Prayag, A. S., Najjar, R. P., & Gronfier, C. (2019). Melatonin suppression is exquisitely sensitive to light and primarily driven by melanopsin in humans. J Pineal Res, in press.
Abstract: INTRODUCTION: Light elicits a range of non-visual responses in humans. Driven predominantly by intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs), but also by rods and/or cones, these responses include melatonin suppression. A sigmoidal relationship has been established between melatonin suppression and light intensity, however photoreceptoral involvement remains unclear. METHODS AND RESULTS: In this study, we first modelled the relationships between alpha-opic illuminances and melatonin suppression using an extensive dataset by Brainard and colleagues. Our results show that 1) melatonin suppression is better predicted by melanopic illuminance compared to other alpha-opic illuminances, 2) melatonin suppression is predicted to occur at levels as low as ~1.5 melanopic lux (melanopsin-weighted irradiance 0.2 muW/cm(2)), 3) saturation occurs at 305 melanopic lux (melanopsin-weighted irradiance 36.6 muW/cm(2)). We then tested this melanopsin-weighted illuminance response model derived from Brainard and colleagues' data and show that it predicts equally well melatonin suppression data from our laboratory, although obtained using different intensities and exposure duration. DISCUSSION: Together, our findings suggest that melatonin suppression by monochromatic lights is predominantly driven by melanopsin, and that it can be initiated at extremely low melanopic lux levels in experimental conditions. This emphasizes the concern of the non-visual impacts of low light intensities in lighting design and light-emitting devices. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.


On the 5th-6th April 2014, we will be represented at the Rats Bay Shindig on Sun Pier, Chatham.
Open from 11:00 - 17:00 both days plus evening entertainment!
We all have our own personal memories that can be included in the Medway Queen story. There are many names of people that have contributed their time and skills to bring our little ship to where she is today and it is their work that makes it possible to celebrate the Medway Queen's 90th birthday this April, we are having a Birthday Party Weekend on 26th and 27th April.
April 23rd (Wednesday) is the actual date of her launching. The ship will be dressed overall for that day. Saturday 26th will be an open day at Gillingham Pier for society members and the public. We would like to invite as many ex crew members as possible to "re-join" their old ship. The ship and visitor centre will be open and light refreshments available. Contact Brian Goodhew on 01795 843317 for more details or look on www.medwayqueen.co.uk.
Attached are some photographs of the ship at the moment, not any major work is happening, we are doing small important work like painting until more funding is available to us.
The upper deck of the PS Medway Queen, temporary access fixing has been installed to give us the ability to lock access to the forward saloon.
The Aft Saloon decking has been covered over with hardboard to stop any damage to the wood whilst painting is going on.
Temporary ramps have been installed for when visitors can be on board.
Engine machinery is currently being assessed to see what we can salvage and what needs re-machining. We are hoping to get funding for the engine room soon.
Mark and Pam Bathurst are delighted to announce that they are organising another Summer Evening Dinner, at Medway Yacht Club (Lower Upnor, Rochester ME2 4XB) on Friday 11th July. The club restaurant provides a meal to a very high standard and the cost is expected to be in the region of £22.00 - £23.00.
M.Q.P.S. have held dinners at this venue before and they have always been delightful occasions. The location, overlooking the River Medway, is enchanting. It is an occasion when we can meet socially and gives us the opportunity to "showcase" our project and raise awareness of what we are doing. We hope to make this a really memorable evening, a time to celebrate the arrival of our beloved ship at Gillingham Pier, as well as look forward to exciting times ahead.
Come along, enjoy our party and have fun! Friends and guests are most welcome and do not have to be members, but numbers are limited. Although details of the menu are not yet available, prospective patrons are advised to make a provisional booking as soon as possible. Book now, don't delay!
All necessary information will be available, nearer the time. If you would like to come, make sure that Pam and Mark have your contact information, so that they are able to ensure that you have full details when they are to hand. Pam and Mark look forward, very much, to welcoming you to this event.
Telephone: 01843 227941 or mob. 07970 942125.


Blueberries, Black Raspberries: There are an abundant amount of antioxidants in these two raw fruits, as discovered by Tufts University's Center on Aging. They reverse the harmful effect of aging on neuronal (brain cell) signals. These signals are crucial to memory and even the prevention of Alzheimers; they also play a direct role in reducing depression and melancholia.
Cruciferous vegetables (cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, and kohlrabi): These sulphur—rich vegetables contain a phyto-nutrient called sulforaphan helping to fight cancer cells including the cell growth of breast cancer, as reported in the journal of Nutrition. Sprouted seeds of each of these vegetables increase their health-promoting effects exponentially.
Daikon Raclish: This japanese root vegetable that has a long history of assisting the body in blood purification, improved circulation and the reduction of ulcers. When juiced, the large community of nutrients and phyto chemicals are received in adequate quantities to assist in the above—mentioned areas.
Fenugreek (sprouts): these pungent and spectacular germinated seeds assist in all gastro—intestinal and eliminative concerns. They have a direct impact on the pancreatic blood sugar levels for both low and high blood sugar sufferers.
Garlic: This powerful herb and food contains allyl sulfides which researchers believe inhibits the growth of cancer cells, act as an antiseptic disinfectant, and helps to reduce ventricular plaque and inflammation- the cause of both heart attacks and stroke.
Hemp Seeds & Sprouts: Edible complete proteins that are an absolutely balanced essential fatty acid food. They not only build muscle, but also maintain brain, organ, and nervous system function, ultimately fueling a healthy metabolism. In the seed's germinated form, it is 24 times more bio—available than fatty acids, which helps to curb appetite and weight gain.
Iceberg Lettuce: Although not known for its nutritional properties, Iceberg lettuce, often called head lettuce, contains silica and silicone as well as an opiate aphrodisiac. Silica and silicone strengthen the skin, hair, bones, and sheathing of the nervous system, while providing elasticity in the soft tissue.
Jicama: Eaten either as a root vegetable or as a green leafy sprout (grown in a clay pot in soil,) this food can help with blood sugar, electrolyte balance, cardiovascular disorders, while providing increased energy The germinated version is superior to the consumption of the root vegetable itself. Kale: Its superior calcium, phosphorus and magnesium content strengthens the teeth, the skeletal structure and red blood cells. lts sulphur content assists in the reduction of ulcers and other gastro—intestinal disorders.
Lettuces: The leafy green varieties contain a close cousin to opiates, which have the ability to heighten positive mood increase sexual desire. It is often used as an aphrodisiac in its juiced from, providing far more benefits than eating large amounts of the leaves themselves.
Onion: This root vegetable contain a multitude of phyto-chemicals that help to protect the cell from mutagens as well as fungal concerns. lt has also been helpful with lyme's disease.
Nutmeg: This spice contains a wide array of phyto-neutrients that have been directly linked to improving urinary flow and to the reduction of bladder inflammation. Many have reported that Nutmeg has been helpful for regulating frequent urination.
Pea Green sprouts: These are a complete protein, serving to build the muscles and fibrin of the cells. Their high beta-carotene content protects vision and creates and anti-oxidant effect against many forms of cancer. This powerful, germinated food has inherent blood-building properties.
Quinoa: Is a high-protein and high—mineral grain that helps to alkalinize the body It also provides an abundant amount of energy for mental and physical activity.
Red Sweet Peppers: These succulent fruit/vegetables are rich in Vitamin C, which acts as an antioxidant to reduce free radical damage— the essential cause of all premature aging and disease. When drying the seeds and germinating them you will attain 37 times greater positive effect from their banquet of nutrients.
Sweet Potatoes and their spourted greens: Highly nutritious vegetables containing every vitamin and the majority of minerals and trace minerals. They have been used to: increase vitality both mental and physical; strengthen the heart and other vital organs and, most importantly increase the cell's ability to regenerate at a more rapid pace.
Tomato: When organic and vine ripened, this fruit contains phyto·ntttrients that have been directly linked to the prevention of breast and prostate cancer. They also are heart healthy, helping to build the tissue of this muscle.
Yucca and its sprouted greens: these are commonly used as a stomach and small intestine cleanser_ a gastrointestinal and elimination canal lubricator and most important as a reservoir of energy for physical activity and stamina.
Watermelon and its sprouted Seeds: These are often used as a diuretic and to Hush the kidneys and bladder. Watermelon provides high chlorophyll and minerals when the outer skin is juiced and high protein and minerals when the seeds are sprouted into greens. This delicious fruit has been used as a morning drink by living food connoisseurs over many decades.
Ugli fruit: This variation on the grapefruit contains the citric acids, nutrients and phyto-chemicals that help to dissolve waste in the gallbladder and liver create an antiseptic effect in the blood stream break up excess mucus and reduce excess uric acid. All of this effectively helps to alkalize the body.
Zucchini: this summer squash contains a unique variety of phyto—chemical that have been noted as protectors of hearing & eyesight. It also reduces female disorders such as PMS. The zucchini flowers also provide an extraordinary amount of beta-carotene one of the most important antioxidants for protecting the body from cancer and other invasive disease.


