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Seniors Frustrated After Baptist Health Cancels First Dose COVID-19 Vaccinations Due To Supply IssueThere was frustration and some anger after Baptist Health announced that due to "supply constraints" they would have to cancel appointments they had already made for people to get their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
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Miami Family Suing Cuban Government, Spanish Hotel Chain Over Business Confiscated By Castro Regime In 1960'sA groundbreaking class action lawsuit has been filed against the Cuban government.
Rubio Slams Obama's Outreach To Iran & CubaRepublican Presidential hopeful Marco Rubio slammed President Barack Obama's handling of Cuba and Iran.
Florida Lawmakers In "Profound Disagreement" Of Obama's Cuba PolicyThe state's Republican lawmakers want to send President Barack Obama a three-page message expressing "profound disagreement" of his effort to restore diplomatic ties with Cuba.
US: Cuba Completes Release Of 53 Political PrisonersAs part of December's history-making deal between the United States and Cuba, 53 political prisoners were released, the Obama administration said Monday.
U.S. Products Could Soon Help Feed Cuban PeopleAs the U.S.-Cuba policy changes, some groups are looking to expand into the country and provide needed goods and services.
Number Of Cubans Fleeing To U.S. Is Increasing The Cuban refugee rafter crisis was paramount two decades ago but now it seems the numbers are starting to increase once again.
Number Of U.S. Visitors To Cuba Continues RiseNew numbers released Monday show the number of U.S. visitors to Cuba continues to rise despite a more than five-decade long embargo that is still in place.
Challenges Emerge Following "Cuban Twitter"New challenges are likely to emerge following the revelation that a U.S. government-funded program set up a cellphone-based social network in Cuba.
Cubans Dislike Government Change On Car Buying Rules For more than half a century, Cubans on the island have kept old American cars in running condition. But now, the Cuban government is hoping to get other vehicles on the road by relaxing restrictions on car sales.
Wednesday Marks 55 Years Of Castro's Rule In CubaWhile January 1 is a day of celebration for many, for exiled Cubans, it's a somber anniversary of the communist revolution on the Caribbean island.
Convicted Cuban Spy Renounces U.S. Citizenship, Will Stay In CubaUnlike thousands of Cubans who visit the U.S, Interests Section in Havana hoping to leave the island, Rene Gonzalez showed up to the U.S. diplomatic mission Monday accompanied by his attorney to renounce his U.S. citizenship so he can stay in Cuba permanently
Report: Raul Castro Talks RetirementThe island nation of Cuba may be without a Castro for the first time in decades soon after Cuban President Raul Castro unexpectedly mentioned in a speech Friday that he is old and has a right to retire.
Controversial Travel Company Goes Up In FlamesA Coral Gables based travel company went up in flames Friday morning and the incident has brought out the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms to look into exactly what happened.
Cuba: US Man Held For 2 Years Was 'Undercover,' Violating LawIt has been two years since an American man was in held prison in communist Cuba, and Cuban officials say Alan Gross conducted "undercover activities" and was part of a program aimed at "disrupting the constitutional order in Cuba."
Miami Mass Held For Cuban Founder Of Ladies In WhiteA mass will be held in Miami for Laura Pollan, the founder of Cuba's Ladies In White. Pollan died Friday after she was hospitalized on Oct. 7 for acute respiratory problems.


I was invited to CLARA magazine 360° Revival Night at Pacific Place Mall. It was dreamy and fun!!! all the foods were so delicious and irresistible esp, the chocolate MAGNUM shake as you can see above. The revival night didn't stop there! The fashion show was awesome and unforgettable! Kle, Andreas Odang, and Tex Saverio were the three super talented designers who show their jaw dropping collections that night. I was super excited when Giovanni (Sonia's childhood friend) allowed us to go to the backstage and met TEX SAVERIO. yessss THE lady gaga's costume designer. He was so friendly, humble and he's only 26 years old!
Clara magazine surely has changed a lot, it was bigger and better! it definitely becomes one of my favorite magazine to date.
you have an amazing style, you look stunng with the litas!
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This sounds fantastic! All the outfits are gorgeous, and the chocolate dress definitely caught my eye!
Love your blog I'm definitely a new follower!
glad I came across your blog!! your are so pretty love you outfit here!!!
cool outfit, love ur trenchcoat !!!
Seriously you look like a supermodel! I love your fierceness!
Hey! I just stumbled upon your blog and I can say it's great!
WOW, seems like you had a lot of fun! The dresses are amazing and your outfit's great too ;) I really like your header!
alvi:" he's surprisingly friendly and super humble!!!"
anas:"the jeff camp heels made me look taller nas"
olin:"awww oliiin that's so sweet of you"
arnold:"*blush a very sweet compliment from the coolest boy in town! thank you arnold!"
love your trench coat and your Lita ew, hope i can buy Lita.
great blog, like the photos :)!
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bytheway, i love your shoes so much :) you looks gorgeous as always..
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You looked gorgeous for this event! Love the zara trench.


Yesterday afternoon, two hours before the third evening of protest's six o'clock kick-off time, the heavens opened over Skopje. Not just rain, but great globules of liquid dropped like sacks of marbles from the sky. It looked for a time like the whole thing might have to be called off. Under such conditions it is hard to be angry at anyone but the clouds, and who ever heard of clouds moved by peaceful protest? But, with half an hour to spare, the heavens granted a reprieve.
Clouds are not renowned for their political convictions, they tend to blow where the wind takes them. So it is safe to assume that the prevailing wind blows in favour of the protesters; a sentiment which seems to be held on earth as it is in the heavens, among the protesters at least.
The consensus is that Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and his cohorts' departure is now an inevitability. Two questions remain, how long will it take for them to go and how cruelly their desperation to cling to power will manifest itself.


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Louis Hugo Manske (July 4, 1884 – April 27, 1963) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball.

Manske started his professional baseball career in 1904. From 1905 to 1906, he was a starter for Des Moines of the Western League. He went 20–16 in 1905, and Des Moines won the pennant. The following season, he was 23–10 when he was purchased by the Pittsburgh Pirates in August. He appeared in two major league games for them.

In 1907, Manske was sent down to the American Association. His career ended in 1910.

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Microsoft has announced 11 games that will be available on the Windows 8 app store when the new OS launches.
Microsoft is renewing its focus on PC games with game downloads available on the Windows 8 app store. The Verge has confirmed that 11 titles will be available in the store when Windows 8 launches, as part of an ecosystem Microsoft is developing to be more friendly to gamers and small publishers.
The confirmed games include Angry Birds, Ms. Splosion Man, Toy Soldiers, Hydro Thunder, Reckless Racing, Ilomilo, Rocket Riot, Full House Poker, Tentacles, Crash Course, and Wordament. Among those games, only Angry Birds stands out as a big name, but Hydro Thunder, Ilomilo, and Ms. Splosion Man are fairly prominent games released over the last two years on Xbox Live Arcade.
This isn't Microsoft's first attempt at providing a Windows marketplace for gaming. Microsoft's Games for Windows Marketplace offers a selection of Windows games online, but its lineup of titles and features pales in comparison to Steam's, which continues to be the biggest digital distribution service for games on Windows PCs. The new games service in Windows 8 will integrate more directly and take more features from Xbox Live than the Games for Windows Marketplace has done, and be part of the app distribution service Microsoft is folding into its upcoming Windows release.
Still, the launch lineup is puzzling and seems weak. While Windows 8 is a new operating system, Windows has long had a rich selection of games available in physical and digital media, and for just 11 games to be available through Microsoft's service seems disappointing, compared to the hundreds of games available through services like Steam, Impulse, and GOG.com. The games themselves aren't particularly compelling, with the selection seeming to consist of Xbox Live Arcade's last-year releases and Angry Birds.
For more information about Windows 8, see PCMag's hands on with the Developer Preview of Windows 8 and the slideshow below.


