changing room I picked up a little book called "Father To Daughter". I started reading it, and figured if Lydia could buy a few dresses, I could at least get a $7 book. Each page has a couple of sentences about raising a little girl. I love this book and have read from it almost daily ever since I got it.
"She may look adorable, but be forewarned - her diaper is going to be just as challenging as any boy's."
"Let her sleep on your ches when she's a baby. This is when the world begins to make sense."
"Be prepared to watch Walt Disney movies with her some 200 times. Each."
Stay tuned there will be more to come.


On Windows, there are a number of ways to create an SSH keypair, including RailsInstaller, PuTTY, and Cygwin. Engine Yard supports the RailsInstaller method because it is straight-forward.
RailsInstaller automatically creates SSH keys in ~/.ssh C:\Users\<user_name>\.ssh. To re-create them, follow the steps below. This procedure uses unix-style commands and paths because that is what git-bash uses.
Navigate to Start -> Programs -> RailsInstaller -> git-bash.
You now have a private and public key: ~/.ssh/id_rsa and ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.
a. Open the public key (~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub) in Notepad.
b. Copy the key to the clipboard.
In your Dashboard, click SSH Public Keys.
Click Add new SSH public key.
Enter a name in the Name field to identify the key.
Open the public key (~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub) in Notepad.
Paste the key (copied in Step 1b) into the Public Key field.
Select the environments that you want to add this key to. If you don't have any environments, this key is automatically added to the ones you create.
You receive a confirmation that your ssh public key has been created and added to your Engine Yard account.
Install your public key to your application environment(s).


Many people wonder how professional eaters are able to eat so much food in one sitting, but the number one question spectators always ask when watching a major competitive eating event is definitely, "How do they eat so fast?" It's definitely a question that beginner and amateur eaters want to find out as well so that they can improve their skills and do better in all of their upcoming competitions. It is an unarguable fact that the two most important characteristics you must possess to be a successful competitive eater are a very high stomach capacity and very fast eating speed. Many good eaters can do either one or the other well, but only a select few can actually eat a lot of food really quickly. For example, there are some eaters who do great during contests only lasting a few short minutes, but they cannot do very well in longer competitions because they don't have enough stomach capacity to maintain their quick eating speed for very long. Then there are other guys/girls who don't really do that well in any shorter competitions, but they can do well in the longer contests because they are able to eventually surpass the quicker eaters with low stomach capacity. The "rabbit" can win quick sprints, but the "tortoise" wins many of the longer marathons!! We want YOU to be versatile and able to win BOTH!!
In the competitive eating world, shorter eating contests are referred to as "sprints" which rely heavily on eating speed rather than stomach capacity. Longer contests (over 8 minutes long) are considered "marathons" which rely heavily on speed as well, but even more so on stomach capacity. There are tons of articles throughout this TIPS category to help you increase your stomach capacity and become more competitive during marathons, if you haven't checked them out already. You especially must read the articles throughout our Stomach Capacity Training section. Specifically if you are interested in winning eating contests, read How To Train For An Eating Contest. With all that said, this article will help you dominate the sprints, along with those longer contests.
1. Keep your head up – As mentioned in How To Train Yourself To Eat Food Faster, holding your head up with your neck extended keeps your throat open so that it is easier to swallow both food and water as you transfer it from your mouth to your esophagus which then moves everything into your stomach. You will never see any of the top competitive eaters with their head down, except when grabbing more food or liquid to consume. Try it right now, swallowing with your head up versus with your head down. Swallowing with your head up is much easier right? Please note that we don't mean your head and eyes should be up looking at the ceiling or sky, but know that you may need to tilt your head back every now and then to swallow the larger bites. Just make sure your head isn't facing downward to a point where your chin is almost touching your chest. That'll make swallowing difficult!
2. Take many small bites rather than a few large ones – The term "speed eating" basically means "swallowing faster," and most definitely not "chewing faster." If you want to consume food quicker, then you must focus on swallowing quicker so you can move on to eating more food. In a sense, to be a successful speed eater you must view chewing your food as a big waste of time. While you are chewing your food, somebody else is swallowing their food and moving on to taking more bites, and they will obviously beat you as long as they continue that faster pace. The reason that people even need to chew is because a particular bite they took is too big for them to be able to swallow naturally. Therefore, the teeth are used to mechanically break and grind the food down into more manageable pieces, making them easier to swallow. If you want to swallow faster and chew less, then you must take many smaller bites which don't require much chewing, rather than taking a few big bites which do require significantly more chewing. Doing this will also keep your jaw from getting tired later on in the contest. Let your teeth do the majority of their work while biting into the food, & not while the bites are in your mouth.
NOTE: A few people have mentioned to me, in response to tip #2, that when they watch videos of professional eaters like Matt "Megatoad" Stonie, Pat "Deep Dish" Bertoletti, and Molly Schuyler, they see them taking big bites rather than smaller ones. This is because those individuals are three of the top professional competitive eaters in the world, and they have totally mastered the ability to relax their throat enough to swallow basically "whatever is in their mouth." If in doubt, just watch Pat chug 50 raw eggs in less than 12 seconds. Because of their ability to do that, they don't need to worry about taking the smaller bites that you and I should take. One thing to remember when watching videos of them and other outstanding eaters, such as Takeru Kobayashi, is that they didn't start out their "eating career" being able to eat like that. They started with smaller bites too, since Elite Eaters Are Made Not Born. Use them as extra motivation to continue improving and eating faster!!
3. Focus on swallowing quicker – We teach you how to train yourself to swallow more at one time in our How To Train Yourself To Eat Food Faster article. Put that training to use and actually focus on swallowing quicker while you are eating. Don't get out of control though, risking the possibility of choking, and always have plenty of liquid nearby for when you need it. If you really Critique Yourself So That You Can Improve, you will realize that there are times when you are chewing even though you really don't need to. The act of "chipmunking" in the competitive eating world refers to filling your mouth so completely full with food that your cheeks bulge out and make you look like a chipmunk (hence the term). This especially happens during the last few seconds of an eating contest, since eaters typically are allowed around thirty seconds once time expires to finish and swallow all the food still remaining in their mouth. The food is basically sitting there waiting to be chewed and finally swallowed. There are many eaters who unknowingly do this later on in competitions once they begin feeling full. They are "chewing just because their body really doesn't want to swallow it." Speed eating is all about getting the food into your stomach and not storing it in the side of your cheeks, so you must focus on not chipmunking during your competitions. Swallow the food as quickly as you possibly can and only chew if you really need to.
4. Concentrate on chewing harder/faster – We teach you how to increase your jaw strength AND endurance in our How To Increase Your Jaw Strength article. Focus on putting that training to use during your competitions!! We may preach that you must be swallowing rather than chewing, but chewing is definitely a necessity that you will be doing throughout the competition. Chomp down harder when taking those many smaller bites and then chew faster while getting the food that's already in your mouth ready to be swallowed. Again, if you Critique Yourself So That You Can Improve, you will find sometimes that you are just chewing at a normal speed without even really thinking about it. Focus on chewing harder and faster all the time, since you won't eat faster if you aren't really trying to. Even towards the end when you are really feeling full, fight to keep on chewing hard!! Please note though that there may be some foods encountered which you really don't need to chew much at all, such as baked/black beans, ice cream, cottage cheese, and most Mexican food items. Those and other items are either creamy or ground up to a point where there is no real need to chew it into smaller bites (you can't chew pudding). While eating those items, focus on swallowing quickly and don't really focus on any chewing at all.
5. Practice! Practice!! Practice!!! – Russian physician and author Anton Chekhov once stated, "Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice." Then there is Vince Lombardi's quote stating, "Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect." Both of these quotes are very true, so now use the four tips above and practice whenever possible (except on a first, second, or even sometimes third date!!). Keep on improving and constantly getting faster with each competition you enter, whether it be a food challenge or an eating contest. You will improve at an even faster rate if you follow the tips throughout Critique The Eating Contest And Improve, and you'll of course be able to eat a particular food faster if you know which perfect technique(s) to use. For help with that, be sure to read both How To Speed Eat Various Eating Contest Foods and How To Lose A Competitive Eating Contest. You also may find some helpful tips throughout the articles in our STRATEGIES category. You won't get better unless you continually practice (perfect practice!!) and train, so do that while remembering that all individuals improve at a different pace, depending on many factors such as effort, training techniques used, genetics, and amount of room for improvement. Do not get upset if your friend improves at a faster rate than you. Keep on putting in the effort using all the tips throughout this article, and your speed and eating skills will continue to improve. If no contests are coming up, try setting a few food challenge records!!
Those five tips, combined with all the related advice throughout the many articles linked above, will most definitely help you become a faster eater during future competitions. To conclude this article, I'd like you to watch this video and see all of these tips put perfectly into action. This is competitive eater Molly Schuyler taking on The Big Fat Fatty Sandwich Challenge at Fat Sal's Deli which has multiple locations in California, USA. It was absolutely massive!! This video was filmed with a vertical smart phone, and isn't the easiest video to watch either, but it's from a side view angle which shows all of Molly's eating motions & movements the entire time. Watch as she keeps her head up throughout the challenge and hardly ever spends much time chewing. She even jolts her head back every now and then to swallow all the larger bites. Not only is her stomach capacity completely ridiculous, but she is definitely one of the fastest eaters you will ever meet or watch. You will notice her taking pretty large bites rather than many smaller ones, but that is because she is able to swallow larger bites of food, unlike all "beginners" who need to stick to smaller bites at first. She also keeps her drinking cup near her throughout the challenge, which we talk more about in The Use Of Liquids During Eating Contests. Before moving on to another article, and even before you try any of the tips above, watch this video and see what true speed eating looks like. Congratulations Molly (her Facebook page) on setting a new time record!!
NOTE: Please BE CAREFUL and use all possible safety precautions while participating in all types of competitive eating related training and events. As mentioned in The Dangers Of Competitive Eating, there is always some level of choking risk when there is food present, whether you are involved with a competitive eating related event or just eating a normal meal with your family. BE CAREFUL while doing any type of training or practice to improve your eating speed or stomach capacity, as recommended in How To Train Yourself To Eat Food Faster.
Thanks for reading "Speed Eating: How To Eat Food Faster" and using FoodChallenges.com!!