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This chapter explains the health and safety risks and legal ramifications of workplace bullying, and how you can prevent and respond to it.
Bullying is a work health and safety risk that you must control.
Legal ramifications of workplace bullying
If bullying occurs in your workplace, there are several legal risks.
Breach of health and safety legislation
Failing to take adequate steps to eliminate bullying in the workplace will be a breach of your health and safety duties.
Claims under the Fair Work Act
You can face liability under the FW Act in two ways.
Prosecution under the Victorian Crimes Act
In Victoria, the stalking provisions of the Crimes Act deal with workplace bullying.
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A victim of workplace bullying might make a workers' compensation or negligence claim against you.
Step-by-Step: How to reduce the risk of bullying in your workplace
There are a number of steps you should take to reduce the risk of bullying occurring in your workplace.
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Management action may be interpreted as bullying, so it's important to undertake management action reasonably.
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Ava DuVernay thanks Hansal Mehta for watching When They See Ushttps://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/web-series/ava-duvernay-thanks-hansal-mehta-for-watching-when-they-see-us-5790961/
Ava DuVernay thanks Hansal Mehta for watching When They See Us
Netflix show When They See Us directed by Ava DuVernay is based on the case of five teenagers of colour who were wrongly convicted for the rape of a jogger.
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Hansal Mehta took to Twitter to hail When They See Us for doing justice to a "disturbing and poignant" story that, he said, affected him deeply. (Photo: Ava DuVernay, Hansal Mehta/Instagram)
When They See Us director Ava DuVernay on Thursday thanked filmmaker Hansal Mehta for watching her Netflix show, which is based on the 1989 case of Central Park Five.
The four-episode show is based on the case of five teenagers of colour who were wrongly convicted for the rape of a jogger. When they were exonerated many years later, they sued the city for their time in prison.
Mehta took to Twitter to hail the show for doing justice to a "disturbing and poignant" story that, he said, affected him deeply.
"Saw #WhenTheySeeUs by @ava a few days ago on @NetflixIndia. It has affected me deeply. This true story is disturbing and poignant. Makes you question the criminal justice system and it's blatant disregard for the 'other'. Bravo #avaduvernay and thank you for telling this tale," the filmmaker tweeted.
Saw #WhenTheySeeUs by @ava a few days ago on @NetflixIndia. It has affected me deeply. This true story is disturbing and poignant. Makes you question the criminal justice system and it's blatant disregard for the 'other'. Bravo #avaduvernay and thank you for telling this tale.
— Hansal Mehta (@mehtahansal) June 20, 2019
Replying to Mehta, DuVernay said she is glad that the show resonated with him.
"Thank you very much, sir. Thank you for watching in Mumbai. It means a lot to know that people are connecting with this story in places near and far," she wrote.
Thank you very much, sir. Thank you for watching in Mumbai. It means a lot to know that people are connecting with this story in places near and far. https://t.co/Gp1AW6fAeL
— Ava DuVernay (@ava) June 20, 2019
When They See Us, which started streaming on Netflix from June 12, features Michael K Williams, Vera Farmiga, John Leguizamo, Felicity Huffman, Niecy Nash, Blair Underwood and Christopher Jackson, among others.
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The specific aim of this study is to evaluate whether insertion of a long-acting contraceptive implant in postpartum adolescents prior to hospital discharge increases use of this highly effective contraception during the first twelve months postpartum among adolescents who elect Implanon® as their preferred method of contraception. Additionally, this study aims to compare the acceptability of bleeding in postpartum adolescents who have an etonogestrel contraceptive implant prior to discharge versus those with insertion at the six week postpartum visit. The investigators will evaluate the acceptability of bleeding rather than collect prospective diaries because the investigators feel subjective perceptions of bleeding impact contraceptive continuation more than quantitative differences in bleeding.
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HTC First, the world's first phone with Facebook home now available on AT&T for $99. Are you looking for more information about Facebook Home phone HTC First? Read here to know more about features, specification and availability of HTC First Android Smartphone. HTC First Facebook Phone first launched in US and available at AT&T store.
Last week, we have witnessed the announcement of Facebook home, the new social networking application by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Tech geeks are now interested to know when the new Facebook home application available in the phones and which are the phones with preinstalled Facebook home application. As the Facebook Home is the newest application and which will not be available in all the smartphones in the market. However, let's hope it will be available in latest Android smartphones soon.
HTC first becomes the first phone launched with pre installed Facebook home application. There is news exists in the tech world that, social networking giant Facebook is going to launch a smartphone, but with their latest Facebook home application, they have cleared that, presently they are only aimed at Facebook home application, that makes your Android smartphone as Facebook phone. Newly launched HTC first Android smartphone become the rarest Android phone in the market with the pre installation of Facebook home. Techies are now looking for the smartphones with Facebook home application to taste the new dish from the social networking king Facebook.
HTC first is already in news with its pre installed Facebook home application, however, this Android smartphone is also power packed with other features too. HTC first comes with world class display of 4.3-inch 1280 x 720p resolution super LCD screen with incredible clarity. The 5 MP camera with following features BSI sensor, F2.0 aperture and 28 mm lens, 1080p Full HD video recording, Front Camera: 1.6 MP BSI front cameras (ultrawide angle) add HTC first into premium Android smartphone arena. 4.96 x 2.56 x 0.35 (in) sized HTC first Android Facebook home phone weighs 4.7 oz.
HTC first runs on latest Android Jelly Bean OS and comes with Dual Core 1.4 GHz Qualcomm® 8930AA processor, 1 GB LPDDR2 RAM, 16 GB internal memory which ensures stunning performance in this device. It supports most of the network system standards includes UMTS/HSPA/HSPA+: 850/900/1900/2100 MHz, GSM/GPRS/EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, LTE: 700/1700/2100 MHz. In the new era of mobile wireless generation the new HTC first features 4G which provides you stunning speed in your download and upload.
Ambient light sensor and GPS with Internal GPS antenna + GLONASS and digital compass. HTC first also supports connectivity options such as Bluetooth, NFC and Wifi.
HTC first Android smartphone popularly known as the world first Facebook phone with the pre installed Facebook home application on it. The new HTC first Android smartphone is priced at $99 on contract basis on AT&T and available at regular price of $449.99. The HTC first smartphone is available in different colours includes black, white, cyan and red. If you want to buy the HTC First smartphone to taste the flavor of new Facebook home application buy it from AT&T.


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Q: How its made such as digicoder vcr dvd players graphical user interfaces from poweron till user interface? I have C/Java knowledge but i never understand yet, how some hardwares show there own screens/graphics from poweron stage to user interface (where it never shows linux/unix boot screen nor it shows windows booting screens).
My question is, Compared to VCR/TV digicoders poweron till user interfaces, how its made? Do we use regular linux kernel or is there any special open source framework which allow us to develop such?
Thanks

A: Many embedded systems use u-boot as a boot loader. U-boot provides the ability to display a "splash" screen while the linux kernel is booting.

A: A device will start the bootloader right after the CPU comes out of reset (usually milliseconds after power-on at most).  The bootloader code can initialize the display and show a splash screen if it wants (in the same way most modern non-embedded Linux distributions have a graphical grub splashscreen).  The kernel can avoid changing the display configuration, and on an embedded device the kernel can boot pretty quickly to running userspace (at least an initramfs), which can take over the display and show whatever animation, progress bar, etc until the full UI is ready.

