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Kidder Township is a township in Carbon County, Pennsylvania.  It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. The population was 1,935 at the 2010 census, up from 1,185 at the 2000 census.

History
On October 10, 1888, a train wreck known as the Mud Run Disaster occurred on the Lehigh Valley Railroad which runs through the township. 66 people were killed, most members of the Total Abstinence Union returning from a rally.

Geography
Kidder Township occupies the northern end of Carbon County and is bordered by Luzerne County to the north and west and by Monroe County to the east. It is drained by the Lehigh River, which separates it from Luzerne County. Tobyhanna Creek, a tributary of the Lehigh, forms the northern half of the township's eastern border. Its villages include Albrightsville (also in Penn Forest Township), Hickory Run, Lake Harmony, Lehigh Tannery, Leonardsville/Pocono Mountain Lake Estates, and Split Rock. Albrightsville is a census-designated place as is Holiday Pocono within Kidder.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which  is land and , or 1.04%, is water. Hickory Run State Park occupies nearly  in the southern half of the township.

Neighboring municipalities
Penn Forest Township (south)
Lehigh Township (southwest)
Foster Township, Luzerne County (west)
White Haven, Luzerne County (west)
East Side (west)
Dennison Township, Luzerne County (west)
Bear Creek Township, Luzerne County (northwest)
Buck Township, Luzerne County (north)
Tobyhanna Township, Monroe County (northeast)
Tunkhannock Township, Monroe County (east)

Climate
The township has a warm-summer humid continental climate (Dfb) and the hardiness zone is mostly 5b except for a little 6a along Mud Run and the Lehigh River. The average monthly temperatures at the Pocono interchange of the Turnpike range from 22.9 °F in January to 68.3 °F in July.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 1,185 people, 498 households, and 347 families residing in the township. The population density was 17.2 people per square mile (6.6/km2). There were 2,197 housing units at an average density of 31.8/sq mi (12.3/km2). The racial makeup of the township was 93.25% White, 2.36% African American, 0.08% Native American, 0.17% Asian, 1.35% from other races, and 2.78% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4.56% of the population.

There were 498 households, out of which 21.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 57.4% were married couples living together, 7.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.3% were non-families. 25.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.28 and the average family size was 2.69.

In the township, the population was spread out, with 21.3% under the age of 18, 5.7% from 18 to 24, 23.4% from 25 to 44, 31.7% from 45 to 64, and 18.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 45 years. For every 100 females, there were 110.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 102.4 males.

The median income for a household in the township was $32,583, and the median income for a family was $37,404. Males had a median income of $30,714 versus $26,250 for females. The per capita income for the township was $18,719. About 9.5% of families and 10.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 9.8% of those under age 18 and 10.5% of those age 65 or over.

Transportation

As of 2015, there were  of public roads in Kidder Township, of which  were maintained by the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC),  were maintained by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) and  were maintained by the township.

Kidder Township is served by two Interstate highways. Interstate 476, the Pennsylvania Turnpike's Northeast Extension, passes north–south through the township while Interstate 80 passes east–west through the township. The two highways meet at the Pocono interchange. State highways serving Kidder Township include Pennsylvania Route 534, which passes east–west through the southern portion of the township, intersecting PA 903 in Albrightsville; Pennsylvania Route 903, which passes through the southeast corner of the township on its way between Jim Thorpe and Route 115 just beyond the Monroe County line; and Pennsylvania Route 940, which passes east–west through the northern portion of the township parallel to I-80 and connects to I-80 and I-476 at the Pocono interchange.

Kidder has one more important road, which connects 903 and 940 via Lake Harmony and Split Rock. The portion between Split Rock and 940, Mosey Wood Road, is a private toll road operated by Vacation Charters Limited, and the portion south to 903 is Lake Drive.

Martz Trailways has a stop in Kidder Township near the Pocono interchange of Interstate 476 for service between Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Allentown, Quakertown, and Philadelphia. This is an Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach route, connecting to Amtrak trains at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. Martz also operates casino bus routes to Atlantic City from the stop.

The Reading, Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad's Lehigh Division line pass through the western portion of Kidder Township.

References

External links

Kidder Township official website
Kidder Township Volunteer Fire Company
Lake Harmony Rescue Squad Ambulance

Populated places established in 1849
Townships in Carbon County, Pennsylvania
1849 establishments in Pennsylvania