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Time-consistent strategy for a multi-period mean-variance asset-liability management problem with stochastic interest rate
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Strategic joining in a single-server retrial queue with batch service
Ke Sun 1, , Jinting Wang 1,2,, and Zhe George Zhang 3,4,
Department of Mathematics, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, China
Department of Management Science, School of Management Science and Engineering, Central, University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, 100081, China
Department of Decision Sciences, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225, USA
Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada
* Corresponding author: Jinting Wang
Received November 2019 Revised April 2020 Published June 2020
Fund Project: This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant nos. 71871008 and 71571014) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under grant 2019YJS196
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We consider a single-server retrial queue with batch service where potential customers arrive according to a Poisson process. The service process has two stages: busy period and admission period, which are corresponding to whether the server is in service or not, respectively. In such an alternate renewal process, if arrivals find busy period, they make join-or-balk decisions. Those joining ones will stay in the orbit and attempt to get into server at a constant rate. While, if arrivals find the server is in an admission period, they get into the server directly. At the end of each admission period, all customers in the server will be served together regardless of the size of the batch. The reward of each arrival after completion of service depends on the service size. Furthermore, customers in the orbit fail to get into the server before the end of each service cycle will be forced to leave the system. We study an observable scenario that customers are informed about the service period upon arrivals and an unobservable case without this information. The Nash equilibrium joining strategies are identified and the social- and profit- maximization problems are obtained, respectively. Finally, the optimal joining strategies in the observable queue and the comparison of social welfare between the two queues are illustrated by numerical examples.
Keywords: Retrial queue, batch service, strategic customers, quality-capacity tradeoff, busy period, admission period.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 60K25; Secondary: 90B22.
Citation: Ke Sun, Jinting Wang, Zhe George Zhang. Strategic joining in a single-server retrial queue with batch service. Journal of Industrial & Management Optimization, doi: 10.3934/jimo.2020120
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Figure 1. The alternate renewal process in the retrial queue with batch service
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Figure 2. Transition rate diagram of the observable retrial queue with batch service
Figure 3. Transition rate diagram of the unobservable retrial queue with batch service
Figure 4. The three joining probabilities in observable case with respect to $ \lambda $, $ \mu = 1, \gamma = 2, k = 1.5, \theta = 5 $
Figure 5. The three joining probabilities in observable case with respect to $ \mu $, $ \lambda = 0.7, \gamma = 2, k = 1.5, \theta = 5 $
Figure 6. The three joining probabilities in observable case with respect to $ \gamma $, $ \lambda = 0.8, \gamma = 2, k = 2, \theta = 5 $
Figure 7. The comparison of social benefits with respect to $ \lambda $, $ \mu = 1, \gamma = 2, k = 2, \theta = 5 $
Figure 8. The comparison of social benefits with respect to $ \mu $, $ \lambda = 0.7, \gamma = 2, k = 1.5, \theta = 5 $
Figure 9. The comparison of social benefits with respect to $ \gamma $, $ \lambda = 0.8, \mu = 1, k = 1.5, \theta = 5 $
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The Manitoba government has launched Women's Equality Week 2019 with a boost to women in the trades.
Squires announced a $25,000 grant to Manitoba Institute of Trades and Technology (MITT) for a new initiative to advance women in the trades that will increase the number of women enrolled in the school's programs. The Empower Project will engage part-time student recruiters to share information with other women across the province about the value of training in the trades and the rewarding career opportunities are available to graduates.
The provincial funding will also enable MITT to develop promotional materials to build excitement and interest in the trades and other careers in which women are under-represented.
MITT specializes in providing innovative post-secondary and apprenticeship training programs in partnership with industry and communities. In 2017, men made up 94.54 per cent of the student population in the heavy trades.
In 2017, Manitoba proclaimed Women's Equality Week as the third week of January to promote gender equality.


