Beijing is one of the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China. It has been the heart of China's history for centuries, and there is scarcely a major building of any age in Beijing that does not have at least some national historical significance. The city is renowned for its opulent palaces, temples, and huge stone walls and gates. Its art treasures and universities have long made it a centre of culture and art in China.
This is an abandoned factory building in 798 Art district. It´s in Dashanzi outside Beijing´s east 4-3 ring road. Sports and entertainment stars are gathering here today for a behavior art work designed for public good.
With its fascinating and artistic accompanying music, singing and costumes, the Peking Opera is China´s national opera.
Chinese gate piers belong to an old Beijing, carrying old voices of the past. When was the golden age of this old gate piers? And what can this stone structure tell us about the transition of the dynasties?
Liulichang Street is a symbol of traditional Chinese culture. It´s known as a treasure trove of traditional Chinese culture.
These old Hutongs carried Beijing´s history and traditional way of life. They have waited centuries´ of change in social and individual life. Today, they have become a platform of new culture and artistic innovation.
Beijing´s entertainers were a colorful and talented troop in the old days. But modality and rapid development has changed the taste of the local audience.
Beijing is a world-famous ancient cultural city, the capital of China, as well as China´s political, economic and cultural center as well as a center for international communications.No matter you are living here or not, what´s your view on this ancient Chinese city? Please sharing your interesting story with us!


The special counsel Robert Mueller's office on Tuesday filed a motion to scale back evidence sharing in its case against 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities charged in the Russia investigation.
Mueller cited the risk of revealing the identities of "uncharged co-conspirators" to Russian intelligence.
The motion confirms that Mueller's February indictment against the Russians was far from an exhaustive list of those suspected of involvement in influence operations in the US.
The special counsel Robert Mueller's office filed a protective orderTuesday to limit evidence sharing in the case against the 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities indicted in February as part of the Russia investigation.
The motion was filed in response to a demand last month from Concord Management and Consulting, one of the firms charged in February, that the US government turn over 51 categories of information to the defence to help it prepare for a trial.
Concord was founded by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a wealthy Russian businessman linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin and senior Russian intelligence operatives. Prigozhin was one of the individuals Mueller's office indicted in February on charges that he bankrolled a Russian troll farm's efforts to spread fake news and disinformation leading up to the election. Concord pleaded not guilty in May.
Attorneys for Concord said last month that they planned to file several motions challenging Mueller's authority and accusing his office of breaking the law when it brought forth the indictment.
"The reason is obvious, and is political: to justify his own existence the Special Counsel has to indict a Russian – any Russian," wrote Eric A. Dubelier and Katherine Seikaly.
Legal experts said that because of Concord's and Prigozhin's apparent ties to the Kremlin and Russian intelligence, prosecutors would most likely fight the defence's motion seeking evidence. For that reason, Tuesday's development is not altogether surprising.
But this new filing confirms that Mueller's February indictment against the Russians was far from an exhaustive list of those suspected of involvement in influence operations in the US.


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Zabarmari massacre: Resign now, you've failed – Nigerian prophet tells Buhari
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Governor Zulum Declares That If Borno State Is Not Peaceful, Other Parts Of Nigeria Will Never Be Peaceful, Says Unless We Get Rid Of Nepotism, Tribalism…
If Umahi becomes President, he will k*ll everybody – Nnamdi Kanu reacts as Umahi soldiers reportedly kill 2, abduct 2 in Enugu
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Following the slaughtering of 43 farmers by Boko Haram members in Borno State at the weekend, the leader of INRI Evangelical spiritual church, Primate Elijah Ayodele has demanded the immediate resignation of President Muhammadu Buhari.
The popular prophet described the beheading of the farmers by the terrorists as a sad occurrence and a confirmation that God is not happy with the present administration.
Ayodele said that recent happenings in the country have shown beyond doubt that Buhari cannot lead the country any more; therefore, he should honourably resign.
He maintained that Buhari needs to sack his service chiefs before the security in Nigeria can improve, while describing the present ones as 'weak and tired'
"The killings that took place in Borno yesterday is sad, disheartening and shameful to our dear country," the prophet said in a statement he made available to DAILY POST on Monday.
"The stubbornness of President Buhari and not listening to advice has affected his government. He knows what to do to control it but it's as if he has made up his mind to shed blood of Nigerians. God is not happy with this government because lots of blood has been sucked and there is no way the government won't pay for it
"This is sad, I'm sure the number is more than that, and that is why Buhari isn't capable of leading this country again, he should resign honourably and let someone else who has the capacity to be there. He has failed Nigerians and there is no way God will be happy with him. How long will we continue to experience this?
"The service chiefs are tired, they don't know what to do, they are confused, they are just there making noise, they don't have the stamina and idea.
"My concern is Buhari has all it takes to do a positive thing about the security of the country but He has ignored the people, there is no peace, we have killings, armed robbery attacks, it's a shame to the government, He should have resigned honourably and have peace of mind."

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Pacific PowerUP is an education programme that aims to actively support Pacific parents, families and communities to champion their children's learning. It also provides academic support to primary and secondary students, and a safe learning environment for ECE-aged children. Find your nearest PowerStation.
In 2019, we are offering the Pacific PowerUP FlexiPlus and Au Lotu programme.
For all enquiries contact the PowerUP Plus mailbox pacific.powerup@education.govt.nz.
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APPLICATION for OFFICIAL RECOGNITION as a BIRD FRIENDLY COUNTY
Application must be made by the County Board of Supervisors.
Title of Applicant (County Board of Supervisors, Chair or Member):
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Check the criteria addressed in your narrative. Identify each section of your narrative using, at a minimum, the codes for each.
1. Protect, restore & enhance bird habitat (3 of 11)
1-A. County has prepared a habitat assessment or management plan for one or more of its natural areas or parks, and is implementing the plan.
1-B. A list of bird species present has been completed for one or more designated areas in the County, and has been updated within the past three years.
1-C. A substantial portion of the county's land has legal protection through public ownership or conservation easement. These lands include managed native habitats that support at least 10 Greatest Conservation Need native bird species. The applicant needs to justify why it feels that this protection is "substantial".
1-D. County public land management and/or acquisition details priority for native habitat for birds, plants and other wildlife.
1-E. County has programs to encourage native habitat development on private property and/or allows for "wild" or natural lawns comprised of native plant species. The County supports and/or endorses these programs.
1-F. County offers public information about controlling or removing invasive plant species.
1-G. County Conservation Board partners with local leadership organizations, civic clubs, etc., to support an active role in planning for protected habitat favorable to birds, native plants and other wildlife.
1-H. County has a volunteer support group for a DNR Bird Conservation Area or Audubon Important Bird Area.
1-I. The county follows sustainability principles as recommended by natural resource professionals, for land use planning and resource management recommended by aligned organizations such as the County Conservation Board, IDNR, NRCS, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Migratory Bird Program.
1-J. One or more communities within the County have a storm water management program or other designation such as Tree City USA, Bird Friendly Iowa, etc.
1-K. Demonstrate, in narrative, an action program or project within the county that furthers native habitat creation or protection, or some other important accomplishment in this category such as managing nest boxes or similar program efforts.
2. Reduce threats to birds (2 of 10)
2-A. The County has regulatory or administrative program to control free-roaming cats and/or actively publicizes a "cats indoors" campaign.
2-B. The County has ordinance language or other means for enforcing state law regarding time constraints for mowing roadsides.
2-C. The County provides information on how businesses and homes can protect birds from building and window collisions (such as Lights Out), and publicly recognizes those taking such steps.
2-D. The County uses strategies to reduce window collisions on public buildings.
2-E. The County supports bird-friendly construction and placement of communication towers.
2-F. The County has a program to reduce pesticide use on public lands and/or an educational effort to reduce pesticide use on private lands.
2-G. The County strongly discourages destruction and removal of bird and wildlife native habitat during nesting seasons (i.e., through its permitting process).
2-H. The County has requirement(s) for non-toxic ammunition on public hunting areas.
2-I. The County has receptacles for used fishing line at one or more fishing areas.
2-J. Demonstrate, in narrative, some other important accomplishment in this category.