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On the occasion of the coming 100thAnniversaries of both the RAF and the RAAF, Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Hillier, the Chief of Staff of the RAF addressed the Williams Foundation Seminar on the shift from the land wars to high intensity conflict and highlighted he saw the challenges and how best to deal with the challenge.
His presentation underscored that even though he was asked to speak about the challenge within the European theater, that in his view the challenges faced by both Australia and Europe are quite similar.
"You asked me to speak about high-intensity warfare in Europe.
"Perhaps I've not really provided that much of that specific geographical context.
"But then as I said right at the start, I don't believe that what I've described can be bracketed within a particular geography.
"The challenges I've described are truly global and truly common to us all. I believe that airpower's inherent characteristics and capabilities make it especially able to respond effectively to those challenges."
A clear driver of the shift is that airpower advantage will have to be fought for and not assumed.
And his way ahead focused very much on leveraging what new platforms we are acquiring but to build out from them to shape new ways ahead to regain strategic advantage.
"But the asymmetric advantage airpower has given us for the last three decades at least, is narrowing.
"The integration into our air forces of fifth generation capabilities such as the F-35 Lighting will only redress the delta to a degree.
"Of equal importance in maintaining our combat edge is this ability to manage vast amounts of information, and make decisions more quickly and more accurately.
"Technological developments will be a key element in ensuring that the lever of the best possible output from our air and space platforms, but our C2 structures, processes, and approach to information sharing will be a decisive factor."
"The human factor will remain incredibly important, but we should strive to maximize our people's decision-making space by relieving them of the trivia.
"And perhaps most important of all, will be our allies and our cooperative efforts to establish the C2 and information-sharing architectures necessary to deliver decisive combat airpower to the right place at the right time.
"This has been our hallmark as air forces and should remain so well into the future if, together, we successfully address the challenges and seize the opportunities."
The Air Marshal provided both an overview of the challenges as seen from his perspective as well as key elements for shaping a way ahead to deal with those challenges.
What follows is an unofficial transcript of his remarks.
I'm delighted also to be here at a time when the Royal Australian Air Force and the Royal Air Force are celebrating their anniversaries, and reflecting on our shared histories. In just 10 days' time the Royal Air Force will be 100 years old. And it offers a moment to reflect on all that we have learned over the past 100 years and the need to look ahead at where we are likely to be in the future.
The focus of this seminar is on future high-intensity warfare, but I think it's perhaps worth pausing for a moment to reflect on the extreme intensity of the warfare in which Britain and Australia and our airmen were engaged exactly a century ago; for they were fighting desperately to halt the German Spring Offensive of 1918.
And the scale of that battle has largely been overshadowed by the even greater scale of earlier First World War losses….
That was then, and I'm not about to suggest to you today that we're likely to see a return to high-intensity warfare of that scale and that sacrifice. But we must accept the fact that the threats to our security and the costs of defending ourselves are rising faster now than at any time since the Cold War. And the Cold War was a period in which we understood the strategic context and our potential adversary pretty well. Things were constantly rather more predictable then than they are now.
It's also rather more complex now, as has been well covered by the earlier presentations. And it's this rapidly shifting strategic developments that make my task today of providing a vision of the future an especially challenging one. As is often said, prediction is hard, particularly about the future.
Now this audience is very well informed about what this new strategic environment looks like, not least from the conversations over the last few days. But let me offer some examples of how this feels at the moment from a British perspective. Just over two weeks ago, a foreign country, Russia, used military-grade nerve agent in an attempt to murder people on the streets of the United Kingdom.
Not only an extraordinarily aggressive and reckless act, but the first offensive use of a nerve agent in Europe since 1945.
Russia's also illegally annexed Crimea, the first time since the Second World War that one sovereign nation has forcibly annexed territory from another in Europe. This is in addition to the appalling destruction, which has been visited on the Syrian civilian population by the Russian military itself, and the criminal activities of the Russian state under Putin in cyberspace and elsewhere; they're well known.
So the post-Second World War consensus that has provided the basis of the rules-based international order and, I might say, peace in Europe, is being challenged and undermined. We must respond, collectively, to reassure our citizens that hostile acts by Russia against our countries, our interests, and our values, will not be tolerated. And closer to home here, we can see many of these same issues and concerns being played out in relation to, for example, North Korea.
So the world is becoming more complex, and threats emanating from state and non-state actors alike are becoming more insidious and unpredictable. And whilst I don't claim for some supernatural foresight, these and other trends offer some useful insight into the operating challenges, which will confront in the near future. They will influence the character of combat and how we perceive and employ air capabilities into the future.
Now although I've been asked to speak about the future of high-intensity warfare in Europe, I'm very conscious, and I'm sure you are, that applying geographical boundaries tempts us to view things in terms that have limited utility in today's geopolitical environment. Airpower doesn't recognize such boundaries, nor do cyber or states. Our adversaries, certainly, do not. So we need to look at the world as it is, rather than how we might wish neatly to divide it.
If for example we were to look at Russia through a European lens alone, we would fail to see the links between what it does in Ukraine, the High North, the Eastern Atlantic, Syria, and East Asia; and in cyberspace. They've given us plenty of clues that their activities are connected. One example, a long-range bomber fight mounted, not only to irritate NATO, but to exercise military effects in Syria and promote Russian influence throughout the region. A flight in November of 2015, for example, Blackjack bombers making an 8,000-mile round trip around Western Europe, through the Straits of Gibraltar, fire cruise missiles at targets in Syria, and then route back via Iran to base in Russia.
And Iran's activities across a wide arc through the Middle East, to the shores of the Mediterranean, are not designed to enhance Western influence and security. For the UK, this adverse influence presents a substantial challenge. Up to 92% of our natural gas imports originate from Qatar, and around a quarter of our crude oil comes from countries with coastlines along the Persian Gulf, commodities which are at constant risk of interdiction by Iran.
These myriad threats, which extend beyond traditional geographical boundaries, place an imperative on air forces to become ever more adaptable, resilient, and nimble, if we are to preempt threats and react decisively, perhaps over lengthy periods of time, in an increasingly time-constrained decision-making space. And we need to get rid of the notion that we can control conflict timelines in the way we've done over the last 30 years. As military planners, we need to treat every moment of peace as a period of grace to use to prepare as well as we can to meet the demands of the next major conflict.
That conflict may not arrive, I hope it doesn't, but it will almost certainly arrive if we do not invest conceptually, physically, and morally in the capabilities that will deliver the required power to deter our adversaries. And to deter, you need to have, and be known to have, the capability and the will to fight. Indeed perhaps that will is the first and most fundamental requirement of high-intensity warfare.
So what does all this mean from a UK and an RAF perspective?
Well perhaps I could offer firstly another fundamental requirement of high-intensity warfare from our perspective, and that's alliances. It's already been touched on earlier today, but for the UK, NATO is fundamental. It gives us our decisive advantage. It's not always easy to work with 27 other nations, but it's something that we have that our adversaries don't. Our adversaries are trying to undermine those coalitions and alliances. We collectively need to work hard to maintain them; they are our strength.
Turning to airpower, we've become rather used, I think, in the post-Cold War era, to the preeminent role of airpower, and combat airpower in particular, has constantly played in advance and protecting our national and multinational vital interests. Its key attributes of speed and reach, and I think it can be argued, the political advantage of impermanence, mean that the deployment of airpower has tended to be the first military response to international crises.