A: An operating systems such a Windows or Linux are both large and general purpose.  They have to initialise themselves and the hardware, which includes interrogating all connected devices for "plug & play".  The OS does not know in advance which such devices are connected; it has to "discover" the hardware every time it starts.  The connected hardware may even have changed since it last booted.
Embedded systems do not usually have large operating systems (or often do not have an operating system at all), and they usually have very specific hardware known to the system a priori, so do not need to test and determine the correct configuration for such devices.  Often also these devices are far simpler, and are often 'on-chip' peripherals.
That said, your PC is capable of instantly displaying a user interface (just not Windows).  The BIOS boot process outputs text to the display almost immediately, and the BIOS console is an interactive user interface that starts on request during boot.  Also last time I booted MS-DOS on a modern PC, it took only a few seconds to start.
Not all embedded systems start "instant-on", my digital TV PVR even has a progress bar while booting, but being application specific, it still starts far faster than a general purpose computer.  My Network Attached Storage (NAS) device which is an embedded system running Linux on the other hand, takes considerable time to boot since among other things, it has to start the file-system, network, USB interfaces, print server, DNLA server, and web-server. In fact many of the things required for a general purpose computer (but it has no display, the UI is presented via the web-server)
Some embedded systems with large operating systems and complex hardware can achieve "instant-on" by never truly switching off, but rather going into a low power mode where the system state is retained in memory while all the high powered devices such as a screen, WiFi, Bluetooth etc. are switched off.

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A great hotel in a fabulous location.
Stayed overnight at Las Cañadas del Teide. Room had balcony and the stars were amazing. Small pool. Dinner was tasty but expensive for what it was.
Nice Parador in a great setting. Uinspiring food and service in the restaurant.
Wonderful situation and lively staff. My only comment would be that the service in the restaurant is painfully slow except if you choose to eat at the least busy times. Perhaps more staff are needed? Also it would be nice if the menu varied a bit more from day to day.
Dinner improved! Had better experience this time. Less fried food and had the idea food was more fresh and manager in restaurant Daniel, was very helpful and did go back to kitchen if there was something not ok (like bread that was reheated in the oven too long...vegetables that were fried too long...we did not have to ask, he did notice this himself and did go back to the kitchen). Service!
Nice and handy, good Parador, comfy bed, great room with Mt Teide view. Dinner tasty, servings double amount average person could eat.
The log fire at night was a really feature, the only disappointment was the dinning room was full with a visiting coach party. The manager did advise us to occupy our table early which we did. We appreciated his concern. Waking up in the morning was spectacular . Glad we stay .


P.51 right column top paragraph: "Saccharomyces cerevisiae FF-8, a glutathione producing yeast strain, was established in [investigators'] laboratory (Park et al., 2003). FF-8 was aerobically grown in 500 ml flask containing 100 ml of YM medium consisting of 1.0% glucose, 0.5% peptone, 0.3% yeast extract, and 0.3% malt extract, at pH 6.0 for 24 h at 30˚C." P.51 right column bottom paragraph: "The harvested yeast cells were suspended in 0.2 M phosphate buffer (pH 7.2) and disrupted by sonication. The disrupted cells were then removed by centrifugation, and glutathione concentration in the supernatant was measured using published methods (Cohn et al., 1966), by measuring the absorbance of reaction solutions at 412 nm using a spectrophotometer (UV mini 1240, Shimadzu, Japan)."
P.52 left column bottom paragraph: "Yeast strains such as S. cerevisiae and Candida utilis have been reported to produce glutathione (Wei, 2003 Alfafara et al., 1992). [Investigators] have previously reported that S. cerevisiae FF-8, a glutathione producing strain, was isolated from Korean Traditional Rice Wine. Glutathione production by S. cerevisiae FF-8 under optimal culture conditions in YM medium was 90 mg/l." P.54 left column 3rd paragraph: "The glutathione concentration produced by S. cerevisiae FF-8 using this medium significantly increased by 2.27-fold [to 204 mg/l] compared to the 90 mg/l achieved in YM medium."


