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"What do you want?" A call for action.
Since joining the staff six months ago, I have been amazingly energized by the organizational charge of extending NPN's reach in conversations around arts policy—particularly policy conversations focused on arts and social justice. NPN's organizational commitment invites colleagues to actively engage in the policy arena, asking each of us to consider the question of leadership in the local, regional, national and global conversation, articulating how the arts contribute to building community.
As the nation looks ahead to the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama, there is an overwhelming sense of hope permeating community organizers, educators and artists. Yet the hope is tempered by the experience and perspectives of activists involved in the civil rights movement. At a recent conversation convened by the Nathan Cummings Foundation and the Arts & Democracy Project, NPN had the opportunity to participate in a dialogue among cultural workers whose work focuses on arts and social justice. Specifically the question of the moment was, "what do you want?" The centerpiece of the opening dialogue, articulated by Claudine Brown (Program Director for Arts and Culture), framed the over-arching two-day conversation. Answering this important question is our nation's first critical task, grounding the growing sense of hope generated by the recent historic election of the United States' first African American President.
Since that convening, I have been mulling the question over in my mind, as well as asking friends, colleagues, and advisors across the country what they want. Responses have varied. One response was hope for a return to "normalcy," specifically a sense that the nation's leader continues to be a good honest man who includes visionary thinking in his decision-making processes. One key component of President-elect Obama's approach to setting his administrative agenda has been his bi-partisan reach in naming key leaders. As the next several years unfold, people who may not have been thinking about serving within a formal (bureaucratic) system are needed. Perhaps that leadership call may touch one of us. Are we as a field prepared to step forward and actively participate in the on-going challenge of living in these times? In some ways the country is bounding forward, in others it's wrestling with the limitations of societal systems rife with inequality. It is NPN's hope that we create a space for careful consideration of our collective responsibility to participate in the democratic process. From writing to campaigning for office, our charge remains: participate, participate, participate.
Perhaps my UC/Berkeley roots are showing—mostly in terms of examining the notion of the "personal as political," a phrase I first heard while participating in the Black Theatre Workshop at the University. This refrain has significantly more meaning in the age of myspace, facebook, twitter, and second life. In the post-election buzz, let's all collectively consider what it is that we want our role in community building to be. So, in the spirit of forward thinking, whatever contributions we envision for our country's policies on the arts and social justice, either individually or as a collective, let's make it clear, and then double it!