But our successes have imbued too much of our military thinking with the belief that control of the air, and of space, can be an assumed condition for interventions. British forces have not known what it's like to operate without the freedom of maneuver conferred by persistence control of the air since the Falklands Conflict 36 years ago.
The world is changing.
Air Marshal Hillier speaking at the Williams Foundation Seminar, March 22, 2018. Credit Photo: Second Line of Defense
Our strengths have been well and truly spotted by our potential adversaries. Everyone is waking up to the fact that control of the air and space is now contested to a degree that we have not witnessed since the late 1980s. Highly lethal long-range double-digit SAMs are proliferating, and operational fifth generation fighters are no longer the sole preserve of our allies. Indeed Russia have recently deployed an Su-57, its latest generation, to Syria.
And if evidence was needed of our potential adversaries' increasing will to contest the air environment, it was provided in June last year, when Russia declared that coalition aircraft operating west of the Euphrates would be targeted, following the shooting down by a US Navy F/A-18 of a Syrian regime Su-22 that was itself targeting coalition forces.
So we need to get used to the idea that in any future environment, high-intensity warfare or not, control of the air is going to have to be fought for, and fought hard for, if we are to establish that vital freedom of maneuver.
The consequences of failing to achieve this foremost duty of air forces are severe. As Field Marshall Montgomery observed in the Second World War, "If we lose the war in the air, we lose the war, and we lose it quickly." Nothing has changed since, except that today, we could freely substitute "air" with either "space" or "cyberspace," or all three; the sense of the statement remains the same.
Now as airmen, we need to ensure that our joint force colleagues appreciate the importance of control of the air, and the implications for airpower mass and the apportionment of airpower effort….. Our political leaders and our joint colleagues have the right to expect their air forces to dominate the high ground as integral parts of the multi-domain capability range of air forces.
If airpower's relevance and usefulness have never been greater, for this to remain the case into the future demands that we confront some of the emerging threats to its ascendancy. To maintain the combat edge in the Royal Air Force, we are implementing a strategy that will deliver the right technology, the right people, the right processes, to allow us to respond rapidly and decisively to changing threats at all levels of warfare.
We cannot rely on the freedoms that have made our air forces so successful in the recent past. Our potential enemies are becoming too adaptive to give us that luxury.
And we need therefore not only to innovate new technologies, but processes too.
But before I move on to how we might achieve this, it's perhaps worth looking at the emerging challenges to combat airpower's effectiveness further, in high-intensity warfare and more generally.
I've already mentioned the proliferation of advanced fighters, SAMs, counter-space, cyber, and electromagnetic threats. Our adversaries seek to offset our strengths by raising the potential cost of action, and restricting our freedom of maneuver, through the adoption of anti-access and area-denial capabilities.
Our adversaries also seek to degrade our air capabilities by taking advantage of the legal and ethical constraints placed on us by our values, which are pleasingly higher, but are still more restrictive, than those accepted by our opponents.
There are implications from all of this.
Hybrid warfare as we know will continue to be a significant feature of strategically contested environments, in which actors will see to blur the boundaries between peace and war and engagement of attributable and non-attributable activities below the threshold on force conflict. The theme today is clearly high-intensity warfare.
My question might be, how and when do we know we're in one?
So against this strategic backdrop, we have to fight hard to maintain the asymmetric advantage that airpower has conferred on us for so long. But as we've discussed in great detail and quite rightly, important as pure combat capabilities will be, of equal and arguably now of greater significance, is the information platforms that collect, disseminate, and integrate as part of this greater information management whole.
One of the key ingredients of success in combat will be, as indeed it's always been, to ensure that the right capabilities are in the right place at the right time. It will just be more so, much more so, in the future. Our successes will hinge on that decision superiority and being able to exploit technological opportunities.
The pace of that technological change is self evidently accelerating, and the most significant changes are likely to come from the rapid development of these new sensors; novel weapons, including directed energy; artificial intelligence; and automated and remotely operated systems.
I suspect that these developments are indeed likely to be most profound in the air domain, which has always been at the vanguard of technology. As airmen we shouldn't be afraid of this challenge. The Royal Air Force tackled similar problems in the 1930s, which paved the way for the successful defense of our country during the Battle of Britain in 1940. Then as now, information superiority underpinned air superiority and by extension every military endeavor.
But this tsunami of information that ever more sophisticated systems generates presents a challenge that can only be addressed through vastly more agile and adaptable C2 architectures. Against that backdrop of increasing data volumes, the OODA Loop as we've discussed essentially is indeed spinning faster, and we've got to maintain that tighter, faster loop than our adversaries. We need C2 networks that are adaptable, distributed, secure, and assured.
The successful flow of information across joint and multinational boundaries demands that greater collaboration, automation, and integration must be achieved.
We know we need to adopt an information-centric rather than a platform-centric approach to our future capabilities.
This swift and accurate decision-making cannot be the sole preserve of C2 architectures and technological advances. Warfare will be, as it has always been, primarily a human activity, and the making of decisions primarily a human activity, particularly those that involve the use of lethal force.
The important aspects here are to ensure that humans are unburdened by the trivial and presented only with the decisions to which legally, morally, and intellectually they remain uniquely best suited to make.
Which brings me of course to our people, who are already outstanding, and who will continue to give us our decisive edge into the future. The challenge of senior leadership, of a certain generation like mine, is to give our people the opportunity, the freedom, and the incentives to think their way around the problems we face, and allow us to capitalize fully on their enormous powers of innovation.
And finally I would say again, that our successes will depend on like-minded allies sharing values and will as well as capabilities. Our potential adversaries struggle in this respect; I'm delighted that we do not.
So in drawing to a conclusion, we face a world, which is more challenging, and threatening than it has been for a generation. Air, space, and cyber power will remain at the forefront of political choice when our national, or collective interests are at stake.
And perhaps most important of all, will be our allies and our cooperative efforts to establish the C2 and information-sharing architectures necessary to deliver decisive combat airpower to the right place at the right time. This has been our hallmark as air forces and should remain so well into the future if, together, we successfully address the challenges and seize the opportunities.
You asked me to speak about high-intensity warfare in Europe. Perhaps I've not really provided that much of that specific geographical context. But then as I said right at the start, I don't believe that what I've described can be bracketed within a particular geography.
The challenges I've described are truly global and truly common to us all.
I believe that airpower's inherent characteristics and capabilities make it especially able to respond effectively to those challenges.
Finally, again, you asked me to speak about these requirements of high-intensity warfare. The sense I think is that this refers to a potential future state. But perhaps I can offer the recent thoughts of Professor Malcolm Chalmers of the Royal United Services Institute in London. He said recently that the RAF is currently experiencing its longest period of high-intensity operations since the Second World War, especially in the fight against Daesh.
Well he's right. We are busier than we've been for generations.
But that has to be a cause for concern.
Because if my current force is being pushed by a sustained fight against a terrorist organization, we have much work to do if we are to be technologically and in process and people, and resilience and sustainability, with much to do if we are to be ready to deal with the scale and the breadth of threats which we really mean when we speak about high-intensity warfare.
As was so rightly said in one of the earlier presentations, this is a national effort.
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Q: cannot open recordset in vba When this vba code tries to open up the recordset, I get the following error:
Run Time Error '3709'
The connection cannot be used to perform this operation.  It is either closed or invalid in this context.
Set objMyConn = New ADODB.Connection
Set objMyRecordset = New ADODB.Recordset
Dim strSQL As String