3. Educate & engage people in birding & conservation (3 of 13)
3-A. County staff and volunteers actively educate about birds, which includes providing information about identification, natural history, habitat needs, and/or environmental and human threats to bird populations.
3-B. The County encourages students and/or other community members to participate in citizen science bird monitoring or developing local bird species checklists. Areas within the County are represented in at least one bird monitoring program, such as the Great Backyard Bird Count, Audubon Christmas Bird Count, Project FeederWatch, or other actively coordinated citizen science project.
3-C. The County provides or helps implement Flying Wild or other curricula designed to educate Iowa students about conservation needs of migratory birds.
3-D. The County provides age-appropriate public programming on one or more bird information topics. This may include field trips, speaker series, displays, or other media.
3-E. The County sponsors, supports, or coordinates an annual birding festival.
3-F. The County provides bird information through displays, brochures, newsletters, websites and/or other media.
3-G. The County has a program that involves schools, garden clubs or other organizations, habitat development or butterfly & bird conservation activities.
3-H. The County provides information regarding safe and responsible wildlife rescue & assistance, including contact information for aligned organizations & Iowa permitted wildlife rehabilitators.
3-I. The County at least annually submits bird information articles which appear in local newspapers.
3-J. The County has a website presence where it provides links to organizations with bird information.
3-K. The County adopts an official resolution recognizing International Migratory Bird Day and hosts a celebration recognizing International Migratory Bird Day during spring or fall migration season.
3-L. The County has developed structure(s) for the purpose of facilitating nesting of birds, such as ospreys, trumpeter swans, barn owls, kestrels, peregrine falcons, and chimney swifts, which is visible to the public and includes interpretive signage or other media.
3-M. Demonstrate, in narrative, some other important accomplishment in this category.
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Authoritative, intelligent and always accompanied by a young assistant, television's Mr. Wizard brought science to America's kids from the 1950s through 1980s with experiments using household items like eggs, balloons and coffee cans. While many may remember him from his 1980s program on Nickelodeon, Mr. Wizard's career spanned decades. Now an important piece of Mr. Wizard has come to the Smithsonian.
This month a trove of personal papers, files and other items belonging to the late Don Herbert—Mr. Wizard—was acquired by the Archives Center of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. The materials, a donation from Herbert's daughter and son-in-law, Kristen and Tom Nikosey, will be conserved and organized by the Smithsonian's Archives Center and are permanently available to researchers interested in Mr. Wizard and his place in American history. "The Mr. Wizard collection reveals how Herbert planned meticulously to share science with the rest of the country through children. His shows were aimed at children to really get them interested in science, and it worked," Smithsonian Archivist Craig Orr explains.
Don Herbert, with a young assistant, exhibiting an example of "Living Animal Fossils" on "Mr. Wizard" in 1971.
Cool and always calm, "Watch Mr. Wizard" flickered into America's living rooms at a critical time when science was driving many aspects of people's lives. "The atom bomb had been developed and deployed in 1945, about six years before Mr. Wizard went on the air," Orr says. "America was in a science race with the Soviet Union. When Sputnik, the first satellite, was launched it scared the heck out of everybody in America. People worried if we were scientifically prepared to keep up with the Russians." Herbert's TV show helped assuage some of those fears and went on to spark many new scientific careers. Part of Mr. Wizard's appeal was that he never addressed a TV audience, but talked to a young boy or girl assistant whom he hosted in his studio. "This show was aimed at children but it wasn't talking down to them, it wasn't made all fun and giggles," Orr says.
Herbert's files also contain his research notes on the science being demonstrated. "Herbert prided himself on his scientific acumen and consulted with academics to ensure he got it right," Orr says.
Many of Herbert's other educational activities are equally well-documented. There are scripts for radio science shows he produced in Chicago in 1946 and1947, before he hit it big with Mr. Wizard; storyboards and film reels of the "Progress Reports" he did for the General Electric Theater; and notebooks and files relating to the 1983-1990 revival of his show on Nickelodeon, among other materials. Herbert's papers and personal files are important to the National Museum of American History, in part, because of his relevance to other disciplines at the museum: the Physical Sciences and Chemistry collections; the Division of Medicine and Science; and the Division of Work and Industry.


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Founded in San Leandro, California in 1963, our club recognizes all Ford Motor Company vehicles made between 1932 and 1953, including Ford, Lincoln, Mercury, commercial vehicles, tractors and other Ford powered vehicles built around the world utilizing the 4, 6, 8, and 12 cylinder engines produced by Ford Motor Company.
Today, as the Marquee Club of our represented vehicles, with membership of over 9,000 and 125 Regional Groups worldwide, we are dedicated to the restoration and preservation of all Ford Motor Company vehicles built between 1932 and 1953.
The club's award-winning, bi-monthly magazine, the V-8 Times, is circulated all over the world and is acclaimed as one of the best car club magazines anywhere. The V-8 Times features technical articles, shop tips, questions and answers by our panel of experts, nostalgia, club and regional group news, offerings of accessories and restoration manuals found nowhere else - plus classified ads for cars and parts.
If you're not already a member, we invite you to Join Today and explore the works of the Early Ford V-8 Club of America.
Black Bart 47th Annual Tour hosted by Central San Joaquin Regional Group #29. Join us for a fun filled weekend in the Gold Country in Jackson, CA. Friday evening we have our traditional parking lot tire kicking with friends, old and new, and appetizers and snacks. Saturday morning you will pick up your tour bags and running board lunch for a tour through the Gold Country to a surprise location. Saturday evening is the banquet dinner and fantastic raffle including a door prize and live music while we dine. Sunday completes the tour with a short drive to San Andreas for a "to die for" lunch before we say our Good Byes and wish everyone a safe trip home. Cost is $105.00 per adult $35.00 per child under 17 years old, plus your room. For information or to request a registration form contact Debbie Sanders: email: sandersdebbie7@gmail.com or (408) 458-0398.
The Dedication Ceremony will take place at the Museum on Friday, May 10, 2019. There will be a brief ribbon cutting ceremony at Noon with Norm Yoder, the Mayor of Auburn, and Foundation President John Knecht. A number of "special" guests will be invited to attend, along with the media and the Auburn public. From 1 to 2 PM, light refreshments and coffee will be served in the lobby of the museum. All attendees will be encouraged to tour the museum expansion until closing at 5:00. All Early Ford V-8 Club National members and Early Ford V-8 Foundation members are invited to join in the celebration which is being hosted by The Auburn Blue Ovals RG # 169. Hope to see you there.
46th annual Monroe Auto Swap Meet sponsored by Puget Sound Regional Group #18. Held at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds, Monroe Wa. Call (206) 636-4255 for more information. One of the largest swap meets in the Northwest. Old cars & parts, tools, new old stock, equipment, engines, wheels, tires, sheet metal, auto literature, signs, toys, neon, gas & oil petrolinia, antiques and vintage collectibles, plus maybe some junk you'll find interesting! 1,400 stalls, 850 vendors, in 17 different venues. Sell your call for $40 in the Car Corral. Go to www.monroeswapmeet.com for stall layout and reservations.
MORE The 50 Years of V-8 TIMES thumb drive is currently missing an issue. The issue is the November December 2006. For those that have purchased and currently own one of the thumb drives we are offering you a chance to download the missing issue and then add it to your thumb drive.
MORE The Early Ford V-8 Club web site committee wishes to announce the results of the 2018 web site contest.
MORE The web hosting company, BigGiantMedia, has been working hard to make changes and improvements to the Early Ford V-8 Club web site V-8 Forum. One of those changes has been to address the need to post more than one photo per discussion entry.
Become a Member of the Early Ford V-8 Club NOW and enjoy the benefits of receiving the V-8 Times every two months in your mailbox!


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(The Verge) Google has built a multibillion-dollar business out of knowing everything about its users. Now, a video produced within Google and obtained by The Verge offers a stunningly ambitious and unsettling look at how some at the company envision using that information in the future.
The video was made in late 2016 by Nick Foster, the head of design at X (formerly Google X), and a co-founder of the Near Future Laboratory. The video, shared internally within Google, imagines a future of total data collection, where Google helps nudge users into alignment with their goals, custom-prints personalized devices to collect more data, and even guides the behavior of entire populations to solve global problems like poverty and disease.