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Since 1996, we have been one of the leading plus size clothing stores for stylish plus size clothing. Our designs are inspired by young fashion enthusiasts who want to look and feel their best. Whether you are shopping for an evening party, prom or date night outfit, Kiyonna has you covered with styles for every occasion. While there are many other plus size clothing stores to choose from, we have confidence our stylish plus size clothing will keep you coming back season after season. Our fabulous fitting tops, cocktail dresses and special occasion gowns will always make you look and feel your best.
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One thing we hear often when people start to feel the urge to leap into creativity is the fear of being wrong. We're afraid of feeling like we made a huge decision to leave our job or change our path, to find that the feeling that inspired us was fleeting.
We hear stories of how creative entrepreneurship has changed people's lives so immensely, it only makes sense that the jump was equally massive. If you're gonna reap the benefits of an "all-in" industry, you probably just have to know right away. We see the lives of the most successful creative entrepreneurs and it can look like every step of the journey was all-in.
All of that is completely false. Creativity, calling and entrepreneurship are things that can be nurtured, studied and tested. When we start thinking that we need to know exactly how we feel about every decision before we even make it, we'll never win.
Becoming Anything, Takes Time
Just like growing a company, becoming a creative (or anything for that matter) is about allowing yourself to live into that identity bit by bit.
An ultra-successful photographer didn't start that way. They started with 1 client, just like you. Even better, they started as someone thinking about whether they could even be a photographer. Regardless of the speed you go or how quickly you come to trust the calling you've felt, the process of becoming what you are is exactly that: a process.
Give yourself space to become something new; to see yourself as something new and see how it feels. That isn't half-assing it. That isn't not believing in yourself. That's not being too safe. That's just going after it the smart way.
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The macro vision could be becoming an ultra successful creative entreprneur, but that vision can't exist without micro steps. Start looking for opportunities to do the thing you're thinking of little by little. Instead of jumping ahead to how you're possibly gonna quit your full-time job to start working for yourself, carve some time out at night or on the weekends to spend windows living into that opportunity.
Don't expect yourself to understand all the details of the process before you've even stepped into it. Join a group on Facebook. Meet up with people living the passion you're considering. See how you feel around them. See if you pick things up.
Social media isn't just a thing to laugh at memes on. It's a place to be inspired. A place, dare I say it, to study. If you want to be something, devote actual time to learning about it from the very best, instead of scrolling through 100 posts aimlessly.
You may find yourself slowly, maybe even subconsciously adding more time to devote to this window you've created. You may find yourself catching on-to things you didn't before and thinking about it more regularly. All of this adds up to give you more concrete evidence and information to draw from when you have to make bigger decisions. And in the process of living into a new identity, slowly, you will still have done exactly that. You can claim a new part of yourself.
If you spent 2 hours a week designing logos more than you did the week before, you're living into a new identity. If you bought a starter camera and tried out some new techniques you read about in a group over the weekend, you're living into a new identity. When I joined Dubsado, I started part-time. I was afraid of tech startups. Afraid of using my creativity. It took months of living into that identity, for me to know I wanted to take the leap. I wouldn't trade that process for anything.
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Is the Investment in STEM Education Paying Off?
The goal of STEM education is to prepare a generation of citizens capable of making evidence-based decisions required for the innovative fields that are driving the 21st-century economy. And to that end, the U.S.'s investment is working. However, this commitment will need to continue in order to ensure accessibility to a quality STEM education for all students if the U.S. is to remain globally competitive over the long term.
A strong manufacturing ecosystem that includes manufacturing engineering education is critical to ensuring the future vitality and innovation of manufacturing initiatives in the US. So it was welcome news to learn that the DOD is developing a new manufacturing engineering education (MEE) grant program, authorized by Congress with initial funding of $10 million for fiscal 2017.
LEGO® Education announced today new resources designed for teachers and students to explore coding -- including free lesson plans, online courses for teachers and an invitation to all schools and after-school programs to participate in the new FIRST® LEGO League and FIRST® LEGO League Jr. Challenge season.
There are plenty of "innovators" and "early adopters" of education technology out there, from educators who make the rounds on the ISTE and SXSWedu conference circuits to consultants and entrepreneurs who push for adoption of certain tools or practices. But what about those who are more skeptical?
It's true that many jobs have gone overseas, to places where workers are willing to toil for less money. Yet at the same time, American manufacturers have actually added nearly a million jobs in the past seven years. And federal statistics show nearly 390,000 such jobs open. The problem? Many of these are not the same jobs that for decades sustained the working class.
Schools in rural Arizona get less teachers, business partnerships and access to technology for STEM education than schools in metro areas, educators and business leaders said.In many rural areas of Arizona, students are falling behind, said Linda Coyle, a former teacher and director of education at the Arizona Science Foundation.
Scientific fields continually push the boundaries of innovation and progress, yet American high school students lack preparation, interest, and engagement in such subjects. Statistics show that in 2013, only 44% of high school graduates were ready for college level math and 36% for college level science.
For my students, process writing was a great way to reinforce what they were learning in pre-algebra, and reading mathematical fiction such as Chasing Vermeer allowed students to see how math mysteries could be solved. But how does one combine several subjects, such as in STEM, STEAM, and STREAM?


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Taking the Sting Out of Tulia
Posted on January 24, 2007 by RagBlog
'Good Samaritans' Fight For Human Rights In Drug War
CRAWFORD — The Revs. Alan and Nancy Bean never dreamed of being on the front lines of the "war on drugs" — let alone actually getting involved in it in their small West Texas town.
But in 1999, these two ordained Baptist ministers were called to form "Friends of Justice Tulia" to get the word out to the national media, NAACP, the ACLU, and the Justice Department that there was something fishy about a local drug sting.
The sting itself initially received glowing yet nasty coverage in their hometown newspaper.
"When I first heard about the drug sting, actually I didn't know that everybody was black. The race of those arrested was not given in the newspaper account, which is what I was going on," Rev. Alan Bean told the Iconoclast. "What got me was that they were described as scumbags and known drug dealers in an editorial in the Tulia paper."
Indeed, 39 of the 46 people arrested for allegedly dealing cocaine were African American and so poor that they had no houses or cars of their own. Moreover, the "drug kingpin," a 57-year-old pig farmer who lived in a run-down shack, was convicted and given a 90-year sentence.
Yet as the first of the trials were happening, Rev. Bean questioned the verdicts more closely: Why should the sentences be so long? How could there be 46 drug dealers in a town of 5,000? How could any jury convict any alleged criminal on the testimony of a single narcotics agent?
To Rev. Bean, this style of due process just didn't make sense biblically.
"The Bible says that nobody is to be convicted except on the word of at least two witnesses. That's not just a passing reference in the Bible. Moses said it. Paul confirmed it. Jesus confirmed it. I mean, no matter who your favorite figure is in the Bible, they said it," said Rev. Bean. "That teaching isn't just there because it appealed to somebody. It just made sense. It's not just to take any single person's word for anything, particularly when a person's freedom is riding on the line."
As this lone undercover agent — Tom Coleman — was basking in the spotlight of his work, more information surfaced. Coleman made his living working low-level law enforcement jobs in country towns. His position was funded through a federal anti-drug program that reached rural areas outside of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
However, Coleman made for a lousy undercover agent, never wearing a wire, taking photographs and videotapes, nor hiring a partner to verify his work on the Tulia sting. Still, a number of predominately white juries believed him and sent the defendants to prison with terms ranging from 90 years to 400 years, the latter given for one man with a prior conviction.
With its team of racially-integrated and persistent volunteers, the Friends of Justice eventually obtained media exposure. An article in the Texas Observer and a documentary on the irregularities of the Tulia case convinced several civil rights organizations to take the case seriously.
Coleman — who had received a "Lawman of the Year" award for this work in Tulia, though he himself had a criminal record — was later indicted for fabricating evidence and suppling false trial testimony. Texas Gov. Rick Perry eventually pardoned the defendants, releasing them from prison. Tulia's drug task force was also closed in a $6 million settlement with the victims.