objMyConn.ConnectionString = "Driver={SQL Server};Server=localhost\SQLEXPRESS;Database=Contact;Trusted_Connection=True;"
objMyConn.Open

strSQL = "Select * from Contact where Lastname like " + Chr(39) + LastSearch + "%" + Chr(39) + " And Firstname like " + Chr(39) + FirstSearch + "%" + Chr(39)

MsgBox strSQL

objMyRecordset.Open strSQL, cnn, adOpenForwardOnly, adLockOptimistic

A: Add Option Explicit at the top of your module; you'll find the VBE screaming at that undeclared cnn variable.
Your recordset isn't using any open connection - as the error message is saying.
That said you can very well have single quotes inside the string literals; that Chr(39) stuff is just uselessly obfuscating the code.
Also consider using parameters instead. If you're not sure why, read about Little Bobby Tables.

Here's an example:
Option Explicit

Sub Test()
    Dim conn As ADODB.Connection
    Set conn = New ADODB.Connection

    conn.ConnectionString = "Provider='SQLOLEDB';Data Source='INSTANCE NAME';Initial Catalog='DATABASE NAME';Integrated Security='SSPI';"
    conn.Open

    Dim sql As String
    sql = "SELECT Field1 FROM dbo.TestTable WHERE Field3 LIKE '%' + ? + '%'"

    Dim results As ADODB.Recordset
    With New ADODB.Command
        .ActiveConnection = conn
        .CommandType = adCmdText
        .CommandText = sql
        .Parameters.Append .CreateParameter(Type:=adVarChar, Value:="foo", Size:=255)

        Set results = .Execute

    End With

    Debug.Print results(0).Name, results(0).Value

    results.Close
    conn.Close
End Sub

Notice it's the Command that executes off the Connection and returns a Recordset.

A: Here's generic ADODB connection set up
Dim con As New ADODB.Connection
Dim rs As New ADODB.Recordset
Dim strConnection As String

strConnection = "connectionString"
con.Open strConnection
rs.Open "SELECT * FROM Tbl", con

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Q: Responisve Textarea Hello guys i am trying  to make my textarea responsive. But i have really no idea how to do that. I tryied it with width 100% and max-width 600px. My Container also has a width of 600px. With width 100%the textarea gets smaller then the the Container that also has 600px. With max-width 600px the box gets extremly small.
This is my Code:
<div class="container contact">
<textarea class="inputmessage"></textarea>
</div>
.inputmessage{
    float: left;
    border: 2px solid black;
    height: 150px;
    width: 600px;
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.container{
    text-align: center;
    margin: auto;
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    width: 600px !Important;
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A: Make max width on container to 600 px; remove the float.
Check this fiddle.
.inputmessage{
    border: 2px solid black;
    height: 150px;
    width: 100%;
}
.container{
    text-align: center;
    margin: auto;
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Liège (tyska Lüttich; flamländska Luik), är en vallonsk provins i östra Belgien. Huvudstad i provinsen är Liège. Franska är det dominerande språket i provinsen, men i Eupen-Malmedy finns en betydande minoritet som talar tyska. Inom provinsen verkar därför de bägge federala Franska och Tyskspråkiga gemenskaperna. De tysktalande områdena utgör en integrerad del av distriktet Verviers, förutom i rättsliga frågor utgör de utgör det egna distriktet Eupen.

Distrikt och kommuner
Liège är uppdelat i fyra administrativa distrikt (fr: arrondissements) som består av totalt 84 kommuner.

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Q: "DLL load failed" when using mercurial on trac My mercurial repository works correctly in trac when I use the tracd server.
However, when I use apache, I get the following warning at the top of all trac pages:

Warning: Can't synchronize with
  repository "(default)" (Unsupported
  version control system "hg": DLL load
  failed: The specified module could not
  be found.). Look in the Trac log for
  more information.

The trac log doesn't have anything useful except a warning about mercurial being compiled with Python 2.6.2 and the actual version of Python running being 2.6.4.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to solve this?
Versions:

*

*Python 2.6 (binary installer from python.org)

*trac 0.12.2 (using easy_install)

*mercurial (the Windows pre-built binary from tortoisehg)

Apache is running on a Windows XP (32-bit) machine for testing. I have admin rights, but I think that apache is running as Local User.

A: I have the same problem. There is no problem in mercurial package version 1.7.1. The mistake appears in higher versions, up to 1.8.

A: I ran into a similar error when setting up hgweb (no trac). Hopefully this helps you and anyone else doing the same thing and finding this question via Google.
I solved the problem by using the python library mercurial installer instead of the normal windows msi (or tortoisehg) installer ("Mercurial-1.8.1 (32-bit py2.6)" from https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/Download) and ensuring the mercurial libs import line in hgweb.cgi is commented out.


