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Children's Books on Death and Loss
March 15, 2018 February 6, 2020 amandarobinsonlpc
When I was four years old, my grandmother accidentally killed my pet goldfish, aptly named "Goldie." Despite my young age, I know I probably went through a range of emotions: anger at my grandmother for her unintentional fish murder, sadness for my loss, a sense of injustice that I hadn't gotten to say goodbye, and probably most of all – confusion over what it even meant that Goldie was dead.
HOW was she dead? Are we SURE she wasn't just feeling lazy? Can fish be in comas?
My family's conversation over how to dispose of Goldie's tiny fish body brought up even more questions and feelings. Someone suggested sending her "back to the sea" via the toilet, and I remember being absolutely horrified by the thought. Goldie may not have been a running, jumping fur baby, but she'd been my baby, and I wouldn't have her unceremoniously flushed down the toilet. Eventually, we came to an agreement that she'd be buried in a tiny little grave in the backyard.
Death is a difficult enough concept for adults to discuss with each other, but it becomes even more complicated and delicate when it comes to discussing it with children. What words should we use? What's too much information, and what's just enough? How do we balance honesty with gentleness? As much as we want to pretend that our words won't matter in the long run, many of us can remember our first introductions to death and how it was handled. And those feelings stay with us years after; if one of my family members were to read this post and inform me that, actually, Goldie HAD been flushed down the toilet after all, I'd probably still feel bothered by it. Two+ decades later.
Fortunately, we don't have to reinvent the wheel when it comes to having these painful conversations. Children's books are not only helpful at normalizing little ones' feelings and teaching them new things, they're also good for guiding adults in knowing what to say and how to say it. In order to help caregivers and other loving adults find the right resources, I've created a list of books that cover different kinds of death and loss, validate young feelings, and provide gentle suggestions for moving forward.
All of the books listed here are aimed for children nine and under, but some may still be useful for older children. (Titles accompanied by asterisks are my personal favorites.)
This is not an exhaustive list, but it's a start! As I come across other books in the future, I'll add them here, and additional suggestions are always welcome in the comments.
Books that Cover the Death of a (Human) Loved One
**Death is Stupid (written by Anastasia Higginbotham)
About: Things things people say after a loved one dies, some of which seem really "stupid." Also covers how connection can be maintained with the one who died.
What makes it stand out: Includes really cool, collage-style illustrations. Main characters are people of color, and language is respectful to all beliefs about an afterlife.
Final note: Don't let the harshness of the title throw you – this is book is very well done!
Missing Mommy (written by Rebecca Cobb)
About: A young child who loses a parent and explores questions and feelings about that.
What makes it stand out: The child comes to understand that his family is still a family, even with one person gone. Includes colorful, child-friendly illustrations.
We Were Gonna Have a Baby, but We Had an Angel Instead (written by Pat Schwiebert, illustrated by Taylor Bills)
About: The death of a little boy's unborn sibling. He discusses how he used to talk to the baby in his mother's belly, how he imagined they'd play together, etc. Feelings like disappointment and loneliness are talked about honestly.
What makes it stand out: Not many children's books cover pregnancy loss. Also, while the book does refer to the sibling as an angel, there are no other religious or spiritual terms used.
When Someone Very Special Dies: Children Can Learn to Cope with Grief (written by Marge Heegaard)
About: What death really means, and how people may view it differently. Normalizes all feelings around death
What makes it stand out: Pages are left blank so that children can illustrate them themselves or write their thoughts. Also includes tips for adults on helping children cope.
Books that Cover the Death of a Pet
Goodbye Mousie (written by Robie Harris, illustrated by Jan Ormerod)
About: A child grieving the death of his pet mouse, and how he helps make plans for its burial.
What makes it stand out: The parents' responses to the child are excellent – they balance honesty with compassion and patience.
**Saying Goodbye to Lulu (written by Corinne Demas, illustrated by Ard Hoyt)
About: A little girl who cares for her aging dog and goes through different feelings when it dies. She also mentions things that help her feel better.
What makes it stand out: Focuses specifically on pet death, and does not minimize feelings around that. Honest and poignant, with a lovely, uplifting end.
The Tenth Good Thing about Barney (written by Judith Viorst, illustrated by Erik Blegvard)
About: A child whose cat dies, leading him to brainstorm ten admirable qualities about his cat that he can share at its funeral.
What makes it stand out: The child gets into a mild argument with a friend about whether the cat has gone to heaven, or is simply resting in the ground. The argument is resolved by the child's parent, who states that no one can know for sure.
When Your Pet Dies: A Healing Handbook for Kids (written by Victoria Ryan, illustrated by R.W. Alley)
About: How and why different pets die; normalizes feelings
What makes it stand out: Includes message for adults on what to say and do for a grieving child
Warning: Includes a lot of religious language around God, Heaven, and prayer, which my not be appropriate for some families.
Books that Cover General Loss, Separation, or Death
The Dead Bird (written by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Christian Robinson)
About: A group of children who discover a dead bird in the park and give it a simple funeral
What makes it stand out: Could be good for covering the general idea of death, as opposed to processing the loss of a specific loved one. Beautiful illustrations.
Warning: The book talks quite a bit about how the dead bird physically feels to touch (cold, with stiff limbs); this could be helpful and validating for children who have touched or seen a dead animal and need to process that aspect of it, but may be upsetting for some children.
The Heart and the Bottle (written by Oliver Jeffers)
About: A child who puts her heart in a bottle to keep it safe from hurt, but soon learns that this keeps her from fully enjoying her life.
What makes it stand out: Could be used to talk about general loss or separation, as death is never directly mentioned, though it is somewhat implied. Includes lovely, painted illustrations.
The Goodbye Book (written by Todd Parr)
About: The different feelings one might experience when saying goodbye to a loved one
What makes it stand out: Is a very quick, simple read that even very young kids will be able to follow. Could be used for different types of "goodbyes," as death is never mentioned.
**The Invisible String (written by Patricia Karst, illustrated by Geoff Stevenson)
About: Missing someone you're separated from, whether by distance or death, and the invisible "string" that keep you connected to them.
What makes it stand out: Great for covering separations of any kind, even more minor ones (such as being at school while parent is at work). Death is never mentioned.
**When Dinosaurs Die: A Guide to Understanding Death (written by Laurie Krasny Brown and Marc Brown)
About: Different ways and reasons in which people (illustrated as cartoon dinosaurs) die, what it means to be dead, and how different families mourn the dead.
What makes it stand out: It thoroughly explores many topics around death and loss, while being respectful to different moral and spiritual beliefs about it. Covers all kinds of death, so could be used in a number of situations.
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"The Shocking Secret Government Watchlisting Guide: The Intercept's Ryan Devereaux," produced by Anthony Fisher and Nick Gillespie.
Original release date was Aug. 1, 2014. Original writeup is below.
"It's been more than a decade since the September 11th attacks. The question is whether we're on this pendulum and we're going to swing back to some semblance of sanity when it comes to civil liberties," says The Intercept's Ryan Devereaux, who along with Jeremy Scahill, co-authored a shocking expose on the secret government guide to placing people on terrorist watchlists.
Devereaux spoke with Reason TV's Nick Gillespie about the 166 page document, approved by the Obama administration in March 2013 and developed by no less than 19 government agencies, which greatly expands the scope of the national terror watchlist.
It also substantially lowers the bar for placing a person on the list, definitively stating that "concrete facts are not necessary" for someone to be deemed reasonably suspicious and worthy of government surveillance.
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Making the market: trading securities at the Bank of England during the late eighteenth century
Dr Anne Murphy, University of Hertfordshire
Monday 11 June 2012, 17:00-19:00
Jane Harrison Room, Newnham College.
If you have a question about this talk, please contact D'Maris Coffman.
As the market for the trading of the British state's debt developed and expanded, the Bank of England found itself in a difficult position. It was the manager of much of the state's debt and, as such, regarded itself as the guardian of public credit. But at the same time, within its walls was housed a lively market in the national debt. That market and its participants were, at the very least, accused of making profits from the exigencies of war and, at worst, were believed to be undermining the stability of the state by manipulating the price of its debt. The Bank dealt with this seeming contradiction within its role by attempting to create both physical and commercial separation between the business of managing the public credit and the business of trading the government's debt. This paper will argue that these attempts were largely unsuccessful and will go on to consider the implications of the Bank's failure to remain aloof from the market for the credibility of the national debt.
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Pension annuities are back in favour
The flexibility of pensions drawdown doesn't always trump the secure income provided by annuities.
by: David Prosser
Annuity sales have survived despite George Osborne
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When George Osborne, the then-chancellor of the exchequer, announced that pension savers would no longer have to use their funds to buy an annuity on retirement, many people in the pensions industry thought that annuity sales would dry up. Most savers would jump at the chance to draw an income directly from their pension funds, or simply to cash the whole thing in, advisers reasoned. A product requiring savers to lock into a fixed rate of income for life at the time of their retirement could hardly compete.
But while annuity sales slumped during 2016 and 2017, the market showed signs of recovery last year. And in 2019, providers such as Legal & General have reported increased sales. That's partly because of pension schemes buying annuity contracts in bulk, but demand from individuals has risen as well and not only from savers whose pension funds are too small for income drawdown to be practical. The financial advice group LEBC says the average saver buying an annuity through it during the first four months of the year had a pension fund worth around £177,000 that was 17% more than last year.
Underlying this new-found enthusiasm for annuities is recognition of the value of the certainty they offer that is, an income guaranteed for as long as you live. Clearly, they still have some significant drawbacks: they are inflexible compared to income drawdown, they offer less scope for leaving unused savings to your family after your death and annuity rates remain low by historical standards. For many savers, however, these will be prices worth paying for a low-maintenance approach to financial planning that offers security for your retirement.
Moreover, while average rates have fallen this year, the annuity market has become more competitive, with providers offering an increasingly bespoke range of products. These not only offer higher incomes to many savers including people in certain areas of the country, those retiring from particular professions, and those with health problems but also many more product features.
This makes the choice harder for those coming up to retirement. If you want absolute certainty about your retirement income for life, an annuity is your best option. But even if you can afford to take some risk, you may still decide an annuity is the better choice for part or all of your savings.
Get advice before buying an annuity
Anyone considering buying an annuity on retirement should get specialist support with the purchase. The recent scandal at Standard Life the insurer was last month fined £30m for offering its staff big bonuses for selling annuities that may have disadvantaged customers underlines the potential pitfalls.
The golden rule is that pension savers should always investigate the open market option. You are not required to buy the annuity on offer from the provider that looks after your pension fund and it is likely you'll get a better deal elsewhere.
The Money Advice Service's online annuity comparison tool is a good place to start to familiarise yourself with the sort of choices you'll need to make in picking an annuity contract. But specialist annuity advisers can help you narrow down the field and secure the highest possible pension income given your circumstances.
Your age, gender, health, former occupation, geographical location and lifestyle will all make a difference to the income you can secure. Research published by Hargreaves Lansdown last year suggested 56% of savers could be entitled to an enhanced pension because of one or more of these factors with an average uplift of 14% on offer so getting advice on how to maximise your annuity income will pay off.
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The attraction between Aries and Libra is a common occurrence but not a lasting one. for these are two different characters with widely varying personalities. Aries is a firm believer in equality of the sexes and equality in the marriage arena and at first she will take with amusement Libras attempt to dominate the relationship. When Aries finally understands that Libra is dead serious about this then the fights will begin.
Both being of an impulsive nature could be the initial attraction for these two as both wind up thinking that, " it seemed like a good idea at the time". Libra will always be willing and ready to help those in trouble but for the most part, the arian scorns this as a waste of time, especially if he/she feels that person is capable of doing better.
The Arian is not above using the Librans inferiority complex to personal advantage. The Arian may sadistically endeavor to keep Libra down especially if there has been a loss of respect in the relationship. This state of affairs is not likely to last too long as the Librans love of love, personal magnetism to the opposite sex, and wandering ways will soon put jealous Aries in a combatant mood which in turn disgusts the harmony loving Libran. A very shaky relationship at best.
LIBRA and ARIES BUSINESS PARTNERSHIPS
The Libran being an air sign, would be very good in marketing and Aries would excel at keeping up the customer or client base for the business. Personality wise this would not be a good match but it can be made to work as long as they did not decide to strike up a strong friendship, and if each respected the others hard work and ideas.
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Cubs sign pitcher Yu Darvish to six-year, $126-million deal
(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
By Mark Gonzales
It took nearly the entire offseason, but the Cubs have landed the biggest free agent Saturday.
They agreed to terms on a six-year contract with pitcher Yu Darvish that will guarantee the prized right-hander $126 million, a source confirmed.
The deal cannot be announced until Darvish, 31, passes a physical examination. But it apparently completes the team's mission of fortifying their rotation with free agents Jake Arrieta and John Lackey departing.
Darvish posted a 3.86 ERA in 31 starts with the Rangers and Dodgers last season, but his 209 strikeouts in 186 2/3 innings possesses the swing-and-miss stuff the Cubs were looking for. Darvish has struck out 1,021 in 832 1/3 innings over five major league seasons.
He missed the entire 2015 season because of Tommy John surgery.
Darvish also has pitched in three postseasons (2012, 2016, 2017). He undoubtedly will be motivated to make amends for his performance in Game 7 of the 2017 World Series, when he allowed five runs in 1 2/3 innings to the Astros.
The Cubs' rotation now is comprised of Darvish, John Lester, Kyle Hendricks, Jose Quintana and Tyler Chatwood – with left-hander Mike Montgomery destined for a swing role.
The Twins were one of the teams interested in Darvish, who has a 56-42 lifetime record and won 16 games in his rookie season with the Rangers after leaving Japan.
Darvish's signing was first reported by Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic. The agreement was reached four days before the Cubs will hold their first workout for pitchers and catchers in Mesa, Ariz.
This the third time in four offseasons the Cubs have make a major strike in free agency. They reached a six-year, $155 million contract with Lester before the 2015 season and signed outfielder Jason Heyward to an eight-year, $184 million contract before the 2016 season.
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Levenbaum Trachtenberg's Geoffrey Trachtenberg was recently interviewed about a recent government report that confirms what most Americans already knew: Hospitals are charging wildly varied prices for identical procedures, and the prices vary from state to state, and hospital to hospital.
Trachtenberg, a Phoenix-based personal injury and auto accident attorney who also practices in California and Utah, acknowledged that these pricing variations are difficult for the average person to understand. He helps clients who typically have outrageous medical bills. "The reality is where you go and what facility you chose can have a big impact on the bottom line and your financial future," Trachtenberg said.
A link to the full study can be found here.


