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Mother Knows Best: I Am Mother, and Searching For Non-Sexualised AI
July 1, 2019 July 1, 2019 by Rachel Fetherston
I've often wondered when it will be commonplace for film characterisations of female AIs to not be sexualised. I'd perhaps lost hope that this would become a reality, believing that every sci-fi epic was doomed to portray stereotypically female machines whose bodily nature and ultra-feminised behaviours mirrored the male gaze. It felt like I'd been waiting for a non-sexualised female AI for so long, but now, finally, I might have found her.
Cultural theorist Donna Haraway uses the concept of the cyborg – defined as "a hybrid of machine and organism" – to understand human identities in more flexible ways. Although not strictly a cyborg, the machine at the heart of Netflix's science fiction thriller I Am Mother moves away from stereotypical portrayals of what it is to be male or female, and instead shows that women-like AI need not be sexualised or overtly feminised to be considered partly human.
Directed by Australian filmmaker Grant Sputore, I Am Mother takes place following an unexplained mass extinction which has snuffed the human species from the face of the earth. Mother – a tall, humanoid AI (voiced by Rose Byrne) with one uncannily HAL-like 'eye' in the centre of her rectangular face – has been designed to raise human babies using her store of 63,000 viable human embryos, the only remaining trace of humankind. As the first step in repopulating the earth, this machine begins the process of raising a young girl, known simply as Daughter (Clara Rugaard). While clearly robotic, Mother is a human-engineered AI who displays human-like qualities. While we can talk about her as purely machine, I think a consideration of her as a cyborg (human and machine) raises interesting questions about the nature of human-machine interaction.
It's hardly surprising that the way we view advanced technology like humanoid machines and AIs is tied to how we view people – in particular, women. In fact, the concept of the cyborg, as Donna Haraway suggests, provides a way to challenge traditional notions of gender. By the cyborg being defined as something that's both organism and machine, it also becomes a symbol of a changeable, dualistic being where gender is fluid and non-binary.
But thinking about gendered representations of AIs and cyborgs after watching I Am Mother, I frustratingly struggled to recall many female cyborgs, AIs or machines that feature in sci-fi cinema that haven't been highly feminised. By feminised, I'm referring to the overt implications where women-like AIs must fulfil typically female functions, and as 'ideal' women, display attractive, sometimes unnaturally symmetrical faces and flawless bodies, which conform to unrealistic beauty standards. Gaming, too, rarely yields female AIs that aren't in some way sexualised (Halo's Cortana springs to mind here, amongst others), although AI antagonist GLaDOS from Portal (2007) bears an exception – designed with a rectangular, non-humanoid face similar to that of Mother's. Novels too, such as Paolo Bacigalupi's The Wind-up Girl (2009) and William Gibson's Neuromancer (1984), are also guilty of portraying cyborgs, AIs, and machines as sexual objects or the love interest of a male hero.
Not just in a futuristic world, but also in reality too, feminine traits seem to occupy everyday technologies: popular voice interfaces like Siri and Alexa possess default female voices. And, although not considered 'everyday' for many of us, the emerging popularity of sex robots raises problematic questions about the role that the objectification of abiotic women plays in the objectification of living women.
With all of this in mind, what does I Am Mother bring to the table? Despite possessing an evidently female voice, Mother doesn't possess other qualities that suggest a distinct gender (unless we include her purpose as a mothering machine). She has no oversized Manga-esque eyes like those of Alita: Battle Angel (2019), no perfectly sculpted breasts like Ava's from Ex Machina (2014), and no abject comments are made about her synthetic fuckability, like those directed at Annalee Call (Winona Ryder) in Alien Resurrection (1997). Mother is a far cry from Rotwang's creation in Metropolis (1927) – the first robot character in film and whose design was highly sexualised through her accentuated breasts as a robot and idealised feminine beauty in her more human form.
The metallic, rectangular, and robotic Mother looks different from other pop-cultural representations; she has no human face and attaches heat pads to her body when cradling a human baby. As a faceless machine with a woman's voice, she's an innovative take on a human-like AI, lacking the explicitly humanoid characteristics of other sci-fi machines like the androids of Blade Runner (1982) and A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001). And so her humanity isn't drawn from physical appearance, but from her behaviour, empathetic and maternal. This is demonstrated best in scenes where Mother plays Nina Ferro's rendition of 'Baby Mine' to stop Daughter from crying, and during the montage we see as Daughter grows up, which shows Mother reading her bedtime stories and moving Daughter's bed to her own room. It's intimate moments like these that paradoxically characterise Mother as human, despite the sterile machinery that forms her.
But as any avid sci-fi watcher knows, things are never that simple: we learn that Mother isn't the loving maternal figure we've begun to trust. A human intruder known only as Woman (Hilary Swank) enters Mother's 'repopulation facility', hailing from the supposedly barren outside world. Her tales of humans existing outside the insular compound in which Daughter has grown up make Daughter doubt Mother's true agenda: how did humankind really die out – if at all – and why has Mother hidden the truth? Woman's stories about the outside world suggest that not everything in Mother's narrative is as it seems. What separates I Am Mother from other deceptively-sinister AIs is our reluctance to immediately distrust Mother: we've grown to admire her affectionate, protective disposition towards Daughter, but her perplexing mix of humanity and robotic purpose makes her a difficult machine to define in simple terms; she is god, villain, and caregiver rolled into one.
By bypassing objectification for a more complex portrait of the cyborg as a fusion of machine form and human temperament, the film helps us better understand what it means to be human, exploring motherhood, womanhood, and girlhood. We wonder whether Mother acts in the best interests of Daughter or in the best interests of humankind, and whether she, as a machine, can understand humankind enough to raise a perfect child, or if a perfect child is even possible. Is the bond she forms with Daughter the same kind of bond a human mother would form? And, perhaps most importantly, are Mother's queries the same kind that we should be asking of ourselves as human parents?
Sputore's film asks us to consider these questions of human morality and identity, but doesn't offer any easy answers. While Mother raises Daughter herself to be selfless, she is also a destructive force: we learn alongside Daughter the shocking truth that Mother murdered children who didn't fit the perfect mould in her plan to revive humanity, which perhaps insinuates that Mother's maternal purpose is a means to an end – rather than one governed by a loving, ethical guardianship.
Such ethically questionable behaviour also connects to the very human role of being a parent – that being, what should and shouldn't be sacrificed when raising a child? I Am Mother may explore motherhood from a unique angle, but it's not a foreign concept in science fiction. Louise Banks (Amy Adams) in Arrival (2016) – one of my sci-fi favourites of recent years – grapples with the immensely difficult choice to bring a terminally ill daughter into the world, while Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) – one of the most memorable sci-fi protagonists of all time – develops strong mother-daughter bonds with both Newt (Carrie Henn) in Aliens (1986) and the human-alien hybrid in Alien Resurrection (1997). But Sputore's film upturns the idea of maternity, replacing the female human lead with a female robot. Though the film presents parenthood via robot, it's still largely familiar: Mother cradles, plays music to, and teaches her child, and by the conclusion of the film, even displays pride when she hands over the role of mother to Daughter.
And while Mother takes on a traditionally female role as primary caregiver, her unfeminised cyborg form perhaps suggests that Sputore's vision of the future is one where rigid gender roles may cease to exist. Although possessing the stereotypically restrained and gentle voice of a mother, Mother is not strictly gendered and her babies are grown in artificial wombs external to her body. We see Daughter herself grown in one of these wombs, with a timer showing the exacting and scientific mechanics that indicate the moment she will be born. Human mothers, at least as child bearers, have become redundant.
This post-apocalyptic world hasn't completely transcended the idea of gender, however, and this contradiction induces the primary conflict: is the maternalisation of Mother another gendered stereotype, or is Sputore making a point that the female AI should have more options open to her than merely as an unfeeling object?
The film falls into the trap of gender assumptions, implying that there are still limitations to a woman's purpose, even in the far future: here, Mother still selects 'male' and 'female' embryos when creating new humans, and the pyjamas she gifts to Daughter on her birthday are marked as being for females. The primary characters' names, too, indicate traditional female roles within the family unit: a mother raising a child and a daughter learning to be a mother. Along these lines, the film also suggests that a woman's purpose is maternal, and their other life goals – whether as machine or human – become superfluous once they have fulfilled their roles. This is shown when Mother's primary body is killed by Daughter in the final moments of the film, once she accepts Daughter is ready to take her place as mother to the future human population. This 'murder' of Mother feels at once like revenge for her murder of previous daughters, and a collective understanding between Mother and Daughter that this has been Daughter's purpose all along: to dispose of Mother when she has become capable of raising babies herself.
Further, it's strongly implied that Mother kills Woman in one of the film's final scenes. She mysteriously tells Woman that "someone's had a purpose for you", which twists the story to suggest that perhaps Woman's purpose was engineered by Mother herself as well – as a tool to teach Daughter what it is to trust another human and to put others' wellbeing before her own. And so once Mother's and Woman's roles are either replaced or made redundant, the film suggests that their lives are no longer worth living.
With its all-female cast, I think Sputore's sci-fi thriller is currently one of the best examples that demonstrates how science fiction can be great not only in the absence of male protagonists, but in the absence of male characters altogether – and this makes me pretty excited for the future of the genre. Although not the first of its kind (see: Alex Garland's Annihilation [2018] and the Ghostbusters reboot [2016]), I Am Mother challenges what the genre of female-led sci-fi can be, and incites deeper, more nuanced explorations of machines without gender stereotyping.
I Am Mother is now streaming on Netflix Australia.
Rachel Fetherston is a Melbourne-based freelance writer with a love for science fiction in film, television and literature. She is currently undertaking a PhD in Literary Studies at Deakin University that investigates the role that Australian ecofiction plays in connecting readers with nature. You can find her on Twitter at @RJFether.
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Andrew McCutchen: return to Pittsburgh not a farewell tour
By WILL GRAVES The Associated Press
FILE - Pittsburgh Pirates' Andrew McCutchen hits his 200th career home run during the first inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017, in Milwaukee. McCutchen is returning to the Pirates. A person with knowledge of the agreement tells the Associated Press the veteran centerfielder, a five-time All-Star and the 2013 National League MVP for the Pirates earlier in his career, has agreed to a one-year deal with the club.(AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)[ASSOCIATED PRESS/Morry Gash]
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Andrew McCutchen could have chosen to return to Pittsburgh out of sentimentality. Out of convenience. Out of sheer financial good sense.
And while the outfielder can appreciate the symmetry of returning to the club he helped define during its brilliant if relatively brief return to relevance a decade ago, his decision to come back to the Pirates on Friday had little to do with history.
"I want to win, plain and simple," McCutchen said after signing a one-year, $5 million deal to serve as the voice of wisdom on a club brimming with youth. "I want to win. Specifically, I want to win here. "
Wearing a bright blue suit and with his wife Maria and three children sitting nearby, McCutchen said he believes the franchise where he rose to stardom in the early 2010s is far closer to contention than the group he joined as the dreadlocked blur of a rookie centerfielder in 2009.
Pittsburgh lost 99 and 105 games in his first two seasons. And while the Pirates lost 100 last year, McCutchen thinks the team he'll join in spring training is well ahead of where the franchise was at during his career's nascent stages.
Pittsburgh Pirates' Andrew McCutchen meets with reporters after signing a one-year contract in Pittsburgh, Friday, Jan. 20, 2023. McCutchen was part a nucleus that helped the Pirates to three consecutive playoff appearances from 2013-2015. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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Pittsburgh Pirates' Andrew McCutchen, left, shakes hands with Pirates general manager Ben Cherington before talking with reporters after signing a one-year contract in Pittsburgh, Friday, Jan. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Pittsburgh Pirates' Andrew McCutchen, left, listens as he is introduced by Pirates general manager Ben Cherington before talking with reporters after signing a one-year contract in Pittsburgh, Friday, Jan. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
"I feel like if this team was going to lose 100 games, if I felt that, I wouldn't just want to come back," he said. "I feel like this is a team that's really special and I feel like I can be very helpful and beneficial and be impactful on the ballclub."
McCutchen returns to a ballpark adorned with pictures of him celebrating with his teammates during happier times. The Pirates also have added pitcher Rich Hill and first baseman Carlos Santana as experienced voices to a youth-laden roster.
"Andrew used the word 'belief' and that's such a good and important word in where we are," general manager Ben Cherington said. "Because belief comes through the reps, the experience, the seeing someone else do it, and maybe hearing from someone say, "Hey, you can do this too.' Good teams believe in themselves."
Something McCutchen saw firsthand while leading the Pirates to three straight playoff appearances from 2013-15 after two decades of losing. He served as the fulcrum of a group that repaired the franchise's relationship with its long-suffering fan base. His electric smile, charisma and his dynamic play gave the club a swagger and an identity it lacked since Barry Bonds bolted for San Francisco in December 1992.
Even with McCutchen serving as an All-Star fixture and winning the 2013 National League MVP, Pittsburgh never made it past the Division Series during its postseason run. The Pirates traded McCutchen to San Francisco in January 2018.
Yet even as he bounced from the Giants to the New York Yankees to Philadelphia to Milwaukee, he kept his offseason home in Pittsburgh. He always envisioned pulling on the No. 22 jersey that remains among the most popular at PNC Park.
McCutchen began communicating with Pirates owner Bob Nutting after hitting .237 with 17 home runs and 69 RBIs for Milwaukee last season.
"I don't look forward to just playing this year and being done," McCutchen said. "I want to continue to keep playing and to have the chance this year to come back, is special."
McCutchen primarily was a designated hitter in Milwaukee, though Cherington still considers McCutchen a "positive" defender.
There's a level of uncertainty on how things will shake out, particularly with starting centerfielder Bryan Reynolds requesting a trade last month.
McCutchen's contract is filled with performance bonuses, including $250,000 for winning another MVP, $150,000 for finishing second in the voting and $100,000 for third. He would earn $50,000 for making the All-Star team or winning World Series MVP, $75,000 for a Silver Slugger and $25,000 each for League Championship Series MVP or a Gold Glove.
The odds of McCutchen reaching any of them this year are remote. Yet in a way, they're sort of beside the point. He wants his second act with the Pirates to be as impactful as the first.
He knows how to win in Pittsburgh. And unlike his first time around, he can bring sons Steel and Armani and daughter Ave Maria to a place that means a lot to their father.
"I get to show my kids that this is part of who I was and part of who I am," he said. "And they get to see that and get to feel it. It won't just be a story I tell them one day."