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NEWSLINK: A second mountain lion crosses the 101 freeway
A male mountain lion known as P-32 became the second big cat in less than a month to cross the 101 freeway.
P-32 made the journey early morning on April 3, a few weeks after his sister, P-33, crossed the same freeway.
But unlike his sister, P-32 also ventured across Route 23.
"Route 23 is about six lanes wide. That's no small feat," said National Park Service spokesperson Kate Kuykendall. "P-32 kept going and he's currently spending some time in the Simi Hills area, north of the 101 freeway."
NEWSLINK: Dead bobcat found along busy roadside
A disturbing discovery near a neighborhood has people wondering who would leave a bobcat for dead on the side of a busy road.
Residents passed by the big dead cat and looked on in fascination.
A Seminole County sheriff's deputy inspected the animal, which was found nestled between the sidewalk and a bike path near State Road 434 and Palm Drive in Winter Springs. The deputy said it's likely the cat was hit by a car.
NEWSLINK: Motorist hits mountain lion; troopers have to kill it
State troopers in Richmond, MO, euthanized a mountain lion Tuesday after a vehicle on Interstate 44 hit it, authorities said.
Initially, a motorist at around 4:15 a.m. CT reported possibly striking a mountain lion, said Agent Jarad Milligan of the Missouri Department of Conservation, who recovered the cat and took it to the state capital for a necropsy. But troopers sent to the scene could not find it.
"This was a big adult male and very healthy," Milligan said. "We measured it from the tip of its nose to the tip of its tail and it was 6 feet 8 inches long and I'm guessing it weighed 120 to 130 pounds."
Then another report came in about two hours later.
NEWSLINK: Leopard falls into trap set up at Mulliarkurissi
A leopard that caused scare among the people of Mulliarkurissi, near Perinthalmanna, in Keezhattur panchayat fell into a trap set by the Forest officials on Friday. The four-year-old male leopard, weighing 150 kg, was trapped around 4 a.m.
The Forest authorities had set a trap on Thursday after two calves were found killed. The officers confirmed the presence of a leopard and set the trap. A huge crowd gathered at Mulliarkurissi to see the leopard. Forest officers said they faced difficulties in shifting the leopard to the Divisional Forest Office at Nilambur. The leopard was given a bath and food. Forest authorities said they would release the big cat either in the Parambikkulam or the Muthanga wildlife reserve in the night.
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NEWSLINK: Natrona County woman finds mountain lion on porch
An Evansville woman found a mountain lion on her porch Monday afternoon after walking outside to investigate a loud thump.
Officials responded to the home on the 7100 block of Geary Dome Road and searched for the mountain lion but were unable to catch it, according to a report from the Natrona County Sheriff's Office.
Sheriff deputies and Wyoming Game and Fish wardens checked the area and found the big cat under a bush about 50 feet from the woman's porch. However, a man wielding a revolver spooked the cat from its hiding place when he ran toward the mountain lion and shouted, "It's over here!"
The cat sprang from the bushes and jumped over an 8-foot fence. It was last seen running north. Deputies used binoculars to search for the mountain lion but could not find it.
A Game and Fish warden organized for a large animal trap to be placed near the house on Geary Dome Road. Road kill animals were collected to be used as bait in the trap.
NEWSLINK: North Shore cougar sightings prompt warning
B.C.'s Conservation Officer Service is warning North Vancouver residents and visitors after a series of close calls with cougars on trails.
The office has received three reports of the big cats at the base of Grouse Mountain, at the top of Mountain Highway and in the Seymour Watershed in the last week.
"It was reported that the cougar was approaching people and was, in once instance, not easily scared off," said conservation officer Chris Doyle. ""Generally speaking, they're elusive animals and they're not interested in people at all so obviously it's a concern when they do approach people because they are a predator and the concern is they would be approaching people as potential prey."
In one other case, a mountain biker used his bike to keep a cougar at bay, while on Seymour's trails.
NEWSLINK: Wildlife officials find no sign of mountain lion spotted near Zane
School staff were patrolling the grounds of Zane Middle School on Monday morning, following word from the Eureka Police Department that a mountain lion had been spotted on the campus at about 3:45 p.m. Sunday.
EPD Sgt. Gary Whitmer said a neighbor of the middle school on S Street called to report a mountain lion had been seen headed south on the school's soccer field.
Zane Principal Jan Schmidt said she received a call from the Eureka Police Department on Sunday confirming that a mountain lion had been spotted near the school. She then activated the school's automatic dialer system to warn the parents and advise against walking on any wooded paths to the campus until the area is deemed safe by the Eureka Police Department and the state Department of Fish and Wildlife.
NEWSLINK:Radio collar help to study tiger behaviour in Madhya Pradesh
To better understand big cat behaviour and their movement pattern, a joint team of wildlife experts from the Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Dehradun and Madhya Pradesh radio collared a male tiger at Sanjay-Dubri Tiger Reserve in Sidhi district.
The big cat was radio-collared on Wednesday as a part of the WII's project titled 'Prey Base Assessment and Ranging Pattern of Tiger in Sanjay Tiger Reserve'.
The gadget will help the wildlife experts obtain data on big cats and also enhance their safety due to continuous monitoring.
Two more tigers would be fitted with radio collars under the project.
Sanjay-Dubri Tiger Reserve field director Raman K told HT that Dr K Shankar and Dr Parag Nigam from WII, Dr AB Srivastava from Jabalpur and Dr Nitin Gupta, Dr Navneetan, Raj Shekhar and Himanshu from Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve were in the Sanjay Tiger Reserve from May 1 to May 7 for the project.
UK SIGHTINGS: Mystery surrounds big cat sighting
BY STUART GREER
Sheila Foster claims she saw a brown-grey animal the size of a dog with a long tail on Moss Lane in Macclesfield.
Grandmother Sheila Foster claims she spotted the unusual animal while looking out her front window on Moss Lane at 6am on Monday.
She described a "brown-grey big cat the size of a large dog which had a long tail with a kink in it". It was stood on a wall about 50 yards across the road.
Sheila, 72, said: "At first I thought it was a big stone then it moved. I could hardly believe my eyes."
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NEWSLINK: Panther killer wanted by state, feds
CHAD GILLIS, CGILLIS@NEWS-PRESS.COM2:14 p.m. EDT May 13, 2015
Who would be bold enough to shoot a Florida panther at the edge of a national wildlife refuge that bears the animal's name?
Federal and state investigators want to know the same thing, and they, along with animal advocacy groups, are offering a $15,000 reward for anyone who can help identify the shooter — someone who may have also shot other panthers just north of the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge in Collier County.
The panther was killed in March, and the death was initially reported as a road kill. Biologists later confirmed the death was the result of a gunshot, not blunt trauma associated with vehicle collisions. The investigation is being conducted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the federal agency charged with enforcing the Endangered Species Act.
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NEWSLINK: Kapata lifts ban on hunting big cats
Tourism and arts minister Jean Kapata has with immediate effect lifted the ban on hunting of lions and other big cats enforced in January 2013, but cautioned that hunting should only resume next year.
Kapata said safari hunting was profitable and good for off-take of wildlife and could benefit the whole country if well nurtured.
"The main thrust to safari hunting in Zambia is the cat hunting, which involves the hunting of the lion and leopard and that suspension of the hunting in the 19 blocs greatly affected the wildlife resources as well as the livelihood of the locals in the game management," she said in a statement issued by ZAWA public relations officer Sakabilo Kalembwe.
Kapata said government's move to ban the hunting of lions and other cats in 2013 had a good basis with a background of weak regulatory mechanisms.
"Some problems that led to the ban included declining lion populations in some areas due to over-harvesting, hunting of underage lions and depleting of the lion habitats," she explained. "I am lifting the ban on the following conditions; the guidelines are drafted into statutory instrument so that they become part of the wildlife law; lion hunting should only resume in the 2016-2017 hunting season and not this year."
Kapata said only leopard hunting would resume this 2015-2016 hunting season but with "very cautionary quotas".
