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Catch of the day: two French fish illustrations from the 1800s
Chetodon croissant, a 20x200 Vintage Edition
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When our curatorial team first reeled in these two vintage ichthyological illustrations from the 1800s, we were instantly hooked. Maybe it was the bright, beachy colors, or the mesmerizing swirls and stripes on their scales, or the delicate details rendered with exceptional precision, or the script-y french subtitles giving each aquatic critter a special je ne sais quoi. All we know is they seemed suddenly like the requisite edition duo of the summer, so good looking together and so instantly reminiscent of a spectacular scuba-diving sesh. We couldn't release just one!
Our sunny yellow, orange-streaked friend is the Chetodon croissant, better known as the raccoon butterflyfish. Its English name comes from its distinct markings around the eyes, similar to those of a raccoon. The teal and turquoise fellow is the Holocanthe à demi-cercles, or semicircle angelfish. This particular illustration depicts a juvenile example—adults are a pale brownish-green, outlined in bright blue.
Both the Chetodon croissant and Holocanthe à demi-cercles come from the same multi-volume collection compiled by French naturalist and zoologist Georges Cuvier and his apprentice and successor Achille Valenciennes. Published between 1828 and 1848, the twenty-two volume Histoire naturelle des poissons was the largest contemporary scientific study focussed on fish. It contained descriptions and illustrations of almost 5,000 species of fish, many of which were new discoveries. The extensive work encapsulated essentially everything anyone knew about fish through the first half of the nineteenth century, and remains an indispensable resource and pivotal turning point in the history of ichthyology.
Holocanthe à Demi-Cercles, a 20x200 Vintage Edition
Aside from being the foremost fish scientist of his time, Couvier was a major figure in the natural sciences at large. Best known for his book Le Règne Animal, he played an integral role in founding the fields of comparative anatomy and paleontology by incorporating both living species and fossils into the existing taxonomy system. Another thing Couvier is famous for? Proving extinction, but not feeling so agreeable when it came to a little theory known as evolution. (You win some, you lose some.) Still, he's one of the select seventy-two French scientists, engineers and mathematicians whose names are engraved on the Eiffel Tower.
There's something about the intersection of art and science that's both fresh and timeless-feeling, and also peculiarly underappreciated. We have a growing collection of vintage zoological illustrations—Audubon's avian life, these Oyster and Nautilus shells, E.A. Séguy's butterflies—and every time we come across another one begging to be editioned we're struck not just by the beauty of biodiversity, but by the breadth and brilliance of the genre. Which is to say, when it comes to these two fish, we've fallen for them hook, line and sinker.
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Jen Bekman + Team 20x200
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Q: dell power connect 3524 switch SNMP port mapping I am using MibViewer utility and executing SNMP Walk command using OID .1.3.6.1.2.1.17.7.1.2.2.1.2 to find which MAC addresses are connected to which ports on my switch.
What I am seeing is that for every walk request the switch seems to return inconsistent results every time. Out of the 24 live ports on the switch it only returns mappings for some of the ports each time.
Why doesn't it always return every port mapping each time?
I have a program which has to sit there and execute SNMP get command sometimes for up to 10 minutes before it can get all 24 ports mapped.
I would like to find a more efficient, faster way to retrieve all of the port to MAC address mappings.

A: A PowerConnect 35XX? That must be a new model. Seriously, are you trying to keep the model number a secret?
In any event, the 35XX series switches are managed switches so why not just log in to the web interface and look at the Dynamic Address table?
Is it a requirement to have a programattic way of interrogating the address table?

