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Rock Valley United Reformed Church
The Book of Numbers
"We Saw His Star When It Rose"
Matthew 2:1-12 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (12/29/2013 am)
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"Three Words of the Gospel"
I Corinthians 16:1-24 & L.D. 52 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (12/29/2013 pm)
"God is With Us - We Have Seen His Glory"
John 1:1-18 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (12/25/2013)
"The Ark of the Covenant and Christ, the Shepherd King"
Exodus 25:10-22 & John 10:1-18 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (12/22/2013 am)
"Lead Us Not into Temptation, but Deliver Us from Evil"
II Chronicles 26:1-23 & L.D. 52 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (12/22/2013 pm)
"The Table of Showbread and Christ, the Bread of Life"
Exodus 25:23-30 & John 6:22-40 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (12/15/2013 am)
"The Altar of Incense and Christ, the Way, the Truth, and the Life"
Exodus 30:1-10, 34-38, John 14:1-14 & Belgic Confession Art. 26
Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (12/15/2013 pm)
"The Announcement of Peace"
Isaiah 52 ~ Rev. Maynard Koerner
Professor at Heidelberg Theological Seminary (12/8/2013 am)
"The Peaceful Life"
"The Golden Lampstand & Christ, This World's One True Light"
Exodus 25:31-40 & John 9:1-41 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (12/1/2013 am)
"And Forgive Us Our Debts as We Forgive Our Debtors"
Luke 7:36-50 & L.D. 51 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (12/1/2013 pm)
"A Uniquely Christian Thanksgiving"
Thanksgiving Day Worship 2013
Philippians 1:1-11 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (11/28/2013 am)
"Our Help Is In the Name of the Lord"
Mark 4:35-41 & Psalm 124 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi ( 11/24/2013 am)
"Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread"
I Kings 16:29 - 17:16 & L.D. 50 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (11/24/2013 pm)
"Redemption Assured For The Asking"
Ruth 3:1-18 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (11/17/2013 am)
"Souls Inspired and Wills Subjected"
Psalm 103 & L.D. 49 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (11/17/2013 pm)
"We Look to Him Whose Throne Is In Heaven"
Psalm 123 & John 13:1-17 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (11/10/2013 am)
"Kingdom Principles Celebrated in Song"
Psalm 2 & L.D. 48 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (11/10/2013 pm)
"People Set Free to Worship The Living God!"
Psalm 122 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (11/3/2013 am)
"Hallowed Be Thy Name"
I Samuel 12:1-25 & L.D. 47 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (11/3/2013 pm)
"My Help Comes From the Lord!"
Psalm 121 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (10/27/2013 am)
"Our Father Who Art in Heaven"
John 3:1-21, I John 3:1-10 & L.D. 46
"The Repentance That Leads to Rejoicing in God"
"Praying Prayers Pleasing to God"
Daniel 9:1-27 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (10/20/2013 pm)
"Know It All"
I John 2:18-27 ~ Rev. G.I. Williamson (10/13/2013 am)
"The Place of Works"
James 2:15-26 ~ Rev. Travis Grassmid
Pastor of Zion Ref. Church (RCUS) Menno, SD (10/13/2013 pm)
"Christ Preserves His Church"
Revelation 3:7-13 ~ Mr. Cody Schwichtenberg
Student at Heidelberg Theological Seminary (10/6/2013 am)
"Behold the Harvest"
John 4:27-43 ~ Rev. Travis Grassmid
Pastor of Zion Ref. Church (RCUS) Menno, SD (10/6/2013 pm)
"Jesus' Parable of Talents and Rewards"
Matt. 25:14-30 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (9/29/2013 am)
"Covetousness: A Constant Reminder to Look to Christ"
Matthew 5:43-48, Romans 7:7-25 & L.D. 44
Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (9/29/2013 pm)
"Jesus' Tale of Ten Virgins"
Matthew 25:1-13 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (9/22/2013 am)
"And You Also Will Bear Witness to the Truth"
John 15:18-27, John 18:28-40 & L.D. 43
"The Boasting Song About Christ"
Song of Solomon 2:1-17 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (9/15/2013 am)
"Time of Your Life"
Ecclesiastes 11:7-12:8 ~ Rev. Dan Donovan (9/15/2013 pm)
"The Power of Christ Shown to Penitent Sinners"
Luke 8:40-56 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (9/8/2013 am)
"The Sine Qua Non of Sanctified Shrewdness"
Luke 16:1-13 & L.D. 42 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (9/8/2013 pm)
"Christ's Parable of the Leaven and the Flour"
I Cor. 5:1-13 & Matt. 13:33-35 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (9/1/2013 am)
"God's Command Against Casual Intercourse"
Jer. 2:1-13, I Cor. 6:12-20 & L.D.41 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (9/1/2013 pm)
"The Spiritual Ruin of the Super Rich Fool"
Luke 12:13-21 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (8/25/2013 am)
"The Precept With Which God Protects Life"
II Samuel 11:1 - 12:15 & L.D. 40 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (8/25/2013 pm)
"Jesus' Miracle of Multiplied Bread"
John 6:1-15 & I Cor. 1:18-31 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (8/18/2013 am)
"That Your Days May Be Long in the Land"
Jeremiah 6:1-19, Ephesians 6:1-9 & L.D. 39
"Jesus Is the Narrow Door to Life Eternal"
"The Sabbath Day As Divinely Given"
Exodus 31:12-18, Matthew 11:25-12:8 & L.D. 38
"Walking Out to Jesus on the Water"
Matt. 14:22-36 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (8/4/2013 am)
"The Awesome Privilege God Has Given Us to Call Upon His Name"
Psalm 20:1-9, Matt. 5:33-37 & L.D. 36 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (8/4/2013 pm)
"A True Believer's Portrait"
I Samuel 17 & Psalm 11 ~ Rev. G.I. Williamson (7/28/2013 am)
"The Defeat of Satan"
John 12:20-33, Romans 16:17-20 & Belgic Confession Art. 13
Rev. G.I. Williamson (7/28/2013 pm)
"Jesus' Parable About the Mustard Seed Mutation"
Matthew 13:31-33; 16:1-12 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (7/21/2013 am)
"The Only True Image of the Invisible God"
Exodus 32:1-35, Col. 1:15-23 & L.D. 35 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (7/21/2013 pm)
"Jesus' Parable of the Wheat and the Weeds"
Matthew 13:24-30; 36-43 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (7/14/2013 am)
"But As For Me and My House, We Will Serve the LORD"
Joshua 24:1-28, John 12:44-50 & L. D. 34b
"Where the Spirit of the Lord Is, There Is Freedom"
II Corinthians 3:1-28 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (7/7/2013 am)
"The Glorious Freedom of the Children of God"
James 1:16-27 & Lord's Day 34a ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (7/7/2013 pm)
"The Parable of the Sower, the Seed and the Soils"
"To Obey is Better Than Sacrifice"
I Samuel 15:1-35 & L.D. 33 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (6/30/2013 pm)
"The Foundational Question Every Builder Must Ask & Answer"
Luke 6:17-49 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (6/23/2013 am)
"Gratefully Living Under God's Amazing Grace"
Romans 6:1-23 & L.D. 32 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (6/23/2013 pm)
"The Tremendous Strength of a Tender Hearted Man"
II Chronicles 33:21-34:33 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (6-16-2013 am)
"The Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven"
Matt. 16:13-20, II Cor. 6:14-7:16 & L.D. 31 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (6-16-2013 pm)
"Taken From Shame to Honor at Table"
II Samuel 9:1-13 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (6/9/2013 am)
"The Pneumatic Answer to the Question of Nicodemus"
John 3:1-21 & Lord's Day 25 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (6/9/2013 pm)
"The Extraordinary Calling of Ordinary Men"
I Corinthians 1:18-39 & Luke 3:7-21 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (6/2/2013 am)
"You Might Be Surprised Who Goes Home Justified"
Luke 18:9-14 & Lord's Day 24 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (6/2/2013 pm)
"Keep Your Roots in the Water"
Psalm 1 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (5/26/2013 am)
"A Celebration of True Faith"
Romans 3:9-31 & Lord's Day 23 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (5/26/2013 pm)
"Wind, Fire, and Filling with the Holy Spirit"
Acts 2:1-13 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (5/19/2013 am)
"Spirit Revealed Wisdom"
I Corinthians 2:1-16 & Lord's Day 20 ~ Rev. Joel Vander Kooi (5/19/2013 pm)
Service of Installation ~ Rev. Joel Alan Vander Kooi ~ May 16, 2013 ~ 7:30pm
Sermon: "Fulfilling Your Ministry" ~ 2 Timothy 4:1-5 ~ Rev. Bradd Nymeyer
Rev. Simon Lievaart ~ Vows of the Congregation & Exhortation to Minister and Congregation
"Christ Commands You Not to Judge"
Luke 6:37-42 ~ Mr. Robert Van der Woerd
"Christ Comforts You With Eternal Bliss"
I Corinthians 15:35-58 & Lord's Day 22 ~ Mr. Robert Van der Woerd
"Jesus the LORD is our Good Shepherd"
Psalm 23 ~ Rev. James Sinke (1/1/2012)
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When he entered my classroom this September, "Tommy" was the smallest 9th grader I had ever encountered. At 14, he was no more than 4-1/2 feet tall. But what he lacked in stature, he more than made up for in boisterousness.
On the first day I taught his freshman writing elective, he arrived 15 minutes late. "I'm Tommy!" he announced brightly, interrupting me mid-sentence as I was going over course procedures with his classmates. He sported a Mohawk, the effect of which was to make him resemble a tiny dinosaur. "Sorry I'm late, Miss—I got lost coming from the gym." Then he looked around at his classmates, grinned conspiratorially, and said to me, "Hey, Miss! Introduce yourself to the class!"
I laughed. It was impossible not to find him adorable.
In the hallways of our school, Tommy was all confidence. The first couple of days, upper classmen would approach him and ask, "Why are you so little?"
"Why are you so little?" he'd retort smartly, as though that were the only logical response to a six-foot-tall senior. After a week of this, he had a full posse accompanying him wherever he went in the hallway.
In his coursework, Tommy was less successful. He had an Individualized Education Plan, which granted him extended time on tests—but realistically, he needed a lot more help. Though he hadn't been labeled as such, he was almost certainly dyslexic; he constantly rearranged the letters in words or forgot letters altogether. Moreover, he had no internal sense of organization in his writing: Everything he wrote read like a random selection of unrelated sentences. It was as though he had simply written down every thought he had, list-like, and decided he was finished with his essay. When presented with any directions that hadn't been read aloud to him (or for which he had missed the explanation—he was absent regularly due to various medical conditions), he would glance at the assignment sheet for a couple of minutes, and then sigh and plant his face down on the desk in an elaborate show of defeat.
"Poor Tommy—he really should have a paraprofessional with him," his science teacher commented to me. "He's completely lost in all his classes."
He wasn't the only one who was lost. The freshman and I were all slogging miserably through the term. The elective met two or three days a week during 10th period, at which point the kids were exhausted and unfocused. The make-up of the class was also a problem: 33 students, one me. With that ratio, it was impossible to give these kids the type of one-on-one attention they needed in a writing class. After seven years in the system, I was an old hand by Bronx teacher-retention standards, but in this situation, there was no question I was struggling.
Something had to change—and it began, at least in part, with Tommy. After one too many days of seeing his little face on the desk, feeling my own hands tied because there were too many kids in the class for me to just sit with him the entire period and guide him through his essay, I had a sudden burst of inspiration. In addition to teaching English, I had an after-school job tutoring kids on the Upper East Side of Manhattan for their SATs. I reasoned that if Tommy had been a Park Avenue kid, his parents would have hired him a tutor. So I would do just that.
As it happened, there was an excellent pool of "tutors" available in my 10th grade Honors English class. So I started there.
Our school's top student was a sophomore named "Chantal," whom I happened to teach the period before Tommy. I kept her after class one day and explained the situation: "There's a little freshman who's having a rough time in the writing elective," I told her. "I want to bring in someone to help him, someone I trust to correct his mistakes and guide him with his writing a little bit. I think you'd be perfect—and I know you're free 10th period. I'd give you community-service credit, candy… whatever. Would you be into doing this?"
A born teacher, Chantal was game to help. She came the next day, and when I nodded in Tommy's direction, she headed over. I don't know what she said to him, but the next minute he was writing, and she was looking over his shoulder, making suggestions. Throughout the period, I kept an eye on them: Every time Tommy wrote a paragraph, he would hand his paper to Chantal, and look eagerly up at her. Chantal would read it through, mark it up in hot-pink pen, talk to him about it, and hand it back. Then he would make more notes in the margins based on her instructions and continue writing. By the end of the period, Tommy—assisted by Chantal—had completed his first five-paragraph essay draft of the term.
Chantal came again the next day, when I had a different section of the writing elective. Tommy wasn't in this class, but there were other kids who needed help. I talked to Chantal for a minute before the period, explained what I wanted the kids to do, and then we took a "divide and conquer" approach, splitting the room in half. The kids were remarkably willing to work with Chantal, totally unfazed by the fact that she was only a year older than they were. I realized then that it would make sense to "hire" more tutors—basically, replicate this experiment on a larger scale.
I went back to the honors class and explained that I could really use some extra hands in my freshman writing elective, that Chantal had done a great job, and that I hoped maybe some other kids might want to volunteer to help out as well. A few hands shot right up, but the majority of the class was unmoved. At the end of the next day, a student in one of my standard classes named "Franchesca" came to find me. "I heard you're bringing 10th graders in to help with the freshmen," she said. "Do you have to be in honors, or can I do it, too?"
Franchesca turned out to be a great fit. Though her writing wasn't as strong as Chantal's, her skills were more than sufficient to help the freshmen outline their essays and correct typographical errors. Moreover, Franchesca—a pretty and outgoing sophomore—brought with her a commodity I hadn't anticipated: a sense of "cool." Suddenly the freshman boys were motivated to write their essays so that they'd have something for Franchesca to work on with them. She circumnavigated the room self-assuredly, marking someone's paper here, encouraging another student there, even telling a small crew of freshmen boys to stop talking and do their work or they'd be in trouble. I marveled at how well they listened; clearly, I had tapped into a valuable resource.
Now that I had seen the benefit of having extra hands in each classroom, I decided to give more thought to fine-tuning other aspects of the writing workshop. I made "peer-review" forms for the assignments so that freshmen could read each other's work and offer standardized feedback on key issues—organization, clarity, interest-value to the reader—before any of the tutors or I arrived at their desks. The forms allowed the kids to rate each other's work on a scale of 1-5 on each issue, and explain any rating under 3. Even for kids who weren't strong readers or writers, the forms made it possible to give meaningful feedback to a peer.
I also invested in 80 multi-colored gel pens. Nothing, I realized, made the kids more motivated to write than the chance to do so in sparkly green gel-ink, and to make corrections in neon orange. Having lots of available colors also made it easier to tell which revisions had been done by whom when several people in turn were handling the same paper: The tutors and I simply used different colors from whichever the peer reviewers had used.
Even with these changes in place, the workshop wasn't perfect: A class of 33 freshmen writers was just too big. While employing tutors and a few minor protocols made it easier for each kid to get some attention, I knew it couldn't truly replace the kind of intensive, one-on-one instruction these kids deserved. Still, it was definitely an improvement. In a school where truancy was a significant problem, 10th period's near-perfect attendance proved that I was on to something. The kids liked being in the writing elective. They liked working with the tutors, using gel pens, teaming up to read each other's papers. They were happy to have tête-à-têtes with me when time permitted. And most importantly, they felt more confident about the writing they were doing.
Last week, I watched Tommy sitting at my desk (for no reason I could discern other than that he had asked to, and I couldn't turn him down), intently focused on his latest essay. He was writing in metallic purple pen, and would soon show his paper to Chantal. And I thought to myself, "OK, we can work with this."
Ilana Garon has been teaching high school English (and math, in emergency situations) in the Bronx, N.Y., since she graduated from Barnard College in 2003. She is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post and Dissent Magazine, and has also been published in PresenTense Magazine, Sunday Salon, and Miranda Literary Magazine. Ilana received her M.A. from City College in 2005, and her M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in 2009. She lives in New York City.


