was threatened, beaten, drugged with alcohol and sexually molested, the source said.
The girl said her sister and the other two girls were treated the same way.
She was placed in a home in Rohini, Sector 11, as domestic help beginning in January. Until July, she said, she was treated relatively well there, except for a few instances of being slapped by the lady of the house. Then the family's 10-year-old son began to hit her and their 14-year-old son tried to assault her sexually, and she tried to flee earlier this month.
The girl told the rescue team that she informed the lady of the house about the elder son's misbehavior, but that the woman stated that she could do nothing about it.
"She bears marks from being beaten on her right hand by the younger boy," said Chandra.
He told Compass that the owner of the placement agency collected the girl's wages from the family who employed her, promising to send the money to her mother in Kandhamal district, but that he failed to do so.
Compass was unable to meet with the girl as she was still traumatized and undergoing counseling sessions. The girl's mother sobbed for her other daughter, grieved that no one knew what condition she was in.
Montu, the placement agency operator, has absconded, according to police.
Passive Police
Prasant Vihar Police Station House Officer Sudhir Kumar confirmed the rescue team's accusation that he refused to register a complaint in the girl's case.
"The victim is from Kandhamal, let her go back to Kandhamal and register her complaint there," Kumar told Compass. "No rape of the victim took place as per the medical examination, and thus there is no need for registering a case against anyone."
Assistant Commissioner of Police Sukhvir Singh told Compass he had no explanation why the girl's complaint was not registered, but he insisted on having her and the rescue team return.
"We will file their complaint if they come back to us now," he said.
Karuna Dayal, coordinator of Anti-Human Trafficking Initiatives at HRLN, led the rescue team, which also included AICC Legal Secretary Advocate Rongmei, Chandra and Ashis Kumar Subodh of the AICC, and three others from the HRLN – Afsar Ahmed, attorney Diviya Jyoti Jaipuria and one identified only as Sangram.
Dr. John Dayal, secretary general of the AICC, said large-scale human trafficking in Christian tribal and Dalit women of Kandhamal district is one of the worst problems in the aftermath of the Kandhamal violence.
"Police have made arrests in the nearby Andhra Pradesh and other states," he said. "Because of the displacement due to the violence, they lost their future, and it is very easy for strangers to come and lure them. Community and family life has been disrupted; the children do not have the normal security that growing children must have. Trauma, unemployment and desperate measures have resulted in the loss of childhood, forcing many to grow up before their age."
The AICC is calling on the National Commission for Women, the National Commission for Scheduled Castes and the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes to investigate, he added.
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Christian Nursing Student Nearly Dies from Assault in Pakistan
She charges Muslim doctors threw her from hospital window after gang-rape.
KARACHI, Pakistan, July 26 (CDN) — A Catholic nurse trainee has regained consciousness after a Muslim doctor allegedly raped her and threw her from a hospital's fourth-floor window this month.
The student nurse told media and rights groups that on July 13 several Muslim men, led by Dr. Abdul Jabbar Meammon, beat and raped her, and then threw her from the window of Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center (JPMC) to keep her from revealing the abuse.
Meammon, who had taken over a room in the all-female wing of the hospital, has a history of abusing Christian nurses, a hospital administrator said. Dr. Seemi Jamali, chief of JPMC's Emergency Department, told Compass that Meammon had been suspended from the hospital seven times for drinking alcohol on the job and other misbehavior, and that he was drunk when he assaulted Ashraf.
A medico-legal officer at the hospital who carried out autopsies, Meammon was forcibly occupying a room in the women-only wing of the doctors' hostel, Jamali said. She added that Meammon is an influential figure backed by a leading political party in Karachi.
The third-year student nurse, Magdalene Ashraf, was unconscious for 56 hours as surgeons fought for her life at the intensive care unit of JPMC and is still in critical condition. On July 19 she gave a statement to police that has not been released. Later that day she spoke to media and a lawyer from the Christian Lawyers' Foundation (CLF), saying several men took hold of her at 4:30 p.m. on July 13, and after abusing her for several hours threw her from the window.
Ashraf said that fellow nurse Sajjad Fatima tricked her into going into Meammon's room by telling Ashraf that he wanted to talk with her about a grade on a class assignment. When she arrived, she told media and the CLF, another doctor and Meammon's driver were also present, and that Meammon grabbed her.