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Ninety-Eight Important Facts about Animal Cruelty Karin Lehnardt
1er novembre 2017 , par Estela Torres
Accueil > DOSSIERS THÉMATIQUES > PRISES DE POSITION > Protection de l'homme et de l'animal, un même combat > Ninety-Eight Important Facts about Animal Cruelty
98 Important Facts about Animal Cruelty
By Karin Lehnardt, Senior Writer
https://www.factretriever.com/animal-cruelty-facts
To make a 40-inch fur coat it takes between 30 and 200 chinchilla or 60 mink, 50 sables, 50 muskrats, 45 opossums, 40 raccoons, 35 rabbits, 20 foxes, 20 otters, 18 lynx, 16 coyotes, 15 beavers, or 8 seals.[5]
Many animals killed for fur come from fur farms, where animals are kept in tiny cages and are killed around 6 months old. Females might be kept longer. In nature, most animals build burros and huddle together for warmth. On fur farms, they are left exposed to the cold to encourage the thickest coats possible. If the animal freezes to death, its coat can still be used.[5]
Fur farmers are mainly concerned with preserving the animal's whole coat and often choose the cheapest way to kill animals. Many ranchers use electrocution, which fries the animal inside out, similar to being cooked in a microwave. Some farmers also inject insecticides into the chests of minks. It takes several minutes for the minks to die a painful death.[5]
A recent trend in the fur market is astrakhan fur, also known as karakul or broadtail. Astrakhan fur is made from Astrakhan lambs that are killed at just a few days old. Some coats known as broadtail coats are made from the skin of unborn lambs. The mother's throat is slit and her stomach is slashed to remove the developing lamb.[5]
The number one fur producer is China. In undercover footage taken at fur farms there, animals are slammed against the concrete floor to stun them. They are then skinned alive. It takes some animals more than 20 minutes to die.[5]
In 2010, there were more farm animals living in the U.S. than there were humans on earth.[8]
Sheep used for wool live mainly outdoors and are shorn at the end of winter when their coats are the fullest, but before they would naturally shed. Australia loses about 1,000,000 sheep per year due to exposure after shearing.[5]
In some cases, sheep are bred to have skin with many folds, which allows an animal to hold more wool. However, the folds attract maggots, especially around the anus. In a condition called flystrike, the maggots eat the sheep alive. The traditional solution is called "mulesing," in which huge chunks of flesh are sliced from the lamb's hindquarters so that smooth scar tissue forms.[5]
Though a Texas beef company was cited 22 times in one year for violations that included chopping hooves off live cattle, no action was taken against the company.[5]
Hogs, unlike cattle, are dunked in tanks of hot water after they have been stunned to soften their hides for skinning. Stunning is not always successful, and secret videotape from an Iowa pork plant shows hogs squealing and kicking as they are being lowered into the water.[9]
Researchers note that not only are standard slaughter practices unethical, there are often reports of intentional abuse of animals by workers. For example, at the Pilgrim's Pride slaughterhouse, which supplies KFC restaurants, a videotape shows workers kicking and stomping on chickens and smashing them against walls.
Employees also ripped birds' beaks off, twisted their heads off, and broke them in half—while the birds were still alive.[9]
Workers in a Butterball slaughterhouse in Arkansas were documented punching and stomping on live turkeys and slamming them against the walls. One Butterball employee stomped on a bird's head, another swung a turkey against a metal handrail, and another worker was seen inserting his finger into a turkey's cloaca.[8]
A worker at the House of Raeford Farms poultry plant was seen punching turkeys suspended on the conveyer belt as they moved past him on the way to the stun bath. He was an amateur boxer and thought the birds would make great punching practice.[8]
Not only are birds exempt from the Humane Slaughter Act, which dictates animals should be unconscious before the fatal blow, but all animals that are killed under religious Muslim and Jewish laws are exempt as well.[5]
In the United States, estimates range from 0.1% to 1% of the 10 billion land animals transported to slaughter each year die in transit. That translates to between 1 and 10 million animals. It is not unusual for young pigs to freeze against the walls of transport trucks ; workers have to pry them off.[4]
A chimpanzee named Ron was used in a spinal experiment in which researchers, who were attempting to find spinal disc substitutes, removed his healthy spinal discs and replaced them with a device. The device was later removed, leaving Ron without part of his spine.[5]
"Broiler" chickens (food chickens), which make up 8.5 billion of the nearly 10 billion animals raised for food each year, are often drugged and genetically manipulated to grow very large very quickly. They often cannot support their own weight, leaving their legs malformed or broken. Many die of heart or lung failure because these organs cannot keep up with their unnaturally rapid growth.[9]
On foie gras (fatty liver) duck farms, metal pipes are shoved down the throats of ducks 2-3 times per day in which over a pound of cornmeal is pumped into their stomachs. While "foie gras" means fatty liver, the ducks' livers are actually diseased and have grown 5-10 times more than their normal size. Most ducks die before they are slaughtered. One report showed that ducks were too weak to fight off rats that were eating them alive. Many female ducks end up in the garbage because females produce smaller livers. They usually suffocate to death there.[5]
Traditionally, it took five years of grazing to get a steer to market size. However, now it takes 6 months of grazing and 14 months in a feedlot. This is due to enormous quantities of corn (not their natural food), protein supplements, and drugs, including growth hormones, that are administered to the animals.[4]
Commercially caught fish can take hours or even days to die. Hundreds of millions of fish are caught on long lines every year. Once hooked, instead of being dragged on board, they are left alive, struggling at the end of hooks until the trip is finished and the lines are pulled aboard.[5]
Shark fin soup is around $200 per serving, and the business kills 100 million sharks per year. Because it is not economically viable for fisherman to keep the whole shark, they just slice the fin off and throw the shark back into the ocean. Unable to swim, the shark sinks slowly to the bottom of the sea to die a slow death.[5]
Approximately 30-50% of heifers suffer from mastitis, an infection of the udders that cause swelling and makes milking excruciating. Mastitis is exacerbated by the hormones given to cows to make them produce more milk. Additionally, the infection is treated with antibiotics that end up in their milk. Some udders can weigh as much as a full-grown man.[9]
While fish farms were initially seen as a solution to overfishing, they have proven to be unhealthy. For example, salmon on farms are jammed into pens where they are dosed with antibiotics and pesticides and are given synthetic pigment to turn their flesh from gray to pink. Additionally, the Emperor penguin colonies have lost 50% of their numbers over the past half century because their main source of food, krill, have been harvested in massive amounts to be fed to farm-raised salmon.[5]
Egg-laying hens are debeaked with hot knives to prevent cannibalism and fighting. A typical cage is about 12x20 inches, or the size of a single sheet of newspaper, and contains 4-8 birds. The cages, called battery cages, are stacked floor to ceiling in massive sheds. Hens living on the bottom tiers are showered with excrement. Battery cages are outlawed in some European countries but are still legal in the U.S.[8]
Egg-laying hens live on sloped cage floors so that the eggs will roll aside. However, the sloped floor damages their feet. In some cases, toenails become permanently tangled in the wire, so the flesh grows around it. The birds are essentially soldered to their cages.[9]
Because the flesh of egg-laying hens is so emaciated, it is not very marketable. Because chickens are not legally protected, these hens are often disposed of in the cheapest ways possible, such as being buried alive in huge ditches. Some chickens survive the burial (or sometimes gassing) and are later seen staggering around. These are called "zombie chickens."[5]
In 2003, a ranch owner in San Diego disposed of 30,000 nonproductive egg-laying hens by feeding them into a wood chipper—alive.[5]
Over 1 billion bees have traditionally been exterminated every year by the honey industry. At the end of the season, it is not worthwhile for the farmers to winterize the hives, so it easier to burn them and begin again next season.[5]
In a Columbia University primate lab, a video was released showing a baboon bleeding from a wound in her head where a metal pipe had been inserted in order to observe the effects of stress on her menstrual cycle.[5]
Researchers test and kill millions of animals in attempt to find drugs that cure obesity-related ailments. Interestingly, a study of 55,000 healthy women found that vegetarians and vegans had a significantly lower risk of being overweight or obese than their omnivore counterparts.[5]
A 2006 study in the U.K. revealed that the number of animals used in military experiments, including biological and chemical warfare tests, had doubled in the last five years.[13]
The following are reasons people justify animal cruelty and deny animal rights : 1) animals do not have souls ; 2) God gave humans dominion over animals ; 3) humans are intellectually superior to animals ; 4) animals do not reason, think, or feel pain like humans do ; 5) animals are a natural resource to be used as humans see fit ; and 6) animals kill each other.f[6]
A young medic described his training for his pre-Iraq duty. He was assigned to keep a pig alive. His pig was shot twice in the face with a 9mm pistol, shot six times with an AK-47, and then twice with a 12-gauge shotgun. Then he was set on fire. The medic was able to keep him alive for 15 hours.[13]
A video from the Department of Defense showed that fully conscious pigs were used to test the effectiveness of various Taser devices. On the tapes, pigs collapsed and convulsed or tried to run. Their mouths are wide open, shrieking. Though none of the pigs died during the experiment, they were all euthanized after.[5]
To test skin care cosmetics in the U.S., animals are often immobilized, shaved, and doused with products to see how much it takes to burn and blister their skin. The European Union has banned such cosmetic tests.[5]
Pig farms produce millions of tons of waste per year. The waste is toxic because pigs are given high doses of antibiotics and insecticide to keep them alive on the pig farms. Nearly 25.8 million gallons of toxic hog waste was dumped in the headwaters of the New River in North Carolina. Every single creature in the river was killed.[5]
During the Roman Empire, the massive Coliseum of Rome featured events in which animals fought to the death with each other and with people. Often, the animals were chained together or tormented with burning irons and darts to make fighting fiercer.[12]
The domestication of livestock such as pigs, cows, sheep, horses, and goats is thought to have occurred between 9000 and 5000 B.C. as agriculture became more important. History shows that the most suitable animals for domestication were those that naturally live in groups with a hierarchical social order that allowed humans to assume the dominant position.[12]
During the Middle Ages, cats were associated with the devil and were burned at the stake. By the beginning of the 14th century, Europe's cat population had been severely depleted. Some scholars note that the depletion of cats allowed the bubonic plague to spread by fleas on rodents, which had surged out of control due to centuries of cat slaughter.[12]
Because the Catholic church had forbid human autopsies for centuries, animal experimentation would become a major research tool of modern medicine during the Enlightenment. Belgian physician Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) argued that animal vivisection was essential to the study of anatomy. Descartes argued that animals were mechanical things like clocks and could not feel pain. These arguments helped make animal vivisection more socially acceptable.[12]
During the Middle Ages, people believed that an animal that was whipped before slaughter would provide more tender meat. Whippings eventually evolved into letting dogs loose on an animal to bite and tear at its flesh.[12]
In 1641, the Massachusetts Bay Colony enacted a Body of Liberties that described the fundamental rights of colonists. Included in these rights was Article 92, which created the first modern law against animal cruelty. It stated that "No man shall exercise any Tirranny or Crueltie towards any Bruite creature which are usuallie kept for man's use."[12]
Philosophers who argued for compassion toward animals include John Locke (1632-1704), David Hume (1711-1776), and Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), who claimed that "The question is not, Can they reason ? Nor Can they talk ? But can they suffer ?"[12]
In a 2010 Gallup poll, Republicans were more likely to state that the buying and wearing of animal fur and conducting medical tests on animals were morally acceptable than Independents or Democrats. Republicans were least likely to agree that animal cloning was morally acceptable.[8]
In 1871, Harvard established one of the first vivisection laboratories in the country.[12]
In 1938, the Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act was passed, requiring animal testing of certain drugs and chemicals to make sure they were safe for humans. Following WWII (1939-1945), the use of medical and scientific research on animals exploded.[12]
In 2010, a bill called the Animal Crush Video Prohibition Act passed, banning the "the creation, sale, and distribution of obscene videos that show the intentional crushing, burning, drowning, suffocating or impaling of live animals—often by women in stiletto heels—for the sexual gratification of viewers."[8]
A 2010 Gallup poll showed significant differences between men and women on all animal morality issues. Men were far more accepting than women of buying and wearing animal fur (73% vs. 48%), conducting medical testing on animals (69% vs. 49%), and cloning animals (43% vs. 19%).[8]
The first patent ever issued to an animal was in 1988 when researchers at Harvard University obtained a patent for OncoMouse, a mouse that had been genetically engineered to be susceptible to cancer. Since that time other animals have been patented, such as pigs, sheep, goats, and cattle.[8]