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NASDAQ:FORTY - Formula Systems (1985) Stock Price, Forecast & News
Adding Formula Systems (1985) Ltd.
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Formula Systems (1985) Ltd., through its subsidiaries, provides software, proprietary and non-proprietary software, and software product marketing and support services. The company offers computer and telecommunication infrastructure solutions; computer solutions to computer and communications infrastructures; cloud computing solutions; database and big data services; customer relations management, computer systems management infrastructures, Web world content management, database and data warehouse mining, application integration, database and systems, data management, and software development tools; and professional training courses and advanced professional studies. It also markets and sells computers and peripheral equipment to business customers. In addition, the company offers life, pension, and annuities platforms/solutions, including Sapiens ALIS, LifeSuite, Life Portraits, LifeApply, Sapiens INSIGHT, and Sapiens Closed Books; property and casualty/general insurance platforms/solutions, such as Sapiens IDIT, Adaptik Policy, Adaptik Billing, Stream Claim, Sapiens Stingray, PowerSuite, and CompSuite; and reinsurance software solutions comprising Sapiens Reinsurance, Freedom Reinsurance System, and Universal Reinsurance System. Further, it provides financial and compliance solutions that include eFreedom Annual Statement, PRO Financial General Ledger and Accounts Payable, Preferred Tax Enterprise Financial applications, Insurance Financial reporting, and Power2Play; Sapiens DECISION, a decision management platform; and technology-based solutions and digital insurance suites. Additionally, the company offers application development and business process integration platforms; vertical software solutions; vendor of software services and IT outsourcing software services; and professionals in various areas, as well as develops on-premise payroll software solutions. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Or Yehuda, Israel.
Industry Custom computer programming services
Current SymbolNASDAQ:FORTY
Webhttp://www.formulasystems.com/
Net Income$32.37 million
Return on Equity4.33%
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Formula Systems (1985) announced a dividend on Tuesday, November 19th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, December 24th will be given a dividend of $0.325 per share on Monday, January 1st. The ex-dividend date is Monday, December 23rd. This is an increase from Formula Systems (1985)'s previous dividend of $0.24. View Formula Systems (1985)'s Dividend History.
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Formula Systems (1985) Ltd. (NASDAQ:FORTY) released its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, November, 19th. The technology company reported $0.63 EPS for the quarter. The technology company earned $448.98 million during the quarter. Formula Systems (1985) had a net margin of 2.39% and a return on equity of 4.33%. View Formula Systems (1985)'s Earnings History.
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Mr. Guy Bernstein, Chief Exec. officer (Age 51)
Ms. Maya Solomon-Ella, Chief Operational Officer (Age 41)
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The Motorola HCS12 dev board (M68KIT912DP256) I ordered arrived today.
problems or gotchas with the kit not already documented in errata.
cable. The problem is that not all DB25 cables are equal.
the P&E BDM module will always work.
mean I can wire the DB25 directly to the BDM and if yes how do I do that?
I have even had problems using 6 foot cables marked IEEE 1284.
so will result in the same "flaky" behavior as a cheap DB25 cable.
Anyway these posts give me encouragement to try the P&E pod again..
> The Motorola HCS12 dev board (M68KIT912DP256) I ordered arrived today.
> problems or gotchas with the kit not already documented in errata.
there is nothing to do about it.
market. And guess what? They don't have any of the reported problems here.
and will return its investment by saving the time you mess up with problems.
on a good BDM? Not many is my guess.
A 10 day trial period, to evaluate the emulator is also possible.
>Anyway these posts give me encouragement to try the P&E pod again..
> > I generally keep it down to about 5'.
> > mean I can wire the DB25 directly to the BDM and if yes how do I do that?
> > difficult because back-to-back tests would give differing results.
> > The Motorola HCS12 dev board (M68KIT912DP256) I ordered arrived today.
> > problems or gotchas with the kit not already documented in errata.
when the tools are able to do what they are intended.