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Alarming global surge of measles cases a growing threat to children
Ten countries accounted for approximately three-quarters of the total increase in measles in 2018, including significant outbreaks in Brazil, Madagascar, the Philippines, Ukraine, and Yemen
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NEW YORK, 1 March 2019 – UNICEF warned today that global cases of measles are surging to alarmingly high levels, led by ten countries accounting for more than 74 per cent of the total increase, and several others that had previously been declared measles free.
Globally, 98 countries reported more cases of measles in 2018 compared to 2017, eroding progress against this highly preventable, but potentially deadly disease.
Countries with ten highest increases in cases between 2017 & 2018*
Ukraine 30,338
Philippines 13,192
Brazil 10,262
Yemen 6,641
Venezuela 4,916
Serbia 4,355
Madagascar 4,307
Sudan 3,496
Thailand 2,758
France 2,269
Ukraine, the Philippines and Brazil saw the largest increases in measles cases from 2017 to 2018. In Ukraine alone, there were 35,120 cases of measles in 2018. According to the government, another 24,042 people were infected just in the first two months of 2019. In the Philippines so far this year, there have been 12,736 measles cases and 203 deaths[1], compared to 15,599 cases in the whole of 2018.
"This is a wake-up call. We have a safe, effective and inexpensive vaccine against a highly contagious disease – a vaccine that has saved almost a million lives every year over the last two decades," said Henrietta H. Fore, UNICEF's Executive Director.
"These cases haven't happened overnight. Just as the serious outbreaks we are seeing today took hold in 2018, lack of action today will have disastrous consequences for children tomorrow."
Measles is highly contagious, more so than Ebola, tuberculosis or influenza. The virus can be contracted by someone up to two hours after an infected person has left a room. It spreads through air and infects the respiratory tract, potentially killing malnourished children or babies too young to be vaccinated. Once infected, there is no specific treatment for measles, so vaccination is a life-saving tool for children.
In Ukraine, UNICEF has provided ongoing support to accelerate routine immunization across the country and address vaccine hesitancy, including additional efforts to stop the most recent outbreak that has claimed 30 lives since 2017. In February, the Ministry of Health, with UNICEF's support, launched an immunization drive at schools and clinics in the worst-hit Lviv region in western Ukraine, where negative attitudes toward immunization, and previous shortages in vaccine supply, have resulted in low vaccination rates.
In the Philippines, the government, with support from UNICEF and partners, will conduct a campaign to vaccinate 9 million children against measles across 17 regions. Using social media, campaigners plan to encourage apprehensive parents and health workers.
In Brazil, from August to September 2018, the government carried out a campaign against polio and measles, targeting more than 11 million children under five. UNICEF encouraged people to get vaccinated, and trained health monitors working in migrant shelters for Venezuelans. UNICEF has included the measles vaccine as part of the Municipal Seal programme that covers 1,924 municipalities.
In Yemen, where years of conflict led to an outbreak, local authorities with support from UNICEF, WHO and GAVI vaccinated more than 11.5 million children in February.
In Madagascar, from 3 September to 21 February, 76,871 people were infected by measles and 928 died, a majority of which were children. In January, the government, with the support of partners including UNICEF, launched an immunization campaign to target all 114 districts. Over 2 million children were immunized in 25 districts. In February, 1.4 million children were vaccinated, with another 3.9 million more to follow in March.
Since the beginning of the epidemic in Serbia in October 2017, the Ministry of Health has activated extended surveillance and preventive measures, resulting in increased MMR coverage and reduced number of newly infected. In February this year, only one case of measles was reported in Belgrade, and it is expected that the epidemic will be closed in the next few months. To support the Government efforts, UNICEF in Serbia and partners carried out a Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices and Behavior (KAPB) survey to increase the understanding on factors that had caused hesitancy among parents; developed and implemented courses for 150 health workers across the country on inter-personal communication with hesitant parents on immunization; began actions with the Government to improve vaccine supply chain; and drafted a communication strategy to address community concerns related to immunization.
Poor health infrastructure, civil strife, low community awareness, complacency and vaccine hesitancy in some cases have led to these outbreaks in both developed and developing countries.
For example, in the United States, the number of measles cases increased six-fold between 2017 and 2018, reaching 791 cases. More recently, the U.S. has seen outbreaks in New York and Washington state.
Notable reported measles cases in 2018 in countries with no reported cases in 2017
Moldova 312
Montenegro 203
Timor-Leste 59
Uzbekistan 17
The outbreak in Serbia occurred due to pockets of non-immunized persons in the general population, large enough to allow measles virus to circulate and infect susceptible within the population.
The outbreak revealed that there was a number of non-vaccinated in older population that were missed to vaccinate or had incomplete vaccination in the past decades, and also in children under five years of age who were not vaccinated mainly due to parents' hesitancy caused by rumors on quality and safety of MMR vaccine and alleged links to autism.
"Almost all of these cases are preventable, and yet children are getting infected even in places where there is simply no excuse," said Fore.
"Measles may be the disease, but, all too often, the real infection is misinformation, mistrust and complacency. We must do more to accurately inform every parent, to help us safely vaccinate every child."
To fight measles, UNICEF is issuing an urgent appeal to governments, health care providers, and parents to do more to contain the disease by:
Understanding that vaccines are safe and effective and can save a child's life
Vaccinating all children between the ages of six months to five years during outbreaks
Training and equipping health workers so they can provide quality services
Strengthening immunization programmes to deliver all life-saving vaccines
[1] Until 23 February 2019.
* The analysis is based on WHO's global measles and rubella data of 194 countries for the year 2017 and 2018. To know more, click here. The analysis is based on the total confirmed cases of measles.
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Priyanka Chopra , is a Bollywood actress from India, and she is also a singer, a model, a movie producer, and a philanthropist. She was born on July 18, 1982 in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India. Priyanka Chopra works in the Bollywood film industry and has also worked in some Tamil, Telugu, Hollywood movies. She started her acting from Hindi movie The Hero: Love Story of a Spy in (2003). Priyanka Chopra net worth $ 32 million and her salary is 9-10 million rupees and TV show (USR) is $ 4 million / year.
Priyanka Chopra is one of the best actresses of Bollywood and she has a special role in Indian Cinema, besides Priyanka's performance and beauty. Apart from this, she has established a good identity Bollywood and even in Hollywood. Her performance in serial Quantico was liked throughout the whole world and for this, she has been awarded the Golden Globe Award for being the first choice of audience, and it is a matter of pride not only for Priyanka chopra but for the whole of India and the industry. So let's know some specific things about the life of this amazing actress in today's post in which we have Priyanka's song Learn about certain aspects.
Actress Priyanka Chopra Family - She was born on July 18, 1982, in Jamshedpur, Bihar, Jamshedpur currently belongs to Jharkhand State, and both her father and mother both doctors in the Army. Because of this, Priyanka Chopra had to change many schools in her childhood. Because her parents were often transferred to many states. Priyanka also has a younger brother Siddharth, who is 7 years younger than Her.
Priyanka's father Ashok Chopra was related to the Punjabi family and her mother was from Jharkhand State. Since both of the parents were in Indian Government service, due to which when they were transferred they could reach the new place due to which Priyanka has stayed in many states and places like Delhi, Chandigarh, Ambala, Ladakh, Lucknow, Bareilly, and Pune etc. About which She Once told in the interview that after living in so many places and after changing so many schools, I never felt inconvenient to go to a new place because I used to dissolve in every kind of culture and many Six learning also received. She has been in such places but she still considers Bareilly as her hometown. Bareilly is special place in her heart.
At the age of 13, Priyanka Chopra went to the USA to study and lived with her aunt and she attended the studying as well as in many other activities. Priyanka also changed many schools because her aunt's family also changed from there, there was a shift in relation to work. In addition to reading, Priyanka also participated in the caste of Western classical music and Kathak dance etc. and she was persecuted by her classmate due to her being sometimes an Indian. Priyanka said in an interview that she was a shy girl at that time and was less self-confident but very diligent and today I am due to what I am doing.
Priyanka's initial education has happened in different cities, as we told you that her father had been transferring but La Martiniere Girls' School which is in Lucknow and St. She got some education at Maria Goretti College and after her thirteen years she went to America and read it in school like Newton, Massachusetts. Three years later, he returned to India and then completed his high school education at Army Public School in Bareilly.
While she was studying at Army Public School in Bareilly, she won a beauty contest named May Queen.
After she had won the competition, she had become so much fancier that she had to put a trap in the security of the house so as to avoid any unnecessary consequences.
She got the Favorite Actress Award for the People's Choice Award for American TV Series Quantico. In this, she has played the role of FBI agent Alex Perish.
In 2000 she won the Miss World title and was the 5th Indian to do.
Priyanka chopra started her film career in 2003 in The Hero: Love Story of a Spy With whom she had Sunny Deol with a film based on the military in Kashmir. In which Sunny is an agent and wages war against terrorism, after that, with the film Akshay Kumar, which was a successful at the box office. After that Priyanka has given a lot of interest and many successful films, which have a long list, and on the strength of her hard work, she achieved the eighth position in acting, due to which she has become the highest paid actress.
Even after being such a successful star, she is very close to her family and perhaps the reason is that she is able to keep her stardom in hand. At the same time, Priyanka Chapra has said in interviews that she is close to her father and at the time of my tension, Dad was always with me. This is the reason why after Papa's absence, she has made a tattoo on her hand "Daddy's Lil girl". Her father had died in June 2013.
Priyanka has been honored with Padmashree, India's highest civilian honor.
She still likes to sit face critic on her wrist in front of the camera as she used to do during the early stages of her career.
Priyanka has not only won the hearts of Indian audiences with her better performance but she has been known worldwide through the serial Quantico and her Hollywood film Beywatch has finished shooting and she has played a negative role in this film.
Priyanka was in her school when she was in America, she used to bring more numbers than her classmate in English, while it was not her native language, due to which she responded to those who commented on her performance because her school had many Fellow students used to joke because of being Indian.
She was selected for the honor of the National Opus Honor Corps while learning to play music. She was the first Indian to receive this honor. It is given for their achievement in the field of children's music at the school level. Priyanka got this honor in 1997 and this honor has not received any Indian since then.
Priyanka Chopra was invited by President Obama of USA to Priyanka on her last dinner at White House, and Priyanka gave her a lot of fun, which she later shared on her Instagram.


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Q: MVC3 Enum Select List, using Display Annotations I have an Html Helper that converts an Enum into a SelectList like so:
public static HtmlString EnumSelectListFor<TModel, TProperty>(
    this HtmlHelper<TModel> htmlHelper,
    Expression<Func<TModel, TProperty>> forExpression,
    object htmlAttributes,
    bool blankFirstLine) where TModel : class where TProperty : struct
{
    //MS, it its infinite wisdom, does not allow enums as a generic constraint, so we have to check here.
    if (!typeof(TProperty).IsEnum) throw new ArgumentException("This helper method requires the specified model property to be an enum type.");

    //initialize values
    var metaData = ModelMetadata.FromLambdaExpression(forExpression, htmlHelper.ViewData);
    var propertyName = metaData.PropertyName;
    var propertyValue = htmlHelper.ViewData.Eval(propertyName).ToStringOrEmpty();

    //build the select tag
    var returnText = string.Format("<select id=\"{0}\" name=\"{0}\"", HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(propertyName));
    if (htmlAttributes != null)
    {
        foreach (var kvp in htmlAttributes.GetType().GetProperties()
            .ToDictionary(p => p.Name, p => p.GetValue(htmlAttributes, null)))
        {
            returnText += string.Format(" {0}=\"{1}\"", HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(kvp.Key),
                HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(kvp.Value.ToStringOrEmpty()));
        }
    }
    returnText += ">\n";

    if (blankFirstLine)
    {
        returnText += "<option value=\"\"></option>";
    }

    //build the options tags
    foreach (var enumName in Enum.GetNames(typeof(TProperty)))
    {
        var idValue = ((int)Enum.Parse(typeof(TProperty), enumName, true)).ToString();
        var displayValue = enumName;
        var titleValue = string.Empty;
        returnText += string.Format("<option value=\"{0}\" title=\"{1}\"",
            HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(idValue), HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(titleValue));
        if (enumName == propertyValue)
        {
            returnText += " selected=\"selected\"";
        }
        returnText += string.Format(">{0}</option>\n", HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(displayValue));
    }

    //close the select tag
    returnText += "</select>";
    return new HtmlString(returnText);
}

Problem I have is, the Enums can't have spaces in their names, so you can get some ugly select lists if you have something other than one-word enum values, like so:
public enum EmployeeTypes
{
    FullTime = 1,
    PartTime,
    Vendor,
    Contractor
}

Now, I had the bright idea, "I know! I'll use DataAnnotations for this!"... so I made my enum look like this:
public enum EmployeeTypes
{
    [Display(Name = "Full Time")]
    FullTime = 1,
    [Display(Name = "Part Time")]
    PartTime,
    [Display(Name = "Vendor")]
    Vendor,
    [Display(Name = "Contractor")]
    Contractor
}

... but now I'm scratching my head how to access those attributes in my helper class.  Can someone get me going on this?