In the U.S., over 9 billion farm animals were slaughtered in 2009. The largest number by far were chickens, at nearly 8.7 billion, followed by 245.8 million turkeys, 33.5 million adult cattle, 22.8 million ducks, 2.6 million sheep and lambs, and 980,000 calves. Worldwide, over 50 billion chickens are slaughtered each year.[8]
In 1960, 55 billion pounds of cattle, hogs, broilers (food chickens), and turkeys were produced. In 2009 there were nearly 125 billion pounds produced. The 1960 value of these animals was around $16 billion. In 2009, it was $70 billion.[8]
Castration, dehorning, branding, ear notching, tail clipping, and beak trimming are widely conducted in the U.S. without the use of anesthetics or pain medication. In Canada, local anesthetic is recommended. It is required by law in most cases in the U.K.[8]
The number of pounds of beef produced in the U.S. in 2009 was 27.8 billion pounds. The estimated per capita consumption of beef in 2009 was 90.4 pounds.[8]
In 2009, there were around 9 million dairy cows in the U.S. Each cow produced more than 20,000 pounds of milk. The combination of factory farming, high-tech breeding, and modern medicine has led to an increase of milk per cow over time.[8]
One criticism of dairy farming is that cows spend long periods standing on hard surfaces, such as concrete, metal gratings, and dirt-packed dry lots. This often contributes to lameness, which is the major reason cows are culled (killed) during the raising process.[8]
To produce veal (meat from young calves) calves are separated from their mothers and kept under extremely confined conditions. They are not allowed to exercise, to keep them from building muscle. They are fed diets low in iron to prevent the flesh from darkening, which results in anemic calves. An estimated 146 million pounds of veal were produced in the U.S. in 2009.[8]
Turkeys and chickens are exempt from federal humane slaughter laws, but they make up more than 90% of animals slaughtered each year in America. Because they are exempt, it is not required to stun them before they are shackled on a moving rail to have their throats slit. Some are still alive when they are submerged in the scalding tank. Those that are still alive are called "redskins." Over 180 million chickens each year suffer through a botched death in the slaughterhouse.[8]
At the slaughterhouse, cattle are stunned by a stun bolt into their forehead to render them unconscious. They are unconscious rather than killed, so that their heart will help pump the blood out of the body. The animal is then hoisted up by one rear leg to hang from a bleed rail. Its throat is then cut so that all of its blood can drain out. Following the bloodletting, the animal's carcass moves down the line to a number of process stations where the tail and hocks are cut off, the belly is cut open, and the hide is removed.[4]
Laying-hen chicks are sorted by gender when they are one day old. Only females are kept. The males are killed because they have not been bred for meat production and will not grow up to be "meaty" enough for humans. Millions of male chicks are either thrown into garbage bags where they suffocate or macerated (instantaneous killed in a high-speed grinder).[8]
It takes about 90 seconds for a chicken to die after its throat is slit in a slaughterhouse.[8]
Hogs are kept on short tethers or confined in cages and pens to keep them from exercising, which might build muscle instead of fat and toughen the meat. Antibiotics, hormones, and other drugs are routinely given to hogs to speed growth and prevent deadly diseases.[4]
Sows are kept in what are called "gestation crates" that are around 7 feet by 2 feet, just enough for the sow to lie down but not turn around. A sow eats, urinates, and defecates where she stands. The UK and Sweden have banned gestation crates. Spent breeding sows are usually slaughtered at around 2-3 years old.[4]
Factory-farmed hogs not only suffer from excesses crowding, stress, and boredom but also experience breathing disorders because of high concentrations of ammonia from their waste materials. Hogs also experience feet and leg deformities from standing on floors made of improper materials.[8]
Videos from hog farms reveal numerous problems, such as breeding sows with injuries and sores. Investigators also claim that prematurely born piglets fell through the slats of their holding pens into the manure pits below.[5]
Animal rights activists are critical of the fur industry because the industry over breeds the animals to produce desirable coat colors, which often leads to painful deformities in animals. The USDA does not regulate the farming and slaughter of fur animals.[8]
A 2010 Gallup poll found that 60% of those asked said buying and wearing fur is morally acceptable. Nearly 35% said it is morally wrong. This breakdown has changed little since the question was first polled in 2001.[8]
While exact numbers are difficulty to obtain, it is estimated that millions of animals are used in research, testing, and medical and veterinary training programs in the U.S. each year. One source estimates that the number of mice that are used in U.S. laboratories range from 17 million to "well over 100 million."[8]
A 2010 Gallup poll reveals that 59% of those asked said "medical testing" on animals is morally acceptable. Thirty-four percent said it was morally wrong. Another 4% said it depends on the situation.[8]
Vivisection on animals dates back to at least the ancient Greeks and Romans.[12]
Factory farming emphasizes speed and technology. Female animals are artificially inseminated rather than mated, and pregnancies are spaced closer together to increase production. Mothers and offspring are separated quickly to keep the process moving. Antibiotics, hormones, and growth-enhancing drugs are administered to ensure rapid growth and to prevent deadly diseases. Slaughterhouses are run like assembly lines with an emphasis on speed and quantity.[4]
Mark Twain wrote a short story title "A Dog's Tale" in 1903 to protest cruelty to animals and their use in research. It is told from the viewpoint of a dog that lives with the family of scientists and saves the family's baby from a nursery fire. Later, however, the dog sees her own puppy blinded and killed during an experiment that was performed by the scientist to impress his friends.[8]
Researchers are experimenting with genetic engineering on pigs so that they can grow organs that will not be rejected by human bodies. Scientists believe that harvesting organs from transgenic pigs could one day save millions of human lives. While some people consider this medical progress, others see it as animal cruelty.[8]
A 2010 Gallup poll found that 31% of those asked said the cloning of animals is morally acceptable. Another 63% said it is morally wrong.[8]
Approximately 5,000 Thoroughbred racehorses died between 2003 and 2008. Most of the horses were euthanized after suffering serious injuries on the racetrack.
Countless other deaths went unreported because of lax record keeping.[8]
The Greyhound Protection League estimates that more than 1 million unwanted racing greyhounds have been culled (killed) by the industry since the 1930s.[8]
In the United States, dogfighting is an illegal, multimillion-dollar gambling industry that is often associated with guns, auto theft, arms, smuggling, money laundering, and drug trafficking. Dogs most often used are pit bulls. Fights go on for hours, sometimes to the death. Dogs that survive the fights frequently die hours or days later from shock, blood loss, or infection.[8]
Fighting dogs are often trained on what are called "catmills." A catmill holds an animal such as a small dog, cat, rabbit, or pit bulls that show no inclination for fighting just out of the reach of the training dog while it runs. These bait dogs are often animals stolen from the neighborhoods and are usually killed during the training.[8]
In 2007, Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick (1980- ) was arrested for running a dogfighting operation on his property in Virginia. He and his partners killed poor-fighting dogs by electrocuting, hanging, drowning, or beating the dogs to death. He lost his multi-million contract with the Atlanta Falcons and millions more in endorsements.[8]
During the filming of a 1939 movie titled Jesse James, a horse was killed when it was forced to jump off a cliff for a scene. Public complaints led to the formation of the film-monitoring unit of the American Humane Association.[7]
The first captive orca was collected for Marineland Pacific in 1961. The animal lived for only day. She repeatedly smashed herself against the walls of her tank until she died.[8]
Most of the 6 million horses that served in the U.S. military during WWI were killed. The deaths of millions of other horses in military service to other countries severely depleted the world's horse population. Animal rights activists and welfarists argue that animals involved in warfare did not know what they were fighting for or against and had poor chances of survival.[2]
To prevent stressed pigs from biting off each others' tails—a stress-induced behavior—farmers simply cut off the pigs' tails.[5]
Dogs used in wars after WWII typically were not returned to their owners because the military was afraid the animals would attack someone in civilian life. They were either euthanized or left behind on the battlefield. However, in 2000 President Clinton signed a bill that allowed military dogs to be adopted if their owners did not hold the U.S. government liable for any injuries or damages by former military dogs.[2]
Hundreds of animals were used by the U.S. military during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, including chickens, dogs, dolphins, and pigeons. Activists argued that the military wasted animals needlessly when sophisticated technology could have been used instead.[2]
The Human Society of the United States reports that U.S. shelters receive 6-8 million cats and dogs each year. Approximately half of these are euthanized. The remainder are adopted or reclaimed.[8]
In general, shelters located in the Northeast have the lowest euthanization rates. Shelters in the Southeast have the highest. This is due to several factors including weather, the availability of low-cost spay-neuter programs, and animal control policies. Additionally, the cold winters in the Northeast lower the fertility rates of cats and dogs and claim the lives of stray animals. Animal welfare organizations are also more popular in the Northeast.[8]
Puppy mills are facilities that breed puppies in inferior conditions and sell them in commercial markets. It is believed that over 5,000 puppy mills exist in U.S.[8]
Almost half of all antibiotics in the U.S. end up in animal feed. Milk-fed veal contains as much as 500 times the legal tolerance levels of antibiotics.[8]
To improve the yolk color of commercial eggs, the feed of commercial egg-laying hens contains artificial color to enrich the pale color of their egg yolks. Eggs from healthy hens have dark yellow yolks.[8]
According to USDA inspectors, chickens that pass inspection for human consumption include those stained with feces, those visibly dripping with pus, and those that contain precancerous tumors. Government inspectors have less than 2 seconds to examine each chicken on the production line.[8]
Over 95% of the animals deliberately killed each year in the U.S. are killed for food. If everyone in the U.S. were vegetarian, it would save around 6 billion animals every year.[8]
There are two general approaches to animal rights. The first is the animal welfare position, which holds that there is nothing wrong with using animals for human purposes as long as it does not cause unnecessary pain or suffering for the animal.
Animal right activists take a stronger stance and argue that animals should not be viewed as property or as commodities.[6]
Animal cruelty can either be active (commission) or passive (omission). Passive cruelty is characterized by neglect, such as starvation, parasite infestation, poor shelter in extreme weather, and lack of veterinary care. Active abuse is intentional abuse.[6]
According to the FBI, cruelty to animals is a common trait of serial rapists and murderers. Serial killers often start out by killing and torturing animals as children.[10]
Over 71% of women seeking shelter at safe house have reported that their partners have threatened or killed their pet.[1]
Michael Cimino was criticized for killing and brutalizing several animals during the 1980 movie Heaven's Gate. He even blew up a horse with dynamite, a scene that made it into the movie.[7]
Several thousands of videos of actual, live animal cruelty can be found on YouTube. While many of the videos have been flagged as inappropriate, YouTube generally does not remove them.[3]
In Spain, during the festive "Toro Jubilo," gobs of pitch are placed on a bull's horn and then lit on fire. The bull is let loose in the streets, where it runs frantically in pain as the fire burns the bull's horns, eyes, and body while the spectators cheer. The bull can be on fire for hours.[11]
1"Animal Cruelty and Family Violence : Making the Connection." The Human Society of the United States. 2009. Accessed : February 25, 2013.
2 "Animals in War ? The Unseen Casualties." Animal Aid. June 1, 2003. Accessed : February 25, 2013.
3 Clarke, Matt. "Uproar at Fish Cruelty on YouTube." Practical Fishkeeping. May 17, 2007. Accessed : February 25, 2013.
4 Cox, Peter. You Don't Need Meat. New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, 2002.
5 Dawn, Karen. Thanking the Monkey : Rethinking the Way We Treat Animals. New York, NY : Harper, 2008.
6 DeGrazia, David. Animal Rights : A Very Short Introduction. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2002.
7 Dirks, Tim. "The 100+ Most Controversial Films of All Times." Filmsite.
8 Evans, Kim Masters. Animal Rights. New York, NY : Gale Cengage Learning, 2012.
9 Foer, Jonathan Safran. Eating Animals. New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2009.
10 Goleman, Daniel. "Clues to a Dark Nurturing Ground for One Serial Killer." The New York Times. August 7, 1991. Accessed : February 25, 2013.
11 "Help Stop the Sadistic 'Fire Bull' Festival in Soria." PETA. Accessed : February 25, 2013.
12 Stuart, Tristram. The Bloodless Revolution : A Cultural History of Vegetarianism from 1600 to Modern Times. New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, 2006.
13 "The Military's War on Animals." PETA. Accessed : February 25, 2013.
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Ole Fick (født 1. november 1948 i Kgs. Lyngby) er en dansk skuespiller, maler, musiker og tegnefilmsdubber. Har siden slutningen af 1960'erne været guitarist/forsanger i bandet Burnin Red Ivanhoe. Har sideløbende med sin musikalske karriere medvirket i en lang række børneprogrammer, bl.a. Ude på Noget, Hvorfor Uglen I Hulen samt leveret stemmen til den danske udgave af Postmand Per.