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About 66% Workers Lost Employment During Lockdown: Study
In urban areas, 82% of female workers have lost their casual jobs against 80% male workers. While, in the case of workers who had regular salaried jobs, 76% of both women and men workers have lost their jobs.
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The COVID-19 pandemic and the nationwide lockdown imposed on March 24 have taken a heavy toll on the economy; particularly, on the vulnerable informal and migrant workers and their families. A study by the Centre for Sustainable Employment has found that 66% of workers have lost their employment during the lockdown.
If looked at data specific to urban and rural spaces separately, the study said that 80% of the workers have lost their employment in urban areas. In rural areas, it adds up to 56%.
The results of the study also show that the percentage of the female workforce is much more affected than the male workforce. In urban areas, 82% of female workers have lost their casual jobs as against 80% male workers. In the case of the workers who had regular salaried jobs, 76% of both women and men workers have lost their jobs. While 89% of self-employed women workers have lost their jobs in urban areas, 77% men have lost their jobs in the same category.
Since the lockdown, 77% households are consuming less food than before. This rate is high in urban areas with 83%; in rural areas, it is 73%. In total, 77% of the vulnerable households have received ration and 49% households have received cash transfer. Data are from the state-level survey results based on a total sample of 5,000 interviews across 12 states: Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh (Rural), Odisha, Rajasthan, Jharkhand (Rural), Telangana (Rural), Maharashtra (Pune), Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh (Rural), Delhi (Urban), West Bengal (Rural), and Bihar (Rural).
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Though the survey is still underway, these sets of data were collected between April 13, and May 20 at different times in various states.The survey measured levels of employment and earnings since after the lockdown was imposed and compared them to the situation prevailing in February. It has included self-employed, casual, and regular wage/salaried workers.
If we further look into the state-wise data, in Gujarat, about seven out of 10 (71%) workers lost their employment. Urban workers are more severely affected with nine out 10 losing their employment during the lockdown. Meanwhile, 96% of regular salaried workers in urban areas lost their jobs.
Nearly nine in 10 farmers were not able to sell their produce at full prices and seven in 10 households did not have enough money for a week's worth of essentials. The situation is worse in urban areas (89%).
To cope with the decrease in earnings, 95% of urban households reported reducing their food intake during the lockdown, while 85% of the vulnerable households received ration. However, 66% of urban households did not receive any cash transfer compared to 51% rural households.
In Rajasthan, where 484 respondents have been surveyed so far, nearly nine in 10 (88%) workers reported losing their employment. Casual wage workers in urban areas were the worst-hit with 95% losing their jobs and 68% of salaried workers not being paid salaries or receiving only partial payments, said the study. Three in 10 migrants working in urban areas of the state did not have a ration card. Nearly four in 10 vulnerable households in the urban areas received no cash transfers.
In the national capital, 73% lost employment during the lockdown. The average earnings of non-agricultural self-employed and casual wage workers fell by 63%. Here, more than half of the vulnerable households did not receive ration, while nearly seven in 10 migrants did not receive ration. Seventy-three per cent of vulnerable households did not receive any cash transfer.
The other states too where the survey was conducted had similar stories to tell. Overall, the survey finds that the disruption in the economy and labour markets of the surveyed cities and states is enormous. Livelihoods have been devastated at an unprecedented level during the lockdown. The recovery from this could be slow and very painful. Along with this, we should note that many people have no access to the public distribution system.
The team which has conducted the study suggests some measures: "A universalisation of the PDS to expand its reach and implementation of expanded rations for at least the next six months; Cash transfers equal to at least Rs. 7000 per month for two months. From a macroeconomic perspective as well, larger transfers are needed to bring back demand in the economy; Opening up of MGNREGA sites in keeping with physical distancing norms is urgently needed; Proactive steps like expansion of MGNREGA, introduction of urban employment guarantee, and investment in universal basic services are needed; Investment in universal basic services are needed."
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A frequent issue that organizations suffer from in current workplace environments is retaining employees and determining effective ways to motivate employees. For this assignment, you will act as a consultant that was hired by organization ABC (of your choice). As a consultant who retains an extensive background in Organizational Behavior, you have been tasked by the contracting organization to develop a proposal for organizational retention and motivation action plan due to the high attrition rates and declining motivation currently occurring at the organization.
One of the main assets that every organization looking to succeed should have is a motivated and committed workforce. The workforce acts as the driver of the organization, effectively ensuring that the organization is consistently moving in the direction it should and towards its goals. At the same time, two main impediments that hinder the optimal performance of organizations are high employee attrition and a de-motivated workforce. It is important that every organization works to overcome these impediments on a regular basis.
While CleanEats is a relatively successful medium size grocery store specializing in providing fresh, organic, and high-quality products, it is struggling to keep up with its competition as well as to maintain a motivated and committed workforce. Struggling with high attrition rates and low motivation, CleanEats needs a complete transformation of its organizational behavior, culture, and structures in order to motivate its employees and reduce attrition. This paper seeks to highlight some of the measures that CleanEats should implement as an action plan in order to overcome said problems.
A number of issues tend to affect employee motivation in the workplace, and low motivation inevitably contributes to high employee attrition within the organization. Some of the issues that tend to contribute towards a low level of motivation for employees include excessively negative criticisms and badmouthing, inability to enjoy work, poor inter-employee relations structures, as well as poor wages and benefits (Allen & Bryant, 2012; Latham, 2012). These factors affect how employees interact with one another as well as how they interact with other employees and management staff. For instance, an organizational culture that limits employees from enjoying their work greatly demotivates said employees. It fosters the perception that work is an unpleasant mandatory duty that must be completed at whatever cost. Such conditions can easily stress out workers, making them work under highly strenuous conditions that do little to foster creativity and enjoyment, especially as far as organizations such as CleanEats are concerned. They detach personal initiative and interest from the work being done, which only further demotivates employees (Griffin & Moorehead, 2012). It is essential that employees are provided with an enabling environment that not only supports collaborative efforts and works enjoyment but also enables employees to work in a relaxed state of mind. Such an environment, if developed at CleanEats, is likely to improve employees' motivation and performance, and, in turn, customer satisfaction.


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Vidal & Curma - 'On Another Plane' EP
Currently splitting time between their Northern Italian hometown of Padova and the UK's capital, songwriters Vidal & Curma are a duo making a name for themselves on the London circuit. Playing in some of the most prestigious independent music venues in the city, their reputation has already won them a residency at the revered Proud Camden, where they were invited for repeat showings by popular demand thanks to the innate energy and sense of fun in their songs.
Their music boasts a loose, anarchic freshness without compromising on quality, giving an acoustic twist on the indie likes of The Libertines, The Strokes, Mac Demarco, and Velvet Underground to name a few. But perhaps their closest comparison is less well known – both Vidal and Curma are huge fans of Django Reinhardt, a gypsy guitarist from Belgium who was active from the 30s to the 50s. Reinhardt single-handedly invented the gypsy-jazz genre, and both band members consider him the best guitarist of all time.
His brilliance has clearly rubbed off, and the new three track EP 'Another Plane' is a real, offbeat, acoustic treat.
See Vidal & Curma in action with this live Tradiio session:
Specialising in writing songs about everyday problems faced by many, song themes vary from the difficulty of maintaining relationships nowadays, where everyone travels and moves a lot ('Another Plane'), to everyday situations that can lead to deep contemplation ('Tonight'). The final track, 'Never Say Again', is about the unpredictability of meeting someone special in a massive city like London.
This is the first release on Tradiio Recordings, a new record label set up to release the best performing artists on Tradiio, a music discovery app for iOS, Android and Web.
Vidal & Curma Links:
https://facebook.com/VidalCurma
https://twitter.com/vidalcurma
http://tradiio.com/vidal-curma-1
Posted by ProgRockMaster at 8/14/2015
Labels: Camden, Debut Release, EP release, First EP release, Italian band, London, Music Release, New EP, New Music Releases, On Another Plane, The Strokes, Tradiio, Velvet Underground, Vidal & Curma