"When I resisted and tried to escape, nurse Fatima slapped both my cheeks and pushed me into Dr. Jabbar," Ashraf said. "I cried out but no one arrived there to rescue me. They not only gang-raped me, they also tortured me physically and ruthlessly beat me."
She dismissed claims by Meammon that she jumped out the window.
"If I had jumped myself, my legs would have been fractured, and I would not have had injuries to my head, brain and shoulders," she said.
Khalid Gill, head of the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance in Punjab Province, told Compass that Meammon had a history of sexually harassing female Christian students at the teaching hospital.
Gill and the Rev. Azher Kaleem, general secretary of the Christian Lawyers' Foundation (CLF), said that after Ashraf was thrown out the window, Meammon also jumped down in order to portray himself as innocent, claiming people trying to harm him were pursuing him as well. His hip injury from the jump was treated at the better-equipped Agha Khan Hospital, where he was hand-cuffed and his feet shackled before being transferred to a holding cell to face charges.
The Rev. Khadim Bhutto of advocacy organization Gawahi Mission Trust told Compass that he had the opportunity to speak with Meammon. According to Bhutto, Meammon said that he was relaxing in his room when Magdalene ran in followed by five unidentified men, from whom both of them eventually fled.
Bhutto said that Meammon was grinning about the incident as he told his version, seemingly pleased with what he had done.
The pastor said police have only charged Meammon and his accomplices with attempted murder, but that Christian organizations are urging police to file gang-rape charges. He added that police have also arrested Dr. Ferhat Abbas and another doctor identified only as Tayyab and are holding them at an undisclosed location.
A preliminary medical examination indicated that Ashraf was raped and tortured, said Natasha Riaz, a fourth-year nursing student.
"The swabs taken from her have confirmed that she was raped, and apart from Dr. Meammon, five other men were also involved," Riaz said.
One of Ashraf's family members told Compass that they have continued to receive threats from Meammon; the relative also said that Ashraf had complained of being harassed by him.
Dr. Donald Mall, an administrator with Seventh Day Adventist Hospital, told Compass after visiting the victim that there "are hundreds of rape cases of Christian nurses by doctors which go unreported in Pakistan," and that the Sindh Province Health Department has ignored them.
Police sources told Compass that they are searching for Fatima, the nurse who is an alleged accomplice of the alleged rapists, and Meammon's driver, identified only as Arshad, both still at large. Police said that when they arrived at the hospital, administrators stalled them long enough for Fatima to escape.
Since the assault, Christians have staged several demonstrations against religiously motivated violence such as the alleged assault on Ashraf and the July 19 murder of the Rev. Rashid Emmanuel and his brother Sajid Emmanuel, who were accused under Pakistan's "blasphemy" laws. The latest demonstrations took place in Karachi on Saturday (July 24), and in Sargodha and Lahore the next day.
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Young Christian Woman Allegedly Abducted in Pakistan
Posted on April 14, 2010 by particularkev
Muslims said to employ various ruses; forced conversion, marriage feared.
LAHORE, Pakistan, April 13 (CDN) — A Muslim tricked a 19-year-old Christian woman into leaving her house here on April 1, and he and a car full of friends took her away, according to her family.
Sonia Mohan's family said they fear the Muslim, Ali Raza, will force her to convert to Islam and marry him. Raza came to their home in Lahore's Nishtar Colony claiming that her brother, Johnson Parvaiz, wanted to see her outside, Parvaiz said.
"Sonia would not have gone with them if he hadn't told her that I wanted to see her," Parvaiz said. "Ali Raza came to our home and told Sonia that I had asked for her, and she went out of the house with him. They had parked a vehicle outside and left, and afterwards we never heard from her."
He said his sister's cell phone remained off for two days. When it began to ring again they called repeatedly, and finally a man answered the phone and then handed it to Mohan. Parvaiz said she told him not to call her, that she was very happy and that they should not try to find her.
"It was obvious from her voice that she had been forced to say that," Parvaiz said. "I fear that she will first be converted to Islam, and then married, and then it will become impossible for us to see her again."
Initially police were unwilling to register the family's complaint, he said. Only after the family enlisted the help of the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance (APMA) did police begin searching for Raza and Mohan.
Parvaiz added that Raza and his friends had previously told her to convert to Islam, saying that because she was beautiful she did not deserve to live as a lowly Christian. Raza and Mohan had no prior contact except that Raza had harassed his sister that one time, he said; her family complained to his parents, who live in the area.