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My husband Leslie and I were talking with a friend about gender and sexuality. Like me, my friend is cis-gender and straight. We grew up with scant knowledge, understanding or experience of anything else, and while I have learned fast since meeting Leslie, she wasn't familiar with much of the vocabulary. Leslie explained LGBTQIA, and my friend and I agreed that we were glad to be Allies. Then Leslie added that technically, as a straight but rather intermediate cross-dressing man, he doesn't belong on that spectrum in a tick-box sense, even though 'trans' is how he feels and who he is. To which my friend looked at the initials he'd listed for her with explanations and said, "Then I think there should be another letter on the end: L for Leslie."
I love that. I love him and his honesty and complexity, courage and vulnerability. I love her for saying it. And I love the truth behind it: that we are all of us different and individual, whatever group or category we choose to embrace and however others define or label us. My Leslie, like everyone else on the LGBTQIA(L) spectrum and outside it, is a unique human being.
As an author I'm looking to connect readers with people on the page who are unlike anyone they've met in or outside a book and yet recognisable, familiar and absolutely convincing. But I'm not talking here about those mysterious, eccentric supporting acts portrayed by observation, however memorable they may be. They're much easier to pull off with aplomb, perhaps because the distance involved is the same kind that exists between us in life; by eccentric and mysterious we really mean different from us as well as unknown. I am thinking of characters that are equally distinctive but created with insight.
As a reader I can name a few, from Gwendolen Harleth to Raskolnikov and Lady Deadlock to Pierre Bezuhov. Contemporary writers have given me Amy and Isabelle (Elizabeth Strout), Grace (Margaret Atwood) Corrag (Susan Fletcher) and Shell (Siobhan Dowd), all of them as real to me as I turned the page as my family. That's a gift from the gifted, because in knowing these characters I stepped outside my own narrative and perspective and understood what it is to be someone else. The fact that they are imaginary in no way lessens their emotional impact on me. I would argue that only in fiction do we ever understand anyone else so fully, as deeply and as intimately. That's its educative power. That's why it matters.
If anyone, in a school or adult workshop, were to ask me how I try to find an original character, I'd take a moment! By avoiding labels, as I do with Wayne in JUST FOR ONE DAY. By getting to know them imaginatively before I begin and planning only as a starting point, not a specification, leaving room for them to grow as I encounter them in the process. By loving them. And yes, I do see and hear them, as I write them, just as I see and hear Corrag, and Maggie (Anne Tyler, Breathing Lessons) and Tom (Carol Shields, The Republic of Love) – hoping they seem equally real out there on a page held by other hands. I don't suppose I see these creations of other writers or hear them quite as their creators did, and my readers will connect with their own variations on my Marilyn (RAVELLED), Kim (THINNER THAN WATER) and Kane (TRACES). But if the characters have wholeness at their core, a living truth underpinning their humanity, then the variation will be small – like a change of outfit or hairstyle, like a shift with age or illness that never takes us far from our essential self.
But are all my characters merely variations on me? I don't think so. I sometimes set them in contexts I have never known and take them through worlds and experiences that are alien to me, knowing as the story develops what they – not I – would do, say, think and feel. That's imagination, but most adults draw on it and trust it much less than children – a loss sadder than innocence. Of course I've created a few women around sixty whose histories may overlap with mine at times, but they are distinct from me, as 'other' as my friends, yet read more fluently from the inside. They often make choices I'd never make. Sometimes I despair of them, and sometimes I cheer them because they're braver or stronger than me. But I never stop loving them, which means respecting their difference – as nations and social tribes of all kinds must learn to do. In an adult novel which I hope to see published, perhaps next year, I have created a character, like Leslie, in need of an extension to LGBTQIA – an extra G for Georgie. In a book called ALIENS AND ANGELS I've already given young readers a boy called Robbie, without identifying any position on any spectrum but humanity. Labels help when we're marginalised and need the support a group offers, but fiction can take us deep into a lighter, warmer place of understanding. In novels they're N/A.
"Sue Hampton is a sharp observer of the entire human experience, treating her creations with a remarkable tenderness and reverence even while she peels them to the bone… Her fiction is a mirror held up to the human heart, and here we may all recognise ourselves." From a review of WOKEN by author Rick Cross.
Thanks to Jemma Driver for this lovely photo.
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Let Inga Tell You: Refrigerator Wars
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Let Inga Tell You: Revisiting toilet paper rolls, washing machines and good people
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The Universal Service Fund is collected from all US telephone users, so a tidy pile of cash is available for funding the four main USF programs. These help make Internet and telecommunications services affordable for 1) schools and libraries, 2) low-income families, 3) rural health care, and 4) rural phone companies that operate where costs are high. Sounds good, if the money's going to the right place. But is it?
The FCC oversees the USF program, though all administration is actually handled by the non-governmental Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC). The FCC's Inspector General recently reviewed USAC's audit record to see how many payments had been made "in error," and the results are troubling.
Error is common in all four USF programs. It happened in a mere 9.5 percent of all Low Income program payments, and in a slightly more worrisome 12.5 percent of all Schools and Libraries transactions. But the High Cost Fund had a 16.6 percent error rate, and the Rural Health Care program managed to muck up a truly amazing 20.6 percent of all payments. (The High Cost Fund, being the biggest of the four, is probably the most worrisome number, as we're talking about billions of dollars a year being distributed by the program.)
Now, before you start oiling the torches and sharpening the pitchforks, some caveats: "errors" in payments don't mean fraud. Any time the rules aren't completely followed, the payment is in "error." The FCC also looked at a random sample of transactions, so these error rates may not be representative. In addition, all payments for which the auditors could not determine the status were classified as "errors." Some of these may well have been legitimate.
The point, though, is that we don't know. This has been a problem with USF for some time. As the Office of Management and Budget points out, USAC's charter includes no real controls or performance measures, and the four programs have no internal criteria by which effectiveness can be gauged. They might be helping, but who knows?
The FCC notes that "additional oversight of the management" of various programs may be needed. Despite the problems with oversight, some members of Congress hope to expand the program to subsidize broadband access as well, an idea that was proposed (unsuccessfully) in 2006 as well.
Nate Anderson Nate is the deputy editor at Ars Technica, where he oversees long-form feature content and writes about technology law and policy. He is the author of The Internet Police: How Crime Went Online, and the Cops Followed.
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An EHR-linked dashboard provided effective clinical decision support by improving interventions for critically ill patients admitted to the intensive care units in an academic medical center.
"Considering the deleterious effects of both under- and overprescribing of acid suppression therapy, particularly in high-risk patient populations, this type of technology may lead to enhanced patient outcomes," concludes a new Penn Medicine study published in the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.
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Reviews for August 2004
Anacondas: The Hunt For the Blood Orchid (PG-13) (2004)
* Passes the trigger test!
Danny Deckchair (PG-13) (2004)
Hero (PG-13) (2004)
* Passes the trigger test! However, while getting his hair brushed by an attendant, he suddenly throws her on the floor, rips off her clothes and has sex with her. We only see her head and shoulders. She seems to be a willing participant, but the sudden and violent way in which this sex happens may be triggering for some.
Mean Creek (R) (2004)
* Fails the trigger test.
Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (PG) (2004)
Suspect Zero (R) (2004)
Benji: Off the Leash (PG) (2004)
Exorcist: The Beginning (R) (2004)
She Hate Me (R) (2004)
Without a Paddle (PG-13) (2004)
Alien vs. Predator (PG-13) (2004)
Code 46 (R) (2004)
* Passes the trigger test! However, there is mention of how in the future, the government mandates that certain fetuses must be aborted, which may disturb some. Also, there is a bondage sex scene in which the woman is tied up, but this is all fully consensual.
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (G) (2004)
Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG) (2004)
Collateral (R) (2004)
Garden State (R)
* Passes the trigger test! However, sexual activity while both the male and female participants are high takes place, which some may find triggering. Also, a bellhop is paid to secretly watch others have sex. I am not sure if the people having sex are aware of being watched… so this may be upsetting to some.
Little Black Book (PG-13)
* Passes the trigger test! However, there is one scene in which a woman gets an unexpected gynecological exam, given to her by a female doctor. We see her pained expression during the exam. This scene is played for laughs.
Open Water (R) (2004)
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (R) (2004)
* Passes the trigger test! However, there are plenty of negative and degrading attitudes towards sex in this movie, both heterosexual and homosexual. All these attitudes are incorporated for laughs.
The Manchurian Candidate (R) (2004)
* Passes the trigger test! However, some viewers may be bothered by a short scene in which a mother kisses her grown son in a motherly way. After the kiss, she pauses, as if she wanted to make the kiss more lover-like, but does not do so.
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Tom K Quiets Jack Shack Bats in 5-3 Victory as Shady Characters Get First Win of Season
Tom K was effective on the mound, allowing only three runs in a complete game effort, helping Shady Characters to their first win of the season