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Historický fond Diecézní knihovny v Nitře se nachází v prostorách Kněžského semináře sv. Gorazda na Samově ulici č. 14/983 v Nitře. Je v něm uloženo 65 288 knihovních svazků (podle inventarizace z roku 1981), dá se mluvit o 71 341 titulech. Diecézní knihovna je umístěna v přízemí severovýchodního křídla semináře. Historický fond byl vyhlášen roku 1990 Nařízením vlády Slovenské republiky č. 478 z 23. května za movitou národní kulturní památku. Také k ní třeba připočíst cca 1 000 nezkatalogizovaných svazků, což jsou příspěvky správce Ladislava Belase po roce 1990. Za oficiální otevření knihovny lze brát 30. listopad 1885.

Historie
Tvorba fondu knihovny sahá do 12. století, kdy se začaly shromažďovat v katedrálním kostele rukopisné kodexy. Tyto se staly základem katedrální knihovny (z roku 1828 se vzpomíná index knih katedrální knihovny jako Index Librorum Bibliothecae Cathedrale Ecclesiae Nitriensis a z roku 1850 jako Maculatori Elenchi Operum Bibliothecae Cathedrale Ecclesiae Nitriensis collectum), předchůdce Diecézní knihovny.

Zachariáš Mošovský (1582 – 1587) byl prvním sběratelem knih, který se zasloužil o obohacení sbírky  o Prvotisky a tisky ze 16. století. Je jich 1 405.

O rozvoj knihovny se starali Nitranští biskupové:
 Pavol Abstémius-Bornemissa (1557 – 1579)
 Anton Révai (1582 – 1783), zanechal roce 1784 460 svazků
 Valentín Lépes?? (1607 – 1619)
 Peter Korompay (1686 – 1690),
 Ladislav Adam Erdödi (1706 – 1736), přestěhoval knihovnu po svých předchůdcích do dvou místností ve věži katedrálního kostela
 Ján Gusztini (1764 – 1777)
 Augustín Krištof Mikuláš Štefan Roškováni (1859 – 1892), vyniká ze všech, daroval svou sbírku o cca 19 tisících svazků. V letech 1876–1879 přestavěl severovýchodní křídlo semináře na knihovnu a umístil do ní kromě katedrální knihovny i sbírky dalších biskupů Josefa Wuruma (1827 – 1838), Imricha Palugyayho (1838–1858), kanovníků Andreje Zemaníka, Jana Dualského a také seminární knihovny a vlastní.
 30. listopadu 1885 v době otevření měla knihovna Bibliotheca Dioecesana 36 223 knih
Další biskupové rozvíjející knihovnu:
 Imrich Bende (1893 – 1911)
 Viliam Batthyányho (1911 – 1920), jeho knihy tvoří kvůli vlepení exlibris dobře identifikovatelný soubor.
 Karol Kmeťko (1921 – 1948), snažil se vytvořit Ústřední diecézní Slovenskou knihovnu.
 1961 knihovna byla předána do správy Okresní knihovny.
 1963–1966 knihovnu řídilo Okresní vlastivědné muzeum, po ní zase Okresní knihovna.
 21. ledna 1990 se vrátila pod správu Biskupského úřadu a správcem se stal Ladislav Belás.
 23. května 1990 byl fond Diecézní knihovny prohlášen za movitou národní kulturní památku, fond je zvětšený o cca 1 000 svazků z příspěvku správce.

Složení fondu
Jazykové:
 Latina 35%
 Maďarština 23%
 Němčina 21%
 Celkově 37 jazyků, kromě evropských i čínština a japonština
 V češtině asi 150 svazků zejména bernolákovců a i Antona Bernoláka
Chronologické:
 15. století     85
 16. století  1 455
 17. století  3 681
 18. století 11 657
 19. století 49 277
 20. století  7 461 titulů

Dělení fondu podle tematických skupin
 Teologická díla
 Církevní právo 1 875 sv. (Základní díla církevního práva, církevní zákony, díla o vztahu církve a státu) zde i 1273 sv. Metrimonium a Coelibát
 Schematizmy 1 371 sv.
 Kalendáře 188 sv.
 Studium biblicum 1 227 sv.
 Sancti Patres 1 052 sv.
 Theologie Pastorale et liturgica 2 276 sv.
 Theologie generalis, dogmatika, morálně 4 775 sv.
 Historie, zeměpis
 Historia universalis et geografie 1 514 titulů
 Historia Hungariae 2 019 sv.
 Literatura 1 639 sv.
 Periodika
 Scripta periodica civilis et ecclesiastica 1 072 titulů v 10 364 sv.
 Auctores Graecia et Latini 395 sv.
 Gramatika 630 sv.
 Bibliografie 2 399 sv.
 Filozofie 975 sv.
 Pedagogika 716 sv.
 Medicína 456 sv.
 Zemědělství 149 sv.
 Umění 152 sv.
 Numismatika 200 sv.
 Společenské vědy 176 sv.
 Přírodní vědy
 Právo 1 288 sv

Zajímavosti
 Nejstarší prvotisky z roku 1473, komentář k dílu Boëthius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus: De consolatione philosophiae
 Prvotisky obsahující celostránkové dřevorytiny s figurálními motivy Officium Beate Virginis Mariae, (Paříž, 1495).
 Nitranský kodex pravděpodobně z roku 1083
 Nejstarší bible z roku 1475
 Dílo Mateja Bela z let 1735 – 1742 vytištěné ve Vídni Notitiae Hungariae Novae
 pětijazyčný slovník Antona Bernoláka z roku 1825, kde se poprvé vzpomíná slovenština
 Podpis císaře Františka Josefa I. ze 7. září 1887 v návštěvní knize
 Nejmenší knihou je knížka o rozměrech 8 x 5,5 cm vydána v roce 1628.
 Největší knihou je Atlas československých dějin s rozměry 50 x 43 cm vydán v Praze v 1965.
 Nejsilnější knihou jsou Zápisky z dějin polského sejmu s 1 659 stranami vydané v r. 1557
 Nejtěžší knihou je Neerlandia Catholica z 19. století s hmotností přibližně devět kilogramů
 Calepiniho slovník Ambrosio Calepini dictionarium undecim linguarum z roku 1599 vydaný v Basileji obsahuje text v 11 jazycích
 Zajímavou je i Gramatika romské řeči v maďarštině z roku 1800