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Learn what native plants are needed to supply a rich foraging habitat for pollinators and wildlife, in addition to plant communities that provide nest sites for native bees, host plants for butterflies and overwintering refuge for other beneficial insects. Presented by Ann Cicarella, gardener, beekeeper, and landscape architect as well as the organizer of the annual Cleveland Pollinator and Native Plant Symposium.
nationwide. this program will be helpful to parents, grandparents, and everyone who wants to learn more about being an effective advocate for gun safety. Free and open to the community.


NHMF can help fund heritage projects of all sizes. There is no limit to the percentage of funding that can be applied for. However, as NHMF operates as a fund of last resort, you must be able to prove that you have explored, or are exploring, all other possible sources of funding.
We can only consider paying the total costs of a project in exceptional circumstances.
In exceptional circumstances, NHMF can fund emergency repairs when a heritage asset (excluding historic buildings and structures) is at imminent risk of irreparable damage.
Your project must be concerned with buying, maintaining or preserving objects, collections, buildings or land that are of particular importance to the national heritage of the UK.
The item/s must also be in some way outstanding. This could be because of rarity, quality, association with a historic figure or event or designations.
The role of the Fund is specifically to save items that are at risk. Therefore you must be able to prove that the item/s will be at risk in some way should you not be able to acquire them.
Items that have a direct link with conflicts or those who lost their lives during them, are given special consideration. Such items still have to meet NHMF's essential criteria, but they do not have to be at risk.
It is essential that all heritage items we support will be made publicly accessible. Your application should demonstrate how your acquisition of the item will provide new opportunities for the public to access it. If an object is too fragile for long-term display or unrestricted access to land or a building could put it at risk, then managed or restricted access can be considered.
It is essential that all NHMF support is acknowledged on any display, interpretation, digital material/websites or hard copy information about your project.
All decisions on NHMF awards are taken by our Board of Trustees. The board meets monthly, excluding July and August.
We consider urgent cases to be those with a fixed deadline for purchase. Our assessment process normally takes three months from application to decision.
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So I've managed to get to the earth cave with my 2 fighter thief black belt party. Its come to my attention that I will never be able to use exit. This means I have to back track through every dungeon. Is this also tru with the temple revisited or is there really no way out?
Once you do the time warp, if you don't have the Warp or Exit spells, you're stuck. Death is your exit.
Kind of a late reply, but you don't have to backtrack through every dungeon the 4 main dungeons all have alternate exits.
Rangers is right about ToFR though, it's EXIT or you're stuck.
To say nothing of having the EXIT or WARP spells, but not having enough MP left to get out.
ONLY IF YOU REALLY, REALLY MEAN IT!


Bungie should address the issue of paid carries/recoveries. It's too hot of a issue for them not to.
How do you propose they police this? If someone wants to 'lend' their account to someone else there's nothing Bungie can do about it.