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Early life and education
Draves is a native of Rhode Island. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in chemistry from Mount Holyoke College and a Ph.D in biophysical chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1991. She then completed her post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Texas at Austin, where she studied chemotherapy treatment.

Career
In 1993, Draves began her academic career as a professor at the University of Central Arkansas, where she eventually became Dean of undergraduate studies. She then helped establish a new biochemistry program at Monmouth College. Draves then joined the faculty of the University of Mount Union as vice president for academic affairs in 2006. Draves became the 18th president of Graceland University in June 2017, succeeding John Sellars, who had served for ten years in the position.

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For nearly two years – since June 2017 – the faculty at the University of Regina have been performing their duties without a contract. And for nearly one year – since last April – they have been attempting, through negotiations between the University of Regina Faculty Association (URFA) and the university itself, to remedy that situation.
On Friday Mar. 15, despite the assistance of a mediator, it was announced that the two parties had failed to come to an agreement, leaving open the possibility of a job action at a time when students are heading into the most stressful part of their academic term.
Provost Thomas Chase, who represents the administration's side of the bargaining, agreed that the number of out-of-scope administrative employees at the university has burgeoned at more than three times the rate of faculty since 2009, but said that it's incorrect to assume that all of those employees are senior executives.
URFA President Sylvain Rheault said in an interview that the offer came unsolicited via email and spoke about the terms of the agreement.
Many students attended an event hosted by RPIRG (Regina Public Research Interest Group), which answered questions about situation for students.
Dr. Jason Childs, of URFA's negotiating team, stressed that the union was "uncomfortable" with the University of Regina's communication strategy and that it was "mindful of the legal line" when it came to talking about the status of negotiations in public.
In a previous interview, Rheault expressed the same message of restraint on behalf of the union.
Not all faculty members were onside with the union's position, however.
One URFA member who requested to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals was resistant to URFA's position in an interview.
Provost Tom Chase laid out the schedule as it relates to graduation, with graduates being confirmed at monthly meetings at Executive of Council. According to Chase that list is still contingent on final grades, including exams. Chase also stressed that international students were a priority for the administration.
Both Tom Chase and AVP UR International, Livia Castellanos, pointed toward Canadian government regulations that are in place to protect international students in cases of issues outside of their control, such as a job action. Castellanos also explained the process being undertaken with students on exchange at the University of Regina.
Castellanos said that those affected count "around 131 students. Castellanos also laid out UR International's view of international students who are obtaining a degree from the University of Regina.
The University of Regina Faculty Association (URFA) served the University of Regina with an official strike notice on Mar. 22 with the document dated for Mar. 28 at 10 a.m. If an agreement is not reached during the Mar. 25 and 26 bargaining days strike action could commence having cleared the 48 hours required in Saskatchewan labour law for a cooling off period.
In a Mar. 22 release, URFA spoke about the service of the notice.
In a letter by President Vianne Timmons sent to the union and posted to the University of Regina's bargaining-specific website, the University of Regina indicated that they oppose the serving of the notice on the grounds that the two-week cooling off period will not have expired.
A source close to the URFA negotiations has confirmed that the union has been told by the government conciliator involved in the negotiations, as well as with their own legal counsel, that the move is legal. Our source has said the union are to "triple check" on Monday, Mar. 25. Kent Peterson and the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour (SFL) also confirmed, via email, the same position.
With the rhetoric around possible job action intensifying, the Carillon has confirmed, as first noted by Dr. Alec Couros after a domain search of a university website, that the University of Regina has hired a large public relations firm, NATIONAL Public Relations, to handle the communications sent during the strike, including the aforementioned website.
In an email that confirmed the news, Provost Tom Chase gave the reasoning the U of R has for obtaining the Montreal-based company's services.
Chase wrote that the bargaining related website, ureginacollectivebargaining.ca, is part of this effort.
Reactions from union members have been negative. Dr. Tom McIntosh voiced his displeasure on twitter, as did many of his colleagues.
NATIONAL's website highlights the services they provide to institutions such as the University of Regina during labour negotiations.
Meanwhile, the University of Regina Faculty Association has released frequently asked questions documents related to students and members in URFA's various bargaining units, including highlighting how important cohesiveness is to them during the negotiation process.
The release also includes general guidelines for academic staff and how they are meant to act during a strike in accordance with union principles, as well as steps being taken to help education about the possible action.
The document provides clarity in relation to the position of those on leave.
URFA also confirmed that it is their position that research funds still be dispersed and acted upon.
The section relating to support provided by academics such as support letters and academic reviewing, urges quick action.
The student FAQ provides URFA's reasoning for strike action, along with how convocation, Saskatchewan Polytechnic classes, and students facing unique circumstances may be affected.
With possible strike action to occur on Mar. 28 from the University of Regina Faculty Association (URFA), the University of Regina Students' Union has released a statement.
The Mar. 23 document, signed by president Shawn Wiskar and vice president student affairs Jermain McKenzie, centers on the union's view of how students will be affected in any form of job action.
The document specifically references flights for international students, student loan issues that could arise with a longer semester, and disruptions to summer job terms.
The Regina Public Interest Research Group (RPIRG) was vocal in a Facebook post of their own about their resistance to URSU's rhetoric.
"Students will experience an immediate impact, yes. But so will academic staff who will be not working and on the picket line – they receive a fraction of their wage while on the line and they and the lives of their families will also be disrupted. To ignore this is to conveniently erase the realities of job action for workers.
A town hall was originally pitched to URSU by a representative of URFA on Feb. 15, but was declined, with URSU President Shawn Wiskar referenced a want to stay away from taking sides in a reply email.
This came in stark contrast to URSU's show of solidarity previous to Wiskar's appointment, in a release dated Nov. 9 written by McKenzie.
Since then, two town halls have been hosted, one by URFA and the other by the administration. A source close to URFA has noted that administration backed away from the two town hall solution proposed by URSU where they would host two separate events.
URSU also released a second statement on Mar. 23 with the details of how the union would be supporting students during any possible job action. Their release has been edited in format only.
"… If the semester is extended and students run into issues regarding a lease that will be expiring, URSU has spoken to Residence Services and received a guarantee that they will accommodate students on a short–term basis. If the strike is long term and students need to return at a later date to complete finals, there will also be spots available. Students in need of additional assistance affording an extended stay should book an appointment with the student advocate (advocate@ursu.ca).
At 6:15 P.M an announcement was made that a tentative agreement had been reached, with URFA to recommend that the membership vote for the deal. It still needs to be ratified.