She noted that the leopard population was and is still healthy, but that hunting of this type of cat was equally stopped because lapses in monitoring aspects, hitches which have now been rectified.
"Government convened experts in the region to assess the status of cats in Zambia and advise on the way forward.
Based on the advice given and fresh information from the field, ZAWA has produced documentation that describes the status of the lions in Zambia and prescribed guidelines that will be used to regulate cat hunting in Zambia," said Kapata.
"Some of the regulatory methods are currently being used in Tanzania, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
These have been found to be effective. We are certain as a government that the methods will be useful in the regulation of cat hunting in Zambia."
NEWSLINK: Vietnamese man arrested in Russia with body of Siberian tiger
Posted on May 16, 2015 by Leya Musa
Russian police have raided premises in Moscow and arrested a Vietnamese citizen with the head and skin of a critically endangered Siberian tiger.
Following a search of the property they also found 59 big cat teeth and four bones. They are currently awaiting expert identification on these body parts to determine if they came from a tiger or from the critically endangered amur leopard.
If suspicions that the teeth have come from an amur leopard this would be devastating for conservation plans as less than 50 are thought to remain in the wild.
Vietnam is a major consumer country that is leading to large losses of wildlife across the world.
CITES 2016 should not be a time for discussion of a legal rhino horn trade but for the CITES community to pull together and issue an immediate trade ban against Vietnam until it is able to control the demand of illegal wildlife products and body parts of endangered wildlife in it's borders.
NEWSLINK: Zambia begins hunting of big cats again
Posted on May 18, 2015 by Kevin Heath
On Friday, Tourism and Arts Minister, Jean Kapata announced that the ban on hunting of lions and leopards is to be lifted in the country. The ban has been in place since 2013. Lion can be hunted again from next year and leopards can be hunted and killed from later this year.
The ban on lion hunting was established in Zambia when surveys showed that there could be as few as 2,500 wild lions left in the country. The number of leopards is not known as there has been no recent survey undertaken.
Kapata announced at the press conference that "I am lifting the ban on the following conditions, the guidelines are drafted into a statutory instrument so that they become part of the wildlife law. Lion hunting should only resume in the 2016/2017 hunting season and not this year.
"Leopard hunting can resume this year 2015/2016 season, but with very cautionary quotas".
NEWSLINK: Miscalculated Tiger Census Numbers
Believe it or not, there's a right way and a wrong way to count tigers.
So when India announced recently that it's most recent tiger survey revealed that the endangered big cats had increased by a whopping 30 percent to 2,226, Ullas Karanth, one of the most revered tiger experts in the world didn't disagree with the enthusiasm or optimism over the future of the country's iconic cat.
But he did disagree with the numbers. And that's not just a quibble. It's a belief that a miscalculation over how many tigers there are, and, just as important, where exactly they live, could botch the chances for what can be a population in ascendance.
Veteran's vision to save big cats lives on in Louisburg
Posted: Friday, May 15, 2015 1:01 am | Updated: 4:00 am, Fri May 15, 2015.
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LOUISBURG, Kan. (AP) — The big cats probably no longer look for Billy Dean Pottorff.
Three years have passed since they last saw him. Some used to recognize the sound of his footsteps coming across the shaded brown dirt.
"Voodoo would raise his head and make that noise of his when he knew it was Billy," said Rebecca Shaffer, Pottorff's sister.
Voodoo is a male African spotted leopard, one of 25 big cats that live at Cedar Cove Feline Conservatory and Education Center, about 4 miles east of this town, The Kansas City Star (http://bit.ly/1KTuM3J ) reported.
Pottorff, who died of a heart attack on April 18, 2012, at age 60, started the place. He was a local boy who went off to war at 17, nearly died and brought home scars, medals and something else: witness to the decimation of jungle tigers by war and poaching.
Cedar Cove, his idea to show people how to save the world's big cats from extinction, drew only a handful of visitors at first. Last year, nearly 60,000 showed up, many on school buses, to see lions and tigers in the Kansas countryside.
Pottorff's legacy has lived on in the lives of close friends like BJ, Sarge and Too Tall - everyone got a nickname - who kept the place going and growing. Same for the volunteers, including high school students introduced to the cats on field trips.
The guy who took over for Pottorff? The one called Too Tall.
Steve Klein lived in Kansas City's River Market and worked in advertising when he took the Cedar Cove tour. He thought he knew spiel. Never had he heard anything like Pottorff's passion for big cats.
The 6-foot-7-inch Klein soon started volunteering and now is board president and lives in the small house at Cedar Cove.
"Billy made this place," he said. "When he died, my life began. Poaching and expanded agriculture is going to kill off the big cats if something's not done.
"Here, we can't save the tigers in Asia; we can't buy land for them. But we can educate kids about what needs to be done.
"That's what Billy set out to do. I'm trying to keep it going."
Shaffer, nine years younger than her brother, knew something was wrong when neighbors picked her and her sister up from school.
When they arrived home, two military cars were parked out front. It was April 26, 1970.
Pottorff's helicopter had taken fire and gone down in the Ben Tre province of Vietnam. Some crew members were dead. They didn't know what happened to Pottorff, who had been a door gunner.
"My mom was bent over a table like a weeping willow," she remembered.
Days passed before the family learned that Pottorff had been taken to a hospital in Japan. Severe burns covered more than a fourth of his body. He recovered, came home, then returned for a second tour in Vietnam.
When he came home for good in 1972, mostly he talked about the tigers. Casualties of war and greed. He heard them in the jungle. He saw their hides in the village markets. He saw their parts pickled in jars.
"He was a witness to the black market selling tiger parts, and he never forgot that," said Bettie Jean "BJ" Auch, vice president of the Cedar Cove board and a longtime friend.
After a mishmash of jobs - welder, county deputy, small engine repairman - Pottorff got the idea for his big cat conservatory.
NEWSLINK: FOUR PAWS transfers family of six tigers to a new life in South African sanctuary
Posted on May 14, 2015 by Adam Rahman
International animal welfare organisation FOUR PAWS has successfully transferred a family of six Siberian tigers from its Big Cat Centre FELIDA in the Netherlands to the vast plains of it big cat sanctuary LIONSROCK, in South Africa.
At LIONSROCK, the six tigers – two parents and their four offspring – will have the opportunity to live a life fit for a tiger in huge enclosures under the South African sun, feeling grass under their paws, having the opportunity to run, to play and to swim in the specially built pools.
Heli Dungler, founder and president of FOUR PAWS, was there to witness the happy moment as the tigers made their first steps into their new home. "The animals arrived safely at LIONSROCK," Dungler said. "They originally come from very bad keeping conditions. The long trip from the Netherlands to South Africa was more than worth it. Here in LIONSROCK these tigers can start a second life appropriate to their needs."
The story of the parents, Cromwell and Juno, began in 2000 in Britain, at Dartmoor Wildlife Park, where the two tigers, along with four other tigers and two jaguars, were bred to be sold. Due to unforeseen circumstances, the sale of the animals was no longer possible, and as the animals were kept in enclosures that were no longer safe, they were moved to a shelter in the Netherlands named Pantera (later taken over by FOUR PAWS and renamed FELIDA).
For the two jaguars a new home was quickly found, and the six tigers were supposed to move to a safari park in China. Then, with the outbreak of bird flu, the animals could not be transported. Finally in 2004 four tigers were allowed to leave for China. Cromwell and Juno stayed in the Netherlands and together they had two litters, three sons and a daughter, who also lived with them in the shelter.
UK SIGHTINGS: Is there a big cat on the loose in Wales? Puma blamed for mystery lamb death
BY HYWEL TREWYN
A lamb has been killed by 'unknown predator' while a radio crew are making a documentary about big cat sightings in the area
Farmers have expressed concerns that a puma is on the loose following the discovery of a dead lamb - in WALES.
Dafydd and Pam Parry claim to have seen pumas, a type of jungle cat, in the hills around their Snowdonia home.
They have taken plaster casts of paw prints which they believe have been left by the animals and graphic photographs of sheep and badgers which they believe were killed by large cats.