Parvaiz added that Raza worked in a factory called Combined Fabrics, where he had a reputation of harassing Christian women. Since the alleged abduction he has been missing from work.
Nishtar Colony Station House Officer Munawar Doggar told Compass that it did not appear that Mohan, who along with the rest of her family belongs to the American Reformed Presbyterian Church, went with Raza willingly. He said he had delayed registering a case on behalf of Mohan's family only because Raza's family had filed a complaint that Raza himself had been abducted.
After speaking with Compass, however, Doggar said he would file a First Information Report imminently.
"I want to fully investigate the matter so that no injustice is done to any party," he said. "But the family of the girl should now come to the police station and surely their FIR will be registered."
On the day of the kidnapping, Raza's uncle, Zaffar Jamil, filed a complaint that Raza himself had been abducted as a smokescreen to delay police in pursuing the abduction of Mohan, Parvaiz said.
"In this way, the police would reject my police complaint, saying, 'Raza was abducted, so how could he abduct Sonia?'" Parvaiz said.
In his uncle Jamil's complaint to police, Jamil had said that two men identified only as Fahad and Almas – friends of Raza present in the waiting car when Raza allegedly kidnapped Mohan – were the ones who likely abducted Raza.
Compass has obtained a copy of Jamil's complaint. He crafted it in such a way that he can withdraw it at any point, and he says he had only a suspicion about the abduction of Raza and the identity of the supposed culprits. Otherwise police would quickly determine that Fahad and Almas had not abducted Raza, and the tactic to delay justice would be short-lived, Parvaiz said.
APMA Chief Organizer in Punjab Province Khalid Gill told Compass that previously Fahad had employed duplicitous tactics to marry a Christian woman in Youhanabad, Lahore, and that for that reason Raza had sought Fahad's help in tricking Mohan into going with him.
Gill said that in such kidnapping cases, police often delay investigations until after abducted women get pregnant, after which legally it is nearly impossible for courts to return them to their families.
"That is the reason that APMA has been asking for revision of the family laws, and that in such cases where such tactics have been used, the marriage should be declared void so that the girl returns to the family and starts living her life from where it was interrupted," Gill said.
Jamil and Raza's brother, Nasir Dilawar, and Dilawar's wife Majidan, along with Raza's brother Muhammad Asif, have assured Mohan's family that she will be returned soon, but that promise also was only at attempt to forestall legal action, Parvaiz said.
He added that the fact that Raza and his accomplices felt it necessary to employ the ruses to delay police investigations was further evidence that Mohan and Raza had no prior relationship.
The family fears that the longer her return is delayed, the more likely that she will become pregnant or get intimidated into giving a statement in court that she went willingly due to her captors' threats that her father or brothers will be killed if she refuses, Parvaiz said.
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Arrested Evangelists Say Muslims Colluded with Police
Posted on February 11, 2010 by particularkev
Anglicans say Islamists tricked them by showing up for inter-faith debate with security agents.
NAIROBI, Kenya, February 2 (CDN) — Two Christian evangelists in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, have been arrested after Muslims invited them to debate religion but instead called in security agents who charged the evangelists with illegal preaching.
Anglican evangelists Eleutery Kobelo and Cecil Simbaulanga, released on bail and facing a hearing on Feb. 11, told Compass that Christian and Muslim groups organized the inter-faith debate that was planned for a neutral venue in October of last year in the Kariakoo area of Dar es Salaam.
Kobelo said no Muslims showed up at the debate until Islamists arrived with government security agents who charged them with "using religious sermons to incite Muslims and Christians into viewing each other with suspicion."
"This continuous intimidation by the Muslims using the police is worrying us," he said.
Kobelo and Simbaulanga were in jail for seven days before they were released on bail on Oct. 27. At press time charges of unlawful assembly also had been brought against the two evangelists and seven other Christians, in addition to the original charges against the evangelists.
Also arrested and released last October were Christians Joseph Lima, Shadrack Mwasonya, Festo Mumba, Erastus Mwarabu, Joseph Mmari, John Chacha, and Daniel Mwakemwa.
Kobelo said he does not foresee a fair hearing on Feb. 11, but that he cannot afford a lawyer.
"Without legal representation, it's a long shot for justice to be done in this matter," he said. "It is very difficult for me to raise 500,000 Tanzanian shillings [US$365] at the moment."