Voyager I was launched from Earth in 1978 and traveling at one million miles a day for 35 years it finally left our solar system in 2013.
The spacecraft could remain in Interstellar space for billions of years.
Most of us are familiar with the great Carl Sagan (1934-1996) and have seen his perspicacious video essay (3:54 min) about our home, planet Earth. It's a must-see. Sagan captures in 355 words, what most of us viscerally understand to be a realistic "take" on what we humans are best known for at this point on our evolutionary path. Sagan had an immeasurable talent, not the least of which included his ability to communicate great ideas and address the big questions in easily understood language.
The Pale Blue Dot is both inspirational and damning, cutting through to our raw, intuitive understanding that our human behavior is verging on disastrous. After I viewed the video and read Sagan's book, The Pale Blue Dot, I experienced the type of reflection that his thinking so often fosters, so I penned my "take" on our place on the evolutionary spectrum. I share it here, The Long View, posted below the Pale Blue Dot.
Ironically, from 3.7 billion miles away, life on Earth comes into focus, becomes clearer. It changes our perspective; it illuminates the long view.
What are we doing on the pale blue dot?
Inhabiting it? Yes. Building on it? Yes. Creating something extraordinary? Not really. Being good stewards? Not yet.
As a species, our few hundred-thousand years of independence from our primate ancestors is but a blip of existence on a clump of rock that has been spinning through space for billions of years. And since our "great leap forward" some fifty-thousand years ago, we have changed very little – not the Earth, not ourselves, nothing much. Perhaps, in the last four hundred years, we have done more on the pale blue dot then all the centuries before.
More procreation, proliferation, exploration, travel, communications, longevity, and more wars, destruction, corruption, racism, greed, pollution and … convenience. And less of what we really need, what we are really searching for.
In the brief 12,000 years of modern history – since the last glaciers – what have we really accomplished? How is the pale blue dot different from what it was back then? How have we changed it? What have we added?
We've added 7.4 billion inhabitants, aggregating at a rate of 200,000 a day. A billion vehicles. Over five billion cellphones. Billions of guns. Billions of tons of plastic waste. Hundreds of billions of McDonald's hamburgers. Millions of tons of obesity. And more botox, bad sitcoms and violent videos than any species should have to endure. Of course, we've added a few years to human life-expectancy, while endangering the life-expectancy of our fellow inhabitants, the rest of the animals.
That list, in part, is a measure of how much we spend on the fleeting pleasures we get from producing and consuming rare ivory, blue fin tuna, shark fin soup, processed food, fossil fuels and the endless ingestion of nothingness. Of course, the endangered species list is a record of the irreplaceable parts on the irreplaceable pale blue dot that we all share.
We have created a world of plenty, palaces of pleasure, altars of power, towers of excess, monuments of beauty and … nations of war, ghettos of poverty, mountains of garbage, rivers of toxins, airwaves of noise, lungs of cancer and voids of meaning. And it has taken us only a few thousand years to achieve such ignoble excess, most of it in the last hundred years.
We are leaders of production, addicts for consumption and stewards of little. Producing anything, consuming everything; heading everywhere, going nowhere; searching for meaning, finding material. Are we seven billion blind mice? Do we not see the folly? Perhaps not? Perhaps not until we try and see the pale blue dot from 3.7 billion miles away. Then, maybe, through a long view, things will come into focus.
It is there, in front of us. We need only look.
The vast majority of humankind lives out their time on the pale blue dot in a space that hangs between pleasure and pain. Experiencing some of both: some great pleasure, some great pain, most in small degrees. Most ephemeral. Excitement, joy, sorrow, tragedy … the human experience. And yet, we are forever in search of more. For centuries we have trekked through life following the spirit of Nirvana, Dharma, Brahman, Mecca, Heaven – or at least the promise of these great mysterious places, all of which lie in a distant corner of the blackness, beyond our Pale Blue Dot. Why do we not believe more in what we have and what we can create rather than what we don't know and what is promised by unknown, mythical creators?
Our Pale Blue Dot is in balance and harmony with the universe even though it's a mere nano-particle in the vastness, moving in sync with the cosmos. The universe, the ecosystem, nature and all species seek balance and harmony, naturally and yet on this tiny spec of dust there is untold imbalance and little harmony among the human species.
Many have said that our human capability is limitless. And yet, from 3.7 billion miles away it appears that on the shallow surface of our miniscule planet we are very limited. Our need to produce and consume is insatiable. And we are good at it. But our human capability – our ability to be human – is, well … limited. Severely. We destroy much just to have more. We pile more on more, and move from more to more, striving to find more of the same. And amid the noise and haste, harmony is momentary, if at all, and balance is non-existent.
Such untapped potential. So unfulfilled.
Balance and harmony do not require billions of miles of travel, they are found in purpose, in meaning, in sharing, collaboration, peace, joy, love … they are both cause and effect. They are the ether, the medium, the quiet breath that life so yearns for. From them we feel life as it should be, see it as it can be … in perspective.
If our star is to shine, we must live in balance and harmony and take the long view of our place in the universe. We must unshackle ourselves from, as Sagan said, our "imagined self-importance." If not, we will never escape "the folly of human conceits in our tiny world." We are not yet stewards of our lonely speck of dust, we are but delusional inhabitants, living in denial, abdicating responsibility and pretending leadership.
Excellent article. Excellent video. I truly miss Carl Sagan!