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At Town-Green, Steve Coyle and colleagues commit to build resilience and sustainability -- we believe it's our professional responsibility to our clients, the industry, and the environment.
We continually work to move the design and development industry in a positive direction, recognizing that when we design communities that minimize damage to people and the environment, we serve both the client and the planet. Key planning and design decisions can incorporate simple principles - the ability to live, work, and socialize in a walkable neighborhood, to ensure a project that has benefical, long term impacts on the people and environment.
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As a growing group of sustainable urbanists, we collaborate with the top national leaders - architects, planners, scientist, engineers, economists, and generalists - who share our values and skill levels in producing climate change-responsive plans for small towns, large cities, counties, and regions. Our comprehensive, adaptive, and locally-customized approach produces economic, environmental, and equitable programs for implementation. This approach has been documented in the book "Sustainable and Resilient Communities", John Wiley & Sons, publisher by Steve Coyle.
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We design, code, and entitle beautiful, healthy, functional, and sustainable urbanism from the scale of the county to the community, neighborhood, and block. Town-Green's compact, walkable, mixed-use plans help restore both built and the natural environments that can then 'grow green'. Our form-based codes, land development regulations that emphasize the desired physical form of buildings and public space, incorporate sustainability into the code standards. We help communities shape higher quality built environments that integrate rather than separate compatible uses.
As a supplement to or replacement of zoning and development ordinances, our codes help create a predictable public realm by regulating its physical form, building intensities, and uses. Our 'green' plans and codes activate a community's vision by designing and coding desired outcomes appropriate to the unique people and place, from the natural landscape through the urban center. Download our Green Form-Based Codes flyer to learn more.
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To leverage affordable housing, target the "missing middle" of housing - walk-up apartments, rowhouses, duplexes - on walkable blocks in emerging neighborhoods or "sprawl-repair" suburban sites. Smaller, simpler building types built on smaller, less pricey lots can fly below the radar of bigger builders and developers, offer less financial risk, require less capital investment, and are less likely to attract professional NIMBYs.
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The Charrette integrates the designers, the end users, the developers, the regulators, and citizen-activists into a relatively brief, cyclical process of output and input. Through this process, Town-Green has achieved remarkable goals on bitterly contested projects that would have otherwise remained unattainable.
Leading up to the Charrette Town-Green and City Staff will direct the effort to engage the community to ensure broad participation. As a critical component, the team generally holds confidential stakeholder interviews with property and business owners, community groups and public officials. Confidential interviews help build trust and allow stakeholders to express their thoughts freely.
Whether through a single Charrette or series of workshops, a rigorous and iterative brainstorming and review cycle process can help forge community participation while testing the plans to arrive at excellence through consensus. Town-Green team members have facilitated over 200 Charrettes, and have the skills needed to garner community consensus and cooperation through a supportive planning process.
Akébé Village, Libreville, Gabon (Africa), Steve Coyle / Ingénieurs sans frontières (Engineers Without Borders)
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Historic preservation and adaptive reuse provides a broad area of consensus and is fundamental in understanding the history of the area and the context of any proposed future vision.
Tradition is a process that contains vitally useful information today and into the future even as we consider modern or contemporary forms and functions;
Traditional urbanism conveys enormous benefits and addresses many contemporary challenges;
Historic architecture offers, at the very least, important historical lessons about making buildings work at the level of the street, at the pedestrian scale.
By 'design-testing' various design ideas from the cutting edge to the historically accurate, against the context of the existing urban form, function, and the needs of developers, tenants, and citizens, the participants will gain a sense of respect for new ideas as well as traditional forms.
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An introduction to Teleutomyrmex.....
Strongylognathus Mayr, 1853d.
Strongylognathus [Myrmicinae:Tetramoriini].
- Strongylognathus Mayr, 1853d: 389.Type-species: Eciton testaceum, by monotypy. Replacement name for Myrmus Schenck, 1853: 188. [Junior homonym of Myrmus Hahn, 1832: 81 (Hemiptera).].
Myrmus [junior homonym, see Strongylognathus].
- Myrmus Schenck, 1853: 188.Type-species: Myrmus emarginatus (junior synonym of Eciton testaceum), by monotypy. [Junior homonym of Myrmus Hahn, 1832: 81 (Hemiptera).].
- Strongylognathus Mayr, 1853d: 389, replacement name for Myrmus Schenck.
Myrmus Schenck, 1853.
Some know why I putted this one here..............
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Now, let me explain. It was shown by Ward et al. 2015 ("2014") that Teleutomyrmex and Anergates should be synonymized under Tetramorium but, surprisingly, they kept Strongylognathus out of it. It should be a synonym of Tetramorium but the name should not be Strongylognathus but Tetramorium ("better name'). But if you do it, do it good and synonymize it like it should... so: Strongylognathus.
Tetramorium Mayr, 1855.
Tetramorium [Myrmicinae: Tetramoriini].
- Tetramorium Mayr, 1855: 423. Type-species: Formica caespitum, by subsequent designation of Girard, 1879: 1016.
Extreme, Workerless Inquiline ants.
Ants: Probably one of the most important animal-groups on Earth. Together with wasps and bees they play some of the most important roles in ecosystems around the world. Without these three groups of insects, most animal- and plant-species will become extinct on this little globe in space in the near future. So remember them well: Ants - Formicidae, Wasps - Vespidae and Bees (including digger-wasps) – Apidae. And if you want to know much about them, be prepared to read a lot! Almost every conceivably down-to-earth lifestyle you can think of, somewhere one or other ant lives like that, and for the airborne lifestyles, go to the wasps and bees! Have a lifetime of fun to discover all these animals! And for the most specialized animals on earth, you must go to the ants and discover the species in the genera Teleutomyrmex and Anergates and a few other, mostly related, species!
The extreme, workerless inquilines.
The genus Teleutomyrmex was described in 1950 by Heinrich Kutter, based on ants discovered in Saas-Fee (a small town in the canton Wallis, Switzerland.) in 1949 and 1950. The species was named T. schneideri. Later, the species was also found in the French Alps and Pyrenees, the Spanish Pyrenees, in Turkmenistan and in a nearby place in the Swiss Alps. The type-meadow in Saas-Fee was destroyed between 1950 and 1971. A second species, T. kutteri, was described in 1990 by Alberto Tinaut based on animals from the Sierra Nevada, Spain and the third and forth species, from 2017, are from Bulgaria and Turkey, T. buschingeri and T. seiferti.
The ants from the genus Teleutomyrmex are the most specialized ants on Earth. They are extreme, workerless inquilines that became ectoparasites. Let me explain.
- Parasite: An animal that is dependent on another species to survive. This dependence is temporary (during a certain period of its life.) or permanent.
- Social parasites: Social animals (like ants!) that are dependent on other social animals to survive. This can be temporary (during colony-foundation.) or permanent.
- Inquilines: Permanent social parasites among ants are also called inquilines.
- Workerless inquilines: The worker-caste, not needed by the inquilines, has disappeared. Only females/queens and males exist.
- Extreme, workerless inquilines: The females/queens and males have undergone some important morphological changes. Through these changes the ants are more adapted to their specialized way of life but, at the same time, they make sure that the ants can't survive without their host. Some examples are: reduction of the mouthparts, development of appeasement-glands, over-development of the reproduction-organs, becoming weak and "soft", males that become pupoid (show characteristic modifications that makes the male look "like a pupa", e.g. yellowish color, downward curved gaster, big external genital plates,...),…
- Ectoparasites: Parasites that need to be carried around by their hosts. They are not capable to or have great difficulty with walking very short distances.
Edward Osborne Wilson, in 1971, wrote down a list with almost all the characters that determine social parasites and, in 1990, completed the list together with Berthold K. Hölldobler. In it 41 characters are listed that extreme, workerless inquilines can have. Not all those inquilines have all the characters but they have most of them. The ants of the genus Teleutomyrmex display 36 characters of the list but have also a few adaptations that are special for their ectoparasitic lifestyle.
Only around fourteen ant species are known that are extreme, workerless inquilines and four of them, the Teleutomyrmex species, have become ectoparasites. Teleutomyrmex females/queens have, for example, unique morphological adaptations like the dorsoventrally compressed gaster that easily fit around the gaster of the host-queen. Also, the queens and males of Teleutomyrmex-species have the terminal tarsal segments of their legs adapted/modified to be able to grip firmly the body of queens and workers of the host species and are so almost completely unable to walk alone.
One remarkable fact is that the males of Teleutomyrmex still have rudimentary, unusable wings while the males of the other extreme, workerless inquilines have lost the wings completely. In all its other characteristics it is further evolved compared with the other species. Strange but true!
A peculiar taxonomic fact: The genera Anergates and Teleutomyrmex and the host-genus Tetramorium are closely related ant-genera belonging to the tribe (group of closely related genera.) Tetramoriini (now the Crematogastrini). This tribe is part of the subfamily Myrmicinae which also includes the genus Pheidole (in the tribe Pheidolini, now the Attini!). Only Nylanderia belongs to a different subfamily, the Formicinae. Most of the known social parasitic ants belong to these two subfamilies…
Some taxonomic problems in this group of specialized ants.
In 1950, William Steel Creighton placed Anergates friedlandi as a synonym of A. atratulus. Although he recognized certain morphological differences between the two species in 1934 when he described A. friedlandi, he based his 1950 decision on the speculation of William L. Brown Jr. that the host-species of both inquilines was the same (yes) and that the North American population wasn't native to that continent (maybe). So, no morphological data but host-species distribution was used to establish the synonymy. A few myrmecologists still question the decision and wait for the ongoing genetic comparison of European and North American Anergates-samples. Now it is clear that the North American form is an introduced population of A. atratulus!
The last few years some myrmecologists (like Alfred Buschinger) think that the morphological differences between Teleutomyrmex schneideri and T. kutteri are very minimal and question if T. kutteri should be placed as a synonym of T. schneideri. Most still think both deserve species status (clear morphological differences between the queens and the males of both species!) and, for the moment, both names stay as species names on record. Now, with the description of two more species, things are getting clearer in this genus.
Paratrechina and related genera were reviewed on genera-level in 2010 and one of the results was the division of Paratrechina into a few related genera, including Nylanderia. Some of these genera and part of the genus Nylanderia are recently revised and Nylanderia from North America was revised also but without the inquilines.
Tetramorium and related parasitic genera underwent a very thorough genetic phylogenetic study by Matthias Sanetra and Alfred Buschinger in 2000. When you read the paper only two possibilities exists. The first one: Tetramorium, Anergates and Teleutomyrmex should be considered to be synonyms of Strongylognathus and all the species together form one big genus (as Ward et al., 2015 ("2014"), say!). The other one: Tetramorium should be divided in at least eight different genera, all standing together with the parasitic ones in one compact tribe. The authors of the article still can't follow either of the possibilities. Who will take a decision?
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In 1951 Walter Linsenmaier made a crude black-and-white drawing of three Teleutomyrmex schneideri females riding on the back of a Tetramorium-queen. In front of this group, a Tetramorium-worker stands alongside her queen. This drawing was published in the 1951-article that Robert Stumper wrote about the life-style of the Teleutomyrmex schneideri-queen.