Kobelo said he was seriously concerned about the charge of illegal assembly, which he said contradicted their rights as citizens; Tanzania's constitution allows for freedom of religion and assembly.
Several other cases against Christians remain before local courts in Tanzania, he said, some of which have dragged on since 2007. His case will be tried in a court in the Kariakoo area of Dar es Salaam.
"The message we are putting across is that we need prayer and advocacy for the sake of our lives," Kobelo said.
Simbaulanga told Compass that Muslims have resorted to using state police to harass Christians because they have political power. Tanzanian President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete is a Muslim.
"We have had tremendous success in our ministry to Muslims, with thousands of Muslims turning to Christ," Simbaulanga said. "So Muslims are trying to stop the movement, but nobody can stop the gospel."
Simbaulanga was imprisoned for 62 days between December 2006 and February 2007 in Kigoma, he said. Denied bail, he was accused of trying to convert Muslims to Christ and "abusing Islam" by saying Muhammad had married a young girl. Several cases are pending against him in different courts, he said, and Muslims are constantly searching for him.
"Since 1996 I have always been on the run, trying to save my life," Simbaulanga said.
He added that a family member who preached mainly among Muslims died in prison in 2005 due to a heart attack as a direct result of police harassment.
"There is a huge team of very sincere and committed Christians reaching out to Muslims in Tanzania, and we need lots of prayer, fellowship and financial support," he said.
An estimated 62 percent of Tanzania's population is Christian and 35 percent is Muslim, mostly Sunni; other religious groups make up the other 3 percent of the population, according to the U.S. Department of State.
Police in the Tanzanian capital of Dodoma stopped two Christian evangelists from reading excerpts from the Quran in an outdoor event on March 18, 2009, according to the state department's 2009 International Religious Freedom Report. Officers temporarily detained them and released them with a warning not to read the Quran during sermons to avoid antagonizing the Muslim community.
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TURKEY: CHRISTIANS' TRIAL FOR 'INSULTING TURKISHNESS' STALLS AGAIN
Case against two converts drags on; media already passed sentenced on Christianity.
ISTANBUL, November 12 (Compass Direct News) – Two years into a trial for "insulting Turkishness" that has been light on evidence and heavy on mud-slinging at Turkey's Protestant community, a court proceeding last week brought no progress.
Another witness for the prosecution failed to appear in the trial of Turkish Christians Turan Topal and Hakan Tastan, charged with "insulting Turkishness" and spreading Christianity through illegal methods. Moreover, a Justice Ministry answer to the court about the viability of charges under Turkey's controversial Article 301 had yet to arrive at the court last week.
In the last hearing in June, Silivri Criminal Court Judge Mehmet Ali Ozcan ordered a review of the two Christian converts' alleged violations of the controversial article of the Turkish penal code on "insulting Turkishness." But the court is still waiting for the Justice Ministry to decide whether they can be tried under Article 301 of the penal code.
The judge set the next hearing for Feb. 24, 2009 while the court awaits a response on whether the Christians can be charged under the controversial article.
Topal and Tastan are still charged with reviling Islam (Article 216) and compiling information files on private citizens (Article 135).
In what critics called "cosmetic" revisions of Article 301, the Turkish government amended it in May to require Justice Ministry permission to file such cases. Put into effect on May 8, the changes also redefined the vague offense of "insulting Turkishness" to read "insulting the Turkish nation."
While the court awaited a decision on Article 301, in the hearing on Nov. 4 it did free the defendants from forced attendance at future hearings. This, according to defense lawyer Haydar Polat, was the only progress made by the court; he added that a witness or evidence would have been better. For lack of these, he said, the prosecution has needlessly dragged out the case.
"In both cases [against them], the only acceptable progress is the testimony of a witness," said Polat. "Then again, the fact that the defendants are free from having to attend every trial is in a sense progress too."
Lame Witnesses
The initial charges prepared by the Silivri state prosecutor against Tastan and Topal were based on "a warning telephone call to the gendarme," claiming that some Christian missionaries were trying to form illegal groups in local schools and making insults against Turkishness, the military and Islam.
Despite a court summons sent to the Silivri and Istanbul gendarme headquarters requesting six named gendarme soldiers to testify as prosecution witnesses in the case, none have stepped forward to testify.
"They will be called in the next hearing as well," Polat told Compass.