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Clinton hopes for Pakistan cooperation despite Bonn boycott
ReutersPublished November 30, 2011
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. — Photo by AFP
BUSAN: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday she regretted Pakistan's decision to boycott next week's international conference on Afghanistan but hoped to secure Islamabad's cooperation in future.
"Nothing will be gained by turning our backs on mutually beneficial cooperation. Frankly it is regrettable that Pakistan has decided not to attend the conference in Bonn," Clinton told a news conference in South Korea.
Pakistan pulled out of the conference on the future of Afghanistan on Tuesday in reaction to a cross-border attack by Nato that killed 24 of its soldiers and plunged US-Pakistani relations deeper into crisis.
"I would express regret and hope that perhaps there can be a follow-up way that we can have the benefit of Pakistani participation in this international effort to try to work a stable, secure peaceful outcome in Afghanistan."
Clinton stressed that US officials were making every effort to investigate what she called a "tragic incident".
"What is most important I think is that we learn lessons from this tragedy because we have to continue to work together."
PM wants opposition to also face foreign funding trial
Comment: India's historic win at the Gabba is a lesson for those who fear to back new names and fresh faces
PPP slams graft case against Murad, blames NAB for political vendetta


I'm not a fan of the NMP system but will be attending the ArtsComm Town Hall Meeting later during which a person will be chosen as a nominee to represent the Arts. It's happening at 72-13 from 2.30pm. Whether you think having an Arts NMP makes a difference or not, this session should at the very least be an interesting exercise in how the community comes together.


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Her name is Saur Marlina Manurung, an "Indiana Jones" from Indonesia. Indonesian majority public, even abroad, better knows her as Butet Manurung. Generation of 2000 maybe knows her after the publication of Sokola Rimba movie at the end of 2013. A movie that tales Butet's life story as a teacher in the wild.
Butet likes reading, and this passion of reading made her love the world of adventures and at once fostered her potential to be an initiator or a pioneer.
Endowed with reliable intelligence, excel in many school subjects made Butet's heart is moved to help her friends who were left behind. From here, her talent as a teacher is slowly honed. That experience has fostered a rich creativity inside Butet which apparently later would be very useful when Butet teaches in the wild.
As an educator, Butet is principled that a good teacher is a teachers who is able to learn from their students and learn from imperfections of previous teachers. Butet really applied that principle when becoming a teacher for the Anak Dalam tribe in the jungle of Jambi. Butet taught read and write with anthropological approach whilst she studied from her students about the language and the wisdom of the hinterland.
Graduated from the high school, Butet continued her study at Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung. Two fields of study were taken at once. Butet studied whilst giving piano lessons and taught mathematics. After 7 years of college while undergoing up and down the mountains activities and received a letter of threat of drop out, Butet finally won two degrees, anthropology and Indonesian literature.
Butet had worked at a research institution on her campus until one day she saw a job opening from Komunitas Konservasi Indonesia (KKI) Warsi, to become a lecturer for jungle people in Jambi. Butet felt moved and believed that the work is in accordance with the call of her heart. From there Butet started a new stage that changed the whole fate of his life.
From 1999 to 2003, Butet trekked into the jungle interior, becoming a teacher for Anak Dalam tribe in Bukit Duabelas National Park, Jambi. Butet and her students have no permanent classrooms. They studied while sitting on the fallen tree trunk or on the rocks. Butet tried hard to introduce the alphabets and numbers in the jungle people. Her kindness was not as simple as it is accepted. Butet could feel the despair because of the rejection of the indigenous people. They were afraid of being cheated and even assume that education is something that violates custom and culture. But Butet did not give up, and she found that the jungle people needed to be convinced, not to be forced, and so she kept trying.
Four years old struggling together with the jungle people, Butet finally feel the results. Literacy skills make the jungle people have power. Butet argues that literacy can lead indigenous peoples go to anywhere. They will understand the legal issues, especially about illegal logging, they will not easily deceived anymore, they know how to defend their property.
The experience with the jungle people consolidates Butet's steps to work more for indigenous peoples. In 2003, together with four colleagues Butet established an organization called SOKOLA which aims to provide learning opportunities for indigenous communities and marginalized groups in remote areas of Indonesia. During 14 years of establishment, SOKOLA has been active in 15 regions, spread from Sumatra, Sulawesi, NTT to Papua. Some have been able to operate independently or taken over by LSM and local governments. There are still 4 SOKOLA currently running, namely in Jambi, Jember, Kajang and Papua.
SOKOLA has a target of 4 years operating in an area. There are at least 4 or 5 SOKOLA in various indigenous communities. Together with community members, SOKOLA establishes common goals, understands problems and creates success indicators. SOKOLA targets are simple, if indigenous communities are able to solve their own problems, then they have succeeded. In Flores, SOKOLA ran smoothly, the indigenous community was quickly able to solve some of their own problems, such as the problem of fish bombs, making their own rules, the courage of community members to run for village heads, even the female members had dared to speak up in the village forums. Another case with Jambi that has problems that keep changing, so it has been 17 years SOKOLA activity is not completed.
While struggling through SOKOLA, Butet still holds a great vision, namely that indigenous communities or native inland people, have their own curriculum that is different from the conventional curriculum. According to Butet, indigenous peoples tend to be viewed from two opposite sides, a paradox. Because they live in fragile ecosystems, they are considered the best natural guards as well as the worst enemies, as legitimate residents and dangerous encroachers of forest, as a barometer of ecological diversity and just a footnote of economic or political conflict. In Indonesia, this paradox extends into the moral realm. For some, indigenous peoples are pure natural symbols, cultural diversity, simple life symbols. But for others, including for the state, indigenous peoples represent poverty, a symbol of underdevelopment and obstacles to progress.
In addition to fighting for the rights of indigenous peoples, Butet furthermore aspires that volunteerism to become an Indonesian culture. A tough nation is born of a caring society, who help each other unconditionally, empathize with the poor and marginalized and those who are unable to speak out against injustice. Butet wants a voluntary movement develops in Indonesia. According to her, everyone, especially the youth, should have experienced to become a volunteer at least once all their life. According to Butet, being a volunteer should be done before someone pursue the profession he likes. It trains to foster self-worth, train to be happy for volunteering or giving. Volunteering is actually a talent that exists for everyone. Each person can be him or herself if he or she is happy because he or she is beneficial to others.