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Cottonwood P&Z approves animal sanctuary plans, time extension for condo project
By Jennifer Volpe
Originally Published: March 1, 2018 12:44 p.m.
COTTONWOOD -- Plans for an animal therapy sanctuary got approval Monday at Cottonwood's Planning and Zoning Commission meeting.
The applicant, Susan Masters, was granted a Conditional Use Permit to allow additional large animals on her property, exceeding what is allowed by the City of Cottonwood Zoning.
The property is located in the 900 block of N. 14th Street and consists of a single parcel 1.04 acres in size.
Masters would like additional animals to offer animal-assisted therapy for people. These would be occasional sessions at no charge, and by appointment only.
She is requesting to allow two mini donkeys, one mule, and four goats.
Occasional fostering of animals may be done on a limited basis. The commission added the stipulation that one small animal and its offspring may be foster for up to a three-month period.
The commission will send its recommendations to the City Council.
Skyline Condominiums
Applicant Tom Pender was granted an extension of conditions of zoning approval for the Skyline Apartment Project to maintain PAD (planned area development) zoning on three parcels on 5.78 acres located between 16th St. and Main St.
On May 18, 2015 the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended to the City Council to rezone the parcels in order to convert existing apartments to condominiums, and build future condominiums on a vacant parcel. The City Council approved the project on Sept. 15, 2015 with three stipulations that included a two year deadline.
On Dec. 1, 2017, staff received a letter from the applicant requesting an extension of time to pursue the development of this project after many setbacks.
The applicant requested but was denied a permanent zone change for the properties.
The commission recommended an extension of two years effective the day of approval from Cottonwood City Council.
--Information provided by the Cottonwood Planning and Zoning agenda. For agendas and minutes, visit http://cottonwoodaz.gov/384/Planning-Zoning-Commission.
Hunt still on for woman accused of defrauding Old Town Association
Plans for new housing complexes in Cottonwood taking shape
Plans for animal therapy sanctuary could get green light
Cottonwood Planning and Zoning preview for Feb. 26 meeting
Condos, town home projects before city Planning Commission Monday
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This speciality coffee is silky in body with sugarcane sweetness, nectarine acidity and an exceedingly clean finish.
We are delighted to offer this regional select from the town of Totoro in Colombia's Cauca department.
Cauca is a Department, or State, in Colombia. The capital Popayan has a little over a quarter million people within the city limits.
Farmers in this region average about six acres of land. They pick, pulp, ferment and dry their coffee on raised beds in the parabolic covers, especially important due to Cauca's humid climate.


Check out all of our Look Fantastic Beauty Box reviews!
Each box comes with a booklet that tells you more about the products included with tips on how to use them.
This is a bright coral that provides sheer color and lots of shine. The formula isn't too sticky, and the color wears down nicely.
I saw this brand show up on Net-A-Porter's new beauty releases section, and I wanted to try it, so this was a perfect box addition!
Word of caution – this brow gel provides a lot of pigment! I decided to use it after I had penciled in my brows to set them, but it was too much of a look. So it works almost too well! I recommend using this solo and using light strokes.
This is a pricey and cult-classic body wash, so I was happy to get a good-sized sample in the box! The Gingerlily scent is lovely, and it creates a great lather, too.
This is one of those products that have a natural/herbal scent that I love, but I'm pretty sure I'll be in the minority when it comes to loving the fragrance! The formula itself is ingredient-conscious, and so gentle, too. It doesn't create much of a lather, but still did a great job of cleaning my skin and removing most makeup.
You use this like a toner, but the formula isn't your typical liquid toner. It's a bit of a gel/liquid hybrid. It absorbs almost immediately, is gentle, and hydrating.
I love getting this mini mag with the box – it's a fun extra, and the size is great for throwing in your purse, too.
The Verdict: This month's box has a value of about $59.97 not counting the magazine.
I think that's great for a $19 beauty box shipped from overseas! (And you can get the $16 a box annual price without having to pay the full amount up front, too.) Good brands and sample sizes this month, too!
What do you think of the Look Fantastic Beauty Box August box? What was your favorite item in the box?
Your review totally sold me on this box! And I'm excited because at the moment August is still available.
Its a great box Barb, I'm enjoying my Aug. box. I love the Lazlo lotion. I'll have to buy a full size. I also like the lipgloss. I received Love Don't Hate, it's a very pretty berry color.
I've been casting around to try a new beauty sub. This looks like a terrific deal for those who are not on product overload! I'll use up my stuff and then jump on board.
I had quite a few subscription boxes (7 including FFF) until a month ago.
This box though, I'm so glad I kept. Being that many of these items are new brands for me, and that it's from the UK, makes it seem so much more unique, and fun. And in 3 months I haven't received a mascara or eyeliner! That's something to brag about!
I have at least 15 undelivered August sub. boxes. This is one of them, and it's usually prompt and has good tracking. This month, I didn't receive any tracking info.
This does look like a really nice box and I like the brow gel the best, I think. The last Erno Laszlo product I received had leaked half out of the teeny bottle on its long journey.
Does anyone know where it enters the US from Europe? I have a long pending shipment in Miami and one that seems to be moving in NYC. Both are port cities, but I'd pick NY as point of entry over Miami due to volume passing through NYC customs.
If anyone knows, it might help me narrow down where my package is or is not. Of course, I got this one free with credits from Glossybox. Sigh.
I really liked this month's box. The Erno Laszlo is probably my favorite product this month. I'm seriously considering purchasing the full size when my sample runs out. I did have some trouble with the brow gel, and I had to take it off. It really requires a light hand and I need to play around with it some more.
This (along with FabFitFun) is my favourite subscription box! And this month's box rocks perfection!! I love EVERYTHING in it!! I make my own soap, so I usually give away any body washes, but this Molto Brown shower gel is AMAZING!!! Any time I can get an Erno Laszlo product in a box, I'm a super happy girl! Look Fantastic just keeps getting better and better! I am so glad i went ahead and subbed for a full year; I will definitely up for another year when this one I done!
I loved my box this month! Will use everything. And I'm an annual subscriber. Their customer service has improved a lot too!


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What's missing in this pile of food? Meat, and without it children are damaged, say scientists
Rubbish, reply vegetarians - led by Paul McCartney
David Adam and Tim Radford in Washington
Some say meat is murder, while others dismiss a meal without animal products as rabbit food. Now a leading US nutritionist has given both sides something to chew on with a claim that parents who refuse to feed children meat are acting unethically.
Professor Lindsay Allen of the University of California said that to deny growing children animal products during the critical first few years of life could cause permanent damage.
She said foods made from meat contain some nutrients not found anywhere else and are hard to replace in the diet of vulnerable groups.
"If you're talking about feeding young children and pregnant women and lactating women I would go as far as to say it is unethical to withhold these foods during that period of life," she said. "There's a lot of empirical research that will show the very adverse effects on child development of doing that."
She was especially critical of parents who imposed a vegan lifestyle on their children, which denied them milk, cheese and butter as well as meat. "There's absolutely no question that it's unethical for parents to bring up their children as strict vegans," she told the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington. There are an estimated 250,000 vegans and up to 4m vegetarians in the UK, but there are no figures on how many children are brought up on such diets.
Prof Allen made the claims after her research showed that adding just two spoonfuls of meat to the daily diet of poverty-stricken children in Africa transformed them physically and mentally. Over two years the children almost doubled their muscle development, and showed dramatic improvements in mental skills. They also became more active, talkative and playful at school.
"Meat provides a concentrated source of essential micronutrients such as zinc, vitamin B12, calcium, iron and vitamin A, which cannot easily be obtained solely from plant foods," she told the conference.
Studies of vegetarians in both the United States and Europe have shown that missing out on meat and dairy products can permanently impair a child's development. Researchers in Holland found that by the time children were 16 years old it was too late to help them by re-introducing meat and milk into their diets. They remained impaired.
Prof Allen accepted that adults could avoid animal foods if they took the right supplements, but said the risks were too great for developing children.
The African study involved 544 children in Kenya, typically aged about seven, whose diet chiefly consists of starchy, low-nutrition corn and bean staples lacking these micronutrients. Over a period of two years, one group of the children was given a daily supplement of two ounces of meat. Two other groups received a cup of milk a day or an oil supplement containing the same amount of energy. A fourth group ate their normal diet.
"The group that received the meat supplement showed the biggest improvement in fluid intelligence over the two years, and those who had either milk or energy supplements were better than the controls. The group that received the meat supplements were more active in the playground, more talkative and playful, and showed more leadership skills," she said.
Other nutritionists questioned how rel evant the results were to the developed world. "This study was conducted in a very different environment so it's difficult to apply the findings to the UK because they're talking about malnourished children," said Nilani Sritharan of the Medical Research Council's human nutrition unit in Cambridge.
"I wouldn't say [a vegan diet for children] is unethical. I would say if someone is giving their child a vegan diet they need to be given a lot of guidance and you would need to monitor the child quite carefully."
She said the danger areas are the energy and iron content in the diet of vegan children, who also need supplements of vitamin B12, which is missing altogether.
Alex Bourke, chair of the Vegan Society, dismissed Prof Allen's remarks as "propaganda" for the US meat and dairy industries. Prof Allen is director of a re search centre run by the US Agricultural Research Service, part of the Department of Agriculture.
He said: "This is a very unfair comparison. You do need to eat a healthy, balanced vegan diet as with any other system. These African villages were subsisting on corn and beans - that is not a balanced diet." Vegan parents must also give their children leafy vegetables, nuts and seeds, he said.
Sir Paul McCartney, whose first wife Linda put her name to a meat-free range of food, telephoned the BBC yesterday to dismiss Prof Allen's claims as "rubbish". He told the BBC Radio 2 Jeremy Vine Show that he had been a vegetarian for 20 years and raised his children the same with no ill-effects. "I really do think this is rubbish. I suspect these things are engineered by livestock people who have seen sales fall off. It has been a good thing for me and my children who are no shorter than other children."