Section 501 establishes a panel to study and make recommendations regarding the proposals made by the Commission on Fiscal Stability and Economic Growth. The amendment appropriates $100,000 in FY 19 to the Office of Policy and Management (OPM) to hire consultants to assist the panel.
Section 502 requires OPM to issue a Request For Proposals (RFP) by 10/1/18 to sell the Connecticut Juvenile Training School (CJTS), operated by the Department of Children and Families. This does not result in a fiscal impact to the state, as OPM has the expertise needed to issue an RFP, and a sale of CJTS is not anticipated in FY 19. CJTS stopped taking new admissions on 1/1/18 and the last youth left the facility on 4/12/18.
Sections 503-504 make technical revisions with regards to employee representation that does not have a fiscal impact.
Section 506 requires the Office of Legislative Management to issue a request for proposal to hire an independent consultant that specializes in state retirement and benefit programs to analyze the ratified 2017 SEBAC agreement. By February 1, 2019, the consultant shall issue a report. The consultant is estimated to cost less than $100,000.
Section 507-508 result in a potentially significant savings to municipalities in FY 19 and FY 20, as it shields a portion of municipal reserve fund balances from consideration for payment resulting from an arbitration decision with municipal employees. The savings associated with these sections would vary depending on the municipality's ability to pay such award based on other financial and labor factors an arbitration panel must take into consideration. The bill is expected to shield municipalities to the extent that arbitration awards are often significant sums (about 2% of wages on average), and the bill removes a significant factor from a municipality's ability to pay.
Section 509 requires that employees affected by municipal shared services agreements be represented by coalition committees or bargaining units. This sections results in no fiscal impact.
Section 510, which establishes a panel to conduct a study of the proposal made by the Commission on Fiscal Stability and Economic Growth with regards to the Teachers' Retirement System, has no fiscal impact.
Section 511 results in a potential savings to municipalities in FY 19 and FY 20, as it prohibits towns from entering into collective bargaining agreements that limit volunteer services. If a municipality entered into such an agreement, it would have to pay employees rather than rely on volunteer labor. To the extent this section prevents a municipality entering into such an agreement, there is a savings that will vary based on the work performed by volunteers.