Han har derudover gjort sig bemærket, ved at medvirke i Monrad og Rislund's shows sammen med Øyvind Ougaard. En af hans kendte personer er doktor Leo Lummerkrog, som både har medvirket i Monrad og Rislunds shows samt på P3-programmet Det der om søndagen. Foruden figurer i tegne- og dukkefilm, har han også lagt stemme til mågen Kaj fra Scandlines' reklamefilm.

Fick begyndte at udstille malerier i 2010. I starten af 2013 indtrådte Ole Fick i bestyrelsen omkring den nye kunstretning: Humorisme

Filmografi

Film
 Casanova (1990)
 Balladen om Holger Danske (1996)
 Krummerne - Så er det jul igen (2006)

Tv-serier
 Ude på noget (1984)
 Gufol mysteriet (1997)
 TAXA (1997-1999)
 Ørnen (2004)
 Postmand Per

Tegnefilmsdubber
 Aristocats (1970)
 Powerpuff Pigerne (1998-2005)
 Looney Tunes (1955-nu)
 Ben 10 (2005)
 Byggemand Bob (1999)
Lady og Vagabonden 2: Vaks på eventyr (2001)

Referencer

Eksterne henvisninger

Skuespillere fra Danmark
Musikere fra Danmark
Burnin Red Ivanhoe
Tegnefilmsdubbere fra Danmark

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'Christmas magic'
By Steve Nash steve.nash@brownwoodbulletin.com
Nov 27, 2019 at 12:00 PM Nov 27, 2019 at 12:00 PM
The combined choral forces of Howard Payne University have come together to present "HPU Voices of Christmas."
This is one of the many offerings Brown County residents can enjoy and is presented the evening of Monday, Dec. 2, as part of a slate of HPU activities called "An HPU Family Christmas."
The Voices of Christmas concert is at 7 p.m. at First Baptist Church in Brownwood.
"Some of us in the choir call this specific concert 'Christmas Magic,'" Dr. Chris Rosborough, conductor of the Voices of Christmas choir and HPU faculty member, said via email. Rosborough is assistant professor of music and director of choral activities at HPU.
"It is that special, unspeakable warmth that you receive when your favorite carol is sung, flooding memories of song, family and Christmas seasons of yore," Rosborough said.
The Voices of Christmas choir consists of the HPU Concert Choir and the University Singers, which is comprised of college and community singers.
One of the most exciting elements of the evening will be the addition of a children's choir amassed from East and Northwest elementary schools, Rosborough said.
"As the conductor of this ensemble, I have been looking forward all semester to this concert," Rosborough said. "There is something very special about seeing the collective of all of my choristers present a program together, in a body of music that is so vast and rewarding."
For the past couple of years, the choir has presented the Christmas portion of Handel's Messiah.
"This year I wanted to offer something special that would not negate that seasonal and musical tradition," Rosborough said.
"We will include a bit of baroque music from Vivaldi and Handel, a selection by Gustav Holst that is near and dear to me. As for the carols — let's just say that my Christmas season can't begin until singing that final verse of David Willcocks' 'Hark! The Herald Angels Sing.'"
Rosborough said the choir's additional heart-warming arrangements will please a wide variety of listeners.
Guests will enjoy a full orchestra — comprised of area players and HPU faculty and students — and the audience will be invited to join in on several of the carols, Rosborough said.
"It was my goal in programming this concert to musically celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, while uniting our community in an evening of beautiful music and singing — ultimately providing a springboard for the Christmas season in Brown County and the surrounding areas," Rosborough said. "I truly hope you will join us for 'HPU Voices of Christmas.'"
At 8:15 p.m., the festivities will move across the street to HPU's Old Main Park and Muse Mall for the university's traditional lighting of campus decorations and singing of Christmas carols. HPU President Dr. Cory Hines will read the biblical account of Jesus' birth from the book of Luke.
The event will conclude with a special appearance by Santa Claus, who will be available for photos.
The evening was planned as an opportunity to bring HPU personnel and students together with the university's neighbors in Brownwood, Early and the surrounding communities, HPU said in an earlier press release.


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Sony has increased its bet on Blu-ray Disc and plans to ditch DVD and use the high-definition video disc format in all future digital video recorders in Japan.
The announcement was made at the same time as Sony, the biggest backer of the technology, unveiled four new Blu-ray Disc video recorders. They include support for dual-layer discs -- something that was missing from models announced this time last year -- and can transcode video into the more efficient MPEG-4 AVC format to increase recording time per disc.
A 50GB Blu-ray Disc typically holds just over four hours of HDTV when the over-the-air MPEG-2 stream is recorded directly to disc. By transcoding this stream to MPEG4 AVC it's possible to squeeze 16 hours of HDTV onto the same disc.
The BDZ-X90 is targeted at home cinema use and is capable of 1080p video output -- the highest quality of several video subsets that fall under the HDTV banner -- and "Deep Color" output. This latter feature should mean better colors when using a TV with support for the HDMI1.3 signal. The machine has a 500GB hard-disk drive.
The BDZ-L70 is focused on those with high-def camcorders and supports one-touch transfer of video from Sony Handycam camcorders. It has a smaller 250GB hard-disk drive.
BDZ-T50 and T70 machines are aimed at people who want to record digital TV without other bells and whistles. The machines have 320GB and 250GB hard-disk drives respectively.
But whether consumers will pay the extra money for HD recording will be seen in the coming months. The cheapest of the new recorders is expected to cost about ÂYEN 140,000 (US$1,226) compared to a street price of about ÂYEN 50,000 for the cheapest Sony DVD recorder available, the RDR-HX67.
The top-of-the-range X90 model will cost around ÂYEN 200,000, the L70 will cost about ÂYEN 180,000 and the T70 and T50 will cost ÂYEN 160,000 and ÂYEN 140,000 respectively, said Sony. They'll be available in Japan from November 8 and are not scheduled for release overseas.