Daily Post...Best foot forward: Dafydd and
Pam Parry from Beddgelert have made plaster cats
of what they believe to be puma footprints
Pam, of Hafod y Llyn Isaf, claims to have seen "a big black puma" with "golden eyes and a long tail, curved up" sitting on rocks watching her feeding her horses.
A BBC radio crew have now followed up the Parrys claims, for documentary The Unexplainers led by John Rutledge, also know as Eggsy from rappers Goldie Lookin' Chain.
Producer Rhys Waters told the Daily Post: "We were looking at the big cat rumours that were in the area, and the night we did a stakeout a lamb was killed by an unknown predator."
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NEWSLINK: UK: Police feared for safety of spectators at big cat show
POLICE stopped a show starring the UK's last circus big cats because of concerns about audience safety.
Lion tamer Thomas Chipperfield was due to put on a show at a former airbase in Aberdeenshire on May 4 but the local council refused to provide an entertainment licence.
It has now emerged that it was Police Scotland who objected to the granting of the licence.
Officers' concerns included "lack of detail" about safety arrangements for the audience.
Police also believed – it appears incorrectly – that Mr Chipperfield's licence to keep dangerous animals was due to expire shortly before the show.
Posters for 'An Evening with Lions and Tigers' at Crimond Airfield, Fraserburgh, appeared around Aberdeenshire in March advertising tickets for sale at £6 for adults and £4 for children.
The three tigers and two lions involved have spent the winter on a croft in Fraserburgh.
The show drew huge objections from animal rights groups, and a children's charity which was supposed to receive part of the proceeds, withdrew its backing for that performance.
A Police Scotland spokeswoman said yesterday (Fri) the force had "no option other than to object".
She said this was "due to the short timescale and lack of detail including safety provision for spectators, timings and lay out of the event".
The spokeswoman added: "Under the Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976 anyone keeping dangerous wild animals can only do so under the authority of a licence granted by the relevant local authority."
The spokeswoman said their information was that the licence was due to run out "a matter of days before the event was to take place".
Police Scotland appear to have made a mistake in this regards as Aberdeenshire Council say the licence was valid until the "autumn". Mr Chipperfield has provided what he says is documentary evidence that the licence is valid until December 31 this year.
But Aberdeen MSP Kevin Stewart, who has put forward a Parliamentary motion calling for a ban on wild animals in circuses, was delighted police objected to the show.
"It's a real umbrage that Mr Chipperfield is allowed to keep big cats in cages in St Combs," he said. "They are being kept in conditions that, I feel, are not right for animals."
He continued: "In my opinion the Scottish Government must bring forward legislation as soon as possible to ban the use of wild animals in circuses and must stop the storage of any wild circus animals in Scotland.
"A large amount of my constituents have been in touch with me who are really upset at this."
In the 1950s, Thomas Chipperfield's family owned the biggest circus in Europe with more than 200 animals including elephants, polar bears, chimps and giraffes.
Now he the only circus big cats in the UK.
Thomas Chipperfield said he was "surprised" to hear that it was the police who stopped his show.
He said: "My animal welfare and safety records are impeccable. I've never had any incidents."
He said there is "no contact" between the animals and the audience. "There is basically a double barrier," he explained.
Mr Chipperfield continued: "The Dangerous Wild Animals licence is in my name and it expires at the end of the year and not the end of April."
"In regards to Mr Stewart," he said. "I would urge him to speak to the animal welfare experts we deal with.
"All the vets and animal welfare experts we deal with don't have an issue with how we keep our animals."
The lion tamer added that the people locally are "very supportive" of the show.
Event co-organiser Anthony Beckwith confirmed they are reapplying for an entertainment licence.
"We want to get it up and running as soon as possible," he said.
He insisted the licence was turned down because of "time scale issues".
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NEWSLINK: Enable Big Cats to Thrive, End Extinction Fears
By The New Indian Express
Published: 13th May 2015 06:00 AM
Last Updated: 13th May 2015 12:51 AM
The latest census of India's population of the endangered Asiatic Lion shows that their numbers are up 27 per cent from those thrown up by the previous census conducted five years back. In 2000, the Asiatic Lion was declared the most endangered large cat species in the world by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The latest census shows that India has managed to bring back the Asiatic lion from the brink of extinction through a single protected reserve. While the rise in their population is welcome, it also poses fresh challenges for managing their habitat and conflict with humans. The slow and promising growth in their numbers is satisfactory, but 50 lions still die annually due to a variety of threats. Experts suggest the big cats need to be relocated to another habitat to ensure their safety because a single sanctuary is detrimental to their safety.
However, despite the Supreme Court ruling in 2013 that some of them should be shifted to another sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh, the Gujarat government has repeatedly tried to appeal the decision and refused to transfer the lions. The rise in their population in Gir sanctuary should not be treated as an excuse to cling to its fauna, which they regard as the "pride of the state". In the larger interest of preserving Asiatic lions, the Gujarat government must start cooperating and put everything else aside to save the lion via the translocation programme of the magnificent animal.
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NEWSLINK: Fate of tiger that killed guard hangs in balance
Barely a week after Ustaad, officially known as T-24, mauled the guard, another tigress attacked two onlookers photographing its cubs in the park on Thursday.
The suspected reasons for escalating man-animal conflicts in Ranthambore National Park have left the Rajasthan government and wildlife experts divided over the fate of Ustaad, the tiger who mauled to death a forest guard in the reserve last week.
Experts say Ustaad is not a man-eater and by shifting him from Ranthambore to a zoo or a biological park, the forest department would be endangering his entire family — tigress Noor and two young cubs.
"There are two tigers at the corners of Ustaad's territory. If he is shifted out, either of the two will move in and kill the tigress and cubs," said Sunayan Sharma, former IFS officer. "Besides, by what logic is he being tagged as a man-eater? A man-eating tiger wouldn't kill a person and walk away. I have never seen a tiger leave its kill behind."
On Friday, Forest Minister Raj Kumar Rinwa told The Indian Express that a decision on Ustaad's fate would be taken only after approval from Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje once she returned from Delhi.
"We have constituted a four-member committee to look into the matter. The names have been sent to the CM for approval. These experts will study Ustaad's behavioural patterns and the history of man-animal conflicts within Ranthambore, and submit a report," he said.
Following last week's attack, the forest department was quick to tag Ustaad a man-eater, blaming it for killing three other people in the past. However, outraged wildlife experts and enthusiasts forced the government to defer the "decision" of shifting the tiger out of the park.
At the centre of the state's latest big cat controversy are two questions: Is Ranthambore, with 64 big cats battling for territory over 390 sq km, too crowded? And if so, why aren't some of the tigers being translocated to other sparsely populated reserves like Sariska or Mukundara Hills?
Most, including Forest Minister Rinwa, feel Ranthambore is saturated and conflicts between tigers and humans, and within tigers over territory and limited prey, were likely to escalate. "The region's thriving tourism industry has been lobbying to prevent translocation of tigers from Ranthambore.
They do not want other reserves, primarily Sariska which is closer to Delhi, to develop as it would divert tourist traffic away from Ranthambore," said Sharma, who is a part of Sariska foundation.
Shifting some big cats out from Ranthambore was also under consideration during the previous Congress government in the state.
NEWSLINK: Rajasthan launches inquiry into tiger attacks after activists campaign to keep 'man-eating' big cat in Ranthambhore
The stage seems to be set for a fair trial for Ranthambhore's tiger T-24. The state government has deferred the decision to shift T-24, popularly known as Ustaad, to a zoo or a park, after strong protests by conservationists and experts.
Ustaad was allegedly the tiger that killed forest guard Rampal Saini on Friday.
Rajasthan Minister of State for Forests Raj Kumar Rinwa told wildlife activist representatives on Wednesday night that a thorough inquiry would be set up to probe the causes that led to Friday's incident, before taking a final decision on shifting the wild cat, tiger expert Dhirendra Godha told Mail Today.
Sunayan Sharma, who is the president of the Sariska Tiger Foundation and led a delegation of tiger activists to submit a memorandum to Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje two days ago, was also present during the meeting with the minister.
Mail Today reported the demand for a fair trial on Wednesday.
The government has decided to constitute a committee of experts to look into various aspects that led to Ustaad's aggressive behaviour, Rinwa told Mail Today on Thursday.