The rate at which spammers are sending junk mail around the Internet appears to be stabilising.
For the last three months, the amount of spam sent around the world has evened off at 66 percent of all email, according to statistics from Symantec Brightmail.
The company was unavailable to comment on the figures at the time of writing, but the statistics do indicate that anti-spam technology and laws could be having an effect on the junk mail problem.
The proportion of all email that is spam has steadily increased from 48 percent of email in March 2003 to the two-third mark today.
Just over 60 percent of today's spam was generated in North America, with almost a quarter (23 percent) of junk mail originated in Asia. European spammers followed in third place, accounting for 11 percent of the email, dwarfing Australasia and South America, which only produced a small amount of spam.
Product-related spam accounted for 30 per cent of the UK's junk email, while it was a quarter of worldwide spam. Financial spam was just under one fifth (19 percent) of the UK's figures, while pornographic email seemed to have dropped this month to 13 percent of the total.
Symantec acquired Brightmail earlier this year for $370m.


Young people continue to face a difficult, uphill battle to create a just and sustainable future. Canada has abandoned the Kyoto Protocol, eliminated energy efficiency programs and continues to subsidize and promote the fossil fuel industry, acts that threaten our air, water, land and the climate. The fossil fuel extraction projects on which our government continues to focus contribute to global climate change and severely impact the rights and lives of indigenous communities on whose land these projects are being built. Our present and future economic welfare is also at risk. We see daily reports promising cuts to our public services, the dismantling of our social security, the loss of workers rights, and tax breaks to corporations that don't need them.
Power Shift, a program run by the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition, is a gathering organized by youth for youth that aims to mobilize passionate youth from affected communities and various sectors of society to explore multiple ways of taking action and work to develop each other's capacity and abilities.


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Home/ Journals/ CMC/ Vol.65, No.2, 2020/ 10.32604/cmc.2020.011686
Roman Urdu News Headline Classification Empowered with Machine Learning
Rizwan Ali Naqvi1, Muhammad Adnan Khan2, *, Nauman Malik2, Shazia Saqib2, Tahir Alyas2, Dildar Hussain3
1 Department of Unmanned Vehicle Engineering, Sejong University, Seoul, 05006, Korea.
2 Department of Computer Science, Lahore Garrison University, Lahore, 54000, Pakistan.
3 School of Computational Sciences, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, 02455, Korea.
* Corresponding Author: Muhammad Adnan Khan. Email: .
Computers, Materials & Continua 2020, 65(2), 1221-1236. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2020.011686
Received 23 May 2020; Accepted 29 June 2020; Issue published 20 August 2020
Roman Urdu has been used for text messaging over the Internet for years especially in Indo-Pak Subcontinent. Persons from the subcontinent may speak the same Urdu language but they might be using different scripts for writing. The communication using the Roman characters, which are used in the script of Urdu language on social media, is now considered the most typical standard of communication in an Indian landmass that makes it an expensive information supply. English Text classification is a solved problem but there have been only a few efforts to examine the rich information supply of Roman Urdu in the past. This is due to the numerous complexities involved in the processing of Roman Urdu data. The complexities associated with Roman Urdu include the non-availability of the tagged corpus, lack of a set of rules, and lack of standardized spellings. A large amount of Roman Urdu news data is available on mainstream news websites and social media websites like Facebook, Twitter but meaningful information can only be extracted if data is in a structured format. We have developed a Roman Urdu news headline classifier, which will help to classify news into relevant categories on which further analysis and modeling can be done. The author of this research aims to develop the Roman Urdu news classifier, which will classify the news into five categories (health, business, technology, sports, international). First, we will develop the news dataset using scraping tools and then after preprocessing, we will compare the results of different machine learning algorithms like Logistic Regression (LR), Multinomial Naïve Bayes (MNB), Long short term memory (LSTM), and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). After this, we will use a phonetic algorithm to control lexical variation and test news from different websites. The preliminary results suggest that a more accurate classification can be accomplished by monitoring noise inside data and by classifying the news. After applying above mentioned different machine learning algorithms, results have shown that Multinomial Naïve Bayes classifier is giving the best accuracy of 90.17% which is due to the noise lexical variation.
Roman urdu, news headline classification, long short term memory, recurrent neural network, logistic regression, multinomial naïve Bayes, random forest, k neighbor, gradient boosting classifier.
R. Ali Naqvi, M. Adnan Khan, N. Malik, S. Saqib, T. Alyas et al., "Roman urdu news headline classification empowered with machine learning," Computers, Materials & Continua, vol. 65, no.2, pp. 1221–1236, 2020.
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The play is written in a light comedy style with a talented cast that does justice to their characters under the astute direction of Stan Mazin.
At the age of seven I began studying music and dance and won every talent contest I entered. Also at the age of seven I was chosen Little Miss Twin Cities in my hometown of Crystal City/Festus, MO. In 1977 I was Mrs. Missouri in the first National Mrs. America Pageant that was televised nationwide from Las Vegas, NV. During my long career as a real estate broker, I majored in music in college, after which I became a host of a weekly classical music program over radio station KCSN (KCSN Concert Hall) followed by 10 years as host of Arts In Review at radio station KPFK. After leaving KPFK to move to Northern California, I returned to Los Angeles two years later and began writing theatre reviews for NoHoLA (later renamed MetroLa), became a contributor to The Tolucan Times writing theatre reviews and special feature articles. I also began writing an article entitled People, Places, and Things for a newspaper, The National Jewish News, and am still a regular contributor to that paper.