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Post-COP24, will coal and nuclear mark Central Europe's energy future?
By Michel Gay on December 24, 2018
Climate Change CO2-Emissions Nuclear Energy Power Use
The fanfare of the COP24's closing ceremony last week did little to mask the refusal of major fossil fuel producers and consumers such as the United States, Saudi Arabia, China, Germany, and host Poland to commit to speedy energy transitions. For other participants, the nature of that transition itself remains a matter of debate: countries including Poland but also the Czech Republic and Slovakia are looking to switch out some consumption of heavily-polluting coal for decarbonised nuclear energy, in spite of the sentiments expressed by their "anti-nuclear" counterparts.
These tensions have once again made it clear to Europe, and to the rest of the world, that the global use of fossil fuels in general and coal in particular is not yet on the verge of substantial decline. Coal and lignite consumption has stagnated in Germany and Poland, but is on the rise in other parts of the globe — notably in India and China.
Unobtainable objectives
As such, the next climate summits in New York and Chile are at risk of becoming expensive, disappointing and ineffective quagmires unless the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s recommendations on developing nuclear power are finally taken into account.
With the 2020 deadline for governments to meet greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets set a decade ago fast approaching, the time crunch is translating into increased pressure on EU's most coal-dependent states to transition to cleaner energy sources. Poland and Germany may have been the most visible European coal consumers on hand for the COP24, but they were hardly the only ones.
Thee Czech Republic, for example, also relies heavily on coal. However, in contrast to Poland, Czech lignite production is only set to last until 2024. ČEZ, the largest national energy provider, is conducting its own internal phase-out and investing actively in a low-carbon transition.
A cold reception for wind and solar
While the EU would like its more coal-dependent members — including the Czech Republic, but also Germany and Poland — to focus on developing low-carbon energy sources, the Czech Republic has neither the wind of northern Germany nor the sunshine of Spain.
There is also the matter of grid congestion in relation to Germany. In 2010, the high-voltage grid operator CEPS warned that a high number of wind and solar projects in the pipeline would threaten to overload the grid and result in blackouts. As a result, ČEZ moved to block new grid connections for intermittent renewable energy sources.
In the same year, feed-in-tariff costs for solar exploded, leading to corruption allegations and a drastic decline in public support.
Nuclear returns
By contrast, Czech expertise in the nuclear energy field has a storied history, meaning the country has already developed its own industry and supply chain. This helps explains why phasing out coal and replacing it with nuclear is part of the Czech Republic's 2015 State Energy Policy. The Dukovany and Temelin nuclear power plants currently supply 38% of the country's energy, and nuclear energy's share in the national energy mix is forecast to rise by about 50% by 2040.
Meeting those targets, however, requires both life extensions for the Dukovany and Temelin reactors as well as new builds. The European Commission stands in opposition to Prague's pro-nuclear orientation, despite the EU's recent calls for decarbonisation and the fact that nuclear power does not emit CO2. The Czech Republic's neighbours Germany and Austria are the loudest voices against the projects; the Temelin and Dukovany plants are 40 km and 50 km from the Austrian border, respectively.
The Czech nuclear industry also supports a wider cross-section of the economy. A cancelled 2013 Rosatom and Skoda consortium tender to replace the Temelin reactor, for example, would have engaged the local value chain and reportedly involved around 250 Czech companies in high value sectors such as energy equipment manufacturing and IT.
The Visegrád group
As a rule, the Visegrád countries do not share the anti-nuclear sentiments seen elsewhere in Europe. Poland is also looking to nuclear energy to drive its own low-carbon economic transition. At November's World Nuclear Spotlight Poland conference in Warsaw, Poland's Minister of Energy Krzysztof Tchórzewski affirmed the country's commitment to nuclear; the Polish energy ministry aims for Poland to have its first nuclear power plant up and running by 2033.
Whereas the country is currently 80% reliant on coal for its energy needs, 2040 projections indicate about 32% of Poland's energy will be generated from coal and 18% from nuclear. Successive Polish governments have looked to nuclear power as the central pillar of that shift since 2009.
In this, Warsaw could quite possibly find itself looking to Prague for help; ČEZ already has a 49% share in the construction of a new reactor in neighbouring Slovakia. Indeed, the Czech nuclear industry could find itself driving an alternative model of decarbonisation across this part of Europe.
The IPCC report that proved so controversial at the COP24 has made it perfectly clear that Europe must take the opportunities afforded by nuclear energy to sensibly reduce fossil fuel consumption. It does no good to stick one's head in the sand or to ignore evidence. Coal power and nuclear power will both continue to see significant use in Europe and around the globe; it's up to the international community to take a realistic view of this future and manage it accordingly.
About the author: Michel Gay is a French energy commentator, environmental advocate and the author of three books, including "Vive le Nucléaire Heureux !" (Long Live Happy Nuclear) for which he was awarded the Yves Chelet Prize by the French Society for Nuclear Energy (SFEN) in December 2016.
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Lausanne's economy has a deficit of workers, with many of the employees being commuters from the surrounding area. Most jobs are in the retail and sales departments, followed by the tourism and hotel industry and research. The largest companies with headquarters in the city are tobacco giant Phillip Morris International, packaging corporation Tetra Laval and Nestlé's subsidiary Nespresso. the demand for new workers is especially high for business and administration graduates, as well as in finance, mechanical engineering and hospitality management. Most of these employers accept undergraduate interns, who are continuously trained in parallel with their university curriculum.
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The city is well known as the capital of international sport, housing the International Sports Arbitration Tribunal (Tass). Lausanne has a rich cultural life, with a tradition of classical music. The city is home to the Swiss Film Archive and the municipality organises regular film festivals and underground performance events. Besides the Lausanne Opera, you can also find a local ballet, called the Béjart Ballet.
For sports enthusiasts, Lausanne has local football (soccer), hockey, rowing and rugby teams, which participate in national and international professional competitions. The city's proximity to Lake Geneva means that there are many nature retreats and wild parks on the outskirts of Lausanne, ideal for hiking, biking and other outdoor activities.
International atmosphere in Lausanne
Lausanne is, like most of Switzerland, a very cosmopolitan city, with around 42% of the population being from another country. Most of the population speak French, followed by German and Italian. Other languages spoken widely in the local communities are Spanish, Portuguese, Albanian and Turkish. While many of the locals speak more than one language, English is also widely spoken by the large young population. International students arriving to the city also increase the diversity and international outlook of Lausanne.
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Lausanne has a fairly humid weather, with an average of 1,153 mm (45.39 inches) of precipitation annually. Due to its geographic position, Lausanne has cool and wet summers, with an average of 20.3 °C (68.5 °F) in July. The winters are cold, but usually above freezing, with an average temperature of 1.2 °C (34.2 °F) in January.
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There are numerous accommodation options available in Lausanne, for various types of budgets:
Rent for a one-bedroom apartment in the city centre costs 1,272 EUR/month, while three bedrooms cost 2,692 EUR/month.
Rent for a one-bedroom apartment outside the city centre costs 977 EUR/month and three bedrooms cost 2,055 EUR/month
On-campus accommodation reaches 672 EUR/month for single rooms and 868 EUR/month for studios. Student housing is usually limited and requires a significant deposit.
Living costs in Lausanne
Lausanne is a moderately expensive city, with living costs reaching between 1010 and 1622 EUR/month, excluding accommodation. Utilities amount to approximately 184 EUR/month, while food prices require up to 510 EUR/month. A monthly transport pass costs 67 EUR and a one-way ticket is 3.36 EUR.
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AISTS (International Academy of Sport Science and Technology)
A renowned centre of excellence for education and applied research in sport, AISTS (International Academy of Sport Science and Technology) incorporates a multidisciplinary approach to postgraduate education and continuing professional education in sports management. Located in Lausanne, Switzerland, the Olympic Capital, AISTS has a unique link to the IOC and upholds the values of the Olympic Movement.
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Q: Controlling iTunes with ASP.NET running under IIS I've been trying to control iTunes with ASP.NET with varying levels of success, but none that fits my situation exactly. I've looked around the web and tried all of the provided solutions without much luck. I've tried using many different iTunes COM libraries (even the one that's on Apple's developer website), still no luck. The issue is, when I'm using Visual Studio's development server to create an instance of the iTunes COM object - iTunesApp - it works perfectly and allows me to control iTunes. This also works perfectly in a Console and WinForms app. But as soon as I switch it to use the IIS server, nothing seems to work. I need it to run as a website under ASP.NET so it can receive requests from other devices. This has tremendous potential for building a web app to control and essentially build a Web-based API around iTunes. It throws the following error on creation of a new instance of the iTunesApp class:

Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID
      {DC0C2640-1415-4644-875C-6F4D769839BA} failed due to the following error:
      80080005 Server execution failed (Exception from HRESULT:
      0x80080005 (CO_E_SERVER_EXEC_FAILURE)).

First I was using the iTunes.Interop.dll file that is used in many of the projects around the web. I tried many times without luck and then tried registering the DLL, that threw an error about not finding an entry point into the DLL. So then I found that you have to give permission to the Application Pool Identity that the web app is running under to acces and execute the DCOM service in Windows Component Services. I did that, and also gave access to Everyone, still nothing. Then I tried using the COM library that is installed by iTunes (when you go to Add Reference, instead of browsing to the DLL file, I went under COM tab and selected iTunes Type Library), no luck. I suspect that when I gave permission to the Windows DCOM component, I gave permission to the installed iTunes COM library since Windows recognized that as installed (and I couldn't register the original iTunes.Interop.dll - Windows wouldn't know it was there).
Both, the installed iTunes Type Library and the iTunes.Interop.dll file, gave me the same aforementioned error. Strangely, the CLSID in the error (DC0C2640-1415-4644-875C-6F4D769839BA) doesn't match iTunes's "Application ID", as it is called in Component Services\DCOM\iTunes\Properties window, which is F98206B5-F052-4965-9FA0-85F61BC3C19D. My suspicion is that I'm not giving permission to the correct DCOM component in Windows. I searched my registry for the CLSID in the error and it returns no results, so I concluded that it's not the Application ID of any of the DCOM components (all the Application ID's are under Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\AppID - didn't find it in there either). But since it's the CLSID in the error, it must be referenced to somewhere, I just couldn't find it anywhere. Searching for either ID on Google isn't helpful either because they both return search results that include iTunes, but none specific enough to the problem.
I even tried the multithreaded approach. Since COM libraries run in STA model and web servers run in MTA, one of the solutions I found suggested to convert the server's thread execution model to STA and then call the COM library. This didn't work either. I have duplicated this problem on 2 computers running completely independent, and on both computers, the Visual Studio Development Server (and Console and WinForms applications)  can run it, but IIS cannot.
Here's the code I'm using (without the multithreading):
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Security.Principal;
using System.Threading;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using iTunesLib;

namespace NewASPXNetduino2
{
        public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
        {
                protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
                {
                        Response.Write(WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name + "\n");

                        var iTunes = new iTunesApp();

                        iTunes.Play();
                }
        }
}

The error is throw at the line: var iTunes = new iTunesApp();
If the multithreaded code would help, I can post that too. I'm pretty much directionless at this point and would appreciate any help in any capacity. Thanks.
P.S.: I've already looked around the internet and tried all the solutions I've mentioned above multiple times on multiple computers, so please keep that in mind when replying. Thanks.