Reference

Literatura
 Nařízení vlády SR č. 478/1990 Sb.
 Fábryová, Lívia. Tisky 16. století v Diecézní knižnici v Nitře = Opera impressa saeculi XVI quae in Bibliotheca Dioecesana Nitrae asservantur. Martin: Slovenská národní knižnica, 2000. 368 s., Edice: ?? Generální katalog tlačí 16. století zachovaných na území Slovenska. IX.C [= III].
 Fábryová L .: Diecézní knihovna v Nitře v Knihovna, roč. 2, č. 3, str. 138 – 142 (2001)
 Frimmová, E .: recency knihy Fábryová, L .: Tisky 16. století v Diecézní knižnici v Nitře v Knihovna roč. 2 č. 4 (2001), str. 212 – 213

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You control Tooks the penguin through 5 different worlds with nothing at his side but his trusty umbrella in an adventure to find his mother, who has been kidnapped by evil polar bears.
Throughout his adventures, his umbrella is upgraded, allowing you to take his explorations to new bounds. Each world consists of 4 different levels, 3 of which require Tooks to get to the exit as quickly as he can, and the final level requiring Tooks to find the best path out within a certain time.
Tooks can run, jump, slide on his belly, swipe with his umbrella and use his various upgrades to navigate his 2-D platform environment, avoid obstacles, and defeat enemies.


Cool deal. Like Frigg said, we kind use "perch" as a catch-all for most species sun fish (bluegill, green sunfish, warmouth, pumpkin seed, red ear sunfish, etc), as we don't have any true perch this far south. Or at least I don't know of any place in MO/KS/OK.
Fishing pretty much transcends all with being the thing that will make total strangers buds for a day.
Frigg, Pure Rock fury likes this!
The map shows my part of the state, but I have never caught one in the many (many) years I have fished here. Hmmmm. Ah, did some checking and yeah, they are more common I the northern part of MO.


Colombo is the largest city and commercial capital of Sri Lanka. Located on the west coast of the island and adjacent to Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte, the administrative capital of Sri Lanka, Colombo is a busy and vibrant city with a mixture of modern life and colonial ruins. Like many cities, Colombo's urban area extends well beyond the boundaries of a single local authority. The main city is home to a majority of the Sri Lanka's corporate offices, restaurants and entertainment venues. Famous landmarks in Colombo include the Galle Face Green, the Viharamahadevi Park, Gangarama, the National Museum ,BMICH and Independence Square.
@ Over night at Anuradhapura star hotel.
Galle, The capital of the southern province is a city with a colourful history. UNESCO declared World Heritage Site the magnificent Dutch fort is the most popular attraction of the town. 300 year old Dutch atmosphere is still very much alive around the fort and amidst its many historical buildings not invaded by the skyscrapers. The beautiful beach of Unawatuna is just 6km south east of the city centre. The southern coastal belt is the most popular among the tourists and comes to life mainly from October through April when the monsoon moves northeast and the sea becomes calm with blue skies. The earliest European administrative centre of Sri Lanka was the major port and the largest city until the British shifted the p ortto Colombo. The City of Galle had been the European administrative centre over 4 centuries .


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Genom Bandkamp
As today's music continues to change rapidly and rap groups declining Bandkamp's unique style and approach is destined to leave listeners yearning for more. Bandkamp, based out of Orange County, California, is comprised of the Midwest sound of G-Wiz, hailing from Indiana by way of Kentucky, G.I. Fleezy from Indiana and the southern sound of Jimmy Renegade from Houston, Texas. Being influenced by artists from all over they each have a unique sound that blends with each other like finely tuned instruments. Not only do they have the sound but they have stellar in-house production that allows them to be up and comers as Hip-Hop's elite .Contrary to popular belief that Hip-Hop is dead, Bandkamp's debut album is purposely titled "Hip-Hop Ain't Dead," showing the world that Hip-Hop is here to stay. Bandkamp wants to set a new standard in the music industry on an international level. After garnering individual acclaim in the mix-tape circuit G-Wiz, G.I. Fleezy and Jimmy Renegade came together in 2006 to form Bandkamp. Having already shared the stage with some of music industry's top names Bandkamp has captivated audiences all across the globe. Their use of creative marketing techniques targeting the streets to international audiences appears that they had a professional marketing team pushing their album, but it's their personal hard work getting it out there. When asked what sets them apart from every other group out there, Jimmy Renegade replies "There's been a history of groups having a weak link, we have no weak links and we constantly keep ourselves involved and well promoted so that we can always remain relevant." With their promotion tactics and passion they are sure to be seen everywhere. Influenced by various genres of music and driven by ambition, Bandkamp is destined for greatness. They are able to appeal to the masses because of their humble and unique backgrounds since childhood. How can they appeal to people on an international level over time? G-Wiz responds: "Our goal is to always make timeless songs and to push the envelope with our music. Our sound is a blend of yesterday's, today's and futuristic music to come. I say that because Bandkamp is the future of Hip-Hop music." Make sure to look for them in your area, if they aren't there, demand it, because Hip-Hop ain't dead and Bandkamp is here to show you just that.
Konstnären: Bandkamp
Titel: Eeeee!
Bandkamp
2 Too Tuff
3 How the Game Go
4 I'mshowya
5 Caution
6 Split Milk
7 Gose Til Ya Loose
8 My Swag
9 Lean
10 Eeeee!
11 Whip It
12 You on (Skit)
13 G.I.K
14 Set It Off
15 On a Switch (Feat. Dat Boi T & Al-D)
16 Buss If U Ready
17 Headrush
18 Tired
19 I'm a G
20 Bandkamp (DJ Tom the S.C. Mix)


Before we begin I'd like to tell you all that I am transgender. I knew I was male ever since I was fifteen and I know that seems a little young, a little bit too soon to know for sure that this isn't a phase but I could also say that about everyone in this room, so. You're never too young to know what you prefer to be called.
And before we begin I'd also like to tell you that I'm gay, meaning I like men, but I also feel like saying that makes me less trans. Like, people often say "But you're trans, you can't be both" because yes, I definitely can be trans and gay at the same time, those two aren't mutually exclusive and honestly the idea that anyone can only be one thing at the time is hilarious to me.
And before we begin I'd like to tell you I still wear skirts. I like to feel the breeze between my legs, free, because sometimes, passing as male is feels like an uncomfortable addition between my legs rather than one hundred percent accuracy all the time. I also think that people have to be crazy to want to wear pants – Even shorts – at all in this weather.
And I know I'm starting to sound repetitive but before we begin, I'd like to tell you that it's okay to tell me I look pretty, I know this looks pretty I mean look at this, this girl is on point. And by girl I don't mean me, exactly I mean my body, just my body because me? I am just a brain, just the musings of the only part of this vessel than can form coherent thoughts, I am just a prisoner of this vessel and I am determined to make her beautiful. My name is Alexander, her name is not. And I would like you to compliment her, please. She is a work of art I've spent at least two hours working on this morning so would you please, at least tell me she looks good today?
And now that you know all that you're supposed to know about me we can begin, but I certainly am wondering what we are beginning, because you are eyeing my skirt and probably thinking "Okay, but you shouldn't wear a skirt because that makes things confusing" and no friend of mine should ever say that.
Look. I know that 'trans' tends to translate into images of drag queens and the idea of 'A boy in a girl's body' or vice versa or men in skirts but the truth is, trans can be all of those things but trans never means that all of us are those things. Gender comes in the form of a randomised generator where each time you pull the lever it says "God knows whatever this is but it looks hella cute".
So when I tell you "Hi, my name is Alexander, I'm a boy, my pronouns are He/Him, this is my boyfriend, and yes I am in a skirt", it means only one thing.