I am dedicated, supportive, compassionate and have a very caring nature. I have previous experience working in a residential care home working with elderly residents. I'm looking to progress my experience on to be more, I absolutely love working with the elderly and supporting them with their needs and just having little conversations with them to make their day better.


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Q: Wordpress echo link to .php, page not found First, I use shortcode API and put these codes inside wp function.php and it works normally. Here the code;
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Next, for my index.php file. i created code for a link(i need this hyperlink to execute my create.php file on my index.php page) like this..
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and when i click on a hyperlink i got page not found.
I checked url and it's correct. I searched all over the internet and it has yet not found. Any suggestions is really appreciate, thanks in advance.


Goal: To provide a resource guide to assist nurses and other dialysis staff in answering patient questions relating to transplant evaluation, transplant medications, complications of transplantation, and responsibilities of the kidney transplant recipient.
Explain how transplant candidates are medically evaluated and chosen for kidney transplant.
Describe the process of how donor kidneys are selected.
Discuss the various immunosuppressant medications used for post-transplant kidney patients and their side effects.
Define rejection of a transplanted organ.
Explain the overall long-term care of the transplanted kidney.


"As a "dexterous discipline," public health is "perfectly suited to our complex, changing world."
- Thomas Goetz tells U-M SPH class of 2013.
May 8, 2013, release from the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
ANN ARBOR—With smiles as radiant as sunshine outdoors, degree candidates of the University of Michigan School of Public Health marched across the stage of U-M's historic Hill Auditorium on May 2, 2013. One group of jubilant graduates spelled out "G-O B-L-U-E!" on their mortarboards.
Speakers repeatedly reminded the graduating class of the sobering health challenges facing the world, but said that as public health professionals they now have the skills to help solve those problems.
"Indeed, innovation is a hallmark of this institution, and a primary focus of our efforts here today," said U-M SPH Dean Martin Philbert. He presided at the ceremony, which was attended by friends and family who'd traveled from near and far to applaud the achievements of the 413 graduating students, who come from 20 countries and 254 undergraduate institutions throughout the world.
Kenneth E. Warner, the Avedis Donabedian Distinguished University Professor of Public Health and former dean, received the Excellence in Teaching Award, presented by Ph.D. candidate Emily Jean Youatt.
Arline Geronimus, professor of health behavior and health education, received the Excellence in Research Award, presented by Associate Dean for Research Alfred Franzblau.
Amy Schulz, professor of health behavior and health education and associate director of the Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture and Health, received the Eugene Feingold Diversity Award, presented by Judith Compton of the Office of Public Health Practice.
Goetz spoke of the critical role technology now plays in public health in such areas as disease tracking, but he warned the class that "having the data isn't the same thing as having the answers." Asking the right questions, he said, is still the "hardest part" of public health.
After the presentation of graduates, Dean Philbert invited guests to a reception on Ingalls Mall near Burton Towerat which all the plates, cups, napkins, etc. "are made with 100-percent compostable materials." The announcement was greeted with enthusiastic applause.
"You are going to make a difference. You have chosen to dedicate your lives to bettering the health and well-being of your fellow human beings. I know of no greater calling," he concluded.
This year the School of Public Health, in partnership with the U-M School of Information, confers the first Master of Health Informatics (M.H.I.) degree. Other degrees offered by the school include the Master of Public Health (M.P.H.), Master of Health Services Administration (M.H.S.A.), Master of Science (M.S.), and Doctor of Philosphy (Ph.D.).


Kenya Cricket has aquired an international reputation, after achieving some remarkable successes.
The Kenyan national cricket team upsets many countries, even though Kenyan cricket has faced several crises recently.
Kenyan international cricket took off in 1951 with the matches against Uganda and Tanzania (then Tanganyika). Later, these 3 countries joined to form the East Africa cricket team. Kenya was always considered the strongest among them and in 1981 it broke off and joined the ICC as an associate member in it's own right.
In 1996, Kenya performed very well at the Cricket World Cup and the country was given full ODI status. However, the finest moment of Kenyan cricket up to now was the Cricket World Cup of 2003 in South Africa. By defeating Canada, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, among others, Kenya qualified for the Super Six stage.
This way the country became the first non-test nation to get beyond the first round of the Cricket World Cup. By defeating Zimbabwe it then qualified for the semi-final (which it lost to India).
However, Kenya cricket failed to capitalize on this spectacular success. During a tournament at the Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, against Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Zimbabwe, Kenya lost all three matches.
There were also setbacks off the field. Star player Maurice Odumbe was banned for match-fixing in August 2004. Moreover, a number of strikes by top players led to a weakened national team which was eliminated from the inaugural ICC International Cup at the semi-stage final. As a result of these setbacks, by 2005 sponsors had withdrawn their support.
Since then, Kenya cricket is working to come back. The strikes ended and Kenya again entered the semi-finals of the Intercontinental Cup.
Famous Kenyan cricket players are Steve Tikolo, Martin Suji, David Obuya and Thomas Odoyo.


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Home catches fire in California neighborhood
By Sarah Jackson
Published: Jan. 14, 2015 at 10:55 PM EST|Updated: Jan. 21, 2015 at 10:55 PM EST
Lt. Col. Jeff Botner (Source: WAVE 3 News)
LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) – Twenty-five firefighters worked to put out flames for hours after a home caught fire in Louisville's California neighborhood.
The fire was reported by a police officer who happened to drive by the home at the intersection of 17th and West Kentucky Streets around 2 a.m. Wednesday.
[MORE: Fire forces Fern Creek families, pets from apartments]
Within two minutes, fire crews arrived to find the home engulfed in flames.
Louisville Fire Department Lt. Col. Jeff Botner said the weather made fighting the fire more difficult, "The cold weather is terrible when you're playing with water. As you can see we're salting the areas to keep firefighters from slipping. It freezes as soon as it hits the ground. It impedes our work too, and makes it difficult for everybody."
Fire crews did not call control of the fire until almost noon.
The home was vacant and no injuries were reported. The cause of the fire is under investigation.