In 1951 a color-version of this drawing was also made by Walter Linsenmaier for an article in "Du: kulturelle Monatsschrift" by Heinrich Kutter, "Von dufttäuschenden Mörderinnen und berittener Königin.". Heinrich Kutter used it again in 1968 as the front-plate of his little book about social parasitic ants of Switzerland. Later Walter Linsenmaier used it in his general review-book of insects of the world, published in 1973/4.
In 1977 a better version of the black-and-white drawing appeared in Heinrich Kutter's determination-book for Swiss ants. This version is the most-copied drawing when Teleutomyrmex is depicted in an article or a book.
And on June 12, 2011 a colored version of the black-and-white/color-version drawing appeared as a tattoo on the back of my right shoulder… 60 years after its first publication!
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And again with the article the topic started with, but this time on the pages of the magazine itself:
myrmecologicalnews.org/cms/ind…tegory&id=1493&Itemid=407 or myrmecologicalnews.org/cms/ind…_printable.pdf&format=raw
Amonio David Cuesta-Segura, Fede García García, Chema Catarineu, Sergio García-Tejero & Xavier Espadaler (2018): ACTUALIZACIÓN DE LA DISTRIBUCIÓN Y HOSPEDADORES DE LA HORMIGA PARÁSITA TELEUTOMYRMEX SCHNEIDERI KUTTER, 1950 EN LA PENÍNSULA IBÉRICA (HYMENOPTERA: FORMICIDAE).
Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa (S.E.A.), nº 63 (31/12/2018): 235–239.
researchgate.net/publication/3…ca_Hymenoptera_Formicidae
(Thank you Merkur!)
Philippe WEGNEZ, David IGNACE, Els LOMMELEN, Maximilien HARDY, Johan BOGAERT & Carin NILSSON (2015) : Redécouverte de Teleutomyrmex schneideri Kutter, 1950 dans les Alpes françaises (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). - Bulletin de la Société royale belge d'Entomologie/Bulletin van de Koninklijke Belgische Vereniging voor Entomologie, 151: 52-57.
antwiki.org/wiki/images/b/be/W…Alpes_fran%C3%A7aises.pdf
Cuesta-Segura, A.D., Espadaler, X., Garcia Garcia, F., 2017, "Hormigas de los brezales de Calluna cantábricos (NO España) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). [Ants of the Cantabrian Calluna-heathlands (NW Spain) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).]" Iberomyrmex, vol. 9, p. 25-43.
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From: AntWiki - Where Ant Biologists Share Their Knowledge.
Hölldobler, B. and Wilson, E. O. 1990. The Ants. Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press. Text used with permission of the authors.
From Chapter 12:
The "ultimate" social parasite.
There is no better way to begin a survey of the social symbioses than by considering the most extreme example known, that of the "ultimate" parasitic ant Teleutomyrmex schneideri. This remarkable species was discovered by Heinrich Kutter (1950a) at Saas-Fee, in an isolated valley of the Swiss Alps near Zermatt. Its behavior has been studied by Stumper (1950) and Kutter (1969), its neuroanatomy by Brun (1952), and its general anatomy and histology by Gösswald (1953). A second population has been reported from near Briançon in the French Alps by Collingwood (1956), a third in the French Pyrenees by Buschinger (1987c), and still others in the Spanish Sierra Nevada by Tinaut Ranera (1981). Appropriately, the name Teleutomyrmex means "final ant."
The populations of Teleutomyrmex schneideri, like those of most workerless parasitic ant species (Wilson, 1963), are small and isolated. The Swiss population appears to be limited to the eastern slope of the Saas Valley, in juniper-Arctostaphylos woodland ranging from 1,800 to 2,300 m in elevation. The ground is covered by thick leaf litter and sprinkled with rocks of various sizes, providing, in short, an ideal environment for ants The ant fauna is of a typically boreal European complexion, comprising the following free-living species listed in the order of their abundance (Stumper, 1950): Formica fusca, Formica lugubris, Tetramorium caespitum, Leptothorax acervorum, Leptothorax tuberum, Camponotus ligniperda, Myrmica lobicornis, Myrmixa sulcinodis, Camponotus herculeanus, Formica sanguinea, Formica rufibarbis, Formica pressilabris, and Manica rubida. For some unexplained reason this little assemblage is extremely prone to social parasitism. Formica sanguinea is a facultative slavemaking species, preying on the other species of Formica. Doronomyrmex pacis, a workerless parasite living with Leptothorax acervorum, was discovered by Kutter as a genus new to science in the Saas-Fee forest in 1945. In addition, Kutter and Stumper found Epimyrma stumperi in nests of Leptothorax tuberum, as well as two parasitic Leptothorax, goesswaldi and kutteri, in nests of Leptothorax acervorum (Kutter, 1969).
Teleutomyrmex schneideri is a parasite of Tetramorium caespitum and Tetramorium impurum. Like so many other social parasites, it is phylogenetically closer to its host than to any of the other members of the ant fauna to which it belongs. In fact, it may have been derived directly from a temporarily free-living offshoot of this species, since Tetramorium caespitum and Tetramorium impurum (the host species at Briançon and in the Pyrenees) are the only nonparasitic tetramoriines known to exist at the present time through most of central Europe. It is difficult to conceive of a stage of social parasitism more advanced than that actually reached by Teleutomyrmex schneideri. The species occurs only in the nests of its hosts. It lacks a worker caste, and the queens contribute in no visibly productive way to the economy of the host colonies. The queens are tiny compared with most ants, especially other tetramoriines; they average only about 2.5 mm in total length. They are unique among all known social insects in being ectoparasitic. In other words, they spend much of their time riding on the backs of their hosts (Figure 12-1). The Teleutomyrmex queens display several striking morphological features that are correlated with this peculiar habit. The ventral surface of the gaster (the large terminal part of the body) is strongly concave, permitting the parasites to press their bodies close to those of their hosts. The tarsal claws and arolia are unusually large, permitting the parasites to secure a strong grip on the smooth chitinous body surface of the hosts. The queens have a marked tendency to grasp objects. Given a choice, they will position themselves on the top of the body of the host queen, either on the thorax or the abdomen. Deprived of the nest queen, they will then seize a virgin Tetramorium queen, or a worker, or a pupa, or even a dead queen or worker. Stumper observed a case in which six to eight Teleutomyrmex queens simultaneously grasped one Tetramorium queen, completely immobilizing her. The mode of feeding of the Teleutomyrmex is not known with certainty. The adults are evidently either fed by the host workers through direct regurgitation or else share in the liquid regurgitated to the host queen. In any case, they are almost completely inactive most of the time. The Teleutomyrmex adults, especially the older queens, are highly attractive to the host workers, who lick them frequently. According to Gösswald, large numbers of unicellular glands are located just under the cuticle of the thorax, pedicel, and abdomen of the queens; these are associated with glandular hairs and are believed to be the source of a special attractant for the host workers. The abdomens of older Teleutomyrmex queens become swollen with fat body and ovarioles, as is shown in Figure 12-1. This physogastry is made possible by the fact that the intersegmental membranes are thicker and more sclerotized than is usually the case in ant queens and can therefore be stretched more. Also, the abdominal sclerites themselves are widely overlapping in the virgin queen, so that the abdomen can be distended to an unusual degree before the sclerites are pulled apart. The ovarioles increase enormously in length, discard their initial orientation, and infiltrate the entire abdomen and even the postpetiolar cavity.
From one to several physogastric queens are found in each parasitized nest, usually riding on the back of the host queen. Each lays an average of one egg every thirty seconds. The infested Tetramorium colonies are typically smaller than uninfested ones, but they still contain up to several thousand workers. The Tetramorium queens also lay eggs, and these are capable of developing into either workers or sexual forms (Buschinger, personal communication). Consequently the brood of a parasitized colony consists typically of eggs, larvae, and pupae of Teleutomyrmex queens and males mixed with those of Tetramorium workers.
The bodies of the Teleutomyrmex queens bear the mark of extensive morphological degeneration correlated with their loss of social functions. The labial and postpharyngeal glands are reduced, and the maxillary and metapleural glands are completely absent. The mandibular glands, on the other hand, are apparently normal. In addition, the queens possess a tibial gland, the function of which is unknown. The integument is thin and less pigmented and sculptured in comparison with that of Tetramorium; as a result of these reductions the queens are shining brown, an appearance that contrasts with the opaque blackish brown of their hosts. The sting and poison apparatus are reduced; the mandibles are so degenerate that the parasites are probably unable to secure food on their own; the tibial-tarsal cleaning apparatus is underdeveloped; and, of even greater interest, the brain is reduced in size with visible degeneration in the associative centers. In the central nerve cord, ganglia 9-13 are fused into a single piece. The males are also degenerate. Their bodies, like those of the males of a few other extreme social parasites, are "pupoid," meaning that the cuticle is thin and depigmented, actually greyish in color; the petiole and postpetiole are thick and provided with broad articulating surfaces; and the abdomen is soft and deflected downward at the tip.
In its essentials the life cycle of Teleutomyrmex schneideri resembles that of other known extreme ant parasites. Mating takes place within the host nest. The fecundated queens then either shed their wings and join the small force of egg layers within the home nest or else fly out in search of new Tetramorium nests to infest. Stumper found that the queens could be transferred readily from one Tetramorium colony to another, provided the recipient colony originated from the Saas-Fee. However, Tetramorium colonies from Luxembourg were hostile to the little parasites. Less surprisingly, ant species from the Saas-Fee other than Tetramorium caespitum always rejected the Teleutomyrmex. However, Buschinger (personal communication) has pointed out that the Saas-Fee population could be caespitum or impurum, or a mixture of both. In other words, the transfer might have been attempted across species.
When do we know an ant is an extreme, workerless inquiline?
1. The worker caste is lost.
2. The queen is either replaced by an ergatogyne, or ergatogynes appear together with a continuous series of intergrades connecting them morphologically to the queens.
3. There is a tendency for multiple egg-laying queens to coexist in the same host nest.
4. The queen and male are reduced in size, often dramatically so; in some cases (for example, Teleutomyrmex schneideri, Plagiolepis ampeloni, Plagiolepis xene) the queen is actually smaller than the host worker.
5. The male becomes "pupoid": its body is thickened, the petiole and postpetiole become much more broadly attached, the genitalia are more externally exposed when not in use, the cuticle becomes thin and depigmented, and the wings are reduced or lost. The extreme examples of this trend are displayed by Anergates atratulus, Pheidole neokohli, and Pheidole acutidens (see Figures 12-19 and 12-20).
6. There is a tendency for the nuptial flights to be curtailed, and to be replaced by mating activity among nestmates ("adelphogamy") within or near the host nest. Dispersal of the queen afterward is very limited.
7. Probably as a consequence of the curtailment of the nuptial flight just cited, the populations of inquiline species are usually very fragmented and limited in their geographic distribution.
8. The wing venation is reduced.
9. Mouthparts are reduced, with the mandibles becoming smaller and toothless and the palps losing segments. Concomitantly, the inquilines lose the ability to feed themselves and must be sustained by liquid food regurgitated to them by the host workers.
10. Antennal segments are fused and reduced in number.
11. The occiput, or rear portion of the head, of the queen is narrowed.
12. The central nervous system is reduced in size and complexity, usually through reduction of associative centers.
13. The petiole and postpetiole are thickened, especially the latter, and the postpetiole acquires a broader attachment to the gaster.
14. A spine is formed on the lower surface of the postpetiole (the Parasitendorn of Kutter).
15. The propodeal spines (if present in the ancestral species) "melt," that is, they thicken and often grow shorter, and their tips are blunted.
16. The cuticular sculpturing is reduced or lost altogether over most of the body; in extreme cases the body surface becomes strongly shining.
17. The exoskeleton becomes thinner and less pigmented.
18. Many of the exocrine glands are reduced or lost, a trait already described in some detail in the earlier account of Teleutomyrmex schneideri.
19. The queens become highly attractive to the host workers, which lick them frequently. This is especially true of the older, physogastric individuals, and it appears to be due to the secretion of special attractant substances which are as yet chemically unidentified.