The committee would be formed after consulting Raje, who is expected to return from New Delhi on Friday, he added.
"The reserve is the big cat's home and it is the tiger's birthright to live there. People must understand that it is not advisable to disturb animals in their home by going close to them," Rinwa said.
They termed Saini's death as an unfortunate incident.
A dwindling prey base in the reserve — especially Sawai Man Singh Sanctuary and Keladevi Sanctuary — on either side of the Ranthambore National Park had impacted the tiger territories.
Tigers were not venturing outside the Ranthambore National Park, making the area densely populated.
Experts also stressed that mining activities in the vicinity apart from the presence of villages had fuelled the man-animal conflict in the region.
In the second incident of man-animal conflict within a week in Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve (RTR) in Sawai Madhopur, Rajasthan, a tiger - suspected to be a female, coded T-30 - attacked and injured two villagers in the Khandar area of the reserve on Thursday morning at around 6am.
The two injured - Satish Meena, 35, and Kuldeep Swami, 25, - were immediately taken to the Sawai Madhopur's general hospital.
Meena was referred to Jaipur's Sawai Man Singh (SMS) Hospital in view of his critical condition due to a head injury and excessive bleeding.
Swami said that both were walking in the forest when all of a sudden two tigers appeared before them and one of the big cats attacked them.
Ground staff of the reserve maintained that the attacker could be the tigress, coded T-30, who was seen roaming in the area with her two cubs.
Minister of State for Forests Raj Kumar Rinwa told Mail Today that as per briefing from the officials, the big cat was hiding behind the bushes.
As soon as the villagers came to know about the tiger's presence they started assembling to catch a glimpse of the animal.
Despite a warning, the crowd swelled and the tiger emerged from behind the bushes to attack the two victims, he added.
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Friday, May 15th, 2015 | Posted by Jenny Kane
The three tigers and two lions involved have spent the winter on a croft in Fraserburgh
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NEWSLINK: P-22 vacates home, heads back to Griffith Park, wildlife officials say
Biologists aren't sure exactly when the cougar known as P-22 slipped away from under Jason and Paula Archinaco's sleek, multi-level white contemporary in Los Feliz on Tuesday.
About 1 a.m., officials cleared the area and left P-22, who had startled the workers who came upon him in a crawl space, to find his way out. When officials returned a few hours later they could not locate the 6-year-old, 130-pound mountain lion.
About 11:30 a.m., Jeff Sikich, a wildlife biologist with the National Park Service's Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, reported that he had used telemetry gear to pick up a ping from P-22's tracking collar in a remote canyon in Griffith Park, about 11/2 miles inside the park's boundaries.
For three years, the animal has ranged the park. Surveillance camera video and data from P-22's GPS tracking collar show that the Los Feliz neighborhood has also been a regular hangout. Lt. Marty Wall of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife speculated that P-22 might have been regularly using the crawl space of the house, which has frequently been vacant.
Wall said Tuesday that P-22 showed no signs of aggression when officials tried for hours to coax him out from under the house by launching beanbags and tennis balls at him and poking him with a stick — practices known as hazing.
He did not hiss or growl but "just moved from side to side," Wall said.
Wall had brought equipment to shoot the lion with a tranquilizing dart, but could not see beyond the lion's eyes, forehead and ears.
"We need a haunch or a shoulder," said Janice Mackey, an agency spokeswoman.
On Tuesday, after confirming P-22's departure, the Archinacos blocked the crawl space to prevent his return.
Yangzom Brauen, a Swiss actress and activist, said that normally she is not frightened by the wild animals that roam her neighborhood's narrow streets and undeveloped hillsides.
"We live here in a natural park so we live with the animals," she said. "We are in their territory."
She slept with her sliding door closed Monday night, however, after learning that the fully grown mountain lion had holed up nearby.
One animal-rescue activist questioned the decision by wildlife officials not to leave a warden posted nearby overnight.
"I am surprised that no law enforcement was assigned to watch for the animal leaving, to protect it from people," said Rebecca Dmytryk, president and chief executive of the nonprofit Wildlife Emergency Services in Moss Landing, Calif. Dmytryk said she would have stationed a warden with night-vision goggles in a truck to confirm P-22's departure.
Mackey defended her agency's protocol.
Since 1986, she said, there have been 14 verified mountain lion attacks on people in California, three of them fatal.
"Lion attacks are rare," she said. P-22 "wasn't a lion that was threatening people.... If we can get a lion to return to his habitat on his own, we always strive for that."
Occasionally, a nonaggressive mountain lion wanders into the wrong place at the wrong time. In March, a healthy young male found outside a Macy's at a Riverside County mall died after a game warden shot it with a tranquilizer dart.
In December, Sikich successfully tranquilized and collared P-34, a young female mountain lion that residents of a Ventura County mobile home park saw under a trailer. She was returned to the wild.
Most mountain lions remain elusive and out of sight, Sikich noted. But "they are wild and unpredictable animals," he added.
If anyone has reason to question the wisdom of letting a mountain lion roam through what has become human habitat, it would be Anne Hjelle of Mission Viejo.
On a sunny winter afternoon in January 2004, Hjelle and a friend headed out for a mountain bike ride in Orange County's Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park. Barreling down a narrow dirt path, Hjelle saw a blur leaping from the brush. The mountain lion, she said later, hit her "like a train."
The cougar tore at the left side of her face and sank its teeth repeatedly into her neck. Alerted by the screams of her and her friend, other cyclists pelted the cat with rocks until it ran away. Hours earlier, the same lion fatally mauled a male mountain biker. Authorities tracked and killed the lion.
Hjelle, 42, had six reconstructive surgeries and remains scarred. Yet she is remarkably charitable toward cougars.
"They come with the territory, so to speak," she said Tuesday.
NEWSLINK: Mountain Lion Sightings Saturday In Portola Valley, Ladera
Two separate mountain lion sightings were reported in the Portola Valley and Ladera areas this weekend, according to San Mateo County law enforcement. The carcass of a deer, possibly killed by a mountain lion, was also located Friday in the same region. On Saturday, a mountain lion was seen in the vicinity of 700 to 900 block of Westridge Drive in Portola Valley, officials said.
And late Saturday around 11 p.m. in unincorporated San Mateo County west of Interstate Highway 280, county emergency services officials report a big cat was seen in the area of Mimosa Way and Morro Vista Lane in the community of Ladera.
On Friday, a deer carcass suspected of being the work of a mountain lion, was found in a Portola Valley home's driveway, and a jogger advisory was issued. People are advised to not approach a mountain lion, especially one feeding or in the company of their offspring, according to emergency services officials.
Anyone who plans to hike or jog should avoid going outdoors during dawn, dusk and night hours when mountain lions are most active, emergency services officials said.
Those who encounter a mountain lion should not run but instead face the animal, make noise, throw rocks or other objects and appear larger by waving their arms, according to county emergency officials.
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Why I support Allan Fung for Governor
This year, Rhode Island is embroiled in an important race for governor. They really have only two choices: Republican Allan Fung and Democrat Gina Raimondo. Joe Trillo could very well be a Raimondo plant. He seems to have a personal vendetta against Allan Fung that transcends this election.
Gina Raimondo — failing for four years © 2018 Nicholas Alahverdian
The failures of Gina Raimondo
Gina Raimondo has had an awful run over the past 3 and a half years. She is responsible for the disaster at the Department of Children, Youth and Families. There is now an active federal investigation and audit against the DCYF — again. She is responsible for the Unified Healthcare Infrastructure Project (UHIP) disaster. UHIP has now cost the state $660,000,000.00 due to the failures of Deloitte, the company brought in to build the IT behemoth.
Under Gina Raimondo's tenure, we have seen a 1,450% increase in child deaths or near deaths for children in DCYF care. This is unconscionable. We have also seen Gina hire away a Providence Journal reporter, Jennifer Bogdan, to work in the Governor's press office. This is the one of the worst examples of political thievery I have seen in my 17 years in Rhode Island state politics. The governor hired away a reporter to stop reporting on the state-sanctioned tortured and killing of children. Think about that.