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Ancient basilica on lagoon island hard hit in Venice flood
Nov. 19, 2019 at 8:45 am Updated Nov. 19, 2019 at 10:44 am
COLLEEN BARRY
MILAN (AP) — One of the most ancient churches of Venice, a Byzantine basilica established in the year 639, counts among the 60 churches damaged in three exceptional floods last week, officials said Tuesday.
The ancient Santa Maria Assunta Basilica, and the adjacent Santa Maria Fosca church, were "abundantly flooded" three times last week, with the lagoon salt water seeping into mosaic floors and the marble columns, said Alessandro Polet, spokesman for the Venice Patriarchy said.
The basilica and its mosaic floors have been cleaned with fresh water, but the extent of the damage will take time to assess. "Damage from salt water you only see after time,'' Polet said.
Because the salt water penetrates the building materials, damage is often much higher and deeper than the actual water levels. Due to its position in the lagoon, the water took longer to recede than from the historic center of Venice.
The floods also destroyed a walkway to the nearby bell tower, Polet said.
Venice city hall noted the damage on Instagram, saying the basilica, "a container of priceless treasures," had been "hard hit."
The basilica, which underwent renovations in 864 and 1004, contains the earliest remaining mosaics around Venice.
The stone floor mosaics incorporate geometric circular and checkerboard patterns, while the main apse features an 11th century mosaic of the Virgin Hodegetria — an iconographic depiction of the Virgin Mary — against a golden background, hovering above a line of saints.
The Venice Patriarchy estimates half of Venice's 120 churches sustained some level of damage, with a preliminary average estimate of 60,000 euros ($66,500) each — not taking into account the city's centerpiece, St. Mark's Basilica.
In addition, cultural officials said 13 of Venice's 80 bell towers were being closely monitored in the wake of the floods for structural damage.
St. Mark's crypt was under water for a full 24 hours, having flooded for only the second time in history, after 1966, according to Carlo Alberto Tesserin, the first procurator, charged with preserving the basilica.
While damage to the crypt is expected to be extensive, Tesserin said it was too early to estimate. The basilica, which sits at Venice's lowest point, was also battered by an exceptional flood in October 2018, with damage to the bronze metal doors and columns.
"The floods can come back at any moment," Tesserin said. "The forecasts are no longer reliable, due to the changing climate."
Antonia Pasqua Recchia, an official in the Italian Cultural Ministry, told Sky TG24 that it wasn't enough to restore the damaged treasures and that "this needs to be about prevention."
Toward that end, city officials are pressing Rome for completion of long-delayed movable underwater barriers, which are meant to protect Venice from floods above 1.1 meters (3 feet, 6 inches). Last week's floods measured 1.87 meters, 1.54 meters and 1.5 meters — the first time three such exceptional floods have hit the City of Canals in recorded history.
Beyond the churches, Pasqua Recchia said, "we should also remember the museums and the palaces that must confront a cleanup that will be long and costly."
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Q: ImportError: No module named flask.ext.restless I'm trying to make Restful endpoints for a sqlalchemy database. But for some reason it can't find the Flask Restless extension.
When I run the file I get this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./rest1.py", line 7, in <module>
    import flask.ext.restless
  File "/home/ian/git_dev/flask_rest/test2/flask/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask/exthook.py", line 86, in load_module
    raise ImportError('No module named %s' % fullname)
ImportError: No module named flask.ext.restless

I have Flask, Flask-Restless and SQLalchemy installed but it still won't work.
Django==1.6.5
Flask==0.10.1
Flask-Restless==0.13.1
Jinja2==2.7.2
MarkupSafe==0.23
PAM==0.4.2
Pillow==2.3.0
SQLAlchemy==0.9.4

This is my code:
#!flask/bin/python
#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- mode: python -*-

from flask import Flask
from sqlalchemy import Column, Date, DateTime, Float, Integer, Unicode
from sqlalchemy import create_engine
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
from sqlalchemy.orm import scoped_session, sessionmaker
import flask.ext.restless

app = Flask(__name__)
engine = create_engine('sqlite:////tmp/testdb.sqlite', convert_unicode=True)
Session = sessionmaker(autocommit=False, autoflush=False, bind=engine)
mysession = scoped_session(Session)

Base = declarative_base()
Base.metadata.bind = engine

class Test_Table(Base):
    __tablename__ = 'plot'
    id = Column(DateTime, primary_key=True)
    value = Column(Integer)
    type = Column(Unicode)
    max = Column(Integer)
    min = Column(Integer)

Base.metadata.create_all()

manager = flask.ext.restless.APIManager(app, flask_sqlalchemy_db=db)

manager.create_api(Test_Table, methods=['GET', 'POST', 'PUT' 'DELETE'])

app.run()

I've tried Flask-Restful as well, both within and outside virtual environments. But I still end up with the same result.

A: You can try reinstalling  pip install --upgrade --force-reinstall flask_restless
If that does not work:
install  flask_restless 0.14-dev from github.
git clone https://github.com/jfinkels/flask-restless

 cd flask-restless
 pip install -r requirements-doc.txt

Use import flask_restless
   flask_restless.__version__
   '0.13.1'

to make sure python is seeing the correct version of flask_restless.
You also  seem to have a "flask" dir in your path:
'/home/ian/git_dev/flask_rest/test2/flask/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask/exthook.py'
that may be conflicting with your imports.