The Children First Act 2015 (the Act), which was signed into law on 19 November 2015, puts elements of the Children First: National Guidance for the Protection and Welfare of Children on a statutory footing. The legislation forms part of a suite of child protection legislation which includes the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Acts, 2012-2016 and the Criminal Justice (Withholding of Information on Offences against Children and Vulnerable Persons) Act 2012.
• Carry out a risk assessment to identify whether a child or young person could be harmed while availing of the service.
• Develop a Child Safeguarding Statement that outlines the policies and procedures which are in place to manage the risks that have been identified.
• Appoint a relevant person to be the first point of contact in respect of the organisation's Child Safeguarding Statement. This person is referred to as the Designated Liaison Person (DLP).
The Designated Liaison Person (DLP) for the Sacred Heart School Westport is the school Principal Ms Majella Morrison and the Deputy Designated Liaison Person (DDLP) for Sacred Heart School Westport is the school Deputy Principal Mr Kevin Malone.
This is a written statement that specifies the service being provided and the principles and procedures to be observed in order to ensure, as far as practicable, that a child availing of the service is safe from harm.
The Child Safeguarding Statement should provide an overview of the measures that your organisation has in place to ensure that children are protected from harm. It may also refer to more detailed policies which can be made available on request.
The Child Safeguarding Statement must be completed within three months of the Children First Act 2015 coming into force. Organisations that are established after the Children First Act 2015 comes into force, must comply with the requirements within three months from the date the service commenced.
Under the Children First Act 2015, organisations providing a relevant service such as schools, must undertake a risk assessment. This considers the potential for harm to come to children while they are in the organisation's care. It should be noted that risk in this context is the risk of abuse and not general health and safety risk.
A risk assessment is an exercise where the organisation examines all aspects of its service from a safeguarding perspective, to establish whether there are any practices or features of the service that have the potential to put children at risk.
• After the risk assessment has been completed, organisations are required to develop a Child Safeguarding Statement that outlines the policies and procedures which are in place to manage the risks that have been identified.


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Big Data: The end of theory in healthcare?
By: Ben Wanamaker
Devin Bean, a research assistant at the Clayton Christensen Institute, and I coauthored this piece.
Five years ago, Chris Anderson wrote an article in Wired titled, "The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete." He claimed that, given enough information, "correlation is enough" to make robust and informative predictions. Since then, McKinsey and others have heralded a "Big Data Revolution in Healthcare," and the White House and others have poured millions of dollars in big data initiatives. Does this mark the end of theory relevance in healthcare?
We answer emphatically: No. By ignoring theory, big data exclusionists risk cementing themselves in a world where they can't cope with anomalies and changing circumstances, never able to progress toward conscious competence. At the same time, they distract from the very real and potentially disruptive ways that big data analytics could be revolutionary in healthcare and other industries.
The classical theory development model
A theory is a statement of what causes what and why. Generally, researchers develop theory in three steps. First they observe, carefully describing and measuring the phenomena. Next, they group the observations into distinct categories, generally looking for similarities and differences among attributes. Finally, researchers develop a theory that explains how a certain set of attributes leads to a certain result.
After developing the initial theory (aka hypothesis), researchers seek to test the theory by using it to make predictions. In this stage, they typically encounter anomalies – things that the theory predicts would not happen do happen or vice versa. These anomalies, encountered because theories based primarily on attributes show correlation but do not yet explain causation, guide researchers to revisit the categorization scheme, continually refining the theory into a more powerful tool.
Eventually, what began as an attribute-based correlative theory evolves into a circumstance-based causal theory that generates useful predictions and robust explanations. These theories often spur dramatic advances – germ theory and genetic theory are just two examples.
Big Data and the theory-less model
Big data proponents, however, present a different model:
In the words of one biologist who questions the implications of big data on theory, "If you measure enough variables, it doesn't matter whether you understand the relationship between cause and effect; all you need is a relationship between one variable and another." Proponents suggest that data-driven prediction engines will generate predictions that will obviate the need for theory-drive analysis.
This model, however, presents two major problems.
Theory, implicit or explicit, underlies all data analysis. What we measure, how we measure it, and the predictive engines we apply all make implicit theory-based assumptions about the significance of certain forms of data and the meaning of the resultant outputs. Google, for instance, ranks pages via an algorithm that weighs inbound links, keywords, and other criteria. Each of these criteria are selected because, theoretically, they are relevant to a page's value.
Implicit theory has no method of dealing with anomalies. When an analytic engine fails, either because of false theoretical assumptions about attribute significance or because of external circumstance changes, there is no way to explicitly deal with the failure. Now that small molecule innovation is no longer delivering blockbuster drugs for big pharma, even the most advanced modeling engines that money can buy cannot generate predictions robust enough to guarantee drug development success.
Indeed, the theory-less model above should be re-drawn as follows:
Suppose that a successful big data driven algorithm encounters an unexpected situation. It has no method of dealing with the anomaly, and so crashes. Because theory is not explicitly examined and refined, not only will researchers have a difficult time learning from the anomaly, it could happen again. In 2010, for example, the Dow Jones plunged more than 600 points in minutes and then recovered just as abruptly, sending investors and businesses into a tailspin. The cause? Computer algorithms, at least in part. Because there is no good way to consciously learn from the anomaly, such volatility is still unpredictable and could happen again.
The data revolution through the lens of disruption
All of this is not to say that big data is not important, only that current conceptualizations miss the real ways that big data is revolutionary! Fortunately, a theory exists that enables us to better understand the role of big data: the theory of disruptive innovation.
Disruptive innovations make technologies, products, and services that were once only accessible to the highly trained available to less skilled and less wealthy individuals. In the process, large companies fall and new ones rise from their ashes.
No big data proponent would disagree with the statement that "big data is potentially disruptive." But the ways in which it may be disruptive, as determined by the theory, are where we should direct conversation in order to cultivate significant innovation. Theory suggests that big data analysis technology, coupled with the proper business model (a topic for another blog), may be a disruption enabler in at least two ways:
Enabling technologies make powerful data analytics affordable and accessible. Inexpensive data storage, massive computing power, and widespread information transfer infrastructures make predictive analytics available to small players than ever before. Patient population analytics, for example, used to be available only to the largest and wealthiest of health systems who could hire talented teams of statisticians. Now, solutions exist that are affordable even for small providers.
Accessible and affordable analytics drive operating efficiencies. One third to one half of U.S. health care spend is on ineffective or inefficient care – hundreds of billions of dollars each year. Theory-based big data solutions can help change this. For example, theory-based (rather than simply correlative) population health management analytics updated with the latest best clinical practices from medical journals could help test, validate, and adopt new standards of care much more quickly than the average adoption timeline of 17 years and in so doing help obsolete outdated, wasteful, and expensive treatment methods While perhaps not as headline-making as "The End of Theory," "Save Hundreds of Billions of Dollars With Better Health Outcomes" is pretty close.
The final implication, then, is that big data used incorrectly could lead to incorrect conclusions and missed opportunity. Use correctly, it does have tremendous potential to revolutionize health care by making analytics more affordable and accessible and by driving efficiencies in care delivery – and these are the implications that we should be talking about, funding, and developing. So don't fire the research team just yet – instead, use them to develop robust theory that can drive health care innovation.
Ben Wanamaker