A: You could read the DisplayAttribute from the enum field using reflection inside the loop:
foreach (var enumName in Enum.GetNames(typeof(TProperty)))
{
    var idValue = ((int)Enum.Parse(typeof(TProperty), enumName, true)).ToString();
    var displayValue = enumName;

    // get the corresponding enum field using reflection
    var field = typeof(TProperty).GetField(enumName);
    var display = ((DisplayAttribute[])field.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(DisplayAttribute), false)).FirstOrDefault();
    if (display != null)
    {
        // The enum field is decorated with the DisplayAttribute =>
        // use its value
        displayValue = display.Name;
    }

    var titleValue = string.Empty;
    returnText += string.Format("<option value=\"{0}\" title=\"{1}\"",
        HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(idValue), HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(titleValue));
    if (enumName == propertyValue)
    {
        returnText += " selected=\"selected\"";
    }
    returnText += string.Format(">{0}</option>\n", HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(displayValue));
}

A: I've always been a fan of creating an extension method for the Enum class to read the Description attribute and just calling ToDescription() on whatever enum you have.  Something like this.
public static class EnumExtensions
{
    public static String ToDescription(this Enum value)
    {
        FieldInfo field = value.GetType().GetField(value.ToString());
        DescriptionAttribute attribute = Attribute.GetCustomAttribute(field, typeof(DescriptionAttribute)) as DescriptionAttribute;
        return attribute == null ? value.ToString() : attribute.Description;
    }
}


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Черенча е село в Североизточна България. То се намира в община Шумен, област Шумен.

География

Селото е разположено в подножието на най–високия хълм в Североизточна България – 501 надморска височина, в западната част на Шуменското плато. Намира се  на 18 км северозападно от град Шумен, в прехода между два от дяловете на шуменските височини. Източно от селото се извисява Новоселската планина, а хълмът Фисек, явяващ се най–западната част на Шуменското плато, отстои на запад от него.

История

Село Черенча е основано през 764 г. Намерените находки свидетелстват за наличието на стара култура в землището му. Археолози откриват средновековна крепост в местността Хисарлъка, северозападно от ската "Фисек баир". Основите на крепостните зидове, запазени и до днес, говорят за живота на хората през няколко епохи – от най-ранния 4 век пр.н.е. до Втората българска държава.

В района на селото (местност Фисека) е намерена ранносредновековна прабългарска сабя.

До Освобождението в с. Черенча е имало 100 – 110 къщи и населението е било мюсюлманско. След Освобождението започнала бавна, но сигурна емиграция на мюсюлманите – настъпила съществена промяна в демографския облик на селото.

Днешното село е възникнало вероятно със заселване на турските колониалисти. През 1901 г. тук се установява първият българин Димитър Колисолу. В периода до 1910 г. идват и много семейства от Кюстендилско, привлечени от доброто географско положение и благоприятния климат за развитие на основния поминък – земеделие и животновъдство. През 1946 г. се каптира водата и се създава водопроводна мрежа, а през 1950 – 1951 г. селото се електрифицира. Построява се мост между селата Черенча и Средня. Строителството му трае три години (1941 – 1943). Строежът се е ръководел от инж. Коеджиков.

Население
Численост на населението според преброяванията през годините:

Етнически състав

Преброяване на населението през 2011 г.

Численост и дял на етническите групи според преброяването на населението през 2011 г.:

Обществени институции

Етнографска сбирка-музей със 100-годишна история се помещава в сградата на Начално училище "В. Левски".
Детска градина и читалище "Паисий Хилендарски – 1927" функционират в селото.

Източници

Села в област Шумен
Населени места в община Шумен

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NEW HAMPTON — Craig Dean Zamzow, 70 of Mountain Vista Drive, died August 31, 2013, at Speare Memorial Hospital, in Plymouth, NH.
Born in Grand Island NE on June 8, 1943, he was the son of Harlan Francis and Theda W. (Linderkamp) Zamzow. He grew up in the Mid-West and graduated from Westside High School, in Grand Island. He also earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, at Iowa State University, in the mid-1960s.
Craig hired into Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in Maynard, Massachusetts, where he served for twenty years as a sales engineer, corporate manager of sales training, and product line manager of Logic Products, a $25 million PC board business. His achievements led to his being named in 1983 the Corporate Manager, Marketing Programs, directing the efforts of over 5,000 employees. Along the way, Craig earned an MBA in marketing and human resource management from Rivier College in Nashua, NH.
After the collapse of DEC, Craig served in marketing roles with several other firms in New England, before coming to Plymouth, New Hampshire in 1997 as co-owner of The Pilgrim Motel and Cabins on the Daniel Webster Highway. Very soon thereafter he was recruited by Plymouth State University to teach some marketing courses, first as an adjunct professor, and then as a full-time lecturer. In 1998, he accepted the job of Director of the Small Business Institute® at PSU, which serves the local business community with teams of MBA students who act as consultants, helping the businesses in whatever needs they may have, and preparing formal consulting reports.
Craig excelled as an SBI Director. The Small Business Institute® Directors' Association (SBIDA) holds an annual national contest, wherein the consulting reports from 250 university programs are judged at undergraduate and graduate levels in three categories, comprehensive (multifunctional business analyses), specialized (addressing a single business function, such as marketing, finance, or production), and feasibility studies (start-up plans). During his fifteen years as PSU's SBI Director, Plymouth State MBA teams placed either first or second in every single year, nationally. In one year, they swept the three first place awards, and PSU's SBI was recognized as the top SBI program in the United States. At his last national conference, in 2013, Craig was named the first Fellow of the Small Business Institute®.
In 2003, Craig also became Director of Graduate Programs in the PSU College of Business Administration (CoBA). As director, he administered the budgets, course schedules, and enrollments, and served as the academic adviser to as many as 600 MBA students. He successfully reversed slumping enrollment numbers to double the size of the 40 year-old MBA Program, and to turn it into a respected, self-sustaining mainstay of CoBA.
Craig Zamzow has been active in the community, as well, serving on the boards of the Plymouth Chamber of Commerce, Plymouth Main Street, Inc., and the New Hampshire Electric Cooperative.
For the past ten years or more, Craig has worked to bring to life the brand new Enterprise Center at Plymouth, a joint effort by Plymouth State University and the Grafton County Economic Development Council. A conference room in this new business incubator building will be dedicated in honor of Craig Zamzow's work.
Craig's energy was boundless, his integrity unquestionable, and his enthusiasm infectious. Craig's colleagues and students at PSU all will miss him. A fine gentleman has left us.
Craig is survived by his wife, Marica Litchfield Zamzow of New Hampton, son, Barry Zamzow and his wife Jessica and their children, Grace, Ella and Abby, son, Darren Zamzow and his wife Carroll and their children, Ben and Bodie, step-daughter, Alyson Tracy and her children Casey, Cody Gibbs, step-daughter Michelle Tracey and her children, Vanessa Tracey and Mason Smith, brother Stephen D. Zamzow and his wife Linda, nieces and nephews.
A memorial service will be held in the Plymouth United Congregational Church, UCC, Main St, Plymouth, on Saturday, Sept. 7th, at 11am. A balloon release and gathering will follow at Plymouth State University.
In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the Craig D. Zamzow MBA Scholarship Fund, Plymouth State University Advancement Office, 17 High Street, MSC 50, Plymouth, NH 03264.
To sign Craig's Book of Memories, please go to www.mayhewfuneralhomes.com.