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Editor: Douglas A. Berman
Congratulations to the first director of the new Los Angeles Department of Cannabis Regulation
By Douglas A. Berman
I was so very pleased and excited to see this announcement from the office of the Mayor of Los Angeles, which begins this way: "Mayor Eric Garcetti has appointed Cat Packer as Executive Director of the newly-established Los Angeles Department of Cannabis Regulation." Here is more:
Packer will be the first Executive Director for the department, which was created in June after Los Angeles voters approved the local regulation and taxation of cannabis earlier this year. In her new role, Packer will launch the department and lead implementation of the new cannabis regulations being developed by the City Council, City Attorney and Department of City Planning. Her appointment is subject to City Council confirmation.
"Taxing and regulating legal cannabis in Los Angeles will be a complex process — we need someone leading the effort who understands and can navigate those nuances," said Mayor Garcetti. "Cat's experience makes her an excellent fit for this new role. I am confident that her work will help us implement new regulations in a way that is fair and equitable for all of our communities, respects our neighborhoods and raises valuable new revenue for City services."
Packer has spent much of her career working on issues of cannabis reform. Prior to joining the City, she worked as a policy coordinator for the Drug Policy Alliance, where she advocated for responsible cannabis policy across California. "I look forward to serving the City of Los Angeles as we lead the development and implementation of responsible, equitable cannabis policies that will serve as a model for the rest of America," said Packer. "I can't wait to get started, and I'm grateful to Mayor Garcetti for this amazing, pioneering opportunity."
The City's Department of Cannabis Regulation was established as the result of several voter-approved initiatives over the last year, here in Los Angeles and statewide. Last November, California voters approved Prop. 64, which paved the way for the legalization of recreational cannabis across the state. In March, L.A. voters approved Prop. M — which approved local regulation, taxation and enforcement of cannabis policy. The Department of Cannabis Regulation will be governed by a five-member Cannabis Regulation Commission.
I find this news so very pleasing and exciting because Director Packer is a 2015 graduate of The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, and she was a student in my marijuana seminar in Spring 2015. Especially in the early years of my seminar, I made a habit of telling students that they could likely become leaders in the field of marijuana law and policy relatively quickly because there were relatively few senior lawyers with knowledge and experience in this space. As I gear up to teach my marijuana seminar again this coming fall, I will be sure to spotlights Cat's impressive early achievement in this arena. (With all my students, I take no credit for their any of their achievements, but I take comfort when learning my instruction did not harmfully lead them astray.)
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COP 27 Climate Conference – Key Takeaways and Potential Investment Implications
By Emily M. Berger, CFA, Director of Investment Risk Advisory, Financial Services
As experienced investors know, significant geopolitical and macroeconomic events are important to understand in calibrating your investment risk strategy for the upcoming year. The recent 27TH Conference of the Parties (COP 27) led to material agreements between the participating nations across various different work streams for the ultimate goal of working together to reduce global warming to 1.5C degrees through the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
This article distills the key takeaways of COP 27 and potential investment implications of the developments and agreements reached by participating government officials and corporate leaders during the event.
Considerable discussion, negotiation and the creation of a "Loss and Damage Fund" but no firm agreement on the structure or mechanics. A transition committee will be appointed to iron out the details of the funding arrangements during the upcoming year. While there generally is consensus that smaller, low-emission countries need financial assistance to recover from catastrophic weather events, developed nations view a "Loss and Damage Fund" as a spiraling liability that is difficult to manage. Since major greenhouse gas emitters, China, India, Brazil and Indonesia, are still classified as developing countries, they will not be required to contribute to the new "Loss and Damage Fund" which seems to contradict the spirit of the new facility.
Launch of the Global Shield against Climate Risks (Global Shield) by the G7 countries and the Vulnerable 20 Group of Finance Ministers (V20) to function as a new insurance system with pre-arranged financial support for vulnerable countries recovering from climate disasters. The Global Shield will serve as a financing solution for adaptation, resilience and disaster transfer risk. To date, the vast majority (€170MM) of the €210MM in funding has been provided by Germany, with additional support from other countries, such as Denmark, France, Canada and Ireland among others. The initial recipients of funds will be Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Fiji, Pakistan, Philippines, Ghana and Senegal.
The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) announced a new partnership with the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) in which the newly developed and nearly finalized IFRS S2 Climate-related Disclosures Standard (IFRS S2) will be incorporated into CDP's existing questionnaires and disclosed through their platform of 18,700 companies. Current plans call for the new corporate disclosures on the CDP platform to launch with the 2024 disclosure cycle, on a voluntary basis. The new IFRS S2 seeks to provide a global baseline for consistent and comparable information across companies/sectors and is expected to be finalized in 2023. The disclosures will focus on a company's governance, strategy and risk management and the metrics and targets used by the company to measure, monitor and manage its significant climate-related risks and opportunities.
Progress on methane emissions as the United States announced restrictions on methane, a potent greenhouse gas. The U.S. Energy Protection Agency (EPA) announced plans to require all oil and gas companies to monitor existing production facilities for methane leaks and repair them. The EU signed an agreement with the U.S., Japan, Canada, Norway, Singapore and the UK to develop an international market for fossil energy that minimizes methane and carbon dioxide emissions and minimizes flaring, to the extent possible, across the value chain. In a surprise announcement during COP 27, China described a plan to reduce methane emissions along the oil and gas supply chain and those generated by agriculture and urban waste as well as improving the country's methane monitoring systems. However, China made no mention of emissions generated by coal mining, a major source of methane emissions for the country.
Little progress on improved ambition in Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) although the EU, Mexico and Turkey announced their increased commitments during the conference. NDCs are the main vehicle created by the Paris Agreement for countries and regions to define their climate action plans to cut emissions and adapt to climate impacts.
Strategic alliance formed between the three largest rain forest nations, Brazil, Indonesia and Congo. This new alliance seeks to coordinate and protect their forests, which comprise more than half of the world's tropical forests.
Increased participation by more countries in the High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People (HAC). HAC is an intergovernmental group of 112 countries which collectively champion the protection of at least 30% of the world's lands and oceans by 2030, known as the "30 x 30" target, to help curb biodiversity loss and climate change.
Creation of the African Carbon Market Initiative (ACMI) which seeks to dramatically expand Africa's participation in voluntary carbon markets and to support the growth of carbon credit production and job growth in Africa. The ACMI launched during the COP 27 conference with the ambition to reach 300 million carbon credits produced annually by 2030. Multiple African nations pledged their support for the effort, including Kenya, Nigeria, Malawi, Gabon and Togo.
Approval for vulnerable countries to add new climate resilient debt clauses (CRDCs) to future bonds issued in international markets, which will enable issuers to defer sovereign debt repayments up to two years in the event of certain pre-defined natural disasters.
Productive discussion about innovative financing structures to assist with climate transition, including opportunities for blended finance, debt-for-climate swaps, among others. The final COP 27 agreement called for multilateral development banks (MDBs), such as the World Bank, to reform their priorities and drive and support capital flows for mitigation and adaptation efforts against the impacts of climate change. Blended finance opportunities that combine concessional public funding for the equity risk in climate-related mitigation to incentivize private capital and lending in those projects have increased traction and provide essential financial support to developing countries.
Where Might This Lead? Implications for Investment Portfolios
There was significant discussion at COP 27 regarding the need for capital to flow to developing and emerging market countries which continue to suffer significantly from the effects of climate change and lack the resources to handle the challenges.
Increased investment in emerging market countries will strengthen their currency as capital flows in and to the extent their currencies are pegged to the U.S. dollar, strengthen the U.S. dollar. Many in the institutional investment community regard emerging markets investments as a leveraged play on the U.S. dollar.
The unification of climate risk reporting standards through the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) will provide investors with actionable data which can be incorporated into investment and credit underwriting decisions. The most likely starting point will be the incorporation of physical risk and transition risk forecasts into valuation and default probability models, particularly for those companies with a significant real estate or manufacturing footprint.
Positive revaluation of assets previously considered illiquid and written down, such as certain natural assets. This could represent a new valuation mosaic which considers certain commodities a scarce resource which must be allocated in a careful manner.
Further support and tailwinds for investments in renewable energy provided that supply chain shortages can be resolved in a timely manner.
Noise regarding greenwashing through transactions from public entities which will be pushed to disclose their carbon emissions from a regulatory perspective to private entities or countries where these disclosures are not mandated.
Required knowledge for investors to understand the implications of carbon valuation on portfolios, beyond the obvious candidates impacted by climate change, such as real asset investments in private energy and real estate.
We continue to monitor the potential investment risk implications of the quickly evolving climate risk and carbon measurement disclosures required by global regulatory entities.
Please contact us for assistance in understanding the implications of these developments on your business and for external assurance and consulting on your public sustainability disclosures. For more information, contact your Client Engagement Partner or:
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There are several words to describe blue life, but I would say one of the top ones would be "chaotic". Am I right?! The ever changing schedule, weird shifts, missed holidays, random weekends…it can feel like life is constantly changing. And it is! Luckily, there's a lot of resources out there to help get your family organized and keep track of alllllll the important stuff.
One of my favorite resources for this is the Police Wife Resource Binder from Proud Police Wife. Rebecca sent me the printable (it's a downloadable PDF) and it's an awesome way to get started if you're trying to get (and stay) on top of things. Many different things are included-meal planning, important contacts, benefit information, snack ideas, budgeting sheet, a reading list, pass codes…all of the things that are vital to know but can be hard to track down. This goes without saying, but because this binder is full of extremely personal information, it's best to keep it locked in your safe or wherever else you keep important documents. Rebecca was nice enough to give us a code to use-look at the bottom of this post for a discount!
If you haven't already, it's also really important that you create and maintain a monthly budget for your family. I've always used Excel spreadsheets to keep track of our finances, but there's plenty other apps and resources out there. A hard copy is included in the PPW binder, and you can also find cute ones all over Pinterest. We also use Mint to keep track of our spending-it allows you to categorize each purchase you make in order to see where each dollar is going. In one quick look I can see if we've got enough left in our eating out budget to order teriyaki for the night, or if we need to cut back at the coffee shop (…guilty, always).
One of the ickier things to take care of is to make sure that your officer's wishes are discussed in the worst case scenario-he gets injured or killed. When my officer first started it was mandatory that he completed this packet from his department. It contained things like desired church or pastor, burial or cremation wishes, who should speak at the funeral, who he wanted as pall bearers, where his will is kept, who his beneficiaries are…all of the stuff that can be a bummer to talk about, but is important to do before it's needed. The PPW binder also has a page containing most of this-it's important to think it through before it's needed. We chased the sad conversation with a fun date night out after-it's a good excuse to go eat some comfort carbs in my book!
Something I wanted to be better about in 2019 was meal planning. I've always been one of those people that goes to the grocery store like every other day, and I realized that we just didn't have the time for that anymore. I also felt bad about all of the food (and money!) we seemed to be wasting every week. Now once every week or two (usually Sundays, but really it could be any day of the week) I sit down with a sticky note and plan out dinners. I look at my schedule and my officer's to see what makes the most sense that day-a cooked meal, using the Instantpot or Crockpot, eating leftovers, or eating out for date night. I then compile a grocery list (including lunch items and snacks) and try to stick to that list. On the weeks that we stick to this system I've noticed a lot of things-I'm less stressed, we eat more meals together, we don't throw away as much food, and we spend way less on groceries AND eating out. It's also helpful to use a grocery pick up or delivery system-depending on where you live there's all kinds of options these days, many of which are free or super cheap!
I've talked about it before (like in this post about blue life hacks) but I am OBSESSED with our Google Calendar. I use a paper schedule and Outlook calendar for work but also but important stuff in our shared Google Calendar. I love that it updates us both, and the nerd in me loves being able to color code our events. I also keep a running "to do" list in the notes of my phone-things like schedule oil change, call mom, get class a's dry cleaned, or check PO box. Sometimes they're tiny things that don't take long-but if they're written down, I know I won't forget!
This isn't a resource, but one of the biggest ways we handle the chaos of blue life is through laughter and Jesus. Earlier this week I talked about the importance of filling your marriage with light (you can read that post here) and I stand by that 110%. Blue life is hard, marriage is hard, life is hard-but with laughter and faith it is doable.
What are some other ways that you use to keep your blue life organized?
Bonus! You can use code "FRIEND" for a substantial discount off the PPW binder! You can find it here.


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frog wrote: They say team of the year excludes "team GB", sensible as there are hundreds of them and it becomes meaningless, but individuals who competed as part of the GB team will surely still be eligible, and small teams within "team GB" eg the gold medal winning C2 white water guys (one of whose gold medal I got to hold yesterday) will still be eligible.
For the team in an individual sport or sporting discipline that has achieved the most notable performance in the calendar year to date. The team should have significant UK interest or involvement.
For the avoidance of doubt, this criteria excludes Team GB/ParalympicsGB but includes the likes of British Cycling, Rowing Coxless Four and the European Ryder Cup team.
Individuals as a part of teams eg a rower would be ok. Sir Stephen Redgrave has won as an individual even though he was part of a rowing pair/team.
A team could be British Cycling which would be all the cyclists as a team or British swimmers, but I don't think athletics counts as a team. Cyclists/swimmers could therefore win as individuals & as part of a team.
Scott wrote: although I guess Team Sky,... would be in with a shout.
The 12 athletes nominated for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year are: Bradley Wiggins, Ben Ainslie, Ellie Simmonds, Jessica Ennis, Sir Chris Hoy, Rory McIlroy, Nicola Adams, David Weir, Mo Farah, Andy Murray, Sarah Storey and Katherine Grainger. How do you pick a winner from that?!
Reasonably predictable and sensible list, but would have liked to have seen Laura Trott (double world and olympic champion) get the nod in front of Hoy/Storey (given that Storey, however good at Paralympic level, couldn't quite make it into the same team as Trott). I'd like to think that the women's team pursuit would be challenging for the team award, but very reluctantly agree that the Ryder Cup (even though almost half the team weren't British, nor the captain) are favourites.
I think the main change is at least the panel doesnt seem to have felt under any pressure to include a token football player this time. Rory McIlroy feels a bit of a lazy pick to me, but he did at least win a major so its hard to argue. 3 paralympians, being completely honest, feels like an over-valuation of where paralympic sport is at to me in terms of competition, BUT there's also a case to be made that thats what needs to happen to encourage participation, and the three individuals certainly do have a personality to vote for.
andypat wrote: The 12 athletes nominated for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year are: Bradley Wiggins, Ben Ainslie, Ellie Simmonds, Jessica Ennis, Sir Chris Hoy, Rory McIlroy, Nicola Adams, David Weir, Mo Farah, Andy Murray, Sarah Storey and Katherine Grainger. How do you pick a winner from that?!
2012 has turned out to be the Year of the Weir in every sense of the word (top male, top female, top male jnr, top female jnr).
Congratualtions to Wiggo then. Not sure I agree with the new format which seemed to give him a pretty formidable slot to show off his personality. By not turning up I reckon Andy shot his chances. Bit surprised that Mo was beat by Jess Ennis, but again wonder if the 2min stage performacne might have gone better for her than for him.
As it was I went to bed to sleep off my christmas night excesses before the voting started.
If it really was a viewer vote then AM not being there made no difference, as we did not know he was absent (unless I missed that bit) until the presentation.
Either they had Lennox and a tropy lined up in Miami just in case, or it was already decided. Conspiracy theory anyone ?
I thought Team GB & Paralympics GB was a bit of a kop-out, and too big to really count as a team in my eyes. If non-Brits are allowed, I though the Ryder Cup comeback should have put them in with a shout. At one point during the show they referred to "2 teams at the Olympics", and at that point I did wonder if they might have done something out of the ordinary and given it to the Gamesmakers.
andypat wrote: Bit surprised that Mo was beat by Jess Ennis, but again wonder if the 2min stage performacne might have gone better for her than for him.
I think it was always going to be tough after Ed Milliband endorsed him. Plus I don't think marginalising his step daughter when talking on stage about the new twins helped his cause.
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Personally I was delighted with the Young sportsperson award - how well he spoke - just himself and utterly charming, the Helen Rawlinson Award was very moving and perfectly deserved.