A: You can install the latest flask-restless directly from Github:
pip install git+https://github.com/jfinkels/flask-restless.git

As usual, before installing make sure you're in the correct environment if you're using something like virtualenv

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When doing long term cash flow projections for clients, it is necessary to make some "guesses" of future investment returns. Unfortunately, for the 50 year cash flow projections we do, the results are very sensitive to these guesses.
If they prove too high, without any adjustments along the way clients may end up in a considerably worse financial position than projected while, if too low, they may have led unduly financially constrained lifestyles. The antidote, of course, is to regularly review the projections, ideally annually, and make regular small adjustments rather than put an initial Plan in the drawer and see how things turn out in 50 years' time.
My children and many of their friends are now at the age where they are making very important decisions regarding starting families and meeting housing needs. These decisions, of course, have a strong emotional element. But they also generally have massive financial implications that, once made, lock in commitments that will extend for many years into the future.
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A focus on the "here and now" and peer comparison when making financial decisions is fraught with danger. Young adults often wrongly presume because their friends are buying houses and starting families, they can and should do the same.
Recently, the Aegon Center for Longevity and Retirement released its 2018 international Retirement Readiness Survey, a survey it has conducted annually since 2012. For each of the 15 nations surveyed, an Aegon Retirement Readiness Index (ARRI") is calculated, ranking retirement readiness on a scale from 0 to 10.
The last few years have seen a fairly dramatic drop in the income yields obtained from typical balanced (i.e. roughly equal defensive and growth investments) investment portfolios. Reduced interest rates, lower rental yields on property and flat to declining dividend yields on shares mean that many retirees are no longer able to meet living expenses solely from the cash distributions (i.e. the income yield) generated by their portfolios.
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World Cup 2018: 5 Top Performers for England
By Ben Winfield
Modified 08 Jul 2018
Who would have thought it? Less was expected of this England team than any other at a World Cup. A quarterfinal was seen as a success in the lead up to the tournament, but England are now just one game away from their first World Cup final since 1966, and the nation believes.
England didn't have the toughest task getting through the group stage but needed a late winner from captain Harry Kane to beat Tunisia in their opener, before the skipper's hat-trick inspired them to a 6-1 in over Panama to secure qualification to the round of 16.
The third game saw England rest eight players to play Belgium and losing 1-0. This turned out to be a blessing in disguise for the Three Lions, because it meant they ended up in the weaker half in the draw, with, in terms of favourites, just Spain for company.
England finally broke their World Cup penalty shootout hoodoo against Colombia in the round of 16. Jordan Pickford was the hero, saving from Carlos Bacca before Eric Dier stepped up to score the winner.
They put in their most complete performance yet against Sweden, as they played their first quarter-final for 12 years. In the end, they came out comfortable 2-0 winners and set up a semi-final clash with Croatia.
The country has got behind the team, the likes of which we haven't seen in England since 1996. Gareth Southgate has helped the team form a bond with the supporters, and now there is a real belief that football is coming home.
Here are the five best players from England's campaign in Russia so far:
#5 Jordan Henderson
Henderson has received criticism for most of his England career. It has often been said that he isn't progressive enough, he passes sideways, and doesn't bring enough to this team. At times, this has been right. He hasn't always been the right man in this England midfield, but that was in a system that included two defensive midfielders, and he would often play alongside Eric Dier in a quite defensive formation.
This tournament though, he has been on his own at the base of the midfield, and he has played a key role in the side. He has kept it simple when they have needed to keep it simple, and he has gone for the balls over the top when they are needed as well. It all could have been very different. Had Jordan Pickford not come to his rescue in the penalty shootout against Colombia, he probably would have been remembered as a villain for his penalty miss.
#4 Jordan Pickford
Jordan Pickford
A lot of the credit for Pickford's brilliant form at this tournament has to go to Gareth Southgate. Up until as late as March, Joe Hart was still England's number one, despite a string of sub-par performances for both club and country, which had led to him being left out of West Ham's side. It would have been the easy option for him to stick with the experience of Hart, but he took the risk and ended up leaving him out of the squad altogether.
Pickford has justified his decision in the last two matches. He didn't have too much to do in the group stage but has proved his worth in the knockout stages. He made a quite sensational save from Mateus Uribe against Colombia, before saving from Carlos Bacca in the shootout and making himself the hero. He was once again outstanding against Sweden in the quarterfinals and was named the man of the match after making excellent saves from Marcus Berg and Viktor Claesson.
#3 Harry Maguire
What an incredible two years it has been in the career of this young man. He was at Euro 2016 in France as a supporter, nowhere near international selection. Now, two years on, he is a key man in this England team, and has had a brilliant tournament in Russia. There were worries that his form had dropped off a little towards the end of the last season, but there has been no sign of that.
He has slotted in well in the back three and has looked defensively solid, as well as showing an ability to calmly bring the ball out of defence and into midfield. He has been a threat from set-pieces as well, which England have exploited well in Russia. He is often the target for knockdowns and helped himself to his first international goal against Sweden. His performances have raised the question: which Harry is more important for England?
#2 Kieran Trippier
A year ago, Trippier was just an understudy to Kyle Walker, for both club and country. He is another one who has benefitted massively from the change of system because without it, he wouldn't be in the starting XI. Thanks to playing three at the back, Walker has moved to centre back, Trippier has come in at right wing-back, and has drawn unlikely comparisons with David Beckham.
You could say that Trippier is yet to be really tested defensively, but you can only play what's in front of you. What has really impressed with the Spurs defender is his delivery, both from open play and dead ball situations. It is all well and good having players in the team who can attack a cross into the box, but you've got to have someone who can put it in the right areas, and Trippier can do just that.
#1 Harry Kane
What more is there that you can say about this man? Kane has shown in the World Cup that he truly is the best striker in the world. He currently leads the race for the golden boot, with six goals. People will argue that four of those six goals have come from penalties, but if anything, that proves just how composed the Tottenham man is under pressure.
And it hasn't just been all about the goals for Kane. He holds the ball up so well and brings others into play as well. He leads this England team well from the front, and they probably wouldn't have got so far at the World Cup had it not been for him. He will have to be at his best if England are to go all the way to Moscow and lift the trophy, but if anyone can do it, he can.
FIFA WC 2018 Tottenham Hotspur England Harry Kane Harry Maguire FIFA World Cup - Top 5 Players for each team
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London Health Sciences Centre has been presented with a 2018 Provincial Conversion Rate Award for meeting or exceeding the target goal set by Trillium Gift of Life Network (TGLN), a not-for-profit agency of the Government of Ontario responsible for planning, promoting, coordinating and supporting organ and tissue donation for transplantation across Ontario.
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Under the Public Hospitals Act, LHSC is accountable to identify potential donors and to make families of potential donors aware of the possibility of organ donation. While these conversations occur most frequently in our Critical Care areas, they do also happen in other areas of the hospital. This award reflects how well we work together with TGLN to meet this accountability and save lives through organ donation.
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Bridgestone Recognised as Global Leader in Supplier Engagement
As the world's largest tyre and rubber manufacturer, Bridgestone is committed to ensuring a healthy and sustainable environment for current and future generations.
It's this commitment to social and environmental responsibility that has seen Bridgestone recognised as a global leader for managing carbon emissions and climate change across its supply chain.
Created by the international, nongovernment organisation CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project), the supplier engagement leader board ranks over 3,000 companies globally on their supply chain engagement strategies.
Bridgestone was among just 29 companies, or less than one per cent, that received the highest 'A' rating across its supply chain. This puts Bridgestone among global leaders for the management of carbon emissions and actions against climate change through the entirety of a product lifecycle.
Locally, stores across Australia and New Zealand are helping to create a sustainable society with the following initiatives:
Ecopia tyres
The Ecopia tyre is the result of global research and development into reduced rolling resistance. Put simply, rolling resistance is the force required to roll a tyre. Lower rolling resistance means less fuel consumption and lower CO2 emissions. Stores throughout Australia and New Zealand are committed to promoting the Ecopia range.
Tomorrow Matters
Bridgestone has managed to divert two football stadiums' worth, or more than 100,000 tonnes, of tyres from landfill over the past 20 years with the help of Australia's biggest and most passionate tyre recycler - Tyrecycle. Recycled tyres have a wide range of uses, from running tracks and playground surfaces, to uses in civil engineering and even brake pads.
It's these strategies, both locally and globally, that put Bridgestone at the forefront of sustainability and efforts to battle climate change, ensuring a healthy environment long into the future.
Awards & Accolades Tomorrow Matters
Bridgestone Rated Highest By Australian Motorists
Bridgestone Corporation Receives Environmental Award
Fuel Saving Technology that's Innovative & Eco-friendly
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Our department maintains a liaison with local, state and federal law enforcement agencies scoped with investigating, studying, analyzing and sharing intelligence information on matters related to terrorist activity and organized crime that potentially impacts public safety within the park district, or activity that may occur in the park district that could impact homeland security on a larger scale.
Efforts each of you make to be vigilant, such as reporting suspicious items or activities to authorities, do make a difference. Every citizen, using their common sense and their eyes and ears can support our efforts to keep the East Bay Regional Park District safe.