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Spring 2020 Honor Society Inductions
St. George's congratulates all Spring 2020 Honor Society inductees. To learn more about each honor society, hover over the image and then click to see the students who have been inducted.
Membership in the International Thespian Society, the student honorary division of the Educational Theatre Association, requires a minimum of one hundred hours worked in contribution to the growth of better theatre in the St. George's community, the local community, and the global community. After Thespians have attained membership, students will receive further recognition for their outstanding...
Mu Alpha Theta Society
This honor society recognizes exceptional work in college preparatory mathematics courses. Students eligible for consideration must have completed at minimum a semester of Algebra II. Both honors and regular mathematics students are eligible based on their weighted cumulative mathematics GPA beginning with Algebra I. Students must maintain a minimum weighted mathematics GPA of 4.50. Alyssa Aghab...
Eligibility in the National English Honor Society is based on the student's demonstration of having moved past the school's basic English requirements by taking an Advanced Placement English course or other English department elective course. Students who have taken an AP course must have an overall English unweighted GPA of 4.00 or higher in their upper school course of English study. Students...
Students eligible for consideration in the Science National Honor Society must be in their junior or senior year, have completed the required lab courses, and enrolled in or completed an AP or elective science. Exceptional sophomore students can be accepted into a chapter when enrolled in AP and/or elective science courses. To be eligible, students must have maintained an unweighted 3.70 grade point...
National History Scholars Society
The National History Scholar Society is designed to promote scholarship and to foster the enjoyment of historical inquiry. To be eligible, a student must have completed at least three semesters of upper school history courses at St. George's Independent School and be an active member of the St. George's chapter of the National History Club, having completed at least three hours of service related...
In order for a student to become a member of the Sociedad Honoraria Hispánica he or she must maintain a 4.00 weighted grade point average or above in Spanish I or IA/IB, II, III. Darby Beal Kathleen Beckham DeAndre Deener Will Franklin Nicolas Gutierrez Eleanor Kuykendall Harden Williams Joe Walters ...
National French Honor Society
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National Junior Classical League
In order for a student to become a member of the National Junior Classical League Latin Society, he or she must have maintained a 4.00 weighted grade point average or above in Latin I or IA/IB, II, and III and be a member in good standing of the National Junior Classical League. Thomas Miller Wes Smith Sam Stamps...
Journalism Honor Roll, for the National Scholastic Press Association
The NSPA Journalism Honor Roll honors students who have achieved a 3.5 or higher GPA on a 4.0 scale – for St. George's students that is a 4.3 GPA – and have completed at least two years on staff by the end of the current school year. Seniors who qualify for the Honor Roll can enter into a competition for one or more $1,000 scholarships. Snowden Farnsworth Owen Hewitt Callie H...
Student eligibility in the St. George's chapter of the National Art Honor Society is based on art scholarship, service, and character. Freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior candidates must have completed one semester of upper school art at St. George's, been currently enrolled in an art course, and have demonstrated excellence by achieving a minimum unweighted GPA of 4.00 in art. A student eligible...
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Accommodation is set over three floors with part currently used as an annexe. There are seven bedrooms, two bathrooms, five reception rooms and two conservatories, as well as two kitchens, and ground floor and first floor cloakrooms.
Outbuildings include a detached barn and the gardens are extremely pretty.
Blue Barns is situated on the outskirts of Ardleigh which has a village shop, pub, and a parish church. Dedham is just over three miles away and Colchester and Manningtree are both a short drive.
The guide price is £830,000. For further information please contact John D Wood & Co on 01245 344 222 or visit www.johndwood.co.uk.


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Hartford probate attorneys can provide you with assistance after someone you love has passed away. In most circumstances, a death will trigger the probate process. The probate process is the process by which assets can transfer from one owner to another owner. The deceased person (decedent), will leave property behind and the affairs of the decedent's estate will need to be settled. If the decedent created a last will and testament, that will determine who inherits.
If there is no enforceable, valid will, then intestacy law will determine who receives money and property left behind. Creditors will also be given the chance to make a claim on the estate, and the executor of an estate will be responsible for doing things like facilitating the payment of estate tax and facilitating the transfer of assets by changing titles and deeds.
The probate process can take a long time, even under the best of circumstances. Sometimes, however, there are problems with the probate process. In particular, one big issue can arise when the executor of an estate presents a will to be probated and one or more parties believe that the will is not a valid and accurate reflection of the wishes of the deceased.
The probate process provides an opportunity for a will to be contested, and if you believe that the will being presented for probate is not a valid one, you should reach out to Hartford probate attorneys for help contesting the will as soon as possible. Nirenstein, Horowitz & Associates has extensive experience with will contests and we can help you to make a compelling argument for why a will should not be probated because of serious problems with the document.
While there are many reasons to contest a will, five key situations where you may be successful in challenging a will so it is not enforced include the following circumstances.
A will is only valid if its creator was sane and made a conscious and willing choice to create the will. If a person has lost his mental capacity due to physical or mental illness, then any will he creates when he is of unsound mind is not going to be a valid and enforceable one.
If someone was forced into making a will, it is not a willing reflection of his wishes and thus should be successfully contested. Often, this problem arises when a caregiver has a lot of control over a person and essentially makes that person change his will.
If someone is tricked into making or updating a will, he again does not make the will of his own volition and the will should not be considered valid. You would need to prove that fraud induced the decedent to create the will in order for it not to be probated.
Wills usually must be formally signed with witnesses. However, there are certain kinds of wills – like holographic or handwritten wills – that could be presented to the court to be probated. Sometimes, a fraudulent will is submitted that was not actually created by the decedent but that someone is claiming is an accurate reflection of the deceased person's wishes. When this occurs, you need to fight to ensure that the fraudulent document is not probated and used to determine who inherits.
When a new will is made, the old one should be repudiated. Sometimes, however, there is confusion over which version of a will is the most updated or there is confusion over whether an update was meant to completely replace an old will or just to update it. If you don't believe the will being submitted to be probated is the most accurate and up-to-date will, you can present evidence to the court that a different will should be enforced instead.
Hartford probate attorneys at Nirenstein, Horowitz & Associates can provide invaluable help to you if you wish to contest a will. We can also provide representation to heirs or beneficiaries, and to the executor of an estate, who wish to argue that a last will and testament being presented for probate is actually a valid one.
To find out more about the ways in which our legal team can help you, join us for a free seminar. You can also give us a call at 860-548-1000 or contact us online to get personalized one-on-one help with any issues that arise after your loved one has passed away. Call now to get a knowledgeable advocate on your side to help you protect your right to inherit.