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Pitbull Talks 'Climate Change' Album in 'Beyond Worldwide' Fuse Special: Exclusive Video
8/26/2016 by Griselda Flores
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Pitbull performs during "An Evening with Pitbull" at Hard Rock Live! in the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on Aug. 1, 2016 in Hollywood, Fla.
In anticipation of Pitbull's upcoming album Climate Change, Fuse is airing a half-hour special on the rapper's worldwide success, during which he talks about some of the tracks on the multicultural LP, due Oct. 7, and a possible world tour in 2017.
Pitbull Announces 'Climate Change' Album, Shares 'Greenlight' Music Video
Billboard is exclusively premiering a teaser of Pitbull: Beyond Worldwide, in which Mr. Worldwide shares the inspiration behind his new song "Can't Have." The special is set to air Oct. 4. Check out the exclusive clip below:
In another clip from the special, Pitbull teases an upcoming world tour with frequent collaborator and pop star Enrique Iglesias. "Look out for a world tour coming up with Enrique and Pitbull next year."
This wouldn't be the first time the two hit the road together: Pit and Iglesias toured the U.S. in 2014-15 with J Balvin as opening act. Anyone up for round 2? Dale!


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Manchester VA Offers Sessions for Vets Impacted by Vietnam War Documentary
By NHPR Staff • Sep 18, 2017
U.S. soldiers in the Vietnam War.
Credit "The Vietnam War" documentary
The Manchester VA is offering drop-in sessions for New Hampshire Vietnam veterans who are emotionally impacted by a documentary on the Vietnam War. The 10-part series by filmmaker Ken Burns is now airing on PBS.
New Hampshire Representative Steve Shurtleff of Concord served in Vietnam and says for many Vietnam vets, the wounds are still fresh.
Shurtleff served in Vietnam with the U.S. Army Military Police from July 1967 to July 1968. He recently watched a preview of "The Vietnam War" at the Red River Theatres. He says it brought back a lot of memories.
"Those of us who served in Vietnam, I think, tend to be closed-mouth and don't really want to talk a lot about it," he says. "I think it's healthy that we do and talk to people that understand and can possibly give us some advice to deal with the emotions we're still feeling."
The sessions at the Manchester VA Medical Center are scheduled for 2 p.m. on each of the next three Fridays: Sept. 22, Sept. 29, and Oct. 6. The center's number for veterans to call is 800-892-8384.
Manchester VA
Hassan To Address Manchester VA Center Mental Health Summit
By Associated Press • Sep 5, 2017
Allegra Boverman / NHPR
Democratic New Hampshire Sen. Maggie Hassan is planning to discuss her efforts to strengthen the state's community-based mental health system at this year's Manchester VA Medical Center's mental health summit.
Attendees also will be spending Tuesday discussing the eradication of veteran suicides while addressing access to health care in specialty populations.
Specialty topics will include substance abuse, aging, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and women veterans.
The summit is being held at the Radisson Hotel in Manchester.


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7-Figure Settlement in Officer-Involved Shooting Case
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Our firm represents a 31-year-old man who was struck in the head by a single gunshot fired by a former Santa Monica Police officer. The City of Santa Monica settled the civil rights lawsuit for $1.75 million in damages. Our client suffered a traumatic brain injury and the trauma associated with the shooting. Read more […]
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DBAS attorneys represent Ross Valory, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame musician and bass player for the iconic rock band Journey, filed a Cross-Complaint in Contra Costa County Superior Court on April 6, 2020 against fellow band members Neal Schon and Jonathan Cain who filed the original Complaint. The Cross-Complaint attaches evidence that clearly […]
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Pasadena Loan Broker Hit with $30.5 Million Jury Verdict, Settled before Punitive Damage Phase in Predatory Lending Trial November 1, 2016— A predatory lending-foreclosure trial settled confidentially today before the punitive damage phase was set to begin, following a $30.5 million judgment against a Pasadena loan broker that knowingly issued a toxic and deceptive […]
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Our litigation team reached a $3.9 million settlement on behalf of a bicyclist who suffered life-altering injuries following a collision involving a car in the City of Arcata. The city, located in Humboldt County, recently agreed to pay 54-year-old Laura McNulty and her husband $3.9 million to settle a catastrophic personal injury lawsuit. McNulty suffered […]
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Reddit CEO Apologizes Days After User Revolt Over Firing Of Popular Figure : The Two-Way Ellen Pao said the company had "screwed up ... over the past several years," leading up to the way it handled the dismissal of Victoria Taylor, the key figure in the r/IAmA section.
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The popular reddit question-and-answer section /r/IAmA, along with hundreds of others, has shut down in an apparent protest over the dismissal of a key figure at the social sharing site. Screengrab from reddit.com hide caption
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The popular reddit question-and-answer section /r/IAmA, along with hundreds of others, has shut down in an apparent protest over the dismissal of a key figure at the social sharing site.
Reddit CEO Ellen Pao has apologized to users of the popular website reddit, citing a "long history of mistakes" that resulted in an insurrection last week in which moderators shut down many of the site's most popular sections to protest the dismissal of a key figure in the site's popular r/IAmA section.
Here's part of Pao's apology that was posted on the site Monday:
"We screwed up. Not just on July 2, but also over the past several years. We haven't communicated well, and we have surprised moderators and the community with big changes. We have apologized and made promises to you, the moderators and the community, over many years, but time and again, we haven't delivered on them. When you've had feedback or requests, we haven't always been responsive. The mods and the community have lost trust in me and in us, the administrators of reddit.
"Today, we acknowledge this long history of mistakes. We are grateful for all you do for reddit, and the buck stops with me."
Pao announced three steps: improved tools and search and a new moderator advocate.
The apology stemmed from the dismissal last week of Victoria Taylor, famous for her role in the r/IAmA (Ask Me Anything) section, which drew actors, musicians, President Obama and even NPR reporters to answer questions submitted from the vast community. Taylor's role, as NPR's Steve Mullis reported Friday, "was often organizer, mediator and even transcriber for many of the AMAs."
Steve reported that Taylor's sudden departure prompted "moderators of r/IAmA [to] set the section to 'private,' effectively closing it to anyone but the moderators. Once word of Taylor's firing began to spread, moderators of other popular sections (called subreddits) that cover movies, science, gaming and a host of others, also went private, making much of reddit essentially useless to regular site visitors."
Reddit has not publicly said why it let Taylor go, and Taylor herself has been mum on the reasons for her departure.
Many comments on Pao's reddit post today called for her resignation.
"You've lost our trust. You've lost our input," user RedditAckount wrote in part. "You're on your own."
Other comments were similar.
CNN reported an online petition calling for Pao to resign also had 156,000 signatures by Monday.
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Q: How to keep the delimiters by using df.str.split() with multipe delimiters The dataframe I have been working in has a column that indicate datetime with time zone, like that : 2019-01-23T04:30:00+01:00.
                    Horodate
0  2019-01-23T04:30:00+01:00
1  2019-01-23T04:30:00+01:00
2  2019-01-23T04:30:00+01:00
3  2019-01-23T04:30:00-01:00

I woud like to get timezone information and put it into another column called "TimeZone". I could do that by applying this function :
df["TimeZone"] = "+"  + df["Horodate"].str.split('[+]').str[1]

That works fine:
                    Horodate TimeZone
0  2019-01-23T04:30:00+01:00   +01:00
1  2019-01-23T04:30:00+01:00   +01:00
2  2019-01-23T04:30:00+01:00   +01:00
3  2019-01-23T04:30:00-01:00      NaN

but it is valable only for timezone that starts with "+". I would like to find a way to extract the whole information about time zone,including signal  "+" or "-" and get a dataframe that looks like that :
                    Horodate TimeZone
0  2019-01-23T04:30:00+01:00   +01:00
1  2019-01-23T04:30:00+01:00   +01:00
2  2019-01-23T04:30:00+01:00   +01:00
3  2019-01-23T04:30:00-01:00   -01:00

I think I have to pass to split multiple delimeters but the problem is, how to include the delimater at the same time I need to split the string ?
I can obtain a good result just slicing the string like that :
df_test["TimeZone"] =  df_test["Horodate"].str[19:]

but it's not a generical way to do that.
Thanks in advance.