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Is That Chipotle in My Sushi? – U.S. Immigration Laws Spoil the Flavor of Dining Out
By Angelo A. Paparelli on April 5, 2005
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Guest Column By Nathan A. Waxman
It's hard to feel nostalgic about the days when eating out in Manhattan meant choosing from pastrami, cheeseburger, or two slices of pizza. Today we, and our friends on the mainland of the US, can partake of a veritable cornucopia of world cuisines, authentic or naturalized to New World tastes, ranging from Uzbek shashlik to a multitude of Chinese regional cuisines through Colombian – or, if you prefer, Venezuelan – arepas, all the way to the newly discovered "authentic" gourmet Sicilian cuisine.
The efflorescence of exotic cuisine choices in this country was fueled by the entrepreneurship of recent immigrants from Bogotá to Bangkok, Jaipur to Jogjakarta, who brightened up the American landscape with stores and restaurants purveying the foods and goods of their homelands. These restaurants flourished by employing the labor certification/immigrant visa process to secure the employment of qualified chefs from the old country. This mechanism assured the immigration and continuing services of innumerable "specialty chefs," thereby allowing the expansion of restaurant cuisine offerings, even in middle-American shopping center and strip malls.
But, somehow, these days, the pad thai has lost its punch, the sopa de pescados its savor. Que pasa? Have we become jaded? Or have the quality and authenticity of our favorite foreign fares deteriorated, even as the availability of exotic ingredients and chefs has increased?
My informal and anecdotal survey of local eateries confirmed my suspicion that the immigration laws, not the American palate, are behind this sad retreat. What has changed since the early '90s that could contribute to this unfortunate turn of events? While employer sanctions have been in place since the late 1980s, and labor certification has for years taken at least as long as a moderately decent vintage, the big ticket item in discouraging and precluding the sponsorship of foreign chefs has been the "unlawful presence" bar of Section 212(a)(9) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which, since its implementation in the late '90s, has prohibited the grant of permanent residence, with limited exception, to those who have accrued over six months of unauthorized stay in the U.S.
As a result, Ethiopian restaurants, in New York at least, have hired work-authorized Salvadoran kitchen help, who encounter difficulty distinguishing injera from tortilla. A neighborhood Burmese (Myanmar) restaurant was forced to rely on a Bangladeshi chef whose uncle had once visited Rangoon (now Yangon). We're all for fusion – and our friends in L.A. couldn't survive a day without a soy-chipotle burrito – but on occasion we purists savor the flavor of authentically prepared national cuisines.
And things are getting worse. … Until recently, many chefs had been able to avoid the draconian impact of the unlawful presence bar to residence by availing themselves of Section 245(i), a temporary provision to the immigration laws that was first implemented in 1994, enabling otherwise qualified immigrants who had violated status to obtain residence in the U.S. through adjustment of status.
Whether intentionally or not, Congress had exempted from the adverse impact of Section 212(a)(9) those individuals who had managed to obtain permanent residence through adjustment of status in the United States, albeit after accruing periods of status violation, by allowing them to pay a penalty fee. Unfortunately, the last extension of the mechanism by which prospective immigrants who have accrued status violations greater than 6 months could obtain residency in the U.S. sunset on April 30, 2001, thereby resulting in today's situation. With limited exceptions, restaurants today cannot sponsor incumbent employees through the labor certification/immigrant visa process with any assurance that their employees will obtain permanent residence because of the virtually total bar represented by Section 212(a)(9).
A simple congressional fix would be a permanent extension of Section 245(i), thereby enabling restaurants and other businesses to secure permanent residence through labor certification and thereby the continuing or future employment of qualified personnel. Although Beltway insiders frequent the capitol city's abundant Ethiopian eateries and may employ domestic help of varied degrees of employment eligibility, there appears to be considerable resistance to such an extension in the near term.
One possible alternative for restaurants seeking qualified personnel knowledgeable in their respective cuisines will be utilization of the recently implemented PERM mechanism to obtain a relatively fast labor certification, coupled with the promised implementation of premium processing for I-140 petitions. Restaurants may be able to recruit capable cooking personnel in the home country and bring them over before the next vintage is uncorked. However, restaurants specializing in fiery (Inner) Mongolian hotpots or Delhi's tasty tandoori dishes may have to wait 'til after the cows come home, due to retrogression in India and China immigrant visa availability.
Members of Congress should put their votes where their mouths are. They love spicy succulent cuisines as much as we do. Section 245(i) should be extended and realistic waiver mechanisms should be provided for Section 212(a)(9). Otherwise, it's back to hamburgers and chop suey for dinner tonight.
NATHAN A. WAXMAN specializes in business and professional immigration in New York City. He was awarded a B.A. in Philosophy from New York University, an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago, a J.D. cum laude from Loyola University of Chicago, and undertook doctoral studies in Philosophy at the University of Chicago, and in Oriental Languages at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been a member of AILA since 1985 and writes and lectures extensively on business and academic immigration topics.
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Society Shouldn't Be A Roadblock To My Right To Health
This blog first appeared in the Huffington Post Canada.
Co-authored by members of Plan International Canada's Global Fund team: Magalie Nelson, Health Advisor and Kate Waller, Gender Advisor under the leadership of Bernabe Yameogo, Director of the Unit. The Global Fund Team at Plan International Canada works to accelerate the end of the malaria, AIDS and tuberculosis epidemics
A 25-year old Beninese woman confides: "They (men) do not know what they make us live. Some of us here have become HIV-infected women because of the weight of society, we cannot tell our husbands: condoms or nothing. They allow themselves to go to town to do what they want with loose women and we stay at home in silence. They bring us the virus without us being able to refuse. Can you imagine how a woman feels when she knows that the relationship she is having may be the cause of her death and she has no power to say no …"
Her story is all too common of women and girls around the world. Evidence clearly shows the links between gender-based violence (GBV) and HIV – both as cause and consequences of women and girls' vulnerability to HIV. In some areas, women who were physically or sexually abused by an intimate partner are up to twice more likely to get HIV. Young women and adolescent girls represent 60% of newly infected worldwide and 22 % in West Africa have increased vulnerability. Key populations, i.e. sex workers, men who have sex with men (MSM), transgender people, prisoners, people who inject drugs and their sexual partners are also very affected populations of the epidemic, representing 25% of new infections. Benin is no exception. The female/male ratio of HIV infection is 14 to 10 and the prevalence in key populations 5 to 17 times higher than the general population.
As the civil society Principal Recipient of The Global Fund to fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria HIV Grant in Benin, Plan International is committed to using a gender transformative approach to address the root causes of GBV to fight HIV. In 2017, a key first step was to commission a national gender study of GBV with the government, UNAIDS and other partners. The gender study will serve to identify and understand key gender and social-based forms of discrimination, stigmatization and GBV factors influencing vulnerable and key affected women, men, girls and boys in all their diversity and their vulnerability to HIV in the context of Benin.