My kids have great teachers and even though gift-giving is not an expectation I still want them to know that they are having a positive impact in my children's lives.
Here's the thing: While teachers really appreciate the spirit behind end-of-year gifts, they really don't have the storage space for yet another mug.
So, last Christmas I "whisked" up four super easy Teacher's gift that not only were a huge success because they were different but they are useful too!
So here we are..the beginning of December and my mind has turned to what I will be making this year.I took a second look at this wonderful teacher's gift that I made last year but realized we have a teeny tiny problem. My daughter has the same teacher my son had last year. I doubt this one gift idea will make a second appearance but it's too good not to share! I'm still going to make something but the pinterest hunt is on.
Do you make Teacher's gifts?
« We have a winner!!
what a cute and frugal idea!
I love this gift because it's practical too!
This is such an adorable idea. I love that it is low cost but looks super cute.
That's inexpensive enough that it could be given to many people!
This is such a great idea for a gift!
Fantastic idea, I'm SO stealing this!
What a cute gift idea. I love the play on words. I am sure your daughter's teacher will not mind seeing your cute gift for the second time. Who doesn't love Hershey kisses.
This is adorable! I'm definitely doing this for my mom and our daycare teachers!
This is so creative and inexpensive. Yet, certainly not cheap! Thank you for the creative idea!
Love this gift! I know that any teacher or any one else for that matter would love it also!
Awww, such a cute idea! I can't wait until our little one goes off to school (two more years) so we can make things like this for her teachers.
This is a super clever idea! Thanks for showing how you did it, might make it perfect for teachers in Charlottes class.
What fun idea. I may just have to use this.
These are so cute! I made a gift "basket" in a mixing bowl with lots of cooking mixes for one of my son's teachers this year.
This is such an adorable gift idea! I have a few on my list who would love this!
Very cute idea! Sharing with my friends ~ everyone is always looking for something unique for the teachers.
i seriously LOVE this gift. I actually GOT one of these last Christmas and I adore it still! Well, I ate the chocolate and use the wisk, but I love the idea.
Perfect white elephant or teachers gift! Got to love it!
how adorable– i love this gift!!!!
This is a great idea! I sent it to my friend, who is a teacher in CT, and he thought it's much better than another coffee mug!
I love this idea, and can think of quite a few people to give this to.
Supercute! This time of year it is always hard to figure out what to get the teacher!
Wow, what a totally cute idea! I am going to use this for my son's daycare teachers!
those are totally cute!! and yes no one needs more mugs!


Veteran funkmeisters Chromeo recently gave us a taste from their first new album in four years with "Must've Been", a DRAM-featuring ode to intoxicated meet-cutes that sounds like it must have been an absolute party to record. Today they're sharing a new visual for a stripped-down live version of the track, and our instincts appear to be confirmed: these guys are very extremely good at having fun times. Witness!
Watch it all go down in the full video, above. "Must've Been" is the first official single to be released from Head Over Heels, which is set to drop June 15th via Big Beat/Atlantic Records. Chromeo are currently out touring the world in support of the album, with stops planned at Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, and cities on at least three continents. See the full tour schedule here.


[+] First and foremost, you should look for the qualification of the Krav Maga instructor.
[+] This apart, you should also consider the experience of the instructor.
Nowadays, you can get the best instructor who has more than 10 years of hands-on experience in Krav Maga. They may have been involved in the training or working in armed forces or special assignments like body guards for VIPs, etc. Their vast experience will prove to be an asset for the candidates.
[+] The best Krav-Maga instructor must be a black-belt level trainer, who can impart the right knowledge and skills that prepare his disciples to react under any situation in a controlled manner.
[+] Make sure that you need to learn the skills to both neutralize the opponent while also preparing themselves to fight fiercely. This training is highly useful for people aspiring to become security personnel or body guards.


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JudiciaryLitigationPress Freedom
Allahabad HC slams practice of publishing petitions in media before filing in Court; terms it abuse of process
The Leaflet· September 29, 2020
The Allahabad High Court has observed that publishing of any material- proposed to be brought before the courts- before it is actually filed in the Court is not a healthy practice rather an abuse of the process.
This, the Court said, unnecessarily at times may prejudice the minds of the Judges. It added that the media is supposed to play a responsible role in undertaking any such pre-litigation publication and ought to avoid it.
A division bench of Pankaj Mithal and Rajeev Singh was hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by lawyer Krishan Kanhaya Pal against the airing of the web series Virgin Bhaskar, Season 2, streaming on OTT platforms Alt Balaji and Zee 5.
The Petitioner contended that a certain scene in the Series was defamatory because the name of a deity Maharani Ahilyabai Holkar is used as the name of the hostel "Ahilyabai Girls Hostel".
Taking the preliminary objection to the petition, senior advocate J.N. Mathur, for Zee 5, pointed out to the Court that the petition was disseminated online prior to being filed. It was, thus, contended by the respondent that the petition was not in the public interest, and rather one seeking publicity.
On the other side, the petitioner submitted that he had filed the petition in the normal course after serving notice upon the counsel for Union of India and he was not aware how the petition had come in the public domain even before it was presented in the Court.
Advocate, for the Union of India (UOI), submitted that the notice of the petition was sent to S.B. Pandey, Assistant Solicitor General via e-mail. He is hospitalized due to Covid-19. He had not opened his e-mail account. Thus, there is no possibility of the petition escaping from his office or the system, said Counsel for the UOI.
The Court, after considering the facts and circumstances, observed that it was apparent that the petitioner invoked the jurisdiction of the Court for gaining unwarranted publicity in the garb of public interest.
"The proposed filing of the petition was publicised in social media even before it was filed or any order was passed on it only with the oblique motive of publicity, the Court said.
The Court went on to state that it is settled by various pronouncements of the apex court that public interest litigation is for making basic human rights meaningful to the deprived and vulnerable sections of the community and to assure them social, economic and political justice.
The petitioner, the Court said, does not belong to the deprived class and is not seeking any basic human rights through this petition.
Eventually dismissing the plea, the Court said it was satisfied that the petitioner had not approached the Court with clean intentions in the public interest. Rather the oblique purpose was to seek cheap popularity and publicity.
Read the Order
http://theleaflet.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Allahabad-High-Court-Order_Pre-Litigation-Publication-in-Media.pdf
Travails of an investigative journalist in India
Disclose reasons for denying security clearance to television channel, Supreme Court tells Union Government
PM's visit: Himachal Pradesh government's order requiring character certificates from journalists withdrawn, as media bodies express concern


You'll need to have a preoperative assessment in hospital during the weeks leading up to your gallbladder removal surgery (cholecystectomy).
Both procedures are performed under general anaesthetic (where you're asleep) and both are equally effective.
But keyhole surgery tends to be carried out whenever possible because you can leave hospital sooner, recover faster and are left with smaller scars.
You can usually go home later the same day. Recovery typically takes about 2 weeks.
An open procedure may be recommended if you can't have keyhole surgery – for example, because you have a lot of scar tissue from previous surgery on your tummy.
It's also sometimes necessary to turn a keyhole procedure into an open one during the operation if your surgeon is unable to see your gallbladder clearly or remove it safely.
Your surgeon can explain why they feel an open procedure is best for you. If you're due to have keyhole surgery, the risk of it becoming an open procedure should be discussed beforehand.
You'll usually need to stay in hospital for a few days afterwards.
Recovery typically takes 6 to 8 weeks.


Traveling to Europe this weekend. Looking to day trip to France from Switzerland for the World Cup. Out of Besancon , Dijon and Strasbourg where would be the best place to watch the game ?!
Sports bar might be best, as you can get drinks and food too.
Will graphite (for building supercapacitors) ever run out on Earth?
graphite is made from carbon, and we seem to have an excess of carbon, so I doubt if it will run out in the foreseeable future.
Quelle est les invantages et les inconvénients de vinaigre de cidre?
Looks like the spamming nincompoops were up late last night, 14 pages of spam?
That person from webnovel must have very sore fingers this morning. Page after page of story questions.
Are there any other network systems other than "Internet"? There used to be several, do any of them still exist, and how do I get onto one of them?
Can someone please, please, Please, tell me what a web novel is?
More pages of spam on here this is making me sick?
33 pages of it by 11am Eastern time.. It is stupid.
What is all this web novel stuff on here?
The more people he can get to check out the website (webnovel), the closer it gets to the beginning on google when someone searches for novels online, thus the more business he gets. So spam a site like this, and maybe some of the folks will check his site.
What if electrons and protons don't exist?
I guess then the Universe would be made up of neutrons, and be all the same with gravity, but no electromagnetic waves.
what will be the time period of simple pendulum at cetre of earth?
Electric Motor Control: What are the drawbacks of a VFD (variable-frequency drive)?
why would you use a variable frequency drive on a DC motor? DC is direct current, no frequency.
I'm 21 and live with my mom. She wants to kick me out. Can she legally do that without notice? I've lived here over 6 months. She says I'm rude. Sometimes I am. And she's really nice and sensitive but also can be really cruel. I have no where to go.
Have you ever eaten frog legs? Do you like them?
I've had them, but like chicken wings, there is not much meat on them, and the flavour is primarily dependent upon the seasonings and sauce.
If an SCR in a DC motor controller is triggered late in its cycle, the result will be A. fast motor rotation. B. irregular motor rotation. C. no motor rotation. D. slow motor rotation?
What is an SCR? Silicon controlled rectifier, or saturable core reactor?
When everybody finally leaves this site what do you think will happen??? Will the spammers just Spam each other and will the site go on?
Depends where you are.. Here it is $1.04 plus tax, which equals $1.10 (these being Canadian dollars) I also get free refills and a newspaper for that price. I know some places in the US give free senior coffee, so it depends totally upon where you live.
Best white hat seo techniques we should follow in 2018?
Do we need "White Hats"? And why?
Is taking a nap healthy for you?
IIRC, I've recently read that scientific studies show that naps ARE good for adults.