A: How about just string slicing?
In [285]: df["TimeZone"] = df["Horodate"].str[-6:]

In [286]: df
Out[286]:
                    Horodate TimeZone
0  2019-01-23T04:30:00+01:00   +01:00
1  2019-01-23T04:30:00+01:00   +01:00
2  2019-01-23T04:30:00+01:00   +01:00
3  2019-01-23T04:30:00-01:00   -01:00

A: You could also use Series.str.extract with a regex pattern:
df['TimeZone'] =  df['Horodate'].str.extract(r'([+-]\d{2}:\d{2})')

[out]
                    Horodate TimeZone
0  2019-01-23T04:30:00+01:00   +01:00
1  2019-01-23T04:30:00+01:00   +01:00
2  2019-01-23T04:30:00+01:00   +01:00
3  2019-01-23T04:30:00-01:00   -01:00

A: str.sub allow regexes, so you could do:
df['Timezone'] = df.Horodate.str.replace('(.*)([+-])(.*)', r'\2\3')

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Joker Lands Four 2020 Golden Globes Nominations
Tudor LeonteMonday, December 09, 2019
It seems that it's not just the general public that liked Joker — given the movie's huge box-office success — but also the journalists from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Now that the nominations for the upcoming 77th Golden Globe Awards have been revealed (via The Hollywood Reporter), it turns out that Todd Phillips' movie has been nominated to four categories.
Arthur Fleck's story will compete for the Best Motion Picture – Drama award, while Todd Phillips will go for Best Director – Motion Picture. The competition is tough, though. Phillips' Joker will go head to head with Sam Mendes' 1917 and Martin Scorsese's The Irishman. Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story and Fernando Meirelles' The Two Popes got nominations too.
Phillips, on the other hand, will lock horns with Bong Joon Ho (Parasite) and Sam Mendes (1917). Martin Scorsese (The Irishman) and Quentin Tarantino (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) complete the quintet.
RELATED – Todd Phillips Pitched Joker as the First Film in a DC Black Label Trilogy
Joaquin Phoenix's performance as Arthur Fleck didn't go unnoticed either. Phoenix got a nomination for the Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama, and his chance to win is really high. The final selection sees him face Christian Bale (Ford v Ferrari), Antonio Banderas (Pain and Glory), Adam Driver (Marriage Story), and Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes).
Last but not least, Hildur Guðnadóttir brought home a nomination for the Best Original Score – Motion Picture. The Icelandic composer will face Alexandre Desplat (Little Women), Randy Newman (Marriage Story), Thomas Newman (1917), and Daniel Pemberton (Motherless Brooklyn).
It won't be easy for Todd Phillips' movie to win all the awards, but it's not impossible either. The fans can dream.
The Golden Globe Awards ceremony will take place on January 5, 2020. Which award(s) do you think Joker is more likely to bring home? Let us know your prediction in the comments section below.
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Q: PHP inside HTML doesn't work I just want to know why does this HTML file shows nothing:

*

*I'm running it on a web server

*Name of the file is index.php

*I've fixed the <? issue but it still doesn't work

Here's the code:
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
            <?php
            echo "hdfguhbgzusgdfghdhhfgh";
            ?>
</body>
</html>

A: As edited by halfer on Apr 8 '14 at 14:13, the showing code had no <? problem anymore. The code seemed well written.
In case those code still do not work, perhaps people must add:
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .html

inside the .htaccess file.
The .htaccess file must be in the same directory with your html file. If you can't found the .htaccess file although you already turning on the show hidden file option, you can create new .htaccess file and include AddHandler mentioned above in the file.
Just create a blank text file and name it with .htaccess on the mentioned directory.

A: You should make sure that following are given:

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*PHP on your server

*Files have to end with ".php"

*Use open Tag <?php and not <?
Then it should work.
For a definite solution you should provide further information.

A: you missed php after <?
so, change:
<? echo "hdfguhbgzusgdfghdhhfgh";  ?>

with
<?php echo "hdfguhbgzusgdfghdhhfgh";  ?>

A: Some tips:

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*If you dont see the text, try to open source code in browser.

*Make sure, that your file is .php and not .html

*Use <?php as opening tag instead <?

*If you want to just echo text, you can use <?echo "YourText"; ?>
Everything else seems OK

A: The short_tags comes disabled by default, so you have to use
<?php
  echo 'Teste';
?>

invés de:
<?
  echo 'Teste';
?>

To enable the option to just turn short_tag in php.ini
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.short-open-tag
PS: For performance reasons it is recommend to use "(double quotes) only when the echo is variable, so that PHP will parse and find the variable If you place." (Double quotes) there is no variable in the php echo to atoa parsing, try waste of charge.