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April 2022-Ann Fisher
A: I grew up on a farm East River, near a small town called Monroe, and went to school in Marion, where I played 4 sports. I attended Northwest Missouri State freshman year, and then transferred to Black Hills State (graduated 2004). I received my Master's in Student Personnel (Higher Education) from SDSU in 2007. I moved to Colorado, and got married in 2008 to Chris (aka Fish) and we lived in Lone Tree for several years, where I worked for the University of Denver in Financial Aid. We moved back to Rapid City in 2010. I've worked at the School of Mines (Admissions) now for 11 years. We have 2 children, a girl and boy-Lucy (6) and Jorah (JoJo 4), as well as 2 cats (Sunabe and Eva) and a goldfish (Snowball). I love to garden so when I'm not training or wrangling my crazy kids, I'm attempting to grow giant pumpkins. In 2019 I had 2 pumpkins over 200 pounds (216 and 205 lbs).
A: My first running experience was at kindergarten rally day. That is when it was obvious I was going to be a runner. My mom recorded my 400M dash, and I was way ahead from the start. It was a gravel track, and there was a section of the track that led back to the road. I took that section and went straight, instead of taking the curve. They had to call me back to the track, and I still won the race by 50 meters.
I ran cross country and track (sprints) throughout junior high and high school. I was a State Track Meet Class B MVP twice, Howard Wood 200M dash Special Event winner, and won 6 individual events and 2 relay events, as well as placing in many others. I got 2nd in the 200M dash as a 7th grader. I went on to run college track at Northwest Missouri State University and then Black Hills State, where I held an individual 200M dash indoor record, and still hold an 800M indoor relay record. I went to nationals for the indoor 200M dash and outdoor 400M relay.
I took a running break for a few years, and in 2006 ran the San Diego Rock N Roll Marathon with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (because of course it makes sense to jump from the 200M dash to 26.2 miles). We moved back to Rapid City in 2010 and I completed the Deadwood Mickelson Half Marathon in 2014. I joined the BHRC and started doing the group runs in 2017 (thanks Coach Kyle and Gary Miller for the company!).
I did ALL of the running shenanigans last summer and completed all of the trail series and road series, as well as the Deadwood Mickelson Marathon, Black Hills 30K, Lean Horse 30 Miler, 2 50Ks, Rapid City Half Marathon, and the Crazy Horse Half Marathon. FOMO is real so I did a LOT!
A: It depends on my mood. I enjoy doing the trail and road series with friends, because then it's more of an adventure together, but I also enjoy doing speed work on my own where I can pick the pace.
A: Surprisingly I find I enjoy trails more, although for convenience I do more treadmill and road running. I wasn't a fan of hiking, but in 2019 the BHRC held a 10K trail race as an option, the race at Hisega, so I tried it. I was glad to see a lot of the other runners walking uphill as well!
Road races feel more like it's a contest of speed, where trail racing feels more like I'm a kid exploring outside. Plus trail races usually have more snacks and beverages!
A: If I'm completely honest, it's 200M on a track! However, I find I enjoy the longer trail races – more to explore, more adventures to be had!
A: I will try to pick a new course or place to run to change it up. I will do intervals, speed work, just something else to get moving.
If I'm running by myself, I listen to movies on my ipod, for example: Guardians of the Galaxy 1 and 2 (awesome soundtracks!), Dr. Strange, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (classic from my childhood), Pirates of the Caribbean, Red, and Frozen 2.. I also watch a LOT of TV shows when I'm on the treadmill.
A: Be bored. I lean toward being introverted, but find that the running community gives me that sense of team and camaraderie that I used to have in high school and college. I played in volleyball leagues until we had Lucy, so running gives me a social network to interact with outside of home and work.
A: I'm still competitive at heart with myself, so improving my times from previous races is always rewarding, as well as pushing myself to try new courses or distances. I like trail running because every run is different-new scenery, new experiences, new snacks at the aid stations (shots of pickle juice was a new one!).
Last summer we started using the phrase – shenanigans – for our running adventures, and that has stuck with me. I was doing the Big Hill race last summer and ended up walking uphill with Rhiannon Suchor (pictured with me), and that started our friendship and running adventures. We did the Virtual Marine Corp 50K around Hart Ranch in October, and we used my car as an aid station. I think the guys playing the disc golf tournament there thought we were crazy when we opened the car trunk and it was full of snacks and beverages!
A: This would actually probably have to be my last state track meet. I had won the 100M dash (4th year in a row) and the 200M dash, and we had won the 4x100M and 4X200M relays at state. I had run fast enough to win the Gold Medals (fastest of the 3 classes) for both the 100M and 200M. I was on the podium for the last time, and the announcer was talking about me and how over my career I had won over 20 medals at the state track meet, and he had the crowd give me a standing ovation. It was very humbling and rewarding, and a very emotional ending to my high school running career.
A: 2 dry waffles (I usually eat them in the car, if my kids don't try to steal them first), coffee, and a sugar free redbull for the drive to the race. I will listen to a CD I made with some songs from high school and college. I typically have an espresso gel prior to the race starting. Plus hit up the bathroom a million times.
Q: What's the most valuable lesson you have learned from running?
A: I've had both spectrums – winning and DFL (Did Finish Last) – and I'm finding that in both cases it's just about finding the joy in running! Be willing to try new things and push yourself out of your comfort zone. It's not always about winning. You may have lots of fun along the way, even when you're suffering on a steep climb, you can still laugh about it.
A: Bucket Lists: Finish a half marathon in under 2 hours, participate in a Ragnar (I get to do that this summer in Washington-Northwest Passage), Kauai Half Marathon (I was scheduled to run it-canceled in 2020), run a trail race in Utah (it looks so pretty!), and maybe eventually run a 50 miler.
A: I really enjoy learning about races and especially runners and their stories. During COVID I really got into ordering/reading running books. I have a huge stack that I'm reading – Scott Jurek, Dean Karnazes, Catra Corbett, Cory Reese, plus dozens others. I love watching videos and reading about all of the different races and runners, but I especially enjoy watching videos of Courtney Dauwalter, an ultra runner from Colorado. She comes across as very genuine and just loves running, and she seems like she's having FUN. Why do something if you aren't enjoying it?! There is something to be said for going into that pain cave and pushing yourself through it.
A: Be willing to put yourself out there and try new races or courses. Don't judge yourself against other runners, because every runner has different strengths and stories. Start building your story, and you may surprise yourself!


We have recently made public a rather technical paper in which we explicitly and unambiguously calculate the cosmic string loop number density distribution in our universe coming from various motivated loop production functions. Such a density distribution crucially determines the spectrum of their emitted gravitational waves, a smooking gun for their potential discovery.
We hold an informal meeting, organized one day before the Solvay Workshop on "The dark side of Black Holes" in Brussels (but not officially related to it), with a few experts on PBH to discuss recent developments in the field. This takes place Tuesday 2nd of April, seminar room E349 from 10 am.
The final release of the Planck data 2018, see this post, invited us to finalize a long project in which we discuss the actual status of Cosmic Inflation with respect to what we have learned about the early universe.
We are happy to announce the opening of a few post-doctoral positions in Gravitational Waves research at the Institute of Mathematics and Physics. The positions are shared with our CP3 colleagues and the STAR institute. We search for candidates over a wide range of expertises, from VIRGO related hardware design to GW data analysis for Cosmology. Don't hesitate to apply, the number of openings is not rigidly fixed yet.


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Radiohead are trying an interesting experiment with their new album: they're letting fans download the album and then choose how much to pay for it based on what they think it's worth. This is interesting because up until now, the music industry's response to advances in technology has been to sue their customers. It's good to see someone as big as Radiohead try something experimental and different that engages with their audience.
This is Radiohead's first album outwith their former record company, EMI, and I can't help wondering if this is going to set a trend: as soon as their contract expired, they jumped ship and went independent. Could this be the beginning of the end of the record company as we know it? I guess it depends very much on the success of this experiment, but it's certainly one that I'll be watching with great interest.