A: I have no experience with the itunes libraries, but the symptoms you describe sound like a security issue to me. IIS is likely running as the local account NETWORK_SERVICE while everything else you mentioned is (probably) running as a regular user account (yours).
To quickly check this, from in IIS manager you can change the account the application pool uses (it's under the identity tab). If this works, then you either need to figure out what is doing the security check and see if you can authorize NETWORK_SERVICE as a valid account, or simply run the application pool using a different account.


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Abiding love: Robert and Catherine Pollard recognized as longest-married couple in Georgia
By Roger and Annie BorrelloFebruary 11, 2018July 28th, 2021No Comments
Robert and Catherine Pollard of Roswell GA are being recognized as the "Longest Married Couple" in Georgia, being married almost 72 years. The couple achieved the recognition based on nominations submitted since last October to Worldwide Marriage Encounter, according to Annie and Roger Borrello, Encounter leaders for Georgia and Tennessee. Worldwide Marriage Encounter created the project seven years ago to highlight marriage in America and to exemplify for young couples that marriage truly can go the distance.
Nominated by their daughter Anne Johnson, Robert and Catherine grew up in Beloit, WI. Catherine excelled in sports including softball, tennis and synchronized swimming and was a lifeguard. Robert loved to play the piano and memorized Rhapsody in Blue. Robert's mom found an old piano recital program from grade school and noticed both Robert and Catherine were in it, but they did not know each other at that time.
They met in high school at a church youth group gathering where Catherine came over to sit next to Robert who was playing the piano. They started dating in high school and enjoyed going to Big Band dances with their high school friends. Robert was known as Bob and Catherine as Cat, so together they were called BobCat.
Bob graduated from high school in 1942 and enlisted in what was at the time the Army Air Force during WWII. Catherine graduated in 1943. By 1943 her class was regularly walking over to the nearby train station to see the men off to war who were being drafted before they could finish high school.
Bob's military travels took him to training in Oregon, Mississippi, Texas, Alabama and New Jersey. In 1945 he left for the Pacific on a Navy troop transport ship out of San Francisco. He was in the Philippines, Australia, Japan and mostly on the Indonesian island of Morotai. During this time Cat took classes at the University of Wisconsin Madison, and Marquette University in Milwaukee as a journalism major. She worked for the Milwaukee Journal. They married in 1946 soon after Bob returned home from the war.
At the age of 93, Bob and Catherine are the parents of five children: Kim Pollard Diaz, Tom Pollard, Pat Pollard, Susan Pollard and Anne Pollard Johnson. They have four grandchildren and five great grandchildren. While raising their children they were active in Scouting and numerous church activities. Cat has been a homemaker, enjoys history and is a member of the DAR.
Bob graduated from University of Wisconsin with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. His career in engineering and later as a consultant took him to several states primarily in the Midwest and Tennessee over the years.
Currently Bob and Cat attend weekly services as members of St Peter Chanel Catholic Church in Roswell. They have a very sociable Siamese cat, Christopher IV and reside with their daughter, Anne and her husband, Christopher. They love to go out to eat and recently enjoyed attending the Nutcracker and Tenderly, The Rosemary Clooney musical. They like to go to Joe Gransden's Big Band concerts. A new hobby, beginning a year ago is listening to audio books. They read a wide variety of books including biographies on historical figures, musicians, entertainers and books about WWII. Bob was recently interviewed and videotaped for an Eagle Scout project about his WWII adventures and experiences.
State winners across the country will be presented certificates of achievement and other types of recognition by Worldwide Marriage Encounter couples during Valentine's week.
Worldwide Marriage Encounter has been offering weekend experiences for 49 years with a presence in almost 100 countries, which the organization says makes it the largest marriage support movement in the world. In North America, WWME programs are presented in English, Spanish, French, and Korean languages.
Weekends this year are conducted in the Atlanta area on the following dates:
February 23-25, April 20–22, June 15-17, August 10-12, September 28-30, November 16-18. More information can be found at GATN-wwme.org or by calling 678-242-WWME.
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The Policy Ask with Richard Sloggett: "We don't need more hospitals, we should modernise those we have"
The former Department for Health special adviser on community care, mental health and unethical food advertising.
By Spotlight
Richard Sloggett is the founder and programme director of the healthcare think tank Future Health. He was previously a senior fellow at the Westminster think tank Policy Exchange and a special adviser to the former secretary of state for health and social care, Matt Hancock.
How do you start your working day?
Usually with a cup of tea and a skim through the morning news, often followed by a walk with our older miniature dachshund, Betsy, who helps me plan my day – she provides great, considered counsel!
What has been your career high?
"Food cannot be the poor relation to the environment": The woman pushing back for farmers
The government is insulting women with its lack of action on the menopause
Where has the levelling-up fund money been distributed?
Working in the Department of Health and Social Care as a special adviser was a real privilege. The importance and breadth of issues made it both immensely fascinating and challenging.
What has been the most challenging moment of your career?
Trying to get the department's Prevention in the 2020s green paper out of government in the last days of Theresa May's premiership. Let's just say that it involved a fair amount of three-dimensional chess, but we did it in the end.
One month working with Dominic Cummings wasn't exactly a walk in the park, either…
If you could give your younger self career advice, what would it be?
There isn't one path forward, there are many and you don't always need to know where they lead. Just keep pushing.
Also, try and put yourself in other people's shoes. The world looks different depending on where you stand and you'll build better understanding and deeper relationships in doing so.
Which political figure inspires you?
I grew up with the arrival of New Labour and have always found Tony Blair fascinating. He got a Conservative-leaning country to vote Labour three times and never lost an election. Part of my PhD studies is looking at his health reforms and it is notable how he prioritised grown-up public sector reform while in office – something we really need the government to start taking seriously again.
What UK policy or fund is the government getting right?
The government's work with the life sciences sector through Brexit and Covid has been excellent and those on both sides deserve huge credit. If this partnership continues to be prioritised and invested in then we are going to see the UK at the front of exciting new discoveries for treatments in important areas such as cancer and dementia.
And what policy should the UK government ditch?
The aim to create 40 new hospitals. We don't need more hospitals (if that is what they even are). We should modernise those we have, but we must focus more on primary care and care in the community. We need to have a grown-up conversation with the public about how and where healthcare will be delivered in future.
What upcoming UK policy or law are you most looking forward to?
The new Mental Health Act. It tackles a long-standing set of injustices and gives people more dignity and say in their care and treatment.
What piece of international government policy could the UK learn from?
The government should adopt the World Health Organisation's (WHO) Economics of Health For All framework. This sees health and the economy as interdependent and health as a critical economic sector in its own right. If we've learnt anything from Covid it is that health is wealth.
If you could pass one law this year, what would it be?
We should be doing a lot more to tackle obesity. New laws are needed to stop the food industry aggressively marketing and targeting unhealthy products at children. I'd also go after gambling companies and their role in sport. It's ridiculous to have betting companies on football shirts and to have wall-to-wall betting ads during the commercial breaks.
[See also: The Conservatives have made childcare unavailable and unaffordable]
Topics in this article : Hospitals , Mental Health , NHS , public health , pwfree , The Policy Ask
The legislative battles to watch out for in 2023
Doctors' union chair: prioritising private healthcare will increase inequalities


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Bruce Mackenzie
Co-founder, MarsU
Mars University, Cofounder and Board Trustee, Summer 2020-Present
Mars Foundation, Founder and Director, 2005 - Present
National Space Society Massachusetts, Director, 1990 - 2007
Draper Labs, Engineer, 1994-1997
Bruce Mackenzie advocates low tech "homesteading" to live on Mars. He originated the concept of Masonry structures on Mars, using regolith (dirt) to hold the internal pressure.
Bruce has been active in the National Space Society since the merger with the L5 Society.
He served multiple terms on the NSS Board of Directors, chapters committee, local chapter, multiple chapters web support, and other duties.
Bruce is the founder of the Mars Foundation, an NSS affiliated organization, dedicated to
education and research on settlement of Mars. His special interest is the use of in-situ materials, such as production of plastic and masonry from the Martian air and dirt, to build habitats and 3D printing for Mars Settlement.
Other activities include:
Mars Society advisory Steering Committee, AIAA local council,
Space Studies Institute, SEDS, Mars University,
entrepreneurial ventures, software engineering, aerospace engineering, cad
development, gps receivers, and, would you believe gun launched satellites.
But, the most fun were:
Mars Settlement designs, space elevators, and the use of rotating space
tethers to establish industry on Luna and export Lunar materials,
and intergalactic settlement.
Bruce lives near Boston, USA, with his spouse and 2 grown children.
Mars Settlement, Architecture, Construction, and In Situ Resource Utilisation (ISRU)
Mars Homestead, Orbital Settlement, Steroidal Construction, and 3D Printers
Solar System Resources, Inter-planetary Economy and Trade, Starship
Greenhouses for space and Mars, Space Settlement Technologies
Space Elevators, for Mars, Phobos Luna, Earth, Asteroids, Rotating Tethers for orbital transport
Unusual Space launch and orbital technology