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Up In The Valley
A Photo Blog of the San Fernando Valley. With comment.
Tag: White Favela
Three Versions of Storage
One man's refuse is another man's treasure, never more so than in the backyard, where the hoarder goblin is allowed to run off leash.
Here's Van Nuys in a single frame. On the right side, 6537 Columbus Avenue, every inch of lot given over to vehicle storage. Whose cars? For what purpose? Why boats? Mysteries. It's been going on for years. On the left, the footprint for 6530 Sepulveda, formerly the brothel known as the Voyager Inn, now known as SkyLA Tower, with 2 bedroom apartments leasing at $2750.
Two hundred people utilizing a lot proportional to the one next door housing dozens of used cars, while people are camping on the same street. Perhaps a pretty good argument for eminent domain?
Unfortunately, this wouldn't resolve the storage issue. In all three cases, someone is making a lot of money off things as they are. Servicing the indigent is literally a billion dollar business now, in Los Angeles alone. You could seize the car house, put up a shelter over the anguished wailing of the KesterRidge Neighborhood Association and it wouldn't make a dent in the tents on the street. We pay them to be here. Until we stop doing so, the Laws of Entropy prevail.
Author adminPosted on August 27, 2018 Tags 6530 Sepulveda Blvd, 6537 Columbus Avenue, Blight, Eminent Domain, Kelo vs. New London, KesterRidge, SkyLA Tower, Van Nuys, White Favela4 Comments on Three Versions of Storage
The Runnymede Poultry Colony
Driving through the Valley using the Uber navigation app, I've noticed something called the Runnymede Poultry Colony popping up in the street grid of Reseda….in the middle of a subdivision.
Places that haven't existed for decades, places with evocative names like Wingfoot, Broadmoor, Mission Acres, Wahoo…can be found on old maps, particularly those of the Pacific Electric streetcar lines. Intriguingly, Google Maps utilizes a historical overlay, so when you zoom in, these unfamiliar names pop up in familiar places. The White Favela, for example, sits atop a forgotten neighborhood called "Raymer". The navigation apps, including Uber, ride atop the Google platform and that brings us to the utopian community of Runnymede.
"Intensive little farms", in the phrasing of its founder Charles Weeks, "bringing peace of mind, health of body and an abundant living to thousands bound in slavery by wage-earning and too much business." It was located in the Winnetka neighborhood, not Reseda, named for the city in Illinois from which Weeks originated.
For $1500 in 1925, pilgrims got a modest bungalow set back from the road on a deep narrow lot, a poultry shed with 2000 hens, a vegetable garden, fruit trees, a bee box and a grape arbor. You'd leave the eggs by the road for the morning pickup. You'd wash your own clothes and make your own ice cream. You'd do it all on one acre, as a family, living self-sufficiently in the city of Los Angeles. In case you thought you were still living somewhere in Iowa, you could ride the Red Car down Sherman Way and over the hill into town and watch Rudolph Valentino. But you didn't do that because you were pious. You also had 2000 chickens to attend to, and kids running around in burlap underwear. You were keeping Gomorrah well-omletted.
It wasn't a collective farm, exactly, because you owned your own land, but there was a trade association, a community center for weekly functions and a beach house in Santa Monica the 500 Runnymede families could avail for picnicking in the summer.
If the Valley had developed along the one-acre per family Weeks model, there could have been potentially 150,000 such farm/orchard/home businesses today. Assuming the necessity of middle children (several, ideally) we would have a population under a million, but big enough to sustain a city, with trolley lines and bike paths everywhere. Counterfactually speaking, this was possible.
But it foundered, as did so many things, during the Depression. Falling egg prices, the inability to make loan payments. Weeks himself went bankrupt self-financing loans to the families. By 1934 it was over.
Instead, the Valley developed as the owners of the land wished it to. Remarkably, there remains to this day intact solitary lots … stubborn holdouts against the street grid, crazy spinster aunts clinging to life after all the relatives have passed on.
You can see how much they've done with the place. That's the problem with cheap land. Seldom do we make good use of it.
Which reminded me of the house we almost bought before we came to Van Nuys. This one right here. It wasn't part of the Colony, but the lot was as long as a football field. The structure was worthless.. teardown condition, but oh, the two week fever dream I had! Not that I had any experience in this regard, my rather vague, very rudimentary, very what the hell anyone can do this plan was to grow organic spices and produce specifically for local restaurants. I would be Mr. Local Source. The land would pay for the house. Gentleman Farmer, me. Purveyor to the stars of cuisine.
Just like this mini-farm tucked behind The French Laundry, in Napa. When you dine there, you're grazing right off the yard.
One of the peculiarities of our present Downton Abbey on the Pacific is working class people double bunking in apartments, fattening up on caloric take-out, while the gentry drop half a year's salary on authentic peasant food grown on the most expensive ground in California.
As it happened, the house with the ginormous lot was already in escrow, sparing me the inevitable folly of a Branch Davidian-like standoff with City officials over unpermitted agricultural output.
I would have made my bride a widow defending the soil like an Ulsterman. I would not have lived to hear the wise counsel of my friend Johnny: we're only leasing it from God. The crust of the earth can shake us off like fleas at any moment.
Author adminPosted on August 15, 2018 August 15, 2018 Tags Charles Weeks, Class Struggle in Los Angeles, Granola Shotgun, Pacific Electric Red Car, Reseda, Rudolph Valentino, Runnymede Poultry Colony, Sherman Way, The French Laundry, Uber, Van Nuys, White Favela, Winnetka1 Comment on The Runnymede Poultry Colony
Windmills of Poo
We give them free phones.
We give them EBT cards.
We give them free health care. Also the ability to use 911 as a hotel and car service.
We allow them unlimited shoplifting privileges up to $950 per incident. We provide them with pro bono legal representation.
We exempt them from civic laws relating to public safety and sanitation.
We allow them to pitch tents ten feet from people paying $3000 a month in mortgage, and we wonder why they stay. Cyclically, we tell them to vacate a given location, but never to leave the City. Nor to assume self-responsibility and sobriety. There's no grant money to be prized from that. What will Do-Gooders do for work? So, the Favela rotates within neighborhoods like a seasonal crop. From the freeway to the Narrows, to the Wash, to Raymer Street and back again.
It is impermissible in the Los Angeles Times, or City Hall, to speak of human nature. Or moral hazard. We subsidize the Favela endlessly, while nimbly managing to escape the inclusivity we preach. The people who staff the Caring Organizations, courtesy of the Los Angeles taxpayer, are unusually allergic to living here. They live in South Pasadena. They live in Sierra Madre. Or Redondo. Or Moorpark, or any of the other small, orderly cities of 100,000 people that surround LA, cities directly accountable to the voters and consequently intolerant of the Favela metastasizing within their borders.
Los Angeles has spent over a billion dollars in the last 30 years directly "combating" homelessness. In that time, it has spread from Skid Row to Van Nuys and staked a claim to every weedy mite of ground in between.
Mayor Photo-Op intends to spend $1.87 billion (that's billion with a B) in the next decade to cut the homeless population by …half.
The beauty of ten years from now accounting is Garcetti will no longer be Mayor when the ledgers are squared. He intends to be President. The City Council will be termed out as well. The money will be burned in great hay bales in Grand Park. They will throw it on the pyre with pitchforks and dance around it, singing, like the Whos in Whoville. When the smoke clears, half of the 34,189 people on the street at last count will be re-housed. The Mexican border will remain wide open if the City has anything to say about it, but the tents will diminish be replaced by pod villages in parking lots. Or something which squares personal self-destruction with virtue-signaling photo ops rounded out by civic baby talk. Public policy in LA is nothing if not a cargo cult.
In this most optimistic scenario we pay $109,548 for every Larry we remove from the streets, in addition to all the other freebies we already provide. That's a whole lot of kitchen remodeling in South Pas.
Alternately, we could purchase a house somewhere in the U.S. for every blue tarp refugee, then hand them the deed. Like this one, in Marlin, TX. Two bedrooms, $24,000. Congratulations, you are now homeowners. Here's your bus ticket. Your sins have been cleansed from the books.
Too rural? How about this 4-bedroom storybook traditional in Detroit? I found it in five seconds on Zillow. $37,000. That's less than ten grand a head for permanent housing.
One tenth what Garcetti proposes to spend on Guiding Principles™ and Liasons to Committees of Concerned Frowning, with some pods and motel rooms thrown in.
But but but but but….that's crazy talk, Mr. UpintheValley. You want to argue moral hazard? Anybody could just show up in LA, pitch a tent in the street and be given the deed to a house. Where does it end?