Benefits access for Florida Residents through the SNAP program.
A Q&A fact sheet for homeless individuals seeking SNAP benefits.
A federal government assistance program that provides nutritious foods and commodities to supplement the diets of low-income pregnant, postpartum and breast-feeding women, newborns, children up to five years of age, as well as infants.
The United State Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Services website. Eligibility information, resources, and applications.
Information and applications for Escambia County School District free and reduced lunch program.
Information and applications for Santa Rosa County School District free and reduced lunch program.
School Meals, programs, guidelines, and reports provided by the Department of Agriculture.
A non-profit organization providing nutrition services to people living with terminal illness, HIV/AIDS, aged, disabled and children.
Feeding the Gulf Coast has over 400 agencies that are prepared to provide groceries to those in need. Most all of these agencies are run by volunteers, so hours of operation may be limited.
Provides EBT cards for free food to use at local grocery stores as well as nutrition and breastfeeding counseling for Women, Infants and Children under 5 years old.
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Cultural Studies (8)
https://www.berghahnjournals.com/search?f_0=author&q_0=John+Bendix
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A Discipline Refuses: Rating Academic Research Performance in Germany
John Bendix
The ability to conduct academic research is partly a function of the time
available for it, especially relative to teaching and administrative obligations.
1 For the last decade, both the number of students enrolled at German
universities and the number of full-time professors has remained at
about the same level. The number of wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter, doctorallevel
research assistants, however, has increased by more than half, and
the number of Lehrbeauftragte, those on temporary teaching contracts, has
increased by three-quarters. There is thus no lack of personnel to help
professors meet teaching or administrative obligations, or to assist on
research projects.2 Nevertheless, and particularly in the humanities, German
professors complain about their teaching burdens, about added
administrative tasks their universities place upon them,3 and about what
they see as new pressures to bring in funding or produce results.4 That the
Historikertag, the biannual meeting of German historians, had "Boundaries"
(2010) and "Resources—Conflicts" (2012) as the overarching themes
for its last two meetings seems in keeping with this sentiment.
In German Politics and Society
73–99 (26 total)
Facing Hitler: German Responses to 'Downfall'
Bernd Eichinger's Der Untergang is the first all-German production in fifty years to feature Hitler in a full-length dramatic film. This article explores the choices and intentions of the producer/scriptwriter, aspects of German public opinion about Hitler, and the critical responses to what was widely seen as an effort to humanize Hitler on screen-though I argue it was ultimately more an effort to finally lay Hitler to rest.
Nazi Crimes and their Lingering Impact
Alexander von Plato, Almut Leh and Christopher Thonfeld, eds., Hitler's
Slaves: Life Stories of Forced Labourers in Nazi-Occupied Europe (New York:
Berghahn Books, 2010)
Frank Biess and Robert Moeller, eds., Histories of the Aftermath: The Legacies
of the Second World War in Europe (New York: Berghahn Books, 2010)
103–109 (6 total)
Contemporary Perspectives on Nazi Germany
Paul Roland, Life in the Third Reich: Daily Life in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945 (London: Arcturus Publishing, 2015)
Eric Kurlander, Hitler's Monsters: A supernatural history of the Third Reich (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017)
Shelley Baranowski, Armin Nolzen, and Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann, A Companion to Nazi Germany (Hoboken: Wiley, 2018)
98–108 (10 total)
Political Asylum in Germany: International Norms and Domestic Politics
John Bendix and Niklaus Steiner
Although political asylum has been at the forefront of contemporary
German politics for over two decades, it has not been much discussed
in political science. Studying asylum is important, however,
because it challenges assertions in both comparative politics and
international relations that national interest drives decision-making.
Political parties use national interest arguments to justify claims that
only their agenda is best for the country, and governments argue
similarly when questions about corporatist bargaining practices arise.
More theoretically, realists in international relations have posited
that because some values "are preferable to others … it is possible to
discover, cumulate, and objectify a single national interest." While
initially associated with Hans Morgenthau's equating of national
interest to power, particularly in foreign policy, this position has
since been extended to argue that states can be seen as unitary rational
actors who carefully calculate the costs of alternative courses of
action in their efforts to maximize expected utility.
Sabine von Mering, Luke B. Wood, J. Nicholas Ziegler, John Bendix, Marcus Colla, and Alexander Dilger
Dolores L. Augustine, Taking on Technocracy: Nuclear Power in Germany, 1945 to the Present (New York: Berghahn Books, 2018)
Michael Meng and Adam R. Seipp, Modern Germany in Transatlantic Perspective (New York: Berghahn Books, 2017)
Cynthia Miller-Idriss, The Extreme Gone Mainstream: Commercialization and Far Right Youth Culture in Germany (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017)
Constantin Goschler, ed. Compensation in Practice: The Foundation 'Remembrance, Responsibility and Future' and the Legacy of Forced Labour during the Third Reich (New York: Berghahn Books, 2017)
Albert Earle Gurganus, Kurt Eisner: A Modern Life (Rochester: Camden House, 2018)
Claudia Sternberg, Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni, and Kalypso Nicolaïdis, The Greco-German Affair in the Euro Crisis: Mutual Recognition Lost? (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018)
116–137 (21 total)
Myra Marx Ferree, Hanno Balz, John Bendix, Meredith Heiser-Duron, Jeffrey Luppes, Stephen Milder, and Randall Newnham
Thomas Klikauer, Norman Simms, Marcus Colla, Nicolas Wittstock, Matthew Specter, Kate R. Stanton, John Bendix, and Bernd Schaefer
Heinrich Detering, Was heißt hier "wir"? Zur Rhetorik der parlamentarischen Rechten (Dietzingen: Reclam Press, 2019).
Clare Copley, Nazi Buildings: Cold War Traces and Governmentality in Post-Unification Berlin (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020).
Tobias Schulze-Cleven and Sidney A. Rothstein, eds., Imbalance: Germany's Political Economy after the Social Democratic Century (Abingdon: Routledge, 2021).
Benedikt Schoenborn, Reconciliation Road: Willy Brandt, Ostpolitik and the Quest for European Peace (New York: Berghahn Books, 2020).
Tiffany N. Florvil, Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2020).
Ingo Cornils, Beyond Tomorrow: German Science Fiction and Utopian Thought in the 20th and 21st Centuries (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2020).
Christian F. Ostermann, Between Containment and Rollback: The United States and the Cold War in Germany (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021).


Seed Warriors provides a fascinating glimpse at the science and the social importance behind an amazing exercise in biodiversity preservation.
In the Norwegian region of Svalbard, deep inside a sandstone mountain near the town of Longyearbyen, there is an underground facility that was created to help preserve life as we know it. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, or 'Doomsday Vault,' opened officially in February, 2008 and has the capacity to store up to 4.5 million of the world's seeds, with some seeds having the capacity to be stored in the area's permafrost environment for thousands of years. But if, as predicted, global temperatures rise by two degrees by 2050, there may be as much as a 30% reduction in food crops, while the demand for food might be twice as much as today's. Seed Warriors provides a fascinating glimpse at the science and the social importance behind this amazing exercise in biodiversity preservation.