Shady Characters picked up their first win of the 2020 season in a 5-3 win over Jack Shack on Tuesday. Tom K was effective on the mound, and with a strong defense behind him, pitched a complete game win, allowing three runs on six hits. Tom K and Mike (making his EWL debut) each contributed two hits and scored a combined three of Shady Characters' five runs in the win.
As a light rain fell on the Wiffle Diamond, Tom K cruised through the first inning, retiring Adam and Brian in order.
Shady Characters provided run support immediately in the bottom of the first. Dylan led off with a double and moved to third when Tom K followed with a single. With no outs and runners on the corners, Mike doubled in his first career at-bat, scoring Dylan to make the score 1-0. With two runners in scoring position, the Jack Shack starter, Dustin, got Brad to ground out for the first out of the inning, but both runs scored on the play. Dustin then retired Lucas to end the inning, and Shady Characters led 3-0.
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Jack Shack bounced back in the top of the second. Turbo doubled with one out, and Adam followed with an RBI triple, cutting the score to 3-1. Brian then doubled, scoring Adam, and Jack Shack narrowed the deficit to 3-2. Tom K then fanned Dustin to end the inning.
Dustin rolled in the bottom of the second, retiring Sam and Dylan consecutively.
Tom K matched him in the top of the third, putting Turbo and Adam down in order.
Mike gets his first career hit, crushing a pitch into the left field tree for a ground-rule double
Tom K doubled to lead off the bottom of the third, but Shady Characters couldn't capitalize. Dustin retired Mike and Brad, stranding the runner at second and ending the inning.
Jack Shack drew even in the top of the fourth when Brian led off the inning with a solo inside-the-park homer. Dustin followed with a double, but Tom K limited the damage. He retired Turbo and Adam to strand the runner at second, and the score was 3-3.
Turbo shows off his quads after landing at second safely for a double in the second inning
Shady Characters took the lead right back in the bottom of the fourth. Lucas led off with a double, and Sam followed with a single, putting runners on the corners. Dylan flew out in foul territory, but Lucas tagged and scored on the play, and the sac fly gave Shady Characters a 4-3 lead. Dustin then retired Tom K to end the inning, with Jack Shack trailing by a run.
Brian doubled to start the top of the fifth, but once again, Tom K buckled down. Dustin hit a sac fly, which advanced Brian to third, but Tom K retired Turbo for the second out, stranding the runner at third.
Shady Characters added one additional insurance run in the bottom of the fifth. Mike led off the inning with a triple, and he scored when Brad grounded out for the first out of the inning. Dustin retired Lucas to end the inning, and Jack Shack were down two heading into the sixth.
Tom K went 2-for-3 with a single and a double in the Shady Characters win
Tom K remained on the mound to close things out for Shady Characters in the top of the sixth, and he made quick work of Jack Shack. He sent Adam and Brian down in order, ending the game, giving Shady Characters the 5-3 win, their first of the season.
The win moved Shady Characters to 1-2 on the season, and the loss dropped Jack Shack to 1-2.
W: Tom K (1-2)
L: Dustin (0-2)
– Tom K pitched the complete game win for Shady Characters, allowing three runs on six hits and striking out one.
– Dustin took the loss in the complete game effort for Jack Shack, giving up five runs on seven hits in five innings.
– Tom K and Mike each had two hits for Shady Characters. Tom K went 2-for-3 with a single, a double, and a run scored. Mike, making his wiffle debut, went 2-for-3 with a double, a triple, a run scored, and an RBI.
– Brad went 0-for-3 for Shady Characters, but drove in three runs.
– Brian led Jack Shack on offense, going 3-for-5 with two doubles, a home run, a run scored, and two RBI.
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Why One Minnesota Beer Inspires Fans to Stand in the Snow, Even When They Don't Have To
By Dustin Nelson Published On 12/21/2018
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By Dustin Nelson @dlukenelson Published On 12/21/2018
Darkness | Surly Brewing Company
It's December 2007 in Minnesota. It's not a post-apocalyptic wasteland, but it's snowy, and it's really damn cold. Cold enough that people are gathered around a fire as they wait in a pre-dawn line at the dead-end of a road in a north-Minneapolis suburb industrial park.
They're huddled outside a chain-link gate hoping to get their hands on Surly's Darkness, a Russian imperial stout served in 750-milliliter bottles. But in 2007, in this part of the country, this isn't really a thing people do. People don't wait in line for beer in the snow. In 2007, breweries aren't even allowed to have a taproom in the state.
"It was ridiculously cold out," recalls Ben Brausen of CraftBeerTime.com. He was in that line and close to every line that's formed each year for the beer since its first release. "They actually ended up letting us in a couple hours early just because it was so cold."
Few people in Minnesota knew the craft beer scene as well as Omar Ansari, founder and owner of Surly, one of the state's best breweries. But even he was surprised when he showed up for work that morning. It was the first time the brewery had bottled Darkness following a limited growler release the year before. In fact, the law had only recently changed allowing Surly to sell 750s at the brewery.
"It was mid-December," Ansari says, talking about the first year the brewery was able to bottle Darkness. "I don't remember the date, but it was cold. It was literally the soonest we could put all the pieces together. The plan wasn't to freeze anyone out. We just couldn't put everything together before that."
Surly Brewing Company
The beer itself was worth the wait
The thick, dark, sweet brew is the kind of beer that is the mac to a Minnesota winter's cheese. "It made an impression on a lot of people the year before when it was available mostly just on tap outside of those few growlers," Brausen says.
Surly had around 580 bottles of Darkness available and asked God Came From Space, a metal band that includes Surly employee Sarah Lawson on guitar and vocals, to play inside the brewery. (The band has now played at every Darkness Day since.) "No one knew what to expect," Ansari says. "Nothing like this had been done in Minnesota."
Ansari's team was excited, but didn't expect it to go the way it did. "I'm like, 'What the hell are you doing here? It's freezing out!'," he says. "I got there early, and I figured people would be showing up early, but I sure as hell didn't think they'd be showing up that early.
"It was so cold, we ended up opening the doors early. I went over to Krispy Kreme and got them a couple boxes of donuts and some coffee from [Caribou Coffee] so at least they could hang out and warm up a bit before the day got going."
This started a tradition that's lasted over a decade
This scenario, in an altered form, persists today. When people lined up for the beer that first year, they didn't just sit there. They exchanged bottles of other beers, drank, and formed a communal bond that remains the basis of Darkness Day, the now massive annual release day for Darkness.
"It just kind of started on its own with the line of people showing up to make sure they get it," Ansari says. "And then we had people starting to show up Friday morning at 9am [Darkness is released Saturday morning], and we had to tell them to go take their tent down because they're on a neighbor's lawn."
The day has evolved over the years. It moved outside at the Brooklyn Center brewery, which still pumps out beer despite the opening of Surly's massive destination taproom in Minneapolis, and survived the departure of beloved brewmaster Todd Haug. Now, the day has grown larger than an industrial park parking lot can accommodate. It also took place on Halloween in 2018, so there's less chance of snow (though, because this is Minnesota, it did snow on Halloween anyway this year). This year Darkness Day moved to an amphitheater in Somerset, Wisconsin, where the brewery presented two days of music featuring Carcass, Sick of It All, Murder City Devils, and others. It also invited more than 60 breweries to share their own beer, released three Darkness variants in bottles for the first time, and had people camping out and exchanging bottles. In many ways, despite the day's growth, the spirit of that first Darkness Day is alive.
Darkness Day 2015 | Surly Brewing Company
Nowadays, you don't need to wait in line. The fans do anyway.
It's not surprising that the reputation of Darkness is somewhat shrouded in, well, darkness. It drinks deeply of its own -- partially self-created -- mythology. People do wait in line. People love the beer deeply. Many stores sell out quickly. But not all of the beer disappears instantly. I found 2017 Darkness at a liquor store just days before this year's Darkness Day. It's not necessarily easy to find, but it's around. What has continued the reputation of Darkness as a beer worth waiting in line for is the community.
"People don't need to wait to get the beer," Ansari concedes. "That probably stopped after four years when we started making more for liquor stores. The event that's grown into Darkness Day today was born out of scarcity, but the line still exists because of community and the desire to talk and share bottles."
"They love hanging out in line and the camaraderie of meeting people who have traveled to be at the event," Brausen says. "At the same time, they don't have to be there to get bottles. In fact, two of the guys who do it own liquor stores. The one, year after year, would bring his camper there first thing Friday afternoon to park his trailer up front."
Even as Darkness Day expanded this year, people lined up hours in advance to get their bottles even though bottle were guaranteed with their ticket, according to head brewer Ben Smith. The brewery even got the Somerset campground to waive its no-bottle policy so the bottle exchange could live on.
People love Darkness, but it intentionally doesn't drive the kind of insanity some limited release beers, like Toppling Goliath's KBBS. Darkness thrives on community more than scarcity now, but they still welcome you to wait in line.
"People still did it because for a lot of people sharing bottles on Friday night was Darkness Day," Ansari says. "That's my favorite part, that it's just something people did on their own. We didn't have much to do with that, which is pretty neat."
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The SLJ is available in the same standard operating voltage ranges as our other Phase Monitors (see table below). The delay-on-Make Timer is field adjustable from 0.2 to 8.0 minutes. There are two LED indicators. The green indicator glows when all conditions are normal, and the red indicator glows when the internal relay is energized. The SLJ Series Phase Sequence Under Voltage Monitor is ideally suited for multiple equipment installations to stagger start equipment after a fault condition.