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Thoughts for Christmas Eve from Fr Willie Doyle
December 24, 2018 December 23, 2018 PK WWI
The following excerpt from O'Rahilly's biography of Fr Doyle recalls Christmas Eve and Midnight Mass during the war in 1916…
Christmas itself Fr. Doyle had the good luck of spending in billets. He got permission from General Hickie to have Midnight Mass for his men in the Convent. The chapel was a fine large one, as in pre-war times over three hundred boarders and orphans were resident in the Convent; and by opening folding-doors the refectory was added to the chapel and thus doubled the available room. An hour before Mass every inch of space was filled, even inside the altar rails and in the corridor, while numbers had to remain in the open. Word had in fact gone round about the Mass, and men from other battalions came to hear it, some having walked several miles from another village. Before the Mass there was strenuous Confession-work. "We were kept hard at work hearing confessions all the evening till nine o'clock" writes Fr. Doyle, "the sort of Confessions you would like, the real serious business, no nonsense and no trimmings. As I was leaving the village church, a big soldier stopped me to know, like our Gardiner Street friend, 'if the Fathers would be sittin' any more that night.' He was soon polished off, poor chap, and then insisted on escorting me home. He was one of my old boys, and having had a couple of glasses of beer — 'It wouldn't scratch the back of your throat, Father, that French stuff' — was in the mood to be complimentary. 'We miss you sorely, Father, in the battalion', he said, 'we do be always talking about you'. Then in a tone of great confidence: 'Look, Father, there isn't a man who wouldn't give the whole of the world, if he had it, for your little toe! That's the truth'. The poor fellow meant well, but 'the stuff that would not scratch his throat' certainly helped his imagination and eloquence. I reached the Convent a bit tired, intending to have a rest before Mass, but found a string of the boys awaiting my arrival, determined that they at least would not be left out in the cold. I was kept hard at it hearing Confessions till the stroke of twelve and seldom had a more fruitful or consoling couple of hours' work, the love of the little Babe of Bethlehem softening hearts which all the terrors of war had failed to touch."
The Mass itself was a great success and brought consolation and spiritual peace to many a war- weary exile. This is what Fr. Doyle says:
"I sang the Mass, the girls' choir doing the needful. One of the Tommies, from Dolphin's Barn, sang the Adeste beautifully with just a touch of the sweet Dublin accent to remind us of home, sweet home, the whole congregation joining in the chorus. It was a curious contrast: the chapel packed with men and officers, almost strangely quiet and reverent (the nuns were particularly struck by this), praying .and singing most devoutly, while the big tears ran down many a rough cheek: outside the cannon boomed and the machine-guns spat out a hail of lead: peace and good will — hatred and bloodshed!
"It was a Midnight Mass none of us will ever forget. A good 500 men came to Holy Communion, so that I was more than rewarded for my work."