Gina Raimondo has brought the state to its knees. Nicholas Mattiello, Speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives, makes things even worse. They both fail Rhode Islanders because of the UHIP fiasco, the DCYF deaths, the loss of the Pawtucket Red Sox, the distorted data in the state's online transparency portal, and too many other errors to name.
RI State House © 2017 Nicholas Alahverdian
The success of Mayor Allan Fung
Allan Fung, in contrast, presides over one of the top 50 cities in America. He is an honest, sincere mayor of the second largest city in Rhode Island. Fung listens to his constituents and hears what they have to say. Simply put, Fung will do the same thing in the Governor's office. He will listen, weigh the options, and decide the best course of action.
With Gina Raimondo, we have seen inaction. We have seen policymaker after policymaker in her wretched and poorly-run departments depart in shame. We have seen unqualified and uncertified individuals performing tasks costing Rhode Island millions — like law — when they do not have the necessary qualifications to do so. Gina is in this for herself and her future political career. Raimondo does not have the best interests of Rhode Islanders in her heart.
Gina Raimondo is a wealthy East Side limousine liberal. She is cut from the same cloth as those who speak endlessly about "working families" and supporting the average Rhode Islander. At the end of the day though, her security detail drives her back to her lush East Side home where she can live her life in peace and prosperity with her family while Rhode Islanders suffer and kids in DCYF care are tortured and killed.
Apparently caring about working Rhode Islanders only lasts until 5pm on a weekday.
Allan Fung will be the antithesis of Gina Raimondo. Dare I say he will be the anti-Gina Raimondo. He will bring back jobs, he will lower taxes, and he will protect kids in DCYF care. There is no question in this election — Gina Raimondo is inherently unfit to be governor due to the numerous disasters we've seen in four short years.
Rhode Islanders can be guaranteed that if Allan Fung is elected, from 2019 on we will see a Rhode Island with more possibilities. We will see an air of optimism and not despair. Allan will do his best to bring the spirit of dynamism back to the Ocean State — something we've sadly been long without.
DCYF Headquarters © 2017 Nicholas Alahverdian
Not the Ol' Boys Club anymore — Gina leads the "Troll Girls Club"
Gina Raimondo presides over a state in which the gears grind on political deals and an ol' boys club culture. That has now turned into a troll girls club. I use the term 'troll girls club' not as a mark of disrespect, but because Gina is trolling Allan Fung. She refuses to debate him one-on-one without the distraction of Joe Trillo, the candidate without a chance. She is blasé at his suggestions for leadership tactics that will work. And she dismisses his common sense solutions to fix state departments.
Nicholas Alahverdian supports Allan Fung for Governor
Rhode Island will thrive with Governor Fung
Rhode Island is lost in the woods. Gina Raimondo will continue to lead broken departments where kids are killed, DMV lines go out the door, and unqualified professionals make executive decisions.
I am confident that inept lifetime bureaucrats like Mike Burk and Kevin Aucoin will finally be shown the door at DCYF, ending their reign of terror once and for all. Allan Fung will audit and analyze each and every facet of DCYF to ensure that the agency is the epitome of what a child welfare system should be from when he is elected and into the future.
Allan Fung will provide real leadership from day one. He is a hands-on mayor and he will be a hands-on Governor. He will repair the Ocean State and give it what it needs — a boost in its economy and its self-esteem. With Allan at the helm, kids will be safer, jobs will increase, and more money will flow into the state than ever. He will be Rhode Island's champion — and relentlessly fight for our families and children.
Allan will fight for you.
Nicholas Alahverdian is a Harvard-educated scholar and political activist. As an adolescent, Nicholas survived torture and abuse inflicted upon him by the Rhode Island government under the direct orders of a chief judge and a governor following his political activism against them while Alahverdian was an employee of the Rhode Island House of Representatives.
Nicholas was sent to two facilities far from New England that had extensive records of torture, abuse, and negligence. He was forced to remain in these abusive facilities until his 18th birthday and was not allowed to contact anyone, go to school, or prepare for adulthood. Alahverdian survived the torture, sued his abusers, settled in court, and studied at Harvard University.
The primary scholarly focus of Nicholas Alahverdian is the intersection of philology, rhetoric, and politics. He has been featured in The Providence Journal, NPR, BBC, NBC, CBS, and ABC News as well as The Buddy Cianci Show, The Boston Globe and countless other media entities.
Posted on October 23, 2018 December 3, 2018 Author Nicholas AlahverdianCategories blogTags Allan Fung, Andy Moffit, Cranston, DCYF, Deloitte, elections, EOHHS, gina raimondo, Governor, Gregory Hazian, Harvard, Jamia McDonald, Kevin Aucoin, Mike Burk, Ocean State, politics, Rhode Island, Rhode Island Government, Rhode Island politics, State House, UHIP


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U.S. poet laureate Joy Harjo on opening a 'doorway of hope' for indigenous artists
By Jeffrey Brown and Kira Wakeam
Amna Nawaz: There is a fresh voice these days leading the poetry world.
Joy Harjo is the first Native American to serve as poet laureate of the United States.
Tonight, she will give her inaugural public reading at the Library of Congress. She is a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, who grew up in Oklahoma.
Jeffrey Brown recently sat down with Harjo in Tulsa to talk about her life and career.
It's part of our ongoing series on arts and culture, Canvas.
Jeffrey Brown: A recent night at the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame in Tulsa. The leader of the band blowing her saxophone is a poet.
Joy Harjo: His feet are made of his mother's spiritual concern.
Jeffrey Brown: And not just any poet. Joy Harjo, a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, is the new poet laureate of the United States, appointed by the Library of Congress, to begin her term this month.
Joy Harjo: It's quite an honor.
And what is especially exciting to me is that I'm carrying this for -- it's for America, but for indigenous peoples in particular.
Jeffrey Brown: You feel that?
Joy Harjo: Yes. And it becomes a doorway.
Yes, we're human beings, and yes, some of us are poets. Some of us are astronauts. Some of us are really good at fixing cars. But we're human beings. And some of us write poetry. And so it makes a doorway of hope.
Jeffrey Brown: So people were surprised you moved home, huh?
Joy Harjo: Yes, they were.
Jeffrey Brown: Harjo, now 68, grew up here in Tulsa in a mixed Native and white working-class neighborhood, child of a beautiful mother of mixed Cherokee and European ancestry who loved to sing, and a handsome Creek father Harjo adored, but whose drinking would lead to the end of the marriage.
Does it make sense, when you look back to that girl then, to now?
Joy Harjo: Well, she still has the same loves that I do. You know, there's still music. I love poetry. I never thought I would be a poet.
I mean, that -- certainly, if you look in this neighborhood, that wasn't a career.
Joy Harjo: There are no poets here.
Jeffrey Brown: In her memoir, "Crazy Brave," Harjo writes of a childhood of joy and discovery, but also great pain, including a stepfather who abused her mother, and eventually pushed Harjo to leave home for the Institute of American Indian Arts, then an all-Native school in Santa Fe.
A teenaged mother, she later attended the University of New Mexico, where she was involved in the '60s and early '70s Native rights movement. Art was her first love. She continues to draw and paint to this day. Poetry didn't come until her 20s.
Joy Harjo: Poetry came along at that time. I basically put a pen in my hand, and that's how I came through it. And it had a lot to do with investigating history and finding a voice when I felt that I had no voice.
Jeffrey Brown: She would go on to write nine volumes of poetry, including the brand-new "American Sunrise," often examining personal, Native and national histories bound together.
She traces her ancestors to the once-thriving indigenous civilization that populated the Southeastern U.S. before being forcibly removed. Harjo recently taught at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where she wrote the poems for her new book, including the line: "I returned to see what I would find in these lands we were forced to leave behind."
Joy Harjo: I had come there, and we were living up on a block that my great-great-great-great grandfather Monahwee, I knew he had stood there when he used to go to Knoxville to steal horses.
Well, he wasn't really -- they weren't really stealing them, because the horses were on stolen property. And I looked down into those beautiful trees, toward those beautiful mountains, and said -- asked -- well, I heard my spirit ask: What did you learn here?
And that's how it started.
I know I came here with my dad.