Posted on 2006/08/12 04:29:57 (August 2006).
Fairly normal day at work. After work I went out with some people from the office for dinner and a couple of drinks, in the area around where we work. Nothing much to write home about really. I seemed to receive the Spanish Inquisition at a number of points during the evening about what my plans were for the future - clearly the team as a whole has got wind of the fact that I'm not entirely enamoured at the prospect of continuing to work in that environment. It isn't really appropriate to talk to the people on the team about this kind of thing though, so for now, I just issued a lot of "no comment" type answers.
Do you intend to leave? You don't like your colleagues? Or is it your boss? Were you sexually harrassed by the security guard? Your salary isn't high enough, perhaps? Isn't your job exhilarating? Are you wearing a thong?
Posted by Sheri at 2006/08/13 06:51:59.


Alfa Romeo team manager Beat Zehnder says it is "a pleasure" to be working once again with Kimi Raikkonen.
The pair worked together when Raikkonen made his F1 debut for Sauber in 2001, and the Finn has now returned to the same Hinwil based team for 2019.
Currently, he is 'best of the rest' behind the six Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull drivers.
And that 'B league' will remain in place for now under the current rules regime, according to team boss Frederic Vasseur.
"Not much will change until 2021," he said. "We can only try to hold our own in the midfield.
Currently, Alfa Romeo is fifth, behind Renault.


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"I feel like when we decided to put our show together we were making a foolhardy attempt at something that no one wanted," Glass told CPR. "I feel like Colorado Public Radio took it to the next level. I feel like you went further than we did. You saw our bluff and took it further. You trumped our card with a higher trump value and I have such respect for that. I never thought this could possibly work and I was so impressed at the number of people who just sent you in entries and the quality of some of them I was really amazed and excited to hear."
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Before she worked in journalism, Wolf was a professional ballet and contemporary dancer for more than 12 years. While transitioning from ballet to journalism may seem unusual, Wolf has found that her years in a rehearsal studio have instilled in her unwavering discipline, the ability to work under pressure and against deadlines, and an inclination to do things outside of the box.
In 2010, Wolf co-founded { DIYdancer }, a platform for dance journalism and criticism. She and her collaborators released the first print edition of { DIYdancer } spring 2017.
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As part of its corporate culture of identifying with young talents and empowering the youths, Africa World Airlines (AWA) recently offered incentives to a couple of young Nigerian students for excelling in the 6th National Travel Essay Competition (NTEC 2014/15) organised annually by Travel & Business News, a leading air transport journal.
The presentation was made by the airline's head of sales and ticketing, Nigeria, Mrs. Genevieve Fiewor during a courtesy visit by the students and their parents to the carrier's corporate office in Marina, Lagos.
Miss Kyllians Emmanuella, an SS2 student of Murtala Muhammed Airport Secondary School (MMASS), Ikeja who came 2nd in the Secondary Schools Category of the air transport writing contest, and Mr. Igweonu Tobenna, a 100 Level Law Student of the University of Lagos (Unilag) who also took 2nd position in the Tertiary Institutions Category of the contest emerged as recipients of the AWA Prize which included a free ticket to Accra, Ghana as well as other gift items.
The topics of their essays were: "Airport Development As A Stimulus For Economic Growth" and "Encouraging More Women Into Helicopter Aviation," in the Secondary Schools and Tertiary Institutions categories respectively.
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In an effort to ensure passenger comfort during the service, AWA disclosed that the flight will be operated with an A340-600 in a two class configuration with 42 seats in Business Class and 275 seats in Economy.


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La  poesia nòrdica antiga comprèn una gamma de formes en vers escrites en nòrdic antic, durant el període que va del segle VIII fins al . La majoria de la poesia nòrdica antiga que sobreviu va ser conservada a Islàndia, però també hi ha 122 inscripcions rúniques sueques, 54 de noruegues i 12 de daneses.

La poesia jugava una funció important a la vida social i religiosa dels nòrdics. A la mitologia nòrdica, l'Skáldskaparmál explica la història de com Odin va portar l'aiguamel poètica a Asgard, la qual cosa indica la importància de la poesia a la cultura escandinava de l'Era vikinga.

La poesia nòrdica antiga es caracteritza per l'al·literació i per un vocabulari poètic expandit per l'ús de heitis i kennings. Una font important d'informació sobre formes poètiques en nòrdic antic és l'Edda prosaica de Snorri Sturluson.