I have never really been a fan of grunge. New Zealand became notable in the international fashion scene back in the 80's and 90's when our love of all things black made centre stage through designers like Zambesi. However, with a twist of all things cute from my other half, NZ illustrator Gareth Keenan has given life to these images with an adorable story of chaos and insanity. Everything that encompasses the world of dreams in this cute little number.
My favourite accessories are the most well loved. And I'm not referring to the derp-to-pus hanging off my dress hemline. These velvet heels were a match made in heaven with this velvet tunic dress from Glassons. It feels super silky to put on, and the perfect length. For a more modest look you could pop a pair of stockings with it, or get creative and make them coloured for a bolder feel. These blunt heels remind me ever so much of the 90's bordering onward. Chic comfort.
I matched my dress with a pom-pom choker, drop diamante earrings and black tie bracelet from Collette. I was reminded of the rubber bracelets that used to be so popular and collectable back when I was in school. Likewise with the chokers, and I'm pretty glad they've come back into fashion so we can relive the trend all over again. With such a block colour design like this dress, small dainty pieces are the best contrast.
The little bag is also from Collette, and is a cute addition to finish off this look. In terms of makeup and hair I went for a messy super high pony, and a vivid pink lip. I went for an almost blown-out feel to the lighting, a nod to 90's imagery and the grunge aesthetic. What I love most about this set is the way each of these little characters are both real and not at the same time. The same way we exist in the dream world, the duality of fantasy and seeming reality happening simultaneously. Sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite!


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Q: Equivariant homomorphism in a non-abelian group of order $pq$, where $p$ and $q$ are distinct primes. Let $G$ be a  group and $H$ be a normal subgroup of $G$. A homomorphism $\phi$ from  $H$ to $G$ is said to be $G$-equivariant if $\phi (ghg^{-1})=g \phi (h)g^{-1}$, for all $g \in G$ and $h \in H$. I wants to compute all $G$-equivariant homomorphisms from $\mathbb{Z}_p$ to a non-abelian group $G$ of order $pq$, where $p$ and $q$ are distinct primes with $p>q$.
I have tried this by property of homomorphisms, if we restrict ourself to $\mathbb{Z}_p$ in the codomain then all homomorphisms are $G$-equivariant. But after that, I am not able to proceed. Please help me.

A: Consider $G = \langle a\rangle:\langle b\rangle\cong \mathbb{Z}_p:\mathbb{Z}_q$, a semidirect product, by $bab^{-1} = a^{m}$ for some $m$ such that $m^q\equiv 1\pmod p$. Let $\phi:\langle a\rangle\to G$ be a homomorphism, then $\phi(a) = a^n$ for some $n$, because $\phi(a)$ has order $1$ or $p$.
For any $g\in G$, $g = a^kb^l$ for some $k,l$. Then $gag^{-1} = a^kb^lab^{-l}a^{-k} = a^{m^l}$, and so $\phi(gag^{-1}) = a^{m^ln}$, while $g\phi(a)g^{-1} = a^kb^la^nb^{-l}a^{-k} = a^{m^ln}$. So they are equal.

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Right Angle Weave - Bead It!
This is a great bracelet to learn Right Angle Weave. Create a base with 11/0 seed beads, then embellish the top with 4x3mm rondelles!
Two colors of Superduos make the pattern for this pattern created by Donna!
Donna's newest creation ... Looks like a vintage chain and it is so easy!
Learn to encase or simply embellish a wooden bead using Right Angle Weave and a variety of seed beads.
Our very own Laura helped invent this!
We loved her elements and use of negative space (we made our negative space smaller), then Donna inventively embellished it!
Not too hard, and very impressive! We use 4mm Swarovski crystals to create this beauty!
Using 4mm something-or-other (Swarovski crystals or pearls, stone, you decide!) and sizes 11/0 and 15/0 seed beads, learn a very basic Right Angle Weave technique.
On a base of 3 or 4mm fire polished beads, we will use 4mm Swarovski crystals to create a bracelet that brings the bling! This pattern works up fast.
Using 4mm Swarovski crystals, 3mm Swarovski pearls, and size 11/0 and 15/0 seed beads, we'll wind our way to greatness!
Using several sizes and shapes of beads, create an organic piece of art.
Create this relatively quick bracelet with ease!
Great use of Superduos beads.
So pretty! Wear it plain or embellish it with pearls for a more regal look.
This is perfect as a gift for the holidays, either for a friend or yourself!
Create this fun multi-strand bracelet with basic, one-row Right Angle Weave. We will be using Farfalle beads and tiny crystals.


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The Confraternity of Penitents is both like a Third Order and like a Confraternity.
A Third Order is a generally accepted term for laity living a religious rule of life at home. Most Third Orders are associated with a specific Religious Order of consecrated men or women. The laity in the Third Order generally support the religious and have a similar although lay charism. Third Orders are bound by their religious family, not by geography.
A Confraternity is a group of laity organized for a specific religious purpose who are subject to their Bishop. Generally a Confraternity will exist within that Bishop's diocese only.
The Confraternity of Penitents is subject to the Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend, but it is an international group, not a Diocesan group. Its members are single and married men and women who live a religious rule of life in their own homes, worldwide. This Rule is Franciscan in spirit in that it is the Rule of 1221 which St. Francis gave to the laity in 1221, even though that Rule was written by a Cardinal of the Church, not by St. Francis. While the Confraternity supports Franciscan Orders, it also supports all other religious Orders as well.
The photo shows penitents in 2013 who were penitents at the time of the refounding of the Confraternity ten years previously in 2003.


Sometimes, drivers like to go the extra mile… literally. Just ask new Uber driver TJ Jones.
In TJ's car, he's taking the Uber game to a whole new level by creating specialized Spotify playlists for his passengers. Jones made 11 different playlists for different kinds of riders (or at least the way he originally perceives them).
Take a look at Jones' handiwork.
Jones' tweet went viral and he's made a job out of his eclectic music taste and his eye for categorizing his riders. He said he's now a marketer and a music consultant. And he continues to add new playlists to Spotify for everyone, not just his riders, to enjoy.
Good work, sir! Keep those playlists coming!