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"You rang?"
"The Addams Family"
Oh, wait, there's a Jonathan Creek special coming this month?! Wow, with a new Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo TV series starting early April, the many great TV drama specials last month and the Creek special this month, this year has a very solid start in terms of mystery shows!
Higashigawa Tokuya's Nazotoki wa Dinner no Ato de has been a great hit in Japan; the series about a somewhat verbally abusive butler who solves all the cases of his master, a wealthy heiress and rookie police detective, has had great ratings in the bookstores, television and movie theaters. But would a butler really be so rude to his master? Of course not, Maya Yutaka must have thought as he was writing Kizoku Tantei -Der Adelsdetektiv ("The Aristocrat Detective"), a fun, but somewhat limited short story collection. In the course of five stories, we're introduced to a variety of people in different places of Japan, in different circles of society, but with one common element: the moment a murder happens, an unnamed, arrogant young man arrives, calling himself the Aristocrat Detective. And he has friends in high places, as all policemen discover whenever they try to get him out of the crime scene. But it is not he hmself who uses his mental faculties to solve the murders. No, it's his staff, from butlers to maids who do all the thinking, and talking for him. But he is their master, so he considers whatever they accomplish, as his own accomplishment. They are tools, he is the workman who uses the right tools at the right time. Or something like that.
The first story in the collection, Wien no Mori no Monogotari - Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald ("Stories from the Wienerwald"), sets the formula for the rest of the collection. A little family gathering at a snow lodge (coupled with a bit of business) ends in tragedy when the head of the family is found murdered in his locked room. His secretary, who had returned to the city, was also murdered the same night in her apartment. The police thinks it's an easy case, but then the Aristocrat Detective appears... The plot of this opening story is actually quite good. The basic idea behind this story might be relatively easy, as it is clearly written to be a very fair, and solvable puzzle, but Maya manipulates the many elements expertly and invokes the Queen spirit when the story has you thinking about why some actions were taken, which in turns leads you the the murderer. A good example of a solidly written short story, even if the separate elements (snow lodge, locked room etc) aren't really original.
Tritsch-Tratsch Polka follows two policemen who are investigating a murder. But as they are questioning witnesses, they discover that another duo, of a man and his...maid, are also following the same trail. What do they have to do with the case, and why are they asking silly questions like whether the victim was carrying an umbrella that day? I liked this story the best of this collection actually, once again a short, but sweet experience. The double mystery (the murder, and the mysterious duo with their unexpected questions) is interesting enough to keep you hooked, and the trick behind the murder is also quite surprising, but I can't really write more about that lest I enter spoiler-territory. But as a short story with a clear goal (following the witness trail and deducing as you collect more information), and a good plot, Tritsch-Tratsch Polka is definitely my favorite here.
In Koumori - Die Fledermaus ("The Bat"), two girls have some deserved relaxing time at an exclusive hotel. They become acquainted with a group of famous writers, and end up as decisive witnesses when the sister-in-law of one of the writers is murdered during a local festival. The longest story of this collection, but that doesn't mean it's better. It's too long considering the plot to be honest and the trick feels too farfetched to work (at least, in the world of Kizoku Tantei; it might work in a different fictional world, but I'll write more about that in another review), which means a small payback for a relatively (time)-expensive story. Especially compared to the previous two short, but good stories, Koumori feels like a small letdown.
Kasokudo Waltz - Accelerationen Waltzer ("Acceleration Waltz") has the reader follow a particular bad day of a literary editor, which starts with the discovery of her boyfriend cheating on her, continues with a rock falling from a mountain, causing her to crash her car and have her discover the dead body of a writer she once worked for in his mountain lodge. Her one lucky break? A certain aristocrat is determined to solve the case fast (so they can go on a date). A quick examination of the state of the house is the key to the case, and is, in theory, a bit like the opening story, Wien no Mori no Monogotari - Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald, that is, the problem is solved by figuring out why certain, somewhat strange actions were taking, which brings you to the murderer. In practice, the stories are completely different though. I prefer the opening story a bit more, but this is certainly not a bad story.
Haru no Koe - Frühlingstimmen ("Voices of Spring") can best be described as a Yokomizo Seishi-esque story. The story of a rich heiress, three candidates for marriage and murder was a favorite of Yokomizo and can be seen in for example Inugamike no Ichizoku, Jooubachi and short stories like 'Shinigami no Ya. The three suitors all live on separate floors of an annex building (lest they might force themselves on the heiress in the night), but a cry for help over the phone one night leads to the discovery of all three suitors, murdered. Who killed them and why? The mystery is surprisingly easy to solve and I have to admit that this was my least favorite story of the collection. Koumori - Die Fledermaus was too long, but I liked its core mystery plot better than the one presented here.
Overall though, I have to admit that Kizoku Tantei felt a bit... lacking. Most stories are okay, but there are no real masterpieces or stories that you will definitely remember in a few years. Even the protagonist, the Aristocrat Detective is a bit boring. He does little more than seducing women while his staff is doing the work, but even as an arrogant, rich detective (who doesn't detect himself), he is nothing special. Maya Yutaka's own Mercator Ayu is actually quite similar, as an arrogant, rich detective, but he is much more interesting and fun to follow. The Aristocrat Detective feels like a cheap knock-off, with nothing original to offer.
There is a second collection featuring the Aristocrat Detective, but I think I'll skip that one. I'll probably go back to Mercator...
Original Japanese title(s): 麻耶雄嵩 『貴族探偵』: 「ウィーンの森の物語」 / 「トリッチ・トラッチ・ボルカ」 / 「こうもり」 / 「加速度円舞曲(ワルツ)」 / 「春の声」
Cross-references Detective , Impossible Situation , Locked Room , Maya Yutaka | 麻耶雄嵩 , Short Stories , The Aristocrat Detective | 貴族探偵
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Python module
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Although HHGmax is a framework for Matlab/Octave, it additionaly provides a simple low-level Python module :ref:`pylewenstein` that can just compute the single atom dipole response.
If you are using Linux, you have to :ref:`compile <compilation_python>` a shared object file before you can use the module.

For using the python module, only the following files of the framework are relevant::

  pylewenstein.py
  dll64/*
  dll32/*
  lewenstein.cpp
  lewenstein.hpp
  vec.hpp

To use the pylewenstein module, you can just copy these files to your working directory, or add the framework path to Python's search path using ``sys.path.append``.
Also, you need to make sure that you have installed Python's Numpy extension.

Example
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You can compute the single-atom dipole response e.g. for a Gaussian pulse as driving field (compare :ref:`pulses`):

.. literalinclude:: ../../../examples/tutorial/python/dipole_spectrum.py
   :language: python

Note that the ``pylewenstein.lewenstein`` function allows some extra arguments which should be provided for optimal performance in cases where you want to call this function a lot of times. For further reference, see :ref:`pylewenstein`.

.. note:: Until now, there is no periodic mode in the Python module which means that you need special care when you want to compute the response for CW driving fields. You should generally provide more than one period of the driving field as ``Et`` and then discard the part of the dipole response ``d`` before the last driving field period.

Output
------

.. figure:: python_pulses.png
   :width: 400px
   :alt: Dipole spectrum of single atom with pulsed driving field
   :align: center

   Dipole spectrum of single atom with pulsed driving field

.. rubric:: Now, you know...

... how to use the additional Python module to compute single atom dipole responses.


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Катерина Нугзарівна Жолудєва — майор медичної служби Збройних сил України, учасниця російсько-української війни, що відзначилася у ході російського вторгнення в Україну в 2022 році.

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Катерина Жолудєва працює на посаді начальника відділення променевої діагностики військової частини А3120. Приймала безпосередню участь в обстеженні та плануванні лікування хворих на гостру коронавірусну хворобу COVID-19. З початку пандемії коронавірусної інфекції COVID-19 лікарка безпосередньо виконувала рентгенологічні та комп'ютерні дослідження хворим на COVID-19. Відпрацювала методику перехресного контролю методом комп'ютерної томографії та цифрових рентгенологічних досліджень. Через постійний безпосередній контакт перехворіла на COVID-19, та навіть будучи хворою, проводила опис знімків та займалась дослідженням хворих дистанційно.

Нагороди
 орден княгині Ольги III ступеня (2022) — за особисту мужність і самовіддані дії, виявлені у захисті державного суверенітету та територіальної цілісності України, вірність військовій присязі.
 медаль «За самовіддану працю в боротьбі з пандемією» (28.01.2021, № 366).

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Join Rhode Island Columbians for our annual PRE-GAME RALLY at Flatbreads Pizza, 161 Cushing St., Providence, as we celebrate Columbia Women's Basketball and cheer them to victory.
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