At the June 24 hearing, two teenage witnesses for the prosecution declared they did not know the defendants and had never seen them before facing them in the courtroom. Several witnesses have failed to show up on various trial dates, and last week another witness called by prosecution, Fatih Kose, did not appear.
"There is no lack of witnesses, but as far as we are concerned, these characters' accounts are irrelevant to the truth and full of contradictions," said Polat. "I mean there is no believable and persuasive argument, nor a coherent witness."
Last week a police officer from the precinct where Topal and Tastan were allegedly seen doing missionary activities was summoned to court to testify. He told the court that he indeed worked in the precinct but knew nothing about the activities of the two Christians.
Eleven months ago, the appointed prosecutor himself had demanded that the court acquit the two Christians, declaring there was "not a single concrete, credible piece of evidence" to support the accusations against them. This prosecutor was removed from the case, and two months later the judge hearing the case withdrew over prosecution complaints that he was not impartial.
Two key figures pressing the Article 301 charges and promoting sensational media coverage of the Silivri trial proceedings are now jailed themselves, unable to attend the hearings.
Both ultranationalist lawyer Kemal Kerincsiz and spokesperson Sevgi Erenerol of the Turkish Orthodox Church – a Turkish nationalist denomination with no significant following – are accused of playing leading roles in Ergenekon, an ultranationalist cabal of retired generals, politicians, journalists and mafia members under investigation for conspiracy.
Since mid-January, 47 people have been jailed and face trial for involvement in the alleged crime network, said to have orchestrated numerous killings and violence as part of a nationalist plot to overthrow the Turkish government by 2009.
Asked about the chances of closing the case that has made no progress for two years due to lack of evidence against the defendants, Polat said he was hopeful his clients would find justice in the Turkish legal labyrinth.
"As lawyers, we believe that both of our clients will be acquitted," he said. "Come February we expect that the Justice Ministry will not approve the opening of a public case on the basis of 'insulting Turkishness.'"
Slandering Christians
The trial of Topal and Tastan has included its share of mud-slinging at Turkish Protestants, estimated at 3,000 to 3,500 people in a country of 70 million, deepening the nation's prejudices against them.
This legal battle has been less about guilt or innocence and more about tainting the community's image, according to a member of the legal committee of the Alliance of Protestant Churches in Turkey.
The Christian Turk from the legal committee told Compass that in 2006, when the charges against Topal and Tastan first came to light, there were news reports for days claiming that Christians tricked children in elementary schools, paid people to come to church and gave women away for sex, among other absurd assertions.
"The goal was to create disinformation, and they succeeded at portraying Christians in a negative light," he said.
The source said that this was the primary goal of ultranationalist lawyer Kerincsiz's team, which he believes is behind the cases brought against Topal and Tastan as well as the delay in the outcome.
"On the first day of the hearings, when the case opened, I told those around me that nothing would come of this case," he said.
The legal committee member said media created a psychological war against Turkish Christians. Other members of the Protestant community believe another goal was to deter any evangelism or outreach by Turkish Christians.
"It was to discourage the whole Christian community and quash them and discourage evangelism," said another source.
The member of the legal committee said he believes that eventually Topal and Tastan will be acquitted. But even if they win the court case, the damage from the publicity war on the church will not be as easy to repair.
"I think everything will stay the same, because the case won't be reported in the news," he said. "The issue was not about whether these two were guilty or not. When this first broke out it was in the news for days. When it is over it will barely make it to a newspaper corner, and we won't be able to give a message for the public because we don't wield media power. We comfortably carry our quiet voice, and we will until then."
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The ranks of The Crunchbase Unicorn Board have swelled in the past two years, adding almost 1,000 new companies and trillions of dollars in reported value. But now, as private company valuations go through a hard reset in a tough market, the board faces a reckoning.
Since the beginning of 2021, 925 companies have been added to the Unicorn Board and more than $400 billion was invested in those unicorns. But many of those same companies that raised in 2021 and the first half of 2022 will find their valuations — even just 18 months after their most recent funding — are too high in the current economy.
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Of the 1,433 companies on the board, more than 1,100 — or 78% — had their valuations set in the past two years. Those companies with new valuations represent almost three quarters of the entire board's total value.
Keep in mind, our Unicorn Board reflects disclosed valuations tied to a priced funding event — not other valuations, such as those set in an internal event via a 409a valuation, or when investors revalue their portfolios via writedowns. (That's why, for example, the board still lists Stripe's valuation at $95 billion, although the payments company has reportedly reset its internal valuation to $63 billion — the third time in fewer than 12 months it has trimmed its valuation.)