Preliminary study results indicate that in the context of Benin, rigid and unequal gender norms define and privilege male decision making power in intimate sexual relationships. These unequal power relations leave women and girls from the general population and key populations, particularly sex workers and people who inject drugs, with little negotiating power to protect themselves in sexual relationships or to make autonomous positive health choices. Unequal gender norms justify and perpetuate high levels of gender based discrimination and violence among women, girls and key populations, including sex workers and MSM.
Despite varying responses, a key finding was that the women and girls and key populations most likely to experience GBV were those who challenge dominant gender norms and expectations such as women seeking health care without their husband's permission or contesting their partner's decision, such as refusing sexual intercourse. Women who are less educated, older and divorced or separated experience higher levels of violence. Due to such prevailing and deep-rooted gender norms at household, family/community and institutional levels, women, girls and other vulnerable groups have little choice but to remain silent about these traumatic experiences even if there are some levels of health, psychosocial and legal services available to them.
Of the girls and women interviewed, almost all (98.5%) girls and women (81%) reported being victims-survivors of at least one type of GBV (physical, sexual or psychological) in the last 12 months, of which 15% was sexual violence. Two-thirds (63%) of 127 women and men living with a disability experienced at least one type of physical, sexual or psychological violence combined with experiencing high levels of reported ostracization due to their disability. Key populations interviewed are mostly affected by psychological abuse and violence, namely sex workers (155/197), MSM (33/75), people who inject drugs (29/44), lesbian women and girls (17/27) and transgender women and men. Most male and female survivors, whether from the general population or key populations, tend to keep the experience to themselves or resolve the issue through in-laws or their immediate family ties. Few choose legal recourse or available government and NGO run social protection centers. Lack of autonomous decision making power, fear of retaliation and stigma and guilt and general lack of knowledge of the law are all factors that hinder reparation and access to services.
Progressive gender equality and justice laws and legislation exist in the country. Benin has signed international human rights agreements and ratified most of them. Its own constitution states that "men and women are equal in law… that any form of sexual harassment is an offense regardless of the quality of the author or the victim and the place of commission of the act .. " and has a supportive legal framework. These laws, however, have not been completely followed with needed and appropriate human rights based and gender responsive HIV services. The barriers raised in the gender study clearly show that unless these gender and social based forms of discrimination and violence limiting the choices of women and girls and certain key populations are addressed, their rights to health will continue to be denied.
Based on study findings, key recommendations are to: focus on changing men's attitudes and practices towards adopting more gender equitable values and practices; increase women and girls' economic bargaining power; develop targeted social group and whole community/family interventions to address self and collective stigmatization and design a more coordinated response to GBV focused on the needs of victims-survivors such as through emergency GBV kits.
This is an unavoidable road toward ending the epidemic.
This blog is part of the blog series: Barometer Rising: No time to backtrack the fast track to ending HIV as a global health threat by 2030 by the Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development (ICAD) in recognition of World AIDS Day (1 December). The series features a selection of blogs written by our member and partner organizations. Contributors share their broad range of perspectives and insight on the right to health within Canada and globally to critically reflect on the response to HIV knowing we are now just 2 years from the 2020 Fast-Track targets (90-90-90) and just over a decade away from the 2030 Global Goals for Sustainable Development (SDGs).
Are we on the right track or are we on the back-track?
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this blog series are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of ICAD.
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Blogging is one of the professional hobbies that are growing with time in different parts of the world. Most of the people who are in to this field often monetize their blog with one or the other ad networks. AdSense is one of the best ad networks that provide decent money to the bloggers. Most of the bloggers around the world recommend using AdSense as a monetization option. But getting an account on AdSense is a bit difficult task to many new bloggers. In such a situation, infolinks is the best option or a best alternative to Google's AdSense. Not only that, even AdSense lacks the ability to provide InText ads. If you wish to monetize your blog with InText ads then Infolinks can serve as the ideal solution. Yes, Infolinks is the best InText ad network!
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A new study sheds light on why so few African Americans are among the nation's top-ranked high school students. The results suggest that teachers and schools have a powerful effect on the fulfillment of academic potential by students whose 10th-grade test scores indicate they could achieve at higher levels than they ultimately do.
"How Teachers and Schools Contribute to Racial Differences in the Realization of Academic Potential," turns a new page in understanding the racial gap. Earning grades equal to or higher than predicted equates to realizing academic potential, while lower grades indicate the converse. To explore why African-American high school students fail to reach their academic potential as often as their white counterparts, Tina Wildhagen, assistant professor of sociology at Smith College, analyzed data from the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 along three dimensions: student, classroom, and school.
Predicting 12th-grade GPAs based on 10th-grade reading and math scores, Wildhagen found that, on average, the GPAs of African-American seniors are 0.163 grade points lower than standardized test results predict, while those of white seniors are 0.076 points higher than predicted.
After controlling for student characteristics, behaviors, and attitudes, the study shows teacher expectations account for 42 percent of the difference between white and African-American students' realization of their potential. Student reports of hard work and homework completion are only slightly related to the gap in realized potential, whereas teacher perception of how hard students work explains much of whether students' grades match their actual abilities.
"Many really talented students are unable to realize their full potential because of all the processes happening at school," Wildhagen says. The study provides evidence that teachers' low expectations have high stakes for students of color.


This first Swiss museum exhibition of drawings and paintings by Wilhelm Leibl (1844 – 1900) looks in particular at portraits and figural works. Supported by Courbet, influenced by Manet and admired by van Gogh, Leibl is one of the lesser known but influential figures of Realism in Europe. He withdrew to the countryside, where he founded an independent and modern form of figure painting, in which truth to nature and the study of the Old Masters supersede the anecdotal approach of traditional genre painting. Crucial for Leibl was not that his subjects should be seen as beautiful, but rather that they be well observed.
The exhibition, which features loans from Germany, Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Switzerland, travels to the Albertina in Vienna after it closes in Zurich.


Join us for an afternoon of wonderful poetry by SF Bay Area based poets, artists, and musicians with your host Kim Shuck.
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Over 3 million respiratory infections are diagnosed in the United States each year—making it a very common illness we deal with across the country. With higher than average rates of pollen, Hixson and surrounding areas definitely has more than its share of respiratory illness and infection!
These respiratory infections can range from just plain annoying to serious enough to keep kids home from school and adults out of work. In some cases it can become serious enough to warrant a hospital stay, especially in young children, the elderly and those with compromised immune systems.
It's very important to make certain sure you are doing what you can to help stop a respiratory infection in its tracks; for you and your family.
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