Marie Antoinette – A Notorious Beauty at the Court of Versailles, France.
Marie Antoinette was not only notorious for her scandalous behavior but also for her sense of fashion and beauty. In the following portrait of Marie Antoinette Joseph Ducreux painted at the young age of thirteen in 1769, the artist captures her glowing beauty. While Marie awaited her nuptials in Austria, this miniature portrait was sent as a gift to the young Dauphin of France, Louis-Auguste, to encourage his affection for his future bride.
Looking back upon her childhood, Marie Antoinette was born as Maria Antonia on November 2, 1755 at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria. As the younger of the two sisters pictured below, Marie Antoinette was said to have been the more outgoing and beautiful of the two sisters.
Maria Antonia's future as Queen of France was negotiated by one of the most politically savvy women in Europe, Empress Maria Theresa, Maria Antonia's mother. Through persistent and saavy negotiations by Empress Maria Theresa, the political marriage of her daughter to the heir to the King Louis XV of France was one of the most notable alliances that would strengthen the peace between Austria and France. In the culmination of the Empress's efforts, Louis XV formally requested the hand of Maria Antonia for his eldest grandson and heir, Louis-Auguste, Duke of Berry and Dauphin of France. Louis-Auguste and Marie Antoinette were married on February 7, 1770.
With a passion for ballet, Marie Antoinette found her studies of history and culture more difficult to master. In addition to intensive tutoring in the French court customs, Maria Antonia began other preparation for her marriage to the Dauphin. In particular, Maria Antonia underwent many beauty improvements, including dental surgery to straighten her teeth.
The couple married by proxy to seal the alliance when Maria Antonia was fourteen and Louis XVI fifteen years of age. Maria Antonia left Vienna, Austria to travel to her husband in France in a grand manner comprised of a fifty-seven carriage entourage, her mother saying that she was sending France an angel. Maria Antonia's carriage was a gift sent from the King of France, embellished with vines of white, yellow and rose-colored gold encircling the shimmering glass windows, which were meant to show off Maria Antonia's beauty. The roof was a solid gold and contained bouquets of flowers in tri-colored gold.
As the future bride of the Dauphin and Queen of France, Maria Antonia was required to leave everything associated with her birth country of Austria behind and as such, was met by the King's entourage on a neutral island in the Rhine at the border of France. On the island, Marie was taken to a wooden pavilion that was decorated with tapestries by her Austrian courtiers. Inside the pavilion, Maria Antonia was stripped bare then dressed in French clothing before she crossed to the other side. In a tearful separation, Maria Antonia was also required to leave behind her beloved pug dog, Mops. Everything Austrian must vanish from her life.
Next Maria Antonia entered a separate room where she was introduced to French nobility in a ceremony representing her acceptance of life in France, the French culture and heritage, and its history as being her own. At this moment in time Maria Antonio, Archduchess of the Holy Roman Empire ceased to exist and in her place, a transformed fourteen year-old Marie Antoinette, Dauphine of France and future Queen was born.
On May 16, 1770, Marie Antoinette and the Dauphin were married, with Marie Antoinette later becoming Queen of France and Navarre on June 11, 1775 at the age of eighteen at the coronation ceremony in Reims.
As a subject of fascination, Marie Antoinette became one of the most painted Queens, often sitting for paintings, she herself saying that the artists were not able to capture her true likeness. Below we find a portrait of Queen Marie Antoinette after she became Queen of France, where she is depicted in an unusual manner with strong imagery as a ruler of France. The portrait was highly criticized as unflatteringly to the Queen. Some of the unusual aspects of this portrait that received criticism can be seen in the way that Marie Antoinette's is portrayed as a majestic queen. For example, her right hand is resting on a globe, which depicts the Queen as worldly and knowledgeable, was one such criticism.
Many of the most recognizable portraits of Marie Antoinette were painted by Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, one of the last great portrait painters of French royalty. She painted more than six hundred portraits and became the most famous woman artist in Europe.
The envy of many women at court, Marie Antoinette became a fashion icon with her extravagant dresses and indulgences in new styles. In the beautiful portrait of the Queen below, she was the first to begin wearing her hair styled high on top of her head with decorations more extreme as time went on.
In earlier portraits of the Queen, a subtle style of heightened hair styles and jewels, pearls and ostrich feather adornments are evident in the following portraits.
With encouragement by the well-known Rose Bertin, Marie Antoinette's personal dressmaker who was responsible for the Queen's fashion fame, Marie Antoinette sought higher styles of couture. The Queen engaged a stylist, Léonard Autié, who would eventually become known as the originator of the famous French pouf. The pouf began when Léonard Autié began piling the Queen's her hair high on top of her head, eventually incorporating decorative accoutrements to create striking extravagant works of art that took hours of preparation and were copied by the women of Court.
The Queen's pouf arrangements were the talk of court and ladies copied the style with enthusiasm. Marie Antoinette was known to have worn fruit, ostrich feathers, and even a frigate ship to commemorate the naval battle of 1778.
Above we see the infamous "La Belle Poule," a replica of a frigate that was patriotically copied by ladies of Court in honor of the successful navy battle in 1778.
The Queen's extravagant dresses, hairstyles, indulgence in theatrical plays, and relaxed court etiquette at her private Trianon Palace were eventually her downfall, having cost the people of France exorbitantly and contributing to the bankrupting the country. The events that led to Marie Antoinette being guillotined are a fascinating story, one which even includes the cursed Hope diamond.
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Savannah College of Art and Design Digital Collections > Images of Savannah
Aerial View -- Savannah Ga. From City Hall
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Valentine & Sons' Publishing Co. Ltd., New York, Printed in Great Britain
Savannah (Ga.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
Savannah (Ga.) – Aerial Views.
Color postcard, no border, with view from City Hall looking south at the obelisk on Johnson Square and down Bull Street. Divided back with no caption, postally unused. The tall white building on the right was the Germania Bank, also known as the Blun Building. It was the first of Savannah's tall office buildings. Designed by Hyman W. Witcover and completed around 1904, this building originally was located at Bull and Congress Streets, but was razed in 1975. The building directly behind it was the Liberty Bank and Trust, also designed by Witcover. It was two stories taller than the Blun Building.
The card was published by Valentine and Sons. Originally a Scottish publisher, they opened a New York office in 1907. The cards were still printed in Great Britain and used a lithographic halftone process that had a distinct look. Postcards were numbered and have a three digit prefix and a three digit suffix.
203 458 JV appears on lower right corner of front of card
Scholars wishing to cite this item should include item title, Savannah Postcard Collection, MS 016, Jen Library Archives and Special Collections, the Savannah College of Art and Design, and the item's url.
MS 016 Savannah Postcard Collection, Jen Library Archives and Special Collections, the Savannah College of Art and Design.


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Blue-footed boobies' survival threatened
by William Ferguson | media@wfu.edu | 336.758.5237
Blue-footed boobies are on the decline in the Galápagos.
A new study appearing in the journal "Avian Conservation and Ecology" indicates numbers of the iconic birds, known for their bright blue feet and propensity to burst into dance to attract mates, have fallen more than 50 percent in less than 20 years.
The drastic drop in population is probably due to an unexplained disappearance of sardines from the boobies' diet, said Dave Anderson, a professor of biology and the study's principal investigator. This in turn has adult boobies electing not to breed. Without breeding, old birds die and are not replaced by new young adults and the population shrinks.
Where did all the boobies go?
Scientists started noticing a strange trend at the Galápagos' 10 or so blue-footed booby breeding colonies in 1997. The colonies were simply empty.
"Until 1997, there were literally thousands of boobies' at these breeding sites and hundreds of nests full of hatching chicks," Anderson said. "Then suddenly, the boobies just weren't there. There were a few cases where we found isolated breeding attempts but most of these didn't produce chicks."
Biology Professor Dave Anderson
At first, seabird ecologists thought the lack of breeding was an isolated occurrence. Environmental conditions in the wild can be variable and maybe it was just a few bad years. However, after three years of little to no breeding activity, Anderson said he and his colleagues began to worry.
"That was the start of the conversation," he said. "We started to ask ourselves, 'Is something weird going on with the blue-foots?'"
In 2011, Anderson and Colorado State University seabird biologist Kate Huyvaert (MS '95), one of Anderson's former graduate students, received funding from the Galápagos Conservancy, Swiss Friends of Galápagos, and Galápagos Conservation Trust to begin a comprehensive survey of Blue-footed Boobies in the Galápagos. From May 2011 to June 2013, a field team led by graduate student David Anchundia (MS '2013) monitored breeding at three to five month intervals at four of the largest blue-footed booby breeding colonies. The results of their study show little to no breeding activity and only 134 fledgling birds during the period.
"It was alarming," Anderson said. "This was a drastic change from the 1980s and 1990s, when young blue-foots were common throughout the archipelago."
In addition, the research team estimated a total population of approximately 6,423 Boobies in 2012, less than a third of the only other estimate, from the 1960s.
Electing not to breed
The researchers suspect a lack of sardines, a highly nutritious and easy to find source of food, is the culprit behind the birds' nose-diving population for a number of reasons.
Previous studies conducted at booby colonies on Española show successful breeding occurs only when the birds had an almost 100 percent sardine diet. Over the course of the recent Galápagos study sardines represented less than half of the boobies' diet.
This suggests the birds find their current, low sardine diet sufficient to live but insufficient to breed successfully. "We think the main factor behind the decline is a scarcity of food," Huyvaert said. "Whether that's natural or linked to anthropogenic change, we aren't sure."
So now the question is, where are the sardines, said Johannah Barry, president of the Galápagos Conservancy, which provided funding for the study. "Are they being overfished? Are they leaving Galapagos waters due to climate change or other pressures?" she said. "If they are leaving what other fauna might be impacted?"
Anderson said further investigation is important now rather than later due to the fact that the boobies' perennial lack of breeding for the better part of two decades means that young birds are not replacing old ones. The majority of their population in the Galápagos must be nearing elderly ages where raising offspring will become hard, if not impossible.
"We have a convenient explanation that isn't anthropogenic," Anderson said. "But if humans are in fact contributing to this decline we need to get to the bottom of it now rather than five years down the road when you have the equivalent of 75-year old humans trying to breed."
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Julien Tafforet est un explorateur français connu pour avoir été l'un des premiers voyageurs à vivre sur Rodrigues, une petite île de l'océan Indien aujourd'hui dépendante de la République de Maurice.

Parcours
L'officier Julien Tafforet atteint Rodrigues en 1725 à bord de La Ressource, dont il est le second. Motivé par la décision du gouverneur Antoine Desforges-Boucher d'établir un établissement français sur la petite île avant qu'elle ne tombe aux mains des Anglais, le navire de guerre doit y débarquer un certain nombre de colons. Mais le débarquement est raté, et Tafforet est le seul à parvenir à toucher terre avec cinq de ses hommes. Livrés à eux-mêmes, les six attendront qu'on vienne les récupérer pendant presque un an, jusqu'en juin 1726.

Ce séjour permet à Tafforet d'écrire un ouvrage intitulé Relation de l'isle Rodrigues. Daté de 1726, celui-ci est l'un des premiers de l'histoire à traiter de Rodrigues et permet d'attester de l'existence autrefois sur ce territoire insulaire d'un certain nombre d'espèces animales endémiques aujourd'hui disparues et qui n'apparaissent par ailleurs que sous la plume de François Leguat dix-huit ans plus tôt.

Histoire de Maurice
Date de naissance non renseignée (XVIIIe siècle)
Date de décès non renseignée (XVIIIe siècle)
Explorateur français du XVIIIe siècle