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Pimlott's designs for izé were izé's first products. They explore the familiar and remembered forms. One knob was inspired by the tautness of a balloon filled with water, another by the idea of a knob that would sit itself into the palm like a lever.
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In a large mixing bowl, beat the eggs, sugar, vanilla extract and buttermilk. Slowly mix in the Guinness mixture.
Sift the flour, baking soda and baking powder together into a separate large bowl. Using a handheld electric mixer, slowly mix the wet mixture into the dry ingredients and keep beating until it is well combined.
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Q: Merged list of lines not outputting in expected DateTime order I am reading in lines of text from many log files and adding them all to a list of lines named lstMerged. What I am now trying to do is output this merged list of lines into one combined file, in order of date and time. My first attempt was to sort the merged list like so:
    List<Lines> lstMerged = new List<Lines>();
    foreach (var item in logs)
    {
     lstMerged.AddRange(item.lstLines);//Pass lstLines items in all Logs into a single list lstMerged
    }
    lstMerged.Sort((x, y) => DateTime.Compare(x.DateTime, y.DateTime));

This is not working correctly because lines that share the exact same second or millisecond are outputting randomly. For example, if there are 10 lines of text from two different log files with exactly the same date and time, down to the millisecond, those lines are now sorting randomly, i.e. they are not in the order they appear in the original files.
I want all the lines sorted on date and time, but if there are many lines with the same date and time, then I want them to appear in the same order as the original log files. Can anyone see what is wrong with my attempt?

A: You are using List.Sort() which uses a Quicksort algorithm that is not stable.
Linq's sorting uses a stable sort algorithm, so you could try using that instead:
lstMerged = lstMerged.OrderBy(x => x.DateTime).ToList();

A: Sort uses Quicksort algorithm, which is unstable, so items with same values could end up in different positions than original.
List.Sort Method (Comparison)

This implementation performs an unstable sort; that is, if two
  elements are equal, their order might not be preserved. In contrast,
  a stable sort preserves the order of elements that are equal.

Use Enumerable.OrderBy which provides stable sorting.

This method performs a stable sort; that is, if the keys of two
  elements are equal, the order of the elements is preserved.

lstMerged = lstMerged.OrderBy(x=> x.DateTime).ToList();