Jeffrey Brown: In Oklahoma, Harjo took us to the historic Creek Council House in Okmulgee, what became the capital of the displaced nation in 1867.
A plaque outside commemorates another distant relative, Samuel Checote, who was born in Alabama and served as principal chief of the Creek Nation here.
This is a history that most people probably don't know.
Joy Harjo: No, there's...
Jeffrey Brown: The whole removal, the Trail of Tears.
Joy Harjo: No, usually I think most Americans think the Trail of Tears is one trail, and it's Cherokee.
Jeffrey Brown: Yes.
Joy Harjo: But there were many trails of tears. Even the Navajo people had a trail of tears. And now there's another trail of tears coming up from the South.
Jeffrey Brown: So, you connect those -- what's going on now at the border to...
Joy Harjo: Definitely, because there was no border before. It wasn't that long ago, just a few generations.
And this was the House of Warriors, which is more like the -- more like Congress.
Jeffrey Brown: There's the continuity of history, which we explored inside the council house, now a cultural center.
Joy Harjo: He is probably one of the more well-known Native poets of his time. He's often published in some of the anthologies of...
Jeffrey Brown: Is he going to be in yours?
Joy Harjo: Yes, of course.
Jeffrey Brown: And there's the world we live in today, where Harjo has a residency in a Tulsa arts program and, among many other things, is editing a new anthology of Native poets.
You came of age at this moment of a very strong Native political movement, right, of civil rights.
Joy Harjo: Yes.
Jeffrey Brown: And I wonder where are we now.
Joy Harjo: Back to the beginning.
Jeffrey Brown: Backwards?
These times are very similar to the times of Andrew Jackson, the times of Indian removal, with -- where, you know, hatred, the utter hatred of not everyone, not -- it's not everyone. In fact, I think those forces of hatred are really a relatively small part of the population.
But whatever this force is, it's the same force that said Natives weren't human. It's the same force that came in and said, well, you are more powerful if you have more money than anyone else, or that you're more powerful if you have light skin, or you're more powerful if you're male.
There's something about that that's destructive to everyone, because we were all created by a creator who loved us.
Jeffrey Brown: Native rights, women's rights, poetry, music, which she didn't take up seriously until her 40s, and a sense of history.
Joy Harjo: History is people. History is stories. It's poetry. And that's what I love about poetry, and that's how poetry teaches me. Poetry has taught me that you can time-travel in a poem. You can get to know people in a poem.
And poetry is the place you can come to when you have no words.
Jeffrey Brown: And when the performance is over, the sax-playing, history-seeking poet laureate relaxes by shaking it all out on the dance floor.
For the "PBS NewsHour," I'm Jeffrey Brown in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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MIERS, MIERS, PANTS ON... Brother Sam is on the money in pointing out the role Harriet Miers played in the scandalous firings of seven U.S. attorneys, as detailed in today's Washington Post. And I hate to say "I told ya so," (well, actually, I take smug satisfaction in the utterance), but back when everybody was laughing at Bush's nomination of Miers to the Supreme Court, I smelled a rat, fearing that Bush was looking for an awesome two-fer here: Get Miers out of the way before anyone thought to call her to testify on any one of the multiple scandals of which she may have known or partaken, and have, on the bench, a ruthless and stalwart administration loyalist.
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On 17th December, the Immigration Union of Greece, under the auspice of Unesco and the University of Peloponnese, will conduct a Seminar on the International Day of Migrants titled: "Children are the future; the new generation is the present". Eminent personalities will attend the conference in order to express their concerns and make suggestions regarding the present situation, the difficulties and obstacles faced and offer their advice to young people. Members of the European Parliament, representatives of political parties and ministries as well as university professors will honor us with their presence. The Seminar Will take place at Novotel Hotel ( Mihail voda 2-4 , Athens).
For yet another year in a row, "ANTHROPOMANIA" participated in the annual River Peneus Festival, which is organized every year in the city of Larissa and this year it lasted from the 16th until the 22nd of June.
"ANTHROPOMANIA" participated with the metal sculptures exhibition "Artistic city on a bike", with statues made by and exhibited to the wide audience by well known artists. The aim of the exhibition was to sensitize and activate the citizens through artistic creation and by using bicycle as the main means of expression. Simultaneously, the visitors of the Festival had the opportunity to participate and experiment with the available materials of the "Open Workshop", which constituted a collective work of art.
Following the end of the Festival, the works of art were transferred to central points and squares of the city, where they remained during the summer, being exhibited to the citizens and the city's visitors.
Accepting an invitation by the Cultural Organisation of the Municipality of Kameiros, "ANTHROPOMANIA" participated in the annual cultural exhibition, which is organized on the island of Rhodes in celebration of St Syllas. During the exhibition, hundreds of visitors had the opportunity to admire the handicrafts created by the Palestinian Refugee women within the framework of project "Gateway to self-employment". The exhibition was accompanied by a series of cultural events, which were attended by many people, but also representatives of the local self-government.
"ANTHROPOMANIA" participated in the River Peneus annual festival, which was organized by the Municipality of Larissa from the 11th until the 17th of June 2006.
The visitors of the festival had the opportunity to admire the embroideries produced by the Palestinian Refugee women within the framework of project "Gateway to self-employment", but also to become aware of the problems associated with the lack of water, fundamental human right and to become informed about the programs of the European Voluntary Service for Youth.
Within the program "WATER: COMMON GOOD AND BASIC RIGHT OF ALL", ANTHROPOMANIA together with the Municipality of Larissa Cultural Organisation and the Municipal Water Company of Larissa realized an event for the celebration of the World Water Day. The aim of the event was the awareness raising of the local population with respect to the problems encountered in various developing countries in relation to potable water, as well as the populations suffering due its lack. During the event, volunteers from Larissa distributed relevant informational material. The program is co-financed by Europeaid.
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In a linear power supply system, mains power is supplied to the transformer via input filtering, which helps to provide immunity from mains-borne noise whilst also reducing emission back into the mains supply. The AC voltage output from the transformer is rectified, before being filtered to remove ripple, which is typically achieved using one or more electrolytic capacitors.
A regulated linear power supply also has voltage regulation in order to maintain a constant output voltage as the AC input line voltage and load current varies. Unregulated power supplies do not have this and their output voltage can vary by a much greater degree.
Protection is optional and can protect both the power supply and connected equipment from faults in either of these.


Visiting Mikki Beach resident club "Pur Pur ibar", ex-resident of the club "Jet Set", Chapaev Club, "Versailles" , "Guru" and the cafe-bar "Highlight", a founding member of one of the most sought after Club Show Russia - MaxiGroove, DJ, percussionist and vocalist Andrew MaxiGroove. Follower of speeches in the style of a Live Show. Dj-set from Andrew Maxigroove accompanied by percussion and MC-support. Music styles - club house, electro, deep, progressive house.


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I have said it before, but I really struggle with eating breakfast and have done since I was a teenager. I don't usually feel hungry in the morning so don't bother eating anything, there's one problem with this, I am really hungry by lunch time and end up grabbing something quick and usually unhealthy.
I know this has to change and decided to make an effort this year to eat three meals a day, I have to be honest and say I am finding this really hard especially eating breakfast. Thankfully I was recently contacted by Flahavans the Irish oat company who asked if I would like to create some recipes using their delicious oats. I thought this would be a great opportunity to try a few different recipes and maybe even find something I really like that will help me achieve my three meals a day goal.
The first thing I decided to make was a fruit smoothie with the added extra of oats. The weather is slowly getting better so juices and smoothies are making more of an appearance and the great thing about juices and smoothies is you can change the flavours so you don't get bored. I decided to make the main flavour of the smoothie strawberry and then added a banana and a small hand full of raspberries, the oats transform the smoothie from an average smoothie to a delicious wholesome breakfast which is great for on the go.
If you like the look and sound of the fruit smoothie then I have listed the recipe below for you all to try. I will be trying different variations of the recipe with a mixture of different fruits so I can find a few flavours that I like.
This sounds delicious! Will be trying some of this as I have a similar problem in work days. Breaks at 5am does not appeal. But by 9am I'm ready for lunch! Do you think this would keep well in the fridge if I made the night before and kept until I got to work the next morning?