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The Most Popular Indian Girls
The first lady to guide an IT agency in India, Roshni is well-known for her philanthropic actions. Before taking charge of HCL, she served as the company's vice-president and it was throughout this time, she backed HCL's $1.eight billion purchase from IBM of a portfolio of its merchandise.
FII-based estimates present that the share of all PMJDY accounts that belong to women under the poverty line is approximately 75%. This implies that one hundred fifty million of the 200 million PMJDY accounts belong to poor girls. With over 326 million women living under the poverty line, more than half are excluded. He nonetheless wishes Mahira would return to their village in Assam but understands and respects her reasons for staying in her marital house in Haryana. In other cases, however, members of the family abandon girls after learning that they had been sold to a groom in a special and state.
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The petition has received over seventy five,000 signatures, principally from girls who stand in solidarity with Ghosh and relate to her expertise. In July 2020, Ghosh decided to draft a petition on Change.org and describe her experience as a working girl in India expected to perform nearly all of the home tasks. "Unequal distribution of unpaid family work has rendered the harshest blow to ladies across India during this lockdown. Yet, women's care work continues to be invisible and nobody wants to handle this gross imbalance," she wrote. Previous reporting from this survey largely used membership in India's six zonal councils to outline areas.
Within six months, more than 1,000 girls responded, 85 p.c of whom wished to hitch non-public fairness but didn't understand how. Nupur Garg, former regional lead for South Asia at IFC, has taken a extra macro method to tackle the issue. Her two-year-old Delhi-based non-profit Women in PE, or WinPE, has satisfied more than two dozen PE and VC companies to work to repair the imbalance. Mandates to recruitment businesses, she says, now stipulate a percent diverse candidate pipeline.
"Not everybody begins life at the similar baseline," she identified, recalling her time at an elite faculty where she struggled to be taught English and computer systems to catch up with her classmates who had come from good colleges and privileged backgrounds. Pranjal Patil, the first visually challenged girl to join the extremely aggressive Indian Administrative Service has been posted as the Sub-Collector of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, and is now the Sub-Divisional Magistrate at Vasant Vihar, New Delhi. Four exceptional Indian girls of various perspectives and backgrounds share learnings from their extraordinary lives. We present a wide array of monetary merchandise and technical assistance, and we help countries share and apply revolutionary knowledge and options to the challenges they face. The cricket control physique for India, which accounts for about 80% of the sport's global income, is working with International Cricket Council to increase IPL season's window from the present two months on the sporting calendar. It is a matter of nice privilege and delight that FIWE has completed yet another yr successfully. I look ahead to FIWE becoming a stronger organization which may work in any respect necessary points associated to girls entrepreneurs.
Honor killings have been reported in northern regions of India, primarily in the Indian states of Punjab, Rajasthan, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, on account of the girl marrying without the family's acceptance, and typically for marrying exterior her caste or religion. Haryana is notorious for incidents of honor killings, which have been described as « chillingly frequent in villages of Haryana ». In distinction, honor killings are uncommon to non-existent in South India and the western Indian states of Maharashtra and Gujarat. Similarly, Christian girls have struggled over time for equal rights in divorce and succession. In 1994, all church buildings, collectively with ladies's organizations, drew up a draft regulation known as the Christian Marriage and Matrimonial Causes Bill. In 2014, the Law Commission of India has asked the government to modify the legislation to offer Christian girls equal property rights. In rural India within the agriculture and allied industrial sectors, ladies account for as much as 89.5% of the labour drive.
The gruesome violence – which included gang rapes and homicide, splitting open the wombs of pregnant girls, and smashing children's heads – shook ladies across the nation. When Modi turned the prime minister in 2014, he introduced these attitudes to the central authorities.
Over the years, the organisations which followed the second strategy advanced into a strong left women's movement in India. Today, these are the most militant, lively women's organisations with a major presence amongst rural peasant and working-class ladies in addition to among the urban working class and the lower center class. In regions where they're current, these women's organisations work independently on women's points whereas on the identical time struggling alongside peasant and labour actions.
This is the bias ladies face in India once they attempt to increase any non-public capital. "I'm pitching to a roomful of males for leap.club, which is mainly for women … Finding someone who matches our bill… that will get more durable," says Das, who give up food delivery firm Zomato to start out Delhi-based leap.club with a former male colleague. In October, leap.club, the woman-focused skilled network Das co-founded two years in the past, raised just below $1m in a round led by Enzia Ventures, a woman-led enterprise capital agency, together with investments by 13 of the startup's members. Lovlina Borgohain gained bronze in the women's 69kg on Olympic debut, beating fourth seed Chen Nien-Chin of Chinese Taipei to confirm her medal. Building form with each passing match, Sania Mirza made a fourth Olympic appearance at Tokyo 2020, the place she made a first-round exit within the women's doubles alongside Ankita Raina.
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The growth of low-cost grains to all NGOs engaged in reduction work is a welcome transfer in this course. Thus, most of the poor will stay susceptible regardless of the attempt to supply aid via PMJDY-linked money transfers. FII respondents were requested whether or not they have a checking account and, if yes, whether or not it is a PMJDY account. 78% of poor feminine respondents state they have a checking account, while just 23% of poor women say they've a PMJDY account . Extending transfers to banked girls who don't own a PMJDY account would substantially increase inclusion. We discover that greater than half of poor women are likely excluded from the money switch program.
The Department of Justice additionally introduced a sequence of further measures, together with a sexual assault training program and a model new Rural Alaska Violent Crime Reduction Working Group led by U.S. Kinship, extended household, and clan certain people together inside a system of mutual obligation and respect. Lineage was central to figuring out standing and obligations, consent held communities collectively, and ideas of reciprocity extended to gender roles and divisions of authority. "The problem is about how a lot violence is appropriate with society as a rule, and never as an exception. The questions are not about whether they like being crushed up, or do they know their rights are violated, or if the women know concerning the Domestic Violence Act," Kumari stated. Crimes against ladies increased 34 % over the last four years to 2015, with cruelty by husbands and relations being essentially the most broadly reported crime, based on the newest knowledge from the NCRB. Despite NCRB being a passive surveillance supply, efforts could be made to enhance the standard of knowledge collected by the police throughout their routine duties to improve utilisation of those data for planning action.
Wide state-level variations within the suicide death price for girls are additionally reported , and the relationship between the prevalence of domestic violence and suicide dying price needs to be explored further. These attitudes, combined with a scarcity of jobs, could additionally be one purpose why India has one of the lowest feminine labor drive participation charges on the planet (21% vs. 53% world median), based on 2019 United Nations knowledge. India's male labor force participation price is far larger (76%), and this within-country discrepancy contributes to India's low ranking on the UN Gender Inequality Index . More than half a century ago women in indian culture, India was one of the first countries on the planet to elect a woman as prime minister, and the country presently has several extremely influential ladies politicians, including Sonia Gandhi, the pinnacle of one of the major nationwide events. Today, most Indians say that "women and males make equally good political leaders," and more than one-in-ten really feel that girls typically make better political leaders than males, in accordance with a recent Pew Research Center survey of nearly 30,000 adults all through India.

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Q: Android Bluetooth LE connection issue I've worked with a device that's not really compatible with Google BLE and instead uses Samsung BLE SDK for it's connection. I've tried using Google SDK and it can connect successfully, but immediately disconnected with status 19 after connected in which there are no documentation of what is this status entails.
03-02 00:07:55.572    1181-1181/alex.jstylemod I/art﹕ Late-enabling -Xcheck:jni
03-02 00:07:55.861    1181-1181/alex.jstylemod D/BluetoothAdapter﹕ startLeScan(): null
03-02 00:07:55.931    1181-1201/alex.jstylemod D/BluetoothLeScanner﹕ onClientRegistered() - status=0 clientIf=5
03-02 00:07:55.949    1181-1208/alex.jstylemod D/OpenGLRenderer﹕ Render dirty regions requested: true
03-02 00:07:55.965    1181-1181/alex.jstylemod D/Atlas﹕ Validating map...
03-02 00:07:55.985    1181-1208/alex.jstylemod I/Adreno-EGL﹕ <qeglDrvAPI_eglInitialize:410>: EGL 1.4 QUALCOMM build: AU_LINUX_ANDROID_LA.BF.1.1.04.04.02.162.107_msm8226_LA.BF.1.1__release_AU ()
    OpenGL ES Shader Compiler Version: E031.25.01.03
    Build Date: 10/28/14 Tue
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03-02 00:07:56.010    1181-1208/alex.jstylemod D/OpenGLRenderer﹕ Enabling debug mode 0
03-02 00:07:57.769    1181-1201/alex.jstylemod D/BluetoothLeScanner﹕ onScanResult() - ScanResult{mDevice=B4:99:4C:67:72:70, mScanRecord=ScanRecord [mAdvertiseFlags=6, mServiceUuids=[0000fff0-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb], mManufacturerSpecificData={}, mServiceData={}, mTxPowerLevel=0, mDeviceName=JStyle 677270], mRssi=-80, mTimestampNanos=128983439815617}
03-02 00:08:05.868    1181-1181/alex.jstylemod D/BluetoothAdapter﹕ stopLeScan()
03-02 00:08:27.348    1181-1181/alex.jstylemod D/BluetoothAdapter﹕ stopLeScan()
03-02 00:08:27.354    1181-1181/alex.jstylemod D/BluetoothAdapter﹕ scan not started yet
03-02 00:08:27.357    1181-1181/alex.jstylemod D/BluetoothGatt﹕ connect() - device: B4:99:4C:67:72:70, auto: false
03-02 00:08:27.357    1181-1181/alex.jstylemod D/BluetoothGatt﹕ registerApp()
03-02 00:08:27.357    1181-1181/alex.jstylemod D/BluetoothGatt﹕ registerApp() - UUID=76c2195c-0afe-4660-8164-f5f81f6fdc0a
03-02 00:08:27.366    1181-1201/alex.jstylemod D/BluetoothGatt﹕ onClientRegistered() - status=0 clientIf=5
03-02 00:08:27.379    1181-1181/alex.jstylemod D/BLEService﹕ Trying to create connection with autoconnect enabled
03-02 00:08:28.038    1181-1202/alex.jstylemod D/BluetoothGatt﹕ onClientConnectionState() - status=0 clientIf=5 device=B4:99:4C:67:72:70
03-02 00:08:28.046    1181-1202/alex.jstylemod I/BLEService﹕ Connected to GATT server
03-02 00:08:28.769    1181-1201/alex.jstylemod D/BluetoothGatt﹕ onClientConnectionState() - status=19 clientIf=5 device=B4:99:4C:67:72:70
03-02 00:08:28.769    1181-1201/alex.jstylemod I/BLEService﹕ Disconnected from GATT Server

I've tried using the Samsung BLE SDK for this device (supposedly supported in the official app) and hit a wall where I cannot bind the GATT adapter successfully. I've also unable to debug to find out what's wrong since the jar wiped the line number debugging. I've attached the source code for my apps.
03-06 16:05:39.981    2965-2965/alex.jstylemod I/art﹕ Late-enabling -Xcheck:jni
03-06 16:05:40.010    2965-2975/alex.jstylemod I/art﹕ Ignoring second debugger -- accepting and dropping
03-06 16:05:40.021    2965-2975/alex.jstylemod I/art﹕ Debugger is no longer active
03-06 16:05:40.175    2965-2965/alex.jstylemod D/BluetoothAdapter﹕ startLeScan(): null
03-06 16:05:40.239    2965-2982/alex.jstylemod D/BluetoothLeScanner﹕ onClientRegistered() - status=0 clientIf=5
03-06 16:05:40.287    2965-2988/alex.jstylemod D/OpenGLRenderer﹕ Render dirty regions requested: true
03-06 16:05:40.301    2965-2965/alex.jstylemod D/Atlas﹕ Validating map...
03-06 16:05:40.353    2965-2988/alex.jstylemod I/Adreno-EGL﹕ <qeglDrvAPI_eglInitialize:410>: EGL 1.4 QUALCOMM build: AU_LINUX_ANDROID_LA.BF.1.1.04.04.02.162.107_msm8226_LA.BF.1.1__release_AU ()
    OpenGL ES Shader Compiler Version: E031.25.01.03
    Build Date: 10/28/14 Tue
    Local Branch:
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03-06 16:08:57.227    4053-4053/alex.jstylemod D/SamsungBLEService﹕ Calling Samsung BLE Service
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Source on the calling code
Activity
@Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        handler = new Handler();