Normalment, es divideix la poesia nòrdica antiga en dos tipus: l'Edda poètica (també anomenada poesia èddica) i la Poesia skàldica. L'Edda poètica inclou els poemes del Còdex Regius i altres de similars, i tota la resta acostuma a ser considerat poesia skàldica.

Mètrica
La poesia nòrdica antiga té moltes formes mètriques des del relativament senzill fornyrðislag al profundament complex dróttkvætt (l'anomenada mètrica cortesana).

En poesia èddica, les estructures mètriques són generalment senzilles, pràcticament sempre són ljóðaháttr o fornyrðislag. El ljóðaháttr (conegut també com la "mètrica del cant"), a causa de la seva estructura amb estrofes trencades, tendia al diàleg i el discurs. El fornyrðislag (la "mètrica de paraules antigues") és el més generalment utilitzat del dos, i és generalment utilitzat allà on el poema és en gran part narratiu. Es compon de quatre o més síl·labes per línia. Altres mètriques conegudes són:
 Málaháttr. És similar al fornyrðislag, però amb una longitud fixa de cinc síl·labes.
 Hrynhenda. una variant del dróttkvætt, el qual utilitza totes les regles del dróttkvætt, amb l'excepció que la línia comprèn quatre peus mètrics enlloc de tres.
 Kviðuháttr una altra variant de fornyrðislag amb línies alternes de 3 i 4 síl·labes
 Galdralag la "mètrica màgica", lal qual conté una quarta línia que repeteix i varia la tercera línia

Edda poètica

La poesia èddica té les característiques següents:
 L'autor és sempre anònim.
 La mètrica és senzilla: fornyrðislag, málaháttr o ljóðaháttr.
 L'ordre de les paraules és relativament directe.
 Els kennings s'utilitzen moderadament i rarament s'utilitzen els més obscurs.

Poesia skàldica
La poesia skàldica té les característiques següents:
 Normalment se'n coneix l'autor..
 La mètrica és ornada, normalment dróttkvætt o variacions sobre això.
 La sintaxi és ornada, amb frases generalment entrellaçades.
 S'utilitzen sovint els kennings.

Referències

Vegeu també
 Skald
 Kennings
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Health and Recovery Plans (HARPs) will manage care for adults with significant behavioral health needs. They will facilitate the integration of physical health, mental health, and substance use services for individuals requiring specialized approaches, expertise and protocols which are not consistently found within most medical plans. In addition to the State Plan Medicaid services offered by Mainstream MCOs, qualified HARPs will offer access to an enhanced benefit package comprised of Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) designed to provide the individual with a specialized scope of support services not currently covered under the State Plan.
Individuals currently enrolled in HIV Special Needs Plans (HIV SNPs) meeting the serious mental illness (SMI) and substance use disorder (SUD) targeting criteria and risk factors for HARP will also be eligible to receive HCBS while enrolled in their HIV SNP. Access to HCBS for HIV SNP enrollees will require an assessment consistent with the HARP program.
The Adult Behavioral Health Home and Community Based Services (BH HCBS) Plan of Care template can be used for individuals enrolled in a HARP who are eligible for BH HCBS. This template was developed by the New York State Department of Health, the Office of Mental Health, the Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Services, and the Health Home/Managed Care Organization workgroup. This template incorporates all the Federal rules and regulations required for the Adult BH HCBS Plan of Care.
The BH HCBS Plan of Care Federal Rules and Regulations checklist is a list of the Federal rules and regulations for the Adult BH HCBS Plan of Care document. This checklist can be used as a guidance tool by any entity that does not choose to use the BH HCBS Plan of Care template. Any entity that creates their own Adult BH HCBS Plan of Care must ensure that all the Federal rules and regulations are incorporated into their document.
The Person–centered Planning Process Federal Rules and Regulations checklist is a list of the Federal rules and regulations for the person–centered planning process. This check list can be used by care managers to ensure that the Federal rules and regulations were followed during the person–centered planning process.
The BH HCBS workflow shows the process (assessment, HCBS POC development, authorization) for how HARP eligible persons who are enrolled in a Health Home will receive BH HCBS.
A Credentialed Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Counselor (CASAC).
In linking individuals with Serious Mental Illness, developmental disabilities, or substance use disorders to a broad range of services essential to successful living in a community setting (e.g. medical, psychiatric, social, educational, legal, housing and financial services).
A master´s degree in one of the qualifying education fields may be substituted for one year of Experience.
Master´s level professional with 3 years prior experience supervising clinicians and/or CMs who are providing direct services to individuals with SMI/serious SUDs.
Specific training for the designated assessment tool(s), the array of services and supports available, and the client–centered service planning process. Training in assessment of individuals whose condition may trigger a need for HCBS and supports, and an ongoing knowledge of current best practices to improve health and quality of life.
Mandated training on the New York State Community Mental Health Assessment instrument and additional required training.
Effective November 15, 2016, waiver applications for individuals conducting the NYS Community Mental Health Assessment (CMHA) are no longer accepted. Care Management Agencies are required to hire qualified staff to conduct the assessments, as has been the expectation from the inception of the waiver process.
Training for the NYS CMH assessment was made available on May 15, 2015 for Health Homes in New York City. The training will be available to Health Homes in the rest of the state at a later time.
1500 Understanding the Community Mental Health Assessment – This course is designated to prepare assessors to use the NYS Community Mental Health Assessment instrument.
On September 24, 2015 and September 25, 2015, the State conducted a "HARP/HCBS Eligibility Assessment" webinar. The purpose of this webinar was to review the HARP/HCBS eligibility criteria, the HARP/HCBS Eligibility Assessment, and the associated outcomes. The presentation slides can be found below, and the recorded session will be posted to the UAS–NY Training Environment.


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As Christmas and the new year get closer, we have decided to take this opportunity to reflect on 2022 and look back at everything we achieved in our first full year. 2022 is the WasteTrade's first full calendar year, and to say it has been an eventful one would be an understatement. At the beginning…
Energy Prices 2022 | What the Energy Price Crisis Means for Recycling In the UK and Europe
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Last week on Thursday 22nd September, WasteTrade exhibited at The Big Sustainability Expo 2022. This event brought together leaders in corporate sustainability from all sectors of the economy. We had the opportunity to meet with many different individuals and businesses to discuss what we at WasteTrade, together with ThinkCarbon, are doing to change the world…
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David Kaczynski (born October 3, 1949) is the younger brother of Ted Kaczynski. His memoir, Every Last Tie: The Story of the Unabomber and His Family, details David's relationship with his brother and parents, and the difficult decision that David and his wife faced when they came to suspect that Ted was the Unabomber.
Kaczynski is a graduate of Columbia University. Between December 1966 and May 1967 he wrote ten articles for the Columbia Daily Spectator and in March 1967 was promoted to the associate news board. David worked as a schoolteacher in Lisbon, Iowa in the mid-1970s.
After the anonymous Unabomber demanded in 1995 that his manifesto, Industrial Society and Its Future, be published in a major newspaper as a condition for ceasing his mail-bomb campaign, The New York Times and The Washington Post published the manifesto, hoping somebody would recognize the writing style of the author.
David's wife, Linda Patrik, first suspected Theodore and urged David to read the manifesto when it was published. David recognized Ted's writing style, and the criminal defense lawyer the couple hired notified authorities. On April 3, 1996, police arrested Ted in his rural cabin in Lincoln, Montana. David had received assurance from the FBI that his identity as the informant would be kept secret, but his name was leaked to the media. In addition, he sought a guarantee from federal prosecutors that Ted would receive appropriate psychiatric evaluation and treatment. The Justice Department's subsequent active pursuit of the death penalty for Ted, and Attorney General Janet Reno's initial refusal to accept a plea bargain in exchange for a life sentence, was seen by Kaczynski and other members of his family as a betrayal. Such a plea bargain was eventually reached, and Ted was sentenced to serve life imprisonment with no possibility of parole. Kaczynski has since said that the decision to report his brother was painful but he felt morally compelled to do so.
David Kaczynski received a $1 million reward posted by the FBI for the Unabomber's capture. The reward was funded by a Congressional appropriation for the Department of Justice and was, at the time, one of the largest rewards issued in a domestic case. Kaczynski told the Associated Press that he planned to distribute the majority of the reward money to the bombing victims and their families, adding that this "might help us resolve our grief over what happened."
Prior to turning his brother Ted in to authorities, Kaczynski worked as an assistant director of the Equinox shelter for runaway and homeless youth in Albany, New York, where he counseled and advocated for troubled, neglected, and abused youth. His brother's confrontation with the death penalty later motivated Kaczynski to become an anti-death penalty activist. In 2001, Kaczynski was named executive director of New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty (as of 2008, New Yorkers for Alternatives to the Death Penalty). While the mission of NYADP originally focused only on ending the death penalty, under Kaczynski's guidance in 2008, it broadened its mission to address the unmet needs of all those affected by violence, including victims and their families. After leaving the NYADP, Kaczynski served as executive director of Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, a Tibetan Buddhist monastery located in Woodstock, New York.
Kaczynski was portrayed by Robert Hays in the 1996 television movie Unabomber: The True Story.
David Kaczynski was portrayed by Mark Duplass in the 2017 television series Manhunt: Unabomber.
Kaczynski is a practicing Buddhist and is a vegetarian. In 2009 he published an essay about his relationship with his brother Ted, from childhood to adulthood, which appeared in a collection of essays.
^ "Author Results for David Kaczynski". Columbia Spectator Archive. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
^ "Spectator Editors Award Promotions". Columbia Daily Spectator. CXI (87). 20 March 1967. p. 3. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
^ McFadden, Robert D. (September 19, 1995). "Times and The Washington Post Grant Mail Bomber's Demand". The New York Times.
^ Interview on WXXI (AM), Rochester, NY, March 13, 2002.
^ Kaltenbach, Chris (11 September 1996). "USA rips from headlines with 'Unabomber' movie". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 5 April 2017.
^ Matthew Purdy (August 5, 2001). "Our Towns; Crime, Punishment and the Brothers K." The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-03-30.
^ Andrew Blauner, ed. (2009-04-20). Brothers: 26 Stories of Love & Rivalry. Jossey-Bass. ISBN 0-470-39129-4.
"David Kaczynski collected news and commentary". The New York Times.