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Gender Equality Ghana Project #43326
Fund 10 up-and-coming Ghanaian women innovators
by United Planet Corp (Empowered to Educate)
One year into our two-year fellowship program, we are so proud of our Fellows. Together, they impact thousands of Ghanaian women and girls, and we are thrilled to offer them resources to support their growth. According to one Fellow, who works to improve literacy rates in her community, "Empowered to Educate is a necessity because it empowers me with the mentorship and resources to ensure inclusive, equitable and quality education for all." With your support, we can make this the best year yet!
One challenge our Fellows face is the lack of access to female role models. To address this, we have matched each Fellow with a mentor with whom they can seek advice, share stories, and derive inspiration. As one Fellow said, "I've not had a mentor to help me in my growth as a change maker, therefore this particular component of Empowered to Educate means a lot to me." This year, the Fellows will dive deeper into these mentor relationships to learn how they can truly grow as leaders.
We address these issues in two ways: by matching each Fellow with a Mentor from whom they can seek advice and derive inspiration as they build their careers. To quote one Fellow: "I've not had a mentor to help me in my growth as a change maker, therefore this particular component of Empowered to Educate means a lot to me." The second is by providing modest micro-grants. To quote another Fellow: "rhe grant will help me better structure my foundation to reach a greater number of vulnerable girls."
Empowered to Educate will award a minimum of 10 fellowships/year for the next ten years. Starting in Ghana we will move throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America. After ten years we will have: 1) a global network of over 100 up and coming female educators in 10 countries, 2) universally applicable protocols for peer to peer goal setting and accountability, 3) a cadre of mentors, 4) linkages with global trainers, 5) university affiliations, and 6) grassroots programs which can be scaled.
This project has provided additional documentation in a DOCX file (projdoc.docx).
https://www.empoweredtoeducate.org
Results of co-creation visit to Ghana
Why supporting women educators is critical.
United Planet Corp (Empowered to Educate)
Location: Boston, MA - USA
Website: https://www.empoweredtoeducate.org
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Supports local travel costs for peer to peer meet ups.
Funds program materials for leadership training course for one fellow
Helps fund the costs of attending professional networking events
Helps cover the costs of a professional mentor
Helps fund the fellow's travel to and from meetings with her professional mentor and to a leadership conference to present her work.
Provides direct project seed funding for the fellow to support her work in the classroom or the community
Covers the full cost of a fellowship for one year
Covers the full cost of a fellowship for two years.
Monthly giving is as easy, safe, and as inexpensive as a Netflix subscription. Start a monthly donation to United Planet Corp (Empowered to Educate) today and get matched at 100%. Terms and conditions apply.
Covers the costs of local travel for peer to peer meet ups
A monthly donation of $50 covers the cost of registration and tuition to present at a national seminar.
Monthly installments of $85 funds project seed funding for one fellow for two years
Funds a full fellowship across two years with monthly installments.
United Planet Corp (Empowered to Educate) has earned this recognition on GlobalGiving:


One of William Inge's strengths as a playwright was his ability to see the dramatic possibilities lurking in the corners of 1950s small-town lives, just waiting to erupt as soon as a combustible element — the young female boarder in "Come Back, Little Sheba,'' the handsome drifter in "Picnic''— was introduced to the mix.
In Inge's "Bus Stop,'' a comedy with a melancholy undertow that is now being given an improbably engaging production by the Huntington Theatre Company under the direction of Nicholas Martin, that element arrives in the form of a blustering cowboy named Bo Decker (Noah Bean).
Why improbably? Because there is much in "Bus Stop'' that is dated when seen through contemporary eyes, beginning with its decidedly problematic protagonist. It's not because Bo favors locutions like "purty'' and "critter'' and wears a belt buckle approximately the size of Jupiter, but rather that, after falling head over boot heels in love with Cherie (Nicole Rodenburg), a blond nightclub singer, he ignores her protestations that she doesn't want to marry him and herds her onto a westbound bus, headed for his ranch in Montana.
At one point in the Huntington production, after discovering that Cherie had been planning to give him the slip, Bo chases her around a diner; at another, he throws her over his shoulder.
Yet Martin, in a return to the theater company where he was formerly the artistic director, has drawn a performance from Bean so carefully modulated that Bo mostly comes across as bumptious and clueless but essentially well-meaning, rather than a candidate for a restraining order (in contrast to Don Murray, who played Bo in the dreadful 1956 film version of "Bus Stop'' that starred Marilyn Monroe).
Having spent his entire life on a ranch, Bo constantly struggles to find the right connections between feelings, words, and actions. A similar sense of perpetually shifting emotional ground is communicated by Rodenburg, whose Cherie is clearly very attracted to Bo, even as she is alarmed by his over-the-top behavior.
The diner in question is located in a small Kansas town, and it is there that the bus passengers are forced to spend the night when a blizzard hits. Because this is a play by the ever-schematic Inge, they are also forced to confront a few hard truths about themselves and their lives.
That emphatically includes the drunken, poetry-spouting Dr. Lyman (Henry Stram), who seems to be paying an inordinate amount of attention to Elma (Ronete Levenson), the high school girl working behind the lunch counter. Stram effectively conveys the depths of Dr. Lyman's self-loathing once he realizes what a bottom-feeder he really is. Levenson is both amusing and poignant as Elma, but (in another problem presented by Inge's script) would a teenage girl really react with flattered pleasure, as Elma does, to learn that a middle-aged creep is interested in her?
Rounding out the ensemble are the diner's feisty proprietor, Grace (Karen MacDonald); Bo's mentor, the guitar-strumming Virgil (Stephen Lee Anderson); the cocky bus driver, Carl (Will LeBow), who sees the blizzard-enforced delay as a chance to take his flirtatious relationship with Grace to the next level; and Will (Adam LeFevre), the hulking sheriff.
MacDonald plays Grace in a starched blue waitress uniform, a Midwestern accent, and a demeanor both saucy and wistful. MacDonald is not onstage nearly enough, but she wrings every ounce of meaning out of every line she delivers. Even a line as banal as "I don't care for cheese'' sounds funny when MacDonald says it. And she communicates the loneliness at the heart of Inge's work, however comedic it may be, with a single look.
Harold Clurman, who directed the 1955 Broadway premiere of "Bus Stop,'' wrote in his indispensable book "On Directing'' (1972) that "Inge, like the early O'Neill, is one of those playwrights whose work acquires a body on the stage not always apparent in the 'book.' '' For all the contradictions and head-scratching moments of "Bus Stop,'' this Huntington production suggests that Clurman was right.
Sets, James Noone. Lights, Philip Rosenberg. Costumes, Miranda Hoffman. Sound, Alex Neumann.
At: Huntington Theatre Company, Boston University Theatre.
Through Oct. 17. Tickets $25-$89. 617-266-0800, www.huntingtontheatre.org.


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Contains four early reports, apparently written by a Jesuit (the last page concludes with Laus Deo). The first (fols 38–41r) is an account of the route around the world through places where Christianisation has been attempted or achieved. The writer describes Santo Domingo, Cuba, New Spain (including Acapulco), the Philippines (including Manila, and referring to the large number of Christianised Indians), Japan, China (including Macau and Canton), Cochinchina, Siam, Malacca, Sumatra, and southern India (including Mangalore and Goa). The second (fols 42–4) is a general account of the Philippines, its discovery, geography and peoples. The third (fols 44v–47v) gives more details about produce, animals and minerals. The fourth (fols 48r–53v) discusses surrounding islands and the needs and difficulties of missionaries.


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Q: What are the main uses of the LU decomposition? I know how to perform the procedure, but why is it useful?
The question is inspired by the eigenvalue decomposition, which is great for powering matrices.
Thanks

A: The source for my answer is Richard C. Penney's Linear Algebra: Ideas and Applications, 4th edition.
LU decomposition is useful if you want to solve the matrix equation AX = Y for many different Ys with the same A because in that case, you need decompose A only once, and AX = LUX = Y can be solved without row reduction.
Another feature that makes LU decomposition numerically efficient is that as you reduce A to get U, you get L without any more work.