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§ 168-3 Source of funds.
§ 168-5 Home improvement loans.
§ 168-6 Multifamily building conversion loans.
Rental property — See Ch. 219.
Taxation — See Ch. 243.
Editor's Note: Section 2 of this ordinance provided that Res. No. 240 of 1993 is codified as part of this ordinance and all existing loans under the Homestead Loan Program or any preexisting loan programs shall continue under the terms and conditions of the documents signed by the parties at the time. To the extent that no documents exist, this ordinance shall control.
A program of the Borough of Middletown has been created known as the "Homestead Loan Program." The purpose of the program is the improvement of housing stock in Middletown; to promote an increased vitality of neighborhoods; and to provide decent, safe, sanitary, single-family housing that is in conformance with the Code of Ordinances of the Borough of Middletown and the Borough's Comprehensive Plan, as may be amended from time to time.
A person who holds the legal or equitable title to any parcel of real estate located in the Borough of Middletown or who holds the equitable or legal title to any improvements on real estate or any building located in the Borough of Middletown but does not maintain primary residence at that real estate.
That employee of the Borough appointed to the position of Secretary pursuant to the Borough Code.
The Code Enforcement Officer of the Borough of Middletown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
The creation of a single-family dwelling in a property that was previously a multifamily dwelling.
The Finance Director of the Borough of Middletown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
The lending of funds in exchange for a mortgage agreement and promissory note.
A dwelling having more than one household or more than one independent outside access to separate living areas not otherwise easily accessible, or more than one party wall in common with adjoining dwellings.
A dwelling having only one household from ground to roof, independent outside access, one side yard and not more than one party wall in common with an adjoining dwelling.
A person who has the use, either by himself or with others, of a dwelling unit owned by a person other than himself.
The funding for the Homestead Loan Program is derived from residential, rehabilitation loan repayments for loans previously granted through federally funded projects. All monies accrued through loan repayments and/or interest earnings shall be set aside in a special account, referred to as the Homestead Program Account for the specific purpose of supporting community redevelopment through the Homestead Loan Program in accordance with the policies herein. The Finance Director shall be the custodian of these funds.
Authority to approve loans shall be vested in the Homestead Loan Program Executive Committee. Said Committee will consist of one member of Council who will serve as the Chairperson and four members of the general public, each of whom shall serve a four-year term. Those members having been appointed pursuant to Resolution Number 240 of 1993, the predecessor to this chapter, shall continue in said capacity for the balance of their terms.
It shall be the goal of this type of loan to provide low-and moderate-income property owners with low-interest-rate loans so that single-family dwellings in the Borough may be brought into compliance with building, electric, sewer, or other codes as defined by the Middletown Code of Ordinances.
All loans shall be to low-and moderate-income persons (as determined by the Section 8 income guidelines of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for the Harrisburg-Lebanon-Carlisle Pennsylvania MSA; or any successor housing program as administered by the Dauphin County Housing Authority).
Loans to absentee landlords shall be governed by the requirement that all tenants within the structure for which the loan is being applied must fall within the low-and moderate-income limits; and tenants must continue to maintain income eligibility for the balance of the loan term.
Loans shall be secured by a construction covenant agreement, promissory note and open-ended mortgage. The costs of preparing these documents shall be paid by the Borough. The Borrower shall be responsible for the costs of recording the construction covenant agreement and mortgage, which cost shall be added to the amount of the loan. The construction covenant agreement shall place a restrictive covenant on the property prohibiting the property from being used as anything other than a single-family dwelling.
All payments to contractors will be made directly by the Borough on behalf of the loan recipients as submitted to the Borough Secretary.
The Borough Secretary shall promulgate policies for the validation of the applicant's credit worthiness and the appropriate cost of proposed code or home improvements. The Borough Secretary is authorized to request information necessary for the Executive Committee to make a reasonable determination whether the loan should be approved.
The Executive Committee may reasonably deny any request where incomplete information has been supplied, or where, in its opinion, the total income of the single-family residential household exceeds income eligibility, or where the proposed code or home improvements do not meet with the goals of this chapter.
Loans shall not be made for construction activities that will convert a single-family dwelling into a multifamily dwelling.
Said loans shall be known as "conversion loans." It shall be the goal of these loans to provide all property owners with an incentive to convert multifamily buildings into single-family dwellings.
The resulting single-family dwelling may be owner-occupied or a rental unit but the proposed conversion project must result in a clear single-family use, in the sole opinion of the Code Enforcement Officer.
Loans can only be issued to property owners and all property owners must consent to the borrowing.
The Code Enforcement Officer shall promulgate policies for the validation of the applicant's conversion plan. The application shall describe briefly the proposed work and shall give such additional information and shall be accompanied by such drawings of the proposed work as may be required by the Code Enforcement Officer for an intelligent understanding of the work proposed. All permits must be issued prior to payment of funds.
The Executive Committee may reasonably deny any request where incomplete information has been supplied, or where, in its opinion, the proposed conversion does not meet with the goals of this chapter.
In those cases where it is necessary for the property owner to obtain other financing sources, with permission of the Executive Committee, the Borough Secretary may enter into a subordination agreement whereby a junior or inferior lien position is taken with respect to the loan mortgage. However, all costs associated with this agreement or filing shall be the burden of the party requesting the Borough subordinate its position.
A loan shall be considered delinquent where no payment has been received for 30 calendar days. Upon said delinquency, a written notice of delinquency shall be issued to the borrower. Whenever a loan becomes delinquent for a period greater than 60 days, the Borough Secretary shall issue a certified letter, return receipt requested, notifying the borrower of said delinquency. A late charge of 1% per annum may be charged to the loan for delinquent payments for mortgages issued on or after the effective date of this chapter. Delinquent loans will be collected upon the sale or transfer of the real estate.
The Borough Secretary shall maintain all the records associated with this chapter.


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ECoXiPy - Easy Creation of XML in Python
========================================

This Python 2 and 3 project (tested with CPython 2.7 and 3.3  as well as PyPy
2) allows for easy creation of `XML <http://www.w3.org/XML/>`_. The
hierarchical structure of XML is easy to spot and the code to create XML
is much shorter than using SAX, DOM or similar APIs. There is also functionality
to efficiently validate and transform XML while it is being created.

Modules
--------

.. toctree::

    base
    decorators
    parsing
    validation
    transformation
    string_output
    etree_output
    dom_output
    pyxom
    pyxom_output
    pyxom_indexing

Examples
--------

If you want to jump right in, have a look at the examples...

The most convenient usage - if you can live with defining allowed element
names beforehand, want to define a vocabulary anyway or just want to create
HTML5:

    :ref:`ecoxipy.decorators <ecoxipy.decorators.examples>`

XML-String Creation

    :ref:`ecoxipy.string_output <ecoxipy.string_output.examples>`

ElementTree Creation

    :ref:`ecoxipy.etree_output <ecoxipy.etree_output.examples>`

DOM Creation

    :ref:`ecoxipy.dom_output <ecoxipy.dom_output.examples>`

:mod:`ecoxipy.pyxom` Examples

    Creation: :ref:`ecoxipy.pyxom.output <ecoxipy.pyxom.output.examples>`

    Usage: :ref:`ecoxipy.pyxom <ecoxipy.pyxom.examples>`

    Indexing: :ref:`ecoxipy.pyxom.indexing <ecoxipy.pyxom.indexing.examples>`

See this example of how to create a simple HTML5 document template function::

    # In the function it is applied to the "html5" decorator creates the variable
    # "_b" being an instance of "ecoxipy.MarkupBuilder" with
    # "ecoxipy.string_output.StringOutput" for XML creation. It also creates for
    # each HTML5 element a variable being a method of "_b", with the name of
    # element, variable and method all being equal.

    from ecoxipy.html import html5

    @html5
    def create_testdoc(title, subtitle, *content):
        # Slicing without start argument on the builder creates a document, the
        # stop argument defines the document type declaration and the step
        # argument defines if the XML declaration should be omitted.
        return _b[:'html':True](
            # Method calls on a MarkupBuilder instance create elements with the
            # name equal to the method name.
            html(
                # Child dictionary entries become attributes, especially useful
                # for non-identifier attribute names:
                {'data-info': 'Created by Ecoxipy'},
                head(
                    _b.title(
                        # Children which are not of the XML representation
                        # and are either "str" or "unicode" instances or are
                        # neither iterables, generators nor callables, become text
                        # nodes:
                        title
                    )
                ),
                body(
                    article(
                        # Child iterables and generators are unpacked
                        # automatically:
                        [h1(title), h2(subtitle)],          # Iterable
                        (p(item) for item in content),      # Generator

                        # Child callables are executed:
                        hr,

                        # Calling a MarkupBuilder creates a XML fragment from the
                        # arguments, here strings are regarded as raw XML.
                        _b(
                            # Explicitly create text node:
                            _b & '<THE END>',
                            'Copyright 2013'       # raw XML
                        )
                    )
                ),

                # You can also create comments:
                _b | "This is a comment.",

                # Slicing with a start argument creates a processing instruction:
                _b['pi-target':'PI content.'],

                # Named arguments of element method-calls become attributes:
                xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/'
            )
        )

It could be used like this:

>>> create_testdoc('Test', 'A Simple Test Document', 'Hello World & Universe!', 'How are you?')
'<!DOCTYPE html><title>Test</title>

Test

A Simple Test Document

Hello World & Universe!