All Saints Weston Green is conducting First Aid Training for members of the community, including how to use an Automatic External Defibrillator (located at the entrance to the Church Hall - see picture below). Three sessions were run in Jan-Feb this year, and were incredibly useful; so more are being run in October. See details below.


Links and subcategories within the Audio Recording section are provided below.
[ Mature Teens ] - An alphabetical list of terms and definitions used in studio recording from the field of acoustics.
GarageBand has opened up the joy of digital recording to new audiences. Here, we cover the basics of how to mix your tracks together.
[ Mature Teens ] - Article explaining microphone selection, placement and equalization. Includes diagrams and notes on using reverb.
[ Teens/Mature Teens ] - A collection of essays offering basic and intermediate advice. Includes projects and information on using a MIDI system.
[ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Tips on how to produce quality recordings at home. Includes advice on room acoustics and basic equipment.
[ Teens/Mature Teens ] - General tips on classic setups for recording guitars and drums with advice on using a stereo effects unit.


La Escuelita is literally a "little school" in Oakland, California, serving a small but diverse population. Part of the nation's "small schools movement," the Title I campus is nestled in a new, eco-friendly building on the lip of Oakland's Lake Merrit, and serves 358 transitional kindergarten through seventh grade students, more than 90% of whom qualify for free or reduced price lunch.
The school is rich in technology, with two computer labs and laptops carts. Despite this, the school had not quite figured out how to leverage technology for personalized learning. That is, until they introduced ST Math.
As the games sustained students' engagement and allowed them to work at their own pace, ST Math freed the teachers to pull aside small groups and work on specific concepts or troubleshoot challenges. "ST Math really introduced La Escuelita to personalization," says Frederick.
Despite its small size, La Escuelita has become an ST Math powerhouse in Oakland, where 13 of 54 elementary schools currently implement the program, thanks to a public-private partnership between the district and the Rogers Foundation.
Fourteen more of Oakland's elementary schools are on a waiting list for ST Math. "There's been lots of word of mouth," reports Robin Lovell, the elementary mathematics coordinator for Oakland Unified School District. Teachers from all of Oakland's ST Math campuses have come to visit La Escuelita to see first-hand how the students use the program, and gain ideas for how best to leverage the program back at their home campuses.
Lovell is currently developing a way to measure ST Math's impact based on the district's three annual benchmark exams, which are built into the custom math curriculum that the district developed in collaboration with more than 350 of its teachers. The insight will not only help verify the efficacy of ST Math, but give the schools greater insight in how to implement it.
"They never wane in their joy of bringing that penguin across the screen," Frederick adds, referring to the animated penguin JiJi who accompanies students through the games.
Aniya loves ST Math and can't wait to use her STEM skills as a doctor!


Refurbished Motorola Moto G5 Plus smartphone was launched in February 2017. The phone comes with a 5.20-inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 1080 pixels by 1920 pixels at a PPI of 424 pixels per inch.
The Motorola Moto G5 Plus is powered by 2GHz octa-core processor and it comes with 4GB of RAM. The phone packs 32GB of internal storage that can be expanded up to 128GB via a microSD card. As far as the cameras are concerned, the Motorola Moto G5 Plus packs a 12-megapixel primary camera on the rear and a 5-megapixel front shooter for selfies.
The Motorola Moto G5 Plus is powered by a 3000mAh non removable battery. It measures 150.20 x 74.00 x 9.70 (height x width x thickness) and weighs 155.00 grams.
The Motorola Moto G5 Plus is a dual SIM (GSM and GSM) smartphone that accepts Nano-SIM and Nano-SIM. Connectivity options include Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, NFC, USB OTG, FM, 3G and 4G. Sensors on the phone include Proximity sensor, Accelerometer, Ambient light sensor and Gyroscope.


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Q: How to enable javascript on xdg-open I am trying to open a url using xdg-open but the terminal says,

So how do I enable the javascript?

A: That message is not from xdg-open. It is from whatever application was used to open the URL. As you are using it over SSH, it isn't opening a graphical web browser, and instead appears to be opening the URL in a console based web browser, which either does not support JavaScript or has the feature disabled.
You will need to use a browser which supports JavaScript, or enable the feature if it is disabled.

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More Heartbreak! Justin Theroux's Scorned Ex Heidi Bivens Blindsided By Jennifer Aniston Wedding News
Aug. 6 2015, Published 2:16 p.m. ET
Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux dated for more than four years before tying the knot Wednesday night in a surprise celebration. But before their big day, Theroux dated NYC stylist Heidi Bivens for a whopping 14 years -- only to dump her for Aniston. And the wedding news blindsided her yet again.
Reached by RadarOnline.com about her ex's wedding on Thursday morning, a stunned Bivens said she was "surprised" and declined to offer her congratulations before hanging up the phone.
Bivens was reportedly dumped by Theroux in March 2011, several months after he began filming Wanderlust with Aniston. The new couple were spotted out together beginning in May, and Bivens moved out of the apartment she had shared with Theroux in June.
By fall, Aniston reportedly held a secret meeting with Bivens in a suite at The Mercer hotel to clear the air about what actually happened between the three of them and get Bivens' blessing.
Rom-Com Queens Jen Aniston & Reese Witherspoon 'Bent Out Of Shape' About Cameron Diaz's Acting Return: Source
One-Time Box Office Champ Vince Vaughn Begging A-List Pals To Save Struggling Career
Jennifer Aniston's Dad John Dead At 89, Two Years After Pair Reconciled From Lengthy Estrangement
At the time, her mom Marilyn Bivens told Star, "It's a very complicated time for all of us."
When reached by RadarOnline.com about the wedding, she declined to comment.