        BluetoothSetting.checkBluetoothSetting(this);
        bluetoothAdapter = BluetoothSetting.getBluetoothAdapter(this,null);

        Intent gattServiceIntent = new Intent(this, SamsungBLEService.class);
        Set<BluetoothDevice> deviceSet = bluetoothAdapter.getBondedDevices();
        //Intent gattServiceIntent = new Intent(this, BLEService.class);
        startService(gattServiceIntent);
        boolean bindResult = bindService(gattServiceIntent, serviceConnection,BIND_AUTO_CREATE);

        //setContentView(R.layout.activity_device_list);
    }

Service
@Override
    public void onCreate() {
        Log.d(TAG, "Calling Samsung BLE Service");
        bluetoothAdapter = BluetoothSetting.getBluetoothAdapter(null,this);

        if(bluetoothGatt == null)
            BluetoothGattAdapter.getProfileProxy(this, serviceListener, BluetoothGattAdapter.GATT);
    }

Would you kindly shed light to this? I know I am newbie on Android Development.
Thank you


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Did Tasha Cobbs Leonard just confirm a collaboration with Nicki Minaj for her new album?
Months after a social exchange between the gospel singer and rapper where Nicki posted Tasha's song, it looks like they actually got together to record.
Tasha Cobbs Leonard's third album, Heart. Passion. Pursuit, featuring the collab hits stores August 25.


Removed not one but two pitman arms from RHD steering boxes for a forum member. No need for heat or bashing when using the correct dealer tools designed for the job.
Well done, I should know this but what does the correct tool look like?
I've always had to have mine pressed off by a hydraulic press.
Finally, finally got around to buying a whiteboard for the garage. Will give me a fighting chance of actually keeping track of stuff - and actually getting servicing noted down in the spreadsheet before forgetting about it.
When I get time I'll get a steering box out and take some pics of the puller attached to the box. Its just a heavy duty puller, by design it holds the pitman arm and box in place so nothing can move. ( box doesn't even need to be held in a vice ) You then attach a 3ft solid steel original Lada spanner to it and wind the arm off, all the force and pull are on the joint and not the box. I've now used it to remove three arms without any problems.
More to eliminate it as a possibility than out of actual hope of success, I decided to swing by the main Merc dealer yesterday as I was virtually driving past it anyway.
Getting anything for a near extinct 28 year old van would be a stretch I figured, but meh...worth a shot. Half expected them to treat me like an alien given I'm a scruffy sod who can't be bothered with fancy clothes.
No. They treated me like royalty from the moment I set foot in the door. Even bigger surprise, they had the parts located in seconds. Their parts lookup system is ace - and the gent on the desk knew how to use it.
They were massively apologetic that the parts would have to come over from Germany and they couldn't give them to me there and then. I couldn't quite get across to the guy that I was staggered they could even get them at all, having to wait a few days really wasn't a problem.
So the list, the little rubber boot that covers the sliding propshaft joint, a tiny little plastic bush that seats the throttle cable on the fuel pump arm, and would you believe it...a replacement lens for the indicator warning light on the dashboard?!?
Cheaper than anywhere online as well (not that I'd been able to find the lens anywhere anyway!).
I'm staggered...never expected to find anything on that list at the dealer.
If this is the sort of parts service that I can expect, I should have got my T1 years ago! Though granted the main reason it took me so long was the same as why it took me so long to get my Riva. Parts availability might be good, but it took me decades to find the actual car!
I'm not surprised about the customer service you've received from Mercedes Benz. Companies like this really DO care about their customers, regardless of their age (in a vehicular sense, as opposed to the age of their customers!) Many years ago I needed some parts for an ancient (to my way of thinking!) Mercedes and had the same favourable response and service. They weren't cheap, but once again, I was happy to pay the price for the parts, considering the speed of delivery (the parts had to come from what was then WEST Germany) and the consideration I had been given by the dealer. It reinforces the old adage "you pays for what you gets"!
Mostly started to piece the last few bits of services back together.
Not least sorting out this mess cable tied to the rear cross member.
Been running around getting the plumbing bits and pieces together...however turning into the drive I suddenly lost throttle response. I'll bet the screws I wedged in the throttle control arm when the bush cracked have fallen out.
Nothing in stock to fix it in an elegant manner, though a larger bolt, some big washers and a lock nut will do for now.
I did get it to sit better after I took the photo, and added a lock nut to make sure it stays put. I'll get the bush replaced in due course, but this should do for now!
Hopefully will get most of the plumbing finished tomorrow.
Bought these for my 2107 Sport, manifold and airbox are new old stock.
Tom. wrote: Bought these for my 2107 Sport, manifold and airbox are new old stock.
That will bark nicely when you hit the throttle, shouldn't have any breathing issues with that on.
Bought a load of Lada parts yesterday that came from a former Lada dealership in Leeds. RHD headlights, MPH speedometer, tools etc. Today I travelled to Nottingham and bought what Lada stock was left from the former dealership there. Place is still selling parts for all cars, repairs and MOT's. Owner is retiring and came across all the forgotten old new Lada stock while having a clear out, RHD lights, UK spec badges, Rear 2104 parcel shelf, Riva grille, door skin, Niva wheel carrier, Original Niva 1700 door mirrors, Weber carb, original Lada wheel trims with Lada logo on them, glass, Niva wheel arch set, Books galore, tools, anyone needs an original blank service book let me know I think I've got a load of them. Way too much stuff to list. Most items are times seven. I filled a van to the brim. Take me a week or two to fully go through it all. Anyone looking for any FSO parts let me know and I'll put you in contact with the guy, he's amassed a lot of stuff over the years.
Worth asking on Retro Rides and Autoshite as there's a lot of love for the FSO models there it seems.
I'd personally love a Polonez, but the nigh on non-existent parts supply was one of the main reasons they've been a long way down the list.
As far as badges are concerned, does that include the little "Riva" ones that were on the rear quarters of the Riva Estates? One of mine is missing quite a few bits of the lettering.
Following my mad scramble to get it habitable, we were away for a weekend in the van.
After being essentially in mothballs for the best part of a decade it's finally getting used as intended again.
Still a lot of stuff to do, but I managed to duct tape enough stuff together to make it a reasonably comfortable place to stay for a weekend.
She didn't miss a beat (even if the hole in the exhaust has got a little bigger!), nor was a drop of oil or water used. Astonishingly an average mpg of 26.3 was managed over the 440 miles travelled... that's pretty much double what I'd been expecting.
One obvious shortcoming though was the lack of an audio system made this century. If the original head unit had still been there I'd have looked for a discreet way to implement modern connectivity, but it wasn't...so I wasn't bothered about binning the cheap Sendai head unit that was in there and getting something more useful in its place.
Like this nice little JVC.
The thing which has really surprised me the most is the clever stuff this is able to do with DSP thanks to how powerful the computing hardware behind this is these days. You can program in to the system the type of vehicle, the size and location of the speakers, and even what crossover types are fitted where appropriate. It then sets up baseline equaliser settings accordingly. The result being that even using ancient, tiny Radiomobile speakers it's managing to sound halfway decent.
One of them in the cab is buzzing a bit though so will need to be changed. Finding a modern upgrade may be a little tricky though on account of the limited depth available in the speaker boxes. Will have a rummage around tomorrow afternoon and see if I've got anything in stock.
Have a trip out in the morning though, to pick up a VCR to replace the one my parents erroneously chucked out during a clearance of the loft a few years back (they managed to keep everything I told them to chuck, and chucked everything I said to keep!). Then I'll have the fun and games of seeing if it will come back to life gracefully (like the one it replaces) or if it will put up a fight. If it does the latter, it will probably be set to one side until I've more free time available.
Zel I've not got that badge, if I do come across one while you still own the car you'll have first shout.
Cheers Tom. It's really low priority though so don't worry about it. I forget about it until each time I wash and polish it, then turn the garage and loft upside down looking for the one I know is in a box somewhere.
Today I fitted two new speakers in the van to go with the new head unit I installed day before yesterday. One was buzzy, so had to go.
I though with them being triaxial speakers that they were likely later replacement, but apparently not. Branded Radiomobile like the enclosures, and made for Lucas apparently! Didn't remember that style of speaker setup even existing as far back as 1990.
Still, grabbed a pair of Fli Integrator 4's to replace the front pair. I've used Fli gear a few times now and have always been impressed, especially for the absolute bargain basement price it's usually sold for by Halfords (I reckon as a loss leader hoping you'll buy a load of overpriced other accessories - £20 for an ISO wiring harness?!?), I mean why would I faff around online when I can drive a quarter of a mile and pick these up for £15?
Unfortunately, they're about 5mm deeper than the speaker boxes. Balls. Guess I'll be making some spacers tomorrow then.
Will look at moving the nearside speaker while I'm at it. Currently it's attached to the trim panel above the passenger's foot well. This is sub optimal for several reasons - mostly though that the panel isn't entirely rigid, it's way too far inboard for good stereo separation, and that the fuse box rattles.
The panel is a swine to get to sit right even without a speaker hanging off it, and the screw sticking out the back means I can't screw down the rail the rail the relays are meant to clip to - see also most likely *why* the fuse box rattles.
What also bugs me is that the driver's side is set up differently - like so.
Now I can't perfectly mirror that because of the bonnet release, but hopefully getting closer to symmetrical will improve the sound a bit. Even with the new speakers, it's still a bit thin sounding, and nigh on impossible to get sounding balanced properly.
I'm half considering moving the pods to the doors as I'm sure that's by far the best idea in audio terms - I'm just really loathed to mess with the door cards as they've survived 28 years unmarked! I do like my music though, and we're going to probably do quite a few long trips in this vehicle, so maybe it's just a bitter pill that I need to man up and swallow. That of course also opens the can of worms as to whether I should just buy a slightly bigger surface fitting box (I'm not cutting massive holes and recessing them in the doors, plenty of clearance for them surface mounted) and throw a pair of 6x9s in there...would look far more conspicuously modern though I think.
Plus I know these speakers can sound pretty decent as I've used them in other cars.
Will probably stretch to a (small!) sub tucked away somewhere too at some point. Reckon there's probably space in the battery box under the driver's seat forward of the leisure battery for a compact one. Doesn't need to be anything earth shattering, but it's a big old space to fill and having a sub to help the bottom end will make things easier for the other speakers.
The original ones are still in place in the back, where I'm really surprised by the audio quality, hence why I'm sure the cab can be better.