I'm participating in this year's AIDS Walk Los Angeles, a 10K fundraising walk to fight the epidemic. This is a cause very near and dear to my heart. Thank you for considering a donation! Every dollar we raise helps APLA Health stop new infections and support people living with HIV/AIDS. Peace and love!
I recently found out that a close friend has been diagnosed with AIDS. Keep fighting the good fight Sammy. You are power. You are change.


2016 was a rough year for the vehicle maker, but there are still some risks to watch for in 2017.
Competitors like Arctic Cat are coming for Polaris in 2017. Image source: Arctic Cat.
Shares of Polaris Industries Inc. (NYSE:PII) have had a rough go of it over the last few years as operational missteps have led to recalls and a sharp decline in earnings. On top of that, demand for off-road vehicles and snowmobiles is down for the industry, creating a headwind Polaris is fighting. Looking ahead to 2017, there are still some challenges in sight.
In the third-quarter earnings report, management said the recalls of its RZR off-road vehicle were nearly halfway complete -- meaning there are at least a few more quarters of impact on the business from those recalls.
The long-term impact could be more to Polaris' reputation than anything else. Polaris was known as a very high-quality off-road vehicle manufacturer, so the recalls that hurt 2016 are going to be a ding on the company's reputation. At the very least, it will give customers a reason to try an Arctic Cat (NASDAQ:ACAT) or other competing off-road vehicle or snowmobile as their next purchase.
Industry dynamics seem to be working against Polaris right now, too. A boom in oil and gas drilling from 2010 to 2014 helped boost demand for its products, both for business and personal use. The decline in drilling has left companies with little need for new vehicles, and formerly high-paying jobs in energy are now hard to come by.
Agriculture demand, which makes up about 20% of the off-road vehicle market, has also been weaker lately. A surge in investment in new equipment after the recession helped sales for a few years, but commodity prices have been low the last year or two, and farmers and ranchers just aren't investing in new equipment anymore.
The backdrop has left Polaris with a shrinking market, which could continue into 2017. And let's not forget that it's been nearly eight years since the last recession ended, so historically another recession is likely to arrive in the next few years. The macro picture for off-road vehicles isn't looking very good.
Snowmobiles are only about 12% of Polaris' business, but it's a segment that could be dying slowly. A warm fall and winter so far in North America, where most Polaris snowmobiles are sold, means little demand for the vehicles, and before long, customers will be thinking about spring already.
The long-term weather trend is troubling as well. Winter has been getting warmer in key midwestern states, leading to less demand for snow products. This has led to serious trouble for Polaris competitor Arctic Cat, which has seen an overall decline in its more snow-focused business. At the very least, a segment of Polaris' business is going to be suffering from the same dynamic if winter continues to disappoint.
The final thing to watch in 2017 will be competition. The RZR recalls have given competitors an opening, and they're going to use it where they can.
Arctic Cat, for example, has improved its snowmobiles and introduced new all-terrain vehicles and side-by-sides for 2017. You can bet those will be compared to Polaris' and marketed as safer and more reliable (whether it's true or not) after Polaris' recalls.
Honda, Harley-Davidson, Yamaha, and others will do the same. And if Polaris doesn't complete outstanding recalls quickly to regain its reputation, it could be a successful sales pitch. At the end of the day, competition is what Polaris should be most worried about, because the macro factors like warmer winters and economic ups and downs are largely out of the control of anyone in the powersports industry.


What is your favorite forms of food to get ur protein (not for nutrition-wise but for taste) I'm curious.
i was reading an article on bb.com and it said that the fats and cocoa are realyl good for testosterone levels. you havent heard anything about this???
This a honest question sorry if it offends you. do you drink alcohol in the off season?
So in small amounts, like say 1 beer with a meal… once or twice per week (offseason obviosly) does that not have any negative effect on testosterone or GH levels?
Layne , just wanted to hear how you go about nighttime nutrition , do you take any time released protein , whole food, carbs ect.?
lol why not? You wouldn't go 8 hours during the day without eating would ya?
I am looking into the metobolic diet to see if it will work for me. On the dairy issue I must be the only one here(or seem to be) where dairy does not bloat me, give me the shits, or hold water. Does that only happen to people who are lactose intolerant?
It mostly happens to lactose intolerant people, but many people also have allergies to the peptides in milk like the lactalbumins and I knew one girl who was even allergic to casein.
Just a question regarding nutrition. Specifically: I notice places like McD's advertise the fact that they deep fry in healthy oils. Isn't this totally pointless as the heat destroys the good oils and turns them into trans fats?
I'm not really sure, but healthy oils are only healthy to a point and at the quantity they are using it's all unhealthy.
On the topic of water, is drinking 3 gallons overkill?
I did a bit of searching and established that insoluble fiber provides no energy and soluble fiber all told ends up giving about 2 cals per gram. Does this sound right to you?
layne what do you eat as your main carb source?
hey layne u think fiber 1 would be ok for a carb source to replace oatmeal/sweet potatoe ?
Is there a guideline for maximum number of whole eggs a day (just concerned about overdoing the cholesterol)? Is 6 too many?
Wasnt sure where to ask this so came here. Not a fan of milk at all makes me sick most of the time. So I put 8th Contient Soy Milk in my protein shakes prob 2-3 times a day is this hurting me in anyway or is there another alternate?
Have you tried lactose free milk?
Anyhow, i've got a question regarding carb counting. I am eating Trader Joe's High Fiber cereal, it's just wheat bran and a few other things in it, per serving it's got 23g of carbs, and 9g of fiber. Would I count that as 14g of carbs since the fiber doesn't actually count as carbs, or would it count as 23g regardless?
Contrary to popular belief, fiber SHOULD count. Fiber is not absorbed as a carb, however soluble fiber is fermented in the lower intestine and reabsorbed as short chain fatty acids and thus you still get almost ALL the calories from fiber. (it's about 3kcal/gram as opposed to 4kcal/gram with carbs).
I was wondering if you've done any research or know anything regarding the artificial sweetener Acesulfame K? It's offered in the flavorings from where I order protein and was wanting to know your thoughts on its safety.
Hey Layne, do you think that is okay to eat fruit, I usually go for apples and bananas, when bulking or are they stored as fat too easily?
Layne I am a nattie as well , I was wondering what your feelings on fruit are , mainly bananas , apples , grapes , peaches?
Hey Layne. Someone just posted an article regarding salt (sodium chloride specifically). It said that salt doesn't cause hypertension (only exacerbates it) and that bodybuilders don't eat enough and should be eating way more for reasons including enhanced anabolism, workout performance and simply to make the physique look better. It also said not to worry about eating too much as the excess is just flushed out in urine. What are your thoughts about this? Does salt not contribute to the hardening of the arteries?
For the eggs, besides the stress, I was also thinking in terms of what/how much of the crap chickens are fed, is passed through the egg. And even worse if the egg would be to some extent used in kind of a purging/ excreting purpose?
Layne, are your thoughts against EZEKIAL bread positive or negative?
There is no such food that actually uses more calories to burn due to digestion than what the food actually contains in calories correct? I've been told by a prof in university that there is no such thing and people seem to think lettuce is a food that can achieve this.


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Cet article recense les pratiques inscrites au patrimoine culturel immatériel en République dominicaine.

Statistiques
La République dominicaine ratifie la convention pour la sauvegarde du patrimoine culturel immatériel le . La première pratique protégée est inscrite en 2008.

En 2019, la République dominicaine compte 4 éléments inscrits au patrimoine culturel immatériel, tous sur la liste représentative.

Listes

Liste représentative
Les éléments suivants sont inscrits sur la liste représentative du patrimoine culturel immatériel de l'humanité :

Patrimoine immatériel nécessitant une sauvegarde urgente
La République dominicaine ne compte aucun élément listé sur la liste du patrimoine immatériel nécessitant une sauvegarde urgente.

Registre des meilleures pratiques de sauvegarde
La République dominicaine ne compte aucune pratique listée au registre des meilleures pratiques de sauvegarde.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

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 Liste du patrimoine culturel immatériel de l'humanité en Amérique
 Culture de la République dominicaine

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Breaking News: Putin to Run for Reelection!
Vladimir Putin tells delighted automotive workers that he will indeed run for another six-year term as president of Russia.
In a shocker, the de facto ruler of Russia, Vladimir Putin, has announced he will offer himself for another six-year term as president in another election where serious opposition will not be tolerated.
Despite the apparent voter apathy, a 49-point lead is a pretty good cushion for Putin, and that's without taking into account the, er, resources he might bring to bear if a real opponent emerged.
The one source of controversy over Putin's candidacy would appear to be the question of whether and when he will eclipse Josef Stalin as having the longest-serving period of unquestioned power in Moscow. Putin has been the dominant figure in Russia since his first election as president in 1999 (he was prime minister from 2008 until 2012, but no one doubted who was in charge). By one reckoning, Stalin ruled his country from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953, a stretch of nearly 30 years. By another, though, his rule began in 1929, when his last rival, Nikolai Bukharin, was expelled from the Politburo. According to that standard, Putin's reign will outstrip that of the Great Helmsman before his next term expires in 2024. We should know by then if his list of nationalist accomplishments will ultimately include subverting the U.S. elections of 2016.