According to Forge, a private securities marketplace, investors are purchasing private company stock on the secondary market at a median discount of 50.5% compared to their most recent funding. If that discount were applied across the Unicorn Board, 821 companies — or 57% of the companies on the board — would drop off, and the value of the board would decline to $2.4 trillion from its current total valuation of $4.9 trillion.
The funding environment has changed swiftly after a heady couple of years.
Valuations at 10x forward ARR in 2021 became "100x, 200x, and 400x multiples," Tomasz Tunguz, previously a partner at Redpoint and now raising his own fund, wrote on his blog in April 2022.
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And Oda, a door-to-door grocery delivery service based in Norway, was valued below a billion dollars in a December fundraising, dropping from the unicorn ranks entirely.
Crypto companies are also facing a harsh new reality. Crypto exchange FTX, valued at $32 billion in a January 2022 funding, is valued at nothing. Other crypto unicorns in bankruptcy proceedings include crypto wealth management platform BlockFi and blockchain lending platform Celsius Network.
While the stampede of companies joining the board has slowed to a trickle, it will be difficult to decipher the new valuations for current unicorn companies in 2023.
Companies that can avoid raising funding will do so. Many unicorn companies are opting for debt or convertible notes to avoid being revalued. Others are raising extension rounds in which mostly existing investors add capital, and values might not be disclosed as readily as those unicorn rounds.
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Polder Buków – sztuczny zbiornik przeciwpowodziowy na Odrze o pojemności ok. 53 mln m³. Okresowo całkowicie zalewany, położony na terenie trzech gmin – Gorzyce i Lubomia w powiecie wodzisławskim i Krzyżanowice w powiecie raciborskim, całość na terenie województwa śląskiego. W czasie budowy obiektu zlikwidowano wieś Kamień nad Odrą w powiecie wodzisławskim.

Nazwa polderu pochodzi od sąsiadującej z nim wsi Buków położonej w gminie Lubomia w powiecie wodzisławskim, w obrębie której zlokalizowana jest zapora. Budowany w latach 1989–2002 polder ma około 830 ha powierzchni, z tego 542 ha (2/3 powierzchni polderu) znajduje się w powiecie wodzisławskim. Polder może przyjąć około 53 mln m³ wody. Pojemność zbiornika zwiększa się systematycznie w związku z prowadzoną eksploatacją żwirowisk. Stanowi jeden z głównych elementów systemu ochrony przeciwpowodziowej dla Raciborza i Kędzierzyna-Koźla, ale w pewnym stopniu również dla Opola i Wrocławia. Znaczenie polderu zwiększyło się po oddaniu do użytku w 2020 r. kolejnego zbiornika Racibórz Dolny.

Ze względu na okresowe zalewanie i duże ograniczenie w obrębie polderu gospodarki rolnej wzrosła na jego terenie bioróżnorodność, stał się siedliskiem wielu rzadkich gatunków roślin błotnych i zwierząt, co w połączeniu ze starorzeczami i zalanymi wyrobiskami oraz sąsiedztwem Zespołu Przyrodniczo-Krajobrazowego Wielikąt uczyniło z niego bardzo atrakcyjny teren dla turystyki i rekreacji blisko położonych ośrodków miejskich takich jak np. Wodzisław Śląski, Racibórz jest miejscem wypoczynku i rekreacji mieszkańców tych miast.

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Polder dzieli się na dwie części: przepływową (niesterowną) i sterowaną. Obie części przedzielone są wałem.
 Przelew powierzchniowy wraz z jazem ruchomym (sterowanie wodą na polderze; dolna budowla wpustowa w postaci 6 otworowego jazu zastawkowego)
 Trzy wpustowe denna (niesterowna) 185,7 m n.p.m.; dolna (sterowana): 191 do 194 m n.p.m.; górna (niesterowna): 194 m n.p.m. (szerokości 200 m)
 Zapory ziemne oraz obwałowania na długości 14,5 km (szerokość korony ok. 4 metry; średnia rzędna korony zapory 197,70 m n.p.m.)