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JIMMY FOLCO: Circus Sarasota Opens!
Dolly Jacobs and Pedro Reis' CIRCUS SARASOTA opened their season last night with reprise clown Jimmy Folco providing the comedy this year.
Let me get this straight, Fumagalli and Jimmy Folco are in the States? Barry Lubin is in Europe? Wait just a cotton pickin' minute... JUST WHAT'S GOING ON HERE ?!?
Where is Frosty Little this season? Cirque d'Hiver?!?
Posted by Pat Cashin at 2/02/2008 12:12:00 PM 23 comments:
CHARLIE FRYE has COMPANY
Photo and comment courtesy of Captain Mike Heidtman
Hey Pat,
It's your old pal Cap'n Mike here ... trust all is well with you and yours. As a followup to your posting of Charlie Frye & Co. I'm forwarding this photo from a couple weeks ago. It's Charlie, me and Sherry taken in Columbia, SC where Charlie was headliner for the SCAM Con's public show (South Carolina Association of Magicians Convention). What a strong act he presents and the magi were seriously blown away with his skills both as an object manipulator and as a magician.
All for now - keep up the good work with The Alley.
Aloha-ha,
Cap'n Mike
BARRY LUBIN: The Reviews Are In!
Photo courtesy of Circus Scandanavia
From a Liz Aratoon's review of the 32nd annual Festival International du Cirque de Monte-Carlo
The second night of competition opens with a repeat of Kid Bauer's big cat act. This is followed by the first appearance of the famous American clown Grandma (Barry Lubin). Dressed in his trademark red shift, yellow stockings, grey wig and pearls, his comedy is gentle and beautifully observed. Entrees involving popcorn, a running machine and Nat 'King' Cole's duet with daughter Natalie - sung with a man at ringside - are all masterpieces.
CHARLIE FRYE: Circa 1990
Clown College graduate and former Ringling circus clown, Charlie Frye and his partner in real life as well as on stages around the world, his wife Sherry.
The act is so good that you can deal with the poor sound quality.
Find out more about Charlie (and order his ECCENTRICKS videos) by clicking the title of this post.
OLEG POPOV: Programma Maximum, 2008
A very recent television segment on, and interview with, Oleg Popov.
ROB TORRES: International Circus Festival of Budapest
Did I hear right???
Did Clown College grad and former Beatty-Cole circus clown Rob Torres really just take home the Bronze in Budapest???
DICK MONDAY & BARRY LUBIN: Disneyland Circus Fantasy 1986
Dick Monday and Barry Lubin at Disneyland Circus Fantasy, 1986.
I have a brief snippet of Dick's "Yard Sale" bit which he did on Main Street that I'll post if he's willing to tell the story about it.
GEORGE CARL: Stockholm Sweden, 1970s
While I certainly believe that this was shot at the same performance as the other clown footage from the Swedish television special CLOWNS (the one that features The Rastellis, Joe Jackson Jr, Eric Braun and Charlie Rivel), I have no way to confirm the date.
It looks to have been shot in the same building, by the same crew but features far more cutaway shots of the audience than the footage that I've seen of other acts shot during that taping.
The American TV special that I found this on gives the place as Stockholm, Sweden (the name of the show or the building is not given) and the year as 1979, which I believe is incorrect and only given to make the footage seem more current.
NORMAN WISDOM: Sunday Night at the London Palladium, 1961
Edited from the Wikipedia entry on "Sunday Night at the London Palladium"...
Sunday Night at the London Palladium was a British television variety show made by ATV for the ITV network, originally running from 1955 to 1967, with a brief revival in 1973 and 1974. The London Palladium is an actual theatre in London's West End.
Perhaps the most famous episode of all took place during a strike by the British acting union Equity, who refused to allow any of its performers to appear that week. Exempt from this, host Bruce Forsyth and comedian Norman Wisdom appeared in the entire show, improvising wildly on the live broadcast December 3, 1961.
The format was revived in the 1980s as Live From Her Majesty's, Live from the Piccadilly and Live From the Palladium with comedian Jimmy Tarbuck once again doing the hosting duties. Live from Her Majesty's is however mainly remembered as being the show on which comedian Tommy Cooper suffered a fatal heart attack, collapsing midway through his act on the popular program.
From John Cooper...
There is certainly a notable routine with Norman Wisdom and Bruce Forsyth doing this on "Sunday Night at The London Palladium" when there was some sort of strike so that the pair had to perform the entire show with just the two of them LIVE.
The paper-hanging sequence they did on that occasion was adapted from the routine used (if not devised) by Naughton and Gold (i.e. Charlie Naughton and Jimmy Gold) of The Crazy Gang.
OLEG POPOV: Stirka, 1957
Oleg Popov in the ring, in some of the most appealing footage I've ever seen of him, from the 1957 film which was posted to YouTube with the title STIRKA but which IMDB lists as ARTISTRY TSIRKA and was released in the US under the title CIRCUS STARS.
OLEG POPOV: with Zviaginy, 1953
Oleg Popov with trampoline artist Zviaginy from the film ARENA SMELYKH (which was titled DARING YOUTH CIRCUS or RING OF DARING in the US) released in 1953.
OLEG POPOV: Goluboy Ogonek
Since I don't read or speak any Russian I can only guess that these are scenes from a Russian film called GOLUBOY OGONEK (which AltaVista BabelFish translated to mean "Goluboy Ogonek") which features Oleg Popov.
It isn't listed with IMDB so I'm not sure of the year of it's release...
2008 FELIX ADLER AWARDS
Starting on March 1st we are going to start accepting nominees for the 2008 Felix Adler Awards which will be announced at 12:00 PM on April 1st.
That gives us one month to hash out a few questions that need to be resolved by "The Academy" but I'd like to gauge reader response to the following questions...
1) Do we keep it to the three awards given in 2007 (Otto Griebling Award for Solo Clowning, Paul Jung Award for Ensemble Clowning and Lou Jacobs Lifetime Achievement Award)? Do we add some? Subtract some?
2) The awards are for American circus clowning. They are open to all circus comedians who have performed in an American circus during the calendar year 2007. Does that exclude American circus clowns who performed in the three major festivals that took place in China in 2007? There was far more American circus clowning going on there than there was in the circus industry stateside!
3) In a given calendar year Big Apple has two productions, the one that premiered the previous fall and the one that premiers THAT fall. Are both, or only the new show, eligible for award?
We have a few more questions to resolve before the voting begins but let's start the discussion with those.
~P
COMEDY ACROBATS
A killer, but unidentified, comedy acrobatic act from a Colgate Comedy Hour hosted by Abbott and Costello.
LES BILI-BILI
Anyone have any information on Les Bili-Bili?
HARRY ATWELL: Jerome, Lewis and Jung
Back when the world was younger, the sky was bluer, grass was greener and Paul Jung was a young upstart in the Alley of The Greatest Show on Earth...
Paul Jerome
Lewis, Jung and Jerome
Paul Jerome, Jojo Lewis and Paul Jung
FELIX SAYS...
Isn't it about time we started discussing the 2008 awards?
OTTO GRIEBLING: Want Ad Wonder
Scan courtesy of circusbutterflygirl
JEFF DARNELL REMEMBERS: Mitch Freddes
Photos courtesy of Jeff Darnell
Mitch Freddes on Ringling in 1975.
The cover of Mitch Freddes most recent promo package.
DICK MONDAY & BARRY LUBIN: Disneyland Circus Fanta...
NORMAN WISDOM: Sunday Night at the London Palladiu...


takeover of Milwaukee schools by Wall Street.
The "Opportunity Schools Partnership Program" was introduced to the Wisconsin Legislature's Joint Finance Committee on May 19. With only an hour for committee members to read the plan, "debate" began at about 8:15 p.m., with an affirmative vote at 2 a.m. No public comment was allowed at the hearing. The plan has been sent to the Senate and Assembly, with the goal of being included in the 2015-17 state budget.
Modeled after similar austerity legislation and policies in cities with large communities of color, such as Detroit and Philadelphia, the Milwaukee plan would take over so-called "failing" schools in the Milwaukee Public School system and hand them over to capitalist corporations to operate.
The OSPP would be run by a commissioner to be appointed by Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele, a leading capitalist in the Wisconsin Democratic Party. The commissioner would have parallel authority with the elected MPS School Board and would be accountable only to the county executive.
Gov. Scott Walker's proposed 2015-17 budget includes numerous other attacks on public education, including the proposed elimination of Chapter 220, the only educational program in Milwaukee designed to reduce racial segregation in public schools and improve equal opportunity for oppressed students.
This latest attack on MPS is part of a decades' long war by Wall Street on public education in Milwaukee targeted specifically at Black and Brown communities and unions. This industrial city was the first major urban center in the United States used as a laboratory for "school choice." In 1990 Milwaukee became the first city with a "voucher" program for parents to use toward tuition at a private or religious school. The top Wisconsin court gave its OK to this program.
Since their implementation in Milwaukee, "voucher" schools have taken more than $1 billion in taxpayer money away from public schools, with minimal public accountability. The defunding of public schools has resulted in larger class sizes, less individual attention to students and less access to art, music, libraries and physical education in the city's public schools.
Milwaukee Public School system has suffered the severest budget cuts in its history since Wall Street-servant Walker became governor in 2010. Not only has it lost funding of hundreds of millions of dollars, it's been forced to lay off hundreds of teachers and close several schools.
Higher education in Wisconsin has suffered the most cuts in its history during this period as well.
A mass people's fightback is emerging, centered in Milwaukee, that is demanding the OSPP be taken out of the state budget. The MTEA, Wisconsin Jobs Now and student groups like Youth Empowered in the Struggle, all members of the Schools and Communities United coalition, are leading the fight against the latest austerity proposal.
A school defense rally will take place May 27 at Auer Avenue Elementary School. The event is called "Auer Community Is Not Your Colony." Participants, including parents, students, community and union members, plan to physically surround the school in solidarity with each other.
For more information, visit schoolsandcommunitiesunited.org and #DontMessWithMPS, #NoMPSTakeover.