How are you?

<THE END>Copyright 2013<?pi-target PI content.?>
'

Pretty-printing the result yields the following HTML::

    <!DOCTYPE html>

            <title>Test</title>

Test

A Simple Test Document

Hello World & Universe!

How are you?

                <THE END>
                Copyright 2013

        <?pi-target PI content.?>

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Were these plates used at Harvard College Observatory Computer Lab around the turn of the 20th century? I learned that findings by the female computers (there was no machine called as a computer at that time) led to important astrophysical discoveries in the early 20th century, like Hubble's expanding universe based upon regression analysis. The intention of posting the New York times article was to point out that the tradition of astrostatistics can go back further according to these historic relics in terms of data analysis, when statistics is defined as the science of data.
]]> By: vlk http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2007/a-trip-back-in-time-and-space/comment-page-1/#comment-46 vlk Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:06:45 +0000 http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2007/a-trip-back-in-time-and-space/#comment-46 "Bad Astronomer" Phil Plait has a nice writeup on what these plates are and why they are important: http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/07/12/irreplaceable-astronomy/ But digitizing the plates is only the first step. What is of real interest are the measurements that we can make from them of the intrinsic intensity and the locations of each source. Each plate will have to be separately calibrated, with both spatial distortions (which can occur due to physical warping or atmospheric corrections) and intensity scaling (translating the observed signal to physical units such as ergs/s/cm2) accounted for in a homogeneous and cohesive manner. Not an easy problem; one essentially has to bootstrap from plate to plate.
"Bad Astronomer" Phil Plait has a nice writeup on what these plates are and why they are important: http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/07/12/irreplaceable-astronomy/
But digitizing the plates is only the first step. What is of real interest are the measurements that we can make from them of the intrinsic intensity and the locations of each source. Each plate will have to be separately calibrated, with both spatial distortions (which can occur due to physical warping or atmospheric corrections) and intensity scaling (translating the observed signal to physical units such as ergs/s/cm2) accounted for in a homogeneous and cohesive manner. Not an easy problem; one essentially has to bootstrap from plate to plate.