 Największa skuteczność przy przepływie 1400–2200 m³/s (skuteczność redukcji przepływu kulminacyjnego 12,8 – 6%), (redukcja największych fal 2–6%)
 Powierzchnia zbiornika – 830 ha
 Powierzchnia zalewu w okresie napełnienia wynosi 710 ha
 Pojemność maksymalna 53 mln m³ (w tym 27 mln m³ w części sterowanej polderu)

Napełnianie zbiornika odbywa się w czterech etapach:
 przy napełnieniu części przepływowej polderu wodą powodziową Odry do rzędnej niższej od 191,0 m n.p.m., zostaje z tej części wytracona pojemność jeziorowa rzędu 9 mln m³, zaś w części sterowanej tworzy się dyspozycyjna pojemność powodziowa około 4 mln m³;
 wzrost napełnień przepływowej części polderu od 191,0 m n.p.m. do 194 m n.p.m. powoduje wytracenie w tej części kolejnych 9 mln m³ pojemności jeziorowej, zaś w części sterowanej dyspozycyjna pojemność powodziowa wzrasta o dalszych ok. 10 mln m³, tj. do ok. 14 mln m³ ogółem; taką pojemność powodziową można aktywnie wykorzystać na polderze do redukcji szczytów fal powodziowych średniej wielkości;
 przy przejściu dużych fal powodziowych, gdy stany wody w przepływowej części polderu przekroczą 194,0 m n.p.m. przy górnej niesterownej budowli wpustowej, następuje samorzutne przelanie się przez nią części wielkich wód Odry i wytracenie wygospodarowanej pojemności powodziowej sterowanej części polderu;
 po zrównaniu się poziomów wody w obu częściach polderu przy przekroczonej rzędnej 194,0 m n.p.m obie części polderu tworzą jeden akwen dysponujący wyłącznie pojemnością jeziorową.

Pojemność dająca się aktywnie wykorzystać do redukcji szczytów fal powodziowych jest umiejscowiona tylko w części sterowanej (od 191 do 194 m n.p.m.).

Część przepływowa polderu (od 185,7 do 191 oraz powyżej 194 m n.p.m.) dysponuje wyłącznie retencją jeziorową, która sukcesywnie wypełnia się z czoła fali i daje nikłą redukcję kulminacyjnego przepływu rzeki Odry.

Ochrona przeciwpowodziowa

Powódź 2006
29 marca 2006, podczas wezbrania Odry przyczynił się do obniżenia fali powodziowej na Odrze. Na jazie Buków pierwszy raz w historii otwarto sześć śluz, prawa część polderu przyjęła około 2 mln metrów sześciennych wody.

Powódź 2010
Podczas powodzi w 2010 roku, nocą z 17 na 18 maja 2010 w krytycznym momencie Polder Buków złagodził falę kulminacyjną na Odrze z ok. 2000 m³/s do stanu ok. 1700 m³/s (maksymalnie o około 300 m³/s). Przelewem stałym Polder Buków zaczął się napełniać w dniu 17 maja 2010 r. o godz. 12:00. Całkowite wypełnienie Polderu zakończyło się dnia 18 maja 2010 o godz. 7:00. Ilość wody przejęta przez Polder w czasie fali kulminacyjnej określa się na 54 mln m³. Po zapełnieniu zbiornika do Raciborza nadeszła opóźniona i nieco złagodzona fala kulminacyjna na Odrze. Napełnienie polderu spowodowało, że zagrożone zostały wały obiektu, jednakże sytuacja została opanowana przez strażaków.
21 maja 2010 w związku z obniżeniem się poziomu wody w rzece Odrze następowało powolne i kontrolowane opróżnianie polderu (otwarto 1 klapę – odprowadzane było ok. 80 m³/s, zaś w godzinach popołudniowych 21 maja 2010 zwiększono zrzut wody z polderu do 150 m³/s.

Kolejna fala wezbraniowa wystąpiła 2 czerwca 2010 roku, częściowo opróżniony już Polder Buków został ponownie uruchomiony przy stanie wody 680 cm w Krzyżanowicach. W następnych dniach zrzucano wodę ze zbiornika w ilości 40 m³/s.

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What does your ideal client look like?
We work with a variety of clients across industries that have the need to reach people where there are—whether through diverse community engagement or a strategic marketing plan, we would love to meet you and get to know your goals.
What are the first things you are going to do once we start working together?
We take a collaborative approach to learning what an organization's objectives and goals are—for both the short and long term. Research and discovery are a key components to getting to know your challenges and strengths, and strategy is the main driver that D&A delivers.
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