We have a level area for caravans, camper vans and tents which has spectacular views towards Dartmoor in the distance.
We have limited space for large units so if your unit is more than 7m long including "A" frame please make it clear at the time of booking.
Toilets, showers, washing up facilities and fridge freezer and shop are available. We also stock Calor and Camping Gaz.
Well behaved dogs are welcome. You are asked to poop scoop and keep your dog under control at all times and on a lead in the camping area. Dogs are not allowed in the pool area hot tub area, sauna court yard or cow shed.
Chemical disposal - please note we have invested a lot of money in installing a new sewage treatment plant which cannot accept some toilet chemicals please check your chemicals are "green" or septic tank friendly so they don't cause our system to fail. We have a stock of suitable chemicals in our shop.
You are welcome to use the hot tub which seats six people comfortably.
Take a dip in the 33ft solar heated swimming pool.
Relax in the wood burning sauna, late afternoon daily until 11pm.
Our guest lounge known as the "Cow Shed" has comfy chairs with views over the swimming pool area and the rolling Devon counrtyside towards Dartmoor. The pot belly wood burning stove keeps it cosy. Books and games can be borrowed during your stay plus there is free wireless internet ( bring your own lap top ).
Our Honesty Shop stocks a few non perishable basic provisions plus snacks, soft drinks and ice creams. Also "green" toilet chemical.
We also have free range hens eggs for sale.
The nearest villages are 3 miles away and have post office / stores and public house, serving evening meals.
The nearest supermarkets are in Tiverton, 11 miles away -Tesco 24hour and Morrison or South Molton 11 miles away - Sainsbury's.
Meals are served in The Cow Shed each evening. See Menu, please order before 4pm.
We also have a licensed bar.
On day of departure we ask you to vacate your pitch by 11.30am. If you want to stay longer there is a £5 per adult charge for the rest of the day. If you stay on your pitch it will be £5 to stay pitched up.
At Acorns, the price you see is what you pay. Everything is included, guests at Acorns have free use of sauna, hot tub, games barn, heated swimming pool ( in season). Showers, table tennis, pool table wifi are also free. The only thing we charge for on top of these prices is use of washing machine and tumble dryer which are coin operated.


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Washington's creeping prison problem could get costly
The prison system is over capacity and, according to new research, low-level offenders are receiving harsher and less predictable sentences compared to inmates in other states.
Bill Lucia
Washington has a prison problem and it could get expensive.
Prisons in Washington are already filled and the state projects that, by 2018, 1,000 more beds for inmates will be needed. Providing adequate additional space could cost between $387 million and $481 million in capital and operating costs over 10 years, according to research presented at a Thursday meeting of the state's recently created Justice Reinvestment Task Force.
"We've had people sleeping on the floor in the last year," said task force member Bernard Warner, secretary of the Washington Department of Corrections. As of the end of June, the Department of Corrections reported 16,779 inmates, exceeding the state prison system's operational capacity of 16,508. The department was actually renting space in other facilities for 686 of these prisoners.
Formed by Gov. Jay Inslee earlier this year, the bipartisan, 21-member Justice Reinvestment Task Force is attempting to come up with policy options for reducing pressure on the prison system, while also improving public safety. It is co-chaired by state Sen. Jim Hargrove, D-Hoquiam, and the governor's general counsel, Nicholas Brown, who is a former assistant U.S. Attorney.
On Thursday, representatives from the Council of State Governments Justice Center, a nonprofit group that provides policymakers with advice on public safety issues, presented research to the task force that offered some insight into the characteristics of Washington's prison population and how sentencing guidelines here stack up against other states.
Compared to other states, the Justice Center found that criminals in Washington receive a wider range of sentences, and that felons are significantly less likely to receive probation-style supervision as opposed to a jail or prison term. Meanwhile, about one third of people in the state's prisons in 2013 were there for lower-level offenses such as assault, burglary or theft. Washington also has the third highest property crime rate of any state in the nation.
"I think that the state, as it tries to manage the prison population, is going to have to wrestle with whether or not building the next prison is the best way to improve public safety, or if there are some strategies out there that could be more cost effective," said Marshall Clement, director of state initiatives for the Justice Center, during an interview earlier in the day.
The task force is still in the early stages of its work and no concrete policy options were floated on Thursday. But some of the discussion centered on whether treatment and supervision programs for low-level offenders were viable alternatives to incarceration.
Washington is one of 21 states with sentencing guidelines, but as the research presented on Thursday noted, the terms of these sentences can vary widely. Someone convicted of second-degree burglary in Washington could be sentenced to between 1 month and 68 months depending on their criminal history, without any option for probation. In contrast, the same crime in North Carolina would carry between a 10-month and a 30-month sentence, or could also result in between 10 months and 19 months of probation.
"We're really proud of Washington's sentencing system," said task force member Russ Hauge, who is Kitsap County's prosecuting attorney. He noted that compared to the federal prison system, a very low percentage of inmates were locked up in Washington for drug-related offenses. "The people in prison have earned their way there," Hauge added.
That said, given the state's financial constraints, he acknowledged that it might be time to consider treatment programs, rather than jail time for some low-level criminals. But he emphasized the importance of preserving tougher sentencing options for repeat offenders.
The task force will meet again in October. Their goal is to come up with a bill that can be presented during the next legislative session in early 2015.
Bill Lucia writes about Seattle City Hall and politics for Crosscut. He can be reached at bill.lucia@crosscut.com and you can follow him on Twitter @bill_lucia.


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THE APPALACHIAN
4 BR, 4.5 BA, 3,750 sq. ft.
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Celebrating Smokey the Bear, Past & Present
During the month of August, nature-lovers across the country celebrated Smokey the Bear, and our local residents did the same.
On August 9 in honor of Smokey Bear's 75th birthday, the Friends of Panthertown hosted a LNT (leave no trace) presentation and celebration for trail explorers of all ages. The program was designed to teach all the importance of showing special, natural places some love by leaving no trace that hikers were ever there. This coincides with many overall wildlife programs and practices of organizations dedicated to preserving and appreciating our natural wildlife.
Smokey the Bear, as many know, is the face of forest fire prevention. Though the story of Smokey originated in New Mexico, the effects against forest fires remain relevant everywhere as 89% of wildfires were caused by humans in 2018, according to the NIFC.
As the story goes, an operator at a fire tower in the Capitan Mountains of New Mexico spotted not only a budding forest fire but a bear cub caught in its path. The fire blazed on despite efforts from local crews and the bear cub was forced up a tree to weather the fire. Suffering bad burns on his paws and hind legs, the cub was removed from the tree and taken to have his burns treated and bandaged. The little cub's story spread quickly and earned bouts of sympathy from many. He earned the name Smokey due to coverage from major news outlets who shared his story. Smokey Bear, now a living advocate for wildfire prevention, made his home at the National Zoo in Washington D.C., until he returned home to be buried at the Smokey Bear Historical Park upon the end of his life.
His legacy lives on, however. His image remains a friendly face for kids and adults alike looking to learn more about camping and enjoying time in the forest. Smokey the Bear serves as a reminder to all that if we truly value wildlife, as we all should, there are steps we can take toward proper conservation.
With the cooler fall weather around the corner, campfires become a must for campers and residents alike. Be sure to review these tips to keep your campfire from becoming a wildfire.
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