A busy time promoting Heart of the Shires as a venue plus all the associated retailers both collectively and independently. Here's a snap-shot of some of the promotional material produced by Nick Price Creatives over the past month.
It is working with some really pleasing results during these difficult retailer trading times: Heart of the Shires reporting footfall is up. Simply Salvaged reporting their best ever sale weekend (last weekend) and some great feedback for our efforts from the retailers. Heart of the Shires social media has increased with posts reaching 30k which is up 120%.
The most popular individual post was for Silver Sixpence Bridal Boutique with over 7,200 people seeing the ad organically, followed by the bride photo at Lightdraw Photography with 4,400 organic views – we have promoted both through wedding channels and these figures will still increase.
Heart of the Shires Page likes have increased by 136%. The Heart of the Shires website continues to develop with 408 pages which achieved 23.4k website impressions over the past 28 days.
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Watch: 'Squad' Member Rashida Tlaib Announces Re-election Campaign
"Squad" member Rep. Rashida Tlaib announced last Wednesday that she is running for a second term in Congress.
"I'm honored to have the opportunity to run for re-election to represent and serve the incredible residents of 13th Congressional District," Tlaib said, "Together, we have worked tirelessly to deliver one of the best constituents service programs in the country to address the needs of everyday people and making sure it drives the legislative agenda in Washington, D.C."
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She is currently running unchallenged as the only democrat in the August 4 primary election.
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Tlaib, the first Palestinian-American woman to serve in Congress and one of the earliest supporters of impeaching President Trump, has become a household name.
In her first week in office, Tlaib told an elated crowd, "We're gonna go in there and we're gonna impeach the motherfucker."
In 2008, Tlaib made history by becoming the first Muslim woman to serve in the Michigan Legislature. She served three terms in the state House, earning a reputation as a tenacious advocate of environmental and racial justice.
Tlaib, the oldest of 14 children, was born and raised in southwest Detroit and is the daughter of Palestinian immigrants. She is the mother of two boys.
Clearly she is such a classy lady. People like her do not need to be in office. People like her have absolutely no place in politics. They are so incredibly crooked that it's almost sickening.
Interestingly enough, she is even losing popularity among Democrats and Hillary supporters as well! How about that?
They're booing / laughing at the first woman to win the popular vote for the Presidency and shit like this is why we haven't had a female president.
53 percent of white women would LOVE to hang out on re-election night in November if you keep it up.#Tlaib #BernieSanders https://t.co/SNxySSxQTp
— Josephine (@steelsnowflake1) February 1, 2020
Although I guess I should give credit where it is due. Thanks to Tlaib's diligence, along with Rep. Ilhan Omar and other Democrats, we can now look forward to President Trump's re-election in a land slide!
When @POTUS celebrates re-election November 3 it will be clear who made it possible.https://t.co/R68LSdL0PB
— Grant Morton (@GrantMorton11) January 30, 2020
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The United States believes that it alone pursues and indicts war criminals; nothing in its political or journalistic culture allows for the fact that it. The Trial of Henry Kissinger has ratings and reviews. Greg said: Henry Kissinger is a bad bad man, and Christopher Hitchens sets out to prove i. Christopher Hitchens and The Trial of Henry Kissinger: A Response to. Lawrence Douglas. BY RONALD EDSFORTH. Christopher Hitchens begins TheTrial of.
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This isn't a book for the layperson; it presupposes not only a thorough knowledge of American foreign policy circabut also at least a somewhat nominal knowledge of I found myself wishing this was longer. Kissinger is not an abstract founding father, hitcnens is a contemporary living being and as triao he can and should and has stand for the accusations and realities that various papers, testimony, and reports implicate him in.
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That includes everything from hijacking peace talks in to extend the Vietnam War as a civilian, when the Johnson administration was still in office by opening a secret back channel with South Vietnam to win the presidential election to secretly and illegally bombing trixl neutral country, Cambodia, during that same extended Vietnam War, creating the conditions which allowed the Khmer Rouge to rise there.
Compact Htichens – In all, the book does all it can with the small pages it has the book is a very, very past read. Highlights from the book were serialized in Harper's Magazine in February and March Yet what is controversy, really, when applied to such a figure? No one but the odd US foot soldier was ever tried. The book is slim, but fairly detailed, and while it focuses on Kissinger deservinglythe implicit thesis of the book is the flaw of international legal standards, that is to say, when a statesman commits crimes and is powerless he is hanged, if the statesman is powerful he is worshipped.
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Sadly he did not live long enough to see the possible appearance of Kissinger in the dock, but perhaps the many tens of thousands of victims who have survived the wicked tenure of this criminally bent narcissist will see him finally brought to justice.
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Hitchens's fame and reputation as a contrarian guarantee that his indictment will receive media attention it's already been serialized in Harper'sand leftists will delight in his skewering of Kissinger. Anyone interested in the Cold War should definitely read this book.
Discover what to read next. The book is slim, but fairly detailed, and while it focuses on Kissinger deservinglythe implicit thesis of the book is the flaw of international legal standards, th This little book includes some of Christopher Hitchens' best investigative reporting. And that man is now extremely twitchy. The thrust perfectly surmised in this paragraph: Cohen th Hitchens "does a lawyerly job of demonstrating Kissinger's involvement" in the overthrow of Salvador Allende and "also spells out the American role in the Greek junta's attempt in to assassinate Archbishop Makarios, president of Cyprus, and catches Kissinger and Ford acquiescing in the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in A compelling polemic that makes Chrstopher seem like a straightforward kinda guy, and will leave Augusto Pinochet and Slobodan Milosevic hoping they get to do their time in solitary.
The charge sheet – subversion of the US-Vietnam peace talks, the rampant destruction of Cambodia and Laos, complicity in political assassinations both successful and failed chrisotpher Chile and Cyprus, tacit approval kissjnger secret support of the invasion of East Timor, interference in Angola, support of the Fascist junta in Greece, support of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, involvement in the attempted kidnapping and murder of an inconvenient Greek journalist and democratic political activist, financial interests in Suharto's Burma and Milosevic's Serbia – is long and miserable to read.
Tim Walker of The Austin Hitcnens lauded Hitchens as "a brilliant polemicist and a tireless reporter.
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A fiery and incisive look at the war crimes of an American statesman, as well as a critique of the international justice system. No trivia or quizzes yet. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. But there's more, much more than these two examples. Verso — via Amazon. Books of the Week.
As good as Investigative journalism gets. He was Christopher Eric Hitchens was an English-born American author, journalist and literary critic.
Extended the Vietnam War, illegally, against non-combatant nations; and 5. Ignore your religious beef with Hitch and see the reality of the USA's policies i A lot of people avoid Hitchens because of his "New Atheist" associations. Hitchens was a polemicist and intellectual.
With the detention of Augusto Pinochet, and intense international pressure for the arrest of Slobodan Milosovic, the possibility of international law acting against tyrants around the world is emerging as a reality. He investigates and reveals Kissingers' involvement in: Retrieved from " https: This device might be acceptable in a novel – except this is not a novel. The important themes here are people in power not being held to account, and the damage that does, especially to a progressive society A brilliant and important piece of work in terms of gathering and presenting evidence, but this book doesn't help you by supplying any sort of primer material.
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CSRM release report on resettlement, law and regulation.
New report: Comparative analysis of legal and regulatory frameworks for resettlement in the global mining industry
The primary aim of the report is to understand the mechanisms and instruments that governments are using to manage resettlement risks in the mining sector. Key findings show that the existing international standards have been unevenly incorporated into national frameworks.
The study authors compare legally binding instruments related to mining induced displacement and resettlement (MIDR) across six mining jurisdictions – Botswana, Chile, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Papua New Guinea and Peru – and benchmark these against requirements from the international lender community. Examining the extent to which national-level systems are responding to pressure from the international lender community is important for two reasons: first, these developments indicate the level of alignment between lenders and sovereign governments on the importance of codifying safeguard standards and procedures into national law and regulation; and second, the extent to which national-level instruments align with global safeguard frameworks provides valuable insight into the likely difficulties that lenders, companies, governments and local citizens will face when negotiating how resettlement events are designed, planned, and implemented.
This report was supported by research funds provided by The University of Queensland's Vice Chancellor's strategic fund, core operating funds from the Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI) and pooled contributions of five mining companies: Anglo American, Newcrest, Newmont, MMG and Rio Tinto. These parties participate in the Mining, Resettlement and Livelihoods: Research and Practice Consortium, which is hosted by the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining (CSRM), part of the SMI.
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Last night I was lucky enough to go to the launch of the quick reads anniversary edition of short stories. The collection celebrates the 10th anniversary of the fabulous organisation that is quick reads. The event was held in Foyles on Charing Cross road, a lovely store, and featured readings from just a few of the amazing authors that have written short stories for the anniversary edition. Of course Quick Reads have released their usual collection of great reads this year too but some of my favourite authors are featured in this collection and so I was thrilled to be going!
Veronica Henry took to the stage first. She edited the collection of short stories and read to us from her story Love Me Tender. It was great to have a snapshot of this story full of Elvis songs and hear that her usual writing style is clear throughout!
Next Fanny Blake read her short story The Other Half. I really love listening to Fanny read and she actually read us the whole thing, definitely one I'd recommend!
Elizabeth Buchanan was up next and she, again, read us her whole story. This one was seriously moving and featured a flashback to a memory about the D-Day landings, really intriguing! Her story is called moment of Glory.
When Rowan Coleman took to the stage, it was particularly relevant that she was here, writing for quick reads again. Her first quick reads was in the first round of titles and was later relaunched giving all the proceeds to a domestic violence charity. Rowan herself is dyslexic and was fairly disconnected with reading when she was younger. She spoke about how she now speaks to groups of school children about dyslexia and explains to them that, despite the disconnect with her and literacy, she has now written over 2 million words! Rowan then read some of her story, leaving us on a cliffhanger. I read the rest of the story as soon as I got on the tube after the event-lots of fabulous twists in such a short space! Her story is called Birthday Secret.
Matt Haig took the stage next and talked about how important books, reading and fiction is to mental health and himself. He read from his story A Walk Outside, explaining that it was inspired by his own agoraphobia.
After all the authors has read, we had some really interesting questions from the audience, including a question as to why Quick Reads don't do 2 releases a year, only one. I for one would love to see another release during the year. I find quick reads so useful for times like these when all my attention is on my job and I don't have the scope to sit down and devour a novel like I normally would. I love a quick reads because I feel I can accomplish that 'I finished a book' feeling in a matter of days when the end of a full length novel just wouldn't be seen at the moment. This collection of short stories is even better because i can manage to get through a whole one in minutes so I get to read three fabulous authors in one sitting!
It was a great event and hosted incredibly well by Good Reads commissioning editor Cathy Rentzenbrink who was awesome with her questioning and a very open and honest host.
Don't forget that this year's quick reads launch today and there are some fab titles to get your hands on!


Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo on May 31 met with Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang in Tokyo and exchanged views on the UN treaty banning nuclear weapons and the current situation on the Korean Peninsula. The two agreed to work to further strengthen their cooperation for peace in the region and the world as well as for the development of relations between the two nations.
President Quang said that he is glad to know that the JCP is increasing its presence not only in Japan's political arena but also in international activities, adding that he hopes that the party will make further advances.
In response, Shii expressed his welcome for the president's visit to Japan and said that he is delighted that the friendship between the two nations continues to grow.
Shii thanked him for Vietnam's cooperation in the adoption of the nuclear weapons ban treaty at the UN conference last year. He also extended his gratitude to the president for sending his message in solidarity to the World Conference against A and H Bombs which is annually held in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Shii said that he wishes that Japan, the only A-bombed nation, and Vietnam which was attacked by chemical weapons including Agent Orange during the war against the U.S. will jointly work for a "world without nuclear weapons".
Regarding the Korean Peninsula situation, Shii referred to the recent inter-Korean summit meeting and the scheduled meeting between the U.S. and North Korean leaders, and said, "I'm really pleased at the current progress toward reaching a peaceful resolution of the North Korea issue." He then explained that calling for making this move a success, the JCP has presented to relevant countries its proposal that the denuclearization of the peninsula and the building of a peace structure in Northeast Asia should be promoted in an integrated manner and that as a realistic approach, step-by-step measures should be taken in this regard.
Pointing out that Vietnam is a major ASEAN member and the nation having harmonious relations with North Korea, the U.S., and Japan, Shii asked the president for his further support for resolving the matter in a peaceful manner.
Quang in reply said that Vietnam has been consistent in calling for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and working for a peaceful resolution. He went on to say that as a responsible member of the international community, Vietnam seeks to contribute to bringing about a peaceful settlement to the Korean Peninsula issue.
Shii and Quang also discussed the South China Sea issue and the development of relations between the JCP and its Vietnamese counterpart. They reached an agreement to continue to engage in interparty exchanges, such as theoretical exchanges.
Those who were present in the meeting included Vietnamese Ambassador to Japan Ngyen Ouoc Cuong, JCP Secretariat Head Koike Akira, and JCP Vice Chair Ogata Yasuo.


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Evaluating the roles of directed breeding and gene flow in animal domestication
Marshall, Fiona B.
Dobney, Keith
Denham, Tim
Capriles, José M.
For the last 150 y scholars have focused upon the roles of intentional breeding and genetic isolation as fundamental to understanding the process of animal domestication. This analysis of ethnoarchaeological, archaeological, and genetic data suggests that long-term gene flow between wild and domestic stocks was much more common than previously assumed, and that selective breeding of females was largely absent during the early phases of animal domestication. These findings challenge assumptions about severe genetic bottlenecks during domestication, expectations regarding monophyletic origins, and interpretations of multiple domestications. The findings also raise new questions regarding ways in which behavioral and phenotypic domestication traits were developed and maintained.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
10.1073/pnas.1312984110
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Metamorphosis in the Slaughterhouse () is a 2021 Iranian thriller-drama film directed by Javad Daraei about of a girl named Shadi whose parents have been accused of murder. It won the Special Legacy Award and Bumblebee Award (AGAINST ALL ODDS) at the event in the  Bare Bones film festival

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Jul 28, 2020 More on Medicare & Medicaid
CMS releases data showing COVID-19's impact on Medicare population
This data confirms the COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately affecting racial and ethnic minorities.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released its first monthly update of data that provides a snapshot of the impact of COVID-19 on the Medicare population.
Both COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations of Medicare beneficiaries are highest among minority groups, according to the agency's Medicare COVID-19 Data Snapshot.
For the first time, the snapshot includes data for American Indian/Alaskan Native Medicare beneficiaries. Data indicates this population has the second-highest rate of hospitalization for COVID-19 among racial/ethnic groups. Previously, the number of hospitalizations of American Indian/Alaskan Native beneficiaries was too low to be reported.
Blacks lead in hospitalization rates, having hospitalizations of 670 per 100,000 beneficiaries. Blacks also have the highest rate of COVID-19 cases among Medicare members, with 1,658 cases per 100,000 beneficiaries.
The data is based on Medicare Fee-for-Service claims data, Medicare Advantage encounter data and Medicare enrollment information covering the period from January 1 to June 20. During that time period, there were nearly 550,000 COVID-19 cases among Medicare beneficiaries.
The highest rates of cases were in Black patients, followed by Hispanic patients, American Indian/Alaskan Native patients, Asian patients, white patients and then patients listed as "other or unknown."
There were more than 160,000 hospitalizations recorded by CMS. In descending order for hospitalizations were American Indian/Alaskan Native patients, Hispanic patients, Asian patients, other or unknown patients and then white patients.
This data, according to CMS, confirms that the COVID-19 public health crisis is disproportionately affecting vulnerable populations, particularly racial and ethnic minorities.
Part of the issue is that these populations have higher rates of chronic illnesses that can lead to severe illness from COVID-19. Racial and ethnic minorities are one-and-a-half to two times more likely than whites to have most of the major chronic diseases, according to a study in the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
Another part of the problem is within inequalities in the social determinants of health, which have a negative impact on racial and ethnic minority groups, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
These inequalities put minority groups at an increased risk of getting sick and dying from COVID-19, according to the CDC. Factors such as discrimination, access to healthcare, occupational hazards, gaps in education and income, and housing are associated with negative health outcomes.
The surge of the Black Lives Matter movement following the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others by police, and the disproportionate rate of COVID-19 among minorities have brought racial inequalities into the mainstream conversation.
Former Kaiser Permanente Chairman and CEO George Halvorson, who in 2013 published "Ending Racial, Ethnic and Cultural Disparities in American Health Care," has said he believes inequalities and disparities can be addressed through healthcare reform.
Halvorson promotes a national Medicare Advantage for All system called "Medical Advantage."
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is making efforts to end racial discrimination in healthcare. The Office for Civil Rights recently issued guidance that forces recipients of federal financial assistance to comply with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Examples of the guidance include ensuring testing and care sites are accessible to racial and ethnic minority populations, adopting policies that prevent discrimination, and assigning staff, not on the basis of race or ethnicity.
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