To which I reply, what are we doing now? We are about to spend ten times this amount to not house people, to provide them most of the necessities of life and some of the pleasures, plus a caseworker and a lawyer, but put no lasting roof over their head. We demand nothing in exchange and they return the favor.
Behind this Ikea shelf is a "bedroom" in North Hollywood. The man who lives here is a Temple graduate. He has two day jobs. He also takes on side gigs in the Industry when opportunities arise.
In June his life upscales for the better, when a roommate shuffle will create a vacancy in one of the bedrooms. He gets to move out from behind the TV set. This is the guy who pays the $1.87 billion to keep the Mayor in photo-ops and the salaries paid for Homeless Advocacy, Inc.
This is how we live in LA now.
Author adminPosted on April 19, 2018 April 19, 2018 Tags Bullshit on Wheels, Class Struggle in Los Angeles, Comprehensive Homeless Strategy, Detroit, Eric Garcetti, Guiding Principles, Larry, Los Angeles Times, Marlin, North Hollywood, Pacoima Wash, Photo Ops, Public Hypocrisy, Raymer Street, South Pasadena, The Narrows, TX, Van Nuys, White Favela5 Comments on Windmills of Poo
Larry got booted from his mattress fort on the Pacoima Wash yesterday. Official personages from the City gave him 24 hours to vacate. I asked him where he was headed next. He said he didn't know. He didn't want to go to Raymer Street with the rest of them. He preferred his isolation. He asked me if I worked at Kaiser hospital. I told him no. He was certain he recognized me from there.
"You look like a doctor I used to know."
The white favela, I couldn't help noticing, is becoming less white.
What is the Christian thing to do with someone who walks around with a crack pipe in his hand in the middle of the afternoon but is otherwise harmless and agreeable?
Author adminPosted on April 11, 2018 April 11, 2018 Tags Christ in the Valley, Crack Addiction, Pacoima Wash, Raymer Street, Van Nuys, White Favela
Of Human Storage
Because we need facilities for all the stuff we can't fit into our living spaces. Because we don't wish to part with old furniture if it has sentimental value, and also when it doesn't.
We never know when vinyl records might come in handy again. Or tchotchkes, scrapbooks or old power tools…
…or Hamilton Beach blenders, washing machines, hair dryers and Atari game systems from 1986. We keep our stuff…when we move…and when we don't. Two-thirds of storage renters have houses.
We tell ourselves we never know when we might relocate. Then again, deep down we know we may already be sitting in the house we will die in.
Sometimes we like to visit our lockups to take inventory of a second life. An alternative future. A possible past.
We keep totems to ward off mortality. Our surplus is fecund. The alternative is the nakedness of austerity. There is no lie you can tell yourself about a life unadorned.
Surplus people, on the other hand…we can tell ourselves all manner of lie about them folks.
Author adminPosted on April 3, 2018 April 3, 2018 Tags 405, Golden State Storage, Roscoe Blvd., Van Nuys, White Favela
Easter in the Narrows
Larry was cooking an onion and some chicken scraps he found in the dumpster behind Tasty Thai when we passed him tonight on our way back to the house. He was burning a shirt in a metal drawer as a heat source, but it was to the side of the pan, not beneath it, so there was very little cooking going on. His crack pipe and torch were on his lap. His dog Zsa Zsa wiggled out of a backpack to say hello.
"I don't have any power," he announced cheerfully. "I like cooking stuff I find."
"Make sure you cook it all the way through."
"Easter," I said.
"I still don't have any power."
Author adminPosted on April 1, 2018 April 1, 2018 Tags Christ in the Valley, Easter, Pacoima Wash, Van Nuys, White Favela
The Narrow Margin
If it's unclaimed ground, no matter how slight or uninviting, the protean Favela will put it to use, as surely as the sun rises in the East.
This feral world and the farmhouse behind it are separated by a mere chain link fence. A silent agreement. They pee on their pavement and not on our hydrangeas and we ignore their degradation. Who thinks twice about these arrangements any more? Mr. UpintheValley wonders how firm the civilizational lines are. Should the wet ass hour descend suddenly, without warning, if say the LAPD withdrew, how soon before we retreated to the armed safety of castle doctrine?
What would the wet ass hour consist of? What would precipitate it? Most Angelenos, myself included, operate so far removed from the maxims of prudence which have historically governed human relations on planet earth, the return to the Hobbesian default would come as a shock, then an affront, then self-chastizing horror as we retreated to safety. How could we have ignored the obvious?
Theft under $950 has been de facto legalized in Los Angeles. As far as the city government is concerned, there are no borders. We issue free phones, debit cards, and health care to the indigent. What is well-watered will grow.
Author adminPosted on March 7, 2018 Tags Class Struggle in Los Angeles, Marson St., Pacoima Wash, Panorama City, Van Nuys, White Favela2 Comments on The Narrow Margin
If You Want To Be A Bird….
The Bird scooter, recently ubiquitous on the Westside. You book one like an Uber, find it on your GPS, ride it to your destination, or until you get bored, or until the battery runs out, then you leave it on the sidewalk. Then the next rider hops on. A lotus eaters version of the Russian Army in Stalingrad sharing the rifles.
The future of rideshare in Los Angeles? I guess we'll know Van Nuys has truly arrived when the Bird gets here. Or we'll know the Bird has truly arrived when it reaches Van Nuys.
Like, for example, the Barbie PowerWheels SUV with 12-volt motor, speakers, and faux leather seats. This is the status and consumption marking kind of thing we love in girl-centric suburban America.
Until the older brother gets ahold of it and strips the drivetrain trying to spin donuts in the driveway. Then he and his friends throw it into the Pacoima Wash to rid themselves of the evidence.
All brightly colored plastic shiny things wind up in the Wash eventually, to be reclaimed and repurposed by the Favela. Grab and go. Leave it anywhere. Someone will be by soon enough.
Author adminPosted on February 20, 2018 February 20, 2018 Tags Barbie PowerWheels, Bird Scooters, Easy Rider, Pacoima Wash, Rideshare, Santa Monica, Van Nuys, White Favela
Letter to Sandman
The White Favela messenger service at work.
Our civic solution for the people living in the shrubbery along the 405 and panhandling at the Roscoe Blvd offramp is to mis-hear Joni Mitchell, cut down the shrubbery, and put up a chainlink fence.
Chainlink is always the answer. It means we did something.
For now, the favela-ians are back on the railroad tracks, and conducting through-the-fence panhandling excursions by handwritten notes. I give it a week.
Don't you want to meet Sandman? I wonder how he got his moniker. I hope it wasn't this way.
Author adminPosted on November 3, 2017 Tags 405, Grim Sleeper, Joni Mitchell, Metrolink tracks, Van Nuys, White Favela
Double Tap on Sepulveda
There are no bike lanes in Van Nuys, from Woodman to Woodley. There are no bike lanes in North Hills. None in Panorama. Put these three neighborhoods together and you have 265,000 people, nearly the population of Orlando, Florida. Orlando has bike lanes. So does the city of Irvine, Pop. 266,000. But not us. We're a colony.
Wait, a minute, what about the Orange Line? Ain't that in Van Nuys?
Before the indigenous peoples south of Oxnard declared themselves to be Sherman Oaks, it used to be. Now it's an orphan.
The historic heart of the San Fernando Valley constitutes a medium-sized American city unto itself, but lacking the normal amenities found in such cities. Like say, Pittsburgh.
Then we have the nomadic tribes of the Favela, wandering their Sinai of dysfunction and dispossession from the 405 to the Wash, always on bikes. Hundreds of them.
That's a lot of people sharing lanes. There are choke points, Sepulveda at Stagg being one of them. It's a great place to get clipped, pedaling against traffic. At night.
Then again, it's a great place to get clipped in broad daylight moving with the traffic flow, keeping yourself three feet from the parked cars, wearing a helmet and reflective clothing.
You don't want to get hit twice. Cause the first driver might not kill you. If he takes off, leaving you in the street, a second car might run over you like a speed bump, dragging your body up the block. She, too, might make a getaway, trailing sparks. In the case of Stacy Adams, 55, neither driver rendered aid, though one of them managed to dispose of her bicycle in a spirited attempt to break the chain of evidence.
Erik Larson, the first driver, was arrested at his residence the next day. The woman, Jenevieve Hegedus, was arrested a week later.
Cops like hit and runs. They work them hard, they close 'em fast. -Michael Clayton
The victim, one of 50 bicycle-vehicle fatalities in SoCal in 2017, has a ghost bike to mark where her body was crushed. It'll be there for a year, and then it will be removed.
In a year's time, Metro may raze Aetna and Bessemer street to build a maintenance yard for a light rail conversion of the Orange Line no one asked for. I have a wee suspicion there still won't be a bike lane on Sepulveda. There's no money in that. Maybe I could write a letter to the colonial bureau.
Author adminPosted on October 19, 2017 October 19, 2017 Tags Bike Lanes, Erik Limon, Ghost Bike, Here in Van Nuys, Hit and Run, Jenevieve B. Hegedus, Michael Clayton, Option A, Orange Line, POSO-ville, Sepulveda Blvd, White Favela2 Comments on Double Tap on Sepulveda
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