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There is nothing surprising about the fierce controversy currently raging over the new Navayana edition of Ambedkar's booklet Annihilation of Caste (AoC) in the cyberspace, including blogs and Facebook, as well as in magazines and newspapers. The introduction of the book has been penned by celebrity writer Arundhati Roy. If the intervention of the high-profile writer in the discourse is the fire, the Dalit intellectuals, by questioning her motives, are adding fuel to it. Needless to say, the more controversial the book becomes, the more it will sell, sending the cash registers of the publisher jingling.
A sermon running into 200 pages as introduction to a 60-page booklet cannot be justified by any stretch of the imagination. This is akin to adding 200 gm alloy to 60 gm pure gold. Arundhati has also written many books. Is the preface of any of her books thrice the length of the book proper? There is a colloquial saying, "Ek Aane Ka Murga, Nau Aane Ka Masala" (One anna chicken, nine anna spices). The blind supporters of Arundhati are dishing out the clichéd attack-on-freedom-of-expression argument to counter the Dalit-bahujan opposition to her piece. My brother, you are misconstruing the democratic right of informed criticism as an attack on the freedom of expression! What is objectionable about any social organization or body of intellectuals saying that they don't agree with what someone has written or said?
Arundhati has led many an agitation demanding that the rights of tribals be protected and that the persons displaced by dams be given their due. Doesn't she have the moral responsibility of not making irresponsible statements? Yes, Ambedkar had indeed burnt the Manusmiriti. But he was not burning a book. He was merely registering his symbolic protest to an inhuman set of values. How can you term any act wrong without giving due consideration to the objectives behind it?
In her bulky introduction, Arundhati writes that, "coincidentally", Ambedkar could find no place in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi. But she puts this only as a fact. She does not criticize it. She finds it only "coincidental", though she does give us a handle to criticize the lapse by referring to the fact that the film was partly funded by the Government of India. Just think, what sort of film is this in which there is not a single scene of Gandhi and Ambedkar coming face-to-face? But she doesn't want to waste even a few words of her 200-page piece on criticizing this major omission.
She has written a lot about Gandhi, trying to prove that he stood taller than Babasaheb. It seems that her primary objective is to draw commercial mileage from the global image of Gandhi. Saffron journalist Arun Shourie had deliberately tried to belittle Ambedkar by writing Worshipping False Gods (1997). Arundhati also seems to be doing exactly that. And that is why, in the written explanation she has proffered in the wake of the controversy, she seems to be on the defensive. Like typical Savarna and Leftist intellectuals, she brands the Bahujan intellectuals criticizing her as incompetent, incapable, aggressive and even terrorists. Ambedkar's book is a reproduction of the speech he was to deliver at an event organised by Arya Samaji Jat-pat Todak Mandal in 1936. When the organizers read his speech, their commitment to breaking the shackles of caste fizzled out. They could not digest Ambedkar's sharp, no-holds-barred assault on the caste system. As a via media, it was suggested that Ambedkar tone down his speech but Ambedkar was not ready to drop or add even a word favouring the perpetuation of the caste system.
It should be remembered that it was only after the non-Bahujans stopped considering literature untouchable – even if unwillingly, grudgingly or out of sympathy – and started writing about Dalit literature that their fortunes changed. Their interaction with society increased and their canvas widened. But don't think that they took up this 'philanthropic' work, which was against their interests, for nothing. Just see, how the Dwijs are milking government institutions, colleges, universities and research bodies in the name of research, study and discourse on Dalits. It is they who are skimming the cream. Even in this field, the leadership is in the hands of the Dwijs. The OBCs are only the followers. There are inherent dangers in the Dwijs being in leading positions. They would like to make the literature toothless by depriving it of its sharpness, mettle, orientation and exclusiveness. History tells us how the progressive, humanistic and intellectual elements of Kabir Panth and Buddhism and Jainism were effaced by the infiltrator Dwijs.
Just out of curiosity, this writer scanned the Patna editions of some newspapers of 15 April 2014 for news relating to celebrations of Ambedkar's birth anniversary. The outcome was revealing. It seemed that only sociopolitical organizations of Bahujans celebrated Ambedkar Jayanti. There was no news item regarding the celebration of Ambedkar Jayanti by members of the Dwij castes and their organizations. On the other hand, the Dwijs celebrate the birth anniversaries of not only Gandhi but also non-Dwij Sardar Patel with great fanfare.
The Hindi newspapers often greet the minority community members on their festivals as representatives of Hindus or the majority community. The attitude of journalists reporting on the Arundhati Roy controversy is similar. They present Roy's views as their own while those differing with her are described as "thinkers". It is clear from the style of their writing that they consider the alternative viewpoint as the 'other view'. In other words, there is an undercurrent of familiarity for Arundhati's arguments and an undertone of hostility towards those with opposing arguments.
A related issue here is, who has the right to speak and write on Bahujans – only those who have experienced the pain or even those who are sensitive to and sympathize with their pain? There can be no clear-cut answer to this question. The importance of personal experience can never be overemphasized. At the same time, expression of sympathy cannot be wished away either. In literature, the capacity to step into someone else's shoes is of paramount importance. Most literature has been written on the basis of experience or knowledge obtained from other persons or any other source. Diaries, autobiographies, travelogues and reportage are based on one's own experience and on the reality. On the other hand, poetry, stories and novels are a mixture of the experience of oneself as well as of others, information obtained verbally or through the written word and imagination.
Literature based on reality is being written but its credibility is low. That is because from the mass of our experience, we include or omit things based on our convenience and our leanings. We distort facts, too. Thus, basically, literature is based on imagination. The biggest advantage of fictional writing is that no one can seek any evidence for the details mentioned in it. On the other hand, writings based on experience or reality can be questioned. If you say anything that is unpalatable or libelous against someone, you may be in for trouble. Evidences can be sought, you can get entangled in court cases and your relations may turn sour.
Incidentally, just like the run-of-the-mill Dwij and Leftist anti-Dalit writers, Arundhati has raised the petty objection that if non-Dalits cannot write about Dalits then how can any non-Mahar Dalit write on Ambedkar, who was a Mahar. Clearly, this famous writer harbours the same biases about Dalit literature that are harboured by the ordinary Dwij writers. These writers and their diehard supporters can never concede that there can be any shortcoming in what the Dwijs are writing about Dalits and that their works are anything short of the absolute truth. Moreover, they are unwilling to give non-Dalits the right to pick holes in their writings. The same mindset was at the root of the ideological clash between Gandhi and Ambedkar.
As far as acceptance or otherwise of non-Dalits in Dalit literature is concerned, the fact is that a major part of Dalit literature has been penned by non-Dalits and they include both Dwijs and OBCs. Ambedkarite ideology is the foundation stone of Dalit literature and Ambedkarite ideology includes all humanistic thoughts and ideologies and their proponents. Did Dalit literature not accept Buddha, who was a Dwij? Does it not accept Karl Marx and Rahul Sankrityayan? Some writings of many a Dwij writer like Premchand, Nirala, Muktibodh and Nagarjun are unanimously accepted as part of Dalit literature even though all of them were Dwijs. Without Bahujan personalities like Kabir, Raidas, Phule and Periyar – and, in modern times, Rajendra Yadav, Prem Kumar Mani, Ramanika Gupta, Rajendra Prasad Singh and Chauthiram Yadav – Dalit literature and Dalit consciousness cannot even be imagined. Just flip through any Dalit magazine and you will find Dalit, OBC and Dwij writers sharing the space.
If Dalit literature gives more importance to self-experience and insists that it is its axis, its inner soul, while sympathy forms its periphery and integral part of it, why should anyone have any objection to it?


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Austramathes coelacantha is a species of moth in the family Noctuidae. It is endemic to New Zealand and is found in the central and east  of the South Island. It lives in shrubland in inland areas as well as in Southern beech forest at subalpine altitudes. The life history of this species is unknown as are the host species of its larvae. However the larval host-plants may be species within the genus of Melicytus. Adult moths are on the wing during the months of January to March. They are attracted to light and appear to be active later in the evening, and not at twilight.

Taxonomy
This species was first described by Robert J. B. Hoare in 2017. The male holotype specimen was collected by Troy Watson at Mitchells Cutting in the Upper Clarence Valley in Marlborough. This specimen is held at the New Zealand Arthropod Collection.

Description
The adult male moth has a wingspan of between 24 and 27 mm where as the female moth has a wingspan of between 28 and 30 mm. Hoare states it can be easily distinguished from other species in the genus Austramathes as a result of its "greyish ground-colour, lack of hook-shaped mark from the base of the forewing costa, the large, closely approximated orbicular and reniform stigmata, and the black thorn-like mark from the costa between these."

Distribution
This species is endemic to New Zealand and it inhabits the central and eastern parts of the South Island.

Habitat
This species lives in shrubland in inland areas as well as in Southern beech forest at subalpine altitudes.

Behaviour
Adult moths are on the wing during the months of January to March. They are attracted to light and appear to be active later in the evening, and not at twilight.

Host-plant

The life history of this species is unknown as are the host species of its larvae. However Hoare hypothesizes that the host plants of the larvae of A. coelacantha are in the genus Melicytus.

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Cuculliinae
Moths described in 2017
Moths of New Zealand
Endemic fauna of New Zealand
Taxa named by Robert Hoare
Endemic moths of New Zealand


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